Checking out the competition

Hey its Roxy here! and what happened today was not an easy decision, but certainly a good one. we decided that we needed branches in different places around the state, what led us to this conclusion was our competitors Leen Food. heres what went down:

Tayla, me, and Stan snuck into Leen Food to sabotage their foods, it was a safe bet considering that we didn't need powers to do this, we placed cockroaches in the kitchen and spread a bit of honey around on the floor with a mop. it was after that when it happened.
"has it gotten darker?" asked Stan.
"it was dim when we came in, because of the street lights, they're off now" Tayla explained, but for once she wasn't right, she was wrong.
"nice job Tay-Tay, but i'm afraid that you're just another human being when it comes to solving mysteries" said Sage as he walked out of the darkness.
"how?" Stan asked, he was bewildered.
"i faked my death, you'll find that all of us 'villains' were working together, me, Linda, John, Morto... Damian" he said.
"what?!!!!!" we all said in unison.
"why do you think that he didn't want to help you? he had an enemy right? he did, but Tara's dead now, she deserves it. that traitor... we loved it. we were all connected to TP, VHS and The C.H.A.S.E. hell we were even connected to pinehearst for a bit, how do you think Evan got his power? how do you think we knew where to find him? Tara had been wandering around pinehearst for a while, she can jump into peoples bodies and even spen a little time in Elle's body, and even a bit in Tracy Strauss'. but thats another story. one day she stole a few vials of formula and replaced them with the imperfected one" he explained. it was starting to make sense. "Linda, Morto and Damian had been working together for a while, but when John and -soon- i joined, they really came into focus. they-"
"you bastard!!!" yelled Tayla, she threw a knife from the counter at him, he stopped it with TK and flung it back to her, Tayla wasn't quick enough to get out of the way, only to have her hand in the way of it.
"ahhh!!!" she screamed.
"lets just make that unhealable" said Sage, the cruelty in voice was showing more and more as he worked his "magic" as he like to call it. "they, and by that i mean Linda and John are totally and truly dead, i made sure of that, i could see John start to lean more to the good side, he started to think about VHS and TP as friends instead of enemies, Linda started to think of her family, they had to die before they caused real damage! Morto and his army of telepaths will be ready soon, they're all over the state. what will you do when they start to come after you?" he said.
"why are you telling us this?" I asked while i helped Tayla, her hand was in bad shape, the knife went right through her left hand!
"because you're all about to die" he said, he raised his hand and with a wave we all felt light-headed, our memories started to fade and we could feel our feet start to disapear, we were disapearing from existance! it was all happening so fast, that i was amazed to be brought back, both me and Stan made it back, but Tayla was a damaged good, that is, she took a shorter amount of time to go, due to her injury, she'd been 'deleted' when we were brought back by Charlie and Ali (thats right), they'd been working in the technology part of our TP building, using lasers, they'd created a laser (using the gene formations that the late Gene Trend, as he liked to be called made, he was part of C.H.A.S.E, he was a founding member with the power of gene manipulation, he'd been working on ways to get rid of powers), they'd used lasers to complete his research, and when they shot it in Sages eye, it took to his brain and took away his power, bringing Stan and I back. as Cleo waited patiantly, ready to kill, we walked out.
"what about Tayla?" she asked, we shook our heads, and took Sage back to HQ in the Aston Martin.

"why did you create Leen Food?" asked Evan, he was forcing him to tell the truth.
"to get close to you guys, i knew Tayla's competitive spirit and used it to lure them over, i wanted to send a warning, to make sure we actually had a bit of a fight on our hands and you were never meant know about the telepaths" he said.
"he's telling the truth" concluded Evan. Stan had known Sage, he met him when he was good, he couldn't shoot him knowing that he was capable of good, he let him plea for his life.
"it was the power! it corrupted me! everythings good again! please!" he cried. Omni held up a drawing of him, Morto, Tara, Linda, Damian and John talking.
"why didn't i see it?" she asked.
"i'm not an idiot, i had reality warping i made sure that you didnt see it, it was the same with mind-reading and tracking. i made sure" he said. Gravity had a temper, he walked up to Sage and said:
"you dont know me, or at least, i dont know you. and i am fine with killing someone i dont know" he said, he pulled out a gun and shot Sage in the head.

it was after that, that we decided that we all needed to create branches across the state, the people staying here are-

• Cleo
• Stan
• Gravity
• Brad
• Powerpoint

the people going to Hudson, CA are:

• Charlie
• Ali
• Omni
• Roxy
• Dave
• Talkie

the people heading to Scaremento are:

• Evan (BTW: no-one said it, but he'd joined up with us just after the thing with Damian coming back in the form of a John clone, Evan decided to join up, i think. i dont really remember, its odd how he just kinda appeared out of nowhere and we never posted it, at least i dont think we did)
• Sam
• Chelsea
• Shifter
• Geoff

NOTE:Tempest, did we post before about Evan being here? i dont think we did, that wont happen again. sorry if we confused you.

The Past of us

as Tempest has already posted, the strawberry fair was a blast, but you only read what he saw, this is Omni, and i was with Ali, Charlie, Evan and Sam. we got into a bit of trouble when we stole an Aston Martin (James Bonds car) and cruised around town, but thats not the story.

what happened:

when Tempest, Cleo and the rest went off, we decided to go look at a car that had just pulled up, it looked so awesome! as we looked at it from a distance we gradually went nearer, Ali is a bit of a rebel, so she was the one who wanted to steal it.

"we'll bring it back!" she insisted. we all wanted to, we just did it! as we bolted through Cambridge (and drived through cambridge uni's campus) we came to a stop at a grassy noll just outside of the fair, we started to swap stories about when we first discovered our powers, it all seemed like it would be just a "woke up with it" kinda story, but all of our stories were kinda cool.

Charlie: he had trouble remembering his, apparently someone abducted him that day and when he woke up he had a vague recollection of his powers, so he tried to fly and he succeeded (after a few hilarious failed attempts.) we did however, decide to help recount it, by me delving into the past, Evan broadcasting what i saw to Sam and Sam putting it on Ali's phone for us all to see (except me, since i was trancing), but i did still see it in my head.

He was working at woolworths when it happened, it was almost time to open and he was stacking things on the shelves, suddenly he fell off the ladder he was standing on, he was about to hit the ground when he started to float in the air, at first he was scared, then he took joy in it. (the one below is when he started to use it)--

But thats when he was abducted by someone with black lightning, thats why he's so... black, he was shocked with it. after that it was all a blur to Charlie, but i'd seen that too. as a guy who bared a striking resemblance to Eric Roberts loomed over him, he said goodbye to a dark haired woman who teleported away with a large grin on her face. he tested him and called the dark haired woman, calling her Tara, she came back, just after The Haitian (we know him from when we went against Mia that time) had wiped his (Charlie's) memory, Tara teleported him (Charlie) home, and we know what happened then.

We already know what happened to Evan when he manifested, but i'd always wondered why he suddenly loved his power after expressing hate for it. it seemed that he'd met the same Tara that Charlie had met, only she was a rogue, she once worked for primatech, but the place burned down, then she started working for someone called Morto, he wanted as many telepaths as possible on his side. so naturally you go to Evan Drake, he talked to her, she told him that he can have control of everything, she then gave him a card, an address to where The C.H.A.S.E was located, at first he didn't want to go, she told him to think about it and she left, telling him to stay quiet about what had just happened.

Sam: she was walking by a bank, she was low on cash and suddenly an ATM started spitting out cash, she walked over to it and picked it up, at first she thought it was an error, she hit it lightly to see if something was getting into it, (she knew how bugs got into things and messed them up) suddenly it asked what amount of cash she wanted, she thought about five hundred, but before she could punch in the numbers, five hundred was already being dispensed! she took the money and ran, suddenly the whole neighbourhood went AWOL! traffic lights went awry and cars stopped and started, she ran home but she just kept messing up all the electronics!

she ran past someone with and ipod and suddenly she screamed due to how high the volume had become, suddenly Tara showed up again! she knocked her out and teleported her back to her house (where she lived with her parents and brother), Tara took some of the cash and was on her way.

What is it about this Tara person?!

Me: i just started to blank out, i'd get strange images in my head and at first i wouldn't remember them but i'd get a sense of Da Ja Vu, and then it went from there, my dreams are kinda, how Chan, Sage Shifter and i came together, and soon, brought us to Cleo.

How To Stop A Cloner

When Cleo woke us up and told us to get dressed and get ready to fight Linda, (although the sun wasnt even up yet) it must have been about three in the morning. i thought it was crazy, but i soon realised how sane it was. This is Gravity and i'll be telling you what happened after Linda had sped off and Cleo, Brad and PowerPoint went after her.

We looked around, wondering.

"what do we do now?" asked Ali, "i mean aren't we all supposed to be there?"

"yeah" said Charlie.

"guys, look at this!" cried Omni, she held up a picture of Brad, with a threatening looking hand of electricity.

"so?" Roxy said.

"soooo, we look up at something in the sky in my painting! theres a huge storm with 3 bolts shooting down! and Brad has electricity! we'll get there!" she said. suddenly Omni tranced again, when she awoke she said that we would get there by Damian, Evan wasted no time in sending a telepathic message to him. Damian appeared covered with blood.

suddenly Charlie disapeared, Ali was freaked out about that!

"my schedules free now" Damian said, after we explained. we wanted him to teleport us to the nevada desert, which according to Omni was where we were meant to be.

We arrived at the shed, we could see the fight raging on and 2 figures drop out of the sky, Dragon and Powerpoint. I stopped them from hitting the ground."i can send you guys back up" i offered.

"no, Cleo can do this by herself" he said. we nodded. suddenly John appeared with an army of clones.

"Linda told me you'd be here" he said. we started to fight, Powerpoint was absorbing the electricity that shot down from the sky and shooting it at John, at one point there was a bolt that was so powerful that it went red. Omni had painted a picture on the wall of the shed, in this picture we see a red and black bolt shoot past it at John--

John retaliated (just like in the painting) with blue electricty, Powerpoint just absorbed that. i had a John clone high in the air and pressed the gravity around him and it crushed him, Stan was shooting the John that was about to kill Omni, Ali was shooting another John, Dragon had taken out one John, Powerpoint, another and soon the last one was the original. we bombarded him before he knew what to do, he did put up a fight by exploding wih a combo of all offensive powers--but Dragon stopped that by isolating it with an FF, John tried to persuade Powerpoint, but Evan and Damian had blocked all his powers by then, finally Stan shot him in the head.

Cleo and Brad came down and we explained everything. Damian was gone by then, he had other things to do.

"this was like fate" she said.

"or Linda orchestrating everything again" said Omni, she held up a picture of the past, Linda was talking to John.

"well it backfired didn't it?" Cleo asked her.

"right now Linda Tavara is dead" said Omni, "but i cant promise anything about the future."

"we dont just see the future, we make it. if Linda is alive, then we've made a terrible future" Said Cleo. Cleo supercharged her superspeed into teleportation and went back to TP, she then summoned us. we got back in time to catch the rest of the sunrise, it was almost completly in the sky. so it was time to open the shop.

Just Visiting

When Tempest visted it wasn't filled with villains coming and trying to kill us, it was just filled with food and chatting about normal things, of course before that happened we were invaded by a John clone.
we were on our way to work when John showed up at our TP building, i threw him through a wall, but he seemed to have some extra powers now, he didn't phase through the wall, he became part of the wall!!! he he hit the wall and he was stnading there made out of stone! if that were'nt such a OMFG moment then i would be pretty impressed. as i contemplated what to do, i suddenly found myself screaming at Roxy to shoot him. she did but it missed.
"you'll have to do better than that!" he said. Gravity and Powerpoint took control when he enhanced the gravity under John so much that he was hurtling through the 3 floor, i sped to the next floor, he seemed to be smiling (despite the fact that his face was covered with blood) he TKed me to the wall, he started to cut open my head! i telepathed Platwrite (who was in england but i still tried) to get some help, i had to try something! i summoned TP to me and i was back on my feet when Stan shot John in the arm, he staggered backwards, i was having trouble seeing, finally i just told everyone to stop. John wouldn't cut anyones head open, but Damian would. i searched inside for Damian, i suddenly saw his history. Damian was taken to the past by Sage and left there to die at Coyote Sands, but he'd taken someones healing power so he wouldn't die! he changed appearance and became friends with Linda, and they were arguing about how Damian had killed someone, possibly one of her friends. he escaped with Linda and the man he'd gotten healing from, she took healing mans power and he died. they ran seperate ways and never saw each other again.
"Damian?" i asked. he nodded and turned back into himself, he was much older now, but due to his healing he'd stopped aging.
"hi" he said, he saw the bewildered looks on our faces, "dont act so surprised! this is how i get abilities, remember?" we nodded. i wanted to raise my hand and kill him for his powers but i decided not to.
"how?" i asked him.
"i knew that this was my chance to see you guys again, so i stopped time, killed the John clone, and took his place, you know, to surprise you! but when i saw how many powered people there were i just couldn't help it" he answered. i nodded, i understood now. "but i cant stay, i have other fish to fry, i have this enemy that i've had for a while now, i need to finish him off."
"we can help" said Omni, she held up a picture that she had drew when we were stuck back in time, the one with us looking at something, "i think that we're supposed to help you stop whatever we're looking at" she said.
"if i need you, then i'll tell you, but right now i dont" he said. he was older now, but still had the same look that he had when he talked about enemies.
"i thought your enemy was John" said Ali, she had been having trouble following the story (i explained it to her afterwards).
"i'll never forgive him, but its been so long for me that i cant even remember what he did" he said. it was pointlesss trying to reason with him, he flew out the window and was gone. When Roxy, Stan, Chelsea, Tayla, Gravity, PowerPoint and i left for work the others were busily repairing the damage to the floor. it was when we finally opened the shop that we were bombarded with customers, and eventually a few VHS members.

After that: we closed up and went home, i went to my apartment and read a book (The Silver Chair from the chronicles of Narnia), Stan went to his apartment (the one across from me) and the others went where ever they live. i had a weird dream, i'll tell you next post because my fave show (The Vicar Of Dibley) is on

What Happened?

i know that there hasn't been a post for a few days, but if it isn't one thing then its another!
Cleo, Tayla, Roxy and Stan have been busy with the food business, and the rest of us have been scanning around for things out of the ordinary. i have to tell you, sometimes i (and i'm sure that everyone else agrees' with me) i wonder what the hell we actually do! i suppose we're similar to the Ghostbusters, we're not really doing anything until we get the call.
business for Make Way and Take Away is booming due to the fact that the waitress is quick (the waitress is Tayla) the food is well cooked (Roxy was the cook) and the food was quick to be served (thanks to Cleo's telekinetic flipping and summoning of more supplies) and Stan was a fantastic coffee maker.
we often went in there for food and was surprised as to the fact that they're taking this business seriously. of course, they did hire me! (i'm Chelsea BTW) because i could slow it all down if they needed more time. we also have to rollerblade around to take orders, so that we can make the place seem funner. Gravity was also working there, he was holding up several things that could be held over a flame, like Cleo's PK and also holding up in the air, things that Roxy could zap and then they're done, its so cool!

it was a good and normal day, the place was packed with customers and as usual Stan was handling coffee like a pro, it was just when i had given table six a pie that a guy came in, he had the power of duplication, (well thats what Cleo said, she had met him before apparently) she said his name was Double. he staggered into the shop, he looked exhausted!
"John. has time travelling. Damian is in past, Coyote Sands. Linda's gonna kill him" he colapsed. Cleo made sure that no-one called the police and she erased their memories.
Tempest showed up, i thought he didn't have his powers but he'd clearly gotten there through teleportation, maybe through someone elses power, he saw what had happened to Double (he was in the kitchen lying on a table with Tayla putting a damp cloth on his head) he was worried.
"what happened?" Cleo told him the story, it was around this time when Tayla yelled that Double wasn't breathing, he didn't have a pulse, i tried to speed up his heart but i can only speed something up if it was moving in the first place. he was dead and we had no means of getting back in time.

Cleo: after that i used my tracking power to try and find Damian, if he was alive now (he would probably be older though) then i can ask him what happened, but he was untracable, which meant that he was dead. Past Linda did kill him! i summoned present Linda to ask her about this, she said that she could barely remember the last few days of the Coyote Sands camp, let alone one specific person who was there then, i went all through her mind and used claresentiance on her but i couldn't find Damian, although he might have changed his appearance so i cant be sure about the guy she was talking to (or rather yelling at) through lots of dust was or wasn't him. this is gonna be hard.

New Order

i'm Shifter, i'm gonna tell you about what happened yesterday--

We were on the other side of the building making sure that our offices and storage spaces were at their best, it was then that John showed up, he started to monologue us after he'd "deleted" our powers (albeit temporarily, our powers returned when he died, well, his clone, he's getting better at his cloning) he told us all about the jumping through time and how it was all Sage and him who had set up everything.
"after Cleo killed Ferris and Death was gone we decided that we should use this as an advantage, Sage created a fake Ferris (with a full power) and made sure that they jumped through time, just to confuse her" he explained, "i'm pretty sure we succeeded" he said.
Ali had to say: "Cleo doesn't get confused, she's too smart! for all you know, you're the one being played!" it was probably at this time that John had started to think about just leaving a clone, a clone that would bleed and all, Sage probably gave him that nifty trick. as we were on the ground and powerless, we couldn't fight him, of course, Cleo came at that time. i'm so sure that when she got there, John had sent out a clone of his to the two 3D's (Zander and sass or whatever her real name is) to get the upper hand.
well you know the rest.

after that--
we sat down in Cleo's office, she told us about Damian being stuck back in time, or he had been back in time. she wanted to know why, but she turned her attention to something else after stating that obvious fact. she officially allowed Gravity and PowerPoint, to be in TP. she reassigned partners, but there was no more "one of us, one of them" policy.

1. Ali and Charlie
2. Powerpoint and Me
3. Geoff and Gravity
4. Tayla and Roxy
5. Talkie and Dave
6. Omni and Chelsea
7. Stan and Cleo

thats what i've got, i wih we'd gotten Evan though! he could get over power deletion for a whole second! i have a theory that power deleting is like black lightning, and that John just didn't use enough on Evan the first time.

Stan, Cleo, Roxy and Tayla decided to open a take-out store in the place where old TP was, they think that we can get more recruits and that we'll have a chance to find more powered people, plus we now have a meeting spot for The C.H.A.S.E people to come to if they ever need our help, same goes for VHS and Zodiac.

Fighters

Roxy here! and Cleo has breifed you all on on the stuff at Sydney harbour bridge, and what i'd been doing on behind the scenes, and the reason id didn't tell her, Stan, Samantha, or Talkie is because Stan isn't good with Cleo's powers and is'nt thetype to put heaps of peoples lives on the line, Cleo is good without her powers cos she's resourcful ut she has a tendancy to be a daredevil, which could put people in danger, technopathy wasn't needed, and persuasion was already acounted for with a person from The C.H.A.S.E who had telepathy.


this is who came, and i hav to say it was daunting being on top of a bridge! Cleo (though she might not have wanted to say it) saved around 3-4 of us from falling!

The C.H.A.S.E--

• Evan Drake: he was the one who had telepathy, he was in charge of getting into Johns head to make sure he didn't use his power, which worked, for persuasion. he (John) did use a few other powers to take us on.


• Gravity: he could manipulate gravity, i'd mentioned him before.


• PowerPoint: she had electrical absorption.


• 3D: she could move the world around, then she would place it back, she could also make earthquakes, since she had an all encompassing earth power.


• Chris: TK, he came, he saw and he helped stop Sage from melting a support from the bridge. he has strong TK, and was able to hold it up with some help from Gravity.


• Shifter, she didn't come with us to the bridge but she returned to TP
  
• Reform: he could make a replica out of anything, he remade the support of the bridge.


• Track: he could find ANYTHING and go to that exact location, he helped me and the others with taking down Sage. he didn't go to the bridge

from TP--

• Me
• Cleo
• Dave, so he could heal people, and it was a good thing we brought him
• Charlie: he was fast at flying nd got in a few good hits.
• Omni: she didn't go, but she depicted many of us falling, which stemmed into us bringing Dave.

So that was all the stuff that happened, now we just have to get John.