Renegades

Adrian watches the news and sees that everyone is busy criticizing the Renegades’ response time at the parade. While he waits for his dads to come home, he sketches concepts for a new tattoo. He has given himself three tattoos, all imbued with real power: springs on his feet, fire on his wrist, and the super suit on his chest. He decides to prepare a laser diode on his other arm.

When Adrian tires of watching the news, he goes upstairs to his dads’ shared office, finding photo albums with pictures of his mom and the other original Renegades. He eventually finds the newspaper article written about his mother’s murder, which notes that her body was found next to a card with the written phrase, “One cannot be brave who has no fear” (101). He has no idea how Nightmare could have known those words, but he is determined to find out, so he dons the Sentinel’s armor and goes to hunt the Anarchists without permission.

Nova, who can’t sleep and has no need to do so, trains all night with the gun, frustrated at her failure to assassinate Chromium. She contemplates her uncle’s belief that all people should be free to live on their own terms and by their own strength.