[SRP]NoMoreHeroes–Issue10: Mannahatta

[ZeroForever]

Danarth - Daniel Horatio Blaidd AKA 'Lykos' – Horo Gleason
His brief look at the ball was interrupted as the clock tower rung once more, the campus turning into a whirlwind of hustle and bustle as main school day had apparently ended. The various sports teams meeting on the fields, while other after school activity groups were beginning to congregate, and another share of the school girls were leaving campus, various maids in tow. The ball on the other hand stopped beeping “Shutting down” he heard it say as the device seemingly powered off, changing from green to a dull grey color.

Stray-chan - Lucius Banks AKA Headbanger – Bubbles
“Yes were going for ice cream” Ms. Utonium said as if lecturing noticing her drinking she spoke up again, “Only one drink Bubbles, I don’t need you getting drunk today.” the other girls snickering at that comment clearly remembering something. The rest of the car ride was rather uneventful as they arrived a few minutes later. From a distance they could see various paparazzi standing around along with fans. The car however parked in a rather secluded spot as they were ushered in via a back entrance as they were greeted by a rather greasy looking tubby Guido guy “Your early today!” he spoke up however was quickly shot down by Ms. Utonium “We have no intention of starting early, we’re just heading over to Moo’s Creamery before signing.” She said as she walked past him exiting through side door Buttercup and Blossom following behind.

Ickle Harri-chan - Katherine 'Kitty' Harrison AKA The Flying Fox – Catalina Essex
“If we have time between your required activities, I’ll take a look at fitting something in for next semester. The final decision is your fathers though.” Maria said as they walked down the hallways before pausing in front of one of the class rooms. “Since were over here we may as well drop by the anime club so you can socialize. I’ll get Mimi in the mean time.” Maria said before opening the door and ushering her in. Inside the lecture room class was otaku of every type, the club apparently accommodating all the non-university grades. Catalina found herself emotionally and mentally craving this crowd, as if it was natural. “Cat!” one of the girls called out waving to her, a raven haired girl probably the same age as her though in a middle school uniform.

[Harri-chan]

Catalina nodded her head, dragging her feet slightly as she followed after Maria, her mind still on the classes. She had a chance to try anything. Perhaps she could take up archery, and be like Hawkeye, or... her eyes suddenly widened, and she let out a gasp as a penny dropped in her mind. She had a chance to learn new things... to re-invent herself. "Maria... wait up... ", she called as she hurried after the maid, now with a big grin on her face. For the last ten years almost she'd struggled to get herself taken seriously. She'd always known it wasn't because of a lack of powers, after all, Batman and Iron man didn't really have powers... but they did have money. Now she was almost sure that this wasn't the result of some Super Villain attack, but rather, a chance to do things over again, without all the problems she'd had before... such as the entire city treating her like a joke.

"Don't you think you could say something, and maybe get them started sooner? Like... tomorrow? I'm serious about this, I really want to get fit... ohh, and do you think we'd have time to stop at a comic store before dinner? I know this great little one over by the burger... hey, wait... huh? Anime club?". She watched Maria walking off, before turning to look around the lecture room, her nose twitching a little. "Great.. ", she sighed, clutching her forehead as one of the girls in uniform called to her. To Catalina's mostly adult mind, this girl was really young, much younger than she'd dealt with for quite a long time... and then she blushed as she realised she wasn't looking down at this girl either. A little shiver went down her spine as she thought about how she was eye-level with Maria's breasts, and Maria was a teen... what were adults going to look like now? "Uh... Hi... ", she said nervously when the girl called her name, and she took a deep breath before heading across the room towards her.

Catalina had been into comics big time as an adult, but that was about it as far as her knowledge of nerd hobbies went. She'd barely ever played a video game, and definitely hadn't watched any anime. A worried look passed over her face at the strange emotional urges she felt as she made her way between the desks, a finger nudging her glasses as she studied several of the kids she passed, her expression turning to one of suprise as she felt herself actually relaxing a little, as if this was somewhere familiar. When she finally reached the raven-haired girl, she studied the uniform with a look of concern. "I know this is a long shot... but are there any comics in here? I'm... uh... in the mood to study super heroes", she said awkwardly.

[Danarth]

Looking up from the strange beeping ball as he heard the bell begin to ring another commotion began to stir up as the the field began fill with various different sports teams. A close call with members of a Track team had almost resulted in his long bushy tail almost getting trodden upon by a spiked running shoe, only the chance flick of his tail avoided it and as a resulted garnered a muttered comment about 'Damned mutant, getting in my way' from the team member who had almost trodden on his tail. In response to this muttered comment all he was capable of doing was looking at the person who muttered it, baring his sharp canines and growling at the runner for a moment before turning away from him and back towards the ball. As he looked at it, the beeping final stopped as the ball seemed to shut itself down. Sitting there for a few more moments as he tried to decide what to do with the ball. It was useless now but he thought it better to return it to place where he had been given it. Standing up onto all fours legs, he would pushing his long snout against the ball and began to roll it back towards the clocktower.

Nudging the ball along at a reasonable pace, passing by the groups of girls and maids who had gathered and seemed to be head off in various different directions to do things he could only guess at. Stopping for a moment as an itch suddenly made itself known along his flank, his hind leg would raise up and scratch vigoursly at it until it was gone, then he would carry on heading towards the clock tower as if what he had just done was perfectly natural. As he went along, his mind would be cast back to the girl he met before who seemed to know him, the first one who had accused him of being in male form, A charge he still didn't quite understand. As he thought about her, his body would react in a strange manner, one that he was not quite sure why. He barely knew this blonde haired girl, yet his body felt this cheerful warm feeling about her and his bushy tail would wag happily as he thought about her. Perhaps he was just her pet and he was merely exhibiting the normal reaction an intelligent pet has to it's owner.

After a second rather close call occured just after he arrived at the area with clocktower, a student who seemed to be in a rush just managed to bring themselves to halt before they barrelled right into Daniel, who would let out a yelp of surprise as he was bumped into, feeling the knees of the student bump into his side. The surprise would cause the strange de-powered ball to roll of towards a grassy verge nearby. Recovering from the surprise of almost tripping over the 'wolf', the rushed student would mutter something about mutants and being a nusiance before rushing off again. Watching the harried student for a moment before following the ball onto the verge. Looking at the ball for a moment, pondering what to do with it for a few moments before settling down on the grass beside the ball, waiting to see if the blonde girl would show up, while he did, his tongue would hang out as he panted slowly, he had been feeling rather warm at the moment, so he would relax and try to cool down as he waited....

[ZeroForever]

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
It wasn’t long before her revelry was interrupted as she felt a presence standing behind her “Mimi, put away the utensils already” Maria said looking around in her naturally smiling manner. “Catalina is attending her club today so you have some free time today. Catalina’s having dinner out tonight so there’s no rush; just remember to be home before 5 for your daily chores and Master Essex wanted to see you around 10 tonight. Any Questions?”

Kaizer - Mark Habel AKA Grav – Ming Zhu
The girl clearly wasn’t the patient type as she walked over whapping the backside of Mark’s head. “You’re lucky I didn’t just leave you in detention since we have club meetings now.” she said scolding Mark/Ming before pulling her along the hall by her arm. “and what the hell were you doing getting mad at the nurse for? You’re lucky she didn’t do something overly drastic and just left it to the VR classes.” She shouted while they ran.

[Zoey]

Mark is dragged out like a master dragging his dog from doing anything on the carpet he just bought. She does her best not to fall as she's dragged by the older maid. It doesn't help that she is completely confused as to what is going on or that the high heels she's wearing offer no help. "What's going on?! Who are you?!" she demanded to the older maid. Its amazing a woman has this much strenght to be able to drag her like a rag doll.

[ZeroForever]

Miku-chan - Ben Reilly AKA Scarlet Spider – Gwen Watson
The rest of the car ride was uneventful, as the pair soon arrived at the beach, the section of the beach they were shooting at having been privately cordoned off from the public. Parking as they headed towards the set up area MJ singled with her hand which quickly brought over some of the black suit dressed security “There’s paparazzo in the shrubbery some of the crab grass behind me to the left, hurry up and do your job.” She said annoyed at the oversight. The guys quickly scampering into the underbrush as a yep and scuffle could be heard as they brought back an unkempt skinny middle aged man in camouflage clothing and associated camera. “Gwen I’ll let you choose what to do with this annoyance, I’m going to check the shoot area.”

[Maiden Miki]

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
It wasn’t long before her revelry was interrupted as she felt a presence standing behind her “Mimi, put away the utensils already” Maria said looking around in her naturally smiling manner. “Catalina is attending her club today so you have some free time today. Catalina’s having dinner out tonight so there’s no rush; just remember to be home before 5 for your daily chores and Master Essex wanted to see you around 10 tonight. Any Questions?”

Mimi was cleaning a bit as she felt something behind her. She turned around and held on to the broom. A good feeling was bubbling in Mimi as she knew that this was Maria. The older women made her feel good. She listen to what Maria was saying and knew that this was a good time to get some information. THough she knew that it be a bit hard to get some information from her and this Catalina would be best. She was thinking of a plan already. If anything it sounded like her afternoon was mostly free.

"Umm....Just a few questions." said Mimi as she held on to the broom. "Don't I have to get something for Catalina? I guess I should bring them when I get home right? Also....How do I get home again? I don't want to get lost."

[Miku-chan]

Miku-chan - Ben Reilly AKA Scarlet Spider – Gwen Watson
The rest of the car ride was uneventful, as the pair soon arrived at the beach, the section of the beach they were shooting at having been privately cordoned off from the public. Parking as they headed towards the set up area MJ singled with her hand which quickly brought over some of the black suit dressed security “There’s paparazzo in the shrubbery some of the crab grass behind me to the left, hurry up and do your job.” She said annoyed at the oversight. The guys quickly scampering into the underbrush as a yep and scuffle could be heard as they brought back an unkempt skinny middle aged man in camouflage clothing and associated camera. “Gwen I’ll let you choose what to do with this annoyance, I’m going to check the shoot area.”

Gwen sqwirms in anticipation as the security suits bring the camo clad photographer to her. Chewing on her lower lip, she gets a idea to try on the man. Taking out her Toy from her purse, she slinks up to the man and purrs in his ear..."You have the honor to be my first, I hope you enjoy this as much as I will..." placing the Butterfly into his mouth, she tries to will her red stuff to form a bond with the vibrator and the man, just wondering where she got the idea to impliment her cruel impulse, and watching in facination as her Red Stuff not only hits the photographer, but the pair of security suited men as well..."MJ...I think I did something wrong, can you come see what is happening?" Gwen calls out, the first of her targets already screaming with no sound comming out, his mouth distending like a colbra snake as he starts to loose mass and the butterfly vibrator pulses with life. Its wings fluttering against the mans throat, causing him to spasm like he was in the throws of a orgasm...

[ZeroForever]

As she thought about the cloths, knowledge of how they worked naturally came to mind, as the rest of the memories came unbidden forth replacing memories of his post army heroic life with hatred, hardship, pain, and love. After the 3 had escaped in an informal introduction he realized they were his former teammates Frank and Slade. However time for reflection was limited they were chased relentlessly by the government as terrorists. Living life on the run however was the least of their problems as they soon found themselves slaves to their mental and physical programming. Stans was interesting to say the least, as they soon found out when stealing cloths. Each of them had different mental issues with clothing, Stan specifically found herself unable to wear anything not skin tight and didn’t reveal cleavage, her skin acting like it had a rash whenever she tried other. Also like in the lab she also soon found herself craving juices excreted by those with X genes, her lust became unbearable as she soon found herself craving it mindlessly. They found themselves hounded constantly fear, paranoia, pain, lust, becoming normal.
It wasn’t until they contacted one of the underground movements the Murlocks that she was able to rest and sate herself. During this brief respite however there past lives seemed to drift further and further, Slade and Frank taking up the names Selma and Fei li respectively as she soon found herself responding to Stella. However their rest brought forth other issues as bodies began to react to the murlocks X-gene, the chemicals that had altered them were originally meant for mutants after all. They soon realized that the effect was furthering their transformation as genetics changed, they themselves becoming part ‘processed’ mutant. There respite with the Murlocks was short lived as they were tracked and attacked, though repelled they were banished for allowing the government to track them. Thus they returned to being on the run, the government always somehow one step behind no matter where or how they hid. It wasn’t until they received a ‘job offers’ that required certain skills did their luck change, the job was bloody involving a mix of kidnapping, spying, and murder… but the offer of protection from the government and ‘lives’, was sufficient to drive them to accept given their ragged states. The job done there new employer greeted them, even they had heard whispers of her but no one knew if it was true the Queen-Pin ruler of the US underground was there new boss. That was 3 nearly years ago and dozens of jobs ago the 3 of them had long since settled into the darkness. When not working assignments they were expected to work incognito enforcement jobs at the casino or such.
(pretty much all his hero life memories were replaced with the last 2 posts. She has a developed artificial mutant power which is the ability for her milk to act like different toxins, however using it causes her body alter in mass at times (minor shape changing.) I’ll hold off on the other 2 NPC’s as I’m being lazy but I would hope you realize who they are.)

Danarth - Daniel Horatio Blaidd AKA 'Lykos' – Horo Gleason
His rest was interrupted as he was rapped over the head with the ball. At some point Roberta had picked it up without him even realizing she was there. “Put it away in one of the storage units at least…” She sighed before walking off with the ball in hand seemingly disappearing from his senses as quickly as she had appeared.
Several minutes passed before he once again heard a voice calling out “Horo what are you doing over here? I had to use the GPS to find you!” the voice coming from the blond haired girl from earlier emerged from the various crowds clearly annoyed. "No treat for you tonight." she said in admonishing tone.

[Knight Errant]

((Holy detailed backstory Batman! Nice work, Zero... heh.))

'Stella' slowly dresses herself, her hands working mechanically as they seem suddenly well-rehearsed in dressing her in tight female clothing... the reason becoming apparent as her memory of her past clears. She looks down at her voluptuous body... feeling a sense of self loathing. Her mutated body had trapped her in a cycle of lust and addiction... one she saw no end to.

As she finishes dressing and slipping on her heels, her thoughts come back to the government. It was there fault for doing this... their fault for not helping the three of them... For chasing them for years... for driving them to work for these bad people...

She shakes her head. There was nothing she could do for now. If there was anything, Fei Li or Selma would find it... they could think better than she could. They were her friends... and didnt abandon her when they could have...

It was with that last thought that she finishes straightening her outfit up in the mirror, and turns to find Fei Li. "I'm ready Fei!"

[ZeroForever]

Zilla - Name: Sandra Yen / Sparker - Hime
“Not this time, to many things to work on already and as I’ve said before field jobs never were my thing.” Norbert said getting up his face still in her robotic cleavage “Just doing a final check before we sent you out for the show”.
“I’m sure that’s all you were checking” Batou’s voice interrupted the sarcasm quite evident as the older soldier appeared. “Just hurry it up“he said before getting into the driver’s seat of the van.
“fine fine” Norbert said as he pressed his eat against her body as if hearing the machines at work, his eyes and hands meanwhile tampering with a physical display “Good to go 02, just don’t get to many scratches this time.” He said getting up.

[ZeroForever]

Ickle Harri-chan - Katherine 'Kitty' Harrison AKA The Flying Fox – Catalina Essex
“Why would you need the comic section? Your home library is larger than it already.” The other girl said matter of factly. “The books are in the library if you’re really that bored, though you could just read them on your cell… I mean you were the one to show me that app.”
“Yuna” They were interrupted as another girl came over to ask the black haired girl something whispering it in her ear so it wasn’t over heard. “I’ll be right back, oh yeah did you bring your DS today, I wanted to check some stats in pokemon.” Yuna said heading out the club room real quick.

[Zilla]

Hime slips her arms around Norbert for a quick hug, then she hops into the passenger's seat of the van. "Take care!" she says, bringing her hand to her synthetic lips and blowing to him before strapping herself in.

She looks at Batou with a half smile. "Oh, don't think of it like that," she says, though she's not even sure if she means it. "He's just.... well...." She trails off and scans the distance, letting the thought tumble into the abyss.

"Anyway, let's get this show on the road!"

[Harri-chan]

Catalina did a rather poor job of hiding her suprise when she heard that she apparently had more comics at home than the club did. Combined with the fact that being around these teenagers seemed to be releasing some sort of relaxation chemical into her brain, she began to actually feel good inside, and a smile tugged at the corners of her lips. "Ohh... Maria took my phone... I was using it in class... ", she winced, when what she'd actually wanted to say was... huh, you can do that on a PHONE?! She'd have to try and figure that thing out when she got it back, as it sounded like it could be useful.

It was another relief when the girl infront of her was revealed to be called Yuna, avoiding the awkwardness that might have come from not knowing the name of her friend, but when the other girl seemed to be leading Yuna away, Catalina suddenly, and without entirely meaning to, reached out to grasp a handful of the black-haired girl's school skirt. She blushed at what she'd done, "You'll come right back.. ?", she asked with a slight nervousness to her voice. She'd never met this teenager in her life, but something was happening inside her, with her hormones and emotions, and she knew that she... liked being around this girl, and didn't want to get abandoned so soon. "Uh... yeah... I think I brought it... ". Reluctantly, she let go of Yuna's skirt, biting her bottom lip as she watched her go. Pulling her purse around to her front, she began to dig through it, before pulling out the handheld.

Giving her glasses a nudge, she turned away from the desk, and started to slowly wander around the room, turning the DS over in her hands before figuring open how to flip it open, and then spent another couple of minutes finding the on switch before the thing came to life. She blushed a little at the way her new body felt as she walked, no more swaying hips, and her eyes glanced down at the slim figure beneath the white dress and matching tights, while blonde pigtails swished behind her. Her nose twitched a little as she reached a hand back to stroke her fingers through one of them. It had been a long time since she'd had long hair, and she remembered how much longer it took to wash and dry back then compared to how it had been after she'd cut it into a more mature short style.

She winced a little at how much she was missing Yuna already, but she still felt more at home here amongst these teenagers than she had in the class room full of college kids. Now things had slowed down, she had time to reflect, and began getting nervous about meeting this Father that Maria had mentioned so much, although she'd not heard mention of a Mother, so she started feeling curious about getting home to find out more, and of course there was still the matter of meeting this Bubbles person for dinner. Sitting her bottom on the edge of a table, she stretched her legs infront of herself, turning her feet a little as she examined the shiny Mary Janes before glancing back up at the door, watching it and waiting for the return of the raven-haired girl. Setting the DS on the desk, she pulled out her notepad and made some additions: 'Comic book research!', 'New name', 'new costume', and 'Tell Yuna?', before stuffing it back into the expensive purse and poking at the DS. "Pokemon... ugh... gotta find out how old I am", she muttered under her breath as she cast her gaze over some of the other anime club members, blushing as once more her teenage hormones made themselves known, "This is not good... can't let myself get distracted".

[Danarth]

Horo had been sitting on the grassy verge near the the pathway, mulling over what he did know and didn't know about this strange reality. What he did know was miniscule and what he didn't know quite literally appeared to be volumous, which was shown in rather great detail by the amount of trouble he had already gotten into today with various people whom he did not know, from the various head maids to the blonde girl, all of whom definetely seem to know who he was, or at the very least they knew who he was in this strange reality. All of a sudden, while he was still sat there lost in his thoughts, his reverie was shattered by a sudden and very surprising blow to the head, not a particularly hard one but enough to shock him into moving. Looking around he would catch a glance of the maid who had admonished him before about bring in a male form and had given him the strange ball device. He had to restrain himself from snarling at her, the wolf part of him found this sudden surprise similiar to a sneak attack and it was reacting on instinct with only the human portion of his mind stopping him. Watching as she left as quickly as she arrived, one thing surprised him the most, He recieved absolutely no warning that she was there, no scent, no sound of breathing or footsteps. Evidentally she was a mutant too, but that was quite a feat, to completely mask all traces of her presence like that and for her presence to vanish as she did. That was impressive, he found and would be very useful for a head maid certainly, the ability to surpress any trace of her presence would allow her to get the drop on any maids who would be slacking off. The fact that she was able to sense him before, even though he was trying his best to keep himself out of sight of the woman did not bother him a great deal, he was only new to being like this, but the fact that she was capable of sneaking up on him without even a hint of her being there disturbed him greatly, his senses were far more sensitive than a normal humans by many degrees so the fact that she was capable of this, was surprising to no end.

Horo would shake his head for a moment to clear out the slight ringing in his large ears from the blow to the head. He was going to have to start learning things about this place otherwise he was going to get into even greater trouble than he already seemed to be in. He especially had to find out what this male form business was about, as he really didn't find the idea of being neutered to be at all appealing. At all. Standing up from his spot on the grassy verge but very quickly sat back down again as one of his hind legs came up and scratched along his flank a few times, his claws scratching through his fur at the same itchy spot along his side. Settling his leg down on the ground after he had finished scratching he would prepare to settle down again and wait for this blonde haired girl to reappear. No sooner than he considered doing this did then his ears twitched and he picked up the sound of the girl's voice, his tail twitched happily for a moment before he heard the rather annoyed tone of her voice. Listening to what she had to say, listening to her admonishing tone turned that happily feeling into a rather strong feeling of guilt, one that he did not know where it had come from, he barely knew this girl. Regardless of that, the feeling was there and it was real and it indicated he was in even more trouble than he was before. Lowering his lupine head for a moment , slowly and meekly moving over to the girl. He then looked up at her and tried to apologize to her "I am sorry, Miss" but despite his attempt to apologize to her, the fact he was stuck in his wolf form, the only noise that came out was a plaintive and apologtic lupine whine. As he heard his own voice as nothing but a lupine noise, he sighed for a moment then scratched at his neck, nudging the strange electronic collar about his neck with his paw a few times, looking at the girl after he did this, to see if she understood what he was trying to do. After this he would slope low, keeping his head bowed low, still feeling rather bad that he had annoyed this girl. He stood there, tail low as he waited to see what the girl was going to do next and what was going to happen to him...