Star Labs, three days after the 'Majin Buu' incident
Besides the tests to see what Buu was capable of, Catherine had her scientist give him informational books on Earth culture and other books to get him acquainted with Earth's cultures; the Majin was very capable of grasping the english language in written form, she even tested a few foreign literature to see how well the Majin adapted to other languages.
Safe to say, Buu was able to grasp other languages in written form when given the chance to look at a foreign language long enough; the best she could guess at, was Buu was created by someone or something for a particular purpose neither she nor Buu knew about yet. It was all conjecture of course, right now, her lab room was still researching what Buu was.
Besides the fact they were still trying to analyze his blood samples and Buu bits they extracted from him, the Majin himself was adamant himself that he work on his abilities to get used to being awake and without his prior memories to his sealing.
Today, they were testing Buu's body malleability and stretching limits. From what Catherine was able to understand from Buu, he remembers being able to do almost anything with his body.
She just didn't know how wide that term meant for what Buu could do with his Pink 'malleable' body.
Right now, she was standing with Jonny as they both watched Buu grab onto a metal pole held down by a weight to keep it upright and steady, before the Majin walked across to the other side of the room where another upright pole was to go around it and head back to the first pole; the whole way, with Buu's hold still on the first pole, his arm extended like chewing gum.
No visible pain showed on Buu's face as he continued to go back and forth between the poles, all the while his arms grew thinner as it stretched more; to Catherine, Buu's body ability to stretch so far, reminded her some other superhero, but for the life of her, the name slipped her tongue.
"Buu done." The Majin stated as he stopped going around, the poles now having slid close into each other, both now seemingly bundled up in his stretched now arm. Before either of her or Jonny said anything, Buu's arm snapped back along with the weighted poles, and then both dissapeared into his body.
Both Jonny and Catherine watch with morbid fascination, as a now one armed Buu popped his arm back out of his shoulder after practically absorbing his mass of stretched arm and poles into himself; the Majin looked down at his arm for a bit, before he aimed his palm out with a concentrated look on his face.
Before anyone said anything, both poles shot out from Buu's palm and impacted the far off wall with a loud metal thud. No one said anything, save for Buu, "Buu can also absorb…" he remarked. "And can also spit stuff back out…" he seemed to be musing, as he looked at his palm and did a few clenchings of it.
While Catherine tapped her lip with her pen to think of something to say, it was Jonny that beat her to the punch. "So…can you absorb living things too?" he questioned.
Buu looked over at Jonny, and nodded, "Buu remembers that. Living things get put inside pods inside Buu. Can remember Buu get different when absorb others." he explained.
Catherine blinked at that, so he was also an entity that could add others to himself, not to mention he could fit living things inside himself. "So wait, do things get shrunken down inside you into pods?" she asked, earning a weird look from Buu.
"Lady stupid? Buu can do magic. It obvious magic helps shrink down absorbed living things into pods." He answered her with a furrowed brow.
That does sort of help explain things.
Catherine rested her elbow into her palm, and her chin into her other palm, she spoke again, "So wait, do you remember what happens when you absorb others? How different do you become?"
Buu scrunched his face a bit, seemingly thinking on it, before answering her, "Buu remembers being affected by it, but get foggy afterwards…whoever sealed Buu, must be strong…big strong to separate Buu from any absorbed being's he absorbed…" he mused, eyes narrowed and a discerning look on his face.
That was concerning, in too many ways, in Catherine's mind.
Present
Majin Buu
This would be the third time I'd be hanging out with Victor, after running into him the second time at the movie theaters on a Friday night, we both found ourselves seeing the same movie; it wasn't hard to talk with the guy again during the wait for the vampire hunter movie to start.
Of course, after the movie was over, we exchanged numbers; but neither of us had cell phones yet, so we had to give the landline home phone numbers.
Right now, the Taco restaurant was offering a sort of twofer of a deal; buy two tacos, get two free deals as a limited time thing going on. That meant I could get more for my money, and cover the tacos with sugar to fill my cravings for tacos and something sweet. With a simple matter of hitting up Victor's number, I had offered to cover for him if he wanted to chill over at the taco restaurant.
Whatever led to Victor bringing along Jinx somehow, in some cosmic twist of whatever, I was now seated at a table with the other two with another tray of hard and soft tacos for everyone to partake in. Good ol' early 2000s American dollar deals.
"So-" Victor started speaking with a mouthful after eating a soft taco, he looked over at Jinx who sat and ate away a hard taco at a calm pace, "What brought you to Jump City?" He asked her, while Jinx somewhat looked at Victor with a bit of revulsion, before calming herself down to speak back.
"First of all, a lady is present at the table!" She glared at him, a tick mark forming on her forehead, before sighing a bit, and gave him an annoyed look, "Honestly, close your mouth if you're gonna eat something!" she rolled her eyes.
While I grabbed another wrapped taco to unwrap it and munch into it, Victor offered Jinx an apologetic smile and finally swallowed his food before speaking, "Hehe, sorry, uh…"
"Oh right…" Jinx caught on to what Victor was trying to say, "The name's Jinx,...just Jinx." she answered him, before taking another bite from her taco.
"Huh. 'kay." Victor blinked at that, before offering a small smile, "I kinda forgot we never introduced ourselves, I mean we just met after all." He shrugged, and spoke again, "You can also just call me Victor."
Jinx's gaze turned towards me, finished her bite, and spoke to me, "What about you?" she asked me.
Stuffing a whole taco into my mouth after sprinkling it with sugar from the packets I brought with me, I crunched the food down a few times before swallowing it down to answer the girl with an empty mouth, "Pink haired girl can call me Buu." I answered her, giving her a gruff answer, before grabbing myself another taco to eat with sugar sprinkled on it.
I will have my cake and eat it too. I wanted to eat tacos, but my taste buds yearned for sweetness.
Jinx gave me a weird look, nothing like revulsion, but straight up an odd look of seeing something put sugar on tacos, before looking back at Victor, "So, about earlier, are you sure you don't know anything about some school for meta-humans?" She asked, giving Victor a narrowed look.
I pretty sure she's talking about Hive Academy, and someone fucked up somewhere in the system to give her the right directions and people to look for.
…And I'm perfectly fine with that.
Victor shrugged back at Jinx as he was in the process of unwrapping another wrapped taco, and spoke again back to her, "Pretty sure." he shrugged, "I can ask my dad though?" he offered with a raised brow, "I mean, he has better connections than I do, he probably knows more about whatever you're looking for."
"Wait." Jinx now looked at Victor unsure, "What sort of man is your dad anyways, besides building that body for you?" she pointed at Victor.
After taking a bite from his next taco, Victor spoke back to Jinx after swallowing down his bite of taco, "Well…" He looked unsure of himself, before answering her, "He's a big deal sort of guy." he offered with a shrug.
Jinx gave Victor a critical gaze, before shrugging, "Mhm, well beats not knowing anything else." she remarked with a dry look, "Not to mention I…" she then slapped her forehead in dismay, "Crap, I don't even have a place to stay if there's no boarding school or anything!" she groused.
Ah, that's right, Hive academy would have provided dorms for their would-be soon to be ne'er do well villains in training.
Victor finished another bite of his taco before speaking to Jinx, "Kinda stupid, if you think about it. What was it, a letter or something you received in the mail?" he asked her, "Seems really fishy to me, if you ask me."
Jinx sighed to herself and put her unfinished taco down to pinch the bridge of her nose, "I don't know…life at home was so messed up. I just grabbed everything and answered the invite. I really didn't want to stick around that old town of mine anymore." She explained.
From out of the corner of my vision, I saw Victor look at me, prompting me to look back at him, before he answered he, with a hapless shrug, "I mean, me and my dad have a spare bedroom at our home, you can stay over at my dad's condo for the time being, until you can get a part-time job or something to get yourself an apartment." he offered.
Jinx looked undecided on the idea, but shrugged anyway, "Well, if you can take me to see your dad and see if he knows anything first, I don't mind, beats spending the night at some cheap hotel." she gruffly stated.
Jinx
It was really weird, having her luck be all over the place, considering she met her contacts just fine, but the school itself either did exist or not. Victor definitely came off as a smart teen, in contrast to Buu's mannerisms and english, so it wasn't like she met the wrong people.
Currently, she was walking with the two towards Victor's dad's workplace, a Star Labs location of all places. "Soooo…" She tried to strike up another conversation with the two, pointedly Victor, as he seemed more the type for the subject she wanted to talk about, "Did you drop out of high school or anything?" she asked.
While Buu walked on the other side of him, Victor was the one to be walking in the middle of the three of them. He answered her with a frank tone as he gazed forward, pocketing his hands into his sweatpants' pockets, "Nah, after the accident that gave me this body, I just went the heck with it and applied for my G.E.D., didn't bother going back to high school to have everyone look at…well…." He lifted his gray hoodie up to show her he was pretty much mostly cybernetic a good portion of his whole body, before lowering the hem back down.
"Mhm." Jinx made an annoyed look, giving Victor a passing glance when he showed more of his Cybernetic body, "Yeah, been there." She grouched a bit, she's felt the stares when her powers started coming to surface. "It starts with whispers, then rumors, then you start getting ostracized and crap." she muttered, it also didn't help matters that her powers affected luck, bad luck. So she was pretty much nicknamed the witch's black cat of her hometown.
It also didn't help matters that she used her powers to get retribution against the bullies and other crap.
Peering around Victor to look at Buu, the pink creature was idly looking through a comic book, "What about you? What's your story?" she asked him.
Looking up from his comic book, he closed it and pocketed it, before Buu traced his peculiar set of colored eyes to look over at her with a nonchalant gaze, "Pink haired girl ask Buu's origins?" he asked.
Offering Buu a shrug, Jinx answered him, "Well, yeah. You definitely look like an alien, and not some sort of metahuman…or maybe you are, I don't know." she remarked.
"Mh…Buu woke up more than a month ago…don't know past besides few bits." He answered Jinx, before looking forward.
Narrowing her eyes a bit, "Wait, so what, you're some sort of alien then?" she questioned, earning a stiff nod from him, before shaking her head and continued to walk in step with the other two boys…well one boy and one male alien…
"So how far is your dad's lab anyways?" Jinx asked next, earning a shrug from Victor.
He pointed off towards an area full of apartments and condos, "We're heading to my home first, actually, I wanted to call my pops first." he answered.
That was fair, it also gave her the chance to see where he was offering her a space to stay at for the time being.
While the three of them were walking past a park the city had amidst all it towering skyscrapers, the distant honking alerted Both Jinx and the other two's attention to the left; on the downhill slope of the street, a semi truck carrying an odd glass container on its trailer was having its horn honked by the driver.
Assuming by the panicked look on the truck driver's face, he looked like he couldn't break, as the truck itself was speeding down the slope, crashing into the sides of parked cars and signs in an attempt to stop his truck.
"...Uh…" Victor spoke up, looking over at Buu, "Didn't you say you have super strength or something, might want to stop that thing." he warned the pink alien.
"Will have to." Buu grumpily answered Victor. Jinx watched as he was about to step away and do something about the problem.
But before Buu took another step, the semi truck finally swerved to the side and flipped onto its side, making the container hit the ground and snap off from the chains holding it down; The container itself flung off and rolled down the street.
It only took for Jinx to blink, and see Buu already at the next cross-way street spot the container would roll pass. "...fast…" She commented, unable to help but express a surprised look as she watched Buu reach his arms to try and halt the container in place.
"Guess he wasn't kidding about his speed either." Victor commented as well, as they watched Buu press his hands up against the container as it reached him, making him dig trenches through the street with his feet from the container's momentum once it was halted by Buu.
The container itself creaked as it finally stopped, giving Buu the chance to push it back onto one of its flat sides. "Well that was easy." Victor remarked as he and her watched Buu turn around and give them a confident thumbs up.
Squinting her eyes a bit, Jinx lifted her hand over her eyes to see better under the glaring sun, and saw that the container itself was full of murky water. The only thing visible inside it was some human shaped thing in it. "I think someone's in that thing…" she mused, unsure what the container was for.
"...uhoh." Victor spoke up, pointed at the container, "Dude, it's cracking!" He shouted over to Buu, earning Jinx's attention more on the glass container, to see that it was indeed cracking.
Victor Stone
Whatever glass that container was made of, it wasn't sturdy enough to withstand such punishment; He honestly didn't know what else to do from here, besides watch as the container finally busted open, showering Buu with its liquid inside it.
He wasn't sure if he should go up there and help Buu, as the water left a lone teen looking guy lay on the street from out of the container, while Buu himself stood at the feet of the sleeping person.
"Let's just call the police or something. Besides Buu stopping that weird container, that guy that spilled out is probably some maximum prisoner or something." Jinx's nonchalant voice brought Victor out out his internal musings.
Looking over at her, he nodded, "Yeah you're probably-"
"Wait!" Jinx interrupted him as she pointed back towards where Buu was, making Victor look back as watch at the previous sleeping guy now sitting up and was in the midst of turning into a sludge looking monster.
As the sludge monster stood over Buu, it roared into his face, while he himself stared up at it unbothered, even as it reached down to grab him and throw him down the street and into the pavement; after Buu's body crashed headfirst into the street at his and Jinx's feet, he raising a brow at the pink dude as he began pulling his head and body out from the asphalt, "Dude, why'd you just stand there and let that happen?" he asked.
While the sludge monster began throwing cars around and wrecking up the buildings by using street lights it pulled out from the sidewalks, Buu finally got himself free and stood back up to look at Victor, making an annoyed look all the while.
"Buu sorry, when was last time robot man confronted his own sludge monster." He glared back, giving Victor a bit of sass.
Victor blinked at that, before answering, all the while the sludge monster continued wreaking havoc, "Fair point." he mused, before Buu walked off and flew off back towards the sludge monster.