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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 1717229" data-attributes="member: 130">Mark smiled back, "I could use it."   "Ok," Mark agrees. "Well it's like ten years later than now. Most people with powers don't have secret identities or anything, unless they're terrorists. A lot of us have codenames, but that's kind of a style thing. Most of us aren't really heroes or villains. Elites are big business. They design clothes or invent things or give product endorsements. Nike just offered me a contract." Was that really only the day before yesterday?  "We have some terrorists and that's where Legacy and the other UN teams come in, protecting people from them. I guess. I mean I kind of fell into this. I got lucky and got million dollar powers. I thought maybe I'd get into acting."  "But they sent me to this school in Africa that the UN runs. I think they have one in Barcelona too. It's sort of like this big private school except everybody has powers. They have a great big swimming pool and there's a wildlife preserve we snuck out to where they have cloned dinosaurs. The UN cleaned up a lot of Africa too. It's all farms.  This all made so much more sense when he told someone else about it. Mark kept talking. "It wasn't like superhero school or anything. We have powers training, but mostly it's regular school stuff. And then the UN decided they wanted to have a teen-aged team or something so they tried us out. It's kind of weird."  "I guess it probably makes sense to you guys, but most of us didn't wake up with powers and say we wanted to fight evil or anything. I guess we're still with it but it wasn't our plan. I mean it's only been half a day or so, but you guys seem like you're really committed to this. That's something."  "I never heard of any elite training a guy one-on-one like Nightchild is getting either. I guess we just don't do that. It'd be really weird. And we don't have gods running around either.</blockquote>

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