20° VIDEO

[faceofthe4]

[Johnny's sitting awkwardly in front of the console in his suite.]

Why is no one freaking out about this? From the sounds of it, all of our powers are gone. Just like that. [He snaps. No flame appears. He throws his hands up in frustration.]

Seriously. There should be alarms going off. People should be taking blood samples and looking at ours cells. Someone should be creating some sort of system to track different.. I don't know.. thermal.. geo.. radio... something. Is it a sun spot? Aliens? We have no idea, because we're all sitting around trying.

Something's coming. Great. That might be the cause, but if it's not? We should probably figure this whole no-powers thing out before it gets here.

[He looks down at his hand and shakes it, as one might shake a Nintendo controller when the game glitches. He stops shaking it. Nothing happens.]

Oh COME ON!

Comments

audio;

[faceofthe4]

Of course!..... Sort of.

I know how to use a gun, but the whole superhero thing's pretty new to me.

audio;

[backbiter]

Superhero? [Like a comic book superhero?]

Well hero should know never rely on their powers. Yeah they're nice but whatever power you have can't get you through every time on it's own.

audio;

[faceofthe4]

And that's great for people who had time to train and learn how to do things without their powers, but I didn't. I trained as a pilot and I'm great at that, but the powers are new enough that I didn't really see the point in training to be a hero without them.

Besides, who would want to? No one can touch me when I'm on top of my game.

Re: audio;

[backbiter]

And when you're not? [Ugh. Heroes. Where was Chiron when you needed him?]

A hero must be ready for anything. Or face their villains unprepared. Which could end badly.

audio;

[faceofthe4]

I'm always on top of my game. [Obviously.]

Until now.

audio;

[backbiter]

Exactly you're unprepared. [Thank you for proving his point.]

Where I'm from. That could get you killed.

audio;

[faceofthe4]

That could get me killed where I'm from too. I just never saw any reason for doing much else when I could do this.