This is a hardlet-centric fic based in the misfits-verse, but it's got loads of stuff going on (hopefully) and not just hardlet. So hopefully you guys enjoy it!

My mind is open wide

And now I'm ready to start

~ Arcade Fire, Ready to Start

Cloudy with a chance of superpowers.

"You've got to be fucking kidding me!" Mini let out in a low growl as she snatched the orange jumpsuit out of the probation worker's hand. The probation worker allowed himself to look shocked for a second before simply rolling his eyes and stating,

"Watch your language." He then handed the orange jumpsuits to the other two girls. One of them clicked her tongue in annoyance and the other one surprisingly said, 'thanks' and not in a sarcastic manner either. "We're just waiting for the other two, so get changed then."

He just stood there for a second longer to hear some sort acknowledgment for what he just said, but he got a glare in return from Mini.

"And will you just be standing there while we change, pervert?" One of the girls giggled at her statement.
"I was just… fine, I'm going!" Hequickly left the changing room before he felt even more cornered.

The girls quickly got to removing their clothes in exchange for the orange jumpsuits. Grace was the first to finish and walked up and down the aisle as if she was on a catwalk.

"It's not so bad!" She said in-between little outbursts of laughter. Liv raised one eyebrow in her direction and Mini let out a snort as she pulled the jumpsuit up past her waist.

The door opened abruptly and two boys appeared in the doorway. Mini and Liv were hidden behind the lockers, but Grace was in plain view with her hands on her hips in her model pose.

"This is mental!" Alo said, his voice filled with laughter, as he saw the uniform Grace was wearing.

"I will cut off your balls if you take another step, alright?" Mini shouted as she desperately tried to finish pulling her jumpsuit on, while Alo and Rich exchanged horrified glances with each other.

"Oh, that's Mini… They're just changing." Grace said simply with a shrug and she walked over to the boys with her arm outstretched. "My name's Grace."

Rich seemed less than bothered to reply, so Alo did it for him while he just stood there sulkily.

"Hey Grace, I'm Alo and this is Rich." Grace happily shook Alo's hand and Rich pretended not to see she was offering her hand for him to shake. Mini and Liv walked out from behind the lockers. Alo seemed to have a problem forming a coherent sentence when he saw them… more specifically Mini.
"H-hi… uh… I'm Alo or Aloysius and this -"

"Yeah, whatever." Mini said, walking over to the mirror to check how horrendous she looked in the jumpsuit.

"It's all yours." Liv said, pointing to the locker area they had just been using to change. Rich trudged past her in his black boots and Alo reluctantly followed.

"How am I supposed to concentrate with a girl like that in our presence?" Alo whispered to Rich. Rich replied with a bored groan, as he thought that was a suitable enough reply.

"You've all been signed up for 140 hours of community service, which means you're working here for four weeks. So let's just get on with it then, shall we?" The probation worker clapped his hands together and pointed at the garbage bags on the floor in front of him. "Easy work today – Rubbish collecting!"

Mini and Liv raised their eyebrows in sync with each other, as did Rich. They were all lined up outside changing room all with similar bored expressions.
"Well, get on with it then!" He raised his voice a little higher when he realized nobody was making an effort to move. Grudgingly they all picked up the trash tongs that was used for picking up the rubbish and the large garbage bags.

Once outside, Grace and Liv were already messing about, pinching each other's noses and bums with the trash tongs. Mini was leaning on the tongs, but not making an effort to pick anything up. The boys were smoking around the side of community centre, hoping nobody would catch them.

"So which one do you like then?" Alo asked in between smoking. Rich rolled his eyes and made a noise that sounded like a snort.

"None of them… They all look like douchebags." He took the cigarette from Alo and was about to add, 'Especially that blonde one', but she was already walking over to them.

"Give me that." She said in her most commanding voice. Rich shook his head, as he pulled the cigarette out from between his lips. Alo snatched it off him and handed it over to Mini.

"Yeah, just ignore him." Alo said with an awkward chuckle. "I was wondering if you -"

"Don't even finish that sentence, ginger." She said, taking a long drag on the cigarette. Alo gave a little nod and then squinted off at something in the distance. Liv came over once she saw Mini was smoking and demanded some too.

"Right, I'm moving… away from here then." Rich mumbled and quickly escaped.

He sulkily started picking up the rubbish, not paying attention to what was happening around him and just concentrating on his tongs. Another pair of tongs came into view and grabbed onto his own pair.

"Gotcha," came a cheery, playful voice and when Rich looked up he saw Grace grinning at him.

"Hilarious." He stated darkly and Grace's smile faltered for a second before she mischievously started to say,

"So what are you and your friend here for?" Rich avoided looking at her for and concentrated on his own picking. She prompted him though with a simple, "Well?"

"It's not really any of your business, so -" He said, finding a seemingly used condom clinging to the edge of a bench. He picked it up with a look of disgust.

"It's a secret then? Well, Mini, Liv and I were caught shoplifting." She said, still with a smile to her voice. He crinkled his nose and finally turned to look at her. Now she was turning away from him and picking up some empty beer cans. Her hair was in a low bun with a few strands falling down over her eyes. 'She could almost be described as pretty', he thought, 'if she wasn't such a stupid nutter…'

"Why the fuck are you smiling about that?" She glanced up at him as if taken completely off-guard.

"It was a funny day…" She said in a little dazed voice, then she took her tongs and used them to point at Rich's jumpsuit. "Also you've got a condom on your uniform."

"Shit…" He muttered under his breath and tried to scrape it off.

"The weather looks pretty shit as well." Grace mumbled, glancing up at the sky. Rich squinted up as well. The sky was the darkest shade of grey he had ever seen and he was surprised it hadn't started raining yet.

"Is the weather why you're in such a bad mood, or are you always like this?" She asked, tucking some loose strands of hair behind her ears and putting her tongs down to rest for a moment. She was standing completely composed and as if she was at the Queen's garden party rather than doing community service.

"Well, I'm picking up shit, stuck in community service for a month and I've got you for company, so yeah… all of those compiled together is making me pretty pissed off."

Grace sucked on her lip to hide her smile.

A hailstone the size of a ping-pong ball smacked Rich right on top of head mid-rant, and Grace couldn't hide her smile anymore, in fact she was laughing heinously at it. She abruptly stopped when a hailstone even larger, nearly the size of a bowling bowl, came crashing down on a bench just two feet away from her.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Mini shouted from the size of the building, as Rich and Grace ran in that general direction.

"What do we do?" Grace whined, as another hailstone (although it could no longer really be described as that) collided down in front of the now shrieking group.

"THE DOOR!" Liv shouted, pointing at the front door to the centre. Before even considering the fact that if they ran in that direction they would be out in the open, they ran for it.

Rich risked glancing up at the sky and saw sheet lightning spreading across the entire sky. The sky wasn't even grey now, but it was as dark as night. Then he saw a sight that he couldn't actually believe at first, because it was too unnatural; fork lightning was spiking the ground in several spots. He ran faster than he thought possible, but it was too late… One fork lightning hit the ground right where he and the others were standing. There were a few screams, as they levitated above the ground for a few seconds, then they crashed back down into a deadly silence…

A/N: Ooohhh… dramatic ending! Anyway next chapter should be up soon. Let me know what you think :) It should be mostly hardlet focused, but a lot of group interactions as well. Go and have a guess what their powers are going to be! If your ideas are AMAZING then I might even change one or two of them ;)

Thanks,

TheCheeryCherry x