PLOT:
Rick Flag is gone. He was never here, says Amanda Waller. This makes nine people that have vanished so far that Tom Tresser can count, and the confused old man from earlier says
there will be more - there are more throughout the city Electric. Tom knows this man, but for the life of him he can't remember from where or how he knows him. And the old man himself
at times seems to quite possibly be the key to their escape - but at other times seems to know nothing at all.
From the surveillance room they continue to plan their escape. Amanda Waller intends on using Tresser's power of disguise to help them on their way. Replacing Rick Flag are Peacemaker
and Blackhawk. No one it seems trusts each other, let alone likes one another. But if they are to escape, Waller surmises, they'll need to work together.
It's at this moment that Tom Tresser notices that Cameron Chase is missing. She has been taken by the OMAC to a room and strapped to a gigantic game-show style roulette wheel. Her only choice is to choose to spin. The wheel it seems produces
answers. And, as the faceless GPA agent states, "the things we need to know today cannot be answered by a question."
With no meta-powers within the vicinity to disrupt, Cameron's abilities are useless as she struggles against her restraints. The only thing she can see from her vantage point is a single red door that stands ajar just behind
the faceless GPA agent that holds her captive. The door closes and Cameron Chase makes her decision to spin.
Her choice recorded, the GPA's frozen smile nurse brings in the vacant looking Spysmasher. As the wheel lands on "reset", Katarina's eyes only briefly register panic before all life seems to fade out of them. She has been erased. Everything
she knew is gone. She remembers nothing.
The wheel spins once more, cycling between violence and peace as the prisoners finish planning their escape back in the
surveillance room. Tom Tresser also sees the red door. It appears at once both behind and in front of the confused old man. Regardless of which path he chooses,
the old man assures Tom that "we're all headed toward the same thing in the end."
The group steps out into the hallway to commence their attack but still the GPA insists it means them no harm. In the midst of the fray, the old man directs Tom through a side door that takes him to Cameron Chase.
Removing his faceless GPA disguise, Tom offers himself to take Cameron's place on the wheel of choice. Like most things in Electric City, the transaction takes place within the blink of an eye and Tom soon finds himself strapped
to the wheel. It lands on "free" and just like that, Cameron is released from her restraints. But unfortunately, the wheel has not finished its spins.
Some time later, the group will catch up with Tom and Cameron. Fire will attempt to free them all by engulfing their captors in her intense green heat. The Atomic Knight will attempt to send out
a distress beacon in no less than nineteen different languages. Both both will fail. All will collapse before the vertigo-indusing powers of the OMAC jailor who announces, "We have nothing to fear
from you."
But that is later. And this is now. And just now, Tom Tresser's wheel of choice just landed on Death.
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