This is an omake, but it's also canon cause it kinda sorta happened. So it's kind of a canon omake.
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Meanwhile In Cauldron….
Once Chief Director Rebbecca Costa-Brown was done with the conference, she waited patiently for five minutes, then…
"Door me"
A portal appeared out of thin air and she walked through it and a moment later the portal closed silently behind her.
She stepped into what looked like a changing room with a single door opening out of it.
Five minutes later, the Protectorate hero Alexandria emerged from the changing room. She stalked down a long corridor and opened the door that led to a conference room with the ease of long practice.
The room was already occupied. Three people sat around the table that stood in the center of the room. One of them wore a costume.
"Welcome" Eidolon greeted her. "How did the directors react?"
"As well as could be expected" Alexandria said as she took her seat. "They have hypothesized the existence of a parahuman somewhere who's doing all this, and are appointing a task force to identify and possibly contact them. I gave them my approval"
"Nothing else you could have done" The Numbers Man spoke up from where he lounged in his chair. "Who knows, maybe they will have success where we failed"
"I still don't see why we aren't looking for them" Alexandria growled. "We have the Clairvoyant, we have Contessa, and you flat out told me that we can't find this mystery parahuman"
The tables other occupants exchanged glances.
"We didn't say that" Eidolon was the one that finally spoke. "It's not that we don't have the means to find them. It's that we can't use them to find them"
Alexandria looked from one to the other in confusion. "What do you mean?"
The Number Man cleared his throat. "You weren't here when all this happened but" He sighed. "We did try to use our resources to track them down. But every time we tried…."
"….Something happened" Doctor Mother finished for him.
"Something?" Alexandria repeated dryly.
"Something" Doctor Mother confirmed.
"We believe it's this parahuman actively preventing us from discovering them. Every time someone tries to find this person, they do something to stop the attempt" Eidolon explained in more depth.
"So this person is not actually immune to Thinkers?" Alexandria asked just to confirm.
"Not as far as we can see" Numbers Man replied.
"So if we actually get a Thinker to look at them we might find them?"
"…. In theory, yes" Number man reluctantly replied.
"Then why haven't you just brute forced through? You have Contessa! You have Eidolen! You can take whatever they throw at us!" Alexandria demanded. "Don't you see how important this is? How important finding this person is? And we have the means to but haven't tried because of what? Some stumbling blocks"
Cautious glances passed around the table.
"Rebbecca….." The Number Man began but was cut off by the sound of a phone going off.
Doctor Mother produced a phone and, after a brief glance at the screen, put it on speaker mode. Everyone around the table heard the female voice that came out of the device.
"Let her make the attempt. It' ll save trouble in the long run"
Then came the distinctive click of the call disconnecting.
Silence.
After five long minutes Doctor Mother spoke up again with a sigh. "Okay Rebecca. You have your chance. Try and find this…. Person"
"…." Alexandria looked around the table. Number Man looked resigned while Eidolon had his head in his hands.
A long moment passed while Alexandria thought about things.
Then she nodded firmly, making a decision. "Door…."
That was as far as she got before sirens began to blare inside the secret base.
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Alexandria closed her mouth with a snap. A moment later she opened it again. "What the hell is that?"
"That, is what we were talking about" Number Man shouted over the sirens. "What is it this time?"
Doctor Mother already had her phone out again. "Contessa?"
"Asteroid" The phone answered promptly. "Going to impact the base in fifteen minutes"
"Asteroid?" Alexandria repeated faintly.
"Asteroid" Doctor Mother confirmed. "Eidolon!"
"I'm on it" The green clad hero jumped to his feet and was gone in a teleport.
"I'll go help him!" Alexandria shouted over the still wailing sirens and leaped to her feet. "Door me!"
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Meanwhile, the third protectorate hero, Legend, was at home in civvies enjoying a quality moment with his kid.
They were playing a video game imported from Earth Aleph on their giant flat-screen tv.
Legend was loosing.
The handsome hero groaned as on screen, Madara Uchiha dropped a freaking asteroid on his poor character.
"That's so op" Legend mock groused at his giggling son. "Aren't you even going to give your old man a fighting chance?"
Just then his work phone rang, and Legend send an apologetic glance in his son's direction before answering.
"Yes"
"Legend!" Number Man's voice came over the speaker. "We're about to be hit by an asteroid!"
"Yeah, I was just hit by one" Legend answered on automatic.
"What?"
"What?"
"Legend!" Number Man screamed. "Asteroid! About to hit us! Help!"
"Oh fuck!" Legend swore before wincing. "Sorry son. I'm on my way"
With that the hero moved too fast for the naked eye to follow, exiting the room and then the house and vanishing off into the sky.
He still stopped to put money in the swear jar.
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The last member of the Triumvirate exited the door into the upper atmosphere.
Eidolon was already in action. Titanic green energy blasts leaping from his hands and vanishing into the night sky.
Alexandria orbited him, busy being useless.
"Legend!" Eidolon yelled at him, never once pausing in his attack. "Get up there and back me up! Hit the center of the asteroid with everything you have!"
Legend flashed into his breaker state and flew up into space, and soon enough he could see the mountain sized rock that was hurtling towards the planet. Eidolon had obligingly marked where he wanted Legend to hit with a power that left glowing marks on the asteroid's surface. Legend did'nt hesitate. He instantly unleashed his full power, hitting the asteroid with everything he had.
Around him, the green laser blasts from Eidolon passed and impacted the giant rock, slicing away huge chunks of it. Legend guessed that Eidolon planned to break this asteroid into smaller pieces that will easily burn up in the atmosphere.
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And that's exactly what they did.
Under the combined laser fire from the two Triumvirate members the asteroid cracked and broke into multiple smaller pieces.
Most of these broke up further and burned out in the planet's atmosphere.
The few that made it through were destroyed by the three heroes before they could reach the ground.
In the end not one piece of the asteroid touched the planet.
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The three bedraggled heroes trooped back to their base to find the Number Man waiting with a pot of coffee.
"That was what we were talking about" He exasperatedly told Alexandria as he poured her coffee. "Still want to try and find this parahuman?"
That had been the wrong thing to say. Alexandria's mouth set into a stubborn line. "I still want to try. We handled their worst. What else can they do to us?"
"Dammit!"
The sirens started blaring again.
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There it is. Stay tuned for part 2.