(See
Author's Note: Double January for background)
January 3rd - Take 1
I had my plans, and I finally had a glimmer of a target. This particular lab fit into all of my specifications: secretive, reasonably large, location close to my house, and they did their primary work at night to avoid suspicion so I could handle the break-in and still have a normal bedtime. The scientists themselves were rotated through fairly regularly, so no one was too well acquainted with the schedule or the other people there. The equipment promised to be custom and sleek, and the pharmaceuticals cabinets would be stuffed with the sorts of things I could use for my own experiments.
One very large problem, though. The power suppressors were top of the line, likely developed by their own personnel. Those sorts of things are hardly reliable, and there were always gaps in the powers suppressed, but you couldn't count on your powers not being covered. I'd be helpless once I went inside.
January 3rd - Take 2
This day, overall, was one of the more important ones in my life because it marked the day that I finally came onto the radar of
SIVIC, the premier global agency for dealing with superpowered individuals of a certain caliber. Namely, supervillains.
All they knew was that the productivity of a specific villain skyrocketed during this time period. Due to the efforts of my foster-parents/minions, I'd remained unobtrusive until that point, as I was too young to accomplish much.
But now I was on my own, and they were helpless to keep me from robbing a bank at the same time that I was also hacking into a secure server to get classified information about the Epoch lab.
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