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[color=silver][sup][i]"Mr Spock has a nuke?"[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER]

[color=6ecff6]"Look... For the last time, who are you?"[/color] Bailey asked. He stared into the containment room.

[color=f7976a]"I keep telling you, i'm Boyd Briggs. My mom is Tabitha Briggs. We live together at F.E.A.S.T. and i'm really a superhero called Captain... Capt... Captain..."[/color] He looked confused, before grabbing his ginger locks and pulling, scrunching up his face, before beaming a shark-like smile as he got the sudden realization. [color=f7976a]"Captain Spider-Boy!"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Why Captain Spider-Boy? The double pronoun just leaves a weird taste in the mouth."[/color] Christina replied.

[color=f7976a]"Oh yeah, you're right, i'm Boy-Spider Captain. That rolls way better."[/color] The innocent face smiled.

[color=6ecff6]"NO! I'M SPIDER-BOY!"[/color] Bailey slammed a fist on the glass. Christina walked up behind him and crossed her arms across his chest.

[color=ed1c24]"Bail, calm down. Remember what Ahma says"[/color] She soothed.

[color=f7976a]"Breathin' out. Freak it out!"[/color] Boyd replied. Christina immediately broke out laughing as she heard that.

[color=ed1c24]"Yeah, let's just smash a couple of things. I imagine there's a few things in here that's less than a couple of million."[/color] She looked around. [color=ed1c24]"Maybe that pencil?"[/color] She said, pointing at the desk.

[color=f7976a]"Ummm..."[/color] Boyd raised his hand nervously. [color=f7976a]"Why do you look like me?"[/color] He asked. [color=f7976a]"Are we, like... Brothers?"[/color] Bailey looked at him with a confused face. [color=f7976a]"Or are you my dad? Mommy said dad was a... Dead... Deadbeat Sonofabi-"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?"[/color] Christina asked. Boyd stopped and pondered for a second, before nodding excitedly. At that point, Ezekiel walked in.

[color=39b54a]"Are you kids still poking him?"[/color] He asked. Bailey turned to Simm.

[color=6ecff6]"He's... He's just wrong."[/color] Bailey replied. [color=6ecff6]"Like a weird mirror."[/color] Ezekiel stared at Bailey. [color=6ecff6]"Ok, so now i know how you feel."[/color]

[color=39b54a]"Never mind what i feel."[/color] He pressed a few buttons on a holographic keypad that came up on his wrist and a holographic video appeared. [color=39b54a]"Something that you may want to look out for. There's been a break in at a military base up in Maine."[/color] He said, before pressing a few other buttons. [color=39b54a]"Government is keeping shtum about it, but, from the looks of things-"[/color] An image showed 5 very muscular men wearing loin-cloths and scraps of metal as armour running away, 3 of them were holding handfuls of pistols, rifles, grenade launchers and other weapons, one was holding a medium sized crate, one of them holding a large box. Ezekiel pressed a few more buttons and the camera zoomed and enhanced on the box, labelled "M.I.R.V." Christina went pale. Bailey... Didn't quite understand.

[color=6ecff6]"What the heck does MIRV mean?"[/color] He asked, looking up at Ezekiel.

[color=ed1c24]"Multi Independantly-Targettable re-entry vehicle. Pretty much a nuclear cluster-bomb!"[/color] Christina replied. Ezekiel raised an eyebrow at her. [color=ed1c24]"Broken Arrow, True Lies, Thunderball, Peacemaker, Sum of All Fears! I've seen the movies!"[/color] She cried out.

[color=6ecff6]"I wanted to read the Jack Ryan novels, but the only one i found in F.E.A.S.T.'s library was Hunt for Red October."[/color] Bailey sighed. [color=6ecff6]"So, these guys have stolen a nuclear weapon? But they don't look like the typical terrorist bad guys..."[/color] Ezekiel nodded

[color=39b54a]"Not even wearing any kind of tactical gear. From what the reports so far says, the men they killed at the base were with arrows, swords and other weapons like that. A few beaten to death and a few snapped necks. No guns... Yet they left with a bunch..."[/color] Ezekiel shook his head and hunkered down into a squat, before leaping and catching his feet on a lower part of the ceiling, hanging upside down. [color=39b54a]"I just don't get it..."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Maybe they stole those weapons specifically because they didn't have any?"[/color] Christina asked.

[color=39b54a]"This is America, apart from the nuke, those guns are really easy to get in a much less pronounced way. Now every agency in the country is gonna be hunting them. The thing that really gets me, is that a MIRV weighs upwards of 600kg. You'd need a forklift to carry one and that guy's just running with it over his shoulder? These guys are super strong."[/color] Simm replied. [color=39b54a]"That's why i brought it to you, Bailey. Maybe this is a job for Captain Marvel."[/color] He asked.

[color=ed1c24]"Yeah, why not see what Solomon knows?"[/color] Christina asked.

[color=f7976a]"Sure."[/color] Boyd joined in. Throwing his fists wide and his head back, [color=f7976a]"MAZAHS!!!"[/color] He yelled... Nothing happening. He looked around. [color=f7976a]"Wait... Where're my powers?"[/color] He asked, the others gathering around to look at him as he began to hyperventilate. Bailey knew that look all to well. It was the same look he had when he first arrived in this new world and found his own spider-powers were gone. He watched Boyd back into the corner, then up the walls and into the top corner like he was a Cellar Spider in the corner of the bathroom. He curled up into a ball.

[color=ed1c24]"Hey, Boyd, calm it down."[/color] Christina said into the glass, reassuringly. [color=ed1c24]"Look, you've still got your spider powers. You can walk on the walls."[/color] At that point, Boyd seemed to uncurl, looking around, as if shocked to find out he was a Spider-person.

[color=f7976a]"OMIGOSHOMIGOSHOMIGOSH!!!"[/color] He screamed excitedly, before beginning to run laps around the ceiling of his cell, the look of pure excitement and elation at this fact was enough to put a smile on even Bailey's face. [color=f7976a]"I'M A SPIDER AGAIN!!!"[/color] He yelled. Bailey approached the glass and put a hand on it.

[color=6ecff6]Well, that makes one of us..."[/color] Bailey sighed. At that point, Christina looked at Bailey, then at Boyd, then back to Bailey.

[color=ed1c24]"You don't think...?"[/color] She asked, before looking at Simm. [color=ed1c24]"Yo, Zeke, you don't by any chance read manga do you?"[/color] She asked him. Ezekiel sighed and pointed an outstretched hand at her.

[color=39b54a]"If you're about to dump the plot of some stupid Japanese comic book at me, i'm gonna web your mouth again to save us."[/color] He growled.

[color=ed1c24]"Alright, but there was this one story, where a bunch of guys got their powers ripped out and those powers then took on a physical form based on what they do... Any chance that's what Boyd here is? Just a physical manifestation of Bailey's spider-powers? It explains why it looks like him and why it saves people?"[/color] She asked. Ezekiel cautiously retracted his hand and put it on his chin.

[color=39b54a]"Well, apart from the fact that that's literally nothing but speculation... Well, we are dealing with a boy who turns into a man when he says magical words, so i suppose it's possible... Also practically impossible to prove. I mean, i don't have any equipment to test for that. I wouldn't even know where to start...?"[/color] Ezekiel pondered. [color=39b54a]"Alright, turn into the big guy, Bailey, let's see if Solomon has any knowledge of this. I know about science, he'll know about Magic."[/color] Bailey nodded and ran to the middle of the room under the skylight.[color=6ecff6][h1]"SHAZAM!"[/h1][/color]
Captain Marvel stood for a second, before looking over to Boyd who was stood on the ceiling staring with total awe at him. [color=6ecff6]"You ok, Boyd?"[/color] He asked. Boyd wiped a tear away.

[color=f7976a]"I remember how i used to feel, doing that."[/color] He snorted with sadness. Bailey shook his head.

[color=6ecff6]"Ok, Solomon, what have we got?"[/color] He asked. Well, with the realms of magic, anything is possible. Granting limited sentience to an inanimate object wasn't terribly hard, but creating a whole creature? Well, obviously, there were Homunculus, but they tended to be smaller creatures. Wait a second. Bailey approached the image. One of the men had a symbol on his bracer that he recognized. A Y with a cross in the tail... [color=6ecff6]"Vulcan...?"[/color] He asked.

[color=ed1c24]"Mr Spock has a nuke?"[/color] Christina asked, watching him.

[color=39b54a]"No, Vulcan the planet."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Exactly, where Mr Spock is from!"[/color] Christina replied, matter of factly.

[color=6ecff6]"No, Vulcan, the god. Wait, no, his name is Hephaestus."[/color] Bailey replied. [color=6ecff6]"I recognize that symbol, it's Hephaestus."[/color] He said.

[color=39b54a]"Speaking of crazier things. Now the Greek Gods are stealing from us. Well, after Prometheus, i suppose turnabout is fair play. But we only stole regular fire, they're stealing nuclear. I suppose Hercules, Atlas, Zeus and Mercury give you parts of their power, it was only a matter of time before we had to deal with them."[/color] He said. Bailey smiled. He liked it when Ezekiel used the plural, made him sound as if he's in for the long haul. Frankly, with the amount he had lost, he was glad that anyone was still here for him. Right, Hephaestus. Where did he live? Mount Etna, obviously. Deep in the bowls where he used the heat for his forge, forging weapons of the gods.

[color=6ecff6]"Mount Etna."[/color] He replied.

[color=ed1c24]"I thought it was Olympus?"[/color] Christina replied. [color=ed1c24]"That's where the gods live."[/color]

[color=f7976a]"No, silly!"[/color] Boyd laughed. [color=f7976a]"Hephaestus is the malformed son of Zeus and Hera. He spends his days in the pits of Mount Etna where he creates weapons for the gods, as well as trading with the Amazons in return for their sons, whom he trains to work the forge with him. He is standoffish, a genius at the forge and married to Aglaia, Goddess of Splendor, Brilliance and Brightness. Come on, dummy, everyone knows that."[/color] Boyd beamed a big, shark-like smile. The three looked at each other.

[color=ed1c24]"You... Think that Bolt infused some of the Wisdom into his head?"[/color] Christina asked.

[color=00a651]"Can you say something that ISN'T from a terrible TV show?"[/color] Simm replied. He then rolled his eyes. [color=39b54a]"Alright... You go to Etna, we'll keep an eye on Boyd."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"I'll come with you."[/color] Christina replied, grabbing her coat.

[color=39b54a]"Absolutely not![/color] [color=6ecff6]No!"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT WE FINALLY HAVE THE ADVENTURE WHERE WE GET TO INTERROGATE HOT, BUFF, OILED, WARRIOR GODS FROM OLYMPUS AND YOU WANT ME TO SIT IT OUT!?!?!? NO!!! NO WAY!!!"[/color] Ezekiel raised an eyebrow.

[color=39b54a]"I... Thought you were-"[/color] Ezekiel began, before Christina raised a finger without looking away from Bailey.

[color=ed1c24]"Y'all sit around playing with the label maker if you want, i'm just gonna do what i know is good."[/color] She replied.

[color=6ecff6]"Alright, but you sit RIGHT next to me."[/color] Bailey said. He centered himself and pictured in his minds eye the image of Hephaestus' forge. Slowly rotating his hands in a circle, suddenly, a portal began sparking and crackling into being. [color=6ecff6]"I'll go through first and check it's good, do not come through till i fetch you."[/color]