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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Karolina smiled back at him. She might have been wary of the school thing on the whole, but that didn't extend to people!

Assuming they didn't turn out to be anti-alien, or something.

"Uh huh," she nodded. "So they tell me. Hi, I'm Karolina."

"Nice to meet you," he said, inwardly flailing a little bit because he was talking to a girl and she was being nice! Ish. They hadn't been talking for very long. Frank was easily pleased, okay?

"Where are you from? I'm from New York. I mean, New Rochelle, which is in New York, technically, but I guess some people might think I meant Manhattan. I don't, though. Mean that."

Karolina couldn't help chuckling a little. It was all friendly, though. She wasn't really the type to laugh at people, and she guessed he might have been a little nervous.

And hey, she was nervous too.

"Los Angeles," she said, to answer his question. "I haven't really... been to the east coast much."

"It's a cool place," Frank promised with a nod. "Not that I've ever really been that far outside of New Rochelle. I've always wanted to travel, though. And Baltimore seems like a cool start, you know?"

"I wouldn't really know," Karolina shrugged with a little smile. She had never really been paying attention to the eastern parts of the country. Baltimore was just a name. "Have you ever been to boarding school before? I haven't."

"Nope," Frank said. "My last school was back home in New Rochelle. It's sort of weird to be so far from home, but you're from way farther, I guess. Are you freaked?"

"Yes," Karolina admitted. Though she supposed in her case it wasn't just the distance and the newness of the boarding school experience. "But um, I was told it could be good for me?"

"My dad said that too!" Frank exclaimed. Okay, Frank, breathe. "I mean, you know, like, the culture and stuff, and getting some distance and everything? He totally said that when he was trying to get me to come here. It makes sense, but I'm still kinda nervous."

Karolina smiled a little lopsidedly. "Me too."

And there were a couple of questions she kind of wanted to ask (like whether there was anything in particular he needed distance from), but asking those would have probably meant talking about a few things she didn't want to be sharing, so. She kept them to herself.

"Guess we'll just have to see, huh? Maybe we're nervous for nothing."

"Totally," Frank agreed. With a hopeful little smile, he offered, "Good luck?"

"Good luck," Karolina agreed. Still smiling. Hey, he hadn't turned out to be bad, so far. "Hopefully we won't need it."

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