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Tweak says, "My spidey senses are tingling."

Clarice Fong/Blink (ajellydoughnut) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2020-02-25 13:18:00

Entry tags:

!open, ~2020 february, ~~andy strucker (imnotfenris), ~~clarice fong (ajellydoughnut)

Who: Clarice Fong
What: Welcome wagon isn't so... welcome.
Where: Middle of town, to the edge of the dome.
When: Monday, February 25. Afternoon.
Warnings: Medium? In case she feels sweary?
Status: open!

Phantom pain remained in her back, tense and burning. She glanced over her shoulder, reaching as best she could to try and touch one of the gunshot wounds. But there was nothing. How was that possible? How was she alive? . . .the space between the portals brought her where, exactly?

Sure, the lady from the welcome committee sounded sincere enough, but this all appeared to be one very well-crafted trap for a mutant like herself. She spun around slowly, studying the town before her. It all seemed so oddly normal – no sign of Sentinel Service and their hatred of mutants. How could this place be untouched? Perhaps it was built by the Brotherhood. Or maybe this was some trip to the future – had the Inner Circle succeeded and their bizarre idea of utopia was simply this? Nothing made sense, but she wasn't going to turn down the thousand dollars or the phone in her pocket.

The apartment though? That wouldn't be necessary. She was going to get the hell out of this place. Her portals could only go to a place she had been before or somewhere she could see. She tried to create a portal out – back to John Proudstar where she was meant to be, but it was to no avail. A purple spark formed between her hands, but nothing more. Her unnaturally green eyes shown bright as she pulled a violet portal with her hands out of the space in front of her, showing the furthest point she could physically see from her current location. She kept opening portals in this manner, going as far as she could see until she reached the dome's edge. She touched the dome, finding it solid and otherwise uninteresting. She stared at it as creature experienced with portals and other such bizarre phenomenon; it was a clear wall, like glass without being the slightest bit fragile. She glanced to the left, then to the right noting that the dome went on enclosing this place like a weird, little snowglobe of sorts. There wasn't a point in creating portals to reach the other side; she knew she would only find the same thing.

She slid down the wall of the dome, her back against it. With the rush of adrenaline wearing off, she felt exhausted from the sudden rush of portals she created to get to this point. She glanced at the phone, looking up her information regarding the apartment, but she didn't want to accept it. How could she – a mutant who could teleport anywhere, always on the run – be suddenly trapped in a giant snowglobe? She pulled her knees to her chest, uncertain of what to do next.

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imnotfenris
2020-02-25 06:33 pm UTC (link)

Andy saw those portals, the flares of purple, and took off running toward them as soon as he did. He knew what that was. Clarice, or Blink, was here!!

He ran, following the lights until they stopped and he was out of breath and aching, but he managed to run, and slide to his knees as he spotted her, resting... against something?

"Clarice? Blink!"

Andy shouted it as soon as he spotted her clearly, and grinned, panting, tryuing to get his breath back to get the rest of the way to her.

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	ajellydoughnut 2020-02-25 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	She stared at him. He appeared real. The grin seemed odd, but nice - like how he used to smile when she first met him before the world got too incredibly weird for Andy and his sister. "Andy? How are you here?" Her brow furrowed. "We're trapped. I can't break through whatever this thing is." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imnotfenris
2020-02-25 06:50 pm UTC (link)

"I know." He staggered to his feet and to her, then flopped to his knees next to her, reached out, then hesitated, before shrugging and hugging her. He didn't really hug, a lot, but right now, here, fuck it. She was one of his people.

The look on her face, those eyes, he knew that look, and it made him angry to see it on her face. A wave of possessive anger slid into him and he took a long breath to fight it down.

"This place is really weird," he said it as he sat back again, facing her and nodded. "I have a lot to tell you, and half of it is even more unbelievable than things back home are."

He held up a hand, then and waved it. "You are going to be okay, and you are not alone, first of all." He pushed all the confidence he could into those words, eyes on hers. He had changed a lot in the last year, and in the last week or two, things had gotten even weirder.

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-25 07:09 pm UTC (link)

"I got shot," she says quietly. "I remember the pain. John's face. Then all this energy from my portal..."

She doesn't understand how she isn't dead. Or bleeding. Or, at a minimum, sporting some very ugly wounds. Did she heal herself? Or did this potentially plastic snowglobe cast some voodoo magic on her? She doesn't know.

"Is your family here? Are you okay?" Her eyes are wide and worried. "I portaled across town. Sentinel Services will come for me. You need to hide. Save yourself."

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imnotfenris
2020-02-26 12:38 am UTC (link)

"We heard about that. Jo---Thunderbird told us. He said you vanished into the portals. He and Erg tried to find you."

Andy eyed her. "Apparently sometimes people show up here an are healed of bad wounds or damage. And Blink, you are not going to believe this, but there is no Sentinel Services here. You aren't... we aren't home. We are in another world."

His face showed he wasn't sure she would believe him, but his earnestness was warm and open.

"We're in another world and we are trapped in a dome over a city in the midwest. What the welcome wagon people told you is true."

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-26 06:57 pm UTC (link)

"John told you? Is he here?" She feels momentarily hopeful.

She draws in a breath, slow and steady, trying to take all this in. "We're in another world. I'm healed. No one is hunting us. But we're trapped in a dome."

It's the dome bit that she finds incredibly uncomfortable. She's been running she whole life, and now, suddenly, an oversized piece of plastic is in her way. "Are we working on a plan to get out?"

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imnotfenris
2020-02-26 08:06 pm UTC (link)

"No, back home... Blink, it's been over a week since you vanished." He takes a long breath and then nods. He nods as she lays out the words. "Yes, that is it."

"Lorna is here, but otherwise, no one from home." He listens to her, and then he chuckles. "I mean, I wouldn't mind finding a way, but from what Lorna and the other people here have said, there is no way out." He holds up a hand.

"I don't know if that is true, but there are people who have been stuck here for years."

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-26 08:26 pm UTC (link)

"Wait, what?" At home, they must think she's dead. Oh, John. No, no, no.

"Lorna's here," she nods at that. She isn't alone. She has Lorna and Andy. And while she doesn't intrinsically understand the workings of this place, she believes John will find her - somehow. She doesn't want him to get trapped here, no, but she also knows he won't stop looking for her. She hates to think of him suffering a world away.

"I don't want to think about being trapped with no way out. We just... don't have a plan yet," she says quietly. That's what she has to tell herself. The idea of being trapped makes her feel unwell - like being trapped with a suppression collar kind of unwell. She just doesn't have an answer yet.

"Could we go see Lorna?"

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imnotfenris
2020-02-26 09:34 pm UTC (link)

"Yes she is." Andy eyes her and nods, hoping he can help her, hoping he can reassure her. She sounds like she has had a rough time and he knows what that is like.

"Sure. Let me send her a message and find out where she is right now." He fished out his device and tapped out a text, sending it. Clarice is here. Wants to see you. Where are you?

He nods to Clarice. "For now, I can show you where we are staying?"

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	ajellydoughnut 2020-02-27 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	Clarice nods. She slowly stands up, giving the dome another glance. She'll be back to study it, but for now, there's no use sitting here pouting over it. "I can portal us back to the center of town. Or anywhere along that path. I haven't seen anything else yet." She mentally adds exploring this place to her list of things to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imnotfenris
2020-02-27 05:46 pm UTC (link)

He gets a response from Lorna, and taps back a few things, sees the response, then nods and grins at Clarice.

"Let's go back to the center, then. I know the way to our place from there. We can order food in, and Lorna and Dawn will be there in a little while, too. She's just finishing up work."

Andy finds himself grinning a little. "I am really glad to see you." He pauses. "I mean, not that you are here, but... just to see youl anyway. Someone else from home." He nods. And she had always been nice, fierce, but nice. Andy really was getting to like being surrounded by fierce but kind women.

"And I can show you a few places, later, if you like? I haven't been here long, but I have wandered a lot."

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-28 07:18 am UTC (link)

"Dawn's here too? That's amazing. I mean, I wasn't sure how this thing works with babies and all." She lets go of a nervous laugh, then her brow furrows. She can't imagine what that's like - being here, with the baby, without Marcos.

"It's good to see you too, kid." She smirks. "Really though. I would've lost my mind if you hadn't been here. It's still a lot to process, but you're helping."

She focuses on her powers, purple sparks forming between her palms. Then she pulls the sparks apart, forming a portal to the center of town.

"After you," and she holds the portal open for Andy. "And we are so wandering at some point. I need to memorize this place."

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imnotfenris
2020-02-28 07:25 am UTC (link)

"Apparently they can happen here. Some kind of time travel almost, also? Like, sometimes, people end up being sent back home for a while, and then come back here again, just days later, despite havbi9ng been home longer... and I am not sure I even understand how that works."

He was glad to talk to her about it.

"Hey, you would have managed. You're smart and strong, and one of the best people I know. Always were." he nods to her, sure about that, the way one can be sometimes.

He watches, once more amazed as she opens a whole in the freaking air. How cool is that??? And he grins at her as she tells him to go through, jumping through the hole, feeling almost normal for once, one of the few times since arriving here.

Once he lands, he looks around, ready, but not expecting trouble. Thankfully, it is quiet, and the townsfolk ignore them. Which... okay. That was nice, if weird. "All clear."

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-28 07:39 am UTC (link)

"So, the snowglobe has some kind of powers, just not the kind I can see." That isn't fair. But, it doesn't seem to have evil powers at this point, certainly not mutant-hunting ones. It's an upgrade from where she was, but she's still concerned.

"Thanks. This situation freaks me out, for sure. Being trapped fights against everything I am, but I've got you, Lorna, and baby Dawn. We'll be okay." She doesn't want to admit just how much being trapped unnerves her.

She hops through the portal, closing it behind them. "Probably late to ask, but it's safe to use our powers here, right?"

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imnotfenris
2020-02-28 07:46 am UTC (link)

"Seems like, yeah. I don't know myself. I just got here, but from what Lorna and others have said, it can be pretty weird."

He nods to her.

"I feel the same way. And its... odd. Everyone is nice, very nice." He shrugs, looking, and feeling, offputting by it. "I know that should be a good thing, but it feels weird to me after two years of running and hiding."

he turns to her and nods. "Whatever happens, we've got your back."

He grins at her question. "A little late, but yes. The natives sometimes look askance, but a lot of them barely react now, and everyone else mostly looks awed or curious. Be prepared for people to ask lots of questions."

Then he shakes his head and gestures. "Come on, the apartment is this way."

It might get crowded with Blink there, but the truth is, that feels more normal to Andy now than having room does. And he looks forward to it a little, really.

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ajellydoughnut
2020-02-28 08:22 am UTC (link)

"If I went back, would I die?" She remembers the gun shots very, /very/ clearly. But she also remembers falling into a portal. That part is fuzzy around the edges. "I guess I'm safer here."

Hm, too nice? She catches his offput expression. She nods.

"Wait, they ask questions? ...for real?" Of all the things to shock her, this is the part that does it. "They don't set your stuff on fire? Or lock you up first?"

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	imnotfenris 2020-02-28 08:33 am UTC (link)
	"No." He says it before he can think to stop it, then hesitates. "No dying allowed." He won't lose anyone else, damn it. "Nope. People ask how it works and what you can do, and where you are from, but they don't attack." So far, at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ajellydoughnut
2020-02-29 08:44 pm UTC (link)

She won't think about it. She doesn't think she's leaving this place anytime soon, anyway.

"Huh. I... don't even know what that's like," she isn't sure how she feels about it. It would be nice if humans were curious and not twisted like the Purifiers. And she knows some aren't like them - like Andy's mom, though it took her family developing powers for her to come around. But maybe it's safe here. /Maybe/.

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	imnotfenris 2020-02-29 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	"It feels weird, for sure." As he leads her along, he smiles at her, but his smile is lopsided. "It's like the whole world is upside down, and while I am glad no one is shooting at us, it is also... weird." He shakes his head. "All I know is that now that I and you and Lorna are all here, I just want us to be safe." (Reply to this) (Parent)