Hero Form: Active (x4 Multiplier) Zam's Current Power Level: 96,000
It has been...a few months, since Zam was seen doing anything heroic. Granted, he was still easily found at the doughnut shop he worked at in South City, if anyone cared to look, but he had...stopped doing his normal superheroic patrols...
For one, very simple reason. His last run in with other Ki Users convinced him...he really, really wasn't on as grand a powerscale as he thought.
So he spent the last...few months improving his own abilities rather than trying to actively fight crime. Which, granted, only really meant for the city that petty crooks aren't being found tied up in bent lamp posts or in dumpsters...right up until today.
"Kami damnit, where is everyone!" Za-I mean, Kazam, and you can tell the difference because he's wearing his apron as a cape and has used magic to transform his (fake) glasses into a domino mask, flew above South City, a pink glowing aura visible around him as he did. "Zam leaves for a few months and city fixes crime rate? Zam no think so! Why no crimes going on!? Zam would even just settle for a purse snatcher or a tourist being annoying! Just...anything!?...Did anyone even know Kazam was gone?"
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Last Edit: Jul 18, 2023 14:44:07 GMT -5 by Majin Zam
Exon wasn't born yesterday. He was born roughly a week and a half ago. Still, hardly enough time for him to know what exactly did and did not constitute a 'crime.' The Bioandroid had slipped into South City, moving through sewer systems and under the cover of darkness. Not that he had anything against the people of Earth - more that they were likely to have a problem with him. A terrifying creature with sharp hooked legs and glowing red eyes? All of this had led to this very moment. Exon scuttled away, shattered glass peppering the ground as irate shouts followed in his wake.
A haphazard prize of multiple fish stuffed poorly into a plastic bag was clenched gently betwixt Exon's mandibles as the creature made a hasty getaway. Taking things from others was wrong, but what else was he supposed to do, eat garbage!? Who even ALARMED a butchery anyway?! Chittering in exasperation, Exon slipped into an alley and behind a dumpster. Confident that nobody managed to follow him, he'd release his prize and eye it hungrily. Being a newborn meant the perks of having a glacial metabolism hadn't entirely kicked in yet. He'd need to feast (on not people) to keep growing.
Shoplifting is technically a crime, Zam guesses. And with nothing really going on he's not gonna pass on the chance to stop something. But no need to go with the...usual methods. Even if this thing looked a little odd, Zam was the last person in a position to judge on that kind of thing and as long as it hadn't hurt anyone its really not worth throwing them in a dumpster or bending a lamppost around him to restrain him.
Especially since the City Works department explicitly asked him to stop breaking the Lampposts in the city. But still time to stop this. Zam landed quietly on top of the dumpster that Exon was hiding behind him...
"Kazam is going to advise you to put that back, friend." He's standing half-shrouded in shadow, trying to do his best "Dark Avenger" but...the bright red shirt and pink glow that his aura gave off did make it quite hard for him to look even...remotely intimidating. That and the fact that he's not exactly fit looking. Given he's been gone at least for 6 months, its unlikely Exon, especially given he wasn't, ya know, alive when Zam was last around, would recognize the wannabe superhero...
Finally. A fresh bit of seafood to indulge in after days of sewer slicking. Exon felt perhaps a little bad about having stolen it from Earthlings trying to run a business, but his hunger overtook any compassion or moral logic that would compel him to return it peacefully. So engrossed was he that Exon failed to notice the looming presence of a brightly colored Majin until he openly spoke... demanding that he return the fish!
A challenger. The ravenous beast was denied its wretched meal, mandible agape as Zam arrived in the nick of time. A tense few moments passed as four pinkish-purple eyes flitted between the superhero and their prize. Finally... Exon's impulsive thoughts won. "Nuh-uh." A single fish was snapped up in a flash, swallowed whole! Exon grabbed the bags full of his remaining bounty, scuttling with surprising speed as he attempted to escape! The speed at which the zoea moved was no joke either. Despite being little more than a juvenile, Exon boasted an incredible battle power that, as it currently stood, far outpaced the untransformed Zam.
Confident that, like the shopkeeper, this flabby newcomer wouldn't be able to keep up, Exon simply sped down the emptied sidewalk at high speed.
"Wrong Answer" Yes if Zam was in his untransformed form he would have quite the trouble trying to keep up with this odd, insect-like individual.
However he had been in his transformed form the moment he had put on the hero costume, and thus, as Exon rounded the corner from the alley, in a pink and blue blur, Kazam stands in front of the Biodroid.
"Return the rest of the Fish or Zam will take them from you!" Zam crackled with purple, lightning like energy as he hovers a few inches off the ground in front of Exon, arms crossed like a stern authority figure...
Which to be incredibly frank he isn't. And now that he stands fully in the sunlight its pretty clear that he's just some chubby blue guy in a costume made of what looked a lot like secondhand clothes. Frankly even if he is quick, unless the Biodroid could sense power somehow, there wasn't much intimidating about him. It's almost like being scolded by a marshmallow...
He unfolds his arms and pink lightning fires out...turning the bag the Biodroid was holding into a cooler with a padlock on it. "That should keep you out of those and keep em fresh until Zam gets it back to the store!"
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