Chapter 4
After she accepted his offer, Max took Rose to the same place he'd always used in the past to recharge and practice his own powers, many years ago. Luckily for them, it was still there, albiet it was a little dusty, it was the 5th street power station, which had long since been abandoned, leaving it free and clear for Rose and Max. A family of rats also apparently decided to make this power station their home, and one scampered across the foot of Rose's shoe as they stepped in. She gasped lightly before throwing herself against Max's arm, clinging onto it tightly, and Max objected in no way. In fact he smirked quite a bit as he slipped his arm around her waist slowly, "It's alright Rose...watch this, I'll get rid of 'em for ya." he continued to smirk, as he held his free hand out towards the scampering rat, unleashed a blast of electrical energy.
Several squeaks and flashes of light later, Max smirked as he returned his hand to his side, leaving a smoking, dead rat on the floor of the power station. "Max..." Rose smirked, and she wasn't sure why that feeling washed over her right then, but memories of her erotic dream about Max earlier flashed back into her mind, and seeing him use his powers like that, made her want to make that dream quite a reality. Although right now was a time for fine tuning her powers, but when they got back to his apartment, Max Dillon was fair game. Funny how Max was thinking the same thing of Rose about that time.
"Alright Rose..." Max said, leading her into an open space in the station, standing in front of her, as he placed his fingers on her eyelids, shutting them lightly for her, before removing his hand. "I want you to clear your mind of all else, except for the feelings of hatred and anger welling up inside your stomach...remember what those bastards did to you...and how scared you felt about yourself when you first learned of your powers." Max spoke in a light, vindictive tone, as he circled around Rose slowly as he spoke, while Rose kept her eyes shut, doing as Max said. She was drawing apon those feelings in herself, and it didn't take her long to feel hatred burning in the pit of her stomach, nothing that had happened was her fault...it was the government, it was 'the suits' fault! "It's you against the world Rose...and since you have to suffer, so should the world." Max smirked, as he came to a hault directly in front of Rose, watching as the expression on her face twisted from one of normalcy, to one of anger and revenge. "That's right...it's all their fault...you can no longer live among normal society the way you used to before your accident, because of a bureaucratic mistake you have to change the way you live your entire life! You will have to endure the reprocussions of that accident for the rest of your life! You, Rose Brennan, will be ridiculed by others as being abnormal because of the powers you have!" Max said, raising his voice slowly more with each sentence he spoke, "And what are you going to do about it?!" He yelled, as Rose's eyes flew open burning with anger from the fire Max fueled with his speech, as she clinched her hands into fists by her sides.
"I'M GOING TO KILL THEM!" Rose screamed, throwing her hands forward, as she blasted a hole clear through the wall of the station, sending half of an old generator flying through it. The only sound that followed afterwards, was Rose's heavy breathing and the explosive sound of the generator flying through the thick walls of the station.
Max laughed evilly to himself, folding his hands behind his back as he watched Rose, smirking as he walked over to her, placing his hand beneath her chin, lifting her head so she was gazing back at him. "Very good...you've just taken step one Rose...you've learned how to control your powers, how to use them at your own free will and how to stop them when you want." he grinned, brushing his hand against her cheek lightly.
"Max...that felt...incredible," Rose smirked, staring down at her hands, before looking back up at Max.
"Doesn't it? You're no longer human Rose, you've risen to the same rank as myself, now that you have those powers of yours...for I am Electro, and with the powers I hold in my possesion, I am a living god, and it's up to me to make sure every fcker in this city learns that lesson," Max smirked, as he released his hold on Rose's chin slowly.
"Heheh Max..." Rose smirked, fiddling with the collar of his shirt lightly, as he smirked down at her.
"Hmm?"
"This might be a silly question but...that costume of yours...did you make it yourself or did you buy it? I want a costume Max, I want to make one of my own," Rose grinned.
"Heheh there's no such thing as a silly question Rose, and I made that costume of mine with my own two hands. It's a Max Dillon original design," Max smirked. "That and the fact that if I hired someone else to make it, I'd have to kill them once the costume was done, because then they'd know who I was...although at this point half the city does already anyway." he shrugged lightly.
"That's perfect, Max on our way home...can we make a stop off at the fabric store? I have a little project in mind for myself tonight," Rose grinned, taking one of his hands lightly, as Max pulled Rose against himself lightly.
"Of course we can," Max smirked, wrapping his other arm around Rose lightly, "And hold on tightly, we're taking the express route," he smirked once more, before blasting a hole through the roof with his electrical energy, as the two of them rose into the air slowly, and Max flew away towards a fabric shop.
After her first powers practice session, Rose had holed herself up in her room for the past several nights, working endlessly for hours at a time, on her new costume, all the while thinking up an alter identity for herself as well, and eventually she'd decided on a name. Now that her costume was done, all she had to do was unveil it to Max, but she wanted to surprise him in someway.
The perfect surprise opportunity presented itself several nights later, Max knocked on Rose's bedroom door (that she'd only just recently moved in to), and annouced that he was going out to 'raise hell' and that he'd be back later that night. Rose replied through her door with a "Enjoy!" and smirked, as she heard Max's balcony door shut back, meaning Max had flown away to go have his fun.
"Heheh and now my dear Electro, it's time you met a new friend," Rose smirked, slipping quickly into her costume, which, for someone like Rose, was perfect. Her costume was comprised of a strapless pink and black top, and a very mini pink skirt, with cut out sides, along with a green mask, and a black rose choker around her neck, for added touch she had a band of thorns around both her upper arms and thighs, she was suited up and ready to go. Pink might not be much of a supervillian color, but it was Rose's favorite, and she was going to make sure people around town took her and her costume of choice with a deadly serious-ness.
It didn't take Rose long to find Electro, with her super speed powers she could dash along the rooftops of buildings without much trouble, and the bright flashes of light coming from over in the distance most definately belonged to only one man. She followed the light and the screaming of people on the streets below, and crept up as quietly as she could behind the rooftop perched Electro, cackling and calling to the people down below, running for their lives.
"Heheh," Rose smirked to herself, flipping some hair behind her shoulder, before she walked up to Electro, clearing her throat lightly to get his attention. Max quirked an eyebrow, wondering what moron decided to come and try to stop him, almost expecting Spider-Man when he turned around, however he was met with a voluptous redhead in a scantily clad costume, and being a living male wearing spandex, he immediately had a problem on his hands. "gulp" Max quickly whipped off his mask, placing it over the problem area down below, before he fully turned to face Rose, sweating bullets as he tried not to eye her too obviously.
"Hello Max, I thought I'd...show you the results of all that work I've been doing, you like?" Rose smirked, twirling around slowly to be sure she showed Max every inch of her new costume.
"R-Rose?" Max choked out, as he stared at Rose, before his lips curled up into a very happy looking smirk. "I like...heheh mmm very much," he smirked, keeping his mask where it was, as that problem of his persisted.
Rose smiled, as she stopped twirling and walked over to Electro, "I do as well," she smirked, And I especially like the reaction. she mused to herself, even though Max had his mask covering the area between his thighs, Rose knew what he was hiding, and was quite thrilled to have gotten that reaction from Max/Electro. "And tonight, you can call me Black Rose." she smirked. "Need some help with what you're doing there?" she smirked, walking to stand beside Max, who was running every gross thought he could think of through his head, to get rid of his "problem", especially since Rose was no right beside him.
"From you? I'd love some..." Max smirked, as he finally got things under control, and slipped his mask back on, finally turning fully to face Rose in her costume.
"Time to put my first lesson to good use." Rose smirked, holding her hands out in front of her, as she sent a massive blast towards the building adjacent from she and Electro, causing a large shower of glass and debris to rain down on the already screaming, running victims below. Several were killed instantly, and some were just badly injured.
"Nice first shot...I think you're going to fit into this gig very quickly," Electro grinned, making his right hand into a gun shape, before firing off a few large electrical blasts to finish off any remaining surviors down below. "And you know this is a great way to work out some anger." he snickered. "I call this my anger management class, the city of New York calls it destroying public property, just a matter of opinion." he grinned.
"Heheh I'd say so..." Rose smirked, watching as Max finished off the victims he'd come to finish, one looked to be a important public official and his entourage, and that's when Rose wondered, why was he out here destorying all these people? "Ma-uh-Electro?"
"Yea?" Electro asked, blowing a bit of smoke coming from off the finger he'd fired the blast with, as he smirked lightly.
"This might be none of my business but...what were you doing out here? I mean, I didn't mess you up by interrupting you or anything did I?" Rose asked.
"Oh...No, no Rose you didn't interrupt me, and as for what I'm donig out here...I'm sort of part of a group called..." Max began, before he was interrupted by a voice coming thorough a walkie-talkie like device worn on his side. "Electro! Come in Electro, did you do what I asked of you?" a smooth, male voice wafted over the airwaves.
"Yea, yea. Don't get your tentacles in a wad Doc, I got him and the rest of his little crew, and I'm about to split, rule number one right now is not to get caught by any cops, heroes, or morons trying to be helpful. So do I have to report back to you with my status or can I blow this popsicle stand?" Max asked.
"Well I do see you blundered the job while you were out, you were supposed to zap the burough president and leave but you had to hang around." Max scowled on his end, "You may...leave if you'd like, I can monitor the aftermath of our little escapades on the news from where I am now, but I expect you and the rest of the Six back at headquarters by no later than tommorow evening at six p.m. sharp!" The voice replied back.
"Right...see ya then," Max said, shooting a rather colorful gesture towards the walkie talkie with his middle finger, after he ended his conversation. "Fcker...ya know he thinks he's so great and wonderful but all he's done so far is sit in our 'headquarters' and bark out orders to me and the rest of the fellas." Electro muttered, before Rose's clearing her throat behind him, reminded Electro he wasn't alone. "Oh...sorry Rose...I was going to tell you, I'm part of the Sinister Six, you might've heard of them?" he asked, as Rose nodded her head lightly.
"I've heard a little something here and there, not much though, but I do know enough to realize that must've been the ring leader, Doctor Octopus on the other end of the line there?" Rose asked.
Max nodded, as he clipped the walkie talkie to the side of his costume once more. "It was him, I've worked with him and the rest of the Sinister Six more times than I can re-count, although lately the whole bunch of 'em have been pushing me the wrong way." he muttered, as the air around Max popped and crackled lightly.
Rose glanced around as she heard the pops, before she walked over to Max, placing her hand on his forearm lightly. "Let's go home Max. Come on, it's kind of cold out here anyway, and a warm blanket and bowl of hot soup sounds better than spandex and snow flurries." she smiled.
The air around Max continued to crack and pop as Rose touched him, though now it was for a different reason. "Y-yes let's...go home." he smiled, "Want a lift?" he asked, holding a hand out towards her.
"Love one." Rose smiled, taking his hand and holding on tightly as Electro lifted off, flying he and Rose back home, just as thousands of squad cars and paramedics pulled up down on the streets below to clean up the aftermath of the chaos.