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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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It was the natural reaction to having been one of those kids himself.
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Baa.
"Biggest brain-breaker I've heard so far is that one girl is here on scholarship. Must be one hell of a summer camp. You have anything better?"
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Anakin pointed to Sia. "That's my great-great-great granddaughter. Or something close to that."
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"You must be one of those Southerners we hear so much about, huh?"
Hey, look. He came from an end of town where it wasn't uncommon for people his age to have kids of their own, already. Cape-guy was probably just exaggerating. And had started breeding at, like, ten, apparently.
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Or on drugs, depending on how sane you thought he sounded.
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"How did you not get pulled over on the way here? With all the swerving into other lanes you must end up doing, I mean."
Sparkle would put money on the drugs theory, actually. If he had any money.
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He also thought everyone drove like an idiot.
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"How many tires would you say the minimum would be to keep on the road during a turn?"
He was actually mostly just curious, now.
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"Two?"
Two was good, right?
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Hey, it wasn't like Sparks would drive any more sanely if they ever completely lost their minds and decided to put him behind the wheel of something.
"Brain's still in one piece, though. You might be losing your touch or something in your old age, Grandpa."
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Even though he was now so many great-greats past Grandpa that he was thinking of crying.
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"Whatever you say, Grandpa."
He was going to be Grandpa Bus Driver forever.
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Yeah. This was totally going to be the start of something beautiful. Sparkle could tell.
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And a bus driver.
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Great Great Grandpa Dean Buswalker!
Bus Driver Black Cape Guy!
"Right. Dean Skywalker it is, then," Sparkle replied, firing off a half-assed salute that wasn't anywhere resembling serious, really. "Dean Skywalker, Bus Driver."
It was an important profession that required a title that lived up to the position that it filled within society, you see.