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_nick_green ([info]_nick_green) wrote in [info]omega_reality,
@ 2012-01-21 14:04:00

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Entry tags:*complete, 2012 01, character: april kepner, character: dominic vail, character: sam hanna, dead: nick green

RP: Nick/Anyone
Who: Nick/Anyone who might be looking
When: 1-21-12, afternoon
Where: Out in the field, on the farm
Summary: Sam should've known better.



Nick woke up at the decent hour of noon on Saturday. He loved the weekends. After cleaning the bathroom and eating lunch, he threw on his jacket and told April that he was going outside to practice.

He waved at Eliot and Tim on his way into the pasture, past all the cattle standing around munching hay. It was windy outside, but it didn't bother Nick as he trudged further and further away from the main buildings into the wide-open fields. He finally decided on a spot where he could still see the houses and buildings but wouldn't be bothered.

Folding himself into the crunchy brown grass, Nick started practicing making tiny things again. Proportional ants, flies, and moths. Getting them to form took concentration but he could do it. Getting them to move at that size made it feel like he'd been smacked in the head by a baseball bat.

Of course, as time passed, Nick got bored, and the animals got bigger. He let his mind work through zoo animals, keeping them formed for as long as possible as he added more varieites. Soon, surrounding him were elephants, giraffes, lions, tigers, gorillas, penguins, polar bears, and seals. They wandered around for a bit before the carnage erupted. Making realistic looking blood and guts took as much concentration as the little guys.

Nick eventually gave up on the animals and went to design more fun things, like tanks. He worked hard to get it right from the movies and pictures he'd seen. He got two of them up and then wondered if he could make a fighter jet, too. Excited and popping off small uncontrolled bursts of light, Nick went to work on the jet.

Once crafted, the jet took flight, flying low over the field as far as he could make it, towards the houses and back in his direction. He put the tanks in motion, trying to make them aim at the jet as it circled the range. It was hard making it all work at once; his mind divided between the activities as well as keeping the light-creations appearing solid and exacting. It helped that it was so cool.

"Come on, guys, there isn't much time before you're blasted by the jet," Nick urged on the tanks. The tanks trundled and swung the turret-thing. The jet circled back and released a barage of light-bullets one of them. Too bad he couldn't make noise, except with his mouth. Which he did. "Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop, clink clink clink, ping."

Covering a hand over his mouth, he turned into the fighter pilot. "Enemy engaged. Swinging back around to take fire a second time." The jet banked by the houses again and came towards him and the tanks. "Targeting..."

The jet fighter released another barage of faux bullets at the tank he'd previously shot at, with more sound effects. "Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!" Nick worked to make it appear as if the tank was really getting struck.

As the fighter flew past towards the open field again, Nick had the second tank get a bead on the jet. The tank fired off a shell. Nick realized, as the shell sailed through the air, he'd forgotten there'd be kickback on the tank. He'd fix that next go around.

The shell flew with trails of fire behind it and missed the jet as it maneuvered quickly. Nick's hand went over his mouth to play the pilot again. "Ha-ha! You suck ass, tank jockeys." He made the jet bank and head back in his direction. This power rocked!


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Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Sam saw the lights while he picked up a bottle of beer during commercials. He looked outside to see if there was anyone else, possibly someone that would rip Nick a new one.

"I'll be right back," he told G, before going outside.

"That's kind of cool," he said as he got closer to Nick. "I know that I said that you can practice outside, but make sure you never practice too close to the fences or the front gate. We don't want anyone on the outside to see it. Super powers don't go with our cover."

He took a sip of the beer. "So, is big still better than small? Less painful?"

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Re: Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 07:39 pm UTC (link)
Nick lit up, for once not literally, when Sam appeared. "Hey! Okay. Yeah. I thought out here is where you meant, anyway, cuz of the cattle."

The distraction of Sam had the light-objects lose some definition, but not enough to make them unobvious as to what they were. The jet came past the two tanks with its twin rocket engines burning fire. "Big is easier, yeah. I worked to make the jet and tanks as detailed as possible, though. I was doing the little stuff earlier, and I can make a lot of them but I just can't make them move without getting a headache. Except for a mosquito - man, that hurt even trying to make it."

He motioned at the tanks. "I made a zoo before this and practiced the little stuff on the blood and guts. It wasn't as hard to make that stuff fly around. Maybe because I know how it really looks when it happens, or something."

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Re: Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 07:50 pm UTC (link)
"I don't mind if you go further into the ranch as long as you let someone know and you stay away from the fences," Sam said. "Even when the cattle is near the fence, I don't want any creations there. Strangers are not to see what you can do expect when we're being attacked, okay?"

He thought about that and just how realistic they could make this. His own life had been saved by an areal show, so he wasn't going to dismiss this. "Maybe you should do some research, find pictures of jets that exist here, look at youtube clips. If you know what they look like, we can make the enemy thing that they are real, but they have to look realistic."

Sam chuckled. "That's good, but I still want you to practice on small things. Insects freak people out, even soldiers if there are enough insects. Except that you can't practice those around people."

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Re: Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 07:59 pm UTC (link)
"I can do that," Nick chirped. "I can't get the planes too high, though. That hurts." He brought the fighter jet back from its banking. He had it shoot at the tank again but without his own sound effects. Sam might think it was lame.

"Yeah, tell me about it. I was doing ants on Wednesday in my room and when I finally had to let them get bigger, they escaped into the kitchen without me knowing it. April yells pretty loud." Nick grinned sheepishly. "She said she agreed with you about my doing it outside."

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Re: Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 08:04 pm UTC (link)
"That's all right. We don't need too high. We need them high enough to make the enemy think that we have aerial support," Sam said. "We might never use it, but maybe we will. It's good to be prepared for everything."

Sam snorted. "You were lucky that it was April and not someone else." Savannah and Sean came to mind. Despite their promises, Sam knew better than to expect them not to retaliate. "Ants, spiders, snakes, you do that in the middle of an empty field, okay? Nowhere near people or you'll end up upsetting the others and we'll have a repeat of the other night."

He took another sip, looking at the light display and thinking of things that they could be used for. "You can't use your powers when you drive, you know that right?"

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Re: Sam/Nick/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 08:16 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, I'm gonna stick to outside for moving things. I don't want April to get so mad she and Eliot stop cooking." Nick looked horrified by the thought.

"No powers when I drive, okay. I can't wait to start learning! I wanted to take driver's ed last semester but I was downtown neutralizing a arms dealer the day of registration for classes."

Nick decided the second tank should track the jet and made it accidentally blow up the first tank. He didn't bounce on his toes in glee at the silent explosion and debris flying everywhere. Really.

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-20 08:34 pm UTC (link)
April was taking a walk when suddenly the plane arrived from no where. Her first instinct was to want to duck, but even from a long distance away she knew that a plane like that was supposed to be loud. The lack of noise was a clear give away to what was going on and thinking there might be trouble April went off searching for Nick.

She found him talking to Sam and was relieved that it was just the two of them and not a lot of upset people. This might not have been what she'd meant when she said stay away from the houses, but at least it didn't seem to have upset people the same way the soldiers have.

The comment about her not cooking was the first she heard when she came, and it had her chuckling, especially when coupled with the face Nick was making. "That will take a bit more than some ants, but outside is appreciated," she said with a smile. "Your displays can be a bit startling."

She hated the fact that Nick had had to do things like that, and she couldn't help but to wonder how much of his condition was determined by what he'd been taught to do. She didn't say that though, there wasn't anything that she could do about it anyway. Instead she looked at the tanks and plane when he made one of the tanks blow up. If there had been sound she would have ducked, it was certainly an impressive display.

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Nick turned and smiled sunnily at April when she spoke up. Then he got shifty and leaned in to whisper, "The dancing girls don't count, do they?"

The tank stopped exploding and made an ashen lump on the grass before Nick banished it. The jet kept circling back and forth, while the remaining tank idled. "Oh, hey, Sam, do you want to see the black light thing, even though we're not at training?"

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Sam pretended not to hear about the dancing girls, although he was still thinking about Morgan and the prostitutes. That was not something that he wasn't looking forward to, and there was no way that G wasn't coming with him, although with Nick, it would probably take about five minutes.

"Sure, you can show me the black light," he said.

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-20 08:57 pm UTC (link)
April really didn't like those dancing girls, not so much because Nick had them but because he kept losing control of them. Then again if it kept him from needing prostitutes for a while longer, then they certainly fulfilled a purpose. She didn't answer out loud, just shook her head to confirm that those were still okay, then waited for him to display his black light. If she was right it would be no different from when he accidentally made everything go dark in the house.

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 09:12 pm UTC (link)
The black light he'd been practicing on in his room, too, making thing disappear that weren't the whole house. And so with half a mind still on his jet and tank, he engulfed April in a black bubble. Then, he looked at Sam all expectant-puppy like.

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Sam didn't even look at Nick. It was all about the light and how they could use it. "I guess it can help if we want to hide in the dark, but not during the day. They'll see something black.

He thought some more. "I guess it's good to blacken their view, but that's only going to help if you can do it to a large number without interfering with our view. Or as I said, if you need to hide at night in the shadows. Otherwise, stick with other shapes."

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 09:24 pm UTC (link)
April popped back into view as the light disappated. "The other shapes are more fun anyway," Nick said. He went back to making his jet and tank play war on each other. "Although, Eliot can't see them."

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Re: Sam/Nick/April/Others?
[info]sam_hanna
2012-01-20 09:32 pm UTC (link)
"Don't forget to make sure that you train both on realism and small objects, and now I'll leave you to it." He clapped the boy's back and then nodded in April's direction. "Bye."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-20 10:11 pm UTC (link)
April was used to things going pitch black by now, and only stood still listening to the conversation until she could see again. She could definitely see the perks of making things go dark for an attacker but she didn't doubt that Sam knew better. She had, after all, so far not seen this from the outside, just the inside.

She turned towards Nick when Sam walked away. "So what does it look like from the outside when you block out light for someone?" April asked. She'd never really considered it before since usually it was just the room that went dark as far as she was aware.

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 10:42 pm UTC (link)
"Like a black blob, since I'm not shaping it or anything." Nick made a small area around himself black, causing him to be blind. "See?"

He let the light fade and had the fighter shoot at the tank again on its flyby. He looked at April and cocked his head. "Hey, can I try making you? Even though we're still not at training?"

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-20 11:02 pm UTC (link)
April chuckled at the sight of him going all black, shaking her head. "I see," she said. "Could you shape it?" she asked. "To cover the person exactly perhaps? And could you to it to many at the same time and still keep it individual?"

She was surprised when he asked to multiply her, but didn't see the harm. "Sure, that's okay." She almost added 'as long as they're dressed, but decided to give Nick the benefit of a doubt and ignore what he was used to when it came to female illusions.

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 11:18 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, I can shape it. I can make these, can't I?" Nick motioned at his tank and fighter. "Black is easier. There's no other color."

Perked by the new challenge, Nick formed a bazooka in his arms and used it to blow up the fighter jet. He grinned widely at the second explosion and rain of debris. Letting it fade away along with the heavy firearm, he folded himself into the grass and looked up at her, studying her intently.

After a minute or so, he began to build her from the feet up until a replica of April stood next to the real one. It wasn't exact, but it would fool anyone passing by. He grinned, pleased. "There."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-20 11:43 pm UTC (link)
April smiled. "I meant more like streamline it so that it became more of a second skin, but point taken. I suppose you couldn't see out of one of those."

She watched the bazooka appear, shoot, vanish as the debris of the fighter jet did the same, but that wasn't as interesting as seeing a replica of herself standing next to her a few minutes later. "That is a very strange thing to see," she said, staring at it before turning towards Nick again. "Impressive."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-20 11:55 pm UTC (link)
The April-double gave April two thumbs up and a big smile. "People are harder than animals. More unique," he said. He closed his eyes and pictured Eliot, and then made him appear beside the faux-April. Light-Eliot looked nothing the same - shorter, stockier, with a huge scowl, over-sized Elton John sunglasses, and madman hair. "See?"

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-21 03:29 pm UTC (link)
The figure that was supposed to look like Eliot had April stifling a laugh. She did not want Nick thinking she was laughing at him, but the way he saw Eliot was funny. "Yes, I see what you mean," she said.

"Can you make him a few inches taller?" she asked. "And with smaller glasses and slightly less hair, or at least a bit more... tamed, I suppose is the word I'm looking for."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-21 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Nick concentrated, working on the alterations. Taller worked, and he was able to get the sunglasses looking more like Aviator than Flamboyant Rock Star, but the hair... "His hair always looks like that."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-21 03:50 pm UTC (link)
Now April couldn't help but to laugh, because that was too cute. "No sweetie, it doesn't," she said. "Only when he's coming in from a ride," she said. "Otherwise it's a bit less frazzled and..." she searched for the right word. "Relaxed. It's hard to explain, but you can study it when we get home and you'll see that I'm right. If you do you'll notice that his scowl isn't really that big or severe either, when he's not making a point of pretending that it is."

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-21 03:56 pm UTC (link)
"Relaxed hair? How does hair relax?" April was weird.

Bored with light-Eliot already, Nick turned him into a zombie by melting most of his face off. The zombie shuffled towards light-April and real April. Light-April put her hands on her hips and give the zombie the look Nick got when he was in trouble. Zombie-Eliot stopped, spun around, and took off running in terror until he poofed from sight.

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]april_kepner
2012-01-21 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Chuckling, she tried to think of a way to explain what she meant. It wasn't easy because she wasn't one to normally put words to describe people's hair, but before she'd thought of a way to explain the light illusion of Eliot changed and April had to laugh at what followed.

"I'm that scary?" she laughed. "I'll remember that the next time there are soldiers around. Perhaps I can scare them away by putting my hands on my hips." What really struck her, though, was how much the expression on the face of the light version of her reminded her of her mother. Was that really how she looked or was it more Nick's perceived image of her? Still that expression coupled with that stance had her mother written all over it.

When had she turned into her mum?

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Re: April/NIck/Others?
[info]_nick_green
2012-01-21 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Nick laughed. He could so see her doing that, and if the soldiers were smart they'd be quaking in their boots.

Getting to his feet, he declared, "I'm hungry. Are there any leftovers?" Light-April faded away.

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Dom/Anyone at practice
[info]dom_vail
2012-01-20 07:29 pm UTC (link)
They were going through that night's set lists when something caught Dom's eye. At first, he thought it was a figment of his imagination, but then it happened again and again. He put down his guitar and went to the window.

Looking out, he saw the tans and the jet. He tensed for a moment, reaching for the gun. He could sense the others doing the same just by looking at him, but then there was no sound. "Fuck." He didn't curse, but if the kid scared Jenna, there were going to be words. They'd be a lot more than words for that matter. "Look at that imbecile."

He moved aside, giving the others a clear view. "No sound, but guess who's making those. I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count."

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