[color=fff200][h2][center]Hornet[/center][/h2][/color]

After Jessica had given her little introduction the rest of the group followed suit. Shattercrash’s demonstration came with few surprises; she hadn’t actually known exactly what the girl’s power was, beyond what she saw on the news or heard from people, so finding out that it was just pure kinetic energy was cool. But yeah, why was it [i]pink[/i]? Then the last guy, Richter, demonstrated his power and… yeah, his power sucked too.

I mean, yeah, it was cool. And strong and good in a fight but… he couldn’t turn it off? Well, clearly he could turn if off because he was holding the coin before it disintegrated and then grabbed another one straight after. Maybe he just meant it was something he had to turn off, rather than something he had to turn on?

Some people really did just get screwed over by their powers, didn’t they? Even hers, as basic as it sounded, came with the added feature that she could tell where everyone within a set distance of herself was and where they were looking. It was useful and probably something she would get used to with time but there’s no real way to describe what it’s like to suddenly have a sense that wasn’t there before; no one to ask for advice when you couldn’t get to sleep because you kept feeling your neighbours walking around their living room and didn’t know how to ignore it.

Still, at least her power wasn’t telling her everyone’s deepest insecurities and turning everything she touched to dust. At least Jessica didn’t have to constantly watch what she said, lest she accidentally mind control people.

Being a Parahuman kind of sucked, didn’t it?

Grandmaster left the room in a hurry soon after and Jessica allowed her back to unstraighten just slightly at his exit. Axiom took over after that, but it didn’t seem like there was much left to this meeting; just an update on when their first patrol was going to be, which was [i]tomorrow[/i] oh god, and a Q&A session. Jessica took the opportunity to think over everything she’d been reading in the lead up to today, all of the protocols and training and so on for any questions she might ask. Before she could think of any however, one of the triplets from earlier suddenly appeared right in front of her and nearly caught flailing hand to the temple for her trouble.

[color=fff200]“Jesus, kid! Don’t do that!”[/color] Jessica folded her arms across her chest, trying to regain some of her composure and, let’s be honest, some of her dignity after jumping like that. [color=fff200]“I mean, I’m definitely going to do the same to you at some point, can’t help it, but warn a girl first.”[/color]

What was she even asking about? Her powers? The girl… her name was Tandem, right? Tandem’s curiosity and enthusiasm was kind of endearing, if overwhelming, and Jessica saw no reason not to answer. [color=fff200]“Yeah, Hornet, because like… I fly around and sting people? I don’t know, it seemed to fit. I don’t need to see anyone, I can tell where they are… sort of. It’s more like I can feel the places I can teleport to, which happens to be near people. Not sure about the exact range; it kind of fluctuates? It’s pretty far though. And the invincibility stuff… I don’t know? Like, it hard to test for that sort of thing. They didn’t want to throw too much stuff at me during the trials and I kind of agreed; since, you know, they might kill me by accident. I can just kind of tell when I’m invincible and when I’m not, but I don’t know what the limit is. But when I was hit during the tests I didn’t really feel it at all; not just that it didn’t hurt but that I just didn’t feel anything, so maybe I won’t get thrown around either.”[/color]

Was what everything? That seemed like everything.

[color=fff200]“Uh, was there anything else?”[/color]

[@TheMushroomLord]