Today he wore a blue cotton shirt with white pants, and no shoes. Adair offered as he sipped his own cocktail. The man sitting across the stone table from them was recognizable as well, though not for such aesthetic reasons. Numbers were in a garden etched in his memory for its vastness and beauty. Transport gained the ability to make out shapes, and soon recognized that he and Mr. Transport’s face was peeled back suddenly, blinding him as the sunlight thrust into his eyes. Numbers was breathing alongside him, it could be inferred the shorter man echoed the sentiment. It was, by far, one of the nicest places he had been detained in the past month. An insect landed lightly on his right hand, delicately straddling the steel cuff encircling his wrist. He felt the sunshine beating down upon the black fabric, causing a light film of sweat to simmer on his skin. Transport could smell honeysuckle through the rough cloth surrounding his face. It’s why strategies are altered depending on the threat. It’s why different teams get different assignments. Every Super who makes it to Hero is intimately familiar with what they can and can’t do. A strongman who doesn’t know how much he can take won’t last very long, not unless his endurance is so top-class it might as well be invulnerability.

Not just to push our limits, but to be aware of them. Because that’s my job, just like the healer would fix whatever it broke on me and the ranged guys would tear it up before it could fire again.” “What if it destroyed you?” “ That’s why we train like this. I’d charge the fucking thing and take the full brunt of it. Not all of your teammates will be able to do the same.” “What would you do in that situation?” “Same thing I’ve always done in that situation. But what are you going to do when your team is staring down a fully-charged energy beam that fires directly at your group? You going to dodge? Because you might get away, or at least get by uninjured. That’s where we live.” “I don’t get it, why the hell can’t I counter or dodge?” “You can, when it’s appropriate. That’s why he knows how to avoid being hit for him that will always be priority one.

Super powereds year 2