Villains Club Training Camp (5)

Weird Science

Penelope

The hologram took up the entire floor of the main dome of the Lab. Everything had to be moved, everything and considering neither myself, Raven or Alinta has super-strength I called in a favour from Apparition.

She floated in the air while Vera pinged and binged, using the ghost girl as a translator. "She misses you a lot, and while we like spending time together Vera wonders if she can visit more often!"

"Of course you can hunny!" I called out, getting a happy wink from the fairy-looking orb. She used a blue beam to lift and move the heavy objects out into the spare rooms.

Will was running, apparently it kept his head clear but he was also trying to build up electricity the way the Flash did. "So, you really have no idea how you gained these powers?" Alinta confirmed, she sat on a small wooden box in the middle of the spell diagram. The towers that projected the image would be the only non-spell components in the room.

"Not a Clue!" the spazzed out kid responded, "my father was trying to find a way to bulk-manufacture speedsters. Trying to shake up the trucking industry. None of the experiments work. Then I walk in, knock something over by accident and Boom! I'm Fast!"

Vera pinged in a concerned way, and I agreed; "Are you sure it's only fast? If there were multiple experiments there your power could be weirder than you think!"

"We'll find out I guess!" the kid braked, skidding into the middle of the room and attempted to throw lightning. He didn't even release a spark. In fact while he'd been running there had been none of the signature lightning the Flash or any of his speedster enemies had. Just a kid in a red jumpsuit, blurred out into a line around the dome.

"Well, you won't want to get caught in this. Since whatever you do is unknown, you getting hit by this could be dangerous!" Raven commented dryly. She floated in the air beside apparition, a handful of vague occult looking books floating around her. Some looked like old latin manuscripts, two in particular had the titles "Lucky Bunny and the Warding Spell" and "Lucky Bunny learns Glyph Magic". Magic books for younger readers.

As the room emptied out I proceeded to set up the mess of random items around the circle, as each one went into place a golden crackling energy would jump back and forth between the items and the circle.

Having set that up, I fetched Alinta's new prosthetics. There in the circle the golden shocks bounced, occasionally zapping the bronze-skinned girl and making her flinch. The legs I brought over were ones we worked on together, mechanical knees that would respond to her ghost-limbs and move on command. Carbon fibre spring mechanisms for feet that would both support her weight but also add a spring to her step. Above else, it would channel the new power, assuming nothing went wrong.

"From my heart and from my hand, why can't people understand, our creation!" Will suddenly commented out of the blue. And that broke the tension, all of us laughing.

"Magic and technology, voodoo chants and bits and pieces, bits and pieces!" I tried to remember the lyrics. "Well, by Tesla's name I think we're ready! Will, Start running!"

In the air well above the circle, away from the dome Raven and Apparition took up position. Vera, floating up to rub against me got a light petting before she lifted me to that position.

Quietly, Raven started chanting her mantra to concentrate as Will slowly turned into a blur around the rim of the circle and one by one the letters of the circle glowed, golden arcs of electricity jumping over everything. Using a cane to prop herself up onto her knew prosthetics, she then threw that up to float in the air as well, keeping the circle clean.

"I'm Ready!" She started walking slowly. She held with her a single piece of chalk and, speaking out loud described exactly what she wrote into the diagram. "The relation of force through the distribution of speed, is equal to 3 times the planar coefficient, of 2 times the distributed co-ordinates of the the life force of the wielder across their time-stream."

Now the golden electricity in the circle focused, bouncing from object to object then arcing to Alinta's legs across the ground, up the body and across her clothes. As though noticing her.

"3x2(9YZ)4A" She said, then started running, falling into a trot at first inside the circle, moving in the same direction as Will but at first slower. The golden electricity followed, jumping around as Vera very candidly and with a smile put on the song we had discussed earlier.

"Why can't people understand. My creation!" I yelled in time with the music, and the rippling wave of force energy rippled through the circle. Alinta moved faster, then faster and caught up with Will, the gold energy rippling across him as well as they ran in sync around the circle.

We had our own speedsters! "Pull the Lever Cronk!" I yelled, and Raven flicked a finger, moving the control for one of the back entrances, a ramp that led up to the street.

"RACE YA!" Alinta called out and the two speedsters ran out into the tunnels of my base, making a bee-line for the street. The magic circle in the building winked out at a command from Vera, the lightning leaving as they did and everyone was set down on the ground. Instead, a patch of feed from a satellite overhead showed the live footage of two blurs of light, both of them gold dashing through the street, layered over the ground as a hologram.

"HA HA HA HA HA! Again, the power of science, and magic!" I magnanimously gestured to the goth-girl, "Have accomplished miracles. Soon I shall be know for the heroes and villains I created, than the deeds I have done!" I laughed wickedly, which of course was when my phone roared.

"Oh! Claire! Nice Timing!" I flipped up my goggles as I flicked on the video-call.

E-Claire was there looking worried, whatever meeting they'd been in had finished and now she along with Lucifar and Misty lent against the car. "So, aah. Penny. I may just have agreed to two very problematic jobs."