[center][h1][color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color], [color=3CB371]Kristina[/color] & [color=purple]Waverly[/color][/h1]
[i]Location: The Akademos[/i]
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Earlier in the day, all of the young mutants from the Mutant Underground had gone to check out the Akademos. Sunshine had given them the tour, showing a bizarre beehive shaped structure filled with all sorts of environments - some traditional lab classrooms, a library, a greenhouse... But above all, there were training spaces of all different types. For example, there was an olympic size swimming pool for practicing water based mutations, as well as what looked like a bomb shelter for more explosive powers. Andy and Zarina had had to leave to have tea at the House of M, and the rest of the group was currently enjoying a quick lunch outside on a grassy field with white markings for some sort of sport. 

[color=#DAF7A6]"M-Ball is going to start up in a few minutes if you all wanna play,"[/color] Sunshine brought up, talking despite having a mouth full of sandwich. 

Kristina sat down and leaned back slightly as she started to open up her sandwich while looking over at the building so far it was a really cool and interesting place in her opinion. Imagining herself spending sometime here training and using her powers a lot more and freely then she could back home without some people like the Purifiers seeing her using her powers. She turned her attention towards Sunshine mentioning a game called M-Ball. [color=3CB371]"Whats M-Ball exactly and how do you play?"[/color] She asked taking a bite out of her sandwich.

Waverley sat cross-legged on the grass, popping the last bite of her own sandwich into her mouth. She'd polished it off rather quickly, which was rather unusual for the girl whose appetite was usually in a perpetual battle with her nerves. She looked over to Sunshine, furrowing her eyebrows, waiting until she'd swallowed to speak. 

[color=purple]"M-Ball? That wouldn't happen to be, like, mutant foosball, would it? I'm pretty good at foosball,"[/color] she replied, though if she were being honest 'pretty good' just meant better than she was at any other sports she'd tried.

[color=#DAF7A6]"... I guess it's kinda like foosball,"[/color] Sunshine said hesitantly, thinking on how best to explain it. [color=#DAF7A6]"There's a ball and everyone's on two teams. At either end of the field is the goal. You want to score the most points that you can. What makes it lit as fuck though is that you can use your powers - just no maiming or killing."[/color]

Kristina thought for a moment as she took another bite out of her sandwich looking over at Sunshine as she started to explain the game a little bit, which actually sounded like a lot of fun to her. [color=3CB371]"I'd totally be down for that, I think it would be a lot of fun."[/color] She said finishing up the rest of her sandwich.

[color=purple]"Uh..."[/color] Waverley responded with some hesitancy, unsure of this M-ball sport. It sounded a bit...chaotic. She was quiet for a few seconds, before letting out a breath and giving a slight shrug. [color=purple]"Sure, what the hell? Can't be anymore dangerous than some of the stuff we've taken on as MU members, like literal terrorists or improvised hygiene,"[/color] she finally answered, a small smile stretching across her lips.

Sunshine smirked devilishly, stuffing the rest of her food in her face before getting up, dusting off her knees. [color=#DAF7A6]"Great. Loser's a fucking flatscan,"[/color] she told them, before running off in the direction of the M-Ball court. When she got there, a pink skinned girl with what looked like bone spikes protruding from her body gave Sunshine a kiss. Sunshine blushed slightly, before motioning for Kris and Waverley to catch up. M-Ball was about to start after all. 

Kristina started to stand up looking over towards Waverly for a moment before quickly bolted off towards the M-Ball Court, quickly catching up to Sunshine at the court seeing a pink skinned girl with bones coming out of her skin. Seeing the girl kissing Sunshine and seeing her blushing a bit she instantly came to the conclusion that it was Marrow the girl that Sunshine mentioned being her fiancé. [color=3CB371]"So are you going to introduce us?"[/color] Kristina said jokingly. 

[color=purple]"You must be the fiancé!"[/color] Waverley said excitedly, not waiting for Sunshine to do the honors as she held out a hand for the bone woman to shake. [color=purple]"I'm Waverley Watts, Sunshine's roommate. Well, ex-roommate. I'd give the whole protective 'if you break her heart I'll break your legs' speech, but you kinda look like you could beat me up, so...welcome to the family!"[/color] Her voice was filled to the brim with enough excitement to convey that she wasn't at all serious in her implied threat, simply ecstatic to meet the mysterious Marrow.

"You're bubblier than Sun described," Marrow said, her voice a little deeper than what would be expected from such a petite frame. She smirked ever so slightly. "And... I don't know anything at all about you. Are you..." Marrow paused, trying to think through all of the names, "Veil, right? The Canadian?"

[color=#DAF7A6]"Yes, that's Veil,"[/color] Sunshine said with a snicker. 

[color=3CB371]"Oh yeah i'm totally from Canada."[/color] Kristina said with a slight laugh and shook her head slightly as she extended her hand towards Marrow [color=3CB371]"I'm Stareyes, or Kristina whichever you'd prefer to call me totally doesn't matter to me. I was more or less new to the group really before being frozen again."[/color] She said introducing herself to Sunshine's fiancé.

Waverley let her hand drop, seemingly undeterred by her handshake being ignored. She made no comment on Marrow’s mistaking her mix of nerves and temporary excitement for bubliness; time would correct her. She looked down to the strange court they stood upon, giving the ground an absentminded kick. 

[color=purple]”So, Sunshine said something about M-ball? Is this, like, the field?”[/color] she asked, her gaze turning from the group to instead scan the court. 

Marrow nodded. "Right. Stareyes and Watts," she repeated, committing the names to memory. "And yeah, this is the place. Are you all joining us?" Marrow asked. 

[color=#DAF7A6]"They ought to be,"[/color] Sunshine chimed in. [color=#DAF7A6]"The other team's here,"[/color] she then noted, seeing about four other mutants taking the other side of the field. [color=#DAF7A6]"You two in or what?"[/color]

Kristina looked at Waverly for a moment asking if this was the field that they will be playing on and shook her head slightly, before turning her attention towards the other group of mutants about four of them on the other side of the field. [color=3CB371]"Of course i'm still in of course."[/color] She said to the two of them.

Waverley glanced over to the other side of the field, seeing the mutants they'd be playing against in this strange new game. She rubbed her hands together as if to get ready for the carnage likely to come, before looking back over to Sunshine, and giving a firm, certain nod.

[color=purple]"Yeah, definitely. I mean, it wouldn't be fair to leave the teams uneven. So let's do this,"[/color] she agreed, awkwardly bending her knees and entering something akin to a battle stance. She looked over to the goal, then back to Sunshine and Marrow. [color=purple]"Er, do we need a goalie or something?"[/color] 

"Nope!" Marrow shouted, as the game commenced. Marrow met with the other team's captain - a young boy with a body made entirely out of water - as a ball was tossed up into the air by Rain-Boy. Marrow jumped up, spearing the ball on one of her shoulder spikes, before taking off at a run towards the other side of the field. The other mutants on the opposing team appeared to be a floating brain in a jar (No-Girl), a disfigured purple girl with a lopsided face (Cosmar), and a gigantic jell-o blob looking man whose skeleton was visible to the naked eye (Glob). Rain-Boy sent a blast of water at Marrow, but Marrow dodged the blast. However, she couldn't avoid No-Girl's psychic attack, becoming paralyzed in place. 

[color=#DAF7A6]"Guess you need a hero, huh bae?"[/color] Sunshine shouted, going at a run to help her fiancée. She made a swirling ball of disease in her hands and lobbed it at No-Girl, hitting her mark... but as No-Girl was a brain in a floating air-tight jar, Sunshine's powers didn't do much of anything to her. Cosmar then plucked the ball off of Marrow's spike and started making a run for the goal. 

Kristina looked over at the four other mutants they all of them had very clear mutations on them, she wondered what their lives were like before coming to Genosha. The game quickly started seeing Marrow grabbing the ball with one of her boney spikes, and Cosmar grabbing the ball shortly after No-Girl had taken her down. Kristina ran forward and focused on the ball in Cosmar's hand and shot out an eyeblast out of Cosmar's hands looking over towards Waverly. [color=3CB371]"Grab the ball!"[/color] Kristina yelled to her. 

Waverley was shifting from foot to foot as the game ensued, raising her hands up in front of her in a way that made it look like she was ready for anything. It was a strategy she used to employ in gym class to make it seem like she kind of knew what she was doing when she didn't. Luckily, though, Kris' shout pulled her attention towards the ball lying not too far away from her. Grabbing something and running. That's something she could do...or at least she thought it was something she could do, until she took one forceful step onto the wet ground in front of her, causing her to slip right onto her ass. She let out a groan of pain, but her focus was still on the ball. 

She didn't have time to get up and continue running, and she wasn't entirely sure what counted as maiming when it camem to a floating brain, a goo man, and water, so she figured support was the best she could do. She rose her feet and stomped them onto the ground, grabbing hold of the sound made with her mind, amplifying it, and blasting it at the ball. It popped up into the air, arcing towards Sunshine.

[color=purple]"Sunshine!"[/color] Waverley called out from the ground, hoping her teammate would notice it coming her way.

[color=#DAF7A6]"I'm busy!"[/color] Sunshine complained, but she managed to jump up and catch the ball anyways. She gave a sympathetic look to Marrow, but she knew what her fiancée would've said if No Girl hadn't been holding her brain hostage - win first, help second. Marrow had a vicious competitive streak, one of the qualities Sunshine adored in her. Unlike those from the Mutant Underground, Marrow didn't worship heroics. Sunshine took off at a run towards the goal, dodging a blast of water from Rain-Boy. However, Cosmar hit Sunshine with a reality altering ray, distorting Sunshine into some sort of weird looking blob - like the scene in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the crew is changing constantly while waiting for normality to be restored. 

"Isn't that maiming?" Glob asked, jogging on over to Sunshine and carefully grabbing the ball. 

"No, there's no blood!" Cosmar argued.