[ WP ] You are thrown into a hunger games like situation , only this time everyone has superpowers . Your power however ? The power to cook minute noodles in under a minute .

`` Ding!'' 
 
 `` Why do you always say that? You do n't have to say that. It's annoying.'' 
 
 `` What are you talking about?'' 
 
 `` That'ding' thing you always say when the foods done. Listen, I get it, you can create heat with the palms of your hands. Not enough to light a fire, fucking SOMEHOW, but enough to cook up our food fairly quickly. Congratulations. You're useless. Just do your job, get me fucking fed, and enough with the'ding' alright?'' 
 
 `` It's a reflex, Bobby, I ca n't help it. Sort of like a sneeze. You know what happens when you try to suppress a sneeze? Your EYES pop out, Bobby. I like my eyes.'' 
 
 `` Who gives a SHIT about your eyes, Frank? FUCKING. FRANK EVERYONE IN HERE WILL DIE. Shit, only one person is going to walk out of this place alive. You realize that if it's down to you and me, I'll have no choice but to kill you, right? Fuck, why am I even talking to you, you're useless.'' 
 
 Bobby leaned back on his tree branch, eyes scanning the river bank below. He focused on the sounds of the forest. He could tell none of this was real, he'd grown up in real forests, and they were full of the sounds of wind, wildlife, everything had some rhyme or reason for making the sound it did. This place? Even the river did n't make the right sound. It's like they turned the volume of everything down in intensity. It felt unnatural. It made him shiver. 
 
 `` Outside this place, I could make fire, you know,'' Frank mumbled. `` I once accidentally burned my house down when I was a kid. I was holding a bunch of spent matchsticks that I'd been playing with earlier, and then suddenly they all just burst int --'' 
 
 Bobby put his finger up to Franks lips. He mouthed'shh' and focused. The sound had changed. It was faint, but he could hear someone moving through the brush somewhere across the river. Last week he could've pinpointed a squirrel a mile away, but somehow in this place he could n't get his hearing to work right. Must have been the food. 
 
 `` Wait, what were you saying?'' he whispered suddenly, and locked eyes with Frank. 
 
 `` I thought you wanted me to shut up.'' 
 
 `` SHH! Fucking... just whisper, Frank. For me. I can hear someone out there. They probably ca n't hear us, but just keep quiet, alright? Now, what were you saying?'' 
 
 `` Fine.'' Frank whispered, with a roll of his eyes. `` I was just SAYING, outside this place I can make fire. On anything. I lit spent matches on fire once. In here, all I can do is heat water. I do n't know, it's like this place is messing with my heat.'' 
 
 That explained it.'The dome must suppress people's powers,' Bobby thought.'Probably to equalize the chances a bit. Super strength is useful, sure, but if it's turned down from 11 to like, 5, and you're not expecting it?' 
 
 `` I think I can hear him now Bobby. Moving around. Shit, maybe it's Ace, he's always been kind of a big lumbering beast.'' 
 
 Suddenly, and sure enough, Ace burst from the brush on the other side of the river and rushed into the water, dunking his head and taking long, deep gulps. It did n't seem like he'd spotted them. Just then, something clicked in Bobby's head. 
 
 `` Frank. Get down from the tree. Ace is in the water. I think if you try hard enough, you can cook him.'' 
 
 `` What?'' 
 
 `` We're in here to kill, Frank. I did my job, I spotted someone. Now go do yours.'' 
 
 `` What? What? My job is to cook the food, Bobby! You're the fighting expert, YOU go down there!'' Frank whispered furtively. Bobby grabbed him by the collar. 
 
 `` Stick. Your hands. In the river. Cook it up like you were cooking noodles. You said you can heat water, right?'' 
 
 `` I mean, I think! I do n't know the specifics, man. I've tried it on everything and if it's got water in it, I can get it warm. The noodles only work because there's more water than noodles in the pot, but that's a lot of water man. That's a river.'' 
 
 `` Listen, Ace has super strength, not fucking super vision or hearing or anything. He'll never see you coming. This place is surely messing with him the same way it's messing with us. He's probably weaker now. If you surprise him, maybe we can knock him off the list!'' 
 
 Frank thought for a second. `` Fine. Worth a shot. I'm a dead man, anyway.'' He climbed down from the tree as quietly as he could and crept to the edge of the bushes on the riverbank. His heart was pounding, he'd never killed before, but what choice did he have? He might even have to kill Bobby if someone else did n't get to him first. He'd been chosen at random, he never had a taste for violence, just fire. His palms started sweating, and without thinking he heated them. A flash of steam rose from the bush he was hiding in, and he cursed quietly. Ace took notice of the movement and squinted in Franks direction, then dove in and started racing across the river, with the incredible speed of a super strong fucking dolphin or something! Frank panicked and burst out towards the water, hands extended. Ace was almost across, if Frank did n't try something now, he'd surely be broken in two. He'd seen it, from a distance. Ace had literally pulled one of the other contestants apart. It was sickening. He got to the rivers edge just as Ace was surfacing only a few feet away, murder in his eyes, grinning like death. Frank stuck his hands in the river, turned his heat up as high as he could, and a flash of white enveloped them both.
