The Aftermath

As the Star Spangled Heroes arrive in Ottawa, Brittany and her medical teams begin operating on those injured. Most of the soldiers who attacked the bunker had minor wounds, but the heroes....

I NEED BLOOD ASAP! We're losing them! 

Get the Cryptid into decontamination NOW! 

Shit... Juno's flatlining! DEFIB NOW!

What the hell happened Overlord?

We met the future.... And it greeted us with a an attack we couldn't hope to win against. Thanks to the Cryptid... We barely escaped alive...

Where is Constitution?

Blown into pieces thanks to a single attack from that mad man...

As Brittany and her team operates for hours, Ottawa watches the footage of the battle. Scott, Archie, the Busch Hunter, Hope, and the others who didn't go, watch from the battle cam as the Symbol of Tyranny managed to get the Cryptid to vomit up blood, and decimate the the other heroes in a single attack, blow Constitution into tiny metal shards. Liberty Bell's footage ends and everyone was left with a pit in their stomachs as the doctors worked tirelessly to heal their friends.

In the days that followed, Tempest and the Cryptid were still unconscious. Many of the heroes of Lots had been killed or died on the operating table. The Overlord had several broken ribs and a cracked femur. Liberty Bell suffered minor damage, but as for the heroes. They'd suffered too many losses. 

When Lux and the other soldiers were finally debriefed, horror filled their hearts.

One guy... Killed almost all of the Lots crew?

What about the others?

Thanks to the Cryptid, they survived, but both he and Tempest are out cold still. One man demolished our heroes like they were nothing. To make matters worse, the files you recovered detail his creation. He is in fact the first Meta-Human ever in history. He is the next step in our evolution, and yet, I fear we'll never see that future. If we could barely hold our own..... What in the hell could we do if there were more of them out there? 

Fear had gripped the Washington Park Super Bunker. The heroes that had survived and that were awake knew this would be their end. As if fighting off Rothschild, the NWO, surviving into another world, losing the Ghost, getting him back, retaking their home, surviving nuclear holocaust weren't enough... now they would have to face the future of evolution if they wanted to survive. 

As the doctors made their rounds checking up on those involved with in the Symbol of Tyranny, Tempest finally woke up. The damage was extensive, broken wrists, ribs, and arms. They stood up and limped over to the Cryptid's medical room. His body was wrapped in bandages but he was sitting up, eyes rolled back muttering something...

-Notice- Sage skill has been reopened.-

Sage... Access all my skills. Can my body handle Static control at 100% output?

-Answer...Yes-

I want that asshole to pay for what he did to us.....

-Understood....Skill Cryptid Rage is now available-

The Cryptid's eyes rolled back, and he stood up, exhaling a red mist. 

Tempest.... He is going to pay with his life for those he's taken from us.

You can beat him?

I'll use everything within my arsenal. He will die at my hands. I will show him the what it means to persevere. 

And we'll be right behind you.

The Cryptid smiled as he clenched his bandaged fist. This would be a battle of the ages.