Freaks - prologue
"What are they?"
"Don't be so rude, they're freaks, but they're still people. Teenagers: mostly."
"Well… what makes them freaks?"
"OK, I'll show you through them, in room one are two brothers from Hamburg, Germany. The eldest, Gilbert Beilschmidt is just fresh of twenty, and he exhibits the ability to temporarily evaporate into a dark mist and reappear within a radius of a couple of metres. This is despite physical limitations such as walls and boundaries. The blonde, Ludwig Beilschmidt is eighteen, he exhibits superhuman strength, being near indestructible."
"Ah."
"Now onto our second set of brothers in room two, we tracked them down in Rome, Italy after they disrupted a race car tournament. Lovino; aged nineteen and Feliciano; aged eighteen. They both have extreme hyperactivity, endless energy which is accompanied with extreme agility and speed."
"Holy shit, they're literally bouncing off the walls!"
"Yeah, they're bitches to catch, they just keep going, and going, I don't even think they need to sleep. They go like this for hours."
"Well, what's their top speed?"
"Dunno; we hope to figure that out, we've only seen them go so fast that they become blurs and run up walls, as seen here."
"Damn…"
"Now, in room three we have Alfred F. Jones from Detroit, United States. He's an interesting boy of nineteen with a vigilante attitude about him; he'd be pretty useful if he knew how to control himself. He has some form of telekinesis: objects would just move around him; whether he wanted them to or not. Objects would be thrown at people, crushed, anything, sometimes by his command and sometimes subconsciously he commands it."
"Why is there only one in there?"
"Because; you can't see him. That's Matthew Williams; from Toronto, Canada. He's the same age as Alfred, however he's pretty shy: I think. He turns invisible whenever he's around unfamiliar people or in uncomfortable situations."
"Does Alfred even know he's there?"
"Doubt it. I doubt he's even registered that there are two beds in the room."
"Well, that's going to be fun to watch."
"OK, in room four we have Francis Bonnefoy from Paris, France, for years he was undetected until caught at the age of twenty-two. He's special because none of his powers are physical: he's a telepath. Within a few minutes of interaction with someone, he'll instantly know everything about that person and how their mind works; what makes them tick. He'll easily be able to use this to his advantage; it doesn't matter whether the companion has told him anything or not. He does this thing where he'll use his charm and just dissect the mind of his target, getting all of the information he wants. The loud one is twenty year old Arthur Kirkland from Cambridge, England. As you can see … he's an arsonist."
"I'll say; he's going to burn the door down."
"I'd love to see him try; his fire doesn't burn as hot as his temper. Soon he's going to run out of flames to project, if he keeps going he may knock himself out."
"So wait, Francis would know everything about him by now, just look at him… sitting there, watching Arthur."
"He probably knows everything about Arthur that he wants to know."
"Damn, let's hope he doesn't have any secrets."
"Now, in room five we have twenty year old Kiku Honda from Tokyo, Japan. We believe him to be descendant of ten generations of Japanese heroes, as he has completely developed sword-like blades under the skin of his forearms; we suspect this to be a genetic trait. At his own will he can use these swords. Yao Wang, from Shang Hai, China, he is the oldest of our group at twenty three. His ability is to manipulate the electricity in electronics, lights, energy and can move it to other objects and use it to his own ability: primarily to deliver electric shocks or beams of energy; sorta like a laser."
"Great."
"Now lastly in room six, we have nineteen year old Ivan Braginski from Sochi, Russia. He is cold, literally; he has no sort of warmth within his system, and everything he touches with his bare hands gets covered in frost. When he wants, we believe with the presence of water he can turn the water into ice and manipulate it to his will."
"Oh, do we have another invisible kid in there?"
"No, we chose to let him have his kingdom of isolation. I don't want anyone catching a cold because of him. We consider him and Jones to be the most dangerous out of all of them."
"Heh… let's pray to god they don't get out, god knows what they'd do…"