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one. | Day 82 | Video
[ The video shows a very large, very blue eye blinking directly into it. Almost as soon as it appears, the camera pans out to show Julian's face, and then it seems to hover directly in front of him. His shoulders are down but the camera is directly in front, held by his telekinesis which also happens to be holding the gauntlet it's attached to. Julian walks along like this is completely normal. Once it reaches what he thinks is a reasonable distance, the Town Center with its fountain can be seen behind him.
His expression is a sardonic smirk, and his voice is a drawl. He doesn't sound panicked. ]
So, Cape Kore. My 'new home'. That's cute. What is this, like Survivor for mutants? I see the cameras. You guys aren't subtle, whoever you are.
[ The camera comes closer again, and something bright and metal taps the face of his watch. ]
Who's even on the other side of this thing? I'm fucking talking to myself, aren't I. What a joke...
[ He rolls his eyes, and for a moment looks like he's about to turn this off. Then he appears to think better of it. His face hardens, and his lips compress into a line. ]
Whatever. This is Hellion, I'm with the X-Men. If anyone's out there, sound off. I need to get off this ride, and one of you is gonna tell me how, right now, or I'm going to take every one of those little cameras and grind them to dust.
Start talking.
His expression is a sardonic smirk, and his voice is a drawl. He doesn't sound panicked. ]
So, Cape Kore. My 'new home'. That's cute. What is this, like Survivor for mutants? I see the cameras. You guys aren't subtle, whoever you are.
[ The camera comes closer again, and something bright and metal taps the face of his watch. ]
Who's even on the other side of this thing? I'm fucking talking to myself, aren't I. What a joke...
[ He rolls his eyes, and for a moment looks like he's about to turn this off. Then he appears to think better of it. His face hardens, and his lips compress into a line. ]
Whatever. This is Hellion, I'm with the X-Men. If anyone's out there, sound off. I need to get off this ride, and one of you is gonna tell me how, right now, or I'm going to take every one of those little cameras and grind them to dust.
Start talking.
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Hold up - who'll come get me? You don't even know me, and I don't know when you're even from.
[ But...that other thing she said. He needs to get her to stop. She's moving too fast. ]
Wait. Professor Xavier?
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[She rounds a house with a huge dog at her side. It pads after her, ears alert, tongue hanging out of its mouth. It leans against her legs when she stops.]
Once an X-Man, always an X-Man, and we stick together no matter what. S'up dude. As for when? That's.... [She thinks] Right after Nightcrawler's trip to hell.
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The reason why his camera was held at a weird angle is clear now - his arms stop at the elbows, and his forearms are metal gauntlets which float by his sides and are surrounded by a pale green light. One of them is hovering directly in front of his face, and the communicator is wrapped around its wrist. Now that she's here, both arms return to his sides and he looks surly.
At least, he does until she mentions Nightcrawler. For a moment, a shadow flashes across his face - and as quickly as it appears, he hides it. ]
Don't give me the togetherness spiel, okay? I've heard it before and I've been around enough to know better.
Not that you'd know that. It's been a while. The Jubilee I know...isn't like you. [ She was depowered. Then she died. And then she was undead, and that's how it is now. Seeing her like this - blood in her cheeks, her eyes their normal shade...it's weird. Disarming. As if to distract himself, he glances at her hound again and regains some of that distaste he'd been clinging to. ] What is that thing?
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Obviously you haven't been around enough if you don't believe it. Because let me tell you, it's gotten me through some shit.
[She cocks her head to the side.]
Well, then she sucks, because I'm awesome. Totally awesome and better than... well, everyone.
[Her hand drops and rubs the ears of the dog who just plops on its butt and leans into her scritching. It perks up and yips in greeting as a second one comes trotting up with something bloody in its mouth.]
Jeckle if you drop that on me -
[There's a soft pop and Jubilee straightens her knees, forcing herself to stay upright. The dog stops, sitting, still holding the... thing.]
Ew. Just... Go eat it. Ew. I'm not Logan, okay? Go! Heckle, take your bro.
[She nudges the dog at her side and it barks, chasing after the other one. Jubilee wrinkles her nose.]
They're direwolves. Logan had 'em. They adopted me.
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Wolverine isn't exactly his favorite person. He's higher on the list than most people, though. ]
Wolverine is here? Where? He'll know who I am.
[ He's still not over the weirdness of how nice she's being. ]
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[Her voice drops cold, because she does not want to talk about it. She wants to go back and curl up in the house, where his smell still lingers and leave herself there.]
He... disappeared after the woods got burnt.
[And she's not going to admit that her powers are burnt out.]
And this isn't Mojo's doing either. Too low-tech, too low-key, and too many universes.
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Mojo? Seriously? [ Eyeing her. ] I wasn’t thinking him. The Professor said experiments, they were doing experiments. And you said Wolverine.
[ So he lifts his eyebrows at her. ] Weapon X? Osborn’s crew? Hell, maybe the Leper Queen, cause I didn’t have enough fun with that last time. [ And then he realizes what she said, and hesitates. Because despite making the connection, this doesn’t seem like Weapon X to him. It’s a city, not an institution. ] Who burnt the woods?
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[Much to her disgust. She'd take Sabes right now.]
You meet Metal Head yet? He's wandering around too. Way too young to be ours, but he's working on the attitude.
[She glances at the woods.]
Dunno. Escape attempt happened, they burnt the woods as part of the distraction. I was busy elsewhere.
[Burning out her powers.]
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[ He eyes her. The last time he'd seen Magneto was on Utopia. It had been a while, and they hadn't exactly been friendly. His face hardens.
I should've known.
Look, what about the others? Cyclops, Frost? Who the hell is in charge here, you? [ Please say no. ] Is that why you came for me?
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[She doesn't trust him much, but he had offered to cook for her, so there was that.
Her eyebrows go up. Last she knew, Magneto was dead or something on Genosha, not out trying to take over the world again. Maybe things change in the future.]
Nope. I wouldn't be if they paid me. I like alternate universe adventures and all, but I prefer mine with Elwood and headless T-Rex's. As for X-Men? There's you. And there's me.
The Prof and Mags that are here? Weirdorama. Their O5 includes Banshee and Mystique of all people. Oh, and Alex, and dude, just no. And they gave Frost to the CIA. Totally weird. So, you wanna come back to my place for a beer, or you wanna stand around here gabbing about how neither of us is in Kansas anymore?
[Headache. She hates having to revive her damned powers.]
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He eyes her, not totally trusting her. ]
You don't even like me. You know that, right? At home, we're not friends. I don't know what the hell we are.
[ She's a vampire, he's the student no one wants. She's the only one here from his world and she has no idea about any of that.
Alec had told him he wouldn't find people here that he knew. He'd brushed that off, but now he's thinking again. ]
I don't know where else to go. I'll come with you.
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[She turns and heads toward her place, leaving him at her back. It's a show of trust that not everyone would get. She hopes he picks up on it.
The two wolves are waiting for them at the door. At least they didn't take the carcass in the house. She shakes her head and bumps open the door. They boil into the house and jump on the couch, finding their usual spots.
She opens the fridge and pulls out a pair of beers, and puts one on the kitchen table, sliding into the seat with a heavy sigh and takes a sip from her beer.]
Have a seat, TK boy. We're stuck here, we might as well be semi civil.
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He puts that out of his mind when the wolves appear. He's all kinds of unsure about them, and he gives them a wide berth as he follows her inside. It's weird, being here with her, but he does sit. He doesn't know what to say. He has no idea how to talk to her. He feels defensive, caged somehow. Like he always does when he's around people he thinks are judging him.
Even when they're not. His hands are kept in his pockets. ]
I'm being civil. [ Sulky, but civil. And then after a few moments: ] Some kid with a bad attitude said there was a barrier all around this place. That true? And if it is, why the hell hasn't Magneto broken through it?
If the guy who's here is really him.
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[It's tired and frustrated.]
Firstly, the Mags here? Isn't as well versed in his powers as ours. I mean, I don't think this one's going to be threatening to stop the world on its axis anytime soon, or ripping... anyway, he's young. Like... just post World War Two young. Meaning, he hasn't gone through anything and learned his powers as well. Plus, I just don't think they're that strong yet. You know, or should, that mutants grow into powers, and he hasn't done that yet.
[She sips her beer.]
Secondly, we used an accelerated nuclear explosion on the damned thing and all it did was rip it open for a moment and then collapse on us. It's not that simple.
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Despite that… ]
So he wasn’t lying, then. The bratty kid. Well, that’s just great.
[ He glances around. ]
How come you live here? Do we all get a house or is this some kind of scavenger hunt? I don’t like…throwing questions at you.
[ He eyes her. The fact that she’s the closest thing to someone he trusts in this place does not make this any better. But she is, so he has to deal with that. She’s still an X-Man, a mutant, and that still means something to him – even if it doesn’t mean as much as it once did. ]
I don’t know who else to ask. Talking to the Professor is weird.
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Which bratty kid?
[She feels the need to ask that, since there's a few of them here.]
When I arrived, Logan lived here with the pups. I moved in because he went overprotective again, and now that he's gone, I'm staying. Need someone who knows how to cook and it'll be cool.
[Because she can't cook. Ugh. She's mastered the art of dialing up Dominos though.]
As for the houses, they were here before we showed up, from what I understand. I don't have all the answers, but I've been laying low lately.
Dude, ask. You'd be getting the fifth degree from me. S'only fair.
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He leans back, drinking beer. It's really fucking weird to him that he's wishing Wolverine were here. Much as he hates to admit it, he doesn't know what to do, and he wants to get home.
The second part of that looks impossible, and he can't even kick some supervillain's ass to make it happen. ]
So...what do you do here? There's no one showing themselves to fight, you're living alone? What do I need to know?
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[She's not joking.]
Right now, we're all about survival. If you can swing a hammer, or know how to cook, people need those skills. Then, there's the hunting group, so if you know how to do that, volunteer there.
Be careful in the woods. There's weapons emplacements, robo-bears, tigers, and a few other nasties in there that would take down pretty much anyone. If you destroy enough of the equipment, they will knock you cold and replace it.
I break the camera in the bathroom on a daily basis.
I live here with the pups, and that's it. Unfortunately, Dominos doesn't deliver and there isn't a sushi bar in like a hundred miles or so.
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[ At least it's not blood. God, it's weird to think of her eating normal food. He's so used to vampire Jubilee that the original model is unusual. ]
I'm not scared of robots. Unless they're sentinels, they can kiss my ass. [ Bravado, mostly. He lost his hands to a sentinel. He'd destroyed Omega Sentinel, and he'd refused to fight with another sentinel came to Utopia. It's fair to say he has issues. ] Geez, this is like Utopia all over again. Self-sustaining. I'll talk to the hunters, I guess.
[ A pause, thoughtful. He's wrestling with this, but in the end he decides to just ask, because the worst she can say is no. ]
Can I stay here?
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[Latkes. She wants them. Right now.
She cocks her head to the side.]
Don't see why not. If you can put up with the pups, then you're welcome. I'm not sure if anyone else will end up here, but mutants stick together.
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[ Which is all nice and cozy. He doesn't know if there's a story there, if she's awkward with them or if they're awkward with her. They can't be if Magneto is offering to teach her.
But whatever. He knows her, and she's the only one he knows, and even if they've never been friends, he trusts her enough that he thinks she won't betray him right away. That's more than he can say for anyone else. ]
Thanks.
I lived alone for a while. I can cook stuff well enough that we won't starve. [ Though probably not much more than that. He didn't live anywhere pleasant. ]
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[Jubilee isn't ashamed of that. Not at all.]
They're... not ours. The Prof isn't sure what to think of me, and I'm pretty sure I pissed off Mags by making a joke.
[She shrugs.]
I'm actually pretty okay with them being elsewhere. We don't see eye to eye on more than a few things.
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Then again, so does Julian. ]
Yeah? What kind of things? If I shouldn't trust them, I'd like to know why.
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[She taps her temple.]
I let the Prof in to root around a bit, and he's not nearly as nosy as our Prof. He only took what I gave him and didn't go looking for more.
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And maybe Xavier's not as good as our guy. He's a hell of a lot younger. Less experienced.
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