Poseidon's Rage

                                    

                                          
"You look like crap," Armin noted with a frown as he ran alongside her.
"Feel like it too." She mumbled. She had a few bruises scattered across her body, and her clothes had a few ragged holes added. Despite that, though, she still showed up when Myth sent them all a group text. That was where she and Armin currently were, running laps around their base.
Myth, with the suggestion of Battery, had turned the bottom floor into a sort of training room. There were a few mats scattered around where you could practically spar with a partner, mainly to pick up on grappling or other takedown moves, as well as heavy weightlifting equipment near the back, though in order for her to actually get a good workout in, she found she needed to lift up the dead machines that filled the former warehouse they were in. She felt herself growing a bit stronger every day. When she first got her powers, she had been able to pick up a car, but now she wondered if she could bring down a building or tower.
The final thing that had been placed down in the room was a track that went around the inside of the building. Their base honestly wasn't that wide or open, but she didn't feel like picking heavy things up at the moment, so she and Armin had decided to run and do laps with each other to build up some stamina. Armin had gotten his powers a lot earlier than her and had been doing practices like this for a while, so he was used to it. Meanwhile, her own body was pretty sore and banged up from Rowin, so she was falling behind, and the boy was having to slow himself down to stay next to her.
"How long have you two known each other for?" Lois asked, running between them. The invisible girl was very hyper as it turned out and had been doing laps even longer than both of them.
"Hope and I go way back." Armin shrugged.
"Armin and I have always gone to the same school." She explained. "I saved him from bullies, and now he's my servant!"
"That's not how it went at all!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
Lois giggled a bit as she watched the two of them fight. They were slapping at each other as they ran. "I wonder if it was fate that you both met." The girl hummed.
That caused her to stop. "Fate? You mean like destiny and other stuff like that? I don't really know if I believe in all that stuff."
"Really?" Lois raised an eyebrow and giggled. "We live in a world where people can shake entire cities or tear down buildings, but the idea of fate scares you?"
"I didn't say it scares me, just that I don't believe in it." Hope reasoned. "If good things happen to me, then it's because I did them. If bad things happen to me, then it's my own fault for letting it happen. I'm not going to blame it on fate."
"That's the spirit!" Armin clapped her hard on the back, nearly causing her to stumble. "Oh, um, whoops. My bad." She shot him a dirty look, and he shrunk down a bit and got back to running in silence.
Lois was in front of them and had turned herself around to look back at both of them. The blonde girl seemed to have zero issue with running backwards. "You know there was a theory that Boy Genius once came up with. He believed that many Supers are actually attracted to each other subconsciously and group up even without knowing. Humans are social creatures and team up, so it would be the same for Supers. Because of this, a lot of people in a Super's life are either Supers themselves or people who had a chance to become a Super, but their power never awakened. I wonder if that's why the two of you happened to know each other and ended up on the same team."
"Nah." She shook her head. "I'd have been friends with Armin even if he wasn't cool."
"I wouldn't." Armin retorted. "If you didn't become a Super, I was going to ditch you the first chance I got."