Ben ate as quickly as he could, making sure to drink plenty of water. It sounded childish, but honestly he did his best to stay hydrated as much as he could. He'd always been a health nut and work out freak, despite his intense nerdiness. Plenty of water now only made sense, not only for the world going into the shitter, but also he was apparently about to do some exercise.

He finished just as Jae and Aud made it outside, and he gave them a smile, particularly at Aud to make his greeting seem more welcome. "Thank you, I can help out some though. You don't need to do everything yourself." he chuckled, but nodded his acceptance of her help with his dish for the time being.

Ben stretched, bending backward and popping his back for a moment. Once he succeeded, he let out a big breath of air as if he'd been holding it in for many days. "Phew, yeah I'm ready when y'all are. What are you wanting to practice? Manipulating fire seems like a cool trick, but unless you want me catch it or dodge you shooting it..."
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Silvan looked at the man next to him, the one who had appeared to have been talking to the strange women who jumped off the cliff. He seemed to hold himself in high esteem, from the body language he was reading. Good posture, shoulders and head held up, and from the way he was standing it seemed as if he had pride and confidence not seen in normal people. Silvan copped him as a soldier right away, but other than that he could not get more from just examining him. Silvan did not trust military, like them, or even want them. Ex military cops were always the worst to deal with. Silvan gave the man, Cody, a two finger salute and shrugged. Silvan walked back towards the bunker, looking around the outside one last time before going back inside.
Inside, Silvan realized how hungry he was. His stomach rumbled, and realized now that he had introduced himself to quite a number of people he could brazingly walk into the kitchen area and eat now. He didnt need to sneak around. As Silvan walked to the dining area Silvan pondered about things inside his head, barely noticing the people he walked past. He thought about how the events leading up to today, about the job he had been planning before he came to the bunker. He was going to break into a high security building to steal a priceless emerald. It was as big as his fist, and shined brighter than a flashlight. If stolen, he would have cut the emerald into smaller pieces and sold it one piece at a time on the black market, easily scoring well over a mill on each piece. If sold right and no trouble came up, he could have made almost a quarter billion dollars.
Then the days being holed up in the bunker. He had invented away from the scraps he was able to scavenge, but why did he choose to scavenge. Why did he choose to avoid most people. He could manipulated people easily into getting what he wanted, he could have made friends, he would have a rep already. But Silvan shook his head. From what he gathered the people that were left here were not easily manipulated people. They seemed strong willed. Made of sterner stuff. And he did not want to make enemies so soon. Then came the development of getting......well no other word for it. Super powers. He could make electricity, a human conductor. That was super freaking weird. But Silvan thought he could make himself useful with this power. He was sure that generators needed powering, maybe even fixing up. Maybe even smaller appliances.
Silvan arrived into the kitchen area, and the smell was almost overpowering. In part because as he smelled the food, his stomach went into an uproar. He realized he was more hungry than he realized. Silvan looked around the friendly faces. Then Silvan cracked his knuckles. He was starving now and he needed food. Silvan looked through the pantries and the cabinets and pulled out many different items. There wasnt a super lot he could do with what he had, but he would make it work. After about twenty minutes he had whipped up a feast. Using his powers to cook things faster, Silvan made chicken and waffles. Silvan grabbed part of the entire amount of food he made, took a step back, and with one plate in hand and other hand free he ravaged his food.

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Finished with the smokehouse Trinity ran back to the Container lot two more times this time using the trailer to transport them two at a time back to the base by the time it had gotten dark. She took one of the containers and stood it on it’s end so that she could use it as her own little watchtower.

Next she gathered up locust trees that she’d cleared the day before and built two large bonfires on either side to light the area near her new lookout planning on doing something perhaps inadvisable but never the less a course she’d chosen and would complete; she was going to stay outside this night.

She would have asked someone else to help her but she didn’t think she knew anyone well enough to ask them to risk their safety and her work had kept her outside at the beginning of sunset besides which she needed to tend the smokehouse fire till she got it right and could let it work on it’s own.

She wasn’t helpless by any means because she was likely the most powerful physical force in the area and she was armed with a heavy rockbar that she could use as either a club or spear and beside that she had a ditch blade which she sharpened to a keen edge and could use to decapitate any creature she chose in one swing

So it was just before leaping atop her perch that she cooked herself some meat and ate it with some raw tomatoes she’d discovered and some jalapeno peppers to make sure she kept her vitamin C so she wouldn’t get scurvy careful to save more than a few seeds to plant for later.

She had been taught that the need for nutrition was paramount to survival and which veggies and internal organs contained the needed nutrients. They needed to collect and grow their own sources of veggies and other things to collect A, B, C, D, E, K, Folic Acid, Calcium, Iron, Zinc and Chromium all of major importance to a healthy body. This meant she needed to be on the lookout for carrots, sweet potatoes and other orange foods for vitamin A; B she could get from chilli peppers and the others she knew a good shopping list of needed plants and those they could collect from animals would mean they needed to raise animals.

So it was with such thoughts she began her vigil knowing that this night because she was alone that she’d get no sleep. She would have liked the company but not knowing if any of the others could remain mostly silent as they watched from what was basically a tree stand. It took discipline to be a hunter and few people had the patients to be a good one even she had to strain to do what she knew was right but it did make easy being alone as she was to accomplish her task.

With a little help and time to focus, Kai was starting to get the hang of some of his power. He was starting to get better at controlling how high he'd go and being able to get himself down. Of course, with the help of Nina's plant keeping him from going to high that is.

Nina seemed to be getting better with control of the plant's growth and some of it's movements. Even with the progress...they still had more work to do. It was getting dark and honestly, at this moment Nina didn't want to stay out in the wilderness. Kai...I think that's enough for me today. I'm going back inside... With a slight nod from the levitating Kai, he carefully started to come down but felt a little nauseated and agreed to go in. I don't know if I can overcome getting dizzy and shit like this. he said

You'll get it down...we all are still checking our limits. taking the bucket that her plant was in and controlled it to get small enough for her to get it into the bunker. Kai followed along to see what the others were up to. Nina did have something in mind I just wonder what else I can do with these plants though.... walking inside and towards the cafeteria.

Heading to his room, Kai needed to lay down for a minute as Nina walked in the cafeteria and sat down to look at her plant. Hmm....maybe.. she stared and concentrated on the plant to make it grow some but using her imagination and will towards it, something was starting to grow on one of the stems which looked almost like a fruit but then she lost focus.

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After training with Jake, Grayson took a slow, long walk through the woods. He hadn't been able to take any time to observe the altered post-asteroid world ever since the business kernel had been opened, and he was eager to spring upon the opportunity for a little quiet time.

The forest was a perfect density for traveling, clear enough to easily pass through the trees and see for a good distance in every direction, but also thick enough for there to always be something interesting to catch his eye.

The idea of water and a bath soon faded from his mind as nature slowly encompassed his mind.

A couple hours later, the man returned to the bunker, nodding to the few people lingering outside. Making a beeline for his room, Grayson grabbed a water bottle and chugged it as he made his way towards the showers.

Half an hour later, he returned to his room and fell on top of his bed, slowly slipping into the numbness of sleep.

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Robert turned as he picked up his glass of water in time to see the man sitting next to him flexing for the Asian man. He blinked, then grinned. He started back, water in hand when the man did some ridiculous and very impressive stunt. The man definitely worked out. Robert discreetly checked his biceps. Then he glanced back at that man as he bowed and made a comparison.

He grimaced. Maybe he should work out too? Nah, that would be silly, or pointless, or something. It took years of effort to reach that level of strength, and it would take a lot of food to maintain grow and maintain that muscle mass. Right now, it was more important to focus on survival and ensuring there would be plenty of food and water to go around.

He wasn't sure how much was left, and he wasn't too assured about the hunting prowess of the survivors in the bunker. After all, quite a few of them had been civilians and even if a lot of them hunted, there was no guarantee they had the supplies they needed for the hunting they had done, or that animals behaved the way they used to.

He winced as his head throbbed again and flopped down into his chair, completely missing the girl who stumbled in and passed out in a corner.

He was thinking about supplies when his train of thought skidded to a halt.

Wait a second... did the Asian man say something about getting hot with some girl!?

His eyes widened and attempted not to goggle at the man. He failed miserably.

It took a few long moments for him to pull himself together. Alright, they were adults here, so he shouldn't have been surprised. Rather, it was one of his business, yeah. He tried to ignore it when the man started talking about controlling the fire inside him or something and willpower.

It was a relief when the Asian man left. Robert's was busy focusing on his own willpower to not think about anything other than his food. He was pretty sure his face was red. He decided to beat a hasty retreat before people could ask why he was blushing to his ears.

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After Harley's help he was caked in mud and then sprayed down rather haphazardly. He looked at himself and chuckled at the thought of his lady love seeing him like that. He saw one of the guys come out, look around and he saluted Cody sort of. Cody barely paid him any mind and walked past him and down the hall to get his clothes.

On his way to the showers he heard Harley in the cafeteria and he stopped and looked. His eyebrows raised only slightly. He wasn't surprised at her taking the dog in there just at the expression of others in the room. It was just a boxer. Some of them looked like she had brought an elephant into their midst.

"Hey! Harley! If you are keeping that dog as a pet you will need to move to a larger room or it's going to push you off of your bed." He laughed and made sure the others all saw that she was approved to have the dog in the bunker. "I'm hitting the shower." Cody went down the hall and into the showers.

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The night was strangely peaceful for Trinity was she sat 40 feet above the local terrain. Oh there were the odd curious night creatures but she sent them scurrying with a loud slap of the rockbar against the box metal frame.

It was a wonderful night actually exposed to the air and the elements, the moon hanging above her making the world somehow more familiar; safe.

Sure the world around her wasn’t silent as some pictured the night because in a dark world sound was a useful tool. She heard a coughing sound about 2:30 in the morning and it shifted around her position coughing in two more positions. It was a test and its owner was a large animal judging by the bass in its voice; whoever was out there was issuing a challenge and Trinity was bored enough to answer as she tilted her head back and gathered her strength to give out the mighty war cry of the majestic screech owl her highschool mascot.

Maybe it was her newfound strength or some other factor but when she began pulling air in her constricted larynx producing a glass shattering high pitched raptors scream and a whistle then she released it as a primal scream tapping the iron bar against the container. Naturally the night fell silent as all those creatures out there sat in judgement of her performance eventually casting their vote by nearly and hour of silence seceding her the power this night.

Morning came and she was even more vigilant as it was in the half light hours that every hunter knew as a rich target niche. She saw a herd of deer fat and full maybe 20 strong. Roosters crowing in the distance and what sounded like a beef bull. This had been semi rural land with some working farms when it all went to hell so it stood to reason there was familiar stock out there somewhere and if they collected it and built the structures to protect them could solve their food issues.

She pulled out her CYAJ which was more important to a field engineer than the bible (you can always find a replacement bible, just ask any preacher) because the big red letters stood for Cover Your Ass Journal and it was used as a repository of signatures of bosses on sites she’d worked on. Those signatures usually held a simple paragraph describing a change from plans, timetable or something else that might get the poor field engineer thrown under the bus without it.

So just before she refueled the fire and went to sleep on top of her watch post Trinity wrote in book

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Jake ate until he was either told he couldn't have any more or until he was stuffed. He was so tired he actually had no idea which was the one that happened first. He got up from his seat and went back to his room. He loved going to sleep right after a good meal. It always made him feel really good. He laid down on his bed thinking about what had been going on the past few days. Everyone was developing powers and they all seemed to just not really reflect on that. Well, those who he had spoken to so far. He thought back to the powers he knew about so far. There was a speedster, a fire guy, gravity defier, strong woman, ghost dude, and whatever he could call himself.

So, as of what he has seen in the group so far is a very rag tag team of misfit powers. He started imagining all the different kinds of powers the group could have. Soon he had an idea. Jake reached over to his night stand which had a notebook and pencil on it then started writing down various things. He wrote down the powers he knew existed in the group and as much as he knew about those powers. Next he wrote down a few details about some powers he could think of off the top of his head. Once he finished that he began writing out various ways to train the different powers they had access to. Since they had these abilities they would need to learn to control them as best they could. When he finished he decided to finally take his long awaited sleep.

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Jae made sure to position the three of them a ways away from the bunker. He didn't really wanna cause any unnecessary fire to the only inhabitable place they had. At Ben's suggestion, he grinned. "That's actually a good idea. Although, I need to try and get the in control first before I try shooting fire at someone or something." He called up a particularly upbeat song in his head and began singing.

"난 널 보고 있지, 거울을 통해서 머리를 만지는 척 해..."

Audrianna raised an eyebrow. "You generate fire by singing?" she asked as she sat on a nearby boulder.

Jae laughed and shook his head. "No, I just wanted a song to dance to," he explained and was just about to continue singing when he paused, a look of wonder settling over his face. "Now that I think about it though... do you think that I can maybe breathe fire if I keep singing? That'd be cool."

Audrianna bursted out laughing, obviously comfortable conversing with the young Korean. "What? I don't even know what you can do, how am I supposed to answer that? But... Maybe you can. A lot of weird stuff has been happening to people. You might be able to do it. You should try."

"I should, right?" he looked from Audrianna to Ben, as if to ask both of them for encouragement.

Audrianna chuckled and nodded. "You really should. But let us see what you can do first."

Jae grinned and then nodded. He began singing and was soon dancing to his tune. The fire started as a spark that soon grew into a full fledged flame creeping up his legs then his torso, his arms and then his head, finally enveloping him. "Wow," he said, looking at his blazing hand. "Human torch, right?

The heat coming from Jae was immense that Audrianna had to move away from him. "Doesn't it... uh...burn you?" she asked worriedly.

"It does! I---" he kidded but stopped short when he saw Audrianna's worried face. "No, no, I'm just kidding. I'm sorry. That was a bad joke. I'm okay. Really," when Audrianna glared at him, he cleared his throat. "Uh... what can you do, Aud? Ben there has some nice moves and can probably flatten me into a pulp if he wanted to. I got this!" he gestured at himself, pretty proud of how he looked. He began dancing around more to bring his flames into a bigger inferno, meant to impress. He looked at Ben and grinned. "Dude, I think I can try shooting fireballs at you soon."

Still worried that her friend might hurt himself, she kept his eyes on him. "I can make force fields and p---"

"Aaaah!" Jae shouted as his flames blazed stronger and he began lifting off from the ground. "What do I do? What do I do?" he asked frantically.

"Turn it off!"

"I don't know how," he began patting his torso with his hands in a useless attempt to snuff out the flames that covered his entire body. But his movements only managed to fuel the fire more and he shot up straight into the sky.

"H-hey! Audriannnnnnnna, Beeee_{eeeeeeeeennnnn!!!!}"

Audrianna's head tilted up to follow Jae's trajectory. "Angle yourself down... no, horizontally... no... Oh, I don't know how to fly...." she called out in frustration. She watched Jae zoom across the sky before looking at Ben. "Uh... you think he can make it back? How will we find him now?"

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Kwan dropped off Jason back at the Bunker and got one of the comms radios and a decent digital camera that had been in one of the dead’s belongings and to her it was an honor to be intrusted with such a scared device; she could use it and her laptop to make at least some B-roll stuff.

It might even be fun to go back to the pure physical force without the wires and green screen stuff she thought as she boiled out of the rabbit hole as she had decided to call the bunker, it made it sound better than it was.

She went east this time towards what turned out to be a large lake called Lake Thunderbird which turned out to be one of those huge reservoir lakes the americans loved to build everywhere so she did a quick tour of the area around and near the lake and found that while it had been hit by what appeared to be tornados about 65% of the houses around it were still intact and then there were the boats that were tied up here and there that still floated on the surface in good condition and the few that had been covered in plastic wrap in a dry marina excellent condition.

She filmed everything she saw that might be of use and wrote in a notepad she found in a ranger's truck the location of each filmed area including road and address where they were available or directions from the last point she had such references. She was a blur from point to point only stopping to film possible sites then moving on and in the case of finding two 2,000 gallon fuel tanks one petrol and the other diesel called the Bunker and reported their location directly.

Maybe we could harness up the strong girl to a tanker and have her drag the load back to base so we could keep the generators running she giggled into the mic just before signing off and heading off like the Roadrunner

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Right outside of the bunker, where Ben, Jae, and Audrianna stood, a sad pile of sand lay still. Lex was in fact this pile that had been present for nearly half an hour. He'd been stepped on several times in his sorry state. He was past the point of being furious, and fortunately no one could see or hear it.

I hate this shit! How the hell does this thing work yesterday and go to shit the next day?! And can these people stop stepping on me!? I'm just done. I won't use it again. Never... Why can't I change back yet? Fuck I'm gonna be stuck like this until night comes around! Come on! Don't try, just do! Do!!! Lex paraphrased what Kwan had said just the night before in his head.

As nothing seemed to occur, he gave up on trying to change his form and just watched the three who had stood by him with no knowledge of him being there. With an internal sigh, Lex watched and listened to Jae and Audrianna speak about their powers. Yeah, rub it in.... Holy shit! That shit is hot! Lex commented internally as he watched Jae engulf in flames before flying into the sky. Then within seconds, Lex's body rose up and took his normal form.

"Now why can't my power do something like that when it acts up?" Lex said out loud as he appeared. He did not even think about how freaky and startling his sudden appearance might be to the two standing between them. "I might be able to help get your friend." Lex said to Audrianna as he watched grains of dust rise from his fingertips. "Keyword... Might."

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Harley walked outside with Ryder. He had nudged her hand and started walking off so she figured he must need to pee and followed him. Once outside he ran over to the bushes and peed and jogged back to her happily. He nudged her hand and watched with her as she watched Jae flying in the air as a ball of flames. Her smile grew as she watched him. His shreiking about not knowing how to fly made her chuckle.

"Jae! Point your head in the direction you want to go. It should be like swimming!" She shouted to him. Harley walked over to the small group watching him and grinned at his attempts.

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Trinity woke about eleven and checked her smoke house happy so far with her results because smoking the meat will provide protein preservation of the various meats they might butcher then after putting a few more logs in. it wasn’t as elegant and primitive as the log smoke house she’d helped her Uncle todd build when she was 16 it was still working just the same.

Finished breathing smoke Trinity headed off down the road to fetch more containers and was soon moving around them and the destroyed truck stop like she was wandering some strange yard sale trying to fish treasure from trash and it was near the mechanic’s shop that she discovered all sorts of wrenches and hand tools scattered everywhere after a tornado. Sure they were weathered and some stainless had been too close to rusting tools and now had rust on them but they were still serviceable so she collected them all.

Next she loaded down the yard trailer with two containers and drug it back to the Bunker site and off loaded them and without a word to anyone of what she was doing headed back for two more containers dragging the trailer behind her like a child would a makeshift wagon towards the Truck Stop

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Lex awaited the response of the group as their friend flew wildly through the sky before he heard the voice of new person who had approach. She giggled, which allowed Lex to realize how humorous this predicament looked. Though a smile cut across his face, he did not dismiss the man in need of a helping hand. What the hell do I even do about this? If my power flops then I’m not only gonna look like a stupid pile of dirt, that guy could also end up going splat into a tree, cause a forest fire, burn all the vegetation around us, kill the animals, lower the food supply, starve us, and make everyone in the bunker into cannibals… fuck! The thought of superpowered cannibals was horrifying.

Lex’s eyes widened as he turned to the group. He suspected that if they could help, they would have already, which meant that he might be the only hope or something. At least I can say I tried… No, not try. I am going to help him! Lex thought as his body morphed into dust particles that flew forth at Jae like some kind of heat seeking missile. The two flew about like a pair of aimless flies trapped in a small room, and that was the most Lex could accomplish in controlling the situation. He attempted to speak, but his voice came out like a hiss which was much too quiet for the pyro to hear.

“Ssstop... Ssstop flying.” Lex tried to communicate. Lex was hoping that this guy could just turn his power off midair so he could go in for a catch. With a grunt, Lex reached out towards Jae, but his flames sizzled out his reach. To be honest with myself and as fucked up as this seems, this is actually cool as fuck. I’m a flying dust ball chasing a flying man on fire…. Live it up, right? Anyway, if he slows down, I’m crashing straight into him. If I can suffocate the fire, and break his fall, Everything will be fine, he’s just too fast right now.

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After her first attempt, Nina was able to grow something but she couldn't really tell what the hell it was. It looked like some sort of berry or fig probably. She didn't know but she went to pluck it to take a look at this thing that she grew and smelled it. Staring for a moment and hesitant to try it, she shrugged and went on to place this thing in her mouth to try it. Okay...it's something possibly edible, juicy, bland, getting crunchy now aaaaaand this shit is nasty...

Nina spat the so called fruitage from her mouth and looked back down to the plant I guess I'll have to work on the flavor, size and the right vitamins and minerals. she said to herself. Sighing, she went to see if there was anything to eat for the time being.

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Well, for awhile there things seemed to be working out just fine. Ben gave Jae encouraging nods and he offered to catch a few fireballs perhaps, as long as Jae would go easy on him. Ben felt confident he could do a few more powerful tricks, but he didn't know if he could take someone else's powerful tricks at the moment.

He wondered how Aud and Jae knew each other. They weren't together, but perhaps adopted siblings? Either way, he'd let out a sarcastic but encouraging remark every now and then. He gave a grin to Lex as he approached, feeling like this outside excursion would go without accident. That is, until the...event happened.

"Holy fuck he shot up like a rocket." Ben declared, arms still crossed as Jae disappeared into the stratosphere most likely. He held out a hand for Aud to stand back, and then Ben focused the energy in his legs to leap upwards. He leaped up 18 feet, and then fell to the ground again. "Fruit, can't see him better. Well...I'll catch him when he falls again if he's not flying around."

He stretched his arm and prepared, focusing his ki into his strength.
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Kwan was very soon out of range of the little radio she carried not that it mattered to her because she was feeling almost drunk with her optical senses as she found she was able to perceive the normal world around her as if she were running through a slow motion scene in a mythic wuxia style and it was grand.

When she passed by a huge patch of exposed earth that had been stripped for construction then left fallow which gave her an Idea. She mounted the camera she’d brought to take film of what she found during her run making sure by running out then back a couple of times before she got it balanced and focused on the right spot to film an experiment she conducted.

Kwan assembled her thoughts and mapped out her movements using a trick she’d learned as Little Whirlwind. It was a real personal movement that was a cross between an Ice Skater and a Ballerina mixed liberally with the skill of her master trainer Uncle Monkey. So with such pleasant memories of the old man she coiled her body building up rotational force then releasing it in an explosive Left spinning back kick followed by a spinning right flip kick that was reversed by the left which was then reversed by the right and on and on, over and over she repeated the Whirlwind attack she was famous for. It was a tight circle she had practiced so often to maintain she could enter an almost Zen like state when she did it alone and with no target. People often asked her how she never got dizzy as she spun so rapidly and she could never explain why to those who asked; well not like they did and it was because of her Uncle Monkey who trained her from a child when he’d noticed she unlike the others didn’t suffer as badly from vertigo when performing stunts involving heights and or spinning.

The old man had taken her as his disciple, cook, housekeeper, back washer and massage therapist but then it was better than the extra’s dorms; those kids did the grunt work and got paid less than her which was why she was so competitive. To lose her position because she didn’t devote herself was to fall socially and economically; to lose face the crime of exile if you were female.

It was while remembering her past as she spun that Kwan noticed a shadow that came from above just in time to dodge a bird that resembled an eagle the size of a minivan which had slashed the air where she’d just been standing. Dust exploded from its wing thrust and Kwan’s sliding stop obscuring the area slightly in a red brown cloud.

Then as the big bird stroked its way back into the sky Kwan scanned the sky to assure it was alone before focusing on the creature.

Dam! she says remembering the camera

She wasn’t pleased by her delay in fetching the recording device but she made up by following the beast from beneath that the big brute took advantage of rolling over and diving at her which she dodged while giggling and shouting Olay

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Audrianna stepped back when Ben held out his hand and then watched with amazement as he jumped straight up 18 feet into the air. "Uh, maybe you can catch him if he manages to fly back towards us..." she suggested and then jumped when Lex appeared out of nowhere. "W-where the hell did you come from?" she asked, momentarily distracted from Ben and the fireball that was streaking across the sky. But when he said that he might be able to help Jae, Audrianna turned her gaze back upwards. "Well, he did say that he wanted to practice. It's a good enough time to do that. But I really don't want him to get hurt," she said and then nodded to Lex. "But try not to hurt yourself in the process, okay? Jae would probably be too hot to touch." She heard Harley's voice coming from behind her. It made sense what she said but she could only hope that Jae wasn't panicked enough to heed her words. Or that he was near enough for him to hear.

Or he can actually figure it out for himself, she thought and then watched again in amazement as Lex turned himself into sand. "Whoa. This is really turning out to be some kind of hero movie from Hollywood," she commented as she watched wide eyed the dust particles fly to the direction Jae headed towards.

Meanwhile, up in the air...

Jae gulped as he sped across the sky, actually heeding Audrianna's words. He tilted himself down but the ground hurtled so fast towards him he was sure he'd become just a red splotch if he crashed head first into it. He tilted himself horizontally. His flight became a little more stable but it was carrying him far from the group. How will he get back? _{"Why the heck are you giving advice when you don't know how to fly???"} he shouted back frustratedly. But by the time he finished his tirade, he was probably too far away for Audrianna to hear. He took a deep breath and tried doing what the other female voice he heard before he got too far shouted to him.

"Jae! Point your head in the direction you want to go. It should be like swimming!"

"Ugh. Like swimming? Easy for you to say... Should I wave my arms around?" he muttered as he focused his attention to the matter at hand. He veered right and then left, his burning body slicing smoothly through the air. "Oh, I suppose it is as easy as she said," he laughed. "Now, to figure out how to stop and--- What the hell is that??? his eyes widened when he saw a dust cloud flying towards him. Without being aware of it, he stopped flying mid air and hovered there for a few seconds, his flames buoying him up. He stared at the sand cloud, hoping that it was just what it looked like. A harmless dust cloud. He hoped that it would stop and be blown away by the wind but when it continued heading purposedly towards him, he panicked. Is that thing gonna attack me? he thought frantically as he resumed flying, burning himself a little hotter and streaking across the sky a little faster. With escaped from danger the only thing in his mind, he turned back towards where he wanted to head towards and sped back to where he had taken off. Force field. Force field. Aud can make a force field around me to protect me from this sand thing... Just... just need to figure out how to land. Tilt down, try to slow down and then... and then... uh... land. Ugh. Here goes nothing...

When Audrianna, Ben and Harley came back into view, he began waving his hands frantically. "Force field! Force field! Force field! There this sand cloud that's out to get me!!!" he shouted, the movement of his hands coupled with his panicked state accidentally shooting a fireball towards the group. It landed several feet away from them. "S-sorry! I didn't mean to do that!" he called out as he followed through with his plans and tilted himself down. He sped down towards the ground. "Argh! Slow down slow down slow down slow down," he chanted as the ground drew closer and closer.

Audrianna gawked as Jae sped towards them, flapping his arms like some sort of giant fire bird. "What the heck is he doing?" she mused out aloud and then jumped when a fireball came hurtling down towards them. It hit the ground a few feet away from her, igniting a small patch of dried shrub. "Are you trying to kill us?" she shrieked. And then wide eyed, she watched as the young Korean continued speeding towards the ground. He was yelling about a force field but he was still too far that she couldn't figure out the rest of what he said. By the looks of it and by how near the flying human fireball was to the ground, she figured that he wanted to do a crash landing, she willed her force field towards his young friend. "Slow down!" she shouted.

A bubble immediately encased Jae, his flames igniting the small space he was confined in. "Aud! I can't see where I'm going! I--- Oomph!" he crash landed even before he could finish what he was saying, the force field absorbing most of the impact and rolling him away behind a large boulder.

As soon as Jae hit the ground, Audrianna dissipated her force field. The young man, exhausted from flying and from generating too much heat, stayed face down on the dirt, unmoving, his flames slowly extinguishing around him.

Audrianna, worried about her friend, rushed towards the boulder and found a very naked Jae lying face down on the dirt behind it. "Oh," she exclaimed, immediately turning her gaze away. "JJ, are you okay?" she asked.

"Mmm mmmmmnd mmmf mmmmnd mmrph mmmfphr mmm"

"What?"

Jae turned his head to the side, too exhausted to move the rest of his body, having burned out all the adrenaline in his system. "Ugh... Some kind of sand was after me."

"That sand wanted to help you."

"Oh," was all Jae could say before he slumped his face back onto the dirt.

---

Mikey sat in his room alone as the others who had survived the opening of the bunker had headed outside for some reason or another. Since the bunker doors had opened everyone that survived it had gained some sort of strange abilities or powers, everyone except Mikey he still hadnt figured out what his powers were or even if he had any powers. He sulked in his room alot of the days. Since the meteor had hit no one had heard anything from the other bunkers. He had wondered if his friends were still alive. He wondered if they still cared if he was okay. It was while he sat there that he heard the shouts from outside. He contemplated going outside before finally succumbing to the curiosity surging through him.

He stood from his bed, picking up his guitar as he did, slinging it over his shoulder and walked over to the door. As he passed the mirror near the door he looked into it. His eyes were red and bloodshot from the constant sulking that he had been doing the last few days. He looked different, different than he had when he arrived. A sense of formality, he had adopted the uniform of a technician within the bunker due to him attempting to help keep the bunker in top condition over the last few months. He looked like everything he had rebelled against as a teen and everything he vowed never to return to after joining the band. He quickly changed into something that reminded him of of the times before the meteor. Black doc marten combat boots, black skinny jeans and a white band tee complete with blacked out shades he was ready to go out and face the others as the man he was before events of the past year.

Mikey jogged upto the entrance to the bunker and saw the group huddled together watching what looked like a man flailing around in the air as he flew. He approached the group slowly before making contact with a brown haired girl at the back.

"So how longs he been like this for?" He joked as he approached her.

Harley glanced his way and laughingly said, "A few minutes I think. I brought my dog outside to do his business and found Jae trying to fly."

Harley looked at him again and offered her hand. "I'm Harley the bunker "water goddess" according to our commander. Why do you look somewhat familiar to me? Should I know you?"

Harley was openly staring at him now and it was starting to make her embarrassed that she couldn't place him with a name. "I'm sorry, I just ...I'm drawing a blank on your name."

Mikey lowered his shades slightly and looked at her with a slight smirk. He took her hand. "Micheal Sykes, but im known mostly as Mikey from Forget the Famous. We were kinda big before...well all of this." he smiled. It was a rare occasion when he wasnt immediately noticed and fangirled over but it was a welcomed one at that.

Harley smiled, "I saw you guys once about a month or so before...all this."

She was smiling and a little embarrassed that she was probably smiling a little too much. She remembered his band. They had been at one of the big clubs downtown and she had been with one of her friends and they had been dancing on tables having fun. She fervently hoped he didn't remember her antics that night. Sometimes Harley could get into interesting and sometimes embarrassing situations when with her friends.

"Oh my god, you were at that show. I have never had so much fun at a concert before." He flipped his shades back up.

"Some chick started dancing on the tables with her friends, really wish I'd got to meet her she seemed like such a cool girl. You didnt happen see that did you" He said as his smirk turned into hearty laugh.

Harley was glad that it was dark outside so he couldn't see how deeply she was blushing.The light was coming from one light on the outside of the bunker and Jae's fire flying and Harley couldn't see him very well except for the light hitting his eyes and she was grinning like and embarrassed fool. She fessed up. "Yeah well, in my defense that was when I had just gotten back from Europe and it was the first time I had been out since I had left more than a year before."

Mikey began to wipe the tears from his eyes as he laughed so hard. "Oh my god, Harley that has gotta be one of my favourite memories from that night. I wish you hadn't left so quick, i wanted to give you a free t-shirt and get your number."

He smirked again but now it was him feeling embarrased instead of her. "I still have some merch in my room if you'd like a signed shirt?" he asked in an attempt to break the silence.

Harley smiled and glanced up at Jae. "Sure, why not. That was a great night." Ryder nudged her hand and she realized that something was on the ground and was slithering towards them. She tilted her hand towards the rustling noise and a large snake went shooting back with the large rush of water. They could see it in the air.

Harley turned back to the others and said. "I just tossed a large snake you guys need to stay on your toes if you are staying out here. I'm going in." She waived at the small group and walked towards the bunker with Ryder and Mikey.

"So, why have you been so quiet since all of this?"

Mikey looked down towards the ground as he walked with Harley back to the bunker. "I've been looking after some of the equipment with the technicians, and in my spare time ive been practicing my guitar, wouldnt want to get rusty. Don't want the new world to be without some good music." he chuckled to himself. "You've not heard anything about the other bunkers have you by any chance" he asked, a sense of concern on his face.

"I know a couple of days ago a stranger showed up and said he was from another bunker and that theirs was attacked and all died. When I went back to ask him more questions he had taken off. I have no idea. The commander might have some way of knowing but we'd have to ask him."

Harley knew it was on everyone's mind. Were there others out there and if so where were they? Were they the last ones left? She hoped not. they were basically a large group of kids who had been brought up in the tech world and couldn't do too much without it. She wished she had paid more attention when her grandmother had canned food for the winter. She looked up and realized she had no idea where his room was.

"Looks like I'm following you. I have no idea where your room is. Mine is in the doubles now. The rooms are too small for a dog in the single rooms." She scratched Ryder's neck as she smiled at Mikey.

Mikey looked at a sign hanging in the middle of a walkway. His room was room zero-two-one on the singles corridor. "Well we have to cut through the cafeteria, im in room 021 in the singles corridor, just incase you want to come on down when your free any other time." He led Harley across the cafeteria and up to the door to his room. "Just give me two seconds to find my key, its a pain in the ass to get things outta skinny jeans." He joked as he rummaged for his keys. After spending a while looking for them he managed to finally get the door open. "Welcome to room 021 or as i like to call it home. " he laughed as he walked over to the cupboard where he kept his old band stuff. "feel free to make yourself at home while i find the shirts."

Harley smiled and patted Ryder on the head affectionately. "That's okay." She said plopping down on the bed and shrieking as Ryder jumped onto her knocking her backwards against the wall. "Umphfff, Oh, OWWW! Ryder that hurt!" Harley chuckled as the dog made himself comfy on her lap.

Mikey continued to rumage through his cupboard when he heard the slight thud against the wall and peered out to take a look at what had happened and chuckled slightly. "I take it you brought your friend here into the bunker before the whole fiasco with the end of the world and all that jazz?" He asked smirking before heading back into the cupboard.

"Actually, no. I used to live about a mile from here and I found this dog and I knew him from before. The commander healed him for me and said he could stay. He kinda makes the hurt just a little easier to bare." Harley hugged the dog who seemed genuinely happy to be there.

Mikey came back out from the cupboard grin still wide across his face. "Here we are, one of each of the shirts i had time to pick up." he said placing the pile of shirts on the bed, he reached over to stroke the dogs head. "Yeah, im sure he does help alot with keeping you company and all"

"I wish I knew more people from my past that survived. It appears that you and Ryder here are it." Harley glanced up at him and blushed a little bit. She remembered that night all too vividly. Her friend Sheryl had asked her to go out even though the other girls they usually went with had concert tickets to one of the biggest concerts of the summer and Harley had come back a little early and rather than let her friend stay home alone Sheryl sold her tickets to another friend and she grabbed Harley up and they went to a club downtown to celebrate her return.

Harley and Sheryl had been dancing on a table half drunk and fairly uninhibited. When Mikey's band came on stage Harley had immediately noticed Mikey. It was hard not to. He kinda stood out in her mind. The memory itself made her blush in the present. If what had happened next hadn't happened she was fairly certain that the musician would have made a point to speak to her.

Sheryl had been messing around and gotten herself into a situation and after she disappeared with some guy for a few minutes Harley had gone looking for her and found her sitting in a hallway near the bathrooms. The guy Sheryl had been kissing tried to get aggressive with her and after she repeatedly told him no and started to scream he backhanded her across the face knocking her to the floor. He had left seconds before Harley got to her friend.

Harley had gotten her friend to her feet and into the ladies room and helped her clean her face up. She was really bruised and half drunk and hysterical. Harley remembered calling for a cab and getting her friend into it and sending her home. She had called Sheryl's roommate and told her to keep a lookout for the cab.

When she had gone back inside the set was over and there had been another band playing. Her hopes had been dashed when she didn't see him anywhere. Harley had gone outside and started to walk home on her own.

Harley snapped back to the present and blushed to her toes for no apparent reason. Mikey was standing in front of her petting the dog. The single rooms were so small that he could only sit on the bed next to her or on the floor. Ryder jumped down and stretched out on the floor.

Mikey sat down on the bed next to Harley as the dog jumped to the floor. "Hey, dont ever lose hope. For all we know the other bunkers are still full and alive. We just have to believe. As long as we believe they're alive they will be." He said, thinking maybe to put his arm around her to comfort her. In the end he decided not to, as if she saw it as some sort of flirting and she didnt feel the same way then she could a hundred and ten percent kick his sorry ass.

"I hope you like the Shirts. They're limited edittion. The only ones in existence" He laughed, if they couldnt make fun of the end of the world then there would be no help for anyone to hold onto what makes them human, or whatever the new 'superpowered' humans were.

"So whats the deal with all you guys getting powers. I mean thats pretty cool huh? Like what can the others do, like of course you can control water. I mean your a guitar away from being a rockstar" he asked, kinda looking at her wondering if he had powers and didnt know about it.

Harley smiled and said, "I'm not losing hope. It's about all we have left." She hesitated and then asked him. "Thanks for the shirts...So that night...my friend got into trouble with some guy so I sent her home. I went back inside and your set was done and a new band was playing. Where did you guys go? I hung around for a few minutes before walking home." Harley wasnt' sure if she should tell him that or not but she did anyway.

Mikey hung his head silently. "We kinda got kicked out that night." he exclaimed.

"While playing our last song we saw some chick getting harrassed by some creep. Naturally i dropped my guitar and dove straight into the crowd. I punched the guy and broke his nose. We got kicked out after that they thought we just randomly started beating this guy up for no apparent reason. Scum of the earth. I'm sorry that your friend got into trouble, i wish i could have helped but we were a bit preoccupied." he told her.

"It's okay, I had just wondered if things had happened differently if....wait, Sheryl was hit by the creep she was kissing when she said no. I wonder if it was the same guy. Did he have dark brown hair and kind of a long nose and a denim jacket with an attitude?"

Mikey looked at her shocked, no way it could have been the same guy. "Yeah, he did actually. What the hell is his problem." Mikey was definately glad he had punched the guy now.

Harley smiled brightly. "At least he got what he deserved. Thank you for that. I'm sure Sheryl would have liked to have known that her pain was avenged." Harley's eyes darkened for just a moment as she thought about her friend and everyone else's demise. She put a happier expression on her face and she turned to look at him and she realized how close they were in the small room. She felt slightly awkward. At least he was a nice guy she thought. She was glad that she hadn't been attracted to a creep.

"I guess I should be going." She started to stand up to leave.

Mikey didnt know what to do in that moment, should he make a big gesture or should he let her walk away. "No" He shouted. "No, dont go. Not again." He grabbed her hand.

Harley was taken by surprise and she looked him in the eyes and she felt his hand around hers and she blushed a little. "Why do you want me to stay?"

"I lost the chance to try to be with you the first time, I'm not losing you again" He said, a tear running down his face.

Harley wondered what kind of impact she had on people but realized that finding someone that you thought you had lost was a very emotional thing. She wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. "I'm not going anywhere."

Mikey put his arms around her, and rested his head on hers. "Im glad" He said smiling.