"A dangerous hostage situation at Cal Poly labs today was diffused not by police, but by a group of mutants calling themselves the Power Pack. Details about their identities have yet to be released, as police were unable to question them following the incident. There has yet to be a comment from the police department regarding the involvement of the mutants, but sources in the department have said that the interference was not necessarily appreciated..."

"Cal Poly authorities are today praising the actions of the group of superpowered invidividuals known as the Power Pack, after the four mutants halted an attack on one of their labratories today..."

"Investigations into the identities of the members of the so-called Power Pack have begun, with university sources claiming they are the children of physicist Dr James Power, who was amoung the scientists taken hostage during the terrorist attack on his labratory today. No one from the Power family has been available for comment so far..."

Down at Pismo Beach, Jack was taking a break from his surfing attempts to bask in the sun when the vibration of his mobile, resting on his bag next to his head, caught his sun-drugged attention and he flipped it open. Family was important, and Jack Power was on his feet and breaking speed limits getting to the campus.


( Terrorists were a thing to not reckon with.  )

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Julie Power really hated her job at the bar, but since she had stupidly dropped out of college and decided to pursue acting, this was about as good as it would get until she could land a decent acting job that regularly paid the bills. Not that she would ever admit that to certain family members. When she got Alex's message, she was in the middle of a rather slow shift and standing behind the bar reading various audition listings, cross the ones off that required her to "bare it all". She let the phone vibrate a few times from its hidden spot under the count before she grabbed it, flipping it open to read the message. As she ran out the door, Julie yelled something about her father to her confused coworker and said she would be back as soon as possible. Hopefully.


( Thanks to ignoring a few traffic lights and stop signs, plus receiving a few flips of the middle fingers from fellow drivers, she arrived at the meeting place in what was probably a record time for the distance traveled.  )

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. )