New stuff with energy

OK, a couple of quick things. Last night we had a fight with John again, and Pete found out he can shoot his red energy like a beam. He was going to transfer this clone of John's powers into the John box to top it up and leave him powerless, and had grabbed John, but John knocked the box from his hand. He reached out for it as it spun through the air, and a bolt of red energy shot from his hand and struck the box. The transfer happened, and the red energy faded, sending the box tumbling to the floor. John, powerless, was no match for us. So that's cool.

Rag's also discovered some things. We were training the other day, and he was hit by lightning. His chaos touch converted it and gave it to him, but then something really cool happened. He closed his eyes, concentrated, and his hand glowed.
'What?'
'Trying something....you said...I'd be able to do different things....eventually....so here goes....'
A thin tube appeared in his hand, growing from nowhere. It glowed white, and was about the size of a crayon.
'What on EARTH is that?'
'I...don't know. I was going for transformation, like with stone.'
He pointed it at the wall. Nothing happened. He sighed and threw it at the wall. There was a spark where it hit, and another where it landed on the floor. We went and looked. Where it made contact, it had burnt black. I picked it up. It felt fine. I handed it to Rag, who drew a line down the wall. There were sparks, and a black line was burnt into the wall.
'You....made a lightning...crayon?'
'Oh this is AWESOME!'
We've discovered it works like a normal crayon, and gets used up with frequent use, but it writes by burning with electricity. Then, I have no idea why, we did something stupid. Utterly forgetting about his ability, we high-fived. He's reacted to independent abilities of mine before, but we'd never seen a skin to skin reaction. Energy rippled over both of us, and we fell over with the power. I propped myself up again, and my hands started to feel weird. I looked down and found out that they were becoming like the floor. I let out a yell and leapt to my feet. Rag was halfway through the floor, trying to float upwards, his hair was on fire, and water was pouring out of his hands.
Realizing what was going on, I absorbed the water, used a blue hand to put out his hair, and pulled him to his feet. 'Thanks. How did you? What's this? With the absorbing, and my fire, and....OMG POWER SWAP!'
I grabbed his hand and we swapped back. We've found out that I keep my technopathy, PLaywrite and I think it's because it's my natural power and is too deeply embedded in me, and Rag's power is the one causing the swap, so it moves and mine doesn't but I get his and he gets all my other powers. It will only work for us two though. Cleone and Dragon both have powers that are too volatile and would react badly to it, maybe kill him, and single power people will just have his reaction to their power.
So there we go, that's cool. I have this weird tingling at the moment, like someone's trying to get through on some wavelength. I think somebody's trying to hack the TV signals, so I'm sure things are about to hot up! More later!