Arc 2
Contents
Homecomings, part I[edit]
We are reminded of the events leading up to the Press Conference announcing the Survivors to the world. Following their aiding the bus/taxi accident in Georgetown the Survivor group rushed to escape the cameras and emergency services. Brain and Mandy rush away with a group of 20+ onlookers following as Agent Marks orders Arthur to get Jack's lifeless body to a hospital. Brian and Mandy escape with new revelations of their powers as Jack finds his way from an astral plane back into his body. Some two hours later the Survivors and their extended group settle for the night at Arthur's father's apartment building, waiting for the Press Conference near the Lincoln Memorial the next day. Questions pummel the Survivor panel and Brian takes most of them with grace. Only Arthur and Jack would surprise the world with blunt statements (Arthur) and undecernable language (Jack). The group is greeted off the stage by NTAC, a new branch of Homeland Security assigned to the passengers of AA Flight 283. Now the survivors seperate to return home to settle with their families, planning to see how the world will react to them if not react FOR them, when they next return to the Lincoln Memorial...
=Homecomings part II[edit]
The group split for their homecomings. Mandy stays in DC not wishing to see her brothers and Ladder family for her personal demons, but is able to do some good stopping the robbery of a DC convenient store. Arthur finds his best friend who happens to be his father and saves his life after giving him a heart attack. Jack finds his mother and they pick up where they left off ending both passed out from the night of binge drinking. Brian finds his life collapsed with his parents divorced and the family home sold. He and his dad share words but not worlds...
=Absolute Power Corrupts[edit]
Brian and Jack spend time together as Jack focuses and pulls his astral self to Brian's power signature - in OUTER SPACE! After much debate and practice Brian becomes the first man to walk on the moon in decades, just before hurtling back to Earth. Jack manages to worm his way back into his body and learns he's responsible for kicking his mother off the wagon. Mandy seems lost in the streets of DC but catches glimpses of an event that would happen in the future - a fire-burning of a young Survivor, and she races to find and help her travelling from DC to Georgia. Unable to change this "future" she reconnects with Brian with plans to gather the group with Arthur - but not before snapping the neck of the 15 year old rabble rouser! Arthur and his father take the trip from New Jersey to West Virginia to get reaquainted. And finally the group gathers together crossing into the wilderness on Ware Mt. in West Virginia. But before the end Arthur sees hint of a girl noted in the local paper, as he runs a recon of the camp - amid corn stalks some 10-12 feet high...
