Apogee
New Mutants
Donna Connors
You think it's hair dye? It s'not...
Posts: 37
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Post by Apogee on May 9, 2010 22:04:39 GMT -5
Butterflies were clever, little buggers and Donna was hot in pursuit around the basketball court. Or maybe it wasn't a butterfly... What are the little white ones? Donna mused. Are they butterflies or moths? Or are they some other sort of flying bug? What other bugs fly? Beetles? That is definitely not a beetle. At least it's not like those beetles from The Mummy. Those were gross. Man, Dwayne Jonson is hot. And John Cena. What was the last Johnny Depp movie I saw? Sweeney Todd! You know I could really use a haircut myself. But not from a psycho. Although if a demon-barber looked like Johnny Depp, I might risk it...
She got so distracted by her interior monologue that she completely lost the butterfly and what was the point in running if she wasn't chasing something?
Hands on her hips Donna looked around at her friends, acquaintances, and teammates. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, now that the poolside drama was over. Dante was sitting over by a couple Paragons and Riker and Donna allowed herself a moment to stare. They were awful good looking boys. Riker especially. Dante was cute and all, but next to Riker he was just a goon. Hell, next to Riker, everyone was sub-par.
Donna blushed to herself and turned away, twirling a handful of green waves. Something was heading in their direction from the woods and she squinted, trying to get a better look. Not something. Someone. When she finally realized who was walking idly toward them Donna waved her arms excitedly. "Katana! Uh... fast kid! Hey!"
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Post by Lymited~Ink on May 9, 2010 23:35:29 GMT -5
Kat walked around the basketball court in her usual swagger, surveying everyone who had gathered. A broad, mischievous smile graced her face as she alerted no one to her presence before she spotted Riker, Sky, Lian and Chase. Her smirk grew as she approached them, although it quickly went demure and innocent as she tilted her head and saw what they were doing. Since she had finished her tattoo around just before lunch time, she hadn't spoken a word since she finished. She was waiting for the opportune moment to try it out on someone, or someones cause who knew what'd happen?
She would see how long she could handle not talking until she had to say something, and until then see how she was going to get her messages across. That was, unless she felt like saying something on purpose of forgot herself. She plopped down next to Riker and drew a finger down his arm ever so slightly, making eyes at him with her innocent smile before she waved happily at Sky and Ripple. She couldn't wait to see what would happen when someone would make her talk. She was sure it'd be a...blast.
She looked over and saw Chase holding his nose. He smelled of blood and she had to cover her mouth as she pointed at him and laughed out loud. Her laughter was blaring in his general direction as her new sonic power kicked in and seemed to knock him back and affect everyone around her as well. As soon as she realized this, she tried to quiet her laughter but couldn't help giggling at herself. Then she swore she heard the basketball pop nearby, and looking around she saw Jasper fall on his ass. This still didn't help matters, so she couldn't help giggling more as tried to quiet herself down. Curling into a ball, she tried to laugh as silently as she could. She looked at Chase somewhat apologetically, although she was still really amused and trying not to keep laughing at herself.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
Posts: 551
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Post by Fleet on May 10, 2010 6:30:13 GMT -5
Kyle and Leah had emerged from the woods after their hike, to see students gathering at the basketball court. As they started walking over to the courts they heard a very loud burst of noise, it almost sounded like laughing. Whatever it had been it knocked Chase clear off his feet. He could only imagine what that must have done to Riker's ears as he was sitting so close to the noise. Kat was on the ground laughing. The noise soon faded.
The green haired girl noticed them and was waving her hands at them frantically calling out for Leah and "Fast Kid". She didn't even know his name, she just knew his power. That made him laugh a bit as he looked to Leah. "Well, looks like someone wants our attention"
Getting to the court Kyle headed over to where Chase was to see what was going on just as a piercing sound stabbed into his skull. The force blew into him but he managed to barely keep his feet as he rushed to his tossed about friend. "Hey, you alright?" He asked, as casually as he could trying to stand strong in the chaos of the sonic onslaught and looking around at everyone who was reacting to the attack.
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Torri
Alpha Squadron
Torri Moore
young at heart and in mind
Posts: 317
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Post by Torri on May 10, 2010 21:27:48 GMT -5
The smell was definitely something alarming and after helping Ian finally finish his paper, Torri allowed the other distractions around her to snatch her attention. However before she could convince herself that the smoke was serious or not, a rather high pitched sound made her grab her ears while feeling a force push her back against the ground. "OOOOOOOWWwww!" she yelped as she still held on to her ears. Her elbows were a bit scratched up but she would be fine. It wasn't as harsh as Chase had gotten it but it was enough to cause shock.
After it was over, Torri looked over to everyone around them. "What the bloody hell was that?" she asked everyone. "Are you alright?" The question was directed to everyone and she didn't hesitate to get up quickly in case anyone needed physical help. "Is everyone alright?!? Bloody hell Katlyn what kind of power do you have now?" She wasn't able to be mad, because thinking about what just happened was kind of funny. Torri giggled a bit, understanding that the Paragon had the ability to have different powers according to what she tattooed on herself. Asking around the school always helped in getting information. Plus the brief times she spoke to the pirate-like "wench", Torri liked her down to earth attitude.
She looked around the area again, hoping no one was severely hurt from the random sound blast.
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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 May 10, 2010 21:45:39 GMT -5
Resurfacing the water, Lian spit out the chlorinated water out of her mouth and wiggled her fingers in her ears. She didn't know what just happened but she did know what she was doing several seconds prior. She was busy getting Chase's foot funk off of her face and out of her nose while washing it frequently with the pool water. At the same time, she was trying not to vomit all over the place. She could still imagine the taste in her mouth and some bile actually found its way up to her mouth. Thankfully she swallowed it so not to be gross while people were in the pool.
Now she was in the pool soaked and wondering what the heck happened. She simply looked around her and noticed that the Alpha girl, Torri, blamed Kat for the "force" that pushed her into the pool. "WHAT THE FU- uh I mean HECK KAT?!" Lian really needed to learn how to control her language especially in front of the Alpha kids. She seemed to have no shame, and always got a look from a teacher when they were around. Who could blame them though? However Lian always had the philosophy that kids were going to use the "foul" language anyway so why not have them start early?
"YA THINK YA COULD'VE GIVEN US A WARNING?!?" She wasn't yelling at her teammate, but was rather refreshed from the cool pool water. It was better than the beaming hot sun on her light skin. Lian and people didn't tan, they cooked. Laughing at what just happened, she did a mid backstroke and didn't care anymore. She had the foot crap off of her for good at this point and just allowed the water to soak into her clothes and hair. If anything she could ask Heather to remove all the water. "So what'dya get done to yourself if you were able to 'use the force' on us?" she asked in a bad Darth Vader impression.
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Post by FreezeFrame on May 12, 2010 15:32:39 GMT -5
"Aww damn!" Chase said pulling his head up off the deck and seeing his room mate Kyle standing above him. His lips were moving but Chase could only hear a high pitched whistle ringing in his ears. "What the hell was that!?!"
He looked around and sat up slowly, banging the heel of his hand into the side of his head. "Anybody else hear that ringing?" He looked and saw a bunch of mouths moving but he couldn't tell if they were talking or what. "What'da ya sayin? What!?!" Then it dawned on him. "Oh HAhahaaa, very funny. Who has the whistle?"
He was surprised that everybody got together and pulled a fast one on the King of Pranks himself, Chase Maguire. "Oh you guys are good." He thought Tia must have got a wind to blow him ass over teacup and then everybody started to talk without making a sound and it must be Wraith with the whistle. "O.K. I figured it out. Where's Wraith with the whistle?"
He got to his feet, helping himself up by grabbing onto Fleet and pulling himself up on wobbly legs. "Good one Tia, flipped me over a couple times too. Ha Ha yea, y'all got me good this time now. Lookit you guys moving your mouths and pretendin to talk. Quit messin around, cause my head is killin me." As he let go of Kyle's shoulder his knees gave out and he flopped on the ground like a dying fish.
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Decay
Paragons
Skylar Walker
Posts: 136
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Post by Decay on May 12, 2010 18:17:02 GMT -5
"MOTHER %^$&ER!" Sky yelled while clutching her ears and now curled up in fetal position on her side, full stomach forgotten. The ringing in her ears was deafening and had hit her pretty hard. It wasn't the way where it hit her so hard that she didn't even know what she was hit with, she was at that horrible stage where she was well aware that she was hit with something of a crazy loud noise that felt like they beat the living crap out of her ear drums. What's worse was that her eyes were closed the whole time and she didn't even see where it came from.
"*&$# &^#* SON OF A ^&*$@+#* BITCH! AAAAHHHHHHH!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, clutching her head and contorting her body to curl up into as much of a ball as she could. Sky rocked on the ground back and forth on the ground, feeling worse than that time she had a five minute brain freeze after going against Ian in a slushie chugging contest. Her head was pounding and her ear drums felt like they were going to explode. "WHAT THE &%^$ WAS THAT? I SWEAR I WILL BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA WHOEVER DID THIS! &^$* MAN!" Sky yelled and then groaned as she curled up in a ball further and willed the horrible ringing in her ears to go away.
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Haven
Acolytes
Niki Sanchez
Posts: 316
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Post by Haven on May 13, 2010 23:54:54 GMT -5
Instinctively Niki's forcefield had gone up at the first piercing bit of sound. It was linked to her fight or flight response in a way she didn't truly understand but was always grateful for in moments such as these even as she hated it's curse at other times in her life. Quicker than the blink of an eye the sonic waves were muted and the force wave that followed shoved into with purpose it seemed her but did little more than slide her back a bit as she sat there.
It happened too fast for her to help out with anyone else and she felt kind of bad about that as Torri clutched at her ears. Ian she knew would be alright in the quickest of minutes, that was if anything at all had happened to him, his healing factor was incredible after all but she still hated that she couldn't cover him in time. Wraith was an unknown and Gavin and Ricki looked like they were not too bad off as the sound abated and she, with intense focus, dropped her invisible protective shell.
It wasn't an easy thing for her to do sometimes, especially when the possibility of danger was still present, but she had gotten better at managing her 'gift'. For years she had dealt with it and the overpowering protection it afforded her, never having much control over it until she had come to find a place she felt safe enough to let her guard down as it were. Ironically it was probably not the safest of places after all, but for her the safety she felt was due to her friends. As she looked around at them all, many of them stunned and dazed, she realized she did care about them. They were somehow important to her. She wasn't friendless after all.
"I'm alright Torri, but those two sure aren't." She pointed to Sky and Chase. "Ian are you OK? You guys okay?" she asked her man and then the rest of her team mates before it struck her to look at the bigger picture. Looking to Ian she asked "You think we should uh-?" She nudged her head in the direction of the injured Paragons and when he gave her that look she said "You know- Help them?" She stood up and stepped onto the toes of his shoes taking both of his hands in hers to pull him up. "Okay the med-lab's right under us ummm, over there.. right?" She pointed to right about where it was underground. "Where'd Ripple go? We gotta get down there quick, like through the basketball court. Come on!"
Pulling Ian behind her she rushed over to where the worst of it had happened. Seeing Kyle there she swallowed her pride and said "Jump-errr-uh whatever. Would you beat feat down to the Doc and tell him we got multiple injuries on the basketball court and that we're comin down the fast way... *grr* Please." It honestly hurt her to say please to him, but because she was the Doctor's assistant she felt she had to do something.. at least that's what she told herself.
"Let em know it was something sonic." She looked around for Ripple to get her to loosen the molecules of the basketball court, the sliding roof of the underground hanger and room right next to the med-lab itself, but she was a good ways off in the pool. "Ian can you make us a hole?" She nodded her head at the basketball court as she quickly looked over Sky first who was a mess and then rushed to Chase who was in far worse shape. "Ricki we need you!" Haven called back over to the stretchy girl she intended to have do the lowering of the injured into the chrome sub levels. What the hell am I doing? These guys'll never listen to me, oh Niki you gotta be loca.
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
Posts: 551
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Post by Fleet on May 14, 2010 9:47:52 GMT -5
Kyle wasn't close to the area when the sonic boom like noise exploded, so he wasn't aware of how bad it had affected those closer to the loud explosive sound. Chase had gripped a hold of him and then promptly fell back down. He was yelling like some kind of bad joke had been played. It soon became evident he couldn't hear a thing. Next to him Sky had hit the ground hard as well, and was balled up in pain. This was bad, real bad.
He heard Haven try and call him by his old code name, but that soon past as she got to the point. She was right, they would need help quick. He looked to see if Lian was around, but didn't see her right away. Haven wanted him to run to warn the Doc of what was going to be coming in. That would mean he would have to use his power. He hadn't used his power since the Danger room exercise the night he returned. he was warned not to. It could cause a lot more damage. "I cant..... I mean I am not supposed to..... "He began to say, but then he looked down to Sky and Chase, they were his team, whether they wanted him there or not. Then he looked at the others around here that were to close to what happened. This was bigger then him. "AHHHH F@#$ IT!" He spat out.
He reached to his control disc and looked Haven directly in the eyes. She had been there when Beast had warned him of the dangers. he dialed himself up to the 5th notch. The energy surged through his body and then soon began to spark and flow out around him from his implants. The surge of power always filled him so completely, it was like a high he could never feel anywhere else. Then in a blue streak he was gone.
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on May 14, 2010 20:59:53 GMT -5
Wiped out from the long hike, Leah lagged a few paces behind Kyle. I'm never f*cking doing that again., she thought, as the pain in her side was intense. The crowd of students at the basketball court made her feel worse. Great, now I get to deal with tweedle dum and tweedle dee and all their tweedle friends, she thought as she caught sight of the whole Paragon crew and Gavin too. Oh, no Haven's here too. She didn't want her new sort of friend and kind of de facto team co-leader to either see her get humiliated or have to stand up for her again like in the science lab. Diesel too. But then so was Torri and maybe the Paragons would behave in front of the Alpha. She doubted it. Leah was about to slink away when Donna started screaming her name like a madwoman, and waving frantically as if to attract all attention to her. Well, and to Kyle, aka fast kid, too.
Leah forced a smile and waved back. "Yeah, she's got it," she replied to Kyle. But the NuMutant only had her attention for a moment as seconds later a large boom almost shattered Leah's ear drums. She grabbed her head in pain. "Sh*t", she cursed loudly. "What in f*ck was that?" The Brotherhood? The boom had sounded almost like a bomb and she could smell smoke. But the smoke was faint, like it was off a ways and she was pretty sure she'd started to smell it when they had walked up, before the boom. Everybody also seemed fine. People were cursing and yelling and Sky was in the fetal position, which was hilarious, but nobody looked too badly hurt. She would have just walked away had not Kyle run over to check on Chase.
She followed him, and stood there being useless. Even little Torri was asking everybody if there were OK, but Leah worried if she asked anybody that it would blow up in her face somehow so she waited for somebody to tell her what to do. When Haven took control and sent Kyle for help, and asked Diesel to make a hole, Katana got up the nerve to ask what she could do. Since Haven was busy dealing with Chase, she went to Diesel. "Hey, I'm OK," she said. "I can help with that hole or anything else you want me to do. "
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Taffy
Acolytes
Ricki Day
I would've stayed up with you all night, had I known How to Save a Life.
Posts: 187
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Post by Taffy on May 15, 2010 8:37:39 GMT -5
"G-Gavin... are you okay?!" she asked, tilting her head to look at her friend and popping her hand on his shoulder, geniunely worried. Torri's loud exclamation to Ricki had assured her that Torri was alright- and Ricki doubted that such a sound would affect Ian, but she wasn't sure. She bit her lip, exchanging a look with Gavin before getting up on her feet, ready to take her leave just as Leah arrived. "Coming Niki!" Ricki yelled back, just to let her team-mate know that she wasn't going to leave her hanging. She looked at Leah, giving her a reassuring look, glad that their new Acolyte was making an effort to try and help out the team. Ricki just hoped Ian wouldn't brush her off, even though she knew Ian wasn't really unreasonable- she was worried 'cause Leah really had got a pretty wrecked repuation for herself.
Ricki ran over to Niki and Chase, her eyebrows pulled together to form a slight crease which always formed on Ricki's face when she was either really frustrated or worried. Torri'd screamed at Kat for the painful noise- and it made sense considering Kat could pick whatever power she wanted- but that didn't explain how Torri worked it out so quick. Hmmm, she'd always been good at quizzes and solving things though- hmm, yes, that was probably it. Although Ricki couldn't possibly understand why Kat would want to go all Black Canary on them- it was quite a dangerous power- and it could've hurt people a lot worse.
"You want me to lower them into the hole?" Ricki asked- making a vaguely thought out guess as to why Niki needed her- it's the only thing that made sense, right? Hole- lower the injured down a.s.a.p- send Fleet to warn Dr. McCoy... yeah. Yeah. It would take too much time to actually head down to the sub-level physically- unless they had Fleet superspeed them over somehow... but Ricki didn't know how quick he was when he was trying to pull someone along with him. "Doc isn't having a great day today-" Ricki mummbled more to herself than to anyone around her, "First Wraith, now these lot." Ricki shook her head, waiting for the hole to be made so she could lower those who needed attending down.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on May 15, 2010 10:07:22 GMT -5
Her ears were popping and the ringing in them wasn't making her feel any better. Heather could feel her ear drums nearly rupture with the amount of pain she got from Katlyn's new power. It was both unexpected as well as scary since Sky was on the floor in immense pain and Heather was pretty much mimicking the same reaction. It wasn't as bad as the Paragon's, considering she wasn't as close, however Katlyn's voice wasn't blocked in any way between her and Heather and the New Mutant wasn't exactly far either.
She was crouching on her knees, and the pain was rather bad. Even going to the Evanescence concert with her friends last year didn't effect her this way. But of course the sound wasn't anything like a concert. It was like a piercing scream amplified 100x. Heather could feel tears coming, but it wasn't as if she was going to cry hysterically. The pain was just really bad and not so tolerable anymore. Having her hands cupped didn't help anyone either but it was weird how it effected her more than anyone would expect....
Her eyes were closed as she was trying to concentrate on numbing the pain in her ears and head while stopping the tears. But it wasn't working. Heather needed help... badly.
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Riff~Raff
New Mutants
Riker Garnier
Wolfish in every way *smirk*
Posts: 295
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Post by Riff~Raff on May 15, 2010 17:04:28 GMT -5
"FECKIN' HELL!" Riker yelled, the ringing in his sensitive ears at an almost blinding level. He had literally been knocked out of his thoughts with all that, as he was in the midsts of staring down Dante when that happened. Truth be told, he did in fact get where Dante was coming from, if only on the fact that he demanded respect the same way Riker did. He would never let someone walk away from him after disrespecting him either, and even though Jax was a member of Riker's pack, he could say that in the end the guy didn't get hurt, only set straight.
At that particular moment though, Riker couldn't give a shit anymore, the blinding pain from that sound made his head pound from the impact. He was used to loud sounds at this point, but this was ridiculous. He blinked his eyes open and had to wait a minute for them to adjust as the ringing blasted in his ears.
Ever the pack leader, Riker got up on shaky legs, taking a moment to gain his balance before moving right over to Heather. Even through the sonic boom, his hearing was acute enough to have heard her scream. He memorized the pitches and tones of the voices to all those that belonged in his pack a long time ago, and instinct brought him right to her, growling at anyone else that tried to get to her before him. "I got ye lass," he said, probably much louder than he meant, as the ringing in his ears made it hard for him to hear the volume of his voice.
Ignoring the pounding in his head, Riker knelt next to her and rubbed her back. "Deep breath lass, jus' get calm," He said and carefully gathered her close to him. His own vision was unsteady, but as always the pack came first, and Heather was like a sister to him, one he was rather protective of as she was sensitive and had a big heart. "Up ye go lass, I got ye," Riker said bringing her to his feet, and then right up in his arms as the ringing ran through his head. First thing is first, and that was to get her to the med lab.
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Apogee
New Mutants
Donna Connors
You think it's hair dye? It s'not...
Posts: 37
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Post by Apogee on May 15, 2010 17:06:39 GMT -5
Donna watched Fleet and Katana walk right past her without so much as hello. "Yeah, nice to see you, too, ya sweaty- WHOA!" The sound was so loud it was more physical than abstract. Donna felt like a wave caught her in the chest. Danger! Every cell in her body went into red alert, adrenaline and fear pumping through her blood. Before she even had hit the ground, Donna was swept upward, her weight gone. The blast of sound had pushed her a fair few feet beyond the court and she hung over the grass like a demented pinata.
"Bloody hell!" Donna hung in the air, not able to move one way or another while all hell broke loose on the court below. People were on the ground, looking both stunned and pained. Some of them were trying to organize themselves, others were still blinking stupidly, trying to regain their composure. Donna, relatively unharmed, just sort of hung in the air above the scene, unable to help.
In fact, she was suddenly in need of assistance herself. "Oh... feck me!" Donna blurted out in total frustration. "Oi! Someone get me down!" She idly rotated upside down, her lack of control making things worse. The shouts from below sounded like she was listening through headphones or from underwater. "I dunno who did it, but I swear when I get down I'm going to kick you in the arse!" She continued to slowly spin in circles and she groaned high above the chaos.
"I'm gonna hurl."
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Diesel
Acolytes
Ian Larks
Posts: 492
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Post by Diesel on May 16, 2010 1:26:42 GMT -5
"Uh..." Ian sat back and blinked for a moment, shook up slightly by the impact. The ringing in his ears was a blast for a bit and made his head spin. Fortunately his healing factor kicked in right away, and in about a minute he could again hear normal and wasn't seeing double. "I'm on it babe, gimme" he said to Niki, standing up and looking around for a minute. He weighed his options as to what he could do that could get them there the quickest and at the same time not cause a huge ass mess. Riker unsurprisingly went right for Heather, even though the guy looked pretty out of it as well. Ian always wondered if the guy had more typical lycan abilities and healed easier, but he couldn't be sure if he was just watching too much movies. Sky and Chase, they looked pretty bad, so did pretty much every one else in that sphere.
"You know what, ruining the opening for that thing probably won't be all that smart. I kinda think we'll be better off just bringing them down to the med lab. I can carry probably the three of 'em, and as long as I got someone to grab the doors for me I'll be cool," Ian said after a minute to pretty much the people in his team, as they were all looking at him to what they should do. The fact that it might be pretty destructive to make a hole, and he had no idea where the opening began to even try and pull it apart.
He looked at those who looked disoriented and out of sorts, trying to decide who would need the most help. "Alright Niki, go around and like check out everyone and see who's bad enough to go see Doc. Ricki, Katana, you guys are gonna help me out when we bring the others down. I'll grab the ones that can't walk for nothing, and you guys help out the ones that are unsteady on their feet and stuff." He walked over to Sky, scooping her right up in one arm. That girl literally weighed like nothing to him. In fact, he was pretty sure that carrying schoolbooks was more of a challenge than her as he moved so her head was on his shoulder and his forearm was under her thighs, holding her up easily.
"Ricki, grab Chase and hold him upright. Do that stretch hold with your arm to keep him steady," he said to the pretty blonde, smiling slightly at her. She could hold him up with that hold, and he knew he could count on her, he always could. Whenever help was needed or someone needed anything, this girl was the first to volunteer. It worried Ian a bit cause someone could take advantage of that, but he looked out for her. "If anyone is okay enough, we could use your help," he yelled to the others around.
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