New Song At The Big Team

August 12, 2020

Maria had finished a practice with the rest of Rainbow Revolution and the big team was closer than home. They were hungry so they decided stopping here for some grub was the best idea. Right now Maria had no EliZe or Maria and was indeed not in the Fearless body. No instead she was just her normal badass, former freelance Villain self. She sat on a big team couch while Elena went off to cook. Maria tickled a few chords while she waited for her other half, in this case sorta literally they weren’t like dating or anything at the moment to return. Maria was dressed in red blad, black boots,a plaid skirt with black leggings under, you know, an outfit that screamed I’m a lesbian, hi.

She played a little bit of the newest song she and the gals were working on, it just wasn’t totally right yet and there wasn’t really anyone else around to be bothered by her playing or thinking they were trying to impress anyone. Maria just wanted to make this perfect.

Meanwhile down the hall in the danger room, Boon is squaring off against a number of faceless security guards with laser rifles. Unusually for her she’s wearing workout clothes: cropped leggings and a sports bra, instead of her armor for combat training. She dodges gracefully through a hail of rifle fire, deftly swinging her spear to dispel the holograms. When only one remains it fires a short burst directly at her torso, it’s too late for her to dodge it, but as the lasers hit her chest a set of ornate metal armor fades into existence, harmlessly dispelling the laser fire and allowing Boon to finish off her attacker.

GAIA’s robotic voice plays through the danger room’s PA system. “Excellent results Friðr. Would you like me to archive the video data for this session?”

Boon has a look of excitement on her face. “Yes please! File that under… let’s see here…” she fishes a small leather bound notebook from her pocket and flips through the pages. “High velocity summon triggering, energy based… How many watts were those rifles?”

“10,000”

Boon whistles “Damn. Anymore than that and I may need to start testing this on a mannequin instead of my own body.” Boon concentrates and the armor fades out of existence again.

“With all due respect Friðr, you may have reached that point 5000 Watts ago.” GAIA scolds, projecting an avatar of themself next to Boon to look at her with playful judgement.

Boon grins at GAIA’s holographic form. “Hey I’m still here aren’t I? I am gonna call it a day though, thanks for the help GAIA!”

GAIA smiles warmly “No problem Friðr. I’ve enjoyed helping you with this project, and I am eager to see it to field-readiness!”

Boon’s eyes widen, she decides not to tell GAIA that she has already gone on multiple missions with her now-summonable armor in it’s untested state. “Yeah yeah me too I’mgonnagoshowernowbyeeee” Boon exits the danger room with haste, but as she does so she notices a melody coming from the common room. She takes a quick detour and notices a person that she can’t quite place playing guitar on one of the couches. She sheepishly walks over to the couch and gives Maria a polite wave.

“Hey there! Name’s Boon, I’m assuming you're one of the new teammates.” She scratches the back of her head nervously and with a sudden awareness of her post-workout disheveledness (which she still somehow pulls off). “Awkward question, have we met before? You seem familiar.”

Maria was playing away for a moment in her own world singing with passion but softly not wanting to be overheard “If you were to spin around my head, so fast; like the world gonna end, with you, we’ll be happiness, fused and twirl and fight and kiss.”

She catches Boon with the corner of her eye. Maria had done her research on the big team, after all she wasn’t as fast to trust and needed to make sure Elena and EliZe were protected. Best to know everyone, see if anyone had a grudge against her for kicking their ass once or something, a lot of bases to cover.

However, she knew Boon not from research but as she knew a few folks on the big team, from bands. Maria grins and smiles at the hero saying “Yes we have, Your boon, you play with the Flex Girls, we’ve barely talked but I am lead singer and lead guitar with Rainbow Revolution, so I see y’all all the time.”

Maria looked Boon up and down, she had to give it to the Flex Girl, she was living up to the band name. She was in a band with Hana which meant there was a small chance Frior here would have a problem with her, that is if Shade was telling the stories of her scars in vivid detail. That said it felt unlikely, so she might as well try and get them started on the right foot.

Boon snaps her fingers together "Right. Rainbow Revolution. You're Maria. I'm not the best with faces, sorry about that." Boon collapses onto the couch opposite to Maria. *I feel like there's something I was supposed to remember about Maria… eh I'm sure it's nothing important.* "That was some nice playing by the way, was that one of your songs for RR?"

Maria smirked at boon “No problem, I’m just good with names and faces.”

One would have to be if they were taking marks for a demon but hey, details, details. They leaned against their guitar and said “Ya, it’s something new we’re working on but it isn’t exactly right yet.”

Maria took a moment before asking “You working on any music or sticking to the same set for now?”

"We've mostly just been sticking to old stuff." Boon lets her arm dangle off the edge of the couch. "Gwen wrote something for the Winnemuck battle of the bands but she and Ellen have been hella busy lately and they're the ones who do most of the writing. I'm pretty bad at it." She sighs "I just don't really have the like, inspiration for it." Boon says, waving her arms for emphasis.

Maria nodded her head “It’s not for everyone, sometimes playing is more fun than writing.”

She leaned over and said “but you rock pretty hard anyway, I love y’alls stuff, I was around for the start of Winnemuck but wasn’t playing, I had an arrangement at the time.”

The girl asked playfully “Tired out from training or is just thinking heroically all the time that exhausting? I am new to all the hero stuff but the danger room is fun.”

"Haha, yeah I've been training for-" Boon looks lost in thought for a few moments and attempts to count on her fingers "a number of hours testing out some enchantments I put on my armor." She gets up from the couch "check it!" As she stands up a set of well-fitted plate-mail with gold accents and a red tunic fade into existence. "I would do like a magical girl pose if I wasn't so exhausted." Her armor disappears as she collapses back onto the couch.

"But yeah the danger room is cool as hell. No holding back, no complications, just pure fighting. And GAIA can and will make the stakes as real as you want them to be. It's exhilarating."

Maria’s face entered a quick and soft blush as Boon suggested she might do a magical girl pose in her cool armor. The secret magical girl fan girl took a second to calm herself and said “The armor is awesome!”

She regained her composure, smirking a bit. Confidence returning to their voice from the more geekish outburst ““Ya, it’s nice to not have to clean my swords after fighting and it’s nice to be able to fight whatever I want.”

Maria flexed and then leaned back “Glad to meet another fight fan, Elena is trying to move me more to non violent ways of hanging things but I can’t help but enjoy a good fight.”

The demigirl seemed to have a nice bit in common with Boon, it was kind of shocking to see how many people she was able to make friends with the big team. Then again perhaps thing she talked about so far were more surface level? Regardless, she shouldn’t be choosy in allies even if she would gladly trade whoever for her two companions. Best to make nice if she was going to be on a team.

Boon scoffs "non-violence is boring. Listen I'm- people tend to think of me as a bit of a dumbass. I mean I don't think I would've gotten into pre-med if I was *really* a dumbass, but my decision making can sometimes be a bit… scattered. In heroing there's that moment when like you're not sure if a fight is about to break out or not, when everyone's still trying to defuse things or talk people down. I've never been any good at that, and like when I'm with people and they're trying to avoid a fight it feels like they're just avoiding the inevitable. When I make eye contact with someone I can see that they want to fight me, and I want to fight them, the words before then are just a formality, I like to skip to the good part."

Maria couldn’t say she was shocked, after all she had a similar view. However, it might not speak the best of any hero that their mind set was similar to Maria’s when it came to battle. She nodded her head “Spoken like a real warrior, We’ll have to fight some time, see if we can’t put our warrior spirits to the test.”

She opens her guitar case and pulls out her sword “I’d need to enchant a sword though to make sure you don’t get any new battle scars just sparing. Although I am still getting used to my new body, I can’t fight like this anymore, which sucks but I got a good other half to be tied to.”

Maria wondered how much energy would re-fuse them, she knew serious attempts would get them to combine again from any distance but she wondered if a sparring match would force it or not? Regardless, she would probably need to be Fearless given how strong Boon seemed.

Boon's eyes light up at the mention of sparring. "Oh uh, you don't have to worry about scars. My body doesn't really do that." Boon's curiosity is piqued at the mention of new bodies and other halves. "You mentioned another half, do you have a partner? Or a headmate... Or both?"

Maria smiled, ahh so the charming looks were a bit of magic too, at least that was what one could assume about anyone who didn’t scar that or Boon was a robot, but she really didn’t give robot vibes.

She said not fully confident of her answer but knowing it to at least be mostly true “I am not plural, at least I don’t think I am, I haven’t really examined that part of myself but..I mean...anyway, what no Elena is one half of my fusion. We’re bound to each other, we can split up physically for short amounts of time like up to like a work day apart but otherwise our bodies kinda need to be together. We use a spell to split us. We’re Fearless, that’s our hero name, although neither of us is really afraid of anything. Like we were two individual bodies separated by years and years before.”

Maria finished her ramble, not normally that talkative but Boon had her introspective and finished it off with a “TLDR version just like, we’re three people, we can be our original selves and our new self and we an all shift in when we’re in our fused body. That make sense?”

Boon nods her head “Ahh word word. Yeah that makes sense. Gods that must be nice to share a body with people who actually like, share your motivations and stuff. There were two of us in here a while ago but it… wasn’t healthy...” The color drains from Boon’s face at that last part.

Maria actually acts assuring for once moving up to Boon “Gosh that had to suck, I am lucky, with Elena we were able to become someone new and now there is 3 of us and I can feel Fearless even when we’re apart. I worried a lot about us not getting along, there was no going back from the new us.”

She sits neat Boon “I am really sorry you had to deal with it, glad you managed to get rid of that person. If they show their face again around you, let me know and I’ll slice them up for you.”

That was very unMaria, like not asking for a fee, just trying to help someone even if she wasn’t exactly good at comforting or supporting, it was rare for her to even try. Maria tries to get her head in the game although perhaps Boon had her more introspective than intended.

Boon chuckles nervously. “Well, ex-headmate in question is a demon who I banished to a spirit realm so the likelihood of seeing her again is low… hopefully…” Boon’s heart begins racing slightly. *Why is it still so hard to talk about her.* She attempts to change the subject. “Oh yeah so you mentioned spells and enchanting earlier. Are you a magic user?”

Maria nodded her head knowing that tone of voice, the tone when you don’t walk to talk about something. She leaned back and said “Why yes, I am, I am great at enchanting, potions I’d say I am good at but not great, spellcasting for offense, not learned it at all really but I did practice it at monster school.”

She pulls out her phone and shows a picture of her at prom as a demon with EliZe. Maria grinned “I helped make the potion that turned me into a demon, although I actually didn’t know a way to turn back, seems like fusing with Elena just jumped my body back to default or something. I did have help from a friend though.”

Maria slides their phone away and asks “Know any magic yourself? You got an aura about you.“

“I do! I enchant things too! I should show you around my workshop sometime, I’ve got a couple of really cool projects I’ve been working on. I also know some healing magic, I actually want to study to become a doctor so I can learn how to use it better, and maybe study how it interacts with other supers, it can get… unpredictable…”

Oh wow, the hero wants to actually move on and help people in a real way, good for her. Maria wasn’t good at this whole just being social thing without flirting. She heard the Boon was unavailable so they had been avoiding any of that. Maria notes "That's super noble."

They then move back to the prior statement "I would love to check out your workshop. I normally work from home or at my friends place."

Maria left the friend vague. Laura was keeping up with the crime life best to keep info on her on the down low, she wouldn't let her get caught any how but still she couldn't trust a super not to abuse the info when the chips were down.

Boon, unable to take compliments looks really embarrassed, “What? Noble? Nah. I just uhh, you know wanna use my powers to help people or whatever.” She scratches the back of her head nervously. “Hell yeah though, anytime you wanna check out the shop hit me up. Maybe we can compare notes! Bring your friend if you want.”

Maria teased Boon “humble I see, you're like a perfect picture of a hero.”

They shrug their shoulders and say “Most of my friends don’t play nice with heroes but I’d be happy to go there sometime. You can hit me up whenever you want to spar too, always can use the workout.”

Boon grins, “I mean, if you want to spar today I’m sure I could get in fighting shape, with a little magical assistance of course.”

Maria nods her head “Let me just go grab Elena from the kitchen, we’ll move our plates to the danger room and eat after.”

She jumps up and Elena agrees to do it, figuring Maria would enjoy fighting a hot girl.

Elena gets all the arroz con poyo put up and says “Alright, ready for Fearless time.”

The two combine, a mix of the vintage pastel fashion of Elena and the badass bitch energy of Maria fused into one person. Maria grinned in the body “You won’t be fighting Fearless, it will be me just gotta use the body. Elena and Fearless will be cheering me on in the back.”

She flips their purple pony tail excited to see how she stood up to this god like hero as it stood now.

Boon finishes what appears to be a healing ritual as she is sitting crossed legged on the couch when Fearless returns from the kitchen. She opens her eyes and grins, rising to her full 6 foot stature. She does a spin and a magical girl pose as her armor and spear appear on her body in a flash. “Let’s do this.”

SO CUTE, the adorable magical girl pose caused Maria to blush, her weakness. She turned around covering up how very gay she was feeling with “Ya, get ready to see what I’m made of.”