"Struggle all you want little guy." Came the sneering voice behind him.
Then a most extraordinary thing happened. Zac was lifted up about a foot off the ground. And it wasn't because someone had picked him up - or not just because of that, as the abductor was floating himself!
"No yelling - I'll be more than happy to knock you out kid." He said, taking his hand off Zac's mouth and putting it elsewhere as to carry Zac better.
It was about then that Zac remembered something - this must be that Flight power Z had mentioned before.
"Mayne?" Zac asked.
"Ahh, so the little Hanson-girl know who I am."
Ok, so there were Hanson-haters among mutants too. Why didn't that surprise him?
"How's your car?"
Mayne growled. Zac grinned and concentrated. He didn't know if he could do this yeah, but he was sure going to give it a try!
Mayne started laughing.
"You think you can hurt me with little sparks?"
"Oh yeah, Invulnerability. I forgot."
"Quit trying to escape kiddo. You're no match for me."
Zac tried to think. Z hadn't told him anything about how Mayne's mutation had effected his powers. He knew Jo was invulnerable, but was Mayne truly invulnerable? Or had the mutation created a weakness? And more importantly, did he have the ability to exploit it?
"Hey!" Mayne objected suddenly.
Zac felt Maybe stop going forward. He tried to turn his head so he could see... Z had grabbed hold of Mayne. And boy, was she strong! Of course, at the moment, the only sign that the man Zac saw was actually Z was that she, err, he was wearing an earring in the shape of the letter 'Z'.
"Zelly told me to tell you sumfing Zacky." Ripples whispered, almost sitting in Zac's ear. "Umm... water... his weakelness is water."
That made perfect sense to Zac. After all, Mayne had a Fire power. Water would put out a fire... but no time to dwell on the details. Zac turned himself into water.
Mayne hissed, like a fire being put out and dropped Zac like he was... well, normally you'd probably say 'dropped him like he was on fire' but fire would not have bothered Mayne! At any rate, Zac fell down on the ground, turned back human and sprayed Mayne with water from his own finger.
Mayne yelped and sped away, appearing to have scathing burns over his body where the water had touched him.