All around the world, the powers of every Vigor and Shadow were forcefully torn away, absorbed through Oscar’s chains of blazing energy. Cries of agony echoed across cities and skies.
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“Stop this... nonsense at once, Jethro... if you’re the one behind it...” one of the Board members growled, straining against the chains.
Jethro raised his hands in mock innocence. “As you can see, I’m not doing anything. Yet.”
Mr. Kolade narrowed his eyes, realization dawning. It’s not Jethro. It’s Oscar.
He lifted his wristwatch to his mouth and whispered, “Engage.”
Far out at sea, deep beneath the waves, a massive needle-shaped rocket with six gas-boosters punched upward, breaching the ocean in a plume of steam before streaking into space. It rotated, realigning, its needle tip charging with conc
