"That's where you're wrong," the man countered, his voice turning sharp. "That newspaper publishes verified facts. Every scandal, every hidden bribe, every 'disappeared' hero that the Association tries to bury—it all ends up in the Leaky. And where do you think they get their documents? From the vaults, the Liberators rip open."
The bar erupted into a heated debate. Thomas sat in the centre of the storm, his mind whirling with the implications. He had to suppress the urge to laugh at the sheer absurdity of it. He was effectively sitting in a cross-dimensional speak-easy, listening to high-level officials argue about an underground whistleblower tabloid.
The Liberators were the muscle, and the Weekly Leaky was the megaphone. Together, they formed a shadow organisation that specialised in the theft and dissemination of the Superhero Association's darkest secrets. To the public, they were villains. To the cynical, they were the only source of truth in a world governed by propaganda.
