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Generation Legacy Issue #15

Clover had only barely arrived at the academy a half hour before the terrorist strike began and the flame haired British girl had been in the midst of unpacking her belongings. At this point in her life Clover was used to moving from place to place. A year in Egypt, two in Japan, four in Belgium, and various military bases in Britain itself, she had it down to an art form. A heavily used duffle bag held the majority of her clothes, and the matching foot locker held various mementos and other things that would fit in the bag. The rest of her things were in storage at a home she rarely had the chance to visit, a family estate outside of London that was almost perpetually empty.

All of the clothes that the girl unpacked were folded neatly with great precision, and they slid easily into the empty drawers leaving a good bit of space besides. A gold etched ceremonial tanto, that she had received while attending a state function in Japan a few ears back, was placed on the night stand. Next Clover hung a pushpin board displaying a large world map with red push pins in all the countries and major cities she had been, Europe was a red tide with pins in every countries capital, and a lot of the larger cities, the same with North Africa, and Japan as well as a few in the United States. The red head was adding a pin to Mudaba Adin when all hell broke loose.

In the immediate aftermath of the explosion Clover had put her training to good use against one of the prowling Pantheon members, with her powers he never laid a hand on her or the girl that he had been threatening. After Pantheon retreated she worked to get all of the students that she could find calm and organized their efforts to work together and find as many of the missing as possible. The red head seemed to be everywhere at once, doing her best to wring every last jot of effort from everyone, pushing herself the hardest without any complaint even though she’d been awake for almost 29 hours with the travel.

It was only half a day after the Pantheon attack that she finally halted her efforts for the day. The military brat didn’t mind the close quarter sleeping arrangements, it was simply what soldiers did, she had always wanted to be a soldier like her father and she was no stranger to military life. She ended up with the cot closest to the female team members of Legacy, alternately trying to connect with her Mother and Father trying to learn what was going, to learn if her little brother Mustang was ok. After the latest failed attempt she sighs and looks at Anika and the others. “Hughes, Clover Hughes. Some first day isn’t it? I wasn’t off the aerodyne for more then 45 minutes before all of this happens.” The British girl says with a sigh.
 

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"This is idiotic," Ryan whines as he lays back in the mess area, playing catch with his cell phone. "For my own protection," he quotes scornfully to anyone within earshot. "Given the long list of people who have tried to kill me and are now dead or locked up, I don't think some jackass with an antiquated slugthrower is going to punch my ticket. We should be in Cairo doing something."

This sitting around and waiting for orders is getting to be intolerable. I'm not some little sheep like Mark who just does what Paragon tells him to do. And I'm going to have to listen to a lot of the others whining about how Cardinal deserves to pay, blah blah blah.

I at least need to talk to Sariyah, make sure she doesn't do something stupid.


Sighing, he gets up and searches through the chaos looking for her. "Hey," he says, then leans close and lowers his voice. "It would not be a good idea to tell anyone about what happened in the garage. With things the way they are, there wouldn't be anything resembling justice. It wouldn't be pretty."

Was Cleveland among the destroyed cities, or any other city that a Legacy member grew up in?
 

Even with all of the rescuing done, Mark could find no peace. He was glad he didn't have to be the one to find Giuseppe or Kelly. Everyone else he knew lived. But none of that helped, and now he was shut up with everyone else. No privacy. No pool. All of his things were gone. Aside his bank accounts, which hardly mattered now, all Mark owned at the moment was his Legacy uniform.

Mark wanted to get out of there. He doubted anybody would stop him. He could say Paragon was sending him off to pick something up. Then he could just take off and go... Where? Thailand? Cities seemed like a bad idea, and Mark would be recognized anywhere. He had nowhere to go.
 

Anika sat on her cot, paying little mind to the goings on around her. Aside from her initial breakdown, she had remained focused and determined during the rescue effort throughout the day. But now she had nothing to occupy her mind but the events of the day.

Kelly was dead. So were a lot of other fellow students, some of whom she knew, some she didn't. As well, the people of Mudaba Adin, a few she knew, a lot she didn't. The loss felt like a black, clawing hole in her chest.

Sami was an elite now, it seemed. In her crazy, weird, upside-down world as a member of Legacy, Sami was normal guy that grounded her and gave her hope that someday she could lead a regular, plain-old, normal life. It didn't feel like that anymore. Her feelings for Sami didn't change, but the way she saw him did change, and that depressed her.

Ryan's 'dark gods' statements were weighing on her, too. She didn't truly believe it; she had faith in her gods and what they stood for, but the thought entered the back of her mind occasionally. And the fact she let it bug her made her sick to her stomach.

And to top it off, her trip into Mark's drug-addled body brought back horrible feelings she thought she had quelled a long time ago. But despite everything weighing on her, she resisted any urges she may have felt. But it didn't change the fact that it only made her feel worse.

The redhead on a nearby bed brings her out of her stupor. She gives the girl something of a blank stare and replies, "Consider yourself lucky if you didn't know anybody here, Clover."
 

Karen had been constantly flitting about, helping out here and there. Distributing blankets, clothes, food, setting up beds, helping the wounded, doing any heavy lifting that was needed, ... She had to keep busy, she wouldn't and couldn't stop working. If she did she felt like she would collapse. If anyone asked or told her to take a break and clean up, she just shook her head and continued.

Everything had happened so fast, so many people dead, so many families broken. Her first and best friend here at the institute had been brutally thorn away from the world by Cardinal. The girl she'd tried to help and protect so many times over the past two years, was gone now. And why? So Cardinal could start a war between baselines and elites? So she could force the transformation and have more soldiers to fight against Overseer? Soon there wouldn't be anything left to fight for.

Someone had ordered the tireless crystal girl to take a break and given her a change of clothes, she couldn't really remember who but she hadn't been able to refuse this time. She'd found herself in the bathroom section of the bunker, washing away the dirt and blood. She barely remembered how she got here, the world just didn't seem real to her. She changed into the military pants and the top, the pants were too big and the top was too tight but she just couldn't be bothered to care.

It's in this daze that she enters the dormitory, tapping away at a tablet PC she got a hold off, desperately trying to get a connection to Chicago and Verona. She doesn't look up from her search to greet anyone. She sits down on one of the beds and promptly crashes through it with a surprised yelp, her body had become too heavy for it to support the extremely dense teenager. Instead she gets up and finds herself a quiet corner to sit on the floor as she continues to tap away on the PC searching for any bit of news about her family and Kal.
 
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"My parents both work for the UN, so I don't know that they were much safer then this place was. Or my little brother." The red head says, studying Anika intently. "How are you doing with everything... Legacy has had a hard couple of weeks. Are you guys still going to be able to function after all of this?" Clover asked, reading Anika gesturesand motions to the tiniest detail tocome upwith the best phrasing for her question. She didn't want to antagonize the co-leader of Legacy or to make her feel worse but she did want to get a sense of her, her and the other members of Legacy.

The red head gave Anika an encouraging smile that seemed to say you can talk to me, open up, it'll help, but didn't verbally push her, it wasa delicate balance to strike, and probably impossible wthout the insight into others that her eyes gave her, with those she always seemed to know just what to say when talking to someone, to know just what they wanted to hear.

[CHA Bonus, not mindreading]
 

Anika shrugs. "Still function? Yeah, probably. Honestly, I sometimes wonder how we've managed to function before today." She looks back at Clover, her expression no longer blank or disinterested, but far from happy. "So you're new here? Talk about bad timing. So what can you 'do', if you don't mind me asking?"
 

Clover nods understandingly at Anika's answer, it was about all that they could do, it wasn't as if Pantheon would just go away if Legacy curled up in a catatonic ball. "Legacy has had a lot of hard assignments, hard for soldiers let alone students. My mother is a UN ambassador so she keeps up to date on everything. I've been following you guys for awhile now."

"Yea, today was my first day, like I said everything started going boom before I even had a chance to settle in. I did do for one of those Pantheon blokes, but mostly it was finding students and getting things organized and calmed down. It was absolutely shambolic." the red head said with a brash grin.

"My powers are actually the reason I'm here, I've already graduated secondary but I've been planning on joining up for a hitch with the UN Forces like dad, lord knows he's been training me for it for long enough. When I told my parents about me powers they suggested I come here for a wee bit o' trainin up before I sign on. I'm not technically old enough to sign on for a few months and the Academy signing off on my abilities can only help, right?"

"Its my eyes, they let me read everything down to the smallest detail, a good tthing for a lass who wants to be a soldier. They let me read people's movements and unconscious gestures so well that I know what they are going to do before they do it. I'm a fair shake myself in hand to hand combat, it'd be hard not to be what with me da sweating me and my brother til we could pass the entrance exams for the bloody SAS, but since my powers came up once I get a read on someone no one has been able to land a blow. If I focus on it I can also use them to just about read someone's mind, their surface thoughts at any rate." Cloveer says with a grin.

"Oh, and if I really focus on an elite I can see the way their nanites direct their body's energy and I can force mine to match it for awhile letting me try out their powers for a bit."
 

Gilden sat crosslegged studing the "book" that Chaos had given him, it seemed like it was months ago but really it was just the other day. They all needed some down time but it didn't look like it was going to happen now. Retrieving it was the first thing he did when he returned to what was left of the institute, leaving it out in the open where anyone could find it was just asking for trouble.

He sighs quietly as he closed it, reading the book for more then a half and hour gave him a headache, probably always would but this was the best chance he had in defeating the Red Witch. If he could find the Ebon Thorn and somehow take it from her should reduce her powers and let them finally defeat her.

He laid back stretching out, feeling the grass under him. He was in his extra-dimensional space having to retreat there for some privacy, once it got out that he could scry distant locations he was mobbed with requests from the remaining students wanting to know if friends, family and loved ones were ok, he wanted to help but there was just so many that he couldn't, he had asked Gadget to come with him but she had refused stating that she had work to do, her refusal didn't really surprise him, it was one of the things he liked about her. Although he did worry about her, she would literally work until she dropped, he wondered if he could convince her to come have some food with him.

But that was in the future, it was time now to rejoin the real world and see what had to be done. He stands and makes a gesture creating a portal between dimensions and walks through.
 

"Oh, uh, I see," Anika replies, suddenly feeling vulnerable. Then she realized the girl could tell. But then with her reaction, you didn't need to be hyper-perseptive to figure it out. "Sorry," she apologizes, "I'm actually getting used to mind readers and stuff, but that's just...different."

A bit embarrassed, she tries to change the subject. Thinking a moment, her eyes widen as she realizes something. "You can detect the ninites? Um, I know this may sound strange, but I'm not completely convinced I'm actually an elite. Elites' abilities are a part of them, but my powers come...come from somewhere else. Any chance you can shed some light on that for me?" she asks, her heart skipping a beat as it dawns on her that she might finally have at least a partial answer to a question she's wondered over for years.
 

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