10: Cicada

AU Fanfic.

Taylor Hebert is a martial artist. To be more accurate, she is the foremost swordswoman in America, is skilled with most forms of firearms, and is well beyond most hand-to-hand practitioners. This, however, does not stop her from being non-aggressive, or keep her from getting sick. Sadly, these two facts, and the fact that she is getting bullied due to her lack of initiative, combine to land her in her locker, full of used tampons, for a week over winter break. Naturally, she triggers. Unnaturally, she triggers three times. While she gained the ability to sense and control all creatures with exoskeletons (within her range, which grew with practice), she also gained the ability to control her own cells perfectly, and the ability to make things out of dead bug parts without tools and with a refining effect.

Weak, for a power, you say? Maybe. But, like a suit of clothes cannot make a king, but the king the clothes, so too does a power not define a hero.