[hr][h1][i][color=Orangered]Maxine Mariah Carter[/color][/i][/h1][sub][@He Who Walks Behind][/sub][hr]


Yeah... Lynn was right. Someone's definitely pulling the strings here. The Fiends are just a bunch of junkies. Maxine didn't know about chemistry, but there was a big-ass gap between cooking meth, and giving people powers. Or... There was a lot of possibilities here that she thought of. Her parents were NEST Agents, and they talked about their stories in the dinner table a lot. While Maxine hated them, it did teach her one thing: Metahumans are capable of all sorts of freaky shit. NEST being behind it [i]was[/i] a possibility. Maxine wasn't an idealist, she knew that NEST has it's share of bad apples.

Problems arises when the bad apples get too much power.

But, Maxine had a more logical theory (Other than the Fiends sucking the right dicks). "Could be NEST, yeah. Those bastards are so [i]shifty[/i] I wouldn't be surprised if that giant ass tower was built on top of all the people they killed." Maxine started off, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a cigarette, and it was in her mouth the very next second. She pulled out her lighter, and the second she flicked it on - bam! The fire was [i]much[/i] bigger than expected. Three inches of flame. Hell, that surprised her.... Oh yeah, that. Maxine should have remembered Lynn's power. Lynn can enhance fire, if she remembered correctly. It's funny. The two of them have such a similar power (One that supplements the other, actually), and they could pretty much only trust each other. Maybe it was that power that drawn them together. Though, before she continued, she figured that she'd at least offer Lynn some cigarettes. "You want a cigarette, sister?" She put the box out towards Lynn, tilting it somewhat so Lynn could reach in and grab a cigarette.

After that, Maxine took a few steps away, and her back was to Lynn for a few moments. She looked around Chinatown's streets for a few moments, looking to see if anyone was spying on them ([i]I always feel like someone's watching me[/i]). The coast appeared to be clear? Either way, Maxine took a puff of cigarette smoke and blew it out through her nose. "But, you know, given all the freaky shit us Metahumans are capable of..." Maxine turned back towards Lynn, and an orb of fire (no bigger than a [i]quarter[/i]) appeared in her hands. She held onto it tightly with her fingertips, before she closed her hands, and rolled it over to her thumb. She started flicking it in the air with her thumb, over and over again. "... I wouldn't be surprised if the Fiends have some poor bastard chained up in their bastard, that jizzes some magical superpower giving juice into a syringe, and they go sell it to the highest bidder." Maxine blew some smoke out of the side of her mouth - which was absorbed into her body. "Which I'm hoping for. Because..." She was unsure for a moment if she should tell Lynn her plan. This can go many ways; Lynn joins up with her on her quest, Lynn runs off and pulls the score on the Fiends alone, or Lynn declines. Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained - and Maxine Carter has so much to gain. "... Fuck it, I'll just to the chase; I wanna pull a score on the Fiends. Jack some of that stuff they got, sell it to the highest bidder, and get the hell out of dodge."

The second was already burnt to it's end. That fast? Damn. Lynn's power was starting to irritate Maxine. She rolled her eyes, but kept her cool. No biggie. Maxine has lots of cigarettes. Whatever was left of her poor cigarette (mostly ashes) was funneled into her body, and absorbed. She gave Lynn an aside-glance. "That, or use it get some leverage over NEST. Use them to get me out of this city. Whatever." She shrugged. "And I [i]know[/i] I can't do it alone. While the Fiends are nothing but a bunch of drugged up fuckers... it takes a special kind of dumbass to think you'll be able to get an easy one over them." Maxine continued, and wondered if she was talking too much. Heh... this was as tense and stressful as asking someone to the prom. She smiled like an idiot.

"What I'm asking is for a bit of help. I know you're trustworthy... well, relatively speaking." Maxine laughed a bit. "We nab a few, and divide the pay off, then go our separate ways. What do ya' say?" Maxine proposed. Though, she tilted her head when she thought about it. [i]Though... I could always cut you out of the "deal" and take the reward all for myself. The classic after-heist betrayal....[/i] She thought to herself, putting her hands in her pockets. [i]Underhanded as hell, yeah... but here in Verthaven, there are no saints. Or rules. You only look out for yourself...[/i] Maxine continued.

[i]Nah... Lynn deserves to get out of this as much as I do.[/i]



[hr][h1][i][color=Green]Michelle Brianna Gallus[/color][/i][/h1][sub][@Maxx][@SepticGentleman][@He Who Walks Behind][/sub][hr]


Mendel? Yeah, Michelle heard it was some crazy shit going on in that city before KINGFISHER swooped in and took them all out. It was probably a completely different beast than what happens in Verthaven. Heh. Michelle been to Black Fall when the [i]really bad[/i] things cropped up. She preferred Verthaven. It was too damn cold up there. Though, Black Fall was just a bunch of interesting faces. The kind of faces she wouldn't mind seeing again. But, going back to the story, Sam described one of his adventures where the KINGFISHERS were raiding a school and kicking ass... then getting their ass kicked by a pig. Not just [i]any[/i] pig. A [i]bulletproof[/i] pig. That made Michelle bust out laughing. "[i]Haha![/i] If I was there, you bet I would'a slammed his ass through the floor!" Because there was no way she'd lose to a [i]pig[/i]. She'd just whoop it's ass like any other animal Meta. There were few that could fight the Bestial on equal footing. Especially other animal types. Though, oddly enough, the jukebox went silent. Michelle leaned back into her chair to look, and shrugged. Well, that was a little bit less noise for her to worry about. However, Michelle's attention briefly fell onto the Nightingale for a moment. The girl was [i]strangely[/i] silent - no, no, she wasn't talking about how she never bloody talked, but Michelle just [i]couldn't hear her[/i]. Like, she couldn't even hear her [i]heartbeat[/i]. But, strangely enough, could smell her just fine. It [i]has[/i] to be the work of her power. She would have asked, but looks like the little Nightingale was mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

Eh. Nothing big. Michelle will leave the Nightingale alone. Time for her to share her own stories! "You best [i]believe[/i] some crazy shit goes on in Verthaven." Michelle took a moment to pause in order to down some more Hennessy. Damn, she loved this stuff, but it could never give her that buzz. "There was this Fiend terrorizing Chinatown a few months back, and they sent me to go stop him. So I track him down to this apartment, aaaaaaaaaand, I'm staring him down, pointing a taser at him, telling him to freeze and all that jazz... His fists turn into magma, and he screams, quote on quote, "step aside bitches, the [i]Master Fister[/i] has arrived" then goes on this giant ass rant about how he fists women with the full heat and intensity of magma, and how I was next." Michelle paused for a moment, to start laughing. "And I was standing there, frozen, because I was like "what". Then he tells me to bend over his "super duper special fisting table". I shot him in the face with a taser and he dropped cold. I slapped a collar on him, and went home to contemplate my life choices." Michelle started laughing again.

"Because, you know, I joined NEST to put my powers to good use, to help people... And I end up fighting pyromaniac sex freaks."