RumikoOhara

Trinity City of Heroes

Recuriting Heros Needed

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This is a world where Superman is a never was, Spiderman is a gadgeteer with a cool toy collection; more like Batman with a touch of Tony Stark. The strongest Gamma (They call us Gamma) I ever heard of could lift like 20 tons if he was standing on a reinforced surface, something to do with load per square. Try lifting 5 tons on a beach and you’ll sink to your knees or hips before you get it over head. Fliers we have our problems as well, you need to have the power to go fast, make atmosphere, eyesight, and well it's fun till you fly close to a chopper.

..Did I forget to mention that we have powers but not all that powerful, but thats mechanics

“How did we the people of Earthe get our powers?”……. It all started at a lovely little place both our timelines share

TRINITY

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"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
- Robert Oppenheimer -

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Welcome to Trinity City, a city of Heroes and where you’ve always lived or come driven by fate. I know that sounds hokey but its true if you’re a Gamma, think L.A., New York, London, Tokyo, or your country’s city of dreams.

There are 22 million souls living in a city built in the area that was once the Trinity Test Site and where this all started July 16, 1945 in the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Deadman) Desert.

Things could have remained quiet as they did on your world but on Earthe 3 years later Transemium a new crystal that could hold enormous amounts of potential energy making electric cars and planes reality was found by a White sands Air Force unit out picking up pieces of test materials blasted by a test of a dam nuke howitzer.

The story is long and boring who and how it was discovered but the new crystal caused a huge rush when it’s potential was revealed by accident to the public at large. Well for the first two years of the Rush Trinity sprang up near the mines which were thought to be the only source of the energy crystals, but you already know how that went bust when it was revealed they were now all over the Earthe and all you needed to find a deposit was to wave a fluorescent light tube around till it glowed.

Still Trinity had the Edge because it was where the first crystal labs were established and the Biggest Fish in that pond Wonderworks “Where Impossible is just another word” started. They were ahead of everybody and it was because of Norwegian born Kel Randolph the Gamma age’s Edison and Einstein in one package and he turned out to be a Gamma...one of the first.

GAMMA

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Gamma were in the beginning known only to a select few world wide by 1948-49 then he showed up “Celestial” he called himself and he could fly or make other things fly; a talent he demonstrated on Live TV when a freak storm blew the Dumbo Macy’s parade balloon into the air with 5 boys who’d received the honor of joining the 30 man crew and had refused to let go too late as it sailed up striking the 14th floor of a skyrise throwing the boys into the 10th knocking all but one lose to plummet to their deaths.

Long story short “Celestial” caught the falling boys and floated them to the pavement safe and sound then grabbed 3 towlines and pulled the runaway back down to its handlers and saved the day while blowing the secret.

In two months you could count known Gamma on both hands but 2 years later Gamma numbered in the 100’s worldwide.

Here it is 2018 and Gamma are born to HS to HS (Homo Sapiens) in every 1 in 250,000 births - Gamma to HS 1 in 232,000 - Gamma to Gamma 1 in 217,000 meaning they think there are maybe 3 or 4 million Gamma worldwide.

The World

This world is based loosely on the Aberrant world (Very Loosely) because I’d like to keep things as simple as possible. I want to limit the upper levels of power in the beginning at least as far as the PC’s are concerned so that people are at least on the same power point levels.

The biggest point I want to make is there are no Supers below the age of 17 and if you want me to bore you I can write some pseudo science sounding reason why that is so but in reality it is because 10 year olds hanging out with adults is creepy.

As I pointed out in the first post the eruption of Gammas began shortly after the first Atomic bomb tests. In the beginning it was a trickle of Gamma but as the world powers took a bit of time to catch on to the fact that bomb testing was part of the cause of people being granted the power of Demi Gods so by 1962 the number of new Gamma was 1,500 worldwide and by 1975 4,000+ which caused the powers that be a great deal of concern and forced the Zurich Accords which argued on many points but the one that concerned Gamma the most was “Do Gamma Have the same rights as everyone else?”

Trinity

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Trinity City of Heroes

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Friction

Everything was on schedule even the dumbass curious law dog who popped up when he wasn’t wanted and one of the goons thought they could violate a contract in front of Cypress by trying to kill the guy. Cypress didn’t do snuff; it carried too much weight so she made the moron’s footing too slick for footing.

Then as she started to snatch the law boy up and render his tattletale (Life monitor) harmless the Mindo brothers got angry with her and Acid tried to smoke her and the cop; he shouldn’t have tried that one.

Cypress was the best at what she did and what she did was mercwork and she’d taken more than a few Gamma gangers down for the right price so when Frank’s scalding mist sprayed it found no target but the far wall. Friction had the cop by the collar and was flinging him out into the street when Willy went hyper right into Ghoster before the intangible Mindo could go ghost.

They had picked the worst ground outside of an Ice rink to challenge the Mistress of friction, the bank was covered floor and walls in polished marble. The law boy hit the panic button on his tattletale sending a Gamma alert that would have the trinity Nabs on her and the morons in the bank probably as fast as they could fix and gate a wrecking crew in.

Discretion the better half Cypress ditched the gang to their fates and hit the lock down as she sped out the doors and hit the street.

Like a speed skater she headed up the main boulevard weaving in and out of the traffic as she went through her options.

Con: The street peaks had her and the Trinity Nabs were running her through the recognizer and would have her calibrated in under a minute.

Con: Once her profile was Tagged they would have their Tactical squints on her formulating a plan to hem her in and slow her down as they assembled the appropriate assets to take her out; 3 minutes tops.

It was a rotten window but it was all she had so she moved to the Pro section of her tactics.

Pro: She wasn’t an easy target and as adaptable to the shitshow as there was.

Then she spotted it, a Law Bike and by it’s looks one of the older models which might meant she could pull the radio and disable the killswitch and increase her escape speed so she could try something really insane; good thing she’d been practicing holding her breath.
She skidded to a stop right beside the bike and dumped the Law boy off while she jerked the radio out in less than 3 seconds.

She was off and headed to Trinity Ramp and airport the bike performing as that Gadgeteer a WW never thought it would. It’s traction was perfect, it wasn’t affect by air drag as it moved at angles and vectors that were impossible even for those new spinners bikes.

Her memory was perfect as her internal map drew her path which was purposely erratic so the squints couldn’t glom in on her real plan and if her luck held would think she was just trying to hit the dry lake bed and fly across it in a futile escape.

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The Sundeck

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All Call!, All Call!

Squawked the radio’s of all law enforcement notifying them that unless they were presently engaged in “Life or Death” to stand by for orders from the higher ups.

Wendy perked up hearing the All Call knowing it meant Gamma level trouble so she tapped her wrist activating her Holo assistant and asked it to Ident the Call

Four Gama caught in Robbery at the Trinity Federal 1 presently eluding police and Gamma apprehension teams on GM Zephyr r90 municipal present speed 375 mph location Storm drain 72 west. Ident is Callsign Friction Alpha level Ability Friction and Vector control augment positive Probability present Odds of Capture 87% and steady

Wendy looked at her wrist thinking her assistant was faulting because the top speed of a r90 was only 125 till she added the floating zero resistance bearings optimized and the bike’s drag coefficient most likely zero as well. Normally that would mean the machine could only do 375 / 435 mph in a straight line till you added tires that don’t slip and velocity vectoring control.

”She must have an eidetic memory” she said out loud then sighed looking at Kat

”Looks like this day is filled with excitement...maybe we should head to the Pulse tonight to keep the ball rolling?” she said to the puppeteer

X-Men: The New Era

@Almalthia@BoyMom69035

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Me and the peeps down by the schoolyard

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Api’s Theme

Api was mildly embarrassed by the observation of Sally who drew attention to focus on his solitude

"Well, Gunnar, I'm quite certain you'll be able to find someone here. I mean, look at all these beauties,"

And that he was surrounded by pretty women.

It made it sound as if he were desperate for a girlfriend, not that he didn’t think such would be nice it was not his focus at this point in life.

”Thank you Sally, please call me Api, all my friends call me Api; it means The Monkey in my language. My Mother and my Uncle were the first to call me that because I felt I must climb everything that could be climbed. Then my mates at school picked it up and it stuck and I don’t mind because I admire the acrobatics of the tailed simians.

As for the need to have a girl on my arm I must confess it was because of my size and the fact I grew up beside all the girls my age in my village I never really tried”

Then Api turn his playful grin on Una adding

”I have been accused of being a flirt but in actuality I was just trying to make people smile; I love when women smile and boys my age back home used to treat me as if i were their younger brother even after I demonstrated I was as strong as any of them. I thought it was because of all the practice on the rings and bars but they tell me since coming here that my power has condensed me like any person would be condensed under constant pressure of two gravities.

I weigh 78 kilos.”

Then he seemed to have a light appear in his eyes as he turned back to Sally

”You are a telekinetic; our powers could most assuredly combine in a beneficial manner.

I can focus an object into a Zed state so that Newton’s second law is your starting point of your power to move it Sally.”

@KatKook@webboysurf@Draven

X-Men: The New Era

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Me and the peeps down by the schoolyard

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Api’s Theme

So Una was an outrageous flirt and she was worried about her ability as an illusionist because she didn’t have it under control yet and it had proven dangerous. He could understand it because his control sometimes slipped in his sleep causing havoc and crushing two beds flat as if an elephant had slept with him. She was so obviously single because she hadn’t mentioned a lover by name and mentioned being worried if a girlfriend or boyfriend coming after her. She was almost 16 and from the California city of San Diego; oh and adopted. Likely an only child as well because in the mention of her loss of control that affected her parents she mentioned no siblings.

“So Nik started this off, Sally's had her go and D's gone. Khloe and Api your turn. Anyone know who that is?” She pointed out his roommate Joey asking who he was. “Didn’t know clothing was optional.”

”That’s my roommate Joey though I am at loss why he is so underdressed” said Api perhaps a bit too quietly as he pondered the why.

Next to introduce herself was the Asian woman who introduced herself as Khloe Jeon and from LA but spoke of going to Chaewon, South Korea to become an idol, dream that didn’t work out much like his olympic dreams. That she was a Bisexual, single and 20 years old. She had tried Parkour at a very young age but was willing to help Una with Calculus.

Then she demonstrated that she was like Elsa of the Frozen movie by Disney, a Cryokinetic.

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Time to step up and be noticed

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That left himself it seemed so without pause he stood on the branch and stepped off and slowly drifted to the ground as he diminished the effect of gravity on his person to 10% landing with the soft touch of a balloon blow up with just air.

Bowing slightly he fixed them all with a grin before saying

”I am Gunnar Grimsson and I come from the West Region of Iceland the village of Borgarnes a little seaside village that is on the Borgarfjörður peninsula and considered a gateway to the Snaefellsnes National Park one of the most beautiful and remote landscapes anyone ever beheld.

I have only my mother is Eva Hekladottir the regional Chief of police, and my Uncle Helmud Kristiforsson the Captain of the Grettir a fishing boat 40 meters in length and deserving its name which means the Strong.

My relationship status is none, I have never been more than a friend to any of the girls back home.

I have never done Parkour but my training as a gymnast might help me make up for any lack I might suffer.

I was 1st in my school and 55th nationally in graduation rank and am 17 years old.

My power is Gravity Manipulation and so far I cannot manage flight as the villian with the same ability Graviton could but I can manipulate the force of gravity enough to make myself, people or objects lighter or heavier; I managed to lift my mother’s Volvo V90 over my head and set it down without harm to it or myself.

If any of my schoolmates need my help they need only ask

Then he finished and waited to see if they had any more questions for one another or himself.

X-Men: The New Era

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Me and the peeps down by the schoolyard

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Api’s Theme

Api thought about Una’s questions.

Powers? He was told he was a Gravitic Primary which made sense though before he’d thought himself like Sally a Telekinetic; in a strange way they were similar if you didn’t know the details.

Where was he from was easy but would they want to just know he was from Borgarnes a little seaside village that was on the Borgarfjörður peninsula and considered a gateway to the Snaefellsnes National Park one of the most beautiful and remote landscapes anyone ever beheld.

Relationship was also easy because while he was popular with many of the girls back home he was in what Americans called the friend zone; meaning he was single and had always been single.

Parkour was a sport he’d heard of but in his small village there was little in the way of suburban sprawl but if it could be applied to the wild terrain of his home landscape and how he’d gotten the keening Api to describe how he bounced across rocks, ice and crevasse like some crazed monkey he had.

But it was he final question that made his ears twitch, she had asked for help with Math, particularly Calculus a difficult form. As an only child of the head of the local Lögreglan (police) he’d been very dutiful in his studies so as not to cause her embarrassment so he was 1st in his school and 55th nationally in graduation.

He had helped many of his fellows back home with various subject both junior and senior to himself a required social custom in a school of an average student population of 65 with 5 teachers.

He thought about answering her question but politely waited for the others both from a standpoint of manners and knowing their answers might him him understand them better if he just listened.

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School Daze Flash Back

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”Gunnar” Called his Math instructor Jarl ”Please attend to the ones having difficulty with Trigonometry” the elder asked with a smile.

”Yes Jarl” Api answered but when he sat with those two years his junior he noticed he was still the shortest but in his way cast such troubles aside and began helping.

When the bell rang later and they were all putting things away Gerta a lovely girl whom he’d been teaching Trig came up and blushing asked ”Api some of the others told me that your father was one of the Hidden people; is this true?

Api suppressed a giggle and thought should he be playful or truthful with Gerta a girl from Sauðárkrókur far to the north.

Being playful might mean he’d get to be the reason she laughed, he’d heard the Straw haired girl laugh and perhaps smile at him so he settled for playful.

Reaching out he touched her shoulder as he looked around like he was making sure no one was close by and listening.

”Careful Gerta there are those who know not who I am, many my father’s own; Luckily I see none near.

Then he leaned very close enjoying the scent of her hair and the warmth she gave off.

”My father is from Skaftafell; Svartifoss (The Black Waterfall) forced to flee by those that covented his treasure a spell of the evernoon” he whispered then looked around himself with a worried expression.

Then silently he moved the two of them out of the classroom the wide eyed Gerta following. Had he evil intent how he could have taken advantage of her but it wasn’t his way. When they were secluded and completely alone he drew her close and whispered.

”You should be careful of what people tell you dóttir of the Sun, believing everything you hear could have the trolls steal you away”

It took her a few moments but then she remembered the story of the gullible girl and at first thought of being angry her green eyes flashing then she realised her fellows had had a jest with her and Api the monkey and laughed saying

”You are as clever as I was told Api, I was lead by the nose on that one” then she kissed his cheek calling him Gunnar Grimsson as she left and hurried home.

X-Men: The New Era

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Me and the peeps down by the schoolyard

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Api’s Theme

Api had to process the statement made by Drake that “This place was a Trip” possed in the form of a question quickly finding references in his memory of American movies meaning Drake was confused by all the things going on around him and his position here.

Then while weighing his response another American guy came up reminding him of the youthful appearance of a mobster in one of the other genre of movies he’d seen.

"Didn't realize we were all having a party in the courtyard after classes, you should have invited me." he said as he climbed up and sat on the back of a nearby bench.

"Name's Nikolai, pleasure to meet everyone. Friends called me Nik back home, but my family called me Cole. I'm good with whatever." he said introducing himself placing his potential ethnicity as Eastern European; Ukrainian or Russian maybe.

Things were moving so quickly around Api he was forced to adjust his response once more and the bubbly energy of Una and the fact she was shorter than he causing him a bit of confusion but he’d been told by the staff here mingling was today's task and he didn’t want people to take him wrongly; he hoped Wild names was a good thing.

He was rescued from any potential social crime by the appearance of a beautiful Asian girl who who was dressed like some of the girls from K-pop and made him think she might also be Korean but the certainty was low as she was the first Asian girl he’d ever met.

"Hi, I'm Khloe, I'm not really sure how American culture goes, but I definitely got the language down." she said introducing herself admitting in her statement she wasn’t American her attitude playful.

Patience a virtue Api decided to see where all this was going and was rewarded with another red beauty with blue eyes who showed a slight edge of nervousness in her approach; a worry few beautiful women should have.

"Hi guys," she said pushing sunglasses into her hair above her forehead

Then in a display of excellent memory she addressed them all by name "Nik, Drake, Uná, Api... And Khloe." adding at the end that her name was Sally.

Api was listening to the others introduce themselves when Una said
“Very nice to meet you Api. Cute accent. Nice handspring round off. Gymnast or cheerleading?” to him then turned to another before he could answer; she was like a butterfly in a field of flowers.

“So there’s this thing about me that you might want to know. I’m nosy and I normally get what I want in the form of answers at least. My mother says I’d be a great interrogator. Apparently I’m a question everything person.” then to prove her point she fires of a series of question addressed to everyone.

Used to being in the background till directly addressed Api leapt to a branch of a nearby tree 10 feet off the ground and had a seat to listen to the answers posed by Una before answer his.

X-Men: The New Era

@ShieldsOfWar@Burning Kitty@Almalthia@Lord Wraith@KatKook@BoyMom69035@Draven@webboysurf

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Welcome to the City of Angels

Prologue

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Api’s Theme

Gunnar stepped off the Delta jet and looked around with his typical knowing smile having satisfied himself while in the air that his english was very good and that his accent was described by the stewardess and steward as cute. It had been a worry of his since the people had visited his mother and he offering him a scholarship to a place called Ashford Institute that while his grades in english were good his grasp of the language only good for school.

To give himself a better grasp of the working language he’d tuned into the BBC and listened as well as observed english in action and practiced his pacing by re-running shows till he’d been at least sure he would be understood. His friends all thought he should have just stayed home in Iceland and perhaps gone to college with them in England or Denmark but they had never wakened in the air with all their possessions drifting around them or crushed their beds flat like they’d dropped a rock on it.

No it was better he learn here at Ashford then perhaps college maybe in America before returning home to be his country’s protector; maybe even as an officer of the Lögregla or the Víkingasveitin (The Viking Squad) officially called Sérsveit ríkislögreglustjórans (Special Unit of the National Police Commissioner), Iceland’s elite counter-terrorism unit; or maybe a fisherman. He was as usual adaptable in his desires already having his dream of representing Iceland in the Olympics canceled by his exposure as a mutant which he was sure would have shown up as soon as he stepped on the scales for the weigh-in physical.

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Shaking off what was sure to be a bout of homesickness Gunnar fell in line with the others who walked through the international terminal towards customs where after presenting his Passport, Papers, and answering a slew of questions he soon found himself in the “Food Court” drawn there by the smell of food and his protesting stomach.

Never had he seen so many choices of victuals to slake his hunger. There was Mcdonalds, Burger King, Chick Fil A, Chinese, Japanese, Del Taco, and several others. A lover of fish he followed his nose and then his eyes to a place just off the food court that served a better offering than fast food ordering two servings of Salmon grilled with lemon and butter and a nice selection of veggies and rice on the side.

He could tell he did something wrong when he left the table and saw his social flaw when an American man left extra money on the table so he used his phone to ask why it was done and was surprised to find it was a custom expected because the owner of the restaurant didn’t pay the servers their proper wage. So even though it made him blush in embarrassment he sought his waitress when she wasn’t busy and handed her $10 apologizing that he’d not known she was paid so little for her hard work.

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When he stepped out of the terminal he asked his phone

”Leita að bestu aðferð til að ná til Ashford Institute”
(Search best method to reach Ashford Institute)

”Spyrðu aðstoðarmanns á Taxi Stand til að kalla á Taxi eða Limoscene” it answered back even providing him directions to the stand

As he walked to the stand he looked at his Samsung thinking he’d need to switch carriers from Siminn to the American service that had the best record of coverage; hopefully his fellow students at Ashford could help.

He saw the attendant was busy so he waited then once the man had finished he started to step forward when a large woman and man pushed past him taking his position in the que in a display of rudeness that was unheard of back home. So thinking they were a fluke he waited till they’d got their taxi another rude person stepped in front of him taking his place in the que.

As he set his jaw and made up his mind that it wouldn’t happen a third time he was distracted by two black girls that appeared to be his age who were obviously laughing at him and giving him a look that showed interest in him as well. So in no rush for the moment he decided to try out his English on them.

It was once he was close he noticed that both girls looked alike except for their hair and how they dressed.

”Hallo ladies I am Gunnar and if not obvious new to America and saw the two of you falleg stelpur; beautiful girls looking in my direction.” he said his eyes looking into theirs and at their faces.

”I am asking your forgiveness if my question is not appropriate but are you by chance twins?” he asked with a grin.

Then before the two girls could answer a large black man dressed like one of the African nations pulled up in a Mercedes telling the two to get in the car; or at least that’s what Gunnar assumed he said

”Hallo Sir I am hoping my speaking to the two young ladies wasn’t inappropriate or caused them any trouble.

I am Gunnar Grimsson and a pleasure to meet you sir”

The large man seemed to stare through him then stunned Gunnar saying

”Þú ert mjög heillandi ungur maður Gunnar en nú þegar við erum kynnt getum við séð skaðlaus, ég er Adamu Mwangi faðir þeirra. Afsakaðu mér en ég verð að fara Gunnar”
(You are a very charming young man Gunnar but now that we are introduced I can see harmless, I am Adamu Mwangi their father. Please excuse me but I must now go Gunnar)

Then the man gave Gunnar his card after the luggage was loaded into his car telling him to give him a call if he’d like or needed help.

As the car drove away and Gunnar was trying to understand how a black man from Africa spoke his language he looked down at the card and saw his answer; the man was a translator from the Kenyan Diplomatic service.

Fade Out

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School Days

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Stranger in a Strange land

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The week had gone better than Api hoped though his roommate was still a bit of a mystery to him because work and examinations had left them both drained a bit too much to be casual; at least he hoped that was the reason.

To day it was as if they’d gone out of their way to leave them all with enough energy to be themselves and even hinted they get to know those in their training group. So with the idea of making new friends the Api literally bounces off to put away his books.

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Monkeying Around

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Books stowed in their proper place Api rushed to the school yard looking for his peers.

Because he was so happy he had his earbuds in and was listen to a Turkic tune he’d found thinking how much Petra at his gym would have loved it for floor exercises. Naturally this meant he didn’t enter the courtyard like a normal person but like an act straight out of a circus.
The doors hadn’t closed before he was into a front flip off the top step followed by an Api side out rotation a move he’d made before his ability awakened after seeing a performance of a jinga on TV. then a flourish of wheels and other extreme maneuvers that might have placed as high as a 9.0 or better before he settled.

Once he’d stopped his erratic behavior he stood with a happy smile as he noticed the smell of cigarettes then the source a bearded guy with really dark hair that reminded him of Aleksy a polish friend from his village.

”Hallo Frin it is nice to meet this bright day, I am Gunnar Grimsson but most call me Api”

Then before the other one (Drake) could speak he tilted his head curiously

”You are smoker?”

Then he noticed Una and smiled even more

X-Men: The New Era

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X-Men: The New Era

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