Silver Carrot

The X-Pendibles

@pyroman

The information that in the future, Heidi was partly responsible for inventing time travel was staggering. From all her current understanding, it was impossible without mutations...Then again, if it was possible in any form, then...that train of thought could wait until later. Right now was time to get into mission mode.

So, this team was the best combination to deal with this mission? What was the mutation of the new girl, then? And if Heidi was an important factor, was it her brain that helped them to avoid danger? Should she be specifically trying to prevent danger in this mission? So many questions, but none that the team who had assembled them would know the answer to. Only her future self. But why hadn't she come? Heidi herself had began to suspect why, and if she was right, it was either death, or that her path and Xavier's had finally parted as she suspected they would. Her ideological differences, she kept secret from her mutant classmates for now, but she wouldn't suppress them forever.

Heidi had already suited up in preparation for Gym, but she did use this time to calibrate her new prototype exoskeleton, and quickly check that the power they were being fed from her gauntlet was such that she could power them both. Satisfied, she headed back to the hangar. She was the first one back besides Bonny, who hadn't left.

The X-Pendibles

Having PC issues. Will try and post tomorrow

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Mina checked her phone. Only sixteen minutes until she was late, and the ominous threat of 'severe consequences'. Her mom warned her that they make day one a very difficult test and expel those without potential. She has also given Mina the advice that "no matter what happens, stay calm."

So Mina was calmly tapping her foot, calmly gritting her teeth, calmly trying to stop her heart from bursting with stress, and calmly watching the gate not open. She checked her phone again. 8:15. Now the gate opened, and Mina immediately sprinted inside the grounds. Now the stress was gone, and she was re-afforded control. She was now something close to being called calm, as she efficiently scanned her card and slipped through the gates with ease, before people started to congest the barriers in their panic.

She eyed up the large man stationed at the entrance to the classromm. Even before he announced that he wouldn't let the students use that entrance, Mina had figured that much out herself and had made a beeline for the right entrance. She stopped right before the door, got her breath back, fixed her hair and uniform, then strolled in with an air of dignity.

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Right Wing

Mina immediately noticed, and rolled her eyes, at the spoooooky atmosphere that had been set up. It was like the haunted hose of a fairground. Did they honestly expect anybody to-

Mina jumped out of her skin and made a loud 'Eep!' sound when the chair shot of of a side-door and rolled to a stop in the corridor. The young lady quickly glanced beside her to see some students had caught up. Luckily, they were too busy and panicked to have pointed and laughed. Mina leered at the crowd anyway, then turned back and carried on. That's when she almost ran into the emerging school nurse. Or...a teacher dressed as one. Mina wouldn't judge. At least not until she's less busy with trying not to be expelled. Then she'll judge.

"Students! Do you have time for a small check up? I do like to keep my medical records up to date after all...I believe most of you require a blood test," spoke the nurse.

Mina sensed a lot of danger coming from this woman. On the other hand, this sense to not get closer was nothing compared to Mina's will to make it into this school. She would not lose at the first hurdle! Swallowing her fear and steeling herself, put on her ever-professional mask of rigid, inexpressive pomp, and approached the nurse.

"I have to get to class," Mina started, rolling up her sleeve, "but make it quick!"

Taking advantage of the fact that the nurse probably was not expecting a student to actually volunteer to get blood taken, Mina closed the gap between them, quickly raised her bare limb, and from her whole upper-arm, emitted a blinding flash of light, which will have stunned all the students behind her as well as Kiwi. While she was reeling from that, Mina bolted past her, and onward towards the classroom.

After humans

Now...how to proceed from here so that people start meeting up...

The Nomad, a sci-fi epic.

This falls into the realm of 'the characters don't know that' A bit like when Dalry's backstory has her screaming "NOMADS!" and I got told that the Nomad is a singular entity. Yeah, but Dalry doesn't know that.

The X-Pendibles

@pyroman

Heidi had been silent during the whole conversation. She didn't know enough about what was at stake, and while she'd personally find killing hard, if it was logically the best option, she'd have no moral objections. Just personal ones. She was relieved when she heard that none of them would be killing.

Even so, why this team? At least last time was just a routine training mission that went wrong. This was different. This volatile group was willingly assembled and put on this high-stakes plan...

"Why us? Why specifically us? Are we a diversion? Or do you need us to meet with the target for some reason? Is this this anything to do with our future selves?"

Possibilities, as well as possible plans and reasons for this mission were swirling around Heidi's head. Some were more pleasant than others. She hoped that the answers to these questions might narrow them down.

The Nomad, a sci-fi epic.

@Starlance@Elevation

Dalry heard Miranda's warning to hide, but she couldn't move. She couldn't will her legs to get up. She might be able to open her eyes, but she didn't want to. She couldn't cope with this. With being thrown back into the chaos and gunfire. If she shut it out for long enough, it might die down, or put her out of her misery. She din't know which one she'd prefer, but she'd prefer both to having to face the chaos again.

She felt herself getting lifted up, and gasped in relief, grabbing a tight hold of the soldier who'd just rescued her. When she was put down, she dared to open her eyes, and as soon as she saw it was safe, she sprang to her feet with poise and grace that nobody possessing should be fearing this situation that much, and she backed herself against the wall furthest from the entrance before nodding. She was breathing heavily, but less in a 'physically exerted herself' way and more in a 'panic attack' way.

"I'm okay now. Just...that chaos and gunfire...I'm Dalry Soumers. Ex-UWLA. Corporal. I'm a First Contact survivor."

She didn't need to elaborate what she'd had first contact with, or why that explained how she behaved the way she did. Any soldier who knew about the Nomad would understand.

The X-Pendibles

Please skip me again.

I promise I'll get bigger posts up and more frequently when I have things to add.

After humans

As soon as Eilidh woke up, she could tell that something was different. Every inch of her body was tingling. She hadn't even opened her eyes, but she could feel that she was younger. Her body was healthier and in better working order. Her skin was smooth. And she could feel something below her waist. She could....actually feel below her waist. Her eyes shot straight open and she turned to look, immediately seeing that below her waist was the body of a horse.

She screamed. But nobody heard her.

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One hour later, she was trotting around her floor testing out her four new legs (In the tower block she lived in, every floor was one very large apartment, as opposed to there being several small apartments per floor as many other blocks had.) She could only vaguely remember how to use two legs! On the other hand, that made the process easier. She didn't need to 'forget' how to walk with two feet. The first thing she had noticed besides the changes to her own body was that all the windows on her floor had been blown in. Her wheelchair lay crumpled in a heap in the corner of her room. In fact, she herself had woken up on the floor.

Besides the horse's body, another change had occurred to Eilidh; she was younger. In fact, she had the upper body of her teenage self. Her short, white hair was not long and curly. Of course, this would mean having to once again find something fashionable to wear. She naturally did not have clothing befitting a teenager currently in her possession. The most fitting thing she found was a tight, dark top with a shoulder missing. It was reasonably hip. She also used a clip-around skirt to hide the 'transitional area' between her hips and the horse's body. Looking herself in the mirror, she liked what she saw, but it still needed more...youth! Plus the horse's body itself was a bit plain. She should dress it it up a bit. The only appropriate thing was a circular silk table decoration. It would have to do. She also tied a ribbon in her tail, for all the difference that made, and also tied one in her hair, which she was begging to find annoying left loose, and she hadn't the patience to straighten it. As for the 'youth', she found some warm, very modern fingerless gloves in her bottom drawer. They were a present she received in her forties, back when she was clinging on to the last shreds of being able to dress modern. She'd never worn them in her life. She put them on now.

Grabbing her credits, she nodded at her reflection. Ready to hit the city! She moved her arms as if to reverse her wheelchair, and they brushed her hairy horse body. It would still take some getting used to...

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Trotting down the street, Eilidh had fallen into the trotting rhythm. Walking on four legs wasn't as hard as she'd have thought once she knew how. Of course, nobody recognised her. Nobody tried to. Everywhere she looked, changes had occurred to everyone, and not all of them were success stories. The streets were gruesome. The roads were filled with debris. It was truly starting to feel like day one of the post-apocolypse.

The Nomad, a sci-fi epic.

@Elevation

That works!