It was 3 in the morning and Cassie couldn't sleep. Her mind was on her test tubes for her latest experiment. But it was a 72 hour experiment ( Read more... )

Hudson Logan knew himself to be a man of... limited patience, to put it kindly. Which was why after ten minutes of staring at the computer screen and learning that there were several hundred people named Will Kaplan in New York, he had given up on that method of finding the guy ( Read more... )

“Thank you -” duck, kick, block, kick, upper cut, block, “for letting me -” block, punch, block, kick, open fist slam, “work out my -” jump back, slash forward, jab, block, jab, “aggression, boys,” block, roundhouse kick, elbow to the face and - click - scarlet screamer action! The three minor-league thugs that Scarlet Spider had been dealing with ( Read more... )

Dormagus leaned on the counter, drumming his fingers on the glass and watching his reflection in a bored kind of way. His shades had slid down his nose enough that he could actually see his eyes, one of the few really obvious signs of his inhuman heritage. The ears, most people didn’t even notice, but the eyesHis lips quirked, and he snorted to ( Read more... )

Rina Logan stretched and yawned as she walked into the kitchen of what was more often than not called the X-Mansion by it's students and teachers. After a long, long talk with her mother and father, and after a few too many scrapes, it was decided that the sixteen year old mutant would continue her education at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters ( Read more... )

Hudson glared sullenly at the computer screen in front of him, drumming his fingers on the desk next to the keyboard. He was the first guy to admit that he wasn’t exactly tech savvy. Usually, he was the dumb muscle of the group, and that was the way he liked it ( Read more... )

Now that he'd left Avengers Mansion, Reilly was feeling like kind of a jerk. Sneaking in just to get an audience? Probably not the best move of his career. He really couldn't blame them for freaking out. Now where he was going to get someone to mentor Aftershock?

He walked into the offices of Nelson and Associates with a scowl, only stopping to say ( Read more... )

Jake was wearing a leather coat that he'd gotten as a gift from his dad after acing his pilot exams for flying hovercars in city areas. These days they wouldn't let just anyone use those things anymore. Even if it hardly stopped some people from using them anyway ( Read more... )

Will checked his watch as he lingered outside the Avengers mansion, waiting for the next tour to start ( Read more... )

The cake had been every bit as bad as Hudson had expected it might be. He adored Missy (not that he would ever admit it to anyone), but she did not belong anywhere near food ( Read more... )