Quote: [SCENE: A bloodied GUNSLINGER lying on the floor, clutching a piece of paper.]...no. I haven't been thinking about what to do with the arc creator at alllllll....
GUNSLINGER: They were all in it together. From the start! They made us think it was a war, but it was one big shell game! The truth has to get ou-
[A sniper's round punctures his kevlar vest]
LONGBOW WARDEN: Take everyone in here down! Hard!
[SCENE: In front of CRIMSON, on Peregrine Island]
CRIMSON: The Longbow operatives that attacked you are phantoms. They don't officially exist. However, the Malta left us a clue of where their next proof
is.
[SCENE: MALTA spread out amongst a cemetery, until one shouts out that he's found something. The tombstone reads MONICA COLE]
[A bloodstained paper taken from one of the Malta Gunslingers. Three names are present on the ship register. Marcus Cole, Monica Richter, and Stefan Richter.
The latter is circled in red.]
[SCENE: INDIGO in Founders]
INDIGO: We've got trouble. A Senator Kerry in Washington's gotten ahold of this intel too somehow. He's petitioning for the disassemblement of
Freedom Corps, to be replaced by an exclusively un-metahuman agency for metahuman oversight.
[SCENE: The Senate Floor]
SENATOR KERRY: For too long, we have let these "heroes" have their own private kingdoms, outside our jurisdiction, under the assumption that they
were on our side. But recent evidence indicates that some of Freedom Corps may have been collaborating with Arachnos for years, or even decades! All the way
at the top of the organization! I cannot stand by and watch while this metahuman faction slowly uses the cover of a "war" to turn this great
country into a superpowered dictatorship!
[SCENE: Peregrine Island]
CRIMSON: Kerry's new troops are to be outfitted from this facility. This isn't even remotely legal, but if this is what I think it is, I'm
willing to gamble my reputation on it.
[SCENE: A warehouse. A LONGBOW WARDEN shifts forms into a GREATER DEVOURED.]
MOMENT: Why, hello again, hero! Did you miss me?
[SCENE: Founders]
INDIGO: You need to get the truth about this from Statesman. I'm the first one who'll say some people deserve their secrets, but this one could tear
this country and its heroes apart.
[TITLE: CITY OF HEROES: BLOOD TIES]
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."