Secret Diary - Keep Out! Game 4

18/1/2022
What a surprise, all that stuff about the dragon ended up in the papers, including a bit of footage of me teleporting away – you can’t see my face but it’s enough to make me nervous that my parents are going to put two and two together and suss that it’s me, so I’m going to focus on laying low for a while. The news even had the nerve to ask if we were superheroes or supervillains!
 
22/1/2022
Our next run in – ever since meeting the others it’s been a constant barrage of attacks and battles. This time we were all minding our business at the mall and there was a sudden load of crashing and shouting. I was there with Gabe and Saph just checking out the record store but when it all kicked off I suggested that I wanted to go check it out and just headed off even with them shouting out after me. I saw some big greasy nerd with a super orange slurpy who was all hulked out and shouting at velocity. There had been a manga signing event on at the comic store and apparently there was a load of controversy over the “Black Cat” character, who was now this black human dude rather than a scantily clad chick… hearing what he was shouting I transformed into the likeness of the new Black Cat and started sashaying around getting him to chase me, with the Doll coming in and completely covering him with vines, turning him upside down and pulling his trousers down so we could see his spiderwoman boxers, then dragging him around to the other side with us as apparently there were a load of mimes the others were dealing with.
Once we trapped the mimes in the room and noticed them looking at the coke machine warily, Sharkey started freaking out about “Bill from school” who he asked us to go and tell that he wasn’t actually radioactive since he’d managed to scare the mimes stiff by yelling about killing them with radioactive poisoning. I just thought it was pretty hilarious and that it would be fine, when Velocity let us know that there had been a bomb in the security room but he’d exploded it in the carpark, and there was this black box up in the room.
I headed over there to back him up while the others dealt with the mimes and started analysing the drinks. When up there all the monitors were off and Velocity was holding this black box in his hands that he had grabbed out from all the wires surrounding it. There was a little ink drawing signature on the bottom of the black box of an oasis, and I just grabbed a few bits and bobs from the confiscated box (a homemade taser and a few cherry bombs)
Heading back to the others, the police were arriving and yelling at us, asking about what we were doing here and who were we. They asked about if we were a team but then asked whether we had a team name, and suggested that we come up with one sharpish as otherwise the media would just give us one. Apparently several stores had tills cleared out, which could have been connected, but also could have been someone with light fingers and a good opportunity. It sounds like Sharky was analysing the liquids in the coke machine and energy drink machine and the police were giving him a hard time, and they’d found the same oasis symbol on the side of the drinks machine.
Apparently they were a bit of a low life criminal but a bit of a mercenary type who tended to tag places he’d been active. We ended up giving statements, during which my phone went off and it was my parents asking where I was, and getting pissy about me “having dinner with my friends” when she’d already started cooking, and ended up setting a curfew for 10pm which sucked.
I guess one of the others talked to their parents as it wasn’t too much later that the police let us go and with an apology to Sharky - I gave my friends the heads up that I’d seen a dude at the comic shop, acted pissed off that they had seen the mime dudes, and asked them to pretend I’d had dinner with them… just in case I needed an alibi
We all headed back to the hideout after that and started talking about team names – there were a load of ideas kicking around (Ultra Plus, Zephyr, The Prodigys, The Juveniles, Les Heroes do L’anomialie, Arise … even “Human Beings” got suggested which sucked). After a load of throwing ideas around we finally settled on Ultra Force, with the symbol of a phoenix on a shield … not bad, a bit cliché but whatever.
Stuff kicked off a bit after that though, when Sharky ended up suggesting a team pose for the media, which I brushed off and said that if the media turned up I’m off, and luckily Velocity suggested it wasn’t their business when he started pressing. No idea how but that got into a discussion about whether if you dropped Sharky on someone would they get killed.. but when I asked if he had killed anyone he said yes almost instantly, then tried to backtrack. I asked who and he said it was his mum. Wow, that got a lot more personal a lot quicker than I was expecting!
The Doll immediately bailed, and I wished I could but decided to stick it out at least – there’s not freaking anything I can say to actually help though, but I at least suggested that he’d not killed anyone since then? I dunno why but the floodgates opened at that point, and it was pretty horrific.
Apparently he wasn’t always radioactive but suddenly started glowing. His mums hair fell out and she had to go but never saw her again, and his dad had been frequenting a graveyard on the mainland, that Sharky had never been too and didn’t want to. Meanwhile he was stuck in his mechanical suit unable to leave it, and could go nuclear at any point. He even was worrying about how much he was contributing to the “team” given that he had ended up unconscious a few times.
I suck at this kinda stuff but I tried to talk to him at least, even opened up a bit more than I intended, since I mentioned that I felt pretty insecure about my lack of physical ability given I can only mess with people, and when he mentioned that we were friends even if he doesn’t know who I am, I slipped out that the Trickster is the only one that matters. Luckily I don’t think he caught that and we ended up hanging out at the bar until just before my curfew when I popped home.
 
23/01/2022
This stuff is getting to me, had a nightmare last night about my powers going crazy and at one point it was my parents who were causing my powers to go haywire as they watched with cruel expressions on their faces, and the next they were screaming and being killed by my out of control powers – it was almost like my illusions started ripping up reality and slashing into them with tendrils of magic.
Guess the conversation with Sharky messed me up a bit, especially how obviously his dad cares for him (even if he’s dumb for not saying the truth), he might be missing one of his parents but I guess I’m a bit jealous of him, since he doesn’t have to hide from his dad.