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Part 3 of the STL/FMRC Saga!
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Recap of last time: Ben Hermes is now an official member of the FMRC (The Federal Meta-Human resource Center). He got a package with everything he'd need (ID Card, Costume, Rule Book, etc.). He was informed that they are training meetings held ever 3rd tuesday. The first one Ben went to he met a hero called Billy Goat, who real name is James. At the meeting, there was more paper work to fill out. Ben officially got the name "Semi-Transparent Lad".
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A few days after his last meeting at the FMRC, he got another package from the FMRC. According to the letter sent with it, in the box was his new costume. Ben found a oval patch. On the patch was 3 letters "STL", they were yellow & were in circled by a red oval. According to the letter that came with the package, he was to iron this patch onto his grey jumpsuit. Also, in the box was a belt with many different pockets. This "Utility" belt was to be used with his FMRC issued costume, because they didn't want him showing up wearing his coat again. Ben also got a new ID Card, this one saying his name was Semi-Transparent Lad & not Unnamed Teen Super Hero. Ben went down to his Apartment building's basement & into the Laundry Room. He ironed the STL patch on the chest of his costume. He also went down there to do clean some of his clothes. It's been four weeks & he's out of clean underwear!

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A few days later...

It is now the 3rd Tuesday of the month. So, Ben has show up yet again at the FMRC building, now in his new & improved costume. He went back up to the 10th floor for the New Recruit meeting, but when he got there he was told to go to another floor. When the elevator doors opened on that floor, they opened into a huge domed off white colored room. Scattered around the room are various heroes. Most of them are talking to each other. Some just stand around, Some are looking around room. Ben walked in & started to look around.

In another part of the room the tuxedo wearing, Amazing Rando (His name was stitched on to his cape) looked around the room & thought " This place rivals anything I'd ever seen & I've been to a lot of places. Yet, there is a gnawing feeling of evil here. One that grows & chokes the very air of which we breath."

Another man wearing a high-tech suit of armor yelled out to no one & to everyone. "I, The Professor, do not like to be kept waiting! My time is valuable! I demand to know what going on!" Then, the Professor shot off a beam of Ultra Violet light. The light bounced around the room, it missed hitting a few people & then was absorbed into the walls.

"Cool!" Ben thought. "This is like the Danger Room from X-Men." But, the thought of what the X-Men actually do in the Danger Room never dawns to him.

The Amazing Rando walked over to The Professor, Rando put his hand on The Professor's shoulder & asked "Your Power, my friend. Is it sorcery like unto my own ?"

"Get your hand off me, you Harry Houdini rip off, or you'll find out the source of my powers the hard way!" The Professor said as he pulled Rando's hand off him & walked away from him.

The man known as Psi-Lance speaks up. "Does anyone know why we are here?"

No one answered.

"I sense Danger & that we're about to be attacked!"

Just as Psi-Lance said those words, parts of the walls opened to reveal darkened hallways. A few of the heroes looked down the hallways. All that looked saw at the end of the hallway were pairs of glowing red eyes. Then, the eyes & what's connected to them walked forth. The room seemed to move at every step of the oncoming creatures. Once they walked into the light of the room, The gathered heroes saw that they were Sentinoids!

"Aw, Crap." Ben said once he saw them. Most of the heroes got into attack ready positions. Ben didn't have an attack ready position. So he did a position from a dance move he knows that looks threatening.

"ATTENTION, META-HUMAN LIFE FORMS!" said one of the Sentinoids. "YOU HAVE BEEN SENTENCED FOR TERMINATION! HAVE A NICE DAY!"

The last comment caught a few off guard but then the Atomic Blasts from the Sentinoids caught even more off guard. Then, a fight broke out between the Meta-Humans & the Giant Meta-Human Hating Robots who want to kill them. One of the flying heroes, a woman calling herself Starlight, throws fireballs at one of the Sentinoid's head. She says "I'm blasting them back with my hottest fireballs but it only stuns them for a moment. They just keep on coming!"

"Listen lady, we all got problems!" Said The Professor. "I'm blasting them with like a million decibels of white noise and it doesn't seem to do anything either."

The Sentinoids & the heroes continue to fight. Ben Hermes not sure what to do remains mostly invisible. He stands by one of the walls & out of the way of the onslaught. Most of the Heroes have fought the Sentinoids, they all lost. They were still alive & weren't hurt all that much but, they lost. Then, one of the Sentinoid's spotted Ben.

"META-HUMAN!" It says. "FIGHT OR DIE!" Then, it started to walk towards Ben & almost grabbed him but stopped for some reason. Ben had closed his eyes by this time.

"Alright, I think that's enough." A voice of man said. Then, Ben opens his eyes & see that the Sentinoid's hand is about two feet away from his head.

The heroes look around around for the mystery voice. Then they look up & saw there is a man standing on a small platform above them. He is wearing a pair of dress pants & a suit jacket. Under the jacket could be seen a black t-shirt. On his feet are a pair of tennis shoes. He has bright blond hair & it's tied back in a short pony tail. He looks to be in his mid Thirty's. The gathered heroes look up at the man. "Hello!" he says & looks down on them.

"My name is Gordon Matthew Summers. You can call me Matt, Matthew or Mr. Summers. But never call me Gordon, for personal reason I'd rather not go into right now. I'll be overseeing your training from here on out."

People continued to look up at him. Mr. Summers pressed a button & his platform descended. It landed in the middle of the crowd.

"Look around, people! This your competition!" Mr. Summers said as he motioned to the group. The People looked around. "Most of these people will not be here at the end. By Week 5, there is a vast drop off of recruits, you'll find on why when we get close to it."

"You have also just seen them in battle against a foe much large then them. Learn from this. I congratulate you all on your performance, all of you preformed spectacularly. Especially you, young man!" Mr. Summers said & pointed at Ben. "I especially liked what you did."

"Me?" Ben asked, still to scarred to move away from the giant robot.

"But, he didn't do anything!" The Professor said, who normally has the Teacher point out his spectacular performance.

"That's what it may have appeared that he was doing, but he did something that I like but none of you did. Can anyone tell what it is?" Mr. Summers said.

No one said anything for a few moments, then the word "Hide" could be heard.

"Invisio-Boy took the offensive, while you all went on the defensive."

"And that was good?" someone asked.

"Yes. You don't always have to go with the crowd."

"Any questions?" Mr. Summers said.

"Those were Sentinoids, right?" The Professor asked. The lumbering machine were stuck in some sort of suspended animation. Ben had moved away from the Sentinoid by now.

"Yes. Yes, they were. Those are some old Sentinoid Mach 4's. They were given to the FMRC by Mr. Garrick, our founder." Mr. Summers said as he got off his platform. He pressed a button on the platform which made it rise & made the Sentinoids go away. "We don't use them all that offen. They are really expensive to repair."

Mr. Summers saw a hand raised in back of the group surrounding him. "Yes." he said & pointed to the hand. The hand belonged to a scantily clad asian woman. Her clothes were two toned (Black & White). She walked towards him & as she did, people moved out the way.

"Did you have a question?" Mr. Summers asked, then took a hard gulp.

"Yes. Will there be anymore tests like this?" She said, seductively.

"Uh, Yes." Mr. Summers said nervously. "We will be having Applied Knowledge tests like this frequently over our time together. Some you will know about before hand & some like today, they will be a surprise. Also, not all will be here in the Training Dome."

"What are we going to do now?" someone said.

"I'm not sure. I hadn't planned anything beyond the fight with the Sentinoids, you fought them faster then I thought you would. Want to do again?" Mr. Summers said, now more confident.

"No." The Professor said. "Knowing it's a staged fight takes all the fun out of it."

"oh, ok. Then I guess this meeting is over."

Most of the heroes started to make there way back to the elevator. Then, Mr. Summers said. "Wait! I forgot something." He reached into jacket pocket & pulled out some business cards. "Here is my business card. It has my office phone number & my cell number. Feel free to call me anytime. I always have my phone on." He said as he handed out the cards.

"Now, does everyone have one?" Mr. Summers asked.

No one disagreed with him.

"Oh, yeah! Also for next time, I'd like you to have read the FMRC handbook. We'll be doing stuff from it next time. Ok! See you next month on the 1Oth floor!" Mr. Summers said. Then, turned around walked through a rotating wall.

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Then, the recruits left the building & Ben decided to not go home just yet, so he went across the street to Off Central park. Ben was wondering around the park he thought about his X-Men like experience: He went to the Danger Room, saw a fight between Heroes & Sentinels. Then, a guy with the last name of Summers showed up. A few minutes later as Ben was lost in thought, he heard a lady scream!

"Help! My Purse! That man just stool my Purse! Help!" she yelled.

The purse snatcher was running towards Ben. Ben became Semi-Transparent. The Purse Snatcher didn't see him, so he ran right into Ben. This gave the lady time to get over to the pile that is the Snatcher & Ben. She took her purse back & helped Ben back up (He had now become opaque after the snatcher ran into him).

"Why thank you, young man!" she said.

"No problem."

She then noticed the patch on Ben's chest. "What's STL mean?"

"That the abbreviated form of my super hero name, Semi-Transparent Lad!" Ben said with some pride.

"Well, STL. Thanks for getting my purse back. It has my med's in it." She said & then gulped down 4 or 5 pills.

"Your welcome, ma'am."

"No, thank you!" she said as he handed Ben a twenty dollar bill.

"I can't take this from you."

"It's ok. Take it, it's ours."

"Ok. Thanks!" Ben said, waved then walked off. Today, had been a good day for Ben Hermes.

As Ben walked off, the lady began to wail on the purse snatcher with her purse. She did so until the police arrived. The Purse Snatcher went to thew hospital to be treated for a broken arm.

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Back inside the FMRC building, now on the 12th floor was the office of Matthew Summers. He was at his desk reviewing FMRC files on the new Recruits. If he's going to help train these people he needs to know everything about them.

THE END!
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Next time is another FMRC New recruit meeting & more new characters introduced.
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FOOTNOTES:

The New People who showed up in this story:

The Professor: The Professor is a character who's powers could be best described as a mixture of Dr. Polaris, Dr. Light's & some other stuff thrown in there for good measure. His real name is Dr. Roy Hinkley. The Professor will be showing up again in latter stories.

The Amazing Rando: The Amazing Rando is a character I've had for awhile but never have down anything with, until now! He is a Stage Magician who also works in the more Occult part of Magic.

Psi-Lance: Psi-Lance is a Telepath & has the power to created large areas of silence with his mind. His real name is Lance Jones.

(Gordon) Matthew Summers: Matthew is a redesign of a character. He was not created by me, but by Scott & I've gotten the ok to alter this character to suit my means (The name I'm using is new, but the character is old). More on who he is or to put it more precisely who he was in future stories.


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