(This scene takes place before the Memorial Day BBQ.)Merlynne's managed to track down the members of the Outsiders that have been taking a blissful vacation. Well, not all of them, but it wasn't as much headache as she thought to get the call out that work had finally come knocking ( Read more... )

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
...Amelia Zukov, familiar to most as the media darling "Sleeping Beauty," was caught on camera Tuesday afternoon assaulting a photographer in South Philadelphia...

DAILY PLANET...has learned that civil charges have already been filed in federal court against Ms. Zukov, seeking punitive damages in the amount of $10 million ( Read more... )

When the heroes shimmer back into place, they're in a warehouse, very similar in the interior to the one that they left.  However, rather than VP Pierce, President Ross is standing there, along with Director Bones.   Merlynne is also standing on the other side of the rooms.

Ross looks like he's making a headcount.   Then he smiles.  "Welcome back

After a couple of minutes of working through the vent system, they manage to light down inside the jailing complex.   Sand's a bit annoyed at the amount of time that took...he had gotten used to seeping through cracks and all that...but he presses on.

Two minutes (and a couple of random guards KOed later), they find the holding area...and those ( Read more... )

On one of the remote edges of the island, away from the civilized end of it, several folks in wetsuits wash ashore.  Some wetter than others.

Because they don't make wetsuits for dogs, you know.

But they're there.   And it doesn't appear that anyone has been seen. 

Jefferson Pierce waited quietly in a warehouse near the harbor.   He waited for the group of people that was going to avert an international incident...

...mere months after causing one.

There were two others in the room with him.  In the shadows.   Appropriately enough.

Pierce checks his watch.  Two minutes...

It had been several months since the Outsiders went into Cuba to save the nation from Kobra and his minions.  Several months since they found out that they had violated a direct order from the government to do so.  Not that they would have known that at the time ( Read more... )