What Would Your Character Do? #60 (moved from Champs forum)

[Wormhole]

Captain Fantasistic was once a famous and well respected superhero, one of the most popular in the city. That is, until he agreed to lend his good name to the mayoral campaign of a man by the name of Richard Wad. Wad was eventually busted for a long laundry list of shenanigans, including tax evasion and violations of the city's campaign finance laws too numerous to list. The press was pretty brutal with Captain Fantasistic during the scandel; those that didn't accuse him of being in kahoots with Wad labelled him a gullable schmuck for letting Wad play him for a fool. With his reputation smeared and his popularity waning, the Captain became a bitter, dispondant drunk and slowly faded from the public eye.

It's now 5 years later. Richard Wad has got time off his sentience for good behavior and is now free. But no soon was Wad released on parole that he turned up murdered! (dum, dum, dum). Knowing that Captain Fantastic never forgave Wad for what happened to him, you and your colleuges tracked the Captain down and confronted him. He denies having anything to do with Wad's death and according to the team's telepath, he's telling the truth...atleast, as far as he knows. The telepath has found evidence the Captain's mind has been psionically tampered with. At this point, the authorities have arrived on the scene and taken Captain Fantasistic into custody, saying they have physical evidence that links him to Wad's murder. What do you do?

[Tim]

All American II would try and get him the best legal help he could (thru contacts, he doesn't have much money himself) otherwise would stand up for him.

Cortex IS the team mentalist and would beleive him, but beieve him mind controlled. He would try and dig deeper and find out who did the tampering.

Psilance would atoumatically assume PSI framed him, and, since she distrust the authorities, would help him break out if he wanted to.

[The Owl]

The Owl would confess she did it because she was pissed off that he messed up a famous and well-respected hero.

Whether she actually did it, or she just wants to help the Captain out of prison, or just wants to make trouble, is entirely up in the air.