Epic M&M: Issue 3 (IC)

[Elementor]

"Then you shouldn't have used your full power," she replies matter-of-factly. "When I hit someone with my full strength, I know that if things go as I intend, they will not get up soon, if at all. And if they are shooting people around me, I do not feel ill about that. I hope Thunder didn't give you his theory on the subject."

"No, I havent heard from Thunder yet.....yet. Not looking forward to that one. But Titan told me he has killed 41 people!? That seems like an awful lot. I was just trying to knock those gang members out but they shot that baby right in front of me and I kinda freaked out a bit. Maybe you can teach me better control?"

 

[Calinon]

"No, I havent heard from Thunder yet.....yet. Not looking forward to that one. But Titan told me he has killed 41 people!? That seems like an awful lot. I was just trying to knock those gang members out but they shot that baby right in front of me and I kinda freaked out a bit. Maybe you can teach me better control?"

Jun Po lets out a sharp exhalation of breath, sort of a 'whatever' in response to the 41 people killed.

"He's killed far more than that, but whatever helps him sleep at night. I have killed far more," she says, shifting slightly. "Very few do I regret." The icyness of her voice is alarming. "The people we battle are seldom kind and generous. They do not care about the people they endanger, hurt or kill. Why should we pull our punches when they do not pull theirs. I would rather bathe my hands in the blood of my enemies than see them harm a single innocent." She's glaring at you, and her eyes are glowing. "If I had learned that earlier, my father would still be alive." Her voice is like steel.

Slowly she closes her eyes and her breathing slows. She does not appologize for her outburst but gets up and stands in front of you.

"Yes, I can teach you better control, Vincent," is all she says. "After I've slept." She bends down and gathers her clothes, tucking them under her arm, and heads for the door. She sets her clothes on a rack and grabs a fluffy white bath robe from a rack at the door. Pulling it on, she cracks the door and steam billows about. You see her faintly as she steps left and right a second, and shifts her hips slightly. She gathers her clothes again. "Go for a cold swim, Vincent," she says, a bit of humor returning to her voice as she throws a folded towel onto your lap and heads out the door.

As the door closes and the steam returns to its normal patterns, you see she left her towel in a pile on the floor where she had put on her robe.

Thunder is waiting

And indeed he is. Tara has him wrapped in a bear hug and there are no insects around.

"Down girl!" he exclaims surprised. She lets him down and he rubs his ribs. "I think you are getting stronger," he says as Michelle and X12 come up. "Ah, no Kevin," he says, sounding unsurprised and surprisingly unconcerned. "His loss. Get in X12. Have a good flight home, ladies," he says, heading to the driver side. He fires up the hover-van, and the passenger window rolls down. "Straight home. Call if you get in any trouble, remember?"

Tara launches herself upward with a loud thrumming of wings. "Come on! Let's go!" she says, zipping upward and towards the institute, leaving Michelle a bit behind.

 

[Mimic]

"Yours and Kevin's powers are more subtle then some of ours but in the long run more powerful. I was a lot like him, ya know, arrogant, crass, obnoxious, the only person I thought of was myself. With a wave of my hand I can cause so much destruction, it scares me to think of what my old self would do with the power I have now." Michelle says as she stops X from getting into the van she stares into his eyes with a very serious look.

"Now imagine Kevin at the height of his powers with the attitude that he has now, the destruction and damage he could cause is almost beyond imagining. My powers are pretty powerful but once you figure them out you can anticipate what I can and can't do. It's not the same with you guys, you have to be more responsible then the rest of us combined because more people count on you." With that, Michelle grins and launches her self into the air to chase after Tara.

"Hey, wait up." Is all X can hear as she flys out of range.

 

[Mordane76]

"Responsibility," X12 thinks as the van starts towards the institute, "and people depending on me. I'm a sponge -- my powers don't even come close to some of these other guys. I'm definitely not a potential danger to anyone... generally works the other way around for me."

 

[Elementor]

"Yes, I can teach you better control, Vincent," is all she says. "After I've slept." She bends down and gathers her clothes, tucking them under her arm, and heads for the door. She sets her clothes on a rack and grabs a fluffy white bath robe from a rack at the door. Pulling it on, she cracks the door and steam billows about. You see her faintly as she steps left and right a second, and shifts her hips slightly. She gathers her clothes again. "Go for a cold swim, Vincent," she says, a bit of humor returning to her voice as she throws a folded towel onto your lap and heads out the door.

As the door closes and the steam returns to its normal patterns, you see she left her towel in a pile on the floor where she had put on her robe.

Vincent stares at the towel on the floor for a few moments before shaking his head back to reality. "Yup, cold swim is a great idea right about now," he mutters to himself. Diving into the deep end of the pool, Vince heads straight to the bottom and holds his breath for as long as he can just letting himself cool off.

Once he feels a bit more...normal, he will start swimming some laps without super powers. Once he gets a bit tired, Vince will kick in superspeed and do some superfast laps and even get out and practice running on the water a bit.

 

[Velmont]

Later:

Kevin is sitting on a chair in a McDonald, eating his McChicken. He is looking at a newspaper and seems absorbed by the article.

Sure! Scandall journal. EPIC, TREAT OR HEROS! What good do they say. Epic abuse of children to do their dirty work... too much violence and too many wounded... use of scary spiders that give an hurt attack to a bystander... what wouldn't they invent?... the police would have done a cleaner job... Hey, that's Michelle, what they say on her? Vadalism, detroyed an helicopter for fun. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't do that... Now me eh? What they say? Spoil boy... scandall about him last year... sure, every reason is good enough to take that story out again... Using monsters that menace honest people... that must be Vince, wouldn't hurt a fly, except if that fly would try to hurt someone...

Spoiler

Dirty words

scandall newspaper, can't they do anything else than destroying people. I hope any EPIC member would fall on it...

Kevin take a bite in his sandwich and then, rip the journal in small pieces. He looks outside, and saw the population walking on the streets. He sees a group of teenager having a good discussion, seems pretty funny at the reaction of the black guy. Hic asian friend seem a bit disturb, but the caucasian girl gives a little punch on the shoulder and the asian boy seen to calm down.

That's what I've miss the most. All the guys who were around me were there because I was a York, and no one wanted to offuscate a York. A band of followers, that what I was with. I've never had a friend... Well, the people of EPIC was different. The didn't give a damn of my name... but Thunder told they wanted the money of my father. Would it be just for that they wanted me? I need to find out... and I think I know who I must ask, if I want a true answer...

Kevin finish his meal and put all in the garbage. He walks outside and take his cellular phone.

I'll try not to come back emty handed. I'll prove I want to come back, and want to make my part.

"Hi... York... Thanks... Hi... sorry, it is not the father, but the son. Wait a second, you owe me one. You have been the only one to have an interview with me when the scandall happened. Yeah, it is pay back time, but don't fear, you will have some good information as a payment, but first, you must deliver what I want... what I want? Information, that's all... I'll give you three name, I want to know everthing about them, but watch out, they are not the kind who like to be observed. I prefer you to pull out before bad things happen... scared? ... Good! ... Mia Toan ... Murphy ... Red Rose Syndcat ... and two hint for you, Murphy is well connected, so watch out on that side. The sugar daddy of Mia Toan seems to be the high head of the syndicat... One last thing. You tell about that to no one before I give you the green light, or no scoop. Thanks, I'll wait your call."

OOC: Kevin use his Connected feat to learn as much as possible on Mia Toan, Murphy and the Red Rose Syndicat.

 

[Agamon]

"Inseam," she says innocently, looking up coyly before returning to her drawings.

"Yeah, I'm sure that's the part you enjoy, too," he says with a grin before throwing the last grape in his hand in the air and catching it in his mouth.

Dara mumbles mentally as Sanjay goes through his story. Must be nice to fly. But no, telepaths can't fly. We just get in people's heads and do bad things, she broadcasts, wiping her nose on her wrist. At least I'm not a cyborg though. That'd be scary. But I could walk around all BZZT! Target Human! Objective Destroy! Clomp clomp clomp! I could kick Carl's butt then. Then nobody would care I was a telepath. Bet I could help Sanjay remember what he forgot. Probably hates telepaths too. Ooo, I think red would be good for a nifty personal logo. Maybe nuclear thingy.

"Will you guys excuse me? There's something I need to take care of."

Pushing her chair away from the table, Raisa gets up and heads out of the dining hall, making her way to Sanchez's workshop.

"Um, uh, yeah, see ya," Sanjay stutters as he watches Raisa get up and leave. "Where are you going? You can't leave me hangin' here after you say something like tha..." His thoughts trail off as his eyes linger on her as she leaves the room. "Aye carumba." He turns back with a grin on his face, nodding his head...until he sees Dara again.

"Oh, uh, hey, you always do that mental thingy where everyone, uh...hey, I don't hate telepaths, no way. That's cool, way cool. I have nothing to hide." With that, he chuckles nervously, thinking, "Oh, geez, oh, geez, thinkofsomethingelse, thinkofsomethingelse, thinkofsomething...oh, yeah!" Remembering that a good way to calm down in front of others is to picture them naked, he begins to stare at Dara. After a few seconds he stops himself, "No, wait you idiot, she can...uh, one plus one is two, two plus two is four, four plus four is eight, eight plus eight is sixteen, sixteen..." he drones to himself, all the while smiling stupidly at Dara.

After a bit, he begins to calm down. "Um, yeah, that looks great," he says, still a bit nervous. "That's an atom, actually," he says, pointing to the symbol, "but that's cool, a neutron doesn't really look like, well, I don't know what it looks like, but, yeah, very nice, can't wait to see the real deal. Uh, let me know when you want to take those measurements. I'll be there with bells on...well, I mean, figure of speech, I'll be there with clothes on...and um, underwear, right, um, yeah, see ya!"

With that he darts up from the table a bit too fast, and leaves to wander the hallways for a bit, trying to calm down.

 

[Velmont]

When the night have fallen, Kevin call a taxi and ask EPIC Headquater as his destination...

OOC: It happen in the middle of the night, I would say after midnight, when Kevin think he will find almost everyone sleeping at the headquater... so when the there will be no time warp, just tell it...

 

[Calinon]

X12
You don't see Kevin as you leave the institute. Thunder notices you looking.

"Relax," he says. "I know exactly where he is." He turns on a flatscreen display in the dashboard and it displays a map of part of the city. A yellow dot moves slowly along the streets. "And before you ask, no. We aren't going to get him right now," he says, emphasizing 'right now.'

You listen to the radio as you drive the route back to HQ. It's a sunny day and 28 degrees Celsius. The markets are up. The Rangers lost to the Senators in hockey 5-4 and the Jets got hammered by the Rams 58-9, last night. Oh, and a lot of talk about the heroics of a certain group of teenagers.

It takes just under 45 minutes and you are pulling up to the front of the EPIC facility. You get out of the van. Breakfast is definitely still on. You can smell the pancakes and eggs from here. While you can go without food, your stomach rumbles. Curses on you Super Sense!

"Come on, X. Let's hit the War Room. Mendez is likely waiting already."

Michelle
The flight back to headquarters is longer than you expected, easily an hour. It's nearing noon when you arrive and you are ravenously hungry. As you fly in, you see a lot of activity near the workshop as a good number of students are there. Many others are on the soccer pitch. You see a lone figure walking towards the workshop from the dorm area and the van is already parked outside, so Thunder and X12 must have beat you here.

Vincent
You are doing laps when Jackal comes in. He has something in his hand that looks like an extension cord. He's wearing rubber boots.

Raisa
You make it to the workshop. There are a lot of students here, working on robots. You see Anna, Jackson, Johan, Johan, Johan at a huge worktable, and Sanchez nearby going over design schematics with some roboteers.

Kevin
The phone rings about an hour later. It's Kendall Bachman, an private investigator and part time reporter that managed to get the exclusive interview with you when you were in trouble in the past. It made his career.

"Ok kid, I got your information. No need to pay me for it, but we're even after this. Mia Toan is the daughter of Han Sung Toan. He's a businessman with strong ties to the Chinese underworld. From rumors, he heads a clan known as the Red Rose Syndicate. They are hugely into the drug trade and racketeering. Bad folks all around. They just started moving into other countries, both in the EU and NAA. They like to flood the streets with low priced drugs when they move in, and bite huge chunks out of other crime syndicate's protection rackets. He's supposedly in NAA now, in New York in fact, but damned if I could find out where.

"This Murphy fellow is probably Paul Murphy. He's Mia's bodyguard and a really nasty fellow. Ex-Marine, Ex-Merc. He has a pention for violence and murder and has more connections than you. And now he's with the Red Rose... well, you do the math on that.

"It may not be good for business for me to tell you this kid, but stay the hell away from these people unless you have an army with you. From what I saw on the news channel last night, you'll be high on their hit list, along with your other pals from EPIC.

"You better get me a damn good story out of this; I had to call in a few favors to get you the information this fast."

 

[Mordane76]

"Can someone bring me some... bliny," X12 asks Thunder as they walk towards the War Room. "And would someone find out exactly what 'bliny' are? The smell... something about it brought the word to mind."