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Lex Luthor... of course! The son of the famous Lex Luthor, who was the son of the other famous Lex Luthor!!!
Mike had heard a lot about Alexander Luthor III and how he rebuilt the company and the main office. If he was anywhere near as evil as his grandfather, it was a good thing that Smoke was here.

Mike felt like such an idiot. He followed a guy called Lex into LexCorp and did not even make the connection until now. He wondered if it was all the pressure that he felt on him over the course of the day. He was so embarrassed and he wanted to just melt into nothing. But when he finally mustered up some common-sense and snapped back to reality, he realized that there was no way that a 20-something amateur magician and free-runner was going to get an appointment with Lex - and if he did, how would he find anything out while hiding the fact that he was suspicious of Lex? "Hello, Mr Luthor, are you evil? And who stole your device?" Back to the drawing board. He turned to leave, sulking as the receptionist called out after him.

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LexCorp. Mike stood in front of it and looked up at just how tall this monstrosity was. Fortunately it was only fairly early in the afternoon, so the offices were open.

Mike waltzed into the foyer and looked at how beautiful it all was. An international Fortune 500 company such as LexCorp can easily afford a grand foyer, but Mike never imagined it to this extent. Water features made up the entirety of the side walls, while a marble floor sparkled like an angel winking at him. A plaque to the original Lex Luthor descibed how instrumental he was in forming the world we know today, while avoiding well-known details regarding his malicious criminal activity and run-ins with the original Superman. The chandelier well above him basked in its' own size and splendour, and was a prominent feature of the room despite its' position in Mike's peripheral vision.

"Can I help you?"

The voice was intrusive but gentle, and was coming from the opposite wall of the room where a receptionist sat facing the door from behind a desk.
Mike had gotten so lost in the beauty of this vast foyer that he forgot the reason he came here. Some quick thinking accompanied by a scan for security measures suggested that deception would be futile in such a secure and well-monitored environment.

"Hey, I um... Hello. I'd like to know if there's someone, um, working here called 'Lex'?" Words were difficult as Mike stared at the receptionist's long eyelashes and ruby red lipstick.
"Do you maybe mean Lex Luthor," the receptionist asked without judgement, "the CEO?"
Everything suddenly clicked into place for Mike.

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Incredibly glad that none of the parties had spotted him during their conversation, Mike had been racing after the bald man that Batman had called "Lex". He seemed to be friendly enough to the beautiful girl "Zelene", but he was still an incredibly shady character. As he raced after Lex, a million thoughts were going through his head. Who was this goddess Zelene? Is she working with Batman? Are they an item? Who was Lex? How did Batman know him? Is he the bad guy, or just some weird smirky superhero? What was the contraption on the news story? Who was trying to steal the contraption? Who was the fancy-pants witch-bitch that made everyone disappear? Where did Batman and Zelene go when they started heading in the opposite direction? Will Smoke ever be recognized as a real superhero?

Despite the questions, Mike felt good about this. He knew that through all the training in magic school and the sprint training that he went through each day, he was probably the only non-superhuman in the city who was able to keep up. He didn't see anyone flying around, and there were no superhero-themed cars in the streets, so as far as he was concerned, he was the only one trailing Lex. This case was his.

Mike slowed to an almost walking pace as soon as Lex had entered the towering building ahead. He wandered down a fire escape and jumped the last floor, landing safely the ground. There were no cars around in this area, so Mike strolled casually across the road and up to the building.

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Thanks Zerofighter. Sorry about making noise about it, I just didn't know whether to edit mine or be trapped in this alternate reality until I work out a way to gain the power to get back :P

I also messaged you.

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OK, so let's retcon as a group.
What happened between Luthor's demonstration and now?

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Last time I left my hero, he was chasing Lex because apparently "Luthor flew back to his home" after his thingo didn't work.
I had written, "noticing that the dude from the TV seemed angry as he took off in his fancy metal suit, he decided to trail".

Next thing, he's having a friendly little chat with Velene and Batman when he'd already gone home in the story?
And he finishes by hopping into a limo?!

How does that work??? What does that mean for Mike - his tail???

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Mike, who had come down off the rooftops to get into the action, was too late. While racing across the skyline, he was distracted by the town square's plasma just below him. It was displaying the very explosion he had just witnessed, and the news story that followed drew all of his attention. By the time he had arrived, some magical bitch was talking jibberish and somehow making the crowd disappear. He stuck to the shadows as much as he could and, noticing that the dude from the TV seemed angry as he took off in his fancy metal suit, decided to trail as much as his sprinting speed would allow. This time I'll be the one on the scene, he thought. I'm not going to be the one trying to keep up any longer.

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Necrosis said
My character is going to start off by saying something no one will expect.

Suddenly in the story, "HAIL HYDRA!"

That made me laugh, after what you said here :P

arowne97 said
damn...we need a weakness? That means I can't be the son of deadpool....aw....

PhoenixEye9 said
You can, your weakness extreme immaturity and multi-personalityThough both can be a strength they are counted as weaknesses

Daddy issues would also be relevant because Deadpool would not take proper care of a child.

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Mike stood up from the edge of the rooftop and blinked his eyes several times as he tried to work out what was going on. He remembered doing his exercise, then... he felt something? Like the spider sense of the legendary Spiderman? He could remember feeling eyes on him. Many eyes. The street then went silent as the protest below came to a sudden halt, and some chick - an absolute babe - started talking to Batman before levitating into the air. I've got to learn how to do that one, he remembered thinking.

He stretched his limbs and admired the amazing view of the city that he had up here. He could see a huge portion of downtown, including the tiny cars on the roads below, the tinier people as they dumped their picket signs wherever and the tiny helicopter buzzing around one of the buildings in the distance. As he watched on, the building the helicopter now floated above abruptly emitted a fireball so small, that Mike would never have seen it if he wasn't already watching the helicopter. An EXPLOSION! Mike pulled his hoodie further down over his face. Finally, the world had asked for a superhero. But this time, that hero would be Smoke.

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Okay. Thank you Enso.