Back To Basics

Tt sucks not having powers, i can no longer TK through a wall and cant summon historic shields from the museum. i tried to get Stan to transfer powers over to me, but he couldn't, as soon as they get any where near me he loses control and they go back to him. Linda has really out done herself this time. i think about whether or not it was actually Linda who did this, it could easily have been Sage. i guess it doesn't matter who did it.
Stan and i went out for a burger, i tried to teach him some basic telepathy skills, but putting a thought into someones mind isn't what he likes to do, he's a normal person who doesn't believe in using powers to get his way!! why does he have my powers? i'm so much more efficient. it was then that Sage walked in, i told Stan about it immediatly. he shot fire at him from under the table, he (Sage) distinguished it before anyone noticed. he stopped time, he kept me in it and Stan out of it. how would that have worked?
ANYWAY--
"are you blind Cleo?" he says, he had that smile on him that (before all this) was linked to happiness and like he was having a riot of a laugh with a joke no-one else understood. that was driven out of my mind as i now associated this particular smile with deviousness and contempt.
"no, but you will!" i threw coffee in his eyes and ran, but everything disappeared, it was just darkness. but Sage stayed.
"Linda was the one who switched the powers, it had nothing to do with me. i know you Tavara's, you test people until they go crazy, are you losing it yet Cleo?" he said. "cos if you are, i can easily put you out of your misery, if you catch my drift" he said. i threw a punch at him, he dodged like Peter Parker did in the first Spiderman movie. i suddenly remembered Chans power, how what you've already gained doesn't disappear. i threw a hard kick at him and flipped out of the way of the fire he threw at me. i managed to knock him with a wrestling move i'd seen on TV. everything went back to normal, Stan asked what happened.
"i got back to basics" i shrugged and walked out, tipping the waiter a nice amount of money (thanks to Sage's flowing wallet). no powers? yes, but am i bummed about it? no, its just a challenge, a mystery, and i love a good, complex mystery to solve.