"Well that was a miserable failure," President Jessica Owens was saying to Mikhail through the old-fashioned TV Screen; they had to use old technology in order to prevent sophisticated hacking/wiretapping, her face lined with worry. "Then again, you're [i]fourteen[/i]; genius former assassin or not, the odds are stacked against you - against us. However, we must keep hoping, especially you; don't go into a funk over this, or I [i]will[/i] pull you from service."

"I won't," strangely, Mikhail wasn't sad over his failure, not anymore. "So, how's Project: Futurelight doing?" Project Futurelight was a program that made use of the US Foster Care system to rescue Powered children and child prodigies from abusive homes or orphanages and made sure they ended up with the Government. Sometimes, the Project was even able to save the abused children of corporate operatives, or, in a sensational case, even a CEO's.

"It's doing well," Jessica was saying. "But its secret nature won't last any longer. Corporations already suspect; it's clear that it's living on borrowed time. Anyway, your plan to recruit Vivenne Devon - I am not going to say her hard-to-remember penname - has succeeded. If we can cause a war between Alkaev and the Free World Group, we might yet clear enough of a power vacuum for a resurgence."

"Our last, most desperate hope," Mikhail would say. "Hopefully Viv can find a way." He then stared at the President, and said: 

"[i]LunaCorp.[/i] I have a plan for them."

[b][i]Some time Later[/i][/b]

Vivenne would get a message asking her to spread rumors, directed at AlkaevCorp and Free World Group, that LunaCorp was 1.) Building an Army on the Moon, 2.) Ever-so-gently insinuate that the various methods they use for launching shipments of minerals to earth can be used to drop asteroids on various targets, and 3.) Failing that, make the Earth so dependent on their goods that they can swoop in and take over.

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