Early Morning Rumble (Penny, Open)

[Nick Black]

Nick and Penny were driving to the hotel, after a night full of partying and one hell of a concert. Nick's ears were still ringing from the music and excitement but he was content now, actually feeling sleep gnaw at him as the car moved along. The concert had been great but it seemed that the after parties were where all the excitement. As soon as the music was up, along with al the other fans they jumped blockparty to blockparty surrounding the arena. Soon afterwards they ended up in compelte stranger's houses, Nick had really let his inhibitions go. Now in his groggy, half asleep state his watch was telling him that it was almost four in the morning. He couldn't wait to get into the hotel, he could already feel the soft, appealing mattress under his tired, weary body. Nick scratched an itch on his wrist, struggling to stay awake just long enough to get to the hotel.

"Ooo, haff foon," Nick murmered to Penny as he continued to nod in and out of sleep. He reached into his pocket pulling out his pills, this time it was to stave off the alcohol induced headache that was comign along. Normally Nick would never be so irresponsible as to drink without at least filling his belly, this time though he let loose a little slip, it was a party after all. He popped the pills more in hope of keeping away the major symptoms of a headache. Nick wasn't witness to actually how much Penny drunk, if at all, but as they weren't swerving around the road he felt confident that she was fit to drive. Of course as everything was spinning for him, they could've been swerving and he wouldn't have even noticed.

It was then that loud sounds could be heard from the car's right as they passed down a busy commercial street.
"You son of bitch!" a man yelled as an explosion resonated throughout the street. People were screaming and running away from a burning convenience store as two people casually walked out.
"Wait stop!" Nick yelled to Penny, suddenyl very wide awake. One was a man, he simply dusted himself off and pointed his hand int eh direction of a nearby fire hydrant. The hyrdrant seemed to vibrate and glow with heat until it exploded, causign cracks to form int eh sidewlak, shrapnel to fly, and water to jettison everywhere. The woman next to him simply giggle and held onto his other arm. Nick saw most of this through his tycho, he quickly realized what the man was and the imminent danger he posed for the civilians. Part of himw anted to just keep driving, the othe rhalf was curious. Sure one could argue Nick did have a good heart, but it was his curiosity that wanted him to stop this guy. "We have to doo something," he told Penny, rather calmly in spite of the situation.

[Penny Mallory]

Penny Katie Mallory

Penny gripped at the black leather steering wheel with both hands trying to keep it straight on the road. It had been about four hours since she had downed a bus loads of alcohol. She had hoped that was long enough but with the god know how long drive up here, the all night concert, partying, and drinking she was about to pass out on the steering wheel. Why couldn't the blind guy drive. She pouted internally as she looked over to his mumbling, sleepy expression. She sighed and stepped on the gas.

It wasn't long before they heard the loud explosion ripple through the air. It teared at her ears and she looked up, waking slightly more with a new feeling inside erupting, fear. They continued on there way towards the hotel. Penny new this wasn't good but she kept on course and what they came up upon was extraordinary.

Screaming people ran passed their car as Penny put it in stop at Nick's apparent Hero-complex. She herself was thinking the same thing, but more. His power.
She thought vividly watching as the fire hydrant exploded in a bust of heat and water. The woman grabbed onto the man's arm and Penny lifted her brows studying them.

"They've got powers. Both of them." Penny whispered, feeling it, knowing it, wanting it. "What can we do? Hit them with your cane?" She joked dazedly, sleeplessness pounding at her temples, destroying her eye's in pain. Just then the two spotted them and smiled. Penny gulped and looked back at Nick. "They see us... they see us... distract them." Penny said abruptly and opened her door disappearing behind the car.

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[Nick Black]

Nick just moments before had been nodding off to sleep, just about ready to hit the hay and start counting sheep. But there was a little stitch in this plan when driving along one of Atlanta's commercial streets they came across and odd scene. Screaming, people, burning buildings, and a couple that just look out of place. The woman's pleased grin and the man blowing up a fire hydrant just with his mind. Nick yelled for Penny to stop, not so much over his fear for the people but his curiosity over what was going on. It appeared there was a special in the area who was deciding to cause some panic, he wanted to know what his power was and what the hell he thought he was doing.

"They've got powers. Both of them." Penny whispered, as the two of them sat there in the car. Nick was trying to formulate a plan, analyzing the situation and trying to figure out a way to deal with it. From what he understood this man was just blowing shit up with his mind. At this point Nick wasn't really seeing any plan that didn't end with him getting plastered all over Atlanta's streets but then Penny decided to chirp in. "What can we do? Hit them with your cane?"
"Yes, we're gonna hit sparky boom boom over there with my cane," he snapped, a little more irritable due to sleepiness. "on the offchance he doesn't blow me up I might give him a slight bruise!"

"They see us... they see us... distract them." penny gulped as she opened the car door and ducked behind the vehicle. Nick slipped out as well, instead leaning his abck against a mailbox.
"You know cars are highly explosive," he hissed at Penny. It didn't seem as though the manw as occupied with the car at the moment as he actually blew up a decorative statue. Chunks of rock fell from the sky, making loud clunking sounds as it hit the pavement and street. Nick sighed and ducke dout from his hidign place, making a mad dash towards the two of them. He was concentrating on his power and just hoping it would pull him through. "Hey!" he called out to the man.

"You couldn't happen to direct me to the nearest convenience store, need ta pick up a few things," Nick said with a sneer. The guy started laugh rather loudly, it seemed that he had been boozing it up as well.
"Hey, hey babe, watch this," the man slurred, Nick saw shimmers in the stochastic field and next thing he knew he was faling backwards with an incredible pain in his hand. He could here the splintering sound of plastic and awood and realized his cane had been decimated. It was then he also realized that the man wasn't blowing up organic matter. Nick stumbled to his feet angrily when the woman began to speak.
"Oh, are you alright sweetie," her voice though laden with sarcasm seemed strangley..arousing to Nick. He opened his mouth to respond but then he felt the tightness in his pants, the thought crossed his mind that this could all just be one fucked up dream.

[Penny Mallory]

Penny Katie Mallory

Penny’s back was to the car now, her head resting just below the window, and her feet were hidden by the wheels so she couldn’t be seen. Her heart was beating hard against her breast and sweat was starting to form on the back of her neck. It was terrifying and she had no idea what the frak she was doing. As Nick distracted the psychotics with powers by sitting their... Penny slipped along the outer edge of the car and made her way to the column adjacent to the car.

She knew she could do this, words didn't even have to touch her lips as she thought to herself a plan of attack. Her arms lowered themselves down to her sides as she opened her fists and focused her energy into the form of a forcefield. A pink tint coated her skin and body as she ran out full speed towards their foes.

The little vixen looked so small as she ran forth towards them, the woman turned and cracked an awkward smile at her. Penny paid no attention to this and the man with the power she knew already still was focused on Nick. Penny lept, her arms crushing over the woman and taking her to the ground. Her forcefield kept her safe and repelled the woman into the cemented sidewalk. The grins wiped from the woman's now cold expressionless face, her eyes closed and her body lay temporarily knocked out as Penny got to her feet unscathed.

She felt something strange course through her body and she embraced it, allowing it to take her over, to take affect and to combine with her powers. This woman did have a power, and now so did Penny. But she didn't know what it was nor how to use it so she'd have to learn fast. Tackling was her only real form of attack ... and the guy had now turned, anger swelling his laughing voice.

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[Nick Black]

Nick as he was running towards these potentially volatile peopel suddenly realized how compeltely mornonic his plan was. Unfortunatley by that time there was no turning back. He blamed the nights partying and his own exhaustion as to why he would even think as to carry out such a plan. He was there as Penny was apparently ducking out behind the car. Sure he was blind but maleinstinct led him to need to protect his feminien friend. The next thing he knew, he was on his bum and the sound of shattered plastic and metalw as hitting the pavement. He couldn't ay he didn't see that one coming though.
"Mother of Christ," Nick yeleld as he clutched his pained arm. Ironic really considering Nick wa sa devout atheist. He did fund out one helpful thing though, the explodey man couldn't blow up organic material.

As Nick stod he turned and saw Penny rushing towards the duo. His tycho was showing a rather odd field surrounding her but it appeared the criminals weren't much intimidated by the small woman. The woman clinging to sparky's arm actually gave off na aura of amusement. Nick staggered upwards, cocnentrating on the man.
"Hey..." he said, letting his anger build up. "You...broke...my....cane," he told him, accentuating each word with the appropriate amount of intensity. Nick ran at the man, confident that this time he would be okay. he chose a path clear of any rather large objects and if he chose to explode any of his articles of clothing the most they would cause would eb minor burns. Penny made contact first witht eh woman, Nick couldn't see quite much besides the woman hittignt he ground, getting knocked out.

The guy was laughing but after Nick made contact, he wiped the grin right off his face. Nick had always wanted to play football in school but due to his obvious disability it made it impossible. All the same with the aid of some his friends on teh team he could practice with them, he would run, train, and in general keep in shape. Unfortunatley he gotten nicknamed Radio because of it, in homage to another man with a disability who helped the team. Of course Nick wasn't as much of a bright ray of sunshine. All the same this training gave Nick a vicious tackle, and his power gave him incredible accuracy. As he made contact he could feel the man's form crumpling beneath him, and when he hit the floor wheezing, Nick knew it was finished. Through his tycho he saw the man begin to raise his hand but he quickly stomped down on his wrist and bent down over him.
"Don't mess with a blind man's cane...write that down," Nick said, finishing with an arrogant grin. The man simply grianed and his head hit the sidewalk.

[Penny Mallory]

Penny Katie Mallory

Taking a few deep breathes Penny allowed the air to refill her lunges from the chaotic event. Her heart still beat with furry knocking on the door beneath her breast as her hands slid over her sides making note of what had just occurred. Not even a scratch pierced through her little shell, her pants were as clean as they had been, beer smell and all.

She looked over at nick and sighed, taking a few steps forward still steadying herself. Her forcefield flickered off instinctively as if it could read her thoughts. "Didn't know you had it in you." She whispered to her blind friend as she latched onto his left arm and held it tightly to her body. Penny just stood there, holding onto him and looked down as the two perpetrators slept in their darkness. What she wouldn't give for that sleep.

"What do we do now?" She asked in her soft childlike voice. Her head rested against his upper arm now, and she was nipping at it as the words left her lips. "Knock me out too?" Pen joked sleepily totally adverse to getting back into the car and driving.

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[John Calhoun]

"So It Goes..." - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It wasn't the first time John Calhoun had been to Atlanta. It wasn't his favorite place... but it was nice nonetheless. It was late and and John had spent a good portion of the day traveling throughout Germany. He'd spent a little time here, and a little time there. But at the end of the day he wanted to be somewhere back in the United States. As much as he loved going out and experiencing the world, John couldn't help but to be compelled to return to America. He wasn't sure why, but it probably had something to do with his internal clock. Too much teleporting around and experiencing so many different time zones took its toll. With his body accustomed to the Eastern Seaboard, John knew where he liked to be at the end of the day. Sure, he didn't have an exact location picked, but he seemed to remember liking Atlanta, and hadn't been there in a while. To John, you could just never go somewhere once.

Accordingly, John found himself teleporting in the wee small hours of the morning, in front of a convenient store that he had used on one of his previous excursions to Atlanta. He'd gone in to buy a few things before heading out for a night on the town. Now however, John was just looking for a place to sleep. He was tired from a busy day of hopping around Germany, experiencing the culture and life of such an interesting country. Within a matter of moments, John appeared in the alley nearby the convenience store and walked casually into the street. However, as he made his way into the street, it appeared as though John wouldn't be getting to sleep anytime soon.

Almost as soon as he had gotten to the sidewalk, John felt a bustling gust of wind followed by a heat blast of some kind. Slightly, John staggered to the side as he eyed what was happening. The convenience store was clearly on fire and two of the robbers seemed to be fleeing from it. As they made their way across the street though, they were confronted by two other young people. As the chaos unfolded before his eyes, John watched in astonishment.

Evidently, two of the four had distinct powers. Simply, it intrigued John, and though he wanted to intervene, he thought it might be best to see what would happen. Allow these younger people to see what they could make of the skirmish. As the fight unfolded, the young woman with red hair and young blind man came out on top, successfully defeating the two criminals. With a wide grin on his face, John clapped as he approached the duo who were now recovering. "I've gotta say... you two know how to handle yourselves... I'm impressed."

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