Snippet #2815493

Alex has been up since the crack of dawn. Workout cloths one, hair tied back, and Sabaton blasting in his ears through a good pair of headphones. Keeping some semblance of his usual schedule was helping to keep himself grounded in all this mess. Morning stretches then light jogging leading up to a fast paced run. Granted he had still minded not to go whatever his top speed might be. If how it had felt back at Atlas City was any indicator, he was fast but also very loud.

He hadn’t been able to completely shut out the conversation back in the plane. George’s words occasionally echoing around in his head. An alien threat waiting to strike from a different dimension of all thing? Oddly enough, that was easier to believe then half of what the supers today were capable of. As if the world couldn’t get any stranger.

Alex took a sharp left past a rather large tree, kicking up leaves and sod in the sudden change of direction. The inn was in sight once again. He had been keeping his distance from the place on the off chance he was being too loud and woke any of his other “co-workers”. Oh yeah, there was that too. George wanted to turn all the supers present into the world greatest superhero’s to help protect earth from the coming extra-dimensional threat. Alex grit his teeth and let out a long hard breath. Yeah, no pressure.

He began to gradually slow down the closer he got to the inn. Reflecting on how he had been doing things up until this point. Why had he decided to be a vigilante in the first place? Some form of obligation given what he was capable of. It wasn’t easy to sit on the sidelines when you were a decent human being and arguably being one of the best defensively geared supers out there. His mother had taught him to be a good person in spite of how the world might look at him. The thought of his mother made him miss a step and stumble for just a moment. Yeah no . . . If Alex didn’t try and do good with his gifts his mother, bless her soul, would never let him hear the end of it when he finally passed on. So was the situation now any different? Not really. He couldn’t just walk away from this knowing he could make a difference. Even so, there was a part of him that wanted some sort of “normalcy” to his life. Full time hero work sounded like a one way trip to one hell of a crash and burn.

Alex had his answer for George.

Finally just outside the inns outer grounds, Alex noticed a few people were already outside. His jog died into more of a brisk walk. Looked like Jemma was making friends. If he remembered correctly the other two were Henry and Akiko. They seemed to all be in friendly conversation, though Akiko seemed to be in her PJ’s so maybe the other two had woken her up on accident. Alex was mildly aware that he was a bit covered in sweat when stopping at least 5 feet from the trio. ” Morning everybody. How’s it going?” he flashed a grin and shoved his hands in his shorts pockets.