Marie, Mistress of Time

John turned her reality bending attention to Marie next. In an instant the young girl's hands became callused and her hair became long and wildly unkempt. She pushed her glasses up her nose and futilely rubbed at an ever-present oil smudge at its tip.

Marie was as bright as the others, but when it came to gadgets and gizmo's she was matchless- and fearless. More than once she had tested some new device on herself without any idea of what could- and often did- go wrong. Which actually explained one of Marie's most unusual physical abilities.

Marie had been conducting rudimentary experiments on chronotron particles when, as her experiments were so apt to do, it exploded in her face. When she came to, she found that the blast had fused her body with the time bending particles. In fact she was so infused that she was temporally hyperaccelerated, moving so quickly the world seemed to be frozen around her.

In time the others realized what had happened and John volunteered to be the one to duplicate the experiment and pull Marie back into a normal time stream but the prolonged exposure had imbued Marie with powers over time itself.

John looked down at the watchlike device strapped to her arm, and recognized it as a miniaturized chronotron generator, a gift and safeguard from Marie, since the two of you had already been exposed to the time particles. Marie said that if there was an instance where she found herself stuck outside of time, someone could pull her back while minimizing the exposure profile of the particles.

John found that with her generator she could hyperaccelerate herself, effectively stopping time, move forwards and backwards through time by inhabiting whichever version of herself existed at that point, and generate small temporal flux fields around herself, causing all or part of her to grow older or younger within the field. Unfortunately, the generator could only power one of these abilities at a time and not for longer than an hour, but that was plenty of time.

Marie’s abilities were similar, but on a much more powerful scale. However using her power taxed her own energies, exhausting her if overused, and they tended to activate if Marie became distressed. But on the plus side there weren’t as many explosions now in her workshop.

“Oh perhaps we can hit a mall somewhere?” Marie asked. “I’ve got an idea and I need some components for a prototype.”

Laura pouted. “Oh I was hoping to hit the beach. I know a great spell to start a nude volleyball game. I just need to get my hands on a ball.”

“What about you, Lisa?” John asked, racking her mind for a twist to empower her best friend. “Anyplace you’d like to go?” She asked settling upon a power.