Redstreak’s Journal (Season 3)

## S3E45: Like A Girl

So yesterday I helped out with the Pride Parade in Halycon City. I didn’t even know Pride was a thing until I saw the poster for it. Apparently Rescue was in charge of helping organising it, so he asked a couple of us on the team to help out. There was me, Mini, Seth, Elle (who is honestly a fucking badass knight and I didn’t realise how beautiful she was), and Jaime. Rescue wanted us to create a float to represent the the queer members of the Big Team and I thought it was a cool idea.

So Rescue gave us $50,000 (yes $50,000! I didn’t realise how rich Rescue was!) and we got to work creating the float. It only took us a couple days to make it. We went all out with this float. Not only was a double decker bus, it had giant cannons that shot out heart confetti and rainbow glitter, a hologram that showed different members of the Big Team who are queer and the float even rotated to show different locations of where all the Big Team members came from. When I said we went all out, we really did go all out.

We managed to finish it and we were ready for the Pride Parade. It was a shame I couldn’t invite Spectre to come along though. Everyone got dressed up in cool outfits. Elle wore a summer beach outfit that had the pansexual and genderfluid flags on it, Jaime wore a cool jacket with pride pins and patches on it, me and Seth practically wore the same thing (again, a jacket with pride pins and patches on it, similar to Jaime’s) and Mini went all out with the makeup and nail polish. She even did some of the other members makeup for them too.

This parade was huge! There were Glamazonians, Zodiac City members, and even the Knights of the Round Table! Who would’ve thought they were queer? Anyways, we were ready for the event to begin, only...me and Seth were a little nervous. Seth was being awkward and quiet like he usually is, but I had butterflies in my stomach. What if something happened during the parade? What if a villain attacks?

Rescue reassured us that if something did happen, not only would we be able to take care of it, but there were plenty of people in the parade capable of defending people too. That did help; knowing that there were loads of super powered people in the parade. And then the parade began.

Music was blaring, people were cheering, people held their pride flags high. There were so many colours everywhere. Seeing all these different people just enjoying themselves and all coming together, it felt really good. For once, I wasn’t thinking about Old Montreal or the Risganjans or anything. I was just spending time with my friends.

Then Elle started dancing with Jaime, then Mini joined in and Seth started throwing snowballs at the crowd. I decided to join in too, only…. I learned how much of a terrible dancer I was. I literally fell flat on my face, and it bloody hurt. God it was so embarrassing, even Mini started laughing about it. I didn’t want to continue dancing but everyone else was dancing and having a great time. I could even see Jaime struggling a little with dancing but they were still having fun. So I decided “You know what? Fuck it. Let’s dance!” and even if I was the most terrible dancer out there, I was having the time of my life.

After a good few hours of dancing, all of a sudden, this guy called Manny Nuff appeared on the top of the bus and started playing the guitar. Everyone was screaming and cheering and even Jaime was cheering for this guy. I must admit, he did put on a good performance so I decided to cheer him on too. After the performance, I found out that Manny Nuff was actually Mini in drag. I didn’t know Mini did drag! Why did she never tell me?! God I feel so bad and embarrassed that I didn’t know since everyone else seemed to know.

Eventually we were nearing the park where everyone was going to have a giant pride picnic. I checked up on Seth to make sure he was ok. He seemed quiet but more quiet than usual. I asked him if anything was going on and he just told me that it was something I shouldn’t worry about. Does that mean I should be worried? I mean, who knows what he could be going through. Rescue came to make sure we were ok and he looked absolutely tired and drained of energy. I felt really concerned for him. So did everyone else. So what did they do? They decided to chuck him into the food carts. I’m not joking.

I can not believe they actually threw him into the food carts. How is that being concerned for his wellbeing?! Atleast Mini made sure he had a careful landing. After throwing Rescue away, we all sat down on a picnic blanket and started eating food. I had the most delicious rainbow milkshake ever! It was so good! And I’m glad I went to Pride yesterday. Even though I haven’t really been doing much superheroing, it was good to still spend time with my teammates, even doing something as mundane as this. Though I don’t think mundane is the right word for Pride.

I actually felt….normal for once. There was no stress, no villains, no saving the world, no problems. Just pride and joy. I haven’t felt something like this in a long, long time and I hope I get more experiences like this in the future.

## S3E53: The Prom After Party

So today was the after party for the highschool prom. I didn’t go to prom this year because last time I went, really bad things happened. I didn’t want anything like that to happen again, but I decided to atleast go to the after party. It was held at Rescue’s mansion so I thought that nothing too bad could happen.

So I took a bus to Rescue’s mansion (which turned out to be a tour bus, have no idea how I missed that), and the party was….interesting to say the least. Everything was so luxurious to the point that it was a bit too luxurious. But hey, it’s Rescue. What do you expect?

Mini, Jaime and Lavender were there so it was nice to see them. I spent some time with them before I started eating all the chocolate… Don’t tell Rescue I stole most of his chocolate. It’s good chocolate! Anyways….turns out Rescue’s sister and father are back! Which sounds great, only that they’re actually the villains Blacklight and Whitelight who assassinate corrupt politicians. So not really that great.

So we decided to investigate about Blacklight and Whitelight because Rescue seemed worried and he told us to keep an eye out. However apparently they were both trapped in this spirit prison that Lavender is a part of, and now they’re out? Lavender tried to figure out why but she couldn’t seem to get an answer. However, me and Mini did some more digging and found out that Blacklight was apparently part of some secret underground fashion stuff but no one knows anything about it.

Another thing we found out thanks to Rescue was that, they’re both planning something to do with the Horrorterrors, which are these evil deep spirit things? So Rescue decided to go talk to his dad but we all got worried about him and so we went after him. Only that we needed to go through this secret passageway to get to his dad’s office and something happened to Jaime.

Jaime seemed to get almost possessed by the Horrorterrors, like with Rescue sometimes. Mini said it was all her fault because Alastor somehow managed to make a connection? God, spirit stuff is confusing…

Rescue told us that his father left before we arrived and that his sister was also gone. We have no idea where they are now. But Rescue’s worried and I feel kinda bad for him. He’s been working so much and yet he now has to deal with this? And I’m also worried about Mini and Jaime too. Jaime still has the Horrorterrors inside them and Mini blames herself for what happened. Lavender also left early.

I don’t know why but everyone seemed so….depressed. None of them left this party happy. I wish I could’ve been more helpful… I didn’t do anything but just get dragged along by everyone else.

I just wanted us all to have a good time, hang out and smoke some weed. That’s what teenagers do right? I just wanted to have some fun. But of course, there’s never a dull moment for us superheroes.

## S3E60: Milk & Co

So I was on my way home on the train after a day of shopping in the city centre when Jaime came up to me. They said hi to me and introduced their friend Lily, who is some kind of plant hybrid. She kinda reminds me of Alarune when she was part of the Big Team. Lily seems a lot nicer though. There was another guy there too though. His name was Frederick and apparently he’s “The Side-step”? I know Side-step is a member of the Big Team but that’s all I know.

As we were introducing ourselves, the train suddenly started going faster and we realised that not only was the train conductor unconscious but also that we were gonna crash into the water. Jaime went off to use the emergency brake and Side-step went to help teleport people off the train. Me and Lily were left so I decided to copy her powers and created vines out of our hands to create a wall to slow down the train.

It did slow the train down but we were still gonna crash into the water. Luckily Jaime managed to use the emergency brake in time to stop the train. Once the train had stopped completely, we made sure no one else was on the train and the police arrived. Apparently the train conductor suffered a heart attack. That seemed very unusual to me. A normal healthy guy just suddenly having a heart attack whilst driving a train? That seemed really suspicious to me. So I proposed that we investigate the train, just in case.

The police gave us five minutes to investigate and we found a business card with some weird substance on it. The business card said Milk & Co which is some kind of milk bar? Never heard of those before. Jaime knew a place where we could analyse the substance so we went there and found out that it was actually a drug that knocks people out. And not only that but it could also simulate a heart attack. The thing is, how did the train conductor get it in his system? Did he go to Milk & Co and they spiked his drink without him realising? Atleast we know it wasn’t an accident.

We needed to go and investigate this Milk & Co place so we decided to go there by ordering a Lyft. But turns out the driver was taking us in the wrong direction and was in on the plan this entire time. He tried to kill us but we managed to break through the window and escape. It also turned out that Side-step was kidnapped by a police officer who was also in on it! The police officer apparently wanted his witness statement for the train incident and he managed to get himself kidnapped.

Lily ran off to this gym place that was nearby because she somehow knew Side-step was there. Something to do with the plants apparently and as we entered the gym, this guy wouldn’t let us through. And while we were just about to punch this guy, Side-step suddenly flew through the wall with this huge guy with a robot arm standing over him.

It was Orbital, the guy who Gwen cut his arm off! And we found out that he’s actually the leader of this organisation called Order X who trains teen assassins. And Jaime was one of them?! This seemed like one hell of a reunion. Jaime had run off somewhere so it was just the three of us. Side-step tried to punch him but got hit instead, so I ran up to him to copy his powers and use them against him. However he used his gravity powers to suspend us in mid air and was ready to beat us to death. But Lily used her powers to grab us and bring us out of his range.

However before we could do anything else, Jaime suddenly appeared behind Orbital and tried to stab his robot arm off. Orbital was about to hit Jaime when Side-step teleported me towards him and I used his gravity powers to slam him into the ground. After that, Jaime started sucking the energy out of him and put Orbital into a coma. Thank goodness he isn’t actually dead.

The actual police arrived to take Orbital away and send him to the hospital. After we found out Jaime’s past, Side-step seemed very cautious around them. Almost like they were suddenly gonna go batshit crazy on him. Jaime seemed fine though. And from my experiences with Jaime, even though they used to be a teen assassin, they don’t actually seem all that bad. Especially since they’re going out with Mini. I just hope they’re actually ok though, and Side-step too.

I guess I’m officially back on superhero business now?

## S3EX: Weekend at Rockwold’s

So… Godspeed decided it was a good idea to send a couple of us to this summer camp called Rockwold’s? I honestly have no idea why he would do that but there was nothing we could do about it.

We spent the entire summer there and honestly, it was actually quite enjoyable. We did a lot of fun activities, made food and went exploring. It was quite fun. Though I can’t tell if Seth was enjoying it or not…?

Anyways, it was nearing the end of the summer camp and the camp manager, Nadine Reeves, decided to host a game of Capture the Flag. We had to split into teams of four, hide our flag and capture another team’s flag. This game kinda reminded me of that time where we played baseball for the first time.

We had fifteen minutes of free time to hide our flag but we got distracted because a guy named Tyler (who was on our enemy team) was spying on us! We interrogated him and tied him up to a tree. However I noticed a sort of glowing green light in the distance. Mithril (a new member of the team) saw it too and immediately suspected that it was a giant radioactive Bigfoot!

Now… I’ve battled a lot of weird things in my superhero business but a glowing green radioactive Bigfoot definitely isn’t one of them! So I decided to go investigate it and Focus (another new member of the team) wanted to come with me. Mithril his the flag and Seth stayed with Tyler. Me and Focus followed these giant footsteps that led us into this clearing with a big stone right in the middle of it. We were about to touch it when a doorway leading downwards suddenly opened inside the stone and out came…a giant radioactive glowing green Bigfoot.

Yes I’m not joking! It was an actual Bigfoot! Out of all the things it could’ve been, it had to be a radioactive Bigfoot! Before we even had time to be shocked by the fact that Mithril was right, the Bigfoot scooped up Focus and dragged her into the doorway. I couldn’t even rescue her because a giant swarm of robot spiders came out of nowhere. I was completely overwhelmed by them and I couldn’t see what I was doing.

Suddenly I open my eyes and Seth was there, making sure I was ok. I told him everything and he told me that Mithril had already gone inside to save Focus. We followed after them and came face to face with Bigfoot once more. Mithril was trying to battle it but it didn’t seem to be taking any damage. Me and Seth jumped in to help but nothing we did was hurting it. Then suddenly, Mithril started manipulating the metal walls around us, crushing it and constricting the Bigfoot with it. Mithril kept crushing Bigfoot with the metal and we thought she was gonna kill it. But then, it’s head flew right off! Revealing wires and electrical currents inside the Bigfoot. It was...a robot?!

I mean a radioactive Bigfoot is hard to believe but a robot radioactive Bigfoot?! I swear I find some weird things when I’m being a superhero. After defeating the robot Bigfoot, we found a room with a sort of control panel. And there was Nadine. And next to her in cages was both Focus and Tyler. Apparently Tyler got captured after escaping Seth while he was busy battling his teammates. We were so confused but Nadine explained everything to us.

She was stuck with Camp Rockwold and it wasn’t making any profit. Unfortunately she couldn’t just quit so instead, she used her technical skills to create robots (disguised as different animals) to capture some of the super powered teens and use their powers to destroy the camp and gain the insurance money from it.

Thanks to us, her scheme didn’t go according to plan however, we soon found out that Tyler’s twin Lux (who apparently has the ability to set things on fire) was panicking and looking everywhere for him, accidentally setting the forest on fire. Nadine then sent robot wolves after us while she escaped. Mithril and Seth managed to hold them off while I rescued Tyler and Focus. Tyler escaped to go help his brother while the rest of us fought off the robot wolves.

After defeating the robot wolves, we called the police and fire services to get rid of the forest fire and arrest Nadine. Luckily they managed to find her and she confessed. After Nadine was arrested and we said our goodbyes, we went back to the team base.

I hope Rockwold is doing ok now. I’m worried it might close down after everything that happened but if it doesn’t, then I wouldn’t mind coming back, as long as there are no more radioactive robot Bigfoots.

## S3E72: Rhapsodies

Today, Lamarck took a group of us to this little town in England because it had something to do with the gateway to Avalon? I mean it makes sense considering the whole legend of Arthur taking place in England.

The other people that were with me were Mini, Herald, Wren and Manaline.

When we arrived at this English town, we headed towards this cave that apparently held the gateway to Avalon. The cave was quite dark and it had a long tunnel but Lamarck used his sword to light up the way. It was a pretty badass sword, not gonna lie.

Eventually we arrived at this giant hole in the ground and there was a ledge on the other side that led somewhere but we weren’t sure how to get across. Wren was the only one who could fly across (thanks to that badass suit of his) but the rest of us couldn’t fly. So we were practically stuck. However Mini had the god awful idea of just jumping right into the hole!

What the fuck was she thinking?! Who knows where that hole could lead?! Herald immediately jumped in after her and so did Wren but they never came back up. Manaline decided to just go for it and Lamarck decided that he had no choice. However I wasn’t willing to risk my life jumping down a giant hole. I knew there had to be something that could lead us to the other side.

And sure enough, there was one. A small hole in the side of the wall going downwards. I decided it would be safer to go this way then jumping down. Deeper and deeper I kept going. It kept getting darker and darker and it felt like it went on for hours. Eventually I noticed something different on the wall, it was like a statue carved into the wall. It looked like three people; a man, a woman and a little girl.

I thought it was weird that there was this random carving in the wall, so I ignored it and kept going on. Until, I saw it again. The same carving in the wall. It was exactly the same as the one before. I kept walking but it just kept reappearing and despite how much I walked down, I didn’t seem to be getting further. I kept trying to ignore it until I decided to take a good long look at it. Clearly it must be something important if it kept appearing right?

Then it hit me. It was a carving...of my family. Myself as a little girl, my father and....my mother... I was confused and shocked and angry and...hopeful? Hopeful that maybe, just maybe, my mother was still alive and that my father wasn’t actually dead. I felt that we could be a family again...

But of course that wouldn’t be possible. I killed my father, and my mother is still missing. There’s no way this would be possible now. Of course I want a normal family but...it’s just not possible anymore. What’s in the past stays in the past, even if it fucking hurts or scares me.

I was scared. Scared that maybe I was wrong, that maybe it was possible. But I knew deep down it wasn’t true. It was false hope and I can’t cling onto that. And just when I came to that realisation, I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. I ran towards it and next minute, I was in a large cavern and my teammates were there. They were all safe. I was so relieved.

And standing before us, was a large gateway that Lamarck was examining. I knew it was the gateway to Avalon.

After the mission was complete, the others told me they went through similar situations to mine. Seeing visions of a future that could’ve happened if we never had superpowers. But we all knew it was fake. The only thing now is that, why were we shown this? Was it the cave testing us to see if we were worthy of finding the gate? Or something sinister that we don’t know of yet?

I don’t know, but there is one thing I do know. I still want to find my mother. I don’t care if she’s alive or dead, but I have to find her. I just have to.

## S3E87: Enter The Dataverse

So….today was certainly an interesting day. I met up with Wren in the Danger Room for some training and it turns out we have a new recruit. Her name is Verve and she seems really cool. We were all doing some training together when GAIA told us that they got a distress signal. They played back the distress signal but it was all static and all we could hear was ‘help’. We weren’t sure what to make of the distress signal until GAIA told us it wasn’t from our world but it was still a part of it. We were confused at first but ultimately we decided it would be best to still go there regardless.

So we got ready and GAIA sent us to this other world. When we arrived there, it looked peaceful and tranquil. There were strange looking birds flying in the sky and there was a huge castle in the distance. I looked at my phone and it looked… different then usual. It looked almost like those toys in Japan called Tamagotchis. I fiddled around with it until a hologram appeared of this strange guy in armour with a crown.

He told us he was King Seigfried, the king of the Dataverse which was the world we were sent to. Apparently in this world, creatures called Datamon exist and even though they’re made of data, they still breathe, eat, sleep and die. So even though they’re made out of data, they’re still living creatures? Almost reminds me of Rekken in a weird sort of way...

Anyways, we agreed to help the King save his world and he told us that we had to go see the village chief nearby. So we made our way towards the village when we ran into two crying children. They told us to run away from these monsters which looked like a swarm of flying scorpions. I touched Verve’s shoulder to try and copy her lightning powers, but when I tried to zap the bugs, nothing happened. No lightning, nothing. My powers weren’t working!

Wren tried activating his belt to transform into his gear but still nothing happened. Verve even tried using her lightning powers and again, nothing happened. Our powers don’t work in the Dataverse.

Suddenly Verve pressed a button on her phone and suddenly she was enveloped in green data and she reappeared again but instead, she looked like a green lightning being of sorts. Wren and I pressed the button on our phones and suddenly we had transformed too. Wren became this half eagle man with a bow and I became this girl with small horns and gauntlets on my legs and hands.

Inimmediately attacked the bugs with my fists and it sent out a shockwave of red energy. Some of the bugs got destroyed but then this giant bug queen lady appeared and sent her giant stinger straight towards me. Wren and Verve managed to save me in time and destroy more of the bugs. The bug lady disappeared and we saved the kids. They took us to the village and introduced us to the chief who explained to us that they never encountered a thing like this before, and that 75% of the Dataverse was erased.

GAIA then contacted us and told us that a few hours have passed. Apparently time runs differently in the Dataverse. GAIA explained to us that we needed to get home soon but I couldn’t leave the Datamons alone. So we made a plan to investigate the areas where data had been erased and that we would return before more hours passed. So we made our way towards one of the erased areas. It looked weird like there was glitching monochrome cubes and pixels in the erased area. Wren decided to test out if he could excess the deleted area.

However as soon as he put his finger into the area itself, it gets cut off and sucked into the void. And before anyone could react, a pink light enveloped Wren and suddenly he was gone. We both panicked a little but tried our best to remain as calm as possible. I decided to try out my shockwave move on the area but it immediately bounces back and almost cuts off my foot. Before I could react, I start seeing this red light and suddenly I’m in the Danger Room again. Wren was there waiting for me. Thank goodness he wasn’t dead or deleted or whatever. After an hour went by, Verve reappeared. She told us that all she could find out was that, whatever is erasing this data is somehow feeding itself with this data, and it is for a purpose.

I still feel bad that we couldn’t help out the Datamons more but I’m definitely going back there and see what I can do to defeat whoever or whatever is erasing this data.