Fast + Telepathy

It was a matter of a moment to trace the data trail, and a moment later a different me opened a door there and stepped through. There was a man at a computer who was reaching for a button on his keyboard that I was pretty sure would erase Dragon forever.

His finger froze, and he couldn't move.

I scanned his mind. It was possible that he was just a technician there to monitor and repair Dragon, in which case I'd just erase his memory and we'd move on. A look inside his mind showed that wasn't the case. He'd been manipulated, but he was a nasty piece of work anyway, always on a knife's edge of destroying one of the best heroes in the world for the crime of simply existing.

"You saw the Presidential broadcast, didn't you?"

He was frozen in his seat, but I could see in his mind that he had.

"And yet you just tried to destroy one of humanities last lines of defense against the invaders."

"She's too dangerous to be compromised," he said as I allowed him to grit out.

The others were already in their suits as the charged into the room.

They both froze as well, held by my power.

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Treason