Kaori slowly opened her eyes to the sound of people rushing about in a room that she recognized as the SSX lodge's paramedics department. She noticed Rita Fisher, the SSX Nurse, along with Darren Palmer, the SSX doctor, standing around making notes. She blinked a couple of times as they walked out of the room, and yawned. Where was all the snow?

The last thing she remembered was that loud bang, and then Mac trying and failing to pull her to safety, but that was it. Mac! Where was he!? She opened her eyes fully as they darted around the room. She let out a sigh of relief-they were all here, that was good. She rubbed her eyes sleepily then noticed something or somethings dangling in front of her face taking both hands she grabbed them, her eyes wide with fear and shock.

Her mouth dropped open. It couldn't be, it just couldn't. She blinked, feeling them up and then down to notice they were connected to her head. They were . . . they were just like antennae, it couldn't be!!

She jumped out of her bed and rushed to the mirror and tried to take in what her hazel eyes were gazing on. She still had on her blue snowboarding outfit, her style was still the same two braids, but she had antennae! Not only that but . . . she spun around. Her Fairy wings, which she had named cuteo cho chou, were no longer able to come off her body- they were connected to her back. She was just like a fairy. She blinked then did the only thing she could think of. She screamed.

The next thing Kaori heard was someone's voice. "SHUT THE FUCK UP KAORI!! OH SHIT! IT'S TOO FUCKING BRIGHT!!!!" Kaori came face to face with what looked exactly like a vampire, she screamed again. "LISTEN YOU LITTLE IDIOT SHUT UP NOW!!!" The she-vamp yelled covering her ears. Kaori studied her features. It couldn't be!

Sandy covered her ears that noise was so loud. Louder than usual. She then realized her ears felt funny, she felt them a couple more times then realized they were pointy. Where the fuck was she and why was it so damn bright!? She squinted her eyes and stepped out of the bed she was in. She bit her lip and swore as blood came out of the cut. She ran her tongue over the front of her teeth, since when did she have fangs? Running over to the mirror, she pushed Kaori out of the way and her mouth dropped.

"WHAT IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Her ears were pointy, like an elf's. He fangs were sharper than usual, her eyes were yellow with black pupils and her Vampire wings??? They weren't like Zoë's bat wings, they were much longer and in a different shape and they were protruding from her back, attached. Not only that, her nails were like claws. She had turned into a vampire. She blinked, then screamed as Kaori had done, only to shut herself up because of the hurt in her ears. She turned to Kaori and jumped "What? The fuck is going on?" Kaori's mouth opened and closed several times to come out with nothing.

"Screw this, it's too fucking bright!" She cried with that she drew every single blind and turned out the lights leaving them in the pitch black, but Sandy could see perfectly. She groaned, this was a bad dream any minute she was gonna wake up to Griff bouncing up and down on her bed . . . or not.

Kaori squinted around the room, went to the nearest bed and nudged the person in it. "Wake up!" She whispered not knowing-or caring-at that time who it was.

"Oh, bugger," The voice said and Kaori smiled. It was Moby.

"Moby, wake up, silly, you have to wake up!"

"No, bog off" Came the sleepy reply. Kaori thought for a minute then smiled.

"Moby! Every girl on the circuits in their underwear!" Moby shot up.

"What!? Where!?" He said groggily "Kaori, you little liar! Why the hell is it so dark- turn on a ruddy light!"

"You dare and I'll kill you, Jones" Sandy threatened while trying to wake up Elise.

"Oww! Whose nails are they!" Elise said as she started to wake.

"Mine," Sandy said grumpily. "Something weird has happened to us." in the pitch black, Sandy could still see Elise's confused and groggy expression. "Screw it this taking to long. Kaori, just shout," Sandy stuck her fingers in her ears as Kaori bellowed.

"EVERYONE WAKE UP!!!!!!" Sandy winced but removed her fingers.

"Damn . . . " Came the long moan of Nate's voice "What the hell happened?"

"You don't wanna know," Sandy muttered angrily.

"Can't you just turn on a bloody light?" Moby said again.

"NO!!!" Sandy yelled, then was answered by a loud ringing in her ears covering them she winced muttering "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow,"

"What happened out there?" Allegra asked sleepily and rubbing her eyes. "I remember the blast then that was it. Where's Viggo and Seeiah and everyone?"

"Oh no, Seeiah! Was she all right?"

"Stuff it, Sparky!!" Elise said. Sandy's left eye began to twitch because of the level of noise.

"So why can't we put the bloody light on?" Moby asked again.

"Cause it's too damn bright," Sandy growled. Unfortunately for her one person wasn't convinced. Whilst everyone was arguing Psymon slipped over to the door and turned on the lights. The next thing everyone heard was a beast-like female roar from Sandy. Everyone blinked a couple of times getting adjusted to the light whilst Sandy moaned in pain. Kaori, who was the only one to know why she was whimpering in pain, patted her taller friend on the back.

Then, when Mac's eyes had fully adjusted to the light, he looked up to where Kaori and Sandy were stood. Sandy noticed. "You shout in horror Fraser and you will be right through that unopened window," She threatened darkly. Mac closed his mouth. Instead he just pointed and choked out,

"K-Kaori? S-Sandy? Is that you?"

"Yes, it's us, Mac-kun," Kaori explained gently, seeing the look of horror on her younger friend's face. Everyone stared for a minute when Griff spoke up.

"What happened to them?"

"How should I know?" Sandy growled. "Fucking tanker," Griff looked at himself. He didn't look or feel any different, but how could he know? He had been caught up in that explosion pretty bad and had been unconscious so what if there was something wrong with him? Now he was scared.

"What's up Simmons?" Zoë said to him, "Don't tell me your scared?"

"Well, we were caught up in that blast and look what happened to Sandy and Kaori. They look like X-Men gone wrong,"

"Take that back!" Sandy cried, wincing again.

"Yeah, Simmons," Psymon said. "Besides there was no vampire in X-Men," He realized his mistake too late as Sandy roared again and ran after him. "OW, BITCH, STOP IT!!!"

"OW! DIE QUIETLY!!!" Sandy stopped. "Owwwwwww!" She moaned. Zoë, Alex, Nate and the others ignored them and continued.

"Well, we have to have something if Kaori and Sandy do," Elise said logically. "It's just working out what,"

"Why don't we just try stuff until we work it out?" Alex suggested helpfully.

"Well, what are we gonna do?" Brodi asked. "Just act the idiot until something happens?"

"Basically mate" Moby said.

"That's helpful," Zoë said sarcastically. They heard more growling as Psymon walked in with Sandy following. It seemed as though Psymon had been the first to experience Sandy's new teeth as he now had bite marks up his arms.

"Ouch" Zoë added, looking at them. Psymon shot her a dirty look and turned away. Moby rolled his eyes and leant back on the wall, looking around. He choked.

"Uh, mates, I think I know what happened to me when that tanker exploded," he said.

"Oh yeah, what?" Griff asked.

"I can see Viggo and Eddie talking through that wall!" Moby said pointing to the opposite wall.

"You mean you have X-ray vision?" Allegra said.

"Apparently so," Moby said.

"So Moby gets the classic power of x-ray vision," Psymon moaned. "Great just frikking great! He gets the best power!"

"Uh, Stark, what are you on about?" Nate asked, as everyone else looked at him with confused looks.

"Don't you get it?" Psymon asked, a maniacal smile spreading across his face.

"Get-what?" Alex asked.

"The explosion gave us super powers!" Psymon was almost jumping up and down like a little girl, but he left that job for Kaori to fulfill later.

"Super powers?" Elise said, rolling her eyes. "I hardly think we have our own super powers,"

"Uh, Elise?" Moby said. "Where are you?"

"Where am I? Where do you think I am, Jones! I'm standing right in front of you! And what's happened to Kaori and Sandy?" Elise's disembodied voice echoed around the room.

"Well, that remains to be seen," Allegra said. "Like you,"

"What?" Elise's voice asked.

"You're-er-kind of . . . invisible," Moby said.

"Jeez, what happened to you lot during that blast? You've gone nuts! I'm right here! I haven't moved!"

Moby held his hands out in attempt to show Elise she wasn't there.

"Uh, Moby?" Elise said, when Moby's hands touched something solid. Or rather, two things solid. Moby very quickly retracted his hands.

"Sorry, love," he said. He turned to the rest of them. "She's definitely there," he confirmed. Suddenly Rahzell sat up in bed.

"You've got to be the only person who can stay unconscious through Kaori's screams," Sandy stated. He stared around at them groggily.

"Uh?" he said.

"That has got to be the only time he has been at a loss for words. Normally, Asswipe, you're very verbose," Psymon said, even happier.

"What's going on?" Rahzell asked. "And if you call me asswipe again, you'll be off this circuit,"

"Sure, Dickweed," Psymon replied. Zoë cut in before they got into a Battle of the Egos.

"In answer to your question, we have no idea what's happened to us, but we've linked the explosion of the tanker to the weird powers we seem to have,"

"Powers?" Rahzell asked. Zoë nodded. "What powers?"

"The ones I'll be using on you if you don't stop asking pointless questions," Sandy growled. Rahzell turned to look at her and almost jumped a foot in the air.

"JESUS CHRIST!" he yelled. Sandy slapped her hands over her ears.

"Shut up!!!" she moaned.

"Sandy has inherited some if Dracula's more finer personality traits," Brodi put in, speaking for the first time. Sandy beared her teeth at him.

"So we all have super powers?" Rahzell asked.

"It seems like it," Alex put in. "We were all caught up in that blast. Our bodies should have acted in the same way,"

"The voice of reason," Sandy said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"One thing, though," Psymon said. "I better have a good power,"

"Yeah, God forbid he gets something really cack, like the ability to grow his nails. Whereas I get the ability to look through walls and women's clothing and wotnot-"

"Ack, I'll never feel save again," Elise voice said. Rahzell nearly jumped a foot in the air again, looking around desperately.

"Well, how am I going to see through your clothes, Riggs, when I can't even see you!" Moby said.

"Just keep reaching out to me, Jones, I'm sure you'll love that," Elise's voice snapped sarcastically.

"So Riggs has Invisibility-" Rahzell said.

"And hasn't got a clue to how to be visible again . . . " Nate said.

"Screw you, Logan," came her reply. Psymon brightened at the sound of someone other than him insulting Nate.

"Kaori, what exactly do you have?" Brodi asked.

"I don't know," she said honestly as her wings fluttered slightly.

"Try jumping," Sandy said.

"Huh?" was Kaori's intelligent reply.

"Just jump, goddamn you!" Sandy said. Kaori, although confused, jumped.

And stayed in the air.

"Hey, look at meeeeeeeeeeee! I can fly!!" she squealed, while doing a few loop-the-loops.

"Nice going, Einstein," Zoë muttered, a bit pissed that she didn't know her power yet.

"Woah," Mac muttered, watching Kaori sailing around the ceiling.

"All right, that's enough, Tinkerbell," Nate snapped. Kaori floated down to the floor, looking a bit flushed.

Suddenly Griff jumped out of his skin.

"ELISE!!!" He yelled.

"SHUT UP!!!!" Sandy yelled.

"Hey, you can see me?" Elise asked.

"Yep," Moby confirmed.

"Oh yeah," Elise said.

"So you're visible now," Rahzell said.

"Well, duh," Elise said.

"Wait a second," Zoë said. "Kaori can fly, Sandy's a vampire, Moby has x-ray vision and Elise can make herself invisible. But how can we find out what our powers are, and if we even have any?"

"Yeah well, while you fuckos are trying to work out your powers, I'm going to get something to eat. Come on Sandy," With that Psymon walked over to the door and pulled it open . . . and pulled the whole door off it's hinges, holding it up like a book. He blinked "Whoa," he said "Not the ability to grow my finger nails, Moby!"

"Oh, look who's inherited super strength. Are we sure that this is a good thing?" Allegra said dryly.

"But to test this new super power," Psymon said, looking around for an unsuspecting victim. He soon found Allegra and grinned evilly. She noticed.

"What?" She said cautiously. Psymon grinned and grabbed her holding her up in the air. "Put me down!!" She wailed.

"You got it!" Psymon said gleefully, and with that he hurled her at the wall. Allegra screamed, holding her arms out in front of her as some sort of protection. Then everyone's mouths fell open in shock as she went through the wall.

"Whoa," Marisol stated.

Moby squinted his eyes. "Viggo's screaming," He said. "Like a girl," he added afterwards as Allegra walked back through the wall.

"OK, Allegra can walk through walls and Psymon has super strength. What now? Rahzell is incapable of moaning? Boy, I would pay big money to see that," Elise said.

"What's my power?" Griff asked.

"The power to be short and annoying," Psymon dead-panned. Griff stuck his tongue out . . . and a long, green, pointed lizard's tongue flew out if his mouth and Psymon had to dodge out of the way to avoid getting hit.

"What was that?" Psymon asked.

"Mu tongh," Griff said, his tongue reaching to the other side of the room and sticking to the wall.

"Griff's turned into Poshi," Brodi commented.

"Yoshi!" Griff replied, his tongue retracting into his mouth. "Wow! What else can I do?"

"I dunno," Zoë said. "Maybe you can blend into the background like a chameleon,"

Griff screwed up his face in concentration and suddenly he turned into the ugly décor of the SSX lodge's paramedic's room. He looked down at himself. "Cool," he said and lent back against the wall. He pulled back his hand and looked at it confused.

"What's up, Griff?" Alex asked. He just turned around and put both hands on the wall . . . and started climbing it.

"WHOA-HO! Look at me!" he cried.

"He really has turned into a lizard," Mac commented.

"I suppose all those hours hero-worshipping Mario's green little iguana finally paid off," Marisol replied tartly.

"Hero-worshipping? Yoshi? That bastard, I'll rip him apart!" Griff said.

"Psymon! What have we told you about swearing in front of Griff!" Alex said. Moby snickered. "And you're no better, Jones!"

Moby stopped laughing when Alex threw him A Look. For a second, he thought about x-raying through her clothes, but stopped when he realised that this was his friend he was thinking about. His very good friend. And very attractive friend, too. He shook his head slightly to stop himself thinking like that.

Meanwhile, Marisol and Elise were arguing.

"You know, bitch, considering how everyone just despises looking at you, invisibility is really your sort of power," Marisol was saying.

"Hey, Sparky, you don't even know your power yet, so I wouldn't take the piss,"

"Listen, chica, I bet my power's much more beneficial than yours," Marisol retorted

"Somehow I doubt that," Elise said. Brodi's left eye began to twitch- one of the only things he and Sandy had in common. One thing he and Sandy didn't have in common was she liked fights and he didn't, so with Elise and Marisol crying insults at each other, it was slowly getting on the tall Buddhists usually calm nerves.

"Would you to please calm it down?" He asked. They ignored him and went straight to bitchfighting. Brodi swept his hands apart and both girls flew to opposite sides of the room and hit the walls.

"Whoa," Elise said as she slid down the wall to a sitting position.

"Well, brother dear, I think we know what your power is," Sandy said. "Telekinesis."

"Telekinesis?" Brodi repeated.

"Yep, you can move things with your mind, hey! Maybe you have telepathy too!"

"I don't think so," Brodi said.

"How could we tell?" Nate asked. "What's he going to do, read our minds?"

"Hey, Fordie, read this," Psymon said. Brodi seemed to concentrate on Psymon, and then quickly withdrew.

"In the name of Buddha, that's my sister, man!" Brodi wailed. Sandy turned and threw Psymon a death glare, while Psymon grinned maniacally.

"OK, he's got telepathy," Alex commented.

"OK, so we know Sandy's power, Kaori's, Griff's, Brodi's, Elise's, Allegra's and Psymon's." Nate said. "What about the rest of us?"

"How about the ability to shut up?" Psymon suggested.

"Make me, Stark,"

"I've a good mind to!" Nate retorted.

"Go on then!" Psymon cried.

"Fine!" Nate took after Psymon as Psymon ran gleefully around the room. Alex was getting sick of this and stepped to stand in Nate's way to separate the pair of them. What she found was that she was quicker than usual.

"Alex? How did you do that?" Zoë questioned.

"Do what!?" Alex said.

"Get from this side of the room to that side of the room in like one second?!" Moby said.

"Super speed!" Mac said rolling his eyes.

"Yeah well, she's in between me and the tit so Alex can you move now?" Nate asked.

"Boys, break it up," She said.

"No!" Psymon replied. "Come get me, Logan,"

"I'm gonna kill you, Stark!" Nate said. With that he disappeared, everyone looked around looking for him.

"Where'd he go?" Griff said.

"I'm over here," Nate said. They turned around and he was stood right next to Psymon. "Uh? What happened?"

"Um, Nate I think you just teleported" Mac said. "This is just great! I don't believe this bull, I still don't have no frikking power!"

"So Nate can teleport. Anyone else want to amaze us?" Alex asked.

"Ah, damn, I broke a nail when Bitchy McBitch decided to jump me," Marisol moaned, inspecting her nails.

Practically everyone rolled their eyes.

"Uh, I wish there was some way I could just grow it . . . whoa," Marisol said, as her fingernails suddenly extended five inches.

Elise, Sandy and Alex immediately burst into fits of laughter.

"I can't believe it . . . "Alex gasped.

"She can actually . . . grow her fingernails . . . " Sandy laughed.

"We were just joking!" Elise said "Screw Moby's finger nails!"

"Bite me, chicas," Marisol sniffed. "Hey. Doesn't look like I'll be breaking these nails anytime soon. They're super strong!" she scraped her nails along the wall, and everyone winced. Especially Sandy, who looked about to bite her head off, literally.

Mac huffed. "My power better be a lot cooler than that,"

"Hey, Unic, maybe your power is to not be able to sing," Psymon grinned.

"Piss off, Mr. Muscles," Mac retorted.

Psymon picked up one of the broken doors and broke it in half, throwing one of the halves at Mac. Mac instinctively held out his hands to block the blow. The door was a few feet in front of Mac before it burst into flames and fell to the floor as ash.

"Whoa," Kaori said. "Mac-kun! You can control fire!"

"Yeah, dawg, I can!" Mac said, setting a pillow on fire and then putting it out again.

"Well it doesn't take a genius to figure that out," Zoë said sarcastically

"Well, you don't have any super power yet, love," Moby said.

"Yeah I know, what could it be?" Zoë said curiously.

"Maybe it's to get those stupid tattoos off your face" Marisol dead-panned.

"A: It's war paint, B: coming from someone who can only grow her fingernails that's low and C: I'd hate to see what you'd look like with war paint on your face," Zoë said. Marisol's face suddenly went pale. "What!" Zoë snapped.

"You got your wish," Moby said.

"Huh?" Zoë asked.

"Look in the mirror, love," He advised. Zoë did as she was told.

"Oh my God, I'm a frikking slut!" She exclaimed. She was now the double of Marisol herself only with visible red warpaint over her face in three stripes.

"Your power is to turn into Marisol?" Sandy asked. Zoë/Marisol turned around and looked at her.

"Apparently so," Zoë/Marisol said.

"God, that's even lamer than the fingernails!" Elise said. Zoë/Marisol pulled a face of concentration, and suddenly she shrank and turned blue.

"Hey, I'm a Smurf!" Zoë said. "Smurfette was always my favourite,"

"So Zoë can morph," Nate said.

"Is that everybody's power?" Alex asked.

"'Cept Rahzell's," Moby informed her.

"But he's not important," Psymon said. "He can wait 'til morning,"

"Uh, Psy, hate to break your bubble, but it is morning," Sandy said.

"No, it's not," Alex said cheerfully, looking at her watch. "It's three in the afternoon,"

"Whatever, I need sleep,"

"We've been unconscious for god knows how long!" Marisol protested.

"Hey, I wasn't asking you to join me," Psymon growled.

"Actually, I could do with some sleep. Powers can be tiring," Nate told them. One by one, they all seemed to realize they needed sleep and moved back towards their beds.

Rita Fisher, the SSX nurse suddenly walked in, clocked the broken door and the awake boarders, and promptly fainted.

Everyone looked at her, hesitating, torn between sleep and their nurse.

"Ah," Psymon said, shrugging. "She can wait 'til morning too,"