Defenders of Destiny Bk 1: Destiny Begins

Help From A Friend?

Warning ⚠️: This book contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.

Joelee sat in the main lobby, laptop propped up on her lap as she read through an article about Obsidian.

Apparently he had been a hero to the city for quite awhile, long before more metas had begun to pop up in the media. He had taken to fighting petty crime and was doing a decent enough job at catching the bad guys of the city but it seemed as though perhaps there was more to the story than Joelee had previously suspected.

How did he have powers before Doyle unlocked the serum?

She clicked on the next, most recent post about his capture of the metas the night prior. The public seemed to be concerned about the rising numbers of "supernatural" occurrences within the city and the cities around theirs.

Apparently some blamed Obsidian for the sudden appearance of metas as his dramatic saves had previously shown no signs of fowl play. But now as the crime rate rose, the rising numbers were followed by criminals with abilities the public had never seen.

"So the public knows about metas now." Joelee said to the person that had walked up behind her, causing them to immediately stiffen as her words registered.

"How?" Rachel's voice caused Joelee to turn and look at the long haired woman, noticing that the girl was already dressed and ready for the day despite it only being around six in the morning.

"Superhero named Obsidian has been capturing metas for the better half of the month. Apparently he was popular before he became a superhero but now the media is scared as one meta completely made of volcanic glass was completely fine, but multiple freaks with varying mutations and powers is causing a pattern." Joelee deadpanned which caused Rachel to immediately giggle as she realized just why he was named Obsidian in the first place.

"What do we do?" Rachel whispered as she walked closer to read the articles over Joelee's shoulder, wincing as she read the media's reaction to the sudden appearance of metas... Fear always led to panic... And panic always made people do stupid things.

"We're going to have to train now. If we ever get exposed then we'll be in danger if we don't show we mean no harm. One of us has to go covert as an alias and work alongside Obsidian. We need to make it clear that it wasn't us that unleashed the metas on the world..." Joelee paused before she looked up at Rachel who wore the same frown that Joelee did now.

"But we did... Meaning it's more about cleaning up our messes at this point. They're just scared little kids in the end." Joelee muttered before clicking on an attached video link which showed a meta setting fire to a restaurant before running inside.

"Or then again, maybe not." Rachel tensed as she watched the restaurant explode before the meta ran out with a bag seeming completely unharmed by the flames.

_-*-_

"Where did you go on your little trip this time?" Banner questioned from where he stood beside David, the two working on David's project together in an attempt to speed up the small progress that he had made.

"I don't kiss and tell, Banner." David winked which caused Banner's eyes to widen as he quickly leaned closer to David.

"You found Esther? Did you use the memory device on her? Did she remember everything?" Banner questioned in a hushed whisper, making sure to avoid the direction of the camera so they couldn't figure out what he was saying to David.

"She full named me fives seconds after I removed it so, yeah. Worked pretty well." David snickered which caused Banner to laugh as he went back to his work, seeming a lot more jolly now that his coworker was happy.