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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 2831833" data-attributes="member: 69"><p>Donovan finally showed up at Emerson’s house. He was the last to show up. He walked into Emerson’s room to find the place a mess- things were lying all over the ground, some kicked into heaps in the corners. The things all seemed to be everyday objects that were broken and bent out of shape.</p><p></p><p>The others sat around on bean bag chairs and Emerson sat in his lab chair, looking most like the person who’d just been diagnosed with something irreversible. Donovan said “Emerson, this isn’t how I pictured you living. There’s broken stuff all over the ground.”</p><p></p><p>“It doesn’t go back to normal after it falls off.” </p><p></p><p>Donovan screwed up his face. “What??”</p><p></p><p>“Never mind. Listen, now that everyone’s here, I think we all have things to say. Cat, why don’t you start.”</p><p></p><p>Cat began, telling of the things that had happened to her in the time since school let out earlier in the day. The others followed, and soon it was clear that they were all stricken with bizarre afflictions, none of which they were happy about, save Gustav. </p><p></p><p>Cat tried her hand at rationalizing what was going on. “Clearly, we all have some kind of problem. Maybe some radiation sickness or something, or some marvelous coincidence of bad luck.”</p><p></p><p>Emerson said “I’m not sure what could have caused this, though.”</p><p></p><p>“You fools,” Gustav said, with that same half-grin on his face. “Don’t you see what’s happening? We were in the presence of a giant malfunctioning machine that changes things’ base elements when it was struck by lightning. We were fundamentally changed.”</p><p></p><p>The lights dimmed momentarily, then went back normal. No one paid attention to the disturbance.</p><p></p><p>“Someone better take care of this,” JJ said. “I don’t want people thinking I’m some kind of mutie and getting my rep soiled. I am NOT having it.”</p><p></p><p>“YOU’RE not having it,” Donovan growled. “If not for you and your clique of creeps, we wouldn’t even have had an incident today!”</p><p></p><p>“Don’t start, sphinx-boy, I had to climb out of a drain today. You ever climb out a drain?”</p><p></p><p>“That’s probably the second time you crawled out of a drain. The first was your birth.”</p><p></p><p>“Shut up, freak!”</p><p></p><p>Donovan picked up one of Emerson’s science beakers and hurled it at JJ. Emerson, without thinking, reached out to stop it. It was an instinctive reaction to having something of his imperiled. The beaker shattered in the air, before it ever reached Emerson’s hand. The shards shot to and around Emerson’s hand, whirling around it and clinging to it. In a moment, the glass pieces began re-forming with each other. The glass formed a perfectly smoothed, segmented glove over Emerson’s hand. He stared at it. </p><p></p><p>Cat asked “What the hell are your powers, man?”</p><p></p><p>“I don’t know,” Emerson said. “I seem to attract things. I think I’m a magnet guy or something. I can make the things fall off, but they don’t fix themselves.” The pieces of glass fell off into the wastebin. Emerson looked down at his broken beaker sadly. </p><p></p><p>Cat shrugged. “How is making things stick to you a power?”</p><p></p><p>“I don’t know, can YOU do it?” Emerson was in a foul mood, and this was about as close to getting really angry as he ever seemed to get.</p><p></p><p>Cat leaned down to scratch Emerson’s cat. “All I’m saying,” she offered, “Is that if we’re going with the angle that we now have superpowers, shouldn’t we be looking for great benefits and abilities? Conjuring sphinxes and making things stick to us don’t seem to offer us much of anything.”</p><p></p><p>Gustav said “Not every super power is beneficial. There’s a large number of mutants who are stricken with crippling deformities as a result of their mutation.” He looked at Cat as he made his point and his poise failed him briefly. “You’ve… uh… you’ve got some…” He gestured to her face. </p><p></p><p>“What?” Cat at him with whiskers sprouting from her upper lip. </p><p></p><p>Donovan said “Holy crap. We’re through the looking glass here, people… hip-deep in fricking Wonderland.”</p><p></p><p>“What!” Cat said again, getting paranoid. “What’s wrong??” By now two triangular, feline ears had grown from the top of her head. Her own ears seemed to have withdrawn, and smooth skin covered where they had been.</p><p></p><p>“You’re turning into a Cat,” Herbie said meekly.</p><p></p><p>Cat ran to Emerson’s mirror, stared into it for a second, and touched the cat ears on her head. She looked like she was about to scream… then that look melted away and she said “Cool.” </p><p></p><p>Gustav said “Clearly, you’re adapting the physiology of animals you encounter. Very interesting power, there.”</p><p></p><p>Emerson looked away from her and gasped. Behind Donovan, Emerson’s room faded away into a woodlands path. “What is THAT??”</p><p></p><p>Everyone turned and looked. Something was appearing above the path. It was a big, toothy grin. Two green eyes opened, one winked, and the whole vision faded away. </p><p></p><p>Donovan said “Whaaaat?” </p><p></p><p>Gustav cleared his throat and said “Wonderland. That was Wonderland. You just made a reference to it a moment ago, and it appeared behind you. Perhaps you subconsciously create illusions?”</p><p></p><p>“Great,” JJ said. “The foreign kid is figuring out everyone’s powers. What’s mine, dork?”</p><p></p><p>Gustav’s answer to this was shocking- he sprang from his position with startling speed and slammed into JJ with both hands. JJ flew back against the wall and fell to his butt. “Aghhh! What’d you do that for, dick??”</p><p></p><p>Gustav furrowed his brow. “You’d mentioned being unable to get knocked down. I tried it, and it seems that isn’t the case.“</p><p></p><p>JJ got up, brushing himself off. “Make a run at me like that again and I’ll murdalize ya. Looks like your ability to guess everyone’s power is a bust… I could do better. Watch, here I go.” He put his hands to his heads and closed his eyes. “I’m getting that Herbie’s power is to be a mega gaywad and the biggest loser in Silverage.”</p><p></p><p>“I’m not a loser,” Herbie replied quietly.</p><p></p><p>“Oh please! Look at that outfit. You look like you actually dressed up for this. What, were you trying to impress Cat the super-dyke with your JC Penney pressed slacks?”</p><p></p><p>“Shut up. I mean it.”</p><p></p><p>“Do you think she could ever even LOOK at a monumental turd like you?”</p><p></p><p>Herbie’s face turned red and he screamed “Shut UP!” He reached up and brought a fist down on Emerson’s desk. KA-BRAKK!!! The desk shattered as if it were made of graham crackers. Tiny splinters and dust fell around Herbie, who glared at JJ with a furious grimace. “Shut. Your. Mouth.”</p><p></p><p>The lights overhead flickered, went out, and came back on again after a moment. </p><p></p><p>Gustav was first to break the silence. “Well. Herbie’s power is clear. You’re the strong guy. Congratulations.”</p><p></p><p>Emerson said “Okay. All right. We all need to calm down. Breaking my things isn’t going to help anyone, and right now we need to keep our heads clear.”</p><p></p><p>Another fizzling noise and a purple flare of sparks, and the lights went out entirely. </p><p></p><p>Donovan looked out of Emerson’s window. “Looks like it’s all over town. </p><p></p><p>Everything in the room was pitch-black… to everyone except Cat. With her feline eyes she saw everyone around looking about blindly. She giggled, reached out and plucked JJ’s Buscema Broncos cap right off his head. “Hey, what… my hat just disappeared!” She then put the hat on Herbie’s head, and moved back… just as Emerson switched on his flashlight. </p><p></p><p>JJ saw his hat on Herbie’s head. He reached out and swiped it back. “Bad move, doof! Touch the hat again and you’re wiped.”</p><p></p><p>“I didn’t take it!” Herbie, still infuriated, reached out and pushed JJ. To his and JJ’s surprise, his hands went straight through JJ’s chest. A vaguely round section of JJ’s upper torso fell to the ground, neatly cut from his body by Herbie’s furious push. JJ then raised his arm to ward off the attack, and Herbie slapped it out of the air. The arm clumped against the wall and fell, where it kept moving. </p><p></p><p>JJ stood there, with the others, staring down at the piece of his chest and his severed arm. There was blood, but none of it splattered or leaked. It clung to the flesh. There were visible ribs, and a cross-section of his spinal column. JJ said “Huh.”</p><p></p><p>Gustav said “I didn’t see THAT coming. Based on that and your previous experience with the drain, I’d say you have some incredible measure of body density control. You may well be invulnerable.”</p><p></p><p>JJ picked up his chest, sliding it back into the hole. “I was invulnerable before.” He picked up his arm and it snapped back into place. He wiggled his fingers. “Everything’s cool. Kinda hurt though.”</p><p></p><p>Donovan said “You’re Leper Man!”</p><p></p><p>“At least I don’t see scary monsters.”</p><p></p><p>“You will.”</p><p></p><p>The phone rang. Emerson picked it up, hushed everyone, and listened for a minute. “No, we don’t know anything about it either. …What? …Oh, nothing… Hey, is that a police scanner in the background? Let me listen. … … …Wow. Okay. Bye.” He hung up.</p><p></p><p>“That was Steven Piercey. He wanted to know if we knew anything about the blackout. I heard on his police scanner that hell’s breaking out all over town… the police are rushing about trying to stem the electrical shorts. Apparently crimes are breaking out all over the place as a result of the blackout. The police don’t even have enough manpower to stop the bank robbery that’s going on at Silverage Savings & Loan.”</p><p></p><p>Everyone let that hang in the air for a moment. Emerson’s eyes were excited. “Want to see if we can do it ourselves?”</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Next:</strong></em><strong> Crimefighters</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Midnight, post: 2831833, member: 69"] Donovan finally showed up at Emerson’s house. He was the last to show up. He walked into Emerson’s room to find the place a mess- things were lying all over the ground, some kicked into heaps in the corners. The things all seemed to be everyday objects that were broken and bent out of shape. The others sat around on bean bag chairs and Emerson sat in his lab chair, looking most like the person who’d just been diagnosed with something irreversible. Donovan said “Emerson, this isn’t how I pictured you living. There’s broken stuff all over the ground.” “It doesn’t go back to normal after it falls off.” Donovan screwed up his face. “What??” “Never mind. Listen, now that everyone’s here, I think we all have things to say. Cat, why don’t you start.” Cat began, telling of the things that had happened to her in the time since school let out earlier in the day. The others followed, and soon it was clear that they were all stricken with bizarre afflictions, none of which they were happy about, save Gustav. Cat tried her hand at rationalizing what was going on. “Clearly, we all have some kind of problem. Maybe some radiation sickness or something, or some marvelous coincidence of bad luck.” Emerson said “I’m not sure what could have caused this, though.” “You fools,” Gustav said, with that same half-grin on his face. “Don’t you see what’s happening? We were in the presence of a giant malfunctioning machine that changes things’ base elements when it was struck by lightning. We were fundamentally changed.” The lights dimmed momentarily, then went back normal. No one paid attention to the disturbance. “Someone better take care of this,” JJ said. “I don’t want people thinking I’m some kind of mutie and getting my rep soiled. I am NOT having it.” “YOU’RE not having it,” Donovan growled. “If not for you and your clique of creeps, we wouldn’t even have had an incident today!” “Don’t start, sphinx-boy, I had to climb out of a drain today. You ever climb out a drain?” “That’s probably the second time you crawled out of a drain. The first was your birth.” “Shut up, freak!” Donovan picked up one of Emerson’s science beakers and hurled it at JJ. Emerson, without thinking, reached out to stop it. It was an instinctive reaction to having something of his imperiled. The beaker shattered in the air, before it ever reached Emerson’s hand. The shards shot to and around Emerson’s hand, whirling around it and clinging to it. In a moment, the glass pieces began re-forming with each other. The glass formed a perfectly smoothed, segmented glove over Emerson’s hand. He stared at it. Cat asked “What the hell are your powers, man?” “I don’t know,” Emerson said. “I seem to attract things. I think I’m a magnet guy or something. I can make the things fall off, but they don’t fix themselves.” The pieces of glass fell off into the wastebin. Emerson looked down at his broken beaker sadly. Cat shrugged. “How is making things stick to you a power?” “I don’t know, can YOU do it?” Emerson was in a foul mood, and this was about as close to getting really angry as he ever seemed to get. Cat leaned down to scratch Emerson’s cat. “All I’m saying,” she offered, “Is that if we’re going with the angle that we now have superpowers, shouldn’t we be looking for great benefits and abilities? Conjuring sphinxes and making things stick to us don’t seem to offer us much of anything.” Gustav said “Not every super power is beneficial. There’s a large number of mutants who are stricken with crippling deformities as a result of their mutation.” He looked at Cat as he made his point and his poise failed him briefly. “You’ve… uh… you’ve got some…” He gestured to her face. “What?” Cat at him with whiskers sprouting from her upper lip. Donovan said “Holy crap. We’re through the looking glass here, people… hip-deep in fricking Wonderland.” “What!” Cat said again, getting paranoid. “What’s wrong??” By now two triangular, feline ears had grown from the top of her head. Her own ears seemed to have withdrawn, and smooth skin covered where they had been. “You’re turning into a Cat,” Herbie said meekly. Cat ran to Emerson’s mirror, stared into it for a second, and touched the cat ears on her head. She looked like she was about to scream… then that look melted away and she said “Cool.” Gustav said “Clearly, you’re adapting the physiology of animals you encounter. Very interesting power, there.” Emerson looked away from her and gasped. Behind Donovan, Emerson’s room faded away into a woodlands path. “What is THAT??” Everyone turned and looked. Something was appearing above the path. It was a big, toothy grin. Two green eyes opened, one winked, and the whole vision faded away. Donovan said “Whaaaat?” Gustav cleared his throat and said “Wonderland. That was Wonderland. You just made a reference to it a moment ago, and it appeared behind you. Perhaps you subconsciously create illusions?” “Great,” JJ said. “The foreign kid is figuring out everyone’s powers. What’s mine, dork?” Gustav’s answer to this was shocking- he sprang from his position with startling speed and slammed into JJ with both hands. JJ flew back against the wall and fell to his butt. “Aghhh! What’d you do that for, dick??” Gustav furrowed his brow. “You’d mentioned being unable to get knocked down. I tried it, and it seems that isn’t the case.“ JJ got up, brushing himself off. “Make a run at me like that again and I’ll murdalize ya. Looks like your ability to guess everyone’s power is a bust… I could do better. Watch, here I go.” He put his hands to his heads and closed his eyes. “I’m getting that Herbie’s power is to be a mega gaywad and the biggest loser in Silverage.” “I’m not a loser,” Herbie replied quietly. “Oh please! Look at that outfit. You look like you actually dressed up for this. What, were you trying to impress Cat the super-dyke with your JC Penney pressed slacks?” “Shut up. I mean it.” “Do you think she could ever even LOOK at a monumental turd like you?” Herbie’s face turned red and he screamed “Shut UP!” He reached up and brought a fist down on Emerson’s desk. KA-BRAKK!!! The desk shattered as if it were made of graham crackers. Tiny splinters and dust fell around Herbie, who glared at JJ with a furious grimace. “Shut. Your. Mouth.” The lights overhead flickered, went out, and came back on again after a moment. Gustav was first to break the silence. “Well. Herbie’s power is clear. You’re the strong guy. Congratulations.” Emerson said “Okay. All right. We all need to calm down. Breaking my things isn’t going to help anyone, and right now we need to keep our heads clear.” Another fizzling noise and a purple flare of sparks, and the lights went out entirely. Donovan looked out of Emerson’s window. “Looks like it’s all over town. Everything in the room was pitch-black… to everyone except Cat. With her feline eyes she saw everyone around looking about blindly. She giggled, reached out and plucked JJ’s Buscema Broncos cap right off his head. “Hey, what… my hat just disappeared!” She then put the hat on Herbie’s head, and moved back… just as Emerson switched on his flashlight. JJ saw his hat on Herbie’s head. He reached out and swiped it back. “Bad move, doof! Touch the hat again and you’re wiped.” “I didn’t take it!” Herbie, still infuriated, reached out and pushed JJ. To his and JJ’s surprise, his hands went straight through JJ’s chest. A vaguely round section of JJ’s upper torso fell to the ground, neatly cut from his body by Herbie’s furious push. JJ then raised his arm to ward off the attack, and Herbie slapped it out of the air. The arm clumped against the wall and fell, where it kept moving. JJ stood there, with the others, staring down at the piece of his chest and his severed arm. There was blood, but none of it splattered or leaked. It clung to the flesh. There were visible ribs, and a cross-section of his spinal column. JJ said “Huh.” Gustav said “I didn’t see THAT coming. Based on that and your previous experience with the drain, I’d say you have some incredible measure of body density control. You may well be invulnerable.” JJ picked up his chest, sliding it back into the hole. “I was invulnerable before.” He picked up his arm and it snapped back into place. He wiggled his fingers. “Everything’s cool. Kinda hurt though.” Donovan said “You’re Leper Man!” “At least I don’t see scary monsters.” “You will.” The phone rang. Emerson picked it up, hushed everyone, and listened for a minute. “No, we don’t know anything about it either. …What? …Oh, nothing… Hey, is that a police scanner in the background? Let me listen. … … …Wow. Okay. Bye.” He hung up. “That was Steven Piercey. He wanted to know if we knew anything about the blackout. I heard on his police scanner that hell’s breaking out all over town… the police are rushing about trying to stem the electrical shorts. Apparently crimes are breaking out all over the place as a result of the blackout. The police don’t even have enough manpower to stop the bank robbery that’s going on at Silverage Savings & Loan.” Everyone let that hang in the air for a moment. Emerson’s eyes were excited. “Want to see if we can do it ourselves?” [I][B]Next:[/B][/I][B] Crimefighters[/B] [/QUOTE]
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