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It had taken John a minute to realize that Natalia was in fact the meta the cape killers were actually after, the realization causing him to mentally kick himself in the head. He should have just stayed hiding behind the counter.

Before he had a chance to respond to the cowering girl however another voice from behind him had interrupted through the chaos, nearly causing John to literally leap in place. He had thought somehow the Cape Killers had came in from behind him. Turning to look at the newcomer John was forced to do a double take as he noticed the man had no face. Staring at the distinctive figure for a moment John could swear he had seen the man in the news before but his attention was drawn back towards the front of the store as a loud shattering sound erupted in the air, the two large front windows breaking as three men stormed inside obviously ready for combat.

John could tell by the thick bulky dark green armor that each man wore they were cape killers, and it was obvious they meant business by the menacing looking sleek black assault rifles each one had at the ready. He couldn’t make out a feature of a single one due to the full face helmets each one wore, large black see through glass hiding each of their eyes. John knew at this point it was to late to play it off like he wasn’t in league with the other two obvious meta humans so without hesitating he grabbed the nearest item within his reach.

A small yellow candy pack of gobstoppers.

'This had better work' John told himself as he effortlessly tore the package in half, spilling a large fistful of the small marble shaped hard candy into his right hand. Taking aim at one of the seemingly similar looking cape killers he let the small candy fly from his hand with all his strength. He was honestly surprised by the result of his candy coated attack as his intended target was literally thrown off his feet as the small multi colored balls impacted into him at various points even causing his black helmet visor to explode in a shower of dark black glass. As the man flew through the same window he had entered through John silently cursed himself hoping he hadn’t hurt the man to badly, it’d been so long sense he'd used his powers that he’d forgotten just how much control he actually needed to exert over them.

Then suddenly the shooting started, bullets ripping apart anything unfortunate enough to get in their path-John even felt the familiar sting of two colliding with his right should as if someone had thrown a ten pound weight at him. The pain caused him to duck behind the nearest aisle of assorted goods just opposite of Natalia. “Whatever his name is right!” John roared over the gunfire, nodding his head in the direction of the faceless man who John was just waiting to see unleash his own power. “There's a door in the back, we can high tail it outta there!”