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[video] Show Me Your Moves

[The camera bobs and judders as someone sets it up, catching flashes of a scruffy, unkempt face and pale arms and the sky for a moment.]

Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?

[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]

...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.

[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]

So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.

[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]

Whoo!

[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]

It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.

[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]

So. That's me. Show me what you got.

((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))

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[The person who snows up on screen, a gangly boy with wild brown hair, appears to still be fiddling with the Omnicomm.]

[Also, there's a giant black reptile right behind him.]

...I think I've got this thing working.

I can manipulate metal, apparently. Make it float in mid-air, change shape, and other things like that. Just not sure I have the control to show off.

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[Grif's about to comment on how that's probably useful, like stopping bullets and things, when he notices Toothless.]

Hey dude. Hold still. Don't panic.

There's something behind you.

You mean the very big flying lizard? Yeah, I know. He's been stalking me for years. I figure if I ignore him long enough he'll go away.

[Hiccup was promptly smacked with Toothless's tail]

Ow, hey! It was just a joke, Toothless.

Wait, he's yours? Is that your pet?

[What the hell kind of awesome world has dragons for pets? Where can he sign up?]

More like a partner than a pet. He's my best friend, really.

[Hiccup had been known to some dragons pets, but Toothless was a little too smart and savvy to really qualify.]

Not so good with people, huh?

[Because what he's getting from this is that Hiccup is the kind of guy who owns a cat and calls that socialization.]

I will admit to that being the case at the time I met him. Not so much now though.

Does everybody have dragons? Is that like your universe's dogs? You just have dragons?

No, the riding dragons thing is mostly unique to my island. Seeing that change is a long-term goal of mine, as it happens. Unfortunately, most Vikings have trouble getting along with each other, let alone giant fire, ice, lightning, poison gas, magma, boiling hot water, and explosive plasma breathing lizards.

Oh.

Lame.

[That's all he says. Just "lame".]

You're only saying that because you don't have a dragon.

No!

[Yes.]

I mean, it's just a big lizard.

[Toothless hears that particular comment, and glares into the screen. Then, briefly, his eyes widens in recognition of something behind Grif, and bounds off.]

Wait, where are you-

[There's a splash off screen, as Toothless jumps into the seawater surrounding Hiccup's habitat.]

No clue what that was about...oh. OHHHH.

{It's difficult, but Hiccup spots what Toothless did. Behind Grif, in the distance, there seems to be cliffs rising out of the water.]

Yeah, ah, question. Does this coastline look familiar to you?

[The view on Grif's end changes from a messy haired dragonrider, to a distant view of a Hawaiian coast. With a black figure, bobbing in and out of the water, quickly moving towards it.]

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[He's a little surprised to see the dragon but after the bug-man and the purple people with four arms, he's not really surprised by much now.]

You're a metalbender. That's rare back home.

[A pause.]

By rare, I mean only one person can do it. My friend kind of invented it.

[He's pretty sure he can say that now, that Toph is his friend. (Right?) They included him in the group hug and everything.]

Can you Earthbend? Can you move earth or is it just metal?

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Just metal. Doesn't seem to matter which kind of metal either, which surprised a few people. Apparently they've got an entire world of people who can do the same thing, but only with the kind of metals that are attracted to magnets.

[Zuko is quiet for a moment as he contemplates the prospect of an entire planet of metalbenders...]

...Toph would hate that.

Your friend, right? How did she do this whole thing?

[Zuko shrugs haplessly.]

I have no idea. We weren't friends then so I didn't hear how she figured it all out.

[Y'know, on account of Zuko being a bad guy.]

All I know is she just does it.

She can Earthbend, right? That's what it sounded like from the way you were talking. Maybe that's how she did it, manipulated the impurities inside the metal instead of the metal itself.

Or something like that, anyways. I'm kinda out of my depth here. Powers like that don't happen in my world.

That makes sense.

[Not that he knew a ton about metal but it did make sense.]

You need to find a master. If people in this universe can metalbend maybe you can ask the Legion to find you one that can teach you.

[Because Umbra can only teach shadowbending and that's not the same thing.]

I might look into it, but it's about as similar to what I can do as what your friend does. They don't really control metal, just the force that makes certain kinds of metal attracted to magnets. Which sounds really, really cool, and I may go find one of them just so I can ask them about how it works, but it's not really the same thing.

Then you should probably lean on your fighting skills that don't involve powers since it might be a while before you learn to control them.

Do you know how to fight with a weapon?

Swords, shields, and crossbows mostly. Although I probably do need to make a new sword now. A retractable, flammable sword may look impressive, but it's mostly a dragon-training tool. It's not really built to handle a fight with a solid blade.

-although, looking at some of the metals and alloys here, I might be able...

[Hiccup grabs a stick, and starts doodling plans onto the ground, before remembering he's still part of a conversation. He looks back at the comm sheepishly]

Sorry, got off track there for a second. I should add that Toothless and I are together way more often than not, and he breathes explosive balls of plasma.

You made a fire sword?

[That actually sounded impressive. It sounded like something Sokka would be in awe over.]

Nothing really that special. Just a spring-loaded retractable blade coated in flammable Monstrous Nightmare saliva, some canisters of Hideous Zippleback gas I can release from the pommel, and lighters at both ends.