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Topic Started: Jul 8 2014, 01:26 AM (564 Views)
Sunshine
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Saturday 21st June 2014

2.35pm

Salem Center
McDonalds or Burger King or some other fast-food restaurant...


"Yeah Auntie Jo, I'm eating well..."

Pulling the mobile phone away from his ear briefly and covering the speaker with his hand, Eddie quickly peered from right to left and smirked to himself. It amused him that his aunt could never for the life of her remember that he didn't have to eat, at least not for three days, and that was only if he didn't have enough 'yoo-vee' in his system. He didn't have to eat, but he still liked food. It still had the same chemical effects on the brain as it did to anyone else, telling him how good the double bacon cheese-burger he had just finished had been. Putting the phone back to his ear, Eddie carried on speaking.

"So Emma's doing good at school then?"

Listening to the response from his Aunt Joanne, Eddie took hold of the coke on the table and took a long, slurping sip. Aunt Joanna had become Eddie's sister Emma's legal guardian after the sad demise of their parents. Joanna was older than her deceased brother by nine years and was a widow herself, her late husband Michael passing away over a decade ago. She loved her niece and nephew as if they were her own children, and her concern and devotion to the pair had become even more intense since the terrible and tragic events that had occurred still only a matter of months ago. For Eddie, the car crash had been the most traumatic episode in his young life and he was only just getting used to the idea of his parents being gone. He had tried to make friends since he had arrived at the school, and everyone he'd met had been friendly and nice to him, but the feelings for his parents, the deep senses of loss and sadness he held inside everyday usually came out at night-time when he was alone in his room.

But Eddie wasn't in his room now, he was at the mall. This was his first venture outside of the school to see some of the surrounding area, and it had resulted in a visit to a reasonably busy shopping centre. And he had decided to enjoy a burger when his aunt called. For the third time already that day.

"Well, good I'm glad. Ok, so I s'pose I'll speak to ya' later then, Auntie Jo. Take care, tell Emma I said hello."

The conversation now ended, Eddie put his phone in his pocket and sat up in his seat. It was sweet of his aunt to call him, but he was feeling slightly suffocated from the constant calls. He let out a long sigh.

After loudly sucking the final dregs of coke through the straw and tossing it carefully in the bin opposite, then cleaning up his mess and dumping it with the rest of the garbage, he made his way to the door and headed out into the busy mall.

'Guess I'll go look for some new kicks...' Eddie decided in his mind. Pointing from left to right, turning as he pointed, his glowing yellow eyes narrowing, the young Englishman suddenly turned a severely sharp left and found himself pressed nose-first into a large, muscular man's chest. A large, sweaty, unimpressed muscular man's chest. A large, sweaty, unimpressed muscular man's thin-white vest-adorning chest.

"Watch where you're goin', ya' little maggot!" growled the man, whose lips spat tiny particles of saliva down onto Eddie's face, raining down on his nose and cheeks, the odd bit sprinkling on his lips. Eddie pulled his face back from the man and wiped the Macho-Man sweat from off his brow, before slowly peering up from his modest five-foot six-inch height to look at the man and apologise.

"I'm sorry mate, I'm..." Eddie's apology was interrupted, as the man easily swept Eddie away, pushing the young mutant up against the window of the fast-food restaurant he had just been inside.

"Little punk..." the man snarled with a deep voice that suggested he perhaps smoked in excess of forty or fifty a day, before turning away from the nervous youngster and striding off into the busy mall.

'Phew! Eddie let out the air from his puffed cheeks and wiped his face of any leftover saliva or chest-sweat, watching the man disappear from view. 'Bloody hell, he would've chopped me up, fried me and served me to his pet goldfish for breakfast...' he thought to himself. Turning around he looked inside the restaurant, where right behind him on the other side of the glass, a young couple were staring right into Eddie's thinly-glowing eyes, as still as burger-munching mannequins. Eddie, now feeling completely embarrassed, smiled a narrow smile at the couple, who had just failed to enjoy their lunches whilst having to look at Eddie's scrawny arse pressed up against the window directly in front of them.

"Time to go," Eddie muttered to himself in resignation. Carefully checking around him so as not to walk slap-bang into a big, angry man's semi-naked torso again, he stepped away from the fast-food restaurant window, where on the other-side he had noticed the young couple giggling at him as they stuffed tomato-sauce drenched french-fries into their hungry, laughing mouths.
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Surge
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Lemme grab my jetpack I'm a thousand miles away...

She strode through the mall crowds, impressed with her heelies more than potentially any person had ever been impressed with wheelie-sneakers before in the lives of all the humans in all the world.

So we can be together and together we will stay...

The North Salem mall wasn't anywhere near as interesting as the bodegas and boutiques one could find in Mutant Town, wherein lay entrapped dozens of tiny pockets of mutant-centric commerce, but she had to face it, the best shoes weren't made for booking it five hundred miles an hour in, and so for that sometimes she had to break down and hit up Footlocker.

I'll fly to you in weather if its rain or sleet or snow,

Dog Party blared loud in one ear (the other always kept free for environmental awareness; Logan would give her a silve star [he never gave out gold] for effort), a hectic love song about jetpacks and cuteness and she spied the food court up ahead and realized that she could reaaaally go for some Lo Mein and Pork. Taking a turn with fervor, approached Food Central.

And then stop to hope that I don't fly into a Tornado!

"OHHHHHH!" She belted loudly, uncaring; today was a decent day. Good even. But that came crashing quickly down around her ears as she went barreling into some barrel chested juice junky-type, flying wildly up heel over head before splaying out on the fancy tiled floor with a creased brow and a look of utter embarassment on her face.

"My priiiide." she squeaked, meekly. "My pride it hurts."

"The hell is it with people in this damn mall today!?" The guy cursed, looking down at the Japanese girl with white hair. Luckily the metal leylines that burned blue-white under her skin were concealed by gloves and the sleeves of her hoodie; if this guy was already uneasy, arms full of thunder probably wouldn't help either. "Watch where you're goin!"

"Warukatta!" She sputtered, sitting up and leaning back to look up as the vein in Gigantor's temple threatened to explode from his face and punch her in the nose

"I don't speak anything but English!" He spat.

"Sorry, gosh, chill a sec-" She sputtered

"YOU DAMN KIDS THESE DAYS AIN'T GOT NO RESPECT FOR NOTHIN'" He shouted, and people were looking on.

"Woa, calm the hell down Megatron it was an accident!"

"Gah!" The guy finally shouted, throwing his arms up as he stormed off.

"Hey, calm down, have a mint! Hypertensions the leading cause of heart attack ay know!" She shrugged as he walked off and she pulled herself to her feet, brushing off her bum and checking her mp3 player for anything broken;

"Ah dammit."

Noriko's face scrunched up as she eyed the spider-web cracks in the face of her iPod.

"Hungry and without music..." she muttered. "Day officially downgraded."
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Sunshine
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Walking briskly away from the scene of his embarrassing performance only moments before, Eddie headed off to look for some new shoes with some money that his aunt Joanna had wired him that morning. The episode with Andre The Giant had brought back to him memories of being pushed around in school, when, not knowing how to react and usually thinking about what he should have done in the aftermath, he'd shy and shrink away from most kinds of negative interaction and always back down in a fight.

The only time he'd ever stood up to a bully was the first (and again, only) time Eddie had ever punched a fellow member of the human race in the face. He'd surprised himself that day, filled up to his brow with the solar energy of a sunny day's bicycle-ride, combined with blind fury sparked from feelings of protection for his little sister. Violence wasn’t really something that Eddie enjoyed being involved in. And that was especially true when it came to everyday, gargantuan, sted-head Goliath’s charging around busy malls.
After realising he’d been walking in the wrong direction for a minute or so, Eddie swerved his path to the nearest shop doorway (which happened to be a lingerie store, complete with imposing, sexily-dressed mannequins stood in what looked like painful poses and positions) and turned around to walk back up towards the Food Court.

”YOU DAMN KIDS THESE DAYS…” Eddie recognised the voice he overheard coming from nearby. ”… AIN’T GOT NO RESPECT NOTHIN…”

Was it him, was it? Yep. It was the big guy from before. Eddie caught sight of him in the corner of his eye, off to his immediate left. He also noticed the Japanese girl sprawled on the hard tiled floor, recognising her instantly. Knowing he had to go over to see if Surge, or Noriko, was okay, despite the crazy angry dude being there, Eddie’s nerves increased ten-fold; he hadn’t yet had the opportunity to speak to Surge but he had seen her and some of the other X-Men around the grounds of the X-Mansion, and this was a chance to introduce himself to one of the mutant heroines he himself wanted to emulate.

’Yep, there are definitely better ways to make introductions…' Eddie thought to himself as he slipped past a gasping young woman pushing a pram, almost being driven into in the process, and headed over to the scene. It was indeed a scene, passers-by and lunchers were watching on as the white-haired girl gave some verbals back to the imposing oaf.

”Hey, calm down, have a mint!” Eddie, gradually approaching and now able to hear clearly what was being said, raised his hand to his mouth and giggled a little as the girl went on...

”Hypertension’s the leading cause of heart attack ya’ know!” By this point Eddie was trying his best to not laugh out loud, the sweaty ogre of a man huffing and turning off and away from the scene, pushing past a gasping group of kids who, after ensuring he had sufficed to walk far enough away, showed him their twelve year-old middle fingers before swiftly making their exits.

”Ah dammit,” the Japanese girl said to herself, still down on the cold floor. ”Hungry and without music… Day officially downgraded.”

Eddie, now standing next to Noriko, offered the Japanese girl his hand to help her to her feet.

“Are you okay down there?!”

Eddie was smiling as he spoke, remembering the hilarious wise cracks that Noriko had delivered in the sit-com scene moments earlier.

“That guy was such a nob. It looked like ‘is head was going to literally take-off from ‘is neck when you offered him a mint!” the young Englishman laughed. “Brilliant."

The young man hastened to introduce himself properly. "I'm Eddie, Eddie Campbell, I'm a new student at the school. You need a hand up there Miss Ashida?"
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Surge
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"At the School."

When Noriko had first shown up, to acknowledge it in public, to have it be such common knowledge that 'the school' was indicative of Xavier's, that was unheard of. Most of the townspeople knew, of course, you could only hide so much, but The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youth had been so secretive, so discreet before the Purifiers came calling to tear it down that it was still weird, to her at least, to hear it become such an open air concept. For people to be able to freely admit it rather than convey the notion of their home with something akin to a secret handshake or a sly wink and a nudge.

The next generation was knocking at the door and, despite being only twenty one years of age, Surge felt suddenly old, like a member of the old guard.

The mundane nature of his conversational gait made her smile even as he helped her to her feet.

"I see I need no introduction." Noriko mused, brushing off her knees and bum before straightening the loose necktie she sported. It didn't matter to her that she may have looked like something out of the jPop equivalent of a 90's Avril Lavigne video, she dressed for herself and nobody else.

Stabilized with two feet on terra firma, she stretched and her bold grin bloomed on her features and she looked to the guy who'd come to her side. "Hi!"

Turning her head and craning her neck to catch sight of if big rude and doofish had stalked off well and truly out of harm's way she picked her messenger bag back up, slinging it around her shoulder. "Mall people are such a mixed bag, right? Like, sometimes they're touchy and other times they're just laid back. I dunno. Last time I was in a mall..."

Bittersweet thinking cut her sentence short.

"...well that guy certainly wasn't around."

She looked around the food court, suddenly cured of her hunger. "Blah. I need a new mp3 player now." Turning back to Sunshine, she pursed her mouth for a second before clicking her tongue. "What're you up to?"
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Sunshine
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"I see I need no introduction..."

In his first few weeks at the Institute, Eddie had become more and more amazed and impressed by both the sensational facilities of the grounds, plus also the vast array of talent that his fellow students and the senior staff possessed and demonstrated. For Eddie, mutants who rose to become full X-Men were more than people; they were remarkable examples of true humanity who dedicated their lives to a common goal. In Eddie's mind, the X-Men were a thousand levels ahead of anything he thought he could ever become. And he was in awe of them.

'Nope, the X-Men need no introductions!' Eddie excitedly thought to himself, his eyes wide and lips pursed tightly, as Eddie's imagination ran wild for a moment, the X-Men flashing through his mind in a cool, slow-mo, video stylee. Eddie imagined himself with the uncanny team of heroes, before dismissing the imaginary scene in his head as he helped the enigmatic Noriko to her feet.

The Japanese mutant brushed herself down, Eddie looking on as the girl finished up fixing her necktie before standing upright directly in front of the English lad.

"Hi!"

Eddie beamed a smile at Noriko, as she continued to speak...

"Mall people are such a mixed bag, right? Like, sometimes they're touchy and other times they're just laid back. I dunno. Last time I was in a mall..."

The English mutant carried on smiling as he listened to the Japanese girl. He liked her clothes and her style, and her hair caught the eye immediately. Eddie thought she was, what he would call, 'Proper sound!'

"...well that guy certainly wasn't around."

Eddie checked back to look for their mutual aggressor, his head popping around like a meercat as he peered from left to right, over and around other shoppers in the mall. Realising he was nowhere to be seen, Eddie spoke confidently.

"Yeah, jeez, he was a proper nob 'ead. He towered over me! Bet you could've kicked his arse though..?" Eddie grinned, hoping that Noriko wouldn't think he was trying to inflate her ego in some vague attempt at a compliment. He was, of course.

"Blah. I need a new mp3 player now."

Eddie's face turned from grin to grinch in a nano-second.

"Shit, did he break it?! Eddie shook his head vigorously.

"What a prick. I wonder what his problem was?!" The fact that Noriko's mp3 player had been broken by the big lolloping idiot really annoyed Eddie. He'd always hated seeing bully's bullying, and had always wished that he could do something about it. But that guy, he was definitely too much for Eddie. But then an idea sprang across the Englishman's mind as a light-bulb switched on behind his eyes.

"What're you up to?"

"Well, I was just done eatin', but how would you like to go and find that guy and... well, I'm sure we could play some kind of trick on him to get him back?" Eddie was feeling mischievous, but did wonder if a member of the X-Men would share the feeling and fancy getting her own back on Mr. Bully...
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Surge
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When Noriko Ashida had come to Xaviers, she was fifteen, drug addicted, and had no love for authority figures. Escaping the weighty and oppressive machinations of her own father, which in retrospect weren't the worst possibility until her mutation reared its head, had instilled a rebellious streak in her.

That streak made her no friends at Xavier. She pushed people away, said things she didn't mean to insure her own solitude. She'd been just as miserable in that first year of school, healthier, but still miserable. When she was younger, she might have indulged this kid's desire for payback, but Surge didn't need that sort of validation anymore; she had the power of one of nature's wildest natural phenomena rifling through her body. She could shape it to her will. Hell, she'd even turned into it a couple times.

She had nothing to prove.

"Naaaaw." She said, eyes squinting and her smile growing as she playfully waved off the notion. "No reason to give him the satisfaction. We're ten flavors cooler anyhow."

She cast another throw-away glance off in the direction of the departing d-bag and shook her head before clicking her head, pulling on the strap of her messenger bag and looking back to Eddie. "Some people's kids, I tell ya. So! Eddie-New-At-School! How new? This your first week? Salem's pretty boring most of the time but like, you don't usually get jack-wagons like that roaming around."

Idly she checked out her mp3. Screen was borked. She figured Network could fix it, but like, hey, new stuff. She'd wind up probably giving it to Sarah anyways. She had a bit of spare cash. Maybe she'd load up on itunes cards while she was at it.

Man, she pondered further, inwardly. How great was it to not worry about what was gonna blow up next, but where your background music was gonna come from? It was a welcome change of pace. You knew your life was a bit too wild when boring stopped being boring.

"Do much exploring yet? I know all the places."

And she did. The months before she went to Xavier to beg for help she'd spent in North Salem, diving dumpsters for food and things to sell. Picking pockets, and, well, worse things. That was all behind her, paid off in spades by community service, but it left her with two things; a nice lexicon of who was who and where was where in Westchester's town of North Salem.
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Sunshine
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Eddie had never been the mischievous type. Sure, he'd played around with others at school back home in England. All the normal kid stuff. But Eddie's personality had dictated a different social path during his adolescence, to that of a naughty teenager. His quiet nature had meant he was always on the fringes, always there or thereabouts but never really a central part of any group, the one who took the sting of the jokes. Coming over to the States had represented a chance to maybe be someone else. To be the kind of person he wanted to be.

"Naaaaw," Noriko had replied to him. "No reason to give him the satisfaction. We're ten flavors cooler anyhow."

'She had a cool tongue anyhow,' Eddie had affirmed in his mind as he couldn't help but be immediately chilled himself from the girl's remark. Surge intrigued Eddie; she seemed streetwise way beyond her years, combined with a power that Eddie thought was just downright cool. Not to mention her hair.

"Ah, yeah you're right. I've never really been one for attacking people anyway! I suppose I just hate seeing wrongs done to people. But of course, that's what the X-Men is all about isn't it?"

Still only weeks at Xaviers, Eddie had only seen glimpses of his seniors at the Institute. The whole thing was still completely new to him and he was finding it hard to get used to. The ideals and philosophies seemed to register with the young lad since his arrival, but he hadn't yet really got to grasps with how he himself could eventually, if ever, fit in.

"Yep, still a newb over here!" Eddie exclaimed awkwardly back to the Japanese girl. "Him? You get feller's like him everywhere. But as you said, some people's kids huh!"

Eddie looked around at the mall, faces passing by, living out their lives. Normal. Sighing, Eddie looked back to Noriko who was confirming that her mp3 was done, at least for the day.

Exploring. Eddie had done nothing of the sort. This was his very first outing from the school and all he'd done was check out some old vinyls in a record shop and eat a burger.

"No, well to be honest, I haven't seen much but this bloody mall!" The thought of seeing some of the local 'sights' sounded much better than being pushed around by big, angry neanderthals who had forgotten to take their lunch to work.

"So what would you suggest, my esteemed guide?" Eddie mused that Noriko would know the most interesting things to see. "What places do you speak of?" Eddie leaned in, wondering in his mind what the sleepy little suburb really had to offer.
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ChrisNovak
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"What to do? What to do?"

The anxiety in his voice was clear although there was no one around to hear it. Locked away in his room, pacing back and forth from one end of his room to the other. So far Chris has spent his first few days at the institute trying to keep his interaction with people to a bare minimum.

It wasn't that he was reclusive sort of person though, honestly you could have easily attributed his seclusion in his room to nervousness. Yeah nervousness was a simple enough answer and easy to believe that a youngster in a new surrounding would nervous, albeit a lie, the truth had to do with his powers unfortunately acting up.

Sad to say that on his first day at Xavier's he had to smell everything and everyone in the entire mansion, and it wasn't the most pleasant scent. That was all behind him though and it was finally Saturday, the worldwide day of relaxation and enjoyment. Today was a good day for Chris, it was past noon and he didn't have to deal with any issues making it a perfect day to get out his room at least, maybe even explore New York a bit.

So, where am I?

Chris mused as he moved through the large crowd of people, somehow he left the mansion and found himself wandering aimlessly around some sort of mall. Still it was a different for him, it wasn't just walls in his little dorm room so he couldn't complain plus he was getting exactly what he wanted, some interaction with people, but bouncing around on people who were doing their shopping wasn't quite what he had in mind.

"YOU DAMN KIDS THESE DAYS AIN'T GOT NO RESPECT FOR NOTHIN'"

Chris, worked his way to the front of a crowd of onlookers, and stared as a large, older gentleman was apparently harassing two people. Chris recognized them from the institute, they looked familiar and both looked young enough to be fellow students like him.

By time he reached downstairs, the altercation seemed to be over, the man was walking away and the two youngsters were conversing as if nothing happened. Chris took a deep breath and slowly walked over to the two of them.

"Well, you guys dealt with that very mature"

He tried to be as calm as possible but he still felt a bit nervous walking up to two people who he barely knew and having a conversation with them. All he knew about them was the fact that they were both mutants who he had seen around every now and then while at the mansion.

"My name is Chris by the way, I'm from the school” Chris said the school part a bit quieter than the rest of his sentence, he didn’t know how people around felt about mutants and didn’t want to stir up any anger.

“I saw you guys around, wanted to know if you just wanna hang out or something?"

Having never left California before, everything in the city was new to him so having a few people to walk around with would be perfect for him.
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Surge
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"Pshaw, the Mall, she is a veritable smorgasbord of Western Capitalist Ideal. I hate and love it all at once. So many things to spend your bucks on. Material Material Consume Consume Consume!"

She snarked around, exaggeratedly spinning around, arms widespread and motioning to the loud mall beyond the foodcourt that reeked of pretzel salt and the weird minglings of various types of food and boutique fragrances. "Ah, consumption."

She turned back to Sunshine, a goofy look on her face. "The question is my, newbie friend, where do you want to go?"

She punctuated it with a wink and a wide grin before another voice punched into the conversation, causing her to turn her gaze towards it.

"Well, somebody had to be a grownup in that situation. If you punch everyone who's an assbiscuit you tend to come off like an assbiscuit yourself."

Surge was capable of channeling a force of nature that could incinerate a human being in a few seconds. She was capable of knocking people for heavy loops and putting them on their backsides in short order. She used to do that, for a thousand reasons. To scare them off, to scare them in general, to show that she wasn't someone to fuck with. That was Brotherhood ideology. If they were afraid of you, they'd leave you alone. The inherent flaw however was that they'd only leave you alone until they outnumbered or over powered you. The Institute hadn't kept its roots in Westchester for twenty years by terrorizing the populace.

"Some people are dumb, its a fact of life, everyone deals with it, mutie and sapie alike."

Another school newbie, she observed. She felt so out of touch with the School these days, not like she used to. She had her eyes fixed on a horizon that seemed fixed, to never get closer, and this was something of a wakeup call.

"Sure we can hang, but I need a new mp3. So I'ma go get that."

Adjusting her bag on her shoulder she pointed in the direction of the iStore she was planning on visiting. "Race ya there!"

And with that, she darted off.
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Sunshine
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"The question is my, newbie friend, where do you want to go?"

The quirky girl had given Eddie the chance to come up with a somewhere to go, and Eddie was just about to give an answer, when a voice entered the scene to Eddie's right.

"Well, you guys dealt with that very mature," said the newcomer, another young man from the school who had arrived not long after Eddie. He was a little taller than Eddie, though not by a huge amount as seemed to be the case with a lot of other young gentleman his age. He seemed like a pretty friendly guy, and Eddie smiled and held out a hand to shake the blonde-haired guys own.

"Well, somebody had to be a grownup in that situation. If you punch everyone who's an assbiscuit you tend to come off like an assbiscuit yourself."

Eddie turned to Surge, laughing at the quip in agreeance, as the young man introduced himself properly.

"Nice to meet ya', my name's Eddie, Eddie Campbell." Shaking the lads hand, he quickly introduced himself in return.

"My name is Chris by the way, I'm from the school.” The youngster lowered his voice as he uttered the words 'from the school' and Eddie nodded quickly and directly to affirm that he was too.

Listening to the lad ask to hang out, Eddie grinned widely, seeing this as a good opportunity for the three to get to know each other. The day was going well, a chance meeting with a couple of his fellow Xavierians could lead to him being able to settle in a little better, a little more. Noriko seemed like a lot of fun, an intelligent girl with razor sharp wit, and her persona seemed to be that of someone Eddie could trust. The third member of the group was in a similar position to Eddie himself, a new student at the school, and Eddie knew exactly what it felt like to be the new kid. Hell, he still was himself pretty much.

"Some people are dumb, its a fact of life, everyone deals with it, mutie and sapie alike."

"And that is the truth," Eddie agreed, now glad that his earlier suggestion of antagonising the man had been rightfully turned down.

"Okay, well I s'pose we best go and get you a new mp3 player then..." The young Englishman had barely finished speaking when the Japanese mutant had sped off and out of sight like a literal flash of lightning.

Turning to Chris, Eddie looked at his new friend, a confused look on his face.

"Actually, do you even know where the iStore is?!" This was Eddie's first venture to the mall, and it was a lot bigger than any of the shopping centres he was used to back home. Everything in 'merica was bigger than what it was back home in little Britain. He continued to speak, an almost embarrassed tone to his words.

"... because this is my first time here and, well, I don't have a clue which bloody way it is!" Eddie laughed, looking around the crowded mall in resignation, before he shrugged and smiled awkwardly at Chris standing in front of him.

"So Chris, how'd you like being at the school?" he enquired as they headed in the general direction of their destination.
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ChrisNovak
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To be accepted is a great feeling, so when Chris approached the pair and wasn't just flat out told to go away he was obviously pleased. Chris watched as the pair talked for a bit, not only were their actions mature but so were their words, despite the Asian girl using the word 'assbiscuit' a couple times.

It was interesting to hear the viewpoints of fellow mutants and how they handle delicate situations especially since Chris himself never had to deal with alot of confrontations in the past.

"So I guess this school doesn't just teach you to control your powers, they teach self control"

Chris mumbled to himself as he thought about what he might do if he was faced with the same situation but before he knew it the girl had run off, mentioning something about an mp3. The boy was still there as he and Chris shared a handshake, his accent was different, obviously not from America so it wasn't too surprising when he mentioned that he didn't know where the store was.

The worrying part was the fact that Chris knew very little about the place as well. The only person he seemed to know the mall was the one that had already ran across the mall to whichever store she was going.

"Well since we're both new here we better not fall behind"

Chris could barely see the girl's white hair through the large mall crowd but he knew that they were going in the right direction. Eddie seemed friendly, shaking his hand earlier, pretty polite and generally seemed like a good person, albeit he has only been around him for a couple of minutes but Chris always saw himself as a good judge of character.

"How do I like the school.."

Chris took a moment to reply to Eddie almost as if formulating his answer. "It's been great, you know being around fellow mutants and all, the place where the great X-men came from" Chris put on an almost awkward smile, knowing he had just lied for some reason.

Why did I say that?

"It's been awful, I've only been there a couple of days and it's been terrible" Chris thought it was best to at least be honest to the first student at the school he actually talked to, not wanting to start off on the wrong foot.

"First day I stepped through the door and I swear to you I could smell wet dog, burnt clothing and feet." A small sigh followed "Stupid powers were acting up again so I rushed to my room and buried my head in my pillow"

By the time Chris had finished his story the boys had arrived at the iStore and finally caught up to the girl.

"Almost lost you there" he joked as he stepped closer to her.
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Surge
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Using your powers out in the open was always a finicky subject. Years ago it would have gotten SHIELD called on you, but to be honest, things had progressed to the point now where things were a little different. People were more and more aware of the bigotry mutants faced, and so if SHIELD tried to pull that on her, well, they'd get more than they bargained for.

She skidded to a stop outside the iStore, a trail of people looking in her direction as a touch of heated steam flowed off the floor in her wake. She blew them all a kiss and skipped into the store.

A few minutes later she strutted out and popped a squat on the rim of a big concrete barrier that formed the edge of a nice little indoor garden complete with nice bushes and little trees next to a wishing fountain. She focused and drew her charge inward. She'd have to get Hank or Sarah to Nori-proof this thing tonight.

The fresh battery died just as the two arrived, leached out by her powers and she gave them both a winning grin, holding the powder-blue device up as if she were a proud parent.

"Sorry, wanted to get that over with. This set me back a bit but like, free 10 dollar store card. I'm game y'dig?"

Giving it a tap with her finger, it came back to life, screen glowing brightly, and she plugged her earphones into it. "Aw yea."

Shoving it into her pocket and resting the earphones around her neck, she hopped down, stuffing the box in a garbage bin. "Quick and painless. That dumb roid monkey. I should send him a b-"

"Hey!"

The gruff voice caught her eye and she looked past Chris and Eddie.

It wasn't the portly mall cop that had her eye though, it was roided out dickbag with folded arms behind him.

"You're gonna have to come with me, miss." Said Rentacop.

"What?" Surge asked. "Why?"

"There's been a complaint that you're being a nuisance." He came back.

"Whaaat?" Surge said, giving eyes to Chris and Ed in a 'be cool, I got this' kind of way. "For walking into a guy on accident?"

"And I just saw you stuffing that box into the garbage can."

"Yeah because I didn't feel like carrying it around, isn't that what a garbage can is for? Garbage?" Surge asked, expression growing frustrated.

"Guess you didn't feel like paying for it, either?"

"Whaaaat." She said again, face breaking into a smile. "Dude, I literally just bought it. Right there." She pointed at the iStore.

"Then let's see the receipt."

"Sure." She said, but when she reached into her pocket she realized it had gone into the garbage with the bag and box. 'Shitbiscuits' she thought. "Wait, it's in the garbage, lemme grab it."

Moving to do so, she felt the guy's hand around her arm. "Hell no, I seen you around here, you run super fast, mutie, I ain't fallin' for it."

The guy's grip was rough on her wrist and she winced, ripping it away. "That ain't all I do, dude, back the hell off."

"I said I need you to come with me." Rentacop asserted.

In the back, Roid-Man smirked at his handiwork.
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