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[Mad Jack]

For a better understanding of how Mad Jack’s powers work, here’s how his last “working day” ran:

In need for some cash, he decided to steal the money that has been stored in the vault of a big bank that was notorious for its shady business practices and working only in favor of the one-percenters.

To get to the vault, he used his ability to turn invisible and walked unnoticed past all customers, employees and guards. Once there, he switched to Technology Manipulation and rendered all surveillance cameras and the security system inoperative before he used his Psychometry ability to learn from the dial what the combination to the vault was.

Inside the vault he used super speed to collect all the money in seconds and put it in duffel bags, which he had brought with him. Finally, with his teleportation powers he opened a door to his own apartment through which he threw the bags.

Sadly, at this very moment a guard came in the vault to see what is going on with the surveillance cameras. Using his Tactile Telephaty, Jack grabbed the guards hand, shut down the waking part of his brain, and erased his memory of the last 5 minutes.

But since the change of super powers also had the consequence that the teleportation portal had closed before he was able to walk through it himself, he now needed to think fast in order to escape undetected. Which is no problem when you can increase your own brain’s efficiency through faster neural firing to think faster. In a few seconds he had worked out a new plan.

After quickly switching between Frequency Detection to tap into the police radio with his mind and Enhanced Hearing to check that he was still in the clear, he used the ability of Density Control to cause the atoms of a part of the vaults back wall to shake apart and move his own atoms through after which he landed in an enclosed backyard behind the bank.

Here he swapped his powers again and with his superspeed improved agility he performed a few quick manuevers, bounced off the walls of the buildings surrounding the backyard and flipped onto the roof of the building next to the bank while being only a blur to anyone who might have watched.

While outside the police surrounded the bank, Jack strolled calmly down the stairs of the office building next door, took off his hoodie and rearranged the physiological features of his face whith his shapeshifting ability to take on the appearance of a guy he had seen in one of the cubicle he passed on his way down.

Thus equipped he strolled leisurely past a cop who just blared in his megaphone and prompted the bank robber, whom he still suspected in the bank, to surrender immediately. With a mischievous smile on his lips, Jack disappeared into the crowd.

Unfortunately, the day was not yet over for him. On the way home he witnessed a traffic accident in which a child had been run over by an articulated bus and was now badly injured trapped between the dual wheels of the extremely heavy vehicle.

Without thinking long he slipped over his hood, used his power of Empathy to get rid of the surrounding gawkers by instilling overwhelming fear in them, and promptly switched over to Mass Manipulation to cause the bus to decrease in mass and become lighter so that he could lift him effortlessly.

Thank God the soon after arrived firefighters managed to get the kid out just before Jacks seemingly superhuman strength eventually failed, and he himself was crushed by the bus. Severly wounded due to the fact that he couldn’t use his power of Density Control again to make himself invulnerable, he had to resort to his Regenerative Healing ability to heal from his injuries and revert back to a healthy state.

Mentally exhausted by the events of the day and annoyed by the frenzy of flashing cameras around him, he jumped over the railing of a nearby bridge into the river and with the help of his Reactive Environmental Adaption, that provided him with aquatic respiration as soon as he was submerged into the water, he swam underwater until he had left everyone behind.

Finally arrived wet and frozen at home, he warmed himself up again with a strong drink, a cigarette and counting the loot which had already been waiting for him there.