((This is pretty important, I advise reading it!))

Eventually, they found the small bathroom that Alto's makeshift entrance had been placed. Ruby delicately wrinkled her nose at the choice of the sewers but it was a better escape than most. Turning, she gave Alto the ghost of a grin before stepping a foot closer to him. Leaning up on her tippy toes, she extended her hand around the back of his head and pushed his lips down to her own. While they kissed, her hand snaked down to the back of his neck. All it would take would be a small pulse from her arm-mounted hardware and Alto's nerves would go haywire for a few hours. It would be the end of the meta. Fortunately (or unfortunately) Ruby was kinda into him, what with his AI arms and all so Alto would live for now. Stepping back, she smirked at him knowingly before quirking an eyebrow. [b]"You're a pretty good kisser. I'll be seeing you around, Alto."[/b] Ruby then disappeared into his makeshift entrance, leaving behind the wisp of a smirk from the technopath.

The outside was complete chaos with ninjas, heroes, hydras and bloody well everything in between. Ruby darted out of the sewers, making her way through the chaos and across the street to an abandoned carpark. Casting her vision around the carpark, she finally noticed a parked SUV with black-tinted windows. As she approached it, the car roared to life and two doors opened in the back. As Ruby climbed in, the doors hesitated for a few more seconds before closing shut.

[b]"Mother, let's get out of here, please."[/b] She requested to the car that was apparently empty. The car flared to life as a robotic voice suddenly answered her. [color=Lime]"Right away, Ruby. Latest news outlets and CCTV footage have revealed that Cedric Wessex left the assault a number of hours ago."[/color] Ruby nodded quickly, almost as if she had been expecting it. Leaning forward, she pulled a trusty laptop from the back of the seat in front of her before flicking it on. [b]"Mother, begin Operation Valhalla with the brick wall tactic, please."[/b] The AI acknowledged, beginning to compile all the necessary code within a few seconds.

Ruby was furiously typing away at the Laptop, accelerating the job with her powers. The car pulled out onto the road leading away from the New Sun building as Ruby brought up CCTV footage from the building. Light was systematically trying to destroy the supports with some measly explosives. Isabella, Harper, Brat and Isaac were standing outside Cindy's room. [i]Fools, the lot of them.[/i] Reaching to her arm, she turned the arm-mounted device on before entering a quick security code. Her powers flared, getting past the next security feature which brought her to the proper task. "Activate?" The screen queried which she followed up with a tap to the screen. [color=DeepPink]"Ruby?"[/color] A voice questioned, small and afraid.

[b]"It's ok, we'll be out of here soon."[/b] Ruby smiled as Cindy, previously invisible within her cloaking system, appeared. [b]"Mother, can you do a quick diagnostic on Cindy's system and take us to the nursery."[/b] The car pulled a gentle turn as a light began to follow down Cindy's form, shining green to show she was fine. [b]"Thank you, Mother. You can sleep now, Cindy, I'm just going to send a message to a few friends."[/b] At that, they turned a corner and the New Sun faded from vision just as soon as perfectly-timed explosives caused fire to spew out from every few floors, almost like a great dragon was suddenly waking to discover the chaos around it. Chaos was the best word for it as the power and heat of the explosives vaporised the supports, causing an almost controlled destabilising of the building as floor after floor collapsed down on top of one another.

[color=Lime]"Ruby, Project Valhalla is ready."[/color] Mother informed her as Ruby nodded, bringing up a new task on her laptop. [b]"Good. Mother, send a message to the Prophets. Tell them... not to eat from the tree of knowledge."[/b] Smiling, Ruby watched Cindy drift off to sleep and for once in a very long time, she felt like things were finally right in the world, now that the balance of power just received a massive kick in the ass.

[h2]The Reformist HQ - The War Room[/h2]

"Sir?" A small voice requested, looking up from his station to the acting chief of military affairs. The man in question, a one George A. Lucius, approached the young operator, looking down at the operator in confusion. Almost as if in response, the younger man turned back to his station and brought up a system status of the THOR weapon system that had been entrusted to the International Heroes to operate. "Something's wrong sir, we've lost connection with the THOR system but we've had no scheduled downtime for today." Nodding, Lucius rose up to a standing position and quickly strode to the hologram table that was populated with a 3D map of LA.

"Station 1 and station 2, give me a full report on the THOR system. Everyone else, keep focusing on your tasks." Almost a minute later, things seemed to smooth back down in the war room. "Connection has been established to the weapon bay, Sir, we're all good." Another operator shouted up. She was then contradicted by another operator as the war room descended down into chaos. "Sir... I've lost control of the system." 

After that, things went from bad to worse as others divulged that something or someone else had gained access to the system. Eventually, Lucius called up to Cedric. "Mr Wessex, we have a large problem here. We need your presence immediately." Once Cedric had arrived down at the War Room, most of the operators were watching in mild shock as the satellite began drawing up new target locations. It took a few seconds but as it focused, it seemed to target the Reformist HQ. "Sir... there's only one person on this planet who could do this but she disappea- Jesus Christ." He finally breathed in recognition of the situation as the THOR system began to add other, more populated targets.

Eventually, the screen flashed to black before returning to white as text began to appear on the screen. "You underestimated the extent of my vengeance. I do not forgive. I do not forget. You planned to kill me, Cedric Wessex and you killed my friends. For this, I will kill your friends. Try to stop me and I'll blow this place off the face of the planet. Don't let me see your face again." It stopped suddenly and everything went back to normal as the THOR system fell back under their control again.