Issue 16
A Black and White World
A Library
Kara finds herself in monochrome school library. She's being lectured to by a librarian - she knows Miss Honey. She lectures Kara on how guys don't want smart girls. Her hair is up in some old timey pigtails, and she's clutching a pile of books. She and setting are all black and white.
A Kitchen
Danny, also in monochrome. Finds herself in a kitchen, in front a massively packed breakfast table. She avoids getting picked up by Goliath and Mr Mercury II and given a lift to school, and heads out herself.
A Street
Jen finds herself on a strange street. She's walking along on her way to school. She sees an old timey Fire Engine pull up to a tree bell ringing. The firefighters climb up a ladder and rescue a cat. Everything is strangely idyllic.
She sees the sign in front of a high school, her high school. Red Bastion High School. She sees that she's dressed in an 50s vintage cheerleader outfit and surrounded by others. Pinky, seemingly Jen's best friend asks her about her date with Pip last night. Jen gets angry as she's questioned and is confused about what's going on.
Red Bastion
The Headmistress moves Jen along, and admires her domain. After finding a phone booth with no dial tone Danny bumps into Jen outside the school and they catch up. Pip and Phillipa (here known as Pippa) drive up, and Pip asks Jen if she'll wear his school pin. She has no idea what that means and escapes after he says something about the hall monitors.
In History class they bump into Kara but aren't able to catchup. They head a kerfuffle occuring out in the hall - a voice shouting. Jen gets herself excused to see the nurse and gets Danny to come with her. They see a jock they know as Kevin get dragged away into a room by a hall monitor screaming something about how they don't belong here.
While in the classroom Kara tries to keep tabs with her powers on where Danny and Jen are but she struggles to connect with her powers, and manages to just about keep track. They go to the room Kevin was taken but there's nothing there but an empty classroom and a Janitor.
Danny has a flash, remembers that this is the Red Bastion that Jen told her about. This is a prison - some of the people here are constructs and others are inmates that they came to rescue. The constructs are vulnerable to Danny, especially the Young Exemplars, they want to make her happy.
In the Nurses office Jen gets treated with a plaster and a lollipop by the nurse. Danny starts to cause chaos by stealing her chair which causes some strange things to happen to the black and white, but they bump into the Headmistress who gives them into trouble and tries to send them back to class. There's a steel to her words, so they obey for now.
Recess
The kids all leave for recess and the gang group back up in the lunch room. Kara explains the muting of powers, and Danny shares her disruption strategy - it seems to bring colour back into the world. Kara encourages Danny to keep disrupting things. Jen worries that they don't know what happens if they don't behave. Kara proposes they make something happen - Danny and Jen propose that they try and leave the town.
Ken and Max approach to check if Danny is coming to the diner later. Danny vehemently denies that this ever happens, trying to get a rise out of them. This gets a bit of colour out of him as he starts to become angry.
Jen decides that before they do anything she needs a pair of paints. They barge into the boy's locker room, causing more chaos and Jen grabs an outfit - with some car keys in the pocket.
If we're doing this, I need some goddamn pants!
- Jen
Danny reaches out to her powers, and makes something that keeps all 3 of them from being watched
