A German named Heydrich says he can make normals into Actives with a marvelous machine. He wants Actives to seize power in Bavaria and join the Austro-Serbo-Hungarian Empire.
Doc determines that Heydrich is a faker, floating people in the air and telling them they can fly. Heydrich gets very angry and starts blowing up entire buildings; like the Chairman, he's one of those guys that has ALL the Powers! Apparently on Jan. 1, 1900, several people were born with the potential to use all the Powers at once. The Chairman, as well as the Spellbound, were born on Jan. 1, 1800. Heydrich, like them, is a "century baby", which is why Doc's interest was piqued in the first place.
Francis floats a cable up to touch Heydrich's leg and George channels every ounce of his magic, his health, his will and his soul (minus one teaspoon!) into Heydrich, who just plain explodes.
Bavaria does not, in fact, join Austria. The wicked Austrians are once again thwarted, and the Grimnoir have a friend in Munich, in the person of a police agent named Goering, who was some kind of war hero back when.
Sources:
Reinhard Heydrich was, in real life, number two man in the SS and way smarter than his boss. He was a good bet to succeed Hitler if the Reich had won the war.
Goering is, of course, Hermann Goering, chief of the Luftwaffe and the Prussian police.
The "century baby" concept is from Planetary.
The idea of pretending to give people superpowers so they can join a master-race movement is my own, although I wouldn't be surprised if someone else had thought of it.
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