"So... Are you and Rex together?"

“Well, like I said, I overheard part of their conversation.  Rex went: ‘Give me a time. If I can’t get a time, yours runs out.’  The other man, Gray I guess, looked like he was about to piss himself.  He panicked and ripped some device from his belt, and then out of nowhere these… these things started shooting lights at Rex—lasers, maybe?  I dropped to the ground, so I didn’t see much, but Rex took the things out and one of them… They were like something out of a nightmare.  Metal spheres with graspers all over the surface.  They looked military.  I still don’t know what exactly they were.”

(reporter voice; this is Gil narrating his own article)
NOWHERE TO HIDE! SILVER SWARM ATTACKS PARALYZE THE CITY

CITY HALL – At a press conference Thursday evening, the Interim Mayor refused to respond to questions regarding a new economic study, which argues that mass work stoppages caused by fear of the Silver Swarm have crippled the metropolitan economy and put the City into ‘a state of siege.’