001 [Video]
[There’s a crackling buzz of white noise and the screen burns white. The microphone picks up the sound of someone cursing, and the device is given a quick, forceful shake. The screen flickers and comes into focus, displaying a close-up of a pale face decorated with piercing blue eyes and an extremely irritated expression.]
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Not much. There's a lotta people here from all sorts of worlds. Some don't speak English bu' somethin' 'bout the place translates it, so ya understand. Them two companies pretty much run the place an' there are people like us, Newcomers, tha' side with them, an' some that don't.
Gettin' inta the Core'd be jus' 'bout impossible righ' now.
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[He leans back against the window] What are you making?
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[He doesn't even turn.]
Jus' chicken an' dumplin's with vegetables, should be ready in about ninety minutes.
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[Which he's definitely not thinking about going out to investigate. Nope. No way, that'd be dangerous. Xavier told him not to, and he's great at doing what he's told. ... ... ...]
It...that smells good, I didn't know you could cook. [Sounding surprised]
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[a soft snort.]
My father taught me. Don' worry, ya ain't gonna get poisoned or nothin'.
[Smiiiiirk.]
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[He comes away from the window and goes to stand beside Kevin]
...are any of the others here? Cess, Sooraya, Laura? Anyone else...our age, I guess? [He's fairly sure they'd have answered his video message thing, if they were here. Unless for some reason they couldn't, but...he still has to check.]
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Best I done got was Dr. Xavier. That's it. No one else answered. I even done been out lookin' fer 'em, jus' in case.
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...Okay no. Freak about that later when you're sure there really isn't a way back. Works on...keeping his face calm]
All right. That's...fine, so we're on our own. We'll be cool.
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Miz Frost'd be right disappointed in us if'n we weren't. We're her Hellions after all.
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[Julian cuts himself off before he can finish that sentence, which was about to involve a fair number of expletives. His eyes flash with green energy and he turns away, trying to not...lose his temper, God that's always a losing mission. KEVIN DOESN'T KNOW. Calm the hell down.]
Yeah. You're right. We're the Hellions. [Not HERS. But still the Hellions, fine. He can do that. He can pretend to that, anyway, he still misses the squad. He makes himself grin] Two Hellions against a whole City, think we can handle it?
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I ain't never seen nothin' we couldn't. This place ain't no different an' we ain't gotta follow no rules, neither. Do what we want, when we want, an' they don't even care that we's mutants. Means we c'n have even more fun.
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They don't care we're mutants? Is that cause this...Core...whatever it is, pretty much pulls in metahumans anyway? It's a weird thought, so many people with powers in the one place. Usually if that happens it means something bad's going down.
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It ain't just people with powers. I done read their little welcome pamphlet an' apparently if'n ya didn't show up with powers, ya could end up with 'em anyway. Not sure exactly how it works, but even some o' the natives have powers here.
[A shrug as he covers the pot. He's got other things on the counter, but it isn't time yet.]
Meanin' we c'n blend in an' not be the outcasts.
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Not being outcasts, that'd...make a nice change, I guess. What about the natives, though? Can't imagine a bunch of baselines being happy about all these metahumans dropping out of the sky. You met any of them?
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That's m'point, Julian. Some o' the natives have powers. I been readin' through the feed an' seen more'n a few mentions of native kids poppin' up with powers an' some o' them are even weirder than back home.
Only met a couple at the garage where I work. Ain't nothin' too fantastic, but they understand 'bout powers an' thin's gettin' outta control.
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