Corrine was in Miami, shopping for Christmas with her nieces. It's been over a year since their mother was arrested, and Corrine's tried to spend time with the girls when she can. They need it, and their father certainly needs the break these days while putting his family's life back together ( Read more... )

Sand had placed the call out.   A celebration.

There was much to celebrate.  Two major disasters in a matter of weeks, plus other, smaller scale victories.

And it was Thanksgiving.

League, Society, Titan, Outsider.  Hero. Any hero.

Let the festivities begin.

The universe is at war ( Read more... )

Their lord, Henshaw, has given them their target.

The shining jewel of Earth. The City of the Future.

Metropolis.

An army of Manhunters descends on the city, blasting any living being they see with energy blasts.

The sensation of the Outsider's teleporter feels different, and just a bit disorienting. Then again, just now, what doesn't? He feels just this side of blind and deaf, as if he were constantly trying to open an eye he no longer has ( Read more... )

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... )

One of the nice things about the Outsider's private island is that each and every room had a spectacular balcony view. Hank was sitting on his, clad in an outrageously floral shirt, khaki pants, no shoes, dark sunglasses, and a straw hat to top it all off. One empty bottle of red wine rolled around, empty, at his feet and another one sat in a ( Read more... )