Birds of a Feather, Burn together (Sq.2 Introduction/open)

[Rhona Hall]

Rhona spent the greater part of her week trying to expel this negativity from her chakras. Her energy had a serious dark spot in its molten makeup. It awakened a lot of pain and a lot of anger that took literally years for her to come to terms with. If she continued to leave it alone it would consume her with an incredible vengeance. It was afternoon and the sun was at its peak but she'd not be outside this time. She wanted to try another form of venting her aggression and lay it all out for a clean and new punching bag in the Cabal GYM. Tapping her gloves on the bag was quite melodic for her. She got zoned and Focused and almost completely forgot about her notice for the new Squad partnership she'd be receiving. 

She'd have a decently fresh set burn scars to add to the many others. She did not heal well with her somewhat fair complexion, it was fun being practically made of heat she only really had burn scars... self-treating wounds and all she really could only seem to burn herself. She was angry with what Boss-man Leon was saying but it made her realize how dire her situation was becoming. 

In her mind, in the bag, the men who killed her parents would feel every punch and they were suffering barely alive. She already killed someone involved... but he was not but a footman. It was what made her realize that that path was not where she'd find her answer... while knowing that there was still no resolve. They needed justice and one she believed would be served best by her own fist. 

The smell of burning plastic filled her nose and on the punching bag was three distinctive fists burned into it. "Oops..." She saw the glow in her fingers and pulling back the power that she began losing control of. 

[John]

"Hot."

John would say with a grin as he walked up. Putting his hands in his pockets before speaking again.

"I'm John. We apparently are Squad 2, Rhona, right?"

John pulled his left hand from his pocket pointing at Rhona and squinting his eyes a bit making sure he had the right person.

[Rhona Hall]

Rhona turned to him thick blonde ponytail swayed with her movement. An onlooker making a flirtatious comment. She raised a brow til he introduced himself, relaxing casually. "Oh, yeah... Rhona, Rhona Hall." She stuck out her hand to him readily offering a handshake to him. Her new partner. "So you know anything about these sudden squad pair ups? As far as I know, it seems to be a bit new, unless we team up with someone for missions."

[John]

Brushing a thumb under his nose he'd inhale sharply through his nostrils and shrug.

"As far as I understand it, the old men sat around lookin' at our stats from training, records from what they know of our abilities, and something about personality match ups. Other than that I kind of nodded off and ignored the rest of the explanation."

John would lift his left hand and ignite it on fire from the elbow to the tip of the fingers. The blaze roaring for a few seconds before he waved it away.

"Prolly something to do that if I had to guess."

[Rhona Hall]

She opened her mouth in a silent "Ah..." Getting what he meant pointing a nonchalant finger at his flaming arm. "And that with my solar energy..." She looked back at the scorched punching bag to kind of embarrassingly scratch her collarbone. "We make a hot pair." A small grin grew on her face.

"I never met a Pyromancer before... something pretty similar to me even if very different." She looked at him up and down with curious eyes arms folded across her chest. "Did you scare the doctors when they took your temperature? Or burn clothes or really a lot of things faster than your family could buy them?"

[John]

John kept his smile when she asked about his discovery, even though something changed in his eyes, he scratched the tip of his nose with his index finger.

"Well when I awoke to it, my old man was already running Cabal and Territory two five nine. Though it was rather funny when I was covered in fire doing grapple training and my opponent and I ended up naked in a bad position."

He didn't mention the childhood of slavery, no need.

[Rhona Hall]

She recognized the secretive pain in his eye, one she saw in her own eye from time to time. She'd not ask what he'd not tell.

"Running Cabal and Territory...?" She made the connection a bit late. "Oh, you are THAT John..." Things made a bit of sense from that point she knew bits and pieces of the fellow but not much. "Well, then I guess you'd better work hard if you want to outshine me to keep up your image." She winked, wore a confident and playful grin. "Kidding of course... we are a team now so let us work hard together." She offered her hand out to him again for a handshake.

Noting he didn't take the last one she offered she spoke again. "Don't worry I can take the heat." That and seeing he mostly kept his hands to himself she would be aware of the habits and dangers he might have faced.

[John]

Rubbing his hand on his pants to make sure it wasn't dirty, he'd shake her hand.

"John Summers. Officially. Also don't you worry too much about clothes burning issues."

John would reach the handle of his war hammer strapped to his back and pull it around.

"A friend of my dads built this hammer. It makes things when I strike a material. So Insta replacement if need be. Though it may run out of power if I have to use it for both of us. One of us is gonna have to keep clothes on. No worries I'll volunteer."

He'd give a sly smile and a thumbs up like it was already decided.

"With that out of the way, hows bout we show off a bit? I'll show you all the things I can do with my fire, and you show me all the stuff your solar energy can do. We can have some fun strategizin' our moves for the field. Make Squad Two somethin' special, ya'know."

[Rhona Hall]

"I'll bet you would..." She chuckled.

But she was glad he was on board and seemed like they would get somewhat along. "If I was going to be modest I'd say it isn't that much, I burn, I blind, and I'm heat resistant. But rarely ever am I going to sell myself short, if you want a test I'm already... and no pun intended, warmed up and ready to go... How did you want to go about it?"

[John]

John would nod along, apparently she could make a light so strong it could blind, and she was good at burning things.

"Well, I can create and manipulate fire. Generally morph it into shapes or attacks at my fancy. Shields, flame throwers, I can even breath fire. Watch."

He'd take a breath in and blast fire at the punching bag catching it on fire and incinerating it. Shutting his mouth he'd raise a hand and cough a blast of fire at Rhona by 'mistake'.

[Rhona Hall]

She had stepped back and watched the punching bag burn. A cough from him caught her attention quick enough for her to raise a hand blocking the most of it. A Smile still on her face. As starting from her chest and spreading to her fingers blood flow pulsing with every heartbeat, a glow began to swirl under the skin and shined through her eyes. The heat rising from her body created a soft upward current.

She stepped forward bending her knees wide, in a quick fighter stance, and a bright light erupted from a palm she lunged forward in his direction. It was like an intense camera flash that would create blind spots in his eyes.

"No one I've met can touch me without getting burned, once they have a hindrance in their eyes I come in and get close enough to do some real damage."

[John]

John would cover his eyes too late having noticed the light coming, though backing up a step or two with a grin.

"Good strategy... Hmm..."

John would hit his hammer on the floor, breaking off a chunk, picking it up he would tap it with his hammer.

"This should be able to contain solar energy and release it... Kind of like a flashing grenade. We should do something like this for covert missions or ones that require quick take downs... I believe it will also be silent due to not actually exploding."

[Rhona Hall]

She rose from her stance and dimmed her glow before coming closer to reach for the chunk he just broke. "Never thought of something like that... and This can be done to anything as long as you give it a good tap with that hammer." She would think about the situations that it would become useful. "Honestly with our flashy abilities it would be hard and possibly unwise for someone to send us on a stealth-like mission... but I can see should we have to sneak about... this would be way better than just diving right into an attack."

Color her impressed honestly. "Legendary..." She grinned using a word she only recently picked up as a term similar to "Cool" or "Awesome". She looked at him curiously once again with lit up eyes. "Mind if I give it a shot?" Already her hands would regain their glow just from the middle of the arm to her fingers. She had already assumed he wanted to see if it was possible as well. Certainly, he was surer than she'd be about the power of the hammer.

[John]

John agreed with the statement about sending them on stealth missions, both of them produced light and John's specifically was rather loud as he was literally setting hydrogen molecules in the air on fire. Though John himself did not hold the highest faith in the intelligence of officers or people that are in charge in general. He was sure if he made it to Adept, thats as far as he would be promoted due to attitude. He'd hand over the rock however, intent to see the results or if he needed to adjust things with his hammer.

"Yeah, this is generally a prototype anyways. I assumed you work off solar energy, and made something similar with the hammer. Never know if I have to fine tune it."

((OoC: You have free reign to control the item.))

[Rhona Hall]

She held it in her hands and had a feeling to warm it with her solar energy and would watch it soak up the light. She brought it to her lips a habit she picked up seeing how hot or cold things were. Pleasent enough that she gave it a quick peck and lightly tossed it across the room. Upon landing it flashed bright enough to leave spots in her own eyes and a group of girls who'd rather use the practice ring as a comfy hang out matt.


A simple thumbs up to John. "I think this could work. You and me being as flashy as can be and a hammer that will be versatile and almost make up for what we lack... Sounds like a good match on their part."