[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/SR52k84p/54b4e63d635603b22d80f72a4ba2be54.png[/img][hr][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/aae8ce35e39c7a9c46daf8f3c2fc4c93/tumblr_inline_ph6yor0IB51qh6lt4_640.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Nallore][@Trainerblue192][@Achronum][@PatientBean][@Forsythe][@Blizz][@Kirah][@Natsu][hr][h3][color=AC3EFF][b]8:50 AM - Mon. November 29th, 2038 - Margaret Carter Institute[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr] 

[hider=Trick or Treat 2024][b]These tricks/treats go into effect when your character returns from Thanksgiving break[/b]

Leah - Treat - While everyone else had a parent or guardian that could be contacted, there was no one there to speak for Leah - something that the school, shockingly enough, hadn't even realized. In order to both tie up the legal loose end [i]and[/i] ensure the safety of a young child, She-Hulk stepped up and filed the documentation necessary, with Leah's okay, to become her legal guardian. Leah has now been given access to She-Hulk's Los Angeles apartment, where a room has been set up for her, as well as a card giving her access to the West Coast Avengers' mansion. Jen has also gotten a trust fund set up for Leah, where she will now be making regular deposits - being an Avenger doesn't pay well, but being a lawyer as well certainly doesn't hurt. 

Mary Sue - Trick - Mary Sue headed back to Cardiff over break, most likely hoping for something relaxing and uneventful. Instead, her grandfather sent his heralds to retrieve her father. The resulting fight was intense and bloody, Oliver ended up in the hospital in critical condition, and a scar across Mary Sue's left eye that rendered her partially blind. Her mother lost an arm, which will soon be replaced with a prosthetic. At least they won the battle. But Thanos is still out there, lurking. 

[b]Andy [/b]- Trick - Over Thanksgiving break, Andy will have had a hard time sleeping, bouts of insomnia that no medicine or magic seems to be able to dispel. The day before she is due to return to the Margaret Carter Institute, she'll finally get some much needed rest. However, when she wakes up, she finds herself in an abandoned building, a desiccated corpse at her feet, and wounds on her arms - as if someone had tried to fight her off. 

[b]Mads[/b] - Treat - Over the break, Mads went through a bit of a growth spurt! Her more demonic features came in and settled. She now has fanged teeth, a forked tongue, horns, a tail, and wings like those of a bat. With these wings, she now has the innate ability of flight. Her teeth are able to destroy most materials, save things like vibranium. Her tail is prehensile, so can be used to grab other objects and manipulate them. And her more monstrous form will give her advantage on intimidation checks.  

[b]Sabine [/b]- Treat - During the break, Sabine was plagued with strange, almost lucid dreams. In these dreams, she watched her mother as a young woman, striding confidently down the halls of a castle on the moon, a sword strapped to her side. She stood a few paces behind a tall man, with dark hair and a dramatic cloak, a crown on his head that indicated his station. Her mother seemed to be his bodyguard, following him wherever he went - from the scene of courtroom dramas to ghastly murders. No matter what Sabine did, no one noticed her in the dream. 

Until the last night, right before students were due to return to the Academy, when her mother would look directly at Sabine, and say: [i]"You are not your father's child, Sabine. You're his."[/i]

Zari - Trick - Zari and Andy have a great break, catching up with her parents in the alternate universe of Earth-667. Aside from Andy's issues, no trouble rears its head - until they get back to Earth-666, and Zari sees her time traveling device short out, reading a bunch of error messages that more or less amount to one thing... Earth-666, the universe our RP takes place in, is now cordoned off from the rest of the multiverse. No one can leave. No one can enter. 

Zelda - Trick - Even before the business with Arcade, Zelda has often felt herself to be invisible, blending in with the surroundings and never truly being noticed. Perhaps that is more true now than ever before, as over the break, she fell ill with a horrible fever. The fever nearly required hospitalization, and when it broke, her body seemed to be fading out of existence. Within a matter of hours, she had become completely invisible - and so far, she hasn't figured out a way to control this power and reappear. 

Dorian - Treat - For a living boy, Dorian shares a great deal in common with the dead - a fact that may endear him more to his Uncle Casper, or even his formerly dead father, Ben. Over the break, Dorian will discover another thing he has in common with ghosts - the ability to manipulate electromagnetism. He gains the ability to perform applications at the basic level per https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Electromagnetism_Manipulation 

Danni - During the break, Danni ended up wearing himself out one day, so incredibly tired as he went to sleep. So tired, in fact, that the scent of smoke didn't wake him. In the midst of a nightmare, his powers activated... and burned his house to the ground. No one was injured, thankfully, the adults had been out seeing a show - and while Max would be able to fix the house pretty quickly with magic, the memories don't fade, and the smell lingers. [/hider]

[@Forsythe]: Vicky would see that Cass saw the text, followed by an immediate frantic flurry of replies - 
[i]Omg???
Are you okay????
What's going on????
VICKY
CALL ME
VICKY
CALL ME NOW[/i]

And scarcely a moment later, Vicky would receive a call from Cass herself - should Vicky decline the call, Cass will immediately call back and try again. For the moment, she hasn't had her phone confiscated from her. And as Vicky is perhaps pondering what to do with her sister, as she gets into the CAGE van and it pulls away from the school, she'll see the flashing lights of the fire alarm going off at Stark Hall and hear the blaring sirens, as students begin to evacuate the building and head to the designated evac point.

[@Natsu][@BlueSky44][@Kirah]: Zari, Andy, Zelda, and Mary Sue were all doing different things and in different headspaces, but one thing is in common for them: they hear the fire alarms go off in the building, an irritating pulsing alarm with bright flashing lights. Students flood into the hallways, some of them still in PJs and evidently having skipped class for the day, with teachers and staff members urging for people to assemble on the field outside - the same field where many of our AA students met for the first time at the beginning of the year. But this is clearly not a drill - as the scent of smoke begins to pervade throughout the building.
[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=42A9FF]April Flynn[/color] & [color=ed1c24]Percy Novikov[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/d1723ee57b9df2da0b9489e9cee7a408/90f917e93b713a17-04/s400x600/d38c484659a7a81a4da2f137683399e7922fc1ea.gif[/img][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/6e/e9/fc6ee97291be7f014bd7c86399f42181.gif[/img][hr][b][color=42A9FF]Location:[/color][/b] Avengers' Academy - Outside Danni and Dorian's Room
[b]Skills:[/b] N/A
[hr][hr][/center]	April's phone buzzed twice - first with a text from Leah, and as she began to read it, a preview of the text message from Dorian came in. She screeched, almost dropping her phone in surprise, before frantically swiping over to open up the thread with Dori and Danni. She read the message at least five times, trying to think of [i]any[/i] possible way that message didn't say [i]exactly[/i] what she thought it did. Dorian had had [i]sex[/i]! With that tiny annoying freshman - with Percy! He had had sex! If she hadn't been spontaneously feeling better, this would have been enough to fully reset her brain, as she felt her thoughts stall and crash out. 

	Dorian had done it. 

	He'd actually fucking done it. 

	She knew that people their age had sex - she was almost certain her girlfriends had done it, with each other - but [i]Dorian?[/i] And [i]Percy?[/i] When they were having the weirdest meeting ever with Coulson, those two were...

	April's jaw had fully hit the floor. 

	Percy's jaw had hit the floor as well - for an entirely different reason. He'd recovered from his laughing fit, wiping the tears from his eyes, only to hear his sister say something completely inconceivable. [color=ed1c24]"A [i]slimer?[/i] You're seriously calling my boyfriend a [i]slimer[/i]?"[/color] Percy stressed, before his expression hardened. Diana was his sister, yes, and he did love her - but in this moment, he couldn't help but feel pissed. Not only had she walked in on them, but now she was calling his boyfriend a [i]slimer[/i] and acting like she had the moral high ground? He was furious with her - and like many siblings, when it came to a fight, he decided to go for the throat. [color=ed1c24]"If [i]that's[/i] what you thought was happening in there, then it's no wonder you're still single, sister dear. You'll do wonderful with your ten cats one day - I think they'll feel comfortable in the midst of a Peeping Tom."[/color]

	April gasped, her gaze switching back and forth from Dorian's text to Dorian to Diana to Dorian to Dorian's text to Percy - but before she could even process what was happening in front of her, she heard Danni's voice from down the hall - and felt the rush of heat as a fire exploded out from him. But instead of doing some cool tricks with the fire, or giving a short monologue, or screaming about the news that he had just received... There was something wrong. Danni was frozen in place, looking trapped. [color=42A9FF]"Danni!!"[/color] April screamed, as several things happened in quick succession - Sabine ran onto the scene with a fire extinguisher, doing her best to put out the fire but it was no use. She grabbed Danni though, starting to pull him out of there. Diana pulled the fire alarm. The sprinklers set off immediately, doing their very best to smother out the flames, but it was burning too hot, too fast - the extinguisher hadn't been enough somehow, and now neither were the sprinklers. 

	She threw her hands out in front of her, grabbing onto the water that was rushing to the sprinklers - and she dialed the pressure up, bursting the sprinkler heads off of them, and exposing just the openings for the pipes. A miniature waterfall of water came crashing down from the ceiling, and combined with Sabine's efforts with the extinguisher and Diana's with the sprinklers, the flames were [i]finally[/i] doused, leaving behind a gigantic blackened scorch mark, and the scent of smoke clinging to everyone's clothing, crawling down their lungs. 

	Sabine, Leah, Mads, and Diana wouldn't have much trouble breathing. But Dorian, Percy, Danni, and April would all find themselves coughing, struggling somewhat with the smoke inhalation. And of course, thanks to the sprinklers, they were all positively sopping wet, standing in the hallway as the alarms blared and students began to evacuate. 

	Percy coughed, the smoke immediately getting to him somewhat - despite his recent proximity to Danni, he wasn't usually around fire this much. He thought about teleporting out, but he didn't want to leave people behind - and after the marathon with Dorian, he didn't know if he even had it in him to teleport himself again. [color=ed1c24]"Congratulations, we tested the school's fire preparedness. We should leave now,"[/color] he mumbled, reaching for Dorian's hand as he located the nearest staircase - it wasn't too far. 

	[color=42A9FF]"Oh my god, Danni, are you okay?? Danni please say you're okay!! Danni!!![/color]

	Of course, one last thing had yet to happen - one final domino from this miniature inferno. 

	The dragon egg shook, as cracks began to form across its surface - and then, suddenly,[i] it hatched.[/i]