Author-Turlock God of Insanity and Procrastination
Title- [II] Generation X (#4/?)
Email-turlock@subreality.com
"Words" talking
Words telepathy
# Words # thoughts
/Words/ Signing
_Emphasis_ or Italics
-Sound description-
+ Unnatural voice + computer
*Concept* like what they feel (sensory) or emotions in thought or telepathy
= Voice that surrounds = godtalk nontelepathic voice from everywhere
~ Words ~ nontelepathic thought transference
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(4/1/2000)
[Mass Acad: Jasons room: Early morning]
-Crash-
Monet opened her eyes and smiled a little as Jason buried his face in her hair as he squeezed up to her. Then she looked over and saw that she had gotten the lamps power cord tangled in her hand and pulled it over. With a slight telepathic nudge to stay asleep she floated up out from his arms and reached over righting the lamp. Then she noticed a polaroid picture laying facedown where the lamp had been. Curious she picked it up and looked at it. The picture was of a couple holding a newborn baby. It read, [Jack, Dani and Jason, 8 months] She smiled but wondered why he would hide the picture but then she noticed something.
[Later]
Jason woke up and looked around for Monet but couldnt find her. He got a uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach and noticed his lamp was almost all the way across from where it had been. When he jumped up and looked on the table he saw the picture laying face up, in a different position.
"Oh shit"
[Monets room: Later]
Jason knocked on her door quietly.
"Monet... are you in there?... we need to talk"
Monet stared at the door and opened her mind to the newly formed and fragile rapport with Jason and felt his fear, pain and a myriad of conflicting emotions.
"Its unlocked"
Jason opened the door and stood just inside gazing at her.
"... I didnt want you to find out like this"
"I'm not sure what I found out"
"That was my parents, they were in Friends of Humanity"
".... _were_?"
"Three days after that picture was taken they were killed"
"... I'm sorry"
Jason sat down at her desk and stared at the floor.
"My aunt and uncle raised me after that... my uncle is pretty high up in the ranks of Friends of Humanity... when I manifested... I grew up in a house where mutants were hated and guns and explosives were everywhere, I freaked... I almost commited suicide, but ran to the underground instead"
"... I dont know what to say"
"Its alright, I've had two years to deal with it"
"I'm sorry about leaving earlier... I was just shocked"
"I should have told you earlier"
"Maybe but it must have been hard to find a way to bring it up"
"I guess... but its _you_"
Monet smiled at him and then an awkward silence fell over them as the other issue moved up in importance.
"... um... last night..."
"Was wonderful"
Jason grined and sat up.
"So, what do you want to do tonight?"
"-chuckle- I have no doubt you will think of something"
[Yvettes room]
Yvette yawned and sleepily opened her eyes and found Clarice with her head proped up on her arm smiling over at her.
"Morning, Clarbear"
"Morning"
"-Yawn- How long have you been staring at me?"
"I dont know"
Clarice reached over and moved some stray hair from Yvettes face and caressed her cheek before kissing her. Yvette slides across the bed right up next to Clarice and smiles as she snuggles up to her.
Clarice put her arms around her and leaned her head onto of hers "its almost time to get up and eat"
Yvette giggled and trailed kisses from her shoulder to her neck "how long do we have?"
[Kitchen: Later]
Darmax sits down and smiles as he detects a distinct scent in the air, and he chuckles to himself as he quickly detects who.
#The St Croix clan faired well last night#
Jubilee sat drinking her chocolate milk and bouncing around with nervous energy. As the rest of the students finished their breakfast they went back to bed or to the rec room, they had the week off schoolwork while Bobby went to see his dad in the hospital. Jubilee knew that Bobby and his father had gotten closer lately and when he had had the heart attack Bobby had gotten packed in less than a minute. She was also nervously waiting for Wolverine, he had called last night and said he would be coming today.
[Rec room: Later]
Artie and Leech crashed down on the couch and sighed exhausted as Darmax sat down in the chair next to them smiling.
"You both did exceptionally well today"
They both smiled at him and settled into the couch to watch TV. Darmax had taken the duty of instructing them in self defense and survival skills. Emma had reluctantly admited that they had been lax in that department and since the children had come to respect him as a friend he was a perfect choice for their teacher. Darmax sat up and his ears twitched as he heard the newly familiar sound of a cumbusion engine make its way towards the school.
[Kitchen]
Jubilee ran up to Wolverine and hugged him.
"Hey darlin"
"Wolvie you sounded wierd on the phone... whats up?"
"Kinda need yer help with something"
"Whoa really?!"
"-chuckle- If I needed a sidekick I'd come ta ya first but this is a solo gig, I need ya ta keep an eye on someone for me"
"... huh?"
"Kid about yer age, cant leave em at the mansion, gets all edgy around the rest of em"
"You want me to babysit?!"
"Now you just settle down, yer the only person I trust ta keep an eye on him... the kids had it real rough"
".... -groan- ok, so where is he?"
"Still in the jeep"
[Later]
Jubilee had felt a lot of jealousy when Wolverine had brought Thomas but now that she saw him it almost completely left. One look in his cat eyes and she could see how terrified he was, and the way he flinched everytime anyone other than Wolverine moved towards him made her wonder what he had been through.
"Kid, I'll be back in a minute... dont worry yer safe with Jubilee here"
Wolverine got up and left the kitchen apparently to use the restroom, the danger room was down the same way but Jubilee doubted he would have a quick training exercise.
"Um, so Tommy, you want something to drink?"
Thomas nodded yes so Jubilee got up and got two cokes out of the fridge. After taking a sip of the coke Thomas sits there silently on edge.
"You dont have to be all nervous and stuff, I'm not gonna bite ya"
Thomas smiles and relaxes, slightly.
"You dont say much do you?"
Thomas pointed to his throat and shook his head, no.
"... I'm sorry, I didnt know, boy do I feel like an idiot"
Thomas squinted his eyes and seemed to concentrate then she 'heard' his strained telepathic voice.
... didnt know...
"Oh... ok... if you dont mind me asking, did you lose your voice when you manifested?"
...no... never been able to talk...
"... Oh... um... so"
[Elsewhere, close]
+Mutagenic signatures detected... Visual identification complete... Gene scan... complete... Numerous mutagenic signatures detected... Probability of mission completion, low... Activating recruitment mode+
(4/2/2000)
[Mass Acad: Rec room]
Thomas sat down quietly and began eating his cereal when Artie and Leech sit down across from him. Leech watched as they signed to each other.
/Do you want to come to the biosphere later and do something?/
/I guess/
[Biosphere]
Jason shot through the air in his dust form as Monet just barely flew ahead of him. Monet looked back at him smiling as they flew around at high speed. Monet dropped down skimming over the water as Jason followed but got slowed down by the mist in Monets trail, suddenly he hit the water in a splash. Monet began to giggle but then she 'felt' his fear.
Jason?!
... Monet... somethings... wrong...
Monet floated above the water as it began arching up at her.
"Jason?"
"Monet... I'm water... how?"
[Med Bay]
Emma looks over the readouts and turns to the liquid looking dust form of Jason.
"Your dust form is unharmed and unchanged, it seems youve merged with some of the water"
"Merged?"
"Your molecular structure of your dust particles have attached themselves to the water molecules... I believe you should be able to 'let go' of the water"
Jason focused his vison on Monet and 'felt' she knew he was and she looked over at him reassuringly. Slowly he calmed himself and focused on his dust self, first he tried to compress himself to let the water go but he couldnt. Then he imagined his dust particles as surrounding the water molecules, and for some reason the image seemed to stick and he couldnt change it. He willed the particles to release the water and Monet and Emma watched as the water fell down leaving Jasons dust form floating. Jason quickly blinked to flesh form and grinned.
"It worked"
"Yes, and I think you should begin training on this ability immediately"
[Elsewhere]
Three figures walk to the edge of the trees and peer towards a building.
+Units Beta and Gamma, apply tactical plan 30 Pi Delta+
[Biosphere]
Jubilee and Paige enter the biosphere and grinned as they saw two extra paintball guns. Elsewhere Artie and Thomas make their way through the trees hunting down Leech and Darmax.
[Rec room]
Everett sits watching TV while Yvette sits in Clarices lap leaning against her.
[Jonos room]
Jono lays on his bed studying for an exam.
[Ms Frosts office]
Emma opens some folders and looks over the various reports from her financial holdings.
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Jubilee ducks and rolls under a table as the energy blast narrowly misses her. Thomas puts his hand on Jubilees shoulder, nodding he vaulted over the table and charged the figure. Jubilee groans and reaches down to her side and pulls up her hand covered in blood.
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Jono fires a bioblast at the figure sending it crashing into the wall. Sparks fly from the cyborg looking figure and it slumps over. Jono looks around and reaches out with his telepathy searching for the others.
#... Mmax *pain* my rib hurts dontleanupandkisshim,dontleanupandkisshim...#
Paige? Wot happened?
Jono, this cyborg attacked us *pain*...
Jonothan, friend, I need you to come and look after Paige, she is injured, I have to look for the children
I'll be right there
_____________________________________________________________
Clarice looked over at Artie and Leech and motioned them to stay down as she ran out from the room. The cyborg's head spun towards her and tracked her movements exactly as she darted to the center of the hallway. She got into a fighting stance and began to focus. As the cyborg suddenly jumped into action she pushed all the strength she had into her portals, without any focus, without any control besides keeping them in front of the cyborg. For a second the air filled with the purple light of her portals then pieces of the cyborg fell to the ground along with Clarice.
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[Med Bay: Later]
Emma looks over at Paige, Jubilee and Clarice and sighs.
"How is Paige doing?"
"She fractured a rib and has some burns... your arm is bleeding, sit down"
"It is nothing, gargoyles have a fast metabolism we heal faster than humans"
"Then clean the wound yourself"
Darmax looks over and sees Jubilee looking worse off than Paige and turns to Emma.
"And Jubilation?"
"She lost quite a bit of blood"
"Will you allow me to try and help her heal?"
"With magic?"
"Yes, my healing abilities are weak but they should help"
"Very well"
Darmax sat beside Jubilee and closed his eyes concentrating on the spell. Words from a language he didnt know flowed into his mind, he quietly said these 'Whispers from the OneGod' aloud and willed the energy to his and let it pour into Jubilee's body. Her muscles and bones began growing back together and healing as Darmax struggled to hold the spell together in his mind. Soon though he groaned and grabbed the metal railing, bending it ever so slightly, and the spell shattered in his mind.
"... I can do no more..."
[Hallway]
Jason looked over the chunks of cyborg littering the hallway and turned to Monet.
"I thought Sentinels were large robots"
"Sentinels? Well you are correct but why bring them up?"
"I heard one say it was a Sentinel Unit"
... I heard... one say... that too...
[Ms Frosts office: Later]
Emma sits talking on the phone with Bobby.
"... Jubilee is doing fine, Darmax almost fully healed the wound..."
+Why is it that Jubes got hurt that bad?+
"When the attack occured Artie and Leech were blocked from an exit, Jubilee distracted him long enough for them to escape"
[Biosphere: Later]
Darmax falls to his knee sweating as he finishes moving the last of the cyborg components into a safecontainer with a spell. Monet had noted that the way the cyborgs had altered their bodies may indicate nanotechnology, and they didnt know what the nanites could do to them if they came in contact with them. Paige put her hand on Darmaxs shoulder and gives him a slight squeeze.
"Paige, you should be resting"
"I... I wanted to thank you"
"Paige, there is no need"
Darmax stood and gazed down at Paige still weak from the spell. Paige steps up closer to him and gazes into his monotone eyes. For a second they both hold their breath then she leans up and kisses him. Darmax wraps his arms around her waist as she wraps hers around his neck.
[Lower level: Cerebro chamber]
Monet looks over the screen and turns to Jason.
"The scans and readouts have been sent to Dr McCoy"
"Wow, this is... wow"
"Yes"
"How come I've been here a couple of months and I havent been here yet?"
"We rarely use this system from here, mostly it is used in conjunction with the security systems to scan for mutant signatures and anomalous energy readings"
"Oh"
[Elsewhere]
+Three units comprimised... adding last locale to operational parameters... Prime unit in comprimised group suffered from systems glitch... Observe/Detain protocols damaged... Running system wide check... ... ... All current units functioning at normal parameters+
Title- [II] Generation X (#4/?)
Email-turlock@subreality.com
"Words" talking
Words telepathy
# Words # thoughts
/Words/ Signing
_Emphasis_ or Italics
-Sound description-
+ Unnatural voice + computer
*Concept* like what they feel (sensory) or emotions in thought or telepathy
= Voice that surrounds = godtalk nontelepathic voice from everywhere
~ Words ~ nontelepathic thought transference
_____________________________________________________________
(4/1/2000)
[Mass Acad: Jasons room: Early morning]
-Crash-
Monet opened her eyes and smiled a little as Jason buried his face in her hair as he squeezed up to her. Then she looked over and saw that she had gotten the lamps power cord tangled in her hand and pulled it over. With a slight telepathic nudge to stay asleep she floated up out from his arms and reached over righting the lamp. Then she noticed a polaroid picture laying facedown where the lamp had been. Curious she picked it up and looked at it. The picture was of a couple holding a newborn baby. It read, [Jack, Dani and Jason, 8 months] She smiled but wondered why he would hide the picture but then she noticed something.
[Later]
Jason woke up and looked around for Monet but couldnt find her. He got a uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach and noticed his lamp was almost all the way across from where it had been. When he jumped up and looked on the table he saw the picture laying face up, in a different position.
"Oh shit"
[Monets room: Later]
Jason knocked on her door quietly.
"Monet... are you in there?... we need to talk"
Monet stared at the door and opened her mind to the newly formed and fragile rapport with Jason and felt his fear, pain and a myriad of conflicting emotions.
"Its unlocked"
Jason opened the door and stood just inside gazing at her.
"... I didnt want you to find out like this"
"I'm not sure what I found out"
"That was my parents, they were in Friends of Humanity"
".... _were_?"
"Three days after that picture was taken they were killed"
"... I'm sorry"
Jason sat down at her desk and stared at the floor.
"My aunt and uncle raised me after that... my uncle is pretty high up in the ranks of Friends of Humanity... when I manifested... I grew up in a house where mutants were hated and guns and explosives were everywhere, I freaked... I almost commited suicide, but ran to the underground instead"
"... I dont know what to say"
"Its alright, I've had two years to deal with it"
"I'm sorry about leaving earlier... I was just shocked"
"I should have told you earlier"
"Maybe but it must have been hard to find a way to bring it up"
"I guess... but its _you_"
Monet smiled at him and then an awkward silence fell over them as the other issue moved up in importance.
"... um... last night..."
"Was wonderful"
Jason grined and sat up.
"So, what do you want to do tonight?"
"-chuckle- I have no doubt you will think of something"
[Yvettes room]
Yvette yawned and sleepily opened her eyes and found Clarice with her head proped up on her arm smiling over at her.
"Morning, Clarbear"
"Morning"
"-Yawn- How long have you been staring at me?"
"I dont know"
Clarice reached over and moved some stray hair from Yvettes face and caressed her cheek before kissing her. Yvette slides across the bed right up next to Clarice and smiles as she snuggles up to her.
Clarice put her arms around her and leaned her head onto of hers "its almost time to get up and eat"
Yvette giggled and trailed kisses from her shoulder to her neck "how long do we have?"
[Kitchen: Later]
Darmax sits down and smiles as he detects a distinct scent in the air, and he chuckles to himself as he quickly detects who.
#The St Croix clan faired well last night#
Jubilee sat drinking her chocolate milk and bouncing around with nervous energy. As the rest of the students finished their breakfast they went back to bed or to the rec room, they had the week off schoolwork while Bobby went to see his dad in the hospital. Jubilee knew that Bobby and his father had gotten closer lately and when he had had the heart attack Bobby had gotten packed in less than a minute. She was also nervously waiting for Wolverine, he had called last night and said he would be coming today.
[Rec room: Later]
Artie and Leech crashed down on the couch and sighed exhausted as Darmax sat down in the chair next to them smiling.
"You both did exceptionally well today"
They both smiled at him and settled into the couch to watch TV. Darmax had taken the duty of instructing them in self defense and survival skills. Emma had reluctantly admited that they had been lax in that department and since the children had come to respect him as a friend he was a perfect choice for their teacher. Darmax sat up and his ears twitched as he heard the newly familiar sound of a cumbusion engine make its way towards the school.
[Kitchen]
Jubilee ran up to Wolverine and hugged him.
"Hey darlin"
"Wolvie you sounded wierd on the phone... whats up?"
"Kinda need yer help with something"
"Whoa really?!"
"-chuckle- If I needed a sidekick I'd come ta ya first but this is a solo gig, I need ya ta keep an eye on someone for me"
"... huh?"
"Kid about yer age, cant leave em at the mansion, gets all edgy around the rest of em"
"You want me to babysit?!"
"Now you just settle down, yer the only person I trust ta keep an eye on him... the kids had it real rough"
".... -groan- ok, so where is he?"
"Still in the jeep"
[Later]
Jubilee had felt a lot of jealousy when Wolverine had brought Thomas but now that she saw him it almost completely left. One look in his cat eyes and she could see how terrified he was, and the way he flinched everytime anyone other than Wolverine moved towards him made her wonder what he had been through.
"Kid, I'll be back in a minute... dont worry yer safe with Jubilee here"
Wolverine got up and left the kitchen apparently to use the restroom, the danger room was down the same way but Jubilee doubted he would have a quick training exercise.
"Um, so Tommy, you want something to drink?"
Thomas nodded yes so Jubilee got up and got two cokes out of the fridge. After taking a sip of the coke Thomas sits there silently on edge.
"You dont have to be all nervous and stuff, I'm not gonna bite ya"
Thomas smiles and relaxes, slightly.
"You dont say much do you?"
Thomas pointed to his throat and shook his head, no.
"... I'm sorry, I didnt know, boy do I feel like an idiot"
Thomas squinted his eyes and seemed to concentrate then she 'heard' his strained telepathic voice.
... didnt know...
"Oh... ok... if you dont mind me asking, did you lose your voice when you manifested?"
...no... never been able to talk...
"... Oh... um... so"
[Elsewhere, close]
+Mutagenic signatures detected... Visual identification complete... Gene scan... complete... Numerous mutagenic signatures detected... Probability of mission completion, low... Activating recruitment mode+
(4/2/2000)
[Mass Acad: Rec room]
Thomas sat down quietly and began eating his cereal when Artie and Leech sit down across from him. Leech watched as they signed to each other.
/Do you want to come to the biosphere later and do something?/
/I guess/
[Biosphere]
Jason shot through the air in his dust form as Monet just barely flew ahead of him. Monet looked back at him smiling as they flew around at high speed. Monet dropped down skimming over the water as Jason followed but got slowed down by the mist in Monets trail, suddenly he hit the water in a splash. Monet began to giggle but then she 'felt' his fear.
Jason?!
... Monet... somethings... wrong...
Monet floated above the water as it began arching up at her.
"Jason?"
"Monet... I'm water... how?"
[Med Bay]
Emma looks over the readouts and turns to the liquid looking dust form of Jason.
"Your dust form is unharmed and unchanged, it seems youve merged with some of the water"
"Merged?"
"Your molecular structure of your dust particles have attached themselves to the water molecules... I believe you should be able to 'let go' of the water"
Jason focused his vison on Monet and 'felt' she knew he was and she looked over at him reassuringly. Slowly he calmed himself and focused on his dust self, first he tried to compress himself to let the water go but he couldnt. Then he imagined his dust particles as surrounding the water molecules, and for some reason the image seemed to stick and he couldnt change it. He willed the particles to release the water and Monet and Emma watched as the water fell down leaving Jasons dust form floating. Jason quickly blinked to flesh form and grinned.
"It worked"
"Yes, and I think you should begin training on this ability immediately"
[Elsewhere]
Three figures walk to the edge of the trees and peer towards a building.
+Units Beta and Gamma, apply tactical plan 30 Pi Delta+
[Biosphere]
Jubilee and Paige enter the biosphere and grinned as they saw two extra paintball guns. Elsewhere Artie and Thomas make their way through the trees hunting down Leech and Darmax.
[Rec room]
Everett sits watching TV while Yvette sits in Clarices lap leaning against her.
[Jonos room]
Jono lays on his bed studying for an exam.
[Ms Frosts office]
Emma opens some folders and looks over the various reports from her financial holdings.
_____________________________________________________________
Jubilee ducks and rolls under a table as the energy blast narrowly misses her. Thomas puts his hand on Jubilees shoulder, nodding he vaulted over the table and charged the figure. Jubilee groans and reaches down to her side and pulls up her hand covered in blood.
_____________________________________________________________
Jono fires a bioblast at the figure sending it crashing into the wall. Sparks fly from the cyborg looking figure and it slumps over. Jono looks around and reaches out with his telepathy searching for the others.
#... Mmax *pain* my rib hurts dontleanupandkisshim,dontleanupandkisshim...#
Paige? Wot happened?
Jono, this cyborg attacked us *pain*...
Jonothan, friend, I need you to come and look after Paige, she is injured, I have to look for the children
I'll be right there
_____________________________________________________________
Clarice looked over at Artie and Leech and motioned them to stay down as she ran out from the room. The cyborg's head spun towards her and tracked her movements exactly as she darted to the center of the hallway. She got into a fighting stance and began to focus. As the cyborg suddenly jumped into action she pushed all the strength she had into her portals, without any focus, without any control besides keeping them in front of the cyborg. For a second the air filled with the purple light of her portals then pieces of the cyborg fell to the ground along with Clarice.
_____________________________________________________________
[Med Bay: Later]
Emma looks over at Paige, Jubilee and Clarice and sighs.
"How is Paige doing?"
"She fractured a rib and has some burns... your arm is bleeding, sit down"
"It is nothing, gargoyles have a fast metabolism we heal faster than humans"
"Then clean the wound yourself"
Darmax looks over and sees Jubilee looking worse off than Paige and turns to Emma.
"And Jubilation?"
"She lost quite a bit of blood"
"Will you allow me to try and help her heal?"
"With magic?"
"Yes, my healing abilities are weak but they should help"
"Very well"
Darmax sat beside Jubilee and closed his eyes concentrating on the spell. Words from a language he didnt know flowed into his mind, he quietly said these 'Whispers from the OneGod' aloud and willed the energy to his and let it pour into Jubilee's body. Her muscles and bones began growing back together and healing as Darmax struggled to hold the spell together in his mind. Soon though he groaned and grabbed the metal railing, bending it ever so slightly, and the spell shattered in his mind.
"... I can do no more..."
[Hallway]
Jason looked over the chunks of cyborg littering the hallway and turned to Monet.
"I thought Sentinels were large robots"
"Sentinels? Well you are correct but why bring them up?"
"I heard one say it was a Sentinel Unit"
... I heard... one say... that too...
[Ms Frosts office: Later]
Emma sits talking on the phone with Bobby.
"... Jubilee is doing fine, Darmax almost fully healed the wound..."
+Why is it that Jubes got hurt that bad?+
"When the attack occured Artie and Leech were blocked from an exit, Jubilee distracted him long enough for them to escape"
[Biosphere: Later]
Darmax falls to his knee sweating as he finishes moving the last of the cyborg components into a safecontainer with a spell. Monet had noted that the way the cyborgs had altered their bodies may indicate nanotechnology, and they didnt know what the nanites could do to them if they came in contact with them. Paige put her hand on Darmaxs shoulder and gives him a slight squeeze.
"Paige, you should be resting"
"I... I wanted to thank you"
"Paige, there is no need"
Darmax stood and gazed down at Paige still weak from the spell. Paige steps up closer to him and gazes into his monotone eyes. For a second they both hold their breath then she leans up and kisses him. Darmax wraps his arms around her waist as she wraps hers around his neck.
[Lower level: Cerebro chamber]
Monet looks over the screen and turns to Jason.
"The scans and readouts have been sent to Dr McCoy"
"Wow, this is... wow"
"Yes"
"How come I've been here a couple of months and I havent been here yet?"
"We rarely use this system from here, mostly it is used in conjunction with the security systems to scan for mutant signatures and anomalous energy readings"
"Oh"
[Elsewhere]
+Three units comprimised... adding last locale to operational parameters... Prime unit in comprimised group suffered from systems glitch... Observe/Detain protocols damaged... Running system wide check... ... ... All current units functioning at normal parameters+