Mutant High Issue 1: The house that Xavier Built

[Jemal]

[Temper/Xian/Eric/Spike/Kitty]
"OH, I'm, uh, Kitty." The young woman blushes slightly as everyone turns to stare and her, then smiles, extending a hand to Temper "Pleased to meet you, Temper" She looks to Spike, her disarming and quick smile placing him at ease, as she doesn't seem taken aback by his appearance in the slightest.
"I was just wondering what was going on.. Everybody seems either gloomy about what happened, or overly psyched about going out and 'kicking some butt', So I was just kinda wondering what your thoughts were? Think they're gonna send a team out to go after that kid?"

[Pyro/Miranda]

"Look, I..." Pyro sighed, "Professor's the only one who's ever done anything for me, y'know? So of course I'd have to help him. Aint nobody else ever gave a damn about me." He looked off, his brow furrowed again. When he finally looked back, there was a different look in his eyes.. maybe determination, maybe acceptance of something, but his voice was strong as he stood up and finally spoke.
"Thanks, Miranda. Don't think I ever actually said that and meant it before, but thank you." He smiled and nodded towards the cafeteria. "Can I.. uh.. Buy you some supper? As maybe a thank you? I mean, I know we don't technically have to pay for it here, but..."

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

"We were just discussing that...I figure Professor Summers will probably send out someone...I was just wondering who everyone thought it would be."

Xian smiles at Kitty and slides over, making room for her under the tree.

"Of course Professor Summers will lead the team...after that, I figure the people who didn't get incapacitated by whatever that psychic surge was would be top of the list...and maybe anyone who actually saw the fight with the kid and got in on it."

 

[Relique du Madde]

"I hope you don't mind.." Rather then physically standing up, Miranda allowed her body to return to it's ghost form while trying to make her body become as visible as possible; appearing somewhat wisp-like as if she were a three dimensional hologram that was projected through a layer of smoke. Miranda then floated upwards so that she hovered about an inch off the ground.

Miranda smiled at Pyro as she ran her hand through her shoulder length hair. "Pyro, I hope you weren't asking me out for dinner. If you were, that was pretty sad." Miranda smiled, "However, with that said, I'd love to join you for supper, even if you didn't mean for it to be a date." She grinned.

As they headed towards the cafeteria, Miranda asked, "So tell me, what do you think of the code name Fantasma? I know it's not as 'powerful' or as 'archetypal' as Llorona was in Spanish, but at least the same time it doesn't automatically say 'villainess'..."

 

[drothgery]

"Of course Professor Summers will lead the team...after that, I figure the people who didn't get incapacitated by whatever that psychic surge was would be top of the list...and maybe anyone who actually saw the fight with the kid and got in on it."

"It probably depends how Professor Xavier and Professor Grey -- and Gwen and the other psychic types -- are doing, and if we've figured out anything about that kid -- I'd think." Eric said. "I'd guess what Temper was saying earlier was right. He'd put together a recon group and try and learn more."

 

[Victim]

Temper shakes the offered hand. Ah, so he's self conscious about his appearence around her especially.

"Like I said, I don't know people here, and I wasn't in a position to observe the fight outside. Perhaps others with more information can share their choices and explain them?" she asks, fishing for information while eating.

 

[Jemal]

[lawn]
Kitty slips to the ground between Xi'an and Spike "I was there, and I don't think I'd wanna be on any team sent after him. He managed to compensate for practically everybody's powers, one at a time. If there hadn't been so many of us there to overwhelm him... Well, he sent wolverine flying OVER a building, took a full blast from cyclops, hit me while I was phased out, and didn't really care when Alchemist hit him with a giant slab of concrete." She shook her head "Not to mention what he did to all the psychics." Kitty looked around at the others and shrugged "But enough of my gloominess, your turn." She forced a perky smile and turned to look at someone, prompting them to speak.

[Cafeteria]

"Hey!" Pyro blushed slightly "Gimme a break babe, I'm new at this kinda thing." He grinned at her in an attempt to hide his embarrassment, though whether he was refering to apologizing or asking her out was anybody's guess. As they entered the cafeteria, they found it fairly packed, as it had been for a while. Most of the students didn't really know where to go, and many wanted to gossip about what was happening/going to happen. The general atmosphere was a mixture of fear and excitement. The two of them waited in line a few minutes before grabbing their food and looking around for a table. "And as far as names go, I liked your old one, 'Llorona' sounds.. idaknow, ghostly, exotic, cool.. Really the only thing that matters though is if You like it. It's your real name, after all, the one you chose to describe yourself. You gotta live with it."

**OOC: Besides Alchemist, are there any other mutants not involved in anything right now?**

 

[Shayuri]

(I figured I'd put Calypso in the cafeteria...unless you have other ideas?)

 

[Relique du Madde]

[Cafeteria]

Miranda thought for a moment. "You know, you're right. I think I've been looking at the entire name issue from the wrong angle. Instead of treating it kind of like a stage name, or like it was a part of me, I've been treating it sort of like a mask or a foil to hide behind."

She glanced towards the front of the line, then scanned the crowd. "This bites, considering the number of people that are here, I really don't think we'll be able to sit down without one of us getting a detention or a referral. That is unless we had arranged for someone to be a seat warmer..." She paused and began to wonder how awkward it would be if she and Pyro decided to eat alongside Xi'an and Alchemist. "However, I know of several people who said they were going to be here... Unfortunately, theres too many people here for me to see if I could sense any one of them." Miranda began to look through the crowd, "So unless one of them calls us over, we might have to eat outside."

 

[Victim]

[lawn]
Kitty slips to the ground between Xi'an and Spike "I was there, and I don't think I'd wanna be on any team sent after him. He managed to compensate for practically everybody's powers, one at a time. If there hadn't been so many of us there to overwhelm him... Well, he sent wolverine flying OVER a building, took a full blast from cyclops, hit me while I was phased out, and didn't really care when Alchemist hit him with a giant slab of concrete." She shook her head "Not to mention what he did to all the psychics." Kitty looked around at the others and shrugged "But enough of my gloominess, your turn." She forced a perky smile and turned to look at someone, prompting them to speak.

More references to specific people that I just admited I don't know, or know about. Wonderful. If you could make a comparison to a firearm, antitank rocket or something... Even if people disagree about the particular effectiveness of any given piece of hardware, it'd at least be something. Hmm, a slab of concrete. But thrown/launched how hard? I don't think I could ignore a concrete slab hittting me though. It might not hurt me at all, depending on how fast it was moving. But I could be pinned under it or at least knocked down.

She smiles, "If he was only compensating one power at a time, that's something at least. Besides, you don't need to overpower something directly to defeat it. If you knew what the cyborg was after, interfering with its goals might be sufficient. Also, a cyborg might require special drugs to prevent an immune response to his own implants, creating another possile weakness. Just throwing strength against strength is for the foolish or very confident."

"Of course, that's probably not what the attackers did. If the cyborg was analyzing your powers as you attacked, then his withdraw intact probably gives him and his organization plenty of information about you. If he had some sort of communications gear, then he could have been reporting on the fly; they would get information regardless of his survival. And the frontal attack which failed seems like a possible diversion. Someone else could have been involved in the psychic attacks downstairs while the cyborg was drawing all defenders away from that area. Multiple attackers seems more likely than this cyborg being able to fight off a number of mutants while mindblasting separate groups of people. Someone had to install those cybernetics, afterall. That takes money, equipment, trained personel." How can you not see this?

 

[Shayuri]

Cafeteria
X-Mansion

Then a familiar voice shouts, "Hey! Miranda!"

Calypso stands up at her table and waves frantically.

"Over here!!"