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I am not the hero nor the villain, I am not evil nor am I good. I am the force that levels, the power that devastates. I am Lightning.

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Athena & Tech


La Vida: Wayward House > Lobby


Matt snapped his fingers and the monitor on the wall behind him turned on and a recording of the afternoons news flicked on. ‘Family found dead in home after what looks to be a home invasion, although police have not revealed what lead to this tragedy but locals fear that it was one of the many gangs that are here in La Vida…’ The TV is muted as the news continues to play, as the slain family is shown a man, a woman, and two children. At the bottom of the screen read the Blake family. As the story changes to one of the newest missing children in Los Angeles.

“I know that it feels overwhelming, that it can feel pointless to even try, but it only takes one cog to start moving to cause a machine many times its size to come to life.” Matt begins to say but loses confidence as he realizes he is speaking to strangers.

The room grows quite for a moment but then Athena breaks the silence, “What Matt means is, we are not gathering here to save this neighborhood or the city by ourselves. We are here to start a movement, to spark a flame in the heart of the people. Super-man isn’t coming to save us, there is no god that’s going to bring us salvation, we are going to have to save ourselves, one person at a time if that is what it calls for.”

Matt snaps his fingers again and the TV turns off, “What she said. In the mean time rooms are up stairs all the rooms on the next floor are prepared for you guys, though they only a have a bed for furniture.”

“As when we are to start, it is up to you I suppose. Matt and I do not know much about running a team,” Athena says blushing, she realized it could seem that they didn’t have a plan. “We gathered to support each other and hopefully we will come together as a ‘team’ later on.”

Athena turned to Ashlyn and her dogs, “of course you may take a room to keep whatever gear that you want here.”






Los Angeles: Somewhere Downtown


Friday night, Katarina finally comes to consciousness after her run in with the police the other night. She wakes up in her bed and struggles to roll out of bed, she didn’t think that her ribs where broken, but they hurt like crazy. She takes a few steps to the toward her room door but gives up and teleports around the apartment taking care of her business.

Katarina comes to a stop at her kitchen table with a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles and is about to devour her unhealthy dinner when her phone begins to ring. With a groan Kat reaches for her phone on the other side of the table, she looks to see who is calling and considers if she should answer, she looks around her empty apartment and sighs. “Hey, you home?” she asks holding onto her bowl then teleporting to Nate’s sofa not waiting for an answer. She takes a bite of her cereal and crunches, “Ay, you here?”
I'm sorry I have not posted yet, I am currently going through some stuff and having a rough time right now, I will try to get a post out tonight or tomorrow. I just wanted to let you all now I'm still here and I'll get things going.
It's all good, as long as it's not one sentence I'm not too worried about it.



I always wondered why in superhero shows the heroes and villains always had super cool futuristic tech but everyone else has modern stuff.

La Vida: Wayward House > Lobby


Athena scratched the back of the dog’s ears and nuzzled their muzzles, she enjoyed animals. She had found that she could see their thoughts, but it was strange, she only understood their base thoughts like hungry, tired, angry, and right now happy was on their minds. However, when the two dogs suddenly stopped and returned to their master’s side they thought, stranger.

The teen stood up and dusted the dog hair from her shirt and pants, she could tell who it was before seeing the young man walk up to the entrance. Athena was grateful that Ashley had train her dogs so well, having them start barking at the arrival of James would have been a bad start at a budding friendship. “Ah- h-hello…James,” the teen started as she crossed an arm over her chest as a nervous reaction to the newcomer. She didn’t know if she should use their names or their hero alias, so it was a bit awkward.

“Oh, please come in. I have prepared some snacks and drinks for everyone as we introduce ourselves…” Athena says becoming increasing aware of her awkwardness. The teen leads the pair further into the lobby where Matt is still working.




“Welcome, Wildheart and Knight, to Wayward Manner. Please take one of the communications devices as a gift of friendship.” A computerized voice says as the three pass a table where there are four devices that look like smart phones. A sphere like drone flies into the lobby from the staircase that leads up to the rooms, the drone then produces a light that shines down to the ground and it starts to take the form of a human female. The hologram girl shows the appears of a girl with short blonde hair and ethereal blue eyes and is wearing a white unitard.

“Hello, I am Guardian, but you may call me Aliya. I am an artificial intelligence that was programmed to learn and replicate human interaction. I am currently being utilized by my creator as an over glorified maid,” The holo-girl says with as much attitude as a hologram with a monotone voice could muster.

“Enough, Guar- I mean Aliya. Just show them how to use the phones…” Matt says impassively as he stepped out from around his work table. The teen was wearing a navy blue V-neck sweater vest and a white dress shirt under, he also had black skinny fit jeans and black laced up boots. The teen looked like he was on his way to a business meeting.

“Very well master,” Aliya says causing Matt to put his palm over his face at the word master. “This communication device is much like the newest Queen Industries smartphones that has been set to release later this year, though as Matthew is the original creature he has made a few just for you all, how very exciting.” She says holding up a hologram of the phone. “Now, this is the first phone that will be released to the public with holographic features, though, in all honesty this tech is rather dated compared to the augmented reali—” Matthew snaps a finger and the holo-girl blinks off leaving the drone to float away.

“My bad, she’s a bit much…never let an AI tune their own personalities,” Matt says stepping in. “Just slide the phone open to access the phone the rest is pretty self-explanatory once you start playing with it.” He says trailing off as though his mind is somewhere else. “Oh, umm My name is Matt, it’s nice to finally meet you both properly,” the teen says as he snaps back to James and Ashley.



Cinix Defenders' Base

Raven was a patient person, though she was getting annoyed with this mucho bravado the two barbarians with swords were displaying. However, she could understand how they felt, quite literally in fact. "I have to side with the queen on this, even though I am grateful that I am no longer within reach of my father, I too was stolen from my dimension as I was traveling to my home world." The empath says as she folded her arms over chest, showing the two she was not interesting in fighting. "Maybe it is time to explain why we were summon to this place." Raven's grey eyes set on the agent.



Cinix Defenders' Base


Raven calmed herself and allowed her emotions to flow back into the emptiness. "Yes, I am sorry, but I have spent my entire life hiding my emotions so that my father could not influence me. But now the demon is no longer in reach of me so now I can express joy!" the teen says taking down her hood and revealing her short dark hair, grey eyes, and a smile that could light the room.

The empath turned her attention to the loud annoying duo on the other end of the room, she stood using the wall to brace her and placed herself in front of the man that had comfort her. Her smile was gone and was replaced by an impassive facade.

"Calm down, I do not want to fight but I will defend myself and him," The teen says as she points a thumb back toward the man. "We can talk this out, I do not to wish to hurt either of you." she says giving no emotion.
Athena & Tech


La Vida: Wayward House > Lobby


A light flashed as Ashley got near the building letting Matt know someone was approaching the front entrance, the teen looked up at the large monitor that was hanging on the wall and saw the lady that Athena worked with at the animal shelter. "Great she brought dogs..." Matt said with a grumble. "Athena, one of your guest arrived!" he called

Athena went flying with one step from one side of the large lobby to the other, she reached the door and waited for the knock to come and waited for the count of three, she didn't want to seem too eager. Athena opened the door and smiled widely, "Hello Ms. Blackwood...oh you brought Artemis and Apollo!" she says with enthusiasm. Athena knelt down and was patient for the dogs to come to her as they always did when she was at the animal shelter, she was wearing a red & black flannel with a black t-shirt under that and form fitting denim with a tear over the right knee and black & white chucks, she knew she would be covered with dog fur but she spread her arms out and said, "come to auntie Athena." She always got a kick out of how their names were connected in Greek mythology.

Matt was at his work table and rolled his eyes at Athena's amusement but in all honesty he was glad that Athena was making connections with other people, when they had first met she didn't talk and was very shy. Even now he knew it took a lot out of her just to be in a public setting and for her to be this relaxed with Blackwood, they must really be friends.






Los Angeles: Somewhere Downtown


It was too easy most times, I can be in and out in seconds with my target and back at my apartment before I take two breathes, other times there were challenges. Like the rich assholes that had money for proper security, power dampeners, wards against magic, and all sorts of other crap. All the extra security had just made it that much more fun. I phased through most the walls and floors to get to the hidden room, my contact had given me the buildings blue prints and I’d studied them like a freshman during finales week. Everything was going perfectly, as expected and when I got to that damn room just before the vault the blue lights of a power dampener flicked on. Damn caught with my hands in the cookie jar.

“Super villain known as Ghost, we have ten guns pointed at the back of your head, power dampeners are in effect. It’s over you son’v a bitch just come quietly, and no one gets hurt.” A female cop commands.

“Nice work detective Yang, you finally got me, color me impressed. Though, I wonder if the credit should go to that rat Darius, he’s the one that set me up right?” She said through a device that made her voice sound lower. She didn’t usually talk but she needed the extra time to stealthily reach a device in her equipment bag and with the only like being the blue light from the dampener it was hard for the police to make out what she was up to.

“Enough, you can talk all you want once we remove that ridiculous mask and have you at the station,” Yang said with a smugness in her voice. “Now, put your hands behind your head and drop to your knees.”

Katarina found the blessed gadget Matthew had built, she had to remember to give him a giant kiss when she saw him again, she twisted the pen shaped device a then turned around to face the detective. This was a mistake that she would later come to realize but she had her pride and she wanted to see Yang’s face as she got away yet again.

The team of police all tense and readied to fire that any hint of danger, “C’mon you’re beaten. Have some dignity and come out peacefully,” Yang said trying to reason with the villain.

“That’s the difference between me and you Yang, I don’t lose.” Ghost said with her best shit eating grin, though wasted cause of the mask and pressed the button on the device and it released its own light nullifying the dampener’s. The sudden light caused one of the police officers to panic and opened fire. Katarina heard the gun fire and felt the pain of the bullet hit her, however, she was now in her apartment.

Katarina looked down to see that the slug was stopped by her Kevlar police issued vest, it had most likely saved her life, but it still hurt like hell. Katarina sunk to the floor and sucked in a large breath then let it out slowly, her ribs hurt like hell and would be surprised if a couple of them weren’t broken. She ripped off her mask and hood revealing her pale brown skin, dark brown eyes, and raven black shoulder length hair then started to work on taking off the vest. Kat lifted her shirt and saw where the bullet hit, it was nasty and already bruising but the vest had done its job and she would live another day.

Getting up the teen made her way to the kitchen and grabbed a pill bottle and a bottle of tequila, she had to remember to pick up a case of water when she was out again. She downed the pain killer and chased it with a shot before grabbing an ice pack from her freezer and made her way to her sofa. Her apartment was in downtown LA and was very nice, she was no small-time crook living in some trash can ghetto like La Vida and she might be a criminal, but she kept her apartment spotless. Her home was big enough to comfortably house three people but for now it was just just big and lonely.

“They’ll change their minds soon enough…” she says to no one as she falls into a dreamless sleep as the pain killers and alcohol takes her.

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San Francisco: somewhere in the city


Raven watched Roy fidget with one of his arrows and get to his feet then pulled back his bow string in a very trained stance. The empath tilted her head up and waited from Roy to fire his arrow, she had heard that the hero archers had used explosive arrow tips and wondered if he was going to send one up like a fire work. However, the archer did not loss his arrow, instead he quickly packed his equipment and seemed to be looking at the others for some sort of recognition.

Looking at the Archer, she thought about what he had done, was this some sort of communication with the others that knew him? Raven was about to question him on his display but heard a ding as the elevator opened she could see a boy stumble out of the doors. Her first thought was to go to him and see what was wrong, however, she could sense a demonic present within him. Raven stood but hadn’t known what she was going to do once on her feet, so she just continued looking at the finely dressed teen. Though it wasn’t long before her train of thought was shattered as she felt a wave of panic and fear coming from the city.

The feeling was almost over whelming, but she controlled the emotions she felt and kept it only as at the surface, she would not let it take her. Raven pulled her hood over her head and flew upward not waiting for any direction, she had no concept at working as a team and did not wait. The empath felt dire fear and pain from a direction and followed it as fast as she could. She arrived on scene of three civilians running from a mechanical construct of sorts, two of the victims were helping the third run as it looked as though they had received an injury.

Raven did not hesitate as she flew straight at the construct and with her soul-self raked across its front with dark talons. Though this was not enough to stop it as the construct swung its massive arm and slammed the teen sending her crashing into a wall of a building. Raven’s vision went double for a moment but willed herself up as she wiped blood from her mouth, if she was not more than a human she would have been out of this fight. Seeing the group of people had stopped to watch the teen battle with the mechanical monster and it continue its path of destruction heading toward the three, Raven gritted her teeth and shadows bellowed from under her cloak. The next moment Raven had vanished from where she was and appeared floating over the three, “Quickly we must retreat,” the teen said as her cloak of shadows enveloped the four of them and vanished before the constructed could crush them.

Appearing on top of a roof of a nearby building the three civilians stumbled out of Raven’s shadow looking a bit out of sorts. Two of the people scrabbled to their feet and looked toward Raven with a mix bag of emotions, though Raven was focused on the third that was not getting up but rather holding the right side of her face and crying in pain. The empath floated down and went to her knees and held the female that looked to be in her late teens. “I will shallow your pain, I can handle it better and you can be allowed to heal faster,” Raven said calmly, gently pulling the girls hand from her wound. The teen fought for a second but allowed her wound to be seen, it looked to be a burn that covered her ear, eye, and cheek down to her jaw line and the blistering suggest she had suffered from second degree burns. Raven held her hands over the wound and allowed the girls pain to flow into her, her hands and the wound had stop glowing and the girl’s burns were reduced to first degree burns. The empath fell back on her rear and let out a sigh of exhaustion. The now healed burn victim blinked her eyes and rubber her face. “Wow, you-you really healed me.” She said astonished.

Taking a breath before getting back to her feet she looked to the three civilians, “Stay out of sight and off the streets, I do not know how long it will be safe to up here though,” Raven says walking over to the edge of the building. She looked down into the streets and saw more rampaging constructs and panicking people. “Azar, what is happening here?” she says in a soft voice.

“What about you, are you really going back down there, that thing hit you pretty hard?” one of the guys that she had save asked.

“I must, there are more people in trouble, but do not worry there are more heroes in this city,” Raven replies. She now felt foolish for leaving her team, she could not do this herself.

Raven flew off the building and found another mechanical monstrosity and summoned her soul-self once again taking the form of a raven and drove itself into the construct bisecting the form it took. The creature fell with and sparks jumped off it as it hit the ground. Raven looked around as more of the constructs were causing chaos, but they seemed to, for the most part to be ignoring the people and do damage to the buildings and streets. One of the constructs came charging at her but she flew out of its range and disengaged from the scene all together. It was pointless to take them on one at a time, they needed a plan to take them out more effectively.

The new titan retreated to the tower hoping one of her new team mates had any new information on the situation. She could feel the peoples panic grow, but she could do little on her own as she was just one in a large city of many.

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