Chapitre 17: 『HardToBeHumble』
A week later, the Intergang had stopped most of their activities in National City. They had gone completely underground after they found that Green Kryptonite would no longer stop their Kryptonian Foe.
Standing on ledge of Cat Grant's Balcony, she was overlooking the city. She could hear sirens, police chasing car bandits. She let out a sigh, over the past week she had stopped several robberies, stopped speeding cars, and made the quality of life for officers relatively higher than before.
Still there were no other leads of the intergang's leader, other than the information which was gifted to her by the System known as Guardian-1. She had accumulated at least thirty four thousand five hundred virtual coins over the weak by completing Quests. She found that these quests were very much like the games in RPGs she started playing on Winn's computer. Though it was quite different. These quests, these milestones, didn't appear until she started the path. She was being rewarded for her own actions and her ability to follow through with her own convictions.
Last Week she was enrolled through her school back in Midvale, into the University in National City. News spread throughout the school back at home, allowing Kara Alexa and their mother to know exactly where she was.
Though it was likely already known since she was on the news almost every single day for the past week. She was beating down bad men, killing murderers and attempted murderers who wouldn't surrender.
While she had been targeted over and over again, she found it easier and easier to avoid damages. Whenever she came across the Intergang droids she would try to get them out of the air, either by throwing them or carrying them out of the city limits and destroying them.
Hearing footsteps emanating from behind her, she jerked to the side, remaining on the outer ledge. Her body was turned to the side after the movement, and her eyes rested on Cat Grant.
"You're a bit young to be brooding over the city," the woman cracked a joke comparing her to batman.
She snickered to herself as she recalled the fact that Batman perched himself in high places, likely brooding and watching over the city of Gotham at night. "I don't believe brooding is the right word, Miss Grant."
"Please, call me Cat." The woman stood there with a glass in her hand. It smelled of bourbon. She didn't seem as if she was going to ask for an interview, at least not one with a clipboard or paper pad.
"Mkay, Cat." Chuckling casually, she seemed to let her guard down a bit towards the woman.
Cat stared up at the tiny person on the ledge, it was a very literal metaphor. A young girl standing on the edge, capable of so much evil, yet trying so hard to do so much good. "Do you like your name?"
For the first time, this woman asked if she liked her name which was coined during her coming out.
Tapping her index finger against the added armor on her thigh's skirting in thought. "I think I'd prefer Girl Cadmus as opposed to Agent Cadmus... Unlike my brighter colored counterpart, Superman, I don't see myself completely as a Hero." She sounded adamant, serious, about what she was talking about. She was sharing her own thoughts without much of a filter.
Cat Grant naturally caught on to what she was saying.
"I am also not an Agent, or an Emissary, of Hope or Good like he is. I am doing this for my own sense of Justice, I don't seek to inspire others. I kill the evil I perceive because I can, rather than lock it in a cage. that they'll without any doubt break out of." Hekate let out a sigh in her mask and turned her head towards the city as she could hear several horns going off in all different directions. She could hear the cluttered chatter of those roaming the streets of National City, in the safety of their homes, even the inmates in the National City Jail.
"You really don't like it when you're compared to him do you?" She asked as she looked up at the girl who was still standing at the ledge on her balcony. If it wasn't for her being a Kryptonian, she would worry about her falling off.
"No I don't, but I don't like a lot of things." Hekate looked at the woman for a few moments before smiling under her helmet's visor.
Cat nipped at her drink before placing it down as she leaned on the edge of the balcony. She looked down on the world beneath her and simply wore a blank smile across her lips. "You're as human as the rest of us," she said as she swirled her drink around in the glass.
Hekate straightened out her back as she heard something, an explosion followed by the sound of rabid flames. "Time to go," She stated as she turned around and fell backward off the ledge and began plummeting towards the ground face first.
Bringing herself up from a nose dive just meters away from clashing with traffic, she broke the sound barrier and headed straight for the source of the explosion.
The hub display within her helmet highlighted the route for her to take as she flew low below the buildings. She wanted to avoid hitting planes or helicopters. She avoided lifting cars off the ground with her speed, so everything was relatively safe from her actions.
Finally when she arrived, she landed on the ground, skidding to a stop in front of Lord Technologies. She narrowed her eyes on a controlled explosion in an open area in the lot nearby, glaring at the men present.
Maxwell Lord came walking towards her, wearing a lab coat. "Glad you could make it!" His arms were held out in a gesture of welcome, he expected her.
"Testing something...?" Her eyes narrowed on the explosive kit which was in flames not too far away.
"Nah, just calling you with a big bang." He crossed his arms over his chest with a small smile across his lips. He was admiring her armor protected suit, more precisely the tech it was using. "Good to see you went along with the heroic threatrics." Lord had this big smug look on his face.
Hekate could only think about Ben Lockwood's triumphant duck face which he was infamous for using with his silver tongue. Maxwell Lord was however not as open minded as the dear professor and was rather set in his ways. She didn't generate an answer to his words.
"Hm... Boring," Maxwell chuckled seeing as she didn't give a response to her actions being referred to being heroic.
"I prefer boring," Her body lulled slightly to the side as she observed him closely. "Why'd you call me? Clearly don't need strength at the Nth Degree."
Maxwell stood there for a few moments, not entirely understanding what she was referring to. What was the Nth degree? She was referring to Nineth Metal, better known as Nth Metal, however it wasn't public knowledge just yet.
"Your suit... It's technologically superior to anything I've seen on Earth. I am wondering if you had any technological prowess, and if you're willing to work with me, I'd have no problem sponsoring you and putting you on the straight and narrow." He stated as he would clasp his hands in front of him
"What are you looking to achieve Maxi?" Hekate asked as she crossed her arms over her modest chest, she was making fun of him a bit.
Maxwell simply stared down at her after she called him a little nickname, but dismissed it rather quickly. "I've been working on a new form of... Energy generation. Something that could power the entire state for eons without having to be replenished. It's safer, cleaner and more affordable than nuclear power. Except it keeps collapsing in on itself... I believe that the technology you have in your suit is the answer to stabilize it."
"So you want to build a powerplant that can repair itself which would generally eliminate the need for constant maintenance and manual repair." She quickly caught on to what he wanted, but what kind of power source was he even talking about? "You know that the Corporate side of America won't like this, right?"
"It's what's best for humanity. Not even the government would be able to stop this," Maxwell pointed out, she could sense his disdain for the government which had allowed his parents to die.
"So what is this machine your building, or want to build that can power the entire state?" Hekate decided to humor his request, wanting more information on what he was doing.
"It's a Zero-point Energy Reactor. It applies..." He went on to explain the quantum science behind the machine, how it affects the small as it uses vibrations for power. It was the ultimate power supply for the whole world.
Tapping her fingers on her bicep as she listened to his own lecture, "Forget the state... That could power the entire world, people would fight over or even kill for control over it. The government would probably try to seize it."
Maxwell nodded, he knew of that. "Powering the state is just the cover for the next project."
"Next Project?" Hekate tilted her head to the side, correcting her posture as she listened intently, more so than before.
"Have you ever wanted to find a reality where your parents never died? Where Krypton was still floating in deep space? I have. I always have." Maxwell smiled proudly, he was speaking of breaking into the multiverse, a theory that scientists across the known worlds have spoken of.
"And how do you expect to do that with a Zero-Gravity...." She didn't finish her sentence as she began to think about how the world vibrated at a certain frequency, just like every other molecule did, every atom. "You're going to use the reactor to breach into other worlds?"
"Like an Egg," Maxwell gestured with a light chuckle. "We can have what we lost and more."
"I don't want my parents, they abandoned me, as did the people of Krypton." She said this with a very clear tone. She didn't want anything that he had just offered her, but the idea of traveling to other realities, it was appealing. Though she hadn't done everything she could in this world, just how long would it take for him to complete this project of his?
『Notification: The User is wanting to replicate the functions of their suit. A new selection has been added to the virtual store. You can now buy blueprints. A new function has been added, you are now able to build your own blueprints for new technology.』
『Warning: If the user wants to use these technologies for their own personal or collective gain, they must think of the consequences. Not only do new technologies create culture shock, but it could lead down to the destruction of an entire civilization if placed in the wrong hands.』
A notification and a warning, Hekate stared forward for a moment or two before shrugging. "I guess I can give it a try. Not that I have anything better to do other than wait for something to happen." The girl yawned slightly as she held out one hand for him to shake while keep the other one tucked across her chest, "No contracts."
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
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