The party went on for some time as Hanna mostly just watched cat videos on her phone While absentmindedly shoveling junk food into her mouth. Her hands floated around scanning the floors and walls and navigated the crowded apartment with surpirsing ease as they picked up trash and places it in a nearby trashcan.

  Hanna had spent whatever focus she had on generating more hands and had come to realize certain things about her powers. Number one: the hands could share senses and something almost like memory. 2nd: her hands had amazing reaction time as despite how crowded it was, they had somehow managed not to bumb into anyone.

  Hanna gave it some thought as to why as the cute imagery of kittens playing filled the screen of her phone. Powers had rules to them that defined exactly how they worked. Points simply allowed you to control and define the direction of those. Creating the rules yourself. Even then the system would often employ rules that applied a disadvantage or advantage that didn't show up on the screen.

  This essentially meant that not all powers were equal. This was especially true for Hanna who had double the number of points available to create her power with. Aspects helped to improve powers further by essentially adding new functions to your power these functions unlike your base ability could be improved to provide better and better results.

  "Okay everybody!!! It's time for the show and tell!" A loud voice which shook Hanna from her musings and she had a mini freak out as she tried to figure out what was going on. She noticed the crowd starting to head outside and Hanna awkwardly followed along pretending like she definitely knew what was going on.

  The crowd eventually found it's way to a nearby domed buildings. Small and based on the dirt flooring, the weights and excerise equipment off to the side were some students were lifting weights she came to the obvious conclusion that this was some kind of training building.

  "Allright everyone you know the drill. Each one of yous gonna come up say your name and hero name if you have one. show your power then explain how it works. Since I'm the most senior here I'll go first"

  He puased for dramatic effect before continuing on.

  "My name Is Hector. Hero name: Headstone."

  Hector crouched low and placed his hand on the ground after a second one of fingers started to loose it's gray gravel like appearances and were he placed it a Headstone like the one someone might find in a grave appeared. Just looking it at it gave a Hanna a feeling of dread. It wasn't a natural feeling either but one that kept increasing the longer she stared at it.

  "My power allows covers my skin in a flexible stone like material. I can remove it to make a single Headstone per 2 to 3 inches. The headstones cuase a mental effect on anyone who looks at them so be careful."

  Based on what she had observed Hanna guessed his power was a trade power. Essentially a power that like the name implied allowed an empowered to trade one thing for another. Could be defence for greater mobility or in this case defence for psychological effect.

  The next up was Taylor who had allready introduced herself to Taylor. The girl was athletic but not in the body builder sort of way. More like someone who did a lot of running and parkour. She had blond hair tied into a neat pony tail. Her eyes told Hanna... nothing. Hanna didn't really do the whole reading faces thing, it was essentially pointless for her.

  "Hello! My names Taylor! It's so super for us to meet our newest student. Hero name Is Super Ultra!"

  She then showcased her power first she moved her hand up and down in that fast motion which created afterimage. Except those after images moved making various gestures. It wasn't that she was moving super humanly fast either it was simply that the optical illusion cuased by moving your hands fast somehow came to life. She then started to ramp up speed until her hand looks like a blender creating dozens of the strange moving mirage's.

  "As you can see my power let's me take the after images and make them into real solid things. I can punch people like an ultra ammount! Any time I say ultra I get a charge which I can use to activate the effect. And when I say Super I can increase a single part of bodies speed by 1.5x the normal speed per charge used. Isn't that just super!?"

  After Taylor came Joshua who greeted the crowd with a thumbs up.

  "Sup dudes!!! Names Joshua but yall can call me Josh. Hero name: Flow"

  He then demonstrated his power. He simply blinked forwards. It was like when you fast forwarded a scene, he just shifted from one section to the other.

  "My power is to skip time for myself forwards, backwards, or stop my time. The cost is that I have to wait the exact ammount of time before using my power again. If I skip forwards 10 seconds then I have to wait 10 seconds before I can use my power again. "

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  Hanna felt outrage as she realized how he had avoided her headbut. How dare he sneak up on her and then use a power to avoid the rightous retribution? Still, she noted that his power was a bullseye type. A power with an intentional weakness, this generally allowed for stronger abilities.

  As each of the 30ish people started going up and showed off their powers Hanna could feel her anxiety increase with each person. The daunting realization that she was going to have to do things in front of people! Cold sweat started practicly pouring down her back.

  She had to flee! Run! Get away! She looked desperately for some kind of escape from the terror of social obligations but every exit was blocked by the throng of people. There was no escape and her desperation only mounted as the final person finished explaining their power.

  She walked to the arena like a prisoner being sent to the gallows. Her hands floating behind her giving middle fingers to the crowd, apparently that was their form of growling, as she looked back at the crowd and paled when she realized that they were all looking at her.

  She prayed to her anxiety addled brain to come up with some kind of excuse anything would do.

  "Sorry uh ummm guys I have homework.... to wash?"

  NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Apparently she should have been specific. But it was too late now she'd ruined her one chance at an excuse. It was then that a terrible brilliant idea hit her. It was pure madness but it just might work.

  Tentively she sent out an order to one of the nearby hands and it veered right in front of her face blocking off her view of the crowd. She visibly relaxed still stressed but not so much that her brain felt like her own worst enemy. At least no more then usual anyways.

  She fidgeted tapping her finger against her thy as she spoke up.

  "My name Is ummm Hanna Montgomery. I like video games. An interesting fact about me is that I once won a gaming competition in Ohio. Uuuuhhh I haven't chosen a hero name yet."

  The crowd unbeknownst to Hanna collectively face palmed which once again Hanna did not see and thus lived in perfect ignorance. She figured that her power had been displayed enough that she could probably skip that whole step and move onto the explanation.

  "My power allows me to essentially to cast mages hand. But in real life. Each hand can lift 30 pounds and working together regardless of the angel they grab the object in they can lift heavier objects. For example if 3 hands work together they can lift 90 pounds. They also lift things without effort and can do so Indefinitely. Each of the hands have a tactile sense and have the general intelligence of a dog or cat."

  She said all of this without taking a single breath and once she finished she very slowly, inched a little bit out of the way to see the crowd and noticed them staring at her and immediately hid her view with the corporeal hand.

  "It's a uhhhh very handy power." She added lamely attempting to add a little bit of humor into the exposition she had divulged."

  The crowd of people cheered and that was about all the peopling Hanna could take and she promptly zoned out. Eventually the party returned back to the apartment with a Hanna who sported a vacant expression familiar to anyone who had ever had to work retail.

  The hands had made the apartment mostly clean. This cleanliness did not last as the party goers immediately trashed despite the efforts of her overgrowing army of hands. Of course like horrible things the party ended and the guests left one by one.

  "Uh I'd offer my super help in cleaning up. But I'm pretty sure the middle fingers your hands are giving me are a good sign that they don't want my help. Have an ultra day!!! I'll see you in class tomorrow!"

  Hanna for her part plopped down on the ground and accepted her fate as a human board once all the guests had left. Her hands floating about as they sensed for trash. Eventually her place was clean in a way no college dorm had ever been.

  After about an hour Hanna got up and started scrolling through cat memes and practicely screamed in impotent rage when she heard a polite knock at her door. Still the rules of politeness compelled her to open up the door for her newest uninvited guests. It turned out they were movers and began bringing in things from her old dorm.

  They even set everything up for her. The exact moment they placed down her TV and gaming system she immediately zoomed with Olympic speed towards it and turned on a game. She quickly became engrossed into the world of Poke Rolls. An hour passed with her staring unblinking at her game before her mental batteries recharged enough for her to think.

  It was in this state of resurrected that idea hit her.

  "No way.... it wouldn't work right?" She said to the blessed nobody.

  She gave a mental command and immediately hands grabbed onto her making her flinch but after about 5 hands had grabbed her they started slowly rising. The most important part of this was that Hanna was pulled up with them.

  "Oh fuck this is awesome!!! I can fly... sort of."

  It was an exiting detail and she had more then a little fun as she began experimenting with the pseudo flight. It was fun and a it became a perfect way to end the night as the clock nearby clearly showed that it way past "should probably sleep" time and had entered the "Oh fuck I need to sleep" stage.

  She went through the nightly ritual of brushing her teeth. Showering. And Finnally curling into a ball under 3 separate blankets as she started scrolling through the news. As was right and proper in the world.

  Most of the sensational bullshit that was called news revolved around a recent attack by the circus on a small wealthy retreat in Ireland. As usually they had killed everyone but the children. Those who were not lucky enough to be under 18 were killed in gruesome deaths.

  The circus was pretty much the worst villainous group in the world. They were the type of threat were cities would evacuate if they came within 100 miles of said cities. Each and everyone of said cities and towns. That's what happend when your leader was one of maybe 10 known people to max out on points.

  Scrolling done she eventually passed out. The world turning to dreams as the day ended. Tommorrw would be her first day at attempting to earn her freedom from the academies bullshit.