Fusion-X: Hero Hotline Q&A

1.Q: How much are Hero Hotline Heroes payed for their super hero work?

A: Depends on the hero work in question. For small things like saving cats from trees or stopping thieves from stealing purses, they get payed around 50-75 dollars on average. Bigger jobs like bank robberies and fighting street-level super villains, they’ll get payed an average of 100-500 dollars and for really big jobs like preventing natural disasters, stopping alien invasions and fighting big name super villains, they can get payed well over $1000. Also, it’s the organization that pays the heroes to do hero work while users pay a monthly fee of $14.99. Premium Supers like the Atomic, Celestial, Divine, Hellspawn and Mystic class heroes require a Premium Account to call, which is $19.99 a month. Premium Heroes also get payed more than the others.

2.Q: What age is the youngest hero?

A: The youngest a hero can be and still join the Hero Hotline is 16. Sixteen is the age when most meta humans first discover their powers so Hero Hotline representatives locate and contact them as soon as they’re powers develop when they turn that age. Kirby Bill-Kane has surveillance on an innumerable amount of people who have the meta human gene in order to keep tabs on them and contact them once they turn sixteen and their powers develop. However, Kirby chose Fusion-X to join Hero Hotline despite being fifteen because he already has his powers, has already made a name for himself at this point and because he will eventually use him in his evil plan.

3.Q: Do they force youngsters to join or not?

A: They don’t force them but they’ll do everything they can in order to convince them to join. Kirby Bill-Kane has a perfect success rate of having supers join Hero Hotline as he is a master manipulator and knows exactly what to say in order to convince someone he has his eye on to join, usually by enticing them with fame and riches but will also use emotional and personal manipulation when needed.

4.Q: What do you mean by living arrangements, education and many other benefits?

A: Hero Hotline will provide a new home for their heroes to live in and where they can be contacted when needed, whether by having them live in Kirby’s Academy for Gifted Youngsters (sort’ve like Xavier’s school from X-Men) or by providing them with their very own house that’s already been payed for. Education, such as enrollment in a prestigious school or university of their choice is also provided and their also given access to medical insurance, dental, healthcare and other similar benefits so they can be taken care of if they’re injured on the job. Kirby Bill-Kane and Hero Hotline also provides their heroes with the resources they need to do hero work such as attire, weaponry, gadgets and other resources. They even provide some of their heroes with things that will enhance their powers and make them stronger, depending on the hero in question.

5.Q: Are they all born with their powers or are they mutated by an accident or genetically enhanced?

A: It’s a case by case basis. Some are metahumans born with their powers like Freezer Burn and Gourmand thanks to a metahuman gene, while others have powers given to them by mystical forces like One Ton having a pure form of Chi passed down by her Kung-Fu warrior ancestors and some are given powers through some kind of accident or circumstance like Magnet Lord who was caught in an explosion caused by an electromagnetic engine and given Magnokinesis or Lagoon Man who was transformed after coming into contact with some radioactive seaweed from the prehistoric era.

6.Q: How rare are Metahumans compared to the regular earth population?

A: Around 30% of the Earth’s population have supernatural abilities or special skills of some kind that makes them stand out from “normal” people. Around 20% of the Earth’s population has the metahuman gene, while the other 10% were given powers from circumstance.

7.Q: How do you get a subscription on the Hotline?

A: Through the Hero Hotline App of course!

8.Q: How powerful is Kirby Bill-Kane?

A: Kirby Bill-Kane, better known as Captain Midnight is inspired by Batman and thus is similar to him in many ways in terms of his strengths and weaknesses. Kirby Bill-Kane is a mortal human being with no actual super powers and is pushing eighty years old but his strengths and danger level as an enemy of Fusion-X lies in his intellect and resources. Kirby Bill-Kane is extremely intelligent, calculating and resourceful, having master-level knowledge in multiple sciences, is a strategic mastermind and is a master manipulator. Being a self-made billionaire and owner of a massive and very profitable organization, Kirby has limitless resources and technology at his disposal, having eyes and ears all around the globe with his high-tech surveillance system and being the creator of many weapons and forms of technology that act as contingencies for his many super hero employees if they ever turn on him. Kirby Bill-Kane has been plotting a global takeover and a new world order for a long time and will do anything to achieve it, even taking control of the minds of hundreds of super powered beings that he has come to know as family.

9.Q: Is Captain Midnight faking heroism?

A: Not at all. Much like Batman, Captain Midnight has dedicated his life to stopping crime and protecting the innocent and has sacrificed a lot to do so, having sworn to fight time and protect the innocent ever since he lost his wife and daughter at the hands of a ruthless crimelord. However, his mission to fight crime and corruption has driven him insane, he has gotten to the point where he’s willing to make serious moral compromises to see that no one suffers loss like he did. Certain that safety is more important than freedom and is willing to take over the world to do so, seeking to start a New World Order free of crime and corruption at the cost of subjugating the Earth and acting as it’s ruler (similar to Superman in the Injustice games). In his mind, Kirby Bill-Kane is doing the right thing, no matter how many lives he’ll ruin on the process. Despite his old age and mortal weaknesses, Kirby will actually fight Fusion-X himself during the final, epic battle using a high-tech exo-suit designed after his old Captain Midnight costume that amplifies his strength 10,000% and counters all of Fusion-X’s mode, using the data he collected from Alloy.

10.Q: What class would Fusion-X be?

A: He is registered as a Shapeshifter due to his ability to change his form into one of many, many different forms.

11.Q: Are discount heroes usually bad heroes?

A: Some are yes, while others just have bad luck doing hero jobs or aren’t powerful or “cool” enough to win over users.

12.Q: Will some of the heroes have bigger roles than others in the story?

A: Yes. Fusion-X befriends many of them and they play a big role in the story in many ways. Such as with some of the organization’s “Pro Heroes” such as Toon Man, Insect Queen, One Ton, Solar Storm and Night Fright who have been working for Hero Hotline for a couple of years and act as guides for Fusion-X. Fusion-X also befriends heroes his own age like Spore, Dragon Chan, Arsenal and Princess Perfume who will help him stop Kirby and his brainwashed legion once his plan is in motion. There’s also Powerhouse, Kirby’s adoptive alien son who is helping him in his plan, convinced by Kirby that it’s the right thing to do.

13.Q: Would Onawa play a major role in this story arc?

A: Yes. She acts as Fusion-X’s moral anchor as he starts to become more materialistic and full of himself working for Hero Hotline and being influenced by his new, equally misguided super friends. She would play a major role in snapping him out of his greedy and self-absorbed funk. I would imagine she’d also help during the final battle by fighting some of Kirby’s brainwashed Supers with some of the Supers that became freed of Kirby’s control.

14.Q: How does Alloy play a major role in this story arc?

A: Alloy initially goes along with Nicholas wanting to join Hero Hotline as his infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge enticed him to wanting to meet the many heroes working for Hero Hotline and learn more about the world through them as many of the Hero Hotline supers come from all around the world and gained their powers through unique objects and substances as well, the function of the mysterious metahuman gene also being a fascinating subject to him. He also shares Nicholas’ excitement to meet other heroes like them, especially since a lot of them they knew of before hand due to seeing them in action on TV and even in person from time to time. Once Nicholas starts to do hero work solely for profit once he became a member of Hero Hotline, Alloy starts to have concerns about the moral implications of doing heroic deeds for monetary gain as well as Nicholas’ increasingly vain and self-absorbed attitude. Nicholas reassures Alloy that it “doesn’t matter” because they’re still doing good and saving lives like they always did regardless if they make money doing it now, Alloy supposes he’s right, finding it hard to argue with his logic but he still doesn’t feel right about. Alloy also begins to become suspicious of Kirby Bill-Kane, feeling as if something isn’t right with him and that he’s hiding something, the retired super hero turned businessman’s constant inquiries on how Alloy and Fusion-X’s powers work also peaking Alloy’s suspicion, despite Nicholas’ assertion that his favorite hero is in the up and up, Alloy cannot shake his uneasy feelings about him. It’s of course revealed that Alloy is a major reason why Kirby Bill-Kane wanted Fusion-X to work for him as he wanted to collect data on Fusion-X’s Merge Modes from him and use that data to further enhance the powers of his brainwashed legion of powerful super heroes when his plan is in motion, and perhaps to also use Alloy himself in some way…