Fire of Saturn Seen in Rogue Isles

After reappearing in Atlas Park, fighting crime alongside the Atlantean champion, Glubglub, and joining the Scrap Pile, the people of Paragon City seemed ready to accept that Fire of Saturn had put her villainous past behind her.

New footage from Port Oakes and Mercy City, however, calls her sincerity into question. 

While no actual members of the Scrap Pile (apart from Fire of Saturn herself -- see below) were available for comment, Hero Corps representative Dean Helm stated that, "The situation as we understand it is that Fire of Saturn was pursuing a group of Marcone Family thugs that were causing trouble in the Argosy Industrial Area." She was, in fact, seen fighting a huge Marcone captain and his henchmen, but she didn't turn him in to any recognized law enforcement authority. "That neanderthal cracked my helmet and I barely survived the fight," Fire of Saturn told our reporter. "You can't count on the court system to handle people like that. I know they'll treat him right at Fort Cerberus."

Despite confirmation that this and several other "arrests," including a nest of Skulls that she cleaned out, did happen, Fire of Saturn's activities in the Rogue Isles were not all explainable as law enforcement of any kind. For one thing, she is known to have visited Mikey the Ear, an information broker known for his shady contacts. And then there's this:

Fire of Saturn dismissed this clear attack on Paragon City Longbow troops as yellow journalism, saying, "Come on! Those guys were assholes. And they're fine! Just a little chilled. I'm not a murderer. Look, I had to work on Arachnos turf to get the bad guys, and it helps keep things smooth if they see you knocking some Longbow dorks around. It's not all green parks and giant heroic statues out there. You gotta play the game to stay alive."

Asked if using her shield drone to take dance selfies in front of Larry's Tiki Lounge was part of surviving on the mean streets, Fire of Saturn rolled her eyes. "Okay, fine! Yes, I went to Larry's. There's nothing like it in Paragon City. I mean, I love the... you know... goodness or whatever, here, but you have to admit, they really know how to party out in the islands. Larry's just rocks!"

Fire of Saturn once again asserted that she is not a bad guy. "Look, I stop criminals. Period. I was up front about all this with Scrappy and Shocker, and they understood. Shocker even said you vultures had given her friends a hard time once about the same sort of thing."

Homecoming

The world was ending. Fleeing to the Shadow Shard, Citrus Shocker, after borrowing some Crey Corporation equipment and making some frantic calculations, believed she had found a way to use the same dimension-spanning threads that allowed Pocket D to exist, to create a quantum mirror of her world and shunt all its inhabitants through the chaos to this new universe. Her plans went awry, fragmenting her own timeline. If any other heroes (or any people at all) were transmitted this way, she never found them. 

Deep in the Shadow Shard, though, the deserted halls of Pocket D flickered to life, and its proprietor, an entity known only as DJ Zero, reappeared. He set to work doing what Citrus Shocker had been trying to do before. After that, it got hazy for a while.

Citrus Shocker found herself in a burning building in King's Row, the fragment of exotic Shadow Shard material still secure in the backpack device she had used before. She was overjoyed to find Captain Scrappy talking to Detective Broyko of the PPD outside. 

Scrappy's memories suggested a different past than Citrus Shocker remembered, one in which they were beginning their careers here after years of struggle. Unfortunately, their weakened powers seemed to support his version of reality. They barely made their way through the district to the Atlas Park train. Citrus Shocker was horrified to learn that Galaxy City, where, in her version of the past, she and Captain Scrappy had first met, had been destroyed. This was already part of Scrappy's past, so it was no surprise to him.

Back in Atlas Park, the pair reconnected with Hero Corps to beat up some Hellions and snow men. Citrus Shocker stowed her failed gadget for further study and built a jet pack. They settled in and started working on finding their friends and rebuilding the Scrap Pile.

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