[OTA] Think alike

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WHO: Peter Parker
WHERE: Random tree around town
WHEN: 5 October 2018
OPEN TO: Kamala Khan & ALL - NO MORE THREADS PLEASE
NOTES: Peter is in the Great Minds plot in addition to having his new powers!

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There is a machine down in the creepy bunker, and it dispenses superpowers.

Even to someone like Peter, who came to this place after riding through space with a wizard and then fought a guy for magical stones that can control the whole universe, the idea of ordering up powers like he might a Snickers is a little beyond belief. The thing doesn't even look right; it's not like the vending machines from Bioshock with their jaunty voice-overs and handy instructional videos. It looks, honestly, like something he'd cobble together from tech he pulled out of the garbage. And he's not ragging on the idea of that, it just doesn't really fit. It's weird.

But turns out it works. Or, sorta.

He asked for wall-crawling (Wall-crawling!) and spider-sense (Spider-sense!) and it gave him wall-crawling and affinity with animals (???). Trying again (and again and again) hadn't helped. Shaking the machine hadn't helped. (It had, though, made a really ominous rattling sound.) Staring forlornly at "spider-sense" on the screen hadn't helped.

So now he's sitting in a tree, on one of the higher branches, sharing a handful of blueberries with a squirrel. Whom he is presently conversing with on the state of preparing a nest for the winter.

This isn't so bad, he allows to himself, passing over another blueberry from his stash as the squirrel chitters on.

great minds

[kingbellamy]

WHO: Bellamy Blake
WHERE: near the schoolhouse.
WHEN: Oct. 5th
OPEN TO: Bruce Banner
WARNINGS: will update if needed

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Bellamy remembered what the "hotdog" man said about weapons and signed out a knife. He went exploring for a little bit but ended up back where he started. He didn't want to go too far from civilization because he had no idea what was out there-- though no one really mentioned anything too bad.

With the knife attached to his belt, he saw a building that, through the window, he could see books. Bellamy walked around to the front of the schoolhouse and wondered if he could find any of the books his mother once bartered for.

Idly, he wondered if he had something to do with his sister becoming Bloodreina. The fighting pits were right out of his books about the Romans. Books he read to her. His mind continued until he thought about how he fought her-- and then later, how she put him into the pit to fight Indra and Gaia.

After all he did for his sister, she would rather have power than his love.

It dug into his skull, how she so emptily said she loved him before he put her into cryo. Asked for him to love her back. And how he couldn't give it to her.