Team: TITAN, Class of 2004

[Karl Green]

Team TITAN Campus, 10:52am, Oct 30th 2004,

Nightwing, dressed in gray causal clothing and black sweater and Red Tornado (dressed similarly and wearing a hat, although his red skin still sticks out like a sore thumb) come out of the Administration building. Nightwing speaks loud enough for the milling teens to hear him "Ok people, pile into the vans. Lets not have more then ten students in any one ok? John (patting Red Tornado on the back) and myself will be driving. We are going to the Gedde Museum of Natural History and Science first. We will be there maybe an hour, just want to show you some of good things about the city and states. As we don't want to spend all day there, I am going to ask you to stick together then. After that we will be hit the mall, and then we are going to let you run loose for the next three hours... please try and keep the damage to a minimum level. Oh yea just as a side note, you Amix cards are a bit more advanced that you might guess, they will act as communicators within a mile or so of each other, so when it is time to leave the mall I will be calling you all."

Before anyone starts moving towards them, Impulse is sitting in the front seat of the first van (the one Nightwing is planning on driving) "Shotgun..." he says with a smile.

 

[Elfy]

Wonder Girl

After Nightwing makes his announcement, Cassie says to Kitty, whom she was still conversing with when the announcement happened, "Well. I guess it’s that time," and then to the other nearby girls, "Come on girls; let’s go shopping." She smiles cheerfully and then turns and goes to whichever van seems be drawing in the least annoying boys. She enters the chosen van, going into the back seating, and sits down so that there is enough room for one of the other girls to sit between her and that side’s row window.

She relaxes, sinking back into the seating, and puts her arm up over and across the top of the back of the seat. She sits there, waiting patiently for the group to settle in and to get under way.

 

[Gideon]

Garfield

Looking at Cassie and hearing the more references to girls Beast Boy just shakes his head. Did her horoscope say this morning 'Hate boys' or something, jeez. "Well, I can't sit in the same van as big red there, it'll look like a christmas parade." Garfield says over to Tara smiling. He gives her the arm wave that universally means 'come on' and heads over to Nightwings van.

 

[Super Girl]

Kitty follows Cassie into the van, taking the window seat. She studies the credit card curiously, looking for what made it different then normal ones. She even brought her nose to it, sniffing at it. Finally she puts it away and looks out the window towards the other van to see who was getting in that one. She wasn't sure who she wanted in her van, she hadn't even met all of the students yet.

"Uh...I kinda guess I can understand why the amazons need to live along time, but uh...are they like the stories about amazons, do they all hate men and just kidnap them for..you know..." she asks Cassie, her cheeks going pink.

 

[Nuke261]

Hawk

Hank walked over to join the others and noticed Cassandra looking a little battered and bruised. "Geeze! I'd hate to see the other guy. C'mon, I want to get some good seats for the ride." He motioned for Don to follow as he made his way to Nightwing. He took his new credit card and rolled his eyes at the description of the museum.

"Hey Don," he whispered to his brother. "Natural history, is that like dinosaurs and indians or is it all science stuff?"

He followed the crowd out to the vans and climbed into one behind Garfield. "Hey salad head, you mind if I grab the back seat?" He looked around for Risk and Cyborg, as he got into the van.

 

[Elfy]

Wonder Girl

Cassie watches the frisky-tailed catgirl as she sits down beside her, her arm still resting atop the back of the seat that Kitty settles into, and then leans close to Kitty to trade whispers with her, "Is my arm bothering you? Hmmm?" She giggles slightly and whispers, "Oooooh. That." She smiles and continues to trade whispers with Kitty, "Welllll. I don’t know the exact details, but...Themyscira is an island hidden away by magical mists of concealment. Males are forbidden to set foot on the island and are met with hostile arms if they somehow make it through the mists. Amazon law is pretty strict."

She pauses a moment to let her words settle in and then continues whispering with Kitty, "The Amazons are proud warriors, and, in the distant past, they didn’t hate men, but...they were betrayed and enslaved by their male allies. They suffered many hardships at the hands of their capturers. I’m sure you can imagine. They eventually managed to escape their enslavement, slaying many of their enslavers as they did, and then they left to claim their own island. Themyscira. I believe the sea god Poseidon cleared a path from Greece all the way through to Themyscira by parting a path though the ocean and guiding them there. The magical mists are maintained by the Greek Gods. With the exception of Diana, all of the Amazons living on Themyscira are from back then. Diana is the only child to have been born on Themyscira since the Amazon’s claimed it centuries ago. I’m not sure of the circumstances. That’s all I know of their history."

She again pauses a moment to let things settle in, and then continues whispering with Kitty while watching her reaction, "I’m sure it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out that romantic girl-girl relationships are the norm there."

 

[Super Girl]

Cat's Eye

Kitty shrugs, Cassie's arm behind her back didn't bother her, to animals touch is part of building relationships of all kinds, even with humans. Even solitary animals crave touch, simple closeness is comforting to most animals, and so it was with Kitty as well, sort of a securrity blanket. "No no, its fine Cassie." she says leaning back in the seat, her head turned so that she can watch Cassie as the other girl tells her about the Amazons.

"Thats horrible, I can see why they wouldn't want any men on their island. I can't believe that Diana is soo old, she doesn't even look as old as my mom." the cat-girl says wide-eyed. When the amazon girl talks about the saphic romances on the island, Kitty only shrugged, she wasn't weirded out or anything, it wasn't any big deal to her either way. "I guess that makes sense, I don't think there is anything wrong with it or anything." she replied honestly wondering why he other girl had brought it up. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but Kitty couldn't help but wonder what exactly Cassie had done while she was on the island.

 

[hero4hire]

Arsenal; The Residency 10:54 am

Roy was still tucking his shirt in as he ran through the halls of the residency. He wasn't sure where they were supposed to meet, but he figured out front would be the first place to check than the cafeteria. Nightwing did say 11 didn't he? Roy thought to himself as he rounded the corner.

OOC: I am going to leave it up to you if Roy 'just makes it' or 'just misses' the van and I will play off from there.

 

[Elfy]

Wonder Girl

Feeling that her impromptu retelling of Amazonian history has sufficiently sated the group’s inquisitive new member’s curiosity for the moment, Cassie smiles and shifts back over more into her own seat, leaving her arm where it lies resting over the back of Kitty’s seat since its presence there doesn’t seem to be bothering the catgirl any, and looks forward. She sits there casually as she waits for the group to get situated and for the two vans full of eager mall shoppers to get underway. She wasn’t particularly looking forward to the Museum tour, but she really hadn’t anything better to do either, and it was the only way to get to go to the mall and do some shopping without breaking the campus confinement directive that Nightwing issued shortly after the group’s arrival to the campus - at least for the first week until the ban is lifted.

Unlike her archaeologist mother, she wasn’t particularly interested in the relics of the past. After all, the Themyscira Amazons had actually been alive back then in ancient Greece and had even made some of the recovered ancient Greek relics that are displayed in some of the world’s major museums. Looking at such antiquities simply couldn’t compare to actually being able to spend time with people that had actually been alive back then and listening to their first hand recollections of that long past era. She found that she particularly enjoyed the tales of the battles that the Amazon’s had partaken in and the tales of Grecian mythology, much of which actually did happen even though the tales have become distorted though the passing centuries. She enjoyed learning the Amazonian ways as much as she did listening to tales of the past, and it has changed her outlook in many ways.

She looks over to Kitty with a cheerful expression evident on her face for a moment while thinking.oO("I wonder what is it about Kitty that I like so much. I mean...I only just met her a little while ago and already I really like her; it’s so pleasant to be near her. I guess she just has a really likeable nature.") She chucks briefly as she continues thinking.oO("It's funny; Tara and Kitty are opposite poles of a charisma magnet - Tara pushes people away from her and Kitty pulls people towards her,") and then she looks forward again.

 

[Karl Green]

Team TITAN Campus, 10:52am, Oct 30th 2004, in front of Administration

As the vans fill up (looking like boys with Nightwing and the girls with Red Tornado), Nightwing starts up the vehicle when he notices that Arsenal is not there yet. He gets out and heads over to the Residency building. Just as he is opening the front down, just as Roy is rushing downstairs.

"Did we wake you?" Nightwing says with a slight smile. "Well here's your Amix, come on we need to get going"

Once again, everyone all loaded up, the vans pull out of the TITAN campus and head into the downtown of Central City. Within 20 minutes, the vans pull up in from of a very large building that takes up almost two city blocks. It is five blocks at its highest with two large marble lions flanking the entrance. The students pile out of the vans and Nightwing and Red Tornado direct them up to the main doors. An older man, dressed in a gray business suit greets them at the door.

"Welcome, welcome ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dr. Michael Thomas, and I am the current director here of the Museum of Natural History and Science and your guide today. We are very honored to host you all here today, let me assure you. Now first off, we have the bones of a Tyrannosaur Rex recovered from Gato Grande hills to the east of town.

"Today I thought we would to the Native American and early Settlers and look over some of the attractions and displays that we have there. It also includes the new Myths and Legends of Early America branch that we open just last week.

"Now are there any questions?"