Luke Braxton - Atlanta, Georgia - Welcome to the Good Life
"WHOO HOO!!!!!!" Life was getting better and better for Luke everyday. It had been about three weeks since they'd gotten their powers, and two days since he found out he wasn't the only one with powers. Now he was paying far more attention to the news and the reports about people with "supposed" superhuman powers. He wondered when the world at large would start believing in powers, it would probably take someone drastic or stupid to expose their powers.
Shit Lucy shooting motherfuckers with lightning bolts and shit, I dunno how much I really did to help her but hopefully I had some sort of impact. After learning about Lucy's explanation he did what he could to help her, although he didn't tell her. He'd stopped by her job and worked some of his jedi mind tricks on her co-workers to get them to either forget about Lucy's predictions or just think it was a weird accident, and even commanded Vivian to be nicer if she ran into Lucy again. He'd also went out to some people to mentally persuade them to go on youtube and social media and be extremely dismissive of the video which showed Lucy blasting Kieran with lightning.
Something else he was beginning to understand, these powers were like a muscle, the more he worked them the stronger they got, and the more things he was learning. He had gotten his hands on the movie Chronicle watching it twice over the past two days while being very high, read up on some fictional characters with similar powers to his such as Professor X, Jean Grey, and Martian Manhunter, and watched a couple episodes of Young Justice, and X Men cartoons.
"Listen up! You want to help represent me for free, The Craig Braxton case, you believe he was unfairly discriminated against with his sentence because of being a minority, and want to take the case back to court. Come on.." Luke had used his telepathy on a high profile lawyer to get him to take up his offer to try to get a second hearing his brother's case, and he was determined to do everything it took to try to get his brother out of jail.
Other then that getting the legal system rolling for his brother, he'd also been doing some other things mainly with his powers. He knew he could move things with his mind, but he wanted to see what extent he could. With lots of marijuana, and prescription pain killers at his disposal playing with his powers fun. He'd been pushing his powers to see about trying to move himself through the air, so far he'd managed to perform some teleknetic super jumps as he'd labeled them, shoot objects away with force as well as pull them close, and form a sort of invisible field around himself and other objects the latter of which was becoming the most difficult of his current powers to deal with.
Perhaps one of the best parts of the past two days, was spending time with his favorite weather reporter Lucy. He was a bit disdained when she'd turned him down initially, but over the last two days they'd been spending more time together even going to grab the coffee. He couldn't help but feel himself catching feelings for her which is not something he wanted to do or at least not this quickly. Maybe it was just her powers, the fact that was independent and had her own career or a mixed bag of reasons.
Just thinking about her, made him feel happy which was huge considering all the craziness going on his life right now. He'd pretty much distanced himself from campus drug dealing, and made contact with his brother's connects. He'd gotten his hands on several ounces of marijuana, and decided to start selling exclusively to other dealers. With his mind reading powers he was confident in his ability to avoid serving a snitch or an informant, and the money was far more lucrative serving only other dealers. Speaking of lucrative, the business with his super powered criminal buddy Alan had been bundles of fun. Working with him and stealing a getaway car, being forced to rely on his telekentic power instead of his mental gymnastics had helped him gain more control over that aspect of his power and proved even more why Ford was useful to his team.
Over all, things were going great. Which brought him back to the present moment, he was living in a house with some single mother who was a semi popular author and former porn-star. After hearing some suggestive..thoughts from her..and pushing a thought of his own into her head it was easy to establish this as his second home. Amber Johnson was super fun, not to mention she still had connections in the porn industry. "WHOO HOO" Luke claimed as he snorted another line of cocaine and clapped his hands then slapped one of the girls ass. Needless to say, he was having a blast smoking fat blunts, snorting coke, & drinking Bombay & Lemonade with Amber and two other porn-stars. He'd been on a sex-drug binge for the past six hours, you know..typical to get carried on cocaine. Finally after satisfing himself again he collapsed into the bed and was breathing heavilly.
"Oh my god..."
"Hehe, Mr. Braxton tired already, I would have thought a strong...black man like yourself with all that yay could keep going." Amber teased as she leaned over to kiss Luke.
"Oh come on baby, I gotta take a break, your friends are mafucking wore out, you just a sex fiend girll." Luke said teasing her looking at the two other porn stars laying in bed tired, Luke said catching his breath and leaning over to the dresser to attend to the blunt he'd been in the middle of rolling before his latest round.
"You didn't seem to mind when you first came over Lukey, but how about this, you roll this blunt, and I'll go grab you another drink." Amber got up taking an empty glass by Luke and walking off taking her cup as well. Luke turned staring at her naked ass she walked away, as he finished packing the blunt, then licked it closed and sealed it. He took his lighter to dry the blunt, then took out some cocaine, and with his credit card seperated two more lines as Amber made her way back snatching up a rolled dollar bill to snort her line, with Luke doing the same before sparking the blunt and sipping his cup.
"Ahhhh....this is great..." Luke said kicking back in the bed and Amber just giggled putting her hands through Luke's hair. As he was smoking and passing the blunt to his older experienced friend, he saw his phone buzzing again. He sighed going to look through his messages. Tamara still bothering me....I mean we're cool...but shit I need a break right now, honestly I'm fucking with Lucy..ooh..yeah I'm suppose to go out get some steak with her..shit...I can't be smelling like pussy and weed...well...i can smell like gas..hmm..Jace..man..what this stupid ass ....stop bothering me..Tamra love to go crying to her brother..fuck is JAce gonna do to me now lmao,. Luke was relaxed yet his mind was racing as he drank some more of his mixed drink, and Amber passed the blunt back to him.
"Of course it's great who wouldn't want all of this." Amber said motioning towards her body, and giggling while Luke just rolled his eyes. "I know what you mean it's been sooo long since I could just be around someone soo chill..Lukey..like your different no judgement, just wanna fuck, smoke, talk..so many people just caught up with themselves and their problems."
"Heh..I'm not Dr. Phil..trust me..I just don't mind listening to shit you know..I like knowing what people thinking." Luke said as he hit the blunt again and again before coughing and passing it back. It was weird paranoia aside he always wanted to know what people were thinking even if he valued his thoughts the most, and know he could know what everyone was thinking. He knew when people were genuine, when they were fake, or anywhere in between and he loved it. His highs had been nothing short of exception once he really began to realize the implications this power had for him.
"That's why I like you kiddo" Amber said as Luke hit the blunt again, and went to kiss her blowing smoke into her lungs, then Amber took the blunt and did the same thing resulting in both of them coughing, and Luke just laughed as his eyes were extremly red, the mixture of cannabis, cocaine, and alcohol had him feeling a perfect high, only Lucy could make him feel better both the drug and the girl, who he wanted to be his girl..damn why was she always on his mind now.
A Little later Luke was groaning as he was dealing with some harassing text messages from Jace. Bruh why you do my sister like that? We cool bruh everything us and our bros been through but come on B..the fuck..wrong witchu come on!!! Bruhh!...wow you a hoe..fucking hoe! Imma smack yo bitch ass! On Sight, I know where you stay pussy! Luke was looking at the texts and pretty upset, he was extremly high, and thanks to drinking quite a bit the cocaine high was still going strong so he was more aggressive then usual and was getting tired of Jace harassing him especially now that he was super powered. He didn't want to leave Amber's house until it was time to go hang out with Lucy, but he had to go drop off two ounces of weed to someone right next to his apartment anyway. Look bruh, you want pull up, I will beat your ass, you not gonna disrepect me, yeah I fuck with Tamara, but I'm on a break, the pussy good, but it aint everything b i got shit to focus on so sit you stupid ass down.
Luke was agitated and then he decided to text Lucy back saying they were still on for later, and he just needed to handle some business. He'd told her he quit selling drugs which was true, basically what he was doing was more akin to trafficking. Ok it wasn't exactly a whole truth, but it was whatever. Luke went to his car, his new car, he'd mind controlled some rich guy into giving him his car. He got into his car, sprayed some blunt spray, and began driving towards his apartment. Normally he wouldn't drive drunk but with all the nose candy he'd done he didn't feel particularity intoxicated, and the weed was also elevating his confidence.
He relaxed in the car as he bumped some Playboi Carti blasting in his speakers. It wasn't long before he was in the parking lot, and reached into his glove compartment to grab the two ounces he had vacumn sealed, and opened his doors as the dealer he saw got into the car and dapped Luke up and handed him 400 dollars." Aye waddup Luke mayne, was popping B."
"Not shit bruh cooling cooling here, you already know Ion finess, if you want I'll come in and scale these hoes, up to you my dude." Luke said handing him the zips and the dealer shook his head.
"Naw fam you good on ya shit, I preciate it bruh, you on the come up huh out the lil boy leagues, shit I wanna do the same but sometimes breaking down these grams just addictive bruh, not to mention the bitches. Maaaan lemme tell you I had a bad ass thotty slop me up for a mafucking 2.5 B, shits wild." Luke couldn't help but laugh and shook his head. He had enjoyed slutty women like that before but now he was moving past that.
"Man that's some shit, be safe bro." Luke said and after a little more small talk, the dealer tucked the zips on his person and walked off, and Luke put the money in his wallet, which now had $2,000 dollars it felt good to get rid of two pounds in the past two days, being able to find dealers with the most money with his head was making business boom.
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"Naw Tamara I'm sure Luke just playing or busy or sum. You know he be up in the trap and shit tryna make it work." Jace said attempting to laugh, Tamara, his Auntie Keisha, and his mother where the three most important women in his life. If you messed with them it didn't matter if you were his best friend of five years, or the person who helped him with everything in his life that was a line he didn't want crossed.
"Jace you don't get it, Ion get it! This ain't no petty shit, I swear, Ion care about all these fools, but Luke different, we really clicked, he was sincere like..you know the history we had...all the shit I done for him..that he done for me.. Ion get it..it's like we just been drifting..is it me..I."
"Look Tam..just get some rest, trust me I'll go see wassup I gurantee you it's not you sis, just sleep it off, I know you not tryna smoke to prove a point to Luke but you might as well spark up I dropped some off at ya spot yesterday, chill." Jace talked to his sister for a little more then hung up. He was in his kitchen getting drunk again, and stopped. His life was spiraling out of control just when he was finally getting to another level of success. He had his own spot, he'd given back to his community, thanks to his publicity from the news his music career was picking up. But now he was starting to have feelings of guilt for all the people he killed despite how they'd uprooted him and his brother's life. Killing these people had been immensely satisfying, when he sat in jail one of the few things that kept him going where sitting around imagining these people dying.
But here he was, drinking Remy Martin and Hennesey every other day on top of smoking himself stupid. The weed was alright, he didn't consider himself a stoner he was just celebrating, hell the drinks were celebratory..at least at first. But there wasn't shit to celebrate right now, and wasn't anyone here to share his success. He sighed and downed another cup, he needed to be drunk. He needed to be drunk to deal with the nightmares, he needed to be drunk to push these bubbling thoughts of guilt away, hell he needed to be drunk to be high, right now the last thing he wanted to be was to leave his mind at the mercy of Mary Jane. She had a way of tickling his innermost thoughts, and making him really think about how he really felt about what he was doing unless he was significantly sauced.
He'd been trying to get in contact with Luke who kept blowing him off, and he'd been getting aggressive in texts the more he drank but now this was ridiculous. "Fuck this shit, stupid ass motherfucker. You going come at me like this, I'm finna beat yo ass bitch!" Jace was enraged at the way Luke had came at him, but more importantly the way he talked down on his sister. Even sober this would have sent him into a rage, but this was even worst. Jace grabbed a mask, tossed it on, and made his way out of his condo.
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Luke was just getting back to his apartment, and plopping down on his couch. He was thinking about buying another place, the drug business was becoming more profitable now that he was moving pounds of weed rather then grams. He'd had to cut off some people from campus, some people refused to listen to him. He was considering still dealing with his most financially well off clients as long as they were spending at least 200 dollars, but even then that was more risky then just dealing with other dealers.
It was almost time for him to hang out with Lucy, and that was the highlight of his day. He was done doing cocaine for the day, at least for now. He wanted to not be stimmed up when he linked up with Lucy, he didn't know how she felt about hard drugs, and honestly didn't wan tto know. As Long as he had weed, her, and money he was happy. Luke opted to smoke out of his bong rather then rolling up again, wanting some long hardy rips to his lungs.
The best part about cocaine was how powerful the rips he could take where without hurting his chest too much. "God this is awesome." Luke decided to go on his TV, and go to netflix he wanted to catch up to where he was at in the Gotham series." Man this shit is fucking raw like."
HOLY SHIT ITS ABOUT TO HIT HIS APARTMENT! Luke heard a thought that was filled with danger, and many other, and gripping his bong as if be instinct he propelled himself to the door, opening it and running out right as an SUV flew into his apartment bursting through his wall and into his neighbors wall hitting them. "What the fuck!!!?" Luke was shocked, eyes blood shot, bong in hand as he watched an SUV fly through his apartment.
Luke could hear several thoughts outside, and he wondered what the hell happened." You wanna talk shit bitch." Luke turned to see a man in his mask walking over to him, and Luke frowned then hearing some of his thoughts stepped back." Jace..what the fuck.." Luke was confused and wanted to use his power to move his bong safely to his room but didn't want to expose his power to Jace of all people. "Bruh I don't have time, a fucking SUV just flew into my apartment, tore thorugh half that shit like."
"Oh like some strong ass motherfucker fucked yo shit up? You been following the news bruh, I know yo ass do. You ain't noticed the reports of that super dude out there fucking people up, fucking up 12, remember that bitch Ebony who put the feds on me and Devon, who got ya brother caught up, how she got ripped up." Jace punched a hole in the concrete and Luke's eyes widened. "Yeah B..that's ya boy..here..that SUV that's me."
Oh hell no...this motherfucker has powers..god damn! I don't need this, if I would have known he could do some shit. "Bruh look we can talk this out, I ain't mean that shit about Tammy..I'm just going through some shit man, she been on my ass about the trap and shit man look, not to mention I'm off the yay, the drank, the gas, the.."
"I don't give a fuck if you smoked a fat ass blunt of gorilla glue dipped in PCP, and sprinkled with crack, you DO NOT talk about my sis like that, now you wanna be all apologetic cause I'm fucking Superman naw I'm finna beat yo ass all across the city. After I'm done Tamara ain't gonna wanna fuck you scrawny ass no more, Imma break that bong upside your head, you stay talking about superior, get ready for this superior ass whooping mother-fucker."
I can't even do this I can't...fight him out here.. damn it..hol up I'm tripping.. "Ebough of this bitch, I'm finna set you straight right now. Calm the fuck down, go fuck yourself"! Luke barked shooting a telepathic command at Jace who was nearing then stopped to look at Jace as if he was about to just go outside and jerk himself off in public but growled with rage, and screamed and his muscles bulged and the ground beneath him began to crack.
"YOU AIn'T GONNA TELL ME SHIT!!!!!!!" Jace charged forward, and Luke dodged him using his power to move his bong to safety, even though that shouldn't have been a priority.
Jace slammed into a wall bursting into Shannon's room. She screamed as the super strong man burst into her apartment, Jace grabbed her kitchen coutner tore part of it off and tossed it at Luke, who once again dodged it." Oh you think you can keep on running dumb ass I'mma fuck you up."
That should have worked, why the fuck didn't he..get controlled..what the fuck he was literally about to go fuck off..fuck it. Jace charged Luke and he used his power to use a blast of telekentic force to blast Jace through walls. Luke looked at his hand and shocked at the force he sent off. Jace was up and running grabbing Luke and tossing him into a wall causing Luke to scream as he hit the wall with force.
"LUKE!" Shannon yelled in the distance and Jace grabbed some rubble and tossed it at Shannon. Luke used his power to stop the rubble right before it hit her then it hit the ground and Jace raise dan eyebrow.
"Oh that's why you big and mighty, you one of them motherfuckers, but yo little pussy tricks ain't going stop me." Jace stepped forward slamming his foot on the ground causing it to cave in and Luke yelled as the floor beneath him fell. He could hear thoughts of panic beneath him, and Luke forced himself to generate a shield over the people beneath him a family of three to save their lives frmo the rubble and Jace landed among the rubble and Luke hit the rubble in pain as he'd used his shield to save the family and not himself.
"JACE what the fuck is wrong with you."
"YOU BITCH" Jace rushed towards Luke and threw him through the window and outside to his death. Luke screamed as he flew out of ohis building and summoned a shield around himself as he fell several stories and landed on a suv crushing it. People gathered around as Jace walked to the edge of the hole he created, and put on his mask then jumped out of the building and landed on the sidewalk causing a crater to appear on the ground as he landed." WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE LOOKING AT GET THE FUCK AWAY" Jace yelled as he grabbed a parked car and threw it towards the crowd.
The car soared forward and was about to hit two little kids when Luke shot up stopping the car right before it hit the kids and lowered it to the ground." WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! Your the crazy ass mothefucker killing all these damn people! I get it shit went left, Devon got fucked up, the judge was racist, maybe even the cop, but you leaving behind bodies of people that don't matter, your thought process is thoruhgly fucked B! You let this shit get your head."
"Don't tell me shit." Jace rushed forward and wentto hit Luke only for Luke to punch Jace and send him flying into a car. Luke looked at his fist with surprise he didn't have super strength, no. I did it...I can simulate super strength..finally..holy shit..how did..I.. People were running while some got cameras. Luke didn't want to be out in the open like this, and raised his hand.
"IF YOUR RECORDIG THIS DELETE IT, IF YOUR WATCHING THIS YOU AINT SEE SHIT RUN AWAY, bunch of TERRORISTS attacking." Luke yelled using more force then he ever had in telepathy and the entire group of people around where deleting footage and running. Luke felt exhilerated at this level of power he had, only to not notice Jace had charged him like a rhino body slamming him sending him into the sky. Luke formed another shield as he flew into a nearby Popeyes that wasn't yet open.
Jace came in kicking the door open." This where it ends bitch." Jace ripped a table from the ground and threw it at Luke who sent forth a teleknetic blast shattering the table, then he blasted Jace back, and focused on himself summoning mental energy all around him and stepped forward. Jace rushed forward kicking Luke back only for Luke to punch him in the head, and they began trading super human blows tearing up the restaraunt. Jace finally kicked Luke back into the coutner tearing through it. Jace stepped forward, and Luke raised his hand screaming as he focused on Jace's mind going into his head, and then causing Jace to fall to the ground in pain as he began causing the hellish nightmares he'd been having to begin reappearing in his head in full. Luke didn't even know what he was doing or how he was able to reach into Jace's memories, but kept pushing, repeating the memories ovr and over making the hyper realistic dreams of Jace suffering in hell, seeing his family die, and other things torment him in the store, as Luke walked over to him puching him in the face then kicking him to the ground and starting to beat him down.
"CALM THE FUCK DOWN! You stupid shit, you think you superior, no I AM SUPERIOR just like always you stupid little." Just as Luke went for the last punch to bring Jace down he screamed and he felt a surge of power, and Luke felt weaker as his punch was intercepted.
"You ain't superior to shit." Jace screamed as he pulled Luke to the ground then raised his leg and kicked Luke in the head causing him to to scream, then he punched Luke and flipped him over smacking him in the face then getting up and starting to violently kick Luke repeatly in the skull and body as Luke screamed feeling himself get weaker as Jace began to beat down on him, before a blow penetrated his shield and it shattered and Luke flew out the window into the parking lot. Jace stepped outside just as sirens were blaring and police cruisers were coming. Luke seemd battered and beaten as Jace went forward grabbing Luke by his neck and surprinsgly pushing him with ease causing him to fly backwards and hit the cement on his back causing a sickening noise to be heard and him to cough up blood. What the fuck one minute he was blocking my shit..then a lil push knocks this bitch aside...
"Piece of shit, 12 on the way huh, fine, I ain't going to end you just yet, I want you to know you ain't shit." Jace walked over to Luke who was struggling to stay conscious and lifted him up and Luke groaned struggling to summon power to blast Jace back but couldn't muster any and Jace slammed him into the ground again causing him to yell in pain, and Jace shook his head." Pussy." Jace walked over to the street seeing two vehicles abandoned by fleeing civilians and tossed them both at Luke's apartment the first one missing and flying through his other neighors room, then the other flying into Luke's apartment tearing through it again." Bingo." Jace grinned then super leaped away as police cruisers were piling into the area, and Luke was bleeding as he took out his phone to text Lucy struggling as he felt some of his fingers were bent.
Lucy...I think our dinner..going be cancelled...that super strong dude on the news...I know him...he just fucked up my apartment, he almost killed some people around here..I stopped him....from that at least..this guy's nuts.. I know... Luke pressed send which hurt his fingers, and he tried to text again. Stay away from this dude..he's fucking strong..no idea what his power is..I.. Luke felt more blood flowing from him and with all the drugs in his system this wasn't good for his heart. Luke's fingers hurt but he sent the incomplete message with his power passing out as an ambulance pulled up near him, and cops were scouring the area to see what happened. I hope Lucy stays safe. The last thought in Luke's head as he passed out, and paramedics rushed over to him.