Of heros and villians IC

[aires163]

"So whats the plan?" Alice asked as they reached the front of the building.

"I will do what I can to put out the fire. You take anyone we find and get them out of the building." Kevin replied

"You do realize I'm not as fireproof as you right?" Alice asked

"That's why were going stick together." Kevin said as he snapped the fingers on his right hand. Receiving stunned looks from the group of people out on the street.

Alice sprinted to the front of the building and kicked the door off its hinges, and both her and Kevin charged in.

The crowd watched in both shock and awe over the course of thirty minutes as Kevin put out fires with his frost powers and Alice managed to save several people. Their efforts were sped up once the fire department arrived along with an ambulance.

Once the last of the fire was put out Kevin and Alice were about to run off down an alleyway only to be stopped by a reporter.

"WAIT PLEASE! the public wants to know...who are you?" the reporter asked as he held the microphone out to Kevin, Alice only backed away what with her being camera shy.

"Me? I'm a normal person. Just like you!" Kevin said as he pointed to the camera. "But due to changes I'm here to help!"

Before he could go any further Alice grabbed him and threw him over her shoulder. Sprinting off down the alleyway "Sorry but we don't have time for questions" She said as she seen a police car pull up and stop.

"Sorry folks but it appears that's all the time our masked "heroes" have for questions. This is Paul Rameriaz singing off!" The reporter said as two police officers began to give chase to both Kevin and Alice. But they soon gave up, even with carrying Kevin Alice was still to fast.

[Anonymous G]

Forah stirred in the seat for a moment, before wearily rolling off it. One of the men left the door open, but as she squirmed out of the car, a tiger quickly dragged her around. She gritted her teeth as her back scraped against the rough surface of the concrete but the pain was soon forgotten as she became face to face with her captors. They too, were bloodied from the accidental carnage that she had left behind. She forgot that she wasn't wearing her gloves as she steadied herself up. The street underneath her fingers sizzled and sparked as she quickly moved her hands away, she was lucky that her prints didn't explode when she was too close, as she found out a week ago. It was how she learned that wearing gloves completely neutralized her power.

Forah looked up at her kidnappers, each shot back a look of animosity and malevolence that could have burnt holes into her face. "I-I... ah..." She stammered as she clutched the back of her head, she was bleeding profusely. Her arms had shown signs of third degree burns, her face was bloodied as a cut above her eye ran down. She couldn't think of any words to say, some in part due to the concussion, but mostly because there was nothing to say in this sort of situation. For now, she just stared dumbly at them, awaiting whatever fate the was to befall her.

[Poopenheimer]

James had been practicing with his powers. He'd made quite some progress, from moving a small clockwork spider to manipulating a grandfather clock. He also discovered that if he concentrated hard enough, he could see inside any machine, see all of its parts, and figure out how it worked, like psyhic schematics.

The TV was playing to itself in the corner. "This is Paul Rameriaz, reporting to you live from the disaster! We are unsure about what started the fire, but we know there are 12 people trapped on the top floor. The fire department are on their way, but- Wait... two teenagers have just entered the building!"
"What did he say?" James walked over to the TV and leaned close to the screen.

James watched the event, the teenager putting out the fires, the trapped people being carried out on the back the other one. How could they do these things? Any normal person would of suffured massive burns! But... were these normal people?

"WAIT PLEASE! The public wants to know... Who are you?"
"Me? I'm a normal person, Just like you! But due to changes I'm here to help!"
"KEVIN?!" James said, astonished. Kevin was a student he used to teach, and he also remembered him being at the site of the incident. Maybe... James wasn't the only "gifted" one...

[Buzzwolf]

"grab her! Fuck..."

the tiger grabbed the girl as she practically fell out of the car and tried to get away, he dragged her none too gently around and put her back against the grill of the mustang, the heat of the engine still emanating from it. "you are turning out to be a lot more trouble then your worth girl" the tabby crouched down a few feet away, the tiger still stood beside her, the muzzle of the street sweeper hanging just below his knees from his paw "maybe I should just cap you and be done with it" the tabby pulled another pair of shades out of his jacket, a set of round disc glasses, and slipped them on. He dropped down in front of the mustang in front of the left headlight, puffing his cigarette in his fine dress jacket. 

"fuck...you know, it was such a smooth run too...then you came and blew up Jimmy, god rest his soul, and threw a wrench in the smooth runnings..." he looked over at her "you see my dilemma right?" he still had his cellphone in his hand, it buzzed and he tapped the screen. He sighed and tipped his head back against the car "my boss is gonna be here any minute...and here I have one of my men dead, and in his place, I've got a clueless super who barely seems able to control her own powers...you see what I'm getting at, right?"

Down at the end of the alleyway, a pair of headlights turned in, the shadow behind them looming like a beast of shadow "welp," the tabby took a finnal puff and flicked the cigg into the gutter "showtime...alex, get the bag" 

The street sweeper vanished from beside the reptiles head as alex went back into the car to retrieve the so sought after bag. He returned as the darkened windowed escalade swung wide and parked with the side facing them, blocking their path.

The tabby leaned back on the hood, puffing his cigarette as all the doors on the escalade opened at once, and suddenly the side of the escalade facing them was blocked by the numerous bodies of the faceless henchmen. "come on King, we made this deal with you, not your cronies" the tabby said around his cigarette, alex and the wolf stepped up, each standing to either side of the mustangs hood, their shotguns held loose in their hands

Two of the goons stepped to the side of the rear passenger door facing them, one pulling it further open for King. 

King, was a big man, or, a King Cheetah to be precise. He was Broad shouldered with the build of an MMA fighter, he wore a fine suit with a red velvet collared shirt beneath. He, of course, wore no tie, like the rest of his goons did. He wore similar glasses to the tabbies, and had a small gold ring in his left ear, various silver and golden rings on his fingers. In his hand, he held a cane, a long black cylinder with a eight ball pommel "here I am," his voice was a deep bass, his tail flicking about behind him "now where's my bag?"

[aires163]

The reporter, Paul Rameriaz sat in his news van his partner Cindy next to him. "I could have had the scoop of a life time right there in front of me! But then one and then those fools come along and and that girl grabs him and carries him off at the speed of an Olympic runner! Who the hell do you think she was any way?" the orange fox reporter asked his human partner Cindy.

"Well who ever she is she certainly isn't..."human" I mean did you see her leap from that fourth story window, old lady over her shoulder?! Then she just hands her over to the paramedic, climbs the street lamp at monkey speed, and then took a flying leap back into the building! Also that kid who was shooting ice out of his hand! I mean thank god we got footage of most of it. But if we could of caught an interview with those two...I think we would of been set for a while!" Cindy raged.

"Well fingers crossed we run into them again. I can't believe it though! We got a couple of comic book superheros on our hands." Paul said as he started the van.

"What could have gave them those powers? Are they aliens? Or some sorta government experiment?" Cindy asked herself as she finished packing the camera away.

Meanwhile...in a dark ally far from the burnt out apartments.

"I can't believe you went off posing in front of the camera Kevin! If I hadn't dragged you off we would have been unmasked by those cops!" Alice exclaimed as she removed her mask.

"I'm sorry" Kevin said as he hung his head. "I...I got nothing to say in my defense."

"Well well well what do we have here boys? Asked the leader of a small group of thugs that had just entered the alleyway. "looks like we got ourselves a pretty girl and some freak in a mask."

"I say we cut his throat and take the girl!" said one of the gang members.

[Anonymous G]

It was about the sixth time a gun had been pointed at her today, even through the concussion she had started to become disenchanted with this whole lot. An escalade pulled up to them as the man named Alex went to gather the spoils of the robbery. A bunch of men clamored around the car and blocked their view of the inside. Alex returned with a sports bag and stood attentively as they waited for their much-awaited arrival, 'The King' as they called him. The man himself finally climbed out of the car himself, with his entire entourage dressed to look like him, she couldn't help but giggle a little. The King looked like a retired boxer or something similar, he certainly had the size for it. His entire menacing frame towered over them as he stood stoic, "Here I am," He spoke in one of the deepest voices she had eve heard in her life, "Now, where's my bag?"

"What is this? Attack of the clones?" Forah joked bitterly before wiping blood off of her brow. One of her captors butted her with their shotguns hard enough to hurt. It seems that it was a very tough crowd indeed.

[Buzzwolf]

King inclined his head, and tipped his shades, looking at her over the top of them "who the fuck is this?"

"it's nobody, King" the tabby said, stepping out between the two "nobody at all"

"she killed Jimmie what she did!" the tabby stiffened as Paul shouted from the back seat of the mustang

"oh?" Kings voice stayed calm and cool as ever

"Shut up Paul!" the tabby had finally lost his patience he'd had with the greenhorn fox and turned, waving a rather elegant colt 45 through the windshield at Paul "shut the fuck up!" 

"no, please...enlighten me" king now had both paws on the pommel of the cane. 

fuckthe tabby dropped his gun to his side almost immediately as King spoke. He took a draw of his cigarette and looked at king "yeah. She killed Jimmy. Boy was fighting her for her purse, he got it free, an boom," he made the motion with his arms "jimmysauce everywhere"

"I take it that's what's all over you wolf over there" he nodded toward max and the wolf looked down at his clothes, seemingly noticing the jimmybits for the first time "now answer me this...why... is she still breathing...she's obviously a government agent. No one just 'happens' to carry explosives in their purse" all the cronies around him suddenly had their various weapons pointed at the girl. King made no move to stop them, but gave no command to shoot

He muttered a curse to himself "yeah, I thought the same at first..." he turned and adjusted his glasses "observe..." he moved beside Forah and grabbed her by the wrist rather forcefully, by her gloveless hand and held it out for king to see, king raised an eyebrow, tipping his shades once more "yeah...that..." 

King stood silently a long time as the tabby strode back over and leaned back on the hood, arms crossed with the colt tucked under his arm "...interesting...a chance encounter..." he began to stride forward, his goons immediately dropping their guns as he entered their line of fire "..perhaps...but there's another possibility as well..." his gaze never left the girl as he approached, stopping a few feet from the group. He suddenly looked up to the tabby "where's my bag 'boss'" the tabbies name. Boss he seemed to be called.

Boss snapped his fingers and pointed to Alex, who held up the briefcase "but first, where's our payment, king?" 

"...of course, of course" he turned and waved one of his cronies forward. "come now, be quick about it" the small fox dashed forward, carrying two hard case briefcases, set one down, and held the other up in front of him. The latches popped and the lid popped open, displaying the perfect rows of cash "two million in in-sequential bills, as per our agreement" the tabby took one of the money wads and flipped through it "satisfied?"the tabby put the money back and the cronie snapped the lid shut

"yeah...it'll do..give'em the bag alex. We got what we came for" Alex tossed the bag and King caught it with an outstretched hand, tucked his cane under his arm and opened the bag. A rare smile crossed his face and he nodded for the cronie to give them the money. He handed off the hard cases off to the wolf and dashed back to join the others by the SUV 

From the bag, King pulled what appeared to be a needle gun, an empty cartridge in the back "you see...I don't particularly believe in coincidence...and neither to I believe that a super with explosive powers just happens to be simply sitting in the very bank that holds my prize," he pulled out a vial from somewhere inside the bag, and began to examine the dark blue liquid within "...so tell me, dear girl...how is it that you came to be sitting in my bank?"

[Anonymous G]

"I-I wanted t-to rob the place." She stuttered, Forah was beginning to feel incredibly cold. Woozy from the blood-loss, if she were to escape this exchange, she was going to need to see a hospital ASAP. Where would she go was an entirely different question, hospitals asked too much questions, so she needed some sort of story before walking in. "I came unprepared, as you can imagine." She added sarcastically. The lizard eyed the vial in the King's hand, and thought for a moment, "That vial, it wouldn't have the same stuff that turned us, would it?" She asked, referring to the people at the field trip, she knew that she couldn't be the only one.

[ratdeathtrap]

They were in the park trying to let the shadows do things. The park was abandoned and practically nobody came there anymore. They already tried several clothing styles, pieces of weaponry, books and nuclear launch codes. They didn't use any checklist so they were missing a lot of things.They had been there for a while and were getting bored pretty fast. They were sitting on the grass.

''Hey Francis, do you still have that mini radio with you?'' Johan asked Francis. He knew he carried that thing everywhere around because he didn't own an Ipod.

''Yeah, you wanna listen to it?'' Francis rebounded the question with a bored undertone.

Johan nodded and Francis pulled the radio out of his pocket. He activated it. Justin had been looking at the distance and turned his head to listen to the radio.

'''...Today some superheroes seem to have saved the day! Two masked teenagers, a guy and a girl, were seen entering a burning building and rescuing all inside. Witnesses saw the guy putting out the flames, and the girl making 3 story jumps, bringing the trapped people safely down. Our next topic: A bank robbery happened...'' Johan turned the radio.

''Did you hear that? there are more people like me! I didn't actually think there were more like me.'' Johan said happily and the moved excitedly with his body up and down. Without noticing, the shadows were swirling on the upper half of his back, growing a pair of wings. ''Lets go now!''

His friends backed away as they each point at one wing. He turned his head and saw a wing, and shocked. He turned his head the other way and saw the other one, and got even more shocked. He had suddenly gotten a huge set of wings. Justin broke the silence.''That is so cool!'' He said.

A smile broke through the shocked face and he smiled. Francis shook his head as if he couldn't believe it. His mouth went open and gaped at the set of wings. They were huge, and big enough to easily carry Johan.
He put his wings away by demanding it and said ''Lets just walk. Imagine what would happen if we flew into the town with a huge set of wings.'' They started walking to where the superheroes were sighted.

[KaigeTheRipper]

“I think I’m hallucinating...” Vanessa said, staring wide-eyed into the empty space in front of her. The controller in her hands wasn’t getting any use in any case.

The male to her right laughed. “And I suppose that the excuse you’re using to excuse yourself from getting your ass handed to you, Van? You know you’re not going to win, so you’re not even gonna try, is that it?”

Vanessa glanced over the three males in her room --her friends, the giant panda Ryan Liao, human Nicholas Graves, and her brother, Tobias-- her expression never once changing. Directly above their heads were translucent green ‘tabs’, complete with name, level, buffs/debuffs, and health bar. In addition, she could see her own statistics in the corners of her vision; like her very own weird HUD as if in some crazyass real-time RPG.

“Dudes, I TOTALLY think I’m hallucinating...”

“Probably shouldn’t have touched the roast beef at lunch. I swear I saw it move…” the human chimed in from down on the floor, only half-jokingly. Were he smaller, he’d probably fit up on the bed with the other three. Alas, Nick was a sturdy, muscular 6’6” and a solid 205 lbs. “Anyways, snap out of it, Van, and don’t pay any attention to Ryan! I need you on my team to take these two bastards down a peg.”

“I swatted a mosquito today,” Van stated blankly, “and the lil’ bastard burst into $2.15 and a magic fire ring...” Still, the vixen complied, selecting her character while the others laughed at her ‘joke’, despite not fully coming to her senses.

// NICHOLAS GRAVES JOINED THE PARTY //

Van had to let herself do a double-take after those words flashed right before her eyes, complete with an announcer reiterating the phrase word-by-word. She forced herself to glance around... everything appeared to be normal, of what would be considered as 'normal' about five minutes ago. Only difference was that Nick's tab was now blue and slightly more detailed; adding a mana gauge under his health bar and adding HP/MP numericals to say the least.

Nick, to his credit, also acted as though something was off... "Guys, I think I'm hallucinating..."

"Really, Nick?" Van's brother, Tobias, said, shaking his head disapprovingly. "Using the same excuse as my sis? Show some class, man! If you don't think you have a chance, then just say it."

This made Van and Nick look at each other. They locked eyes for a good while before jetting out of the bedroom and down the hall. Vanessa was the first to voice her inquiry of the other...

"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

"Depends, what are you seeing?"

"Just tell me!"

"I asked you first!"

"No you didn't!"

"Well, you were hallucinating first!"

"Alright! Alright, fine!" Van inhaled deeply, collecting herself while she gestured around with her hands, trying to figure out what exactly to say. "Does it look like you're... living... in a video... game...?"

Nick just stared at her, his face frozen and expressionless. "You're level one and have 600 HP, 200 MP, 30 attack, and your current armor rating is 12."

And then it struck home...

Good News: nobody’s crazy.
Bad News: Reality is apparently being screwed over.
Awesome News: AWESOME!!

[aires163]

Kevin stood there as one of the gang members charged at him with massive chain. Kevin just barely managed to dodge it as he snapped the fingers on both his hands, and then placed them both on the gang members face. Causing him to scream out in pain.

Alice was approached by a man with a massive knife. The other with a broken glass bottle. She easily disarmed the two while landing one of them on their ass.

Kevin having took care of his first opponent brought down the other with an ice blast.

Then out of nowhere the gang leader grabbed Alice from behind. He held a knife to her throat and pointed a pocket revolver at Kevin.

"Make another move and the pretty little girl gets her throat cut!" the gang leader said.

But unfortunately for the gang leader Kevin fired an ice blast that went straight down the barrel of the gun, jamming it.

Before the leader could even moved, Alice managed to pull a reversal and break the leaders arm in the process. The for a finish Alice kicked the leader in the back of the head. Causing to land on his belly. Alice then jumped in the air and landed on his head with both her feet. Knocking the gang leader unconscious.

"That was...unpleasant." Alice said as she panted in exhaustion.

"Do you think we should tie these guys up and leave them for the cops or something?" Kevin asked

"Do you see any rope any where?" Alice replied

Just then both of them noticed the massive chain and got an idea.

15 MINUTES LATER

"I hope we don't have to go through something like that again for a looong time." Alice said as both her and Kevin made it back to their neighborhood.

"Well at least we did some good anyway goodnight!" Kevin said as he walked up the steps to his house.

"Goodnight!" Alice said back as she continued down the road.

[Buzzwolf]

"clever girl" he turned the vial over in his hand a few times, the glass clinking lightly against his hidden claws

"so that's why you were paying so much for that bag..." the tabby marveled at it, suddenly understanding exactly what king had been planning "you've got someone set up to replicate it don't you" 

"precisely." he turned it once more and stuck the vial in a pocket inside his jacket, returning the syringe gun to the leather bag "think about it...super powers in a bottle, ready to be sold to the highest bidder. Just imagine, how much stands to be made on such a market...the rich will be climbing over each other to get ahold of a vial of their own!" 

"fuck, not only them, the poor would be fighting each other in the streets for that...that'll destroy..." he couldn't think of a single word for the amount of problems it would cause "everything!" the tabby put together "society would rip itself apart to get something like that! Cops and criminals alike!"

King shrugged "eventually...perhaps..." he turned and began back toward his men a toothy grin sliding onto his face "imagine that...even the cops paying me for my super drug" he turned back to them again as he got close to the escalade "power doesn't come merely from wealth gentlemen...it's all about influence...the more people want what you've got...the more power you have over the people" he handed the briefcase off to one of his goons, the vial still in his jacket, obviously smart enough to keep his prize close 

"now we just have one little loose end to tie up..." He looked down at Forah, running his tongue on his teeth in thought "fuck it. Get rid of her"

"What!?" the wolf barked out, moving forward "we're not executioners King!" the wolf growled out. The tabby said nothing, only looking subconsciously down at his colt, then turned away

King stopped his accent into the escalade, just about to close the door behind him, and pushed it back open instead "Then don't. She did kill one of your buddies...but I suppose to some that isn't important enough to pull the trigger for. Hell, she wants to be a bank robber!" king laughed as he shut the door, the dark window still rolled down "sounds to me like you just found yourself a new recruit!" 

"...god..dammit..." the wolf looked at the tabby unsure what the problem was "you don't see what he's done?! He left us no options...either she dies by our hand now..." he held the colt up "...or later by his...when she screws up one of his assignments..."

"then why don't we just dump 'er off somewhere an let the cops take her?'" the wolf suggested, the tabby just shook his head 

"ya got a good heart kid, how ya ended up in this line of work, I'll never know.." he took a drag on his cigarette, then dropped it and ground it into the pavement "we leave her with the cops, both she and us, will be dead by morning. King wants her silenced, wether that means use her or kill her" 

"well it sounds pretty damn clear to me what the choice is..." alex said, already pulling the passenger door of the mustang open

"I suppose it does don't it..." his cellphone was in hand again, and his fingers barely seemed to move as he placed a call "Oracle...it's Boss. Yeah...do you know any other 'bosses' in the city...yeah...smartass...I need...fuck, change of plan, we need a hospital." he said after catching sight of the bleeding on Forah's head "...we ah...got a couple of bumps...long story...I'll tell ya later alright? ...got it, Thank you" he clicked the phone off and pulled open the driver door, leaned in and entered some directions into a GPS sitting on the dash, then looked at the wolf still standing dumbfounded in front of the car beside Forah "well? You coming or what?!" the wolf blinked and scooped Forah up and eased her into the backseat next to a rather grumpy Paul. "Alex, you said you recognized her right?" he nodded "good...check up on her tomorrow...make sure she hasnt tried to skip town after we drop her at the hospital. We'll...figure out where we're going from there.."

"I still say we should've capped her..." Paul muttered into the window, to which he received a rather solid smack to the side of the head from the wolf

"I'm getting way too old for this shit..." the tabby muttered as he throttled the mustang

[aires163]

"What a crazy ass day." Kevin said as he laid down on his bed. "A super hero...I like the sound of that. But I wonder...what should I call myself...hmmm what name would you give a person with the ability to shoot fire and frost...wait I wonder If I should tack super agility on that list.

I was a fricken ninja in dodge ball today, not a single person could hit me! Hmmm for some reason I'm reminded of faith from mirrors edge...Edge? Meh I'll think about it." Kevin thought to himself as he pulled the blankets over himself.

[Anonymous G]

The rest of the night went in a blur, after her encounter with the "King", it was decided that she was to accompany them on further missions, since they of course couldn't have her running around anymore. They had taken her somewhere, but by the time she arrived she was already too woozy to care where she was. The drugs made sure that she remained happily sedated throughout the night as they treated her wounds. After a turbulent night, fading in and out of nightmares, she awoke the next day to the sound of semis shipping freight across the freeway. Rays of light poked through a dusty window that hadn't seen cleaning for quite some time. Forah sat up and examined her surroundings to find that just like the window, everything seemed to have not seen so much of a janitor for at least a couple months.

"Doesn't look like any hospital I've ever been to." She said sarcastically to herself, where most places were clean, well lit, and sterile, this place seemed more like a dungeon than anything. As she tried to move, her arms, bandaged heavily, pulled on a nearly empty IV bag that hung above her. Her street clothes were folded neatly at her feet along with the belongings that weren't blown up in the explosion. Forah's attention snapped towards the door as someone flipped the light switch, a shabby looking doctor walked through with one of the men she had met last night. "What the hell is this place?" Forah asked as she saw Alex enter the room.

[Buzzwolf]

"Oracle whipped it up for us" Alex said, brushing some of the lingering dust off a chair to the beds side and dropped down in it. He now wore his leather motorcycle jacket he'd replaced with a hoodie during the robbery the night before and lacked the skull bandana that hid his face, showing clearly now who he was, he also carried his motorcycle helmet, now sitting on the floor beside the chair "pulled some strings when Boss realized you might attract some attention if we took ya to an 'actual' hospital" the doc shot him a look, "fuck you too doc, you know this place is a shithole...you only get business cause people want their secrecy" the doc grumbled something and removed the empty bag.

After taking down the empty IV bag, the doc donned a pair of traditional blue rubber gloves and proceeded to remove the IV from Forah's hand, clean it, and put a cotton ball with a piece of tape over it to hold it in place. "she's good to go whenever you want to get out of my 'hospital'" a roll of hard cash changed hands and the doc was smiling again as he left

"well then!" he smacked his paws on the arms of the chair and stood "sorry to rush ya...but it's already..." he looked at a rugged black watch "past eight, and I have a test Scheduled for my class, so I'll ah.. Just wait outside..." he nodded to her street clothes and stepped for the door