Hey guys! Just dropping an update to let you know the next story's started just now! Here's a little bit of Weiss Schnee: Lockdown to build some hypuuuu!


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If her father were there to see…

But he wasn't. Weiss raised her head and looked around, as if making sure he wasn't lurking in the shadows, waiting to catch her in the act. After a moment, she shook her head, laughing quietly about how silly she was being.

Without truly realizing it, she picked up the newspaper and started reading the headline of the first page.

RED BOLT IN VALE – HOMETOWN HERO EXPANDS HORIZONS?

The headline was accompanied by a picture, which was what had caught Weiss' eye as she passed by the newsstand before. It showed a street in broad daylight, cars and bikes stuck in a massive traffic jam. The centerpiece, however, was a group of people in balaclavas, running away from something.

That something was what confused her. Right behind the criminals, frozen high above the sidewalk, was a mess of red, black and white, mixed together to make an indiscernible blur. But everything else in the picture was crystal clear – why was that thing so blurry? The only options she could think of were that the newspaper had edited the photo – which she deemed unlikely – or…

Well, it was just that. A blur. Whoever it was – because the article spoke as if it was who, not a what – had been caught by the photographer instants before they reached the criminals. But to go at such speed that you became nearly invisible…

Below the picture was a blurb, then pointers to the rest of the article. It seemed like the newspaper had been working on that piece for a long time.

WHO IS the Red Bolt? (pg. 5) The Red Bolt's SECRET relation to BEACON (pg.7) – SUPERHUMANS, science or myth?, and ramifications (pg. 10)

Weiss shook her head. Now she knew Atlas Today was just trying to cash in on this new personality's fame. There was only one 'superhuman', and no more. Whoever this Red Bolt was, they didn't have a Semblance-

She dropped the newspaper on the desk, going a little pale. She wasn't supposed to know about that. She was really lucky her father was not with her.

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