The Boys- Apprentice

Starlight's Scandal

After waking I drove to work only to hear on the radio something about Starlight beating up some innocent men. I was, admittedly confused about this, but I figured that it was best not to speculate yet, as I have heard many stories where the media twisted the narrative, only for something to be uncovered that causes the whole story that they were selling to become debunked.

Arriving at work I decided to talk to Queen Maeve about the story, only to discover that she didn't know anything more than I did. She told me that if I wanted to know more, than I should just ask Starlight. But before I could do that Maeve told me that we had a mission today. 

This was quite exciting to me but I was getting a little more used to this so I didn't cheer loudly, on the outside at least. On the inside though, there was a little party going on. I quickly responded as calmly and confidently as I could, "So, what's the mission?"

She then told me that today we would be going to do something very important for Vought, and left it at that. Maeve then directed me to follow her to her car and suit up. I quickly did, and then thought about why I wasn't already wearing my suit. I was now a superhero and I didn't have a secret identity, so why wasn't I wearing my suit all the time. It wasn't exactly uncomfortable, ever since I had gotten that skin tight under suit from Vought, I was extremely comfortable being wrapped in metal pretty much all day. I also noticed that none of the other heroes seemed to wear normal clothes, they were always suited up. I then decided that from now on I would always wear my super suit as I liked to call it.

After this little moment of deliberation that occurred while Maeve drove us somewhere I noticed that the car had stopped. I looked outside only to notice that we were outside of what appeared to be a hospital. I quickly started to get worked up, was someone committing a crime at a hospital, what kind of horrible person would do such a thing.

Maeve, noticing that I seemed to be getting worked up, put her hand on my shoulder and quickly decided to explain what we were doing at a hospital. "Metallic, we aren't here to stop some bad guys, we're here for something just as important in a lot of ways. We are here to meet some child cancer patients and try to give them some hope. We also want to get your name out there as a nice guy. That seems to be what your brand will be, the powerful yet nice guy who has made it big."

I calmed down as I listened to her explanation. While I thought it was a little cheap to use kids to help my brand, I figured that it didn't matter overly much as long as I was still helping people, these kids included would be helped as I would be bringing awareness to their issues, and this could in turn hopefully bring in a lot of money and help for them.

So that's basically what I did all day, playing with the kids in my costume, floating toys for them and making them little sculptures of metal. This was all recorded and by the reporters, who were hidden so they would not get in the way of the event. Afterwards I went out to the reporters to answer any questions asked, with Maeve directing me in how to talk with the reporters beforehand. What questions to answer directly, and what questions to give vague, non answers to. Such as when I was asked how I thought of Starlight beating up two innocent men in an alley. I responded by saying, "While this does sounds like something that should be condemned, I don't know the full story, and neither do you. When this has been fully investigated, and the truth has been fully revealed, then, and only then, will I respond to these allegations."

After all of this, when I was done for the day, I left to go to the law firm for my appointment. I drove over to the address I was given and whistled impressed. The building was large and extremely modern seeming. I walked into the room and noticed I was getting a lot of weird looks. This confused me for a moment until I remembered that I was still wearing my costume. Thinking to myself I realized that I should probably start getting used to this. After meeting with the employee at the front desk, and surprisingly getting asked for my autograph and signing it, I was directed on where to meet with a lawyer. 

I walked into the room I was directed to and looked over to who would be helping with all of this confusion. Going up to him we shook hands and I got a good look at the man. He was about 6 feet tall and had a bit of a belly, he was also balding but his eyes were where I focused. They were blue and extremely sharp, the handshake he gave me was also very firm. So, began discussing the issues I had been having, from how to copyright my image, what part of my profits would Vought get, and other such details. I also gave him all of the contracts that were given to me so we could go over them together.

We worked together for over two hours, until finally all of the paperwork had been gone over and we had divided the contracts into piles, acceptable and unacceptable. The unacceptable pile was contracts that were completely unacceptable. Examples of this were contracts where Vought would have complete control of my image, up to and including making movies about me without my permission, designing my costume without my say so, they would also make all of the money from any and all merchandise made in my image. While I would still be making a ton of money, I wasn't sure if that was ok and the lawyer told me that I shouldn't accept this. I decided that I would sign all of these contracts after talking with Vought and making them aware that as long as I had the final say so in my image, then we wouldn't have any problems. If they didn't accept that then I wouldn't sign anything. After we were done going through it all I thanked God that I had decided to have an expert look over all of this before I signed anything. 

After going over everything with the contract lawyer, I decided to hire him on the spot. That is how I got the lawyer Howard Mikel on my payroll. I was a little nervous at first if I would be able to afford having such an expensive lawyer but he showed me that I would be making a lot of money soon.  When I got my first paycheck next week from Vought, and I got all of the copyrights filled out, and merchandise starts being sold, I will have plenty of money. Still, I tried to stay conservative with my money, as right now I still haven't made any solid money, I was basically promising the lawyer an IOU.

So, that is how today went, it was extremely busy. I got to meet with and hopefully comfort some children and make people aware of the difficulties that these young children go through and get donations for them. I also finally got a lawyer on my payroll to help me handle all of the contracts that I have been having to go through. So with all of the paperwork having gone through, I should be making a lot of money soon, which is a big bonus.