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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.]
Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]
And somebody always said 'No sprogs allowed' when he showed up with a new load of dodgy cargo and she asked to join his crew.
"Wait, school?" Also on her list was 'What's a website' but the school thing seemed like it needed asking first.
Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]
Normally he wouldn't have bothered with that 'bus,' but it seemed like the kind of thing that might need clarifying at the moment.
"Why, you thinking about giving up the time storms and coming with us?"
Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]
"Got nowhere else to go. Might as well, 'til they figure out I don't belong and chuck me out." At least she'd be able to say she'd been to an island in Maryland. Which sounded less exciting than outer space, but only to people who'd never been to Svartos. "I'll take five minutes if anybody's running a pool."