[color=ec008c][center][h1][b]P[/b]aige[/h1][/center][/color]
[i]Can you please stop ignoring my calls?[/i]

Paige stared down at the message, chewing at her lip with a deep frown cut into her face. 5 missed calls from 2 numbers, and a barrage of texts. How long could she avoid them? Normally a Friday night out with her friends would be a great way to forget the week, but there was no forgetting this week, and she just wanted to be alone. Her phone chirped at her again.

[i]Please be advised, downtown Lafayette is under a state of emergency. Remain in your homes and stay clear of the area.[/i]

Paige frowned. It wasn't a text, it was a push notification from the city. Youtube was a little more informative. She listened as the anchor on a breaking news stream echoed the statement in the notification, but went on to explain the situation. They flashed a closeup of thundercloud, though it did little justice to his aesthetic.

Paige was still frowning when she stood up, clutching her phone at her side as she moved upstairs to her room. The amazon package she'd received earlier was sitting undisturbed on the bed. She'd felt too silly to try it on earlier, but now she kind of needed it. Everything inside fit well, and the wet-suit like outfit left her feeling less self-conscious than she had expected. 

Part of her actually felt kind of lit.

The outfit left no room to carry anything, and so with one last look at her missed calls and unanswered texts, she set her phone down and left the house. She made sure no one was around to see her hiding her key in the yard, and promptly broke into a run heading toward downtown. 

Time slowed around her, and she started to feel lighter. Eventually she was leaping in graceful bounds, carried swiftly toward downtown past vehicles moving a millimetre a second.

She was a little surprised when the first raindrops slapped hard against her cheek on her way to Lafayette Financial Tower. The weather had been so clear, and now seemed forebodingly thematic, though Paige thought little more of it than creepy and inconveniently painful as she drew closer and closer to the scene.

Getting past the blockade and the Storm Troopers was easy, they likely hadn't even seen her. Miscalculating how much ground she needed to stop herself in her light-weight state, Paige bounced and stumbled an extra dozen feet or so on landing, and where she meant to position herself just outside the smoke-filled lobby, she instead wound up right inside. 

Ahead she could see the outline of two figures, one tall, one short, neither looking anywhere near 300 lbs. Thundercloud was nowhere to be seen, though not much was currently anywhere to be seen. Her lips drawn into a tight line, she decided she would need to wait for the smoke to clear. She would have to return to normal speed for that to happen. That meant She would have to be careful.

Taking a deep breath, she let the world catch up around her, eying the smoke around her nervously for traces of a great big man with thunderpowers.

"[color=9e0b0f]I hope you can do more than announce yourself, miss[/color]" she heard a masculine voice say, though the first words were too deep and distorted to make out.

So who were these two?