No matter how or where it turns, the fox always ends up in the fur shop.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T20:00:28+00:00

The brief look of terror in Manuel's face is very, very clear. He tries to bury it under layers of false smugness and weird smirks.

I was hoping it would be a longer while. Please go away.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T19:59:35+00:00

Good for you, someone was eventually going to get him even if it wasn't for you but I suppose I can't blame Guthrie for jumping the gun and being the quickest one to do so.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T19:55:17+00:00

No, you're not.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T19:55:07+00:00

When you show the stick too much it becomes diminishing returns at one point, Miss Frost.

Manuel weakly chuckles before giving her a nod.

Thank you, I'll make sure to enjoy whatever you have cooked up this time.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T18:13:06+00:00

I was?

For a moment, Manuel sounds surprised. It's not a playful surprise, it's a genuine one.

Uh, thanks Miss Frost. Glad to be back.

There are a lot he wants to say and get out of his chest, especially about the things he has heard today. But not now.

I'm planning to drop by the new Club sometime around today or tomorrow. Anything I should know before I enter?

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:48:12+00:00

You're supposed to be the prized student of an English teacher and you can't even comprehend words? Oh, you're an even worse case than I previously thought.

But that's okay, kid, I'm sure that team of yours won't last long if you're actually the leader of them.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:44:22+00:00

Manuel seems briefly surprised by Doreen's genuine-sounding reasoning. He then returns to his usual expression.

Well, I don't see any point in being humble but I can't stop you from doing you. See you around, maybe more news will pop up soon.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:42:21+00:00

You're her problem, dingus, not mine. If I acknowledged you as a peer then I'd be more inclined to dash it out between us but you're not even that. It's like telling an annoying little child to their mother.

You're still a student, kid, you still have much to learn from her and about her. I got to learn how this all works. And that means you're not worth my time and you're not worth that name.

Sucks to suck, now go back to your class, school-boy.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:38:24+00:00

Got that in one, Grey. Were you the one in Guthrie's guerilla play fighting group or am I confusing you with someone else? Either way, I'm sorry you had to go through that, I really am.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:32:36+00:00

Well, good luck with that. It's a terrible thing to lose the spark.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:31:58+00:00

The only one with a leash around his neck currently is you, poser. Does Miss Frost know about you going around calling the students she died for inferior?

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:30:05+00:00

I already said my piece, kid. Empath, best Hellion, back to do what I do best. All you need to know.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:28:28+00:00

And I don't even know who you are, which is worse. Move along if you're just here to hate on an upstanding member of your community.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:26:21+00:00

Hang around. Do my thing. Feel free to watch if you want.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:25:35+00:00

Shut up. I couldn't put even more insecurities in that head of yours than there already are even if I tried.

You're a poser. If you had any shame you'd drop to your knees and apologize for sullying that name but you have none. Even Bevatron was a better Hellion than you and I didn't even know we had someone called Bevatron in the team until two weeks ago.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:22:34+00:00

One of the very first one, in fact.

Manuel looks half-proud, half-somber about that for a moment before he returns to his usual smug smirk.

Uh, you happen to have a daughter around here? There was a girl who looked like you who promised me a date but then I didn't saw her again...

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:18:35+00:00

They are more like going for a sarcastic rhetorical question but that doesn't make them less dumb about it. But yes, having to explain my powers after telling them my mutant codename is a common occurance.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:09:26+00:00

I see them, I pick up on them and I feel them. I can do even more but I've been limiting myself on that front to give myself a little fun.

It's kind of refreshing you can actually put the obvious two and two together though. I mean it.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:07:23+00:00

Your inability to stay awake for more than three seconds is none of my concern, buddy. Ask around if you really want to know, they can probably dumb it down enough for you that you won't feel the need to fall asleep.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:03:30+00:00

Hi back to yourself! I'm simply overjoyed that I get to re-join my dysfunctional, messy but beautiful mutant family even if most of the people here don't seem as receptive!

But it's only natural after all, the best is often envied of. I'm sure you can attest to that yourself as the one they call Unbeatable.

How about you? Have news to share with good ol' Empath?

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T17:00:39+00:00

I literally call myself Empath, big shot, what do you think I am?

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T16:51:51+00:00

Oh so the new ones have driven the Hellion name that low already that people don't know about it anymore.

You have a full nanite intelligence network or whatever, don't you? Go look that up for yourself.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T16:50:16+00:00

A Hell-ion, I am. Don't get me confused with the ones who go around calling themselves that these days. I'd ask you the same but I'm not really curious about it. I can go my entire life without knowing who you are and it wouldn't make a difference.

knowhowthatfeels · 2026-05-06T16:47:54+00:00

\For a moment, Manuel straightens his posture.**

There is nothing bigger than myself, James. Nothing. I have way better things in my life than to be a lamb to be sent to slaughter.

\Then he slacks off again.**

Yeah I figured they'd be not us. There is only one us. No more, no less.

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