Gym hits back

Darick stormed off down an alley littered with garbage, there were bounty signs posted along the walls with pictures of Tral and Gara on them that read "Wanted Alive: heavenly powered twins. Do not kill or seriously harm. They are extremely dangerous and are often seen with two lackeys. Reward two billion gold and bonus rewards from the church."

Darick ripped one down in disgust yelling "Lackey my ass, they don't even post pictures of Arc or me cause we're not valuable! Stupid morons don't know real value when it slaps them in the face."

He makes it to an open street just in time to catch a bus which he hopes goes by a gym so that he can work this pent up frustation out of his system. On the way there he passes by a local church to see a group of thugs bullying a couple as the woman is pregnant. They won't harm her as they are church supporters who strongly support the creation of more life but the man was taking the brunt of the abuse by being roughly pushed around. A common sight for young almost families to be harnessed into breaking up as the church loves babies but loathes the family unit as they want everyone to be raised in their "loving care".

Darick Imagines for a moment what it would have been like to have been raised by parents who cared about what happened to him after he grew up. At the orphanage they were always told that they would either grow up to become useful to the church or be forced to face life alone.

It didn't take him long to find a local gym which was a massive complex surrounded by a field where some casuals were playing no-power-ball a game where two teams would complete to get a ball past the other teams goal with their hands or feet but no powers which made it wildly popular with those who's powers weren't very helpful or didn't have powers at all.

Inside the gym there was a large pool next to a workout area, a speedster was running all over the place even over the water which was sparking a minor conflict with a group of water manipulators who were trying to practice for a performance.

Darick ignored their issues and went straight for some heavy weights which were off to the side near a couple boxing rings. There was only one other person by the heavy weights who was bench pressing six hundred pounds fairly quickly. Darick went up to a pair of three hundred fifty pound dumbbells to start doing curls while he watched a nearby kickboxing spar.

The match started to get intense as the people involved upped the stakes while taunting each other loudly. "How about we say the winner gets to be with Lisa? You haven't gotten her pregnant yet so maybe you are so fertile and she needs a real man to date." One of the fighters jeers while throwing a punch.

"What are you talking about, we just started seeing each other and haven't even done anything yet like that yet. She doesn't even like you idiot so maybe start thinking about the fight before you make a fool out if yourself!" The other fighter replied followed by a kick which was dodged.

The other man wouldn't stop though "Hey now, the church says sharing is caring so what's the big deal it's not like you could hold on to her interest for long anyway."

The lady in question was standing by the ring, she was about five foot six with long blond hair, big breast but basically no butt to speak of and was not impressed with these two yelling "You're both idiots if you think I want to sleep with either of you just cause you won a lame spar!"

This stopped their fight completely as the one who started the argument yells back "What? You're not one of them prudes who don't like sex right? The church says a lay a day is as good as a pray."

At this point Darick was still stressed about his day so he was tired of listening to idiots so he dropped the dumbbells with a bang as he started walking over to this argument to call out "Look, you better leave the lady alone cause I've had a real bad day and can easily transt it to either of you!"

This got their attention right away as he was much bigger then either of them and clearly had a strength related power but the one doing most of the talking didn't back down. "If you got a problem jerk then get in the ring but I got a power too so be ready to handle the stretch." He taunts as his arms stretch like rubber to try and punch Darick where he stands just outside the ring.

Darick just grabs the arm not caring if it stretches to hit him in the face before pulling on the arm till the owner springs out of the ring to fly off towards the pool. The other guy backs off at this point but from behind Darick a loud thud is heard as the guy who was bench pressing drops his weights to challenge "If you're going to pick fights then fight someone your own strength. I'm a high end earth ranked strength powered so show me what you got block head."

The man was about as tall as Darick but lanky with wire tight muscles. As he was walking over the lady Lisa interjected "Would you please stop fighting? It's not going to solve anything or impress anyone so just calm down ok."

Darick nodded in agreement and was about to turn away to blow off his steam on the punching bag but the lanky man swiftly punched him in the side of the head with enough force to cause a decently loud bang alone with a rush if air.

Darick's head barely even moved from this hit and as the man was rubbing his knuckle in pain Darick slowly turned back with a serious look on his face. "You want a piece of my face? Alright here you go." He says before grabbing the man by the shoulders to give him a headbutt that put him right to sleep.

He turns back to Lisa with a smile afterwards to apologize "Sorry you had to see that but on the bright side there is no more fighting." She smiles back to say "Well aren't you nice like a breath of fresh ait after dealing with these low lifes, how about we ditch this place and go see a movie to clear all this annoying business from our minds."