Issue #2

Omen
"Yeah, that's what's got people riled up. It's one of Terabyte's new designs. Like, last week new. Layman's terms, it's a battery that copies powers if it's designed for a specific nova. We're lucky this one wasn't anything too dangerous."

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Void Fist
A couple people are looking your way, despite your best efforts. They probably aren't novas. Probably.

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Konrad
The classroom is actually mostly empty, several people seem to have skipped as an extension of the holiday yesterday. You've got your pick of seats, but in particular one of the students is slumped over their desk, probably planning on sleeping through the lecture.

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Aeon Crow
Really, there's nothing keeping you here if you don't want to be. You could probably leave a Fake You in your place anyway.

Omen
"Didn't Jen tell you guys? Nik, pull up what info we got." A small blue lightning bolt flickers into view, followed by an image of the woman in white. "She's a Mexican mercenary, no powers, but she's crazy good at fighting novas. As for what she was up to, no idea. There's no evidence of her anywhere near the lab the battery was from, but there's no way she could have gotten it alone."

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Void Fist
Most of them stop paying attention when they see you looking back at them. One of them holds their gaze, but you get the sense that they're not looking at you so much as you're in the way of whatever they're looking at.

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Procyon
That seat just so happens to be right next to Donna Stevens, or Donner as you know her. You can hear her voice, but no one else seems to. "Did the old man talk to you about the battery yet?"

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Chameleon
You're a couple minutes late, but no one seems to mind even if you get some looks entering the classroom. But when you sit down, you can see what looks like a person's shadow waiting just outside the door.

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Konrad
About ten minutes pass, and the teacher looks about not-into-it as his students. Everyone is quickly more engaged when the girl sleeping next to you bolts upright, looking terrified, before she just... vanishes.

Omen
"Depends on who you ask. Rigel doesn't like that you have it, but I don't think he likes you much anyway. TB mostly just wants her tech back and to know how it got stolen in the first place."

At this point P.I.L.O.T. chimes in. I have not yet completed my decryption, but Nikola has provided me with the full classified document.

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Void Fist
You can't see what she's looking at, but as soon as you look away… you aren't sitting in class. You're on a workbench in a garage somewhere and there's a woman dressed as a mechanic standing in front of you with a syringe full of what looks like liquid metal.

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Konrad
The teacher waves you out before going back to his lecture, though you do draw a few stares on your way out. No one seems to have noticed the girl who disappeared.

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Cammy
You've never seen anything like that before, but when you saw it you got a few echoes in the back of your mind like when Jen or Rigel talks to you. You couldn't make out anything distinct, but it sounded like it was talking about the other students.

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Procyon
>So that thing you guys picked up yesterday, it's some high-level nova tech.
>Like, way above your pay grade.
>Luke's got it taken care of, but Rigel's kind of not happy that we let Ollie take it to begin with.

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Mimic
You are no longer in the garage. Instead, you find yourself in a classroom you've never seen before. Everyone is staring at you and you still have a hole in your face.

Omen
"It's probably better that I do it? No offense." Luke reaches out to touch the battery but can't quite get to it. Though admittedly he got farther than you'd expect. "What's the deal?"