Chapter 24

Fawn dropped me off at the hotel before zooming off elsewhere with Dennis and Rey that night. From the sound of it, I think she's off to mobilize her forces.

Our priorities have shifted, we've put a pin on the recruitment discussion we were having before Dennis called with the news. Vertigo and his minions are the problem and they know not to underestimate him.

Steve may lack the wealth and prosperity Invincibill flaunts, but he makes up for it with fire power, metahuman firepower. The region of Xoxia he controls, the mining districts where poverty, suffering and death thrive more than anything else is packed full of metahumans.

The conditions are ripe for a trigger event. Trigger events are more often than not terrible things, people on the verge of death, people threatened, people in pain. The gist of it is having the worst day of your life and then your powers awaken.