Heroes Wanted

James knew this job was going to be rather difficult. Security surrounding this presentation would be tight. Silently he lept onto the Enigma Tech building. Enigma was the leading company for research into Zulu radiation. They were funded by the United States government, and on this particular night, they were unveiling their prototype Zulu Cold Fusion Generator, and he intended to learn what he could about this machine.

The Labratory where the presentation was taking place was four stories below ground, and James knew the trick wouldn't be getting in, but getting in unoticed.
silently James darted across the roof to a sky light window. It would be alarmed, but he need to have some idea where he was going!

Jumping over the ten foot wide sky light with ease, James dropped over the side of the building. This was an odd place for a labratory, right in the middle of New York, but he supposed that it would be assumed safe considering that not many people would suspect a lab to be hidden under the streets of the city.

He loved the feeling of falling, he had dropped from ten stories to nearly four when his hands shot out and a fourth story window sill, the sill very nearly giving way under his fingers, he smacked into the side of the building hard nearly losing his grip.

It may have been noisy, but with the amount of noise this time of day, he doubted it mattered. Forcing his way in through the bathroom window, James brushed himself off. He looked okay, his ski mask was still in place, and he wasn't sweating. Stepping into the hallway, he crept down the hall praying that all the staff would have left by this time of night.

After a few moments of tension he made it too the elevator shaft that was alarmed at the roof but wouldn't be here. Forcing open the doors, he took hold of the steel cables and began to lower himself down the shaft.

Candace was sitting in the back of the presentation as herself, not her alter ego. She had heard the alarms go off that she had set up to notice if anyone had come in through someway besides the front door, and a 6th story window was something to be thinking about. She made a note to leave and check it out. She got up, making excuses that she had to use the little girls room, and made her way out the back door. When she was out of anyones sight, she turned in a circle, and in a flash the West Texan Tornado stood there in her "Costume" and was off looking for where the disturbance was. She was about to look someplace else, when she felt the disturbance in the wind, and sensed someone coming down one of the elevator shafts. Shewaited for the person to appear and when he came out through the opening door she smiled. "How may I help you sir?" She was being a bit sarcastic there, but she figured that she could take out a simple masked intruder.

"Shit the elevator WAS alarmed" James said, he wondered how he could have made such a simple mistake. Usually he was much better prepared than this. He wasn't surprised to see the super heroine, as so many of them made the news of late. He tensed to run. "Oh I was just looking for owner of a blue Nissan, they left their lights on I figured I had better let them know..."

Now that was original she thought, especially with the ski mask and where he came in from. "You have 30 seconds to come up with a more convincing excuse than that, for I know you came from the 6th story window, and your still wearing your ski mask."

"Ummm well the front door was locked, and I had some repelling equipment in my car, and it's cold out on top of the building and I didn't want my face going numb?" He said casually, god he was a crappy villain, but he saw no reason to fight the woman if he could avoid it. Maybe he could talk his way out of this. "but you know, if your up for it, we could always discuss it further over a drink?"

--was he hitting on her-- she thought to herself. Now that was an original idea. "Sure why the hell not. You seem like a nice enough fella, and that was the most original pick up line I've ever heard. NOT, but if your serious about the drink, let's get out of here, for you seem to be a crappy villian."

"Well sweet heart I'd love too but that involve removing my mask, jail time, losing my job and just general discomfort, and besides I've had an even better idea" James decide to push his luck. "How about, you get out of my way, and I won't hurt anybody when I take the cold fusion reactor?"

James' legs tensed, there was a water machine to his right, it would make a useful projectile is she decided to fight. All he need was to keep her from attacking long enough to reach her, and then hope to god her power didn't make her as strong as he was.

"How about I don't think so jack ass." She had no idea who this idiot thought he was, but she knew that she could take down anything short of a freight train running at her at full steam, and maybe even that on a good day. As long as she had a bit of wind, and since the elevator shaft was open, and the idiot left the window open, she had enough, she could call up a class five hurricane down here even in the sub-sub-sub basement of this building. "Bring it on asshole." And she had a small tornado going in the palm of her hand waiting to have some fun here.

"Well you get points for being feisty, but name calling really isn't necessary!" He snatched that water machine and heaved it at her. It wasn't all that heavy but he hoped it would slow her for the moment. He charged her, his Zulu radiated muscles powering him along rather quickly, he dove past her and rolled to his feet running head long toward the lab.

He needed that cold fusion reactor! Or at least enough information on it too replicate it! Door's and wall's weren't really obstacles to him at this point he just hoped he was out of Tornado chicks range.

He figured he must be he wasn't flying yet! Smashing through a wall he emerged into the Labratory, two dozen rather formal looking people sat in the room, as a nerdy looking man explained the machine in front of them, it was about the size of a coffee machine, and looked rather delicate.

"Hello everyone don't mind me" he said as he snatched the reactor and lept toward the ceiling cradling the machine beneath him.

Candy was pissed now and went right after the little man. As she went past her colleague she smiled. "Don't worry Doctor, I will have it for you in a few minutes." --hopefully-- she thought to herself. She lifted herself up on the winds and after the man. She hit him with a very centralized burst of wind, enough to knock the wind out of him, and another one to catch the reactor without hurting it. She hoped that he wasn't super strong, or it might just piss him off instead of knocking his silly.

oocidn't want to make super crazy, and end this line right then.