It's all in Perception! (Chesire)

[powerboy]

Ever since his run in with the new Robin in Gotham...Ever since he had been found of not actually being dead, he had roamed up, and down the east coast. Saving people, getting cats from tree's, helping old ladies across the street. It was good honest hero work. The teen superhero honestly didn't stick around long enough to get any praise for anything that he did. In fact he just kind of helped, and then ran off to the next emergency that required his attention, which was easy considering he could sense the emotions of others. While it was both a gift, and a curse at the same time. It allowed him to have an instant connection with anyone that he met, but if he felt the wrong things, and didn't keep himself under control then the results would be disastrous. Though he did his best to keep that side of him under control.

He flashed back to his days on Apokolips all of the negativity that he felt all the time, the constant battles, the man who claimed to be his father, and who did experiments on him. While those experiments made him stronger they gave him one incredible weakness. To many negative emotions at one time would send him into a berserker rage, that not many would be able to stop. Superman, Wonder Woman, and maybe Batman were the ones he figured would be the most capable to stop his incredible rage while he was like that. Though he didn't lose control very often, when it happened it was lucky. Right now he was in New York City, and was just wandering around the city helping those that needed to be helped. Well that was until he saw something on one of the television screens that caught his eye.

"And in World News Today, the dangerous criminal known as Chesire has escaped from prison. She was last seen around the New York area. Be careful as she is extremely dangerous, proceed with caution." then the broadcast cut off.

He quickly memorized her features, and then set off to find her. Thinking of what emotions she would be feeling, he searched for fear, hate, desperation, and hope. Using his super speed he traveled around the city looking at those that felt those things, and none of them matched her description. He found another person, and this one from the back looked like they had her features, but he could be sure. She was walking down an alley in clothes, and it didn't look like she had just broken out of jail.

"Hey baby! Let's bash ears' real quick!" he said smirking, and zipping right in front of her cutting her off, of her current way.

[cheshire]

Her name had been released as one of the prisoners that had escaped, causing Cheshire to be extra careful. So careful in fact that she wasn’t running around the city dressed like herself but a normal person. Today she was Jade, a simple young woman hurt because the lost of her children and her lover. Deep down she hide her true feelings of anger, hate, and the want to kill the one person who was responsible for all her pain; Red Arrow. It worked for her, thought she hated hiding her true self, for no one knew Jade except for Red Arrow and his annoying best friend Nightwing. Other than that she was able to walk among the people unknown and without even a second glace. Well there were second glances, after all Jade wasn’t a bad looking woman, and it sometimes helped that she knew what chemicals to wear in order to entice the opposite sex.

It was daylight outside, the time of day that Cheshire hated because there was no shadows to hide in but it was necessary if she didn’t want to be spotted to act like everyone else. It helped that she didn’t have any jobs at the moment, because she was so much on the move that no one could hire her to kill someone else. So today she was just acting like everyone else, hopeless in the world of lost dreams.

Jade pulled up to a stop when she heard someone call her baby, the blood in her veins starting to boil slightly for she hated the little pet name unless she was about to seduce a man. Before she could turn around though she felt a fast breeze beside her, which once it calmed down and she could remove her hair from her face showed a young hero in front of her. It took Jade just a moment to realize who it was, and even more time to realize that she could be in trouble. She had to act quickly, had to make this man believe she was like everyone else, after all there was only two people in the world who knew who Jade really was. So in the matter of taking a breath, she realized who was before her and composed herself in a shocked look, taking a step back and placing her hand on her heart. “please don’t hurt me, I have a child.” Jade begged, her own voice making her feel a little sick how weak she was sounding.