Hello Catfans!
Cat Grant here and OMG it has been a crazy summer here in the Old US of A! Can you believe all that has happened? I know I can't. What with Superman's return and his battle with Lex Luthor over metropolis. And old Lex getting disgraced, arrested and bankrupted! That Amazing return of OG Wonder Woman in Washington DC just in time to save her woefully inadequate sister from complete defeat and death at the hands of Cheetah, Giganta and Dr Psycho. Over in Gotham the Bat is back and just in time because supposedly cured Two Face resur"Faced". All in all it looks like the Trinity is back people. And none too soon. We should start a MoveON petition to get one of the big 3 to Move On over to Gateway. But you did not come here for a long digression on the state of super heroics in Gateway City. No you came for you handy bite sized news briefs. Everything you need to sound smart and urbane over the water cooler break without having to read another 5 column inches by boring Lois Lane. So without further ado here is everything you need to know this week in handy Catbite size!
Earlier this week, in what has to be a record for shortest time in the grave, local hometown Hero Achilles was sighted leaving the Morgue a mere 16 hours after being pronounced DOA at Gateway Memorial. Now I know we all like to look at his washboard abs and those killer biceps, but come on give us a break we did not have time to celebrate, that is to say mourn, his passing. I mean I had T-Shirts all printed with "Home Town Hacks - 1 down 3 to go"
Also this week it seems our prayers have again been listened to and then spit on and used for lining bird cages. A new hero literally NO ONE has ever heard of has decided to call Gateway City home. Akasha proclaims to be a telepath, however according to my sources this guy is more smarmy than swami. Maybe Gateway's local loser patrol will pick him up and he can live with them at the Themiscaria Half way house.
Biggest news of the week has to be how unsafe it is for couples out after dark. A new loon, could be straight out of Gotham, the Stygian on the loose and sending couples to their great reward. This, obviously, heart broken misanthrope stalks his prey and very efficiently ends them with single dagger shots to the heart.
And there you have it after one long crazy summer we are all back to the grind and you have all the news that fit to know in easily digestible bites. Until next time
Cat Grant
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3
weeks later
Achilles
returned from the dead 16 hours after being killed. He remained in the hospital
after waking up in the morgue to heal further. Mourners left lots of gifts for
him when he was dead or in the hospital. He’s returning home now.
New hero Akasha has been in Gateway City and was advised by Commissioner Hall to seek out the Myrmidons to work with the team. He arrives at the Embassy and introduces himself as a mystic who can cloud minds. He offers to help Orichalcum with freeing Grandfather.
The lawyer arrives to inform Achilles that his court case is in a week. Tripod’s lawyer has offered a settlement of $2 million with a NDA. Achilles rejects it. They go over Achilles’ testimony.
Quantum gets a call with a location to show up in 30 minutes. He departs but leaves a tracker. He goes to a deserted parking garage and meets with Mark Shaw, who says the government infiltration is more extensive than previously presumed. He’s had no luck finding who is behind it, but non-superhuman-related departments are likely lightly infiltrated. He believes people in meta-departments have either been coopted or duplicated. The infiltrated organization is called Leviathan. Shaw has been able to reinstate Quantum’s clearance with a fake name but will need to put him in harm’s way to gather info. Quantum’s new identity will be Argus’ attaché to Gateway City, granting him access to Task Force X, DEO, and Argent.
Orichalcum and Akasha examine Grandfather’s stones, which spell out “Can you not leave me in such a tiny place with no light?” Akasha talks to him telepathically. Grandfather says Harmonia Li working with someone did this to him. He wants to go on Carson as a speak-and-spell diamond.
Achilles gets a phone call from Patroclus who tells him that Harmonia Li with Per Degaton plucked him from the battlefield and brought him to present to avenge himself. He is using a metal from the Stygian river bed, which tells him of false love and commands him to kills couples not truly in love. He’s going to go after one of the descendants of “Hector’s whores”—Donna? After the call, Achilles destroys the gym and tells Rachael to warn Donna, who is still recovering so Dick Grayson takes the message.
Thomas tells Rachael he made them both a bracelet to detect vibrational discrepancies vis a vis multiversal refugees.
The team goes to Inspiration Point where Patroclus/Stygian has been killing couples. Achilles finds a bench with an elaboration carving with a spear/dagger/infinity symbol intertwined. A red rose is on the bench. Orichalcum detects faint magic. Rachael finds tiny fragments of metal. Can we use these to trace the dagger and/or immunize Achilles to it?
There’s a large explosion across town. Buildings are ablaze with people inside and bystanders filming the blaze. The team leaps into action to rescue people. Per Degaton’s robots started the fire and are fanning it. We manage to rescue all of the people in the buildings, defeat the robots, and help extinguish the fires, though Quantum is seriously burned. One of the people is a yellow-costumed version of Supergirl that we confirm is from elsewhere in the multiverse. We take her back to the Embassy.
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