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It was training time for Raleigh. After his incident with the mall, he'd received numerous lectures on top of the jail time and the large bill he was given that he'd have to earn the money somehow to pay back. Today, finally, he would be heading to an actual training session with someone who never did make mountains out of mole hills. It was a promise of getting back to his powers without having to be treated like a juvenile delinquent.

When he arrived, Susan was just strapping up her boots. She smiled up at him, "I've already piled the materials you use up. We can get started as soon as Ace comes out. You know Ace, don't you?"

That was new, usually Susan went out with him to decide on what materials they would use. Today she wanted to get started quicker.

"YEAH?" A call came from the hallways somewhere.

"I wasn't calling you, but are you coming?" Susan called back, some annoyance tinting her voice. She hated it when people weren't there when she expected them to be.

"I'm here, I'm here." The sixteen year old with bleached-blonde hair and black and purple tips stepped out, not really in a training outfit. He grinned broadly at Raleigh and waved, "Heya! How are you? Are you excited? I am!"

"We found out that Ace has power-enhancing abilities," Susan explained to Raleigh before he could demand to know what was going on, "Do you think the two of you can try teaming up a bit?" Of course, with Susan, asking the question was only a preliminary to logicking into her way anyhow if denied, it was easier to just give into the trainer.


OOC: Ace has power enhancing abilities AND he tends to enhance the emotions of others if he is also feeling that emotion, although no one's figured out the latter part. Ace is exciteable and happy go lucky and throws caution to the wind, and those are the qualities he tends to enhance... But only IF they also feel any of those, and we can ignore the emotional side of his powers right now.

Susan nodded her approval even as Ace clapped his and half turned, half hopped toward the training grounds, "I dunno how this works, really. It was an accident that we found out and I was super excited about it at the time. Susan's kinda showed me how to focus a bit, but it's not like I know really what's even going on. THEY all say that I do something, but I don't see it."

"You won't have any problems with it," Susan shook her head at him, "You're so wound up about this that the energizer bunny has nothing on you." She nodded to Raleigh, "Which means you'll need to be careful, I suppose. We've pushed your abilities before, but with Ace the concentration and effort isn't required nearly as much. I think it'll be interesting to see what Yasou can turn out like eventually." She doubted that Raleigh would be willing to give his favorite creation as a first experiment, but what she was suggesting was that it shouldn't take too much training between him and Ace before he might be comfortable with that.

"So, what are we doing anyway?" Ace demanded, eyes lit up from excitement.

Susan nodded her head toward Raleigh, "What would you feel comfortable with?" She knew her trainee, and knew that he like to have some autonomy in what was going on. "Do you want to try to build your powers, or refine them? Or something else?"

"Stone? Can you use dirt?" Ace asked, "'Cause I bet you could---What?"

"Honey, don't be presumptuous. I don't think you know more about Raleigh's powers than he does. He would know very well the relationship between stone and dirt. Now, having said that-- have you experimented much with bird and aquatic animals' remains?" Susan asked. "I imagine Yasou wasn't good for being wooden in nature. You'd likely need something with a tight skin for water."

"So, let's go big!" Ace had only momentarily given Susan a look for scolding him so quickly, but now ignored the discussion of possibilities of powers completely, "I wanna see something awesome-big. Can you do that? Can you make something like a dinosaur? That would be neat!"

"We can do a little dinosaur."

"You should try chicken bones or something when you have that for dinner. Leftovers of any type would be good, actually." Susan spoke to Raleigh, but her gaze fell to Ace and she shook her head slightly again. When she looked back to Raleigh -- quickly -- her serious look fell away to amusement at his excitement, "I don't know, maybe we should cancel this, you don't sound up to it really, Raleigh."

"Don't tease! Fine, I'll shut-up! Geez."

Susan nodded to Raleigh as they walked up to the pile, indicating that he should take charge now. It was his powers they were playing with afterall.

Susan smirked a little at Raleigh as she saw that look in his eyes. She didn't do it on purpose, but it was always amusing to get one over on the boy. She watched as he created the ape-creature, ignoring Ace for the moment. She knew that he'd end up initializing his powers purely by accident. They didn't know enough about him to really know how to get him to focus yet. It was an extremely subtle power.

Whether or not Ace was using his powers only Raleigh would be able to tell. He hadn't learned how to feel or refine his yet. He only stopped his babbling now to look and watch in wonder as the creature formed. That was so very neat! And he could be a part of that? Really? He'd always wanted to be a Super, and enhancing abilities was like... doubly awesome on that! He wondered how he could do it though, Raleigh seemed to already have so much control.


OOC: As it goes, Ace is super excited, you can give Raleigh a sudden power blast... which isn't so bad with his powers, which is why Susan asked Raleigh and not..oh, Erol... or you can have him notice how it's easier to go with the details or the like? Perhaps Ace could hint at a later secondary power with him? Being able to directly control the animals or the like? Did you have a secondary?

OOC: *nod* Those would be good, and I was thinking that "being" one of the creations, not changing himself but sort of literally being able to sense and guide through one would be interesting as well?


IC:

"That ape was weird, look at those things!!" Ace ignored everything he'd ever been told and went up to kneel near them to stare. That was so funny! "What's the best thing you ever made? These are creepy, they're like... the living dead or something. Hah, zombie sticks! The world never knew is wasn't undead men, but undead plants they had to worry about!"

He turned to look at Raleigh, a big grin spread on his face, "We should make a UTube movie or something."

"Is Ace putting any effort forth to help you at all?" Susan asked with a sigh. She would guess so, Raleigh didn't look as concentrated as usual, "Ace, are you concentrating at ALL?"

She kept herself from rolling her eyes when Ace looked guilty. What sort of attention span did he have, anyway?

Susan was impressed, usually that amount started to run around like chickens with no heads, "I can see. I wonder how it would be if, oh, he actually concentrated on what he was doing." She glared at Ace.

Ace huffed, "Don't get all bent up about it. Didn't you hear him? I am doing something! I dunno what, I dunno how...How do you concentrate on something that you don't really know exists? I STILL think you're pulling a big joke on me. Can't wait to April to see if my theory's right or not. Uhm..." And then he did try to concentrate, trying to imagine Raleigh as the big master of twigs and all the twigs bowing to his will. Or something. Yeah, he didn't think it'd help either. . .

"SO COOL! I can't believe that I'm really helping you that much I---" He stopped at Susan's clearing of the throat, and then considered what Raleigh had asked. He shook his head slightly, "Not---not something in me so much. I--" He frowned, a hint of embarrassment hitting his cheeks. Nah, he wasn't going to say that. That was stupid. "I just like powers." He said.

"It's not entirely uncontrolled," Susan decided to put in, "When he gets upset with me, he sure stops supplying then, so it's not a default power."