Future
Port Gotham is a huge metropolis based on a huge port trade center. Art, James, and Bobby are out and about in the town. Art comments about how grateful he is that Mr. Whitman got them courtside tickets to a Port Sharks game. Bobby says that he wants to be good friends to them. James privately remarks that "mr. popular" is up to something, but Art shrugs it off. The three pass by a young woman playing gutar on the street corner and Art gives her a dollar. She smiles at him, seeing he's the only one who has given her any money that day.
As the three boys reach the end of the block, a huge truck drives through the red light and the corner, hitting James. The truck hits a light, and several of the poles it is carrying fly at Art and Bobby. The guitar woman blinks. It was all a daydream. Hearing screeches of tires, she realizes it will come true. "HEY! STOP! COME BACK!" she yells, and catches their attention. This causes them to miss the truck by an foot, and the truck still hits the light, sending poles their way. Art pushes over the other two, saving their lives. They all get up and look in horror as they avoided death, and Art stares at the guitar woman, knowing she saved them somehow.
Meanwhile, Tom stops by the aquarium. Dr. Rose is apparently the only person there to speak to. Tom tells her that he's looking for a job, and that he is Arthur's father. He recently had quit his job as a fisherman to be one with his "oceanic friends". Dr. Rose is skeptical, but says that since Arthur is a good kid, she should give him a chance. Inicidentally, there is obviously some kind of chemistry between the two. Just then, Tom gets a call from his cell. He tells Rose that Arthur almost just died in a bizarre street accident. Dr. Rose is shocked and offers him a ride to Port Gotham, and they leave.
The adults arrive on the scene. The boys are not hurt, but there are police questioning everyone. Tom learns that it was apparently a drunk driver, and that aside from some scrapes, there were no injuries, but there could have been. Arthur, being treated for those scrapes, sees the guitar woman, and tries to approach her in the crowd. Then, Reginald Whitman comes out of nowhere in the crowd and stops Art. He checks to see if he was okay, and then says, "If you ever run into anymore trouble, just call my personal cell. You're Bobby's friend, so you're obviously family now." He gives him a card that Art puts in his jacket pocket. Art sees that the guitar woman is now gone.
Reginald goes up to Bobby, who says, "I called you an hour ago. Art's dad got here quickly, why didn't you?" Without looking into his son's eyes, Reginald says, "I was on the verge of a breakthrough for WhitmanCorp. I pushed it off until tomorrow. I'm a business man Robert, you know how it is." He pats him on the head and leaves. Dr. Rose mean while watches the scene with condescending eyes on Reginald.
The next day, Kako is at the beach surfing. She gets out of the water to see Art there. She kisses him and says, "I was so glad you called and said you were okay. I would've freaked if I got that call yesterday!" Art tells her that he's alright, but he has business in Port Gotham to take care of. Art gets on the nearby bus, and Kako goes back into the water. Before she gets to surinfg, she sees a very out-of-place Alex, with a wet suit and a surf board. Alex shrugs off Kako when she says hi, and she attempts to surf. When Alex crashes twice, Kako offers to teach her, but Alex exclaims that she doesnt need her help and flips her surf board.
Kako goes up to her in the sand and asks why she's so pissed. Alex yells that she's known Arthur for years, but Art didnt even notice her when they got to the beach at about the same time. He was too busy with Kako. Kako is angry, but Aex tells her she knew "this wouldn't work." Kako asks what she means. "I'm only surfing here because I wanted to try to be friends with you. I told Art this wouldn't work, and I was right. I'm only hanging out with you because of him." Alex storms off the beach.
Art arrives in Port Gotham. He goes to the exact street corner of the guitar woman to find her there. She nervously tries to ignore him, but he confronts her. She invites him to coffee. Her name is Bella, and she's been having premonitions since she was fifteen. She's not sure how to control it, and she can't let anyone know that she's a metahuman. Art says that as long as she's not doing anything illegal, he won't tell. Before he leaves, he drops the card that Reginald gave him. Bella picks it up and then sees the WhitmanCorp tower in the middle of the city. She sees that in the basement, Reginald will be hit with a freak blast of water.
In the aquarium, meanwhile, it's break time, so Tom takes Meredith out to the local burger joint. as they talk, he tells her that there is no room in the aquarium. He has a degree in engineering, but he's busy feeding fish to seals in front of an audience. Meredith understands, but tells him a little secret. The Vayne Cliff pier that burned down was so old and derelicte, that the city has decided against resurrecting it. The aquarium plans on purchasing the plot of land for another division. Meredith says that if they got it, Tom could work there, and maybe even run it. Unfortunately, they don't have the funds.
Back in the city, Bella cries and tells Arthur about the vision, and that since he knows Reginald, he has to save him. Art tries to call him, but he doesn't pick up, so he runs away to stop it. Running to the building not so far away, he sees that there is security, but he stil ldoesn't know how to get into the basement. He runs around into a secure part of the back lot of the building. Sneaking thourgh the gate, he creeps through several of the massive pumps above ground. Seeing a small sewage drain on the other side, he squeezes through it somehow and falls into a pipe in the sewer and begins to walk around.
The basement of WhitmanCorp is a laboratory level. The secret projec that the men had been workiong was unveiled; it was an advanced polymerized plastice and steel material that could theoretically withstand more water pressure than most iron pipes, and was cheap and easy to produce. The demonstration was aobut to being and Reginald stood nearby to witness the waterflowing through the intricate tubing. As the demonstration progressed, the power of the water flowing began to go increasingly faster. It got to an all new dangerously high record of pressure, but the pipe still maintained. Meanwhile, Arthur, wading through the deep sewage beneatht he basement, found that one pipe lead to a large, open tank. Fortunately, no researchers were in the room, for everyone was watching the presentation. Arthur jumped out of the water a great distance and began to run.
Sneaking behind another tank, Art watched closely. Reginald was at a 90 degree angle from the water flow, a few yards off. As the pressure continued to increase, the pump began to malfunction, and the water pressure began to severely increase beyond its estimated capability. All the onlookers, frightened, began to run away, but Reginald stayed to see how strong it was. By the time he realized he was in danger, the exits were all crowded. Arthur knew what he had to do.
The pipe exxploded, shooting gallons of extremely pressurized water at Reginald in a split second. However, in that second, Art jumped in and grabbed Reginald. He took the full blow of the water, but it did not hurt him as it would a normal human. He quickly pushed Reginald out of harm's way. No one saw him get hit, and he was just seen as a miracle savior.
Back at Seven Shores, Alex is being pushed by James into the school. She is wondering what other surprises he has in store, an dit must be good to bring her in on a Sunday. Alex sees that the halls are covered in new posters promoting the JLA. It turns out Kako is a strong supporter of the club, and she really wants to be friends. James smiles weakly at Alex, but Alex also smiles. "You just better be a good debater if you wanna join the JLA." Kako smiles with delight.
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The police questioned Art, but the charges were dropped, since he was "family" and he saved Reginald's life. Art claimed that he got an anonymous tip from what must have been a rival company.
Art later goes to the coffee place to speak to Bella. He tells her that he wants his palm read for a premonition. She agrees, but only for a touch. When she does so, she is overcome with energy. She smiles and says that all she knew was that Arthur would save so many other lives, and that the ocean would be a large part of his life. He smiles and thanks Bella. She bids goodbye and leaves putting on gloves. Right outside the coffee place, Bobby is going to also meet Art. But he bumps into Bella, knocking over the glove she was about to put on. He helps her up holding her hand for quite sometime. In that time, Bella gets a vision. Bobby is in the ocean floating still, and suddenly, a large black manta ray covers his body and devours him. The outcome is a dark, evil Bobby. She also sees Arthur in the water, and the dark Bobby swims to him and grabs his neck, choking him. Bringing Arthur to his knees, Bobby begins to spread his darkness inot the entire ocean.
Whent the vision ends, Bella runs away crying, knowing the evils that Bobby would someday commit. Bobby, confused, walks into the coffee place to talk to his friend.
END.
Preview: A powerful new metahuman is in town, and everyone knows electricity thrives in water. All new next week on Seven Shores. The new episode: "POWER"...