Psilence of Conscience (FG)

Beware What Lies Hidden In The Mind!
Psilence of Conscience
Details
Author(s):	David 2/BattlerockX
Games:	Champions Online
First Issue:	Future's Guardian #7
Date Published:	2013
Last Issue:	'
Date Published:	'
Total Number of Issues:	'
Main Character(s)
Galatea Future, Candace Sinclair, The Nationalist, Starlett, Major Cross, Markman Gold, Elite Ice
Series Involved
Future's Guardian
Additional Notes
First storyline for "Future's Guardian" comic

"Psilence of Conscience" is the first formal storyline in the "Future's Guardian" series.

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Story Issues

Issue 07

The Nationalist, an ultra-conservative extremist, begins targeting Galatea Future's friends and allies, including Elite Ice and Candace Sinclair.

At the end of the issue, The Nationalist confronts Candace and threatens to punish her for being a lawyer. As she cowers in fear and begs for her life, her eyes suddenly glow and she say "Just LEAVE ME ALONE!" The Nationalist's eyes also glow and he silently flies away.

Candace suddenly realizes that she did that and she begins to cry in fear.

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Issue 08

Candace turns to Galatea for help after her confrontation with The Nationalist. Unfortunately, Galatea was in a remote meeting with Major Cross in her secure room. While waiting, Candace begins to ponder what happened to her and the consequences of people knowing she has powers. In a fit of panic, she wishes she never knew she had powers.

Shortly afterward, Galatea emerges from the secure room to see Candace simply standing in her dining area. Candace has no idea why she is there or what she wanted to talk to Galatea about. She rushes off.

In the climactic battle against The Nationalist, the extremsist is knocked to the dome of City Hall. An unseen person then incapacitates The Nationalist and renders him unconscious.

Later that evening, a strange woman is seen in the Renaissance Center. Mental narration shows she is not from the world of the Champions, and says she will find out who is responsible for bringing her here... "And then PSYCHE will make them pay!"

Issue 09

A woman named "Psyche" begins taking down criminals just outside the Renaissance Center. She is clearly distressed by an internal argument with someone named "Malizia". A bystander says that Psyche resembles the main character in Athena Rose Fairmore's book series. This surprises Psyche. She asks for assistance with transporting the criminals to jail, but the officer brushes her off since she doesn't have the proper hero identification. She says that "Galatea" would vouch for her, but appears surprised that the officer recognized her as "Galatea Future". He says he would hold the criminals in jail for a few hours until Galatea can vouch for Psyche's credentials and then points her to a nearby SOCRATES terminal to find Galatea.

Meeting with Major Cross to review what happened with the takedown of The Nationalist, Galatea is told she will be getting a visit from the FBI.

Psyche's experience with SOCRATES is frustrating for her, since SOCRATES does not recognize her as a hero. SOCRATES suggests she registers at Champions HQ. Once there, she is rebuffed by the PRIMUS soldier working at the desk, who does not accept her orgin story as being legitimate. "Malizia" takes over Psyche's body, and then takes over the solider's mind, forcing him to create a hero ID for her and give her full access to the SOCRATES system before wiping his memory of the act.

Psyche later helps Galatea by stopping a woman who suddenly developed telepathic powers from going into a homicidal-suicidal spree, but is dumbfounded to learn that even Galatea refuses to admit she is who she claims to be. "Malizia" again takes over, holding Galatea in her place and letting her know they will be in touch again soon, but not before making reference to someone from Galatea's past.

Elsewhere in the Renaissance Center, Candace Sinclair wakes up on a park bench, not knowing how long she's been asleep.

Days later, Galatea - in her guise as Athena - is visited by Agent Wednesday of the FBI's Extra-Perception Investigation Division, who then accuses Candace of being a telepath.

Issue 10

Continuing directly after the previous issue, Agent Wednesday meets with Athena Rose Fairmore (aka Galatea Future), who tries desperately to keep the agent from reading her mind by thinking about coffee. Unfortunately it has the opposite effect and Agent Wedensday is made even more suspicious of her. She discovers that lawyers cannot be telepaths, and that any lawyer that is discovered to have telepathic powers is not only disbarred, but all of Candace Sinclair's cases could also be in jeopardy, including the case that Candace represented Galatea Future in against Markman Gold.

Meanwhile, Gold is meeting with his people via a cyber-conference. Gold tells them that they must find and sign "Psyche" to the Gold Standard Agency as soon as possible. He mentions that the movie rights to the "Sentinels of Love" book series are still being negotiated, and that having a real-life version of Psyche in the Agency will give them a piece of the predicted ten billion-dollar payout the movies would bring in.

Candace Sinclair awakes in a park outside the Rensaissance Center. Now she is concerned that she's been waking up in strange places with no memory of how she got there or what happened during those times. She worries that she is going crazy.

Agent Wednesday calls her supervisor, expressing her suspicions about Fairmore and says she is looking to get a psychic search warrant for her. She also mentions that they have been swamped by other cases of attorneys with telepathic powers.

At the same time, Galatea Future meets with Major Cross about the sudden rash of people getting telepathic powers with no connection between them. They then discuss the woman that Galatea and "Psyche" recently defeated, and Cross reveals that she is like Foreclosure, a former registered hero who was in the Gold Standard Agency and then mysteriously "dismissed". Galatea also mentions that "Psyche" could not be the same woman that she remembered from the "other world", but she will get in touch with Agent Sidestep just to make sure.

Starlett interviews "Philly Buster", who is now in the security wing of Mercy Hospital and removed of all weapons. We discover that "Philly Buster" is bald and dying, and that she was hoping that Galatea would "kill" her like her friend, Foreclosure. Philly Buster refuses to provide any information about herself, but she does lead on that she knows that Starlett is working for the "same team" and she wants them to know she will not give anything away. After the inverview, Starlett makes a strange call.

Keira Fyre gets a call from her superior, telling her what she must do to get in Mister Van Cleef's good graces again.

Agent Sidestep meets with Candace atop the Millennium City airship. She confides in him about her strange blackouts, but before she could go any futher than that, Sidestep's PROPHET system alerts him to an emminent threat. He tells her that he really cares for her and she must leave. Once she does, Sidestep is attacked, and we discover that the attacker was "Psyche", under the control of "Malizia".

Someone meets with Philly Buster, who is relieved that person is there.

Ronin Omega returns to his loft, now thinner and balder than before. He mentally narrates that he is suffering from radiation sickness but that it is nothing he has not experienced before.

Agent Wednesday interviews the PRIMUS officer that worked at the Champions headquarters when "Psyche" got her hero identification. He says he would not have known about being compromised if not for his cybernetic eye. She asks for the data from his eye, but he says he already gave it to the "other agent", which, it turned out, was Starlett, who then gave the information to Major Cross.

Back at her condominium, Galatea (as Athena), finishes a conference call with her publisher when she is interrutped by Cross. Cross reveals that the PRIMUS officer's cybernetic eye had a psionic filter, which revealed that "Psyche" is really Candace Sinclair. Unfortunately, Candace was in the other room and heard the announcement. At first she didn't want to believe it, but then she accepts and embraces the truth. She wills herself to transform, which, in the process, also strips Galatea of her "Athena" outfit and wig.

Galatea is forced to watch as Candace becomes "Psyche" in front of her, but she uses "Malizia's" voice, showing that "Malizia" is in control. "Malizia" says that "Psyche" was just a creation in Candace's mind of the kind of hero she wishes she could be, the "noble heroine" in Galatea's books, which were based on Galatea's memories of that "other hero". But she says that "Psyche" wasn't the one that protected Candace from The Nationalist, nor was it the one that later neutralized The Nationalist. That was all her.

Galatea tries to reach Candace, but "Psyche" says it is too late for talking, and that Candace is gone. "Psyche" then transforms completely into Malizia and says that "Mother" has her work cut out for her.

Issue 11

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Issue 12

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