Powers, Lies and Secrets

Powers, Lies and Secrets is the first volume of the Incidentals, who are the first team of more than two people in the Catalyst Prime universe.

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### Comics

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4

### Summary

The story starts in Los Angeles with a retrieval mission ending in failure with Nuke, V and Taylor protecting "the kid" who ran away during the defense. Meanwhile in a limousine far away from, Alex is gathering intel on his abusive father, Malcolm Winters and after finding him, wakes him up with a bucket of water to the face before "settling the score".

Alex is then seen breaking up with his then-girlfriend, Shannon after "the incident" on the beach.

Bo has a nightmare about the world ending on the beach where the incident happened.

At a bar, Nuke and Vanessa are talking about contemplating life before the Incident whereas Vanessa mentions that she doesn't want to talk about it before they're summoned to go try to get "the kid" again.

The kid is shown to be enhanced with the ability to manipulate light.

Meanwhile, Bo encounters Marko Brenner and tells him how his dreams are getting more vivid while showing him his map of the Universe.

After an MMA fight, Alex encounters Marko, who knows that Alex is enhanced and needs both him and his ex-girlfriend, Shannon for something that Bo needs to be done.

After another failed attempt to get the kid, the police evaluate the scene and see a glowing hole in the ground. Detective Platte and his assistant, Hodge, question one of the casualties who was struck blind from the explosion that surprisingly had no heat or fire.

While on the trip back to Los Angeles, Alex remembers his fight against Carlton Fisk where he accidentally put him in a coma before meeting with Marko, who again tries to recruit him into Bo's cause.

After meeting Brenner, Alex tries to meet with Shannon, who is obviously reluctant to meet with Marko or do anything else with Alex.

The police continue to pursue the Kid with Detective Platte going someplace without Hodge because it "feels right" only to find "The kid" getting attacked by the police again. He points out that he's LAPD just to get gun butted by one of the operatives. The Incidentals intervene in the possible capture but fail again to retrieve her.

Alex and Shannon manage to meet with Bo who mentions to them that he and Marko were also on the beach when the meteors fell and just as he's about to mention the possibility of it being a fate sent by extraterrestrials, Taylor ports in mentioning that they failed again to get "the kid" due to the force opposing them having better preparation. Taylor is also slightly exhausted from summoning another teleportation door.

In the process of still trying to retrieve the girl, Bo uses his surveillance satellites to track her down for a third time, Shannon expresses her dismay at this whole thing and opts out with Alex disagreeing with them. Bo mentions that if she wants out of all this, she's honored that request and appoint Alex to take her home using one of his SUV's.

However, in an act of heroism, Alex makes a u-turn to the scene where the retrieval is happening with a screaming Shannon next to him still wanting nothing to do with it. While all this is going on, Bo starts to feel a pain in his head that causes his body to react violently. Things go from bad to worse when the SUV that Alex and Shannon are in gets turned over with Shannon flying out of the windshield.

Despite the setbacks, though, the retrieval was a success but at the cost of Alex disappearing.

The volume ends with them agreeing to get him back.

### Characters

* "the kid"
* Nuke
* Vanessa
* Taylor Mayhew
* Alex Winters
* Malcolm Winters
* Shannon Delgado
* Bo Vincent Chen
* Marko Brenner
* Detective Tristan Platte
* Hodge