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Post by Dazzler on Jul 26, 2008 22:00:59 GMT -5
Ali was sitting back comfortable as ever next to Onyx as the jet took off. She gave him a warm smile, glad that Henry sat him away from the group. Poor darlin' just doesn't look like he's up to handling so many people right now, she thought before looking up at Beast as he began to speak. He's gotten much more focused than I remember. Much less hotheaded like he once was too. I still remember when he wanted to tackle those jerks when they said stuff about me and him walking hand in hand. Assholes, I should have let him get them. Maybe not so much is the same. He's only called me Ali once and not called me Daz at all. Time changes us a lot more than we expected to I guess, Ali thought before she decided to look over Onyx's shoulder at the profiles. "See Sugar? They're a realtively good group there, and your sweetie looks like she tops them all. I traveled to a lot of dimensions, and I'd say that if she's mixing in with the dimensions natural environment she's got some major fuel over there. I know it won't stop your worrying but it should ease your mind a bit," she said softly to him with a warm, comforting smile.
When she heard Gina ask for a pencil, Ali looked around her area knowing she'd seen a pencil somewhere earlier. She bit her lip with a smile when she saw the eraser part sticking out of Henry's front pocket. "I got one for ya Gina," Dazzler said standing up and gingerly taking the pencil out of Hank's pant pocket. She walked over to Gina with a smile and a wink. "Here ya go darlin'. It's Beast's so he may one it back," she said with a wink before walking over to her seat with an innocent smile. She looked out the window and saw them going over the unmistakable Catskills. "We don't have much further to go now," Ali said with a smile as she looked out in the night.
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Post by BEAST on Jul 27, 2008 20:52:15 GMT -5
For the second time in the last fifteen minutes, Hank was quite happy he was blue and covered in fur. 'It appears I will have to accustom myself to Daz's rather bold personality. I never complained before and I will not start now,' he thought as he took his seat and took over piloting the jet. Henry looked out at the scenery in the dark night sky as the snow started falling more heavily. "I always did hate flying in this weather," he murmured before looking at Forge. "How are we doing? The jet's running pretty smoothly despite this less than suitable flying conditions," Hank asked him as he checked the GPS.
"Time seems to go by faster than I anticipated though I'm certainly not complaining. You didn't happen to go faster than I asked you to did you?" Hank said with a suspicious and knowing look.
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Post by Forge on Jul 27, 2008 21:11:00 GMT -5
Forge smirked to himself at Beast's question. "Come now Henry, do I ever disobey a direct order for my own preference?" he said with a smirk as he used a control monitor to check their surroundings. "We'll get there soon, we should start preparing to land. Rest of you hear that?" Forge called out behind him at the students.
"All of you better be buckled up and braced for landing. It might get a bit bumpy with this strong wind thats forming, so be prepared for that," he said loudly as the GPS beeped that they were not far away from their destination.
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Post by TrueSpirit on Jul 30, 2008 15:43:42 GMT -5
Mato had settled himself quietly into his seat and looked out the window. He had never been to a city before and now he was about to go into the biggest city in the world. Forge said to me once that its a thousand times bigger than out village. I have only seen pictures. I can't imagine what it will look like, he thought to himself as he looked through the pictures of the people again. He looked at the teachers and the students. The expression on their faces really do let on more to them than these basic profiles. Makes you wonder what they are really like, he thought as he looked over at the beautiful teacher who was comforting the boy who looked about his age. The mongoose by his legs looked very unsettled, even by the beautiful skunks calm demeanor. A loved one in danger is most horrible to face no matter the situation, Mato concluded from the way that boy held a stance. As a Shaman, he had excellent observation skills.
He looked over at the girl HeartString with the guy Ironclad, hiding a smile as he saw the Cheetah act very oddly toward the deer. Mato always did prefer animals because of how true they were to themselves. I suppose that's why people have spirit animals, it shows their true self that they are not able to show. Animals don't put up masks. Humans need a part of their sould to compensate for the part of them they are too scared to see, Mato said in his head as he remembered his lessons. He turned back to the window and waited to catch his first glimpse of the city.
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Onyx
New Mutants
Jasper Bellford
Dont let the darkness consume you....
Posts: 187
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Post by Onyx on Jul 30, 2008 19:02:19 GMT -5
Onyx nodded at the confirmation from the pretty teacher as to Aideen probably being alright in Limbo. He was most pleasently suprised at how easy being around this one person seemed, the sensation of calming was not as great as he would probably have hoped, but it did ease some of the discomfort which had been gnawing at the back of his subconcious. The intense migrane and pressure building at the back of his mind. He hoped this trip would not be too much longer. "You are right, thank you. But yes, i still worry. I do not like worry, it is not good and i am not used to it." He mumbled in a low rumbling voice, although his ice blue eyes betrayed his thanks to the very pretty teacher.
Trying to take in all the words that came swimming around from the students and teachers alike, Jaspers face fell into a look of almost pain. A growing migrane mixed with fear, anxiety, rage, growing pressure and a low hum of words he couldn't understand without alot of work was making him feel more out of his depth than he could ever have invisioned. Placing the dossiers on his lap, Jasper brought his hand up to the bridge of his nose, pinching it and sighing very quietly to himself before sitting back and covering his eyes. 'Just. Stay. Calm. Not much longer yet, just keep your cool Jaspis, you can last.' he said to himself, trying to keep his mind straight instead of letting it wander again.
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Decibel
Hellions
Gina Sinister
Sex - Drugs & Rock - N - Roll
Posts: 59
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Post by Decibel on Jul 30, 2008 23:50:25 GMT -5
"Hey thanks Ali- uh, Dazzler." she caught herself from being too familiar with anyone while on a mission, those other teams might allow that kind of thing and sometimes she was one to break that Hellion rule, but not now. She wanted to put a better slant on the perspective that her team was little more that a street gang. She took the pencil and started to write some notes down on what she thought was important and how best to team people up. It was obvious that she and Dazzler had powers that complimented each other, but some of the others in the jet she didn't know. "S'cuse me Beast, but what about us here? I'm trying to come up with some loose tactics for us to use when things get hairy, but like, I know some of our powers ,but not these younger kids. Unless you got some ideas of your own maybe we oughta know what each other does best. You know, strengths and weaknesses? Time to share?"
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HeartString
Corsairs
Tracy Goddard
Trust me, I know what hurts you, I know what you're feeling
Posts: 222
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Post by HeartString on Jul 31, 2008 0:09:01 GMT -5
In response to Mason's comment about them changing for the better Tracy gave him a look as if to say 'are you serious?' but then considered it for a second. "Well, might happen I guess. Who knows, you could be right. They say what doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Then she began to worry about just might kill them, and she wished she hadn't quoted that old adage.
Picking up on all the emotions in the Blackbird she felt the young guy by Dazzler most prominently, his insides were a mess, and she wished she was sitting closer to him so she could console him. 'I guess Mason's right again, I just want to help always. Guess I do have a good heart. Why complain about it, might as well just go with it.'
Then the strangest thing happened as Dazzler handed Gina a pencil. Tracy was actually shocked when the crusty punk was respectful and concerned about the mission. "Hey," she said quietly to Ironclad "what's up with that?" and motioned her eyes at Decibel.
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Ironclad
Corsairs
Mason Rictus
Posts: 197
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Post by Ironclad on Jul 31, 2008 20:01:15 GMT -5
A smirk fell on Mason's face when he heard Tracy's surprise over Gina's concern. "I told you doll, she ain't that bad. Everyone got good qualities, even the Infection. His good quality is he lives for my amusement," he said with a short chuckle. He set the papers aside and leaned back against the seat. "You know Doc, I gotta agree with Gina. The three of us know what we can do and the Avengers. I wanna know who's ass I'm gonna have to look out for from our crew too," Mason said and looked at the others, trying to analyze in his head on who could handle themselves.
Gina got my back, HeartString too though I'll be damned if I let that girl out of my sight. That guy next to Dazzler looks like he could take care of himself. Don't know about Chief over there. If Forge thinks highly of him than he's gotta be good though. The blonde and the redhead are probably going to be a splinter in my ass, though Doc said that Red isn't in combat. Hope the blonde doesn't slow us down, she looks puny, Mason thought as he glanced at Beast expectantly. He was good with the battle strategies too, hence why he was Team Captain. Cyclops and him were always cool in the sense that he let him experiment with slightly out of the ordinary battle tactics. He actually liked the guy as opposed to many others. Emma was cool but he had a prejudice against Telepaths. Other than that he didn't really give a damn about many other than a select few.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Jul 31, 2008 23:32:19 GMT -5
Heather woke up from her thoughts as she felt the plane begin to descend. That was fast, she admitted. I wonder how powerful this plane really is. Many surprises happen when one is amongst mutants; Heather learned this the hard way. Whether it was an ambush attack from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants or someone's power, Heather began to realize that many unsuspected things would occur and it was time to get use to it.
Hearing what Decibel said, Heather couldn't disagree. Out of all the people on the plane, she only knew what Veronika and HeartString's powers were. And in reality, Heather didn't even know that Tracy was able to feel emotions in addition to her healing powers. Heather stood up straight in her seat in order to see and hear everyone clearly in case they were supposed to go around the plane and explain themselves. Heather wasn't truly sure how she would be able to help. If they were to enter LIMBO at some point she wouldn't be able to use her power. But even by not entering LIMBO, water wouldn't be a useful power either. She felt a bit helpless power-wise, but would do whatever it took to get everyone out. Especially her friends and Ian.
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Allure
Paragons
Veronika Kudinov
Truly Irresistable
Posts: 184
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Post by Allure on Aug 1, 2008 13:22:41 GMT -5
Veronika was rather bored at this point and had spent most of the trip day dreaming about Onyx and comparing him to her exes. She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard them all talking about knowing each others powers and junk. Sitting here and pretending to be oh so concerned is getting tiring. I could file my nails, just make it look like its a nervous habit. No use talking to Heather with everyone so serious about all this. Pretending to look very nervous and pulling it off amazingly, Veronika took her mini nail file that she kept on her at all times and began doing her nails, pretending she looked nervous and on the edge of her seat.
I can't believe I'm going back to the city on the same day I left. I doubt they'll let me go to Fashion Ave. for some shopping. It's getting rather tiresome to put up this act. I cannot drop it yet, they must get used to me being sweet and looking out for the uh... best interests of the group. Please, most of them seem utterly low class to me. I wonder if I am allowed to have my personal body trainer come up once a week...
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Post by Dazzler on Aug 2, 2008 0:56:13 GMT -5
Ali whipped her head around at Gina's question and waited for Mason to finish his statement before she chimed in. "Hank, why not print out these little handouts of the people here so we can all stir up a plan and figure out what we can do in Limbo. We'll talk it over with Thor and Tony when we get there," she suggested and smiled at Onyx. Gotta' admit my heart goes out for the guy. He really looks like he's trying to hold it together. I hope he doesn't allow rage to consume him if we end up going to Limbo. I should probably talk him down so we don't end up losing him completely, she thought as she smiled at him and pat his arm comfortingly.
She looked out the window as it started to snow harder, thinking that if they go to Limbo it would be a good bit warmer than here. Ali looked over at Onyx and grinned. "Remember Darlin' you gotta be careful with your feelings when you go to Limbo. If you turn into a demon, you'll never help your sweetheart. Can't let rage get to you there," she told him quietly with a more serious look in her eyes despite her grin.
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Post by BEAST on Aug 2, 2008 10:28:41 GMT -5
Beast heard Gina's inquiry and was already on the same wave as Dazzler. "You're right Daz. Forge take over again and do try to keep within the speed limit, it is snowing harder now and not getting any lighter out," he said knowingly to his colleague. before he stood up and opened the laptop once more. "I'll pull up all your data and a basic sketch on the Avengers abilities, though please keep in mind that the sketch I give you is brief and does not do them justice in the least bit," Hank said to the students as he brought up all the information to one file before he pressed print.
Hank closed his laptop and walked over to the printer, taking the seven copies of documents and handing it out amongst the students. "This is to give you a brief idea and will allow you all to brainstorm on a plan. Keep them in mind when we talk to the Avengers for they'll be included in them. Think up what you can, any idea or plan will do us good at the moment," he said before sitting back in his chair and taking over the piloting.
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Post by Forge on Aug 2, 2008 21:00:02 GMT -5
Forge rolled his eyes and took full control. "Have I ever told you that you nag more than my mom and my grandma? Seriously Henry loosen those pants of yours, I know what I'm doing," he said smoothly as he steered the jet. "No one throw away a copy of those documents, I want to see them too. See what you all got," Forge called out behind him while he kept an eye on the GPS system to see how far they were. At this point, it was not too far. Landing was going to take effort with this weather though.
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Post by TrueSpirit on Aug 3, 2008 12:36:09 GMT -5
Mato looked through the profiles calmly when Henry handed him the stacks of papers. He looked through the profiles of the students around him and was in awe at how different and unique the powers were. I didn't realize there were so many different powers. Forge did mention to watch myself because some of their abilities are very dangerous. He was not kidding. That one boy has heightened abilities and immune to physical harm. The other boy has a dark power like the Gods of the Underworld. The rocker girl can even do a right amount of damage. Sound is a universal aspect found in everything and everyone. The girl with water powers might have some use depending on what the underworld is like, but impressive nonetheless, he thought as he read the profiles over.
Mato did not have enough experience in combat to come up with a plan, but he did understand strategies and was willing to listen. He set his papers down and looked around to hear what the more experienced ones had to say.
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Decibel
Hellions
Gina Sinister
Sex - Drugs & Rock - N - Roll
Posts: 59
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Post by Decibel on Aug 3, 2008 15:40:57 GMT -5
'Oh great, these two girls over here are all but worthless for us in Limbo' Gina thought as she snatched the papers from BEAST and flipped right to their entries. 'This one moves water and her little ginger friend makes cheap copies of things? What are we gonna do with the two of them? Throw them out as bait? Hey...That just might work!' Gina flipped through and read quickly about the angsty looking foreign kid next to Dazzler, 'Hmmm. Hellion material?' she wondered how he would hang with the big dogs as she casually glanced in his direction. 'This guy that forge brought, interesting power but what if Limbo cuts off his contact to his soul animals? That would be a mess for him on so many levels.'
Decibel considered mentioning all of her misgivings to Beast and then felt she ought to be discreet, and that it might be best to say something to him privately about trusting their lives to some untested kids. She looked over to Tracy and Mason and shook her head a little bit, knowing full well that the empath had to know what she was feeling about the information she had just received and thinking that Mason would be close to the same opinion on the younger kids. She looked back down and kept working the problem around in her mind 'How do we get in there, find them and get everybody out? This seems too tall an order- Oh wow' as the thought occurred to her she smiled broadly "Gina, you're a genius girl." she complimented herself on her spark of an idea.
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