CHAPTER EIGHT Beams had always wanted to visit New York City. Back in his universe, he had never done much traveling, having spent most of his life in Golden City. Sure, there was that one trip out to that small town in West Texas where he trained with Nightbolt, but Beams hardly considered that ‘travel,’ even if Texas was one of the biggest states in the Union. He’d always wanted to visit New York City because it was the central hub of superheroes in his universe. It was headquarters of the Heroes United hiring agency, for one, and had the most superheroes of any city in North America. He especially wanted to see it after his older brother James had gone there on a school field trip once when he was in high school and raved about how great it was. But now, Beams wasn’t so sure that he