pretty_in_orange | Test scene: Ultra Boy

Monstress adjusted her gloves. "Alright," she grinned. "It's pretty unlikely that you can seriously hurt me, so don't feel like you need to hold back." She took a sparring position. "What did you want to try first?"

Stretching a bit, Ultra Boy braced himself mentally and physically for what could be a world of hurt.

"Might as well get the most potentially painful one over with. Let's start with invulnerability. Two tests in one."

"Alright, then."

Monstress swung her huge fist towards Jo's jaw.

Jo felt the blow land and was forced back a step from the force behind it. He felt fine though he knew that would have done more damage had he not received these new powers.

Jo raised an eyebrow "While I can appreciate the 'baby-steps' approach, it has never really been for me. Let's try the 'sink-or-swim' method here. If I don't find my limits, I won't know where I need to stop."

Jo braced himself and hoped that the medical facility was as good as he imagined it to be.

"I don't want to hurt you, sweetie, but if you can take that..."

She swung both fists down in an arc towards his shoulders.

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'Huh', Jo thought looking down, 'wasn't really expecting that.'

When the blow landed square on his shoulders, Jo had a brief image of walking around as a pancake flit through his mind. Thankfully he had just been hammered about a foot into the ground.

Shifting his gaze to Candi, Jo activated his super strength and pulled himself out of the ground.

"Well then," Jo started with a smirk, "I think that it is safe to say that invulnerability works and works well. The only ways to further test this that I can think of would be...less than practical. Since the other powers seem to be heavily offensive, would you like to choose the next test?"

She smiled at him. "I'd agree, dear. And don't worry about the hole in the floor; we're used to them around here." She moved to the wall and pressed a button, and a target rose out of the floor on the far end of the room.

"Want to try your heat vision?"

"Alright. I have a couple of ideas on how to use this. Let's see if they work."

Jo made sure to concentrate on the center of the target in the distance and braced himself, not knowing precisely what to expect.

He then switched on his heat vision for an instant and then blinked his eyes from the strange sensation.

She watched as the red beams cut through the air to begin carving into the target.

"Nice work!" she grinned. "Can you see what's on the other side of that wall now?"

'That is a weird sensation,' Jo thought before the question Candi asked registered. 'Wait, is she implying that I have x-ray vision? That would be awesome! I coul- no. Easy Jo, you are a member of the Legion now. Using these new powers for personal gain is not an option.'

After the brief moral quandary, Jo tried activating x-ray vision...

and immediately regretted it. He switched back to invulnerability and felt his vision blur and a splitting headache hit him.

Jo fell to his knees cradling his head.

"Oh, sweetie, you okay?" she asked, moving to his side and placing a gentle hand on his shoulder.

Still clutching his head, Jo nodded weakly and responded.

"I think so, though I have a nasty headache. Learned a couple of things, though. Namely, that I do have X-ray vision and second my brain can't process all of that new and highly unusual information. Not yet, at least. Maybe practice would help."

"Let's give you a minute," she suggested. "Catch your breath, and when you're ready, go ahead and take a swing at me. We'll try the x-ray vision again once your head is clear."

Taking a couple of minutes to recover, Jo stood up, still slightly unsteady. He turned to face Candi and smiled gratefully.

"Thanks. Let's put that off for a bit. If I can switch to something else fast enough, I might be able to-" shaking his head, Jo returned his focus to the current test of super strength. "But that is for later."

Moving within striking range of Candi, Jo switched to super strength. Having no idea what the upper limits of this power was, he swung his fist towards her jaw at what he guessed to be half strength.

She easily rolled with it, not even taking a step backward. She turned back to face him.

"What was that about baby steps, dear? Come on. Give me your best punch."

He had forgotten about that. Jo chuckled ruefully at his blunder.

Giving an exaggerated bow, "My sincerest apologies my lady, I shall endeavor to keep that in mind from this point forward."

Pushing the thoughts of combos from his mind with great effort, he swung for Candi's jaw, this time at full power.

She flew backward, landing solidly on the ground with a tremendous crash.

She picked herself up off the ground, shaking her head to clear it.

"Not bad! Not bad at all!"

Jo barely registered what Candi said, staring intently at his fist having not moved since the follow through to the punch. A multitude of scenarios flew through his mind too fast for him to get a decent grasp on. The ones he could catch however, had some interesting possibilities.

"Huh- are you alright?" He also noticed that his hand didn't really hurt from that, though he certainly felt it. This lead to yet more scenarios flitting in his mind. Jo ignored them for right now.

"Oh, don't worry about me, sweetie. I can take it." She stepped forward and prepped herself. "How about trying a throw?"

Violently wrestling a thought into a position that he could properly understand it, Jo had an idea form in his head and decided to try it out.

"Actually, I want to try something that's been bouncing around my head for the past few seconds."

Seeing that she had prepped herself, he switched to super speed and sped towards Candi. At the last possible moment, which Jo absently noticed took longer than it should have, he punched at Candi's stomach and switched to invulnerability mid-swing.

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The fist hit rapidly, faster than anything, and it was tough as steel as it connected. His fist ricocheted off her abdomen, bouncing off harmlessly.

"It tickles!" Candi chuckled.

Recovering from his own attack, Jo snorted at Cadni's reaction. If nothing else, he made his new friend laugh. This thought caused him to smile.

Jo hopped back a bit. "While that wasn't quite the effect I intended, still good to know. 'Use super speed then invulnerability to tickle Candi' is something to remember."

"Mind if I try that again, this time switching to super strength?"

"Jo, I haven't found anything yet that can seriously hurt me. Go ahead." She steeled herself for the attack.

'...Mmmm. We might want to find out under controlledish conditions rather than find out on the field. But that is for later.' Jo thought with a frown, concerned about that unknown and the potential consequences. Then he smirked "Challenge accepted!"

He went half way across the gym, switched to super speed and dashed towards Candi. Once again aiming for her stomach, he waited until the last possible moment, this time actively noticing and making a note of how long that seemed to take, before switching to super strength.

She arced gracefully through the air, before hitting the distant wall on the opposite side of the gym with a loud clang. She collapsed to the floor in a heap, leaving a thick dent in the wall.

As she slowly got her way to her hands and knees, she began to tremble.

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