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Test Drive Meme - July 2014

Thinking of joining The Omegafriends, but want to get a feel for things first? Need some threads for your application sample? You’ve come to the right place! Reply with your character down below, with at least one of the provided prompts to get things going. Then, go around to other people and tag them! Have threads! Have fun!

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Prompts

1. Venture City in Peril! Dr. Devious’s army of Deviobots are ransacking the city! No, wait, Baron Von Tyrannosaur is back with another dinosaur army! No, wait, it's... really, ther's a lot of different ways a city can be imperiled. However, no matter the threat, it’s up to you, the Omegafriends, to save the day - but you’ll need to work together to repel the forces of evil.

2. A Hero is Born! What started as an ordinary day was thrown into chaos as your newfound superpowers began to suddenly awaken! What perilous problems and zany antics will this bring about? Stay tuned to find out!

3. The Adventure Mundane! It's not all over-the-top heroics here - sometimes, ordinary day-to-day life can be just as much trouble! On the trail of a story for the Daily Venture? Frantic last-minute studying for tomorrow's math test? Harassing people to sign petitions on street corners? Hitting the arcade to destroy simulated villains instead of real ones? The sky's the limit!

4. Welcome to the Omegabase! The super-secret underground Omegabase has it all - training centers, VR simulators, free snack machines, but most important is a whole lot of Supers! Take a minute to kick back and get to know your fellow heroes.

5. The Mighty Showdown! In the life of a Super, good and evil are always clashing in battle. Today, you’ve come face to face with one of the many supervillains threatening the future of Venture City! Who will rise and who will fall? Next issue: The shocking answer!

6. Wild Card! Got an idea for a thread or prompt that isn’t one of those? Make up your own! We won’t stop you.

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"I was afraid you were gonna ask that."

He sighed and braced himself. Really, with all the cool names he'd given his aliens, he'd totally blanked out on his own superhero name. Now he was stuck with it.

"Ben 10."

"Ben 10?" Really? Again her brow raises behind her mask. "Is your real name Ben?" Because that seems like it would be the logical conclusion with a superhero name that has a normal kid name in it.

"...Kill me now."

Ben leaned over to bury his face in his hands, blushing horribly. Really, would jumping off the building be so bad at this point? Being a complete superhero newbie was bad enough. Being a newbie with a stupid name, well, it was super bad.

She really can't help the fact that she starts laughing. Ben is just, well, awkward. It's actually pretty charming in it's own way. "So I'm guessing you're a new superhero, huh?"

"Yeah. I've only been at this for two months now. Kinda lame, I know."

His talk with Superman had helped somewhat with his feelings that he wasn't much of a superhero, but standing next to pros like Lucky Girl? Definitely felt like a rookie.

She shakes her head. "Everyone has to start somewhere." She remembered what it was like just starting off. Grandpa Max was a life saver then. Not just with the alien stuff, but with everything. "Do you have someone helping you out Ben?" She is totally calling you Ben forever.

"I work with the Teen Titans sometimes which is cool, but for the most part? Just me. I can handle it though. No big deal."

He grinned over at her.

"I mean, you manage okay, right?"

The fact that Ben has no one to back him up, no Grandpa Max to help him become a stronger superhero and figure out his powers worries her. Especially with people like Slade out there.

"Do you have a pen?" She can't let this kid out there alone like this. Sure, Lucky Girl is alone, but she's got karate and years of experience behind her. She has the internet and her brains to keep her out of trouble. Ben seems like the type of person who would take candy from a stranger if they said it was safe; and that worries her. He's a good guy and will probably make a great superhero with the right guidance.

He gestured to himself and said jokingly, "Must've left it in my other suit."

Having no pockets kind of sucked. And it wasn't like he could stealthily wear a utility belt.

Then he paused, turning pink as a thought occurred to him.

"Wait, are you giving me your number?"

This kind of thing never ever happened to Ben Tennyson.

She never though Ben would think that she was romantically interested in him, but the blush confirms it. It's sweet actually. In normal life people don't think of Gwen Tennyson as an approachable girl; Lucky Girl on the other hand wasn't the type to go asking guys out. There was a whole world of other more important things then boys out there. Still, Gwen thought it would be nice to get asked out at least once. Especially since her only romantic encounter was a boy that barely paid attention to her because he was her cousin's best friend.

"It's, it's not like that." She amends, trying not to stutter over the words. "Maybe we should try this again ..." She presses her lips together as she debates if she should reveal who she really is to this kid. If she's wrong about him it could put her family in danger, and knowing her cousin Ben he'd probably be an easy catch because the guy has a 'cool suit'.

Ben cringed at that and looked away, embarrassed as he realized he'd misread what she'd said. "Right. Sorry. That was really stupid."

As he tried to come up with something to say that wouldn't involve shoving his foot farther down his throat, the watch's face suddenly started flashing yellow, and it started screeching.

"I'm sorry I ever said you had bad timing," he muttered under his breath to the watch as he lifted it up.

Gwen's eyes go wide behind her mask and she leans over to look at the watch. It sure is loud for a superhero accoutrement. Of course maybe it wasn't meant for superhero work, maybe it was meant for something else. "Why's it doing that?"

"Not sure. I mean, it almost never goes yellow," Be said, fiddling with the dial in hopes of getting the device to shut up.

A beam of yellow light shot out and swept over Lucky Girl, the watch humming away before it finally stopped its scan and turned green again. The face flashed as Ben's own voice came from hidden speakers: "DNA sample acquired."

"...Oh, right. That's what it does." Ben put a palm to his forehead. "Really, watch? First a dog, and now Lucky Girl. What's next?"

Part of Gwen wanted to strangle Ben. He actually forgot that the watch scanned people's DNA? "You really need to figure out that thing." It could be an amazing asset or it could be a great liability.

Give him a break. It'd only done that once before.

"Unfortunately, it didn't exactly come with a manual," Ben groused, glaring at the watch. "Otherwise I'd at least change the voice. Hearing me speak from it is super creepy."

She lets out a sigh, knowing this was probably going to be a really, really bad idea. The fact that she felt this way was betrayed by her tone.

"I might know someone who can tell you more about it."

Grandpa Max wasn't going to be happy that she was bringing a superhero back to the Rust Bucket; and that was if he hadn't already gone out of town (or off planet) for some intergalactic thing.

"Don't know how. I mean, I even went to a boring lecture by some guy from the space center with the watch on full display, and neither he nor his buddies seemed to know even when one of them looked right at it," Ben said with a groan. "You'd think that they'd be the experts on anything that came from outer space. Maybe even have seen...the...symbol..."

His voice trailed off as pieces clicked into place. He wasn't a genius--not by a long shot--but just because he didn't get straight A's at school didn't mean he was dumb.

"You didn't know what the watch was, but you saw the symbol and asked me if I was a plumber," he said, walking through his reasoning aloud, frowning. He held up the watch, pointing at the symbol. "You know what this means, don't you?"

She nods. It wasn't as if she were hiding her knowledge of the Plumbers or anything. "It's the Plumber symbol. They're intergalactic police. The person I want to take you to is one." Somehow she gets the feeling that the reaction she'll get from this guy is 'COOL!'. He just seems like he'd be incredibly interested in Space Cops. It's hard to explain that the Plumbers are more then that though, and she's not going to reveal that the person she's talking about is her own grandpa; not yet at least.

"So I basically grabbed some cop's badge?!" Ben asked, facepalming. "Great. Just how arrested am I gonna be?"

She shakes her head. "It's not a plumber's badge. They look a lot different then that. It just has the Plumber symbol on it." She's pretty sure they wouldn't arrest him for having something that literally attached itself to his arm and wouldn't come off. At least Grandpa Max wouldn't.

"Well, there's a relief. I guess."

He looked down at the watch, cradling it in one hand.

"...They're gonna want it back, aren't they?"

"I don't know, but I don't think he'd do that. Not without talking to you about it first." She feels bad for the guy. He seems to look at the watch as the only way he can be a superhero. "There are superheros without super powers you know. Look at Batman."

"Yeah. But Batman's smart and has actual skills," Ben said.

And by comparison? Ben...wasn't. He'd never make it as a powerless superhero.

"Then I'll train you." It comes out without even thinking. She feels so bad for the guy. "But I don't think it's going to come to that. This guy isn't like that."

"...You'd really train me?"

Being trained by Lucky Girl? He'd like that. A lot.

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