Mark grumbled in annoyance while sitting on the edge of his bed as Lisa was snooping around his room throwing stuff off their shelves and around the room. A vein began to form on Marks head as Lisa scratched herself with her foot like she always does as Mark snapped.
"CAN YOU STOP MESSING UP MY ROOM!" Mark said as he got onto his feet and yelled at Lisa as she threw a figurine at his head.
"This is my first time being in this thing you called a "bedroom" gotta say a lot of lame stuff here just little people that don't move." Lisa said as she opened her mouth and tried to bite one of Marks toys.
"HEY! LEAVE THAT ALONE! THAT ONES GONNA BE WORTH SOMETHING ONE DAY!" He said snatching the figurine from Lisa as she snatched it back. "Mmm.." He grumbled as he jumped Lisa as the two got into a brawl.
Lisa pinned Mark down with her foot on her stomach as he was huffing and puffing out of breath. Lisa smirked and laughed confidently as she continued messing around with Marks .
"I may not know about whaddya call it "Hooman stuff" but I do know about strength, and my muscles are bigger than yours!" Lisa said flexing her lean muscles in front of Marks face.
Lisa eventually took her foot off Mark as he coughed holding his stomach. "Look I let you turn back from your little fireball form because my parents are out right now but that doesn't mean you have the right to mess up my room!"
ll"Ooh what's this." She said completely Mark as she opened his closet and his clothes fell on top of her. "Why do you have so many of these things?"
"If you mean clothes it's because people don't wear the same clothes every day dummy." Mark said as he sighed.
"Clothes that's what they're called? Well, it doesn't matter I can generate those things from my flames anyway. My powers are super awesome, huh?"
"Yeah, whatever. She's like a wild animal or a foreigner." He said under his breath. "I don't know why Tom didn't let you go with them. You should go hang around Luna could teach you how actual girls are supposed to act."
"Luna? Oh yeah the other girl, I'd rather not be like her she's too frilly and girly not tough at all."
"That doesn't sound like the Luna I know." He said getting flashbacks to fighting her in her u wolf form.
"Hey by the way you like her, don't you? The Luna girl? I guess you're into girly girls." Lisa said with a snarky and condensing laugh.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? I MEAN I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH ON LUNA OR ANYTHING! NOT AT ALL SHE IS JUST MY FRIEND! I STILL BARELY KNOW HER!" Mark continued to ramble as Lisa put her hand over his mouth.
" "You're super loud! Anyways I can tell you super duper like her your heart rate and temperature go up while you talk or mention her. That doesn't happen around the rest of us." Lisa smirked.
"THAT'S NOT TRUE AND IF IT WAS HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT!" Mark squealed his voice cracking.
"I'm just making that up! Your voice gets hired and you turn red while talking to her! Even redder than me while using my fire powers! I can tell when someone gets hotter or colder though I just didn't check you so I was kidding" Lisa laughed.
Mark blushed as he pointed at Lisa being more angry and annoyed than ever. "WELL DON'T YOU LIKE TOM SO DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME!"
Lisa put her hands behind her hand. "That Tom guy? I like him but not like how you like that Luna girl. He's just super interesting! He's like, well the total opposite of you! The things hiding his face."
"Glasses." Mark said with a blank face.
"His hair is spiky and bright. His voice is a bit deep! The clothes things he has makes him look cool! Plus he's not skinny and weak looking like you!" She said while sticking her tongue out.
Mark thought to himself. "To me, it sounds like she does have a crush on Tom I guess girls like older boys huh?" Mark shook his head as he walked to Lisa. "Anyways we gotta set some ground rules. It's been a day and you've made my life significantly worse."
"How could it be worse you're already so skinny and weak." She said while laughing as Mark tripped her off her feet. "HEY!"
"Speaking of ground." He said smirking at his own pun. "So anyway some rules-WOAH!" He got tripped off his feet by Lisa as she smirked.
"I don't like weak people pretending to be strong so stay down." She smirked like an innocent schoolgirl.
"Ugh...So some rules when my parents are home you stay in your fireball form and hide if they come inside the room. You can only transform back if they're gone! Not asleep or away for a few minutes gone for hours! AND NO TOUCHING MY STUFF!" Mark said bluntly.
Lisa scratched herself like a dog once again as she shrugged. "Yeah yeah, whatever." She said immediately breaking one of Marks rules and grabbed his TV remote and played with it. "Cool!"
Mark got back up onto his feet and tried to press the button for Lisa as she slapped his hand. Mark and Lisa growled as Mark said he was actually trying to help her as he turned on the TV.
"WOOOOAH! WHAT'S THIS!" Lisa's eyes sparkled as cartoons were playing on the TV. "THIS SQUARE THING IS AWESOME!"
"I guess you've never seen a TV before. Hey, are you listening?" He waved his hand in front of Lisa as she kept flicking through the channels.
Lisa was completely distracted as a lightbulb formed in his mind as he grinned like a little devil. He opened his closet and got his now signature yellow bandanna out.
"I hate training with Tom but this is the only place I can go. Plus I get to see Luna." He said while smiling under his bandanna. "Hey, Lisa!"
Lisa was completely engaged on the TV as Mark smirked. He opened his bedroom window and quickly jumped down the fire escape and into the back alley to make sure no one saw him.
Mark arrived at the abandoned warehouse as he was about to knock and heard some commotion from inside. He put his ear to the door to be able to hear better.
"So Orion you're gonna train that little runt but not us what's the deal with that? Huh!" Mark heard a boy's voice a bit older than his probably around 16.
"It's not like that. I have my reasons for doing so and it's not like you guys need training anyway. You were already fast enough to steal clothes and food before you got powers without getting caught. Now you're all faster than a bullet a dozen times over." Mark heard Tom's voice.
"Just because you've gotten about as tall as me doesn't mean I'm still not the boss you got me? I was checking you and Luna before I even got powers and you know that. Don't think you're the leader now just cause you've always been the smart one okay Orion." The teenage boy said.
"If you want some training then I'll train you and the rest of the gang how's that sound, Oscar? The more the merrier huh?" Tom said with a smirk trying to do his usual sarcastic and cunning moments.
"Forget it man, this whole argument made me realize you wouldn't be a good person to teach us about training anyway. The mastery of Sully and Skyla powers is at 35% and Chris and mines are around 50 maybe even higher since we're the oldest ones. So just forget it." The Oscar boy said.
"Fine." Tom dropped his sarcastic facade. "Where are the others? You've all been absent for the entire day and most of the night I'm surprised to even see you here this early."
"I told them to grab us some grub and I'm gonna head out and join them. Tell Luna I stopped bye when she wakes up. I swear that kid sister of yours always sleeps so much. Probably dreams about not transforming into a wolf monster or something." He smiled and turned around and then whispered under his breath. "Freak."
Tom's eyebrow twitched as he told Oscar to stop. "What did you say? Turn around and say it to my face like a man." He said as Tom turned around with an annoyed look on his face.
Oscar slowly walked back over to Tom as he generated his gauntlet around his right hand and grabbed Oscar by the collar. Oscar stared at Tom with a scowl as the tension was so thick you could cut through it with a knife.
"What did you say about my little sister?" Tom said his eyes not seen due to his shades but Oscar knew he wasn't happy.
WOAH
Mark leaned too hard on the warehouse door and caused it to fling open as he held his head in pain. Oscar pushed Tom's hand off his shirt as he turned around. Oscar began to walk out the door and threw up his hand waving Tom goodbye.
"Ugh.." Mark tried to recuperate as he looked up as everything felt like it was moving in slow motion.
Oscar and Mark locked eyes as a shiver went down Marks spine as his eyes turned green. He didn't know if he was sensing Oscar's Galaxy Energy or just his nature threw his senses into a frenzy.
As quick as it started that moment was over in an instant as Oscar walked out the door and closed it behind him. Oscar thought to himself with a smirk "So that's him huh." as he walked away into the distance.
Tom helped Mark up as Mark asked Tom who in the world was that. Tom tells Mark if he remembers when he mentioned "the others" to him that's one of them. He's the oldest one out of all of them a 16 year old named Oscar
Tom sat down on the couch followed by Mark as he sighed. "Oscar, along with 3 other kids varying in age Chris his best friend whos 15, Skyla the level-headed 14-year-old girl, and the annoying brat Sully who's 12. When me and Luna arrived on Earth we didn't know what to do or where to go."
"I tried my best being the old brother even if I wasn't blooded related to Luna she was still my sister and I made a promise to our parents. I was of course scared I was a 7 year old at the time, but I tried to put on a brave face for her sake that's what I've always done." Tom sighed.
"We were lost in the woods for about 2 days, exhausted and tired. I just kept thinking about our parents and the homeworld we left behind. Then what we thought was a group of animals was just 4 kids who were led by Oscar during that time just like it is now."
"Hes a big jerk he's rash makes bad decisions and is even more sarcastic than me that was the first impression I made of him even though we were so young. Chris who was a year younger than him and his best friend saw him as brother more than a friend and he was basically second in charge cause he was the second oldest."
"The girl and younger kid, Skyla and Sully they were nice. Skyla was bossy and protective even as a little girl and I think that's where Luna got it from her as they spent a lot of time together. Sully was just a normal 5 year old kid who didn't even know what was going on at the moment"
"At first I didn't question why they were on their own cause they helped us survive. Oscar and Chris were the masterminds behind the whole operation for kids they were able to get into places fast and steal things like clothes and food from small-time vendors. Once one of them got caught by one adult the other 3 and me and Luna at the time jumped on them."
"One day I finally asked Oscar to spill it as he said they've been out here about a month and developed a routine and said that I and Lunas abilities helped them greatly. My smarts and Lunas speed and power along with Oscar's leadership AND the others. We were a group of kids way over our heads but we managed to get by."
"Oscar told him and the other kids were runaways who used to all be friends in the same neighborhood as Chris and Oscar came up with the idea. Their parents and police have been searching for them for a month now and the search was ongoing at the time."
"When I found this out at first I was shocked but I couldn't leave. Luna bonded with them too much and they were the only reason we were alive. My smarts couldn't cut it that time and I had to be saved as a result. To cut to the chase this cycle continued for more than 5 years as we finally found this place we're in now."
"Oscar "matured" somewhat and was able to not do petty crimes anymore on the same guys and change over and over from different cities. We did all this but we never hurt anyone or tried to do anything purposely bad we had to do it to survive, and me and Luna went along with it cause that's what our parents told us to do."
"Everything was the same for a while Oscar, Luna and the others would steal different electronic parts and scraps so I could work on my inventions while as I got older I sorta stopped helping being involved in their activities and I told Luna to stop too. Although we were still in their debt and didn't leave them they were like family."
"Oscar was obviously ticked off so we got kind of distant and cold to me and Luna and I'm guessing he told the others as well. We were already on bad terms until that night. When you touched the meteorite that night and sent that shockwave out Oscar and the other three were blessed with Galaxy Energy. Or maybe blessed isn't the right word."
"The all awoke from their sleep Oscar spewing and coughing bursts of flames out his mouth, Sully feet fusing with the ground itself, Chris messing up the water in the building by attracting to himself, and Skyla funnily enough using shockwaves of air to send boxes flying."
"At first they were scared of their new powers but realized a little after they calmed down that they were one of us. I thought our bond with strengthen again after that night and we would seem more like a family but. I was wrong."
"Once they got their powers they were distant even more than before not coming home from days at a time. I still don't know what they do but whatever they are doing their use of their powers improved greatly. And everytime I try to talk to Oscar about it when he is here he shuts me down. Which is what you kinda saw just a while ago.'
Tom sighed and laid back on the couch as Mark tried to take everything in. Mark tried to figure out what to say he's always been difficult at doing this so he tried his best.
"To me. Well to me personally it sounds like this Oscar guy and the rest of them are bad news, but I never thought a bunch of run of away kids would be given powers. I thought the Galaxy Energy that shot out the meteor would only choose people who deserve it."
"The opposite actually. Like the robbers, you fought a while ago. They didn't deserve it. Galaxy Energy is still very mysterious even myself and Luna only know the basics. That's one of the reasons I get into with Oscar if he's not careful he could hurt someone or somebody close to him. That's why I've been training you so that doesn't happen-"
Tom stopped mid-sentence as his face turned red as he realized he's been trauma dumping onto Mark this entire time. He backed up onto the edge of the couch while holding his chest as Mark stared at him with a stupid face.
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