Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Olympian: Children of the Gods (Limited Series) #5

A JET FLYING OVER NORTHERN EUROPE
The opening of this issue has Olympian, Cybernaut, Knight, and Squire on an advanced transport jet with “IUC” (International Ultramarine Corps) marked on the tail. Knight explains that he got ahold of a lot of the Ultramarines' old equipment after the team broke up, following their return from exile in the infant universe of Qwewq and the destruction of their headquarters, Superbia. As Knight pilots the aircraft, and Squire sits at a computer terminal, Cybernaut explains who they’re going up against.

RED SKY is an ultra-covert military intelligence unit created after the event known as “FINAL CRISIS”, and tasked with monitoring extra-dimensional intelligence channels. Their mandate is to, by any means necessary, protect the national security of the United States and its allies from the kind of “Higher Dimensional” (i.e. godly) incursion like the one Darkseid perpetrated. To do so, the U.S. government purchased the rights to the former headquarters of the Global Guardians known as The Dome, to gain access to the specialized equipment left behind after their folding.

RED SKY currently has a mission codenamed “MAGNET SCHOOL” where they’ve discovered a way to identify and track children that have DNA of the previously-mentioned Higher Dimensional beings. These children are classified as sleeper agents of these foreign powers, and as such will be apprehended and put into stasis if they can’t be turned against their progenitors. Thinking “there but for the grace of the gods go I,” Olympian states that this ends today.

A SEWER IN RURAL BELGIUM
Later, our heroes save for Squire, are sneaking through a sewer system (Olympian: “this stuff might work for you two, but you’re not wearing sandals”), while Beryl (Squire) is working the comms from the aircraft, which can also operate submerged as it as right now at the bottom of a large rural lake. While Beryl hacks RED SKY’s security system, the heroes in the sewers take out roving shooter patrols in their own ways (Knight with karate, Cybernaut with his tranq gun, and Olympian by flicking them on the forehead with his index finger).

When they enter the Dome-proper from the sewer, they’re surprised to see it so empty. But as they walk through it, they begin to be taunted by the voice of Phobos. Eventually they find themselves in the main foyer of the place, stunned to see over two-dozen duplicates of Phobos in front, behind, and above them on a balcony chanting “Fear is everywhere!”

To be concluded in The Olympian: Children of the Gods (Limited Series) #6

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