Spectacular World

The World Kept Spinning

"Yeah. That's it. That's my father's power. Cinder has become a true Lord of the Sun."

"That stupid bitch just had to run her mouth." Dean Ward pinched the bridge of his nose as the recording of the Beast fight played back the sentence that had taken the world by storm. "She not only showed her incompetence in failing to save the city, but she practically ruined any chance we had at keeping the fact we had the next Lord of Sun secret."

"It's worse than that." A voice spoke up, coming through the speakers on his computer. "We didn't even know we had the Lord of the Sun and Cosmos in our possession. The Enforcers decided to keep that little trump card secret from us. Who knows what other information they could be keeping secret from the Hero Branch? Director Laps should be fired and thrown into the darkest cell we have! She is guilty of treason!"

It had all started after the battle with the Beast. Every time the Beast was defeated and killed, something would always show up afterwards—a new threat that could bring humanity to its ruins. They had all been expecting a giant monster or some great disaster. Instead, the thing that was on the brink of wiping out the Hero Branch was a recording.

Alice Ward, his very own sister-in-law, had survived the Beast attacks. He hadn't bothered trying to get his brother or sister out of Oleander. He had hoped they would have perished in the attacks, and he could use that 'grief' to increase his ranking and popularity. It would seem, however, that just as he failed to see through the hero Paragon's will, he also failed to see just how far Alice would go. The woman had recorded parts of the battle on her phone. That single recording was now coming back to bite them all in the ass.

It showed off a golden girl cloaked in fire. She wasn't as grand as Full Monarch had been, but everyone could tell that it was the same. She then went on to beat the Beast single-handedly. At least, they presumed, as the actual battle hadn't been filmed. Only the part where the golden girl that went by the name of Cinder was throwing the Beast around with godlike strength. During this attack, the Victorian decided to open her mouth and claim that they were seeing the Lord of the Sun.

"It's quite the tricky situation, isn't it." Ward took a drag on a cigar he had and breathed out a large cloud of smoke. His office was a mess with papers scattered about, and shelves were knocked over from when he took his anger out on everything he could get his hands on. On his desk, his computer showed off the image of another man in a suit who served as Daisy's Hero Branch head. The man's name was Arvin Ros, head of the Ros family. "No one has seen Laps since the attacks. She could be dead." Ward sighed.

"Good! I hope that bitch is rotting in hell!" Ros screamed out.

Ward slumped down in his chair and looked back at the screen, watching the recording of the Victorian's words once more. Everyone had put their hope into that woman. They were all expecting her to be able to do more. Two years ago, the world suffered a Beast attack that resulted in the death of Legend and the birth of a new Calamity. The Victorian hadn't yet existed. Not fully, anyway. Her power hadn't been that golden light; the world knows her for now. Instead, it had been something harsher. After the Beast's attack, she showed up, claiming to possess her father's power. She had fooled them all by showing off grand feats and actually got them all to put their trust in her back that she could keep them safe from the next Beast attack. Yet when it finally did come, she failed to stop it and instead had to have a teenager step up—something the general public noticed as well. Not just that, but Boy Genius's recordings had shown some hero known as Battery to be the actual hero that kept the city safe. Battery had gone toe-to-toe with the Beast all alone, doing what the Victorian couldn't.

"So, what do we do now?" Ward questioned.

"We need to give a statement on the state of Oleander and what will happen to it." The leader of Daisy responded. "For the first time in a Beast attack, the city doesn't show any signs of radiation or total destruction, thanks to the hero Battery absorbing it all in his battle with the Beast. We have him to thank for the people of Oleander not dying from radiation sickness. It's hard to believe a guy like that was also under our noses." Ros mused.