[center][hr][hr] [url=https://fontmeme.com/fonts/vermin-verile-font/][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/190630/45f43272bcd7a20a9e57513df0d2f751.png[/img][/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/H5d0OWR.jpg[/img] [hr][hr] [h1][color=AD0000][b][u]Reunion: Part II[/u][/b][/color][/h1] [u]January 2, 12:04 PM North-East of Atlanta, Georgia - Near US Highway 85[/u] [hr][/center] One moment, Nano was flying through the air towards her sister with the full intent of tackling the other girl in a hug. Then probably chewing her out for disappearing. Then more hugs. However, she somehow just wound up sitting on the bench where she was had not even been close to just before that. Her poor young mind couldn't even begin to process how she had suddenly been moved from jumping at her sister to sitting on the bench. Had she moved that quickly? No, Verra couldn't have done that! Only Velocity could move that quickly and Nano knew for a fact that Verra couldn't be Velocity. Verra had always been much better than the hero. Had Verra somehow learned some sort of magic like what was so common in the scar? But why did Verra teleport her over to the bench instead of letting herself get hugged? Nano felt the anxiety and unease that she had felt on their flight into this stop coursing through her veins once more. Had her little voice in the back of her head been correct this whole time? Maybe Verra suddenly did had what she had become. Or maybe she didn't even recognize her little sister anymore after she had been so radically changed with the nanobots making her limbs. Her eye went wide as she felt the unease causing little butterflies in her gut. So overactive and uneasy had her mind become that she had little feelings like sparks running along her body. Yet when she spoke up again towards her sister, it wasn't a pained sound or a plea wondering why Verra didn't want to be around her anymore. No, instead it was a rather innocent-sounding question so that Verra wouldn't worry about her, her sister didn't deserve to have the burden of a broken girl upon her. [color=AD0000]"Verra when did you learn teleportation magic!?"[/color] Nano demanded suddenly, forcing her voice to sound as if everything were fine. As if she were just a normal girl chatting with her sister. In a way, she did kind of understand Verra not wanting her around as she was a bit of a freak with how much metal made up her body. Still, it hurt. It stung that the girl she had loved and idolized for most of her life had so easily turned away from her again after being separated for so long. The little voice inside of the young hero started gnawing away again, reassuring her that she was right all along. That she was a freak, the scar had changed her into a monster as well. Verra would never love her again, how could anybody be expected to love a freak like her? These dark thoughts and more started to eat away at her once more, sending Nano further into that dark place within her mind. The signs of her internal struggle becoming visible on the surface as her expression fell from pure joy to defeat. The look in her eyes grew distant. Her very stature as she sat on that bench seemed to deflate. Instead, she turned her attention down towards her hands as they sat in her lap and that tingling, sparky feeling continued to run through her body. Only this time it seemed to be growing more intense as she wondered if this was what anxiety felt like to others. Was it normal for her to be borderline in pain because of her mind screwing her over like this? She didn't know, life outside of the scar was already proving to be so much more difficult and scarier than living within that hellscape. As she thought these the painful feeling ran down to her hands, and the girl's eye went wide as she could see that nanites in her arm vibrating rapidly while lightning arced along the metal. Nano stood in a panic, looking towards her sister and Champion she held up her arms to show the strange phenomenon. [color=AD0000]"M-mr. Champion? Verra? I need help!"[/color] She said, the panic rising in her tone as her whole body at once seemed to start aggressively vibrating in the same manner as her arms were. The lightning, which seemed to be centralized around where Verra had touched her, erupted out across the vibrating nanites as Nano screaming out in fear and pain. Then as she took a step forward to try to get help from the others, the world changed radically for her. The nanites stopped hurting as she suddenly surged forward, covering an impossible distance in a few mere seconds. The odd thing about it all being that it seemed to happen in slow motion to the young girl, yet at the same time, she was somehow clearly aware that what was happening was impossible to stop. In a panic she continued to run, turning slightly as she tried to maneuver back towards Champion and Verra. Unfortunately, she soon saw the wall of the small building at the rest stop growing closer and knew she couldn't avoid it. Her screams of panic and fear elevated in volume and pitch, then just like that the world went black as she slammed into the building with a hefty clunk. The girl crumpled to the ground, unconscious as lightning still sparked along her for a few more moments. The whole ordeal lasting no more than a couple of seconds before she was unconscious.