Gifted Children

Chapter 21

Stark and Isabelle got the rest of the group from training. They all settled in Stark's office. Stark gave both Stella and Isabelle a sketchbook and a pencil.

"Alright. Now that I've gotten all of your techy stuff down, here comes the fun part. You guys get to sketch out the designs of the suits, with the help of your friends Stella and Isabelle. Nick, Zack, and Jack, you'll go with Isabelle. Markus, Jake, and Colin, you'll go with Stella. You tell them what you want, and they'll get it drawn for you. I'll give you all three hours on your own, then I'll get to making them," he explained to the group.

Isabelle's group walked over to the right side of the room. 

"How did he know that I was even good at sketching?" Isabelle whispered to Nick as they walked over to their space. 

Nick just smirked and looked at her. 

"You told him? Really?" Isabelle asked him with a laugh.

"Well, you weren't going to tell him anytime soon. You're too shy," Nick told her with the same cocky smirk.

Isabelle playfully punched him on the shoulder, then looked to the twins. She leaned on the desk and opened up her sketchbook.

"First, do you guys want to have matching suits?" Isabelle asked the two. 

"Yeah. That would be sweet," Zack said as he looked to her brother, who was also nodding. 

The twins went through what they wanted the suits to look like, and Isabelle finally came up with the last draft of their suits. It had the design of grey smoke at the wrists, dispersing as it went up to their forearms. The rest of the suit was white, besides designs of black smoke also on their ankles, dispersing up to their calves. Their facepieces had mask-shaped eyes for where their sensors and where they would see would be. The "eyes" were black.

"Izzy, this looks awesome!" Zack stared at the sketch in amazement.

"Yeah. I never knew that you could sketch this well," Jake said.

Isabelle just smiled. She went to work on Nick's, which was a bit more complicated. His had a navy blue base, with swirls of white and grey along his torso. He also had swipes of light blue at his ankles and calves. His facepiece was the same as the twins, except his had a base of navy blue, with an outline of black around the white "eyes".

They all chimed in with Isabelle's. Her base was black, with a design of fire at her neck, dispersing a small bit into the facepiece. There were also vein-like designs on her arms and legs, which glowed red, orange, and yellow. Her facepiece's "eyes" were bright orange.

They all high-fived each other, Isabelle smiling brightly at her sketches.

After those three hours, they were all done, and Stark put their sketches on his screen.

Stella's suit had a base of lime green, with what looked like dark green vines all around her hips and torso. She also had rock-like designs at her wrists and ankles. Her "eyes" were white and were bordered by light green and dark green vines.

Jake's suit was black, with purple lightning designs all across his body. He had a large concentration of lightning bolts at his wrists and ankles. His "eyes" were purple, with the contrast of white lightning bolts as the border.

Colin's suit had a dark grey base, with large amounts of black smoke designs concentrated at his neck and traveling down to his torso. His "eyes" were bordered with light grey smoke designs, the main base color being black. 

Markus' suit was a bit different than the other's suits. He didn't have a main element or characteristic of his abilities that could be put into a design. They decided on a black base, with glowing green veins representing his healing ability. His "eyes" were bright white with a contrasting border of speckles of bright green and grey.