War is on the horizon. Liberty’s attack on the East Coast camp and slaughter of the Pandora Leadership has sent the world into a tailspin and no one knows what move to take next. Heroes are rallying to the call of the new Chairwoman of the Committee and the young aspirants are prepared to step out of training and truly take on the mantle. With traitors lurking in their midst, a walking apocalypse becoming the center of attention, and even more new threats starting to rise to the occasion, the heroes have their work cut out for them.
They aren’t alone. Sonya has learned first hand that no plan survives contact with the enemy, and if something can go wrong, it will. With Ishtar’s words about the ‘villain’s mindset’ hovering in the back of her mind, she needs to take the steps necessary to ensure her strategy against Liberty will pay off. She's planted seeds all over the world, carefully prepared, it's just a matter of time. She needs more allies, more power, and she needs to master the ever growing madness plaguing her mind. Ishtar is doing everything she can to hold her together but all she can do is watch as Sonya continues to slip back and forth between sanity and oblivion.
Even with her mind at risk, Sonya still has cards to play, including a sleeping titan just waiting to be unleashed. But while Sonya rises to the occasion, the self-styled monarch Liberty has shifted her own paradigm with inspiration from a certain document. She is on the path to glory, and she won’t let anyone stand in her way.
The cold war has begun and the flames are one wrong move away from catching.