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fandomhigh2012-05-04 04:04 pm
ultron_junior) wrote in fandomhigh2012-05-04 04:04 pm
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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.]
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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And she had to admit the LA thing made this a little freaky. But then, how many people lived in Los Angeles, exactly?
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"It's a big city. Maybe you have a clone somewhere," he said, and tried to smile even though it didn't reach his eyes. "So ... how did you end up here, anyhow?"
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'Some people' was a nice and vague way to say Captain America and child services, right?
"How did you?"
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"Things got weird at home," he answered, frowning because she should know this. "Seemed like a good time for a break."
A pause, then -- "Not 'some people' like your parents, right?"
Because if Frank and Leslie Dean were still around through some screwy dimensional warp or time travel or secret alien power thing and were influencing what Karolina did, Victor was pretty sure that was a much larger problem.
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"Uh, no," she said, shaking her head quickly. "Not my parents."
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"Sorry I asked," he said apologetically. "The person you reminded me of had problems with her parents, so ..."
And here he was running out of things to say. He was pretty sure she wasn't an evil clone who should be zapped on sight, but that left a whole host of possibilities on the table.
Possibilities that maybe he should ponder from across the terminal, before he freaked her out any worse.
"Anyhow. It was, uh, nice to meet you."
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Still, she mustered up a little smile. "You too, Victor. I'll talk to you later."
Once she was done casting curious glances at him from afar, that was.