Triss was laying in her new bed in her new room. It was a cozy little hotel room execpt without windows, considering she now knew they were underground it made sense to not have windows just showing a view of dirt. At least she had a door to a private bathroom eith toilet and shower. The room was rahter barebones with just a comfortable bed, wardrobe containing a few borrowed clothes, a nightstand and a writing desk witch currently had her new laptop on it providing the only source of light in the dark room.
The clock was only shortly after 8 in the morning yet Triss hade been awake for a while, surfing the net. She had been allowed to visit a few sites to get her up to speed with current events and more importantly the heroscene of the city. It had not been hard finding the HeroLeague´s website but reading everything and trying to memorise it made her head ache. Sevin and Shrimp had told her to try and remember atleast all of the HeroLeague´s members in the city and roughly what their powers were, she did her best and decided to try and recitie them all to herself.
The Heroes of New Gala were:
Malachite with his green and black costume, green and white dyed hair and with a smile that made him every teenagegirl´s crush only hiding his identity with a small green domino mask. His powers were pretty much a classic combo of flight and energy lasers, not that lasers and free movment are to be underestimated.
Claymore & Lancer, the knight duo clad in mediveal looking power armor and short red capes on thier shoulders, Claymore with his namesake red double edged sword and Lnacer with his drill like 1,5 meter long lance. Their powers seemed to be related to crafting the wepons they used yet the way the fought with them might count as a power aswell. The duo used to be a quartet but Tomhawk and Aegis had moved to Ohio after a powerful villian caused massive earthquakes taking out a few of the the heroes. The team split but are still in contact and are know to reinfoce eachother when needed.
Q-something that she always forgot the name of, pretty much a soccermom with superspeed. or baseball mom in this case as she often attended local baseball matches with tones of homebaked brownies. Her costume was purple with a few turquise stripes and a big Q on her stomach, a simple purple mask covering most of her face but letting her blonde hair flow out behind her.
Aeromeister the second in command of the local League yet considred weak by most. In his almost 30 years long hero career he had never solo cought a bigname villian or stopped great disasters by himself, however neither had he ever failed catastrophically never dropping a buss full of people in the ocaean or accidentaly blowing up half a block. He was consistent, safe. His costume was silver with a yellow helm and that was pretty much it, no flames no cape and no quirky smile for the camera. His powers were of the "crazy scientist" type letting him create stuff that flies...sounds like a weak power but it is sertainly not. He has created tons of flight capable power armors for other heroes, small one-man planes the he use most of the time and his giant helicopter looking more like some kind of space ship then something to use in the city.
And then there was Silver the leader for the Heroes in New Gala. Nevermind that she is also counted as one of the strongest heroes in both America and the world. Her power being silver control, the abbility to shape silver to anything she wants in a huge radius around her, swords made of silver: No problem, small bullets made of silver that she is able to expel out of her range with incredible speed: No problem, literall river of silver flowing like water: depends on the amout of silver but otherwise no problem. However the reson she was considered as one of the stringest was not beacuse of her power but her experience.
Superhumans started appearing in this world shortly after World War 1, most likely some kind of experiment intended to be used as a weapon gone wrong (or right). And as one might imagine when people get alot of power, it goes to ones head. A man in the slowely dying Germany got the power to create, control and turn into noxius gas and promply decided that superhumans should rule the world and the people of Germany followed. It has been speculated greatly if sugestive-mindcontroll was a part of his power or simply an allied superhuman working behind the scenes.
The Gasman and his subordinate Captain Lightning, or Kaptiän Blitz, wrought chaos during WW2 taking over most of Europe before they were finnaly put down. The heroes that participated in the final fight were Captain Freedom, Sergeant Summer and Silver from America, Rapière from France, Lion King and Queen from GreatBritain, Baba Yaga from Soviet and an unknown naked man whom fell in the battle, sacrificed himself to end Captain Lightning. Noone knows were this man came from, maybe he was from France, maybe U.S.A, maybe Soviet or maybe even from Germany, yet he fought and all the heroes that were present agreed that his help was vital in the fight. When the war was over the countries all gave this man the same name, albiet in their own languages, and now in Berlin there is a big memorial with all of the names from people that died in that final fight and the first name written at the top is Hero.
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Out of those 8 heroes that saved the world from tyranny that day only two remain BabaYaga whom was said to have been over 100 years even before the war and whose power is more like magic than anything logical and Silver who was 17 at the end of the war is now closing in on the age of 80. Sadly Triss was pretty sure she hade seen more porn on the internet of Silver than Qwhatshername with her huge bust that had the internet far to riled up.
Silvers costume was entirely made of silver clinging tightly to her rather youthfull body compared to her age, some strange side effect from when a villian used his power on her keeping her body in Silvers forties yet her hair hade gone completely white from stress at that point, two small angular wings and a silverly helmet with bluse eyelenses and spots for her iconic long pig tails.
Triss extended her hand to the little nightstand grasping her glass of water and easily bringing it to her mouth, taking a few sips and then putting it back. She had stuffed herself like never before the previous night, as if her stomach was a blackhole. She had just kept asking Sevin for food witch he brought to her with a small smile and her power had somehow returned her to prettymuch normal. Her power she thought. Hers. If she had gotten her powers earlier could she have joined the heroes Triss pondered? Porbably she answered her own question, but it was all just "what ifs" so there was no use dwelling on it. She would still kinda be a hero, beating up villians was what her new job was, or atleast that was how Sevin presented it to be.
If she had joined the HeroLeague she would probably have to be part of the JuniorHeroLeague first, a bunch of teenagers with superpowers would just be wonderful she thought to her self. When she accepted Sevin´s deal and became part of his.."garden" there had been 4 Junior Heroes, now there was 5 yet two of them were new. The sad solution to this mathematical impossebility was that one of them had died, gotten murdered.
The Gamer had radioed the HeroLeague HQ while on a late night patrol telling them he "heard a strange noise going to investigate", he was found the day after in an alley together with with 13 other civilians. This was in the southwest of town, "the clusterfuck" as the others from the Red star called it, the culprit was yet to be found.
The rest of the Junior Heroes were:
Rime, a closerange cryokinetic able of making extreamly thin razorsharp blades, a practical tornado of them , plus the fact that she was proficient in some martial-arts made her quite the danger to the villians of the city having taken down quite a few earning her the title of the strongest junior. Her costume is mostly black and dark blue with her head coverd in icey spikes, making it kinda look like hair from those Japanse cartoons.
Snotling, lost a bet against Rime were the winner got to decide the loser´s heroname, does not let his name to him and is the second strongest of the juniors. His power let him produce a large amount of green acidic gelatinous sludge in his sinuses witch he then used to both fight and capture criminals and villians. He is able to "chose" how acidic the sludge is so he does not kill anyone, but it has been reported that he can melt through steel so he shall not be underestimated. His costume is a mainly green powerarmor made by Aeromeister with a few yellow part like the shinguards and his pecs for some reason.
DarkRainbow, like Snotling he has a powersuit made by Aeromeister but DR´s is mostly a ugly beige and metalic steel without any actual rainbows on it unlike snotling he actually chose his name. His power consists of being able to summon a strange robot that he calls HolyDiver. The HolyDiver may look like a robot with tons of cogs, pistons, springs, muscles seemingly made of copper wire and big bronze like diver helmet but in reality it is simply a projection of DarkRainbow´s mind. The projection should not be taken lightly however as it can easily reorganise your face with a few lightning fast punches, DarkRainbow´s fighting style is that of a boxer and factoring in a powersuit to that and you would be smart to not get close to him in a fight.
Phoenix, one of the new JuniorHeroes joined shortly after Triss went into her coma and like her namesake bird her costume make her look like a bright orange and yellow bird with feathers on her mask and a cute little plastic looking bannana yellow beak at here nose. Phoenix is a pyrokinetic able to shoot fireballs and small flamethrowers from her hands and feet. She looked to be the youngest of the Juniors but in reality it was P4ND4.
P4ND4 is the other new hero that hade joined in Triss´s absense. He was a 7months old AI in the form of a human adult sized sentient robotic bear. Some crazy scientist up in Montana had made him with the intent of making an army of robotbears and take of the town, however something went wrong (for the scientist) beacuse P4ND4 arrested him and gave both himself and his creator to the police. Seeing the "heroic streak" in the robots actions one of the heroes that took care of the casr recommended him for the JuniorHeroLeague and here he is, flying around town with a giant jetpack stoping thiefs and helping old ladies across the street.
Triss heaved out a heavy sigh, her head hurt but she was quite proud of remebering so much of the essential information. Her stomach gave a sound that might aswell have been a hyena in the room signaling it wanted breakfast. Triss gave up another sigh as she rose from the bed and started moving towards the door.
"Breakfast here i come"