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[b]Brooklyn...[/b]

It was the Sunday after the first true test of Jacob's powers. He'd agreed to sleep in his great uncle's basement since there was a chance his powers activated in his sleep. And because he'd already ripped up part of the floors in the bottom level of the three story bachelor pad. Ben had married decades earlier but it didn't last. To protect the one woman he cared for he pushed her away. To protect Jacob, he's keeping him close. Not unlike his pal, Johnny Storm, and his adopted daughter. Ben had already spoken to Johnny the night before on the phone, the city of the Inhumans gets incredible reception. He was expecting them but didn't say a word to the all new Thing. The door buzzer rang in the Brooklyn home, and introductions were made. The young girl met Ben and got a taste of the old rivalry between her adopted father and the rock covered man when the two of them began trading insults. 

Downstairs Jacob was oddly laying on the opened up ground, some smaller rocks covering parts of his body. Almost as if he's become one with the rock formations in the Earth itself. He could hear his blue eyed uncle upstairs talking to somebody but he was still in his suit, well the pants of it anyway. Jacob was also quite dirty. He decided to just wait it out rather than embarrass himself. That's when he barely made out Ben saying...

"Yeah, he's down there now. Believe it or not he took down an old creature of Mole Man's yesterday. Probably still asleep. Watch out for all the rocks too, kid's still workin' out the kinks..."

"Crap." Jacob thought. "Somebody's coming down here, I have no idea who... I'm half dressed, dirty, and surrounded by... rocks..."

The young girl came down the stairs. To her surprise Jacob was completely covered in stone armor and doing push-ups. 

"Ninety eight! Ninety nine!" he said semi-loudly before glancing over like a doofus, "Oh, HEY! Didn't see you there. Um... who ARE you?" the rock man asked. 

[@Demon Shinobi]

~KL~