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Z ||Frypans, Am I Right?!||, Barnes
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Apr 06, 2025 05:36PM
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Leanne gasped. "We're allowed to be in here? The Avengers Tower?" She lowered her voice to a whisper. "Where... the superheroes actually come and go? And you live here?"
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Leanne tried to stop looking like a gaping fish. "Does... Spiderman ever come around here?" She dropped her voice again at her last question. (Anyways, don't know if you read her bio, but she has a little crush on Spiderman)
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This was officially the most crazy, and coolest day of her life. She was in the freaking Avengers Tower, for crying out loud, and this girl knew spiderman's sister. "I just... wow. The Avengers. I mean, I've been around Professor X, and some of the other X-Men for a while now, but the Avengers seem a whole new level."
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Leanne frowned a little at the question. "Yeah, sometimes, between missions and during training. Your mom is actually the one who initially taught me to gain some control over my powers."
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"You what!?" Leanne said, louder than she meant to, before clapping both of her hands over her mouth, getting very red in the face, as many faces turned towards them.
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"I... I don't even know what to say." Leanne said, hands falling to her side.
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Leanne flushed. "Yeah, she was one of the sweetest people I know... I don't understand how it could have happened but..." She paused and looked down at her hands. "I do know what it's like to have a scary power." She shivered.
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"I don't think so. Maybe your mom's power is dominant? I mean, most superheroes don't even pass on powers to their kids. At least, I don't think so."
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Leanne took a step back. "It's almost giving me deja vu to see you use your powers... You look so much like your mom."
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Leanne flinched slightly at the question. "I don't really know. They say it's a gene known as the X-gene that some people just have inside them, waiting to be activated. Neither of my parents have powers, and no one that I know." She let out a shaky laugh. "I mean, I'm pretty much from a nowhere town. Nothing like New York, full of superheroes and villains."
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"He did. I spent a while with them, actually, before being sent up to New York. Something about the Avengers and X-Men not getting along, and wanting me to help with that?" She fidgeted with her hands.
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"But... but why?" Leanne asked, frowning, trying to hide some of the hurt in her eyes.
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"I suppose that isn't too bad. So we just... hang around? Let them protect people from us?" Leanne felt tears in her eyes and tried hard to blink them away. " I should've known. Someone with powers like mine could never be a hero."
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Leanne frowned and cocked her head. "Why?"
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"Well, as far as I know, my parents are Melody and Braden Sallow, and they are perfectly normal people living in Palm Springs, California. No powers whatsoever. I mean, one of the reasons they let me come here was because they knew they couldn't help me." Leanne laughed, although it had no humor. "Unless they aren't really my parents..."
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Leanne squeezed her eyes shut. "I suppose... but what do my parents have to do with it anyways?"
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"Okay..." Leanne said. "Maybe I can come?"
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Leanne followed behind Gen, looking at everything around her. It was all so big and futuristic looking, like something you only imagined or read about. And she was only here because she was dangerous. Because she needed to be controlled. She clenched her hands into fists, fighting that rising anger and sorrow that creeped in at once. "So, how do you 'recharge' your runes?"
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[to the lab?]
[Sure! Do you want to start that or will I?]
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