EPIC M&M: Issue 7 (IC)

[Mimic]

Michelle sighs quietly to herself, now she knows why Thunder is rubbing his temples all the time, this job can give you a serious headache...

"That's enough everyone," She states raising her voice over the noise. "Vincent didn't know even if Split was telling the truth, let alone know that it could have been useful. Besides, its not like he is the only one that did any boneheaded moves of late." She makes eye contact with everyone trying to defuse the situation, once everyone is sitting and focused back on her she continues.

"At least now we have a reason for the trade, now we have to figure out where its going to happen."

 

[Deva]

Lynn; 3/4; OK

Lifting her hands from the gate she can't help but wonder what would bring X12 to a telepath so often, and what significance the woman she had seen held. The final image stayed foremost in her mind as she got to her feet and scanned the area. It felt different than the others, leaving her unsettled and nervous.

For a moment she was tempted to approach the house and check to see if X12 was all right, but she didn't want to intrude. It wasn't her place. She wasn't even a student with Epic officially yet. Still... "Cool it, Lynn." She mumbled to herself as she continued to look around. "You don't know if what you saw was past or future. Remember what Sensei said, 'Don't act until you can react'."

She glances at her watch, noting the time, then watches the street while still keeping an eye on the building.

 

[Agamon]

"That's enough everyone," She states raising her voice over the noise. "Vincent didn't know even if Split was telling the truth, let alone know that it could have been useful. Besides, its not like he is the only one that did any boneheaded moves of late." She makes eye contact with everyone trying to defuse the situation, once everyone is sitting and focused back on her she continues.
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Sanjay still frowns, rolling his eyes. "That wasn't my point," he says heatedly. He simmers down, though, letting the subject drop, but not without an miffed glare aimed at Vince.

 

[Calinon]

October 27, 2120

Mega-City of New York
EPIC Headquarters, The War Room

Calm down, it will do nothing good to be on your nerves. Vince, being in a team mean more than have someone to protect your back in a fight. Information like that should have been told earlier. And it is not a question to beleive it or not. It both help to analyze the habits of someone like him, and there is way to confirm information like that. A severe punition would have been given to you in the army, but for now, it is to Michelle to decide.

"Bugger off, new guy," Cosmo growls. "We aren't in the military."

"Yeah, and you don't know jack about..." Vince starts.

"What?!? Monica almost died down there! Not to mention, Vida, Ms. Vaile...oh, right, and me! If we had some more info going in, a lot of that might have been avoided. And then there's the fact that that lunatic's threatened to freaking kill my family! And you took it upon yourself to dismiss his offer completely without even mentioning it to us? Does your brain shrink every time you mutate, or has it always been pea-sized?"

"Like we can trust anything Split says!" Vince shoots back. "And you're one to talk. You do all your thinking with your pelv..."

"That's enough everyone," She states raising her voice over the noise.

"Thank god, I didn't need to hear the end of that," Rebound mutters.

"Pel-what? I don't get it," Tara says.

So he just rubs his temples in an effort to calm himself, and also readies to start the sprinklers (or whatever goes for fire control) in the War Room, and only the War Room, should anybody start physical hostileties.

Amazingly, you still encounter a rather powerful blocking of your powers. Apparently Cosmo still hasn't dropped his nullification on you.

Looks like 2 on 1. I think we can take him before the rest stop us.

"Don't divide the team," Johan whispers from behind you, and the left, and the mouths to you from across the table. Obviously not the 'smart Johan', there are three of him now, each of them dangling some sort of tube from a chain in their hand. A sharp, very short, ultrasonic chirp makes you wince and look over beside the Johan across the table, where Anna has a similar tube between her lips with a warning look.

Thanks to Michelle, after a few moments, things slowly return to a more quiet state. Most appear somewhat relieved, though Carl looks bored and Loki looks disappointed more didn't happen. For a moment all you hear is a click click click of rapid typing, and the humming of 'Pop Goes the Weasel' from Dara at the main ARIS terminal. She seems to have missed the entire shouting match.

"How about here?" Dara says cheerfully, taking another bite of a half eaten apple as the image of a park comes up on the screen. The park displayed is labelled, "The Promenade" and Dara pushes a button a few times and the image scrolls out showing you it is on the northern outskirts of New York. "See, it's nice and out of the way, and the best part," she says as the image goes to a small box in the top right of the screen and a news article fills the remaining screen. It reads, "The Promenade Closed for Repairs" as the heading.

"They're fixing the trails and a leak in the artificial lake. And the best part is," she adds, and the map comes back, zoming in near to the park. "There's a Perkins right there, and they have a 24 hours special of apple waffles!"

Morgentaller District
X12
You wait for a good twenty minutes before a door opens somewhere out of your range of vision. You hear a man's voice and the albino woman nods and gestures towards you. You hear footsteps, then a middle aged man walks into view. He is dressed comfortably in casual clothing and has long, graying hair tied back in a ponytail. It is immediatetly obvious that the man is blind. White eyes stare sightlessly ahead, and an angry red scar covers his eyes.

You get the feeling you know this man, but when you try to remember you start to get a sharp headache. It takes a moment to realize that he is speaking to you.

"I said, why have you come back?"

Lynn Jenkins
It is easily twenty minutes and nothing has happened. You start to relax when you see X12 rise in the waiting room and then clutch his head for a moment. It is just then that you hear the quiet hum of a hovercar descending from above. A grey corvette comes rapidly down, touching down outside the gate with rapid precision. The door swings open and a woman steps out. When she turns, you recognize her as the woman in your vision; the one with the cybernetic eye. She is dressed in black jeans and boots, with a black bomber-style jacket done up to the neck. A nearly indestinctable bulge at her waist tells you she may be concealing a weapon.

She looks immediately at you and the glow in her mechanical eye intensifies as she studies you. As it fades to its normal intensity, she walks briskly towards the gate and you, who just happen at this moment to be blocking it from being able to swing open...

 

[Mordane76]

"I've never been here... at least not that I remember.

That's why I'm here now - you come recommended as a coma-probing psychic, and something has been done to my mind... I don't remember anything from more than about 8 months ago. I want to know what they did to me," he replies, but starts to trail off. "You know me... and I know I know you... but it hurts to remember... I want you to undo what they did to me - give me my memories back."

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay shakes his head at the apple-obesessed Dara. His anger nearly fades, as quickly as it came. Still, he doesn't feel up to contributing at the moment, and makes his way to Monica's side.

"Hey, Mon. What's with the change of wardrobe?" he asks in a lowered voice, pointing at her clothes. "Not that I mind," he adds with a shrug and a hint of a smile. "So, d'you see X? What did he have to..."

He stops mid sentence with a confused look. He looks left, then right, then turns around and scans the room. Then, to the group, he asks, "Uh, where's X12? Wait, don't tell me...he's busy washing his hair."

 

[Velmont]

"Bugger off, new guy," Cosmo growls. "We aren't in the military."

"Yeah, and you don't know jack about..." Vince starts.

OK... looks like that all previous experience I had worth nothing to there eyes. Always nice. thinks Jay. He looks at the escaliting tension, and is happy to see Michelle calming the situation.

Jay looks at Dara as she attract the attention of the room. He looks at the images of the Park. A more open field would have been better, but that is in New York itself, so Split have a greater chance to doubt about the trap.

"Nice idea, Dara."

 

[Gideon]

Michael, 5/5, Oky-doky

Mike looks over at stupid and Anna and gives them one hell of a wolfish grin.

I need a smoke, bad. Mike thinks to himself before he whispers over to Cosmo
"I'm gonna go find X12. Let me know what's up."

Heading out of the war room, Michael goes and finds his favorite pack prividing Texans room and his stash of smokes.

 

[Deva]

Lynn: 3/4; OK

She feels herself involuntarily tense in anticipation of worse case scenario. Watching the woman as intently as she had been watching her, Lynn takes a few steps back away from the gate, toward the house, to allow the woman to open it.

The image of this woman carrying an unconscious X12 flashes through her memory and she suddenly wants to keep her away from him. She plants her feet, keeping herself between the woman and the house.

 

[Mimic]

Now that the shouting match is pretty much over Michelle will continue to trying to keep the meeting focused on Split.

"So we have the what, why and where we need to figure out the who and the how. First how do we get into contact with him, do we want Jenifer to know that we are in contact and who it is that's going to talk to him."