Angstbomb surveyed his quarters after he was suitably satisfied with his appearance. He moved over the black, simple metal desk that he had been provided and sat down. Then he fished out a a black orb out of his pocket and pressed a single blue button ontop of the orb. It hummed to life and glowed, rising from the palm of his hand to float mid air, slightly above the right end of the desk. Then it projected a holographic image of Anduyel and two other similar fey. "Look Enwen, Alreyn. I am doing it. I am not gonna allow the Matriachs madness taint my life" He leaned back and closed his eyes. Feeling suddenly tired, darkness crept up over him. He awoke to the blaring noise of a siren. He rushed out the door only to collide with someone. "OOF!" He let out a grunt as he fell back onto his ass. He glared towards the other individual whom he recognized as Phaidra. She was the only one who dressed remotely like him, and thus she was the only one worth noting. His mind raced. He didn't want to start a conflict, but he had the social skills of a emotionally crippled sloth at the moment. He winced and tried, affixing the most fake smile to ever grace a face. "Nice boots. Phai right?" Phai had elected to not leave her room until she was told she had to do otherwise. It was small, poorly lit decent but still sketchy, and she was already quite fond of it. It was her very own cave. Phai pulled out her earphones and settled back onto her bed, happy to spend the rest of her free time listening to her favorite bands seriously abuse their falsetto powers. Just as she’d finally chosen the song with the proper (dark, deep, and troubled) emotions a loud alarm went off. Phai jolted upright, cursed a bit for good measure, and glared at the ceiling. They could have just used their freaking com system, no need to go all death-to-your-eardrums. Except, maybe it was a good idea to use the alarm not the com, because that thing was, as she was quickly discovering, horribly confusing. Phai glared at it and fiddled with the thing as she stalked out of her room. The alarm was telling her to go to the hangar but she had no clue where that was. The device was supposed have hologram whatnot that could tell her where to go, but the way to activate that function had eluded her so far. Just as she was about to resort to throwing the tech at the wall to see if that’d jumpstart it Phai was stopped by a head on collision. “Seriously?!”, She glared at the person who’d run into her, causing her to topple over in the process. The dude had paler skin than her own and his clothes were pleasingly gothic. Had he not just run into her like an idiot she would have been inclined to like him from the get go. But now- okay. He complimented her boots, all was forgiven. That said, she still had her pride, so she took a moment longer to glare at him before she responded tersely, “Thanks. Yeah, I’m Phai, or Phaidra, or Variant, whichever you prefer. You’re the Angstman right?” Phai held up her seemingly non-functional com, “You know how to work this shit?” "You press the red button..." Anduyel said while deadpanning. He showed her, clicking his own comlink. It buzzed to life. "And then you tweak the volume with the blue slider thing." He showed her that to. "And It is Angstbomb. But my real name Anduyel. Most call me Andy." He explained as he got up to his feet once. He helped her up as well, extending a hand for her to grab onto. Phai grabbed onto Andy's hand, using the leverage to climb to her feet. Okay so when he said it like that it seemed kind of...simple. But still, no way she could have known that from the get go and and it still didn't explain how to work the holomap."Thanks again, but I'm more interested in figuring out the map function, based on the alarm and the rather loud voice I think we're supposed to be going to the hanger." "Right. Uh. Hold on. I think i know. 'Show holo-map'" He said into his compiece, only to realize to late that the little blue light was a projector. The holomap flashed right into his eyes. A searing, angry pain like he just stared into a small sun shot trough his eye. He flailed, closing his eyes "HOLOMAP OFF, HOLOMAP OFF!" It died down. "Ok. Let's pretend that didn't happen." He grumbled as he leaned against the wall. Flipping the little projector part of it outwards, he tried once more. This time his voice was a hint less eager. "Show holomap." It beamed up infront of them, their current path and the Hangar highlighted. "I'm no tech guy. But it seems a you do most thing by voice command." Phai smirked and raised an eyebrow at the spectacle she’d just witnessed, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Seems to me you’re a regular Edison.” Phai looked over the map in front of them, “A’ight, seems simple enough. Let’s go.” Sticking her hand in hands in her pockets she started off down the hallway, turning around to chat and walk as she did so. okay, so the collision may have been her fault as well, but whatever. “So what’s your deal? Power and species-wise that is?” "I am a former warrior of Niffleheim. A dark elf." He said as he kept pace with her. "As for my power." He scrunched up his face as he channeled some of his feelings into the ball that appeared in his palm. He felt the crackle of power as anguish and pessimism coiled like dark tendrils from his very core. "I channel despair and negative energy" He said as the ball grew to the size of a handball. Phai paused, blinked a few times, and looked at the elf incredulously, “You… channel bad vibes into orbs o’doom, and your super name is Angstbomb?” Phai let out a short laugh, “Well all right, that’s decently kick-butt.” The dude was an elf, a dark one not some dopey forest protector or santa helper thank god, so Phai felt pretty comfy telling him her power. The Collins rep wasn’t really crossing dimensional boundaries. “I can muck around with gravity, but no demonstrations will be happening because the cool down time’s a bitch.” Phai paused for a few moments, thinking about what they’d each said, “So, your fighting is fuelled by the darkness of your emotions, and my goal in life is to make a black hole. Man, the rest of the goths out there can give up and go home, we pretty much win at this.” "What... Is a goth?" Angsbomb blinked. "I like the way it rolls of the tongue.." "Right," Phai laughed, "You wouldn't get that reference. Goths are basically peeps that dress in dark clothes. Plus there's some awesome music to go with the movement, I'll play you some when we don't have a mission to go on." "I see." 'Andy' murmured as they rounded the corner and headed down the stairs to the hangar. Once inside it, he marvelled at the site of it all. "Our benefactir sure didn't hold anything back when he constructed this place" "No, he most certainly did not. Let's just hope it's all above ground, I mean, seems like he's trying to do a good thing but this [i]is[/i] Dodgeville." Phai stuck her hand hands in her pockets and slouched a little bit more than she had been, "Looks like labcoat and ratman are already here." "Ah yes. So they are." The elven invader took a similair, slouched pose as he leaned against the wall, affixing a nonchalant, brooding look. IT came natural to him. "Glasses girl, rat person!" He raised his voice to get their attention.