Mutant High Issue 1: The house that Xavier Built

[Relique du Madde]

[Cafeteria]
Once at the cafeteria's counter, Miranda decided on ordering a plate of fettuccine alfredo, which looked suspiciously like spaghetti covered in alfredo sauce and several pieces of garlic bread. A few short minutes later, Miranda heard Astrid's call as she stood outside the cafeteria's service area.

Miranda waved back towards her friend as she called back, "I'm be right there, just make sure no one steals those two seats.." She then turned toward Pyro, who was approaching with his tray in hand. "Hey Pyro, it looks like we got ourselves a reserved table!"

With a grin on her face, Miranda approached the table and placed her tray on the edge of the table across from Astrid's, forcing Pyro to place his own to the left of Miranda's. "Astrid, I was wondering where you vanished off to. Almost everyone involved in the battle except for Pyro (who sitting outside stargazing before he asked me out), Alchy, Kitty, and the teachers, decided to hang out in the infirmary..." She glanced towards Pyro and blushed. "Oh um... I'm not sure if you two ever properly met.. Pyro, this Calypso. Calypso, Pyro."

After she finished her rushed introduction, Miranda took a deep breath then she sat down. Miranda was flushed and to make matters worse, she was also visibly nervous.

 

[Shayuri]

Astrid gives Pyro a nod. "Hey."

She glances at Miranda. "Anyway, yeah, I don't like the infirmary. So...hey, are you all right?"

 

[Relique du Madde]

"I'm alright, the only real thing that happened with me was that I over exerted myself, although if I didn't have a my ghost form Pyro and I would probably be lying in traction about now.." She glanced down for a second.

"How about yourself? How are you doing?"

 

[Shayuri]

Astrid shrugs and takes a sip of her chocolate milk.

"I'm all right. Not hurt at all, so I'm better off than some. A little mad that I couldn't help any." She pauses pensively. "You know...and that I still can't."

 

[Relique du Madde]

"I think your being rather hard on yourself since you probably had more of an effect on the battle then you think you did. See, if that kid was such a bad ass, then why didn't he decide to kill off everyone? She paused for a brief moment, Instead he or his leader decided to do one of the most bone-head villain mistakes that appears in movies, comics, and tv-shows: He beat us up, took our our mentors, then left us bruised and battered so that we could regroup."

"Basically, he's offering us four options: Roll over and become his doormat, learn how to become a team so that we can defeat him, train and become better at using our powers so we can challenge him on his home turf, or get ourselves an unstoppable bad-ass ringer and him him or her beat them up while we watch from the sidelines. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to allow myself to sit on the sidelines... "

"Astrid, I know you don't think you are able to help at this moment, but in all actuality, none of us can do anything right now. Like it or not, we have to wait until Cyclopse makes his decision and for our moment to come before we can actually be of any use. Until then, I think we have to learn to act as a team and learn how to overcome our own limitations so that we won't be short handed when we are forced to fight. "

 

[Jemal]

[cafeteria]
Calypso, eh?" Think I heard of you, you're the water chick.. Pyro cocked his head to one side as he looked at her, and follows the conversation between her and Miranda "Miranda's right, your powers are just like mine.. You can control it but not create it, right? So when you're "in your element", you're probably one of the more powerful mutants around here, and when you're not your just a 'normal' person."
Pyro stops speaking as the two look at him "What? I'm not allowed to know stuff? I'm a flame mutant, of course I'm gonna pay attention when I find out that a walking fire hose has enrolled at mutant high."

[lawn]
"Wow, that's like so insightful.. What's your mutation, a super tactical brain? You sound like totally military!" Kitty grinned at her. "So, you think there was a second cyborg? Or maybe a mutant or something?"


**OOC: Next update will be the 'next day of school', so if any of you have any roleplaying left to do for the day, you've got until tommorow... er, pun not intended.**

 

[Shayuri]

Astrid gives Miranda a thoughtful look, then shrugs...and grins sheepishly at Pyro.

"You know more about me than I do about you," she accuses mildly. "But yeah...I can pull water from the air, but not enough to do much with. I can make fog or pull clouds together and make them rain. Nothing like Storm though. I've been working on making water freeze though, which helps."

She finally nods at Miranda, "And you're right. We still don't know what we're up against, so I guess it's..." She pauses for a moment, thinking.

"Wait a second...it was talking. I was really close to it, and, what was it saying...?"

Astrid frowns and rubs her forehead.

"It was saying something about how it was here for the Professor...which is when I yelled at you to go warn him...but then it said something like it needed his help... Argh! I can't remember!"

She looks at Miranda, eyes wide. "Do you think it's important? I don't think it was really wanting to kill anyone...even though it was definitely not pulling punches either."

 

[Relique du Madde]

She thought for a moment, "If cyborg needed the Professor's help then why did he attack to begin with? That is unless, the intent was to force the Professor to do something he wouldn't have normally done, which could have meant that the plan was to capture the Professor or have him come willingly... But..."

Miranda cursed as she realized something and quickly gave Pyro a shocked glance. "Oh crap... Pyro, i think someone must was in the danger room's observation deck with us!" She began to tremble. "You were shoved or thrown out out of the observation room's window because of how you were damaging the computer!"

"OMG! This wasn't about the professor! If THEY wanted the professor they could have taken him easily, when I went to save Pyro." She bit her lip. "I never had a danger room session... so I wouldn't know.. but if it's computer held information about the strengths and weaknesses of those mutants who trained in it they could have been after that!"

 

[Jemal]

[cafeteria]
"OH, Bloody... Your right, that computer's probly connected to the main computer, and easier to get at without anybody guarding it! I completely forgot about it cause of the fall and all the stuff that was happening, but It was as if something had thrown me through the glass, and the proffessor was in there, if whoever that was had wanted him, he was helpless for long enough they could've taken him.
Pyro got to his feet, forgeting his food "Come on girls, we gotta find Professor Summers."

[danger room]
Alchemist had almost fallen asleep in the danger room, it had been a long time since he'd used his powers so much.. and had to be so precise, fixing everything. But he wasn't too tired to hear the footsteps approaching him.
"Nicolas Asher, also known as 'the alchemist'. My name is Pietro Maximoff. It's taken a while to find someone of your unique talents, but I'm afraid we haven't the time for further pleasantries. You're coming with me, and there's two ways we can do this. The easy way, or..." A silver haired man stepped out of the shadows grinning, wearing a skintight blue suit with a lightning bolt down the middle of it.

OOC: Nicely done everybody who figured/pointed that out. Now I get to go with Route B. Also, I've always liked Pyro but never what they did with him as badguy, so as you may have noticed, I'm trying to take his personality in a bit of a different direction.

 

[Caros]

"Nicolas Asher, Known as Alchemist, not "The" Alchemist you dumbass." Nicolas said with a quiet chuckle, pulling himself upright. Neither name nor face rang any immediate bells, leaving Nicolas already at a disadvantage.

"You'll have to forgive me too, pleasentry has never been my strong point with kidnappers." He kept a quiet smirk on his face as he slowly paced away from the wall, making a slow circle, just to keep himself from getting penned in. "I'll give you've got some brass my friend, twice in one day."

Their little conversation served to bide time, allowing Nicolas to shake away his wearyness and the possibility of help to arrive. And so he kept it up, that smirk blossoming into a full smile then. "I'd say the easy way but I don't think you're going to buy it after my little rant."

He began to let his power flow out, just a little, creating an odd visual effect of the ground rippling as he walked. Visually it seemed to be all he was doing, while beneath the floor of the danger room he was constructing himself a tool from one of the speakers. "Just to remind you though, I'm not just 'some mutant'. I control matter, I'm one of the most powerful students in this school."

A cocky grin was tossed over then, nodding as the floor opened ten feet distant. "Of course, I'm begining to understand the appeal of teamwork too."

The device might be recognized for what it was, a giant impromptu speaker rising from the ground, blaring with waves of sound as it cried out in a massive shreak that could be heard all across campus.

[sblock=Stats]This is a Sonic Blast Effect, goes out to 50 feet. Attack roll is 18

Gonna take a wild guess it misses. *Grin* Just a bonus anways.[/sblock]