«We Could be Heroes»

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

(Quit time. Night, all.)

 

[FrankieDoodle]

(Quit time. Night, all.)

(Night! )

 

[Thing2]

Mikki lowered herself into a corner as the train rattled on to their destination, never taking her eyes off the woman with the raspy voice. This was starting to creep her out.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The dark horse moved into the tunnel, darkening the windows, but the lady did not seem to notice. Instead, she kept rapt attention on anything but the group of young inhumans.

Dryden silently sat on the train, watching the others.

Dryden looked around. "What are we doing, anyway?" he asked, his normally black eyes turning slighlty red, a sign his lasers were on.

Sammy wondered who this new guy was, she hadn't seen him before. She realized she was staring and quickly looked away, instead staring out the window.

The window lady shrugged. "I dunno. Firestein thinks these kids are gonna help us rescue Lance."

She clenched her jaw, then shrugged. "Waltershobchakeit. I guess you'll learn with the rest of them." She said, finally addressing the rest of the group. She jerked a thumb at the cyborg boy, "That's Dryden. And I'm No-name." She locked each new initiate with an icy stare, as if daring one of them to ask about it. "We'll be riding this subway to the Southwestern U.S. border, then boarding a plane bound for an island off of New Zealand. There, you will have to be given warmer clothes, since you obviously came unprepared," she said, eyeing each up and down. Not one had more than the clothes on their backs, the weapons that James had bestowed upon them, and maybe a pretzel.

"I didn't think we would be gone for three days," Sammy muttered to herself. New Zealand?! My parents are never going to trust me again. She thought miserably.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

More blue sprung into view. She moved toward the wall and plucked one of the glowing crystals and held it up to Rex.
But Janet didn't seem to take notice of this. She remained perfectly still as the blue slowly lit up the room, illuminating someone standing in the corner.

Crow eyed the man. He hoped that Janet would explain who he was.

Janet nodded her thanks to the guy, though she couldn't exactly see him with the light in her eyes. Then she strode toward the brightness, wishing for her eyes to adjust.

Birds flew off as they entered, perched atop a bluff. The light was filtering in through a holes in the cave roof, illuminating an underground city. Massive buildings were etched from the pillars of stone which held up the earthen sky, too many to count. Clouds rolled over the buildings below.

Janet watched their faces, then glanced back to the man in skins. He had his arms folded and a smirk on his face. The look on their faces were priceless. Janet put her arm out, "Welcome to Atlantis." She said.

Leona piped up, "But it's not really Atlantis, because that's underwater."

She grinned scooped up the girl, "How do you know so much?" Janet said, pressing their noses together. Then she directed them to a trail of cobbelstone steps, "Answers at the bottom." .

Crow gasped. "Woah..." was all he could say. He slowly followed Janet and the others, his eyes scanning the cave-city. He stumbled, then decided to keep his eyes on the steps.

 

[RacehorsesRock]

She clenched her jaw, then shrugged. "Waltershobchakeit. I guess you'll learn with the rest of them." She said, finally addressing the rest of the group. She jerked a thumb at the cyborg boy, "That's Dryden. And I'm No-name." She locked each new initiate with an icy stare, as if daring one of them to ask about it. "We'll be riding this subway to the Southwestern U.S. border, then boarding a plane bound for an island off of New Zealand. There, you will have to be given warmer clothes, since you obviously came unprepared," she said, eyeing each up and down. Not one had more than the clothes on their backs, the weapons that James had bestowed upon them, and maybe a pretzel.

Dryden nodded and started to fidget with the bracelet on his wrist, made of black interwoven rope. Kind of nylon type. He spun it around his wrist and wondered what Barnes was doing, and if Char was even alive.

A cloud of dust issued from the engine as he blew on it. Coughing, he replied, "About-" cough, "Three months ago." Cough, cough. He waved a hand in front of his face, then drew a socket wrench out of his pocket, "He had been slipping out at night, and I confronted him about it. So he took off and... I haven't seen him since."

Char sadly nodded. She motioned toward the copter. "There's no way this will ever work."

 

[Thing2]

An island off New Zealand? I'm gonna be grounded for life. Hello, solitary confinement. Mikki thought, only half joking. She snuck a glance at the new guy, Dryden. Are his eyes kinda glowing red? she wondered. After a while she got bored of trying to figure that out, so she started to practice flying, and floated up to the ceiling of the train car before spinning down in a tightly controlled ascent over and over again, changing her drop every time.

(Also, what's Mikki's weapon?)

 

[RacehorsesRock]

An island off New Zealand? I'm gonna be grounded for life. Hello, solitary confinement. Mikki thought, only half joking. She snuck a glance at the new guy, Dryden. Are his eyes kinda glowing red? she wondered. After a while she got bored of trying to figure that out, so she started to practice flying, and floated up to the ceiling of the train car before spinning down in a tightly controlled ascent over and over again, changing her drop every time.

(Also, what's Mikki's weapon?)

"Is there anything here that's resistant, to lets say, over 1000 degrees heat?" Dryden suddenly blurted out. His eyes were darker red now, and his chip was about to glitch, and start shooting lasers.

 

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

"Is there anything here that's resistant, to lets say, over 1000 degrees heat?" Dryden suddenly blurted out. His eyes were darker red now, and his chip was about to glitch, and start shooting lasers.

The lady called no-name shrugged, opened up the window, then leaned back against the seat. "Out there, Firestein wouldn't want anything in his little train getting-"

 

[Fanci Feathers Marans]

An island off New Zealand? I'm gonna be grounded for life. Hello, solitary confinement. Mikki thought, only half joking. She snuck a glance at the new guy, Dryden. Are his eyes kinda glowing red? she wondered. After a while she got bored of trying to figure that out, so she started to practice flying, and floated up to the ceiling of the train car before spinning down in a tightly controlled ascent over and over again, changing her drop every time.

(Also, what's Mikki's weapon?)

(A whistle that could summon help.)