InfernoBlaze

The Supernovas

"First things first...if I am getting out of here, I am doing so in style..." he Jack replied to the General.

As if the General expected that answer, a soldier came in carrying a suit. Jack noticed he wasn't so happy, carrying on a civilian's clothes, while he was an experienced soldier, deducing from the few bullet wounds he could notice from the inside of his uniform. But he decided not to say anything to the unfortunate soldier, in regard of hurting his pride. Instead, he accepted the suit and simply smiled to the private. He checked the suit from top to bottom.

"Italian brand, certainly suits my tastes...I assume that there is no need for me to check for a bug in the suit, since if you were considerate enough to find out about my clothing tastes, you would have also checked that I would be thinking about checking the suit, so I assume it's clear. Now..." he said and paused, to change clothes.

He wore the suit, necktie and shoes and put his hands in the pockets to find, to his surprise, decks of cards. In the pocket at his chest was also his Jack of Spades card, to his relief.

With a swift motion, he lightly licked his hand and fixed his hair. The only thing that was amiss from his usual gentlemanly figure was the fact that he was unshaved, a thing he would take care of as soon as he got home. He then shook the General's hand and continued his phrase:

"Now, Mr. Stone, I think I am ready to take up your offer. But if we are going to take the fight to the Vitus, we are doing so seperately. Please assign your female agent to watching my team, she will also serve as the connection between me and you. I am returning home with my team and I am going to ask for some equipment eventually, but I am sure I can count on you for that. Well then, seeing as that is cleared, I am expecting you to call your boys off, while I am going to do the same with mine."

Then he left the room and rushed to the place where he heard the sounds of the fight that had broken out. He saw most of the soldiers backing off, apparently from the General's orders, but the female agent was literally single-handedly beating the members of the team, except from Jason, who was showing some promise against his opponent who surprisingly also had superpowers. Jack thought that she probably could not receive the order because of the noises of the battle.

"Well, what do you know..." he said with an almost surprised expression "...now, let's see if my little upgrade can calm down both sides."

He threw a card surrounded with a yellow aura instead of the usual red one, that, upon contact with the air gusts the girl produced, exploded, but instead of doing damage, it acted like a flashbang, blinding and deafening everyone inside the radius of the blast. The word "interesting" could be heard from Jack, but only to someone like Sky, due to the extremely low tone he said it. Jack stepped between the two sides, the girl and his team and said:

"I didn't expect you to throw a party without me, how incosiderate of you...by the way, you should try to get along better with your new roommate, the Wind-Girl here is most probably going to live with us from now on, so try and be nice to her!"

(I fast-forwared a bit so I could join the others Drakeonis, hope you don't mind...)

The Supernovas

Jack accepted the cigarette the General offered and lit it up with a match provided to him as well. He shaked the match to put out it's fire and took a deep sip of smoke, while listening to the General. He was blowing the smoke out when Mr. Stone asked him if he was ready to kill one of his own. He took another sip and then answered:

"I am a man who can take difficult choices, should the situation needs me to do so. I am not a murder Mr. Stone, but, should it be nescessary, I will do everything in my powers to incapatitate any threat...", he paused a little "...even if it is us."

The Supernovas

I'm here all right, just waiting for my convo with Drakeonis (as General Stone) to go on...I figured the pace would drop a bit, being August and all that. At least in my country we are having a really hot summer and everyone is on a holiday mood...Maybe the same applies to other fellow RPers...

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The RP pretty much died knighthawk...I had the bad luck to run on leavers...only you and Rennac would post every now and then..

The Supernovas

Jack sat on the chair before him and listened to the general's words carefully. He checked the chairs and, to his surprise, they were inorganic, thus allowing him to use his powers. However Jack didn't try to do so, instead being silent while the general was speaking.

"Sly bastard...He must have purposely brought inorganic chairs to see what course of action I would take. Apparently, he is much smarter than the average soldier. That means that every word I say and every action I take, might as well be the last."

Stone finished talking, making himself rather clear about his intentions. Jack took a couple of breaths and then replied:

"Mr Stone, with all due respect, I don't think that deadly force will get both sides anywhere. If we take on the facts and the events that occured thus far, I remember Vitus kidnapping people and attacking the planet effortesly, even in the army's presence, while a bunch of untrained civilians and most of them children I might add, took down a Vitus spaceship, along with it's crew while beat up and exhausted from experiments on them. My point is, if your deadly force as you called it, isn't enough to take a Vitus ship down, then I don't see how it can go against our team. However, I am not a stupid man myself. I am convinced that your team might as well be the best there is when it comes to global threats and I don't want either group, nor yours or mine, to have casualties, thinking that instead of fighting each other we should focus at the common enemy."

Jack took a couple more breaths and licked his dry mouth, before continuing

"You asked me if I could convince you to trust us...With just one of my men turning a whole city into a quarantine because of his radiaton, the answer is clearly no. I know that we are too dangerous to be left loose, but, right now, it's not me who should gamble on trying to convince you, it's you gambling on us. And if it's not enough for you, I think that the lady that was standing behind you could be the one monitoring my team and report back to you. She seems to despise us enough, making her the most objective judge, since she will not tolerate even the smallest misbehavior."

Jack's eyes shined as he said his last sentence.

"I promise you this Mr. Stone. If, in any case, even a single member of my team turns rogue, I will come myself to you and be arrested. This is as much as I can offer..."

The Supernovas

Frankly, I thought of escaping by using the cameras as objects for Jack to ignite (which apparently exist in the room, since the government monitors us), but I decided to keep him a little of out his game...It would make him more human :P

The Supernovas

Jack's new power manifested as a yellow aura surrounding his index finger. At first he was shocked, since he thought that they gained powers only once, but this turn of events proved that the powers they had were most probably in a primitive stage.

"We are still evolving...And that means more power for us, which is unsettling..." Jack thought, while still in his cell.

The commotion he heard before seemed to be a tad bit closer than before, making him think that it was most probably his team escaping. He rejected the idea of Allen going on rampage because, by now, the government would know better than still keeping them in their cells. So it should be Allen, or someone else escaping, but at least he was under control. What piqued his interest was how one or more of them could escape, since the rooms deprived them from their powers. For what he knew, he was powerless inside this organic prison, apparently making him the easiest target of them all, considering some, or all of the others escaped.

"Great...I am a sitting duck. For all I know, the others might not even find me. Or the government could try and kill me before I even had a chance to escape. Not that it would be useful to do so, considering I am not a powerhouse like Allen and Al." he thought.

He sighed. He wasn't even sure if he was to live for more than an hour. He sat down at one of the corners in the cells and remained there. It was the first time Jack felt helpless, without having a way out. He hugged his knees and whispered in a tone that only he could hear "I hope that at least the others will escape, even if I don't..."

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Guys?

The Supernovas

Jack was startled by some kind of commotion outside of his cell, but the sounds were dim, so he figured that it was in a relatively fair distance from where he was. He hypothesized that it had something to do with their group and was afraid that Allen may have lost control again, the worst possible scenario. He knew that they wouldn't be able to stop him without casualties and for what he knew, their team wasn't made from killers. His impatience grew, something rare, which triggered a change. He could feel energy passing through his index finger, albeit different from the one running through his thumb. He didn't know what it was, but he would eventually test it out, as he assumed and he hoped that if Allen went on rampage, it would help to stop him.

(Basically, I am asking for my first upgrade...I am waiting for your approval boss!)

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In any case, I can't accept such a powerful character...Sorry...