First Generations: Main Thread

Azra

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First Generations GM
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1 down the line may see a thread for smaller interactions likely one villain centric one hero centric.
2 Starting location is NYC, but as time goes on that can branch out if we want. Just have to communicate so folk can actually show up.
3 If you've questions, need someone to play an npc, etc let me know. Want to work with you to make ideas you have possible.
4 I may have a small section like this at start of events. If needed. Which character sparks the event could be any player, i just figured that being on me will help avoid clutter. But otherwise this concludes the chatter save that for discord and the ooc thread

First Generations Act 1

New York City August 26th

Weather: Sunny
Time: Morning

Staten Liberty University wasn't the most prestigious college possible but Isadora didn't want the best school or have the credentials for such a thing. Her scores were good and the last few years she found she could at times seemingly get lucky on a guess. That however didn't mean she was going to build rockets in the garage or something. She also didn't have the funds for a grandiose college, there was a grant for the students victim to radioactive test animals turned out but that was community college money. She was looking forward to trying to learn how to be a veterinarian, having always loved animals and figuring it may help her just take care of herself. How deep the rabbit hole that was her new biology went she didn't know yet.

Isadora entered the class, a gen ed natural science course. She was dressed in a plad skirt, she used to not be as into skirts but with becoming part rabbit she really liked running and she liked the freedom she felt in a skirt now. A button up shirt, it was she liked to think a good mix of casual and professional. Sneakers of course, good shoes for running in. She was starting to think she might have to look into something better, way she could move she had already burned through half her collection. The ensemble was finished with a hoodie, the hood pulled up. "Isadora was it? Do you mind loosing the hood?"


White strands of hair nearly looking silver as morning light touched them was brushed behind an ear. "Sorry but I do." She felt a bit bad for it however she was more embarrassed by what already kind of looked like nubs with a hoodie on. It was as if someone had done their hair in buns and pulled the hood over it. The hoodie kept her ears down. Finding a seat in the second row eyes went to the screen behind the professor.

Like most mornings usual news was peppered with topics of the empowered. Izzy always found such an uneasy thing, exciting but nerve racking. What she really wanted to do was use her powers to help people. That seemed more a thing in the movies though. There was stories going around of powers being used to do more, it seemed more outlier then a norm however. These were so far more like the replacement of tabloids. The papers and news channels didn't need to ask a conspiracy theorist on if the latest pop idol was a reptilian. Because now there was actual stories going around. In Isadora's case it was muggers supposedly pounced on by a human sized rabbit. Her blue eyes briefly looked over the room wondering if any of the stories currently being spewed out by the news involved a classmate or two. It was still a new world in a lot of ways hard to know if she was the odd one out or amongst peers. If actually stepping up was something to actually do.

The news was listened to on headphones by the professor. She didnt want to disrupt her students from their own morning chatter or vices. Soon though she pulled the plug, eyes becoming glued to the screen. The classroom able to see and hear what followed. Much of the city would likely do similar...

Channel 7 News Morning Broadcast

The camera had been holding on the news anchor, older gentleman in his early forties hair once a rich blonde was starting to go white at the roots. His suit was well fitted and tailored to him, a gold ring he proudly flaunted his way of positioning his hands or gesturing always liked to try and let the ring be seen. He was very proud of his marriage. Robert Robinson who had been at the job for a decade. What was more striking though was the branches that crawled down his broad shoulders.

They were the color of decaying skin the way they were clearly fingers once but their shape their length it now was inhuman. Arms revealed themselves embracing the anchor in what almost could have been seen as a hug. Well until a pointed finger flowed from chest to pointing a sharp branch under Robinson's chin. The figure leaned down allowing its face to come into view. It was initially hard to assign something like gender because it was just a obscured black shape. The face even more alien. It was egg shaped bald but lacking anything natural. There was no mouth, no eyes not much cheek bones or jawline to follow. Instead a blossomed flower met the camera, petals of yellow almost gold, and a red almost blood colored. There was points around it, some seemed more like teeth turned needles some seemed splinters of bone. And in the center of it all rather then a bud of some kind was a void. Just darkness, one might expect seeing inside of a skull but it was rather hollow.

"I'd like to first apologize to those like me. Who may be considering using their gifts to really go publicly villainous. I dont enjoy that title, but I have to accept it. Some of you should have been first, but I have no time for being cordial. To save a life I need blood. That life means more to me than anyone or anything else. My name is Venus and I've an offer.

"II've three dozen hostages. I will trade one of them for four liters of blood. I will trade four grand for every four liters of blood a villain brings me. Or hostage I can drain should you not desire to go that far. I took out life insurance on myself and late wife I can afford that deal."


The voice was strange it seemed to echo inside the chasm it came from. It sounded naturally gravel but as if honeyed upon escaping the petals. A branching digit gestures to the camera to turn around. As it does the staff of the news building comes into view. Among them was four faceless mannequins that looked carved from magnolia trees, bark a striking white. Their fingers reaching out to touch the hostages. Some sharp ends aimed at throats, others eyes, some ears the point of contact varies. Most were aimed at the head however, and all aimed somewhere that could be lethal.

Back at Staten Liberty University

At the front of the class was a potted plant. A simple blossoming dahlia in a moment though on the word "deal" that changed. It was only a second or two, like watching a video of a tree grow on fast forward. Suddenly a mannequin was squatting on the desk the pot having eruppted as the flower became a person? Was that the right term? A spindly hand started to reach toward the teacher.

Izzy didn't think, as it started to rise she leapt from her seat. Her hoodie dropped to the floor as she burst into motion. Ears just as quick to spring upwards. Nearing a foot long in height without the hoodie she wouldn't be hiding them in her wildest dreams. Such concerns fell away though when seeing somebody in danger. She moved far to quick, it was the velocity of someone nolonger human and it ended in a leaping roundhouse. Her foot found the left side of the mannequin head with it the body rocketed to the right. Neck twisted around to face her as the thing crashed through the window.

"Oh shit."

Bunny ears followed by a head peak out the window. They were on the second story and looking below her was her victim. Her heart was racing afraid she might have just committed murder. The mannequin though having popped apart as it struck the ground gave way to what seemed just wet moss and sprouting weeds. "Weed men don't count as doing a murder." If one thought this just her jumping to conclusions to make herself feel better, they wouldn't be wrong.

there were more weed men showing though. They were popping up everywhere, the numbers weren't high necessarily it wasnt like a zombie hoard or anything. There were dozens though, as if trying to crowd the space from officers being able to get near the news building. Safe to assume incase other villians didn't slow people down the mannequins would aim to do so.

For Izzy she didn't know what would come next. She hopped from the window landing however in the college lawn. Past a Starbucks and some random office buildings three blocks down was the building for Channel Seven. And she felt like she at least knew what needed to be done. In one random morning it'd been decided super villains were real. For the rabbit she had decided it was time then the opposites do the same. Her head bobbed, the gesture like a bunny sniffing out suroundings. She knew the closest Weed Man next in the trek to Venus himself. With that almost sense of actual purpose finally, glacier eyes looked ahead.
 
"Oh, what the heck."

Jaylin wasn't the only person to have reacted that way. She'd been in her seat, waiting for class to start, trying to level up her cleric in her stupid addictive phone game before she had to put it away and pay attention. Most of the class had been in the same state of not paying attention, until the professor had turned on the audio for the news broadcast, and they'd all been invited to hear the world's weirdest blood drive pitch.

Wow. Four liters for two thousand bucks. How much was a standard donation, like a pint? That was... ugh, stupid metric. Oh, it was five hundred milliliters. How many milliliters were in four li-

Ooh, right. Good thing she hadn't asked that one out loud. So that was, like... eight donations? And dividing two thousand by eight was... like... two hundred fifty bucks.

Like, why didn't he just say that? On a college campus, he'd have had people lining up! Didn't he know how many cheap pizzas you could get for $250? If he had money, he could just hire a phlebotamist

-phlebotanist-

Jaylin started giggling, and then stopped, very quickly, when the plant at the front of the room came to life.

Actually, she guessed it had always been alive? So it hadn't exactly - wait, what was she going to do about that? She was kind of supposed to be a superhero, right? So, if she slipped off her hoodie and-

-and some rabbit girl just kicked it over? And out the window? And jumped out the window?

"What the heck??"

Jaylin was going to have to amp up her superhero status or something. She looked over the window, sitting up enough that she could look down at the dead plant, and the chaos outside and other plants coming to - um, not life, but whatever?

Carefully, she raised her hand. "Dr. Allen? Can I, um, be excused for today?"

Actually it seemed like a whole lot of people were being excused and most of them were not asking. Jaylin had at least asked and hadn't gotten a no, and the door was blocked by a bunch of students and the halls were probably busy. She looked out the window again.

They were only on the second floor... The other girl had made it.

The other girl was a bunny.

Okay, but like... the second floor? Jaylin looked back over her shoulder, pulled the hood of her sweatshirt up to cover her face in case there were any shards, and then slipped out the window with what was undoubtedly a great deal of grace and poise and did not at all end with her landing hard, falling on her butt next to the remnants of the classroom dahlia, and going "Oof."

She pushed herself to her knees, then her feet, then hesitated over the zipper of her hoodie, and - okay, fine - unzipped and tied it around her waist, leaving her in a T-shirt with the little pink crystal nubbins forming contrails down her exposed arms.

I just hope the evil plants don't think I'm weird.
 
Having the news on in the background had become a bit of a habit for Camila since law school. The noise drowned out much of her inner thoughts, and it was important that she keep up to date with what's going on in the world.

Ever since powers (abilities, mutations, whatever you want to call them) started becoming a Thing, she'd paid closer attention to the news. Several states were already discussing laws that could impact those who unfortunately or fortunately turned out to have some supernatural ability. Nothing had made it to the floor, yet, and nothing had made it to the Courts, but it was a matter of time.

She sipped at a hot cup of coffee as this morning's news played, only glancing over here and there as she worked on catching up on her emails.

When she next looked, through, there was a... flower person on screen? Demanding blood? "Why not just rob a blood donation center?" She muttered, rolling her eyes. There was a slight clench in her abdomen, though, at the mention of hostages.

Camila ignored it. When her ability first manifested, Claire had mentioned that Camila could become a superhero. Between the hours she put in at work, the worry it would cause her mother, and her familiarity with vigilante laws (the closest thing to precedent that could affect people like her), she'd ignored that desire to help people.

"You can't do nothing with it," Claire had complained.

"I can and will."

Despite living in New York which didn't have a reputation for the safest streets, Camila hadn't really been faced with a direct opportunity to make a choice to do something heroic.

Until now.

And she was (mostly) content to leave it be until the news camera panned to a familiar freckled face. "Chingao." She ran her fingers through her hair, cursing again when it got caught in the curls. How could she sit here and do nothing with Claire--her best friend, her confidante, and the person who makes the best chocolate cake in their shitty apartment--sitting there as a fucking hostage?

She is so not equipped for this.

Sighing, Camila pushed herself out from her desk, glancing around for necessities. Keys to lock the office up (she should really hire a secretary, at least), the tiny thing of mace that has been hooked to her keys for six years now and probably didn't work, and... she dug around in her gym bag changing from her flats into tennis shoes.

Five minutes later (she was about a block away before she turned around and grabbed her water bottle), she was jogging toward the news building for Channel 7.
 
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Unlike her classmates, Bella was not in a classroom watching the news and was instead viewing it on her phone up on the roof of one of the taller university buildings. She had been struggling with going to her classes and figured it’d be fine if she was late. Who cared anyway, it was just college courses. People always skipped the actual courses and just showed up to take the exams anyway. It was certainly different than high school had to be in some ways while other things were the same. Such as, it was just as stuffy as high school was, at least to her. At least it was her final year unless she decided to change her major, again. At the moment, her major is in computer science, but she was thinking about going into something else. Scruching her nose up, she stared in shock at the broadcast, sitting up almost immediately.

“Oh fuck. That’s not good, you can’t just take hostages all willy-nilly! That’s so uncool!”

Hissing, Arabella wasn’t so sure what to do other than what she normally did when someone was being bullied and that was standing up for them. It needed to be done and in her eyes, this ugly-looking dude on the screen was being a huge bully. Blood for hostages? Hell no. She would give him blood alright, his! If he had blood… Scowling at that thought, she jumped to her feet just as glass shattering caught her attention. Grabbing her backpack, she slid her backpack over her shoulders and moved to the edge, blinking at the scene beneath her.

“What in the everloving fuck am I even looking at?” Her disbelief came the second she spotted what looked like a human rabbit suddenly appearing on the lawn nearby, the female followed by a second girl who was not as graceful as the first. Arching her brow, she spotted the nearby fire escape ladder and easily scaled down it, landing on the ground with ease. Jogging not toward the strange individuals, but heading instead toward the Channel Seven building, she slowed to a stop as it dawned on her that strange weed-creature things were sprouting up all over.

“Umm…”
 
There was some panick trickling in stopping for a second gave time for the rush to slow down some. She practiced some martial arts as a hobby but that wasn't much in terms of used on people. She was mostly convinced she hadn't killed a person it turned to moss after all. However she did have dread of what she might actually be getting into. This Venus guy sounded acting more on impulse and wanting almost bodies worth of blood. He mentioned villains could bring him hostages, Isadora wasn't sure those ones would last all that long.

She'd never seen a dead body. God she hoped that didn't change...

THUD

There was a tiny startled hop as means to turn around. Thankfully it wasn't a corpse just a person falling over. No was a classmate following out the window. Someone who had weird crystal nubs growing out them. "That's cool more shiny instead of furry allegations. Sorry hi, im Izzy." She was rambling while offering a hand to help up. A pause seeing someone use a fire escape and heading down the road. Izzy tried to hold back her snicker. Didn't want to tease the crystal lady just also couldnt help but find some humor in whatd just happened. That other lady had a sort of punk look and was heading towards the news building another one here to help. "Let's catch up."

This came easy for Isadora but she tried to move at a manageable rate. Getting near the punk hopefully with Crystals near by the rabbit tried to offer what she could. "HI, I'm Izzy. I can smell two weed men close to the alley two in the Starbucks one on third story. They're kind of durable by the by, uh see you in a bit." She figured the others might be better saying directions to go soon probably knew this side of town better. Isadora hardly saw her as any lead she just knew where weed men were and knew one of them was best for her to tend to.

Brief run then she used a car for a spring board. Leaping onto then off the hood to launch towards the floor in question. A kick off a light post to position herself into a leap through an open window. That part was fun because trying to turn her hobby of parkour growing up into rabbit moves that just had a addicting adrenaline rush to it. Seeing a weird mannequin seize the throat of a civilian though was off putting. Reactionary before she now had to more consciously do it. "Breathe." Her kick messed up last one, limbs were spindly maybe?

The other hand not on a throat was winding up no time to think more. A dash forward and then she drove her foot upwards quick and as hard as she could muster. With that the branch like limb snapped in two. Falling limp and moss splattering where the other half of the arm fell. She uses the closest desk to slap with her hand. An assist to curl into a ball then kick outwards. One shoe print to the face rocketing head into an adjacent wall, the head bouncing off with a semi squishy thud. Her second foot kicks out and with it into a head. "Oh gross" she remarked standing up and tugging her foot free. The office worker looking at her, the guy a little lost for words. "You good?" Izzy inquired with a follow through of a thumbs up. The gesture was returned he didn't know what to say but he could manage that.

With a nod the rabbit moved to the emergency exit to head back into the street to meet back up with the others. They still had a block and a half to go. Camilla while not known to the college kids was already ahead of them. She'd have to decide if pushed ahead on her own or looked for others to assist her. That being said the amount of weed men was far more in number closer one got to the building. Cluttering the way to obstruct people heading towards the news building.

Channel 7 News

The camera men were reluctant to change the coverage to anyone else. Or towards anything else they didn't want to abandon coverage of this moment. That and having a branch pointing into the cameraman's ear was a bit nervous. So he held on Venus and Venus looked to occupy his time waiting.His flowered facing looking over assorted hostages. The tall figure moves to talk to one of the others. His fingers stretching on his left hand. The branched digits staying on Rob while the figure moved towards Claire.

Of course he didn't know who Claire was, she was just unlucky. "Let's take some questions from the audience shall we? What's your name I'll give you three questions while we wait."

The head tilted the weird flower vibrating slightly.
 
Aidan was home at one of the apartment buildings near the university when the broadcast went off about someone who finally came out as a villain. It had been a matter of time, right? Given that people had suddenly developed powers, not everyone would use them for good forever. He had often wondered about it himself, but he'd never been one to want to go as public like this.

He'd even contemplated making popcorn and to sit and watch the city tear itself apart. However, this Venus guy was talking about taking blood for money. How much blood did the average human have anyway? A bit more than 5 liters? He apparently had a large need for blood if he had 3 dozen people he was about to drain for it. And offering anyone four grand for every 4 liters?

That was hella tempting. He needed the money. And he had ideas.

He got dressed, pulling on his coat and grabbing the white mask he had. With a flashlight he carried with him, he made shadow puppets of two wolves, which seemed to come to life. "Follow me." He said, the two familiars hiding in his shadow in response.

He then went into his dad's bedroom. His dad had been a drunkard for years, and the useless lump was sleeping off his latest drinking spree. Time to make ole dad less useless, it seemed.

"Dad. Dad, they got some contest at Channel 7 station. If we get there in time, we're going to be given some cash." He shook the older man awake. He grumbled until he heard the term 'money'. "Yeh? How much." He grumbled. "They said they were giving away a lot of money, but they didn't specify." Aiden lied.

After a bit more convincing and prodding his father, they were on the way. Aiden held his father's arm over his shoulder to keep him from falling over and causing this to take longer than it needed to. He also put on his mask, which his father commented was stupid. If only he knew.

The first weed man they ran into, Aiden's familars head from getting to him immediately. The plant seemed nearly immobile at that point between the two familiars. Aiden's dad balked at the sight of it. "Fuckin' mutants. All of you are weird." He muttered.

If only Aiden had some other power, or if he could pull his dad into the shadows, this would be easier. As it was, Aiden's power was a tad limited when it came to multiple creatures. If there were more than this one weedman? Aiden wouldn't make it to the goal. "Let's take the backway."
 
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Oh, no, someone had actually seen her. Whoops.

It wasn't that Jaylin minded being seen, it was just that she wanted to be seen doing something cool, like fending off a five-hundred-foot squid or something. Not, you know, falling down. She caught half a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of someone else taking the fire escape - because of course there was a fire escape, people literally designed buildings with that sort of thing in mind - and that just made her feel kinda worse about it.

Well. No way to go but up, at least, not unless she found a shovel. At least the new girl wasn't being weird about the nubbins. People got weird about the nubbins. Maybe you didn't get weird about the nubbins when you had rabbit ears? Because the other girl totally had rabbit ears. Don't be weird about the rabbit ears.

Tentatively, Jaylin accepted the hand and used it to pull herself up. There, standing. Great?

"I'm Jaylin." Was she supposed to use her real name? Was she supposed to have a superhero alternate ID so that her whereabouts couldn't be traced? Was that a silly thing to worry about when her actual ID was literally in her pocket? Were superheroes supposed to have fake IDs for their alternate identities? Could you use those in, like, a traffic stop? Hello, Plant Man, I just wanted to let you know that your taillight is out and also it's illegal to hold people hostage?

Aaaand, Bunny Girl was off again. Wow, she was fast. The other girl - the smart one who'd used the fire escape - had made it downstairs now, and was heading off towards the news station, presumably. At least, she was going in the right direction for that, and where else would she be going? Maybe she was just going home, and if Jaylin followed her, she'd be like why are you following me, you creep?

Well, maybe Jaylin could go to the news station anyway and just be like wow rude I wasn't following you and maybe she was spending way too much time thinking about conversations that hadn't happened. Maybe she'd just get up and head to the news station and ask the Plant Guy if he took weird mutant blood and also if he needed the whole four liters or if she could just donate a pack for $250.

Or, you know, maybe she'd do the superhero thing and, like, stop him? Except, what with? She'd... figure that out when she got there. Definitely. For now - for now, she was going to pretend the whole falling over thing hadn't happen and also pretend she wasn't a walking advertisement for stick-on body jewelry - actually, no, scratch that. Own the crystals. Superhero time, right?

She headed up the street, keeping her eyes peeled for... plants. This didn't help, because they were everywhere. She tried to avoid them, because she wasn't really sure how well she'd function as a weed whacker. At least she could probably catch up to the other girl, if she hurried a little bit. Yeah, that was a good start.

"Um, hi." Good introduction, Jaylin, solid. Fire Escape definitely wasn't going to think she was weird now. "Do you... know what you're doing? Because I don't. Do you want to stick together? I... I want to help people, but I really have no idea how."

Oh, this was going so great.
 
For Claire, this morning had started like any other. Only very shortly after the normal beginning, it had taken a very strange and slightly terrifying turn. Now she was sitting on camera (and she was immensely glad that she'd been abducted on a day where her hair was washed and she'd worn a bit of mascara).

The whole thing had been interesting (terrifying, too, yes, but she was REALLY trying not to focus on that part, thank you very much). But about an hour into it, Claire was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. Sure, there was the whole life or death scenario happening, but she was sitting here soaking in the emotions of everyone in the room.

It was always a bit much.

Today, it was more than a bit much.

The question caught her off guard, and she focused on the... being in front of her. Anger and something else she couldn't quite put her finger on. "Claire," she said, finally. "My name is Claire." Was it going to ask her three questions? Did she get to ask three questions? Her life was already on the line, might as well take the bold approach. "What happened to the person you mentioned--the one that you care about?" What could have happened that would mean the creature needed so much blood?

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Meanwhile, Camila was still making her way down the street. What were the chances she'd be able to catch a cab? Probably not very good. Why couldn't she get some kind of ability that could make her fly?

The first few blocks were uneventful.

As she grew closer to the news station, though, things started to get weird.

There were strange, not-quite-humanoid weeds popping up and grabbing people. It wasn't hard to connect the dots about where they were coming from, but it did start to create a headache. "Wonder if the fact that I've never been able to keep a plant alive is going to help me or hurt me, here," she muttered to absolutely no one.

Great. Now, she was talking to herself.

Camila was content to ignore the creepy weed men so long as she could make her way around them, but then there was a little old lady being accosted by one as Camila jogged by (she was going to have to start actually exercising, and not just taking work out clothes like she might do it one day). She made it four whole steps before she turned around, sliding the lid of her cup open and drawing out the water, throwing it at the weed man with a sharp gesture of her hands.

It was not precise by any means. But it did make the weed man stumble.

Another flick of her wrist, sliced the thing in half and it dropped into a pile of what looked to be moss. Camila didn't really have it in her to investigate further. "Maybe get inside?" She suggested to the elderly woman who gave her the finger.

She didn't bother replying. Instead, she returned the water to her cup, and headed in the direction of the news station. She was passing the university now, and she could see most people were heading away from trouble (who could blame them), but Camila could just make out shapes of other people heading toward the chaos.

She wondered, vaguely, how deep she was getting in over her head. Would these be other people attempting to do good? Or others like that Giant Talking Sunflower? She really hoped she was not the only one with abilities heading to help.
 
Why are you even heading to where that  thing is at? Are you really going to risk your life to save people you don't know and try and fight an unknown villain? What if he's really a good plant-dude and it's all a misunderstanding?

Arabella hadn't moved from where she stopped, the blonde trying to mentally weigh things. No, they had to be hostages, so that made him naughty. Naughty people were akin to bullies and she didn't like them. Exhaling deeply, she tilted her head as footsteps neared her location. Her brow arched and she couldn't help but blink a few times.

Oh, wait. She's the girl that jumped out the window and landed tragically. Doubt she's a cat. Probably a good thing, because bunnies and cats don't get along.

Blinking again, she realized she wasn't so sure if her knowledge on cats and bunnies was correct. More importantly, she wasn't sure why she was even pondering the subject. Sighing in exasperation at her squirrel-like mind, Bella finally managed to nod at the college student though the words beyond the greeting caused a bit of trepidation. Nope, she had no clue.

"Hey. Honestly, I'm just winging things right now. We can stick together and I guess try and take out those weed things. You got anything cool power-wise?" Arabella pulled a lighter from her back pocket and a container of hairspray from her backpack side pocket. Yeah, she didn't need to use the hairspray, but it was fun. Taking aim, she lit the flame and squeezed the pump.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!

Flames shot out infront of her, immediately setting the weed-creatures on fire. She grinned a little manically, absolutely loving flames. Maybe a bit too much, but who cared? She definitely didn't.
 
Channel 7 News

"Pleasure to meet you Claire, I'd like to think in another life might have just enjoyed see how far you got here." He had a daughter after all likely around the woman's age. In a previous life he had enjoyed at times trying to keep eyes peeled to those he saw working anywhere. A quiet hope that one day years down the line he would see that young man or woman be a manager. He wanted to see success in the community, he had been a family man first and foremost but he did care for the community. As established though he was something else first, and with where he was now he would butcher the community if needed. His child meant more, and astutely that was the topic of the question pitched.

For a moment the flower stared at the woman, he was pondering an answer. Most couldn't read one's facial expressions though when the face was just swaying petals. "It was a family trip, and an accident transpires. Meteorites ended my wife. They should have ended me and my daughter. It did after all put a hole in my head." This came with a lean in, the hole more visible to the woman. It looked more like the hollowed out point of a tree than anything human. "Her blood is poisoned. Enough poison and anti poisons, enough blood transfers and the hope is can do something for her.

There's a moment where he twitches. The head briefly tilting upward. His senses of his copies was still an alien phenomenon for him. He didn't mind when they were kicked a part. He was amused but indifferent to the water damage. It was a fascinating ability but plants didn't fear being watered. The flinch came rather from the burning. It was a startled moment and a slight shake of nervousness. He wasn't sure how well he could fight anyone really but fire was a hint more concerning. This distraction also made him notice someone else though.

Most people were being held in place by one of his weed doppelgangers or running away. There was only four who seemed they might contest him so far. There was another person heading his way though bringing a drunk it seemed. Aidan would find the plant people moved away from him. They wanted to give him the opening to better reach the News building. He seemed out for money rather than heroism so the plants looked to make his job easier. In the news station Venus twitched briefly.

For a moment he spoke through a figure closer to Aidan. "Mutants. Weird. Sounds like the views of a simple mind. I'm sure you'll make for lovely conversation." There was still some time though before such company. So he returned attention to his primary body.

"Feel free to ask your other two questions whenever ready Claire' apologies if my attention seems splintered at times."

Elemental Three And A Bunny

Isadora moved back into the street to see someone heading there way. Their was a fallen weed man behind the woman with freckles and a cup of water. Nothing there even looked combat ready, Isadora was bummed she missed the show. She didnt know she was dealing with a water bender but she did assume the powers cooler than her own. She enjoyed being a bouncy swift metahuman but she figured most powers cooler than being a overgrown bunny. "Let's go meet up with the others. Names Izzy" the rabbit remarked inviting the cup holder to join the short backtrack to the others.

Where the few weed men to be worried about were swiftly incinerated by a flame thrower! The blonde who used the fire escape had only a lighter in hand but used such for a blazingly fast bit of crowd control. The fire type returning to briefly conversing with the rock type. Crystals counted as a rock type right? They were talking though that was at least to Isadora a serious relief to her. For a good while she half expected she would go to college perpetually embarrassed by rabbit ears and feeling a weirdo amongst classmates. The ideal college scenario was classes in the day and questionable life choices and parties at night. With other metas around maybe she would at least be a cool weird at the very least.

She was letting herself get distracted rabbit like attention span. Was a weed man invasion they needed a plan. Joining up with the others she considered letting someone else take point. "They seem more into grabbing people then fighting, but closer we get that might change? Should we go around them or something you think?" Of course she liked the idea of just kicking weed men until into the building. More fighting though the more ones energy was spent and who knew how much effort fighting the hostage taker would require.

Of course Isadora also didn't know the city that well. The subways ran all over there was likely an access tunnel one might be able to use but it wasn't like her to know where that option would be. The parking area might have a back door to try but getting around the weed men may still be a factor there. Her eyes did go to a crane briefly it was between a few buildings, a high rise was in works next to the similarly tall News building. Most probably didn't want to run up the stairs of one building to then travel along a crane however. Other options might come to the mind of others. All she knew was teamwork made more sense then just rushing in so she tried to give an opening.

Her waiting made her pause long enough to notice the moss gore on her shoes. "Bleh" was soon muttered as her feet alternated between light kicks and thumps against the asphalt. Little efforts being made to shake off the mess.
 
Shit. My lighter.

The young man realized the plastic and metal contraband item was still in his jeans pocket as he approached the metal detector. It wasn't the biggest trouble he could imagine getting into at the moment, but it was more than he could afford on his sheet for the week. Three people back in line waiting to get into the office. Needed to think fast.

As he approached, he observed the two tower-like structures of the detector on each side of the double doors, butting up against the frame of the doorway.

Okay. Here goes.


As he approached the door, Eli quickly and casually "accidentally" dropped the paperwork he was supposed to bring in. Bending over slightly before entering the doorway, he quickly gathered it together and then lifted up, reaching out and lightly touching the bottom of one of the towers to balance himself. In that instant, he exhaled and focused. A tingle, followed by a surge, swam through his fingertips and along his arm, invisibly reaching his chest with a thrill. In that same instant, the power levels of the towers were drained. Not enough to turn off, not enough to cause sparks to fly, but enough that when Eli walked through, no alarm sounded.

Hell yes.

Eli shrunk down into the unforgiving plastic of the waiting room chair, trying to find something of comfort. The hood of his sweatshirt hung over the collar of his jacket, forming almost enough of a makeshift pillow for the teenager to close his eyes and drown out thoughts of the world for a moment. In the corner of the dreary government office, an older television was encased in a plastic cage, preventing anyone from changing the channel. Or taking the TV. Probation was probation, not exactly the most trustworthy clientele walking through the door on a regular basis.

Who the hell watched regular TV anymore, and if they did, who watched the damn news? Eli shook his head and tried to space out, but to no avail. It was too early in the morning, anyway, but that was the current regime's idea to make sure young Eli Malakoff wasn't getting into any more trouble -- weekly check-ins with his JPO that would only cost him the first period of school.

He was almost asleep, almost checked out, when a commotion started to develop around him. He might have been the last person in the room to see what was going on, the ruckus about the television and the...thing...on it addressing the public at large. From actively making an effort to let the world know he didn't care to being enthralled in an instant, Eli was glued to the images on the screen now. This was...this was bad.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

The receptionist at the counter looked away from the television for a moment to see what had triggered the metal detector. She barely noticed that the Malakoff kid had already run out the door.
 
"Not that cool." Jaylin liked her crystals and all, even if they were weird, but they weren't, like, flamethrower levels of awesome. Bunny Girl was back, briefly. She kept running back and forth and back and forth, kind of like a... rabbit.

Nope, Jaylin was not going to get that image out of her head any time soon.

"Hey, just, you know, don't think I'm weird, okay?" Was that going to work? Did that ever work? Probably not, but too late now. Jayline raised her arm a little, then launched a couple tiny slivers of undeniably bright magenta crystal out of her forearm - a bit like little magenta needles, they stuck in the ground where they hit behind the group.

"They're probably not all that dangerous but, um - I'll know if anyone's sneaking up behind us. I can shoot a few around us just so we'll have some warning, I think? And make a trail as move along. I can only sense around them for like, five or six minutes tops, though."

Maybe it would help? Between Bunny Girl and Fire Escape, they seemed to have enough offensive power stored up. Jaylin could probably sever one of the plant stems if it got close, but she figured if the other two had that covered, it might be better for her to focus on support. That was core team building, right? Were they a team? Jaylin supposed they were today, and maybe that was all that mattered. A pick-up team - sure, why not?

"Do you all have, like, names? Or cool superhero names? Because I keep thinking of you as Bunny Girl and Fire Escape and that's, like... probably not it, right?"
 
Her attention returned back to Crystal-chick and she cocked her head to the side, studying her silently for a tick of a second before her blue-green eyes snapped back to what remained of the weed-things. Which, wasn't much since they burned pretty well. It was gorgeous to watch. Keeping a hold of the lighter she can of hairspray, Bella finally managed to relax a smidgen. At the sudden appearance of the hippity-hoppity female, she found it difficult to remain calm, especially with her not standing still.

This is going to be hard to get used to.

"Only a weird person pretending to be normal would ask someone to not think they're weird." Bella's voice had a tinge of a joking tone and she made sure to also grin. Her grin grew wider when the female did something cool with her stones. Nodding at the explanation, she formed a thumbs up while looking at the other college student.

"Alright, that's really cool! Definitely do your idea. It'll help some. Hippity-hoppity is right though, they're not really getting incredibly violent, they're just grabby to those that get too close. So we should just ignore 'em and go on our way, together. Any ideas on how to get into the building?" She rubbed her nose with the back of her hand, hating that it was itchy.

"Fire Escape girl? That's a new one. Oh, hahaha, because I came down the fire Escape earlier? Nice! You can call me Bella. What about you gals?"
 
Aidan paused only long enough to realize that Venus was talking through his puppets. Interesting. He called his two shadows back to him as the path cleared from their path. Venus had no idea how simple of a mind his father was, but he was sure to find out soon enough. Especially with the weedmen now avoiding the pair altogether.

"Tha' thing just spoke!" His drunkard of a father shouted. "Didja 'ear that?"

"Yep." Aidan said simply, half dragging his father now. He forced him to take an alley still, cutting across to the main road that led from the university to Channel 7 station. He wasn't an idiot though, peeking to around the corner to see what the street looked like.

Chaos. It looked like chaos.

There was a bunny girl and at least one flaming one. Another that looked like a geode exploded on her. All of them fighting the weedmen. Still.. He wondered if he could cause a bit more trouble for the three of them. He ordered one of his shadow puppets to move towards the Bunny girl, and if the opportunity arose, to bite her shadow. It would be a good experiment at least.

He moved back down the alley, deciding to stick to the shadows for now.
 
Her eyes looked up as she considered the question. Her left foot tapping the ground a little in contemplation. Bunny Girl was her first thought she couldnt be mad at Jaylin over it. Of course that name Izzy usually thought meant the suit that went with it. Made her think such a name invited promiscuous thoughts rather than heroic ones. She wasn't against putting on a bunny suit even, but that wasn't how she perceived a hero. The second thought was Jackalope those were cool like bunny unicorns and really could one imagine a cuter monster? However she had no horn, and that she felt would then imply a different horn meaning again just not what she was going for. Sure she could be flirtatious but she wanted to help people then it clicked.

Isadora had always felt a tad lucky, she'd been almost a good luck charm. She didn't know if there was any truth to it, one couldn't train their luck muscle. However it reminded her some thought a rabbit's foot was a good luck charm as well. Someone swooping in to help, that had to feel lucky right? Isadora also kicked a lot, was kind of her thing. "I shall be Rabbit Foot, the good luck charm of the city by kicking ass." The line was delivered with pride and conviction. Then her ear drooped and face went little red. "That sounded cringe didn't it."

On the plus side she at least had names to faces for two of three of those around her. There was Bella, Jaylin and Cup Girl. Thoughts were suddenly disrupted by a abrupt sting. "Ow." Was like something bit her? She looked to her thigh though and there wasn't any mark or anything no bruise or reddening skin from an impact. A look to see if she spotted anyone or thing in particular but there didn't seem to be anyone. Head bobbed up and down sniffing at the air. Sure there was people smells, and weed men smells, and even city smells no answer though on what it could have been. Looking around also felt slower...

She didn't sleep well or eat well was it maybe just that adding up? She felt usually like she had plenty stamina though. Did a kick maybe over exert a muscle maybe? Puzzled she tried to return attention to those around her. "Sorry did you say you can sense suroundings through thrown crystals. God that's so much cooler then good sniffer." They didn't have a plan yet for getting to top floor of the news building but at least had names and an idea what they could do. Well minus cup girl.

As for others least on Izzy's end she hadn't detected Aidan, was just a distant person smell amongst the rest. Somewhere out there was also Eli what he chose to do was however predominantly up to him. He likely would at some point see the assorted ladies, but who was to say I'd wanted to approach them. Not to mention if there was a group doing something maybe he saw that as potential cover for his own doings.
 
How tall could a building get before toppled over? It felt unsafe. It felt a bit scary, too. But like Melody had told him when he called her the moment he left the airport, they hadn't fallen yet and it wasn't likely they'd choose the day he was spending in New York City in between flights to do so. He was alone, too and already missing his best pal. But she wasn't in the condition to travel. So he had to brave the strange big world out here on his own. It was the first time he got on a plane at all, and he had had his field expanding every time the darn machine so much as trembled. Lucky him he had some sort of certificate that it wasn't dangerous. He would've gotten in even more trouble otherwise.

The city was already weird. The gigantic buildings, ads everywhere, fucking screens everywhere. People walked as if possessed, everybody in a hurry with to-go drinks in hand. Kieran couldn't wait to be back home. He was on some sort of tour his sister had helped him plan. That way he didn't have to go with bigger groups of people. There were enough people thank you very much. Everywhere, all the time. Some dressed real strange, but that was kind of cool. The one part that he kind of liked was that everyone was so different from the others, and nobody seemed to care about that either. It was a little bit refreshing.

He was on his way to see some communications related buildings that Melody, who worked as a tv presenter in another city absolutely thought he MUST see, probably skyscrapers. Kieran was half convinced that if the thing didn't scrape the sky they just didn't let you build it. How did you even scrape it?? the name made zero sense. The sky was just air. Now the clouds, maybe... eh? What.

He had seen some guy in like, briefs, guitarring away in Times Square with a cowboy hat. He had seen men and women wearing stuff that barely covered them, but all of them seemed to be living their life happily so it was whatever. Now, he was being hugged by a very fucking weird man. Was he okay? He didn't have a face. Oh. Maybe he couldn't see then?. Was this even a man or some weird wooden robot? He stood there awkwardly being held.

"Uhm... ello!, ye doin' alright sir?..." He asked softly, concerned. But it seemed like he had been way in his own head. These people, things? were EVERYWHERE. Huh. The fuck? He saw people getting side-tracked, a couple others were bringing people into where he was supposed to go. The News Building. Had something happened? Kieran always had a hard time catching what was on the tv. For now he sort of stood by the entrance to the news building, hoping this weird woody man could explain himself. He was also getting a bit nervous and had to keep his field from flickering on a couple of times. Was this normal?.
 
Wow. Actually wow. Neither one of them was offended by Jaylin's nicknames. She was going to count that as a huge win. It was entirely possible this was the biggest win she was going to have all day, because, like, what was she even supposed to do about Weird Plant Guy? Not much!

"Fire Escape because, um... you were smart enough to go down the fire escape," Jaylin admitted. As opposed to, like, her. "And then you did the flamethrower thing and that was even cooler. But Bella is good. I like Bella. I'm Jaylin. Like, that's not an alias, that's my actual name. Yes, really." Everyone always said 'Really?' Like, fair, Jaylin didn't know where her parents had come up with it either, but she still thought it was kind of a cool name. She liked it, anyway.

Bunny Girl had to think about it a bit, which was also kind of a relief, because Jaylin had thought maybe she had, like everything figured out, but apparently she was still thinking about at least some of it. Rabbit Foot sounded a little bit dismember-y to Jaylin, but she probably shouldn't judge, and maybe if Bunny Gir- um, Rabbit Foot made it really clear it was a kicking thing it would work.

"I've been thinking about 'Crysis'. With a Y. Because, like, crystals and stuff. Which is pretty much all I got." But the others seemed to think it was neat? Other people actually thought it was neat? Dang. This was going okay after all!

"I think Bella's right, if we can just avoid them that'll take less time than like... fighting a whole bunch, especially if it's one of those infinite spawn things." Did Jaylin play too many video games? Jaylin might have played too many video games. "I can keep sending crystals out for a bit, and maybe tell Rabbit Foot if there's some getting close and she can go kick them in the seeds or something. We can keep moving towards the place and... I don't know. Hope Bella has another smart idea when we get there?"
 
The shadow wolf held on for a moment or three before dissipating after a few moments as Aidan released it. The results were interesting. He'd known that his puppets could affect other's shadows, but not to what extent. The shadows hadn't been clear with him with what he could and could not do with them. With his free hand, he made another puppet, a bunny this time. It was fitting, at least.

His father was becoming more and more obnoxious with the remarks about mutants and how 'fucking crazy' this world was getting with those 'freaks' in it now. Aidan had tuned him out mostly at this point. There was but one goal in this juncture, and it was at least close at this point.

He looked at one of the Weedmen as he passed by them, trying to find a way to word what he wanted to ask without alerting his father to what was going on. "With what you're looking for, would the reward be per person? Or would it only be one reward, once?" He asked, trying to mask his voice slightly.
 
Claire sat in her kidnapper's emotions for a moment--she didn't need to see facial expressions to feel each emotion flicker by. The problem with being an empath is that it gets really easy to empathize with people who do bad things for understandable reasons. "I imagine my father would do something similar for me, if anything tragic happened to me." Was it a threat? Maybe! It certainly could be interpreted as one. "I'm sorry for what happened to your daughter." Even despite the kidnapping, she meant it. Losing a loved one had to be hard. "Do you think she'll be proud of the way you saved her?"

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By the time Camila caught up with the other group heading toward the news station, she had caught a few names being exchanged. They all seemed so young, but she doubted she was too much older than each of them. From what she could gather of the conversation, they all at least seemed on the positive end of the chaos.

"This feels like a really bad idea," she mumbled, largely to herself. She was a thinker, a writer, and a person who argued with words not her fists. What did she think she'd be capable of on approach to the newsstation? At least she wasn't going alone? Sort of.

At any rate, Camila fell in with the rag-tag group of co-eds, making sure the sliding lock on her cup lid was open. What a ridiculous accessory for a would-be hero. "Does anyone have a plan in mind about what's going to happen when we actually get inside?" She eyed the mobile weeds warily. What a weird fucking day.
 
Oh, they are giving superhero names. Well, shit. I better think of something.

Bella nervously bit on her bottom lip and wracked her brain for a cool name that she wouldn’t get embarrassed by. Scrunching up her nose, she started to tap on her chin while in nearly deep thought. Nearly because she didn’t want to appear rude to the others as they named themselves. Hippity-Hoppity named herself Rabbit Foot, which absolutely fit and Crystals named herself a cool name that fit too, Crysis. Damn, they were good! That put the pressure on her and the young female went back to chewing on her bottom lip. She did laugh a little when Crysis said why she had named her Fire Escape. It fit.

“Well, those are both super-hah-names. Sorry, bad pun.” She gave a wide grin at Rabbit Foot, wanting her to know that she hadn’t sounded cringe. Or if she did, she wasn’t the only one. Shifting from one heel to the other, Bella blinked when Rabbit Foot said ow. Had something happened? She didn’t see anything near them, had she missed something?

“You alright, Rabbit Foot?” Bella asked, brow arching just a little. “I am pretty good at first aid if it’s needed.” She added but she didn’t move forward. She didn’t want to encroach upon her space.

“A good sniffer is handy too. You both have very useful skills. I’m glad we’ve teamed up so that we can watch each other’s six. You can call me Fallen Angel or even Bella, it doesn’t matter. I picked that because of my life and how I’m an angel to those that’re being bullied. I don’t like bullies…” She scowled just a little and dropped her hands down to her side. “Or maybe Phoenix.”

“I don’t have a smart idea on how to get into the building, but fire always seems to work. But, maybe we should try to sneak in all incognito. Hmm… that way the Flower-Plant dude is caught off-guard. Hmm…” Musing, she tapped her chin once again, her gaze glancing at the construction nearby. Sidetracked by another girl popped up, she waved and blinked at her mumble.

“Of course, it’s a really bad idea, but something needs to be done. You can’t just go kidnapping people all willy-nilly! Regardless of what we do… we should get moving.” Bella started toward the news station again, attempting to dodge the weed-men to keep from having to exhaust herself.
 
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