fandomhigh | Newbie Shuttle, Portalocity Terminal, BWI (Saturday Morning Fandom Time)

After everyone was done shouting at and/or hugging him to say goodbye – and there had been a lot of both –Victor Mancha had two choices in getting from Los Angeles to BWI. The first was taking a commercial flight, which would have been reassuringly normal.

The problem was that, even if he somehow got past the metal detectors, he suspected his circuitry might count as the kind of portable electronic device that wasn’t very takeoff-and-landing-friendly. He didn’t exactly have an easy off switch, and crashing a plane by mistake seemed like a big step towards super-villainhood.

Which meant he got to the Baltimore airport via portal. He’d never been through one before so he didn’t have much to go by, but it seemed like a nice portal: If nothing else, it smelled far better than Cloak’s ... cloak had. Victor was grateful to know that hadn’t been the state-of-the-art in teleporting.

And now he was on the East Coast other than New York for the first time. Once he’d exhausted the little potential for exploration the terminal had, he sat in a semi-comfortable airport chair, suitcase at his feet, and tried to break the Tetris high score on his phone while keeping watch for any other kids.

[OOC: Operation newbies: Go! I will be slow for a few hours after 5:30 EST, but otherwise around all night.]

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"You and everybody else in this waiting room, I figure," Atton lied with ease.

Yeah, no, he wasn't being friendly. But whatever, right?

Frank gave an indulging little shrug, because how was he supposed to know? Hopefully that would be taken as a good answer.

"Have you been away from home a lot?" he prompted.

"Not all that much," Atton said, flipping a pazaak card over in his hands. "So obviously some boarding school in the middle of nowhere is a great place to start, right?"

"Totally," Frank said encouragingly. "I hear Baltimore's really fun. Music and everything."

"Music, huh?"

That sounded like a prompt. To the untrained ear.

To the trained ear it would probably sound a lot more like mockery.

"Yeah," Frank said, nodding. "My dad's been there on business. He was telling me about all the R&B and rock and stuff in the clubs. I'm definitely going to have to go check it out with him when he visits. Or go to a concert or something. You know?"

Frank, you were babbling.

"Yeah, I'll make sure to let my own parents know about that," Atton drawled.

They'd been dead for years, but he really would, Frank. Honest. "Sounds really exciting." Beat. "Wait, arrenbee? Is that some new Bith thing?"

He'd almost miss out on vital information if he wasn't careful.

"Some what?"

Heeeere it went.

"Bith thing?" Atton said, waving his hand a little. "I'm not totally up to speed to the music scene on this planet."

"Oh, no, it's just sort of this kind of rock that's--" Hold on. "Did you say planet?"

"Yeah, I'm new here."

...

"Huh," said Frank.

Then his face split into a huge grin. "That's really cool."

Atton squinted at him. "Right," he said. "Cool. Yeah."

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