Generation Legacy (Issue #5)

[Shalimar]

Kelly smiles at indulgently at Ruby. "I do tend to get it a lot, I'm kind of used to it at this point. Well, I geuss I'll be seeing you at class and evertyhting, but like the man said, time for me to get settled in and warm up my credit card so I actually have something I can wear." she calls over her shoulder to Ruby as she continues on with Charles.

At first the size of her new room dismays the girl, when she ha an entire mansion to herself soley on her own money, a oneroom apartment is pretty tiny, but she realizes that it will help her fit in with the rest of the students, so for now she is willing to give it a try. "It might be fun, maybe, well, I can always get the next room too and have someone knock out the wall between them for me." she says absently as she examines the room. It would definitely take some upgrading to meet her high standards, a top of the line computer, a full entertainment center, not to mention a new wardrobe to replace the one lost in the explosion.

Kelly is already in her bathroom by the time Charles is turning on the virtua web, readying the shower,, she gives a haughty sniff at the soap and shampoo, and decides that it has to go, after this one use, she could certainly afford better, she hadn't even used non-handmade herbal soap since, well, ever. She would have to have some flown out here. She was less then impressed. "What the hell, what? And can you have bring something up for me to wear? These clothes are ruined." she says in response to Charles comment, getting into the shower.

 

[Tokiwong]

Kelly

Charles toses her some uniforms, "This is all the got princess," he says, "something crazy is on the news something about Mexico City going up smoke, 24 million dead, no footage yet, guess the United Nations don't want anything to slip out till they got a chance to look things over."

The computer system is actually state of the art, like nothing she has ever seen on the market, definitely a Tommy McKain original, he built the infrastructure for your Palace, and you can see that this system is obviously the next step up on the chain. Of course his services didn't come cheap, but you get the best, outside of dealing with Microsoft or VSC.

Charles takes a seat in a chair, "The damn whole world has gone mad, I bet you them, Pantheon bastards are behind this. Damn elite supremacists."

 

[Shalimar]

It takes Kelly no less then half an hour of furious scrubing in the shower to remove all of the accumulated blood sweat and dirt from the trip this morning, it simply wouldn't come off, and then it was an aabsolute nightmare getting it out of her hair with the shampoo that was in the bathroom, some lavender scented knock-off, she much prefered shampoo made with the real thing.

"I really don't think Pantheon would do something that horrible, I mean everybody just misunderstands them, I mean the media blows things way out of proportion all the time, I mean, do I look pregnant to you? Or have track marks on my arm? I sort of agree with them, I mean, If I wasn't already famous and had everything I do reported in the news I wouldn't want to have to register myself or anything. I mean there are a lot of Base Lines that are pretty scary too." Kelly says as she finally makes her way out of the shower, her freshly scrubbed skin pink and smooth like a baby's.

She emerges from the bathroom wearing the school uniform with the skirt suitably shortened by way of rolling it until she had the time to get them tailored. "Off the rack, ugh. Now move over so I can do a bit of shopping, I don't want to have to wear this thing anymore then I absolutely must, and I need to call daddy to tell him what happened, since he probably knows we crashed, be a dear and dial him uip for me?" she asks of the olderman as she warms up her credit card for a major shopping spree, one of the few things she takes great pleasure in.

Kelly started off with the entirety of the spring and summer Ivana Renoir collections. After that, she just needed to fill out the rest of her things for special occasions like the dance that was coming up, she had found out about it when she had had one of her assistants find out what was going on at the institute about a week ago, she wondered if she was going to be attending, or expected to perform, hard to know what to wear since one wasn't the same as the other even slightly, she settled on buying a few outfits for either case. Once she had spent more then triple the income of the average yearly income, and slipped express same day/overnight on it, she finally slipped out of her reverie. "That should be enough don't you think?" she asks Charles.

 

[Tokiwong]

Kelly

Charles sighs, "Yeah I guess so princess," his voice dripping with sarcasm as he watches the reports.

Charles groans, "Hey I know they kill people, and I know they think they are better then us, and that is all I need to know. If that Razor or Bishop were here right now I would introduce them to my all-american little friend," he pats the pistol in his shirt holster.

A message pops up on Kelly's screen, it is a young boy, wearing a backwards hat, the genius known as Tommy McKain, "Hey Kelly long time no see, welcome to the place, uhh, wish it was under better circumstances but hey, I figured things can't get any worse can they? Anyways, I attached a file with all kinds of information you may want, the best boutiques, the best beaches, the best everything, and anything else you need. Just looking out for an old customer."

Charles smirks, "That kid is too damn smart for his own good."

"Anyways, I don't have a date to the school, Star says I should go, you want to go, it is either you, or the freaky spider girl, or Ruby, and although they seem cool, your like really triple cool! So let me know!" he says, smiling as he leans back in his chair, and falls over. he scurries back up, and smirks, "Oops, uhh... yeah I am not a real klutz honest!"

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

It takes a second for it to process. Not a movie. "Uh...holy ....um, I'm uh... I'm sorry..." he offers feebly.

James nods his head, his eyes fixed on the screen (he hardly noticing Kiyana leaning on his shoulder... then again, well he notice!) and looks up at Mark... "This is terrible... all those people..."

 

[Aenion]

"You distance yourself. I see it, this glow.. it's your wall to the world." turns and picks a very heavy bench with minimal effort. "I'm still ... adapting to my powers. So in time, I mgiht be able to actually, and I think I'm more of a ground soldier type"

Nods to the others as they approach.

"Hi, I'm Ruby. This is Kal and she's Aris. We arrived today, could you ... euhm ... tell us what we could do for fun around here or something, except for lifting benches that is?" she adds with a smirk.

 

[Agamon]

Anika races to her room and immediately goes to her computer. She brings up her vidphone and calls her home in Malmo. An middle-aged woman's face appears. "Anika! Oh, my I was just thinking about you. Are you alright?" she asked, speaking in Swedish.

"Hi, Mom. I'm fine," Anika says with a shaken voice. "How are Dad and Jonas? Is everything alright up there? Have you seen...on the TV...."

"Yes, we're fine. Jonas is playing in his room. Your father went to Stockholm this weekend on business. I just finished talking to him," her mother says. Her face turns sad, "Isn't that horrible what happened in Mexico. It's all over the news. That's just awful..."

"I know...I feel so useless. My friend just...well, she fell and she was convulsing and..." Anika begins to sniffle, "I couldn't help her. And now this. All those people are dead." She wipes a tear from her cheek. "Everyone back home thought I was so special with my 'amazing powers', and I now feel so helpless..."

"There's not much anyone can do, Anni," her mother replied. "We don't even know what happened yet."

"I guess," Anika mumbles. "Have you seen Sami lately? I wanted to call him, too..."

"No, not lately, but I'm sure he'd like to hear from you," her mom said. "And, Anni, don't worry so much about this. You're too young to be carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. I hope your friend is okay. Call me again soon. I love you."

"I love you, too, Mom. Bye." Anika says as she disconnects. She tries to get ahold of her friend, Sami, but there's no answer, so she leaves him a short message.

She lies down on her bed crosses her arms over her face, thinking, I dunno, Mom. I think I'm going to need to grow up really fast, really soon..."

 

[Shalimar]

Kelly looks distressed at Charles disagreement, or more specifically, at what she had actually said, like her mouth had run away with itself. "I know that they hurt people, I really do, and I hate that they do that, but they aren't all bad, and their point sounds pretty good to me, I don't want to have to be scared that there is an anti-elite fanatic that knows everything about me because I am forced to register all of my information." the more she says, however the more the look of concern grows on her face.

"I'm sorry, this isn't really coming out right at all. Even after what he did to me, theres a part of me that wants to agree with Neuro, as scary as that is, and as much as I hate it. Its really creeping me out, I mean I'm starting to like things that he liked, and I used to hate, its really weird. Do you think it'll go away with some time or something?" she asks her bodygaurd worriedly.

When Tommy's face appears on the computer and he tells her of all the files and information he is sending her she smiles in delight, finally something about this trip was going right. "Tommy, your a lifesaver, but how did you know what happened to me, I haven't told anyone at all." she asks the boy curiously, he really is too smart, she thinks, I hope he doesn't have cameras everywhere like in the shower and all, that would be creepy, not to mention illegal, and if he taped my shower, profitable, I better make the bathroom all foggy from now on.

"Well, the first thing you can do is tell me all about everyone, I don't have any idea who Star and 'freaky spidergirl' are, but I did meant Ruby, and she seemed nice, from the short amount of time we talked I mean." she says, not covering her surprise at being asked to the dance buy a kid who didn't look anymore then 11 or 12 all that well. "Tommy honey, I am like 4 years older then you, and it wouldn't exactly be right for me to go to the dance with you, I mean think about how that would look. I get enough criticisms from people in the paper as it is. but you are cute, and if you were a few years older I would definitely go with you." she explains as gently as possible.

 

[Hammerhead]

OOC: So Cassandra didn't tell Ryan about being some kind of temporal anomaly, and that she could be unmade?

Can she see right through me? Of course this purple glow is a barrier to the rest of the world and to a normal life. Ryan smiles, and opens his mouth to respond when he notices the group of newcomers he stops and raises a hand to wave. And I thought I looked weird. Great, just what we needed, even more new students. Could the enemy be getting desperate to send some kind of kidnapper or kidnapping squad? I hate the way they stare at me...especially since any one of them could try and kill me.

Stop whining Ryan. "Hello," Ryan says. "Are you new students at the institute?" I wonder what abilities they have. I should just ask them. "My name is Ryan Praloski. I can manipulate cosmic energy, and I'm from Ohio."

What a lame way to introduce myself. Oh well. Who really cares about such matters when Mexico City just got destroyed? I feel so helpless, just sitting here safe at the school surrounded by security. I should be out in the world doing something instead of just sitting here. Find the people responsible for Mexico City, or the punks who keep trying to kidnap me. Or just any Pantheon terrorist, or other terrorist, or bank robber, or drug dealer, or...just anything!

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Charlotte looks indecisive a bit, then nods, "Yeah, I really like it-I still owe you majorly, though. I'll try to find some way to make it up." She says, her mouth forming into a slight smile to one side, in a weird but appreciative sort of grin.

She takes the dress out of the rack and puts it up to herself, imagining what it'd be like wearing it. Not wanting to be rude, she asks Arafina, "So, did you find anything for yourself?"