Rebel_Scum

"No, if I had proof you would already be enjoying the fine accomodations at the Zig", the heroine replied angrily. "Hence why I am attempting to get proof rather than just dropping you on the spot." Left unsaid but very much evident in her tone was that if he continued to obstruct said acquisition of proof, he might just wind up getting dropped anyway purely out of frustration.

"Then perhaps you should have considered that before changing them in an attempt to remove evidence", the heroine replied simply. "Probably not your truck to begin with anyway."

She then turned her head to look at Pious as he went around to the back of the truck. He wouldn't find anything, she thought. This villain was just a bit too smug to actually still have the stolen device in his possession. Probably teleported it out of the truck on the way, or some other easily concealed method of getting rid of it. Not that that'd stop her finding it - several people she knew could possibly track where it'd gone, even hours after the fact.

"That'd be those ones right there", she replied quite casually, flicking a pair of spines at the tires in question behind her back as she spoke. Contrary to expectation she wasn't blind and she wasn't stupid. she might not have been quick enough to catch exactly what had changed the tires (having only seen it out of the corner of her eye) but it was clear that something had indeed changed them. Even without the faint blur of movement it'd still be obvious enough that they had formerly had spines in them and now did not.

And if he could cheat, so could she.

"******** and you know it", the heroine cut him off the moment she heard that smug tone. "That would be the one Rikti detonator I saw being loaded into this truck - and yes it is the same truck. I put those," she gestured to the visible back tire, in which were embedded several fragments of the spines she'd attempted to puncture said tire with, "In your tires on the scene, so unless there's some other truck driving around with bits of my spines in its tires..." She looked like she was going to continue, but the arrival of a certain other teleporting hero stopped her.

She very nearly facepalmed at what he said. So much for the peaceful option. No, because he's a villain he doesn't deserve to be spoken to with any kind of civilty. Nevermind that things could possibly have worked out without any beating up of either side, no. All villains must be provoked into a fight as fast as superhumanly possible...

"Most people don't, oddly enough...", she agreed. Her arm furthest from the suspect subtle sprouted the tips of a couple of spines, just in case.

"Not in itself, no," the heroine replied. "Despite what many Hellions or Skulls might tell you. However. Loitering when you have stolen Rikti technology in the back of your truck probably is, no?"

My thoughts almost exactly.

Understandably, a certain heroine got a little suspicious when said truck remained stationary even after every other vehicle had departed the ferry. Jumping down from her hiding place, she landed neatly beside the vehicle. "You in the truck!", she called. "Come out peacefully and you won't be harmed!"

"Much", she muttered to herself, not loud enough for anyone inside the truck to hear. Of course, if she got no response she'd proceed to pull open the door herself.

Unknown (Or perhaps not) to Acid, a familiar figure leapt from a nearby rooftop to land on the opposite side of the ferry. Once again the spined heroine seemed content, for now at least, to allow the truck to continue on its way. She was actually wondering, as she took up a position inside the ferry where she was still mostly hidden but could see the truck well enough to not lose track of it, why the driver hadn't gotten curious as to why she hadn't tried to stop him yet. Usually people took offense at heroes tailing them back to their hideout.

(( For reference, most of us are pretty good with the character/author thing. It helps if we know some things our character perhaps doesn't, to avoid things like we got here where everyone's waiting for everyone else. ))

This seem relatively easy, considering the technology coming with issue 16 to choose alternate animations for powers. I would imagine when they get around to expanding power customisation to the pools, we'll very likely see something like this for flight. All that would be required is to actually create the required animations - which may be more effort than it seems, I dunno. I'm sure BaBs or his underlings can do it though if they're given the time and resources needed.

Although I'd like an option for fiery flight even if we can already do it with auras and toggles. Cause some ATs with fire powers don't get those toggles until late levels (blasters, controllers) or at all (corruptors, dominators) and I hate waiting until 30 for auras.

Still want a laser/energy rifle set.