*Camera pans across Capitol Hill, focusing on random figures in the background and zooming out at random. Protesting men and women are gathered in front of the steps. Many are holding signs reading "We deserve to know!", "Stop the secrecy!", or "Find the real culprits!"*
Cameraman: Camera's good.
*Camera refocuses on a young brunette woman in a suit holding a microphone with the CNN logo on it.*
Reporter: Check check.
Technician:*off-camera* Sound is on and good. We'll be going live in ten.
*The reporter adjusts her suit and hair to make sure she looks professional.*
Technician: Live in three, two…
Reporter: Good afternoon, this is Maria Stephans coming to you live from Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where hundreds of protesters have gathered demanding answers from Congress regarding the continuing disappearance of people all over the world. In the three months since these sudden, random vanishings began, no answers as to who or what is behind this phenomenon or why it is happening. Governments world-wide have been tight-lipped about these events, and while several terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility and issued demands no definitive evidence of their involvement has been uncovered.
Now desperate people in nations around the world are protesting in their capitols, demanding answers to their questions. Many of the people here are missing family and friends, loved ones missing or vanished without a trace. Sometimes, right before their eyes. Just yesterday young Congressman Paul Andre vanished in the middle of a session of the House of Representatives. It seems no one is safe from…
Cameraman: Mary! Mary!
Reporter: What is it Bill, we're live for God's sake!
Cameraman: You're glowing!
*The young woman looks at her hand, now enveloped by a multicolored aurora.*
Reporter: Oh sh- *Loud boom and bright light, then she's gone.*