Of heros and villians IC

[Takeru]

Caleb bared his teeth at Kevin. "Stay out of this before I burn you to ashes too!" He shouted. The fire that enveloped his hands started to spread up his arms, and slowly spread to the rest of his body. Nick watched as this happened, bouncing from foot to foot to gain as much energy as he could.

This is going to be a tough fight for me. I can't just absorb his blows with that fire, and I can't even get near to him without getting burned. This is BAD, Nick thought, looking around for something. If I had a pipe, or anything heavy to swi- He was interrupted from his thought by a punch to the face, and he could feel the flames burn his skin, a pained yell escaping his lips. He reacted quickly taking the energy from the punch and what he had stored to jump backwards, away from Caleb, landing on his feet about twenty feet away. He cursed loudly and put a hand to his now burnt right cheek. "Kevin! I need a weapon! Any suggestions?!" He shouts, jumping back again as Caleb charged.

[Black Garuga]

Black continued to walk through the dark hall ways, he saw the odd nurse briskly walk past, in a hurry no doubt. He eventually got to the room where Kazzra was, but before he went in, he addressed Jack.

Jack, just be nice to that nurse in there, I think she's a little pissed at me for ignoring her earlier. Good luck.

Jack opened his eyes, and then it hit him. his muscles ached everywhere, his neck, his chest, the inside of his legs. Must have been Black with his passive aggression putting strain on his body.
"Here goes..."
Jack opened the door to meet the gaze of the nurse and Kazzra, he looked at both and then sat down into a chair in the far end corner. It felt good to sit down, his muscles relaxed and slumped a little, a smile on his face. Then he realized where he was and looked at Kazzra.

"Yeah...Black told Kevin and this guy named "Riot" that you needed no help, they were outside, and they looked like they were going to do something drastic."

He turned his view towards the nurse

"And I'm sorry about earlier for my counter-part's rudeness, but I think he was a little angry that you got inside our head, he doesn't like being told what to do, very independent. So I'm guessing you're power is mind control, right? Or am I wrong?"

[Buzzwolf]

Jazz danced backward as the loyal patrons slipped in between her and Drake. But she had eyes for no one but the lizard as the shadows roiled and twisted around him, her grin anything but vanishing as they lashed out, impaling and tearing into the soft flesh of the suddenly stunned patrons.

A shadowy tendril shot past her head by mere inches, a lock of hair flipping up with the short gust of wind it'd made. She never even flinched. Being around king for so long had removed any flinching reactions, it was as if she had a sixth sense to which ones would hit her if she didn't move out of the way. 

By the time the shadowy wings had risen from the lizards back, only five were left in the room. Drake, jazz, king, and two terrified assistants that were hiding behind the massive form of the feline calmly adjusting his jackets cuffs.

Jazz laughed a little as Drake offered her a hand, to go flying with him. She shook her head, still smiling "not until you get some practice in with those thing I'm not" she watched him a moment, then waved a hand at him to go on his own "go have some fun, play with your new abilities, get used them them. I'll contact you after you've had a bit of practice." she turned and circled the ring to where king was, being less than conspicuous as she handed him the syringe jar with the back draw of the lizards blood. King merely turned it once and slipped it into his jacket, before going back to adjusting his jacket
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"quite the rude one..." Sasha remarks as black slips out the door past her, as if she'd never been standing there in the first place. She started toward the windows, quite intent on closing the blinds with the fight she could feel brewing just outside who on earth starts a fight right outside a hospital anyway? "now you, mister," she looked over her shoulder at kazzra still standing at the bedside "back to bed with you!" she smiled as she chided him "how do you expect to be back out there fighting the bad guys like king if you don't rest and get better?!" 

She looked up as the door creaked open and the warm smile vanished as jack returned. She practically snubbed him as she found adjusting the vulpine's monitors more interesting than listening to the boy try to cover for his alter ego. "my aren't we the smart one" she remarked sarcastically "if you want to look at it in such a...primitive manner, then, yes it is 'mind control'" she finger quoted as well "in reality...it's soooo much more than being able to make sentient beings dance like puppets on string. I can see everything you are as if an open book, I can find and treat a cancerous cell long before a machine could ever pick up on it, I can see problems developing in a system, reasons, guilt, innocence...everything. It's a gift and a curse to have..." she stopped. She could sense it in both of them. They both had the sense, but couldn't see the potential right before their eyes. Her expression became solum and hardened "and it is for that reason King must never discover my existence" 

[Black Garuga]

Jack heard the name of that guy Kazzra was fighting and was surprised to find out that this new super knew about this King fellow.

"You know about this King guy?"

Jack felt a little stupid asking such an obvious question but it had to be done to forward the conversation, and to satisfy his curiosity in this situation.
Curiosity is a dangerous flaw, it can cause so many problems, and Jack knew that he will eventually get his comeuppance for asking such questions but for this moment, he needed to ask these questions.

"And can you shed some light on this power-thing he has going on?, because I cannot understand where these powers are coming from. Kazzra over there had a fight with him before he was administered into hospital, so he must be a considerable threat. It sounds ignorant I know but, it's important. Also one more thing, please tell me you're name because I just hate having to referrer to you as 'nurse' or 'her' I just hate to be rude"

Jack waited for a reply in anticipation.

[Shade Leshyr]

Kazzra growled softly to himself, "King has to be stopped, whatever the cost... he's up to something and whatever it is, it can't be good." He placed his hands to his face, trying to calm himself as his body tensed, tail swinging back and forth. From up here, the vulpine couldn't see the fighting, so he was blissfully unaware of the danger Kevin and Nick faced. Despite Sasha's warnings, the fox suddenly got up from his bed and used his newly discovered control over his power to shut the door, though the activity left him panting for breath. However, he was determined and the clipboard that now lay on the floor began to rise up on a small disk of light...

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Drake offered the vixen a mock-salute, then he turned to King, bowing slowly, "My liege." he said in a much to serious manner before seeing himself out. The wings faded back into his shadow as he changed to his street demeanor, the viciousness withdrawing to a small corner of his mind as he pressed his hands into his pocket, moving down the sidewalk and searching for someone or something that could make this day even better...

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"Tracking three targets outside the trap, two displayed powers, one assumed. Permission to fire?"

Negative Gold Five. We don't know what the current number of supers is in the town. Pushing too early might send the rest into hiding. What are the targets doing?

"One displayed is moving to engage the other displayed and assumed. Disagreement among the targets, may turn lethal if left unchecked."

Roger that Gold Five. We need them alive... for now. Put an end to hostilities, but ensure survival of hostile super.

"Roger that sir, Gold Five out."

There was no warning for Caleb, focused as he was on Nick and Kevin. If he'd happened to look to his left, he may have just barely glimpsed the muzzle flash that signaled the sharpshooters shot, but as it was, Caleb only heard the sharp slap against his arm and felt the searing pain as he was lifted off his feet and slammed into the hospital's wall from the force of the shot. The beanbag hit the sidewalk with a heavy thump!, laying there almost mockingly as somewhere in the town, a gun was being reloaded, the crosshair never leaving the target, ready to send another beanbag down range if the dazed super continued to try and fight...

[Takeru]

Nick was getting ready to pound the pavement, planning to get Caleb off his footing, and had already raised his foot to do so. He stopped, with a surprised look on his face as Caleb was slammed into the hospital. He lowered his foot and looked around, scratching his head. He looked at Kevin, then the beanbag, which was no on fire from having hit Caleb's flaming form, and then looked around. "Um... thanks?" He asked rather loudly, not sure where the beanbag came from. He knew it was from Caleb's left, but that was all he could tell, so he gave a friendly wave in that direction.

Caleb slammed into the wall and groaned, dazed from the force of the blow. He cursed loudly as he regained his senses, but the flames that had surrounded him had vanished. "That was a dirty trick!" He shouted at Nick.

"Ok, first of all, I have no idea who did that. Second of all, you tried to KILL me!" Nick argued, forgetting for a moment that he had no idea if friend or foe was behind the bag.

[aires163]

"I don't like this." Kevin said as he tried to figure out where the shot came from. He of course couldent figure it out. "Come on let's get the he'll out of here before we get used for target practice or something! Call it paranoia but I don't think that shooter is on our side. Or anyones for that matter." Kevin was extremly unsettled by what just happened. It was far to convenient for someone to save them just like that. Deciding to no longer hesitate, Kevin ran for it. He made it down an ally way and bumped into something, or someone. That someone was a now pissed off Karl.

"WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING KID!!!" Karl yelled. He was getting very sick of being hit in any way shape or form.

"Sorry." Was all Kevin said in reply as he went around and continued to run.

"Hmm...I could either follow him, or investigate where that shot came from...decisions decisions." Karl though to himself.

[Takeru]

Nick sighed. "I guess your right Kevin." He said as he followed him. He looked back at Caleb and smiled a little "Have fun with your bruises Caleb!" He called back. He followed Kevin down the street, and into the ally, stopping when he saw Karl. He gave Karl a curious look before following Kevin again. "what a jerk." He said in regards to Karl.

Caleb groaned and slowly picked himself up, holding his bruised side. "I am going to kill that kid, and whoever shot me. Stupid beanbag gun..." He said to himself, as he stumbled off in the same direction that Nick went, keeping his eyes out for anything that could clue him into where the beanbag came from.

[Buzzwolf]

Sasha sighed as she watched kazzra lifting the clipboard with more than a bit of difficulty, and black rambling questions off about king. They had no idea the danger they were in for...they weren't ready, not even close "king...is a power far more dangerous than anyone can possibly know....within his power, lies the ability to change the world...for better or worse remains up to him. To answer your question," she glanced at black "yes...his ability is to absorb the power of others, and bend them to his will...it's what makes him so very dangerous." a hand lifting from her lap, the faint glowing returning to her eyes as the clipboard the vulpine was struggling with, lifted and floated across the gap to her waiting hand, all seemingly without an effort. She took it in both hands, holding it and turning it over in nervous habit. "the fact that you know of king...means he's already found a way to obtain each of your powers, and has already found a way to bend them to his will"

"king is the power of many, in the body of one. Anything is possible for him with time. He could rid the world of terror, war, famine, disease. Blur the line between rich and poor, rewrite societies to function for the people with the power he controls at his fingertips. He could bring the world to the greatest age it's seen in a thousand years. Hell...the entire history of the very planet...savior sent from the heavens as every religion would see it!" she lifted her hands toward the ceiling as if 'praising some god, before dropping her arms into her lap, the clipboard clattering to the floor as her shoulders slumped. "but his doesn't...all he sees...is more power...control...destruction...when his power reaches a peak...everything...he's going to destroy everything...he's going to take the entire world down in ruin around him...chaos, anarchy, famine, destruction...death...he's going to destroy everything"
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the smartphone chimed with the familiar voice of one Johnny Cash's famous sounds, and the tabby slipped it from his pocket and to his ear in one fluid motion "Yeah, it's Boss--Oracle?" he stopped, his free hand rotating the steering wheel of the pristine yellow mustang. "Got it. Thanks oracle" the phone was off his ear and already dialing another before he even finished making the corner 

"Jazz." he spoke as the line opened "we found the lab."

[Shade Leshyr]

Another heavy thump sounded right in front of Caleb, the bean bag spinning in the air before hitting the pavement and coming to a stop. Whoever was firing at him was trying to make the point very clear, Don't follow them unless you want to get shot...

"Gold Five reporting, hostilities have been neutralized... no sign of primary target or direct underlings..."

Roger Gold Five, continue to monitor the situation in the town. If 'King' so much as sneezes, I want to know where, when, and the color of his hanky, understood? Primary and secondary targets must be eliminated first... then we'll deal with the tertiary targets

"Roger that sir... but sir? They're just kids."

Kids with destructive abilities Five, don't go soft on me now.
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Drake yawned lightly as he explored the city out of boredom. There didn't seem to be anyone out in the open that was worth a damn for fighting. He spied a group of gang members hanging out in an alley, boasting to each other, and walked closer. They looked up and stared at him as he approached, eyes intent on the large horse that seemed to be their leader. He could see knives beeing drawn and flicked open, despite their attempts to make it subtle, and a small rat jumped up and said something, but Drake wasn't paying attention.

The shadows rose up and death fell upon the gang members, their agonized screams echoing through the alley for only a split second before being cut off. Drake emerged from the far side of the alley with an irritated look on his face, "Worthless." he snorted before turning and heading down the street. He really hoped his new boss would give him something better to do soon.

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Kazzra panted heavily as the clipboard was taken from him and he doubled over, grabbing his knees. For several seconds all he could do was breath and listen to Sasha talk, but at the end of her speech, he rose up, looking her in the eye, "You know an awful lot about this guy, don't you? I'm sure that most of that isn't common knowledge is it?"

[Takeru]

Caleb looked at the beanbag that landed near his feet and then looked in the direction from which it had come, then raised his middle finger in that direction before turning down a side street, growling the entire time. I'll get you yet Nick. And next time there won't be some sniper with a bean-bag gun to save you... he thought. He walked for at least ten blocks before turning toward home, where he intended to fix himself up a little, and treat the nasty bruise that was forming on his side.

Nick yawned a little as he walked. "We got lucky, don't you think Kevin? Looks like I'll need a weapon from now on. Maybe a pole? But how would I store it?" he asked, talking more to himself than Kevin now. "It would have to be strong, like made of steel strong. I wonder how strong those retractable police batons are, and if they come in a larger size. Maybe I should just get a large steel bar. Sure it would be heavy and I couldn't hide it that well... I've been talking out loud this entire time haven't I?" He asked again before laughing. "Anyway, so should we head back to school? We missed lunch by now I'm sure. Maybe we should stop for something to eat?"

[aires163]

"Well as much as I would like to grab a bite to eat, I think we should get back to school." Kevin said "But since my moms boyfriend owns a personal chop shop with alot of scrap metal on hand perhaps we could make something." Kevin suggested as they reached the bus stop. "But who do you think that guy was? Something tells me he wasent their to help us. An how worried should we be about that other guy?" Kevin asked as he put away his mask.

[Takeru]

Nick smiled at the idea of a chop shop. "That would be awesome! I'd love to make my own weapon, something more personal than a bar of metal. As for who the bean-bagger was, I have no idea. He may not have been there to help us, but he did. That's all that matters right now anyway. And as for Caleb, he's a tough little jerk. He'll be fine, unfortunately. He's had it in for me since grade school. Ever notice how having it in and having it out for someone are the same thing?" He asked, chuckling at his random thought. "Anyway, think we could stop by that shop after school? I don't feel safe going to school with a pyro-powered psycho without a way to hurt him..."

[Black Garuga]

Jack knew that this king guy was dangerous, but he never thought that he would be such a huge threat.

"if he's so deadly, why isnt anyone trying to stop him? But is there a way to stop him at all? And if he could use our powers, is there a way to stop him?"

Jack had too many questions to ask, but they can be asked later. His heart wrenched with anticipation.

[Buzzwolf]

Sasha figited a little as the fox called her out on her knowledge "...hardly. I...I used to work for him...back before all this happened" she spread her arms, gesturing to the 'super situation' as a whole "please...Don't ask...I'm not perfect and it's a past I'm well and happy to put behind me..."

"Some have tried" she said, to answer Blacks question "But he has a way of playing his cards from a veil. when he makes an appearance...death and destruction always follow. Cops have tried to track him, even the government has devoted resources now and again. but he doesn't play any cards for meaningless gains. every move he makes, is designed and executed perfectly...they've never found a touch to hold him on...let alone actually manage to capture him"

"The fact that he spent the time to cause the havoc he did, means he's up to something...and I have no idea what...let alone how to even imagine stopping him. once he has your power...it's his. that's it, there's no going back." she sighed "For so long, the only thing I concerned myself with, was making sure he didn't get a hold of my powers, and bring his plans into full swing"
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Drakes phone buzzed, a text message from the vixen at the fight club, details of a meeting point later for later that evening. Details will be briefed on site it said. This is your chance to prove yourself. Don't fuck it up clearly as much as the vixen had seemed pleased at the fighters capibility, something bigger was happening just under the surface
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The cheetah paused a moment as he was about to duck into the rolls', a smirk appearing on his face as his companion poked her head up on the other side of the car "What's up King?"

He pulled the red hankerchief from his breast pocket held it up a moment and dropped it on the curb behind him "Gold team's following us again"

She cocked and eyebrow as they both ducked into the Rolls "Should make for an interesting night then" he pulled the curtain across the window and usher for the driver to take them off as Jazz pulled out her notepad and made adjustments