Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 2:51 pm**

Alex scowled as he sulked out of the detention party onto the lawn. Well that wasn't a waste of an afternoon or anything.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 2:56 pm**

Brigid steps out onto the grounds, apparently also in a foul mood. She looks over her shoulder back at the building, wary of Sid and Wayne coming out.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 3:01 pm**

Alex kicked at a rather large rock, which went bouncing across the lawn a bit with a loud 'clang'. A second later, the steel transformation spread up to his visible skin. Apparently someone had been practicing.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:17 pm**

"I think the groundskeepers already kinda hate us," she says to Alex.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:28 pm**

"It'll give me something to clean up tomorrow," he said. "Wouldn't want to be bored any more than we'd want me to stop assholes from beating up blind girls, y'know?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:34 pm**

"Yeah, well, I kinda... missed out on that."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:41 pm**

"Yeah, weird rumors going around about that," Alex shot back at her. "Can't possibly be true, though, right?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:49 pm**

"I... it... really depends on the rumor?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:56 pm**

"Oh, just something about you sneaking off on an X-Men mission. Because, y'know, I'd hope that you'd think that maybe you'd think someone who could turn into fucking metal would be a little more useful than someone who could breathe underwater. Y'know, in a dinosaur-filled jungle."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 6:59 pm**

She sighs.

"We weren't planning on going far from the plane. Even then, Miss Kaltiera almost spotted us a few times. It just... got really screwed up."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 7:09 pm**

Alex just scowled and went to kick the rock again.

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 7:40 pm**

"It was a bad idea, okay? I've already heard that from everyone. I get that."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 7:53 pm**

"No, no, I really am that fucking useless. Everyone knows it by now."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 7:59 pm**

"Oh come on, Alex. I'm already, like, grounded for life here."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:10 pm**

That seemed to catch Alex off guard a little. "What's that got to do with anything?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:14 pm**

"After we missed the plane, I had to go to my parents. I really screwed up here. Now I'm probably never going to get to take my friends there."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:17 pm**

"...We're here for nine months out of the year. Being in trouble at home doesn't really do much to us."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:18 pm**

"...well it's not like Kay's the only one I wanted to visit me sometimes."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:20 pm**

"Yeah, I'm sure Theresa was on the list, too."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:22 pm**

"Oh geez, why do you have to be so dumb about this?"

"You! So I don't, you know, go crazy this summer."

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:27 pm**

"What, I'm supposed to think you're going to have any more use for me over the summer than you do here?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:28 pm**

"What do you even mean, use?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:38 pm**

"Well how often do you actually talk to me about anything? I mean, for god's sake, you're going off to the middle of a bunch of dinosaurs and whatever else the X-Men were there for, and you don't think that maybe, just maybe, I might be a little useful?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:40 pm**

"I don't care if you're useful. I was hoping you'd get to visit during the summer because I like you, you big dumb jerk!"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:42 pm**

"So act like it! You think it feels like you like me when I find out you hitchhiked across the world because I have to tell everyone that I didn't even know you were doing it, much less why?"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:44 pm**

"I'm sorry, okay? It was dumb! I nearly got my best friend eaten by dinosaurs, and Kay cried the whole way home!"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:46 pm**

"And don't you think I could have helped you? I want to help you! I'm not fucking useless! I don't know why everyone thinks I'm fucking useless!"

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2014 10:48 pm**

"I don't think you're useless! I just... I really didn't think this through!"

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 3:59 pm**

"Obviously!" Say what you will about detentions, but Alex still didn't seem to be on the same page about going being a bad decision itself.

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 4:04 pm**

"And believe me, I get that. I got it from Miss Kaltiera and Mister Gabriel, I got it from my dad, and now I'm getting it from you."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 5:47 pm**

"Oh for... do you really think I'm saying you shouldn't have gone?"

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 5:52 pm**

"I'm saying I shouldn't have gone. Not with you, or anyone."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 5:57 pm**

"Oh the hell with that," Alex said. "I'm sick of them treating us like we're a bunch of babies that they're managing to shelter that haven't already gotten thrown into a bunch of crazy shit and proven we could deal with it."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:06 pm**

"Yeah, well I'm one of the ones that's pretty much ruining it for the rest."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:08 pm**

"Oh forget what they're saying and what your dad's saying and all of that crap. What are they going to do? Give us detention? Send stern letters? Wow, how could we EVER handle that. I mean, getting kidnapped by mad scientists and body swapped and all kinds of other crap is NOTHING compared to THAT..."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:17 pm**

"Well it kind of gets in the way when I'm trying to convince them to ever let me have friends over."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:49 pm**

At that, Alex couldn't help smirk. "Have you told him you're dating me? Wouldn't that turn things around to him insisting he has to meet me to threaten me and stuff like that?"

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:51 pm**

"Ooookay, you realize he's still on campus this week?"

"You're totally asking him to yank you out of your dorm window at night."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 6:52 pm**

"Well dont' tell him NOW, save that for when you're desperate for company this summer."

"...Besides, the way you make him and your brother sound, I'd need some handy dinosaurs to help me impress them."

Posted: **Fri May 23, 2014 7:09 pm**

"Okay, can I, like, veto the beating up dinosaurs bit?"

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