What happened

The first thought Kyle had when he felt the earth shake was, 'Damn. There aren't any signs up about how to handle earthquakes. We never had earthquake drills'. Then he looked at his light board which had fallen off of his desk smashed to the floor, and thought, 'Fuck.'

Then he saw the smoke.

That was when he finally thought to stand up and look away from his desk. How were his coworkers handling the impromptu earthquake. Or whatever it was. They weren't handling it very well at all, actually. For all he could see, they were running through the resulting smoke like chickens with their heads cut off. Kyle couldn't really blame them; they probably weren't used to stuff like this. Hell, he wasn't even completely used to stuff like this.

The art department for The City's newspaper was on one of the lower floors, so when Kyle finally got his wits together and started yelling and ushering people out of the doors, he could at least have some comfort in knowing they all had a good chance of getting out safely. No one seemed to notice when he backed away from the stairwell and ran back into the main area of the floor where all the artists had their desks set up.

He moved slowly through the smoke, making sure no one else was trapped in the room and once he was relatively sure, he raised his hand. A green gas mask covered his face, and Kyle took a deep breath, hoping that he hadn't already inhaled too much smoke. Next he created a lantern, which shined brightly through the smoke, allowing him to move quickly to the large windows.

Where was the smoke coming from? Kyle wasn't immediately sure, but he was definitely leaning more towards an explosion now. He just didn't know from where. Looking out of the windows, he could see smoke pouring from some of the lowers floors as well, and a slightly grey tinge in the air above make him think that something had to going on on the higher floors as well. Across the street people were pouring out of another office building and onto the street, pointing up at both buildings. Grey smoke was pouring from their windows as well.

The building shook again, and this time Kyle could hear an explosion coming from upstairs. It was time to get out.

Kyle backed away from the window, back into the smoke where he was sure no one would be able to see him as a green glow engulfed his body. When it died down, he was suited up completely, mask included. He had to help somehow.

Though, as he started breaking through the window so that he could fly out, Kyle couldn't help but hope that some of the other heroes in this place had heard the explosions. Because he was pretty damn sure that alone he wasn't going to be much good.

OOC: Just a note, as stated before, everyone can participate in this, whether your character wants to be a bystander or wants to try to rescue people or even wants to try and make the situation worse. Any of those options is cool! NPCs may even come and interact with your characters.

Don't worry. Something will come of this. So yes. Post!

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Tara Markov had seen stranger things. ‘Seen’ was a poor choice of words, though, because the girl had not only seen these things, but also experienced them and had the unfortunate luck of having to deal with their aftermath. So naturally, the girl dealt fairly well with change, and this would include being swept away from her traveling to here.

Wherever here was. What looked like a cradle of dirt and rock had caught Tara while she had fall from the portal in the sky, and she lie on the brown earth, hurt but whole, and for once in her life, not broken. She wanted desperately to sit up and see where she was, but whatever had happened had sucked most of the energy from her, and this included her powers. She had no fear that her powers had left her (like she’d be that lucky) because just from the height of where she could see and the warmth of the dirt beneath her, she could tell she was the one that had made the earth move. The earth always smelled warm and fresh once she manipulated it; it was her favorite scent.

She couldn’t move thank to that damn thing that brought her here. Tara felt very vulnerable during that phase –something she intensely disliked- but tried to calm herself down. She had faced situations like this before, she could handle herself. She had had to her whole life. And at least the view was terrific, she was faced west towards the setting sun, the sky was illuminated beautifully. She took a deep breath and began to feel the energy flow back to her body, giving her enough strength to sit up, leaning forward to see the city. There was an intense glare from the sun, but Tara could tell it was a large metropolis, which meant there was probably someone there that had heard of her. Someone homeless, like herself, of course. She would expect anyone of status to trust her, or remember her enough

Tara sighed, running her leather-gloved hand through her scraggly blonde hair while she tried to formulate a plan. She glanced over the side of the cradle of dirt and rock, and instantly did a double take when she saw how high she was. Fuck. She was at least ten feet up, and the sides sloped down almost vertically. Double shit. There was no way she could get out of this without someone noticing…but, if anyone could do it, it’d be her own self, right? She could handle this situation, and the park-ish area she had landed in seemed pretty empty. She didn’t even know where she was, so if anyone did see and ask questions, she could BS her way out of it. It’s what she did best.

But good Lord, she was tired. Tara could sit up, but for the moment all she wanted to do was just sit and figure out how she got wherever she was; be somewhat productive. The last thing she really remembered was walking under an overpass and being practically blinded by some idiot driver using their Brights, and then falling. And ending up here. Tara sighed and looked around the area she landed in, towards the city. There was large sky-scrapper office building that seemed to be in the middle of the town. It seemed like a good idea, since it was obviously the most important building in the city, she had seen that before. She stood and positioned herself at a diagonal, sliding down the slope of the hill she had created. Now she was ready to get moving and find out where she was (and where to stay) but there was still the problem of the ten-foot mass of dirt and rock in the middle of the park. That couldn’t just be left unexplained. She sighed and glanced around, making sure the area was cleared before her eyes, hands and the pile of earth began to glow bright yellow. Tara had wanted to keep her powers a secret, but there didn’t seem to be anyone around, and a girl had to do what a girl had to do to keep it a secret.


OOC: Have fun with this. <3

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