I've been chillin' out on a star with my 5 star view

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: The space battle commences
When: After 3PM on the 19th to the 23rd
Where: In Space! On the Moon!
Summary: The battle finally begins! First there's asteroids to take down, then we finally arrive!
Rating: SPACE

MORE SPACE

All the details you need are here, so read up on it. This didn't get mentioned before, but you can tag the cultists instead of killing them. Details on this are on a previous draft post. Using the scanners are optional!

There will be a thread for interacting with NPCs, but they may not all go up at once, so keep an eye out for them.

Note: A log for the events in the village will go up on the 21st, in time for the hurricane and droid incursion.

Comments

[touchofrogue]

Ya got the license plate on that truck?

[selfhelp]

Ugh... yeah, the plate's called "Billy Kaplan" and he did it to himself.

[Bracing his hands against the bed, he pushes back, trying to sit up a little bit. His side is still sore and his powers are drained, but he doesn't want to just lie there like a lump.]

[touchofrogue]

[She pulls up a chair.]

Practicing hitting your head against the wall ta see what dents first?

[selfhelp]

I wish. Too much voodoo abuse. [He wiggles his fingers a bit, mimicking a spell-casting. The motion pointedly does nothing, not even a spark.] You look okay, though- that's good.

[touchofrogue]

[She waved off his concern. One of the benefits of pairing with Wolverine - it doesn't matter how bad either of them get hurt.]

So that's what ya did? Pushed too hard?

[selfhelp]

That and get myself stabbed. Protip: don't do that. [He rolls his eyes, looking more irritated than in pain at the moment. He feels stupid for getting caught off guard like that.]

[touchofrogue]

[Dryly:] I'll keep it in mind.

[This is where we have what could be construed as an awkward pause.]

[selfhelp]

[He notices the pause, sharing it uncertainly for a moment, then speaks up again.]

Are... you sure you're okay? You don't have to stay if you're not- I mean, if you don't want to.

[He's not sure either way- far be it for him to demand her company, but she did approach him first.]

[touchofrogue]

[Rogue's got this habit: She doesn't do things she doesn't want to do unless the world depends on it. It makes life a lot easier.]

Nah, that ain't it. It's just - I feel like I'm missin' some pieces here, but I don't normally make a point of askin' people personal questions.

[selfhelp]

[...Aha. So that's it. He can't really blame her; he'd basically come out of nowhere during the Hulk battle, and they'd gone their separate ways pretty soon after without talking much about it. Not that he'd wanted to explain himself at the time... not after lying to everyone.]

You... want to know about my powers?

[touchofrogue]

Yeah.

[That was simple enough.]

I do.

[No explanations or excuses, it was nosy enough, what she was asking.]

Ya don't hafta get into it if ya don't want to, but you knew 'bout mine...

[She just sets it out for him. His call.]

[selfhelp]

No, it's okay. It's fair, and I shouldn't have lied.

[He fidgets a little, feeling awkward again- it's harder when you don't actually know the truth, but it wouldn't be right to just say nothing.]

I'm pretty sure I'm a mutant. My mom... kind of is.

["Kind of." Complications upon complications.]

[touchofrogue]

[She, quite literally, waves off the "I shouldn't have lied." No, he shouldn't have. But it's not like she asked. Or that she goes around announcing her powers to the general public. This is one area where Rogue can see shades of gray in dishonesty.

But... "pretty sure?" "Kind of?"]

"Pretty sure?"

[selfhelp]

Well... not like I've been through a mutant detector or anything. But it's the only way I can think that would explain my powers.

[touchofrogue]

Last time I checked, it wasn't a halfway thing.

[Mutant detector - Gawd, did they have those in his world? How terrifying.]

Ya said your mom's a mutant?

/quietly drops a potential bombshell

[selfhelp]

Yeah, that's...

[...God, how does he even get into this. Well, first step is the easiest, so-]

Does the name "Scarlet Witch" mean anything to you?

it's all good - Jubilee told her she and Gambit were an item, after all. what could be worse?

[touchofrogue]

[Rogue's eyes go wide at that, and she loses some of her detachment.]

Wanda? Wanda's your mom?

oh god hahahaha that's beautiful

[selfhelp]

[FIDGET. This is the first person he's met who actually recognized the name, and it doesn't really seem like a good thing.

Well, he should have expected that part, at least. Wanda's early history isn't exactly the most heroic.]

I think she is. I've never actually had a chance to ask. But I have her powers, and... I was told that she is.

[touchofrogue]

[That is. A lot to process. She throws out any one of the first - more harmless - thoughts that come to her mind in response.]

No wonder ya were so surprised I was young.

[Wanda was her age.

He had her powers. That was... well, that explained a lot. Wanda could pretty much do whatever the heck she wanted, when she was in control. Billy seemed to have control just fine, but... eeesh.

Told that she was? Sounded complicated. Messy. Gawd, was life ever easy?]

[selfhelp]

Heh, yeah. I'm... definitely from a while into the future.

[Whew. It's the easiest answer, really- he can't even say how far into the future, because he knows he's a lot older than he ought to be for one of Wanda's children. The whole issue of transmigrated souls or whatever is still just barely within his grasp of understanding.]

[touchofrogue]

[So. He never had a chance to ask her. Which. Told her a lot more he probably wanted her to know, really. That was a minefield, and one she'd rather not disturb at this point.

But this is bringing up an entirely different, erratic, and random line of thought and she can't help but pursue it a little bit, because it might be sick, but Gawd, wasn't everything right now?]

...so Magneto's your granddaddy? He still in the habit of causin' problems in your world?

/BOMBSHELL x2

[selfhelp]

[Oh god. His eyes widen at that question, and he purses his lips before responding. He hadn't really given much thought to his potential family relations beyond Wanda herself (and his own newfound twin, of course), so the idea of Magneto being his grandfather is... strange. Kind of cool, kind of terrifying. But there are good reasons for why he hasn't told people about all of this, and Magneto is one of them.]

...Actually? Scott Summers let him join the X-Men recently.

hoooo boy 1/2

[touchofrogue]

[Congratulations, Billy. You have the rare pleasure of seeing Rogue shocked.

All those implications were.

Staggering. Staggering is the word.

He'd said that mutants were protected on his world, which made her antsy enough, but that Scott was in charge, that Scott would do something like this was--

Things are really bad, aren't they.]

[touchofrogue]

[Not my suitcase.

Compartmentalization was hard for her, though, and she lets out a long, low whistle, partly just to buy herself some time.]

Dang.

[...sadly, it doesn't work too well. She's still stuck on this, completely diverted from her other thought.]

[selfhelp]

[He fully recognizes that this is kind of a Big Deal for her, so he'll try to expand on it a little.]

To be honest, I don't know all of the details, but from what I've heard, he's changed a lot. He's not a terrorist anymore, and he's actually trying to help mutants without hurting humans at the same time. Things were bad for a while, really bad, but... he must have done something to earn their trust.