Cat Grant here. Wow what a year it has been since I moved here to Gateway City. I am so grateful to all of you who have embraced Catbites as your watercooler news source. It has been a wild ride, well save for that intern fiasco. So let's just dive in to this weeks Catbites
Black Adam goes on a world wide rampage and our hometown heroes, for lack of a better word, head to Italy to help in the battle. Storm gets a massive hit in knocking Black Adam back as Achilles moves forward to do battle. Black Adam slams his fist into Achilles face, and our hero is left so stunned and thunderstruck, drooling on himself that he allows Black Adam to escape leaving the JSA to finish him off.
Probably out to prove He has not totally misplaced his trust, Commissioner Hall asks the Myrmidons to guard prisoner General Immortus as he is transported to the Federal holding facility in the Rock Mountains. Though questionable the team was able to stop an attempt by the Fearsome Five to free Immortus. After such a resounding defeat a year ago it is nice to see the home team actually put a win on the board, 1 for 12 is an acceptable record right?
So I was thinking about the future,
and most people like to go for round numbers like 10 years, 100 years, a 1000
years. Me I like to think what the world would be like in 980 years or
the year 2986. My greatest hope is that the future Gateway (Maybe
Gateopolis?) will have a more competent group of hometown heroes.
Quantum gets a response from his letter responding to Shaw’s claim that the DEO is compromised. His mother wants him to set up a meeting with Shaw tomorrow night. Quantum chooses a power plant. He then contacts Shaw to let him know of this meeting. Quantum attends the meeting with his mother and Shaw, and Shaw confirms their identities. Shaw reiterates how various government agencies have been compromised, but Quantum’s mother’s not completely convinced but agrees to go along, and she goes along with Shaw who secretly warns him that if he’s not heard from in two days then Quantum’s mother is the spy.
Achilles’ lawyer visits and says he’s started a lawsuit to reclaim my IP. He wants the quill to use as evidence in the case. Achilles hands it over and asks for Tripod’s head as part of the settlement. Preliminary hearing will be in September.
Bruce suggests to Rachael that they should visit the Madame Xanadu of this world to see about getting him home. He acknowledges that if he’s stuck here he should help her. She starts trying to find Xanadu.
Orichalcum gets a message from a woman who identifies herself as her mother, who should be dead. She traces the message back to an apartment building that was supposedly demolished, but she discovers the building is still there. Achilles accompanies her to the apartment building, which is indeed intact. She goes to her family’s former apartment, which had been blown up and killed everyone she knew a year ago.
The pair enters the apartment, and Orichalcum’s mother is there and most everything is as she remembers it. She recognizes Achilles and acts as if she’s been around the whole time. She claims that Lin’s dad is working at the pawn shop since his father died, and her brother is at school. Grandfather died in an explosion in the shop [rather than the apartment]. Could they be from a parallel world since the multiverse is back? Or might we be in the wrong universe? There are newspaper clippings showing the Myrmidons’ heroics. Dad comes home, we have dinner, and Orichalcum and Achilles leave.
Achilles and Orichalcum fill in the others. In the morning, we go to Grandfather’s shop, and it’s changed to her father’s shop. Quantum has been advertising for the shop with great success. There are still the fake Eclipso diamonds there, which Orichalcum takes. There’s no evidence of other changes.
Quantum hears from Shaw that everything is fine so far and his mother is on board.
The next few weeks are uneventful. Orichalcum’s brother invites us to his 18th birthday party. He puts the moves on Rachael and tells the rest of us the party is cancelled. She teases him, cuffs him to a pipe, and leaves him. He’s now in love with her.
Achilles talks to Donna, who has been chronicling the multiverse. She can’t explain Orichalcum’s parents, though she does know of NuBruce’s gaslight world.
Quantum scans the fake diamonds. There’s residue consistent with a gas explosion on them. Orichalcum scans the magic on them. The enchantment is linked to the group so it’s stronger the more of them that are together. Putting them together they move around and spell out, “What is in the box?” Orichalcum communicates with them, and it turns out to be Grandfather speaking through them. He claims to be in the rocks.
Orichalcum checks the box, and the diamond is gone, with a note reading, “My dearest, I bet you did not know we have the same birthday. I am sorry I missed so many birthdays. I hope you like our Birthday gift. H.L.” Harmonia Li, no doubt.
Grandfather doesn’t know how to get himself out of the rocks. Rachael suggests Madame Xanadu might help. Grandfather warns, “Watch out for the Nazi.” Maybe the magic bar can help us?
Then
Ferdinand appears with a guest—Patroclus! But as they kiss, Patroclus whispers,
“I can’t believe you betrayed me,” and stabs Achilles with an ankh-shaped knife,
who falls dead. And the note changes to say, “Oh yes, I still have another shoe
to drop.”
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