Speed Sample Post.
It amazes me how the world around me can be so slow. It didn't use to be that way, though. There was a time before I was carted away to juvenile hall when the world seemed to go at a relatively normal pace, when twenty-four hours felt like twenty-four hours instead of just a couple of seconds on one of those annoying kitchen wall clocks shaped like a cat with a tail-shaped pendelum and eyes that keep on looking to the left and to the right, as if it was like the cat that finally caught that stupid canary or something. No, seriously, don't those clocks annoy anyone else besides me?
Gaah! I went off topic. Again. I've been doing that a lot lately. I don't know why. I think it's because of my developing powers or something. Superspeed and all that stuff? I can run fast enough to break the sound barrier, and that's really awesome. I always loved to run - I was on the track team at school, and I played soccer too, just because it involved a lot of running. Running was great. It helped me escape everything from girl issues to problems with my grades (I'm a smart little punk, really, I just can't be bothered to study. If I didn't think I were a mutant, I'd say its because I have ADD, but I know a little bit better than that now. I think)
It's a really nice day today - one that really has me wanting to go to California and spend the day at the beach or something - possibly with Kate Bishop, if she'd ever give me the time of day or night - but instead I'm sitting outside the new Avenger's headquarters, trying to relax on a bench while they sit inside and try to figure out if I'm really the Scarlet Witch's son or not. I know Billy wants us to be the Scarlet Witch's kids, and that he wants us to be twins but...it's too weird. I mean, Billy's a nice guy, and he's really cute (and when I say cute, I don't mean it in a gay way - that's Billy. I say it because he looks exactly like me, except with dark hair. Yes, I have an ego. Deal with it.) See, Billy grew up here in Manhattan, I'm from Springfield, New Jersey. We're worlds apart, and the thought that we're twins who were somehow born in different bodies with different parents after some dude named Mephisto was blown up is a little too Whedoned out for me. But Billy believes it, and so do the rest of the Young Avengers. Or at least, they're suspicious about it.
The Young Avengers. Henh. They're an interesting group. I guess Patriot is the de facto leader. He sure acts like it. The guy seems like he's got a pickle lodged high up his ass that needs to be pulled out so he can actually relax for once in his life. Then there's Stature, daughter of the Ant-Man. She seems cool. Hulkling is Billy's boyfriend, which is...kinda weird but kinda cool. I don't have anything against homosexuals, and lets face it, with me possibly being a mutant, I'm the last person who should ever have any sort of prejudices against anyone else. It's only kinda weird because the guy's some sort of shapeshifting alien prince or something. I'm not really too clear on the facts because I wasn't Attention Boy that day, having only just been busted out of juvenile hall. I was too busy playing with my powers, which the team seems to not love me doing. Apparently I use them a little too freely. We also have this guy named the Vision who - if what Billy thinks is true - is our actual father.
Makes Luke and Vader seem like the Tanners.
Then there's Kate Bishop. The rich girl. The really hot rich girl who knows her way around weaponry. She doesn't have any Avengers connections the way the rest of us have, but that's cool. She's good. And I don't just mean in an eyecandy sort of way. I've seen her in action out on the field, and she's one of the best. Wow is the only word that comes to mind whenever I think of her. Which is a lot. I'm glad to have her on the team.
Hell, I'm glad to be on the team. As it turns out, I'm their latest recruit. They call me Speed. And not because I do the drug, because I don't. I'm not that sort of guy. With my powers I'm on a constant high anyway, you know? No, it's coz all of my powers are speed-based, from my superspeed to the fact that I can accelerate the molecules of anything, causing that object to vaporize - which is essentially what I did to my old high school. Yeah. That really wasn't on purpose. It was the awakening of these powers. These really cool powers. I know a lot of people find out they have powers - and responsibility with those powers - and they hate that. They wanna give them away.
Me? I'm digging on them probably than I have more of a right to.
Gaah! I went off topic. Again. I've been doing that a lot lately. I don't know why. I think it's because of my developing powers or something. Superspeed and all that stuff? I can run fast enough to break the sound barrier, and that's really awesome. I always loved to run - I was on the track team at school, and I played soccer too, just because it involved a lot of running. Running was great. It helped me escape everything from girl issues to problems with my grades (I'm a smart little punk, really, I just can't be bothered to study. If I didn't think I were a mutant, I'd say its because I have ADD, but I know a little bit better than that now. I think)
It's a really nice day today - one that really has me wanting to go to California and spend the day at the beach or something - possibly with Kate Bishop, if she'd ever give me the time of day or night - but instead I'm sitting outside the new Avenger's headquarters, trying to relax on a bench while they sit inside and try to figure out if I'm really the Scarlet Witch's son or not. I know Billy wants us to be the Scarlet Witch's kids, and that he wants us to be twins but...it's too weird. I mean, Billy's a nice guy, and he's really cute (and when I say cute, I don't mean it in a gay way - that's Billy. I say it because he looks exactly like me, except with dark hair. Yes, I have an ego. Deal with it.) See, Billy grew up here in Manhattan, I'm from Springfield, New Jersey. We're worlds apart, and the thought that we're twins who were somehow born in different bodies with different parents after some dude named Mephisto was blown up is a little too Whedoned out for me. But Billy believes it, and so do the rest of the Young Avengers. Or at least, they're suspicious about it.
The Young Avengers. Henh. They're an interesting group. I guess Patriot is the de facto leader. He sure acts like it. The guy seems like he's got a pickle lodged high up his ass that needs to be pulled out so he can actually relax for once in his life. Then there's Stature, daughter of the Ant-Man. She seems cool. Hulkling is Billy's boyfriend, which is...kinda weird but kinda cool. I don't have anything against homosexuals, and lets face it, with me possibly being a mutant, I'm the last person who should ever have any sort of prejudices against anyone else. It's only kinda weird because the guy's some sort of shapeshifting alien prince or something. I'm not really too clear on the facts because I wasn't Attention Boy that day, having only just been busted out of juvenile hall. I was too busy playing with my powers, which the team seems to not love me doing. Apparently I use them a little too freely. We also have this guy named the Vision who - if what Billy thinks is true - is our actual father.
Makes Luke and Vader seem like the Tanners.
Then there's Kate Bishop. The rich girl. The really hot rich girl who knows her way around weaponry. She doesn't have any Avengers connections the way the rest of us have, but that's cool. She's good. And I don't just mean in an eyecandy sort of way. I've seen her in action out on the field, and she's one of the best. Wow is the only word that comes to mind whenever I think of her. Which is a lot. I'm glad to have her on the team.
Hell, I'm glad to be on the team. As it turns out, I'm their latest recruit. They call me Speed. And not because I do the drug, because I don't. I'm not that sort of guy. With my powers I'm on a constant high anyway, you know? No, it's coz all of my powers are speed-based, from my superspeed to the fact that I can accelerate the molecules of anything, causing that object to vaporize - which is essentially what I did to my old high school. Yeah. That really wasn't on purpose. It was the awakening of these powers. These really cool powers. I know a lot of people find out they have powers - and responsibility with those powers - and they hate that. They wanna give them away.
Me? I'm digging on them probably than I have more of a right to.