Shockwave (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201275.msg9833736#msg9833736)<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/65/1278207809618.jpg)</div><br/><br/>Everything seemed to be turning out pretty well.  Shockwave let a smile cut across her face, slow to form but genuine and relieved.  At the question of the car, she let her eyes roll up a bit, doing some calculations.  "A car, huh?" she asked.  "If it's not going too fast, it should be doable, though I've never tried that before.  It definitely wouldn't be enough to make me pass out from the attempt, so I'll give it a go."<br/><br/>The showy tornado idea got even more of a smile from her as she nodded.  "Careful not to cause too much collateral damage, but that's definitely feasible," she said.  "Shielding from above will be easy as well, because I can focus the pressure to deflect the air upwards, and..."  After a pause, she just nodded.  Her partner didn't need an aerodynamics lesson.  Gale probably knew a lot of it all from direct experience anyway.  "Since they're not real bullets, it should be easy enough to affect a larger area to help them get out, especially if they're mostly focused on you."<br/><br/>She accepted the hand and returned a squeeze of her own, showing an appreciative friendship that was likely to grow the more they talked.  Even if she really didn't make it very far through this, the chance to meet so many people and make new friends was really wonderful.  "Well, my dad wanted a girl, and my mom wanted a boy, so..." she started, then realized how long the usual method of telling this story would take.  "My powers come from a number of genetic alterations.  I can go over a list, or - if you want - I can just send the data to your EV for some basic explanations.  Although, a lot of the mix and match effects haven't been fully tested yet; apparently I have no alcohol tolerance at all, for example."<br/><br/>It took Shockwave a few moments to realize that she was just stalling, not wanting to go into the full details.  There would be enough time to explain after the mission, though.