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Moment of Awesome - Molly Hayes/Bruiser: It's a mansion BBQ and Molly and David Haller decide to liven things up with a game of horseshoes. Xavier's style. "Okay, all I can remember is that you're supposed to get it around the stake, or within one horseshoe-length of the stake. Oh, and you're supposed to throw from behind the foul line. That's about it." Jim stared at the horse shoe in his hand, then at the stake. "This doesn't seem like a very exciting game." Molly crouched down, eying the giant pole sticking out of the ground. "Dude, you know way more than me. I didn't even know the pole thing was called a stake," she said. "We don't HAVE to do those rules though...I mean...you got powers. I got powers. It should be funner." Jim gave the horseshoe an appraising look. "Maybe. How were you thinking?" Shrugging, Molly grunted. "I dunno. We could uh...dent the stake? Whoever does it first AND the horseshoe has to stay on it?" "Hm." Jim tossed the horseshoe in the air and caught it, testing its heft. "How about we make it really interesting? Double the distance from the stake?" Molly squinted. "Is that really fair though? Mine's just strength. You get to like...move it with your brain if it doesn't go the way you want it." "I'll just apply the initial force. I won't influence the direction. Uh," he amended, thinking about Jack's control and the rebound potential of super-strength, "unless we're in danger of taking someone's head off. I'll be the safety net." The squint remained on Molly's face before she finally relented. "...Okay but if we break something I'm totally blaming you." Jim nodded. "You're on." Fifteen minutes later the two were engaged in a horseshoe hunt that lasted twice as long as the actual game. Nothing was going to salvage the stake, which Jim had ruled won Molly the game after she'd sheared it in half with a ringer. One or two shoes had cratered far enough into the earth they were difficult to retrieve, and another had embedded so deeply in the trunk of a tree that it required telekinesis to extract. They also managed to find what was either half a shoe or a whole shoe that had hit a rock at terminal velocity. Other than that, there weren't many survivors. Still, they'd certainly livened up the game, and done so with a minimum of property damage. They decided that the oak tree had been an outlier, and should not be counted.