[indent][color=f6989d][i]This is a mess,[/i][/color] Li thought with a suppressed groan. He felt like he was pulling out his hair strand by strand. The interview was going downhill fast and he needed to save it before it crashed, but he had no idea how to do that. He wanted to just take a note from King Stag and shove a doughnut in his mouth and not have to talk anymore, but he was the [i] interviewer[/i], he couldn't just [i]not talk[/i]. He flipped through his notebook pages again, looking over the questions he had written down, [color=f6989d][i]This is a mess![/i][/color] he thought again, [color=f6989d][i]These questions are crap! Fucking seriously? How much do you lift? What was I on when I wrote these? What was your most significant battle and or rescue...that one...isn't too bad...right? But what if he just says the one with Lady Radiance? I'll look like an idiot! Of course, his debut would be his most significant. Come on, Li, pick something. Anything![/i][/color]

[color=ff664d]"So, every worker has to have some downtime, King,"[/color] he started, [color=ff664d]"Even heroes, right? You guys can't be saving the day twenty-four-seven or anything even close to that. Without getting too into detail or risking the reveal of a secret identity or anything like that... What, uh, what do you like doing in your free time?"[/color]

[color=f6989d][i]That's the question I chose?![/i][/color] he screamed at himself and this time he couldn't help but slap his hand over his face as he turned his head down, [color=f6989d][i]That Falcone lady is going to [u]eat[/u] me! What am I supposed to do now? Retract it? Maybe I should retract it. I should retract it...[/i][/color]

[color=ff664d]"Wait─ I realize that might be a bit too personal. Let me just...ask something else..."[/color] he flipped through his questions again, reading each and every one over and over as though one would magically change into the right one to ask.

[color=f6989d][i]Who is your celebrity crush? Ha! Falcone would shoot me. Are you single?! Falcone would stab me with her [u]pen[/u]! How would someone get your attention? Li, you're just asking that woman to [u]strangle[/u] you at that point. Why did I [u]write[/u] these? What was I [u]thinking[/u]? I gotta have something else that isn't personal. I gotta─[/i][/color]

His thoughts were cut short though as a sudden commotion started up through the office, people running and shouting. He heard his boss, not Hal, but [i]Hal's[/i] boss yelling for someone to [color=7bcdc8]'get on the scene, stat!'[/color] and asking for him specifically. Sirens rushed by on the street far below outside the window and a news helicopter wasn't far behind all the noise.

Lilian pulled out his phone and opened up to a live news broadcast, and the first words spoken were all that was needed.

[color=6ecff6]"[...] by none other than the growingly infamous, Gamma-Burn!"[/color]

[color=ff664d]"Fuck..."[/color] Li muttered and looked toward King Stag, knowing nothing he could say could keep the hero from jumping into action.[/indent]