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A conflict between the prominent members of Earth’s superhero community has been at a stand still for a few months. While the members of the disbanded Justice League clashed with each other, recruiting more independent heroes into each side of the argument, other hero teams, such as The Titans, the Shadowpact, and the Doom Patrol, refused to join them. The members of Superman’s side of the conflict had shut down their Watchtower satellite base and move a comatose Green Arrow from its medical wing to a regular hospital in New York City. They wanted to stay with him, but they had to move when they saw Tracy “Black Canary” Buxton, a member of Batman’s side of the conflict, approach the hospital. Instead of being there to hunt down the opposing heroes, she was just visiting Oliver Queen, Green Arrow’s civilian identity, and give the doctors her phone number so they can notify her in case he ever wakes up. Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Red Tornado, and Blue Beetle, in their civilian identities (John Kent, Diana Trevor, Barry Allen, Maxine Hunkel, and Ted Kord), blended into the crowds and met at a diner to discuss their next move. They talked about how to prove Cassandra Kane’s innocence in the murder of Amanda Waller, and how badly Batman has gone completely off the deep end in thinking she’s guilty. Diana mentioned that he had been through some troubling life experiences, and that his trauma is probably fueling his distrust and paranoia. If he had professional help, he would probably call off the manhunt for Cassie and work with them in proving her innocence. The five then received their check for their lunch, but something was off about the total price that was written:
Tip: Follow The Signs
Total: $13.13
The disguised heroes stepped out and saw mysterious graffiti writing itself onto the side of a wall. It depicted an arrow and the number 13 pointing them in a direction, They began following it. Road signs, disused trash, pavement cracks, everything in the city of New York was morphing to lead our five heroes into an alley where they saw a young woman texting on her phone. She told them that she had ‘been texting them all day’. She showed them her phone, depicting all the messages that the morphed signs and city elements that had been pointing Superman and his team towards her. When asked, she said her name is Traci 13, and she knows someone who can help them. When she pressed a few more buttons on her smartphone, 13 bricks on the wall morphed and opened a magic portal. All six of them stepped through the portal.
When they exited the portal, they were outside a plantation mansion in Louisiana. Traci explained that the mansion, the Doomsbury Mansion, was owned by her great uncles Caleb and Abraham, who tried to make it into a supernatural-themed roadside attraction called “The House of Secrets”. When that failed, her widower father later inherited the mansion to make it into his personal research center for “meta-talented psychology”. Superman and his team met with Traci’s father, Doctor Terrance 13. The good doctor was eager to meet the heroes, and he even heard of the ‘civil war’ between the heroes over Cassandra Kane’s innocence in murder. Dr. 13 offered Superman and his fellows his home as a base in which to work on proving Cassandra’s innocence (as Batman would already know everywhere else they would be stationed, except for this Louisiana mansion).
During a dinner Dr. 13 prepared for his guests, Terrance admitted that he has a bit of an ulterior motive for wanting to side with Superman. He wants to study Batman’s psyche and determine the root of his paranoia and extreme decisions and conclusions. Dr. 13 wants to meet him and examine him in a therapy session. He could also talk to Cassandra about all of her psychological problems. After dinner, Dr. 13 led them to his main laboratory in the basement, which was occupied at that time by his assistant Jenny S. Jones, aka “Genius Jones”. Genius helped our heroes set up shop in the lab, but then there was a disturbing news cast hitting the TV in the office…

Notes:
* Doctor 13 is not a skeptic paranormal investigator here, but rather a psychiatrist, which is what I think superheroes would actually need.
** Terrance is Polish on his paternal grandfather’s side. When his family emigrated from Poland to New York through Ellis Island, they changed his family’s name on the papers to “Thirteen”, as they couldn’t figure out the original name.
* Traci is a Homo magi, having inherited those genes from her late mother.
** Her specialty is “urban magic”, which can only be utilized in densely-populated areas.
* Terrance’s uncles on his mother’s side, Caleb and Abraham, were so contemptuous in their sibling rivalry they were nicknamed “Cain and Abel”, after the sons of Adam and Eve from the Bible (Cain having murdered his brother Abel in the Bible.).
* Jennifer Sanders “Genius” Jones is a highly-intelligent college student with an internship at the hospital Doctor 13 usually works at. He recruited her into the world of metahuman psychiatry early into his new line of work.

Description

A conflict between the prominent members of Earth’s superhero community has been at a stand still for a few months. While the members of the disbanded Justice League clashed with each other, recruiting more independent heroes into each side of the argument, other hero teams, such as The Titans, the Shadowpact, and the Doom Patrol, refused to join them. The members of Superman’s side of the conflict had shut down their Watchtower satellite base and move a comatose Green Arrow from its medical wing to a regular hospital in New York City. They wanted to stay with him, but they had to move when they saw Tracy “Black Canary” Buxton, a member of Batman’s side of the conflict, approach the hospital. Instead of being there to hunt down the opposing heroes, she was just visiting Oliver Queen, Green Arrow’s civilian identity, and give the doctors her phone number so they can notify her in case he ever wakes up. Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Red Tornado, and Blue Beetle, in their civilian identities (John Kent, Diana Trevor, Barry Allen, Maxine Hunkel, and Ted Kord), blended into the crowds and met at a diner to discuss their next move. They talked about how to prove Cassandra Kane’s innocence in the murder of Amanda Waller, and how badly Batman has gone completely off the deep end in thinking she’s guilty. Diana mentioned that he had been through some troubling life experiences, and that his trauma is probably fueling his distrust and paranoia. If he had professional help, he would probably call off the manhunt for Cassie and work with them in proving her innocence. The five then received their check for their lunch, but something was off about the total price that was written:
Tip: Follow The Signs
Total: $13.13
The disguised heroes stepped out and saw mysterious graffiti writing itself onto the side of a wall. It depicted an arrow and the number 13 pointing them in a direction, They began following it. Road signs, disused trash, pavement cracks, everything in the city of New York was morphing to lead our five heroes into an alley where they saw a young woman texting on her phone. She told them that she had ‘been texting them all day’. She showed them her phone, depicting all the messages that the morphed signs and city elements that had been pointing Superman and his team towards her. When asked, she said her name is Traci 13, and she knows someone who can help them. When she pressed a few more buttons on her smartphone, 13 bricks on the wall morphed and opened a magic portal. All six of them stepped through the portal.
When they exited the portal, they were outside a plantation mansion in Louisiana. Traci explained that the mansion, the Doomsbury Mansion, was owned by her great uncles Caleb and Abraham, who tried to make it into a supernatural-themed roadside attraction called “The House of Secrets”. When that failed, her widower father later inherited the mansion to make it into his personal research center for “meta-talented psychology”. Superman and his team met with Traci’s father, Doctor Terrance 13. The good doctor was eager to meet the heroes, and he even heard of the ‘civil war’ between the heroes over Cassandra Kane’s innocence in murder. Dr. 13 offered Superman and his fellows his home as a base in which to work on proving Cassandra’s innocence (as Batman would already know everywhere else they would be stationed, except for this Louisiana mansion).
During a dinner Dr. 13 prepared for his guests, Terrance admitted that he has a bit of an ulterior motive for wanting to side with Superman. He wants to study Batman’s psyche and determine the root of his paranoia and extreme decisions and conclusions. Dr. 13 wants to meet him and examine him in a therapy session. He could also talk to Cassandra about all of her psychological problems. After dinner, Dr. 13 led them to his main laboratory in the basement, which was occupied at that time by his assistant Jenny S. Jones, aka “Genius Jones”. Genius helped our heroes set up shop in the lab, but then there was a disturbing news cast hitting the TV in the office…

Notes:
* Doctor 13 is not a skeptic paranormal investigator here, but rather a psychiatrist, which is what I think superheroes would actually need.
** Terrance is Polish on his paternal grandfather’s side. When his family emigrated from Poland to New York through Ellis Island, they changed his family’s name on the papers to “Thirteen”, as they couldn’t figure out the original name.
* Traci is a Homo magi, having inherited those genes from her late mother.
** Her specialty is “urban magic”, which can only be utilized in densely-populated areas.
* Terrance’s uncles on his mother’s side, Caleb and Abraham, were so contemptuous in their sibling rivalry they were nicknamed “Cain and Abel”, after the sons of Adam and Eve from the Bible (Cain having murdered his brother Abel in the Bible.).
* Jennifer Sanders “Genius” Jones is a highly-intelligent college student with an internship at the hospital Doctor 13 usually works at. He recruited her into the world of metahuman psychiatry early into his new line of work.