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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!

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[flamingshortshorts]

...You said you weren't born with your powers right? [because wow even Toro isn't freaking out this much about not being able to flame on.]

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[faceofthe4]

Right. But I wasn't a hero then.

[video]

[flamingshortshorts]

[Toro kind of knows what that's like. He didn't become a hero until he could set himself on fire, either. It was just...a long time ago.] You don't have to have powers to be a hero. My best pal doesn't have any and he's on a team with some of the biggest powerhouses around.

You just have to know what you're good at and use it.

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[faceofthe4]

I didn't train for any of that.

I don't know what I'm good at. Sue's the business, Reed's the brain, Ben's the power, I'm the torch. That's how it works.

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[flamingshortshorts]

Doesn't mean you can't learn. If you don't have anything else under your belt but how to flame on, then you're at a disadvantage anytime you get near too much water for you to steam up.

So maybe what you really need to do is figure out what really makes you a hero, not how you go about it.

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[faceofthe4]

What do you mean 'what makes me a hero?' I got powers from a radiation storm and we started fighting crime. That doesn't work without the powers.

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[flamingshortshorts]

[Oh good someone should probably private this and Toro won't think there's a big enough reason to. He's too used to talking about these kind of things. Just come and listen young grasshopper.]

I mean what makes you a hero. Not how you're a hero. Why did you starting saving people? Do you think that people just up and choose to be heroes just because it's the thing to do? No, there's gotta be a reason you put yourself on the line for others. There's a reason why you care, you know. And not having your powers doesn't make that go away, does it?


So what makes you a hero?