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

[ultron_junior]

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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Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"Oh, you got a whole Jedi clan going?" Atton asked. "Jedi and nepotism. Sounds like a surprisingly good fit."

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[sith_happened]

Anakin rolled his eyes. "It's not nepotism. I'm not giving them jobs. I'm teaching them not to die stupidly."

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"You know, it doesn't actually make a lot of difference whether they die stupidly or smartly," Atton pointed out. "It's still going to be a bunch of dead Jedi. Hear it's an occupation with a large turn-over."

Which may or may not have been partly his fault.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[sith_happened]

Anakin narrowed his eyes at him. "When are you from?"

Not that it mattered. What the kid said was true, however impolite it was to point it out.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shot him a funny look. "What kind of question is that?" he said.

After which he coughed up the year anyway. Just to see what would happen.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[sith_happened]

Anakin's eyes widened a bit. "Because you're a few thousand years behind me," he said finally. "The Jedi get better."

And then worse. And then exterminated.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"Yeah?" Atton said. "What a great relief that is."

Yeah, it wasn't.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [5/04]

[sith_happened]

"Happy to help," Anakin said, flashing a smile that wasn't at all an attempt to be reassuring.