[ Issue 7 start! Written by Sara Bellum, Penciling and Inking by Pete Bog. Edited by Warren Peace. ] [ We find Our Heroes in the Danger Room, along with Kurt, who's here to play tag. The others are here to kick some ass, or get their asses kicked trying! ] [ Session GO! ] ( Hey, we never told anyone about the Oreo brigade, did we? =P ) * Bob looks around. "This doesn't look very dangerous." * Miya wanders in. "Um, well. It gets worse." She blinks, then beams and waves. "Hi Kurt!" I bet it's one of those holo-deals. ( I still think it's funny that Sara Bellum lives at 69 Yodelinda Valley Lane ) I'm still not sure how a hologram would be able to hit back. [ The Danger Room has taken on the appearance of a thick jungle with trees towering far overhead. Kurt looks around, nods, and smiles at Miya. "Are you ready for tag, frauline?" ] * Eric looks around. "I'm still trying to figure that out too." * Miya nodnods. "Sure. Oh! This is Eric, and this is Bob." She points out the mutants in question. * Eric smiles and waves. "You never told us your name though." * Bob blinks at the blue furry mutant. The holo-thingees do hit back. Dunno how... prolly some kinda souped-up Nintendo. Um, this is Kurt. He's got the same power as me. Kind of. He's got a really cool tail, too, see? *Kurt nods to each, and his tail flicks idly. "You would be here for the combat training, ja?" I don't know? I'm kinda confused. This doesn't look much like a training room. It looks more like a jungle. * Eric scratches his head. "Well, if that's what you do here, we could try it out." *Kurt chuckles. "The Danger Room looks like whatever we want it too. Would you prefer a different setting?" * Eric looks at Kurt's tail. "That's cool." * Bob shrugs. "I was programmed to deal with any environment." * Miya blinks. "Programmed?" * Daegal eyes Bob, then shrugs. * Eric glances over at Bob, but doesn't seem to respond otherwise. *Kurt blinks. "Er, programmed? No, nevermind. I'm sure Hank will tell me all about it sometime." He looks to the other two boys, then. "You two prefer a different setting?" Don't care, really. What about you Daegal? * Daegal shrugs. "Don't much matter to me." * Miya looks around. "Well, um. I guess... we could do something besides the jungle. We did jungle last time." ... And I got all wet. That could be a problem. Splodey melts. * Miya giggles. Like sugar! * Bob giggles. * Eric goes on like they didn't say anything. "Who's Splodey?" * Bob blinks. "Aren't you Splodey?" *Kurt shrugs. "Hey, Bobby! Give us... hm. Give us a city, ja? A nice wrecked one." * Miya laughs. Nope, they just think I am. Oh. So you are just plain Eric. * Eric nods. "Yup, just normal Eric." *coughSplodeycough* [ About half a minute passes, and then you're in the middle of a street in the middle of any major metropolitan city. The roads and buildings are pockmarked with holes and crater, wrecked cars are strewn about, and the place generally looks like a dismal mess. ] * Miya looks around. "Cool." * Bob blinks. "Impressive." * Eric looks around. "Niiiice." ... hey, this is a pretty good recreation of Red Hook. Red Hook was *not* this blowed up. * Daegal looks around. "Too clean, though." * Miya eyes Daegal. * Miya jumps up and smacks him on the back of the head. That's 'cause you were in the upscale section of Red Hoo- ow! * Daegal rubs his head, and grins at Miya. * Bob blinks. "You're not glowing." * Miya sticks her tongue out at Daegal. Yeah. Hit him harder Miya. * Miya grins. Almost evilly. Nah, not unless he asks nicely. Takes a bit more'n that, Bob. Gotta take a coupla solid hits first. Oh. Should I hit you, then? Otherwise I'd start glowin' every time I got a papercut or stubbed my toe. * Miya blinks, then waves her hands. "Nonono! Bad." Nah. I can do some stuff without my powers... I'll let 'em get activated the old fashioned way. * Eric realizes what that entails. "I don't think he wants to go through the wall." Oh. Very well. *Bobby's voice comes over the speakers. "You kids ready?" My powers may work based on pain, but that don't mean I *like* gettin' whacked. *grin* If you did, perhaps we would call you The Masochist. * Miya calls back, "Okay!" She looks at Kurt. "Um, are you staying or going?" * Eric chuckles. *Hank's voice follows that with "Oh, and I'll note that we'll also be keeping tabs on your progress to see what your strengths and weaknesses are, of course." Very well. *Kurt grins. "Going." He disappears with a loud BAMF! and a puff of red brimstone. * Bob sniffs. Interesting. * Eric blinks. "Man, he's a lot more flashy about it than you are Miya." * Miya folds her arms and pouts. "Yeah." Miya's subtle. Stealthy, like the ninja. She's short like then ninja in any case. I like the poof and the bang and the smell. * Eric grins. * Miya steps on Eric's foot. "Say that again?" Now you see her, now you don't, now she's kicking you in the head. * Eric smiles innocently. "Nothing, nothing." * Daegal cracks his neck loudly. "And away we go..." There's another BAMF!, and Kurt taps Miya on the shoulder. "Oh, and Miya? You are it." He disappears again! * Miya blinks. "HEY!" She vanishes in a flash of light. ... teleporters. Go figger. I still don't understand that game. Yeah, porting all over the place. I'll explain later. Right now, let's concentrate on the stuff that's gonna be trying to hit us in the near future. * Eric nods. "Alright." * Daegal looks around, and furrows his brow. "Not even a bodega... geez." Man, where's the mooks? A who? A low, constant roar comes from off around a corner. Is that a mook? * Bob shrugs and starts walking that way. ... no, that's a roar. I think it's bigger than a mook. Maybe a thug. * Daegal strides over to the corner. ( Waka Laka? ) (Waka Laka make you fly!) * Eric stays put. "How big is it?" * Daegal calls back. "What am I, a freakin' psychic? Come see for yourself!" * Eric runs over to see for himself. *The source of the noise comes around the corner, then; it's a crazed mob of hippies and anarchists! They're armed with baseball bats, table legs, and other blunt instruments! ... * Bob blinks. Are those angry hippies? That's what they look like. (Love and peace or I'll bash your head in!) ( Live free or die! ) Damn hippies. ... always wanted to say that. ( What's next, angry buddhists? ) Flower power and all that shit. ( Nah. Never met an angry buddhist. See angry hippies all the time. ;P) ( Let us meditate on Buddha/there's no god that's cuter/comes in silver, gold, and pewter/and he's good enough for me. ) Go, Bob! * Bob blinks and walks forward straight at the crowd. "You say these are just a simulation?" Yeah, but they can simulate kicking your ass. So get to it! Start whupping! * Bob shrugs and strikes out at one of the hippies with a fist. Bob makes the critical mistake of underestimating the might of an enraged mob of violent hippies, and soon vanishes beneath the hemp-smelling horde! Go, Eric! * Eric pauses as Bob gets overrun. "Right." He creates a large ball of plasma and hurls it at the crowd. "Hope they like to burn." A whole bunch of hippies get kerploded! One of them complains that he didn't need a light *that* bad. Go, Daegal! * Daegal runs up to the crowd, grabs two hippies by their long hippy hair, and tries to clonk their heads together. (Quick Attack) Daegal succeeds! There is a noise rather like two coconuts colliding, and the hippies both collapse, unconscious. The mob proceeds apace, however, and you all need melee or unarmed defense rolls! You all manage not to get clobbered! Which is good. And now it's Bob's turn again! * Miya appears above the horde and starts using heads as skipping stones. "'Scuse me, comin' through!" * Bob is buried under a pack of angry hippies. He goes up. Straight up, about twenty feet. *Kurt appears above the horde and strides across them too, managing not to get hit by Bob! * Miya just barely manages to avoid Bob and keeps going. She hops off the last one, vanishing. Bob flies straight up, trailing some hippies who were trying to harm him. They fall back onto the top of the horde! *Kurt disappears after Miya, meanwhile Go, Eric! ... and get a haircut! (Ha!) Is my hair that bad? * Eric throws another ball of flaming plasmatic death at the mobbsters. Nah. That was directed at the dual disappearing acts. You mean the teleporting trapese? More holohippies blow up! But they're still going! Won't they just stop comming? (Yeah, just wait until we use *you* for a springboard, Daegal. ;P) * Daegal hrms, looks past the mob, and points. "Hey, isn't that Blue Oyster Cult?" About half the mob abruptly stops and looks around frantically! * Daegal slaps his head. "Oh yeah! They've got a concert twenty blocks down from here in a few minutes! I forgot all about it!" About a third of the hippies fall for it, running off. There's only about twenty left, now. * Bob blinks. * Daegal shrugs, grabs one hippy by the shirt, spins, and tries to chuck him back into the pack. * Eric cracks up as the hippies run. ( Jesse, did you take Fighterdoken! ? ) ( Nope. And no... just felt like trying it. =P ) ( Nope. It's kinda' part of some of his weapon attacks, tho. ) A hippy in a flannel jacket slips out of said jacket as Daegal grabs it! The mob keeps mobbing! Roll defense, EricAndDaegal. The mob continues to fail to defeat our Heroes. Go, Bob! * Bob darts through the air over to a hot-dog cart, flips the lid open, and flings a handful of high-velocity hotdogs into the mob. While Bob does fail to hit any hippies, a few stop to try to feed. Go, Eric! Too many mobsters, WAY too many mobsters. Just think of it as a wide selection of targets! You couldn't be too right. * Eric throws another batch of plasma at them. "Barbecue your dogs?" The last few hippies are fried, with cries of "Dude!" and "Way uncool!". Dude, that was sweet man. * Daegal nods. "Nice moves. Blowin' people up is faster'n beating on 'em, I gotta admit." Yeah. Still pretty... generic, though. * Eric whipes his brow. "Yeah, but it takes something out of you." I could do something a bit more interesting, but I'd rather not waste it on these guys. * Miya appears next to you guys. "What? No more springboards?" she asks as she starts running. Nope, they all went boom. * Daegal looks around. "... am I the only one expecting to be attacked by a giant robotic bong?" No fair! *Kurt appears in front of Miya and tries to tag her! Oh, I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you, I promise. Huh? * Miya ducks the tag. She blows a raspberry at Nightcrawler. * Kurt tries to get Miya with his tail! * Daegal grins. "Kid's got some moves in her... hey, you guys got anyone else for us to beat on?" Yeah, they fell down kinda fast. I don't think Daegal even broke a sweat. *Hanks voice comes over the speakers. "Oh, you want someone tougher?" * Bob pokepokes at Daegal. "You're not glowing yet." * Miya jumps over that one, diving to the ground and rolling. "Ow." She's on her feet fast enough, then takes off. "Have fun! Must get away!" One roundoff later and she's vanished again. * Daegal chuckles. "Well, if you wanna see what we can do..." *Kurt disappears with a BAMF! Yeah, let's see something a little harder. And I'm not glowin' 'cause I didn't get hit, Bob. Remember, powers work on pain? Hmm. *Hank's voice comes over again. "Alright. I'll give you something a little harder. And with a personal touch!" This oughta be interesting. A holographic Hank McCoy appears before you all. It growls menacingly. * Bob blinks. "I didn't know you could teleport." ... *Hank's voice comes over the speakers. "I can't. This is a holographic reproduction. Have fun!" Oh boy. Roll init! * Daegal smirks. "Now we're talkin'." *falls into a ready stance* Well, I'll just, yeah. Have fun guys. Order: Bob, Beast, Eric, Daegal. * Bob flies through the air at a phenomenal speed (you can tell because of the speed lines) aiming his entire body, fists extended, at the Beast. Bob smacks right into the Beast! The Beast reacts by rolling backwards with the attack and bringing it's feet up towards Bob's abdomen! * Bob is caught in the stomach and send flying upwards while still rocketing forward. Go, Eric! * Eric jumps back from the big blue furry thing and thrusts his right hand forward, a beam of green shooting from it torwards the blue beast. The beam hits the Beast, singing blue fur! The Beast growls in pain! In the control booth, Hank winces! (You're gonna be fried, Hank M'man!) Go, Daegal! * Daegal runs up to NotHank, grabs him by the ears, and uses them as handgrips to jump and try to land a double-knee to the jaw. The Beast evades the attack! Bob, go! * Bob snaps into a midair roll and rockets back the other way, stopping at the last minute and swinging his leg around to kick Hank from... behind. Bob kicks the Beast! The Beast growls, and swings at Daegal on some instinct! (Can ya feel the love?) The Beast slugs Daegal! 'S gotta hoit! * Daegal get smacked HARD in the face. His nose is busted and bleeding, and he's also bleeding from the mouth. He's also glowing. And grinning. Much to the dismay of dramatic timing, it is now Eric's turn. * Eric 's stoumach growls. "I wonder if there are any of those hot dogs left..." Oh, right. * Eric tries to fry the blue boy with another dose of green rays. The Beast manages to dodge this one, but only barely! The green rays clip his shoulder, and it howls! Daegal's turn! * Daegal lunges at the Beast, grabs his wrist, and tries to pick him up in a fireman's carry and then fall sideways, slamming NotHank headfirst into the pavement. (Power Attack) Daegal slams the Beast, who is KO'ed! If anyone wants to do the three- count, that's fine, too. One! Two! Three! And we have a new world champion! * Eric runs over and raises Daegal's arm. * Daegal hops up, blood still running down his face. "That's better. Ow. Shit. Heh." I wonder if that was as painful as it looked. ( Yes, it was. ) So, was that good enough? Or do you want to throw something harder at us? Is that all? * Daegal reaches up to his face, and straightens his nose back to its normal position with an audible *CRUNCH*. * Eric winces. "You've done that before, haven't you?" "I dunno," comes Hank's voice. "Do you want us to throw something harder at you?" Sure! * Daegal nods, wincing himself a bit. "Yeah. Hurts like hell, but it heals better that way." I don't think Daegal is done yet, and I'm not even sweating. * Eric 's stoumach complains again. "I'm gettin' kinda hungry, but I'm good for now." * Daegal shrugs. "I got tagged pretty good, but if Eric and Bob wanna keep going, I'm game." "Some of you can opt out, if you want. This next one'll be a doozy." * Eric smiles. "Let's try this. Never know what you can do unless you push your limits." ( Just let me stall while my regeneration works... o/~ ) ( Heh. ) (Same here.) "Ooooo-kay. Don't say I didn't warn you, tho." "...I did warn you, right?" I think so, did he warn us? Oh, I don't mind being beaten to a pulp. That which doesn't kill us just beats the living crap outta us. It's certainly won't be the first time. Or the last, probably. "Good enough for me!" Go time guys! [ A lovely woman appears before you! She wears a green jumpsuit, yellow boots and gloves, and a leather bomber jacket. She has brown hair with a white shock down one side. ] ( Aw SHIT. ) (You people are dead.) (We are SO dead.) * Bob blinks. ... Hank asks over the PA, "I don't think you've met Rogue yet? I think she's in another point of the country right now." This is... THE Rogue? "Well, no. This is a holographic reproduction. Isn't that right?" ... okay, I know I've made some disparraging remarks about spandex in the recent past, but I'd like to amend my objections at this point. Daaaaaaaaamn. * Eric cracks up. (*CRACKS UP*) [ The hologram grins and says, "That's raht, shugah." ] * Bob smiles grimly. "So you're the one. Let's see what you've got." ( HAW! ) ( *cracks up* ) She tough? [ The hologram gets into a ready pose, and says in that *delightful* accent, "Shuh thing, little man." ] * Bob flexes his fingers and balls them into tight fists. ( Init! ) [ Order: Bob, Eric, Rogue, Daegal. ] * Bob rockets forward at Rogue much like he did before with Beast, fists first at a blinding speed. *Rogue skids to the side on one foot, dodging Bob's charge! Eric's turn! * Eric thrusts his hands out, a pulsating stream of particles striking forward from it at blinding speed towards Rogue. *Rogue dodges that, too, and then flies after Bob! Shit! Rogue slams into Bob! HARD. * Bob lets out a short, barking like noise, like a kicked puppy. Go, Daegal! * Daegal steps up, grabs Rogue by the ankles, and tries to swing her into the nearest wall. (Quick Attack) Daegal succeeds, and he swings Rogue's body right through the wall! Bob's turn! * Bob goes through the hole right after Rogue in a flying drill kick. The sound of crumbling masonry comes from inside, and Rogue flies out! Eric's turn! * Eric judges the distance Rogue is at, and throws a large ball of plasma to catch her in it's blast radius. There's a terriffic explosion, and Rogue comes sailing away from the blast, her jacket in tatters! She regains control of her path in mid-air, tho, and is once more on her merry way, headed back into the building after Bob! Bob gets knocked out the hole in the building! Guuuuuuugh! * Eric stares blankly at that. "She's helluva tough." ( She's BEYOND helluva tough. ) (Yeah, I guess I'm not the one getting pummeled into the ground.) (She... acted like Eric's plasma was nothing. @_@ Yup. You're screwed.) Rogue comes back out of the building! Daegal's turn! * Daegal slithers his way behind Rogue, and tries to hook her arms around the elbows with his, lift, and fall backwards, slamming her head back into the pavement. (Power Attack) Daegal manages to grab Rogue and slam her! Rogue oof!s. "Oh, y'play rough, do ya' boys?" Go, Bob! * Daegal steps back, a slight grin on his face. "Well, I know when I'm outclassed, and I am. But no sense going down without a fight." * Bob swoops around coming back at Rogue from over Daegal's shoulder, fists first. Bob smacks into Rogue, fists first! Rogue Oof!s again! Go, Eric! * Eric crosses the fingers on his left hand as he thrusts forward with his right, the green beam aimed at Rogue. The beam burns Rogue, who screams, 'cause it must really hurt! And in response, Rogue attacks Eric! (Bye Eric!) Oh shit... (* Eric waves byebye. ^^;) ( Say goodnight, Gracie. ) ( G'night Gracie. ) Rogue flies right up to Eric, and slugs him one! * Eric flies from the impact, many things going faster than they probably should. ... well crap. * Bob winces in sympathy pain. * Eric kneels back up, various wounds from the impact on his body. "Ouuch..." Hey, he's tougher than I thought. Man that's smarts. * Eric holds his head. Go, Daegal! Still with us, Eric? Ya got bigger stones than I thought. *biggrin* * Eric grins back. "Yeah, I think I'm still in. Don't want to feel that again though." Go get her. * Daegal runs up to Rogue, then tries to palm her face, spins her, and drive the back of her head into his rising knee. (Power Attack) Daegal succeeds! Rouge emits a 'woulnf'. Go, Bob! * Bob comes feet first down out of the sky at Rogue's gut almost before Daegal has released her. Rogue fliws out of the way! *now* It's Eric's turn! * Eric knows that green thing hurts, so he does it again. Yes, he's a glutton for punishment. Eric misses! This could be bad. Rogue decides to nail Daegal this time, tho. And Rogue connects with a punch to Daegal's gut! * Eric winces. He knows that hurts. * Bob winces, too. * Daegal doubles over, and coughs up some blood. He still manages to grab Rogue, though, and tries to lift her up above his head and slam her down kidneys-first across his knee. (Power Attack) Daegal succeeds! Rogue, too, doubles over, and is down for the count! [ Combat end. Just to make it official. ^_~ ] (Woot!) * Bob lets himself fall down to ground level, panting heavily,. So... that's her... * Daegal goes down to one knee, and coughs up s'more blood. "Ow, shit. Ow. We won. Heh. Ow, shit." * Eric collapses onto his back. "Owww...." She hits... like a freight train... I speak from experience. * Eric 's stoumach rumbles very loudly. "I think it's trying to tell me something, but I'm hurting too much to listen." Much to your dismay, Rogue's voice comes over the PA. "Had enough, boys?" * Bob blinks. Yeah, can I eat now? * Bob pales. What's wrong Bob? Is that... We were just fighting a hollogram. And I think it pulled it's punch when it hit me. No way in hell could I take what you guys did. Where are you?! * Daegal stands up, albeit a bit wobbily. "Gimme a coupla hours to deal with this concussion and internal bleeding, and we'll see." *The holographic city fades, and you're in the Danger Room as it really is, with the control booth in clear sight. * Bob looks around frantically. * Bob looks up at the control room. *Kurt, and then Miya, appear next to you. * Miya is grinning madly. "That was awesome! You won!" Hi Miya. Did you have fun? Is she up there? * Eric is still lying down on his back. Yuh huh. We watched the whole fight with you and the lady, though. * Bob flies up to the window looking into the control room. * Miya peers at Eric. * Miya offers him a hand up. * Eric takes the hand. "She HURTS." * Daegal grins at Miya. With his nose and mouth bleeding and his tank top covered in blood and his still glowing, his grin is a bit unnerving. "You should see the other guy. Gal. Person. Ow." * Eric gets up. "I don't think anything's broken though." Bob sees people in the booth; Rogue, Bobby, and Hank. Hank is telling Bobby that he has to pay up, now. * Miya nods. "It looked like it." She pulls Eric to his feet. * Bob knocks on the window. How do I get in? Rogue blinks and points to the staircase and door on the left side of the booth. * Bob zips over to the door as fast as he can, rips it open, and rockets up into the booth. * Miya sweatdrops as Bob breaks the door. ... dude. Doorknob. Ow. *wobbles* Um. Maybe he doesn't know how to use doorknobs? The people in the booth sweatdrop, too. ( Hey, I didn't go through the window, at least. ) ( Or even try. ) * Eric sweatdrops. * Bob touches down on the floor just inside the door into the booth and stares at Rogue. * Daegal decides to just sit down and bleed for the time being. Hey, aren't there some... medical thingies we can use to stop the blood loss? Well... they probably have bandages and stuff in the control booth? Maybe? Alright, let's get up there. * Miya nods and leads the way. Rogue blinks at Bob. "Y'got somethin' wrong, sugah?" * Eric slowly follows Miya. "We should get Daegal too." Oh wait, he can regenerate. I forgot. * Miya blinks, then looks back. "Oh, yeah. Actually, um." She goes over to Daegal. "Well, I could try to teleport us up there?" I... I didn't think... I'd get to meet you so soon. Well, let's give it a try. * Daegal grumbles at the moving people, then slowly makes his way to his feet and walks unsteadily after the others. "Yeah, but I regenerate slow. I'll be fine in two hours or so, but until then, I'll be playin' the role of vampire bait." *coughcoughhackupblood* Hank, meanwhile, is saying "Come on, Bobby, you bet on the loosing team, I bet on the winners. This means you have to pay up! Really, twenty bucks can't hurt *that* much?" * Miya nods and goes over to kneel next to Daegal. "Wanna try the port?" Kurt, meanwhile, politely excuses himself and ports off for a shower. Nah, m'okay... well, that's a lie, but I'll manage. Got a rep to maintain. *small grin* ( which gives the GM one less NPC to juggle! ) ( Hehe. ) * Miya sticks her tongue out at Daegal. "You guys beat her. She's... really tough, right? You don't have anything to prove." * Eric nods. "We did good." *Rogue still seems confused. "Do yuh know me from somewhere, or somethin'?" * Bob looks like he's about to cry. * Daegal coughs s'more. "Just... I'll walk." *Bobby finally pays up, and sidles out of the room. * Miya looks at him uncertainly. "O- okay. Can I help you with that, or do you have a rep to maintain there, too?" ... I have a rep to maintain, but I also have a spleen to maintain, so some help would be appreciated. * Miya helps Daegal up to the control room, then. * Eric chuckles and winces. He makes his way up to the control room. You... you could say that... Mother. * Miya steps in just in time to hear Bob say that and nearly drops Daegal. "Uh?" ... What? Rogue and Hank both stare at Bob. WHAT IN TARNATION!? ...eh? * Daegal helpfully drops to the floor. "... I'm okay. Really. Ow." * Miya looks at Rogue, then Bob, then Rogue, then Bob. She does the math in her head and blinks a few times. That's... not right. In fact, that's VERY WRONG. *Rogue, for her part, looks a bit young to be Bob's mom. "Jus' where the hell y'get off callin' me that?" The doctors... they needed a base to build on when they made me... and you had almost everything they wanted. * Miya opens her mouth, then closes it. Then: "Wow." * Daegal pulls himself back upright. "Ya don't look... near as good *cough*... in spandex, though..." *coughcough* * Eric blinks, then blinks again. "Alright, those doctors are SOOOO dead." You didn't see him in spandex, Daegal. ( He doesn't have to. :P ) (Duh. :P) Rogue stands there speechless for a bit. This is followed by her slaping Bob across the face, and then storming out of the room. Hank winces. * Bob falls down. * Eric 's stoumach growls as he sits down. "But first I need some food..." ... don't got- aw shit. * Miya stares for a moment, then looks almost angry. "Hey!" She runs after Rogue. * Eric winces. "That's gotta hurt." * Bob doesn't move. Hank shakes his head sadly. "You really could've put that better, you know. Actually, maybe you don't." * Daegal limps after Miya. "Hey as well!" * Eric gets up slowly, going after Rogue. "What did you do that for?" * Miya is moving considerably faster than Daegal, thanks. ^_~ *Rogue is moving even faster, and is soon well out of sight. * Daegal gets a few steps, wobbles, thinks better of it, then just settles for sitting down in the doorway. * Miya stops and fumes. * Eric stops, then looks around for some bandages. * Bob slowly sits up. * Miya vanishes in a flash of light. Hank asks, "Bob, what do you know of Rogue's powers?" Enough. "If you say so. Now, think about the social implications of those powers." * Bob nods slightly. ... huh wha? Huh? "Rogue," Hank says, "Absorbs the powers of those she touches for a brief time. She also absorbs energy, and sometimes memories as well." "That's if she touches them for a brief time. A few seconds at most." * Bob stands up. "If she's in skin-to-skin physical contact with someone for, say, thirty seconds, that someone runs a very strong risk of dying." * Bob walks out the same way Rogue went. ... I don't think he's listening. ... ah. Shit. And I thought my powers came with a crappy downside. Hank shrugs. "I know. I'm telling you two." Oh. "But in short, Rogue can't be intimate. With anyone. The boy she shared her first kiss with has been in a coma for the past five years." Man, that's gotta suck. *Hank nods. I reiterate. Ah. Shit. *Hank sighs. "It's getting late, you know." * Daegal pulls himself back upright again. "... you got one helluva punch, y'know." *Hank chuckles. "Thanks. You've got some pretty good moves, yourself. You wanna get those scrapes and bruises looked at? I'm not called 'Doctor' for nothing." Nah, I'll be okay. Coupla hours and I'll be good as new. If I'd be slashed, it'd be a different story, but... * Eric looks at his scrapes and bruises. "Not to be rude, but could you take a look at these?" * Daegal grins. "Another mystery of my powers... slash wounds don't regenerate." Heh. ... all kinda makes ya think. Out in Red Hook, I'm the baddest guy around... nobody messed with me. Here, it takes all three of us to barely take Rogue. ( Yeah, and it takes Rogue and a bunch of others to take Juggernaut. ) Yeah, it really is something. It's only been a matter of weeks since I discovered my powers, before then I was just leading a normal life. * Eric chuckles. "It's kind of funny how everything can change in the blink of an eye, eh?" *Hank, meanwhile, looks over Eric's scrapes and whatnot. "Mmm. Nothing serious. Any sharp pains? Anything feel, say, broken?" * Daegal nods. "I gotta hope my powers ain't done developin', or I'm in for a whole lot more ass whuppins." * Eric shakes his head. "Just a massive headache. Ow." * Eric holds his stoumach. "And an empty belly." Hank chuckles. "Yes, well. You came out of that pretty well. I'm guessing the system restraints had Rogue pull her punches. I'll bandage up these cuts for you, and for the empty belly I recommend food." * Eric nods. "That's what I was gonna get after this. Didn't know doing that would make me sooo... hungry." Those were pulled punches? Christ in a canoe... * Eric gulps. "I figured they had to be held back. If she could send those guys through the wall, when she smacked me I was sure I'd be a gonner." "Yeah, Rogue's what we in the buisness sometimes call 'Mighty'." * Miya reappears in the control room and looks around. "Where's Bob?" * Daegal nods. "Then I got work ta do... 'ey Miya. He walked off somewhere." He ran off after Rogue... I think. Uh... I just talked to Rogue. Hank frowns. "Dunno. Probably went looking for Rogue." He finishes patching Eric up. "There you go. Now, take two snacks and call me in the morning, mmkay?" * Eric chuckles. "I'll take more than two snacks." Hank chuckles. "Only if the label doesn't say 'Take only as perscribed'. If it doesn't have that, you're golden." * Daegal stretches. "Ah, feelin' a bit better already... though I haven't stopped glowing." * Eric smiles. "That's what I like to hear. Wanna head down and grab a bite to eat Daegal? Or two, or three..." Nah. m'gonna go lay down, clean up, get outta this bloody shirt. Might go get a snack later. Alright, see ya later then. * Miya eyes Eric. "You're crazy." * Daegal grins. "Don't think my bleeding all over the kitchen floor would help your digestin'." I'm gonna take a shower, I think. * Eric chuckles. * Eric starts walkin' to the kitchen. "Thanks Hank." * Daegal starts out towards his room. "Night Hank." Hank nods. "'Night. And take care. And remember, you have class tomorrow! No, really!" Aww! What was this about class? "Y'know, class. Where you learn things?" ... cripes. "Hey, how're you supposed to save the world without a decent education?" Um... very carefully? Oh yeah, that's why I came here. Silly me. *Hank chuckles. "Not an acceptable answer, young lady. Now, I'm off for bed. G'night!" [ Session end. z.z ]