Veiled Malice Posted January 29, 2008 Author Posted January 29, 2008 Eric seemed about to just laugh off Megan's suggestion, but something about her pointing things out so obviously lit understanding in his eyes. Suddenly, he appeared to be very nervous and broke off of his leisurely jog to run back to his friends. Megan could see that something was clearly wrong with him, though. One moment, his run would have been considered fast for a sports car - marking it as super human - and the next, it was as if he'd gotten stuck in molasses. Like a tape in slow motion, Eric inchingly made his way back to his friends. But only a couple moments later, Eric clutched his hands to his chest and collapsed to the ground. To the horror of the few students near him, who backed away quickly, it appeared he was having a heart attack - in slow motion.
Veiled Malice Posted January 29, 2008 Author Posted January 29, 2008 Eric seemed about to just laugh off Megan's suggestion, but something about her pointing things out so obviously lit understanding in his eyes. Suddenly, he appeared to be very nervous and broke off of his leisurely jog to run back to his friends. Megan could see that something was clearly wrong with him, though. One moment, his run would have been considered fast for a sports car - marking it as super human - and the next, it was as if he'd gotten stuck in molasses. Like a tape in slow motion, Eric inchingly made his way back to his friends. But only a couple moments later, Eric clutched his hands to his chest and collapsed to the ground. To the horror of the few students near him, who backed away quickly, it appeared he was having a heart attack - in slow motion.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan was at first glad that Eric seemed to have decided to not cause anymore trouble, until she saw him starting to move slowly and then collapse. She had fought gang members that were using Zoom before, and knew how dangerous the drug could be. “Mr. Cuthbert!†She yelled out as she moved over towards Eric’s collapsed form. “Anyone know CPR?†She asked of the other students nearby.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan was at first glad that Eric seemed to have decided to not cause anymore trouble, until she saw him starting to move slowly and then collapse. She had fought gang members that were using Zoom before, and knew how dangerous the drug could be. “Mr. Cuthbert!†She yelled out as she moved over towards Eric’s collapsed form. “Anyone know CPR?†She asked of the other students nearby.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan was at first glad that Eric seemed to have decided to not cause anymore trouble, until she saw him starting to move slowly and then collapse. She had fought gang members that were using Zoom before, and knew how dangerous the drug could be. “Mr. Cuthbert!†She yelled out as she moved over towards Eric’s collapsed form. “Anyone know CPR?†She asked of the other students nearby.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Mr. Cuthbert had just righted himself and dashed over to where Eric's prone form writhed. "Yeah, I got it. Listen, I need you to help, alright?" he asked Megan, showing little sign of worry despite the tense situation. Maybe those rumors about the man being an ex-marine were true. "Put your hands here on his chest, two finger widths under the solar plexus." he showed Megan how to do it, directing her with medical precision. "Alright, good. I'm going to give him two breaths. After I do, you give him five compressions. One every second. Don't worry about breaking anything - his ribcage can take it." While he was giving Megan direction, Eric's "friends" took the opportunity to look down at the situation with dismay before bolting for the door, vanishing before anyone could stop them. "Great friends," Mr. Cuthbert grumbled before turning back to Megan and telling her calmly, "Okay, you can do this. Just remember - five compressions after two breaths." Dimly, Megan could hear someone on a cell phone with 911 as Mr. Cuthbert started breathing for Eric.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Mr. Cuthbert had just righted himself and dashed over to where Eric's prone form writhed. "Yeah, I got it. Listen, I need you to help, alright?" he asked Megan, showing little sign of worry despite the tense situation. Maybe those rumors about the man being an ex-marine were true. "Put your hands here on his chest, two finger widths under the solar plexus." he showed Megan how to do it, directing her with medical precision. "Alright, good. I'm going to give him two breaths. After I do, you give him five compressions. One every second. Don't worry about breaking anything - his ribcage can take it." While he was giving Megan direction, Eric's "friends" took the opportunity to look down at the situation with dismay before bolting for the door, vanishing before anyone could stop them. "Great friends," Mr. Cuthbert grumbled before turning back to Megan and telling her calmly, "Okay, you can do this. Just remember - five compressions after two breaths." Dimly, Megan could hear someone on a cell phone with 911 as Mr. Cuthbert started breathing for Eric.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Mr. Cuthbert had just righted himself and dashed over to where Eric's prone form writhed. "Yeah, I got it. Listen, I need you to help, alright?" he asked Megan, showing little sign of worry despite the tense situation. Maybe those rumors about the man being an ex-marine were true. "Put your hands here on his chest, two finger widths under the solar plexus." he showed Megan how to do it, directing her with medical precision. "Alright, good. I'm going to give him two breaths. After I do, you give him five compressions. One every second. Don't worry about breaking anything - his ribcage can take it." While he was giving Megan direction, Eric's "friends" took the opportunity to look down at the situation with dismay before bolting for the door, vanishing before anyone could stop them. "Great friends," Mr. Cuthbert grumbled before turning back to Megan and telling her calmly, "Okay, you can do this. Just remember - five compressions after two breaths." Dimly, Megan could hear someone on a cell phone with 911 as Mr. Cuthbert started breathing for Eric.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan nodded her head in response, somewhat nervous about trying to help with this, but not wanting to try to do something. She knelt down next to Eric and began following Mr. Cuthbert’s instructions giving the compressions when she was supposed to.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan nodded her head in response, somewhat nervous about trying to help with this, but not wanting to try to do something. She knelt down next to Eric and began following Mr. Cuthbert’s instructions giving the compressions when she was supposed to.
Thevshi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Megan nodded her head in response, somewhat nervous about trying to help with this, but not wanting to try to do something. She knelt down next to Eric and began following Mr. Cuthbert’s instructions giving the compressions when she was supposed to.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Through Mr. Cuthbert's and Megan's efforts, Eric soon began breathing on his own. Color returned to his face as circulation restarted. By this time, all of Megan's classmates had clustered around, watching the life-saving efforts with something akin to horror mixed with awe. Once Eric responded, Mr, Cuthbert nodded in satisfaction and gave Megan a thumbs-up. "Nice work, Megan. You really helped out here." "Oh my gawd! That was so cool!" Lucy's voice chirped from behind Megan. All of a sudden, she was engulfed in the ablations of her peers. It seemed everyone wanted to congratulate her. Paramedics came in down by the end of the gym at that point, converging on the crowd and quickly setting up oxygen and life monitoring gear. The police were right on their heels. This was one of the most prestigious education institutes in Freedom City, after all, and somebody needed to explain why one of it's students had just suffered a heart attack in the middle of gym.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Through Mr. Cuthbert's and Megan's efforts, Eric soon began breathing on his own. Color returned to his face as circulation restarted. By this time, all of Megan's classmates had clustered around, watching the life-saving efforts with something akin to horror mixed with awe. Once Eric responded, Mr, Cuthbert nodded in satisfaction and gave Megan a thumbs-up. "Nice work, Megan. You really helped out here." "Oh my gawd! That was so cool!" Lucy's voice chirped from behind Megan. All of a sudden, she was engulfed in the ablations of her peers. It seemed everyone wanted to congratulate her. Paramedics came in down by the end of the gym at that point, converging on the crowd and quickly setting up oxygen and life monitoring gear. The police were right on their heels. This was one of the most prestigious education institutes in Freedom City, after all, and somebody needed to explain why one of it's students had just suffered a heart attack in the middle of gym.
Veiled Malice Posted January 30, 2008 Author Posted January 30, 2008 Through Mr. Cuthbert's and Megan's efforts, Eric soon began breathing on his own. Color returned to his face as circulation restarted. By this time, all of Megan's classmates had clustered around, watching the life-saving efforts with something akin to horror mixed with awe. Once Eric responded, Mr, Cuthbert nodded in satisfaction and gave Megan a thumbs-up. "Nice work, Megan. You really helped out here." "Oh my gawd! That was so cool!" Lucy's voice chirped from behind Megan. All of a sudden, she was engulfed in the ablations of her peers. It seemed everyone wanted to congratulate her. Paramedics came in down by the end of the gym at that point, converging on the crowd and quickly setting up oxygen and life monitoring gear. The police were right on their heels. This was one of the most prestigious education institutes in Freedom City, after all, and somebody needed to explain why one of it's students had just suffered a heart attack in the middle of gym.
Thevshi Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 “Thanks Mr. Cuthbert.†Megan replied to the coach as they managed to get Eric breathing once more. As Lucy spoke up and people came to congratulate her, Megan just tried to play it all off, indicating she only did what Mr. Cuthbert told her to do. When the paramedics and police arrived, she moved off out of the way, figuring the police would come speak with them all at some point. As she was waiting, Megan talked to some of the others to see if she could find out who some of the other boys that had been with Eric were.
Thevshi Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 “Thanks Mr. Cuthbert.†Megan replied to the coach as they managed to get Eric breathing once more. As Lucy spoke up and people came to congratulate her, Megan just tried to play it all off, indicating she only did what Mr. Cuthbert told her to do. When the paramedics and police arrived, she moved off out of the way, figuring the police would come speak with them all at some point. As she was waiting, Megan talked to some of the others to see if she could find out who some of the other boys that had been with Eric were.
Thevshi Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 “Thanks Mr. Cuthbert.†Megan replied to the coach as they managed to get Eric breathing once more. As Lucy spoke up and people came to congratulate her, Megan just tried to play it all off, indicating she only did what Mr. Cuthbert told her to do. When the paramedics and police arrived, she moved off out of the way, figuring the police would come speak with them all at some point. As she was waiting, Megan talked to some of the others to see if she could find out who some of the other boys that had been with Eric were.
Veiled Malice Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 As it turned out, all of the boys were from various sports teams. Denton LaBreque was a soccer player, Robert Luciano a tight end on the football team, and Jackson Sinclair played tennis, and was looking to move up to pro status almost as soon as he got out of college. Though not odd in and of itself, as athletes are often the first to turn to performance enhancing drugs, none of them had ever been so much as considered as people that would use such things. Many of Megan's classmates expressed quiet shock when the names of the boys had gotten around and were eventually relayed to the police. One thing that Megan saw, however, that no one else had seemed to, was that man who was standing with the boys down by the end of the track before all this had started. Evidently, he slipped out sometime during the commotion. "...happening a lot down in Southside," Megan overheard one of the cops tell the principal. The area had been cleared of everyone not directly involved with the incident, but administration obviously had a vested interest in how they could spin one of their star players nearly dying from a heart attack, and three others AWOL and possibly in the same condition as Eric. "But this is new for us. Stuff like this doesn't generally happen up here." "We're still looking into it, but it seems like this might be an isolated incident. We're sending some units to the boy's houses now. Hopefully we can get to them before something like this happens again." But Megan knew it would be important to get to them first, perhaps because they were on a paticularly dangerous kind of drug, but also that she needed to find out who that man they were talking to was.
Veiled Malice Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 As it turned out, all of the boys were from various sports teams. Denton LaBreque was a soccer player, Robert Luciano a tight end on the football team, and Jackson Sinclair played tennis, and was looking to move up to pro status almost as soon as he got out of college. Though not odd in and of itself, as athletes are often the first to turn to performance enhancing drugs, none of them had ever been so much as considered as people that would use such things. Many of Megan's classmates expressed quiet shock when the names of the boys had gotten around and were eventually relayed to the police. One thing that Megan saw, however, that no one else had seemed to, was that man who was standing with the boys down by the end of the track before all this had started. Evidently, he slipped out sometime during the commotion. "...happening a lot down in Southside," Megan overheard one of the cops tell the principal. The area had been cleared of everyone not directly involved with the incident, but administration obviously had a vested interest in how they could spin one of their star players nearly dying from a heart attack, and three others AWOL and possibly in the same condition as Eric. "But this is new for us. Stuff like this doesn't generally happen up here." "We're still looking into it, but it seems like this might be an isolated incident. We're sending some units to the boy's houses now. Hopefully we can get to them before something like this happens again." But Megan knew it would be important to get to them first, perhaps because they were on a paticularly dangerous kind of drug, but also that she needed to find out who that man they were talking to was.
Veiled Malice Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 As it turned out, all of the boys were from various sports teams. Denton LaBreque was a soccer player, Robert Luciano a tight end on the football team, and Jackson Sinclair played tennis, and was looking to move up to pro status almost as soon as he got out of college. Though not odd in and of itself, as athletes are often the first to turn to performance enhancing drugs, none of them had ever been so much as considered as people that would use such things. Many of Megan's classmates expressed quiet shock when the names of the boys had gotten around and were eventually relayed to the police. One thing that Megan saw, however, that no one else had seemed to, was that man who was standing with the boys down by the end of the track before all this had started. Evidently, he slipped out sometime during the commotion. "...happening a lot down in Southside," Megan overheard one of the cops tell the principal. The area had been cleared of everyone not directly involved with the incident, but administration obviously had a vested interest in how they could spin one of their star players nearly dying from a heart attack, and three others AWOL and possibly in the same condition as Eric. "But this is new for us. Stuff like this doesn't generally happen up here." "We're still looking into it, but it seems like this might be an isolated incident. We're sending some units to the boy's houses now. Hopefully we can get to them before something like this happens again." But Megan knew it would be important to get to them first, perhaps because they were on a paticularly dangerous kind of drug, but also that she needed to find out who that man they were talking to was.
Thevshi Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 After giving her statement, Megan moved over to Mr. Cuthbert as she quietly said. “Mr. Cuthbert, could I be excused? I…have a girl thing to take care of.†She says, emphasizing “girl thing†very heavily. Once excused, she headed down the girls’ locker room and to her locker, and in a flash was changed into her Velocity costume. Grabbing her student directory in her backpack (yes, she did carry it around), she speed out of the locker room and off school grounds, and flipping open the book to the first of the other boys, Denton LaBreque. His name was crossed out with a slight note beside it. Oh right, he tried to grope me at Heather Baxter’s party at the start of the year. Megan thought as she speed off towards Denton’s house.
Thevshi Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 After giving her statement, Megan moved over to Mr. Cuthbert as she quietly said. “Mr. Cuthbert, could I be excused? I…have a girl thing to take care of.†She says, emphasizing “girl thing†very heavily. Once excused, she headed down the girls’ locker room and to her locker, and in a flash was changed into her Velocity costume. Grabbing her student directory in her backpack (yes, she did carry it around), she speed out of the locker room and off school grounds, and flipping open the book to the first of the other boys, Denton LaBreque. His name was crossed out with a slight note beside it. Oh right, he tried to grope me at Heather Baxter’s party at the start of the year. Megan thought as she speed off towards Denton’s house.
Thevshi Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 After giving her statement, Megan moved over to Mr. Cuthbert as she quietly said. “Mr. Cuthbert, could I be excused? I…have a girl thing to take care of.†She says, emphasizing “girl thing†very heavily. Once excused, she headed down the girls’ locker room and to her locker, and in a flash was changed into her Velocity costume. Grabbing her student directory in her backpack (yes, she did carry it around), she speed out of the locker room and off school grounds, and flipping open the book to the first of the other boys, Denton LaBreque. His name was crossed out with a slight note beside it. Oh right, he tried to grope me at Heather Baxter’s party at the start of the year. Megan thought as she speed off towards Denton’s house.
Veiled Malice Posted February 2, 2008 Author Posted February 2, 2008 Velocity knew from personal experience Zoom users could go fast. The drug supercharged the metabolism to such a degree that it duplicated her own powers, but to a far lesser extent. That kind of boost did not come without cost, though. Heart damage was chief among the worries of Zoom users, but muscle tears, ligament strains, and massive bone decalcification were longer term worries as well. As she neared Denton's house, though, she realized one thing was off about Eric's heart attack. When a Zoom user crashed hard, they usually did so in the same hyperactive way they were previously moving. This almost always led to death, as even help rendered immediately would be too slow to do any good. But Eric was literally in slow motion when his attack hit. But Velocity couldn't worry about that any longer. Denton's house loomed large on the horizon almost before she knew it, smack dab in the middle of one of North Bay's many fenced-in communities. She would have to get in if she wanted to see if Denton was there, but that would mean she'd technically be breaking the law.
Veiled Malice Posted February 2, 2008 Author Posted February 2, 2008 Velocity knew from personal experience Zoom users could go fast. The drug supercharged the metabolism to such a degree that it duplicated her own powers, but to a far lesser extent. That kind of boost did not come without cost, though. Heart damage was chief among the worries of Zoom users, but muscle tears, ligament strains, and massive bone decalcification were longer term worries as well. As she neared Denton's house, though, she realized one thing was off about Eric's heart attack. When a Zoom user crashed hard, they usually did so in the same hyperactive way they were previously moving. This almost always led to death, as even help rendered immediately would be too slow to do any good. But Eric was literally in slow motion when his attack hit. But Velocity couldn't worry about that any longer. Denton's house loomed large on the horizon almost before she knew it, smack dab in the middle of one of North Bay's many fenced-in communities. She would have to get in if she wanted to see if Denton was there, but that would mean she'd technically be breaking the law.
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