BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

There was a crackle of energy before reality split and portal opened up into the Portalocity Lounge. A few seconds later a figure popped through the portal wearing what appeared to be an environmental suit attached to an air supply hose going back into the portal. He then pulled out a tablet device and took some readings before stripping off the environmental suit revealing the teenager known as Barry Ween.

"Okay, Jeremy. I'm here and the atmosphere is breathable. Send the rest of my shit through," Barry said into his comm headset. "No. Just push it into the portal and pull back the suit. Jesus Christ! How fucking hard is it to push it through numb-nuts? Just fucking push it!"

Three suitcases and a large crate appeared through the portal. "About fucking time. Okay, now press the button to close the portal. Which one? The big fucking button that has a label on it that says 'PRESS THIS FUCKING BUTTON AND NOTHING ELSE.' Are you fucking kidding me? No. No. No! Just fucking forget it! Don't touch anything I'll shut it down remotely."

A couple of taps on his pad and the portal disappeared with a "plip." "All right it's done. Don't touch any of my fucking stuff while I'm gone, Jeremy. You hear me? All right. I'll check in with you later."

Barry looked up at the glittery sign bearing the name 'Fandom High' and grunted before going back to his tablet and taking further readings; muttering to himself occasionally when he found something of interest.

[Woo! Newbie Shuttle!]

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The Trip to Fandom!

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

The shuttle has arrived! What mysterious strange will transport this motley band of newbies to their new educational experience?

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[sith_happened]

A bus that did not have a Union Jack painted on it, thank you very much, Jono.

Anakin swept into the waiting area with his Jedi robes swirling behind him, a small glower on his face. Karking drivers and their terrible lack of driver skills. "Fandom High? Get your stuff."

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry looked at the bus driver skeptically.

"You're our driver?" Barry asked. "What's with the robes?"

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[sith_happened]

"I like them," Anakin said, frowning.

He really did just set himself up for abuse every time he did this by wearing the Jedi uniform.

"And I'm the Dean of Students who just happens to enjoy driving."

Driving really, really fast. And sometimes not on the road. Sorry, kids.

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry was throwing his bag on his shoulders and activating the hover devices on his trunks from his tablet. "Dean of students? Really?" he asked. "Can't you delegate that job to someone with a smaller paycheck?"

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[sith_happened]

"I do sometimes," Anakin said, "but I like meeting the students early."

He was a people person, Barry. Couldn't you tell by the glowering?

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[vanillajello]

Oh God, this was so weird. Kate had not even actually taken any of Anakin's classes – she mostly knew him through Bod, and even then it was really that whole Hunger Games business – but seeing him, for a second she totally forgot she was here as teacher and not as some random loser trying to repeat high school three years after graduating.

Which was to say, she hoped her nervous smile didn't make her look like an impostor. "Hi, Professor Skywalker."

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[sith_happened]

Anakin blinked. "Not a student, right?"

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[vanillajello]

Kate shook her head and let a chuckle slip out. "Not unless Portalocity dropped me off somewhere between 2009 and 2011." A beat. "Which they might, but I don't think they did."

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[notamascot]

Mostly only dragons wore robes like that back home. Or mages.

Kaylin stared at him for a moment, but his eyes didn't change at all, which said he wasn't a dragon, and he didn't make her markings itch or burn, so he probably wasn't a mage. Maybe they were dress uniform robes?

"Are you a Hawk? Well, of course, you're not, 'cause we're not in Elantra, but I mean, are you part of whatever the Halls of Law are like here?"

She'd kind of be happier if she met someone like that right away.

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[sith_happened]

Anakin tilted his head as he tried to process all of the titles. "I'm not a Hawk," he said. "I'm a Jedi. I'm also the Dean of Students for the school."

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[notamascot]

"Is a Jedi like someone who keeps the peace or who solves cases?" Kaylin asked and then the rest of what he said caught up with her.

"Oh," she said visibly deflating. "You're going to hate me then."

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[not_every_mage]

"Nice robes," Anders said dryly, picking up the skirts to his own. "Do you ever find them drafty?"

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[sith_happened]

"Not particularly," Anakin said. "I think wearing two shirts helps with that, though."

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[not_every_mage]

"Two shirts and leggings," Anders added in agreement. "Though it seems warm enough here that I won't need them."

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[furnaceface]

Look, Jono thought the bus would have been much improved by a Union Jack. Constantine had even agreed with him!

But he was behaving himself, more or less, wandering into the waiting area not far behind Anakin and looking, if not half as imposing as Skywalker, at least several times more amused.

//Anybody need a hand with their luggage, just wave down the lanky bloke in the leather wrappings,// he shared. //S'what I'm here for.//

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[notamascot]

Kaylin clapped her hands over her ears and spun around. She'd heard him in her head and that was just wrong. But he didn't look like a Tha'alani - no antennae - and he hadn't touched her, so instead she just stared.

And being Kaylin, had to ask. "Where's your mouth?"

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[furnaceface]

//Splattered across the remains of a coatroom in London,// Jono replied, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms over his chest. //And a few other places besides. You need help with your things or not?//

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[notamascot]

"Where's London?" Kaylin asked. "And what's a coatroom - or wait, do you mean you people have whole huge rooms just for coats? That sounds crazy."

She shrugged at the small knapsack on her back. "This is all I have. Pretty much all I own period."

And back to what really interested her. "Did it hurt?"

Somewhere Teela was facepalming.

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel's options seemed to be either to try to live here in the airport (which seemed terrifying) or go outside on her own and try to find the floating lights in an environment she'd never even dreamed of -- also terrifying, yes.

And these people seemed nice enough, at least? Even if they kept making her ask questions. Like 'what's an airport' and 'what does factionless mean' and -- "Where did that voice come from?"

Rapunzel almost dropped the hair she was carrying again, she was so startled. She hadn't heard it, was the thing -- she'd sort of not-heard it but she'd never not-heard something like that before.

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[furnaceface]

Well. That was an impressive amount of hair. And a somewhat familiar face, though Jono had never really gotten to know the Rapunzel that had gone to the school before. He lifted a hand almost sheepishly, gave a little wave.

//From over here,// he replied. //The one waving at you, sorry. Takes a bit of getting used to, I understand.//

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel squinted, tentatively wandering over to the man (and see, he was hiding his mouth -- that moved Jono to the top of the list for pointy teeth candidates, all things considered) who was waving at her.

"Sorry," she said, cautious still. "I've just...never met someone who can talk in my head, before."

Obviously.

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry gave Jono a suspicious look. Well, less suspicious than if Jono had been a giant ape.

Barry had issues with telepathic apes.

"You're telepathic?" he asked carefully.

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[furnaceface]

//It's either that, or you're hallucinating,// Jono replied with a shrug of his shoulders. //I'm not going to go rummaging around in anybody's head, if that's what you're worried about. It's just, talking gets a little tricky, otherwise.//

He gave his hand a vague wave toward the wrappings on his face.

Re: The Trip to Fandom!

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Either you have a problem with your face or some wicked halitosis," Barry reasoned.