That's the first time Reid has heard that phrase, but he supposes it's as good a term as any, whether the people being taken are superpowered or supernatural or one and the same. Ultimately, the most sickening thing is that if these supers are being collected for what they can do, one has to wonder what the ultimate goal is in the whole operation. To build an army? To find a genetic answer for how their powers work? To discover some way to replicate those powers in humans?
The thought of Luke being experimented on, being tortured in any way, brings him dangerously close to the now-familiar bout of nausea he's experienced so many times since he'd realized his boyfriend was gone. At the very least, though, once he's passed that initial point of thinking he might be sick, Reid frowns as something clicks within his mind.
"A couple weeks ago, there was a blackout, do you remember that? Had to do with these people who supposedly broke into the power plant, someone trying to-- to steal energy but caused himself to self-implode instead. Burned himself to a crisp, along with a few others, all of them missing IDs. A friend at the morgue told me they managed to figure out who most of them were, though, and they all worked at the same place." Pacing now, with Mister Purrkins following him back and forth while Russell merely stares at him with unbridled curiosity, Reid abandons the idea of coffee to track this sudden thread. "Same day, a member of the Seo syndicate was taken to the hospital, burns all over his body, like-- like maybe he was trying to take on whatever power that victim obviously had."
He has no idea whether Derek is understanding any of this, though he's talking aloud more for his own benefit than anything else as he attempts to piece together this puzzle, but Reid stops suddenly and looks at Derek with wide eyes.
"It had to be connected. All of it. Luke, Barry, Magnus, they were taken because someone wants to replicate their gifts. That has to be it."
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That's the first time Reid has heard that phrase, but he supposes it's as good a term as any, whether the people being taken are superpowered or supernatural or one and the same. Ultimately, the most sickening thing is that if these supers are being collected for what they can do, one has to wonder what the ultimate goal is in the whole operation. To build an army? To find a genetic answer for how their powers work? To discover some way to replicate those powers in humans?
The thought of Luke being experimented on, being tortured in any way, brings him dangerously close to the now-familiar bout of nausea he's experienced so many times since he'd realized his boyfriend was gone. At the very least, though, once he's passed that initial point of thinking he might be sick, Reid frowns as something clicks within his mind.
"A couple weeks ago, there was a blackout, do you remember that? Had to do with these people who supposedly broke into the power plant, someone trying to-- to steal energy but caused himself to self-implode instead. Burned himself to a crisp, along with a few others, all of them missing IDs. A friend at the morgue told me they managed to figure out who most of them were, though, and they all worked at the same place." Pacing now, with Mister Purrkins following him back and forth while Russell merely stares at him with unbridled curiosity, Reid abandons the idea of coffee to track this sudden thread. "Same day, a member of the Seo syndicate was taken to the hospital, burns all over his body, like-- like maybe he was trying to take on whatever power that victim obviously had."
He has no idea whether Derek is understanding any of this, though he's talking aloud more for his own benefit than anything else as he attempts to piece together this puzzle, but Reid stops suddenly and looks at Derek with wide eyes.
"It had to be connected. All of it. Luke, Barry, Magnus, they were taken because someone wants to replicate their gifts. That has to be it."