Amy Nelson, a girl with a mysterious past unknown to others, who currently works at the Fischbach industries and is a close friend of Kathryn's, was now meeting her friend back at work.

"Hey, where did you go during lunch?" she asked as she exited the elevator and saw her friend at the desk.

"Sorry, I ran into a couple of friends earlier and I wanted to catch up with them" she replied.

"It's ok, how was it?" Amy asked.

Kathryn seemed to be half excited and half nervous and confused all at once. "Um, it's a...long story, I'll tell you later" she shrugged off. "But hey, listen, be careful with the boss, ok? He's been acting weirder than usual since I got back from lunch" she warned. "Don't ask me why either, cos I have no clue" she added.

"Alright, well thanx Kat" she nodded and began to make her way down the hall. She walked around the corner and made her way to the end of the hall, where her boss, Wilford Warfstache was conducting whatever business he did in there.

She went up to the door, and she could hear the company leader talking, or more like arguing with someone, but she didn't know who. "This cannot be happening, you told me he was dead! You promised things would be better!" he shouted, his voice muffled by the door, but Amy could still hear him though. She pressed her head up against the door as the shocking words fueled her suspicion. "What?! He was here this morning and you didn't tell me!" he shouted again after a brief pause, and there was another pause before he continued. "Look, I don't mean to badger you, but this is not how this was supposed to be! *another long pause* *wilford sighs heavily* Yes, I do" Amy couldn't once make out any other voices, only her bosses. "What? No!*another pause* Of course I trust you, I don't trust him! He's a flaming mad man, he has no sense of purpose or direction" he argued again and Amy continued to listen closely and intently. "*heavy sigh* Of course I do *brief pause* Ok, I understand *brief pause* Yes, Thankyou" and after that, Amy could hear his footsteps drawing closer to the door and quickly returned to a normal stance.

"Ah, Amy" he smiled once he opened the door and stepped out. "What brings you here?"

"These are the files you wanted, I believe" she handed him the items she was carrying.

"Ah yes" he grinned as he looked through the files. "My dear, I don't know what I would do without you" he caressed her cheek and cupped her chin, making her feel slightly uncomfortable.

"Is everything ok, sir?" she asked and he pulled his hand away confusenly. "I heard you yelling" she revealed.

"Oh yes" he seemed a little nervous now. "Nothing to worry about, today has just been rather distressing" he assured. "Please tell Kathryn to hold all of my calls, I'm afraid you won't be seeing much of me for the time being" he noted. "Have a good day miss Nelson" he nodded kindly before making his way down the hall.

"You too sir" she nodded back as she stood by the door. She waited until he was gone and decided to see if she could find out who he was arguing with. She slowly creaked the door open and peaked her head in, only seeing dim lights as the strangest thing, but no people, it was completely empty. However, She got this eerie feeling just from being in there. She didn't know what was giving her such a creepy feeling in that room, but it was enough to get her out and not wanna come back.

X

Mark and Jack went straight back to the hotel apartment they had rented after revealing themselves to world. Now they were gonna hafta really figure out what waa next. "Holy shite that was so cool" Jack exclaimed as he crashed on the bed. "I cannot believe we actually did that"

"Me neither" Mark scoffed as he sat at the table across from the bed. "Just the fact that we stopped those thugs and saved all those people, I just can't believe we managed to do something like that" he continued, flabbergasted.

"See? That's exactly how I felt after helping that mother and her children" Jack smiled. "Just imagine doing that for other people" his grin grew wider. "We could do so much for this world, and they've practically been begging for people like us to come around and here we are, and this is the best way possible to help people, so let's do it!" he stated enthusiastically, like a child describing his favorite toy.

Mark laughed a little from his statement and couldn't help but grin at the proposal. "I know Jack, and it would be great, but we really have bigger things to worry about right now than being superheroes" he stated, his smile turning into more of a frown.

"Yes, but Mark" Jack tried to reason. "We don't know how long it could take us to find our what happened, or Tyler and Ethan" he stated calmly. "Why not do some good and give something to the people around us until the police or Kathryn come up with some new information?" he suggested, really hoping he could convince Mark.

However, the mention of Kathryn drew Mark's attention away. "Kathryn, shit I forgot all about her at the cafe" he shook his head and rang his hands through his hair.

"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll see her again before long" Jack quickly assured.

"Yea, but we never got her number" he pointed out.

"We'll try calling the office tomorrow, or later" Jack shrugged. "Now going back to our previous conversation"

"Yea, sorry, maybe ur right, but-" he was cut off by the sound of telephone Bob gave him. "Sorry, hold on" he held up his finger to hold him off before picking the phone up from the desk, glad he forgot to take it this morning or it would've been shot up. He saw that it was his good friend Bob himself and quickly answered. "Hey Bob" he greeted.

"Hey! You guys are all over the news, you two did great man!" he kindly complimented.

"Thanx Bob" he smiled.

"Hey listen, me and Wade are gonna head ur way tomorrow and kinda talk things out a little, see what kind of progress we've made thus far and where we're at" he informed.

"Alright, we'll see you two tomorrow" Mark nodded.

"See ya then brotha"

X

Kathryn had gone home not long afterwards and was niw watching the footage of the two incredible beings that had saved Los Angeles earlier that day. When she saw it happening live on the t.v. at the cafe she was speechless. But once the t.v. got a good look at their faces, her jaw nearly hit the floor. Now she couldn't stop replaying the footage over and over again. It wasn't long before Amy arrived, they were roommates, and she quickly shut the t.v. off.

"Hey" Amy smiled as she shut and locked the door. "Ur not still watching that, are you?" she laughed, having entered as Kathryn set the remote down. "I mean I'll admit, that is pretty cool that superheroes exist, but wow" she laughed again.

"No, it's not like that" she laughed.

"What? Are they attractive?" she wiggled her eyebrows.

"Shut up" she giggled. "I'm not answering that"

"Then what is it?" she curiously asked with a grin.

"It's just....ugh I can't say" she nervously retracted, making Amy raise her brows in surprise. "I really can't explain it now, maybe later I can" she added in assurance.

"Ok" Amy shrugged with an eye roll. "Hey, remember what you said about the boss acting strange today?" she reminded.

"Yea" Kathryn furrowed her eyebrows.

"Well, when I went up to his office today, the door was closed, but I heard him arguing with someone" she revealed.

"With who?" Kat asked.

"I don't know, when I looked there was nobody else" she shook her head. "But it was weird, when I was in that room, I got this funny vibe, this.....*sighs* well anyway, he seemed like he was really distressed" she informed and now Kathryn herself was starting to feel suspicious.

"And this all happened after those two super doopers revealed themselves" she noted as her gaze averted from Amy's, making her concerned.

"What? What is it?" she furrowed her eyebrows now.

Kathryn let out a sigh before responding. "Can you help me with something? And if you say no, I'll never bring it up again" shs quickly assured, but was nervous.

"Well what do you need help with?" she asked.

"It's about those friends of mine I had lunch with"

X

"Yes, thankyou general" Wilford Warfstache thanked before he hung up the phone and stepped into the laboratory. He walked up to the scientists with clipboards as they studied the projects they were assigned to. "How are our latest subjects?" he asked the lady who was in charge of that division.

"Progressing well sir" she replied. "Subject one of the cybernetic program is ready for processing and testing, and Apocalypto 12 is almost finished" she informed as her boss stared at the subject encased in a man-sized cylinder test tube, filled with liquid chemicals and smiled.

"Good, make sure everything is ready by tomorrow afternoon, we're having guest over" he instructed.

"Yes sir" the lady scientist nodded and went about her business.

The Colonel continued to stare at the man unconscious and trapped before him and even laughed a little. "I've got great plans for you, Tyler" he grinned.

X

The next day, Bob and Wade came right over to Mark and Jack's apartment just as they said. Though it was only a couple of days since they last saw each other, they were just as happy as their last reunion.

"So what's up guys?" Mark asked as he sat in his chair. "Did you pick up on anything else from those stones?"

Bob and Wade were sitting behind the table while Jack sat on the bed. "Sadly, not a whole lot" Bob shook his head. "Those damn things are so advanced that it's almost impossible to study them" he informed. "We know they operate on some kind of energy, nothing like anything on our planet of course" the last remark made Mark smile. "But beyond having very complex and weird ass energy, we really can't find out anything else about em"

"Well we could actually" Wade chimed in. "But it would take some time and a lot riskier moves to find out, you would really need to be familiar with them to handle them right" he noted.

Mark and Jack took a moment to process all of this. "Ok, so is that it?" Mark asked.

"Meteor rock wise? Yes" Bob answered. "But that's not all why we're here"

"Why else?" Jack asked.

"Well after what you guys did yesterday, we figured we could help" Wade smirked.

Mark furrowed his eyebrows before glancing at Jack, who was growing a smile on his features. "You mean...." he trailed off hesitantly.

"You guys wanna help people right?" Bob pointed out. "So why not be superheroes? Ur perfectly capable" he smiled. Mark still seemed hesitant towards the idea. He knew he wanted this, but what about Tyler and Ethan?

"Come on, Mark" Jack pleaded. "We all know you want this"

"Yes I do, but we need to help out Tyler and Ethan" he reminded.

"Doesn't mean we can't help out others along the way" Jack countered. "Besides, we got these two helping us, we got Kathryn helping us, and we know where the colonel is, so why the hell not?" he reasoned.

They were definitely convincing Mark more and more, he was even thinking to himself as he leaned back in his chair. The others just intently watching as he considered it and they smiled more and more before Mark another look at Jack. "You know if we do this, not everybody will love us" he felt the need to mention. "They'll fear us, and then they'll hate us"

"I know, but if we stand our ground and show them what we can do for them, they will eventually stand with us" he stated proudly. "All we hafta do is be that light they've been waiting for, show them the better side of themselves and let the good people side with us and guide the rest of them the way" he added, sounding like a strong leader.

After a moment of drifting back into his thoughts, Mark gave Jack a wide and knowing smile as his answer, he was finally convinced. The other three friends cheered as they stood and celebrated with Mark, very much looking forward to what they were gonna accomplish together. They were gonna be the beginning of a new age of heroes, and it was gonna be the most amazing thing ever. But most of all, they were gonna make their world a better, safer place to live, and make a hell of a change for it. This was gonna be great.