#macroburst

[magicbunnystar]

have some more food for y'all incredible goobers

[benjimatorarts]

I always wanted to draw Everseer and Macroburst together. According to the NSA files, Macroburst use to be Everseer's sidekick. I imagine their dynamic is "Formal, strict, and obsessive teacher and the carefree layback student". Very different people but they work very well together and are great friends.

( I do have a sad headcanon that they did keep in touch after the Super ban, when Macroburst learn about Everseer's disappearance they did anything to find their former mentor. Of course, they would go with Mirage if it means finding their friend.

[jacksonseymour13]

Am I the only one who ships Gamma Jack and Macroburst? Idk why or how to explain it, they just seem like a match. It's definitely not because of the hair

[ladyyulissaling]

Aquí otro fanart de este ship olvidado ❤️

Here another fanart of this forgotten ship ❤️

[melonthesprigatito]

My idea on who I think would make the PERFECT villain for The Incredibles 3 (not that they're ever going to make one***, this could also just be a fanfic idea)

***EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER 2023, NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE THEY ANNOUNCED INCREDIBLES 3, I WAS A FOOL FOR DOUBTING IT WOULD GET MADE

NaNoWriMo* (SECOND EDITOR'S NOTE: I didn't know NaNoWriMo was an organisation, I thought it was a Tumblr holiday :c) somehow dragged me kicking and screaming back into my The Incredibles hyperfixation that I haven't thought about since 2021. Drafting up a long Tumblr post in my Notes app for a few days totally counts, right? (Probably not but whatever, I am fukcing passionate about The Incredibles lore, I need to ramble)

So, the villains of The Incredibles and Incredibles 2 are both genius inventors with no superpowers who use their technology to fight the heroes. What if, for the third villain, they ditched that idea and had a villain who was a Super?

Who'd be able to fill that role? Would they invent an entirely new character who is a Super? It wouldn't be too farfetched of an idea, they did invent two new Super supervillains in Lego Incredibles, The Anchor Man and Brainfreezer, one with hydrokinesis and the other with.... functionally cryokinesis like Frozone except she controls ice cream. 

But what if... the villain was an already existing Super? That already poses a problem, a majority of the Supers in the present day of The Incredibles are either dead from Syndrome's Omnidroid or an unfortunate cape snag. The only surviving Supers from the pre-Super Ban Glory days are Mr Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone and possibly Fironic and Plasmabolt (and only because they never showed up in Syndrome's Operation KRONOS database.)

Fironic is pretty ambiguous if he's still alive or not, but Plasmabolt for its practically a 100% chance of survival for a few reasons:

1. Her profile says she keeps her hero and civilian lives strictly separate, so she might have had no desire to go moonlighting as a hero like Mr Incredible did

2. She's a forest park ranger. She probably lives off-grid in a shack in the woods or something. 

3. The way Psycwave, Everseer and Macroburst are killed one after the other, but Plasmabolt isn't counted with them. All four of these Supers were part of a superhero team called The Phantasmics. Mirage probably used their connection to find all of them, maybe Plasmabolt fell out of contact with her old friends.

Plasmabolt herself might have been a good villain candidate, having lost faith in humanity after learning how the National Supers Agency failed to keep track of her old friends, of all the Supers, and didn't notice that Syndrome was picking them all off. 

Buuuuuut she's not the one this post is about. There's another that would probably be an even better villain, mostly because she has a personal tie to one of the main characters.

This is one of the features on the bonus disk of The Incredibles: a full set of character files and audio interviews of most of the Supers (except for Tradewind, Vectress, Blitzerman and Fironic. They didn't get profiles.) 

It's listed in alphabetical order, featuring Apogee, Blazestone, Downburst, Dyna Guy, Elastigirl, Everseer, Frozone, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam, Hypershock, Macroburst, Meta Man, Mr Incredible, Phylange, Plasmabolt, Psycwave, Stratogale, Splashdown, Stormicide, Thunderhead and Universal Man. 

The one I want to draw attention to is this one. 

(Side note, it’s kinda frustrating that the only way to find images of most of these guys in colour is to look for random comic strips and the freaking Lego game of all things. I’m just gonna link this fan art too because I think it rocks and is probably the best image of her https://www.tumblr.com/pazam/183219465026/no-gadgets-no-gimmicks?source=share)

THIS, is Blazestone, the blorbo- I MEAN, the Super I think would make a great villain in a hypothetical third Incredibles movie. Or a Frozone spinoff movie. Either works. 

I think she'd make a good villain for a number of reasons.

1. SHE'S ALREADY BEEN THE MAIN VILLAIN OF ANOTHER OFFICIAL THE INCREDIBLES STORY. 

Let me highlight something important from her profile. "ARRESTED AND JAILED. RECRUITED BY NSA. WATCH CLOSELY TO ENSURE SHE OPERATES WITHIN NSA GUIDELINES" 

That's right, Blazestone is actually a reformed criminal. This one little detail from her profile is a major plot point in the novel Elastigirl: A Real Stretch.

She was paired with Universal Man as part of her rehabilitation. In the novel, they're constantly arguing, they constantly insult each other. Universal Man is an incredibly strict rule follower and tries to keep her in line. He thinks she'll never make it as a true Super if she doesn't follow the guidelines and acts recklessly ("THESE TWO WOULD BE GREAT IF THEY DON'T KILL EACH OTHER FIRST")

She hates being constantly monitored and forced into teams with other Supers and wishes they'd give her the freedom to do what she wants, as opposed to being constantly badgered into being a better person and following the guidelines

Eventually, Blazestone gets so sick of the National Supers Agency that snaps and decides that the only way she'll be able to do what she wants is to KILL ALL THE OTHER SUPERS SO THERE'S NO ONE TO STOP HER FROM TAKING OVER. 

In fact, her plan involves 

1. Steal a shipment of the ZAP chemical (the novel's McGuffin, a radioactive chemical used as a superpower enhancer that has various effects depending on which Super it's used on. For most of them, it disables their powers entirely, for some it makes their powers malfunction and Apogee is the only Super who's powers are actually enhanced by it.) 

2. Secretly recruiting all the criminals she jailed as her henchmen and breaks them out of jail on the day of the Super Appreciation Day celebrations. These henchmen are disguised as other Supers and blend in with all the other cosplayers entering the Costume Contest. 

3. Attack the Supers Appreciation Day celebration at the pier. Trap EVERY SINGLE SUPER inside a band shell covered by a net that's coated ZAP which basically fucks up all of their powers. She then lifts the band shell off the ground and was heading towards the ocean to drop it in and drown them all.

 (a few pages later)

.... I'm serious, that's what actually happens in the climax. 

Never mind the fact that she's touching the net covered in the chemical that needed to be handled with heavy gloves WITH HER BARE HANDS BECAUSE HER SUPERSUIT HAS SHORT SLEEVES in order to lift the band shell. ...And the fact that she has no super strength so shouldn't have been able to carry the weight of a structure and 20+ Supers.

Blazestone actually mentioned earlier in the novel that ZAP had no effect on her, and while the novel never mentions it, my theory is that Blazestone is the only other Super who's powers are enhanced by ZAP. Apogee was also powered up by ZAP... in small doses but being that close to the netting enhanced her powers too much so she couldn't assist in the climax without incinerating everyone with the power of the sun. Blazestone must have lied about ZAP not having an effect on her to eliminate her as a suspect for the theft of the ZAP. 

ANYWAY, Blazestone went full supervillain and that's the last we heard of her until she showed up dead in Syndrome's Project KRONOS database. Between Supers Appreciation Day and the beginning of the Super Ban, she might have resumed her criminal activities and became part of Municiberg's Rogues Gallery. 

As the Super Ban went into effect she might have been kept in a maximum security facility for a few years until she managed to break out into a world where Supers are in hiding. She might have used her powers to commit smaller robberies to survive, which might have been how Mirage tracked her down..

But wait, she's dead isn't she? So how could she possibly be the main villain of Incredibles 3 if she's dead?

2. SHE'S ONE OF THE FEW SUPERS WHO COULD HAVE PLAUSIBLY SURVIVED THE OMNIDROID BY FAKING HER DEATH.

She's the 6th Super to have been killed by Syndrome, and is probably the Super Syndrome tested the Omnidroid's fireproofing on, hence when it's immune to lava. 

Except.... Blazestone could have been marked as "Terminated" when she really wasn't.

But how, exactly? The model of Omnidroid that killed her was v.X2 (the highest being v.10) so it was a VERY early model. Too early to have all the little issues ironed out. Perhaps there was a flaw that Blazestone exploited that kept her alive. 

There's also Blazestone's powerset.  She has a threat rating of 5.5, which sounds low until you realise that the highest is Gamma Jack with 7.9 Her powers are listed as pyrokinetic discharge, heat control, heat resistance, high agility and flight (by riding on heated air) which is pretty OP by itself but there's one power not listed on the file that Blazestone mentions having.

From the Bonus Disk Audio Interviews: (sped up because she was talking through the entire interview on 2x speed) "Wait what, do you want me to say the whole thing again? I thought I was completely clear, are you- Do you want me to go back again? The whole thing? I don't understand... (back to normal speed because she realised she wasn't in the dimension where people talk really fast, I guess?) "...OH, okay. *laughs* I am so sorry, I know what the problem is! I can't *laughs again* I keep on forgetting which dimension that I'm in! Wait, which... Which dimension am I in?"

From Lego Incredibles: "Wait, which dimension is this? Never mind, I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough.”

That's right, apparently Blazestone has the ability to warp herself to other dimensions. And this isn't an out of the blue thing that probably isn't canon either, Incredibles 2 shows off exactly how that power would function.

(Transcript from Incredibles 2)

Escaping by warping to another dimension is a VEEEERY good method of hiding your own body.

Picture this: Blazestone is contacted by Mirage. She's told a lie about the Omnidroid, it's the government's secret project and how it's went rogue. She gets told they looked for her because she's the only Super who defected from the NSA, they need her specifically. If they approached any other Super they might contact the NSA and expose the secret project. So they need her because she won't tattle. 

Blazestone goes to Nomanisan Island and is told to go to Room A113 to wait for instructions. She gets bored and hates being told what to do so goes to explore. She finds the lava waterfall and flies through, only to find Syndrome on his computer looking over his Operation KRONOS files. She realises that they lured her to die, that she's not the first one they called to destroy the robot, they lied to her and now she's trapped. She goes back to Room A113, and while they're unaware that she found out, she starts asking too many questions. 

The Omnidroid x.V2 is sent after her. She's not fighting to disable it for a sum of money, she's fighting for her life. Blazestone is agile, she flies out of reach of the Omnidroid, and hurls fireballs at it as it has no methods of hitting her back. Until it learns to throw its own projectiles at her. It uproots trees, throws rocks etcetera. It gets an unlucky hit in and knocks her to the ground. Suddenly Blazestone realises that it's getting more accurate, it's predicting where she'll fly next. There's no winning against it. They're near the volcano at this point so Blazestone makes a beeline towards it, if she could just reach the lava.... 

She's inside the lava caves, she flies directly over the lava. She's heat resistant. She baits the Omnidroid into throwing one more boulder and allows herself to get knocked into the lava. She's entirely submerged. Syndrome is watching the fight through hidden cameras, waiting for her to emerge, but she doesn't. Syndrome makes a quip about how the lava must have been too hot for even Blazestone to handle and marks her down as terminated. In reality, Blazestone warped to the other dimension the second she went under, tricking them into thinking her body melted away in the lava. 

As for how Syndrome didn't know about her dimensional warping power, the fact that it's not listed on her National Supers Agency file kinda feels like the NSA didn't believe she had that power. She's a former criminal who probably figured that she she'd defect from being a Superhero at some point. If she ended up in a jail cell, she could teleport out of it. If they knew she could teleport they might have found some way to neutralise that power before sending her to jail. So Blazestone kept it a secret in the even that she'd need to escape from some where. 

So Blazestone lives and freaks out about her near death experience. Except... She draws the wrong conclusion about Syndrome. She doesn't know that the government is actually oblivious to the fact that Syndrome is developing a robot strong enough to fight Mr Incredible using Supers as test subjects. She thinks the government is hunting down Supers and killing them with the Omnidroid. 

She goes cold turkey on crime in case the government finds her again, but after all that, a deep resentment and rage bubbles up inside of her. 

Flashforward to after Incredibles 2, when the Super Ban is lifted and the National Supers Agency is re-established and is recruiting Supers again. The details of Project KRONOS are released to the public. Blazestone's rage boils over. 

She hates that the National Supers Agency is up and running to control Supers again like how they suffocated her with their rules and trapped her in a dysfunctional partnership with Universal Man, she hates that ordinary people tried to wipe out Supers when THEY should be in charge. 

Remember in Incredibles 2 when Evelyn mind controlled Mr Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone and made them forced them to say something into the camera during the public broadcast before they hijacked the hydrofoil to make them look bad?

Yeah, Blazestone ACTUALLY believes that. 

As far as anyone is aware, Blazestone is dead. She might hide her face to make sure nobody figures out it's her. She could target the DevTech/Wannabe Supers (Voyd, Screech, He-Lectrix, Brick, Krushauer and Reflux) and shake their confidence in the Supers Agency or the public's faith in Supers, after all, the Supers Agency let all the old Supers die, they public turned on you years ago, who's to say they won't turn on you again? Look, there's already politicians who disagree with the Super Ban being lifted and want to put heavy restrictions on Super activity. I think she'd be after Voyd specifically because she's an anxiety ridden easily manipulated mess who is also potentially a threat. After all, Voyd's power is portals, and she can follow Blazestone when she dimensional warps...

She rallies a bunch of other young Supers who felt betrayed by the government banning Supers, perhaps she even manipulates a grieving Plasmabolt who's still mourning her teammates' deaths into acting as a mole in the National Supers Agency. She wants Supers to be on top while all the puny normals get subjugated like they deserve.

Baaasically she becomes Pixar Magneto? ... I'm not 100% certain, I'm not all that familiar with X-Men? I just kinda know who he is from watching one movie years ago. I don't know, I suck at writing allegories, I just have the vague idea in my head and I dunno how to put it to paper properly. If I've said something bad or made a bad comparison, I'm sorry. I'm writing this section at 3am.

3. SHE HAS AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO ONE OF THE MAIN CAST.

If The Incredibles was about Mr Incredible and Incredibles 2 was about Elastigirl, who's the third member of their trio who hasn't got a chance to be a protagonist yet? Let's bring up the profiles again, shall we?

Notice anything?

"ONCE PARTNERS WITH FROZONE. BUT RELATIONSHIP RAN HOT AND COLD."

"FORMER PARTNERS WITH BLAZESTONE (ROMANTICALLY?)"

OH SNAP THAT'S RIGHT, FROZONE AND BLAZESTONE USED TO BE PARTNERS. POSSIBLY ROMANTICALLY.

Blazestone was partnered with Frozone first before the NSA shoved her into the Beta Force with Universal Man. This is purely headcanon, but I like to imagine the Frozone/Blazestone team was known as the Alpha Force because Beta comes after Alpha. The sentence "relationship ran hot and cold" aside from being a bad pun, kinda implies that at some point the fluctuation led to them having a huge falling out and splitting their team apart so the NSA could try again with Universal Man.

I found this on Reddit's Tumblr sub and honestly, my thoughts exactly.

Imagine the DRAMA of Frozone finding out that his former "Enemies to lovers to enemies" partner who tried to drown him on Supers Appreciation Day that one time who he thought was dead is suddenly alive again and is currently leading a gang of Supers to attacking people. There could be a deep dive into what their partnership was like, how he reacted to her fall from grace and all the mixed feelings of seeing her alive again in the present day.

Maybe this could finally be the opportunity to show Honey on screen. I mean, she HAS a design now and an entire deleted scene that they cut out because it caused pacing issues

Imagine Frozone lying battered and bruised on the ground from Blazestone fighting him, and Honey runs to his defence. Blazestone mocks her like "What could you possibly do to me? You're powerless!" and then Honey takes her completely by surprise by pulling out a metal baseball bat or some other mundane household weapon and beats the ever loving shit out of her.

Another idea I had that doesn't really fit into any section is the idea of bringing the Deavor siblings back. Winston and Evelyn having a fractured relationship after the events of Incredibles 2. Winston visiting her in jail trying to understand why she'd risk their father's legacy and endangering DevTech by connecting it with the attempted mass murder with a boat. Evelyn snapping back that he never noticed how she was feeling as they grieved for their parent's deaths because he was too focused on thinking that they died because there was no Supers around anymore to save them.

Blazestone kidnapping both of them and forcing Evelyn, the one who hates Supers with her entire being to remake the Screenslaver technology by threatening to burn Winston to death if she doesnt comply. Why does Blazestone need the hypnosis tech? Because she's aware that some of the Supers she recruited might not be 100% loyal and wants to control their minds to keep them in line if she has to. Because she doesn't care at all about any of the other Supers, she just wants to use them for her own gain so that SHE can control the city. Plasmabolt is definitely going to be the one to betray Blazestone in the end. She realises that Everseer, Macroburst and Psycwave wouldn't have wanted her to harm innocent people to avenge their deaths, so she'd fight alongside The Incredibles family, the Wannabe Supers, and Frozone.

Aaaand that's all I have to say, it somehow took me three hours to move all this text from Google Docs to Tumblr and find accompanying images.

Hope you liked my probably badly written sequel idea

[municiberg]

Today's super of the day is Plasmabolt!

Plasmabolt is a super from the glory days whose powers include plasma wave emission and flight. She was a member of the Phantasmics alongside Everseer, Macroburst, Psycwave and Gazerbeam. She's one of the only glory days supers who wasn't targeted by Syndrome, and her current location is unknown.

Fun fact: Plasmabolt loved the outdoors and worked as a forest ranger!

[quirkwizard]

National Supers Agency - Supers audio files (The Incredibles DVD disc 2). Based on this video do you think some of these powers could translate well as quirks. Downburst for one seems like a prototype/downgrade of Overhaul so I think it'd work well as a minor quirk

For the sake of this, I'm sticking with the characters in the video and none from the actual movies, so no Frozone. Right off the bat, I'm telling you that Gamma Jack, Dynaguy, Downburst, Metaman, and Universal Man all can't work. Their abilites are either too varied or too powerful. You compare some of their powers to "Overhaul", but reshaping stuff doesn't even come close to total control over matter. Then we eliminate powers that are too similar. We've got "Hellflame" for Blastone, "Whirlwind" for Macroburst, "Vibrate" for Hypershock, and "Voice" for the The Phylange. From there, it's just matter of focusing on the main gimmicks of the other characters. Everseer: Eyeglass Gazerbeam: Shiner Plasmabolt: Ambiance Psycwave: Mindsweeper Splashdown: Waterlogged Stormicide: Iron Lung Stratogale: Exertion Thunderhead: Hydrometer

[magicbunnystar]

Fourth row: Hypershock , macroburst , Meta man

[ladyyulissaling]

Este es un minicomic de Estratochica X Macroburst/This is a minicomic of Stratogale X Macroburst

Si desean verlo completo les recomiendo un like para poder continuarlo/If you want to see it in full, I recommend leaving a like to continue it.

[kkotkkoji]

Like The Wind

✿ Macroburst

Suo doesn't explain himself on the roof, since all three of them have collectively taken long enough to return to class. If they don't hurry now, they'll be swarmed by their questioning peers with no excuse to fall back on. Surprisingly, Nirei is the skeptic who lingers on the rooftop, reluctant to leave, while Sakura jumps to his feet and dusts himself off. But Suo's jaw is set, without the slightest curl to his lips, as he promises them that he'll explain everything after school. And though Nirei can't fully comprehend the intensity stirring Suo's steady gaze, he's certain of the sincerity of his classmate's promise. So, with quiet agreement, the trio return to class.

Suo's knees wobble with every step he takes downstairs, and the more he tries to control his breathing—the gnawing, the steadily-building anxiety—the more it trembles between his lips. The fight drained what strength he had left, and he feels like he's choking on the frustration of his acute inability to maintain normalcy. But Sakura skips a step so he's suddenly in front of Suo while Nirei remains behind, shielding his vulnerability. No one else will see him like this—not on their watch. If he stumbles and falls, they're both ready to catch him. Something like this should have exacerbated Suo's frustration, but instead, it's a welcoming discomfort—a strange and unfamiliar sort of relief, knowing that his friends, the same people who consider him strong, are going to such lengths to make sure he's okay. His vulnerability isn't a shocking display, but... a part of him that they simply want to learn more about.

Suo texts an address to Sakura and Nirei halfway through the day, which he somehow manages to shroud in mystery. He doesn't tell the two what they're looking for. He simply told them to follow the address and look for him.

"Always so cryptic," Sakura grumbles while exiting Furin High with Nirei. Suo had left class early. Apparently, early enough that he couldn't just take them along with him.

"Whatever it is, it must be difficult to talk about," is Nirei's thoughtful response. The air is even thicker with humidity now, and heavy, like they're walking with a steaming blanket draped over their heads and shoulders. The scent of asphalt mingles with a floral perfume—a scent that now carves a hole in Nirei's chest as his thoughts drift back to Minami and Kazehana. "It seems like everything with Suo-san started after what happened to Minami-san. Do you think it has something to do with his health? Is he—"

"Don't freak out before we even get there," Sakura interrupts, though he's berating himself as much as he is Nirei. It feels like someone's hands are grabbing his lungs and squeezing all the air out of them. The tightness serves as a constant reminder of the horrors that flicked through his mind when the class fought KEEL and Noroshi. I don't want to lose them. I don't want to lose this place. He never thought love would fill him with such heartache. "We'll find out. One way or another. If he doesn't talk, I'll beat it out of him."

Glass shatters, like a shrill cry, further down the road. Sakura and Nirei stop, but only for a split second. "Speaking of a beating," is all Sakura says before taking off. Nirei follows close.

More glass shattering. The thundering of frantic footsteps as passersby and shop owners flee. Without a second thought, Sakura breaks into a sprint, and Nirei matches his pace, sensing the urgency in his classmate's steps.

They find Suo cornered, defending a woman from a group of men, while others smash windows, loot the displays, and tag the walls with the emblem of their gang.

A man, a head shorter than Suo, swings a baseball bat at his ribs. Suo effortlessly deflects the attack, sending both the man and his weapon into another thug who thought he could sneak in a hit. Then he eases back into a defensive stance, the corners of his lips curling. Every fluid movement is deliberate and precise, a beautiful, viscous display of strength.

The street punks can't see it, but Sakura does. And judging by the woman's glassy eyes, so does she.

Suo's swaying. He's breathing fast and hard—Sakura can see it in his shoulders, in the ever-so-slight discomfort he's trying to mask with a complacent smile.

"Nirei, help Suo!" Sakura shouts, already darting over to the other thugs tearing through the streets. "I'll deal with these guys!"

Nirei nods. He held his own on the bridge when they were fighting Noroshi. He can do it again, and he'll help Suo protect that woman. He sprints over. When a man, twice his size, lunges for him, he swiftly ducks down, tripping him. The man lands on his face and Nirei wastes no time in springing back to his feet.

Relief flits across Suo's face with a more genuine, though fleeting smile. Despite the fatigue aching in his bones and the pangs in his arms and legs, he's in control. He's stronger than his disease, strong enough to protect himself and the woman—a receptionist for the clinic he's gone to since he was first diagnosed. She practically watched him grow up.

"Suo-san." Suo barely hears her as he redirects a fist meant for his face, but her fear is tangible. It's like a chill that gives him goosebumps, and a sinking feeling. "Please go inside. Don't fight anymore!"

He doesn't have time to react. She jumps to her feet, latching onto Suo's shoulders, and flips their positions so Suo's back is against the building. So he's no longer her shield. "Wait, Yukiyanagi-san!"

The gang showed up out of nowhere, claiming their leader had business with Yukiyanagi and that they wouldn't leave without her. He didn't think they'd hurt her, but they're charging at them with near-murderous intent.

In a flash of movement, Suo trips the woman, pulls her into his arms, and lowers them both to the ground, dodging the powerful swing of another baseball bat. He rolls them to the side, dodging another strike.

"Suo-san!" Nirei yells.

Suo, now on top of Yukiyanagi and shielding her with his body, snaps his head back to face Nirei—just as he's tackled from behind. But then he notices the bulky figure charging at him, a crowbar clutched in his hand. Suo rolls off Yukiyanagi and kicks his assailant's legs, knocking him over. His chin smacks the concrete. Suo turns back to the receptionist, but before he can ask if she's hurt, a hot, blinding pain explodes all around his shoulder. He doubles over, and though pain sucks all the breath from his lungs, he drives his heel into the man's jaw.

The man crumples.

So does Suo.

Yukiyanagi flings herself at Suo, catching him before he hits the concrete. "I'm so sorry," she whimpers, tears blurring her vision. "It's all my fault."

Suo smiles weakly, trying his best to brace himself against the ground instead of the receptionist. "It's not..." he trails off, suddenly doubling over, trembling, as debilitating pain tears through every fiber of his being. It's all coming from his shoulder, like someone is sticking a knife in and twisting, and twisting—

Sakura curses under his breath. He doesn't care why these thugs are here anymore. He just wants them gone. They're disgusting. He dropkicks the man on top of Nirei, who rolls over and scrambles back to his feet, wiping his bloody nose with his sleeve. "I'm sorry, Sakura-san," he says between ragged breaths.

Sakura shakes his head. "Don't bother. These guys are so pathetic, they're not even worth it."

Trash talk always brings the trash straight to you, Sakura thinks as the remaining men charge him. Nirei takes a defensive stance by Suo and Yukiyanagi, but it isn't long before Sakura's left standing alone and surrounded by limp, unconscious bodies.

Yukiyanagi says something that none of them can understand as she rushes back into the clinic, though Nirei assumes she's grabbing a doctor, or calling for help, and kneels beside Suo. He's still doubled over, clutching his shoulder and gasping for air. Though his auburn hair curtains his face, hiding his expression, Nirei catches the wetness on his chin. He just can't tell if it's from sweat or tears. The thought of either makes his heart sink.

Sakura joins Nirei on the ground, but he's in front of Suo, his back turned to him. "Get on."

Suo doesn't look up. "They didn't hit my legs," he playfully remarks.

"I don't care. Get on, or I'll pick you up myself."

Finally, Suo lifts his head. He imagined pushing himself to his feet and ruffling Sakura's hair, maybe teasing him, but the world seesaws—the darkened sky flips with the glass-flecked concrete—and he falls onto his classmate.

Together, Sakura and Nirei reposition Suo's arms and legs, so he doesn't fall off when Sakura stands up. "See? That wasn't so hard."

Suo's grip tightens around him, and Sakura can feel the tremors ripping through him. He gnashes his teeth while carrying Suo into the clinic.

They're practically ambushed by the receptionist and another woman—a head shorter than the receptionist and decades older, Sakura notes—who orders them to carry Suo down a narrow hallway. They pass a small, squared-off station of men and women seated in front of computers before entering one of many rooms. After lying Suo on the bed in the center, Sakura and Nirei claim the patient chairs off to the side. All they can do then, is wait.

[syxnewt]

macroburst i wanna know more about that guy. hello :3

[feyosha]

Everyone thinks the Big Flat is boring…

Until the winds kick up.

Biggest cyclones in the world happen in North America. Derechos. Microbursts. Macrobursts.

And the Mother Corn, she screams. In her great, flat, monoculture fields, ripped from her sisters, all alone with no Raccoon or Turkey for company.

There are many reasons American Gothic portrays a Midwest farmhouse.

people looooove to act like the ocean is so special and sexy. "ohhh it's so wide open you can see seven miles to the horizon!" yeah illinois is like that too. "you can see the curve of the earth!!" i've seen it over harvested cornfields in illinois. "but there's waves on the ocean!" corn has waves too. there's even eldrich creatures as yet unidentified by biologists living in the corn. you're not special, ocean. you're not special.

[kittyball23]

The Incredibles NSA Files

Repost screenshots of the NSA Files that I also shared on my Deviantart page :)

[fistfuloflightning]

You know that list of terminated Supers?

Yeah, that one.

The list starts off with a bang, and with the complete erasure of the Phantasmics in one go. Well, mostly complete.

The order of deaths is as follow:

Nowhere on the visible listing of terminated Supers is there Plasmabolt. The other three are very much dead, but she is conspicuously absent. There is a distinct possibility Plasmabolt is still alive.

As for the particular order of the Phantasmics’ deaths, they all fought the same droid 1.0., Macroburst the one to destroy it. Nowhere does it specify that Syndrome only snagged Supers one by one. Depending on how young he was when he began his killing spree, he could have wanted to see how it tested against a group of Supers. Supers who were weaker and with less than ideal powers. Psycwave and Everseer have mental powers, useless against a machine. Their threat rating is 1.6 and 3.2 respectively. Macroburst is squeaking by on a 5.9. Still not super powerful but enough to be a threat. Plasmabolt’s threat rating is unknown as she does not appear to be in Kronos’ databank.

My take on how it went down is they got caught in an ambush where both Everseer and Psycwave were killed first, their mental powers/attacks doing nothing on a man-made machine.

There were four in the Phantasmics. As Plasmabolt’s powers were flight and plasma control, I would assume she’d be more of a threat to the droid. But Macroburst is the one to take it out, not her. So that could indicate she wasn’t even with them at the time. It wouldn’t be far fetched to assume she had other duties that separated her from their group. If that was the case, the only way she might have heard about her teammates’ deaths would have been from a traumatized Macroburst before he disappeared himself, leaving her the last surviving member of the Phantasmics.

As for Macroburst… Possibly suffering from survivor guilt and/or suicidal tendencies, he might have gone searching for the source of that droid/been lured back for revenge for his dead comrades and been drawn into last bout with a new droid—one that ended in the Super’s death.

An entire group of Supers, felled in one blow. All but one.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[municiberg]

Today's super of the day is Macroburst!

Macroburst is a super from the glory days whose powers include high velocity wind generation and flight. Their gender is ambiguous. They were a member of the Phantasmics alongside Everseer, Plasmabolt, Psycwave and Gazerbeam. They were also Everseer's sidekick. They managed to defeat the Omnidroid v.X1, but they were later killed by the v.X2.

Fun fact: Macroburst was claustrophobic and obsessed with their hairstyle!