The Opposite of Carnage
In a secure warehouse owned, once you got passed the shell companies and false identities, by Maxwell Anders, Kaiser was watching two men in heavy powered armor carrying a technologically advanced box, a good five feet to a side, that was in turn loaded onto some kind of anti-gravity platform from a tinker-made truck and placing it securely on the ground.
From the truck came running a young man in a lab coat, with short blond hair that stood on end from the static. Donar, Gesellschaft affiliated Cape, a friend of a friend of Kreig, and Tinker specializing in Electromagnetism. A man had murdered two of his capes in cold blood and had been waging a one-man war on the Empire ever since, and that man had some kind of power over magnetism. In a stroke of fortune, Kreig had mentioned his acquaintance and one thing led to another and within the week, Kaiser could now counter this user of magnetism with the creations of it's Master.
The man in question was babbling excitedly in German, before suddenly running up to Kaiser and grabbing Kaiser's hand in in his own two rubber gloved hands and giving it a vigorous shake. "You are Kaiser, yes?" The man said in a moderate German accent. "I've heard many good things about you, yes. It is good to be here, good to be doing good work in a new city in a new country."
"Yes," Kaiser said. He briefly wondered if the man's overfriendliness had something to do with why he was so easily moved between nations. "Well, I have a meeting to get two, those two" Kaiser said, pointing to a few elder non-powered members of the Empire, true believers, "will help you settle in and-" There was a loud noise from the two power-armored men and the box and Donar began screaming and cursing in German to the two men. Dear God, the two men, in armor, had to be eight feet tall to Donar's five and a half but the way they cowered before him he might have well have been fifty feet.
"Sorry," the Tinker said as he finished and turned back to Kaiser, "these two Idioten apparently weren't as gentle with a rather... temperamental power source I've been studying as they should have been." Suddenly, the man smiled. "Oh, but if I can unlock its secrets, anything will be possible! Imagine it, entire countries powered by clean energy! Entire dozens of cities cleansed all at once!" He then laughed dementedly, enough that even Kaiser began to feel uncomfortable. Then he changed tracks, suddenly becoming quite cheerful in the traditional sense, "would you like to take a peek at it?"
Kaiser silently cursed himself: After such a build up he had to.
At his nod, Donar rushed over to the box and started pressing buttons that Kaiser hadn't even noticed were there, causing the box to unfold and change shape and... Kaiser wasn't sure but he could have been sworn that there was more moving machinery in the box than could fit in that space, but that was Tinkers for you. Finally, a canister of some sort was revealed, before opening up to reveal...
"... A stone hammer?" Kaiser asked incredulously.
"Not just any stone hammer!" The man said excitedly, "it was a pain in the ass to get it mobile, but I think this is the genuine article! Come, come, take a closer look, read the inscription!"
In for a penny... Kaiser approached the odd mechanical pedestal, noting that the hammer seemed positively ancient up close... but the inscription was in relatively modern English. "Whosoever holds this hammer..."