alex power. (floutinggravity) wrote in mutanthaven, @ 2009-04-16 16:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | alex power, jack power, julie power, katie power, plot: acts of disclosure, plot: power play |
we're under attack now [narrative]
Alex Power was sitting in his car, listening to the radio when he first heard. The news interrupted the broadcast on an interview with the lead singer in his favourite band, and he frowned at the interruption, until he realised what was going on. Terrorist attacks weren't usually broadcast over the news while they were in process, but the group that raided the Cal Poly laboratory hadn't counted on one of the lab assistants who got out working for the university newspaper.
They also hadn't counted on the children of the scientist they were holding hostage. Dr James Power was working on an alternative energy source, derived from anti-matter. It had taken them awhile to work on ensuring the work they did was safe. But they finally had a breakthrough - if the test they had planned for tomorrow went as planned, they'd be well on the way towards freeing America from it's reliance on oil. There were protests, environmentalists that claimed this would do more harm than it did good. But they'd finally got past that as well, defeating the last challenge in court two days ago.
Alex yanked his car out of the traffic when he heard what had happened, earning for himself the ire of the cars he cut in front of. He pulled into a parking lot, getting out his phone and firing off messages to his siblings to get their butts to Cal Poly, giving them instructions to meet him in a carpark a little distance from their father's lab. Time for the Power family to assemble.