Chapter Nineteen
Cadmus Smith—Director of the Department of Superpowered Human and Extraterrestrial Beings and leader of the G-Men—sat in his office at the Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was reading a report from Mr. Apollo, one of his agents, who had recently completed an intelligence operation on a terrorist group in the Middle East led by an infamous supervillain who apparently believed that his powers were a gift from Allah. It was dry and boring, but Cadmus preferred reports that way. He had little patience for agents who tried to add rhetorical flourishes to their reports and Mr. Apollo was one of the few agents who agreed with him on that, which was why he always liked Apollo's reports better than the reports that other agents sent him.
But despite enjoying Apoll
