The New Mutants (80's Era Marvel AU; IC)

[Camleen]

Information Thread and Character Sheets!
The OOC!
The Interest Thread

The Posting Order!
Janice – @Ms.Ezra
Laura - @Camleen
Jo – @abalint
Piotr – @Gands
Joseph – @Sir Kaltao
Colt - @StareNation​

 

[Sir Kaltao]

"Whoa!" Jay yells when he is suddenly face-to-face with a woman in disguise, stopping short and making skid marks on the floor. There is a moment where he has no idea who this woman is, but then she speaks and it clicks in his head this was Mrs. Armstrong. Not about to argue with getting Juggernaut off his back, Jay is glad to have the gem taken out of his hand so he can run and hide. He would have tried to hide in a women's lingerie store, but then he hears Juggernaut babbling and turns around. The bits of what he assumes is the dude's life sounds rough to Jay, not in the least because he can empathize with it, being the less favored kid in the family.

After Juggernaut has fallen on his face, Jay exhales and cautiously walks toward him. He looks down at the massive man, shaking his head slowly "Tough break, buddy. Maybe uh...therapy will help." He makes a motion like he's about to bend down and pat a huge shoulder, but then he realizes that is a very stupid idea and doesn't. He looks aside at Mrs. Armstrong, cracking a smile putting up his hands "I didn't take anything else, in case you were wondering Mrs. Armstong. Kinda too terrified to think about theft." He says but in the back of his mind thinks if they had just a little time, maybe he could sneak back to the music store and walk off with some merchandise he had 'paid for before everything went down'.

 

[StareNation]

Colt appeared from around a corner as he strode back to the group, glancing over to where juggernaut now lay motionless on the ground. Thank god that's over he had thought to himself as he turned his attention back to the others, Piotr hugging Laura and Jo standing with them, Janice not far from them whilst Jay seemed to be brown nosing the teacher. He stifled his own chuckle at the sight before he took a moment to look around the mall. The centre was mostly intact, though the majority of the shops and kiosks were destroyed. Coming to stop just opposite the others Colt shrugged his shoulders.


"so….I guess our 'shopping trip' is done.."

 

[Ms.Ezra]

Amelia looks up at Juggernaut, unflinching as he tries to intimidate/reason with her to hand over the gem he's come for. Amelia counts the seconds it takes before the man stops walking and starts speaking quite sad nonsense. The woman might have felt bad, if she wasn't able to look around and see what the guy's choices have led to. Not she has any love for malls and the consumerism they represent per say, but it was more the matter of how many people would be out of their jobs with all this damage having been done. Most of it on Juggernaut, and little to do with their students thankfully.

After Juggernaut collapses to the floor, Amelia starts juggling the gem at a high speed between her hands as Jay approaches. She looks over at the kid, but doesn't stop juggling until he promises they haven't stolen anything. Again, no love for consumerism means she doesn't really care if anything was stolen. In fact she was very certain Colt had something stashed away on his person and has no intention of doing anything about it.

"Yeah, good going Jay." Mrs. Armstrong stops juggling and holds the gem aloft. "Not everyday someone gets ahead of me." She says, smiling behind the scarf covering the lower part of her face. "Excuse me." Amelia runs back to place the gem back where Jay had found it, returning to that exact spot after a couple seconds.

Janice meanwhile had stopped her attack when Piotr jumped on Juggernaut's back, not trusting herself at all to avoid zapping him, and resumed with a higher voltage when she saw him be tossed into the fountain. Janice watched Juggernaut head towards Jay, and upped the voltage even more to try desperately to get his attention. Then she sees the situation turn for the strange but also the better and abruptly stops the flow of electricity to avoid zapping Mrs. Armstrong. Her rings are ringing, so she doesn't hear Juggernaut until he falls and shakes the foundations of the mall, causing the girl to stumble and fall on her back.

"Owww…" Janice rises from the floor on unsteady legs and stumbles over to where Jo and Laura are trying to help Piotr out of the fountain. Her eyes are dazed, distant as she mumbles "Heyyy Jo….what are you doing? He's metal, just use that metal...thing...you do." She falls again, clutches her stomach and gets in the fetal position. "Remind me….not to do that….on an empty stomach.." She says to nobody in particular. It turns out her powers have come with a price as most neurons in her body are sizzling from the current she's put through them. For those with hearing or other senses for it, it sounds like she's a piece of bacon sizzling in a frying pan.

 

[Camleen]

With soft grunts, Laura helps Jo get Piotr out of the fountain. Slowly but surely they are able to accomplish the feat. While Jo uses her powers to assist them, Laura just doesn't have the muscles. She is stronger than most girls her age (or those who are a little older), but she's still tiny in comparison to the rest of the group, really. And as for Piotr… well if there are more clones like her out there, 3 of them can stand on each other's shoulders and they MIGHT be as tall as Piotr.

Laura looks silently towards Jo with her question, and she just nods in agreement. Laura does still look like a mess, her face and arms spattered with blood. Mostly her own. Mostly. She feels a little.. self conscious at the moment. So since they are pulling Piotr out of the fountain and all… I mean it's RIGHT there.. when Piotr gets to his feet under his own power… she dips her hands in the still trickling water (though by now most of the area around the fountain has become part of the fountain), and she quickly scrubs her face with her hands.

So when Piotr directs her towards him, she's a little more presentable. A little. Her outfit is ruined, no amount of Tide will get out this much blood. Even kneeling Piotr is just slightly taller than she, so her head tilts up as her dark eyes watch his. She does glance towards his hands as he is this close.


Touching


And when Piotr pulls her in for a hug, he would hear her gasp in surprise, and immediately start squirming and grumbling under her breath. She then speaks a little more loudly… just enough for him and those near them (Jo is right there and all), her voice in the same Russian dialect (A Northern Russia dialect if you're wondering) as before. "Ya v poryadke. Pozhaluysta, pozvol' mne uyti. Mne ne nravitsya obnimat'sya s lyud'mi, kotoryye smotryat." Essentially she is telling him she's fine, and to please let go of her. Something about being embarassed by the hug…

Once he does release her, she brushes off her top (her blood splattered top) absently and looks around them. Her eyes fall on Janice, a little frown on her lips. She checks momentarily to ensure Jay and Colt are accounted for.. the whole group seems to be okay. At least they're bloodstain free. But if she were to really think about it… she would bet most of their 'outtings' would end up the same way. Everyone relatively okay and Laura all bloodied up.

And as Amelia returns to the group, she would suddenly be aware that the van is pulling up outside of the mall. Rather… outside of the perimeter the police have setup. Said police officers are, at this moment, preparing to raid the building.

Laura doesn't know a lot about the world around her, the world she has been thrust into, but she knows being caught by the cops here would be bad news. Her head tilts up a little and she sniffs lightly at the air, her dark eyes drawing towards what's left of the main entrance. She catches numerous scents getting stronger. Her first instinct, of course, is to simply go out there and kill them. Especially if it means they would think twice about sending more men in. And she intends to get right on that.. but first..

Abruptly she turns towards Janice, and holds her hands just above the girl's shoulders, looking her up and down. As if to make sure she's not going to topple over. "Stay there. Don't fall over." She says as she pulls her hands away, confident Janice won't move. Suddenly Laura darts away, bounding over debris and slinking under fallen arches to get back into the Camelot Music they were in before this mess started. She looks along the mess that is…was.. the store. Most everything has been knocked off of shelves or out of racks, or the racks themselves have fallen. She breathes in slowly through her nose as she moves along the ruined store, looking slowly left to right. As if she were looking for something. For Laura, different scents might as well be ghost images she can follow in the air. She can tell precisely where someone was standing, or what they were handling. She stops suddenly, looking over her shoulder. She jumps over a few fallen pieces of the ceiling and ends up crouched down on what's left of the counter. She grabs a plastic bag from behind the counter…. and stuffs a few candy bars into said back. 2 KitKat bars, a Snickers, 2 Tootsie Roll Pops (orange and grape) and 4 Milky Ways. She tucks an additional orange Tootsie Pop into her pocket, and then she leaps off of the counter and deeper into the store. She practically jogs to about the spot she was standing before the ruckus, and she picks up 3 cassette tapes from under some small bits of debris. She then runs towards the vinyl collection, plucking up 2 of them, seemingly random in choice.

She's only in the ruined store for about a minute, and then she is seen running out of it, actually bounding along fallen pieces of the ceiling to get back to the group. As she approaches the group she reaches into the bag and holds out a KitKat bar to Janice with one hand, and then other hand holds out the bag to her. "Eat this. Now. Take the bag. I got your tape thingies and Piotr's records stuff. Hang onto to 'em cause I have to go kill the police." She says with a nod.

Buuuuuut luckily there is an adult present.

Amelia quickly (of course) tells the group (Laura specifically) "How about we don't do that, and you get that ice cream you like? A whole tub of it?" Laura looks towards Amelia and narrows her eyes. She stares up at the woman, wondering if she's lying about that. Dr. McCoy has made similar promises, and not come through. Twice in the last 3 months.

Laura is keeping track.

She huffs and looks back towards Janice, taking the bag back. "I can carry, since I don't have to kill men." She nods. And it's right about then… the activity outside starts to… slow. The police have made a perimeter, but they seem.. frozen suddenly. Amelia had made a request… and Charles fulfilled that request. Psionically shutting down the officers' motor controls, effectively freezing them in place. It should last long enough for the group to get back to the van…

Laura looks first to Janice, then towards Amelia. Her gaze then falls on Piotr, then Jo, then Jay and finally Colt. Just to make sure they are all present, and they are all ready to get out of there…

 

[alint]

Jo closed her eyes. She was exhausted, but she was still standing. This was the most she'd used her powers in a long time. Despite this, Jo's vision was fading. Her sight was an extension of her powers, so when she was tired her vision would go fuzzy. It appeared that the group was heading back to the parking lot and probably the van. She wondered where Ryan was. It seemed that everyone was there but him. He wasn't even there for the fight, but overall Jo stopped caring so much. As Jo walked along with the rest of the group, she thought about the options she had as well as what just happened. It seemed that she was locked into the superhero thing. Despite being given the option to turn away, Jo felt that the professor put her in a corner.

As Jo was thinking, she wasn't paying attention...rather she didn't see the rubble in front of her. Jo tripped and forward. Her hands went out in front of her to catch herself. Jo felt so stupid as she rolled over and pulled some rubble out of her forearms. "Damn," she said under her breath. She let her hands skim across the floor as she tried to find her balance. She hated feeling helpless and was too proud to ask for help right now. Jo stood and reached around her belt line to find her cane. As she pat herself down, she realized that it was gone. It must've gotten lost during the fight. In her head Jo was cursing up a storm. She decided to just follow everyone's voice and try not to trip again. Her 'vision' allowed her to see the really big objects, but even those were fuzzy. Jo didn't want to appear helpless nor did she like the idea of asking someone for an elbow, but sometimes she had to. This looked like the time to ask for help.

 

[Gands]

Piotr Rasputin aka Tin Man

Piotr doesn't mind that Little ghost is squirmy.. He thinks the compatison between herself and a cat is appropriate. It suddenly dawn's on him. She isn't used to people.

In the process of letting her go, he whispers to her.

*Russian* I understand little Ghost, forgive me. I am overjoyed with the prospect of my friend being alive ! You will eventually get used to people and our strange ways !"

He is still quite happy as she bounds off. He makes his way over to little Red.. Who looks ready to collapse with little sizzling noises and her hair a bit frazzled.

" Come little Red, you look tired. I will carry you. "

He doesnt wait for her to complain. He scoops her up, making an effort not to be inappropriate where he touches her. Little bits of electricity dancing up and down his metalic form.

As they all walk out, he is not very affected by the appearance of the police in their statue like state. He knows the professor is about sonewhere. He then waves Jay over.

( quietly ) " Jay, you should be gentleman and offer miss Jo a hand I think, yes ?!"

Only when he finally climbs into the Van does he change back to his more normal form. He makes sure all of his classmates are in the van before getting in himself though.

Those students in the back of the Van might notice a familiar figure on an old motorcycle. Wearing an old wife beater tshirt, jeans and boots. Logan trailing the van in case unexpected trouble.

@Camleen @Ms.Ezra @Sir Kaltao @alint @StareNation

 

[Sir Kaltao]

Jay turns to Colt upon hearing him "Hey bud! Was wondering where you went off to!" He walks over to Colt and a few steps short steps on something that causes him to stumble, but he keeps himself from falling. Looking down he recognizes it as Jo's cane. He picks it up, twirls it as he comes up to Colt "Yeah, real bummer I didn't get my stuff, but man was that intense!" He puts his hand over his heart "Ticker is still going a mile a minute, how about yours?" Then they hear the sirens through what used to be the entrance they had used, and Jay's heart sinks as he wonders if(and how) they're going to explain all this to the police. He gives Colt a friendly pat on the back "Welp, let's get together and see how this goes."

Coming back to the group, Jay winces as he looks at the girls. All worse for wear than both of them. The most Jay has to deal with is all his denim being dirtied up from all the commotion. At Piotr's call, he twirls the cane he has in hand "One step ahead of ya buddy." And goes over to Jo.

"Hey Jo, where you going without this?" He comes up beside her and gently places the cane back in her hand, trying not to make it seem like an excuse to touch her so the contact is quick. But just in case she might need more support in her state, Jay walks on her other side should she need a shoulder or something.

Walking outside, Jay is kind of in awe at the sight of the police being frozen in place. He wants to go up to one, snap his fingers in their face, maybe give one a wedgie(because that would be so funny even if he wasn't going to see the cop react), but he stays at Jo's side up to the van and helps her, if she were so inclined to ask.

In the van Jay takes a seat in the back at the window to see the cadre of copsicles as they drive off. He notices Logan trailing them, and remarks to Laura "Your Dad is pretty cool. Really pulls off that tough guy look."

 

[StareNation]

The scene before him played itself out somewhat slowly, as though he stood on the outer of his own existence to observe the wider world. It wasn't unusual for him to think as deeply as he did now, honey coloured eyes watching the remainder of the group as they interacted and gathered themselves. The noises reminiscent of a bacon frying in a pan coming from Janice prompted Colt's brow to raise somewhat and he wondered exactly what the use of her abilities had left her with. It had never been a situation he had been in before, to consider that perhaps other people closer to his age possessed abilities that presented such difficulties. He had taken steps towards Janice until she had been whisked up into Piotr's arms. He had stopped in his stride, his attention soon turned to Jay as he commented on Colt's whereabouts.

"Had to restock." Colt murmured to Jay as he looked at him side on as Jay picked up Jo's cane. Despite the efforts Jay had put into the fight he was still a chirpy as ever, Colt stifling a laugh as he found it somewhat amusing. Despite being asked, he'd never admit whether he felt rattled by what had happened, instead answering Jay with his ever nonchalant silent shrug. Before anymore could be said the sound of sirens graced their presence just as Jo had tripped and landed with a thud. He winced with sympathy whilst Jay walked over as suggested to help her up. Looking towards the door and briefly to Miss Armstrong his fingers nervously clenched as he listened to the sirens draw closer, his body heat rising with his nerves as he considered his next move. It wasn't normal for Colt to casual walk around near the police, more often than not, seeing the police about meant he was spending time in the cells at the local station and he was in no mood to be doing that again so soon. He then remembers the professor and their first meeting, the way he had practically commanded the space around him and the fact that the constables on shift had so easily released Colt into the professors guardianship. It was a big risk for him to walk out there, though with limited options and the subtle feeling that perhaps for once in his life he is a part of something bigger, Colt hesitantly follows the egressing group out of the hole where the entrance once was. Everything had seemed to freeze in time with the exception of the group, police officers stuck in time as though someone had pressed paused on a grand theft auto game. Despite this Colt was still nervous enough to ignite a flame across the palm of his left hand as he walked to the van with the others, his eyes switching between the destination and the frozen scene.

Once in the van he took the same seat as before, though now he was seated with a stiffened posture, his eyes firmly fixed ahead as his breath quickened and his hands clenched, smothering the flame in his palm. The van pulled out from the shopping centre and after a moment or two he felt the release of a long exhale as his shoulders loosened.

 

[Ms.Ezra]

Janice​

"Silly Laura...you can't eat tapes and records." Janice giggles when Laura returns with the candy and bag. She holds the bag she's offered loosely then exclaims "Weee!" When Piotr picks her up and carries her over his shoulder. Thankfully her dress is singed at the edges but long enough to still be decent as she is carried. "Such a gentleman Pete.....Ma and Pa would really like you....even if you're a Ruskie." She says still in a dazed state reaching out and tracing his jaw with one finger "Jawline for days." She says thinking of a phrase from when she'd sneaked a peek inside one of her Mom's romance novels and giggling.

"Yayyyy food!" She exclaims before taking her first big bite of the whole thing at once. She doesn't hear Laura say she has to kill people, or her saying she can carry the bag and takes it back when Mrs. Armstrong makes a deal with her to not kill people. Her ears are filled with the satisfying crunch of the chocolate and wafer she hears in her mouth. And the next one. And the one after that.

From her vantage point on Piotr's spacious shoulder, Janice is given a literal different point of view as they walk out of the mall to the van. They do. Janice is again carried out and she's fine with that because she knows from experience she can't eat or drink and walk at the same time. The police officers frozen in place are actually kinda fun to see in her state. She waves at them they pass and says "Helloooo officers! We're just gonna walk on by if you don't mind. Oh you don't? Perfect! We stopped the big scary man breaking the mall, so you're welcome! Keep up the good work!" She finishes by giving them all a thumbs-up.

When she's placed in the van next to Laura, Janice reaches over and grabs something from the bag to eat as she's finished the first KitKat. That thing is inedible, as it is a Giogrio Moroder album on tape, but the next is a Milky Way. As her stomach is filled bite by bite, Janice comes to her senses more and more.

Ever the considerate one, Janice asks the van in general "Everyone okay?"

Amelia​

Amelia sighs, relieved when Laura accepts her bribe. It occurs to her that she doesn't actually know what flavor Laura likes. That was an answer for Hank to answer later. Mrs. Armstrong walks out with the group and, not wanting to run back to the school after having run the whole way here to begin with, sits up front in the passenger seat. She takes off her helmet, goggles, and scarf before they get going and sets them in her lap. She says to the kids in the back "You're going to find that will happen pretty often. I can't promise they won't be that messy, or it'll get easier for you." Mrs. Armstrong looks back at them all smiling "I can only promise we're going to make you all even better at dealing with situations like that. You all did an okay job, more or less, considering."