A bluish light flickered in the darkness illuminating the floor of the pressurised tank. Detecting the change through his eyelids, Josh stirred and blinked at the notification flickering in front of him. The words hovered in the water, sent digitally by the HQ's computer system, an AI called Gabriel that he was helping test and develop with Professor Miyuki Nakano from Okinawa university. He'd met her through assisting Karen Grace, an anthropologist specialising in Polynesian history explore the fabled Chatan pyramids off the island's coast, costing her entire research grant, and for a large amount of funding Miyuki readily agreed to make Gabriel accessible to the S.U.P.E.D. Team. 

The turquoise lettering flickered as he stirred from the bottom of the tank. Bollocks! He exclaimed to no one. They had just accepted a case and no one had told him. [i]Again! [/i]This was the third time he'd been evaluating his pressured capabilities when they'd gone off without him. [i]Fuck. [/i]
He swam in powerful strokes to the side of the tank and punched a large red button on the wall. 
Light burst into the now unsealed room and gallons of water flooded into his apartment. He let the wave sweep him out steering it into his large lounge where he kept his high tech suit in a display case. It was a conversation piece and [i][b]"Do you want to see my suit?"[/b][/i] was a surprisingly successful chat up line these days. 

He coughed the water out of his lungs to resume breathing air and slid back the glass case. With an infuriated huff he peeled on his costume and seconds later was donning his helmet. [b]"Give me an update and route please Gabriel"[/b]he spoke out, the words picked up by a sensitive microphone. [b]"Of course Josh"[/b]. A blue line appeared on his visor screen superimposed over reality directing him out of his balcony and into the city. As Gabriel's disembodied voice summarised the task and gave a low down of stats in his ear, Josh had walked to his balcony and pulled all the water from his flooded apartment outside into a large floating sphere of liquid. With a quick glance back to his untidy but now bone dry living quarters he jumped into the sphere of water letting it drop with him inside. Keeping pressure on the surface of the sphere is kept its shape as it dropped toward the street below. 

Drain covers burst upward as countless gallons sprung forth to absorb the sphere, cushioning the force and leaving Josh stood in the street giving a wave to public onlookers. The spent water now moved toward him and started to build behind him in a enormous wave. With a twist of his ankles into a surfing position the water around them froze outward into a surfboard shape. Using his arms for control he swept the gigantic mass of water beneath him and surfed the wave down the centre of the road weaving his way toward the action, his visor highlighting the optimum route and locations of his team mates. 

He swung infront of Lilly, freezing a half dozen mutants with a blast of water from his wave that solidified on impact. [i]You're welcome Lil[/i], he thought loudly with a grin, knowing she'd pick up the message straight away. He loved that girl. A huge explosion erupted further infront of him and he spotted the iconic white costumed figure of Hail, another cryokinetic and his rival, go flying through the air. He momentarily debated whether to help the prick or not, but was distracted immediately by a giant flaming golem erupting from the smoke. Typical Dan, he smirked. Showy and smashy. His board melted as he approached the fires, the wave beneath him swirling up to his waist and forming a large swirling water spout with him at the peak. He swung around the corner infront of Dan cutting off a mob of mutants charging, hobbling and crawling at the fire golem. He sent a mass of water sweeping half of them into the side of an apartment block and freezing them in place with a clench of his fist. [b]"You've got to learn to chill out babe"[/b] he shouted across at Dan the visor lifting on his helmet to reveal a wink. The cheese was all part of their banter. A wave rose behind his head and a shower of icy javelins skewered the street's remaining mutants. [b]"Shall we?"[/b] he asked, swinging to one side of the street to let Dan's construct past.