Pop Quiz

Pop Quiz is Volume 2 of the Catalyst Prime hero, Accel

### Summary

The story starts with Daniel ignoring messages from his mother, his job, his grandmother and his girlfriend in his sleep. Meanwhile, George Hayes is looking to "change his career" and choose an "untapped market" and talks about this to his assistant, Arthur. He soon appoints Arthur a surveillance job on his daughter, Monica.

Against George's wishes, Monica goes to the nightclub, Lurid, with Daniel, who's questioning reality after seeing Little Wing, before the club is attacked by Midnight Blue, after a confrontation, Midnight Blue swears revenge on Daniel.

George wants information on Mister Glazz before announcing that he wants as much power as possible despite his already successful career as a businessman. While shooing away his personnel, Arthur runs in after Midnight Blue attacked Lurid mentioning that he lost Monica in the darkness.

Daniel recovers in a hospital thanks to Monica but not until Monica incorrectly assumes that Daniel is romantically interested in Midnight Blue. Daniel offhandedly points out that he may see Midnight Blue again because she fleed the scene and Monica leaves upset implying that it may be a romantic encounter, instead.

On his way out of the hospital, Daniel meets research scientist, **Althea Morrison**, who knows that he's Accel and is offering help to understand his abilities as well as payment.

Arthur visits Barrage to tell him about how George wants to get in touch with him about a certain order of business he wants to act on with mentions to an explosive alternative with a remote detonator.

In **Antarctica**, Daniel meets with Althea and Professor William Schmitz to conduct the experiments which lets him run and enter the zone he was in last time.

George confronts Monica about what happens at Lurid to which Monica rebelliously mentions that he needs to stop treating her like a child.

Daniel wakes up from getting out of the zone he was in after being out for almost 24 hours. During the time he was out, the scientists at the research facility record what happened and assumes that it's not an alternate dimension but a different way of seeing the world that correlates with his vibrations when he's running. Althea calls it **The Stream,** in the process of trying to replay his voice recordings while in the stream, he encounters the Monster from last time in the form of a sound wave entity who he defeats.

George meets Mr. Glazz after hassling Barrage, they have a dialogue as George leaves bragging about how he can challenge Glazz.

At the research facility, the power going out is a very dangerous thing considering how it's located in Antarctica, Professor Schmitz points out that despite it, his pacemaker is working out fine. Morrison mentions that the monster that attacked could have came from a brief break from reality during quantization as they prepare to turn the generators back on. Daniel mentions that the monster can possibly come back since the last thing it attacked was the generator only for the scientists to try to group think a way to combat the monster should that happen.

The monster (dubbed "The Fuzz") attacks after the generator is brought back online just to get defeated by a contrasting frequency which knocks out both Professor Schmitz and Daniel. A conversation with Althea mentions that going into the stream is more of a perception and wavelength thing instead of a thing dealing with his speed and she's very curious about visiting it.

Returning to  **Los Angeles**, Daniel tries to get back in Monica's good graces after Monica has already concocted in her mind that Daniel has cheated (he hasn't). He tells her about the Fuzz monster and the Stream before he notices that Arthur is following them in his car.

Monica, upset at being tailed, approaches George during his meeting with Maceface, Kobe and Barrage.

While in his room, Daniel tries to vibrate his body into the stream and moderately succeeds before uncomfortably coming back to the real world. Monica calls up Daniel to explain the situation but Daniel hangs up on her while trying to figure things out.

### Characters

* Daniel Dos Santos
* George Hayes
* Arthur Bell
* Monica Hayes
* Midnight Blue
* Althea Morrison
* Professor William Schmitz
* Barrage
* Mister Glazz