Me going to help!

Hello happy Blog Peoples, its Diffy!

Tempest told me to stay at base cos they going to beat up Mr Stinky John, but me want to help! Me want to get mr stinky for wat he done to Healthy and Damian. Me going to sneaky sneaky after them. wish me luck peoples!

A Run-in with Reality

I've got to make this quick, we're really busy getting ready to go after John, but I have to tell you what happened yesterday afternoon:

So, everyone's in the base, including a lot of Cleo's team, who came to help, and we're studying all the machines I set up for finding John, and Doolittle turns to me, looking worried, and asks me to check something. I leave my machine, and go to look at hers. There's a blip near our base, but it can't tell if it's him or not. Then we hear a voice from all around us.
'Pitiful' it says, sounding smug. 'Did you really think someone with friends like mine could be caught by your pathetic machines?'

And then we're standing on the edge of a very tall cliff, with a solid floor of sharp, vicious rocks surrounded by thundering waves hundreds of feet below. We each in a cage, with out much room to move, and we're all of the very edge of the cliff. A huge, roaring, black Dragon appears, and belches fire on all of us! I try to make a forcefield, but the cage blocks my powers! Diffy looks the same, because it's a passive illusion, but we can't activate any of our powers for something new! We're all really badly burnt, from what I can see, and the voice is laughing. With a swish of it's tail, the Dragon knocks Tingle's cage over the edge, sending him plummeting downwards!

I remember us all yelling, and for some reason, I thought Tingle looked strange. He started to fall, and then landed, in mid-air, crashing onto an area of solid air, as his cage kept going, falling through him, and smashed on the rocks below. Tingle stands, swears at the bruises he got from landing, and walks back up to the cliff, climbing the air like a staircase! I realize what's strange about him. He has no burns. he was hurt by the fall, but the Dragon did nothing. He's fine. And the cage clearly didn't stop him doing whatever it was that was happening. He reaches the clifftop again, and looks at the Dragon. 'You are false to me' he says sternly, like he's telling Diffy off or something 'I suggest you leave' and he walks through the Dragon, which disappears! Tingle's vanished too, but we hear his voice, saying 'Please forgive me, friend of Damian, but I must release you from control' and then something that sounds suspiciously like a punch, a thud, and a muttered swearword from Tingle. The cliff ripples and disappears, and we all turn to grin at Tingle, who is stanging over Jorge's unconscious form, shaking the right hand and clutching it in his left. Physical stuff is not his strong point. I realized that Tingle COULD see through reality warping, and when he was thrown off the cliff, he was actually thrown down the stairs. Don't ask me how he was thrown by a Dragon he was immune too, I guess it took him a little while to work out how to escape the physical elements of the warp, I dunno. There was a scuffling sound, and we turned to see a large leopard sitting on John, with Diffy holding his mouth shut. 'Me and Shifty caught Mr stinky!' He called proudly. Playwrite went to work on John, I went to call Damian, and Healthbar saw to Tingle and Jorge. As soon as he woke up, Jorge looked around worried. 'Watch John carefully, he has a back up...'


BOOM!!!!!


People fly in every direction, cast from John like they were nothing more than toys. there is a flasht of light, lots of smoke, and we hear John running down the stairs. I follow him out and just get there in time to see a speck vanishing into the distance. John got another flyer under his control. Damn. I don't know he did to escape, but Precog has said that it wasn't a power he had. Precog and Omni both say he's waiting for Damian, and is determined to have him as his first victim, so that's good. Sort of.

Jorge set off, wanting to find Damian, and hoping to get in touch with REBEL, who'd contacted him a while ago.

Anyway, this is an alert. Meet us on the top of the Eiffel Tower. As soon as you can, Playwrite says John was heading for Paris.

SuperTingle and Patronuses

Some aspects of my teams powers have changed a bit recently, most obviously in Tingle, so I thought I'd fill you in on what's new.

First, I've been doing some research because of these changes, and apparently the son of Chandra Suresh, he's called Mohinder, worked out that abilities are determined by our body chemistry, and our personality combined. That's why Tingle has a serious power and Diffy has a fun imaginative one, etc.

I think it's like a patronus from harry potter. You know how they can change if someone thinks really differently? Like Tonk's Patronus changes in book six? Well I think something similar has happened to some of my crew.

Tingle has been more serious than ever since these supervillians emerged (John, Amelia, Howard, Danko) and it's like he finally knows how big this is. He's always been the most businesslike of us, organizing things, making sure Diffy eats his greens, you know, the serious responsible one, that's why he manifested a power that helps him see the truth, and helps him to know things, but recently, its been evolving. He still has the same power, but it's improved. Its become a general trick detection. He can literally see through ANY kind of deception. Before, he could just detect when someone was lying, but since we've all been working together in this War that's started with other specials and the government, he's been focusing harder than ever, planning more, taking it very seriously. He's seen shocking things, and it's changed him. His power has evolved.

We first noticed when me and Diffy were alone in the base, lying on the floor while I tested him on telling the time. (We took him out of school, with his mum's consent, because he alway has his illusion up, so he walked into his class as Diffy, white and slightly egg shaped with the red hat and everything, to the shocked faces of 20 5-6 year olds, and his teacher, so now we teach him when we have time) He was pointing at the practice clock we had and had just said 'This is elenty past three!' and I was trying to point out it said five to four, when Tingle walked in. He glanced at us on his way upstairs, and smiled down at us, and then frowned at Diffy, remarking 'Diffy, when was the last time you washed your hair? It's getting disgusting!' Diffy blew a raspberry at him, but I just stared. Tingle frowned at me, and then his eyes widened as he caught on. He looked stunned, and turned to stare at Diffy, who had gone back to messing with the practice clock, but looked just as he usually did.

'Did you just...?' I asked, stuck for words, gawping at Tingle. 'His illusion's up, there's no way you can see...'
'I can't' Tingle muttered, frowning at Diffy, who was still ignoring us. 'I mean I think I did, but I can't now. He just looks like Diffy'
'But you think you DID?'
'Er, yeah.'
This was serious. Tingle would NEVER use the word 'er'
H stared at Diffy, frowning again, willing himself to see through the illusion again. 'There!' he cried, grinning widely, something he doesn't do very often. 'For a second I saw through it, the illusion dissappeared!'
I couldn't see anything different about Diffy, he was like normal to me. Well, normal for Diffy anyway. We had to check. Our request for Diffy to lower his illusion got us both a raspberry for each of us. 'I LIKE being Diffy' he pouted. Ten minutes of coaxing and the promise of chocolate got him to do it. He closed his eyes and stuck his tongue out, having to concentrate to remove what had become his second skin. The image wobbled, flickered, and vanished, leaving us looking at a small, very scruffy boy. He made me promise not to describe him, he insists the world know him as Diffy, but I can say his hair was very dirty. 'Can I be Diffy again?' He wanted to change back as soon as he could.

We let him change back and went upstairs to discuss this development. We tested his ability more and discovered that he can see through any trick. Nothing can fool him. It took concentration to see through the large, long lasting things like illusions that have been active for a while, but pretty much anything just fades away from him. It even works with cameras and TV! We watched a Sci-Fi show and Tingle said he could see all the special effects as ghosts, he could see what was fake, but see what the fake stuff looked like. He can turn it off so he sees normally easily, it doesn't exhaust him or anything holding it in, but his normal state now is seeing everything for what it really is! We asked Diffy to make some random illusions, he turned the shop into a maze, I got hopelessly lost, everything seemed and felt real, but Tingle just walked straight through and found Diffy! NOTHING can trick him, he's even finding it easier to see through long term tricks, but he stopped doing to Diffy out of respect. Because Reality warping is a lot like illusions, only more real, we think he should be able to see through that, but we still need to test it out.

I won't go into as much detail with the rest, but the gist is that war has changed everyone.

Precog has started absentmindedly drawing the helix symbol everywhere. He's not even in a trance. He just draws it on anything he can reach without thinking about it. He hasn't drawn it on living things yet, and it's not like he goes looking for things to draw on, but if he stays still long enough, he'll start doodling. It's weird.
Also, he's now able to focus on specific things, and draw about one exact subject, instead of getting what he's looking for after a few attempts along with other pictures. We first noticed when he put his glass of water down on a table, and as soon as he let go he went into a trance and drew a smashed glass, and came out of it again just as Healthbar, who couldn't see the picture, accidently knocked the glass off the table, causing it to smash. We tested him too, and found out his power had evolved aswell. Now he has to conciously focus on something, but if he touches something or someone, he can draw their specific future.

Doolittle has started being able to copy accents, like Damian, I think it was exposure to HIS Omnilingualism that could do that that unlocked it. She's also able to understand silent conversations, like body movements, and winks and everything like that. I mean most of us get a general idea from those, move, run, don't worry, etc, but she gets a whole sentence, and can understand EXACTLY what it means, like 'Move left by two metres', 'Run to the Base, I'll meet you there' or 'Don't worry, I've already set a trap for him, so I'm completely safe' that sort of thing. Now, she definately doesn't have technopathy, but she's starting t understand some of the mad coding that happens when I use it. She can't do it herself, but she can undertand it, if that makes sense.

I'm going to post a complete list of my team, including the new recruits, when I can, so that you have a basic, simplified list.

Operation Anti-John

This plan is fairly simple. Please let me know what you think, I'm pretty pleased with this plan, but if you think it should be changed, suggest it and I'll see what Precog makes of it.

We split into teams, Team A is Playwrite, Evan, Cleo and Broadcast. They have the most important job. Everyone except Broadcast can make a big mind block to prevent John from using his power, and Broadcast can silence John's Voice to stop him yelling commands in case his power is just weakened. I would use Pesuasion, but it can be fought by strong minds more easily than mind control so my other powers are of more use here, and I can't concentrate on using Persuasion while part of another group, I might accidently affect you lot aswell.

Freezeframe will surround him with her statue army, creatures he CAN'T control because they have no minds, and they will hold him down. Doolittle will translate for our foreign allies so that everyone can know what's going on, and her animal friends will help fight off any lackies John's picked up. Healthbar will be on hand to keep us all healthy, while Me, Damian, Arthur (Who now goes by Lighter), Shockwave, Chan and Shifter (Team B) deal with his henchmen. All henchmen and lackies should be stopped, but not badly injured if we can help it, and Tingle will go round them checking if they're free of mind control yet, and those that are, Sage and Tingle can get to safety. Omni and Precog can make sure everything stays on track by continually trancing, and letting us know what's coming next.

When we find Double and Pete, we MUST get them to safety, they are our priority.

When John is alone, and all his zombies are free, we move in. We need to get to him as quickly as we can, because Team A will get weaker the longer they block John. I'll hold him in one of my Moveable Forcefields, and we all use what we can to hold him and make sure he can't escape. Then we let Damian deal with him. It's his right. I have to admit, I'm probably going to break his arm in a number of painful ways for what he did to Healthbar, but Damian gets main resposibility.

I'm having Diffy wait at the base. He's not getting involved in something like this. I won't have it. He's too young, and this is too much like a war.

The Building 26 Rescue

Damian's still with his mum, so I thought I'd tell you how the trip went, because Diffy left some details out (Because I didn't tell him everything):


Ok, so, as Diffy explained to you, we all got back from B26 ok, well, alive, and we managed to save four people, they were the only ones we could find, there were some empty beds so I think REBEL must have helped some people too.



We got in ok, floating over the guards heads and phasing down into an abandoned room, the heat lamp one, and we made our way to a large area that Playwrite said everyone was being held drugged in. We got there and there were at least four empty beds, maybe more, one of them had a slight blood stain on it so I hope whoever used to be there is ok. There were three other people in the room, so we unplugged them all and Tingle explained the situation to them and made sure they were genuine prisoners, while Playwrite kept us undiscovered. Healthbar noticed that one of the ladies was bleeding badly, so she healed her and we discovered she was Damian's Mum! We'd found her! Healthbar went round the rest and healed their minor injuries, and then she and I went to check a couple of rooms nearby for other people. I wish we'd had Playwrite with us. In a room just round the corner (All the patrolling guards were ignoring us thanks to Playwrite, but that was it) we found a girl, a few years younger than us, about thirteen, connected to a drug shunt and being interrogated by a soldier. He was telling her that if she agreed to help them find the other specials, they'd spare her. We came up behind him, and said 'We'll here's two of them!' and Forcefield punched him, knocking him to the floor, and I erupted a small tree from underneath the concrete floor, smashing through and entangling him in it's branches. Healthbar healed the girl, and she told us her name was Molly, while I undid the drug shunt. Then there was a loud bang, and Healthbar screamed. She'd stepped in front of me and Molly, and there was a bleeding hole in the lower part of her chest. The soldier had brought out a gun and managed to fight the tree enough to get a good shot. 'Healthbar!' I screamed, as she collapsed to the floor, while Molly looked on shocked, muttering something, it sounded like 'Why does everyone that helps me get shot?'. 'You're going to be ok, right?' the soldier raised his gun again, but a grabbed it in a forcefield and threw in into a corner.


I was really angry now, and I did something that I'm now wondering was wrong, but she had to live. I told Molly 'Go round the corner from this room and through the door on your left. Our friends are there. We'll be fine, we'll be along in a minute. Run!' She looked worried, but she went. Then I gave Healthbar the soldier. I did. I still can't believe it, but I made my tree dump him in front of her, and told Healthbar to heal herself. 'Just take enough to live, don't kill him, but please live, you have to!' She looked at me strangely, but she did it. She reached out and grabbed his arm, and he screamed, as the black fog stuff sliced his arms broke his bones. The bullet shot out of her chest, lodging itself in the wall. The hole in her chest got smaller, and the soldier looked like he was about to die. This had gone too far. 'STOP!' I used full force persuasion on her, I refused to let her kill someone, especially as it was my fault she was using this power. She stopped draining him, and stood up, her wound still quite large, but much more manageable. I looked down at the guard. I doubted he'd ever walk again, but his basic wounds would heal well enough. We left the room, and made our way back to the others. Healthbar was quiet now, her face darker, the change in her more prominent than ever. We entered the room with the beds again, and Playwrite was staring at us. I knew he knew everything. He turned away and carried on explaining to everyone about how we'd leave. I wanted to help Healthbar, but there wasn't time. Playwrite had found the room with the files in a guards head, so we all went up to destroy our files, and those of our new friends. There were seven research type people in there, and Playwrite sent them out to the corridor while we went through, and Playwrite had to stop anyone coming in, which became increasingly hard when the researchers were discovered and more and more people were trying to reach us. Everyone gathered our files, and I set them on fire, containing them in a Forcefield until they were ash, and I used technopathy to destroy ALL their computer files. It would have been nice to destroy ALL the paper files, but by the time our files had burnt Playwrite was nearly unconscious, holding back all the guards, researchers and soldiers. I picked us all up in a forcefield as he collapsed, and the door flew open, and they all piled in.


We shot up through the ceiling, and set off for home. Playwrite woke up after a few minutes, and used his skills to keep everyone calm, as this sort of flight is strange if you're not used to it. We managed to have quite a good chat with each of them, and found out what each of them wanted to do now. He also tried to dampen Healthbar's darkness, because she was looking from her wound to all of us with interest. With his help, she managed to calm down, and look around a bit confused, as if she didn't quite remember the last few minutes.
The Lady that wasn't Damian's mum was the worst passenger I've ever had, she looked ill, and as we flew over the english coast she started to glow green and collapsed. She sneezed, and the Forcefield shook, I could barely hold it! I got us back as fast as I could, and we landed at the base. We carried her in, and Diffy looked scared at the sight of Healthbar, so I told him to update you guys on our progress.


I left the others to help our new friends, and turned to the important matter of helping Healthbar. I knew that healing people didn't harm her, just wear her out after a while, but it made her glow and feel really good, so I had an idea. I took her to a separate room, after asking Broadcast to make it soundproof. 'Take what you need from me.'I told her, gripping her shoulders and staring into her eyes. 'Take what you need to finish healing yourself from me' I didn't use persuasion, I hate doing it, I've learned to only use it as a last resort, but she didn't need persuading. She looked a little scared at using her power again, but she grabbed my hands. The pain was instantly unbearable, black fog racing over my body. I screamed, and my arms and legs were slashed open, and I fell to the floor as my left leg was forcibly broken. It felt like I was going to die, she knelt with me, our hands clasped, as her wound healed slowly, so slowly, and I kept dying.


My other leg snapped, and my right arm, and I felt like death was inches away, the pain was unbearable, I was being killed by one of my best friends....


And then it stopped. She let go, and I collapsed, lying on the floor, the pain now just a dull, throbbing agony, and looked up at her. Her wound was completely healed, but she looked half dead. It was strange to see her look so ill, BECAUSE she was fully healed. 'Now heal me...'I whispered, my strength failing, hoping my theory was right. Healthbar looked confused, torn between the darkness, now stronger than ever, and her friend. 'Please...heal me..for both our sakes...' I could barely get the words out, but I saw her frown, and she closed her dark eyes and shook her head, and opened them again with a determined look, her eyes back to their usual colour, but still a couple of shades too dark. 'Of course I will! Oh my God what happened to you! This was me wasn't it? Bloody Hell you fool!' She knelt down and placed her hands on me, and this time they felt wonderful, a cooling, calming sensation flowing over me as the healing began. 'What were you thinking! This was so dangerous!' She continued to yell at me as my bones clicked back together and the darkness slowly faded from her face. When I was fully restored and the colour had returned to her face, we stood up. There was still a hint of black to her eyes, and she still looked a little pale, but she was smiling again. 'Thank you' we both said at the same time, and laughed. We hugged, she said that I was still stupid for trying it, and we went back to the others. Playwrite was lying down, an icepack on his forehead, but he gave me a nod and a slight grin as we came in. Healthbar healed Jill, calming her so that she could power down and not destroy the base, and she tended to everyone else, even vanquishing Playwrite's headache. The darkness was gone from her face completely now, but I knew it was still there, deep inside her, waiting to suck the health out of another victim, it had just been...beaten, for now.


Damian arrived to see his mum, and I took him to the safehouse. I had to hide the location from him, Only three of us know the way, Playwrite's paranoid about it so he keeps wiping the others minds after they visit, only Me and him know, and Diffy because he threatened to spook Playwrite forever if he even tried to wipe him, and he has one of the strongest minds we've seen, especially for one so young, so it's a very scary threat. Damian's still in their now, his mum looked really serious, they've been there ages, but I'm leaving them to it.


Precog told me he'd been drawing, and showed me some pictures, telling me that we hadn't been followed, and that the others might be in danger, but he warned them on Diffy's post.


I'll post the plan soon, but I thought you'd want me to fill in the gaps in Diffy's tale of our adventure.

Healthy!

Tempest says she back to Happy Healthy again. Yay!

Damian, you can come over when ever you like now, Tempest says, Healthy healed evryone now that she better again.

Me again!

Hello Blog Peoples, it's Diffy again!

Tempest (I rote it rite this time) and the others just got back from the Bad Building, and he said it mostly went good. He wants ME to tell you whats hapning again, cos hes busy and he says I did a good job last time!

Well,they got back about ten minites ago, and they had four people with them. Playwite had a hurty head again, and Healthy lookd scary, like she wasnt very happy, and her face was all pale, with dark rings round her eyes, like she was a zomby or somethin. She scared me, so Tempest told me to do this insted of staying with them until he could help her.

The four new peoples were two ladys, a young man, and a little girl, who's still older than me.

One of the ladys looked a bit like Damian, so I fhink thats his mummy, oopsy, I mean mom, thats how he says it. Tempest said they got her, so I fhink that's who she is.

The little girl Tempest says is called Molly, and she says shell be ok now that she knows what the baddies look like, shell be abel to see them coming, that sounds reelly cool! So she just wants to go back to stay with her granny.

The man is called Neil, I made Tempest spell it for me, and this is crazy, he not even got a power! He says he used to have a power, but he met that man who started the place that helped Tempest give me my spookys, and he had it took! That man did it both ways dint he? Anyways, he seemed intrested in helping Cleo (Needed that rote for me too) with HER group, cos he has experence? expieriense? he used to be special so he what its like anyways, and hed like to help find peoples like us and have a pardner with a power again. We going to bring him over wen he recovererd, becasue Healthy not done helping them all yet, becasue of her feeling stranje.

The other lady called Jill, I can spell that, and she was reelly ill when they came in, cos Playwite says her power went off becasue of stressedness or somethin like that. She was glowing green and she kept sneezing and everywhere kept shaking when she did. I hope she going to be ok, she lookd nice.

Oooh! Tingly and Pwecog comin downstairs quickly, they saying they have stuff to tell me, So I going to get them to tell evrybody.

Hello everybody, this is Tingle. Tempest wanted me to pass on a couple of messages, and Diffy wants me to write it. Damian, we have your mother, she had a couple of bruises and cuts, but Healthbar healed her before...well she was healed before Healthbar got...ill again...You can come and see her, but we are going to keep her over here, it is further away from Building 26 and your old house, and we have places not even Molly can find that she can stay in. I think Diffy explained her power, she can find anyone or anywhere, by thinking about it, it is most interesting, and now that she knows what the hunters look like, she can avoid them by watching for them coming. She told us she had dealt with one of the men there before, a man called Bennet, and he had pointed a gun at her. Clearly still doing the same thing.

To get back to the messages, Cleo, we will bring Neil over once he has recovered, he has experience of being an Evolved Human, so he can help with finding them.

Tempest also had a theory about John. Now that the John we are dealing with is a clone, the previous commands given to us should be negated, because they were told to us by what was technically a different person, and John has a very literal power, so he should be bound by it too. This was proved when we met up with Playwrite, Doolittle and their recruits, and none of us felt like preventing them from finding John, as we were commanded to do by Damian.
This means we can go after him afresh, but please wait for his plan, he thinks he knows how to get Double back safely.
That's about it, but I feel I should explain That Diffy calls his illusions Spookys, so that's what he was talking about.
I'll hand you over to Precog.

Hello everybody in blogland!
I'm Precog, the stickman future drawer, and this is a quick note to Damian and Cleo. Be careful, I was trying to find out if Tempest and the others were followed, and I found out they weren't but I also did a drawing of you two in Techpower co. being tortured by two people, who I couldn't tell for certain, but from other drawings looked horribly like Jorge and Amelia, so watch out. I felt it was important to let you know straight away, because I can't get any sense of time from this picture, I guess it's because of the RW powers they both have.
Anyway, watch your backs! And now, I'll leave you in the capable hands of our new specialist reporter:

Hehe, Precogs funny! He always truue, so if he draws you in a bad place, be cairful!

Thats about it anyways, so I going to check Healthys okey dokey again, and see if I can Help. Tempest going to do a plan for stinky John (I still dont like him, thats the rudest word I can fhink of!) and then we going to get him, and going to pay for being so stinky to my frends.

SuperDiffy, Away!

Important note from Tempest

Hello Happy Blog People!

My name is Diffy, and I'm one of Tempust's bestest friends, and I get to have lots of fun on his team, and fight lots of bad guys!

Tempust called to me on the way out to let you know something he forgot to say on his Blog, so I get to do it. Yay!

Sorry if my writing is bad, but I still learning properely

Dameeun, (Sorry your names weird I cant spell it right, I going to copy it from your blog at some point) Temuest and evryone are going to get your mummy while theys at the bad building, and we's going to keep her here until you can get to us, and we going to let her stay in our nice safe house that NOBODY can find, I dont know how, but its cool, becasue she can't go home becasue the bad men know where that is. We think it's better if she stays with us in england, as it's a lot furtherer away from your house AND bad building.

And Tempust wanted me to say, he has a plan for getting Duble back from John, who I don't like anymore, he was nice when we met him firstly and then he went weird and he hurt Healthy! I mad at him now.

Anyways, he wants me to say he has a plan, but it will take evryone, and he'll explain when he gets back and Dameeuns mummy is safe, becxause mummys are very importiant and we got to make sure yours is ok.

He going to tell you his big plan when he get back.

Thats all, fun chating to you alls, maybe I allowed to do it again sometime, byebye!

Diffy :)

The Lions Den

We're going into Building 26. Now. Just Me, Playwrite, Tingle and Healthbar.

Healthbar is almost completely fine now, she still has her other power but her normal healer skills are as strong as ever, and she's keeping the darkness under control.

Most of the new recruits are currently in our safehouse while they recover from the seige. Healthbar healed them all, obviously, but she can only make them feel calmer when it comes to their mental health, not wipe the horror from their minds. That was the first time they'd really done anything like this. They joined in willingly and eagerly as soon as they heard what was going on, of course, but I don't think any of them really thought what it would be like. They'll be fine, they just need...time...to...cope...

Anyway, we're off to Building 26, we're going to free who we can, and delete all the information on all of us that they've gathered. We're going to go for the plan I outlined before, but without group B. We'll be back as soon as we can, with as many escapees as we can save.

Secret plans, and new recruits

I was given a piece of paper today by a bird, with a progress report, and combining it with some new drawings of Precog's, (two from the set of five, loads separate) I think I can describe pretty accurately what happened.

So, Playwrite got my mind message and he and Doolittle watched the rat's memory to see EXACTLY what happened, Doolittle texted that she didn't translate it though for fear of being got by John's command, something I hadn't thought of!

Playwrite went and got the emergency money £5k from the safe as well as one of the two remaining phials of formula (There were ten, me and Damian used 8, and I'm the only one that can get the last one, we'd have had to meet for Playwrite to get it) so at least they had the ability to cause one more manifestation (Picture Two of the Five, Playwrite holding phial No.9). They went and got Evan, who was staying in Shelford, having telepathed himself into a B&B so he could hide from the government, and the situation was explained to him, he instantly agreed to help.

Doolittle got on the phone to her penfriends, she has three, one in America, one in Morocco and one in Belgium. I'd found them on the internet like I found this place and she had become friends with them (Because she was the only one that could talk to two of them) and they all agreed to come over and help, so Playwrite bought the three that needed help getting here plane tickets.

I should explain, two of them are EH's and one of them has a friend who is, and they've been keeping an eye out for us in their countries for specials. I've been told they too have taken on Codenames, so here we go:

Broadcast: the Belgian, He can create/manipulate music, or any kind of sound, at will. He can create it from thin air, cause radio's/televisions to beam out sounds, increase/decrease the volume of any noise, you name it. ANYTHING involving sound, he can do it! He often accidentally causes music to erupt from him if his emotions are high, the music will reflect his mood and any electronic equipment capable of music will join in.
(It should be noted that making TV's and Radio's turn on for him is only slight technopathy, which is a byproduct of his power that makes him able to vent sound by any means.)

Double: the American, can copy anything he touches, making a duplicate appear next to it. The duplicate is identical in every way and only he can tell the difference, but he can make changes to the copy if he wants to (Make a double of a jumper, but make it green when the original is blue, etc) and everything he creates is under a certain amount of control from him, so if he duplicates a cat, he can control it, he will know instinctively how to drive any vehicle he copies because in order to create the perfect copy he understands how the object works as soon as he touches it. He can even clone himself by concentrating and clapping his hands together, but he is having trouble cloning other people. He can destroy anything he's created at will. He's making his way over in a fighter jet he copied on a trip to a museum.

Shockwave: Friend of Moroccan penfriend, she can create seismic blasts with her hands, shatter things by pointing at them, and generally shake and brake anything she points at. Can cause a seismic wave to fire through the air by clapping her hands, it destroys the first thing it hits. Both her and her friend are coming over.

Broadcast made it by the evening on a last minute flight, and he and Doolittle went up to the the top of Great St Mary's Church to do her super scream (Picture Three of the Five, Doolittle and a boy with her with huge soundwaves of noise coming from her mouth.).
Basically Broadcast makes her voice really loud, and enables her to use many languages at once, and she screams in every animal language at once for animals to come to her. She was calling her army. Everyone heard it, including us, but at the time we didn't know where she was, so we didn't feel compelled to stop her.

Everyone else arrived later that night, Playwrite gave Doolittle's Morocan penfriend Phial No.9, and she became Freezeframe, with the power of Animation and Deanimation. She can animate statues and action figures and stuff, but she can also freeze people! Not with ice, but they can't move! She's found it's easier if she shouts FREEZE! will gesturing at her victim, but she can at least do it. She only has control of things she animated in the first place, not things she's frozen, but her boundary for control is quite far. There were quite alot of statues dotted around Cambridge, but now she's called them all to her!

Damian texted Doolittle details of a Boy called Arthur Dowland from Chandra Suresh's map, he's a fourteen year old kid who can, it turns out, create balls of light in his hands that he can fire at will, causing anything hit by the balls to ignite. ANYTHING. He can make a stone wall burst into flames! He can't make fire though, only set things on fire with his power.

So that's the situation with our remaining free agents, as it were. A group of kids, an army of statues, and several hundred animals.

I'll post more as I get it.

Talking in code

Make sure you read Cleo's 'Refugee blog and my comment on it and Damian's 'Deceived' blog before this one, or it won't make sense.

Well, the commotion downstairs was because of West. He was stumbling around downstairs, mumbling while Playwrite and Tingle looked at him, concentrating. I told them that John was dead and that must be why West was here, but Playwrite just looked at me and grimaced. 'No he's not' he said, frowning 'He's weak at the moment, he's just done something straining or he's injured, but his power is definately still in there' he nodded at West's head. 'I'm helping him to fight it, but John seems to be recovering' West turned to me, nearly tripping over Doolittle's rat (I know, weird, but he was there when we moved in, and she has omnilingualism) and his eyes faded from a dull bronze to a more normal tone, for just a second. 'Save...your friend...Pete...I have to...don't want to...take him...John...Help...me' And with that, Playwrite groaned as his nose started bleeding, Tingle turned to me and said 'Whatever that meant, it's true' and West went bronze-eyed again and flew out of the shop.

It wasn't very hard to work out what he meant, and now at least we had more of an idea of what was happening, and we knew where our priorities lay.

Later, Diffy, Healthbar, and Precog turned up, and said Precog had something important to show me. He took out a pictue of three people in a small hut,and told me that this had already happened, but he knew it was one of five important stages in the fight against John.

Lately, Precog's ability has been growing, he knows more about his painting's than he used too, he KNEW there four more in this 'set', don't ask me how!

Anyway, we sat to down to watch as he drew the rest, (It should be noted at this point that Playwrite left to find Doolittle, she was out with some cats she'd befriended, but Precog wanted her to be there) and he'd just come out from doing the first one when Damian turned up. This is where he comes in so I'll assume you read his bit.


*DECIEVED*

So I realized: Playwrite and Doolittle are our only hope. they haven't been got yet. I knew I couldn't see them face to face, because then John's control would force us to force them away from him, so I had to think. I found Doolittle's rat, who was hiding in a corner but had seen all the events of the last hour, and tied a note to him with string, saying, 'Get Playwrite to do the memory translation thing'. Now this is not in any way mentioning John, and I won't see them, so I think it should be ok, I didn't feel strange while I did it, apart from placing most of my hopes on a rat, obviously!

The memory translation thing is something Doolittle and Playwrite have been practising for a while. Playwrite reads an animals mind and veiws a memory, and sends it to Doolittle's mind, where she can translate what's being said from animal to human. They'd even managed to read old human conversations a couple of times, by Doolittle translating how an animal hears english into proper words. I was hoping they could be caught up like this, but I had a back up plan.

There are three lights in the main shop part of the base, and we set up a basic code for each of them, and two lights on means be careful, and check before coming in. This means different actions for each of us, but for Playwrite, it meant telepathically scanning the base to see who's inside and what's happening, so we all sat on the top floor, while I thought the situation and a basic plan of action in a loop in my head. You can see the lights on before actually entering the base, so I won't even hear them come in! We decided none of us should leave yet, because we couldn't afford to meet them by accident, whereas Playwrite would be able to keep himself and Doolittle away from base when he read me. I'll explain the ideas I sent him to you when I can, I need to make sure they're working first. I knew Playwrite couldn't open a telepathic link with any of us to tallk, because that would mean we were chatting and I'd have to stop him getting involved, but the one thing nobody can stop you doing is thinking, and one way communication should work. I got a note from a cat's collar from Doolittle later saying 'We're hiding, it's ok you don't know where we are, you won't be able to find us' and I read it out loud and who it was from so that Tingle could confirm it was genuine.

So there you are, that's the situation, Playwrite and Doolittle are the last fighters against John at the moment, I'll post more about this as it develops, watch this space!

REBELs, Traitors and Vampires

Wow, so much happened today, it's hard to take it all in, but I'll try and tell it like it happened:

First, unfortunately, Healthbar did end up losing half a finger. It didn't heal like the rest when Playwrite helped her heal herself a bit, and it fell off earlier today. I know she's lucky to be alive, but still, losing half your ring finger is hard for anyone. She was still in bad shape generally, but we thought we could save her completly, you know?

Next, I'm on my way home from college (Yeah, I still go when I can, we all do, we've managed to keep certain parts of our lives separate, I've made us unfindable by anyone outside college searching the records, etc, but our attendance is appaling!) and I go to sit near the back of a nearly deserted bus. I'm folding my bus ticket up, just messing around, when I feel a slight shimmering behind me. I turn, and find Rachel Mills! We got on quite well when we first met, but now she's with danko....
She gives me an urgent look , puts her finger to her lips, and grabs the bus ticket from me. Pulling a pen from her pocket, she scribbles frantically on the back, hands it back to me, smiles nervously and teleports away again. I mean what on earth! But I look at the ticket, and see six sentences in tiny writing:

Team just down the road, be careful.
Rebel wants me to help, I will if I can.
Messages from rebel (He said you'd know who these are?):
Healthbar will be different now, don't let her become the Vampire.
You must stop John, but keep him alive so Damian can redeem himself, he must have a chance.
You must find Pete, he has a vital role to play.

Weird huh? But I know what the vampire one means now, I think I'm already too late....
So I get off the bus in town, and head to base, hoping to meet with the others, we had nothing planned but I wanted to check on Healthbar and I knew the others would too.

I get into the base and see two people heading upstairs. I follow them and see John and another, scruffier looking boy head into the flat! I storm after him, literally, and burst in to see him frowning at Healthbar 'You should all be dead by now, but at least you seem quite far along. TELL ME EVERYTHING.' His voice went weird on the last bit, like mine does when I use persuasion, but deeper, and it seemed to come from every direction at once, it was sort of hypnotic but jarring at the same time, and that was just what I felt, and it wasn't even directed at me! So Healthbar catches him up on events so far, you can see that so much talking is a strain for her, but she can't stop, and I don't know, John must have been putting out a general 'No-interference' signal or something, because for some reason, I just stood there and let her. When she'd finished, he just looked at her and said 'Damn. still, I can finish you of myself.' and he put his hand on her arm, almost consideratly, and grinned 'You know, you might have been worth keeping alive if you'd had a power I'd wanted, but there's no point waiting for Tempest's transfer boy with you, there's nothing in your power for me.' Healthbar looked up at him, and her expression seemed darker than I'd seen it before, it was missing her usual bouncy, cheering, willing-to-help smile. 'Damian thought something similar' she whispered 'I could see it in his eyes, I think he may have remarked as much, I'm not sure, I was barely consious because of what YOU made him do to me. You're both right. My power did leave me defenceless. I couldn't fight back or even help myself. But since the attack, I don't know, I feel....different. Something in my power showed itself, unlocked. And now that I'm SO near your brain power, it's showing itself to me properly. Your power's opened mine. I know what I can REALLY do if I try, and if I find someone deserving...' John suddenly looked shocked, and stared at her head with something close to horror. 'What is that...in your mind...no..no...DON't!' But his command came too late, and faded on his lips. Healthbar had grabbed his wrist, and her hand had started to glow white slightly, like when she healed, but then it darkened, and glowed faintly black, as did her eyes. John cried out, and suddenly the passive command to stay was broken. I could move, and started shakily towards them, as the scruffy boy was blinking and looking confused. A black streak shot across John's arm, and he yelled again, as the black faded to reveal a gaping gash, which started to bleed, as Healthbar sighed with relief. I looked at her, and saw some of her cuts fading, and heard the fractured bone click a little closer to being healed. All this seemed to take place in about a second, and I realized what she was doing before I really understood how. She was draining his body of health in order to heal her own, and I hated to see her of all people doing something so cruel. John needed to be stopped, true, but I was not going to let Healthbar do it. She was too good. I got to them as another painful clicking sound was heard, this time from John, who screamed. 'STOP!' I yelled, throwing the full force of my persuasion at her, and she was forced to let go. She started to look confused, and seemed torn between bursting into tears and trying her new skill out on me. I looked at John, who was clutching his left wrist, as if it was broken, which, given the clicking sound, it probably was. 'Thank you Tempest' he said cordially, 'Now I order you to..' "Oh no, don't think I did it to save you, I don't want her morality tainted by your death. That's for me and Damian' I replied, glaring at him.

'Ah, I'm afraid not Mr Leader sir' he smirked sarcastically 'You see, I'm in control again, and I order you to kill all your teammates!' I looked at him aghast, and then stopped puzzled. He looked quite surprized too. 'Go on Then! he yelled at me, almost a shriek from the pain in his wrist. 'Nah, don't feel like it' I told him, which was true. I really didn't feel like I was being forced in any way.

'Aww, so close! Are the good guys immune to the nasty traitor's power?' said a smug but exhausted voice, and I turned to see Playwrite in the doorway, wincing with the mental strain of blocking John's power but very, very pleased with himself. 'SO sorry' he grinned, 'I'm afraid you won't get anywhere with us at the moment!' Then he turned to me 'Can't you zap him or something? His power's weak at the moment for some reason, but I can't sheild us for long!' 'Oh, yeah, right!' I realized, noticing I'd just been standing watching events unfold again. I looked for John, and saw him being held by the scruffy boy, hovering outside the window. 'Playwite, please say that other kid's protected too!'
'No such luck, it would take too much effort getting into a new mind to protect it, I couldn't help him and you two! I've been in your heads loads of times.' I could feel Playwrite's barrier glitching, it kept flashing on and off in my head. I flew out after John, and heard him say 'West, we will be needing a healer. Find one'
So that's West that Cleo mentioned! John has obviously been keeping him enslaved a long time. His t-shirt was tatty, had huge holes, nearly falling off, he had really tattered shorts and no shoes or socks. His hair was a mess too. I felt sorry for him, but knew I had to stop John. John turned and saw me, winced and gave one last effort, just as Playwrite's barrier failed again 'GO BACK TO your friends and kill THEM. YOU ARE not ALLOWED TO FOLLOW ME.' I was forced to obey the commands that had got through, but Playwrite had saved everyone. I managed to hit him with some Forcebubbles as I was being made to return, I needed to do SOMETHING. I went back through the window and saw Playwrite crouching on the floor. He collapsed into my arms as I got there. Healthbar was in tears. 'That barrier of yours saved us all' I told Playwrite 'and it failed in just the right places'
'I knew it was failing,' he told me' and I may have.....directed it's lapses' I grinned at him, impressed at the amount of control he had over his power even under that much pressure. 'We've not had a very good week though, have we?' he muttered, smiling. And with that, he fainted. Again.

Building 26: the Aftermath

So this was the situation: I'm shattered and ill from over-exertion with my powers from flying everyone back to base from Building 26 in america, Playwrite's exhausted from keeping Aron alive by force, Tingle is distressed he wasn't able to stop John and Aron from the start, Healthbar's unconsious from heavy healing, Aron's unconsious and seriously injured because Healthbar couldn't heal him completly in one go, but he'll live, Damian was in floods of tears for an at the time unknown reason, John was missing and Diffy was unhappy because all his friends were miserable. We left Aron and Healthbar to recover, and found Damian in the room we put them in. I decided to leave him to recover a bit before questioning him, but I wish I hadn't....



We left the three of them and made sure Evan was ok, we hadn't really been able to look after him since we found Aron, and he was a bit flustered at this turn of events. He assured us he was physically ok, and thanked us for getting him out, but said he couldn't deal with being on a team like this just yet. He gave us his phone number, and told us to call if we wanted his help, and Playwrite offered him a kind of apprenticeship, with lessons and tutoring on Telepathy if he wanted them. He set off to hide, and we advised him not to go home or anywhere he can normally be found for his own safety. After that, we sat in the abandoned shop part of the base and had a proper rest.

I woke suddenly, as did everyone else, to the sound of screaming, just as Precog and Doolittle came in to see how the rescue had gone. We rushed up to the flat above the shop, and found Healthbar almost dead, screaming from burns, and what looked like broken fingers and arms. I told Precog to get Diffy out of the base, he's too young for anything like that. I made sure Precog had got him out to take him to the park, but he was still asking about 'Healthy' (as he calls her, he calls me Tempust, he's still not great with long words) and why she wasn't moving, it was awful. There was no sign of Aron or Damian, except a small sprinkling of dust Doolittle found in a corner. Playwrite experimented going into Healthbar's head and getting her power to turn in on itself, and heal her. He managed for about half a minute, but it happened very slowly, and he fell back, crying out and landing on the floor. He's had a headache for about three days now, but his powers are returning. He managed to make her heal herself a bit, the broken arm is only fractured now as far as I can tell, and most of her fingers are better, we think she might lose one though, and some of the burning's gone down, but she's still in very bad shape. She has bruises on her neck and still has burns and something like frostbite and cuts and bruises and things, but she'll live, and I'll kill anyone who hurts her again, or any member of my team. I mean that. They will be shocked, burnt, frozen, drowned, persuaded to stab themselves, attacked by my Forcefield bubbles, and buried alive. I'm pissed now. I know it wasn't Damian's fault, but John WILL suffer. I swear it.

So, Healthbar told us everything that had happened, what Damian had told her and what he'd done, it took about an hour and a half she was so weak, she kept nearly passing out, and if we take her to a hospital, they'll find out about us and we're all doomed, but I don't care. If I have to, then I will.

Anyway, I came on here and found Damian's post which confirmed my theory of Damian's innocence, and now we're hunting John. I think that's it, I keep thinking I forgot to tell you guys something, I'll post it if I remember, keep watching this space!

Building 26

Well, Me, Diffy, Playwrite and Tingle were shooting off to save Evan, and we touch down a little way outside the gates just as Damian, Aron, and John appear from nowhere. Damian said they were coming to help, and they wanted to come in with me. I disagreed, saying it was better they stay outside so we weren't too big a group, but he pointed out that I'd said Aron would be helpful with cell doors, he could teleport out quickly if we needed him too, and he wasn't leaving John outside on his own. I reluctantly agreed, but made them promise to stay with the group, and made Damian swear not to go looking for his mum. We were here for Evan, not the full rescue plan for everyone else.

They all promised, so I flew us in down through the top, While Playwrite made a large thought bubble round us telling people to ignore us and Diffy made us look like cleaners as soon as we landed. We walked quickly downstairs one level to the holding rooms, and found Evan. I turned to ask Damien to teleport him out, and noticed he'd vanished! John was muttering to a blank looking Aron, and they both told Tingle truthfully that they didn't know where he was, but John said they would go and look for him, and before I could stop them they ran up the stairs again. Playwrite looked troubled and I asked why, and he said something wasn't right with them, but something was making it hard to see. He said Aron's thoughts weren't as complex and normal as they should be, and he couldn't tell what was going on with John. I sent Tingle after them and went phased Evan out of his room.

We followed the others back up the stairs, and found Tingle lying in a corridor unconsious. It was a miracle he hadn't been discovered, hell even as we found him a guard came round the corner, and Playwrite had to tell him to ignore us, and I used to persuasion to make sure he'd stop people coming into this corridor for a while. Tingle had a small lump on the side of his head like in cartoons when someone's hit by a saucepan. We heard raised voices round the corner and we got there in time to see Damian teleporting away from Aron, who was in a very bad way. We listened hard, and could just hear a slight heartbeat. John was nowhere to be seen. We knew something was up, but at the moment, we needed Healthbar urgently. I made us a large Forcefield and flew us straight up and out, Phasing through the floors, not caring about hiding. The life of a friend was in danger. We were going too fast to be seen properly. Playwrite called Healthbar on the way back, I was flying us so fast across that ocean I couldn't concentrate on anything else. Playwrite got Evan to support him as he went into Aron's mind and made it concentrate, keep himself alive, keep his heart beating just a bit longer. Playwrite was literally being Aron's mind, demanding that his organ's keep working.

Healthbar met us near the coast, she'd got a late train so she could get there as soon as possible, we couldn't wait for us to meet at base. She healed Tingle (it was easier to do the simple heal first, it got her power flowing better), who woke up, and told us while she started on Aron that it was Aron that had hit him, because John told him to. Then Healthbar screamed, and we saw that Aron was still unconsious, but his biggest wounds had healed, including the hole in his chest, and that he'd be fine in a second.

But then it all went wrong.

Healthbar screamed again and fainted. Aron had worn her out, and he wasn't anywhere near fully healed yet. But he would live. I flew us all back to base, and we carried them both inside and lay them down to rest for a bit. Damian was there, in floods of tears, but I thought it was better we leave him to be unhappy and ask what happened later. I wish I'd got him out of there to talk then, I might have saved everyone.....

To the Rescue!

Writing this by technopathy on my way to B26. DON'T FOLLOW ME IN, BUT PLEASE BE READY IF WE NEED HELP. Too many people inside and we'll be caught. I'm off to rescue Evan, Danko tricked him and has him trapped. I'm going to phase in with Diffy, Playwrite, and Tingle, with Diffy hiding us, Playwrite working on the guards and finding Evan, and Tingle making sure we don't get tricked. Please be ready to help if needed, but don't follow us inside unless you really have to, this is the most people we can have in without being found, we've tried. This isn't the big rescue plan, just getting Evan, not Cienfuego's mum or looking for pete or anything. I'll let you know how it goes.

Vigilante Helix Squad

Or the 'Vigilante HEroes Living In eXtremes' to state our full name.

Yep, for those of you that don't know, that's our name. I promised I'd tell you how we began, so here it is.

Well, as you know, I've had my powers for years, and I kept wanting to show my friends, but I'd only told my best friend by the time this happened. (You know my best friend as Playwrite)but about a year and a half ago, a friend of mine (Precog) started acting weird. he kept drawing stickmen pictures and ignoring us while he did. It was when he drew one I recognized that worried me. He drew one of a classroom in our school, and a guy in a circle in the air, and a man pointing at his head, and four others huddled on the floor, one of whom was holding a square of paper. It was at that point that a sinister looking man burst into the empty classroom we'd been sitting in. He waved a hand and my four friends (Playwrite, Precog, Doolittle and Tingle) were thrown to the floor. He turned to me and said 'I've come a long way to find you, and now I'm going to take all your powers. I'm afraid it may hurt a little.' I told my friends 'You know I said I had something to show you? Well...' and I made a forcefield round myself and floated into the air. Everyone except Precog was, understandably, very surprised, and the sinister man said 'Oooh, I didn't know you had that one, but I'm going to enjoy it' and tried to slice my head open! I made myself phasable, and I felt something invisible slice through me and scratch the wall. He screamed and cried, 'Fine, maybe you'll surrender if I threaten your pals!' and turned on my friends.
Now this where I created what is now one of my favorite moves. I call it the 'Forcefield to the face!' I created a small forcefield infront of me, and charged it with electricity. Then I moved it by pointing with my finger, and with a sweeping motion, whacked it in Sinister man's face! He screamed in pain as it hit him, and I could see he had a nasty red mark on his cheek as well as having just been electrocuted. I made more, lots, and shot a what looked like a stream of electric bubbles at him, forcing him to cry in pain and back out of the door. I yelled 'LEAVE NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU FOR THREATENING MY FRIENDS WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU SINISTER FREAK!!!' and he legged it, vanishing down the corridor. I decided it was best we leave, as we'd attracted attention, and other kids and some staff were approaching, so I flew us all out the window on an FF platform. I took us back to my house, and explained everything to my friends, showing them my full power range.
Anyway, like Playwrite, they instantly agreed to help me hide, and offered to cover for me when needed, etc, they were so cool. Then we looked back at Precog's drawings and saw that he'd drawn my fight. I told him he must be a Precognate, and helped him improve his skill so he could enter trances at will, and he proved my theory by drawing a bunch of things which we could then prove were true. He was thrilled. The following morning I told Healthbar, who ironically hadn't been in college the previous day because she was ill, and Diffy, who doesn't go to college with us because he's too young, and they joined the others in promising to help. At that point we decided to make a little group.
That's it for about two months, until a girl called daphne found me. She wanted me to go to a place called pinehearst, as her boss had a proposition for me. I thought I might as well check it out. She whizzed me over to america (She's a speedster) and took me to see her boss, a man called Arthur Petrelli. Get this, he's Nathan Petrelli's dad! Anyway, he took me for a tour of his labs, and said that his plan was nearly complete. He showed me these phials, they were being worked on by a scaly man, he looked gross but Arthur said these would give people abilities! I asked if I could have some of them, but he said that unfortunately, they weren't ready to give them to the public yet, and showed me these soldiers he was going to give the formula to. Then he told me 'I have nearly everything I need to make this work, but I think your powers would help.' Then he introduced me to a guy who'd just walked in, saying 'This is knox. He's going to hold you down while I steal your power.' I was terrified at first, he said he'd steal my power, but I felt Knox's grip on me tighten the more scared I felt. I demanded that I be allowed one question which he answer truthfully before I become normal again, and he agreed. I asked 'Is Knox getting stronger because of me?' and Arthur petrelli told me 'Yes, he feeds of his victims to get strength.'. This was enough information for me to fight with. 'I screamed 'I'M NOT SCARED OF YOU!' and meant it, and I felt Knox's grip loosen. I summoned a stormy wind round me, and Knox was thrown across the room. I went for Petrelli, but he shot lightning at me and I realized if I went too close, he'd steal my power, so I just got the hell out of there. I flew in a forcefield, phasing down through the floor and stealing a rack of phials on my way out, and flew home as fast as I could.
So yeah, I gave my friends abilities, and we tested what they were, Diffy noticed his when we discovered that suddenly we could ALL see his imaginary friend, who he'd conjered up, Tingle couldn't notice a difference until Healthbar told him she didn't know where his phone was (she'd 'borrowed' it to play on), She found out by comforting Diffy when he scraped his knee running around with the now visible IF (This is before he redesigned himself), etc.
From then on we've just been laying low, hiding and fighting the government, helping anybody where we can, and yeah, having some fun and personal gain. with it too.
That's pretty much it, we've broken out some captured people before, stopped some robberies, had some fun, made the streets a bit safer, and used our abilities to our own advantage too, but we've been doing ok. Then recently I found this blog and you know the rest. It's where you came in.

What the Hell?

REBEL hacked my Blog?

Call to Arms

Ok, here's the usual plan, and how you two can fit into it, I think it should work.

If we all go in together, we will definately be spotted, and look suspicious, and we need to split up eventually anway.

We usually split up into two teams. Me, Diffy, Healthbar and Playwrite head up to the roof in a forcefield. Cienfuego, I want you and Aron with me, you're new to the team, and I want to be sure you're alright. I FF us up to the roof, and we find a skylight or open topped courtyard. We're Team A.

Aura Girl, can you go with Team B? You, Tingle, Precog, and Doolittle make your way to a back door or side entrance. We keep in touch through Playwrite, who has discovered he can make a telepathic field between all of us. You being with Team B makes life easier, as I believe you still have illusion and technopathy, which means both teams have those powers. Doolittle will make sure the guarddogs are helpful. Illusion yourself and the others so you don't stand out. Disable the locks by your door and WAIT. DON"T KILL, MAIM, OR TORTURE ANYONE, ESPECIALLY MY TEAM. I want this to be done as discretly as possible.

Me and CF will Phase Team A through the skylight when the area below is deserted, or float us down into courtyard when it's clear. I'll disable the internal alarms, and Diffy will illusion us uniforms and age us a bit so we fit in if we're spotted. Playwrite will search the staff's minds for where the holding cells are and any other useful info, while I use persuasion to get some guards to help/ignore both teams. We'll send the guards to let you lot in at the side, while make our way to the holding cells.

You need to make your way to the main control room. Find our files and get rid of them. It should be harder to find us if all the records on us are gone. Precog will go into a trance and draw their attempts to find us at regular intervals in your search, to check how well they'll do. keep looking until he say's they'll fail. He'll also have the drawings he did this afternoon with him, so pay attention if he notices anything, it's probably important. If you're seen, get tingle to interrogate for any information you can get from them.

We'll make our way to the cells, break in (Aron will make that SO much simpler, I normally crush the doors with boulders) and Healthbar will heal any wounded prisoners. We'll grab who we can, and get out as quickly as possible, probably in a Forcefield through a tunnel I'll make with E/P Control. Team B come find us when you're done with the folders and we say we've found the cells. deal with (but NOT kill) any guards you meet on the way down. AG, You should be able to use your Aura ability to knock them out, I think squeezing theirs or taking just a little or something? Doolittle will set the dogs on the guards anyway.

We get out as soon as we can and get back to our base at the VHS shop.

REBEL

Help Damien, Tempest, he won't survive in there alone........
REBEL

Protected

Just realised how much about ourselves we're all putting on here. I've technopathed the host site and our blogs are now protected. I've set up a defense where anyone we don't want reading out blog will only see random characters for each blog, and every title will read 'Access Denied'. Casual readers that just think we're awesome are fine, I hooked up a list of government members and associated personnel to my program, it will only block anyone dangerous to us.

Anyway, it should make communicating like this easier and safer.

My Team

Ok, so here's a basic run down of my team (Alias only), with powers etc.

Precog: Precognative sketcher. He draws stickmen visions of events in present and future. draws in his sleep during Precog Dreams, can enter waking trance at will. Only one to manifest naturally.
Chosen Alias from obvious origin.

Tingle: Has power of Lie detection. He's a very sensible person. Chosen Alias comes from tingling sensation that occurs when a lie is detected.

Diffy: Our youngest member, he has power of illusion. Has chosen to redesign himself to look like his imaginary friend, a small white egg shaped creature will a red hat that he invented a couple of years ago. (Edited version of a creature he saw on telly a few years ago, I discovered)
Very vivid imagination, and creates anything I ask him too (He looks up to me, his mum wants me to be a role model for him, blah blah blah). Chosen Alias is the name of his imaginary friend, who he is half convinced he now is and as a result has stopped talking to it.

Doolittle: Can talk to animals. Loves nature, worked part time at a vet's surgery before forced to go into hiding. Loved the fact that she could communicate with the animal's at the vet's and calm them down. Her Chosen Alias is obvious.

Healthbar: Healer She was very into online gaming, multiplayer games etc, alway chose the defensive player/moves or was the member of the team that supported/ healed the rest of the players. Very caring person, delighted with her power. Chosen Alias is standard method of displaying player health in games.

Playwrite: He has Telepathy, and is very skilled with it. He's very lively, an actor, very tall, and always has something to say. Can't stop smiling, very good with his power and can give people mental illusions, fairly adept at mind control, and can walk through people's minds with ease to search for a particular fact or memory. Recently discovered he could bring people into a mind he's searching with him. Chosen Alias is a play on the fact that he's an actor and that he can control people.

Everyone except Precog was given their abilities by injection. But that's another story, and I'm a busy Guy. I'll post our groups origin story when I can, it's good.

Me

Ok, a bit about me.

Firstly, Tempest is not my real name, but an alias created when I started the group. It makes me much harder to track.
My natural power is technopathy, but I have gained others by a rather interesting means. Unfortunately I can't currently get more, but I'm happy with what I've got.

I manifested at age thirteen (Wow almost five years ago, seems like less) and for a while just kept it a secret and had fun with it (The FBI came into work one morning and found all their screens saying 'Haha thought you were impenetrable didn't you'). After a while I started looking for specials like me. Found a few people some quivering wrecks, some proud. That's how I found you guys when you started these blogs. Then three years ago, I found a boy online who claimed he was special. I went to find him (He was a bus ride away) and found him being beaten up by some older guys calling him freak. I used a vacuum cleaner, a radio and a fan turn the tables on them and they fled. The boy said he owed me his life explained he could transfer things from one place to another. He could recharge a remote by holding it and some new batteries and transfering the power. He could take away someones sight and give it to a blind person. And in his latest test, he could pass his little brother's mental disability into the bullie's brother. Hence the beating up. He said he would help with whatever I wanted, and so began my gaining of powers. (It should be noted he couldn't affect himself, just pass things through him to other people. He could only be the method, not a subject.)

I'd met a man about a year after my power manifested who had persuasion, and he hated it.
Roger Ackroid had noticed his persuasion when he demanded a refund at a shop and the rude assistant had suddenly been very helpful and refunded him quickly. He had some fun with it for a while, and then while having an argument with his best freind, had told him to 'Just go jump off a cliff!' and he had. This turned Roger into a quivering wreck.. He wanted his power gone and I told him I'd help if I could, so I returned with my new friend, Pete the power mover. Roger asked if I could take his brother Jamie's power too, as he had phasing and it had enabled him to become a master thief and Roger was scared he'd get in trouble. Who's going to say no to free Phasing? He called his brother and used his power one last time to make his brother come and have his power taken. Pete transfered them both to me, and we left a much happier Roger to get on with his life.

Now I know that at this point I could have 'persuaded' specials to give me their power, but I kept looking for people in trouble with it. I guess it felt better taking it in a way that helped people, and I wanted a chance of getting them from people by choice before resorting to just bullying. (Plus with Pete's experience, I may not have had him too long if I did the bullying.)

I found Jenny Ridley a couple of months later. She had said online that she was scared of what was happening to her and agreed to meet with us. She had the Forcefield power I now use so often, but was scared of it. Not from a bad experience like Roger, but she was a very sensible business woman and thought of herself as a freak once she manifested. As you can imagine I was happy to solve her problem. I've practised a lot with this power and you wouldn't believe the sort of things I can do with it now!

I got my Weather Control Power from a mysterious old man who called himself tornado and wouldn't tell me anything else. He too had found Jenny and she'd given him my email. He had loved using his powers, he used to be a farmer and had always got the weather he'd wanted. But he had tired of his power once he'd retired and was now dying of cancer, he said he was happy to be dying and shouted down my offer of transferring his cancer away, saying he was dying soon anyway and didn't want to inflict the disease on anyone else. He just wanted some money for an expensive treatment so he could have a few more months with his family. He asked if I was willing to buy his power. Now, I didn't have a lot of money, but I had technopathy and access to a cashpoint, so that was easily fixed. (I know, I stole the money but I didn't care and it was to make this old man happy, and he never knew how I got it.) He didn't question that I was 15 and just let me buy it. So, another case with everyone happy.
I've practised alot with this one too, and after loads of training, I can summon forms of weather to my hands and around me, not just the general atmosphere. Wind, Water (Rain) , Ice, Lightning, Fog, etc. And, after a lot of trying. Fire (Sun) I know, it's hard to believe but I looked into the science of it and I think I know how I did it. Like a tiny Sun. I'm pretty sure what happens ia I cretae a condensed ball of flammable gasses that appear naturally in the air (Hydrogen I think?) and then summon a tiny spark of electricirty and ignite it. Ta-Da! Fireball.

Finally, Andy Howard. He had Earth/Nature control and quite enjoyed it, but lacked control and couldn't stop making flowers everywhere he went, which got noticed and unfortunately, activated his heavy hayfever. He wanted a quite life more than the power, so he asked for it to be taken away. I was again happy to oblige.

There we go, those are my powers. Now, I've mentioned I can't currently get any more. We were on our way back from Andy (he'd moved to spain) when some soldier guys attacked us. We were walking along normally at that point, we needed to get somewhere deserted to take off in my forcefields. We were about to take off when a team of government people found us. (Not Danko's, just before that started,before that, these were different people, but I reckon Danko has Pete now.). I found out later it was the Bullies from before that told the police about Pete, and then the government found out, the bullies never saw me clearly so I was safe. Anyway, they pounced on pete, I tryed to help but I was less experienced then, and still feeling a bit weird from getting my new power, I felt ill from holding it in so I didn't stand out as we walked by making flowers like Andy. I was turning to aim at the soldiers when I was knocked into a hedge by one of the soldiers. I fainted, the new power and the being thrown too much together. When I woke up, they'd gone. I was so angry and disappointed in myself. All my power, I should have been able to help my friend. I've been searching and searching, but any information they have on him is being kept very safe. I can't find him, But I swear I will one day. And morals or no morals, when I find him, whoever is keeping him hostage WILL DIE.

Anyhoo, that's a bit more about me, details on my team to follow shortly.

My Team and Me

I've realized I keep mentioning my team and my powers, and haven't actually said anything about us. I can't just now, we have to go and lay some dead end trails to confuse Danko and his Team (Yes, I know his name, Security just isn't what it used to be!), I think they're getting close to finding us again. I'll let you know more soon though.

What is there problem?

I'm just a teenage boy with superpowers. Why does the government want me? I wouldn't say I've done nothing wrong, I'm kind of 65/35 villian/hero. Sure I use my skills for personal gain, but I help some people too, but I haven't killed or anything, just persuaded my teachers not to give me homework,made bus drivers give ME money instead of the other way around, won some fights a little too easily.......Ok a lot of bad stuff. but still. They're making a mistake trying to get me. People will get hurt, maybe even die.....

The Hunter's Team

They tried to get me today, but they came unprepared. What is it about that lot that makes them think we're stupid? Trapped two of them in a forcefield , froze one guy and then, looking at the last member, got a huge shock. It was Rachel! I've met her a couple of places, pinehearst most importantly, and now she's working with that lot! She recognized me too. I could tell from the fear in her eyes. She knows I know about her ability, and thought I'd reveal her to her team. I used this to my advantage, and knocked her out while she was busy staring at me, and I fled through a window. I guess my favorite cafe's a no-go zone from now on. Shame. Still, Rachel being on the other side, I could use that to my advantage.......

A possible Friend?

I've found someone in the same position as me. Maybe she can join with me against this Petrelli twit and his ridiculous scheme. Joining forces with others like ourselves are our only hope....