Fleet
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Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Oct 30, 2008 19:41:58 GMT -5
Chase was right, he said they had to get moving if they didn't want to get caught. As he pushed past Kyle and Katana, Kyle looked to Katana and tried pulling his cocky smile to his lips. Winking ot her he reached out and took her hand and lead her along with Chase out the gate and to the road. Once on the road they all caught up together and they began treading along the paved ground.
Kyle let go of Katana's hand as they all came together and he stopped for a moment looking to Chase and Katana. "Ummmm I know this an odd question to ask since we are already out here. But do we even know where we are going ot go? I mean we can head toward the city. But then what? I only got a little bit of money I saved up." Kyle looked to the two of then as he reached up and ran his hand through his hair, only stopping to scratch at the implant on his temple.
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Post by Katana on Oct 30, 2008 21:07:24 GMT -5
"We won't get far on foot," Katana said somberly. "What we need to do is grab some wheels and then we can head south, maybe to New York City or someplace else big where we can blend into the crowd. Once we get to town I can get us something pretty easily and with a change of plates nobody will even miss it." Being out on the streets again, while terrifying in some ways, was strangely comforting to Katana. She was in her element again. She knew the rules out here. She knew the tricks of the trade so to speak and was confident in her abilities to handle things. Life on the street was brutally simple. You saw something you needed or wanted you took it. Once you had it, you protected it or somebody else would take it from you. She was sure Jumper would adapt and survive as she showed him the ropes, but she wasn't so sure about Chase. He would probably go running back to the school at the first sign of trouble. She'd have to watch him.
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Post by FreezeFrame on Oct 30, 2008 21:59:20 GMT -5
"Going OT go? You mean going to go?" Chase looked at Kyle giggling and said "Dude, how drunk are you? You said 'do we even know where we're going ot go' *hehe*" He shook his head as he kept walking with them.
Chase listened to Katana and said "Yeah, I'm with her on this one. Big city, bright lights, sounds cool to me. As for money, hey there's things we can do that other people can't, right? So what do we have to worry about, yea?" He looked at the sky and breathed out his breath, it was cold enough out to see his breath as it hung in the air and then he used his power to stop it right there in front of them before it dissipated.
"So what are we gonna do steal one of these cars over in the garage?" Chase asked looking over to see all the cars parked up. "I'm all for the baby blue beamer! Anybody want to second that vote?" a big grin broke out on his face as he pointed at the car the Dazzler had driven up in.
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Fleet
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Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Nov 1, 2008 23:43:15 GMT -5
Kyla looked at Chase as he suggested taking one of the cars here. Shaking his head to that idea. "Nah, Chase, I do not want to give anyone here anymore reason to come looking for us. If we walk hard we can make the city while it is still dark and and let Katana here hook us up with a ride." Kyle wasn't to worried about getting to the city. He could make it there in no time. Though he couldn't leave them behind.
"Katana, you have stolen a car before? You know how to do it?" His eyes grew a bit wide at the idea. Wondering where she learned to do that. Still walking along the road now already passing the site of the fire earlier. He could see the spot where he was touched by Inflict and the memory of the pain shot through his mind making him shudder. Reachign up and scrathing at another one of the implants without really thinking about it.
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Post by Katana on Nov 2, 2008 15:36:35 GMT -5
As Chase prattled on about the excitement of the big city and boasted of having powers as if that would somehow make things easy, Katana's annoyance with the little prancer turned into anger. He didn't understand the world and would get them all killed if he was not carefully watched. Then when he suggested stealing one of the school's fancy, easily traceable cars from its probably alarmed garage she was ready to smack him. Thankfully Jumper intervened and talked some sense into him.
Jumper also seemed a bit awed by her when with wide eyes he asked if she had stolen a car before. That unsettled her. On the one hand she wanted him to like and respect her. On the other, he seemed to have a child's fascination with the idea as if stealing cars was some sort of sport or fun. It wasn't. It was survival. Those who turned it into a game came to an early death or a long stint in prison.
She turned to Jumper and said in a steely, resigned voice. "Yes. I lived on the street. You stole to survive. It's not glamorous or fun, it's just necessary. Especially for a girl. You either prove your worth to a gang by stealing cars or something else valuable or you'll be used in other ways, prostituted. I'm no prostitute. I can get us wheels. But we have to be careful," she said sighing. "And don 't," she said turning to Chase, "make the mistake of thinking our powers mean jack shit out here. A good sized gang, a few guns, and our powers are overwhelmed. You have to out think the other guy if you want to do alright." Then she said to both of them, "We'll go to town, get some old beat up Honda Civic or Toyota or something common. Switch the plates with another similar car of the same color and then skip town. That way if the cops ever pull us over the plates don't match the stolen car and look like they belong on our car. We can then ditch it when we get to NYC."
"Jumper," she said leaning into towards him and whispering in his ear so Chase could not hear, "you'll learn the ropes quickly...but you've got to let me teach you a little. I've lived on the streets. It's temporary. Once we've established ourselves we could change our names, get some fake documents, and live somewhere real far away...just us."
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Post by FreezeFrame on Nov 2, 2008 20:57:40 GMT -5
Chase caught a sidelong glance from Katana and decided to butch up a little. He didn't need to have himself outted just now, and not in front of her. He could actually take lessons on being more manly from her, she probably didn't realize how hard she came across as. It was actually kinda funny to him when he stepped back and looked at the three of them.
It was obvious that Kyle liked her, but she was so much like a guy it was scarry. As for himself he liked Kyle too, but maybe he was the most nurturing of the group. Being the 'mother figure' was not going to win him any 'humpy points' with the "Jump-man", it seemed. Then there was the looming question of Kyle himself.
Well, it was clear enough the guy was straight, but that never stopped any straight guy from messing around before. In the history of the world plenty of straight guys claimed to have been "just experimenting", so maybe Chase actually could work his way in. Maybe, if he just stuck around long enough, and besides they would need him soon enough. Everybody needs a mother once in a while, so he would fill that role.
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Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Nov 5, 2008 8:56:23 GMT -5
Kyle listened as Katana talked about things that had to be done to live on the streets. He really didn't like the sound of it. He had always had it easy and lived with his parents. Sure they moved around a lot, but he had always been given what he needed. Now as she put it, he would have to fight for it. Fight and do whatever he had to, to survive. The look of awe turned into one of concern. The realization that this trip wasn't some joy ride of field trip hit him and his lips pressed together tight. He wouldn't let them down.
He leaned in a bit as Katana whispered to him about getting settled and then living together with her. He turned more to look at her. He wanted to kiss her. To tell he he wanted to be with her. And to run away with her. But now wasn't the time. They needed to get some distance from this place. So he gripped her hand again tightly and nodded. "Please don't call me Jumper. Its not who I am or what I can do. It's Kyle. And if thats what you want, then so do I. Let's get moving." Ge winked and turned walking on with his hand still holding Katana's.
He turned to look at Chase to see if he was still coming he had seemed to get quiet now as they didn't want to take one of the cars here. "Lets get into town. Get somethign to eat and then figure out where we are going from there."
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Post by Katana on Nov 7, 2008 23:22:15 GMT -5
"Ok, Kyle." She said his name nonchalantly with a somewhat subdued voice so as not to betray the fact that his touch, his hand on hers, and his request that she use his name and not his mutant codename meant a lot to her. "You can call me Leah." Then the tender moment over, her voice turned a little harder and she said to Kyle and Chase, "We don't want to get spotted walking the road at night. The locals probably all know about the school and somebody might call. There is a drainage ditch about a meter or two from the road on the other side from the school which follows it all the way into town. We should walk in the ditch." However, while her voice had gotten harder she left her hand in Kyle's, squeezing his ever so slightly and tenderly.
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Post by FreezeFrame on Nov 8, 2008 22:35:23 GMT -5
"You two look soo cute, awww" he couldn't help it he felt disgusted by the two of them holding hands and whispering. At this moment he wanted to just turn around and go back to the school. He had thought he saw a cute boy in the cafeteria when they were all in there earlier, but he was already out here and it bugged him that Kyle was so weak to fall for that girl. She wasn't even all that cute, and even though Chase wasn't into girls he knew cute and she wasn't it.
"Right so we walk in a ditch in the middle of the night in the middle of the countryside, why? 'Hey why you all walkin in a ditch'?" he imitated a southern draw and he took his backpack off as he followed them down into the lowered spot that ran alongside the road. "Well we thought it was a GREAT IDEA at the time!" he giggled as he reached into his bag for the bottle of Jack Daniels.
He shook his head at the stupidity of the situation as he took a sip to warm his innards. "You know this is not a good idea, the ground is all sogged out and my feet are starting to get wet down here, but if you say it's what we ought to do Katana, hey you are 'from the streets', right?" he took another sip and then held the bottle out to Kyle to see if he wanted any.
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Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Nov 13, 2008 14:17:44 GMT -5
After Chase's little outburst they all made thier way to the town. By the time they got there is was early morning. Stores were just beginning to open. It was a bright sunny day, whiched helped warm things up a bit. There didn't seem to be any panic and no one from the Academy had appeared to come looking for them. They were beginning to think they might be in the clear.
Kyle looked around and his belly grumbled. He hadn't eaten much yesterday. There was to much going on. Turning to the other two he smirked a bit and then raised his brow. "I don't know about you two, but I am hungry. I need food." He stopped and looked around, there was a diner, and a small coner store. Looking down the street he could see a super market. He didn't have a lot of money. Barely forty dollars. But he knew if he got into a store he could get what he needed and be out before anyone noticed. Like Katana said we would have to do what we needed to survive.
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Post by Katana on Nov 14, 2008 3:31:49 GMT -5
"Yeah, food is a good idea. I think I've got a little bit of money. We should probably pay for it. No use attracting attention here in town. It's too close to the school." What Katana needed more than food was sleep. She was exhausted and worried and lovesick. Not the best combination in the world. She wanted to go up to Kyle and take his hand. But she didn't do it. She wasn't sure what to do with boys. She didn't want to scare him away. Frankly, if Chase wasn't there she probably would have wound up crying on Kyle's shoulder the previous night instead of being part of this ramshackle escape.
Katana had barely spoken when they wound up attracting the attention she had been trying to avoid. The town was small. The town was also very wary of the Xavier Institute, with which it had an uneasy relationship. Thus, when unknown teenagers showed up in town the natural assumption was that they were from Xavier and that they were trouble. As Kyle and Katana had been talking a police man had been watching them from behind a corner and he had overheard their conversation. Now he came towards them brandishing his baton, shouting, "You kids, spread 'em. On the ground now!"
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Post by FreezeFrame on Nov 14, 2008 22:49:35 GMT -5
Chase knew the shit had definitely hit the fan! Since he was holding a bottle of booze in his backpack that was opened, and he probably smelled of alcohol and looked like he'd been drinking, as he had been all night while they walked. Not a lot, but the bottle was almost half gone now, and he didn't want to get caught with it.
It's going to be alright though he thought and because he wasn't walking up along with the two -LoveBirds- he would just keep right on walking as if he wasn't with them. All night long it seemed like they didn't want him there anyway and now he was going to get busted because of Katana's big butch-ass mouth!?! NO WAY DUDE' he thought. He knew his goose was cooked.
As he walked up to where the cop was getting his dick hard doing his big man routine on the two little mutant kids, Chase casually stepped off the sidewalk and tried to discretely cross and avoid the whole situation. "Hey Kid!- You too!!" the officer said roughly.
'Awww hell no! Chase looked back. He thought for half second he shouldn't and if he just kept going it would be ok, but he couldn't help it, he had to look. He saw the big meaty hand and the long arm of the law reaching out to grab him up. Run! the thought came to him- and he did! Chase took off running down the street and did a quick cut to turn the corner where the cop had been hiding out.
DAMMIT to all HELL and SHIT!' he saw then that it was a dead end. It was only an alley. He'd taken off quick and had a second more to do something before the cop would round the bend so he did the only thing he could think of an slid his backpack off his shoulder and threw it as high up in the air as he could. Then as it reached the top off the toss and was on it's way back down he froze it it mid air. Least I wont be found holding anything he thought as he spied a doorway and a neon sign lit up over it "Occult" it said.
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Kyle Nomis
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Post by Fleet on Nov 20, 2008 1:20:00 GMT -5
Seeing the cop turn and go after Chase, Kyle looked to Katana. He was concerned. Chase didn't want to came in the first place and now he was being chased. "What should we do? We can't just leave him to the cops!" Kyle was ready to run but he wasn't sure where to go. Chase and the cop both ran off towards the alley. And if Kyle went after them he would get himself caught too.
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Post by Katana on Nov 20, 2008 2:45:09 GMT -5
*Sigh* "Shit, he had to run. The cop had nothing on us. He just would have given us some dumb lecture and let us go. Ok. Chase has liquor so he'll get in trouble if caught. I don't have anything. I'll go over and make sugar sweet. While I'm talking Chase can run off. The cop will have nothing to hold me on. We can all meet up later at the old warehouse at the north end of town, the one on Pine street."
Walking over to the alley, Katana put on a sweet, sachrine look and in her most docile voice said to the officer, "We're so sorry officer. This is all my fault. You see Chase here has been seeing me without his Dad's permission and he was just so scared to be caught. You know what that's like. Please, please don't tell our parents."
Just as Katana expected the officer didn't really buy it, however, the little sob story distracted him from Chase so he turned around to face her, giving Chase and Kyle a chance to run.
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Post by FreezeFrame on Nov 21, 2008 19:16:36 GMT -5
Chase rolled his eyes when he heard the voice and looked past the cop to see Katana trying to act like some sort of sexy. Who is she thinking she is? he thought as he watched the police officer turn to see who'd come up behind them. "Yeah, my dad doesn't know I'm gay and that gorgeous crossdresser in front of you will really get me grounded. Look at him, sir. You can't even tell that that is really a guy in drag." Chase started to snikker behind the cop's back as Katana sauntered up. It took all his strength to not bust out in a laugh. "Please, I'm sorry but I can't help who I love. Look at him, he's gorgeous."
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