He showed up the next day much deeper into the sewers on a spacious open ptform next to a halfway finished train station. As he reached the area that was a fiery redhead that looked to be in her te thirties or early 40s, she smiled at him, and she was also dressed in a supersuit.
She walked up to him as she extended her hand to him. “People call me Redlight. I am energy emission expert. I heard that you recently unlocked an energy emission based power specifically psionic based which is…very rare. Most energy emissions are based on elements. To have a Psychic based energy emission without any other psionic based powers is also rare. You are a bruiser that can fly but you have psionic powers? That’s a combination for sure.”
Mark nodded at her.
“My name is Seven. I have a pool of energy, but I can seem to reach it. I try to push it out, but nothing ever works. I spend almost all day yesterday working on it but to no avail.” She stood beside him and snapped her fingers and produced a ball of fire in her hands before she pointed and bsted the side of the sewer wall as he could see the concussive damage of the fireball damage the wall.
“Because it's not a physical muscle you are trying to use. it's a mental one. You have to first discover the muscle and then slowly work it. This is a very gradual process. I know we have about a week or so I will condense this down as best as I can.” Mark nodded as they began to go to work.
The first day they practiced Mark learned that simir to thinking instead of using his physical body to push he had to use his mind and only his mind or it would send mixed signals and nothing would happen. For the first day his goal was to cover a balloon in Psionic Energy without breaking it.
After hours of trying to flex his mind muscle he finally able to overy his psionic energy pool over the upper half of his body. Before the pool was only centered in his brain but after 12 hours of mentally stretching the pool he was able to produce a glowing ball of purple energy in his hand, but his control was far too rough to be able to not burst the balloons that Redlight continuously pulled out.
It wasn’t until day 3 and his proficiency went from 0.5 to 2.5% was, he able to finally cover the balloon with his psionic energy without it bursting. Next came offensive application which was all they really had time for.
What was true was that unlike his other powers he was not a natural at all when it came to energy emission. Since he was a bruiser, they decided to keep it simple. They focused on coating his fists with psionic energy that would explode on contact increasing his damage. While he did have great damage this would allow him to shred through exosuits much quicker than before.
After 6 more days of this he had pushed his proficiency from 2.5 percent to 4% and was able to shape the coating around his fists to be more penetrative and also allowing him to activate the explosive psionic energy when he wanted to.
After a week of training with Redlight she decided that the heat coming down on him and the sewers was to much and to back out. At this point while he could not produce energy beams or bsts and his control of his powers was shit the actually damage of his explosive bsts left small craters in the ground. He could easily kill a normal human in a supersuit with one good blow. It was time.
"He went back to The Broker and paid for information on where all 5 of the allstars where based at for 100 grand.
He learned that they all stayed in Tower 5 at the top floor and that the security had been ramped up. There was dozens of supers there.
He smiled at The Broker and extended his hand to her and smiled before leaving.
“Its time to make a statement.”
This time he decided to have his supersuit only cover his body and not his face. As he flew over to tower 5 he saw that on the roof tops were 5 supers in exosuits guarding the roof.
“I should be able to crash straight through the roof of the tower. But I need to make a statement. I will just have to take them all down. One by one.” he slowly lowered himself on the roof of the building as the female exosuits turned to face him.
"This is your only warning! Stand down now! I can't promise you won't die because I will NOT hold back!" one of them shrieked into her voice communicator, her voice crackling with unrestrained fury. Just then, Mark charged at her with the force of a battering ram, smming his shoulder into her with such ferocity that she was unched off the rooftop, plummeting 25 floors down the side of the building, leaving only the echo of her scream behind.
A few of the supers unched a series of scorching energy bsts that struck him with relentless force, tearing through his supersuit and revealing the raw skin beneath. Every hit sent waves of pain through his body, but they couldn't cause any permanent damage. His skin, though battered and bruised, started to heal almost immediately, with his flesh rapidly stitching itself back together with remarkable resolve.
“So be it.” Harnessing his body kinesis, he propelled himself forward with incredible force, hurtling into them at speeds exceeding 100 mph. The impact was like a battering ram, sending them careening off the rooftop and spiraling down toward the street below. One of them, driven by desperation, sprinted toward him and shoved him with all their might. Yet, he gracefully soared over the edge and hovered effortlessly at the brink of the roof, suspended in mid-air with an air of defiant ease.
“That won’t work.”
He soared above the chaotic melee; his fist engulfed in a bzing aura of psionic energy and struck her with such force that it pierced straight through her Exosuit. The impact was so devastating that she coughed up blood and crumpled to the ground in a lifeless heap.
As others charged towards him, he hurled the wounded super at the advancing runners, her body crashing into them with brutal intensity, sending them plummeting off the roof's edge to their doom below. With an unyielding resolve, he stormed through the door to the top floor and flung it open, ready to unleash further destruction inside.
“It's time to end this.”
