Let your hate flow through you. (Open)

[Tina Bennet]

TIna is too busy cackling in a mocking tone to use words, but Stevie can probably understand the sentiment. She could feel the water no longer pressing against her skin. Touchy-touchy! And it was great to push all those buttons! She was starting to feel out of practice.

"Does it make you feel good, taking your rage out on an innocent little girl?" She pushed off with her feet, explosions erupting beneath them, hissing against the flame-retardant fabric of her clothes but not sparing the girl who was trying to take her down. The gremlin child would squirm and attempt to roll, walking her legs to the side as she pushed herself back and grabbed the arm across her chest - and held it. She threw her head back to grin at Stevie like a maniacal creature of the night.

"Anything you can do, I can do better~," she said in a singsong before erupting with, "AND I"M FOURTEEN, BITCH!"

She'd bite at Stevie's face - and then make the world go boom since Stevie was so keen on hugs.

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Zero Ability: Tina is able to charge an object and make it EXPLODE! 1/4 Energy stat damage is added to her attack if exploded that post or 1/2 energy explosion if it explodes the next post

Ability #2: Tina can make her footsteps EXPLODE! BANG! Speed increase by 1/2 her energy as she HARNESSES THE POWER OF EXPLOSIONS TO MOVE AROUND!

Tina's Bloodline!: Tina is capable of adding Radiation to her explosions. She can make clean or full on fallout blizzard scales of radiation. Clean radiations adds +25 to damage calculations of her bombs. Nuclear Fallout causes 1/2 her energy in damage to anyone in the area of 20 ft of the explosion for four posts.

Tina's speed while working the grapple: 31
Immediate Explosion Damage: 21
Clean Radiation Damage: 46
Qi Uses: 8/12

[Stevie-Rae]

Stevie struggled to hold Tina as she squirmed and exploded again, but was getting tired. She could feel the sleep creeping in.

“Ugh. Stop!”

It was all she could do to get out of the way of the bite, but that final explosion was it for Stevie. She saw stars and her world went dark. As her body relaxed, she fell to the ground next to the pond. She was completely unconscious.

******

The Christmas tree was barely dressed. Stevie had handed the Star to her father who put it on top.

“What do you think, honey? Pretty nice huh?”

Stevie grimaced.

“I know. I’m sorry, Stevie. It was the best I could find. Anyway, Merry Christmas.”

He shoved a small box into her hand and sat down. Stevie looked over the box. She didn’t know why they had to do this. They both knew Christmas wouldn’t be the same without mom.

“Why do you even try? I mean what’s the point?”

Her father scowled.

“Because it’s christmas. Now open the box, be happy, and say thank you.”

Stevie rolled her eyes but obeyed. Her breath caught in her throat and tears stung her eyes.

“Now that’s more like it.” He smiled again. “That was—“

“Moms.” Stevie gasped without lookin up, her eyes locket on the box.

“Yeah. I thought you’d like it. She wore it all the time. It was her favorite.”

Stevie reached in and picked up a silver locket. She gingerly held it for a few moments before opening it to reveal her parents on either side. She finally looked up and stared at her dad.

“So you like it then?”

In place of an answer, Stevie kept at him and gave him a hug and planted a kiss on his cheek.

“Thanks daddy!”

[Tina Bennet]

After the light settled and the ground stopped rumbling like an upset stomach, Tina stood up, brushing the dirt off of her battered clothes as she looked around. There was a decently sized crater in the ground where she stood, an unconscious Stevie next to her. She eyed the unconscious woman, nudging her limp body with her toe, the huffed and shook her head, a grin already creeping across it.

Another point to Tina, two if you count how easy it was to get under the brunette's skin. What was her deal, anyway? Oh well.

Lugging the dummy out of the water, she dropped it next to Stevie, arranging the girl as though she were holding the battered wood in a tender embrace. She hummed to herself as she worked, but it was harder than she thought, given the struggling and distressed noises that kept getting in the way. Eventually, she managed before wandering off of the raining grounds to find her next playmate!

/Tina exit

[Stevie-Rae]

Stevie woke up in the infirmary. She had come to several times before and after someone had found her in the training field. She was still hugging the blasted dummy Tina had wrapped her up with. The nurse didn't want to remove it from her clutches just yet. She was more worried about the burns all over Stevie's body. Once the wrapping had started, Stevie woke up and she was not happy. A few times she passed out but was rudely awoken again by the nurse who wanted her to drink a lot of water. The water hurt her mouth. Swallowing hurt her throat. Breathing hurt her chest. Moving hurt her body. Even with all that pain, Stevie smiled. that hurt her lips, but still she smiled. Stevie had a really good fight. She had gotten out a lot of anger. It didn't even bother her that she had lost... Well, that's not completely true. It bothered her, but she didn't mind quite as much as she would have otherwise.

"Now, Miss Wilson," The nurse chastised. "Be a good girl and drink your water."

Stevie lost her smile and glared at the woman. Still, she drank. Dragging her eyes to the window that overlooked the southern school border, she smiled again. Then she winced.

"I like that girl." Stevie mumbled to her cold water.