Project Daedalus (Issue #4)

[Calinon]

"Are you sure that Misha's not in charge?" she asks curiously, "its just, well, his scent is more uh, just more commanding, you know?" she asks, then blushes, that hadn't been a very human thing to say.

"That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day," Tyrone laughs.

"I aint one to bark orders or take things too seriously most of the time, and I don't got military trainin', but I do have some things I'm sure they wanted when they picked out a team leader. I'm the guy folks will recognize before we even get going, the press likes me, and I've been in charge of folks before when I worked for Vanguard. I'm guessin' that made up for any lack in military training.

"Or," he adds with a grin, "you just might not like my cologne."

"Hey, Aaron, remind me to get some pictures of you for the site later. Nearly 15 huh? One more year and you can drive!" he says. "I be a bar-b-que at Mama's would be just the thing for a good party setting," he ponders aloud. "Not to mention I have her workin' on a slammin' outfit for you."

 

[Tokiwong]

Misha moves away from the spotlight, glad to see the superstar flexing his “muscles”. He really didn’t care hat training Tyroc had, it was not his concern. He gave a good look over the youngest member but satisfied that he was taken care of, decided to focus his attention to the other young member. He knew a great deal about her, probably more then she realized as he gave her a cursory once over, in a look that lasted maybe a second, but read whole patterns of her psyche, physical tendencies, and abilities.

He took note of Jennifer’s look when Sara spoke, and realized that not all was as it seemed with the mentalist. There was nothing worse then a wild card, and one that could read our minds was the worst kind of wild card, he would make a note to watch her as he scanned the room, forcibly shielding his thoughts.

But back to the choice for leader, there were worst people to choose. So he could take solace in that, it was a simple matter to ignore his words, it wasn’t worth listening to at least to Misha anyways. But then it didn’t really matter he filled is role ready enough, and his ability to hog the scene should hopefully keep Misha out of the spotlight to get things done.

 

[Shalimar]

"I'm not saying your a bad choice or anything," Rachel rushes to reassure Tyrone, "just forget I said anything," she says, her cheeks pinking to match her reddish hair. When he brings up costumes, Rachel's face goes even redder if thats possible.

"Uh, where exactly do we get our uniforms or whatever, cause I have a problem, when I shapeshift, well, my inbetween, between me and wolf me, well, its 7 and a half feet tall and 290 lbs and all muscley, so I don't even come close to fitting in the same clothes, and my wolf form is just, well different, and these are the only clothes I have." she says, blushing heavily at having to tell everyone that she ended up naked very frequently, and would be even more so if she was gonna have to shift a lot.

"I would also like to know if there is anywhere to stay since it looks like at least a few of us need to go apartment hunting." she says, looking to Screaming Eagle and Winters, not really knowing who would be the person handling that stuff. She gets the sense that the team could certainly form a pack, but that there were too many Alphas for it to be an entirely friendly one.

 

[Calinon]

"I'm not saying your a bad choice or anything," Rachel rushes to reassure Tyrone, "just forget I said anything," she says, her cheeks pinking to match her reddish hair.

Tyrone chuckles. "You'd have to work a bit harder than that to hurt my feelings, so don't sweat it."

"Uh, where exactly do we get our uniforms or whatever, cause I have a problem, when I shapeshift, well, my inbetween, between me and wolf me, well, its 7 and a half feet tall and 290 lbs and all muscley, so I don't even come close to fitting in the same clothes, and my wolf form is just, well different, and these are the only clothes I have." she says, blushing heavily at having to tell everyone that she ended up naked very frequently, and would be even more so if she was gonna have to shift a lot.

Tyroc can't help but laugh a bit and shake his head. "I swear, half the elites I meet end up naked after a fight. I'd say the man upstairs likes me, but enough of the naked folks are men that I'm not so sure."

 

[Shalimar]

Rachel perks up a bit at the comment, "So its not just me then? Thats good, I wouldn't want to be the only one who's naked all the time, I mean, well, my body isn't bad looking, well at least I don't think so," she says looking over her shoulder and turning around trying to catch a look at her butt, much like a dog chasing its tail, turning quickly in place. "but It'd be really not cool to be the only only one naked so much since judging from you guys, were gonna be on the news a lot." she says, indicating American Freedom when she gives up.

 

[Hammerhead]

More than forgiven, she says with a smile towards Misha.

Still, Jennifer says, glancing towards Screaming Eagle. While I have no doubts young Aaron is competent, are we certain putting minors in constant harm's way is a sound policy?

As a side note, like Rachel here, the use of my powers involves leaving my garments behind. For media purposes, it would be best if we stayed in these forms until out of sight of the public. And Mr. Tyrone as well.

 

[Tokiwong]

Misha continues to listen, leaning against the wall, out of the way giving a nod to Jennifer when she smiles. He gives her a smile, and listens to see what Tyroc is going to say next, quite resigned to the fact that the black man had something to say about everything.

15 years old, and the kid is greener then a freaking new recruit, I don't like that one bit. It does not help that Tyroc encourages him, what an idiot. Oh well, its not my job, just keep these kids alive long enough to realize they are in the wrong career field.

His same boyish smile, and friendly look never leaves his face.

 

[Agamon]

Tyrone's Diplomacy check on Sarah: 21

Sarah's expression softens as Tyrone speaks to her. "Oh, good," she says with a teasing smirk, "just what I needed, to gain some weight."

"Don't worry, Rachel, this is not a school," Ms. Winters says. "Aaron will receive a tutor to work with him to help him acquire the necessary basic schooling, but if anyone else wishes to takes any classes of any sort, you'll need to do it on your own personal time."

"And let me just say," Jersey Devil adds, "you're not going to have a whole helluva lot personal time, trust me."

"As for uniforms, I'm sorry, there's no magical material that will stay on you regardless of whether you turn to air, snow or an 8-foot tall beast," Screaming Eagle says. "You will be issued uniforms based with your individual abilities in mind, however. And yes, it would be best if you took the prudent route and remain in a non-'naked human' form while in the public eye. Otherwise, you'll be dealing with a PR nightmare I personally wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot pole."

"Government policy, Miss Laroux," Winters replies sharply, "is best left to those that govern. I've come to know Aaron rather well during trip form Vancouver and I'm certain Aaron believes in himself, and in all of you. In the interest of team unity, it would be best that you do the same."

Much like Misha, Silvertip simply stands back, his huge, corded arms folded in front of him, watching the exchange and taking note of the current speaker or spoken to, seamingly judging reactions.

 

[Calinon]

Tyroc smiles, glad to see Sarah relax a little. "I dunno, looks like you aint been eatin' much... Hey, no personal time?" Tyroc says with disappointment. "Oh great, I'm gonna have to pull a Neutron and get trampled by a cow just so I have time to meet a girl," he says with mock distress.

"I doubt we'll have to worry much about nakedness honestly. We had to deal with that enough with Aaron and Max and Sam when we escaped from Biogen. I figure, keep some extra uniforms in whatever our ride is gonna be, carry a pack with a few in it when we're not gonna be near it, and things'll work out fine. Aaron can even create a change room if need be. And if it doesn't work out, well, we know how to keep our comments to ourselves after prancing around in hospital gowns with each other for months."

When Winters snaps at Jennifer, Tyrone says to her, "Hey, no need to snap, Angie. Questions are good, and it was a fair question. Besides, if I didn't know what Aaron was capable of, I'd have worried about his age too. Luckily," he says with a grin to Aaron, "I have and am just glad he's on our side."

 

[Shalimar]

Rachel looks rather relieved when Winters steps tells her its not gonna be like a school, she hated school while she was there, and it hated her, she never had done better then a B and even forcing down her animal nature for long enough to do that was torture. "Well thats good, I think, I just can't really pay attention for that long in such a small space, it just feels like I'm stuck in one of those bear trap thingies," she says, absently rubbing at her leg.

She starts a small circuit around the outside of the group, ostensibly to let off excess nervous energy, but really just to let her get close to her teammates, her new pack so that she could properly mark their scents, though she does pay particular attention to Devil and Silver-tip, its the Liason's scent that makes her wrinkle her nose, the woman just rubbed her the wrong way, she acted like she was pack leader when she wouldn't even be with the pack when the pack was stalking its prey, as far as she could tell, the woman was just there to handle paperwork, like a secretary.

She nods in agreement when Tyrone backs up Jen, while she didn't really agree with her, Jen was still suppoused to be a packmate, and wolves were suppoused to help and suppourt their packmates, Alpha's most of all. "I am 18," she tells Jen, as if it should be somehow evident, despite not appearing to be much older then 16. She smiles and shrugs at the Wintery elite, "We'll just all take care of each other, is all, then it wont matter how old anyone is since everyone else will be there to help. Thats what teammates are for." she says, mentally substituting the word team for pack.