Vicki stood staring in disbelief at the youth as he played with his knife. A woman with giant, metal fists just annihilated a demon ninja’s arm just before it disappeared into shadow, all right after his floating companion with the horn froze them in liquid gold. Even after all of this, the only thing the red-and-black haired teen could think of was getting a muffin. A muffin, of all things! How could anyone go on with normal life so easily after witnessing this pandemonium?
She lifted her arms up, gazing at the palms of her cold, metal gauntlets. As her adrenaline faded away, the gloves began to disappear in a shower of light. This wasn’t normal. Crippling two men in the span of a few hours wasn’t normal. Vicki looked back at the young man still twiddling with the small blade. This may not have been normal yesterday, but now, maybe this was her new normal.
Vicki sighed, putting the burden off to the side to deal with later, and strode over to the kitchen without a word. As she began to rummage through cabinets and containers, Vicki rolled through a thousand different thoughts in her mind.
Where did Garrett go? He has to get that checked out somewhere. Should I go after him? He might come looking for payback if I don’t do something...should I tell dad?Frustrated, she slammed a fridge door shut with all of her strength. The clean, white door ripped from its hinge and went through the back of the fridge, and crashed into the brick-colored tiles on the kitchen’s walls. Shards of broken ceramic exploded out from behind the fridge as it slowly began to tilt forward. Vicki sidestepped just as the fridge began to quickly fall towards the ground, landing with a mighty commotion.
I need to get a handle on this new strength…Behind Vicki, precariously balanced food and supplies began to fall from a narrow shelf with quiet thuds. Among the pile was a muffin, vacuum-sealed in plastic.
Vicki strode out of the kitchen, tossing the baked bread towards the young man, and came to a halt just in front of the two spectators. She blew some of her white bangs out of her eyes, looking the teen up and down before turning to the suited oddball.
”What the hell is going on?”@Eklispe@Zelosse"Pardon me, but what exactly is the plan? You intend to from some sort of vigilante group here? The police force would doubtless be more effective in keeping things under control, champions or no champions. If someone is somehow skilled enough to defeat them then doubtless the situation will escalate until they are subdued. Therefore the need for the group you are suggesting is non existent. In which case there is no point in my remaining here save for until Sam recovers. Do you have anything else to say?"At this, Raze stood up from his sitting position, and took a few steps away from the wall. He was in shock that this thought even crossed her mind.
“Look, I don’t know what was discussed earlier, but what else would we do? We’ve been given these powers, and we should use them. It’d be wrong for us not to, we’d basically be deciding to not help people when we clearly had to power to do so!” Raze strode over to one of the apartment windows, the light casting his silhouette across the ground behind him. He stretched out his arm, gesturing to Darkwell before them,
”There are nowhere near enough police to adequately protect this city. We don’t need costumes or nicknames, but we can’t just sit back and do nothing.”Raze turned around and looked at the spectacled girl, his eyebrow cocked inquisitively,
”What do you suggest we do? Just hide and pretend like everything is normal?”@Eklispe@DFA@Card Captor@Kiroue@Adalrod@Leolycan@rivaanGarrett stumbled through the doors of the ER, collapsing to the floor. His clothes were soaked in blood, and his vision was beginning to fade out. Garrett whimpered out a plea for help, but nurses were already rushing to his side and helping him to his visit. Just as he was seated into a wheelchair, he blacked out, unable to stay awake and bear the pain raking at his left arm.
He faded in and out of consciousness, catching glimpses of blurred faces trying to speak to him, red sacks with tubes trailing to his body, and cold machines staring down at his crumpled body as if disappointed.
Finally, Garrett’s eyes fluttered open, his eyes adjusting to the harsh white light of a hospital room. From the corner of his vision, Garrett sighted a nurse running out from the door. Moments later, a tall man with brown hair starting to grey at its roots came rushing in, his white hospital coat trailing behind him.
“Son, can you hear me?”
Garrett weakly nodded in response. He looked down at himself; his broken arm was already in a cast, and someone had changed him into a hospital gown. A small part of Garrett felt violated. The doctor turned around and muttered something to the nurse, prompting her to draw curtains between Garrett’s bed and the door, disappearing into the hallway.
Turning back to Garrett, the doctor calmed his voice to a soothing tone, and began speaking, “You lost a lot of blood when you came in, you almost died. Your arm’s patched up now, but the damage done to it…” He shook his head, “Your arm will heal in time, but you’ll probably never be able to use it normally again.”
Fury consumed Garrett.
This was that bitch’s fault. Vicki.“What happened? How did your arm get this way?” Garrett ignored the question and looked around the room, finding what he was looking for: a whiteboard where doctors and nurses usually wrote various information. Garrett didn’t see his own name on it.
He looked straight into the doctor’s eyes and asked in a sharp hush,
”Do you know who I am? My name, or anything?” The doctor closed his eyes briefly and sighed, seemingly annoyed. “No, I actually need to talk to you about that. It has to do with insurance and your medical bi-”
Before the doctor could finish his sentence, Garrett beckoned for a shadow clone to appear behind him, an ebony blade being held to his throat. Garrett’s working arm became wrapped in shadow, producing twin wristblades.
”You will help me get out of here, or you will die.”