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Various colored cables are strung around metal framing, with dirty plastic tarps draped down to indicate where future office walls will eventually stand. Dangling light fixtures provide just enough brightness to illuminate the stacks of drywall, construction tools, paint supplies, and lastly Bernadette – who now stands at the far end of the building.

Adam trips out of the stairwell, barely avoiding a face plant on to the cement floor, due to the silver luggage in one hand and discarded high heels in his other. He steadies himself while scanning the deserted 41st floor, currently undergoing a major construction renovation.

Outside the impregnable, invisible dome that now encases Lexington Plaza – New York’s finest, a gaggle of reporters and a crowd of spectators – can only watch and wait.

Between the opposing forces, dangling in the bus roof by his buttocks and sleeping like a baby, is Terrain.

Also up there, held tight by her throat, Relay flails helplessly in Gemini’s grip. In the rubble of the city street below are her Fearless teammates: Night Terror, Magmamite, and Nobody.

Atop the overturned city bus stand the Feared: Tranquility, Gemini, the Possessor, and Wayfarer.

Abby spins around to find a boy about her age standing in the open front door arch. In khaki cargo shorts and a backpack slung over his Black Keys concert shirt, Sam studies her with a devilish smile plastered on his face.

In the suburbs of Middletown, a car pulls into the driveway of a modest two story home. Emerging from the driver’s side, Frank stretches out his back, while he stares down the house in front of him. Slowly stepping out from the passenger side, Abby glances around nervously as she follows Frank up the walkway.

Scaling up the unseen side of the bus, using wooden spikes in either hand as climbing pegs, Tranquility yanks herself up and stands off to Gemini’s right. In a blink of the eye, Wayfarer, (dressed in a long blue flowing cloak) appears to Gemini’s left. Finally, shoving his way past Gemini and Wayfarer, to position