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A Bigger Bang Chp 2

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Penelope popped awake, startled.  She looked around, gulping in air, sweat pouring down her neck.  The white, bright room seemed to spin as she did.  The African-American shook her head, trying to clear it, rubbing her head.  

When the room finally stopped spinning, she took in her surroundings, deducing she was in some kind of hospital, tough not Dakota Memorial.  

She caught herself in the mirror that hung above a sink opposite her bed and gasped.  Her once black hair was now purple in color.  She gazed into her own reflection, amazed.  What happened last night?  She thought to herself, remembering that she and Frankie had been trying to find Teresa when she passed out from fumes she assumed had been tear gas from the police.  What happened to her hair?  Where were the others?  Were they safe?  Otto and Evan?  Too many questions.  

Frankie was shaking.  

Why was he shivering when he had such a high temperature?  

He just kept going over the girl’s words in his head.  She explained that she was a friend of Scott’s, that he’d called her before they arrived at the docks.  She’d been able to save Ivan and Teresa, and that she would bring them to Hampton House, an establishment in Dakota Hills for kids with special powers.  But she hadn’t seen anything like the purple gas they’d experienced the night before.  She’d come prepared, donning a gas mask, and offering one to her, but he’d refused.  He figured it was too late for him anyway.

He sat outside the med bay at Hampton, waiting for word on his friends.  The teen had declined when offered medical help, he hated hospitals.  When he was nine, he contracted a rare virus and was forced to spend two years of his life in a hospital.  He hadn’t gotten to see his little sister until she was two.  And she didn’t even know who he was.

Frankie hated hospitals.  

Storma agreed to let him stay I the waiting room instead.  She entered the room now, from the chamber he knew she’d put Scott in.  She had a look of emotionless stone on her face.  The same she’d had on since he’d met the girl.  Frankie decided that’s how she always was.

“Well?  Is he hurt? What about the others?  Are they okay?  What was that purple stuff?  Are we gonna be okay?”  

All while he was talking, he just got warmer and warmer according to the thermometer, but he couldn’t stop shaking.  Stoma’s eyes grew wide as she watched the boy burst into flames, the blanket he’d wrapped around his form because he felt cold burning up.  

Frankie looked at his own hands, channeling the flames to his palms without even thinking about it.  

“Are you alright?”  Storma asked, her monotone voice unchanged in the surprising instance.             
          
Too many questions.
I own these characters, though i do not own Static Shock or Earth 3. Those belong to DC comics, so there.

A bigger Big Bang happening in Earth-Three Home of Owlman and Jokester Dakota. What happens when at least three time the amount of Bang Babies are turned out than on Earth-One?
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