Fever

Reina Soldar

[thexreddestxrobin-archive-deact]

“Well, then, you can call me Iron Lad. Hopefully, you won’t remember that when I use my new mind wiping ray on you. And hopefully it works.” He pulled his hand out of the backpack, with a piece of armor up to the top of his forearm. He blasts her back with a repulsor blast and quickly puts on his helmet, along with the rest of his body afterwards before she gets up. “Looks like I’ll have to do this the hard way, huh?”

[reinasfever]

She had been trying so hard lately to keep her cool. To be a good person, but people were assholes.

She shook on the floor where she had been thrown, trembling from an uncontrollable rage. While her power usually grew slowly, as she let the anger build, the culmination of the repulsor blast and the idea that someone had set her up was enough to shoot her temperature up like setting a lit match on gasoline.

Her skin became so immediately hot, the ground around her erupted in fire, and her clothes immediately disintegrated. “Hard? HARD!” She spat as she fell through the lit, melting floor and did the same to the three apartments below her.

[roulvtte-a]

“Good to know. I do like to surround myself with as many nice people as possible.”

[reinasfever]

“Must be nice.” She nodded. “Nice... Nice can be hard.” She said, readjusting a cool pack behind her neck.

[thexreddestxrobin-archive-deact]

“Okay, I’m not just a whiney kid, I’m concerned for why I am here and who the hell you ever are. And you’re gonna tell me.” He picked up his heavy backpack. He opened it, a red and silver suit was the only thing inside it, “Perfect.”

[reinasfever]

“Fever. You call me, Fever.” She said, not liking the underlying order to the guy’s voice.

“See there, I couldn’t have kidnapped you.” She snapped, watching him mess with his backpack. “I know not to bring along a fucking hero’s power suit when you’re kidnapping them.”

“This is a fucking set up!” She yelled, her leather jacket beginning to smoke from the heat coming off of her skin.

[roulvtte-a]

Kate eyed the woman warily. “Well, nice to meet you too.”

[reinasfever]

“It is nice, isn’t it. I’m trying to be more nice.” Reina admitted, thinking she was doing well with trying to keep her cool.

[cstvrgrs-deactivated20190415]

[ © ] — ❝ Can I help you                  with something? ❞

[reinasfever]

Reina recognized the famous hero and quickly turned around. “Nope. Not from you.” She said, hoping she hadn’t been too suspicious.

[thexreddestxrobin-archive-deact]

“Wait, no! I don’t want drugs! What the hell are you even doing anyway?!” He picked himself off the ground and stood behind the woman. “You realise you’ve got the middle child of two of the members of one of the most famous superhero teams in the world locked in your apartment right? Who, also, FYI is a hero himself, who of which name I am not going to reveal. You could get arrested for abduction or something.”

[reinasfever]

“Christ! Can I put my shit down before I have to deal with more shit!” She yelled kicking aside her bags as she jumped inside. 

“Give me a second,” She sighed, trying to keep her cool. 

“Let me figure out who hates me enough to stick me with your whiney ass.” She growled, feeling the heat under her skin building, if she wasn’t careful she’d burn her apartment down again. 

[thexreddestxrobin-archive-deact]

“Well… Not all the time.” He sat up and put a hand up to his mouth. “How did I even get here?”

[reinasfever]

“If I had to make a guess, up the fire escape. James is up one more floor if your looking for a fix.” She said, using a knife to knock the lock out of place, and open her window.

[roulvtte-a]

“It’s a text from someone.” She said defensively. “Why do you care?”

[reinasfever]

“I don’t care. Just making convo.” She said, bored as she waited for someone to drop something off to her location.

[thexreddestxrobin-archive-deact]

“Wha?” He grumbles as he turns over, “Sorry, I must have just dozed off, what were you saying?” That was the best sleep Nate had in a while, he was disappointed that it was interrupted.

[reinasfever]

“Do you always fall asleep in random places?” She asked stepping over the guy to make it up the fire escape to her apartment.

[roulvtte-a]

“Excuse me? I don’t look like that.”

[reinasfever]

“Exact imitation. What, did you get a text from someone you like?” She said.

[greensivy]

Jean frowned as she watched the woman.  “Why did you do that?”

[reinasfever]

“I needed what was in here.” She said, as if it was obvious. She pulled out the tablet, being careful to not burn it with her hands, and slipped it into a bag.

☆••• Looking down at yet another failed attempt at the spell, Noiire sighed and closed the book she had been using. “Why wont it work?” She chasticed herself, frustration bubbling up in her chest, threatening to boil over.

[reinasfever]

“Have you tried shouting at it. That usually works for me.” She said.

[reinasfever]

“That’s you. That’s what you look like.” She said, face turning serious again.

[lilyheliot-deactivated20160314]

Lilith snapped her fingers letting the walls fall, she circled above the woman. “Calm down lady!” she called. “I don’t wanna fight anymore. So just chill.” she slowly descended towards the ground, raising her hands into the air to show the woman she wasn’t trying anything sneaky. “I don’t wanna hurt you, alright?” she asked as she landed. “Just stay back…cool down some and I’ll let you use my phone.” 

[reinasfever]

When the enclosure disappeared a plume of smoke lifted into the air from the pit of fire Reina now stood in. If they didn’t know where she was before that, they’d know now.

“Too late!” She yelled, the fire beginning to retreat into her as it usually did when she was going to combust, but she was knocked off her feet by a bomb blast. Before Reina could gather her bearings another bomb was thrown at her exploding as it hit the sphere of heat surrounding her. 

“You miss your deadline, and now you’re teaming up with the Brotherhood?” A woman tsked. “You owe us an explanation.” She said, gearing up to throw another bomb.

[polyteleology]

The statue “Truth Is Beauty”, by Marco Cochrane, in front of the burning Temple of Whollyness, at Burning Man (via Stunning Shots of the Most Gorgeous Sculpture at Burning Man - My Modern Metropolis)

[reinasfever]

“To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever...” - Michel De Montaigne

[lilyheliot-deactivated20160314]

Lilith snapped her fingers, raising a wall around the woman, attempting to trap her inside. She could feel herself starting to drain from using her powers so much but she couldn’t let up, not until the woman was at least subdued. The heat faded a bit as the woman was encased but she could still feel it, sweat caused from it stung her eyes. She frantically pulled cards from her pocket, summoning a large creature shaped like an eagle and hopping onto its back. The creature rose into the air, flying above wher the woman was encased. “Can we stop fighting now!?” she yelled down to her. “I’m getting tired lady.” The woman had already taken out one of the creatures she’d summoned and every other one she took out would only make Lilith weaker.

[reinasfever]

She raged within the walls, punching them and kicking without dent. The box was heating up without a way to release the pressure, but she couldn’t feel it. All Reina knew was that soon those thugs she’d pissed off would be here, and if she could detonate when they arrived she’d take them out and this annoying girl with them. She might even kill herself. Hell at this point it would be worth it.

“It won’t be much longer!” She yelled, continuing to punch the walls angrily.

[hexiings]

“I don’t really mind anymore.  At least I know my limitations, right?”  She followed up the stairs quickly.  “I didn’t get your name.”

[reinasfever]

Reina nodded, agreeing with the woman. “You were close. Same number, just different floor.” She said, avoiding the question, not wanting an avenger to know about a rogue mutant thugging around in this part of town.

“I hope he doesn’t give you trouble. He can be an asshole.” She said.