((for events on Feb 6))

As the Teens gathered in the one room they felt safe in, the room that contained Arik of the Hundred Eyes, Leet Hacks informed the others that he was able to hack into Skelros' communication feed.  Basically, with help from EnvyWire, Leet was able to bypass some of Skelros' security systems.

As the Teens listened in, Skelros was in communications with someone about "...progress has been made in our plans. I will transmit my report on my progress and the next phase of the operation."

Leet, using his technomagic, digitized the rest of the Teens and they entered the virtual world in order to find out what is going on.  EnvyWire, then told the Teens: [QUOTE]I can get you into the system, but only if you hurry. Skelros' efforts have limited my ability to affect any of the systems, but I can act as a guide so that you can interface with the systems.

You'll be traveling in a virtual system. Many of the "locations" you are in, or seeing, will be based on bits of data stored in the System.

You have tapped into the transmitting data stream. Skelros uses advanced holo-memory file types, so the data will appear to you as three dimensional constructs to your virtual selves. Sometimes it might seem confusing, as the data does not display itself in a direct manor. [/QUOTE]

The Teens first entered what appeared to be vast tunnels where they searched for the opening port that Skelros was using to make the connection.  Finding the appropriate port before it closed down, the Teens jumped in to be transmitted to the system Skelros was connecting to.

At the other end of the transmission, the Teens found themselves inside what looked like a high tech lab.  This new computer system had security meassures up and running, so the Teens had to fight virtual constructs of the security systems while they looked for the file that Skelros transmitted.  While they fought through the security systems, they encountered a woman in a black dress without a head.  Instead of a head, there was a disembodied brain inside a jar.  She was communicating with Skelros:
[QUOTE]Are you sure the data was sent?  I can't find it anywhere. Something is wrong, my file directory is being deleted! We have a virus! Initiating anti-virus systems! [/QUOTE]
With that, more advanced virtual robots stormed into the facility.  The Teens were able to fight them off long enough to find the file.  The file was a package of advanced holo-memory bubbles that was encrypted in a self-evolving algorithms.  This would take some serious computing power to crack.

Sadly, the Teens found they could not just leave the way they arrived.  So EnvyWire guided them through various backdoor systems to get them out of the system they were in.  The Teens proceeded to set false trails as they made their way back home.

Unfortunately, Skelors was able to trace them partially back home.  His computer security programs were then able to track down EnvyWire as the source of "help".  The Teens rushed to help EnvyWire against the Skelros programs, but those programs destroyed the virtual representation of EnvyWire.

With EnvyWire destroyed, the Teens made their way out of the computer.  Leet was very upset at the destruction of EnvyWire, expressing his desire to just kill Skelros outright.  The other Teens talked some sense into him as Skerols was too powerful for an outright attack.

The Teens realized that they did have some powerful leverage.  They had in their possession the file they stole from Skelros and the Brain-jar-girl.  If they are able to crack the security on the file, they could find out what they are planning and what is going on.  Also, Brain-jar-girl was deprived of this data as well.

The vanguard base was abuzz with the news of Statesman's recent death.  Epsilon Squad in particular were thinking over how it affects them personally....

Ignus, however, had other things on her mind.  Pulling their attention away from Statesman, she revealed that she had set up a "goodwill mission" with a member of a group of rogue Longbow.  Ignus made it quite clear that there was to be no breach of their cover identities on this mission.  Also of note, Ignus's flames were blue; she stated that she had altered her aura.  That Manta was missing a lock of hair was possibly unrelated.

Fearing their disguises might not hold up, she instructed Scorpitron to speak with the contact, Agent Cullen.  Cullen revealed he was tracking a dangerous villain, and that he intended to kill this villain, with Epsilon's help.

Using a tracking wand, Cullen tracked the villain to a cave.  Inside, they found an infestation of ghosts, who were hunting for someone named Ingrid Holmes.  A couple of the ghosts seemed to be those of teenage bullies who had harrassed this Ingrid; one was vengeful, the other regretful.  Cullen reacted strangely to the spirits. Fighting through them, Epsilon tracked bown... a box.  Inside the box was a doll, with a lock of hair, a spot of blood, and "IH" written on it.  Ignus seemed to think it was some kind of magical decoy.

Cullen contacted some mage allies of his to find a way around the decoys.  While they did so, he used the tracker to find another location.  Already, some Epsilon members suspected that Ingrid Holmes was a lot closer than they realized....  In the next location, an abandoned office building, they fought more ghosts.  Agent Salamander managed to find an old news article on a billboard; it detailed an incident where a hero witnessed a "bully-cide" and then attacked the bully.  The hero's name: Ignus Portens.  The Squad knew they were in the middle of some machination of Fury's, but could not confront her with Cullen around.  Finally, they found another box, with another doll...  And a tape player.  Playing the tape, they heard a recording of Cullen;  he was calling for aide, having confronted Ignus portens, and having lost most of his squad doing so.  Cullen was shocked, as it was clear Ignus knew he was after her.

Leaving the site, Cullen finally spilled the beans.  Not only had his squad been killed confronting Ignus, but Cullen himself was once a schoolmate of Ingrid/Ignus.  Ingrid had killed many of their schoolmates in a frenzy of revenge, and this had driven Cullen to join Longbow, and now to make Ignus pay for all those lives lost. 

Cullen said that his mage friends believed the wand could be "fine-tuned" with a personal item of Ignus's.  Knowing an old base of her's from back in her hero days, Cullen lead the squad there.  Epsilon, wondering what sort of endgame Fury was leading them to, could only follow along.  Inside the base, an old warehouse, The squad found nothing, not even ghosts, except for a shelf holding a worn and well-read paperback of Carrie.  Handing this to Cullen, he touched it to the wand, and discovered what the Squad already knew: Ignus was right there with him.  Realizing he'd been set up, Cullen attacked.  He fell to the combined might of the squad, losing his life.  Fury said "Goodbye, Daniel..."

Ignus then changed to her villain costume, and confronted the others.  "You've caught up to the villain Ignus Portens.  What will you do now?"  For whatever reason, she had given them a choice.  Scorpitron decided to not to kill or arrest her.  Calling her Fury, he instructed her to clean up the security break Cullen had made.  Ignus changed back into her uniform, and said that she had attempted to arrest a dangerous vigilante, Cullen, and that he had died resisting arrest.  Scorpitron accepted this "Interpretation" of events, and ordered the squad back to base.

Later, Ignus spoke to the exiled villains.  She encouraged them to re-examine themselves, and to perform heroic deeds, if they wished.  She also, however, made it clear she had already made her own choice.