BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday morning

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"You are sure you do not wants me to wait with you?" J.Lo asked, pressing his squooshy frog face against Slushious's passenger window.

Tip's mom leaned past him to wave. "Text when you get there safe, Turtlebear."

Tip rolled her shoulders back, putting on her absolute bravest face. "I will." They'd already done the tearful goodbye part, J.Lo just hadn't read the memo. Tip resolutely turned away, heading toward the lounge where the school instructions said to wait for the shuttle bus.

"I am changing my minds!" J.Lo called after her. She heard her mom start Slushious's engine up, then start to putter away. "I am not too many olds for high schooooooooooooool!"

Tip made it all the way onto one of the lounge's benches, her suitcases tucked underneath, before her shoulders sagged again. Which was good, because if she hadn't, it'd be one of those legs-gone-away, dropped-on-her-ass moments. Pardon her language.

"C'mon, Tip," she told herself, swiping quickly at her cheeks. "Chin up. You drove across the US with an alien when you were 11. High school should be easy."

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Wait for the shuttle

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Check out your new competition classmates while you're at it

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[imisscookiecat.livejournal.com]

Steven rushed into the lounge, cheeseburger-shaped backpack strapped on. His hands were clutched to his head, seemingly quite distraught.

"Have you seen a giant pink lion?" he asked, completely worried that his sort-of pet had gotten completely lost. "His name is Lion and he has a mind of his own and I'm really worried he might get lost if he doesn't get on the bus."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

See, this was the sort of thing that would be weird to someone who hadn't spent the last three years living with an alien. And, okay, it was a little weird to Tip, too. J.Lo didn't tend to keep lions. They'd had enough fun with that one at Happy Mouse Kingdom.

"Nope," she said, not letting that weirdness show on her face. "No lions through here. Have you tried calling for him?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[imisscookiecat.livejournal.com]

"He's getting better at that," Steven said, though he didn't look too confident.

Lion was a cat. What cat comes when you call?

"I'll have to try again. Though he could have just... gone wherever Lion goes." Again, cat.

"Oh, hi by the way. I'm Steven."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

Depended on the cat, really. Also, what you were using to call it. The smell of tuna, for instance, worked really well at calling cats.

"Gratuity," Tip said. "I didn't know lions came in pink."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[thewrathofkaan]

Roscoe swanned into the lounge in the manner of someone who had no idea he was making a conspicuous entrance.

Sunglasses. Headphones blaring music loud enough for people to hear it other than Roscoe himself. And the high-heeled boots he was wearing happened to be pretty loud on the tile floor.

As soon as he sat down, he yanked his headphones out of his ears and smiled broadly. "What up, boarding school people?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

Tip smiled slightly. Well, at least her fellow students were nice and distracting. "Hey," she greeted, nodding towards the headphones. "Your music was really loud." That could cause ear damage, as Tip's mother had been careful to remind Tip repeatedly, especially over the last year of being-an-actual-mother. Then, since she didn't want to get a "mom" rep before she even got to school, she added: "What were you listening to?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[thewrathofkaan]

"Sorry," Roscoe said, somewhat ruefully. "I can't get enough of Lemonade, you know?"

Which reminded him to turn off the music now that the headphones were out of his ears and all.

"You're waiting for the school bus too, right? 'Cause if not then I am in the wrong place."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[imisscookiecat.livejournal.com]

"Oh, just waiting for the bus I guess," Steven replied, punctuated with a little chuckle. "Pretty cool how we all get to go to school, huh?"

Steven was really excited about going to a school.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[thewrathofkaan]

Roscoe interpreted that as sarcasm and responded in kind. "Oh yeah. It's gonna be the best summer ever," he said. "I love summer school."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[notfinnyet]

FN-2187 felt like something was...off. This didn't seem like a First Order training base. At all. But the uniformed staff had directed him to this lounge with mutterings about "that school again," so here he was.

"Excuse me," he asked, his voice filtered through his helmet to sound slightly mechanical, "is this where we report for training?" He was still really not sure. Everyone else was out of uniform, and there didn't seem to be anyone to report to.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[imisscookiecat.livejournal.com]

"Oh my gosh," Steven said, clutching his hands to his face with rapt excitement. "Your armor is so cool!"

That's what he was stuck on right now, yes.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[notfinnyet]

FN-2187 looked down at himself to double check he was just wearing standard-issue Stormtrooper armor. Yep. White plating, check. "Uh, thank you, citizen."

That was a good response, right? He hadn't really been trained on dealing with the public yet, but somehow he got the impression people were usually...less thrilled...to see Stormtroopers. His superiors had told him the Rebels planted all sorts of inaccurate misconceptions in people's minds about them.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

"Um, sort of?" Tip offered. She was doing a little bit of staring at that armor, but not as much as she might have pre-Boov. "We're waiting for the bus to go to high school. So it's a kind of training."

She was pretty sure he must be in the wrong spot, though. Maybe there was some sort of space training place nearby.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[notfinnyet]

FN-2187 would take it! Even if he didn't know what a 'bus' or a 'high school' were. "Oh, good," he said, relieved. "I was beginning to think I was lost." Since everyone else was out of uniform, he decided to take the risk of pulling off his helmet without being authorized. "FN-2187."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[notcancelled.livejournal.com]

Mayday rolled her suitcase down toward the lounge. She was a little apprehensive. She'd hadn't been to a new school without her childhood friends since she was five. But it also presented new opportunities, and that's why she was here in the first place. So any apprehension didn't linger on her face for too long. New people meant new friends. ... Right?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

"If you're looking for the bus to Fandom," Tip offered the new girl, "this is the place. Or possibly all of us are very lost."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[notcancelled.livejournal.com]

"At least we'll be lost in a group, then. Somebody would be bound to come looking for us," Mayday joked. "Hi, I'm May. But everyone calls me Mayday."

The trip to Fandom

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Shuttle bus! Into! Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

RE: The trip to Fandom

[thisguyright.livejournal.com]

The shuttle bus screeched to a halt and the bus door opened. "If you're going to Fandom, get in!" Fred yelled in his Aussie accent. "And once you're in, keep the noise down and, I dunno, other rules."

He was maybe not the fiercest disciplinarian among Fandom's teachers. And yet, he was probably the one who had been paid the most to kill people. Irony.

Re: The trip to Fandom

[intotheout]

"Do we have to guess what the other rules are?" Tip asked, nonplussed.

Though, really, he made about as much sense as any other adult she'd met.

Re: The trip to Fandom

[thisguyright.livejournal.com]

"You can if you want to," Fred said. "And if you figure them out, let me know what they are. I don't know 'em, but I'm guessing they exist."

Re: The trip to Fandom

[notfinnyet]

"Sir, yes, sir," FN-2187 said, filling in the standard code of conduct for 'other rules.' Should he put his helmet back on? This superior officer hadn't told him to put his helmet back on.

Re: The trip to Fandom

[thisguyright.livejournal.com]

"I can't figure out if it's a power trip or weird that you're calling me 'sir' without me threatening anyone with a bad grade if you don't," Fred said. He was thinking about it very seriously.

OOC

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No world ending before our newbies even get to the island!