Mits nods to Lev and pulls a reflective vest and whistle out of her backpack.  "Yeah.  I've got an idea.  But I'll need your help and a second vest like this."

Horns honk and impatient motorists start to shout.

Mits repeats to the 911 operator what she heard from Beth.  "The biggest problem is the traffic.  It's already backing up past the light.  And that means it'll take longer for EA to get here.  I'm a trained crossing guard and I know how to untangle the traffic.  And I've got a buddy here willing to help.  But I need your go-ahead to legally do that since I'm not an actual traffic cop and this isn't a school.  OK!  You got it!"

She hangs up.  Very distant sirens begins to blare.

Mits gives Lev a grin and thumbs-up.  "I'll take the intersection.  I'll need you to hold off the eastbound traffic behind the crash.  It's pretty simple.  Look like you know what your doing, and hold up a hand in a firm 'STOP' gesture like this.  Some idiot's sure to try and sneak past and cause another crash if you don't.  See if Beth can poof you a vest.  A hand-held stop sign or two would be great as well."

Upon second glance, Beth notices a bruise forming on the lady's forehead.  Notably, the steering wheel is not dented where her head hit it, so the injury is very likely minor.  The postal worker is relieved from Beth's handy offer.  "That's perfect!  Thanks!  Is that gas I smell?"

He gets to working on gathering up the letters.  Bank, Post Office, and various other curious workers and customers step outside to see what the commotion is.  One happens to have a camcorder and starts filming.

This is the 80's. This was the decade that really introduced the idea of everything being volatile and the smell of gas meant explosion incoming. So programmed by the movies, Bethany says, "G-gas?!" and panicked, she looks around for any signs of a gas leak. Starting with the crashed car. But even if she finds a gas leak, what could she do about it?

On one hand, she was told people with traumas shouldn't be moved suddenly. On the other hand, if the car is about to EXPLODE, alive and dizzy/comatose is better than crispy and dead. She materializes a knife and gets to cutting the seat belt so she can help the lady out of the car.

Lev nodded to Mittens, looking at the reflective vest and wondering where one would normally get those. As well, where does one learn to be a crossing guard? Said thoughts occupied Lev's mind for all of two seconds before he went over towards Beth at the mention of asking for the correct stuff.

"... Hey! Apologies for asking but- wait, gas?" Lev tilted his head. ".... Like the 'this is flammable' gas? Right?" There was a significant sense of concern in his voice. "That's... that's bad. Uhm..." He'd look towards the Eastbound side of things, heading over. If there is gas or a chance of flames, vehicles with -more- gas do not need to be getting near it. No vest, no sign, but being very much in the way and taking Mitten's advice on a firm hand held out hopefully would do the trick. "If you need a spare hand, let us know! I'll try and keep any vehicles from doing... vehicle things?"

( LMAO "vehicle things!" XD )

There is the usual smell of city road.  No gas in the air or on the road.  Just a panicked mailman imagining things.  He finishes up gathering the mail and hurries inside with it.  But talk of gas leak and girl cutting seatbelt snaps the lady out of her shock.  She hurries out of the car.

And as if on cue, a vehicle just behind hers was about to swerve.  Would have been perfectly timed to pin a panicked lady between a bumper and a car door, and hit two teens as well.  But a firm STOP hand gesture from Lev has the car screech to a halt just in time!

"Hey!  Get outta the road, kid!  I'm in a hurry!" the startled man behind the wheel demands with a few honks.  Then he starts noticing what could have happened.  "N..nevermind."

He backs up his car.

Mits blows on her whistle nice and loud at the intersection.  Before long, she's directing traffic like a boss.

"Way to go, Lev!" she shouts, "In a bit I'll stop this lane so your lane can get through."
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Beth helps the lady over to the side of the road and says, "Just sit tight... emergency folk are on the way, OK?"

Bethany sees how Mittens and Lev are handling things. But Lev asked for a vest. POOF! Bethany makes a vest appear and hurries over to Lev, "You wanted a reflective vest?"

She then says, "I.. uh... have an idea? I hope it will help..." she sqints her eyes, concentrating and a sparkly, translucent, tight bodysuit appears on her!

The backside of the suit is red, but the front side is green. She takes a deep breath and faces the oncoming traffic. "Mittens! Look! I'm a living traffic light!"

She lights up brightly and becomes a human-sized light. Bright red in the rear, bright green in the front. "I dunno how else to help, but I figure this could help you and Lev, right?"


This kind of material, but sparkly:
https://tinyurl.com/4ce4rk8j

Tight like so:
https://tinyurl.com/2p8njkmh
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Lev winced a bit at the incoming vehicle, sincerely hoping that hand gesture would work, and much to his relief, it did! "Sorry sir! Can't go any further! We've had a car wreck! Please uhm... choose a different road until the emergency is resolved!" He'd try his best to keep a confident and knowledgeable tone. Whether this is what you're actually supposed to say or not is beyond him, but shots in the dark versus no shots at all!

Lev nodded, an expression of amazement, even if he's seen the manifesting of objects, the trick never ceased to be amazing! He'd gratefully take the vest, quickly putting it on. When the translucent bodysuit however came into being, and the red-green living stop light appeared, Lev gave a small cheer, before quickly facing back to the traffic as a just in case, ready to invoke the power of the mighty 'hold the hand out'!

[Edit: Read in the last sentence was corrected to Ready]
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Mittens busts out laughing at the human traffic light idea!  "That's fantastic, Beth!"

The sight is enough to cheer up even the driver of the crashed car some and she giggles.  Motorists chuckle and smile.  The video guy is sure to get plenty of shots of Beth as Mits teaches her basic crossing guard stuff.  With Lev's keen hearing he can hear Mits hollering at him to let his lane through even over the distance between them and the noise of traffic.

Firefighters arrive first, park their truck in front of the Post Office, take over the traffic stuff, check the lady for injuries and shock, check the vehicle for a gas leak, the whole nine.

"Wow," one of them says, "You kids are amazing!  Well done!"

"I got the whole thing on tape!" camcorder guy brags.

"Great.  I'll bet the news'll love a copy.  Get a shot of me so my kids can see me on TV!"

Mittens gives the firefighter bunny ears and makes a silly face at the camera.

Bethany is super pleased she was able to not only help, but impress her new friends! She turns out her light once the officials arrive and gladly joins in getting a picture with the firemen. "Thanks!" she says in response to the kudos they gave.

Bethany grabs Lev and Mittens with side hugs to pull them into the picture. Then looks at Mitts and says, "So... do your senses usually lead to annoying bug chirps? Or car crashes?"

Lev did not quite expect the picture taking but did his best smile anyways, a toothy grin to the camera, as well as a thumbs up.

"Wait... news?" He'd tilt his head aside a bit, before looking to the others, whispering exclamatorily, "We're going to be on the news?!" He sounded both excited and slightly nervous about the notion. " Is this a common thing when your... uhm... I am going to call it 'Force of Adventure'... wait! Venture-sense! Does this stuff happen a lot with your 'Venture-sense'?"
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"Yup.  Usually small time stuff.  Rarely is it something big."

"No guarantee," camera guy says, "They're fickle.  Some story about pigeon poo or construction noise might wind up taking a bigger spot."

Mits nods.  "I've been in the news a couple times.  Oddly enough, not once for the big things.  '12 year old girl predicts massive gas explosion and averts catastrophic disaster by warning authorities!'  Not even a blip in the paper.  But the time everyone wound up drenched by fire sprinklers at a school play, made it to national news."

"YOU'RE the sprinkler girl?!" camera guy asks.  "Groovy!"

Mits nods.  "Yup.  Famous.  For a silly little thing that happened in middle school.  Not for saving dozens of lives and millions of dollars in damage."

Bethany says, "Probably because predicting a disaster like that... well... the disaster didn't happen thanks to the warning. If the gas explosion happened, probably would have made the news. They ALWAYS report explosions... wha- bird poo? Either way, you'll wanna edit out criticism of the news in the copy you give them or they'll definitely not report it."

Bethany then does a tada pose and her normal 80's girl outfit returns in place of the human traffic light outfit. "Sprinklers? What happened? I must have missed that one..."

Lev gave a small applause at the 'ta-da', before raising an ear in curiosity at the mention of a sprinkler event. "Weird priority of report... big boom stopped, versus... sprinklers? And, same curiosity, what happened with the sprinklers?"

"Was only a 30 second clip," camera guy says, "So yeah.  I'd like to know the real story too."

Mittens rolls her eyes.  "Mittens was new to her superpower.  Was also in drama club.  I was sensing what I thought was a big danger on the night of the play.  Big?  Yes.  Danger?  Possibly?  So when I saw a trashcan on fire, I overreacted and set off the sprinklers.  To the whole auditorium.  'Brought the house down' in a not-so-pleasant sense of the term."

"If the trashcan wasn't at least half a football field away from anything flammable, you made the right call," a fireman assures, "Better would be for an adult to properly use a fire extinguisher.  But you'd be amazed at how badly they mess that up."

The camera guy ohs.  "I just remember you doing the 'Singing in the Rain' number with altered lyrics about how nobody takes your warnings seriously."
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Bethany says, "So... your power is actually Cassandra's curse? You know the future, but nobody takes you seriously? Still, I agree with the fireman. Better to overact and save the day than to not act and catch a building on fire." (Changing Beth's color to Aqua to tell her apart from Tim/Rai)

A pair of kids who look suspiciously like Mittens round a corner and then pick up the pace to rush over to Mittens! They are both wearing backpacks as if returning from school and look to be around Lev's age. They both are 5' even and both have wide eyes at the scene, but go to glomp Mittens. "Mittens!" they say in unison.

Lev raised a brow at the mention of Cassandra's curse, looking between Mittens and Bethany. "Cassandra's Curse? Which Cassandra...?" He'd nod in agreement with the fireman though. Under reaction can get people hurt when it comes to danger. Overreaction can just get people sprinkled with water.

At the arrival of two new people, Lev waved, albeit he refrained from greetings, at least until they greeted Mittens properly since they seemed to know the adventure-sensing cat.

Mits smiles and gives her sibs a big hug.  "Hey hey!  Good to seeya!  Lemme introduce my two new friends!  This is Bethany and Lev.  Guys these are my sibs, Raichel and Timothius."

To Lev she explains, "Cassandra was a mortal from Greek mythology whom some god fell for.  Blessed her with prophesy.  When she refused to date him, he cursed her such that nobody would ever believe her predictions.  And no.  People tend to believe Mittens now that she's got a near perfect track record.  Thanks for the affirmation, everyone!"

Bethany says, "Nice to meet you, Timothius and Raichel! Are you twins?"

Timothius smiles at the new friends and shakes hands with whoever shakes hands. "Hi. Pleased t'meetchya. And yes, we're twins." he then looks around. "What'd we miss? Everyone OK?"

Bethany says, "The lady who was in the accident got a bruise on her head, but is amazingly otherwise fine."

Raichel says, "What caused the accident?"

Lev looked around to see if he could spot the kitty crossing the street, but figured given the commotion they'd have bolted by now. He'd give a happy hand-shake. "Pleased to meet! And... I think it was a cat? Dunno where it went."

He'd give a quieter 'thank you' towards Mittens for the explanation of who Cassandra was.

"Little kitty is nowhere to be found, but at least it looked alive and well when last spotted making it across the north side of the street.  Unsung hero of all this is the injured lady who swerved to save a critter's life.  Who wants a roller-piggyback?!"

Mits does her roller-pirouette then winds up pointing at herself.

Bethany and Raichel both say, "Me!" and then look at each other, giggling.

Timothius mews, looking nervous about the idea. It sounds fun, but...

Bethany then says, "But wait... didn't you just hold Lev's weight back at the arcade? And then immediately direct traffic? Shouldn't you give those shoulders a longer rest?"

Timothius huhs? and looks at Bethany. Then to Mittens. Then to Lev. "Why was he on your shoulders...?"

Lev gave a slightly nervous chuckle, before looking towards Mittens and then Bethany, then towards Timothious. "... It sort of happened at the arcade. There was a bug, it was loud, someone had to get it and it was in the ceiling... no ladder.... become cheerleader for a day, and use rubber bands and paper clips to deal with the bug. Group effort to deal with a noisy bug." Lev very much left out what was to be done with said bug. New people, probably not a good idea to bring it up.

He did look towards Mittens. "It is a good idea to rest your shoulders though... busy day!"

Mits smiles at all the concern directed at her.  "Mittens will be fine.  Especially with Rai riding on Mits' back, and not her shoulders."

Adventure girl wedges her skates on the curb to make sure they're nice and stable and squats to make it easy for Rai to hop on.  "Preference for li'l sis going first.  But don't worry, Beth.  You'll get your turn!"

Roller piggybacks are kept short and simple so the worry warts present don't spaz.

"We should exchange numbers 'n stuff!"

((OOC: Wrapping up this scene after next round of posts.  Next scene will be where the X-Men organization analog is officially created.))

Timothius ohs at Lev. "Gosh... musta been ear-splitting to be loud enough to bother an arcade... arcades are already loud."

Bethany says to Mitts, "But carrying people requires shoulder strength. If your shoulders were injured, you'd notice real fast. But hey! You know you, so I'm game!"

"Weeeeheeheeheeeee!" Raichel says as she gets the fun ride. Seeing his twin sister have so much fun and seeing Mittens being careful/safe, boosts Timothius's desire to ride to where he says, "I wanna ride after Beth..."

When Bethany rides on Mittens, she giggles. "You're far out, Mittens!" She creates a sticker and puts it on Mittens' cheek. Then creates a mirror so Mitts can see it is a sticker of a rocket rounding a planet and reads 'far out'.

When Beth gets off, Timothius makes grabby hands at Mittens to get a rollerblade piggyback ride.

Lev nodded at the mention of the insect in question being loud. "Cicada! Really loud bug that doesn't like to shush. Does t-... taaaaake a bit to find when they're stuck up in the ceilings." Lev caught and corrected the sentence fast.

Lev watched as the piggyback rides went around. He'd opt to refrain, a bit nervous that he's already caused enough tiredness for the roller-skater. But he will give a thumbs up in regards to skate-cat being far out! "Far out and the cool cat of adventure!" He'd give a slightly nervous snicker, hoping the thought-up nickname didn't sound quite as weird as he thought it sounded after he said it.

Mits eyes Lev knowingly when he nearly let slip about how the bug tastes, but manages to not comment.

"Speaking of arcade, Mittens got paid $60 in store credit for being a human ladder in that bug hunt.  It really was that loud!"

She's super happy that her short piggybacks provide so much fun!  "You all make Mittens wish she could piggyback herself!  Thanks Beth!"

Lev's nickname makes Mits grin proudly.  "You ain't seen nothin' yet!  Stick with Mittens and a BIG adventure's sure to come along!  Like the time she wound up arrested by Communist Germans!  True story."

The tow truck whisks away the crashed vehicle, and the fire truck drives off as well.  The street returns to normal and the scene fades out to commercial break.  https://youtu.be/e-Cns18mfIo?t=185