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Aberrant: In the Beginning - Chapter 2- The Firmament of Heaven


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Fed and rested, the group of Novus considers their next move.

CNN is still showing Pax and Ray's confrontation in Cairo. Again and again, viewers see Klaus jump from shadow to shadow, back and forth around Pax until he appears right behind him, in Pax's own shadow. Over and over, the world watches Pax react with superhuman speed, nailing him right between the eyes. Every time it shows, watchers cheer as Klaus stumbles dazedly into the crowd, which then kicks and beats him down.

Ray performs well, also. His flash attack frightens the cats, and they flee. He somehow telekinetically flattens the sandstorm, and he flickers around the park, teleporting faster than the huge cat-woman or the wasps. His game of keep-away works to distract until Klaus is out. The Wraiths find themselves in a stalemate. Neither Ray nor Pax can touch them, but they are unable to affect the battle without becoming tangible. And every time they do, either Pax or Ray are there to grab them, hit them, stop them. It seems to the observers almost as though these two have worked together for years.

In other news, the fires in Edinburgh have finally been brought under control, another Novus disaster for the world to worry about. The tornadoes in Birmingham, Alabama leave 32 dead in their wake. Meteorologists say again and again that this was a natural storm, the result of a freak pressure inequality, yet pundits blame the Novus, on no evidence.

The first blush is off the rose, and instead of wondering and marvelling at the existance of the new powers, the people of the world are starting to wonder just how much they should fear the New People. They need someone to present a vision of what is possible. A vision of how powerfully these Novus can change the world for the better.

A vision of Utopia...

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Michael cracks another beer and watches the CNN broadcast.

"Once again, the top story of the hour: Nova combat in downtown Cairo... the images you are seeing..."

Michael rolls his eyes at the umpteenth rolling of the clip.

"Yeah, good job Pax. Way to smash a man who was in the hospital just hours before."

He claps his free hand against the beercan.

"Yea!" He says in a monotone. "We only faced down the sun-god Ra, we didn't kill a delusional german man or scare off some kittens, no news for us."

He takes another sip and settles back into the overstuffed chair in the main living room of the Aeon compound, his discontent simmering.

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Fang was in the library - not at Æon, but in London. As has been her wont lately, she was pouring over some research or another. Today, she appeared to be enthralled by anthropology; dozens of books cover the table she has claimed, and she moved from chair to chair as she switched books.

She has seen the news already. She's trying to ignore it.

Humanity can only comprehend two hundred faces as familiar at any given time. What happened when those faces became inhuman?

Fang suspected the answer. She came from a xenophobic country, one that had only recently opened its doors, but had done so in the most secretive and restrictive way possible. Fang was used to a climate of paranoia and fear, especially of outsiders.

You didn't get more outside than the New People.

Fang was afraid for her people.

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Renee Byrnes walked into the main room, graceful, striking and blonde with intense blue eyes, and looked around at the crowd. She had changed into a white blouse and grey pinstriped skirt with a matching jacket; her hair was neatly plaited and a small amount of makeup covered her features. She wanted to present her best face to everybody else.

Her mother and friend were resting up after the long trip, but she was still able to function after dozing on the plane. "Hi," she said to the crowd.

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(OOC - I'm going to assume that 'the main room' that Renee has walked into is the same as 'the main living room' that Michael is in...if not, someone post a correction and I'll fix my post. :))

No sooner has Renee chirped her greeting than she hears the pounding footsteps of someone running along the long hall from the foyer to come up from behind her.

"Agh! Scuse!"

Someone brushes past, clipping her left shoulder. A blur of blue and white t-shirt under a black leather jacket, faded blue jeans; short, scruffy dark hair scrunched under a Red Sox ballcap worn backwards. Easy to get the impression she'd just been ignored by a guy, until she took in the rather slim waistline and the decidedly unguylike bust. Okay, so...a girl.

"Mike are you in here?" she calls, looking around. "One of the...luggage guys said you were... Oh hey! There you are."

She trotted over to where Michael sat brooding and peeked around the back of his chair.

"Hey, do you have a second...or, uh...is this a bad time?"

(RP Info: App 4 (Fit))

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Michael looks back at Renee as she speaks up.

"Hello!" He calls and waves to her over the back of the couch. He's wearing a cotton dark blue button-down shirt and black denim jeans.

As Juno enters he waves at her as well.

Originally Posted By: Juno
"Hey, do you have a second...or, uh...is this a bad time?"

"No, I have time. You want to talk here or elsewhere?"

((Also appearance 5. We're an attractive bunch.))

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Michael blinks, surprised by the question.

"Well, I've been thinking about the 'future' thing alot in the last few days and I can honestly say I dont know."

He shifts in the couch to make more room for Juno to sit.

"As for my past, it was pretty bland all in all. The early years at least. I grew up in Washington, my father was away all the time in the military. When I turned 18 I joined up, served in Vietnam... met a woman when I got bat state-side, got married... she passed away. Then I retired... lived a quiet life until about a month ago."

He takes a sip of his beer.

"How about you?"

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Juno doesn't answer right away. She's too busy goggling openmouthed at Michael.

He's -retired-? Been married, widowed and -retired-? He's -ancient!-

"Uh...just kind of hunting for ideas, I guess," she says dazedly, when she realizes someone just tried to talk to them. Glad for the distraction to buy herself some time, she looks over across the couch.

"Hey. I'm Juno. This is Michael. You're new here?"

On seeing the girl though, she got another kick in the pants. She was gorgeous! Just looking at her made Juno feel awkward and out of place.

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Renee sighed. "Damn, my communication abilities suck. It was one of the students - who I really can't ID based on the fact I had a hundred people yabbering at me mentally - who did the kid. Disgusting, I know."

She looked at Juno. "So, umm, what's your powers if I can ask?"

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Colin walked in just in time to hear the last two comments and wasn't at all sure to make of them. He walked over and took a comfy leather chair across from the couch. Before sitting he asked, "Hope you guys don't mind if I join you? Having a bad day and I needed to get away from work." It took a moment for Michael and Juno to recognize the newcomer. Colin was dressed in a perfect business suit and immaculately groomed. No Jedi robes or lightsabers in evidence. He sat down with a grace far exceeding someone of his appearance. Not that he wasn't hansome, but compared to the present company he was pretty bland. He smiles at everyone and gives a polite nod to Renee and says, "I'm Colin, you can call me Jedi if you want. On account of the powers I got." He grins and looks over at Juno as she rolls her eyes. "Hey, I didn't choose them, it's just what I got because I was talking about one of the Star Wars movies when I erupted." Looking back to Renee, "So what about you, what did you get?"

(App 3, style 1)

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Juno's face reddened. Truth was that she hadn't really been tuned in until she'd mentioned underage sex...so she'd kind of spaced who the guilty party was.

"Oh, uh..."

Jedi's arrival saves her proverbial bacon though. She twists around and recognizes him quickly. "Oh hey! You're that Star Wars guy. Sorry, what was your real name again? This is Renee. She's new. Mind reader."

She looks back at Renee.

"I...change. It's kind of complicated. It's like, whenever something's hurting me, I change so it can't. Like evolution. It's kind of weird, I know. This one time, I was trying to see over a crowd, and my neck suddenly grew to like five feet long." She laughs, though the memory of that makes the laugh a little nervous.

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Renee nodded to the new guy, concealing a smile at the choice of codename. Jedi. Oh. My. God. Then she looked back over at Juno.

"Hmmm... Spontaneous evolution, if I can be a pure comic book geek about it."

She grinned at Colin. "I developed the ability to read minds and control computers. I also have total recall and can read really fast. Oh, and I got prettier. I was kinda scrawny before."

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Jay walks into the room hoping to find Fang, but sees Michael, Juno, Jedi and some other rather striking chick all having some kind of discussion. "Hey guys! I'm not interupting anything am I, but I was looking for Fang you guys seen her?" Jay asks.

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"Hey Jay, this is Renee, another New Human. I havent seen Fang... oh wait, I think I saw her leave the compound a while ago. She must have stepped out."

He turns back to Renee.

"My powers? I can fly, glow, discharge some type of laser and have a type of metal armor that protects me. A rather diverse range from what I understand."

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Juno gives Jay a chummy wave.

"She's probably in the library online or reading or something. I've seen her in there before. Oh, hey, give me a call when you're done with her, if you have time. I wanted to ask you something. It can wait though. Go ahead and do your thing with Fang first."

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"Thanks for the head's up Michael, and oh hey Renee. Welcome to Novus palace, nothing but good times here"

Juno's wave brings a bright smile to Jay's face. "That's cool it can wait for later. I got plenty of time, what did you want to talk about?"

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Colin listened and eventually replied to Renee, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I didn't really get better looking, but I got a lot stronger, tougher and more graceful." He chuckled deprecatingly, "Wish I'd gotten the looks too, like the rest of you lot." He reached beneath his coat and pulled one of his lightsabers out of it's harness and turned it on. It glowed and hummed exactly like in the movie. "This is why I got the Jedi nickname." He smiled and powered it down then replaced the hilt it in it's concealed spot beneath his suit coat.

Looking to Jay, "Good times eh? That's what you call it?" He chuckled again and shook his head disbelievingly.

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Wraith sat in her room, thinking. She was worried about her feelings, I should feel guilty.. all those people we killed... "I use to be a cop! for crying out loud, I would have protected those people... not harmed them!" she says to herself aloud.

She stands and walks over to a mirror, in disbelief of what she sees. Her skin, so pale, her eyes, pure white. She's not sure what to do from here, to stay and face the others even after all she has done, or to go off on her own. She begins to walk out of the room towards the lounge area, she sees the group and a new girl talking to Michael. She keeps walking until she's outside then finds a spot in the grass to sit.

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Juno blinks, looking for all the world like she'd been startled by a loud noise or something. She looks around at Renee.

"I...missed what he said," she explains, unusually hesitantly. Then she breaks into a nervous smile. "Sorry...that was really weird."

To Jay she nods as she looks at him again. "I don't know...I'm just sort of fishing right now. Looking for things I might be interested in. I figure, if there's one place an indestructible girl might have a future, it's a job where people shoot at you, right?"

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"Yeah I supposed that would be one place to look, but your a girl and the combat stuff is off limits, even being indestructible probably wouldn't help you either. That's just Army policy, though with people like us around that may just be changing." Damm, I sound like a recuriter now.

"I don't see you as being a poster child for women in the Army though, cause that's what would happen I think, sorta like the movie G.I Jane." he says.

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"Relax, Jay," Juno says with a teasing grin. "If she finds your kiddy porn, she'll let us all know."

She immediately switches gears though into a more serious tone. "You're serious though? They don't let girls into combat? What the hell, Jay? I thought this was the twentieth century here."

With an impatient sigh she runs her hand through her messy hair and scowls. "Not that I'm really eager to kill people, but...if I'm going to do something, I want to DO it. Just fuck around watching everyone else."

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Renee's smile to Jay was sardonic. "I don't scramble around in people's heads willingly; Jesus, if you heard the crap I do on a regular basis - present company excepted, of course..."

The blonde telepath crossed her legs somehow while sitting on her couch-arm. "I'm a superhero geek and I won't deny it. We've already got dumbarses running around and acting like supervillains and other novus getting tagged with names. Then there'll come the folks who are scared shitless about us and will want to stick us in concentration camps a la Days of Future Past - if we're lucky. I say we jump the gun and approach somebody like the UN about having their own superhuman team to handle things like rogue novus - and there'll be those, you've already met one - and natural disasters."

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That kids reminds me to much of myself. Jay tries not to sound harsh "It's not that it's just a privacy thing, my thoughts are my own, and some of those shouldn't be known to other's."

"And yes Juno I'm quite serious, though I saw plenty of females during my tour in Bosnia, they were all clerks or cooks." He shakes his head "It seems a bit old fashion I know, but the old timers stick to their guns."

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Colin grinned at Renee, "Haven't read that one, but Kingdom Come was pretty grim. If Day's of Future Past is anything like that then I know what you mean."

Looking over to Juno, "With your Novus looks, you could easily be a model or actress. My father's company would hire you in a second as a model for the ad campaigns. Doubly so since you are a Nova. You too for that matter Renee, or Michael." He chuckled and continued, "I doubt that's the kind of career you are looking for but keep it in mind. Any of the supermodel looking novas will be able to make a fortune in corporate sponsorships, mark my words."

He looked thoughtful, "Hell, I'm half tempted to start up a talent agency of sorts, would make a killing." Grinning at all the others present, "What do you all say, want to sign on with the Colin Chatham Novus Agency? I think I could guarantee any of you work, and it would only be part time."

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