Chapter 1: Monster
[Yes, folks! We... we are watching the same thing right now! The strongest telekinetic in the world, Ms. Phoenix... is currently holding a child hostage!]
[Ms. Phoenix, the most powerful telekinetic in history, is currently being stopped by her team, the Hope Guild...]
[Ms. Phoenix is the strongest member of the Hope Guild. Now, the question remains—who will extinguish the fires of the Phoenix?]
There wasn’t a single media outlet that wasn’t covering the most dreaded news of the century. Ms. Phoenix, also publicly known as Alice Lane, had gone insane and supposedly abducted a little child.
Her team, the Hope Guild, had tried to keep it quiet for as long as they could—but how could they, when Ms. Phoenix had turned half of Ohio into flat land, literally? The buildings, the cars, the roads, the hills... all turned to dust and compressed into flat land.
According to the media, the total number of dead would be no less than four million, and it happened almost instantly. A once-revered superhero had now killed more people than all the villains she had ever neutralized combined and in just a single day.
But no one cared about the lives lost. The media didn’t. Those not affected didn’t—for them, the news of Alice Lane going crazy was all that mattered. For them, a superhero turning insane was greater news than the loss of four million lives.
Humans can be... hard to understand.
"Alice, stop this... please!"
And while the world saw it as entertainment, the Hope Guild did not. They were sad, angry, but most of all, devastated for their friend.
Emotions I have never truly understood, even now.