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Who: Shirogane and Joji
What: Everyone's got to meet for the first time sometime. And maybe they can have an inadvertent team-up, too!
When: Evening of June 12th.
Where: Some pool hall somewhere in a seedier part of town.

There's nothing too special about this pool hall, as far as such things go. It's got a bar, it's got several pool tables with varying amounts of people around them playing pool, and the whole room is filled with a sort of smoky haze. (That just might be because they just finished putting out a small grease fire in the kitchen, though the manager would never tell.) There are also TVs mounted to various points on the ceilings. Most of them are playing sports games of some sort, but one is playing a news station. The news anchor is enthusiastically reporting on the Omegafriends, and this has attracted the attention of several brightly-colored individuals piled into a corner booth.

They're all dressed in brightly-colored shirts numbered 1 through 9, except for the one bald dude dressed all in white, and they're all carrying on about how they should soon go into action and how they could defeat the Omegafriends and how all they need to do is to just pick the very first bank, but they haven't really done much besides talk loudly. It's a group of would-be pool-themed villains, though right now? They're too lazy to do much beyond spew a lot of hot air.

Shirogane's playing pool all by himself at one of the tables, and every so often, he'll look over at them with some annoyance. He has yet to do anything, and he's currently the only person in the place who is completely by himself. Not that this seems to bother him.

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Shirogane's fighting almost on autopilot now. The augmented hand punch is enough to get his attention for a moment, but it's distracting him even further from keeping his own talents under wraps. He allows himself to get backed towards a pool table, at which point he jumps back, somersaults over it, and lands, putting the table in between him and the thug.

Before the thug can gloat over having made Shirogane back off, Shirogane slams a small crystal sphere down on the table. He then takes a shot with the pool stick, sending the sphere flying to slam into the thug. The thug gets hit right between the eyes, and the sphere goes ricocheting off into a corner.

Once the crystal lands in that corner, it waits a few seconds before turning into a mechanical wolf, which then lunges out and surprises another one of the colorful goons.

Okay, that guy definitely wasn't normal. Joji was surprised when he saw the wolf pop out of the crystal and went after the color-coded baddies, which allowed him to get hit a couple of times. He went down, his fingers clenching around his right arm as the fall caused the pain to flare. Green light filtered through the skin and then Joji rolled back on to his feet, flexing his hand and hearing it crack.

He really needed to do something about that, but after the fighting was over.

A pool cue was aimed for his head and Joji just lefted his arm to block it, sparks flying at the treated wood hit unearthly materials and snapped. As the goon stared at his cue, Joji high-kicked him in the head and looked around for more people to fight.

Shirogane does a double-take at Joji's arm--the green flash caught his attention--but he's quickly distracted by the need to slam that pool cue he's got into the head of another goon.

GaoWolf is lunging for another one. Robot wolf headbutts are surprisingly effective when applied to goon midsections.

The goons, for their part, are starting to doubt the wisdom of carrying on with this fight. They're starting to show signs of wanting to flee.

They could flee, but Joji wasn't going to let them flee easily. In fact, he was wading into the middle of their small cluster, looking a little too excited as he traded punches and blows, and tried his best to smack goons into each other. Some of the locals were watching or taking notes, while the owner of the pool hall was slowly opening up his phone and holding it out to show everyone he had it out.

"I'm calling the cops in three!" he shouted over the din. Joji glanced that way and then went back to laying out the goons on his way for the door.

Shirogane paused for a moment at the owner's shout. Time to leave. He gave a sharp whistle, and the robot wolf headbutted the goon he was tangling with, then trotted over to its master's side. Shirogane smacked another goon upside the head with his pool cue and started to make his own way to the door. "I think we were done anyway."

One more goon went down and Joji was at the door, cracking his hand to shake off any lingering energy. He looked at Shirogane and then at his wolf before smiling slightly and stepping outside.

"I think we need to talk."

The wolf cocked his head curiously and looked up at his partner. Shirogane seemed a little skeptical, but reluctantly nodded. "All right."

"I won't bite you," he said, sniffing at the very thought of someone not trusting him. Sure, he has a bad track record with that whole Shocker thing but that is old news.

Joji wasn't going to run away from the pool hall, even when the police sirens started sounding in the distance. Running would just attract the officers faster than walking after all.

Shirogane's issue isn't so much problems trusting other people as much as it is wondering why anyone would want to do anything with him. But it's so much easier to hide that worry behind a lone wolf facade..."I'm not worried about that." He's keeping his own pace casual, so as not to disturb the police--he's done this before, too. GaoWolf is trotting along at his heels, looking up at Joji curiously.

"Good."

And there were the cop cars speeding around the corner. Joji turned to watch them go by and then shrugged as if the whole mess was none of his business. He then looked down at GaoWolf, holding out his artificial hand for the robot to sniff.

"I am curious... Most of the supers in this country have similar abilities, but yours seem to stem from something I've seen before. Have you heard the term Gaia Memory?"

GaoWolf approached the artificial hand curiously. There were a few quick, cursory sniffs, and then he gave Joji a wag of his tail.

"Gaia Memory?" Shirogane shook his head. "Never heard of it." He was also eyeing that arm of Joji's. "That have anything to do with your arm?"