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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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He'd been named after sparklers. Sparklers were cool. Ergo, Sparkle was cool by association. Or something.
He pulled another Twizzler from the bag and took a bite.
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Breaking and entering! He could totally use a codename for that!
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He figured that might sound less weird than 'powers.'
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"I'm just as good with lockpicks as I am with black nail polish," Sparkle shared, though it wasn't really clear going by the casual look on his face if he was being serious or not.
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He was starting to get the idea not everyone at the school was superpowered -- at least, almost no one he'd talked to had mentioned it.
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"Yeah, yeah, I'm trouble," he replied. "I mean, why else do you think they'd send me here?"