"Hmph..."
In the Minister's Office at the headquarters of the DEO's Supernatural Operations Division, its director, Hank Henshaw, sat looking utterly dejected, his arms folded and his already-dark face even darker as he stared at the information displayed on the wall screens.
The more he looked at the long list of supernatural incidents that remained unresolved—or that his division simply lacked the ability to handle—the more frustrated he became.
Lately, he had no idea why, but supernatural incidents had been cropping up one after another, each more troublesome and harder to deal with than the last... While they kept his division constantly scrambling, they also left him feeling drained and helpless.
Because this was the first time Hank Henshaw had ever realized that:
The Supernatural Operations Division he had built with his own hands—the DEO, the most advanced and elite human agency on Earth—was seriously lacking the strength to handle unusual incidents. It didn't matter whether the problem was technological or supernatural. For the first time, they had found themselves so outmatched that they could only watch helplessly as one major crisis after another unfolded, unable to do anything while things got worse.
Take, for example:
The bizarre, devastating tsunami that had recently swept across the world and caused enormous losses for countries everywhere!
There was no need to think twice. It had to be man-made!
And he had enough evidence and information to know that it had probably been caused by an ancient Earth race living beneath the sea: a group of prehistoric humans known as the Atlanteans! Supergirl had learned and confirmed that through a special channel, from that "Shazam" guy himself!
Their DEO deep-sea equipment had also detected traces of Atlantean activity in several sensitive areas! Every time their devices tried to go deeper, they inexplicably lost