Storylines: Ghost, Maximum Resistance, and Dragon Lady
General Summary
While in outer space, Ghost receives transmissions from Socrates, but they are frequently interrupted by static. With some alarm, she returns to the underground base and receives instructions from Socrates to investigate potential 'jamming' to satellites which may be an attempt from Destroyer to interrupt (or intercept) their communications.
Ghost quickly returns to near earth orbit and identifies the location specified by Socrates. Satellites are being swarmed by small bots. Ghost attempts to destroy them, but it is a futile effort. She returns, burying one of hte bots deep in the ground and then requesting assistance from Socrates and Cypher.
In his university's theoretical science course, a science fair is undertaken based on methods of identifying, locating, and containing "Electric Blue" (the name by which they call Maximum Resistance). Two of the students receive help from corporate sponsors: XPlore Corp's foundation, "Reach For The Stars" and the Consortium of Applied Nanites (CAN). Their devices can potentially locate and force Max to turn-into his superheroic form. One of the devices get 'switched on' and Max's hand begins to turn blue...he hurriedly leaves the room, nearly being exposed as "Electric Blue" to his classmates.
Dragon Lady meets The Ancestor and Luo Jian (an export on Ancestral Spirits previously relied upon by the New Champions). Luo Jian has been placed in a safe location outside of Millennium City, but the Ancestor (floating in space after Ghost last placed him there) heard Luo Jian's prayers and has come to visit. Dragon Lady approaches with humility and grace, is welcomed by the Ancestor, and then - when recounting the lives lost in the Chinatown explosion - is pulled into the spirit world where she becomes the "Chosen One" to restore the Ancestral Spirits destroyed by the Han Xin Warriors (who were behind the efforts to combine Ancestral Spirits). She now seeks a return to Tianjin with Luo Jian so as to recover scrolls containing the identities of clan leaders with whom she must perform ancient rituals to re-establish their Ancestral lines and bolster the spirit world, now weakened by the loss of so many Ancestors. The Ancestor offers her his blessing - and a pathway for future contact. At that moment, they realize Destroids are approaching, having noticed the darkness field produced by The Ancestor.
