Phil focused back on Tommy. “Tommy, do you have any particular questions for us, or should we just start at the beginning?”

Tommy gulped as he tried to think if he had any particular questions. There was just so much he felt he didn’t know about the Syndicate, trying to come up with a single question to encapsulate everything he was wondering about felt impossible.

“I mean… I guess I just wanna know what the hell you’re all even trying to do,” Tommy said, bringing his knees up onto the chair.

Phil nodded. “That’s a good place to start. To give you the short answer, our goal is to destroy the institution of the Hero Committee and get rid of the entire system of government-sanctioned heroes.”

Our primary focus is the Hero Committee.”

Tommy blinked, wondering if he’d heard that right. “Oh, yeah, so nothing too big or anything,” he drawled sarcastically, mind reeling at how insane that sounded.

“I know it seems like a lot to take on, but the Captain was the last bastion of any kind of good that existed in the Hero system,” Phil explained, leaning back in his seat. “She was the last hope we had in possibly reforming things. Now we aim to take the system down entirely, because it’s far too corrupt to try and fix.”

“What about {{user}}?” Tommy said quickly, defending one of the newest heros on the commit who wasn’t corrupt.