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David admitted in the middle of Firefight that to beat the really strong Epics, the Reckoners would need Epic allies. And really, if Regalia or Obliteration wanted to kill David after his Prof-fields ran out, I think they could have easily done so. So it seems that in the next book, David, presumably without the aid of Prof's gifted powers, will be a sitting duck against dangerous Epics. So I'm predicting that latent Epic powers would be invaluable to David in Book 3. Certainly book 3 could function without that development, but it just seems like a natural way to progress the story.

I agree with you Lady Radagu! I posit that David's power is copying powers from epics that he touches. He touches Prof, and gets unusually strong healing powers. He grabs Obliteration, and he later is teleported out of a life-threatening Prof-bubble right before Megan's entrance. Although Megan could have "dimensionally swapped" David out of the bubble, I don't think she's ever shown ability to move people, and earlier she was afraid to mess with David's face, so why would she now swap his entire being? And if she could move people, why not dimensionally swap herself immediately into the fight, or swap Prof really far away? Also, it has been hinted several times that David has a real talent for adopting gifted powers (e.g. the tensors and the water jet pack). And Epics seem to manifest powers related to their past, so David's obsession with collecting data on Epics' powers has now been translated into actually collecting Epics' powers. But either way, I can't wait for book 3 to find out what happens (which will undoubtedly surprise all of us).