Issue #1: The Coming Storm

I yell over to Void standing on line. "Hey get me a chili cheese dog! You totally owe me!"

Void Fist extends the stick his cameras on and takes pictures of Blitz. Seeing Aeon Crow and Chameleon getting into line but looking at the competition he wonders. Pulling down his phone he searches up the various food trucks to see who's currently active and making comments and starts tapping his away his thumbs a blur.

So who's your favorite young nova? Would you want them to stop by your truck? Free food might get them over at your food truck. We are growing teens so we get hungry. Also any limited edition items would likely sweeten the invitiation if you know what I'm saying. #freeadvertising #scratcheachothersbacks

After sending out a few messages he waits since the line is the line jumping the line may be kind of acceptable but free food well he could wait for free food.

"I'm trying to see who wants to give us free food, we might have to say it's delicious and amazing..." Void Fist lets Aeon Crow and Chameleon know as he waits quietly.

"No... unless you have any of the limited merch they only gave to the first 100 that came in today! If so yes?" Void states drooling a bit about sweet limited edition merchandise... Flashbacks to being excited about the Void Fist Coasters but the fact they're throwing them at people and it looks more like it says Loidfist with a guy in a jade green outfit... his expression devolves and his lower lip starts to quiver "Why'd it have to be Green!!!" he complains out loud pawing at Sunspot for comfort.

"Hey Ollie."

Adam slowly wanders through the crowd, not at all bothered by the number of people around him. He'd grown quite accustomed to navigating through large groups in the month he's been traveling. He originally planned to wander for longer than he has already, but since today is a weird sort-of birthday for him, he feels obligated to make an appearance, even if it's a low-profile one. It's pretty doubtful that anyone would peg him as a hero of any kind based on how he looked; a torn-up pair of jeans, a hoodie, and a guitar case don't exactly scream "superhero" to most. Even if it did, Adam's appearance had changed somewhat since most had seen him, looking almost entirely desaturated of color. As a result, he decides to wander the area on the lookout for his teammates, starting near the food trucks.

Ollie glanced around at the others in the park, trying to find anyone that she recognized while trying to hide in plain sight at the same time. Upon seeing Emma jogging up to her, Ollie raised a hand to her hood, about to flip it up. She was generally used to concealing her face around her team, not meeting with them outside of "work" all that often. It dawned on her that she preferred to remain unrecognized by the populace, and so she turned the raised hand into a slight wave back at Emma and Jen. "Hey," she said quietly in that scratchy voice, tucking one hand back into her jacket pocket.

Ollie's eyes seemed to go anywhere but directly at Emma, and they focused in on her offer of a pretzel when presented. "Sure," she says, taking the offer and immediately saying "Thanks" without her typical hesitation. She wasn't even hungry. "Hey, Jen," she says back to her other teammate when she comes up, "Have you guys seen any of the others?"

Hecate after a time looked for a spot to lay on the grass and look up at the sky.
She watched the clouds and birds passing by which made her smile.
It was so much better out here outside of the Pantheon lab.

After a while she got up and stretched and decided to hop up someplace high so she could get a better view of the park and
see if she could see any of the bright costumes of her friends.

I internally sigh before reaching towards the obscenely large cotton candy in Blitz's hands. I give him a grin. "Since you offered and all."

Emma just kept smiling as Ollie took the pretzel, quietly noting the way she didn't really look at her. Ollie never seemed to look directly at her too much. But Emma pushed that almost melancholy thought away (she couldn't really blame anyone, after all), and just shrugged her shoulders. "Nope, not yet. Let's see..." she trailed off, pulling out her cell phone and quickly typing out a text to Void Fist.

[Text] Here with Ollie and Jen.
[Text] Where are you?

Complete with an emoticon of a pretzel. Just because.

Void Fist pulls himself together a bit when he gets some notifications and texts back.

"By the Food Trucks trying to get free food, under Blitz #freecottoncandy and Sunspot #flyingdowner."

Ollie's mind wandered a bit as Emma tapped away at her phone. She stole a couple glances at her redheaded teammate and nearly cracked a smile (heaven forbid). As her mind went to a happy place, it was quickly dragged back out of it when Ollie recalled that Jen - who was right next to her - was a telepath. Her eyes widened with the realization as she glanced over at Jennifer, her heart sinking as she pondered if Jen could hear her thoughts a moment ago.

Rama snags a couple of chili cheese dogs, paying for them both, and hands one to Cammy. "Oh gods, this is going to be awesome," before biting too much off. As chili spreads on his cheeks, he groans in pleasure. "So much tasties," he mumbles with a full mouth.

After finishing it in a few bites, he wipes his cheeks clean and refocuses on his surroundings. "What the - Blitz?" He looks embarrassed and angry.

[Text] omasdfgasdf. Blitz is there!!!???
[Text] btw, you better save me some #freecottoncandy

Emma lowered her phone, her smile just a touch on the side of manic giddy. Okay, so she was still a bit of a Superhero fangirl. "They're by the food trucks. Hanging out with Blitz," she said, a slight bounce to her step as she turned. And then she paused, looking around, because she was pretty sure they weren't anywhere near pretzel land. "Uh, the other food trucks, I guess."

I lean over and give Crow a peck on the cheek. "Thanks!" Then I walk off with the chili cheese dog, turn away from him and begin to scarf it down as quickly and carefully as possible in an attempt to not to make a huge mess. OMG why did I do that?? Stay cool... holy shit this chili cheese dog is amaaaazing! I close my eyes and bask in the cheeseness. This is probably the best thing damn thing I've eaten in my entire life.

Seeing Ollie's reaction, Jennifer sighs and looks sad. "From the look on your face, you think I'm reading your mind, again. I told you...that's not something I'm good at yet, and I would never do that to a friend or teammate without her permission. 'sides, in a place like this, I'd be crazy to open up...so many people..." she looks briefly frightened, then puts on her confident face once more. She notices Emma's excitement. "C'mon, I think she found the rest of the gang. Or Blitz. Hard to tell."

Aeon Crow's eyes go super-wide, so he punches Void Fist on the shoulder. "Did you say merch? What did you get?" Stay cool, man.

Ollie doesn't reply to Jen's explanation with anything more than just a look of acknowledgement. She falls in line well behind the two of them, shoving her hands deep into her pockets. Her eyes lower to the ground in front of her as she's lost in thought, and she suddenly wishes she'd stayed on the rooftop instead of coming down into the park.

Void Fist having not gotten any responses has shuffled through the line for crepes and is mid nom session between a pizza crepe and Korean style bbq fried chicken crepe in one hand and a strawberry banana crepe and chocolate creation with nuts it seems in the other. With his cheeks puffing out like a chipmunk while he chews he spreads his arms to show the limited edition Omen shirt posing before he seems to strain poking his phone with one pinky to turn it around to go through the slideshow of merchandise he's gotten plus the limited edition swag. There seems to be a lot of poseable models of heroes and young heroes, a stack of green coasters, various posters, among other things. It would explain why his superhero outfit has such a large backpack with add on pouches, bags, and hooks for more bags attached. It's very evident he's gone full superhero fanboy today. Going back to eating it almost looks like his teeth are fangs and he might eat his hand. Frequency between meals or the tastiness of his purchases come to mind or he was raised by wild animals.

"So, uh, where's the statue at?" I nonchalantly look around the square for anything resembling Sage.