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sipping it back, some of it dripping down the side of the can.
    I glared at him. Eventually, he turned to me and frowned back. “What?”
    “Beer?”
    Daniel lifted it. “Yeah. Beer. Want some?”
    “You’re not old enough to drink beer.”
    Daniel snorted. “Kyle, we’re two of the most powerful ULTRAs on the planet. We can do whatever we damn well please.”
    “You… you shouldn’t be drinking and powering.”
    “Drinking and powering?”
    I nodded, like there was such a thing.
    Daniel sniggered a bit and turned his head back to face the setting sun. “That’s your problem, bro. You need to let yourself go a little. Loosen those shoulders of yours. Can’t be comfortable being that tight.”
    I looked away and cleared my dry throat. Truth be told, I fancied trying a beer, but I knew I shouldn’t. I guess I was still a bit of a bluenose in that way. Suddenly becoming an ULTRA hadn’t done much to change that. “Don’t tell me you brought me here for a beer and a sit in the sun.”
    “Well it’s nice, ain’t it?”
    Daniel smiled at me. When I didn’t smile back, he shook his head and gulped back more of that beer. “We’re alcohol resistant anyway. Jeez.”
    He tossed the can off the edge of the rock we were sitting on and zapped at it in midair.
    He missed, and the can fell to the rocks below.
    “Not that alcohol resistant,” I said.
    Daniel didn’t say anything back to that. “There’s some weird shit going on, Kyle. Some strange developments.”
    “‘Strange developments’? I thought you decided not to join the official Resistance?”
    “And I’m proud of that decision when I see you and the rest of ’em all tied up by the laws of the world. Seriously, that can’t feel good.”
    “It keeps us in check,” I lied, trying not to blush.
    “Don’t bullshit me, Kyle. You can’t bullshit me. I know damn well you won’t like the way things are.”
    I shrugged. “It’s the way things have to be.”
    “For you, maybe. But anyway. I’ve been coming across a lot of ULTRAs.”
    “A lot of ULTRAs?”
    “Ones I’ve never seen before.”
    “Well, not everyone joined the official Resistance.”
    “No, but these ones are different. I’ve seen at least five of them crop up that I honestly didn’t know existed.”
    “Why is that so weird?”
    “Why? Because it means there’s more than we first thought.”
    “That’s not so weird. We only unlocked our powers when we were a little older.”
    “But we’re Orion’s sons,” Daniel said. “Maybe we were different.”
    My throat tightened when Daniel said “Orion”. It was still a sore spot between us, and forever would be. Orion, the greatest ULTRA to have ever lived—the first Hero—was our father. He’d stood by our side as we tried to take down Saint upon his resurgence. Only we’d lost him.
    Daniel had stood by and watched as Saint hurtled him through a wormhole.
    I’d never forgive him for it. I’d never forget.
    “There’s others, too. Others who’ve only unlocked their powers when they were older.”
    “Alright. Give me my moment, at least.”
    I nodded. “So say there is something weird going on,” I said. “What d’you think it is?”
    Daniel shrugged. “I dunno. I was hoping you’d know that.”
    “You were hoping I’d know?”
    “Well you are working for the Resistance. Don’t you get like, super-government-technology? Or are you all so tied up that they don’t even let you play with their toys, either?”
    I stood up and started to walk away.
    “Kyle, wait. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
    “There’s no reason for me to be here,” I said. Although I wasn’t exactly keen on rushing back to reality, not now the world hated me even more for the events at the Kenyan mall.
    “You need to look into this ULTRA situation. Something isn’t right.”
    “I’ll handle it.”
    “You’ll handle it? ’Cause you’re not doing a very good job of handling anything else right now.”
    I turned around and tensed