Red
Red
"Hey!"
Mia shouted out as she walked towards the alleyway, closing her eyes as she made the first corner. As soon as she opened them, they began glow a dull silver color. She glanced down at both of her hands, closing her right fist and looking back up. Her pace slowed as she made the turn towards the alleyway where the noise was.
As she made the second corner turn, she got the attention of two men, one tall and one stockier, wearing bright red bandanas over their faces. There was a young woman on the ground, face-down. The blood that lay in a puddle around her face seemed to move backwards, towards her face.
"That's the source of the voice!" shouted one of the men, raising a finger and pointing to Mia's eyes, which were bright silver.
"She has powers! I don't know what her ability might be, I think I can take the chance to DRUG HER!" The man immediately drew a small gun.
Mia brought her hands up and jumped to the side in the nick of time as a small dart flew past her, grazing the back of her hand but not making a puncture wound. She didn't have time to worry about a scrape, she had to go and attack these guys!
"It grazed but didn't cut! Some sort of durability!" The taller man drew a knife and started walking forwards towards Mia.
"You better put that away. That's not gonna do you any good against someone like me." Mia kept her hands raised in a rudimentary guard. Suddenly, the taller man jumped forwards and took a slash at Mia.
Mia dodged left and aimed a kick to his leg. The kick connected, but it wasn't nearly enough to make him move in the slightest. He was, after all, about two heads taller than Mia.
"No strength! Haha!" With one swift movement of his hand, the man swung knife, and the blade went straight past Mia's inner arm, slashing it open. Blood spurted from the cut.
Mia fell to her knees and let out a shrill scream, unable to comprehend how much blood was pouring out of her arm, staining her clothes and dripping onto the ground. "Okay! Okay! I give up! My power's really weak! There's no need to k-kill me! You killed that woman...just...don't kill...me..." Mia raised her hands, her voice dying down. Tears formed in her eyes as she tilted her head down.
She couldn't die now. Not after discovering something amazing. She had a life to live, powers to gain, and adventures to go on. She was a superhero, and she couldn't die at the hands of some thugs with red bandanas.
The man looked down at her, raising the knife once again. "You're really pathetic, to be one of the fifty in the entire world. You're as good as dead. The wound on your arm was deep enough to cut an artery open. It'll be a miracle if you can even get that fix-GGHKK!"
The man stumbled forwards, nearly tripping on Mia. He coughed and doubled over, hitting his head on the wall. Mia got a good view of the short man behind him, and saw that his body was lifeless too. Mia blinked, and her vision went blurry for a few seconds.
She focused up at what was before her. The woman that was previously laying on the ground with blood all around her was standing before Mia. Mia couldn't make out her face through a combination of all the blood that was covering it and her blurring vision.
Blood...loss?
"Hey, are you alright?" The woman extended a hand out. Mia reached out to grab it, but her grip slipped, and her vision went black.
Thud.
"Mhn..."
Tick.
"Are you..."
Tock.
"Hey, you're awake! Calm down, I'm still working on you." The woman that was in the alley previously was sitting next to Mia, holding the latter's damaged arm. The woman's eyes were glowing a blue color, the same one of her eyes, and the injury on Mia's arm was closing up rapidly, passing several stages of healing before it went away. It was like watching a time-lapse of an injury.
"Ow!"
"Done! You're alright." The woman let out a soft sigh and stood up, rapidly shaking her hand off as though she just wrote on paper for a few hours. The first thing Mia noticed was how high-class her appearance was. Flawless, smooth skin, light hair styled into a single curl that rested on her shoulder, and most importantly, diamonds in her ears.
The woman turned around to face Mia. "Hey, did you get shot? You seem really distracted."
"Huh? What? Oh, no, I wasn't shot."
"Good. Neither was I. They might've saved their darts."
Mia was utterly confused as to what was going on. Darts? This person was a superhero? "Hey, hey, wait, back up just a sec. I just...I didn't want to get involved, but I heard those men in the alley shuffling around. You would've been dead if I didn't show up. You looked dead when I showed up-MMF!"
The woman clamped her hand over Mia's mouth. "Shush. I have an ability, alright? I can heal others and myself. But it's not good for combat. I used the stocky man's knife once I healed up. Don't get so excited."
"Healing? That means..." Mia closed her eyes and opened them, activating some power. "What's the color of the glow?"
"Silver. That's odd, usually they match with eye color, or are at least close. Why, is something the matter?"
Mia reached out, grabbing the woman's hand. Nothing happened.
"You're...seriously acting strange. Are you sure you weren't shot?"
"Hold on...why didn't anything happen?!"
"Okay, take a step back, and explain. Why did you ask, shouldn't you know the color of your power? There's something weird going on. Are you sure you're registered, and are you absolutely sure you weren't shot?"
What should Mia tell this woman?
1. "Well, I lied earlier. The dart grazed my hand. Sorry. I'll explain later, I gotta go, thanks for the healing!" Leave immediately and seek an actual hospital to see the effects of the dart.
2. "I...kind of have this thing...where I can copy the powers of whoever I touch. I'm just trying to see if it's actually a copy ability or if it's a coincidence with the other guy!"
3. "No, I wasn't shot, and I just wanted make sure my powers still worked after being knocked out like that. Thanks for keeping me alive."
4. Write-in.
[A/N: For those of you who don't know what a write-in is in a quest RP, it's where you write your response. You can write whatever you want within reason. If multiple people agree on the same write-in, then that'll be the one going in.]
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