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Chapter 2 by AinBaum AinBaum

Character select.

Aurora Nicholson, an as-of-yet unnamed superheroine

You sit on your bed, trying to mentally prepare yourself for what you're about to do: patrolling. The last few days have been very eventful, you moved to one of the biggest cities in the world, started university and registered yourself as a superheroine with "Super People". Truth be told you were a bit appaled at how SP actually is, no, more than just a bit, they are not at all the "good guys" everyone thinks they are, they just have extremely tight Non Disclosure Agreements and a monopoly in the Superhero support business. Admittedly, there's also the UNOs department for Supernatural Occurences, but they only give that kind of support to the really big ones, like Warmcoldth or Spacelord. Well, you always dreamed of being a superheroine, just like anyone on the planet, and you won't let them stop you from being one, not since you discovered that you have superpowers.

But what kind of superpowers? You should probably go over them before you start.

  • Super-Stamina: You might not be as fast as Usain Bolt, but you can run and even sprint far longer than he can, simply because your stamina goes far beyond that of normal humans.
  • Shape-Shifting: That term might not fit exactly, you can only alter your appearance within the limitations of a humanoid figure, no extra limbs for you. Plus, the changes take some time. All put together this power won't help in the middle of a fight or anything, but it does mean that you can save on hair-dressers and make-up, or even plastic surgery, and if you have to conceal yourself while following a target you can expect to have it easier than others.
  • Enhanced-Physiology: Your stamina might be on a superhuman level, but the rest of your body is unusual as well. You have exceptionally good reflexes though still on a human level, just a rarely reached one. Your muscles also look less impressive than they actually are, you seem to be well toned physically but not more, in fact however, you're quite strong, again still on a human level, but a rather high one (not as high as your reflexes though, you can absolutely still be outmatched strength-wise, it just means that you're stronger than you look). Balance is also not a problem. Lastly your flexibility and agility are impressive, again nothing superhuman, but still very good.
  • Invisibility: Plain and simple, you can turn invisible, amazing right? Well, it is, only it's currently a bit useless, your clothing stays visible after all, SP could get you stuff that turns invisible with you, but they won't invest any more money in you unless you can show them that they can profit off of you, they seem to only be in the business to make money, as opposed to what everyone believes.
  • Accelerated Learning: You can leran new things extremely fast, you have to concentrate on that though, meaning it's more of an utility than a power for fighting, you'll often be too preoccupied to "learn the enemies technique".

These are your powers, actually quite a good amount of them. However, you're only at the beginning of your journey to learn about them, plus they often have some kind of limitation that reduces their use in battles.

Since you aren't really made for open combat you have decided that you will use a relatively stealthy approach to battles, your endurance will be an immense boon in climbing, allowing you unexpected attack angles, later on invisibilty could become invaluable should you manage to get equipment that goes with it.

Which brings you to the elephant in the room, equipment. The days when university pretty much was a **** sentence for finances are thankfully gone, but money is still tight as a student. This means that your "equipment" really should have those quotation marks, it's just not what one expects when thinking about a Superheroines gear.

  • The clothing: Dark grey shorts and a sports-bra of the same colour. That is it, completely ordinary gym clothing, it's not bullet-proof or uninflammable or has some hi-tech hidden in it, it's just sporty clothing.
  • Shoes: A pair of sneakers, the grey colour is a bit less darker than you would have liked but they'll make do for now.
  • Weapons: Since you don't really have superpowers for fighting you're gonna need some weapons. Well, you have one, a can of pepper spray, you even got lucky, you attended a course for self-defense a few weeks ago and got a coupon during it, which allowed you to afford higher quality spray. But even though your pepper spray is "extra-strong" it's still just that, pepper spray. You considered other weapons of course but didn't have the money for them, the most you could do is take a kitchen knife with you, you don't really know how though, you're afraid it might cut itself out of your shorts pockets, plus you want to keep the risk of accidentaly killing someone low.
  • Communications: SP might do as little as they can for you, but there are a few things they have to do, like installing a program on your smartphone that secures your personal data while you use it "on duty" and allows you to use it for communications then.
  • Utility: Let's say you manage to find and defeat some bad guys, what then? Do you just knock them back down to the ground until the police comes? Do you break so many bones they can't move? No, no, no, you need something to fixate people with. This particular problem got solved by visiting a hardware store, some industrial cable binder ought to do the trick.
  • Last but not least: The mask, every good superhero and superheroine protects their secret identity. Here SP comes into play again, because they're obligated to if they want to keep their good reputation aaand avoid jailtime. Every newbie superhero gets to choose a mask from a few basic styles, you took a dark blue domino one. The functionality of these masks is twofold, they protect from being recognised, even including computerprogramms by emitting some kind of charge, their other use concerns villains who would be willing to de-mask their captured superheroes. Should that happen, all hell would break loose. Not only will the mask give of a very loud alarm, but it will also alert SP that one of the few things the actually care about is jeopardized, their reputation could take a hit now, which means that they respond in full **** and send in the best superheroes they have on call right now, with no holds barred, pretty much bringing down the apocalypse on the villains, even though the normally don't send Apocalypse, innocents might be harmed if multiple blocks are wiped out by a walking piece of artillery after all. Anyway, long story short, you have a mask that conceals who you are and sufficiently threatens anyone away from taking it off.

Yeah, that's your "equipment", sporty clothing, pepper spray, cable binder and a smartphone.

Strategy is kinda clear by now, staying hidden as long as possible, hit and run tactics, climbing and sneaking so the enemy doesn't see you.

With a determined sigh you get up from your bed and muster yourself in the mirror. A 20-year old and very good looking woman looks back at you. A beautiful face with long, slightly curly red hair falling on your back. Two generous breasts sit above a flat stomach. Your enhanced physiology will prevent them from eventually sagging or giving you back pains. The legs are long and, especially the thighs, relatively thick, even with your superpowers it's quite clear that you train them a lot. As you turn a bit you can see your butt, your cleavage might look great, but it's your ass that really takes the prize, sometimes you notice people starring after it, once you even saw someone drool a bit after looking at it, your derrière ... simply takes the cake. All in all, you might not have the equipment of a superheroine, but have you certainly have the beauty, or should you say hotness?, of one.

After spending almost 15 minutes with all this musing you give yourself a tug and climb out the window.

Your first-ever patrol begins.

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