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As Keira was playing with the throwing star, she could see a tall, tan and handsome teenage boy with long black hair brought back in a ponytail, chewing gum walk by the tree, without ntoicing her ofcourse. He wore a white long-sleeve turtleneck and baggy black jeans with chains on them, and black leather boots. He had a bored look on his face as he took his pack off and sat up against the tree trunk.

"Oh boy, another exciting day in the life of BGM..." he said to himself, with a tired sigh. He took off his back pack and rumage through it and pulled forth a newpaper. It had Batman grabbing a crimson red dressed superhero with pink goggles and Batgirl out of a train car as it blew up, and there were two headlines. The big, front page one said " Batman saves the day again!" and then below it, it said " BubbleGumMan? Hero or Zero?".

"How am I supposed to help people when all I do is mess up?!" he growled to himself, reading the newpapers a bit more. " Damnit! I wish I wasn't just " James Thomas, the kid with the bubblegum powers and goofy alter ego!" I wish I could be "The Crimson Clad Crusader, BubbleGumMan!" He said, before crumbling the newspaper and tossing it to the side. "Oh well, at least nobody can see me talking to myself...."

James made a small squeek, and fell over backwards, somersaulting to a standing position, instinctively in defensive pose. " Alrighty-then! Who are you and why were you spying on me?" he asked, in a clearly "trying to be tough" tone, but his boyish handsome face and shakign knees gave it all away. He was a nervous wreck!

"Aww...that sucks...I mean, um...." he striaghten up, blushing slightly, rubbing the back of his head. He decided to pull out his "big gun"...changing the subject. " So, anyway, back to what I asked you...it's awfully rude for someone to know who someone else is ,without telling that someone who they are...May I know you name?"

James was much taller then average kids his age, and the other kids at Gotham High who didn't know him, which was everyone at the high school, thought he was a psycho bully. But, he was really just a gentle oaf, and he hoped this girl wouldn't do something to hurt his feelings.

"Er....nevermind...." he said, now that he thought back to the past of meeting people. " Just...just forget it....I don't wanna know your name, as long as you promise to never speak a word to anyone about me being BubbleGumMan...like they'd care anyway..." He mumbled the last part to himself, and then started to turn around and walk away...forgetting his backpack at Keira's feet.

James looked back at Keira's outstretched hand, and then accepted the backpack back form it. He slipped it on, and looked into Keira's face, searchingly. Is she.....for real?? he thought to himself, and and smiled slightly. "Um...nice to meet you, Keira...thanks for reminding me about my bag...I don't know what I'd do without my stuff...' he said, not sure what to say to a girl...he'd always been the geek and other guys have been the babemagnets...the jocks...the friends, even.

He then thought of a way to repay her kindness. " Um, hey...uh....what-what's your favorite flavor?" He asked akwardly." Of fruit, I mean...candy works, too...."

James smiled, and nodded. He held his palm outstretched towards her, turned upright. " Alright, I don't do this very much, so consider yourself lucky!" he grinned, jokingly, as his palm tightend and a a pink wisp of smoke...or a cloud, maybe, started to form over his hand, and soon swirled down to his palm, and formed a pink gumball you'd get out of a machine for a quarter, only it sparked with pink electric cling. "Here...it's the least I can do, it's gum that never runs out of flavor! Cherry, ofcourse, since...that's...uh...what you like...right?"

James smiled at her, before he sensed something going down in the city. He thought it was nothing, but was wrong...he heard a large explosion, and he turned around to see gysers shoot up into the air from sewers alogn the streets way downtown in Gotham. Damn! And I was happy just now... he thought, as he heard panicked screams and shouts of " Police! Stop! Put your hands in th-ERK!".

"Um..I have somewhere I have to be...Excuse me, please!" he smiled at Keira, before unzipping his backpack and sticking his hand inside, followed closely by a red and orange blob engulfing his body, oozing up his arm and then forming around his body untill he was comepletly dress up in his superhero get-up. "Duty calls, nice meeting you, I really am thankful that there are people like you, because you've restored my faith in others..." He said to her, not in love of anything ,but grateful to her non the less. "See ya!" He then swirled his hands around eacc other, and the pink mist appeared again, before forming into a saucer that floated in the air, and he leapt onto it and flew off into the the city.

((don't worry, it won't be nothing too serious...not serious at all, just a lower-class supervillain...))

((alright, nighty-night, i'll post a rp for you to come back to!))

A big, giant green-scaled man with extremly big body parts and alligator tail stomped through the city, smashing cars and tearing them in half, while the scared people jumped out of them. Yes, there was carnage when Killer Croc went on a rampage.

"Herrrrr! HURGH!!!!!!!!RAGH!!!!!!!" he roared into the air, bringing up his fists and smashing a small crater into the ground...whatever happened to the Croc wasn't good..he seemd extremely powerful, much more then usual. " Smash! I like smash! Love bones that go smash, too...." he eyeballed a little girl that was crying in fright under neath him, as he slowly brought his huge fists into the air, closed his eyes, and tried to bring them down upon the little girl, but couldn't. He oppened an eye, and tried again. Still his arms kept in their place. "Huh.....?"

"Hey! Crocodile Dundee! Or, maybe "Croc-Pot!" yelled BGM, as he stood floating on his gum saucer behind Croc. " Nothing is strong enough to break my "impact gumming"!" He said, and Killer Croc blinked beofre noticed that there was a big string of bubblgum connect his fists to his back.

"Grr...red man should'a stayed out of Croc's business!" he growled, stomping the gorund as he turned to face BGM. " Red man's bones will break...Red man will bleed! Yeah, croc make Red man bleed.... twisted "

BGM sweatdropped.Maybe I shoulda just stayed with the girl in the park... was what he instinctively though, but turned his hero side on. " Yeah, well come and get me, freak zilla!" he sneered, before hoverign quickly up and down the street, tryign to lead Croc after him. "If I can just get him out of the way of people, then we can fight without hurting anyone...wait, why hasn't he started runnign after me?...."

BGM then noticed a shadow getting bigger over him, and he looked up, seeing Killer Croc coming down on him after a massive leap from 4 blocks back. "AHH!"

"Red man go crunch now!!!" laughed Croc, as he smashed down ontop of BGM, makign a crater in the pavement.