Astro City: Welcome to HumanoGlobal #2

By Kurt Busiek

Marella has applied for a call center job to make money in between discovering a real job. She is a bit suspicious of the extensive testing including psych eval, but she does get offered the posish, so when she agrees, her guide shows her HumanoGlobal, they walking through the doors, and being straight on a overlook of the mtns and water outside, and seeing the facility on their left. The lady leads her in, it another test due to how extreme it was to immediately view the data core, which flowed in the middle of the room. Marella is shown her station, and her 3 other coworkers intro themselves before she dives into her 1st emergency call, not wishing to lose this unique opportunity.

Marella gains a posish to handle super hero emergency calls, each rep. having to weed out the fake calls and severity. Marella's ma begins noticing her attitude toward her posish seems positive, Marella not supplying much detail, due to security risks, but having permission, if need be. As Marella continues to work hard, the perks, benefits, and ability to advance made the staying all the sweeter. Whilst teams were cycled out, anyways the supe decides to change them to non-emergency for a couple weeks since they weren't catching the n.e. out front, everyone feeling like they'd failed, but it giving them a chance to practice, as well as seeing a charity event with the supers.

After Marella meets Cleopatra, and she gives them all props, 1 of her teammates, Toni gets a code red about a theft of a dangerous alien virus. She receives many accolades and benefits for it, and leaving Marella hoping to eventually get the thrill, but also glad to be helping in any capacity. The perks didn't hurt either, the ability to teleport to a certain country for vacay being bloody awesome. Then, 1 of Marella's calls ended up creating a horrific mess in Ecuador, and she feels the guilt. What a spot to stop! It's going well so far, but I'm a bit lukewarm still, probably only since this genre isn't normally my style unless it's related to other media.