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Post by Diesel on May 16, 2009 1:41:59 GMT -5
"ALRIGHT! Spitfire me and you are gonna kick ass!" Ian said pumped and slung his arm over Aideen's shoulder. He knew she'd probably shrug it off in a moment, but he wanted to maybe rub some salt in the now closed wounds of being able to be near her and touch her without getting a ball of fire in the face. "Oh hey babe, how 'bout we make like a canoe? Like the one TrueSpirit made, or something," Ian thought out loud and grinned big at Aideen.
She may not consider him a friend, but Ian would do absolutely anything for her. Since the fight with the Brotherhood, he got a glimpse of the girl behind the cold and distant look she put on. There was pure courage in her, and he never forgot the determined look on her face right before he passed out from Sabretooth ripping his guts out. And later when he found out that she was willing to sacrifice herself to save the rest of them, that broke his heart. Not to mention that she had the people that she really seemed to give a damn about gone to show for all her courage. In her own way, Aideen his heroine after that, someone he always looked out for to make up for no one other than Haven looking out for her that day. Ian still remembered the washing feeling of relief when he saw her in Iron Man's lab in Limbo, finally looking less than the robot she became after the attack on the school. That was probably the deciding factor for him in a lot of things, including the friendship he started with Haven.
When they got to the boathouse, he looked around and then back at her. "Ok Spitfire, lemme pick that crazy smart brain of yours how to do this. Figure I should get some trees?" Ian asked and looked at the random supplies that were laid out with arched eyebrows and reached down to pick up a Pirate flag. "Oh.... we are so using this."
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Post by Ember on May 16, 2009 23:42:53 GMT -5
"A ceder tree would be our best bet. There are many out here," Aideen said and looked around, going over the precise mathematical calculations in her head on the dimensions needed to build a canoe like boat. A raft would be easy enough, but they were unstable. She didn't learn how to build a canoe concretely until Mato showed her how to do it. She had no problem helping him, being fascinated by his culture's ancient methods of survival and wanting to learn more about it. The math she calculated in her head was a nice distraction from feeling Rumble's stare. She'd never admit how unnerved she was with the way he looked at her and spoke to her. She never let it show and never would let anyone know, especially him how much it made her skin crawl, but Aideen was a master at keeping up an emotions tucked away and bottled up without giving suspicion to her true feelings. Unnerved as she was, she was not afraid of him. It would take more than a warped mind and wishful waves of lust to scare her. Fear of a person was not in her conditioning, and a thing like Rumble was not strong enough to break that carefully placed conditioning.
"That one over there will do, but be careful when you pull it out. Cedar trees have strong roots," she said pointing to a tree in the beginning of the forest line. She would save the bulbs and plant them in the trees former place, a sign of respect more so to Mato since she knew he planted several additional trees around campus. Aideen watched Ian get to work calmly, relaxing slightly now that she had nothing to keep a guard up. Her hand went up to her neck by her ear and a small smile played on her lips as her slender finger traced a very faint bite mark that no one would notice unless the really looked. That was enough to get her right back in slightly better humor as she was when she first came out.
Aideen looked up at Ian calmly and pointed to the place for him to set the tree. She didn't mind him really, he was a good guy with one of the most honest altruistic natures she'd ever encountered. She didn't call him a friend, but nonetheless she thought him alright, particularly since his transformation of when she first met him. He was good for Haven, and that was good enough for Aideen. "Easy," she said when he was moving to set the tree down.
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Post by Haven on May 17, 2009 14:20:35 GMT -5
Catching up to Ariel as Diesel and Aideen began their work on what looked like a canoe, Haven caught her breath. They had all started off walking, but it had quickly turned into a bit of a foot-race and the two Latinas had been unprepared so they were quickly left behind. It was a cheap play and Niki smiled at the cleverness of the two dearest souls to her own and didn't begrudge their head start in the least.
"Alright you two that was slick." she said as she caught her breath. "But it's all cool, cause you're gonna need that head start." She looked over at Hotwire and winked with a slight smirk. Where Ian was strong, Ariel was electric and where Ember was clever Haven was devious, it wouldn't matter how fast he could paddle if Niki and Ariel could get a motor hooked up to power their boat with and use Hotwire to run it.
Looking around at the environment and the materials they had to work with she spied a spool of chicken wire, some steel reinforcing rods a stack of wooden shipping palates the trees of the forest and the ultimate cheat...the boats in the boathouse. "Hmmmm, okay so what do you think?" she asked deferring to the older girl for just a moment. She wanted to see what she might come up with before giving her ideas.
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Post by Hotwire on May 17, 2009 15:31:40 GMT -5
Ariel laughed a little at the seeming footrace that she and Haven lost and shook her head a little. She smirked back at the younger girl and then started looking for things in the random piles of stuff that they could use. Immediately she saw a shiny flash of silver under a glint of the sun and saw a boat motor buried under other things she didn’t care for. She picked it up, knowing it was going to be used no matter what kind of boat they made and grinned as she powered it up for a second, keeping the turning propeller away from her. “This will be useful,” she said as she tested out the different speeds on it, charging it slightly and then stopped to continue looking for other things.
“Okay, so we found our way of motion, but for the boat itself we need to find something that will be a good enough structure and stay together to be useful,” Ariel said to Haven and continued looking around at the piles of different things. She looked away to see Aideen and Ian going towards a tree to cut it down for wood. She smirked and then looked back to Haven. “You see anything we might be able to use for our boat?” she asked, bending down to take a closer look at a bathtub with feet that she saw. It was on its side. You’ve got to be kidding me. It’s a shame there are cracks in it from being thrown, probably, that it can’t even be considered for use, Ariel thought with a laugh to herself before standing back up and chuckling again. The thought of using a bathtub as a boat was very entertaining to her, and by the looks of the size itself it probably would’ve only fit one person anyway. It was a good little laugh at least, she thought before continuing to look around for anything else to use.
She looked around at other things and saw the boats docked nearby. After all they were at a boathouse and there would be boats, and her eyebrow raised slightly as it reminded her exactly where they were. Na, that’s cheating, she thought as soon as she considered the idea. Ariel was not underhanded in any situation or challenge she had, and she wanted to win fair and square. She continued looking around at the pile of stuff laying around and looked for alternatives to creatively pull this off. She saw a broken surfboard lying around and thought for a moment. It’s in two pieces..halves almost..two seats, sitting cross legged or kneeling maybe, if there’s something to hold them together and then attach the motor and that could work.. she thought and then looked to Haven. “There’s a broken surfboard we could use, it’s in two pieces so a seat for each of us to sit or kneel on, whatever works. If we can find something to hold them together and attach the motor it could work. What do you think?” she asked, her lips pursed slightly in thought as her eyes scanned around for things that could work to hold the board pieces together.
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Post by Diesel on May 18, 2009 13:30:43 GMT -5
Ian walked over to the tree Aideen pointed at, walking around it and finding a place to grab it. It didn't take long to find an opening for Ian to wrap his arms around. "Alright I got this Spitfire no worries," he called and bent down to get into lifting position. He knew the tree itself wouldn't be all that heavy but pulling the roots out would take some effort. "Okay, Annnnd... up. Urghh" Lifting with his legs, Ian pulled the tree from roots after a minute of wrestling with the well grounded in roots. "Whoaaa. Oh man that was crazy," he said trying not to get a mouth full of the cedar needles in the process.
He dropped the tree a safe distance away from Aideen so she wouldn't get hurt. "Ok Spitfire, let's de-branch this sucker," Ian said and began pulling at the branches to rip them off. As they ripped them off the branches, he looked around at the other supplies that Iceman laid out. There was one of those blowing things from the fire place, a broken engine, an old metal box, several cylinders, valves and pistons that looked like they were broken from a whole bunch of different machines. His looks screwed up in concentration as he tried to think of a way to use these parts. Ian looked over at Aideen and a soft smile crossed his lips looking at her. She does look happy. Niki was right, our girl is made of strong stuff that not even that dumb freak can bring down, he thought and gave her a wide smile when he caught her eye.
"Whaddaya think Spitfire? I know you got a plan brewing in that pretty head of yours. C'mon babe sharing is caring and we got some cute butts to whoop over there," Ian said with a laugh and tore at some more of the branches. He didn't care who would win, but he loved that he was paired up with one of his favorite girls.
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Post by Ember on May 18, 2009 15:55:33 GMT -5
Aideen reached her hand out and stopped Ian from ripping the branches off. She gathered the bulbs and set them to the side. "Let me," she said simply and her hands lit with a blazing white hot fire. Concentrating carefully, Aideen knelt at the top tip of the tree and studied the tree carefully. After getting the angle, the fire from her hands covered the tree branches and leaves, burning bright and hot for a moment while Aideen concentrated on keeping the large trunk unscathed as the branches burned off, the pungent smell of burning cedar filled the air until the leaves and branches became nothing but ash. The now bare trunk looked for the most part unaffected by the fire that engulfed it just a moment ago, save for the black burn marks of where the branches had been.
"Start stripping the bark, gently please. I'll see what we have to work with," Aideen said to Ian and watched him at the corner of her eye strip the bark, taking care to point out when he was being too rough. Meanwhile, she moved in front of the supplies and studied them carefully, her mind going through various possibilities on what to do with this stuff. She was no innovative technician, but she learned over the years the mechanics used that were needed to work on her motorcycle and other mechanics she needed to pass the advanced physics college courses she took in high school by her uncle's request.
Picking up one of the pipes, Aideen inspecting it as a picture of the canoe drew in her mind along with possibilities to incorporate these parts. It was times like this she wished she had TuneUP nearby so she could ask his opinion on the ideas that spun in her mind. "Ian," she said looking back at Diesel and waiting for him to pause his work to get his full attention. "How much do you know about steam boats or trains?" she asked softly still holding the pipe.
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Post by Haven on May 19, 2009 0:04:39 GMT -5
With a look on her face of near disgust Haven said "Oh, really? A motor? Just like that?" she looked to the left to see her man and her best friend working hard on what they had decided to construct together and her heart went out to them. "I am all for cheating, but these are our friends and we can do better than that look, I know a trick or two from my 'adopted father' Magneto." she scoffed at the thought of the man but recalled the intensive training and conditioning she had undergone all in the name of revenge, in service of the Master of Magnetism and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. There were times when she wondered how much of the crap he dished to her she bought into and then there were moments when she truly understood what he meant and where he was coming from. Right now, however, she was thankful for the classes she had been the sole student for, intense classes that ranged from explosives and combat training to seduction and espionage techniques. "Imagine that, he actually taught me a thing or two in between the 'We will rule the Earth' rhetoric." "Look, I am all for using our powers... but really if we are going to take a motor we might as well take a boat too, and that's just plain old not following directions. And besides honey, I think we can kick their butts without a freakin Evinrude. Hell if we used that thing it would be F'in-rude, but we could swipe the propeller." She looked at the Evinrude outboard motor and grinned at what she was thinking. "Yeah, and the front end of that bathtub and a couple of those long steel rods...look and over here is an empty fifty five gallon drum." She thought for a second about what they had to work with and the time they were losing as she saw Ian and Aideen hard at work on their vessel. "Ok so it doesn't have to be perfect because if I wrap my forcefield around it I can keep the water out and so what I was thinking is..." she walked over to the tub and edging up her forcefield around he hand she chopped the legs off the front of it and quickly hacked it where it was cracked several times to split the cast iron bathtub apart and take the front end of it off. Dragging it over to the fifty gallon drum she kicked it on it's side and said "Grab a bunch of those steel rods. You can weld stuff together with that power of yours right?" As Hotwire did what she would Niki positioned the bathtub piece in front of the drum as the bow of their craft and she could almost see it coming together. "This just might work...no the whole bunch of them..all those rods. We'll need to weld the tub to the drum and the rods will be for the - wait for it, you're gonna love this-" she rushed over and pulled the spool of chicken wire back to the boat. "The electromagnetic motor!" "It's simple like a watch, or a bomb- we take the propeller slip it over the spool of chicken wire...well, we have to slim that down a bit" she looked at the spool of wire and saw that if they unraveled some more of it the propeller would fit perfectly. "Then use the Steel rods to run your current down and increase the magnetic field because they're steel. On the underside of the barrel you have to weld a single rod for the magnet to pull towards...so look.." she took a stick and drew what she meant in the sandy ground near the dock. "Ok so bathtub in the front connected to this barrel." she kicked it and it made a bonnnggg sound since it was hollow. "On the bottom of the barrel you need to spot weld one of these rods so the propeller has something to turn towards, a magnet needs something to be attracted to, right?" Still thinking bombs and magnets she smirked remembering when she had come up with the simple mechanism for the bombs she had planted around the school and how impressed Mystique had been at her ingenuity. "Then we sit on the top of it, you can use a little surfboard cushion for your candy ass" she pointed to it with the stick "See I drew that there if you need it. I'll wrap the barrel-boat and the keel rod with my forcefield... you grab the steel rod with the spool of chicken wire and the propeller on the end and just juice it up and we should be good to go. Damn we have to bend the end of that rod so the spool doesn't fly off, but there's gotta be a way to do that." she looked into the boathouse for something sturdy enough to bend the end of the rod a little as she did she said "the more juice you send down to it the more powerful the magnet and the more it'll want to spin to the keel-rod. Just don't juice it up more than you can hold, or else our propeller will be magnetized to our keel.... soon as you stop with the electricity though the magnet dies and so it'll be up to you to give it all you can hold."
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Post by Diesel on May 20, 2009 1:17:00 GMT -5
Ian looked up sharply at Aideen with wide eyes. "SPITFIRE! BABE! YOU'RE A GENIUS!" he yelled and got completely caught up in the moment. He stood up and scooped her up and spun her in circle, her hair flying as he held her above him. "I LOVE trains! I used to make steam trains with my dad! Spitfire you're a freaking genius!" Ian then realized that he just impulsively picked up and swung a girl who was pretty much more lethal than the entire college team put together. As gently as possible, he put her down and smiled down at her sheepishly. "Uh forgot about that Spitfire. Please don't light me on fire," Ian said nervously and gave her a crooked grin that he knew worked on Niki to soften her up when they were fighting. It probably wouldn't work on her anyways, but he didn't want to get burned.
"Okay wait, save the burning for later, I LOVE steam trains, I can show you how to put it together right," he said excitedly. He ran back to the tree and stripped the remaining bark off of it. "Ok Spitfire, you're like totally brilliant, so you take care of the canoe thing. I'll put these together and then you can melt it together since we don't have any screws. And make sure you put room for a firebox and some wholes on the top part of the canoe for valves," Ian said and gave her a big grin before kneeling in front the stuff.
He rubbed his hands together and started gathering the metal parts. "Ok uh... this valve can go like this and uh... ok no this like that... yea!" Ian's tongue stuck out of the corner as he concentrated as the image of building the steam trains with his dad and Granpops came back to him. "Ok this needs to be like this." Ian bent the piston a bit and then set to put the rest of them together.
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Post by Hotwire on May 20, 2009 2:03:17 GMT -5
Ariel smiled and nodded as Haven spoke, listening in on her plan and watched as she hacked off the front of the bathtub. Seeing where she was going with it she moved to help get it to the empty barrel. She grabbed some steel rods while Haven positioned the tub and the barrel and then one rod by one, she used refined sparks of electricity to heat up the metal and soften it enough to meld the two things together. "Yea, this is gonna work," she said, and as she melded more the less Haven needed to hold onto it as it was holding together by itself and Ariel was seeing better where it was going now.
As the younger Acolyte talked, Ariel got what she was talking about and was already putting it together, using a little more refined boltage to meld the longer steel rod to the bottom of the barrel and then unraveling the chicken wire enough so that it'd be a perfect fit for the propeller. When it was, Ariel put it together and attached that to the barrel too. "Not a bad idea, I gotta say. And we'll still do good without a motor...looks like they're doing something 'steamy' over there," Ariel said with a laugh and a smirk as she glanced over to her teammate and Diesel working on their own boat. Even though they were competing there was always time enough for to make a funny statement.
As she finished taking care of the propeller and added another rod for her to use to power it so it'd move, she then rolled her eyes at Haven. "Don't you worry about my candy ass, I figured the surfboard might be a nice addition. Never said it was mandatory," she said with a laugh and took a step back to look at the contraption now put together. "So what do you think?" she asked, looking at it with a tilted head and lips pursed in thought.
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Post by Ember on May 20, 2009 23:51:13 GMT -5
Sweeping her hair that had come loose back up in a neat bun, Aideen looked at Ian with a mildly amused expression on her face. He really didn't know his own strength sometimes, having swung her around so fast that it made her neat bun to fall apart. Despite that and the fact that there was a select few people she was comfortable having physical contact with, Ian not being considered one of them, she couldn't get all that annoyed with him. The innocent playfulness and excitement was hard to get annoyed at, particularly coming from him. They may not be the best of friends and had it been anyone else she would set herself on fire at first touch, but because it was Ian she let it slide. Aideen grabbed the black permanent marker from the 'supplies' that Iceman laid out for them and walked over to the now bare trunk of the cedar tree. The first thing she did was make a thin ring of fire around the trunk closest to the roots. She made the fire white hot, the neat ring burning through the wood and making the lit area into nothing but ash, separating the trunk from the rest of the tree. Aideen then went to straddle the trunk and leaned down with the open permanent marker, carefully scaling the dimensions she memorized from when she helped Mato and drawing the line for one end of the canoe. She was no artist, but this was simple math and common sense. Making the line loop a bit so the shape was proper, Aideen leaned over and inspected it. With a small line adjustment, she stood up and moved to the other end to do the same thing. When she finished both ends, Aideen inspected the design from a distance to make sure she scaled it right in her mind. Upon declaring them satisfactory, Aideen made the outside of the lines she drew burst into a white hot blaze. It didn't take long for the lit area to turn into ash. She used a nearby hand towel that she dipped in the lake water to wipe down the dark cinders that clung to the outside of the wood, all the while calculating in her mind the buoyancy of the boat with a few adjustments. Her close to photographic memory that her Uncle had forced her to develop allowed her to quickly remember the dimensions of the canoe she made with Mato and the shape as well. As quickly as she could, Aideen drew on all the dimensions needed with the marker, shaving off certain areas with her well controlled blaze. Once she was satisfied with the outside, she moved on to the inside, leaving an area for the firebox and drawing benches for them to sit on. She worked that part very carefully since it had to be the exact depth, because if it was too shallow they would sink, and too deep and the bottom would break from their weight. Very carefully Aideen burned the inside of the lines she drew little by little with quick and accurate precision. After a couple of minutes, and then adding in the firebox and the little hole on top that Ian asked for, Aideen wiped down her handy work with the cloth and inspected it carefully after dumping the ash out and cleaning out the cinders that clung to the wood. "Firebox good enough?" she asked Ian, stepping back to inspect the canoe.
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Post by Haven on May 22, 2009 1:35:32 GMT -5
Haven stood back, arms folded across her ample breasts and looked over the contraption that sat before them. Slowly a grin widened across her face "Damn girl, that is...well that is ugly as sin, but it looks aweso- hold on..." she noticed Aideen had been drawing with a marker and she held a single finger up to Hotwire as she stepped over to her best friend. "Hey, mommita" she said "Looks good. You mind if I borrow that magic marker. Our little destroyer needs something to make it go faster. Bring it riiiight back." she snatched it up and trotted back to the vessel she and Ariel had made. "Alright looks like this should put the cherry on top check this out..." She knelt down and started to write on the enamel of the tub that was the bow of their craft. The SQUEEEEK SKWEEKITY SKKWWEEEK sound of the marker as it bent under Havens hard handed scrawl echoed off the cavernous interior of the boathouse, her face contorted and the tip of her tongue sticking out as she drew. "There now she's perfect! I say she's ready for the challenge. You and me Ariel- heh...we make a hell of a team. I never would have -eh?" At that moment the sound of Ember and Diesel cheering in triumph and putting out in their boat caught their attention and Haven stopped talking to turn and see what was going on. "OH crap lets get this party started!" she said as she saw how far from the water they were with their own boat. Following Hotwire's body language she grabbed the front end with the boat behind her and listened for the older girl to tell her when to lift. They were losing time and losing the race and they had to get into it before they found themselves well and far behind. By the time they got down to the water Ian and Aideen were chugging out ahead of them. "You ready?" she said hopping on top and looking back at Hotwire. She wrapped them both and their little boat in her forcefield and 'peeled back' the forcefield just enough around the keel rod and their electro-magnetic powered propeller to let the boat do it's thing. "I'll steer with my forcefield-" she pointed down "from underneath, just give it all you can... but not to much chika, cause it's probably further than you think." As soon a Ariel gunned it they were off.
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Post by Diesel on May 23, 2009 23:21:25 GMT -5
"C'mon Spitfire, keep that fire going, I'm pushing this as fast as I can!" Ian pushing the bellow up and down as fast as and as hard as he could without breaking it. Their steam canoe was working pretty well after Aideen melted the parts together and and he used the broken fan as the propeller that went under. They were doing pretty good too, but when Ian saw Niki and Hotwire coming, he quickened his speed as Aideen used the oar to steer. "Aw damnit! They're coming! C'mon we can't let them beat us!" He yelled and moved the bellow faster as he tossed more coal in the fire box. "Give me some of that fire of yours babe, we got a nice cloud of smoke here," Ian said looking at the large smoke trail that they left behind. Whoa man, my carbon footprint definitely got deeper now, he thought as he blinked some smoke out of his eye.
Ian moved the bellow slightly faster moving his arms up and down quickly to make the boat go faster. "Okay Spitfire no worries, we got this," He yelled and grinned as he kept moving it up and down. "I can do this faster I think..." Ian tried moving it slightly faster and it worked. The only thing was that he must have gotten too into it and forgot his strength , cause the next thing that happened was that he broke the bellow, one flying up and out of his hand. "Aw damn! I got it I got- AHHH!"KaspLOOSH[/i][/color][/size] Ian was reaching for the bellow the was coming down and reached too far, toppling over the edge of the boat and into the lake with a big splash, making the boat rock really far to one side.
The water was cold, but Ian's arms popped out of the water first holding the two pieces of the bellows before his head popped up. "I TOLD YOU I GOT IT!" he yelled with a laugh, shaking his head so the hair got out of his face and water droplets went everywhere. He started cracking up in the water. "IT'S COLD!"
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Post by Hotwire on May 23, 2009 23:40:08 GMT -5
“Lift and move, lift and move.. just move!” Ariel sort of squeaked while laughing as she picked up the rear of their makeshift boat and indicated for Haven to start heading toward the water. It was still a race and they still needed to keep up, so they were going to. At the water, she hopped on behind Haven and waited a second for the forcefield to come up before charging her exposed metal rod up with electricity. “Don’t worry about it I’ll conserve, just aim in the right direction,” she said as they sped off after Aideen and Diesel, the little propeller behind and beneath them spinning quickly, charged with power. The electricity could be seen as it surged down the rod and powered the propeller, and the ride probably wasn’t as bumpy as it would’ve been if there wasn’t a forcefield, so it made things a little easier. Or so she thought.
When Haven turned the boat thing to the side in a slightly jerky motion, Ariel lost grip the space in front of her and leaned forward to get it back, only one hand accidentally landed too far ahead on Haven’s thigh. Realizing where her hand was she pulled it back as she remembered that Haven was not someone to bother with. Aside from the fact she was obviously already in a relationship, she was juuust out of Ariel’s age range for people to have fun with, so as much as the idea of having what just happened happen was fun, it wasn’t quite right. Even still Ariel had to laugh at it and smirked slightly. “Sorry about that, slipped with that turn,” she said and shook her head a little, only to have her attention turned away from the accidental touch by hearing Diesel yelling, a splash, and then him laughing.
She looked just as he toppled over into the water and laughed loudly at the sight and had to slap her knee at the hilarity of it. “Oh man that was GREAT! Hey Diesel get back in your boat and fall out again!” she called out to him, still laughing and shaking her head. “Hey we are so gonna win,” Ariel told Haven while laughing, not even realizing that one hand she was using to keep herself sitting upright accidentally poked the girl in front in the ass.
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Post by Ember on May 24, 2009 0:46:30 GMT -5
When Ian fell out of the boat, Aideen reacted pretty much on instinct by throwing her weight on the opposite side of the boat to bring the balance back so she wouldn't topple over. That was a trick she learned in her time in the Amazon. She saved herself, but not the bag of coal and some of the coal in the firebox that fell out and into the water. Well... I should have expected that. Aideen reached over the boat and into the water to pull up the bag of coal back into the boat just as Ian's head popped out of the water along with the two halves of the bellow.
All she could do at that point was bite back a smile and the comical situation. It took a lot to make Aideen find anything amusing enough to let a smile escape, but this came damn close. She used the paddle to move back to where Ian was, since the steam part became useless with the loss of coal and all the wet coal. She stopped a little in front of him and brought the paddle into the boat, looking down at him with an amused expression while the boat floated closer to him.
"So... how are you liking the water? Cause there is no way in hell you're getting your big butt back into this canoe," Aideen said with the same amused expression on her face. She didn't particularly care about winning any sort of race since the challenge to build a device was complete. However, she would admit that she was having a good time and was rather relaxed now that she was in a more comfortable area with people she didn't mind. Aideen looked from him to Ariel and Niki who surged ahead, still completely amused.
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Post by Haven on May 24, 2009 1:27:43 GMT -5
"Hands sister. You know my boat don't float that way." she said shoving Ariel's hands away from her ass. "Look you can hold my hip here if you have to." she brought the girl's hand around and rested it on her hip. "And no funny business Mr." she looked back at the Brazilian girl and thought that if she were into girls then she could do a hell of a lot worse than the one groping her right then and there.
With a flip of her hair she turned back to see the splash of her man as he fell overboard and surfaced with the broken bit of his boat in his hands. "Awww Papi! You don't know your own strength yet? Damn, you look good as hell soakin wet." She looked over her shoulder at Hotwire and then at Aideen with a wink and said "Need a hand?"
She bent her forcefield around underneath their makeshift boat and whipped a tight U-turn. Circling around she didn't need an answer, she was going to make sure they were alright before they continued. "Well, what now? Cause it's hardly a race if you guys are all busted up and wet. How about a tow?" She asked as she lowered her forcefield to help her friends.
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