MutantHigh Episode1: dawn of the future

[KitanaVorr]

December.2003-January.2004
Boston

Katie does some digging to find out more about this "Dr. Luka Garcia"...mostly because no one (other than her parents) could understand why she would leave Boston and one of the most prestigious universities in the world to head off to Costa Rica and work at, of all things...a college...instead of becoming a full university professor at Harvard.

What could she say? That she was going to learn more about her own self, to be herself...to find out about the powers that no one knew about other than her parents? Of course not, but then her explanation sounded weak to the others. To them she was committing academic suicide.

To spend time having fun in the sun, to enjoy life, learn how to surf, and get paid while doing it...that was her explanation. Though until she knew more about what Dr. Garcia did, she wouldn't know how to explain her keen interest in working with this person.

 

[Radiant]

December.2003-January.2004
Boston
Kathi finds a biography of Dr.Garcia easy enough. She is a widely known expert in physics and biology. There is a lot of info about her prior work and education but after some doublecheks you realize it is all a fake. It takes a lot of work since someone did an excellent job then this past was created and all the obvious data matches but as soon as you dig to deeper things like photos from later class meetings or try to find if the women had actually rented a flat in the cities she worked in you see through the deception.
The only hard facts that remain is that obviously the women appeared on Isla Verde in Costa Rica (both the name of the town and the island it is located on) a little over a year ago and began work at the local university. In that time she published a book about the biology and physics of the delta factor which is rapidly becoming the most respected work in that field so far. Appearently she also owns a lot of real estate in the town and is building a support institute for gifted students called Heaven that will work closely with the San Graciano college and the university. There is something about a big inheritance to pay it all but like the rest of the biography it’s obviously a fake. To Kathi it's clear that over a year ago neither Dr.Garcia nor her resources existed.

 

[Radiant]

January.11.2004
New York City
23:07
Eris kick misses but her strike hits the other cop right in the cuts and he falls to his knees. The one farthest from her is hit by another of Patriots flamelances and falls to the ground two yards from there he stood. Patriot calls after Rot Grub and sounds more than a bit annoyed.
"Hey boy, we're here to help you and we realy need to get in that car before more A-Suits arrive."
The last standing policemen who had dodged Eris kick takes a quick step back and then turns to run.

 

[Shalimar]

January.11.2004
New York City
23:07

"Do what the man says, I really don't want to get caught for hitting a cop, not to mention the whole Delta thing." She calls over her shoulder as she does a forward sommersault over the car, ending up by the door she had exited less then half a minute ago. She gestures Rot Grub towards th car impatiently with an impudent little grin, "I wont bite, well, not unless you want me to." she says winking at him, trying to ease his fears, lord knows I would be scared in his position, come to think of it, I am in his position, she thought as she climbed back into the passenger seat the door slamming shut behind her.

 

[Tokiwong]

For a while, Clair was silent, letting the bus driver rattle on as he listened to his music, about to respond to the driver though, Clair saw the jet, and his jaw literally dropped.

Speechless, he managed to regain enough perception to look to see how Joey was faring, "That's not for us...is it?" Clair looks again to the jet, "Whoa..."

Joey looks maybe it is, "Looks pretty cool to me..." he says with a soft grin.

 

[Blockader7]

With some reluctance, because he really has no idea who these people are, her gets in in a hurry.

He also puts his gloves back on.

"Thanks, and I don't mean any disrespect, but who are you?"

Takes a look at Eris and thinks,

Wow, she's absolutely gorg- hold on a minute. You know you've got to be more careful than that. You can't let anybody touch you, or else they'd probably wind up dead.

"And, where are we going? You'll forgive me if I don't shake hands. I can't stand touching people. Or being touched."

 

[Shalimar]

January.11.2004
New York City
23:07

"Well, I'm Eris, and this is Patriot. I'm a mutant too, so you really don't have to be afraid of me, I really don't want you to be either, so lets just agree to be friends." the girl said trying to reassure him, though she was sure she would be panicing herself if Patriot wasn't here.

"Well Patriot knows where we are going, but from what I understand, he's taking us to a school, one where we can be just as safe from the government as normal people."

 

[Blockader7]

"I hope so. But first we've got to get past the cops and those suits. No doubt all of them are looking for us."

"Friends? Sure. Why not."

Taking a deep breath he puts his hands on his cross that lies underneath his shirt out of view of others. For the last few months it was his sole source of comfort. Now, it is a matter of cautious optimism to what the short term future brings his way.

And further down the road... who knows what lies there.

However, one must never dwell on the future at the expense of the moment, especially when there's a problem to deal with. The immediate problem of getting through the police.

A mystery school though was not forseen by his father. His father wanted him to follow in his footseps, to run the church that had been in their family for two generation. That was not to be.

While on the road he wrote to father whenever he could to let him know he was all right. A postcard here and there. Not enough to to let him know where he was, just enough to let him know he was all right.

He could just hear his father's voice guiding him along this new path. "It's not the path I would have you travel on son, but it's what He has in store for you so I can only be your guide. Perhaps our family has done more than enough here and it's time to travel onward, and make of it what you will by God's good graces."

I miss you dad. I don't understand what's happening yet, but someday the answers will come.

 

[Radiant]

January.11.2004
New York City
23:08
Patriot hits the gas and heads out of the city. He drives fast but not fast enough to attract attention while they are still in the city.
"Your Michael Lee right?"

 

[Radiant]

January.12.2004
Los Angeles/California
11:34
the driver waits with the doors opened and mumbles something like "this can't be right."
Once (if) you enter the plane you see a compartment that is big enough for about ten people but there are only four seats on the sides, facing each other. There are also a lot of advanced looking controls, parachutes hanging from the ceiling and other stuff like that. Apart from the stairs leading in there is another door in the front, leading to the cockpit. The door block the view to the front but is not completly closed. A pleasant computermudulated voice sounds from the speakers.
"Welcome on the flight to Costa Rica, please take a seat."