Jimmy woke up feeling warm and comfortable, which immediately made him tense up… until he remembered what had happened and then he relaxed a little, but not too much because he really had to pee and he was being weighed down by the two girls laying partially on top of him.

If he had his way he'd simply lay there and enjoy the first positive human contact he'd had in a long while, but his bladder was rather insistent that he take care of matters as soon as possible.

Jimmy cautiously tried to scoot upwards, but the girls' arms tightened, holding him in place. If he didn't have to pee so badly he'd have found the whole thing amusing.

He considered teleporting, but the idea that he could make himself feel enough fear to activate that power in this situation was laughable. Of course he had one more option in terms of Mover abilities, so he thought about how he'd done it, trying to recall the exact feeling he'd had when his body had turned into black smoke, right before he'd smacked into the glass door like a bug on a windshield.

Jimmy's body instantly turned into black smoke, barely visible in the dim light leaking through the front of the store and fled out of the girls' grasp, causing them to drop onto the mattress and bounce a little.

Sophia instantly came awake, her eyes shooting open and darting around anxiously, until she recalled where she was and spotted Jimmy reforming at the foot of the bed.

"Bathroom," Jimmy said urgently and quickly darted towards the back of the store in search of a place to pee.

Sophia snorted, amusement dancing in her eyes for a brief second before Emma latched onto her like an octopus and pulled her across the bed with strength she hadn't known the young redhead possessed. She tried to wiggle free, but the young girl's arms refused to yield. Deciding Jimmy had the right idea, Sophia turned to shadow and rolled out of bed.

Emma let out a small whine of distress, still deep asleep, her hands questing for her bedmates.

Sophia despised weakness and would normally just sneer at Emma's behavior, but memories of her own frequent nightmares came to the fore, and she gave into impulse as she turned back to normal, to shove a couple of pillows in her friend's arms.

Emma squeezed the pillows to herself, calming down and letting out a small sigh of relief. Sophia watched her for a moment before turning to follow Jimmy, as she found she needed to pee as well.

She didn't know if there was a bathroom back there, but since Jimmy hadn't returned she figured he must have found somewhere to piss. She ghosted through the dimly lit store and its tangle of overturned furniture to the back, where she found light leaking under a door just off the manager's office.

She didn't hesitate to pass through the door into a well lit small bathroom where she found Jimmy with his boxers off and his balls in the sink with the water running.

"You piss on yourself?" she joked as she solidified, making him jump while she tried not to laugh.

"No," Jimmy replied, "just keeping my package clean. I'm not walking around with dirty balls, cause jock itch sucks."

"Fair enough," she glanced at the toilet and saw there was at least a quarter of a roll left. "Emma's still out, but you can go wake her unless you wanna stand there and watch me take a piss."

"Not one of my kinks," Jimmy said, as she dropped her panties and sat down. He snatched up his boxers and turned to smoke, but instead of smacking into the door as she expected, his form slid through the crack at the bottom.

"His powers not as good as mine, but it's not half bad," Sophia decided as she started peeing, glad he hadn't called her bluff as she didn't think she could pee with him there.

Jimmy reformed on the other side of the door and picked his way through the mess back to the bed. He dropped his boxers on his clothes as he was still a little damp and needed to air dry a bit more.

He looked out into the mall and guessed it was almost noon from the angle of the sunlight leaking around the tarp covering the damaged skylights. "Hey, Emma, time to wake up," he said loudly, getting a mumbled response from the girl that in no way resembled speech. "Emma, time to get up," he tried again.

"What?" Emma muttered as she came awake and noticed she was clutching a pillow and that Jimmy was standing at the foot of the bed, backlit by the daylight peaking into the mall, making his genitals sparkle. She found it strangely artistic. "Where are your boxers?" she asked, wondering why his crotch was damp.

"On my pants," Jimmy replied. "I'll get dressed in a couple of minutes."

She sat up and stretched. "Where's Sophia?"

"Using the bathroom," he replied.

Emma ran her fingers through her hair to get rid of the tangles as she wondered what had happened while she was asleep that had left Jimmy's junk damp and Sophia using the bathroom. Had Sophia and Jimmy been having sex while she slept next to them?! Her face flushed as she pictured the two, Jimmy lying in between Sophia's spread legs, thrusting as she muffled her moans in his shoulder, his boxers kicked off while Sophia's panties hung from one ankle, swinging back and forth as the two bounced on the mattress with an oblivious Emma sleeping next to them.

"Sophia should be finished washing up in a minute," Jimmy said, breaking her from her increasing lurid thoughts. "I figure we'll poke around and see what's in here, now that we've got a bit more light."

"Sounds like fun," Emma said, as she got up. "Where's the bathroom?"

"Small door in the back right corner," Jimmy replied, "there'll be light leaking under the door."

"Thanks," Emma said as she got up, suddenly acutely aware that she was only wearing a t-shirt and panties. She imagined she could feel his eyes on her as she walked. The door to the bathroom opened, lighting up the area as Sophia stepped out.

"Hey Ems," she greeted her, "Jimmy's balls dry off yet?"

Emma's eyes widened, they had, had sex! "He's still just wearing a shirt," she offered before ducking into the bathroom.

Sophia snickered and made her way to the front of the store where Jimmy was getting dressed. "We should get some bulbs so we can get a little more light in this place."

"And a ladder to install them," Jimmy added, gesturing to the ceiling far above before grabbing his clothes. "I suppose we can find some lamps in here somewhere and plug them in, there's bound to be a couple. The store lights can wait a bit." He slipped on his boxers and pulled up his pants.

"That's a good idea," Sophia said, losing interest in watching Jimmy, now that he was mostly dressed and poking around the store to see if any lamps had survived with their bulbs intact.

Jimmy used a Bic disposable lighter to light a candle, but after looking around he blew it out, as it didn't provide much more light than they already had and they'd probably need it later when the sun went down.

The pair quickly discovered that most of the furniture in the store was intact if a little banged up from being thrown around. Apparently furniture wasn't a big target for theft during a riot.

"Got a floor lamp with a bulb that isn't broken," Sophia announced as she brought over a four foot tall black metal floor lamp with a dented shade. "See a plug anywhere?"

"Right over here," Jimmy said, setting aside the desk lamp he'd found, which had a shattered bulb and pushing aside a sofa cushion to reveal a pair of three prong outlets set in the floor.

Sophia plugged it in and it immediately lit up, providing some decent light to see the area around them. "That's better," she said.

"You picked the perfect spot to use as a base," Jimmy complimented her. "We'll have to scout out ways to get in and out that can't be spied on, but this beats the hell out of any place I can think of."

"No shower, but it's got everything else," Sophia said proudly, "and all we gotta do is pay a little cash and keep out thieves."

"Which the dogs mostly handle," Jimmy said. "Bound to be a store in here with shower fixtures and if not we can buy some and set one up in one of the backrooms."

"You know how to install a shower?" Sophia asked curiously as she started getting dressed and Emma returned.

"I've read up on it," Jimmy said, "doesn't look too difficult, and plumbing's something everyone should know how to handle or at least enough not to get ripped off by a plumber."

Emma got dressed, a bit embarrassed to be half naked in front of Jimmy with the lights on. "I know daddy always complains about plumbing bills."

"If there was a bookstore in here they probably cleaned out all their stock, unlike most of the stores, or we could read up on it," Sophia said, the idea of not having to rely on people, because they always let you down when you needed them most, and Jimmy's philosophy of training yourself to handle anything life threw at you being something she could really get behind.

"There are a lot of do-it-yourself channels on Youtube," Emma offered, "I've seen some on plumbing while looking up beauty tips."

"Doubt the owner of this place has it wired for internet and getting it done would probably send up red flags to all the Thinkers," Sophia said.

"I'll up my data plan and use my phone to connect," Emma said, "I saw a geek in the AV club use his phone to watch cartoons on a school computer so I know it can be done."

"We'll have to buy a laptop, but it's not like we can't afford it," Sophia said smugly, "that stash house was loaded."

Jimmy grinned. "They'll probably up their security on the rest of them, making them easier to find since they'll have more guards, and when they relax and lower their security, we can hit another one."

Sophia laughed. "I wonder how paranoid we can make them by doing that."

"Paranoid and angry enough that we should probably have separate cape identities for it," Jimmy suggested.

"Kinda hard to hide my powerset," Sophia pointed out.

"The thing where I turn into smoke is close enough to cause confusion but different enough to let them know it's a different cape," Jimmy said. "If you are seen using your power in a fight with the Merchants while I'm hitting a stash house they'll assume Shadow Stalker isn't involved at all."

"I can see that working," Sophia said slowly, "as long as I use my power like you would yours, they'll think I'm you."

"We need costumes, obviously different costumes," Emma said, "because right now the Friday the 13th look is just used by Shadow Stalker."

"And practice to see what tricks we can figure out with our powers," Sophia added. "Several major capes started out as minor ones until they figured out new ways to use their powers."

"How does that work with grab bag heroes?" Jimmy asked.

"Same as with heroes with a single strong power, just using the various powers I expect," Sophia said. "How many powers do you have so far?"

"Teleport, smoke form, and changing people's hair color to blue," Jimmy said. "Anger is the trigger for the hair color, fear for the teleport, and…" his voice trailed off for a moment, "smoke form doesn't have an emotional trigger, I just will it."

"So Mover, Breaker state, and Blaster?" Emma asked.

"So far," he agreed.

"You'll just have to experiment with each one and any new ones you come up with," Sophia said, "but that's all something to do later, for now let's -" Sophia's stomach rumbled, "go get some lunch."

"I could eat," Jimmy agreed.

"We should probably get you some better clothes so we don't stand out," Emma suggested. "Think there are any clothes he can wear here?"

"Probably, but my stomach isn't going to wait," Sophia said. "How about I go get some take out while you two do whatever?"

"We can straighten up a bit more, maybe find a couple more lamps," Jimmy agreed. "Kinda nice to be able to relax and not have to worry about stray blasts interrupting my reading."

"Cool, be back shortly," Sophia said before shifting into shadow and sinking through the floor.

Jimmy turned to Emma. "She did that just because it looks cool as fuck, didn't she?"

Emma grinned. "It's what I would do, because it did look cool as fuck!"

Jimmy laughed. "Come on, let's see if we can find some more working lights and maybe a table and chairs."

Typing by: fyrewolf5

TN: Emma's got quite the active imagination there.

AN: Teenage hormones.