Ugh. Must think of bad memory for Dale. Will be back…

Later: Yay! Thought of a bad memory for Dale!!!

Random message from Dale: Why must you torment me so?! Yesterday, I was just an ordinary kid who just so happened to have superpowers! I had no sister!

Dale~

 Adam came out, looking shaky. I came in, scared.

 "I am going to enter your mind and seek out one of your memories. Try to block me. Is that fine with you?"

 I feel her presence in my mind before I could scream "NO!"

 They were playing in the yard, Dale and his sister Lydia. Their parents were inside, discussing the roof and other problems of the sort. There were plenty of plants, and Dale was amusing Lydia by making them dance. A gardener's power, she had called it, but she had leaned to respect it, just like he had learned to respect her ability to run as fast as a cheetah when she wanted to. Dale and his sister, both with powers. Their father had powers too, simple ones: the ability to levitate things at will. Dale had called it stupid. 

His father had never joined the Protectorate. Whenever their mother mentioned it, he would lose his temper and give the whole family the silent treatment until the next day. Except for Lydia. She was their favorite, she was everything a son should have been: impulsive, strong, brave. And he was a coward. A weak coward.

 That day in the yard, Dale had looked up and saw three men surrounding them. "They're the kids," one grunted.

"Too bad the father hadn't joined the Protectorate, he could have been able to protect his kids, hur hur," added another. 

 Dale screamed, and the plants rushed to his aid, forming a wall around him. Some of them bound the mens' legs, and then they let Dale go.

"Run, Lydia! Take my hand and run!" he hollered, reaching for her hand. With her power, they could escape.

"No way!" she snapped. "I'm not going to be your tool in getting away, coward! These men are supervillains or something, probably!" 

No, no, no. I hated the part that came next. I couldn't relive it again. I had almost forgotten.

 I could feel the memory, as thin as a shadow. Closing my eyes, I tried as hard as possible to push it out. There was a small exclamation of pain next to me, but I didn't notice. I just pushed. I had to get that memory out. I had to!

 I kept pushing, until I heard a voice over me, "Wake up! You pass, you pass!" Something shook me roughly.

 But I hadn't gotten it out. It was in me, clear as ever.

 "You tried to block out a memory," she explained. "You expelled me instead. Dale,never try to block out a memory. It can lead to insanity. It never goes well, you were lucky I was there."

 As I came out, I sat downon a bench and muttered, "Whoever's next, watch out. I would be willing to bet you anything that you won't enjoy it." 

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A thought which probably won't be answered for a while since SC's on vacation: did Legion have to take the same test? How did he handle it? 

Rin~

I walked into the room, the woman stood there and spoke the same words she had probably spoken to everyone else then I sat down. I don't really have that many really "bad" memories, like the others probably do. I felt her begin to reach for my head, thats strange, I have never been able to feel things like that before, then she was in it, looking for a painful memory. Ouch, that hurts I said aloud, she was going through all the times I had fallen when I was practicing my power. I relived my worst crashes, the time I fell off a  cliff(I had saved myself of course). I began to try to fight her, I took my most "painful" memories, and shoved them at her, not the memories, the pain. As I did this I thought, maybe my power isn't just hair, it's control over my own head! She retreated, I couldn't reach her outside my own head, that wasn't my territory, but now I knew, I could push her out of mine. She then spoke "You pass" then she fell back in her chair, she had a black eye coming, probably from Danni's punch. "How did it go" Danni whispered to me, "I discovered a part of my power, I never knew, I answered back."

Jasper says hmph, I don't think she approves of me giving Rin more power.

Finally posting, now that I have Internet! Back from camp! Where I didn't go to sleep until at least 2 am! Yay! I'm hyper!

Actually, Legion did not have to take the test, which I will explain in my post.

Legion

I have an extreme dislike for Meridan. Extreme dislike. Really extreme dislike.

Part of it is that she's a mindreader. I don't want her in my head. I don't know if she can change what's in my head, but she really better not try. One of my guys invented a helmet that could potentially block her out, but it also blocks my psychic link, so it's a no can do.

The other part of it is that sometimes, the way she acts, I'm not totally sure that she's a good guy. I'm not saying that I get warm and fuzzy feelings from defeating evil and all that, but the looks on their faces after they finish the little "test" don't really help her cause. She's got one of the greatest powers, and I kind of feel like she's abusing it a little.

I never had to take this test. Both my parents are or were in government. Really high up and all that. I used to live in DC, and their version of the Protectorate is called Satellite. It's a pretty elite thing, and you have to be totally committed to get in. Because the leader of Satellite, Ignition, who's one of the most powerful superhero or supervillian I've ever seen, because Ignition knew who my parents were and what they did, he decided that I could join, at the age of fourteen, as a junior member. Satellite is really elite because it covers DC and all the politics and everything there. So when I moved here, to Richalian, after the Bray Incident, I got in to the Protectorate without having to have my brain picked to pieces by Meridan. All my credentials were transferred.

I think it's one of the stupidest things ever. Meridan digs up old, ugly memories that really shouldn't be dug up. I just think that the Protectorate shouldn't do it.

Everyone's gone except Noliam. Dale isn't looking so good, and nobody else is either. Noliam opens the door to the room, and…

…CRASH…

…stuff goes flying. Not just stuff, the walls, the ceiling, every bloody thing.

Instantly, my suit goes into total overdrive. There's Pepper, Adam, Aidan, Rin, Leota, Danni, Dale, and Noliam. Meridan is still in the room, and my suit sees her. There are a few random people around, nobody who can get us off this collapsing building in time, except Pilot.

Fifteen replicas. Now. One for all the kids. Nine. We're 480 feet up, and my suit has an emergency parachute/hanglider that should work well enough. If not, the replicas will cushion the fall with their own bodies.

Pilot grabs three people and flies down the building, deposits them on the ground, and comes back up for three more. As far as I can tell, all the damage is just on this floor. Which is really weird.

Well, it's not so weird anymore when Luminescence walks through all the damage along with Malice and Havoc and Serpent. "Tell the Protectorate," Luminescence says, "that they have 72 hours to give me all the Z files, or my spies will publicly release every single one of your secret identities. I'm quite sure that other villians would be quite willing to take advantage of that."

That is a scary threat. A lot of the 355 people, now 362 people, they have families, people that they love and care about. There are some people out there who want revenge on superheroes. There's a reason that we have secret identities.

Pilot is still there. I know who he is, and he doesn't have a family, but he does have a girlfriend. He doesn't know who I am.

A helicopter arrives, and the four of them step foot on it. Two of the most feared supervillians in the Richalian area, Luminescence and Havoc, are working together. Malice is a relatively new supervillian and Serpent hasn't always been evil.

The helicopter flies away from the building. Something scaly snakes out of it and smashes into one of me. Presumably one of Serpent's arms.

I can't fly. Pilot can't catch them.

I'm sorry. he thinks. We're too high up. I have the sudden sensation of falling… and then nothing.

* * * * *

Noliam was dead as soon as he hit the ground.

"What are the Z files?" Rin asks, her eyes filled with tears. 

Leota shrugs. "Do you know, Legion?"

I shrug too. "I've heard it mentioned, but I have no idea."

I'm going to write another story that's probably never going to be finished, just like all the rest, and could I use your guys characters?

Rin~

Danni and I are going to be bunking together at D5; when we reached our room, we found our "super suits" already set out. Mine was a green suit (hunter green) with long durable, rubberery brown boots, and gloves, no cape, no mask, no elastic underwear; it did however, come with 2 brown elastic hair ties. I dressed, and then Danni dressed. We went out, back to where the others were. An old lady (50, I think) took my shoulder, and said, "Well, I will be training you. I'm Stretch; my body has the strechyness and consistency of rubber, so since our powers our similar, I will teach you how to use yours for combat". Someone else took Danni away, and I left with Stretch. "Okay, the first thing you will need to learn, it how to make trip wires and such; since you can manipulate the strands of your hair, I think you should use a spider's web as your base and try to trap me in this room." I let my hair grow out long, then I separated the strands (I had never tried this before) and tied then to different corners of the room; they looked a bit transparent, and I put them around like lasers in a spy movie. "Good," said Stretch, then she broke through the strands and said, "Not good enough." We went back to practice…

Legion

And, of course, Meridan puts me in charge of general physical training. Translation: a bunch of newly inducted superpowered teenagers try to beat up multiple me's. Absolutely wonderful. I wouldn't really have minded mentoring one of the kids, even though mentoring Rin would have been kind of weird because I know absolutely nothing about hair, and Meridan seemed obsessed with Pepper Collins, so I wouldn't have minded Adam, Aidan, Danni, Noliam or Dale. Really, I wouldn't have minded too much. Oh. Well, not Noliam, I guess

But putting me in charge of "general physical training"? Okay, so I have enhanced strength that the suit helps me with. I can fight really well, but I really shouldn't be the one who trains the people who are going to go out into the world and save lives and battle evil. If I train them, their training will be severely lacking.

The Protectorate Tower has been compromised, so we moved to Quarters, where everybody has a room, the food is good and free, and it holds all our central computers. I have a room there, all the members of the Protectorate there, and I share it with Chase Tracer, who went undercover seven months ago and has been ever since. So our room is empty, because the only things I have in there is one change of clothes and a small set of tools that I can use to fix small problems with my suit. I've slept in the bed once.

After a few hours, they all show up, looking exhausted. I'm in full suit, because even though they've only been in training for three hours, they can probably do some serious damage. Besides, seventy metal people with enhanced strength are a lot scarier than seventy scrawny 18 year olds.

"30 laps around," I said, "and no cheating." 3 replicas instantly appear around the gym. I intend for them to help with training and be around for a while, so they name themselves.  Nathan thinks the one standing a few feet away from me. Scott thinks the one standing near the weights. Marconne Kadison Ingriel Potter Eiloni Darab Rashores Kirstif Odair Magdain Bray thinks the one sitting on top of the rock climbing wall.

What the heck? I think. We're calling you Marc.

I'm getting a mohawk.

No, you're not. Don't get a mohawk.

I'm getting a mohawk and I'm dying it many colors. HAH!

I ignore, uh, Marc.

"Get going," I said. They all looked at me like I had replaced their hated gym teachers, which I pretty much had.

With the suit supporting me, I can stand for hours and not have to move. Using the screen on the inside of my suit, I could use verbal commands to direct it that would not be heard outside of the suit. I was searching the Protectorate mainframe for the Z files that Luminesence had mentioned. I could find absolutely nothing. Nothing. But they were done running in fifteen minutes, so I might have to search deeper later.

"So," I said, when they were done and looked even more exhausted then before. "You've just spent three hours with your private instructors, so tell me, what have you learned about combat?"

"Use your powers and you can do anything," Aidan snapped. "Like shift into a wolf and bite your instructors head off."

"Wrong," I said. "Anybody else?"

"Strangle him with your hair," Rin suggested.

"Wrong," I said. I paused. "Who has seen the Hunger Games movie?" Quite a few nods. "You know Cato? From District 2? The one who beat Thresh and nearly won? Remember how Katniss blew up his supplies and then he got really mad? Remember how he snapped the kid from District 3's neck so fast that it was a second before the people in the theater gasped?"

Six replicas appeared behind each of them, so silently that they didn't notice. "What's your point?" Danni asked.

"Turn around." They do. The replicas then disappear, destroyed. "I could have killed all of you in less than a second. Combat is about being prepared, being ready and on guard, so that you don't die. Simple enough?"

They all looked mad. Mad and exhausted. "Class dismissed," I said.

Pepper stayed behind. "So if you'd been more ready, Noliam would still be alive?" she asked, then turned on heel and walked out.

"Noliam was…" I called after her.

She turned around. "Who's Noliam?" she asked blankly.

"I… nothing, never mind." Something was very, very wrong here. Pepper left

"Nice display," Meridan said from behind me.

"What did you do to her?" I asked.

Meridan actually had the nerve to look apologetic. "I had to make them forget him, Legion. Otherwise, they'd be way too distracted. You know that."

"Stay out of their heads," I said. "Or I'll get in them."

"You can't do that," she said, but she was lying. She didn't know that I could do that.

"Yes, I can, and yes I will, and once I get in them, you won't be able to even read them." Meridan couldn't read mine. I was just me, but at the same time I was sixteen different people, one of who was named Marconne Kadison Ingriel Potter Eiloni… the psychic link kept Meridan out, and I liked it that way.

"Legion, try and remember that we're on the same side," Meridan said in a sickly sweet voice.

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Note: Whenever Legion writes stuff about Meridan, like "actually had the nerve to look apologetic", he's seeing her in a very biased way.

Note.2: Sorry that I didn't wait for everyone to write about their trainers, but I've only posted once before, so.

Strangle with hair? Rin would more likely use her hair as a rope, and swing to a safe vantage point, then attack with a single strand, hitting a vital spot. She has alot of self preservation, so she wouldn't leave herself open by using her hair like that.

Rin~

I fell back on the bed, and sighed. I trained and trained with Stretch, then I had to train with Legion. Fun. "I'm hungry" I said to Danni, "Go find something to eat, I don't have anything" she snapped. I left the room, to look for someone, I walked down a long corridor, then I ran into.. a fly? The fly solidified, it was Aidan. He muttered something about the files and then ran off. That was odd, I thought. I walked on, suddenly, a hand stretched out- I blocked it with a wall of hair, and wrapped the hair around to pull the person to me. It was… Stretch, "Just testing you." she said. Then, I asked her about food, and she led me to a kitchen, I got a bag of chips and began to eat. Then I wandered back to the room. 

When I got there, nobody was there, but, a note was sitting on the bedside table,

-meet us in the main room, we have your first mission.

underneath was a set of instructions, which I followed to a large metalic room. Everyone was there. 

– end

Does anyone find it odd that Stretch was snooping aroud, maybe somone can use that and make her evil. Jasper says slpy, I think she wants me to shut the computer and go to (-_-)zzzz

^Adam^

How original.  The suit was blue.  Feeling stereotyped, and rebelious, I leave the spandex clothing in it's drawer.  After several minutes of trying to make water do ballet, Aidan walks in, late from physical training.  To avoid water splashing on the bed, I splash my flushed face with it instead.  I try to talk to him a bit, and he acts hostile.  I'm not particularly interested in making friends with him, so after we go our ways, he turns into a wolf and launches at me.  I deflect him with the remainder of the dancing water, but he turns into a bird and flies out the door.  He's a strange one, that fellow.

Rin

I looked over Leota's shoulder and gasped.

Name: Rin Smiles

Code Name: Miss Strands

Gender: Female

Crimes: None

Family: Harricane (Ryo Smiles)

Powers: Control over hair. This power is because of her ancestor, Demon Comb, who was the spirit of a 100 year old comb in Shimizu, Japan. This power passes from parent to child, unblockable, when we tried to stop Harricane from joining the society, we erased his memory, look at his file for more.

I looked over at Legion, "So this is what they want, files of everyone with powers? Are you telling me that "Super"s are no more than the descendants of ancient monsters, like ghosts, ogres, kitsune, dragons and more?!" Legion looked a bit annoyed. Now everyone else looked over the papers. "And what is the society?" I said. Legion spoke "They are the people  who believe we shouldn't have anything to do with humans"  I really don't know what to think anymore, my father, he seems so silly, but is he really hiding the fact he still has control. And why did Meridan mess with my head to make me forget Noliam? I don't get it.

Legion

Oh man. I am in so much trouble.

Ok, so I saved Leota from the massive falling rock, the only real thing in the simulation. Might I add, it was totally her fault that it fell, so, by extension, it's her fault I crashed her into a restricted section of the Protectorate. So it's her fault that a bunch of teenagers had access to the Z files. Yeah. Like that arguement will stand up in court.

Ok, so I knew Leota was half ghost. But I didn't tell her.

"YOU KNEW AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!" she screamed in my face.

"Uh, yeah?" I said in a very intelligent and not at all intimidated manner.

Leota waved her file in my face. "I'M HALF GHOST! HOW IS THAT NOT IMPORTANT!"

"What was I supposed to do? Hey Leota, guess what? You're half ghost! So that means you're also half dead! And what's already dead can't totally die! How the heck am I supposed to fit that into a normal conversation?"

"Friends don't keep secrets like that from other friends!" Leota yelled. That really hurt. I was her friend, truly. I liked her. Leota was a great friend. But I couldn't tell her because… I wasn't supposed to tell her. What the heck? Nobody ever told me that I wasn't supposed to tell Leota. Where had that thought come from? And then I realized what I had said. And then she realized what I had said. "What do you mean what's already dead can't totally die?! What do you mean I'm half dead?!"

"Uh… That's what Meridan said! Go ask her!" Leota glared at me. She read her file a little more, then flounced off.

Rin asked me something about us being descendants. I just looked at her. No, we definitely weren't all descendants of magical happy thingies. She may have been descended from the spirit of an ancient comb (don't ask me how that worked), but not everyone had superpowered parents. Some of us lived normal lives until suddenly there were three us's. Seriously, I was eating a bowl of cereal when I was nine, and then poof, three more me's, all holding spoons. True story.

"And who's the Society?" Rin asked.

The Society. "They're the people who believe we shouldn't have anything to do with humans."

"Is the Society human?"

"No. Total elitist organization. Some special power is a requirement to get in."

Pepper ran out of the room, her eyes full of tears. Yup. Meridan was her aunt.

Sometimes, I really, really hate being the bearer of surprises.

"Where's your file, Legion?" Adam asked suspiciously.

In response, I searched through the cabinet until I found it.

Name: Cassan Bray

Immediately, I ripped the top of the paper off, the part containing my name. I flicked on a little lighter I had installed a few weeks ago on my index finger, and burnt that slip of paper. My name was not Cassan anymore. It was Legion. Cassan was a different life. I didn't want the rest of them to know that I was part of the Bray family. They might not know, but I wasn't taking the chance.

Codename: Legion

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Crimes: Breaking into classified Satellite files.

Family: Gwendolyn Bray nee Concoran, Henry Bray

Yadayadayada, nothing that I didn't already know and that wasn't too hard to find out. Still, I didn't know that the Protectorate knew about me hacking in to the classified Satellite files. It was simple, Satellite wouldn't tell me exactly how my parents died, so I was going to find out. Turned out the reason they weren't telling me was because they didn't know either.

Powers: Creating fully functioning replicas of himself, but as of yet, replicas cannot replicate themselves. Psychic link with all replicas that fades over distance. Enhanced strength. Suspected the Legion might have enhanced intelligence concerning areas of technology and robotics, but unconfirmed G. Bray and H. Bray both confirmed non-superpowered. Grandparents confirmed nonsuperpowered. Great-grandparents, now all dead, mostly confirmed nonsuperpowered.

Origins of powers: Unknown. Most likely in "Superhuman" category, not "Descendant" category.

Other notes: The Society has shown interest in Legion for his replicating powers, believing that if he were to touch someone and replicate, that person would be replicated. We are unsure if this is possible. Legion replicates whatever he is wearing at time of replication, and usually whatever he is touching but we are unsure if this extends to living things.

*

Well. That was news.

"Okay, guys, this is what I think is happening-"

Aidan interrupted me. "If you're going to tell us the truth, then let's see your face." The shapeshifting kid glared at me. He did have a point. If they couldn't even see who I was, how could they know that I was telling the truth?

The silver reflective band that covered my eyes retracted, and then most of my suit that covered my face followed. "This good enough?" I asked Aidan. He nodded.

I continued. "There are two known types of superpowered humans. There's the Descendant category. They're descended from a variety of different creatures, spirits, ghosts, etc. Their powers are almost always predictable, whatever their parents and ancestors had, that's almost always what they'll have. Whatever ancestor they have, the first generation's powers are almost always quite a bit weaker then the original, but it mostly stays pretty strong for every generation onwards, and can sometimes even increase. Leota, Rin, Pepper, Meridan and —[see below] are all Descendants."

"The other known type of superpowered human are the Superhumans. Superhumans are, as far as we know, randomly appear in the normal human population. Their powers are totally unpredicatable and there doesn't seem to be any noticeable pattern or factor that contributes to what powers they have. I'm a Superhuman, and so are Pilot and —[see below]. Noliam was a Superhuman."

"The majority of superpowered humans are Descendants. Serpent and Havoc are confirmed Descendants, Luminescene is a confirmed Superhuman. Malice is unknown. The Society is definitely mostly Descendants, because some of them have been raised with the mentality that 'they're better than humans.' But there are a fair amount of Superhumans in there as well."

"The Society, we speculate, is trying to take over the world. But they just don't have enough power to do that. They need more members. They're also exploring cloning and… replication options."

Meridan along with Leota and Pepper appeared at the gaping hole I had made in the wall. On top of all the trouble I was in, I would probably have to pay for that.

"Good job explaining Legion," she said. "But there's more that you don't know. My boss has really been acting weirdly lately."

"Meridan," I said. "You don't have a boss."

"Legion, what are you talking about?"

"You don't have a boss," I said. What was she playing at? "You're the head of this division of the Protectorate. You don't take orders from anybody, and you definitely don't have a boss."

Meridan facepalmed herself. "Sorry. I forgot. Long ago, my boss gave me the order to make you forget that I had a boss."

Suddenly, I remembered. Of course, Meridan had a boss. She wasn't the head of this division of the Protectorate. She was second in command. What had I been thinking?

"Wait!" I half screamed. "You were in my head! You can't get into my head! I've got the psychic link and it blocks you from getting into my head!"

"Legion," she said gently. "I was under orders to make you forget that, too. Your psychic link can be a tough thing to manuever around, but you're still the same as everyone else."

No. no. no. This can not be happening. I can not have a mindreader in my head.

"Legion, honey, please just calm down." My suit has closed up again and my face is no longer visible. I'm ready to fight her.

Cassan Emeros Bray

"DON'T SAY MY NAME!" I screamed at her. "WE'RE NOT THE SAME ANYMORE!" I can feel the instant army at me back. Forty us. Legion is ready to fight. We will not fail, we will not fall. Legion is always ready. We are always ready.

Legion, please just calm down.

"STAY OUT OF OUR HEADS!" we screamed at her.

Legion get a grip! You're a superhero! You're a legal adult! Grow up and start acting like it!

We're okay. Meridan is okay. We're fine. Meridan isn't a threat to us.

No, I think. Meridan isn't a threat to me. I destroy the forty replicas that I created.

"Good," Meridan said. "We have things that we have to talk about, Legion, and we'll talk about them later. Right now, we have work to do."

I burned my file when no one was looking. Too much personal information on it. Bray this, Bray that.

But then I got to work, just like everybody else.

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I wasn't sure what category Adam, Aidan, Danni, and Dale wanted to be in, so I just put it blank. Just respond to this post with which one you'd like to be, and pretend that Legion said their names when listing either Descendants of Superhumans.

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Whew. That was long. Around 1500. And a lot of songs.