<div class="floatleft">(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s17/Dadroid/Jake%20Woodson.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jacob "Jake" Woodson<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>The Gray Ranger<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>October 1st, 10:25 AM<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Fountain<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Vivi<br/><strong>Mention:</strong><br/><br/>Her retort was lost on Jake as it finally started to sink in just what he'd decided to do completely on a whim. He gave in. All the things he'd seen on those holovids...all the times he pretended as a child that he was more than just some kid. It all seemed to fall on him at once, and hard.<em>'What the hell am I doing here?"</em>he thought, just as it seemed that Vivi was snatched away from him. Some beefy guy who waded into them and seemed to put his fist through her, until he saw her hook the arm and bring the guy down with her. He was almost in too much awe to pay attention to his own situation, but his arm blocked what would have been a vicious lariat from what appeared to be a member of one of the school's sororities.<br/><br/><strong>"Pay attention! And yeah...you've been chosen to save the Earth. Congratulations, and don't even think of chickening out now!"</strong>[/color] He was mad that she would even accuse him of having those thoughts. Madder because she was right. This was getting real, real fast. Normal people were mannequins and everyone else were mindless drones intent on their destruction. And...they just kept coming...He managed to get to Vivi just as she phased out of the way of another attacker and  went into a sweep. He hadn't thought of what he ended up doing. It just made sense...like a math equation whose answer becomes dazzlingly clear. His body leapt upwards and rotated like a spinning corkscrew, when it came down, it was in the form of a knee on her attacker's solar plexus. There was the sound of wet cracking, and he seemed to settle more onto the body.<br/><br/>He was about to say something...it might have even been witty, but it left his mind the moment the...monster? Showed up. Jake could only stand slowly, his thoughts mirroring Vivi's without realizing it, but he was unable to vocalize. It looked big as shit, and it was still so far away. It walked through things...like they were mere annoyances. All the while, this large hungry eye seemed to turn him to stone. Piercing him as he stood there transfixed...and then, he was fine. motor functions returned, his heart-rate normalized. Like he'd been given some kind of shot, which was just about as close to the truth as one could get.<strong>"Easy, there, Jake! Easy...listen...it's okay. Considering you didn't soil yourself, I'm going to put this in the win category. I've seen stronger beings react worse. I just mixed a little chemical cocktail in here...you know, the human brain is simply marvelous. if you had a little more self control, you could have probably just did this to yourself. Absolutely fascinating!"</strong><br/><br/><em>'Thanks...and yeah, probably. Now, can you tell me just WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING IS PLEASE!?'</em>he asked the secondary conscience in his head, who was suddenly mum about the whole thing. All she told him was that his friend was right, and that they should retreat and regroup. Sooner rather than later. As if Vivi got the same message, she went and asked him for a lift. He was barely aware of how he was making himself glide, so how the hell could he know if he could get the both of them out of there?<br/><br/><strong>"General rule. If you can pick it up, you can fly with it. the more stress on you, the slower your flight. Now pick her up and get the hell out of here, kid. more trouble's coming!</strong>[/color]<br/><br/>After what appeared to Vivi to be a moment of puzzlement, Jake suddenly looked to her and nodded<strong>"Yeah...I can do that."</strong>and got close<strong>"You're going to want to hold on tight. I don't know how this ride will work out"</strong>he told her honestly before wrapping her  in his arms. The timing couldn't have been any better, because four other students just caught up to them, and the world got a little weird for a moment...first he was on the ground, and then time seemed to slow down as he thought about what he wanted to do, but the urgency made the process much faster, and they accelerated as if he was coming off the line on a quarter mile. There was barely any sound to it...just the air they flew through as he followed some parabolic path straight to the field. No doubt thanks to his friend on the inside.<br/><br/>They landed easily enough, though he had to steady the both of them for a brief moment.<strong>"Holy shit...I just flew!!!"</strong>was all Jake could manage. That particular detail was enough to wipe the terror of the monster coming their way, for at least the moment.<br/>