Episode Five: A Walk In The Park (October 14th, 2004)
Blink Dog is called into the offices of Col. George Moore, Jet City's UNTIL Division Leader and the Champions liason to the international crime-fighting organization. Moore has called him in to discuss something very odd found at the site of the Champions battle with Grond. Another UNTIL super agent, the deadly and beautiful Tanager, presents Blink with the agencies findings.
Hidden deep within the fountain that Grond smashed, UNTIL forensic investigators discovered a small black box - a transmitter set to a frequnecy only Grond can sense. Essentially, the device is a silent Grond whistle, and it was this box that Grond sought to destroy. Stranger still, the box was built using components from King Enterprises. True, the parts were all common and easily obtained, but still, the connection worries Moore and we wants Blink Dog to keep both eyes open.
Meanwhile, William King aka Rocketman II finds himself sitting down for a face to face interview with local TV personality Jean Enerson - the price he has to pay to keep footage of himself intimidating a camera crew off the air.
Both meetings are interrupted when the JCPD sends out an urgent call - a bomb has been discovered in Memorial Park, and it's set to explode in mere minutes! Blink Dog and Tanager leave immediately for the park, were they meet up with the other Champions - as well as a local independent hero, the speedster Red Racer.
Blink Dog and Tanager set to deactivating the bomb, while the rest of theteam watches in nervous anticipation. With mere seconds left on the clock, Tanager manages to successfully defuse the bomb - just as Rocketman picks up an incoming bogey on his helmet radar!
The bomb explodes - covering the Champions with a fine red powder(!?!) - as Ogre lands in the midst of the group and begins throwing blows. He is quickly joined by alien mercenary Herculan and the mutant magnetist Lodestone. A battle ensues, and things go poorly for the Champions, until a desperate and heavily wounded Aresenal reverts to his mercenary training and sinks a deadly broadhead arrow into Herculan's shoulder. The alien retreats after screaming "We have the data, let's get out of here!" to his comrades. Their retreat is covered by Mirage, whom the Champions never even see.
The battle leaves the Champions feeling very uneasy - the bomb, the attack, all of it was obviously a set-up, but by whom? For what reasons?
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