DC Modern - Season 2 - Episode 4 - 5/2/22

Cat Grant here your new Editor in Chief of the Gateway Times!  That's right I have been promoted for my daring expose on the last EIC's office misconduct.  I promise this will not interfere with my wonderful catbites, short easily understandable news bites, to help you stay informed around the water cooler.  In fact my goal is to have more of the paper written in these understandable everyperson terms so that all can enjoy the news and not the elite few.  So without further adieu here is not only these weeks catbites but some catbites of the other areas of the news

Amazon's fail in their conquest of America thanks to those heroes loyal to her shores.  Pity  Gateway's own can not be among the loyal.  The Myrmidons were documented in San Fransisco attack US soldiers who were trying to apprehend dangerous Amazon sympathizers, who might have been leading a fifth column here in the good ol USA.

Rumors abound that our own Myrmidon Storm maybe a lost Amazonian Princess; perhaps this explains the siding with Amazons over on the West Coast.   It actually makes me feel better to know that Wonder Woman has an ugly little sister.   This somehow makes WW more approachable.  

Gateway City Police continue to show overwhelming support, surveys show,  for the Myrmidons.  Commissioner Hall has gone so far as to refuse to start investigations into their many possible crimes that have been alluded to here in these very bites.  Perhaps City Hall will pull rank and get the ball rolling.

And as promised here are some Catbites from other parts of the paper.  A preview of how you can do hard hitting Journalism for the common man to understand. (I am looking at your Lane)

WEATHER

Tomorrow will be much like today.

SPORTS

Our teams won!

ENTERTAINMENT

There will be new movies out this week.

FASHION

Don't wear that!

NEWS

See Catbites!!

And there you have it!  Remember see you next time to get all you need to know in easily digestible bites.

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Donna and Diana come to the Embassy to talk to Rachael. They tell her the property of the Embassy has been transferred to her name. They reserve Donna’s old bedroom to be theirs for when they visit. They also give Rachael access to their trust fund of several hundreds of millions dollars. She can also participate in the running of the Wonder Woman Foundation. They also give her a pair of bracers.

Quantum gets a message to meet Mark Shaw at the parking garage. King Faraday, head of CBI, is visiting Argus tomorrow on Quantum’s first day there. But Shaw thinks Faraday was replaced and will be there to set up Leviathan agents. He believes Leviathan is cloning people. Shaw says they need to isolate, subdue, transport, and analyze Faraday to be able to create their own duplicate since the real Faraday might be dead. Quantum is more optimistic about the real Faraday’s survival. They set up a drop point at a bodega near Argus HQ.

Oricalchum and Black Diamond are in the lab as he tells her of fighting the Amazons. He gets a room at the embassy. He wants his L-phone to be able to talk to other dimensions so that he can talk to Flamebird once she goes home.

Akasha is going through the diary of 1885-1925 (his grandfather?). The writer was head of a shadowy league in opposition to the League of Shadows. He hates R’as al Ghul, the British, etc.. His group has assassinated titans of industry The handwriting and photograph match Grandfather. Akasha and Oricalchum ask Grandfather about it. He identifies himself in the photo but says he didn’t live then. Is it possible at some point in the near future he travels back and lives that life?

Achilles receives a package, a letter from Stygian with a human heart. Achilles uses the Orb to identify the heart as belonging to Dave Stevens, an aspiring gymnast from DC. Rachael finds a sliver of Stygian iron in the heart. Achilles turns the remains over to Commissioner Hall to return to DC.

Quantum confides in Achilles and Rachael about his mission. We decide to bring in Akasha in order to help determine if Faraday is a plant. We also send Black Diamond to the moon to get him out of our hair. He wants to take Flamebird with him and so snaps his diamond in half and gives her half. She eclipses out, he collapses, and we take her down. The diamond returns to Black Diamond. We send him on to the moon without her and take her to the medbay.

The news announces that Dr. Tripod is running for mayor of Gateway City.

Next day, Quantum meets Faraday, and they head to lunch, where Akasha is positioned. Faraday tries to poison Quantum but fails, while driving elsewhere. Quantum sends out an alert so the team begins chasing in Rachael’s new car. Faraday confronts Quantum in the car and tries to figure out who Quantum is working for. They take him to a field to kill him, but the team swoops in, takes out the goons, and captures Faraday. We take the injured goons and Faraday to the drop-off point.

Back at the Embassy, a recovered Flamebird warns us that Eclipso’s diamond is strongest on the dark side of the moon, where we sent Black Diamond. We send her after him to bring him back.