Whatโs a good cover forย โFastest man aliveโ, well, thatโs pretty easy: Slowest job alive. If it doesnโt make sense to anyone else, it at least makes sense to someone like The Scarlet Speedster, who has his bag slung over his shoulder and winter coat keeping him as warm as the falls in Japan get. His thumb is sliding over songs on his iPod, attention at a very miniscule percentage. The Teenager gettingย โBreak my strideโ playing through the earphones before he slides the music device into his jacket.ย
Only then do the surroundings register. Head snaps toward the loud crash that finally erupts over his earphones. The teenager turning toward an incoming car thatโs soaring through the air, seeming to have wildly found himself and a few other civilians as what they choose to impact into. Adrenaline spikes, senses kick in, EYES COURSE WITH YELLOW LIGHTNING.ย
Time grinds to a slow and halted flow. The Speedster stands amongst people that move tens of thousands of times slower than him. The people in the comic books usually call this power,ย โBullet Time.โ He can only hear his own panting. The music in his headphones nothing more than a slow constant humming sound as he hears the air vibrating around him. He swallows a lump in his throat, heโs gotta survey the situation before moving into action. After-all, heโs out of costumeโฆ Eyes flick toward the building heโs standing in front of. His heart drops like a rock.ย
A camera, right outside the front door, and heโs standing directly in itโs line of sight.
He grits his teeth, clenches his fist. The carโs getting closer and closer to him. He has two options, and minutes to think on it. The other people around him are experiencing time at a faster rateโฆ and their lives are flashing before his eyes. His options are presented as such:ย
- The camera has you pegged. If you move now, youโre done for. Bye-Bye secret identity. Whoever decides to observe that footage will see someone with powers strikingly similar to that blur the newsโ been talking about. You heal quickly, but the question of healing can only come after the question of whether or not heโll SURVIVE taking that car head on, and even then, his concerns more rely with the citizens around him.ย
- Option two: Ignore the camera, accept that youโve been caught, and accept the consequences, or try to play the fool when youโre confronted about it. Move the civilians, get out of the way, save those innocent lives. When a pro rolls up, they might get suspicious but they wonโt know for sure unless they see that camera footage. When youโre caught though, you can endure the prison timeโฆ Ochaco wonโt. Her career as a hero will forever be stained by her vigilante brother.
Dammitโฆ The Speedster canโt run his way out of this oneโฆ He closes his eyes and accepts whateverโs coming his wayโฆ
ย ย Hot on the heels of the car and its reign of terror was the moon rabbit herself, following a villain thatโd stolen a vehicle- seemed the poor guyโs quirk didnโt give him any movement options, โspecially against a speed powerhouse like Mirko- and quickly found herself hopping between cars in oncoming traffic, before the vehicle ramped off the back of another car thatโd stopped for the crosswalk, and the civilians that were currently making use of it.
ย ย Unfortunately, Mirko wasnโt gifted with bullet time. She had to make her decisions on the spot, and that usually ended up with a rather rough outcome- but she always put civilians first.ย
ย ย ย ย ย ย โ Dammit- watch where youโre GOING, DUMBASS !ย โ
ย ย A leg lifts up over her head as she flips off the wall of a nearby building- and the heel of her foot plunged directly into the hood of the vehicle, striking it down directly into the pavement, just a few feet away from the civilians. The front of the car crunched and folded over like a can of sardines, and the villain driving it is ejected through the windshield like a crash test dummy. He flies forehead first into the pavement- knocked unconscious on impact.ย
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