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This is a post that will help me keep track of this idea that has been brewing in my head for a number of years but is only just now coming to life! Huzzah. It's a superhero graphic novel idea (as if you didn't know) and I do hope to pursue it for real one day.
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Dahlia: You remember those stories? The ones about superheroes saving the world? Keeping the peace?
Alex: If this is going where I think it is...
Dahlia: It is. And before you cut me off, just hear me out. What if that's what they were making us into? The new generation of peacekeepers?
Alex: Then they should have taken volunteers. I didn't sign up for this.
Dahlia: Clearly there was something wrong with that plan. Look, we're all a little stuck here, I just want to know if there's room for discussion on this. We can't exactly go on living our lives like before, can we?
Alex: That's what you say.
Quake: Oi, she has a point.
Dahlia: What are you going to do now, huh? Are you going to go back and use your power to do things no one else can and make a fortune off being a freak? Believe me, the only thing it'll get you is a one way ticket to some secret lab that the government owns and they won't be much nicer there than where we came from. We might even get sent right back. For all we know, that was the government.
Pause.
Alex: So... what, costumes? Secret watch cellphones and random gadgets?
Dahlia: I'm just saying we need to stick together. There's no going back now.
Sarah: Didn't those heroes all die in some tragic accident?
Pause.
Alex: Well, I guess that's why no one would have volunteered. You're just signing on for an early death.
Dahlia: Not if I have anything to say about it. Come on, let's go get something to eat.
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