Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
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Post by Ripple on Jan 17, 2008 14:09:06 GMT -5
Lian went down to the lawn. She wasn't usually a trackies kind of girl, but she wanted to practice her gymnastics. She pulled at the baggy material and screwed up her nose at the feel of it. She flexed a little, preparing to begin her stretches. She was out of pracice with her gymnastics, and if she came to rely on it in a fight, she wanted to make sure she was still able to do it properly. After spending a long time concentrating mainly on her surfing, she felt a little strange returning to her other sports. She started easy, trying an old beginner routine made up of a couple of jack-in-the-box'es, cartwheels and finishing with a slow backward walkover. She didn't want to pull a muscle. She would try some tumbling later, but for now, she wanted to return to the basics. She stood upright and frowned at her own performance. She was going to have to do better than that. She used to be good. She sighed and began the same routine over again.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Jan 17, 2008 19:45:19 GMT -5
Jumper hadn't seen Ripple in a couple days, not since he was in the med lab. So when he saw her out the window practicing alone, he figured he would go and visit and see how she is doing. He actually walked up this time, Not using his abilities. Strolling over and smiling as she began warming up. "Well hey there Lian, how's it goin? I havent seen you in a while. Did I piss you off or something?"
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
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Post by Ripple on Jan 18, 2008 13:45:49 GMT -5
Halfway through a neat backward walkover, Jumper joined Lian out on the lawn. He startles her slightly, but not enough for her to mess up the move. She pulled out of it straight into a hand stand, from which position she replied, 'Nope. Thanks for walking, by the way' If he had teleported across to her, she probably would had fallen from the shock. She still hadn't gotten used to it. Still standing on her hands, she moved around to face him. 'Are you ok now?' she asked, meaning the incident at the party and the subsequent stint in the med lab.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Jan 18, 2008 16:50:20 GMT -5
The elevator doors opened in the foyer and Haven stepped out. 'Where could that rude little boy be right now?' she thought. 'Jumper is always hungry, so maybe...the kitchen' she thought, and walked further into the midsts of the mansion.
Seeing both Jumper and the "new girl" ((Ripple)), the one who was just arriving the day she had left, outside through the window Haven raised an eyebrow. She cleared her throat as she went out to join them.
Walking up to the pair from the back portion of the mansion she had seen Nightcrawler and a small girl ((Jenny)) out by the tennis court as she walked through the greenhouse style cafeteria. As she'd exited the side of the cafeteria she had noticed Colossus and a couple of kids ((Hardlight and Shimmer)) looking like they were in a class or something.
She slowed her pace, 'timing girl...must remember the timing- easy does it...' she thought as she walked up to Jumper and the "new girl".
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D'mnchyld
New Mutants
Katie Lazaro
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it 'The Present'!
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jan 18, 2008 19:27:04 GMT -5
'Who was that?' k'8 thought when this white haired girl walked through the cafeteria where she sat looking at the devil man playing tennis with himself. She didn't know that kids were showing up from the end of holidays yet, but the girl looked weird and intense.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Jan 18, 2008 20:07:44 GMT -5
"I have been looking for you Jumper" Haven said as she got close enough to not have to call out. "Hi!" she said to the girl she had seen on Thanksgiving day, when she had left in such a huff. "I'm Haven" she introduced herself to Ripple "we never did meet."
"I had to get away, you know it was just too much for me- but you did say a few things that I've thought of almost every day since I left...and, I was a real bitch, so- I'm like, you know...sorry." She said to Jumper, as she turned back to face him. "I guess I missed Christmas here, but i didn't forget anyone" she said , changing the subject quickly.
She rummaged through her big side slung bag- her traveling bag, for something for each of them. "Oh, here.." she said to Ripple pulling out a small key-chain that said 'MEXICO' across it.
"..since I didn't know you at all, it's just something from my trip. It's pretty cool though, look there." Haven took the girls hands and showed her a small button on the key-chain, pressing the button a small switchblade popped out. "Pretty cool - huh?" Haven said, grinning at Ripple and leaving the now armed 'micro-bomb' in Ripple's hands. It would be enough explosive capacity to take off her hand at the wrist, Haven loved making friends.
"And for you..." she said to Jumper as she looked through her bag and brought out a 'knock-off' Rubik's~cube. "It's just your thing. I thought of you as soon as I saw it!" It was a Rubik's cube with pastel colored sides and what looked like body parts. At least what appeared to be nude body parts. "It's a 'naked lady-cube'...When you get all the sides correct they are," she grinned , "naked women." She flickered her eyebrows up and down. "I know how you like the ladies Jumper."
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D'mnchyld
New Mutants
Katie Lazaro
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it 'The Present'!
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jan 18, 2008 22:09:59 GMT -5
"Hey that's cool lookin'." k'8 said as she waked up. "I would love that , if you're not gonna use it ...can I have it?" she said to Ripple, pointing to the small blade.
"My name's k'8 by the way, D'mnchyld is my codename- wanna see what I can do?" she seemed a little akward, but nice. She wanted to show off to the strange looking albino girl- she seemed so different, and yet so like her.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
Posts: 551
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Post by Fleet on Jan 18, 2008 22:19:44 GMT -5
Jumper stopped in place as he heard the girl speak. Slowly turning around he shook his head. It was her, It was haven. He wondered when she had returned. Listening to her, and tilting his head as he watched her give the gift to Ripple. Then as she offered the gift to Jumper he took it and looked at it and her. "You shouldn't have. I didn't think you were gonna come back." While he was standing rigth in front of Haven he looked ot the cube. Reaching ot his left hand he dialed up and within a blink he solved the cube with quick turns and twists. Looking to all the different sides he smirked. "Ummm cute. Thanks. So where have you been?"
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Jan 18, 2008 22:44:17 GMT -5
"Practicing!" Haven said, as she grinned at him... the cube in Jumper's hands hissed- and Haven spoke to him intently, drawing him in with her words. "I said how much I had thought of you while I was away, and what you'd told me- your words, how they rang in my ears. How you'd pointed out an obvious flaw in my power and ... Well, I've been practicing." The cube felt funny as if a pressurized gas was coming out of it. "You told me that my forcefield was weak, that air could get through- well, it can't anymore ' dumper'." She giggled at her own pun on his name. She didn't know about how his power had been altered, none of the Brotherhood did, but it only had the effect of causing the gas to work on him quicker. His hightened respiration meant that every second he inhale a hundered times as much of the gas as everyone around him. Looking over to the two girls Haven snarled at what she saw. The emo girl had been grabbing the 'micro-bomb' switchblade from Ripple and now it was falling to the ground 'Shit---' she thought '- now it's not gonna blow anybody's hand off!'Jumper couldn't help but fall out. Dropping forward onto his knees and then flopping flat on his face into unconciousness. The two girls fell out a moment later and then Pah-DooooM ! - the micro~bomb went off
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
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Post by Ripple on Jan 19, 2008 9:14:17 GMT -5
'What the hell?' Lian screamed. She had been thrown across the ground by what she was convinced was a bomb. She landed awkwardly and her arm cracked. She thought it might be broken. It hung painfully at her side as she crawled over to Jumper. 'Jumper?' she said. He seemed unconcious. 'Kyle!' she had to get him clear of what was going on. She coughed as the smoke thickened. She suddenly realised she must have been unconcious too - the girl, Haven, who had planted the bombs was no where to be seen, and Lian had now realised that she had no memory of being thrown across the lawn by the bomb, only a vague shadow on the edge of her mind which told her it had happened. The emo looking girl and Jumper hadn't come round yet. She didn't want to hurt either of them by trying to move them, but she guessed her best bet was to try and wake them so they could get back up to the mansion and see what was going on. She tapped Jumper's cheek, trying to get him to wake up. There was something going on, and Lian didn't at all like it.
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Hardlight
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Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
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Post by Hardlight on Jan 19, 2008 12:41:58 GMT -5
Hardlight stood there at his team practice with Colossus and Shimmer when the micro-bomb went off and then a much larger boom was heard from the front of the school. He felt the ground shake because Colossus had run away to the big boom.
He didn't know what to do. "What do I do?" he called to his team leader, but he had run off already. Seeing how the one girl started to get up he turned to Shimmer and asked "You coming? I think we should help." and he pointed to the spot where the Goth girl and the Implant kid and the Asian girl were at. "Come on!" he urged as he ran over.
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
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Post by Ripple on Jan 19, 2008 12:48:09 GMT -5
Lian struggled to stand as some more of the students came rushing over. 'What happened?' she asked, 'Can you help?' She pushed herself onto her feet, 'I'm Lian' she said, 'or Ripple,-' she indicated Jumper, 'Jumper, codename Kyle, and Kate' Lian introduced everyone. 'Me and Jumper are Paragons, I don't know about emo-girl' She looked over at the mansion.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Jan 19, 2008 19:30:05 GMT -5
Haven was not aware of the new development in his power, and yes because he was dialed up and his body was already in a heightened speed, he did get affected by the gas faster, but also since he was still speeding on his power, his body kicked the gas out of his system just as fast. He blinked as he realized he was on his back. Seeing Ripple and the new kid trying to wake him. He looked to Ripple and winked with his groggy, but cocky smile. "You did miss me."
And then in his heightened mode of speed he was up and within a blink of an eye he was standing in front of Haven shaking his head. "Thats interesting Haven, but it seems we have both learned new tricks. You can hold air out huh? Lets see how long you can last without it!" He called out to her as he reached to his left arm and dialed his speed up even more. He was gone in an instant, but there was a stirring in the air, and thats when it came apparent, Jumper was running circles around Haven. Faster and faster he ran. There were energy sparks erupting from Jumpers eyes as he ran faster still. This was causing a vortex around Haven. It would even begin lifting her off the ground. Now the side effect of this was that while he was running around her so fast, the vortex he created sucked all the air out of the area he was running around.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Jan 19, 2008 20:49:22 GMT -5
It was aparent Jumper was doing something to her, she had begun to notice an absence of air almost a vaccum developing around her. Looking down as she felt herself lifting up she could see the ground and the snow being worn down to the dirt. It had to be Jumper- moving fast- and within arms distance. Immediately she kicked off the ground and into his path- he was going to fast and turning to tightly to avoid her.
She was hit and found herself sailing through the air- her forcefield would protect her on landing and had protected her from his impact, but what of Jumper? It must have felt like running into a solid chunk of stone - the hardness of her forcefield was as intense as her heart.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Jan 19, 2008 20:56:00 GMT -5
In the heightened Speed he was in, not only was his body faster, but his mind as well. It had to be to keep up with everything that was going on around him. He was indeed moving fast and once she kicked off the ground she was rising up off of he shifted to avoid her. But first he hadnt tried moving this fast yet and wasn't able to get fully out of the way, and second, when he tried to avoid being bumped into he would have to step onto the snow and hard ground losign his step. So he did impact with Haven and went bouncing away into the hedge maze, bursting through a wall of it and out of sight. But the impact at this speed against Haven would have been immense, and even having a force feild up couldnt stop the sudden impact, and would have bounced and shaken the hell out of her as well as he being off balance from being lifted off the ground.
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