POWERNAUT 2008 Part 2!

Yes, this happened. And there was indeed some drama. Mostly it involved me and the Brazilian cursed fire goddess on a bike ride to a convention center in Boston. We got in trouble. Well, actually, *I* did. The Balance made sure she was safe, but I had to get myself out. I kept an extensive diary, if you want to know all the details.

I do prize the friendships I made among that team. No, not Ellipsis. And the Mighty Tim and I keep it on a professional level. But I could have honestly said...

• "Laura, you rock the mom bod."
• "Pam, I admire how Ultimate Darkness goes with anything you wear."
• "Adu, yeah, of course you wear golden armor into battle 'cause no one is ever going to steal it from you."
• And Karla... Being cursed not to speak, she didn't relate to me on a vocal level. I reciprocated; I started teaching ourselves American Sign Language... I think she might miss me. And I'm sorry we parted as we did. But I don't miss people, I just remember them.

My friends and I all got together after that. But I had just been indwelt by Ultimate Darkness, and I wasn't feeling sociable. On that occasion, apparently Adu and Karla felt sociable, at least with each other, so they saw everyone off and stayed in the room later... The Will be done. I had to separate from them after, because Gov stuff. Pam would have saved me, only my *relatives* came to have a family Gov intervention! Really. Fortunately I escaped after, but I did not trouble my housemates.

And that pretty much says how detached I am from both my relatives and my tenure in Reality House.

I get to describe these young heroes. It has been my job to track them. I think I caught them all.

• The Toledo Torpedo. He basically has ninja powers, into which origins this series may explore. He also has a criminal past including a young accomplice. This series may well shove that aside.
• Zorch. He has some link to the Powernaut, but no one knows how. The link may even be this series! Good enough for Reality House.
• Capture. He comes from Dearborn, Michigan. His powers got revealed during an attack of zombies on a Mississippi river cruise from Dubuque, Iowa.
• Intensity. I met her a couple of years ago! I'm glad to see her under control.
• Vnesa Stalker. She was part of a program to breed vampires as servants last year! Her mother Khrisa Stalker has brought her into the Powernaut's household, for healing in a relatively normal environment... Good luck with that.

Heh, I have to comment as Weird Uncle Wyatt now. I have to admit, I never thought my sister would identify with superheroes. Yet here we are.

• Lauren got mixed up with "The Last Army War" in the 1990s. Her husband at the time said, she'd moved to the Caribbean with him. We found out later, it was to an island full of superhumans, determined to conquer the Earth. They mostly fought Ellipsis. But Philippe St. Joseph Lateran was in charge of brainwashing the island. Lauren was just too ornery for that. (It runs in the family.)
• Andy was with Lauren at the time. He came out of the affair with "Vigor" superpowers - basically all physical abilities just beyond maximum human potential.
• Calvin was a U.S. secret agent. He had a suit of flying shrinking battle armor. How cool is that? At the time, he tried to get me into a family intervention on the island. At the time, I was in the middle of a disaster, so I missed his invitation to join an international incident. As he missed my own involvement in a disaster and a subsequent series of incidents in New Jersey. - Indeed Calvin may have been delayed on his mission, while he checked his Gov sources on me. But then he kept going, to save Lauren and Andy... Calvin's story may perhaps be told another time. But he has logged his own diary, of which the world has gotten access to one episode from 2004.
• I (Wyatt) am here represented with my most photogenic powers... the "Method", an agent of elves, godlings, and demons earlier this year. I've also hosted demons and Death before. In my world, though, all these powers come and go. The more accurate current representation of me is with a bicycle helmet, in a flashback sequence earlier in this series.