Mutant High Issue 2: A Hard Lesson

[kirinke]

Alchemist raised a hand, as if to ward off the little jolts of electricity that flashed over the girl. "Same way I know the chemical composition of your body. Its an extension to my primary power. I'm unconciously aware of all the elements around me... but with a little focus I can zero in on those, get an exact number. Its what allows me to do fine manipulation like the cloths." He tried a disarming smile her way as he added. "And if any shapeshifter could do what I do, I don't know why they'd need me to begin with."

"My cell phone has GPS." He moved to his desk, scrawling one last note. "And a panic button. Give this one to the instructors too if you would, that way they'll know how to find me once I turn it on."

Serena calmed down a little. "Sorry, all this is making me feel a little paranoid at the moment." she said, the electrical feild faded to normal.

"That might work. Especially if we can convince Cebero that we aren't trying to do anything to harm the students or faculty...." she frowned. "I might be able to talk to it."

 

[Jemal]

Pyro hasn't taken his flustered, slightly embarrassed gaze off Miranda since her talk of taking him to a show, but when she continues about Cerebro, he puts a hand on her shoulder "NO. That's way too dangerous, I heard the professor arguing with one'a the other telepaths a while ago about why they can't use it. If anything goes wrong, if you lost control for a fraction of a second, you'd be a vegetable! Only Gray'n Xavier know how to control it. We could probably get in, talk to it, convince it to help us.. but as for reprogramming it to work with your powers instead of the professors?" He shook his head, then turned to Alchemist "You included anybody else in these plans of yours, or just those of us who happened by?"

 

[kirinke]

Pyro hasn't taken his flustered, slightly embarrassed gaze off Miranda since her talk of taking him to a show, but when she continues about Cerebro, he puts a hand on her shoulder "NO. That's way too dangerous, I heard the professor arguing with one'a the other telepaths a while ago about why they can't use it. If anything goes wrong, if you lost control for a fraction of a second, you'd be a vegetable! Only Gray'n Xavier know how to control it. We could probably get in, talk to it, convince it to help us.. but as for reprogramming it to work with your powers instead of the professors?" He shook his head, then turned to Alchemist "You included anybody else in these plans of yours, or just those of us who happened by?"

"Maybe.... Maybe we don't have to use Cebero's abilities directly." Serena mused. "I can walk through cyberspace, interact directly with that environment. What if we could maybe use that to walk the professor and Ms. Gray back to consciousness? Maybe ask it to help us set up a cyberspace environment so we can connect with their minds that way." she kicked the floor vindictively. "This whole situation stinks like a dead skunk if you ask me. Anything we come up with is way worse than simply staying." she looked at each of them, hoping to talk them out of leaving.

"We don't even know the full situation or what's really going on, other than the fact that Alchemist is being hunted by some supervillian." she shook her head. "Leaving is plenty stupid. Messing with Cebero is even worse. Waiting is bad too, it gives them more time to plan something." she shoved her hands in her pockets.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Miranda blushed as soon as Pyro started to air his concerns for her safety. Unfortunately, the relief she got from knowing cared were soon turned to nervous energy as Serena contributed to his thoughts. She soon found herself unsure about whether the plan was worth her or someone else potentially becoming brain dead.

"Considering that Dr. McCoy and the Professor are down, I don't think we have much hope in reprogramming Cerebro so that it wouldn't fry my mind. I mean how many people at this school are qualified to even touch its circuitry or understand its programming?" She sighed. "Sparky, If what Pyro said is true then having you ask Cerebro nicely to change its configurations or having you walking within it's 'cyberspace' would do anything besides for adding your name or my own to the casualty list."

She sat down and glanced to the floor. "What sucks is that as far as I know, the only person on this damn world that might have a chance to reconfigure Cerebro so I could use it without harming me might be Mr. Fantastic. Unfortunately, that is assuming that he and Professor X are friends and that he would help a bunch of kids out for free."

 

[kirinke]

Miranda blushed as soon as Pyro started to air his concerns for her safety. Unfortunately, the relief she got from knowing cared were soon turned to nervous energy as Serena contributed to his thoughts. She soon found herself unsure about whether the plan was worth her or someone else potentially becoming brain dead.

"Considering that Dr. McCoy and the Professor are down, I don't think we have much hope in reprogramming Cerebro so that it wouldn't fry my mind. I mean how many people at this school are qualified to even touch its circuitry or understand its programming?" She sighed. "Sparky, If what Pyro said is true then having you ask Cerebro nicely to change its configurations or having you walking within it's 'cyberspace' would do anything besides for adding your name or my own to the casualty list."

She sat down and glanced to the floor. "What sucks is that as far as I know, the only person on this damn world that might have a chance to reconfigure Cerebro so I could use it without harming me might be Mr. Fantastic. Unfortunately, that is assuming that he and Professor X are friends and that he would help a bunch of kids out for free."

Serena nodded reluctantly. "It was just a shot in the dark," she frowned at the mention of Mr. Fantastic. "Even if he and professor X aren't friends, I doubt very seriously he'd want an innocent kid to be forced into committing something evil. Maybe we can convince him to help us on that issue. I mean, he is a superhero right? They'd help because well, that's what they do. We could go to them and ask for help. They couldn't turn us away.... It'd make em look bad."

 

[Relique du Madde]

"We don't necessarily have to tell him our entire plan. If he asks, we could tell him that Quicksilver and Nightcrawler tried to kidnap a student last night and we wanted to see if he could set up a system to insure that if a student goes missing (or is abducted) we could easily find them." She grins. "I'm pretty sure that he will quickly get confirmation of our claim through Cyclops or SHIELD."

 

[Shayuri]

"Why don't we suggest getting help to the professors?" Astrid asks. "It's not like we could secretly get a whole other superteam in here and monkey around with Cerebro without them knowing about it anyway. And I bet Mr. Fantastic would be more likely to listen to Cyclops than some kids he's never heard of."

 

[kirinke]

"Alchemist, we're all afraid of things. This situation is scary for all of us. I can't imagine how it must be for you, since you're the obvious target." Serena said. "Come on. Stay here. It's a heck of alot safer than going on your own. Even if the kids here make your life difficult, it sure is better than being some slave of a supervillian wanting you to build the destructo gizmo of the week." she looked at the others. "Even if the other kids won't lift a finger to help you if they come again, we will, because well.... We'd want to be helped if we were in your shoes."

"Like I said before, going up against an unknown enemy with unknown reserves isn't smart, especially since we aren't prepared for it."

 

[Relique du Madde]

"I sort of figure that we would have to get Cyclops's permission if we start tinkering with Cerebro due to liability reasons. I mean, after all, the moment I put that helmet on I will end up risking my own life. If something were to go wrong..." Miranda's voice trailed off as she gazed towards the floor as her voice trailed off. If she used Cerebro and something went wrong, her fate would worse then brain death since she would be stuck in her ghost form the moment that she would loose consciousness.

 

[Caros]

Alchemist took a few long breaths as he settled before his work bench, pen still in his hand as he looked down at that last note he'd just finished writing. They made some very good points, he had to admit. He was almost ready to give before that last little bout from Miranda, a frown cast her way. "So my life is worth more than yours now? Cerebro, as I understand it is a death sentance, assuming you can even get it to work with your powers."

He glanced to the open section of floor, eyes narrowed for an instant as the wood healed over. "Its not fair for me to ask anything of you guys." He turned as he talked, facing his work bench now. "Its me.... no sorry, my power that they want." He laughed harshly as he worked. "Nothing has been about me in years."

Around his body, the other students could see him stripping down his cell phone, his transmutation breaking it down into component parts. From those he selected only small pair of pieces. While he might have seemed depressed, beaten a moment before, he was working with a smile on his face now, bits of metal and solder flowing over the table into the two circits.

His watch came off next, that too stripped and discarded, save for the tiny battery within. He leaned down, squinting at the back of it, before nodding. A bit of warping with his mutant power, and the now oval shaped battery sat in between the two circuts, connected by bits of solder. One final touch, a bubble of hardened plastic, and 'it' was complete, measuring just over the size of a trio of stacked quarters.

"I'm going to need a bit of help Xi'an." He said, somewhat cryptically before plucking a box-cutter from his table, tugging up his shirt and laying a single cut along the length of his side. To his credit he didn't cry out, at least until he forced that tiny new device into the wound.

Clamping his hand over it, he ground his teeth against one another, speaking rapidly in an attempt to keep some mental focus. "I'm bait. Tell the teachers to watch my GPS transmitter. When and if I leave New York, I'm going to be with my 'kidnapper'."

"And yes, before you ask, that hurt like hell. And no, before you ask, it was not sterile. Please bring a docter with you if it takes more than a day to find me."

[sblock=ooc edit]Just a heads up by the way, I appologize for not being able to update at a regular pace. I work rotation, week on, week off. So I can manage at most a post a day.[/sblock]