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[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

[backinakidflash]

[Bart is at his home console in normal clothes. He seems trepid about saying anything at all.]

I don't know about everyone else, but... I've been freaking out. Just kinda. In private.

Something's definitely coming. Mine's not just something you turn off.

[faceofthe4]

Neither is mine. When did you start noticing a problem?

[backinakidflash]

How are we defining "problem"? Like, hoo boy, my powers crapped out? Or when it first started to feel kinda... funny? Not funny, but definitely not quite right. Or somewhere in the middle, when it was like riding the lightning in all the bad ways?

[faceofthe4]

When you started feeling weird and then when they stopped.

[backinakidflash]

I guess a week ago and today. It was back-and-forth for awhile, so I'm still hoping it kicks back on.

[faceofthe4]

Mine was about the same. More recent maybe. I think we need to figure out what this thing is.

[backinakidflash]

Mine's kinda on all the time, like this buzzing that never gets out of my head. It's hard to miss when it changes.

[faceofthe4]

Has it ever happened before?

[backinakidflash]

Not like this but... yeah. It did.

[faceofthe4]

What makes it different now?

[backinakidflash]

It's more than just the speedsters.

[faceofthe4]

So it's everyone, as far as I can tell. People born with it, radiation, mutations. That has to mean something.

[backinakidflash]

Aside from us all being in deep shit? I've got nothing.

[faceofthe4]

Yeah, me neither.

We'll work on it.