Of course it would be very interesting to document the psychological changes that occur when a group of friends becomes a freelance superhero team and then a special police force, but that shall not be the topic of this story and will follow later. The Interveners can consider themselves fortunate that the police of Stuttgart is relatively tolerant. The integration of The Interveners as a special police force constitues the most successful integration of beneficially challenged individuals into a state intitution which never happened like this in the comics ('Freedom Force' perhaps being the closest possible case, but they still were a special operations team and not incorporated into regular structures). Their value for the police work protects them, but one of their subliminal fears is to come to work and being arrested because public opinion changed overnight into anti-mutant. The costumes, er… uniforms, equipment and vehicle are of course costly custom-made items which are way over the regualr police budget. Therefore The Interveners acquired a main sponsor already during their freelance phase, namely Klaus-Walter Hormann, father of Petra's superior during her social work work experience who's CEO of a mid tier and fan of comics. And: despite the cover: The Interveners have firearms, but they won't fire against everything moving. Someone might come to grief. The "henchmen" of the "villain" who are armed also naturally don't fire aim- and pointless for they don't want to die, either.
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