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Danger! (Been So Long) Let's Get Ready!; Those signed up. Others PM to join.
Topic Started: Oct 24 2013, 02:23 AM (1,711 Views)
Reverselle
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Time: 3:15 PM
Date: September 21st, 2013
Location: Danger Room


Elle was not sure how she'd wound up being roped into this group activity. She knew most of the other teenagers assembled here, but she wouldn't exactly call them friends. She wasn't sure she wanted to call them teammates, either. "So, are we, like, getting graded on this? What does this even fall under? PE credits?" The thought of how to explain mutant training courses while applying for a normal college almost made her burst into laughter. The realization that they probably expected her - and most students - to stay here all the way through college helped sober her up.

She'd been given the tour, and used some of the other facilities down here, but she'd never been in the actual Room while it was in use. Much less had it used on her. Elle had no idea what to expect, but at least she knew who to blame if things went bad. Two of the non-teens she'd met here were in charge today. She wasn't sure she trusted them any more than the kids in here with her, but it could have been worse. She'd heard Cyclops tended to run these things, before.

Elle shivered at the idea.

Sticking her hands into her jacket pockets, all she could do was wait for things to start. She was fairly comfortable in her training outfit - it wasn't the silliest thing she'd been forced to wear in public, after all. Seeing the other kids in matching uniforms made it a bit more comfortable, too. Elle wasn't exactly sure what the others were capable of (although the foreign kid made out of metal was pretty obvious), but she assumed they'd all figure that out pretty soon.
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If there was one thing she had to say about her uniform, she probably say it was...okay. She wasn't used to it, the look or feel, but then again, everyone else had pretty much the same thing. So it dampened the awkwardness of having it on. This was also her first time wearing the uniform to. Biting her lip, Payton had to look around, some sort of habit she picked up. When or where had been lost to her, but she checked her surroundings all the same.

How long had she been here? She'd gotten in at around the second or third of this month, if she had to guess. The days were starting to blur together and for her that was not a good thing. On a personal level at least, seeing as it was hard enough to track hours when you're doing something. However if she had to guess how long, she'd say roughly three weeks.

Three entire weeks of being in New York and though she had gotten used to the Mansion, she had yet to get used to the people. Sure, she had made a sort-of friend in Elle, who she could see had arrived before her, but other than that had generally stuck to herself, her phone which she could often be seen texting her parents, or her Chromebook that she brought along with her.

The Cryo was still having to adjust her "cold-output" as she had known it for the past three years, and had to somehow defrost a piece of her Chromebook for the second time this week. Thankfully it had only been the screen bit, and not near anything that actually ran the stupid miniature laptop.

Now Payton was in the Danger Room. For a group get together or something. While perfectly fine with skipping out on it, something in her told her her it would be a bad idea. For whatever reason, she did not want to isolate herself to just a few friends, the norm for her at her previous school. Friends that she still tried to stay in touch with, though found it harder and harder to do with each week that passed. She knew she'd still remember them to some extent, but feared on perhaps a subconscious level that they would eventually become nothing more than that. Memories which some of her elementary and even middle school friends had unfortunately become.

Knowing that her nerves were getting to her again, she focused on making herself as calm, relaxed, and yet aware as possible. This was, after all, going to be training if she did hear correctly. She didn't know what to expect, and so decided to step back mentally and wait and see what happens.
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Aaron
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He'd done this a couple of times now, and every time he seemed to learn something new. This time, however, was the first time he'd been set up with multiple students, so this would be a wholly new experience for him. What was really surprising was that he knew most everyone involved in the exercise - there was his roommate Micah, and a girl he'd met at the pool one day, Elle. The others, he wasn't sure about. Might have passed them a time or two in the hall or something, but he couldn't put names to faces. Well, he'd know them before long.

It didn't seem like anyone was too keen on talking right now, which was weird because Micah was around and generally the Scot couldn't stop talking. Maybe he was nervous? Had he done this before? Even though they were roommates, he didn't feel like they shared that much. He did seem to recall that he'd done something with one of the X-Men once, but the specifics escaped him right now. He could ask after this was over.

In thinking about the exploits of his roommate, Aaron found himself wondering if he was the most experienced person here. He had been through quite a lot in the time he'd been here. He was oddly calm about this whole thing, too. Stretching his arm up over his head, he glanced at the other students, deciding to break the silence.

"So...anyone else ever done this before?"

Ice breakers. His needed work.
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Charm
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Aaron need not be concerned much about his roommate who was currently making a show of stretching out his metal limbs, bending his his arms back over his shoulder to touch the curve of his own spine. Unlike some others in the group, Micah had already been exposed to the Danger Room to test his bodily limits, making him self-assured in his abilities in addition to the confidence he already held for how he looked in the tight-fitting uniform.

Looking fit in a leather suit wasn't going to help him by any combative means, but he'd take a date over a win in a fight any day.

Although slim, Micah towered over the rest of the group, especially the girls, the tops of their heads barely level with his shoulder. He liked women of all shapes and sizes, but his preference was small and cute and not flipping him the bird when he flirted with them. If he was basing his dating pool on that observation alone, he was going to have to go to a different mutant school in a different country.

"Ach, don't yer worry ladies, I've done this before," winking at the young women in the group flirtatiously, Micah tapped the knuckles of his left hand on the part of his forearm that wasn't covered by a null cuff, the skin-to-skin contact making a clink clink of solidarity. "Ain' nothin' gettin' through this," he drawled, looking up expectantly at the control room.

Recently learning that he was near indestructible had certainly put more swagger in his step than usual. Micah had certainly expected to withstand above average levels of damage, but the tests Colossus had put him through had only given new fuel to his previously lagging morale.

He purposely neglected to mention shrieking like a wee lass during his first session; Micah would leave that between him and the good Creator.
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Evvy
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"Oh yes, but its been maybe four years? Things probably have changed since then..." Evvy replied, scanning the room with interest. Today she was just going to focus on getting accustomed to the DR again, not to mention the uniform. The uniforms had their good points, but they took getting used to. Her team work skills were definitely rusty, too, but it would take more than a single session to work on that.

This was going to be an exciting session, whatever the task. She was pretty sure her involvement was going to be a test of her current skill level. Not just hers, she'd just been put into the group last moment, but she doubted they'd waste the opportunity to find out where her placement should be.

She'd trained with her powers quite often the past year, but that was alone, in the mountains. Nothing like the facilities here despite the rigors of living she'd faced. Nothing like working with a team of well trained mutants - or half trained mutants. Since she'd met only two of them, and then only briefly, she was pretty clueless on that front. She knew next to nothing about the kids she was going to be training with. Something that maybe they should do something about.

"Before we start, what do you all... do?" she asked, figuring that it was best to get that all sorted out now, before things got started. Normally she'd have checked things like that out ahead of time, but she'd only returned to the school the day before and she really hadn't had time. Since she'd asked and it was only fair she went first, she volunteered, "My codename's Briar, but you can call me Ev outside the DR. I manipulate plants. Pretty self explanatory..."
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"Alright, everyone, come on in," Rahne said to the older kids in her class as she led the group of them into the Danger Room's control center. Excitement buzzed around them, grins and barely-contained enthusiasm all around. This was different from your typical field trip - no nature walk here, no art museum, none of that. This was the Danger Room, something most of them had never seen, especially from this angle.

"Alright, file on in, an' take yuir seats over there," she said, pointing to the few chairs set up at the end of the control room, allowing for a small group to spectate on a Danger Room session.

"So everybody knows where we are, an' what's about t' go down here. Does anyone know how the room works?" Rahne asked, leaving the floor open to her students.

"Um... holograms... and robots?" one of the kids answered, in that unsure, questioning way that kids are sometimes prone to answer in.

"Aye. Which means that no matter how believable things look down there, it's nae truly real. The possibility of gettin' hurt down there is real, aye, but that's what I'm up here for - t' make sure that someone's got their hand on the kill switch should it get bad."

"Kill switch?" another one asked, a look of concern crossing his face.

"That just means I flip the switch an' the program ends, that's all. Not that it'll kill 'em down there, ye great goof," she said with a slight smirk and a shake of her head. "Now, let's say hullo to our team down there."

Rahne took her seat at the control panel, and took a moment to look things over. She had never been the most technologically inclined of people, but this she knew how to do.

"Good afternoon, team," she spoke into the microphone, before remembering she could flip the switch that would project camera feed of the control room into the Danger Room. "I know I'm not yuir regular instructor, but I'll be fillin' in so the kids can get a good look at how the Room operates. Say hullo to the team, class."

The camera swiveled over and the kids greeted in their own way, some waving politely, some taking the opportunity to ham it up for the camera.

The camera made its way back to Rahne, who nodded her head.
"Alright, yuir exercise today is survival," she said, taking a moment to look over the keyboard before she tapped in the sequence that would start the selected program up. Immediately, the environment around them shifted and changed, cold hard steel melting away in favor of soft greens, sunlight filtered through the dense greenery of a cretaceous jungle. Animal sounds that most of the world hadn't heard for millions of years echoed all around them, and next to the team lay the wreckage of a small flying vehicle.

"Welcome t' the Savage Land, a Cretaceous jungle preserved against time itself deep in the Antarctic. The lot of you were on an exploratory mission to scout out an uncharted section of the jungle to the southwest of our Utopia base when a malfunction brought yuir vehicle down. Communications are down, an' ye're good an' lost. So now, ye've got t' make yuir way back to base, preferably before dark. Stick together, defend each other, stay safe. The dinosaurs will do their best t' separate ye. Dinnae ye let that happen."

Rahne nodded her head sharply, and then the holographic projection of her flickered out of existence, leaving the team on their own in the jungle. The cool temperature of the room was all but gone, leaving things humid and hot, just like the Savage Land.

"Yuir simulation begins now," her voice announced over the airwaves, the only thing breaking the integrity of the illusion. "Good luck."

And then, her voice was gone. The team was on its own now.
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[size0]Say the dog and butterfly,
in the air they like to fly.
Dog and butterfly.
She knew she had to try,
and she float back down to the warm soft ground,
laughing - she don't know why,
but she had to try, she had to try.
Dog and Buttefly.


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Reverselle
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The first one of them to speak up was the one she knew the least about. "I saw it on the tour, and I've used other stuff down here, but never this thing." She was a bit relieved to hear two of them piping up with their own experiences. Elle had been a bit put off by Micah's attitude at first, but he was mostly harmless. She'd warmed up to him a bit after some of his goofy antics. His power was obvious enough, and there didn't seem to be any hidden depth to his desire to flirt and joke around. He used to be famous, he wanted to be popular again. As long as he kept his shiny hands to himself, he was fine.

Evelyn's input wasn't surprising, after what Elle had learned while meeting her and that green nurse. Then the question of what they could all do came up. She wasn't sure of the extent of Payton's powers, but she didn't seem too dangerous, as long as you were wearing warm clothing. The unknown guy from the pool, she thought she'd seen him doing some sort of party trick with a ball of light, but she hadn't gotten a good look.

"I just make sure things don't hit me. That's all y-" She cut off with a yelp, as Rahne's voice boomed out of nowhere, followed by her image appearing. Elle stepped away from the projection of teacher and students, eyes wide. "Survival? I thought this thing was supposed to be safe!?"

And then, the world changed. She wasn't sure how to react to suddenly being in a jungle, but at least the out of place projection gave her something to focus on. She tried to remind herself that this wasn't real, in the few moments she had before Rahne's image disappeared again. "...dinosaurs? And a jungle in the Arctic? We're in some kinda bad sci fi movie. Who thought this up?"

She used both hands to flap her jacket a bit, stirring up air. "Oh my god, why is it so hot!?" Elle's tone was tilting towards a whine. "We're totally not dressed for this."
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"I'm Frigid, er, Payton outside here." Payton spoke up after Briar did, though her voice tended to not carry far. "I control ice." She didn't think much one or the other about Briar/Ev, or either of the two guys. At least not yet. She knew, now, a bit about what Elle could do. Hadn't she told her before when they met at the cafeteria? She didn't remember much from that day, or even what she had for lunch two days ago. Either way, now she knew both what Elle did -a bit, though she wasn't going to ask for a better explanation- and what Briar did. God let her be nice because plants and cold don't mix well. At all unless they were the sort to survive that, like evergreens and lichen or whatever that grew in the...Antarctic. Yeah.

She was jolted out of her thoughts at sound of a voice belonging to yet another person she barely knew. Great. With a mental sigh she listened in on what was about to happen, which their not-usual-instructor person explained.

Frigid, as she would probably be known as in this room, tensed. The room was getting warm and humid. Bad. She shared similar thoughts with Elle on this, survival training to. However it had more to do with the temperature, and how the sudden change in environment would effect everyone else here.

Thankfully she didn't have a jacket on. She felt her cold-output slip a little, covering about an inch or two around where she was standing. She managed to keep it from going any farther, but that just meant the temperature within that small area dropped further.

How hot was this Savage Land? She felt like she could die already if it weren't for the cold within and around her. A jungle with dinosaurs, in the Antarctic, get to their destination before "dark" without getting separated. The way it was explained made it sound so easy, yet she knew it would be anything but.

"Bad sci-fi indeed." She muttered as the voice and image of their instructor vanished.
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Aaron
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It was starting to look like he really was the most experienced among the little group, with the exception of that girl, Ev. Or Briar. Briar was a little easier to remember, he supposed. Great. Hopefully he wasn't expected to take any sort of leadership role in this little exercise. "Oh, well...okay then," he said as a sort of sweeping response to everyone's statements. "Oh, and I'm Aaron...I don't really have a codename. So...just Aaron." Sighing quietly, he fell back into silence as he waited for the simulation to start. He didn't have to wait long. Rahne Russell's image appeared, explaining what they were going to be doing today. A survival exercise. That was a new one on him.

As the Danger Room did it's thing and changed the world around them, Aaron got that sudden head rush that he always seemed to get when the holographic trickery the room employed kicked in. It passed soon enough, allowing him to focus on where they were now. To listen to Wolfsbane explain it, it did sort of seem like a setting from a bad science fiction movie. A tropical jungle in the middle of the iciest part of the planet. And dinosaurs. Right. Making a note to ask Noriko about this place when he saw her again, he took in everything he could about where they were.

Okay, Rahne said we were southwest of the base...so we need to head northeast to get back, right?

Simple logic told him that was the right answer. Now he just had to determine which way was northeast. He had a little bit of training with orienteering, but when he looked to the sun to try and determine where it was in the sky, he realized that trick wouldn't work here. This was the far south of the world - the rules that applied back home were meaningless here.

"Great..." he muttered to himself, looking back down at the rest of the team. One girl was complaining about how hot it was, while the other had frozen part of the ground around her. Seemed like an easy fix. "Uh, Payton, right? Do you think you can keep us cool? I'm gonna look in the ship and see if there's anything we can use...compass or somethin'. Unless someone can get above the trees and spot the base..."

He wasn't really trying to take charge of the situation. It was more that he was thinking out loud. If the others interpreted what he was saying as him trying to lead everyone, that was their prerogative, but he didn't really want to be put in that position. Making his way to the wreckage, the photokinetic looked it over, waving a bit of smoke out of his face as he did so. Was there anything in there?
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Charm
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After everyone had somewhat introduced themselves and their abilities, Mrs. Russell's face appeared on a screen overhead, revealing that in addition to her observation over the session that her own students would be watching. Micah waved jovially to the kids, the video feed picking up all of his sparkly complexion. Only the fact that there would be an audience fully filtered into the metal teen's mind, looking nonplussed when Rahne mentioned that today's simulation would involve survival.

The clean and polished interior of the Danger Room rippled, giving way to beautiful greens and strong, clear sunlight beating down in an ancient rainforest. However, unlike some of the present company, the drastic rise in temperature went almost unnoticed by Micah, his internal homeostasis fairly regular unless if the atmosphere around him crept into the thousands of degrees.

"It's a mite stuffy in here, innit?" he remarked, observing at least the change in humidity. As if summoning a waitress, the young man waved a sparkling metal hand in the direction of where Mrs. Russell's image had once been. "Oi! Can we get a wee bit o' air conditionin', miss?" A beat passed with no result, and Micah shrugged,"No? Awrite then.."

He was a little surprised to see that Aaron was so quick to move to action once they all got their bearings straight, suggesting that Payton make use of her cold manipulating abilities to keep the sweat off their brow.

"There's a lad with a plan," Micah interjected, looking curiously to the girl that he should be calling Frigid now. "Ye can make stuff cold, yeah? Ooh ye can make me in t'one of those whatyercall'em, Chillow! Just one snuggle and heat no more, eh?"

"Ladies?" he teased, beckoning to himself with a hand, wiggling his eyebrows particularly in Evvy's direction.

Despite Micah's tendency to look at the world more optimistically than most, the actual situation was awkward; he had already tried to flirt with the chlorokinetic earlier today and she had shot him down hard. He assured himself that he was lovable and she would come around with some convincing. Evvy only needed to be persuaded with his good looks and charm.

"Ach, how rude, forgot to introduce myself," Micah added, jabbing a silver thumb towards himself. "Micah, but ye can call me Charm," he finished with smile, his grin turning serious as he followed up with,"But don' call me Sparkles, ye ken?"

He could never keep a straight face.

"Naw, I'm just'kiddin', ye can call me what yer want."

With his roommate rummaging around in the wreckage of their defunct ship, Micah decided to look like he too had some kind of plan and walked over heavily to join Aaron at the wreckage.

"Find anythin'?" he asked, looking curiously at the ship and poking at the exterior panels firmly with a metal finger.
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A woman's voice was heard moments before they could see her, from the control room. Ev didn't disguise her interest as the woman spoke, tried to weigh what she'd heard from the other students against the scenario, and tried to remember if she'd ever heard about the Savage Land. She thought she might have a long time ago, some students went there at some point- she hadn't come along. She hadn't been with the school when they all went to that base and hadn't yet heard the details of that time.

Briar wasn't sure what she expected when she signed up, but it wasn't this. This was better. At least, that was what she thought until she saw the dismay on most of the students face and heard the varied complaints. She toned it down a little, and restrained her enthusiasm with a serious demeanor. The truth was she was excited about this entire thing, although she was apprehensive as well - from the sound of the complaints these kids didn't have much DR time under their belts.

"Don't worry too much... they wouldn't let us get seriously hurt, that's the point of having someone in the control room. If things get too bad, she'll cut the program," she assured them.

The plant manipulator was scanning the immediate area and contemplating their position when Aaron spoke up with his suggestions. "As good an idea as any," she agreed. The boys began rummaging through the mess of the wreckage. A thought occurred to her. "We ought to get away from the crash site soon, though. The noise it would've caused might have scared off the local wildlife for a bit, but somethings bound to investigate what caused it. Maybe scavengers."

"I volunteer to get a look around, by the way," she said, putting a hand on a smooth tree trunk. The nearest branches were several meters above their heads, but as she spoke the sleek bark roughened, formed hand holds, and toughened.

She only laughed and shook her head at Micah's attempts at flirting with her. "I like the heat just fine," was all she said before she started climbing. The idea was to get up, get a bearing on things, and get down as fast as possible. Surely they would be fine while she was up there. Just a few minutes. Climbing was one thing she was particularly good at, with her practice, and her head for heights wasn't bad.
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"Heh, bad sci-fi," Rahne muttered to herself. She forgot sometimes that this world was strange and new to some of them. That it was something alien, something they were experiencing for the first time. This was meant to be a relatively inhospitable environment for them - unpleasant to a degree, but not unsurvivable. SHe and many others, including a good number of the kids in this room, had lived there for the better part of a year, survived it just fine despite the horrors that lurked under the surface.

Horrors that, luckily for them, would not be coming up to confront them in this simulation. They would not have to deal with the Brood, or the Skrull. They would have to make intelligent decisions, they would have to watch each others' backs, and they would be just fine. This was not meant to be a particularly brutal simulation, one scaled down for the lack of experience the kids had.

"Are they gonna have to fight dinosaurs, Miss Rahne?" one of the kids asked, and she glanced back over her shoulder to him.

"They might. There are certainly a few dinosaurs out there," she answered, glancing over her shoulder at him.

"That would be awesome."

Aaron would find that a few of the supplies had failed to survive the crash, namely food supplies and some cracked-open bottles of water, but that was likely due to the fact that digitally rendered snacks and drinks would be completely un-nourishing. He would find, however, a small device that could strap onto the wrist, much like a watch, but a bit larger, and with a speaker on it. Turning it on would yield a sort of a radar screen that displayed the positions of the other members of the team, and a radius outside that. A motion detector.

As Evvy climbed up, she would find the jungle canopy dense, but thankfully, the impact of their own shuttle had thrashed a clearing open in the treeline, a treeline that, even though it was digital, was programmed to respond to Evvy's influence as if it was biological. The view was spectacular, to say the least. A herd of brachiosaurs could seen out in the distance, their heads barely poking above the treeline. Pterosaurs circled the sky above like large, reptilian eagles, drifting on air currents with periodic flaps keeping them bouyant.

Several ancient temples were barely visible amid the density of the jungle, peeking out over the trees, decrepit and in disrepair, alien in design and far older than anything officially discovered by archaeologists. Only one temple had evidence of recent activity - satellite dishes affixed to the roof, an antennae/solar panel matrix and the faint glow of an energy dome surrounding it - Utopia, the X-Men's home away from home. That was their destination.

For the moment, they were safe. Aaron's recently-found motion detector found nothing heading their way, and if any of the creatures Evvy would be able to see in the distance had noticed them, they hadn't taken any action against them - yet.
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[size0]Say the dog and butterfly,
in the air they like to fly.
Dog and butterfly.
She knew she had to try,
and she float back down to the warm soft ground,
laughing - she don't know why,
but she had to try, she had to try.
Dog and Buttefly.


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Elle gave up on trying to fan herself after a few moments, sighing in defeat. "I don't think she has, like, much range." She wasn't standing too far away from Payton, and didn't feel any sort of chill yet. Last time she'd had to grab the mutant by the wrist before she noticed anything. She'd learned there were plenty of kids at the school with seemingly useless powers, so maybe Payton wasn't as strong as the other people she'd met at that frosty cafeteria table.

Micah's comments earned an eye roll from her, but she wasn't really bothered. "Dazzler's already taken, I think. Maybe Glitter?" She snickered, smiling. He had already walked off, though, joining the other boy by the vehicle. Some sort of sci fi plane thing. They seemed to know each other fairly well, and she'd seen them talking at the pool that day as well. Had they trained together, too?

"Well, the plane thing's butt is pointing that way." Elle helpfully pointed that direction, toward the broken and battered trees. "And there's a bunch of trees knocked over and stuff. So, I'm guessing it came from over there." Evelyn had already scampered up a tree to confirm this for herself. Something about that left Elle scratching her head.

"...wait, how can you do anything to the plants in here? They're not real." She frowned as she walked toward the vehicle to join the others, aiming for the rear section. Would she be able to affect things in here, if they weren't really flying at her? If gravity wasn't really pulling them down?
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Payton frowned, concentrating on simply letting her hold on her freezing touch, or whatever else it could be called, go. She didn't want it to be too cold, or ice cube making cold, but she did want it to be cool enough to help the others out.

"I think I can do it, Elle." She answered the other girl's comment on her ice ability. "I just dunno how far, cause the farther it is, the less cold it'll get." And since she'd been suppressing it for a good minute or so now, it would probably stretch to the two guys in their group. Probably. She wouldn't know unless they said something about it.

While the guys were searching the vehicle, and Briar was scouting. Guess her job was to be the air conditioner of the group and make sure no one fainted from heat exhaustion. Payton, now feeling it cool enough for her to not suddenly die from the temperature spike, felt in a good mood for once.

"Nah, Dazzler sounds like those bedazzle whatchamacallits and Glitter's girly sounding. Wouldn't want anyone to think 'e was a girl, now would we?." Walking closer to the plane thing, yet still keeping a distance so that she'd hopefully reach Elle who had moved further away, the teen took a minute to scan the area around them herself from where she stood.

It wasn't that she didn't trust Briar, though she'd be within reason not to, but she thought it better to have more than one pair of eyes when it came to something like this. Hearing a faint crack, she looked down at her uniform, seeing little ice crystals had formed on it from moments earlier when she couldn't keep all the cold she was generating internal. The bits of ice forms at the ends of her sleeves and traveled randomized paths across her entire uniform, making it look like one big snowflake.

Her expression dropped. Great. Now how was she to get this off?

"Kay so we know what direction we came from, now how about gettin' to wherever it is we need to go?" If they could find the direction, they shouldn't have too much of a problem getting there unless a dinosaur happened to cross their path. If that happened, well, she guessed they'd deal with that bridge when they got to it.
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"Oh, I don't know, I think I prefer 'Captain Shinybuns'," Ev called down to the other girls, as she left them below. The rest of their conversation became muted and then completely out her range of hearing as she climbed higher. There was a strangely satisfactory burn in her arms and legs as she climbed, though she had altered the bark - it was a long way to the top. If she hadn't been in excellent shape, the climb would have been a very difficult one.

The view from the top was amazing. The dinosaurs flying in the distance, the ancient stone structures, one of which had to be their destination. It had to be the one with the satellites and all that attached to it. It was going to be quite a trek to make it there on foot, in the jungle... dinosaurs and hazards aside.

While she was surveying their destination, some kind of flying disaster flew at her. Briar let go of the branch she was holding, and for a terrifying moment she was falling. The branches of the canopy whipped around to catch her, and her fall was halted with little more than a few bruises to show for it. Trees weren't known for being soft.

Like a hound listening for a whistle, Micah knew when he was being discussed, winking mischievously at Aaron before making a quick turn on his heel and heavily swaggering back in the direction to their original drop site and to the tree that Evvy was currently ascending.

"What's tha', eh? Captain Shinybuns! Yer been lookin' at m'bum in this uniform, Evvy?" he called, putting a little more perk in his step to exaggerate the movement of his backside.

The cheery look on his face quickly darkened as shadow blotted out the sky--a pterosaur gliding on its massive leathery wings was swooping in, releasing a prehistoric trill before trying to snap at the top of the trees where Micah assumed Evvy must be. Panic and the desire to prove himself kicked in, and without weighing the potential outcome the metal teen was running, the density of his footsteps making the ground quake almost perceptibly with every impact.

"Oi! Bugger off, you!" Micah shouted to the ancient creature that was now hovering near the treetops.

He clumsily threw himself up to the lowest branch which groaned under his burden, scrambling at its surface for some kind of grip. Although Micah was in good shape, climbing trees was certainly nothing he was accustomed to, and by the time he reached a height to start swatting at the pterosaur, it was becoming aggressive, screeching loudly and prodding into the branches to get the prey that had escaped.

"Off with ye! Go on!" Gripping a limb with his knees for balance, the Scot swung roughly at the flying dinosaur when it tried to shuffle closer into the branches. The knuckles of his fist lightly tapped the probing beak and Micah glimpsed one reptilian orange eye peering at him with fury before the pelican-like bill reared back and grabbed him by the arm.

Screaming at a higher pitch than his attacker's screech as he was dragged from the branches and into mid-air, Micah flailed helplessly as the pterosaur tried to take flight with its shiny prize. Unfortunately for them both, the flying reptile had underestimated exactly how heavy the tungsten mutant was. Refusing to let go, the pterosaur attempted to flee, struggling with a few weak wing beats to get some altitude before it tipped backwards and plummeted back down into some prehistoric foliage in the distance, both predator and prey shrieking in terror the entire way.

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