Prologue

A man sat hunched over a drafting desk, he was working on complex statistical and probability equations, numbers and mathematical symbols cover the sheets of

paper strewn across the work surface. A laptop sat beside him illuminating his face

in blue-white hue as it softly hums, running complex statistical models. The walls of the dank loft were pinned newspaper clippings focused on superheroes and villains;

"Apollo Thwarts Master-Mind", "Hero Alliance Pressured by More Lawsuits", "Master-Mind Released! Hero Alliance Protests." Books were also piled on top of a cheap coffee table, their covers read "The Art of War", "American Politics", "Quantum Probability", and "A Study of Brainwashing Through History" just to name a few.

A cat lounged beside the window, the digital clock on the sill reads 8:00 pm Dec 31, 2024, as the man stretches, "Finished - eight o'clock already? Well, I guess I'll celebrate, for now. What's one more day before my first step to glory begins, right?" The man mumbled to the cat, who meowed as he got up and grabbed a heavy black coat, put on a Blue NYC cap, and into the hall and the street below.