Greg Stillson had been watching Malcolm Janus as he paced the small office. There had been dozens of sudden scandals that The congressman didn't think about having them effect on him and his campaign. But the way Janus was acting There was something wrong. The other man finally tired settled into a chair. "I can tell that you have your own troubles Mr. Janus, but I just have to wonder what's going on?" Greg said. "There have been certain events that might impact your future as a politician. Janus told him. "The question is who's responsible for these events"
Greg sat and nodded as he looked at the closed file folder on the desk in front of him. "Have your people had any luck locating Johnny Smith?" Greg asked. " no there's been no sign of Mr. Smith since the day the Dark Ranger showed up in Cleaves Mills." Janus replied as he met Greg's gaze. Greg looked at him. " Then you can't rule out that Johnny Smith might have changed his strategy. That he's behind what ever's happening. I told you to kill that freak. Now he's found a place to hide and a way to strike back. " Greg had that look on his face the one that said. "You messed up not me." The powerbroker sighed . " But let's not dwell on the past find him kill him and this will go away."Greg said Janus had to admit that this time Stillson was right."But it may already be too late." Greg sighed as he returned to work and Janus stopped in his tracks. "If Smith has been feeding information to the Justice Department, the water is already chummed and the sharks are circling." The Congressman said. Janus left the room, suddenly everything had changed. He strode down the hall to the elevators and was soon on his way to the latest victim of the new scandal wave. When he got to genutech, the place was locked up tighter than Fort Knox! It was clear from the notice on the dooir that the company was closed and every last person from the top researchers to the Janitors had been arrested The impressive steel and glass tower above him was being scoured for evidence of the terrible crimes this company had been committing. Later the Director of The FBI held a press conference. "It was brought to our attention over the last few months that there was something going on in the biotech industry that is not in the best interests of our citizens, Today that whisper and an almost unprovable conspiracy, has been found to be fact. Today across the nation FBI agents are finally able to make arrests and bring to justice those firms that for many years have been in the fore front of this conspiracy. With this we have discovered networks that supply human subjects for these experiments! Americans Citizens were experimented upon, Some were mental patients who had been abandoned by their families, others were Homeless, or runaways People in Nursing homes, And even illlegal immigrants have been exposed to painful and life changing experiments that have ruined their lives." Janus didn't need to hear any more He turned off his television and looked at the clock it was near seven A.M. The paper arrived and he saw that yet another of his employers was on their way to jail. Still others had left the country not waiting for the axe to fall on them. Janus knew the game was all but over and he focused his hate on one target Johnny Smith. He packed a bag and headed for the last place Smith had been seen. Pheonix Arizona. But it was already too late.
Where was he? What had happened to him? How had he come to be there?" The last thing he had heard was The two Black Clad figures "Our task here is done." Then he passed out and Woke up on the floor. everyone everything was gone! Yet he remembered the faces of Janus' employers their illegal experiments, and other criminal dealings everything! Who ever this was had given him what he needed to stop Armegeddon! He found himself only a mile from home. His information sent out under the name Paladin, made a sensation in the news. No one knew or would ever find out who Palidin was. Johnny smiled as He watched the men behind Janus, arrested. none got away He had sent everything in one felled swoop It hit so fast the whole group had no idea what was happening.
