16637/Bunny Punch

Bunny Punch
Date of Scene:	20 December 2023
Location:	4B - Mark and Bunny's Apartment
Synopsis:	Bunny discovers there are some unexpected after affects of eating Power Pills meant for Viltrumites. Gabby arrives with Ice Cream. Bunny is not a Pet.
Cast of Characters:	Bunny Macleod, Mark Grayson, Gabby Kinney

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Bunny Macleod has posed:
    >GABBY.
    GABATHA.
    GABRIELLE Z KINNEY
    I NEED HELP.

    That is a series of texts that come to Gabby's phone.

    In Mark and Bunny's new apartment with its sleek modern kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows and definitely not currently covered with an air of panic from a locked bathroom door and a Bunny who has been in there for about an hour, insisting that she's fine but frantically tapping away on her phone. Insisting she is fine. Absolutely fine. Just a little blocked up. It's fine. No need to panic. No need to panic.

    Bunny is definitely panicking, high-key.

    Beeper is also parked outside the door, dutifully, his tail has extra pool noodle tethered around it because he attempted to take out someone's shin on a brief walk through the apartment building hallway.

Mark Grayson has posed:
"Bunny?" That would be a concerned Mark outside of said bathroom door. "Babe? What's going on? What happened?" She has been going thorough the WORST COLD EVER, but she was upright and moving again. She had headed to the bathroom. And hasn't come out since.

He can tank Beeper hitting his shins, but right now?

"Bunny? Talk to me, babe." he offers again towards the door. "Whatever it is, I'm sure we can figure it out!"

"And I really need to pee."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Bunnicula Badass The Third what do you needs? Where? Be there ASAP

Of course she's going to come with a text like that. A short ride over to the provided address has her showing up and knocking on the door dressed in her 'it's cold AF out there' best of leggings and a sweater dress that had little guys riding motorcycles jumping over sharks decorating it. She also has a bag in hand full of several flavors of icecream because with texts like that it might just be an icecream emergency.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "I'm okay! Just a couple more minutes!" Bunny protests through the door.

    And it is not quite an ice cream emergency.

    Beeper gives a loud GEEP at Mark, and turns himself around in a small circle, turning and turning and then skidding to a stop -- and then turning and turning again. Luckily he doesn't seem inclined to try and take on Mark's shins.

    Gabby may notice as she approaches the apartment that there are only three sets of feet. Six feet.

    There should be eight feet.

    It's like that puzzle with the chickens and the cows and how many hands, except they don't have hands and it's feet!

Mark Grayson has posed:
When Gabby arrives at the door, Mark has /no/ idea that Bunny has called her in. Reinforcement? For what? "There's someone at the door!" he comments, "I'll be back in a moment, okay?"

Making his way to the door and opening it, confusion crosses his features. Dressed in a pair of buffalo plaid pajama pants and a t-shirt he'd thrown on the way to the door, he looks confused. "Gabby?" he asks.

But he steps aside from her. "Bunny's uh. In the bathroom. Been in there over an hour now."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney tilts her head to the side. Something. Something was off. She's frowning by the time that Mark opens the door looking rather confused herself. Her gaze fixes on him, and she leeeans to the side to peer past at the circling Beeper in distress, and then she stands straight again.

"Bunny texted," she explains holding up the bag of icecream. "Wasn't sure what the emergency was so I got the usual just-in-case..." Her voice trails off as she considers again. It starts to slowly dawn on her as she steps in closer to venture into the room.

"Mark?" She asks, slowly, cautiously. "What happened? Because... Something's wrong."

"Bunny?" Her voice raises to call out waiting with a stern expression to listen intently to the response.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "GEEEEEEEP!" Beeper geeps out, and gallops to the door to attempt to tackle Gabby's knees, whole-heartedly attempting to bowl over his other mom, and makes happy Beeper noises.

    "Gabby's here? GABBY... can you pop the lock." Bunny asks sheepishly from behind the door. "I'm... ah..."

    She pauses. And then there's an embarrassed sound coming from not-proper-Bunny level:

    "Stuck."

Mark Grayson has posed:
Shaking his head, Mark looks absolutely confused. "I... I have no idea, Gabby. She said she needed to use the bathroom and then locked the door and hasn't come out since. We were just joking about going out when she was feeling better." he explains.

But when Bunny calls out for Gabby and explains that she's... stuck?

Mark's hand finds his face and draws down it slowly. "I could have just pulled the door off it's hinges, you know!" he calls back at Bunny, and gestures granderiously for Gabby to enter. "You'll have to tell me how much your lockpicking service cost."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney reaches down to greet Beeper-charge with a hand. She does stumble back a bit, but she braced herself for impending impact. "Hey buddy how you doing?" She coos lovingly toward the anky giving him some good pets and ear-hole rubs. It's a good little loving even as she listens to Bunny's response.

The utter silliness of the situation doesn't seem to phase Gabby for once as she remains there quietly. Very quiet. Just as quietly when Mark asks her about lock picking services she looks up at him, seriously, keeping her voice calm.

"Mark. Why... HOW is she on the ceiling? I don't hear her footsteps and her voice is ..." The hand pulls away from Beeper to gesture 'up' at the ceiling simply.

Stepping further in the bag of icecream is pressed toward Mark's chest as she walks by toward the bathroom door. "Okay okay, I'll get you out. Of course I can pop the lock." Easily. One claw would do it. Instead she reaches up to her hair to pull out a bobby pin which she bends between her fingers, and then kneels down to wriggle in the hole. It only takes a moment before she gets a click opening the door.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "That is *exactly* why I didn't say anything! These hinges are like forty bucks a piece and then we'd have to fix the doorjamb and you would panic! Please don't panic. This isn't panic-able. I promise."

    The door pops open.

    Bunny is also in pajamas. A Kigurumi of -- what else -- a rabbit. Her hood is down. She's dangling out the window.

    ... from the upper side. She's holding onto the bathroom light and the shower head for dear life.

    "... okay so I lied a little it is a LITTLE Panic-able!" she squeaks out. "I can't get down! It's like my gravity reversed and this is so weird and all I wanted to do was open upthe window for a little fresh air and I'm suck and I didn't want Mark to panic!!"

Mark Grayson has posed:
On the ceiling? What does she mean that Bunny's on the ceiling? The ice cream is shoved into his chest, and Mark manages to gather it before he's heading towards the kitchen, mulling over exactly why Gabby would say that Bunny is on the ceiling?

It's as he is putting away the ice cream that realization dawns on his face like a sun rising on a new day. "Oh /shit/!" he exclaims, shoving the ice cream into the freezer as he turns and his feet are off the ground as he literally flies towards the bathroom.

He peers around Gabby, and when he sees Bunny floating? He turns as white as a sheet and floats up a little. "Okay.... okay!" he breathes, trying to gain his bearings. "Cecil said this might happen! I need to you concentrate. Because you're right, you're thinking in reverse. I want you to visualize being on the ground, being rooted. You're going to want to fly, it's our natural state. So... I want you to think about walking. Standing. Can you do that?" he asks.

And to Gabby he says, "I'll explain in a moment, can you grab her hand and help her down so in case she goes too fast, she doesn't fall very far?" he asks of their mutual best friend.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney stares at Bunny clinging to the light on the ceiling. She figured something like this was up. Maybe some project she was working on had a ladder fall sticking her up high. Or ... Or okay yeah she was out of ideas around there without thinking 'Bunny can fly' because that was most certainly something Bunny could *NOT* do the last time she knew.

"Okay. Cool but... How?" Is the first thing out of her mouth as she grins suddenly. Mark flies by, literally, and she allows him in without argument as she moves to situate herself beneath Bunny.

She just stands with arms raised to reach for Bunny offering what small encouragement she can. "Hey, we got you. Don't worry if you fall I'm very soft," she points out. It's not like it'd hurt HER to break Bunny's fall.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny is indeed halfway out the window and looking rather a bit panicked about it.

    "Uh... turns out Mark's dad kinda wants to take over the Earth for an alien empire and I ate two pills meant to make Mark and Indestructibelle as strong as he is so for like FIFTEEN MINUTES I could fight /Superman/ but I ended up taking a pot shot to the face and almost getting a boot to my brain and then CECIL THOUGHT THIS MIGHT HAPPEN?!" Bunny catches what Mark said, and she gets a very similar expression to what Debbie might have given Cecil, and she almost lets go of the light and then takes a deep breath.

    "Okay. Okay. Thinking of being on the ground. Ground. The ground is like six stories down should I picture *that* ground or the *bathroom floor* or what do you mean 'our natural state'?!" Bunny squeaks, trying to process everything.

    Bunny does reach for both Mark and Gabby's arms.

    "THis is going to be okay. We're going to be okay!"

Mark Grayson has posed:
"The Cliff Notes version." Mark starts as he waits for Bunny to settle down and upright herself. "My father showed up here last week. You know, the one I thought was depowered? He lied. He's been lying for the last twenty years. That whole thing with Juggernaut? He was grooming me. Apparently, Viltrum is not a world of peace sending out ambassadors. It's a conquering race with designs on expanding their territory."

"So after he arrived, he offered me and Sunny... that's another Viltrumite, goes by Indestructibelle. She's the same age as Bunny and I and he really wanted me and her to hook up so yeah, full disappointment there - but more on that later."

A sigh as he looks upwards. "He asked us to see him outside of town. When there, he offered Sunny and I a pill that would boost our powers to match his, which is ... who knows how much experience he has. We rejected the pills and I knocked them aside. Pissed him off and he started to beat the fuck outta me. Bunny tried to help... and her shield was destroyed and she got hurt pretty badly."

His hands clutch at his sides, his expression darkening. "Sunny and I were trying to hold him off, but we were losing. "Bunny... decided to take the pills. As she said. And ... she got imbuned with all that power that Omni-Man had promised Sunny and I. She was able to drive him off. But we all three were in bad shape."

"Cecil, who handled Omni-Man and helps me sometimes came to our rescue. Sunny and I were able to heal. But Bunny needed help. And that's when Alura In-Ze of the Kyrptonians came into the facility and treated her. She was able to flush out the Kryptonian and Czarian DNA... but the DNA of a Viltrumite was alien to her... and reacted with her mutation. So. Cecil said she may develop powers similar to mine. After she..." a look to Bunny. "You... recovered from that cold you had." Because he is eating all the blame on this as he remains an anchor for Bunny.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney grabs one of Bunny's hands when she reaches for them. She was not going to let Bunny slip out the window, no way. Sure Mark could probably get her easily but that was also a situation that would panic Bunny even MORE knowing her. She wasn't as carefree about sudden unexplainable things as Gabby sometimes could be.

"I'm sorry, what?"

Took a pill that was supposed to make Mark as strong as Omni-man... an alien coming to destroy the world. It all sinks in and she recalls *very vividly* the conversation where she'd just suggested that Mark's dad may have set him up to be beaten on by The Juggernaut.

"Bunny," she says calmly, smiling up at her friend. "Fuzzy slippers. Remember how it feels to slip your feet into them. How the carpet squishes between your toes as you walk. The cold of the bathroom tile on your feet," she suggests trying to offer something besides just 'down' and 'ground' as a way to focus. Sensations were a great way to focus she'd learned from her own powers.

"Let me get this straight, Mark: Bunny ate pills that had alien DNA and now her own DNA is turning into Viltrumite. Right?"

"And NO BODY TOLD ME this until... Now?"

"Swear to god if you and your dad are weak to magic I'm going to ram so much magic up his ass he'll be shitting doves for a year."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "It's been a very long week." Bunny replies as she holds onto the two, and she takes a deep breath. "Fuzzy slippers. Carpet between toes. Cold tile..." she states, and she begins to slowly drift downwards. Might wanna pull her in from the windows.

    "Imma smack Cecil next time I see him. I was UNAWARE there were DRASTIC SIDE EFFECTS like /ALMOST FLYING OUT MY WINDOW/!" she wails.

    ... and then she begins snort-laughing.

    "Ha! Omni-Man crapping doves for a year... holiday time it's Two Turtle Doves."

Mark Grayson has posed:
With his arm, Mark starts to guide Bunny in so she doesn't fly off like a luftballoon. "I didn't know she would get new powers, until now!" he offers up in defense of himself. "He just said it was highly possible. But it also means that if she has flight, she may also have enhanced strength and durability." he offers up.

"I'm sorry, Gabby. I've been wallowing in the guilt of the whole thing and realizing that we may have little to no help on this. I asked. Noone responded." he admits quietly as he drifts backwards.

The laughter brings a momentary smile. "We're nigh-invulnerable on the outside. But as you know already, our insides are squishy." he shrugs his shoulders. "I'm pretty sure magic could find a way to cause damage, with the right mage."

"I'm sorry. I know she's your best friend. And I should have said something."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"CLEARLY," Gabby states as she shoots Mark a sharp glare. "You didn't ask the right people." Her jaw clenches after that snip to focus forward with eyebrows drawn together wearing the most unpleasant of expressions.

Anger. Rage. Hurt.

Her hand remains in Bunny's until she's solidly on the ground once more. A similar expression shifts to Bunny breifly. Then she turns and stalks toward the kitchen with a very fixed goal in mind: The icecream he'd shoved in the freezer. If Bunny didn't need it, she sure did.

The freezer is slammed open hard enough that it bounces back only to be met by her fist blocking it. The other reaches into the freezer to flip open the plastic bag digging through until she finds the pint of Ben and Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch.

"Where do you keep your spoons?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Drawer under the microwave." BUnny states as she breathes out and comes down to a landing, her eyes wide, and she looks up at Mark.

    "That was *terrifying*." she whispers to him in quiet admittance as she looks over to wards the kitchen.

    "It happened so *fast* Gabby. His dad showed up at our window, and then fifteen minutes later we were getting beat up. He broke my shield. That's NEVER happened before!" Bunny protests, walking on tentative, nervous feet.

Mark Grayson has posed:
Mark can easily take a tank shell being fired at him. He feels hurt when Gabby glares at him and her words cut further than her blade ever could. Because she's right. He waits to make sure that Bunny is grounded, his hand on her shoulder. At least until Bunny is out of the bathroom.

And with the little are clear, Mark runs inside, shutting the door. Because he really did need to pee. Give him a moment.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney makes a noise to indicate she had heard them. The fact that she soon has a spoon is surely proof of that. She doesn't risk talking again until after she's scooped a spoonful to shove into her mouth and let the cold give her a momentary sting of brainfreeze. It didn't last long, but she felt it, it was a distraction. So was the coffee icecream and chocolately toffee bits. A slow, deep breath is drawn to calm down her emotions.

Anger ran deep in her family. She didn't want to see how far hers went.

"Yeah. Things like that can happen quick. I get it. Still." The spoon is wagged at Bunny... only to have her sigh heavily. "You know I would have helped. No questions asked. Don't care how strong he is, I would have."

Shaking her head firmly she utters, "How are you doing now? Other than the new powers, I mean."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Aren't you glad you didn't rip the door off by the hinges now?

    Bunny comes out into the kitchen and pulls out a chair, and collapses down into it.

    "I am so super stressed about everything like wow." she states, and she holds up a hand for Gabby to toss her an ice cream as well.

    Toss your Bunny an Ice Cream, oh Badger of Honey, Badger of Honey

    Beeper geeps and waddles into the kitchen.

    "But Omni-Man almost killed me flat out at the front to make a point to Sunny and Mark. I was live-broadcasting over the Young Avengers channel, and people only came in the aftermath, so I'm told. Omni-Man is like... Super-Man level threat. Not even the Avengers could..." she trails off, and she frowns, and she looks quietly up at Gabby.

    "The only reason I'm here is because Mark put himself between his dad and me... so go easy on him? For me?"

Mark Grayson has posed:
Fine, you're right, Bunny. The flushing of the toilet announces that Mark's done, along with the sink running to wash his hands. Stepping back out into the hallway, he pauses to look in the mirror. Get the panic off your face. The fear. She's going to be fine, he reminds himself.

He makes his way into the kitchen to join the others, as he moves to take a seat at the bar. He probably didn't hear Bunny's plead, instead, focusing on moving forward. "When you're feeling up to it, I'll take you flying. Be right next to while you learn. I only had someone telling me what to do. Not showing me." Something else that was denied him. How much better could he be if Nolan had /shown/ him how to use his powers?

"I'm going to follow up with the Young Avengers and Titans. Just show up and beg for help, I guess. If you have people that can help, Gabby, I'd appreciate it. I... I don't know why he is suddenly like this. I hope I can still reason with him. Get him to stand down.:

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney reaches back into the freezer to pull out some cookie dough icecream which she underhands over to Bunny. The spoon is still held between her lips which is maybe a good thing. It keeps her from saying anything else until she's calmed a bit more.

Mark gets an icecream thrown at him, too. Regular chocolate. Maybe just a bit TOO hard of a throw though she's fairly certain he can grab it. Satisfied for now she heads to the table to sit down next to Bunny offering her a clean spoon for the icecream.

"Okay. Well. Ask him why he's like this suddenly, maybe?" Gabby utters only to pause, and fix Bunny with a curious look. "Wait. Why would he want to show Mark AND Sunny by hurting you?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny stares straight ahead at the last question.

    Her cheeks turn red and her left leg bounces a little as she stuffs cookie dough into her face. And then gets a >.< expression. And then swallows and squeaks out.

    "Because Omni-Man is a *jerk* who doesn't approve of his son dating a mutant and tried to hook Sunny and Mark up together and wanted to prove how weak Humanity was compared to Viltrumites but he *SUCKS* and Mark is *AWESOME* and we are all gonna band together and beat this guy and he'll be shitting cassowaries by the time we're done with him HOW'S THAT FOR BEING A PET, NOLAN?!"

Mark Grayson has posed:
A hand goes up and catches the ice cream out of mid-air. Not as impressive as stopping a missile. But he might have preferred the missile, really. Mark sets the container to the side, not opening it yet.

Especially when Bunny responds. And respond she does. Vividly and angrilly. She's been holding it in and he can tell. His head lowers a bit and he draws in a shaky breath. "I've offered to go after him by myself, Gabby. Just so Bunny doesn't get hurt again. And even if I don't... I don't want to see her hurt again. I just... I can't, okay. Anyone, anything else? I'd want her at my side. One hundred percent. But not this.:"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney stabs her spoon back into the icecream a time or two to loosen it up. "That's not going to work. Going alone. That's the problem a lot of you 'indestructable' types have -- You think you have to take on everything alone the hard way."

There's a pause a moment as she considers what to say, before clearing her throat. "Even Superman has a weakness that can be exploited, Mark. ... I had to use it on a Kryptonian clone before. It's not ideal, but it's effective."

"In this case we need to plan and think on how to deal with your father effectively since overpowering hand-to-hand isn't an option. It's at best a distraction so more can be done."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny slowly begins to rise from her chair as she eats.

    "Gabby's right. Planning is what's going to take Omni-Man down. We can't do it alone. Gabby's got connections. Maybe she can work out some stuff. But no matter what, we're not doing it alone because /so help me/ even if I have to amplify your mom yelling at him maybe it's like Dragon Ball Z and the only thing that Goku was actually afraid of ever was his *wife* and --" she trails off. She's floating a good ten inches above her seat, and definitely miffed.

    "... but no matter what. You're not going it alone. But if you want me to sit this one out..." she trails off, and then resigned. "I'll Overwatch."

Mark Grayson has posed:
"Bunny. Focus on sitting." Mark says quickly when she starts to float. "I may have to tie a rock to you to keep you grounded." Going alone is exactly what Nolan wants, Mark just doesn't realize that.

"Rocks don't bother me, Gabby. Or a lack of a yellow sun. The only thing he's going to understand is blunt force trauma." He lifts his eyes to Bunny and shakes his head. "It nearly killed me to see how hurt you were. But it's part and parcel of what we are. Especially if... you're adapting to my DNA." he says quietly.

"I'm open to suggestions." he finally decides.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"I didn't say the same things would work on you Mark, but that doesn't mean nothing will. Like you said you're squishy on the inside. Maybe basic poison works. Or neurotoxins which I *can* get." Gabby scoops up another bit of icecream. "Or genetic tinkering to remove powers to begin with. Heck there was a mutant that could take away powers I remember reading about at one point," she murmers thoughtfully while glancing toward the ceiling.

Her arm reaches out to rest on Bunny's arm when she starts floating a bit. "Want your skates on? Might keep you more grounded."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "... this doesn't mean that I'm going to be like, related, right?" Bunny asks.

    She's got serious questions.

    "No, no, I'm okay, I'm okay --" she trails off as she breaths out, and settles back on the chair.

    "... if I have mini-Viltrumite powers, maybe I also have mini-Viltrumite weaknesses. We can try a bunch of things on me. He gave us two weeks. So we have... a week and two days? Can we do it in that short a time?" Bunny questions, completely willing to sacrifice her own comfort to beat OMni-Man.

    She huffs.

    "I'll be okay." she replies to Gabby with a small, weak smile.

Mark Grayson has posed:
"Absolutely not." Mark replies with a frown. Related? Not a chance.

But that is not what he was absolutely not'ing about. "We don't know if you got all of the abilities. Or some of them. Try to prick your finger." he suggests to her. "I can't do it." That is his explanation, as he finally opens the ice cream to take up a spoon to eat some of the chocolate.

"We have a week and two days to come up with a plan. Or to get together a force to stop him."

"I'm thinking option B, myself."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Prick her finger? Gabby doesn't even suggest helping in that. Instead she lifts her hand, claw popping out to jab it at Mark's arm. Or leg, or whatever was within swiping reach. It's a quick motion so she's not really pulling hits, just at an awkward angle.

Another bit of icecream is popped into her mouth as she regards Mark to see if there's any response or if she just ends up jarring her claw and arm. HER claws were physical but had the enchantment on them to make them far more useful. If magic were a potential weakness they'd certainly find out this way. Hopefully.

Plus it fulfilled her desire to punch him. Just a little.

"We'll figure something out. Now that we all know about it," she points out with a little cluck of her tongue. "Honestly I know so many people. Heck we could hire Juggernaut to go after HIM and help if needed."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Gabby!" Bunny protests as Gabby punches at Mark with a claw out!

    She looks mildly peturbed, but thankfully remains in her eat.

    ANd she opens her mouth, and then closes her mouth, and sticks another spoonfull of cookie dough into her mouth.

    "Mmrrmmf.." she mutters. "What about Atom Eve? Or your old team? Can we at least count on support if the fight gets taken to populated areas?" she questions, pursing her lips. "Billy might be up for it."

    She lets her shoulders droop.

Mark Grayson has posed:
"Ow! The fuck?!" Mark responds to the sucker punch. But where she hit? No visible damage. The response may have just been that of someone that did not have powers for sixteen years and then they just developed. He rubs at his arm and glares at Gabby for a moment.

"Fine. I deserved it." he grunts.

As he listens to the ideas, he shakes his head. "I tried contacting Eve. I can only assume something happened between her and Miles and she went back to Africa and isn't able or wanting to take calls until she's over it." he shrugs his shoulders.

"Billy?" he asks, and looks to Gabby. "Getting Juggernaut to help would be oddly poetic. And he may actually buy us some time." he finds himself agreeing with another bite of ice cream.

"So let's address the issue we haven't touched yet. Omni-Man is not a scientist. There's no scientists that I know of in his circle. So..." he says thoughtfully.

"...how did he get those pills and knew how long it would take to get more?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Billy Kaplin, from the Young Avengers." Bunny states, and she considers.

    "Are there scientists you know of who are good enough at the genetic thing that he might know of?" she questions, her eyebrows rising up as she purses her lips. "He'd probably go back to them to get them to replicate the pills."

    Bunny frowns.

    "I probably should *not* try to eat them again."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney pauses where she sits. Staring at the tabletop. Not at being chastised for punching Mark, or at being scolded by Bunny. None of that has her pausing. It's the mention of the pills. Of scientists.

"There's several. Geneticists who like to play around to see if they can 'steal' powers or..." Her voice has gone down a few notches sounding a little gravelly in spite of things. "... I'm proof of that. There's always organizations willing to use people as experiments."

"You said this Cecil guy knew about the pills and their possible reactions, and that he used to be Omni-man's handler. How?" She finally risks looking to the pair, her eyes darting between them. "How did he know? Answer seems obvious to me. But," she adds with shoulders rising in a stiff shrug. "I've never really trusted the government on that sort of thing."

Mark Grayson has posed:
"I don't think it's Cecil." Mark responds. "Not that I want to defend the asshole at the moment - he knew what Nolan was doing and let it play out instead of warning me in advance. But I don't think he'd want to hand over the planet to the Viltrumites." he points out. "A little too much red, white and blue blood, if you get my meaning."

But now Bunny has him thinking. "You've met most of those villains that would fit the bill, Buns." he admits as he feels a little slump of his shoulders in though. And then his expression changes. "No. Not all. There are two." the realization has him pondering it.

"Couple of months ago, Kara and I thwarted an attempt on a lab by the Maulter Twins. They're genetically altered aliens... humans... something. Seven foot tall, bald, blue, super strong. And they clone each other. ALL THE TIME. Always only two clones max. One dies, the other one clones. And the cycle of who's the original begins again. But they're in the Raft."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "You've talked about them before. The Mauler Twins." Bunny states quietly, she frowns, and she draws her head up. "Is it possible there's a second set of twins? Like ... one got transported off The Raft and managed to clone himself so there's like... Mauler Triplets?" she frowns.

    "They sound like they might have the ability."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Or spare clones that could be triggered 'awake' in the case the first set is caught," Gabby adds to the list of guesses looking up to regard the pair. Another little stab into the icecream comes before she nudges it away from her with a little flick of her fingertips.

"If I'd known you guys were going through all of this... I've just been doing ... stuff. Going on trips, out to theater. This is more important."

Mark Grayson has posed:
"You need to live your own life too, Gabby. I'm sorry we didn't contact you." Mark says honestly. "I'm going to go check the Raft. See if they're there." he comments as he pushes to get to his feet and put away the ice cream. "Figure out if they're in there. If not, we may have our first real lead."

Shouldering the responsibility. He blames himself for it, after all. "When I get back, Bunny, I can take you to help learn to fly. Or you can get Sunny to help." he comments as he comes over to kiss Bunny's cheek affectionately and glances to Gabby. "Again. I'm sorry."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Gabs..." Bunny states, and she reaches over and grabs Gabby's hand.

    "You have put so much time into helping everyone. I hardly ever saw you home if you weren't asleep or eating when we lived together." Bunny states, and she gives a warm smile to her bestie.

    "You deserve to live your life too. That includes chillin' with Dam-Dam. I'm going to keep calling him Dam-Dam. It's stuck in my head forever." she states quietly.

    And as Mark stands, she goes to stand to -- but realizes this is one Mark CAN do on his own.

    "Okay. But I'm keeping an earbud in. If you need back up -- if you need *anything*--" she trails off.

Mark Grayson has posed:
"I promise. There and back. I'll have my ear piece in." Mark promises, "You're in good hands, Bun. I'll be back soon." A pause before he heads to the bedroom to change and head out. "Love you."

And with that, he disappears around the corner. Gonna have to take a bit of a flight to get where he's going. Only to learn that the Maulers escaped, nearly a month ago.