Secrets, Complications and Plot Seeds of Young Freedom aka ‘Yeah, now how do I *use* this stuff?’

Decurion, ‘the Centuriteen,’ contrary to the Ravens worries, is not harboring any leftover malicious code and is not a ‘trojan horse’ waiting to fall under Dr. Simian’s control. But he’s still perfectly susceptible to falling under some supervillains control, just as any other hero is, with Doc Otaku being the most likely culprit.

Thanks to Decurion, Young Freedom potentially has a 'bitchin' base to operate from, hidden away in the Arctic, with a staff of superhuman valets and a teleportation system to ferry them around the world. Combine that with a bunch of super-human teenagers and What Could Possibly Go Wrong (tm)?

Street has decided that she’s going to just be who she is, and not define herself based on her father’s legacy. But someone has dropped Wilson Jeffers a cryptic hint that ‘his child now fights the good fight in Freedom,’ and he has come out of retirement to confront… Ankh! Ankh is confused by this strange man hugging him and calling him son and Blasts the guy, and then flies away in a hyperventilating panic to seek comfort from his actual father. Street is uncharacteristically pissed-off, and the stage is set for a hero vs. hero grudge-match, this time between father and daughter!

Meanwhile, her mother has also returned to Freedom City from Puerto Rico, not just to be close to her daughter, but with the vaguest hope of rekindling the passion she once had with Wilson Jeffers...

Icarus is living on borrowed time, and Hades intends to use him to recollect his father’s soul, after all this time. Daedalus could choose death, to save his son’s life, as he couldn’t do so in millennia past. Icarus could choose death, rather than be used against his father in this manner (but Hades isn’t likely to go for that deal…). The friends of either or both might gather together in cross-overy goodness to storm the gates of hell itself to rescue the souls of one, or both. Hades own greed may prove his undoing, and other Greek gods become involved, as he harvests the soul of Daedalus and then ‘arranges an accident’ to befall Icarus, to reclaim that soul, and further taunt Daedalus by dangling the soul of his son before him and boast that Daedalus’ sacrifice was all for naught!

And then there’s the horrible possibility that Medea, working with Hades, has transformed some innocent mutant boy’s body and mind to believe this story, and that Daedalus is being primed to sacrifice his immortal soul for some random kid off the street… Even if this duplicity is revealed at the last second, will Hades, out of desperation, simply kill this ‘fake Icarus,’ and tell Daedalus that it was just a random soul, but if Daedalus is a *true hero,* he’d should be just as willing to surrender his overlong life to save this random boy just as quickly as for his own flesh and blood? And in the case of duplicity, who’s to say that Hades hasn’t placed the formless soul of Icarus into this transformed body anyway? Or that unknown to Medea and out of Hades’ control, the soul of Icarus has somehow escaped and taken up residence in this body and mind so perfectly resonant to it’s nature, making their lie into truth, and quite possibly resulting in the spiritual possession of a real young man by a soul that has been dead for millennia, a soul that may have to return to let his ‘host’ live?

*So* many options here, it's a bit bewildering. But unlike a real comic-book, it might be best to have only one of them be 'true.' :)

Ankh is connected somehow to the legacy of the Scarab, and the Rhodes Foundation’s director, Sophia Cruz, will become part of his life, whether he or his father likes it or not. There will be no sinister agenda, but confusion will cause it to seem this way, and a Rhodes Foundation employed private investigator might not know the specifics of why he is keeping tabs on the young man, and foster the impression that they are up to no good…

And is there a connection between Ankh and Doctor Metropolis, or is the whole pseudo-Egyptian / matter-manipulation thing just a coincidence? More to the point, is there a connection between Doctor Metropolis and the legacy of the Scarab?

Counsel II believes herself the child of Pseudo and a forgotten Lor Ambassador (and powerful telepathic mentat) who worked with the Freedom League under the name Counsel. Her mother, who raised her on this tale, was in deep, psychotic-break level, denial about the truth of the matter. Cadrila *was* a Lor Mentat, and there *was* a Lor Ambassador to Earth, who *did* work alongside the Freedom League, and all knowledge of this mission *was* erased from the memories of the few Earthers who knew his true role as an alien ambassador. But she wasn’t this ambassador, and indeed wasn’t much of a telepath in any event. She was the telekinetic bodyguard to Ambassador Heydran, also her uncle, and failed in her mission spectacularly when a telepathic Grue Metamorph spy infiltrated their makeshift embassy as her human lover, Mark Tanner (no such person existed, she had been seduced by the spy M’ok Taam, the entire time) and murdered him, leading to the recall of the entire mission / embassy team under the slightly-overreactive-notion that Earth was crawling with Grue sleeper agents. Cadrila realized her mistake far too late, seeing her lover standing over the corpse of her uncle and reverting to his true face, and fled to a ‘rim-world’ of the Lor space to escape the consequences of her betrayal. The world where she raised Sekira was *not* a part of the Republic, and Cadrila raised her child on a diet of lies, making herself out to be some sort of hero in her own guilt and shame, and keeping their existence secret from her people, letting them think that she too had perished on Earth, valiantly trying to defend her uncle…

With the death of Cadrila, the Lor high command knows only that she didn’t die on Earth, and that someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do, with M’ok Taam being the only living soul privy to the entire truth. He’s still on Earth and still a Grue sleeper agent. But he hasn’t been idle the last decade and a half, ‘Mark Tanner’ is now in a high-up position in the United States intelligence community, and has outlasted Presidents and Senators alike, like a bloated tick that won’t dislodge from a tasty perch. He will regard the information that he has a half-Lor child as just another potential tool, like her mother, to be used and discarded to fulfill his agenda, and has access to significant government resources that he can bring to bear to coerce service from this 'illegal alien.'

‘Brian Douglas Mason,’ the Oathbreaker, is a paradox. He has the mother of all Complications, in that he isn’t supposed to exist. He *is* a teenaged Jacob Walker, aka Wild Card. He *is* the son of Donna Mason, the original Lady Liberty. He *is* harboring a shard of the Spirit of Freedom. He *is* none of the above, and Donna Mason and Wild Card have never even met, and are certainly not related in any fashion. He and the current Lady Liberty react in strange ways to each other’s presence. If he tries to affect her powers, or her person, with his own powers, Bad Things happen. If he encounters Jake Walker, the Wild Card of the Crime League, and either of them attempts to use their powers on the other, *Very Bad Things* happen. Like retroactive continuity, universe in peril, the same thing can’t exist in two places at the same time, laws-of-physics-breaking-down, the universe-canna-take-the-strain-Captain level bad. Good luck using that extra Hero Point trying to resolve it...