Chapter Three.
"This is insane! Reports of violent outbreaks are pouring in from all over the city like crazy! It's like someone suddenly set off some kind of rage bomb or something. No way is this a natural occurrence!" Tech said.
"Any ideas on what we can do about it?" Ace asked.
"Just one." Tech said. He then pressed a button, causing the wall to open up. Inside was a storage rack which held a familiar looking device.
"After analyzing the technology used in the construction of the Fixator ray, I was able to create what could fittingly be called, the Mellow ray." Tech said as he removed the ray from the storage rack. "Unlike it's predecessor, the Mellow ray leaves its target in an abnormally relaxed state of mind. If I were to link it to the tower's amplifier system, I'd be able to spread its affects throughout the entire city. It's not a permanent solution since the affects of the Mellow ray aren't designed to last for safety reasons, but it should buy us enough time to figure out what's causing all this." Tech said.
"Works for me." Ace said. "You set it up, the rest of us will run crowd control in the meantime." He said.
"The hookup should only take me a minute. The only thing anyone else needs to do is bring me one of the people out there before I set off the ray. I'll need to run some test on someone under the full affects of whatever's causing this." Tech said.
"Rev, take care of it." Ace ordered, seeing no need to deploy more than one member of the team for that particular task. Rev was gone and back again within roughly ten seconds. Struggling in his grip was one of the many maddened pedestrians.
"Take him to the lab and make sure he's properly restrained." Tech instructed. He then got started on the hookup as Rev promptly zipped off to do as he was told.
(A.N) The Mellow ray, was nearly called the Relaxator ray. But I ultimately decided to stick with the first name I came up with.