Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Mar 27, 2008 22:37:37 GMT -5
Haven grinned at the grumbly sound the BEAST made as he gave in. She excitedly got her clothes from the pile next to her cot and began dressing in them again for the fifth day in a row. her smile faded fast as she realized she was far stinkier than that stanky blue bastard doctor over there. "Um, thank you Doctor McCoy." she said looking back to him.
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Post by Rogue on Mar 28, 2008 22:09:02 GMT -5
Rogue gave a giggle and nodded warmly. "Of course Hank. Don't want you two to starve now do we?" She looked at the file under her arm and then to Haven. She wondered what team she was on before she joined the Brotherhood. Then again, she might not have been part of a team at all, and was just recruited from the Brotherhood's attack.
She looked back to the doctor and nudged her head to the door. "I'll head out right now and do that for ya. Thank you for the info Hank". With that, the new Paragons leader, walked out of the Genetics Lab and headed for the main floor of the mansion. She only wondered what the other team members would be like and how they too were affected by the attack.
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Post by BEAST on Mar 29, 2008 18:50:47 GMT -5
"Thank you Rogue, it is much appreciated. And as I said, feel free to come to me with any inquiries you may have regarding the students," Hank McCoy said as he walked over to let Haven out of the stasis chamber. "Good luck with everything dear."
It is indeed pleasant to see her here in these dark times. Almost like a line of light in a dark cloud. I wonder how Ororo is doing? I do hope she is alright, hopefully in a better state than we all seem to be. She would be devastated by the news of Logan and Kurt. I do hope I am able to solve the puzzle of this fragment. Perhaps it will clue us in as to the whereabouts of Kurt and Logan, Hank thought as he opened the stasis chamber and allowed Haven to exit, keeping a wary watch on her.
"Now young lady while we wait for our food, I want to go back to my research. If you like, you may look at the notes and ask any questions you may have. Any help at this point would be appreciated seeing that I had not gotten as far as I would have liked at this point," Hank said as he pointed to the more comprehensible notes that were sitting by the microscope. He had written everything in plain English, with only some equations on the side. He wiped his glasses and then went back to the microscope and his research books to help him figure out that missing piece to the puzzle.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Mar 29, 2008 21:50:00 GMT -5
"So, it's like really alive? Can I see it?" Haven asked as the energy field dropped down and she stepped out of her stasis cell. "Can you see what's all in there?" she wasn't a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but she had heard all that had been said -almost- about the strange piece of blackish green glass. "And how hot is it? Like people warm, or lava hot?" she asked stepping over and pulling up a stool next to where Dr. Hank McCoy, the X-Man known as BEAST was double checking his work.
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Post by BEAST on Mar 31, 2008 20:30:28 GMT -5
Hank moved aside and allowed Haven to look into the microscope. "Look closely at all the moving cells. The green ones are more commonly the plant and there are cells that show that earth is present as well. The other ones I am unable to identify as of yet," Dr. McCoy pointed out to the miscreant who was amazingly behaving herself ever since he allowed her to help. I see she does indeed have a soft spot for the firebender. Good, it is good to know the miscreant gives a damn about someone, Hank thought with a note of satisfaction that the girl wasn't completely without a conscience.
"As for the heat, I have been unable to figure out what the source of it comes from, but from the way it feels when I hold it and measure the temperature, its closer to a person's body temperature, but then again it must be much higher than the bit I got from this little fragment," He said in a puzzled tone as he glanced back at the notes he made with his observations.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Mar 31, 2008 21:23:02 GMT -5
"Wow, look at it go. That's weird, how is it still alive? You'd think it'd be frozen up in there if it's glass-like, you know? Like in Jurassic Park, the mosquitoes in the amber were fossilized." Haven was mesmerized looking into the eyepiece of the microscope.
"So is it really hard all the way through? It sure feels hard, how can that stuff be moving in there if it's solid?" She was full of questions and then she asked a question that may have escaped Beast until now "So are there animals, or people cells in there?"
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Apr 3, 2008 8:40:46 GMT -5
Knocking on the door and waiting for Dr. McCoy to answer, Heather waited patiently with Kevin and Sean. The tacos smelled amazing and she had to agree with Kevin, her nuking skills were something to be proud of. The meaty aroma filled her nose and made her stomach growl slightly. She was a bit hungry since she wasn't able to finish her cereal in peace.
"I wonder what he is doing in there," she said to her peers. She assumed some experiments were currently being conducted, and he wouldn't want to be disturbed. However she was asked to bring him nourishment and hopefully he would be pleased.
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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 Apr 3, 2008 9:49:29 GMT -5
'Hey Heather' Lian said, coming up behind her friend, 'What's going on?' she smiled, 'I don't know where anyone else is so...do you need any help or anything?' Heather was with two other mutants that Lian recognised but had never spoken to. 'I'm Lian, Paragons' she introduced herself. She hoped she wasn't interrupting anything, but she really couldn't find anyone else and she didn't want to mope around on her own. She raked her hand through her short glossy hair and waited to see whether she would have to leave again.
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Post by BEAST on Apr 3, 2008 10:24:03 GMT -5
Hank looked up from his notes at Haven and opened his mouth to answer when he heard the knock on the door. A satisfied smile broke out on his face. "Ah that must be the hot meal I asked Rogue to send down. The aroma of hot meat does indeed give us a clue on that," He said with good spirits. He set down his notes and piled it neatly before he made his way to the door. "And to answer your question Haven, I did detect a homogeneous compounded mass of living cells in the fragment, but none of them are mutant related. So you see why this the components of this fragment pose such a conundrum to me," Dr. McCoy said to Haven right before he opened the door to reveal four students standing there. Aqua and TuneUP held two plates of steaming hot tacos, while Ripple and Hardlight stood in the background. Four students just to deliver two plates? Odd concept, or perhaps the students took it upon themselves to stay in large groups as precaution after the Brotherhood attack several days ago? Hank mused as he opened the door wide and ushered them inside. "Ah I see my request for a hot meal came through. Thank you very much and please come in," Hank said to them before he looked over at Haven.
"Come Haven, you can finally have that hot meal that you've been yearning for." He looked back at the four students and pointed to the table that wasn't filled with his research and was bare besides a few odds and ends that he liked to keep in view. "Please set the food over on that table and be mindful to not knock down my possessions."
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TuneUP
New Mutants
Sean Winterstar
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Post by TuneUP on Apr 3, 2008 19:27:25 GMT -5
Sean walked in when Dr. McCoy opened up the door to the Genetic Lab. He walked in holding the plate of steaming tacos with a smile on his face. "Howdy Dr. McCoy, and its no problem. I imagine a hot meal will do anyone good," he said with a smile and looked over curiously at the girl who had just randomly joined them. That's weird, I didn't think a lab would be a place where people would walk by randomly like that. Maybe she was coming down here to see the Doctor when we ran into her, he thought as he looked out the door at the chrome hallway to see if there was a place that looked friendly to the students. He couldn't see any but then again he didn't know this school well enough.
Sean shrugged and smiled at the girl as he set down the plate on the desk. "Howdy, I'm Sean Winterstar. I'm on the New Mutants," He said with a smile and then looked over at the white haired girl that was across the room next to a microscope. He smiled at her and stepped back to allow Dr. McCoy and he assumed the girl as well eat their meal.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Apr 3, 2008 22:30:50 GMT -5
Niki looked at the faces of the students, she only knew Aqua and not that well at all. She remembered her from the day she'd run away from the school. Two of the other kids she'd seen practicing outside just yesterday when Ms. Frost had taken her for a walk. The one girl was on Ember's team, well now it was Rogues team and the little guy was on Colossus' team, but the other boy she'd never seen before and didn't remember him from the hangar meeting after the Brotherhood attack either.
She smelled the tacos and her tummy almost leapt out through her torso at the food. The only problem was that she saw all the kids eyes and she thought about how she almost killed them. She still wondered about her decision to tell about the bombs, but for Ember she had made her decision. She got off the stool and walked over to BEAST's desk to dig in to some hot food. "It's not lasagna, but it'll do." she said as she sat down before a plate full of crunchy hot and savory tacos.
"So this chunk doesn't have any of Wolverine or Nightcrawlers cells in it?" she said placing the specimen on the desk in front of her plate near a dusty looking weird kind of device. It was like an old style car-phone from out of the eighties fused with a remote control and it had a tiny green plastic screen. She had slid the device over a bit with the back of her hand and put the dark chunk of glass like substance down almost right in front of it before reaching to grab a taco off of her plate.
It was odd that she was without her own power for some time after she would emerge from the stasis cell and as strange as the feeling of being "exposed to the world" was to her, she wanted to dig in before her power reasserted itself. Having a forcefield that never turned off without extreme concentration was more a curse than she wanted to believe it to be. Her hand closed around the warm crisp taco shell but before she could lift the taco to her mouth the device in the center of the table began to make a strange sound.
It started, softly at first as if it had just been roused from a decades long slumber, started to make a high pitched noise. The sound of a kitten crying for it's mother or something small like that. It was the most adorable sound really and Haven cocked her head at the little plastic screen seeing a light blinking in unison with the noise. "What's that thing doc?" she asked looking at Dr. McCoy.
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Post by BEAST on Apr 4, 2008 0:07:22 GMT -5
Hank closed the door behind them and his head snapped when he heard a sound that he hadn't heard in a long time. It was that little device that Kitty made during that ongoing game of hide and seek that lasted two weeks. It was a sort of magical Geiger Counter that she used to find Magik or Illyana Rasputin, Colossus' sister. That had been an amusing and competitive game indeed since loser did the team's laundry for a month. Hank had kept it on display in his lab to remind himself of all those people he failed to save from the legacy virus, including Illyana when he was unable to come up with a cure in time.
Of all times for that device to go off... could it be reacting to the fragment? But why? Perhaps the heat... but none of my other devices have been successful in measuring it... Hank thought as he rushed over to the table by Haven and picked up the warm subject and moved it away from the device. Just like that, it stopped. He brought it closer to magical Geiger counter and the high pitched noise started again. "Why, most interesting indeed... of all instruments to react to this piece.... why if it wasn't for the fact that I felt the heat, by the failed results of all my other instruments I wouldn't have thought it existed... this a device that Kitty made to find a teleporter during a grueling game hide and seek awhile back. Lasted two whole weeks... this was her only hope in finding Magik, who was a teleporter who once attended here... interesting development indeed..." Dr. McCoy said with furrowed brows.
"And no Haven, there are none of their common cells present in this fragment, I checked for it time and time again just to be sure... but this is certainly interesting..." he trailed off looking at the fragment in his palm and forgetting for the most part about the others in the room as he usually did when he was on the verge of a new development.
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Haven
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Apr 4, 2008 0:24:42 GMT -5
*CruNch* Haven bit into the taco and made the "Mmmm" yummy sound as she chewed. "So what are you babbling about? Hide and seek?" --*crUNch-crunCH*-- "It finds magic? So the heat comes from 'magic' doc?"
She took another bite and rudely spoke with her mouth full saying "Like abra ka-dabra and shit? Ha! I almost said that when 'loser-boy Jumper' came in, but I was kiddin'. "
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
Posts: 233
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Post by Ripple on Apr 4, 2008 6:02:55 GMT -5
'Hey, nice to meet you Sean' Lian smiled, 'I was just looking for people,' she explained, almost as if she had read his thoughts, 'And yeah...I guess I found you guys so...' She trailed off. ((actually its cus I've been away for a while and needed a thread to join...and meh...)) She followed them into the room where Dr McCoy and Haven were. When Sean stepped back, Lian followed, not wanting to get in the way. She watched absently, no really taking any notice of anything that was going on. At least she had finally found some people to hang around with after wandering the corridors by herself looking for her friends. 'Tacos...?' she said, half remark and half question, 'I'm veggie,' she explained, peering at the meal set out on the table.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
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Post by Aqua on Apr 4, 2008 15:19:49 GMT -5
Hearing Lian's voice so suddenly, made Heather's heart beat faster. A friend, someone she could finally talk to and not have drama with, showed up. She smiled and looked at her, even though it was an odd place to see her in. "Hey!" she said cheerfully. "No we are good thanks. Just bringing some food to the doc." The door opened and Dr. McCoy welcomed them in. "Hey Dr. McCoy," she replied. Heather then placed the plate of tacos where he instructed, making sure to not knock down or touch anything within the lab.
Seeing Haven was a surprise. She had no idea that Beast was watching out for her. Heather bit her lip to make sure her anger didn't pop out of anywhere. However now she was dealing with Haven AND Kevin. However it balanced out with Lian and Sean being there. The city girl would be fine for now. Listening to Haven's comment made her roll her eyes. Just eat the damn thing. You are lucky you even got anything since you tried to kill us all. The beeping noise that came from the old looking cell phone made Heather forget her thought and alter her attention. The noise was annoying to her, but her curiosity was equal to Haven's.
As Dr. McCoy explained the strange noise making thing, Heather's stomach began to turn again. She really wanted to have one of the large tacos, however it was for the doctor and traitor to eat. She needed to respect that.
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