Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:55 pm**

Brett sat buckled into one of the seats of the Blackbird. He seemed calm, but the way he repeatedly ran his index finger over the business end of his brass knuckles gave away his nerves.

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:35 pm**

"Nervous, laddie?"

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:44 pm**

"Hm? No, I'm not! Err, I mean, I am taking this seriously, though."

"...okay, a little nervous."

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:21 pm**

"We ride to battle, young sir. Nothing more glorious. Keep your head up.

Is it your first?"

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:33 pm**

"No, I've been in a few fights before. But never quite this far from home, and not against someone like Apocalypse."

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:36 pm**

"Ah, of course. Well, types like him don't show up every day, now, do they?"

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:38 pm**

"No, thank God. What about you, do you have any experience against people like this?"

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:59 pm**

Roland smiled, ruefully.

"Some."

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:41 pm**

"Any advice you could give me?"

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:30 am**

"Don't die."

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:39 pm**

Brett just laughed.

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:57 pm**

"I'm serious! It's served me well."

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:57 pm**

"So far. And how long has that been?"

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:13 pm**

"For some time now."

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:37 pm**

"If you're hoping for straight answers you're barking up the wrong tree, Mr. Wakely." Nailah comments from the next seat over, sounding amused.

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:41 pm**

"Said the actress to the bishop."

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:24 pm**

Nailah Weaver wrote:"If you're hoping for straight answers you're barking up the wrong tree, Mr. Wakely." Nailah comments from the next seat over, sounding amused.

"I've kind of noticed. Is he the professor of riddles and evasion?"

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:52 pm**

"The professors all share that position," Sean said his eyes closed.

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:52 pm**

Brett just smirked, then unbuckled himself from the seat and stood up. "Excuse me, I think I need to walk around for a minute."

He got up and searched Kaylee, who was apparently out of her own seat at the moment.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:35 am**

Kaylee was leaning back against a wall, arms folding down at her mid-section. She was obviously lost in thought. When she noticed Brett she smiled, giving him a little wave.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:38 am**

"Hey. Glad you're back with us," he said, smiling. "Sorry I didn't get to catch up with you sooner."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:06 am**

"It's alright. Not too big of a deal. I didn't really tell a lot of people I had left anyway."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:14 am**

He nodded. "I'm just glad that you seem to be all right. So, you as nervous about this mission as I am?," he asked, lowering his tone.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:24 am**

"More pissed off than nervous really. I just want this over with.." She said, rather determined.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:26 am**

"Hey, at least your team successfully returned your Horseman back to us. Lora...got away," he said, looking down, as he leaned on the same wall that she was on.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:29 am**

"Yeah. That's something I guess. Though the Horsemen are so little the issue..as Apocalypse himself is." She smiled. "Besides, you guys did defeat her. That's a good sign. You guys might of basked in your awesomeness a little too long maybe." She said, trying to cheer him up..even a little.

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:37 am**

"Well, I wasn't expecting Rob to whip up a 'make your own forest' gun. It all went by pretty fast."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:39 am**

She laughed. "That's science for you huh? In any case, let's make sure all this next stuff counts. This guy has got to go down."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:44 am**

"Yup. Now he's bullying around even the little kids at Xavier's. Can't let him do that." He was quiet for a moment. "You went to Xavier's in New York, right?"

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:52 am**

"Hm? No...actually. I never went. It think it would of been nice but where I ended up was fine. It was a lab on Muir Island. They tested my power..and saw all it was capable of. I also learned to control it better and understood exactly what it did."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:04 am**

"So that's where you knew some of the X-Men from. I knew it was something."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:11 am**

"Hm? Yeah. I guess..not like I got to really befriend any of them or something. They had stopped by for awhile and my power was a little more easy to control at that time."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:23 am**

Brett nodded. "I wish I could have been there back then."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:24 am**

She blinked at him. "Huh? Why's that?"

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:28 am**

"So I could have gotten to know you sooner."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:28 am**

She smiled. "Well, that would of been nice."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:35 am**

"You've really helped me become stronger person. So have Lora and Gideon. Not just a better fighter I mean, but...more brave. We'll win both of them back yet."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:43 am**

"I think you were a pretty strong guy to begin with. You just needed some pushing..that's all." She nodded. "I hope so. I'd like to think everyone will be normal again."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:46 am**

Brett looked up at Kaylee's face again, into her eyes, before diverting them away again.

"John's a lucky guy."

Posted: **Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:49 am**

"Haha. I'm gonna at least hope he thinks so. I'm not really all that special.." She said, looking away from Brett now.

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