Tobias

"Whoa, looks like more of the... uh... " He tried to find a polite way to say 'freak', but he was one too... "Locals are coming by..." He muttered... His clothes were a ragged and dirty pair of jeans and a green tank top, his leather jacket was much nicer looking. "Yeah, you're in the right place."

Kami took down the barrier and stayed clear of the police officer. Her clothes were new and cleaner, either Tobias cared more about keeping her well clothed, or something kept making his dirty. She wore a pair of thick yellow harem pants and a long sleeve shirt, a long staff a foot taller than her with what looked like rings on the brass head. A teal lion plushy was strapped to her back, acting as a backpack and security blanket. Kami glanced at the Garret and tilted her head slightly. She kept staring at him, for no reason immediately apparent. Tobias glanced down at her while she was doing this and nudged her with his elbow.

"It's rude to stare... " Tobias corrected, nudging her gently again. She looked up and blushed, then bows her head, flinging her braid over her head from the rapid movement then looked up again.

"Sorry." Kami whispered and went back to waiting. She had an olive skin tone and dark hair, round large eyes dark green.

Gold-Fire

Terry had just gotten back from a patrol around the city. He stared for a minute at the small knot of people gathered outside the clock towers door. He ran his fingers through his hair and shrugged quietly. He crossed the street and waved, he was in full hero costume, which gave officer Jacobs just the excuse he needed.

"You're Gold-Fire? Good, take this kid off my hands." The officer handed Gold-Fire the key the the cuffs, a pair meant to restrain someone with powers. "Sign this."

"Uhhh..." Gold-fire stared then sighed, signing the papers releasing Tobias into their 'custody'. "He wasn't violent or something right?"

"Nah! Just stole some bread, can't get the girl off him." The officer thumbed at Kami. Once the two kids were with Gold-Fire the officer decided he could leave, and did. He never saw a gathering of supers this big that didn't break out into something exploding!

"Oh." Gold-Fire nodded, then looked over Kami, Tobias and Garret. "You here to join up?" He asked Garret, since Tobias and Kami had no real choice at the moment. He offered his hand to shake both of their hands. "Gold-Fire, lemme let you in." He said, removing his gauntlet glove and pressing the palm to the lock outside. A small arm squeegied the fingerprints off of the palm scanner, then openned the door.

Outside

Terry glanced down at the tulips and smiles. He nodded as Garret explained his powers, he ran his fingers through his hair and glanced at the other two. The scruffy looking blonde and the short young girl.

"I take it you're responding to our ad? Glad to have you, we plan on holding an ethics and conduct class when we have enough protege's, three might be enough. I think Psionette's out at the moment. We should wait till we have the whole senior member group here to hold the class." Terry was half thinking out loud, half explaining the situation Garret, Tobias and Kami were getting involved in.

Tobias looked exceptionally annoyed, but didn't intend to run off. He and Kami had been living in a cave prior to their arrest and conscription. He didn't think of himself as the heroic type, mostly because multiple personalities would tend to get in the way of consistantly doing the heroic thing. He exhaled quietly and held his hands out.

"Can you please uncuff me?" He asked. "I won't run, I'm not leaving my sister, and this place is probably a better place to crash than a cave in the park." Tobias still had a tone of carefully veiled defiance, even though he felt the voice from his 'dark' mind crying out to just cut them all up and run, Kami included. He ignored that voice... The other voice was commenting on their youth and just as intent on violence, though the 'light' mind wanted to kill evil doers. There were plenty of those around to tear up, but Tobias didn't intend to get in trouble for murder.

Terry considered the boy, then his 'sister' and nodded, unlocking the cuffs. Kami still clung to Tobias, weary of the strangers. Tobias rubbed his wrists and

"How old is she?" Terry asked, waving his arm towards the open door.

"I'm eleven." Kami said, her voice held no accent.

"You both have powers too, I assume?" Terry asked, uncomfortable standing on the street with them. "C'mon, lets go inside."

"Yeah." Tobias sighed and walked in, talking as he went. "I'm half demon, half angel. I make blades all over my body from naturally occurring bio-metal. I can use Light and Dark 'energy' to defend and attack, a bit." He shrugged.

"I'm a mage!" Kami grinned and took her staff off of her back as she walked inside, pulled a card from her pocket and whacked it with her staff, a large magic circle appeared around the card and the creature on it leaped onto the floor. It looked around waiting for orders.

"Kami! I said no magic in public..." Tobias covered his face. "I'm Tobias Dragun, this is Kami."

"Oh, okay... That's a neat trick..." Terry nodded. He waited for Garret to go in, then looked across the street, waved at Mrs. McAllister talking to a metallic blue girl across the street.

Inside

Technosis had finally extricated himself from the computer chair and decided to check on the new recruits.

"Oh, you got-" He blinked as the monster from the card appeared from thin air. "Whoa, Rune Fortress monsters?" He chuckled and ran down the rest of the metal stairs in the main room downstairs. There was training equipement now set up in the main room, a secured door at the back of the main room that lead to the basement. Off to both sides were still storage, now containing clothes, armor and other useful supplies.

"We're gonna have to trade some cards kid!" Technosis grinned. "Hey Goldy, in or out, we're not air conditioning the whole outdoors!"

Outside as well a simple car pulled up. "Alright here we are. These people will help you adjust and aid in teaching you the world." The woman in front spoke to the 15 year old bronzed skinned boy in back. He looks almost normal, until you note his solid black eyes and four extra arms. He was dressed in baggy pants and oversized shirt, that been cut to allow for the arms. He wiggles his toes and looks down at the flip flops. "No lab coats?" She smiled "No honey, no lab coats here. You're safe from them the law protecting you." "What is this law thing?" She sighs here he goes on another who, what, when questioning. "Just rules we aren't supposed to brake so we can all live together. You can learn about it more here as well as other things. Now out lets go and introduce ourselves."

The two got out of the car and the woman took the boys hand. "Greetings Officers." She led her charge to the door with them.

Terry moved through the door with the new arrival and smiled fondly at all the new arrivals. He hadn't expected this much of a turn out! He glanced at the boy with extra arms, lucky his expression was mostly hidden by his mask, he felt bad for the boy, most of the others seemed capable of hiding their powers and living a normal life. He nodded at Garrett and the new boy.

"Yep, hopefully at least!" Gold-Fire offered his hand for the woman and boy to shake. "I'm Gold-Fire, founder and one of the three leaders of the Young Wanderers, Garrett, Tobias and Kami here, are also joining up." He glanced out the still open for another time and noted the metallic blue girl across the street, and then closed the door. "Introductions, should be first in order, name, age, powers, also good details, you don't have to get personal if you don't want."

Tobias exhaled slowly and closed his eyes, his shoulders sagged as he finally started to accept this, grudgingly.

"I'm Tobias Joshua Dragun, half demon, half angel, I like to call myself a Libravivim, for those who don't know Latin, it means living balance or something close to that." He shrugged. "I'm 16 years old, from brittain originally." He shrugged. "I make blades, sorta, and venom that overloads pain receptors and heals the victim, also make dark and light auras, haven't figured out more control of it." He demonstrated the blades, they cut through his skin on his wrists, ankles, elbows, knees, shoulders and along his spine. He retracted them again and shrugged, wincing as the wounds healed and oozed yellow and red for a moment. "I'm kinda crazy, not sure you want me around." He added, trying to convince them to kick him out without much hassle, but then again that might mean the cops would pick him up again.

"I'm Kami Dragun, I guess? I'm 11, I was born in the month of Leviathan, which would be february, here." She shrugged. "I'm a mage, I use my magic to tap into the imaginations of the creators of my favorite game, Rune Fortress, and summon monsters." She pointed. "That's my favorite one, Elf Samurai." She grinned, then dispelled the creature, causing it to disappear with a pop and a flash of light. "I can use some of the traps and magic spells from the game too, I know a bunch of other spells too, like stealth spells, and magic barriers." She grinned and held her hands behind her back, still staying close to Tobias.

"I'm Gold-Fire, or Terry if you prefer my real name, Energy absorber, manipulator and projector. I'm 17." Terry waved and then looked over at Technosis to give his speech.

"Technosis, as the name implies, I'm a tech GENIUS!" He grinned and waved, not a single shred of humility. "I just make a bunch of gadgets, hand out communicators and stuff like that, no powers, at all. I'm 17 too, born and raised here." He looked over at Terry, a slight note of jealousy, then shrugged. "Alright, go." He pointed at Garrett, to get the lime light off of him.

The woman spoke up "I'm Rosie Sanders and this is Mar. He's kind of a special case he's technically only a few months old though he's about the age of 15 by human standards. Edentech messed with the genetic code of spiders and he's the result. Super strength, agility, heightened senses."

Mar looked around at the other people "Is this home?"

Terry exhaled loudly at the explanation of Mar's origin. He closed his eyes for a second then nodded to what Garrett and Mar said. He uncrossed his arms and smiled at Mar.

"It's nice to meet you Miss Sanders, thank you for bringing Mar to us. A safe home for those without, and a guiding hand, that's the goal. " Terry waved an arm around for a second. "That's why we started the group, Psionette, Technosis and I. We, Technosis and I, had a friend who was kicked out of his home, for his uh... preferences, and for being a mutant, both garnered him some hostility and he tried to make the world better. Technosis and I lost that friend, and decided to do something about the pain we felt. Young Wanderers is here for any kid with powers or skills, who's homeless and wants to become a hero. " He smiled fondly. Technosis lowered his eyes and frowned.

Technosis blinks, then looks up, realizing that the shaft for the clockwork of the clock tower now fed down to the lower level to channel the Machina Mana. He was grateful for the distraction. He grinned and pointed up. He grinned and tapped his gauntlets, a touch screen computer formed green holograms on it.

"That, is the Machina Mana." He smirked, he glanced at Kami.

"I thought I sensed a mana source, but it was weird!" The little girl grinned and looked at Tobias for permission to go look. "Can I go look Toby?" She grinned. He nodded quietly.

"I've only just gotten the hang of programming constructs and such, but with it most of the bases defenses are formed." He tapped a few more buttons and headed up the stairs, small ports on the floor opened and seemingly holographic turrets appeared. Kami followed and watched in awe as the turrets shot at eachother, exploded in a shower of pixels, then a few moments later reformed. "I could use a mage's help to understand how to shape it."

At that Kami grinned and bounded up the stairs. "Sure!" She grinned.

Technosis grinned and waited at the top of the first staircase for Garrett to follow. "Hey, Goldy, get them situated with comms and clothes will ya? I gotta show off awhile."

Gold-fire smiled and waved his hand.

"Over here we've got a stock of clothes, communicators and utility items for whomever needs them." Gold-Fire lead them over to one storage room, taking a few small tech items off the shelf and handing them out to those still present, a pair of goggles that doubled as a HUD for Tobias. "Clothes are all regenerative Nano-weave, so if your powers are destructive to your clothes, that's fine. We can have clothes tailor made as well." He waved his hand and headed up the stairs, Tobias followed after. "The second floor is the junior heroes quarters, two to a room, we've got room for all of you plus 10 more."

Tobias raised his hand, pulling his new goggles/communicator up onto his forehead. "Kami and I can share a room right? She gets nightmares from thunder storms, and I want to be close by..." Gold-Fire nodded at his request and lead them up the spiral stair case around the clock-tower mechanisms.

Technosis nods and smiles vaguely. He leads them through the second floor hallway, past the doors, then into the third floor with the slightly larger rooms that the 'senior' members didn't have to share. The fourth floor was the monitor room, which showed off the huge pulsating ring/orb of energy. Kami was stuck there, watching in awe and holding her hands up the the swirling ball of mana. They would be alone on the roof that they could access through another spiral staircase. Laurn sighed loudly once out in the open air and took off his mask, rubbing his temple.

"Thanks." He said, smiling vaguely as he looked off into the skyline which was lit brightly by the sun two thirds of the way across it's daily arc. He stretched and smiled, glancing through the dome skylight at the little mage girl still staring in awe at their source of techno-magical energy.

Gold-Fire shrugs quietly and then strokes his chin for a moment in thought.

"Well, to be honest, the two to a room thing is for the moment, if we get a whole tonne of applicants, we'll increase the number per room, but at the same time, we only have three senior members at the moment, so, our ability to train the new members may be limited. We don't want to spread ourselves too thin, if we did then one member of another may not get the help they need. Once we get the senior floor filled, which has capacity for eight, we'll be able to take more kids in and help them." He shrugged, hoping his explanation was adequate.

Tech glances over, then down at the plants springing up beneath them... He sighs and shrugs. He takes off one of his gauntlets as he sits down, and runs his fingers over the grass beneath them.

"Well, it's complicated. Terry's my bestfriend, have been since... forever!" He stares up at the sky and stretches. "We met when we were little, got to be good friends, he tested out some of my inventions, rocket skate boards and stuff like that. Then, he got powers in highschool, and I was still a geeky bi-guy." He shrugged again... He frowns deeply and looks down at the grass. "About the time Terry got powers, it wasn't so bad, I didn't know then that he had em either, but he started disappearing, Gold-Fire started showing up and saving people around our highschool. This other kid kinda filled the void Terry left. Quin, he had powers too, but he was a low-level psychic/telekinetic, he was also gay. We started running around, flirting." He dropped his eyes and sighed. "Then, what Terry said happened, he got kicked out of his parents house, for being gay, started trying to be a hero with me, we got in over our heads, Terry tried saving us as Gold-Fire, but Quin got shot. " Laurn closes his eyes and sighs loudly. "I know it's not Terry's fault, but sometimes, I can't help thinking I could've saved Quin if I had his powers, not to mention he's got grandparents who give him almost anything he wants, a dad who loves him and doesn't want him to be a football star like mine, who's disappointed that all I want to do is be an inventor."

Terry raises his eyebrows and thinks about that...

"Ya know, we don't have a library... I'll have to talk to Laurn about expanding the place, not much we can do with the old building, but with the mages running about, we can probably handle it." He smiled, trying to think where and how they could manage it... He smiled and lead the way up stairs. "We'll get you all settled into a room in bit, we'll finish the tour first." Terry headed up to the third floor and showed off the rooms. "This is the senior members area, the kitchen's up here, as well as the eating area." He pointed to the kitchen and the dining room with a large table. "When you guys get to be senior members you'll be in your own rooms, good behavior and showing leadership qualities gets you up here."

Tobias snorted and looked around quietly, thinking he'd like it up here, but could never fit the 'leadership' mold.

"Seems pretty small for a supergroup, ya know?" Tobias raised his eyebrows. "I've seen some cool spacial expansion magic, doctor who kinda stuff, maybe Kami can pull some of that off, especially if ya got your own ready-made magic source." Tobias shrugged.

"Good point, and good idea." Gold-Fire smiled and lead them up to the next floor into the monitor room, where Kami still watched the undulating orb of mana with awe. "And this is the hub, we send you out on missions here, monitor what we can of Ironport, and Technosis has a clean room set up for experiments and such." He smiled and crossed his arms. "Do you guys have anything you need?"

"Clothes." Tobias said simply, a slightly friendlier smirk on his lips as he watched the room silently, he could feel the pulse of the mana source as well, moved over to Kami and hugged her gently. She looked up and hugged him back.

"This stuff is cool! But I can't use it, it won't work with any inscriptions I try..." Kami frowns. "Seems pretty malleable though... Maybe I can convert it to more usable forms..."

Tech's expression ranged from disbelief, to confusion, to pure curiosity as he told the story. He smiled and shook his head at the facts, then runs his fingers through his hair thinking about it. He wondered how yggdrasil fit the machina mana into this mix, then pushed the thought away.

Tech blinks and shakes his head at the story of how he came to exist. The story would have been unbelievable, if Laurn didn't have proof of alternate planes of existance within their own 'dimension'. He chuckled and put an arm around Garrett in a half hearted and neutral hug. He grinned and patted him on the shoulder.

"Yeah, my dad'll come around, I think. " He smiled and let go of Garrett and looked back down through the dome a second time. "I'm sorry to hear about your father and mother, your botanist parents weren't good to you? I mean, you were literally a gift..." He stroked his chin, then shrugged. "I think we'll get along well." He smiled. "Misfits in our own families." He chuckled and shrugged, patting Garrett on the back lightly. "If this membership drive thing keeps up, we might have to move to a new building!" Tech teased, running his bare hand through the grass, not thinking of getting up, the other arm still rested lightly over Garrett's shoulder. He turned red across his whole face, then let go and stared at the sky.

"experiments.. NO!" He ran and climbed up the wall into a corner his back against the ceiling his eight arms out against the wall. "No no..." Rosie sighed " Not on you Mar. You're safe." "No experiments!"

"WHAAA?" It took Aoi a second, she was used to hearing american english. Her eyes went wide as she quickly shook her head no. Far to fast. Then she bowed and placed her hands on her knees before picking her guitar case up and rushing off. She jumped into an open door of a taxi. The driver had been ducked over trying to find a dropped meatball that had escaped his sub. "Where to miss?" "I-ran-port" "You got money?" Aoi wrinkled her nose and dug out a $10 bill. "That'll get you about 1/3 of the way, still want me to take you?" Aoi nodded yes and sunk as low into the seat as she could.

As the taxi starts to pull away the back end oddly sinks until the shocks are near flat............

Evaine McAllister looked after the odd blue girl and hoped she would be all right. She got on her bus at the next corner, and headed across the bridge back to Ironport.

Kami grinned and nodded profusely, her thick black braid of hair bobbing and flipping with the excited movement. She clasped her hands in her lap and looked from the sky, back down to them.

"My clan in Hel was the main source of magical knowledge!" She smiled broadly. "I'm all that's left, but I have all our books and scrolls. There's definitely things in there to expand a room beyond it's literal dimensions." She smiled and sat cross legged and inhaled quietly, then tilted her head at Garrett, staring and quirking her eyebrows as if trying to figure something out. Her sense of magic was peaked by the Machina Mana, as well as Garrett, who held a powerful magical seed in his being. She didn't say anything, just stared and tried to think of why, or what, she was sensing from him.

Tech chuckled at her and shrugged, his thick suit squeaked when he moved sometimes.

"Well, we have a huge source of magical energy, with you and the technomagic generators, I should be able to expand it all..." He grinned and brushed his hand against Garretts, then moved it away.

Kami's eyes went wide at the mention of the magical seed in him, she nodded quietly. Thinking about the possible implicates of this...

"That explains everything! You're probably a huuuuuge source of magic, the world tree is... Well, it's the foundation of ALL the worlds!" She smiles and chews her lip. "Do you think you might have other skills from it? Or abilities? Maybe the young World Seed couldn't do much, but it has the possibility to create a whole new cluster of dimensions!" She gapes at it and puts her hand on him, trying to feel the magic more directly, she then snatches it away and blushes. "Sorry, for staring, and touching, Toby says I shouldn't do either without asking..." She chewed her lip quietly and waited for a response to her babbling.

Technosis couldn't help continuing to laugh at Kami, though quietly. He leans back and stares up at the sky and sighs.

Kami chewed her lip and thought about something for a minute... She rubbed her lip as she thought, then pulled on her braid lightly... Piecing together a complicated thought.

"Well, one thing I thought of was, our head, our minds are sort of like a place anyway, right?" She tilted her head. "And we keep things in it, sometimes they're the same, or different, or broken, and sometimes, they stay the same, memories and stuff, I just thought that if you imagined something strongly enough, since you have an internal world, and can manifest stuff in the external world, maybe you could meditate and slowly form something by imagining it in more and more and more detail, then pop, make it!" She grinned. "Like how we can travel from the other worlds sometimes, your internal world could move something to the external world, maybe? I mean, from what I read on wikipedia, we already sorta do something like that by looking around, stuff at a quantum level goes from only possibilities, to solid definitive states. Though, that's just changing stuff in this world, hmmm..." She shrugged. Then went quiet, back to thinking about stuff no one expects an 11 year old to.

Laurn grinned and shrugged, he patted Garrett on the hand. He then grinned at Kami and smirked the idea of manifesting something Garrett wanted actually made him quite happy!

"Don't think of it as a trouble at all!" Laurn smiled even broader. "The group is meant for this. Guiding and helping young heroes like us achieve what they want, and need, to do in the world." He smiled at Kami, having actually been stunned silent by her for a few moments. He stretched and glanced around the roof. He squeezed Garretts hand as a sign of solidarity to help him. The techno 'mage' genius was excited to work and get to know the new people who had come into the group. "I'm glad I pushed Terry into this." He smirked even broader.

"Well, I can help, cause there are spells and stuff, I was just thinking that you might be able to channel mana from the machina mana, through the world seed, convert it to something I could use, to help fuel the enchantments necessary to enlarge the space on the second and third floor. Technosis could help by helping me calculate the structure of the space we need to make. We definitely need bigger facilities for the..." She counted for a second. "Eight of us, to live here." She smiled, pulling her stuffed Lion off of her back, somehow still considering the stuffed teal lion a person. "Atrox counts." She insisted, the notion made it apparent that she might age, in some ways, slower than normal humans. She hugged the plushy. "This is Atrox, by the way." She grinned.

Signy McAllister had finished cleaning - by scrub brush and cleanser - the last of the rooms (the attic, in this case) in the old boarding house. Her mother had cleaned almost half of them before she left in search of magical supplies that morning, and asked Signy to do as much as she could on the rest. Well, all there was to do would have to do, wouldn't it? And it was a beautiful day. Signy opened up one of the garret windows and let the breeze blow through. She looked over the street and up and down it, and decided this place wasn't half bad. Especially if you considered the roof of the building across the street and up a bit...

Signy made a quick decision, and closed the garret window again. She worked her way down, making certain that the building was secure, before swapping out the clothes she'd gotten dirty while cleaning the house for clean ones (sneakers, shorts and a River Song tee shirt) and leaving through the front door and heading across the street. She rang the doorbell.

The cab driver felt bad, but he didn't own the cab, he couldn't just give her free rides all over the city, he had a family to feed. "Ironport is that way." He pointed in the direction she would need to walk. Aoi smiled politely and nodded. Before driving off he handed her the half of his sub he hadn't eaten. Aoi grabbed it and took a quick bite. Her eyes rolled up into her head out of pleasure. Fooooooood.

Aoi started walking in the direction of Ironport.

Fourth Floor
Kami grins and squeezes her lion toy quietly.

Technosis just shrugged and waved his hand like it was no big deal. He really didn't mind at all, people were always making more work for him, he was always making more work for himself! What's one more thing to do? He couldn't hear the doorbell, so he stayed content and absent minded out on the roof.

Terry nodded with Rosie's explanation of the situation then raised an eyebrow quietly, he didn't think he should get into the ethical debate of creating a whole new person... He just nodded and checked the monitors when he heard the door bell.

Tobias looked at the monitors from the other side as Mar got down from the ceiling. He grinned broadly and redid his thick blonde ponytail.
"Oh, she's cute, I'll get it!" He insisted before Terry could stop him, Tobias literally flew down the stairs, a streak of red following behind him from nearly invisible ribbony energy wings. He was at the bottom floor in no time at all.

First Floor

"Jus' a minute!" He called through the door, which ended up being muffled to near inaudibility.
He had a bit of trouble getting the door open, since he had to disengage a security lock or two. When he finally did he yanked it open and almost fell down unexpectedly. HE jumped up and grinned, like he'd meant to act this way.

"Hello." He grinned, trying to pour on his natural British accent, he struggled for a moment to find something else flirtatious to say. "Ah, how can we help ya miss?"

"Well now, that's a fine accent ye've got there. Almost like home." Her brogue was not to thick, she hoped, and she smiled. "I'm Signy McAllister. Ma mum and I are setting up a shelter just up the road, and I saw ye and yer friends up top and thought I'd pop over and say Hallo. Hallo!"

(edited to remove Sassenach comment)

"Sure, I can stay a wee bit. We're a women's shelter, for those whose husbands, lovers, an' significant others, need to learn manners. And it's nice to be meeting all of ye."

To Psionette Signy replied, "Getting a bit ahead of yerself, Red? I hadn't e'en told anyone here I have superpowers!"

First floor
Tobias smiled, quite happy that Signy decided to come in. He blinked and almost became a bladed horror when Psionette appeared out of nowhere! He hoped she had powers! Maybe she'd come by and stick around, or help them out sometimes!

"Do ya? Have powers? I uh... Got powers" He grinned and walked up the staircase towards the main living quarters, the smile on his face falters a moment as he mentions his powers, and both the voices in his head make comments about the girl. One sneering about how weak she looked, and something about her skull, the other, berating Tobias for even attempting flirtation in the first place. He set his jaw for a second, then smiled again.

"Ya picked a good place for a womens shelter, or horrible, might make an angry ex think twice about showin' up after 'em!" Tobias grinned and balled up his fist. He was pretty skinny, but two years of fighting had given him a toned body. He stumbled as he reached the second floor landing, walking backwards was a bad idea.

Second Floor

Kami and Technosis had decided to start getting to work on marking out their plans for the new additions they were constructing with magic. On the second floor they were marking out a door at the end of the hall, a well drawn sketch at the moment. Each room had a similar sketch, planned for a closet for each set of rooms. A small gap between doors was also marked off, with an obviously 'girls' symbol, opposite that a boys sign.

"Hey Toby!" Kami said, helping him up. "You still have the spell ink in your backpack?" Kami asked.

"Eh? Oh, yeah, shit! I left it in the cave..." He winced, the backpack was invaluable.

"No problem, I'll just conjure our stuff to our room." She went into the room Tobias had put his leather jacket, produced her staff with a short incantation, then did the same thing with a pile of stuff! Legos being one major component.

"Handy." Technosis grinned. "Who'd ya drag in Psionette, or was she Tobias' idea?" Technosis grinned and raised his eyebrows, waving to Signy.

"Unintentional... like me." he looks down at his extra arms "Miss Tucker says they didn't mean to be cruel or to make me like I am. I'm one of a kind, because of a mistake."

Fourth Floor

Gold-Fire gives a sympathetic frown at what Mar says and nods quietly, then pats him lightly on the shoulder. A smile returns to his face as he indicates that they could go down stairs.

"Well, mistakes also bring discoveries, and not all mistakes are bad. Uniqueness, that's a curse and a blessing, but we're lucky to live in a universe where our uniqueness is acceptable, and we can do something with it." He smiles and tries to lead Mar down stairs, smelling the food.

Second Floor

Tobias nods at her brief explanation of her powers.

"I get my powers from both sides, It's a long explanation... " He chewed his lip and glances about the hall and the kitchen. "So... You gonna stay for dinner? Is there enough?" Tobias turned to Psionette to ask.

Rosie Tucker "So what do you say Mar? Want to give these people a try I come back in a few days." He let himself get led down stairs "Alright will try."

Gold-Fire

Terry smiled at Mar's tentative agreement to stay there. He grinned as he reached the floor and inhaled loudly. He gave Psionette a quick hug and kiss on the cheek.

"Smells awesome, how was the paper today?" He glanced around, waving at Signy as a greeting. He was still in hero gear, thinking about getting into civvies for the night.

Tobias

Tobias grinned and did a quiet fist pump at his side as celebration. The voices in his head making inane or violent commentary about his happiness or laziness. HE gritted his teeth quietly and went to find Kami. He peaked around a door finding her etching another spell onto a wall.

"Hey, Kami, Tech, Foods almost ready, I think we're having two dinner guests." Tobias grinned at that part. "You got all the supplies you need?"

Kami

Kami hopped up and shook her head vigorously, her braid whipping back and forth. "Nope! Just the spell ink and the mana."

"What's for dinner?" She smiled broadly, stuffed her chalk and spell books into Atrox' pocket in the back and slung him onto her back.

Technosis

Hopped up and finished up his notes, reading Kami's books and looking over the spacial manipulation spells she was creating on the doors were really helping him understand the Machina Mana.

"Smells greats!" He grinned and headed up the stairs, instead of towards the dining area. "I'll get Garret." He said, bounding up the stairs with a metal clanking from his brass colorred boots. He stopped at his room and did a quick change into his civilian clothes, he never liked wearing his hero suit to dinner. "Garret?" Laurn called as he got to the fourth floor.

Signy hit the speed dial. "Mum, the neighbors ha' invited us to dinner." She gave the address. "Aye, that's the one. 'Home for wayward super-teens'...They seem nice, and it looks like they're recruiting...offered to help out if someone wouldna take 'no'...See ye in ten minutes, then." She turned off her phone. "Looks like I will be staying for dinner, and ma mum, too."

"Signy McAllister. Ma mum and I are setting up a women's shelter just up the road. An' I'm not sure about joining yet. One incident last year doesna make me 'wayward'." She grinned impishly.

Mar was nervous so many strangers. He went to the room's corner and climbed up the wall settling near the ceiling. Two arms out hands against the ceiling he somehow lost his flipflops no doubt when he first scurried up a wall. He didn't seem panicked thought and he was scratching his nose with his second right hand. "What is a Mall?"

Technosis

Tech glances over at Garrett, confused by the sudden blushing he exhibited. Laurn scratched the back of his neck, and reached into his shirt, tearing off an offending tag, as he headed down stairs again with Garrett. He wore a pair of black shorts and a nerdy T-Shirt with the words "There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get binary and those who don't." He put his arm around Garrett and sighed quietly.

Terry

Leaves his room just as Tech and Garrett are heading by, dressed in a pair of cargo pants that zip off at the bottom, he's left the zipper open so he can get some cool air in on the hot day. His shirt is a simple yellow, same color as his hero suit, with his symbol on it, memerabilia from when he had a small fan club in their school, consisting of one girl with a T-shirt press. He carried a pair of jeans and a green T-shirt in hand as he walked down the stairs into the dining area.

"Here, change before dinner, and throw those out." Terry said to Tobias with a smile "Probably a bit baggy on you." He shrugged and went to Sabrina again. "Want and help?"

Tobias

Tobias glanced at the clothes he was handed, then looked down at his clothes and his entire face, up to his ears turned red. Then he glanced at Signy and dashed off to change. He was back a few seconds later in the new clothes, smelling like he'd sprayed himself down in arosol body spray. He glanced around and tried to seem relaxed, even though he definitely was not, with voices in his head screaming for justice or rampant murder sprees...

"I'd like to go to the mall." He said, making sure the goggles on his forehead were still in place. "I need new boots, I keep tearing through mine with my blades, need some that self repair though, doubt they have that." He babbled, nervously.

Kami

Is fairly short for her age, but inherently intent on being helpful, she's in the kitchen reaching for the plates, trying to grab several at a time. Without her staff she doesn't have on the fly magic, so she's stuck reaching on her tip-toes. She gets a few plates down without a hitch, then one slips off and shatters behind her.

"Ack!" She sets the other plates down and scrambles around looking for a broom to sweep up the mess.

Signy helped out where she could, mostly with the setting of the table because the kitchen itself seemed to have way too many cooks. "A mall run sounds like a good idea, but ma mum may need me to help out wi' the consecration."
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Evaine got off the bus and went to the shelter. She set her bag of "groceries" inside, then lock the door again before heaeding across the street.

Aoi felt rather stupid. Her english was good, but she knew she had yelled the wrong word while running away. It was getting dark and it was dinner time. She was still lost, apparently in Ironport and bar lights were starting to turn on. Thats when she heard the noise. That sound when metal scrapes over metal combined with rusted gears painfully turning.

Aoi watched in muted horror as a massive slag heap of metal rounded the corner. A small child had run into the road apparently not understanding how dangerous this giant robot thing was! Aoi dropped her guitar and sprinted towards the small boy. "Get way! Get way!" Aoi was screaming at the top of her lungs. She didn't understand why no one else was running to help the boy.

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Tom had just left the bar his buddy was working at. It was early evening, he had the swing shift so no point in getting bombed. He heard the familiar sound of Arch. The monolith must be making its nightly repair walk. Tom stopped smiled and waved at the giant creature. He knew it would ignore him, it only ever paid attention to children. He remembered after having crashed his bike as a child finding it fixed two days later with a pony sticker on it. Arch was a good ...guy? Thing? Whatever, he was one of those heroes for the little people.

Tom heard a slightly less heard sound. A woman screaming at Arch. OH MY GOD... Tom got excited, he was finalllllllllllllly going to get to see it. A new cape to the city thinking Arch was a bad guy, just because he looked a bit scary! He had heard about these stories, but never saw it happen before!

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Aoi rushed forward. She had about as much fighting experience as a toddler. No one ever physically picked on her growing up. She hadn't even been in a middle school fight.

Aoi clenched her fist and drove it home. It smashed into the Monolith. Aoi looked up. The Monolith looked down. Aoi heard a grating. The next thing she felt was what she imagined an ant felt when you flicked it off your skin.

Aoi went sailing. She came to an abrupt halt by smashing into the side of a building half a block away. The girl fell over mostly unconscious.

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The boy was so excited. He had icecream and got to meet stickers all in the same night! Why was the blue woman yelling at him? He wasnt doing anything. He started to cry. "Stickers help!" The boy whimpered. Arch took action. He lumbered a step forward just as the blue girl struck him. Three minutes repair time he noted to himself. Arch struck back with equal force. He watched for a half second to make sure the blue thing was gone before turning back to the child and handing him a small brass drum.

Arch lumbered on.

Signy smiled. "Two plates, please, ma Mum'll be here-"

She was interrupted by the chime of the doorbell.

"Well, about now."

"Thank you, and please, call me Evaine," said the woman who might, conceivably, be old enough to be Signy's mother. She was only about 5'6" to Signy's 5'9", and had hazel eyes. But the faces were similar, and blonde hair hung down her back over a summer dress. Evaine only had time to get a glimpse of the figure as the door closed. "Bigger than my ex." She murmured a prayer, adding a blessing of protection to whatever wards were already up, amd headed upstairs.

"Plate, Mum? Ye're just in time...What for, I wouldna know." Signy started introducing everyone.

Technosis

Laurn pulled his goggles out of his pocket to check his security system. He pulled up the image and sent it to the TV in the room, showing off an image of a man nearly 7 foot tall. He freezed the image on the clearest picture they had of the threat. The man looked like he was wrapped in organic bio-metal armor, each straight section of limb was covered in a single plate of armor that had the texture of bone, but the sheen of blacked metal. His torso was covered in bands of the stuff as well, leaving only abdomen open. A few bones and skulls littered the mans body, strung together by leather. The mans face was also covered, except for his mouth, with metalic bone plates. The segments were connected by what appeared to be red living sinew, only his jaw retained the semblance of a human skin.

"Uck..." Laurn shook his head and turned the image off remotely. "Errr, yeah, that sounds good, keep your vines out to ensnare anything... I'm pretty sure we could set up something up on the roof to allow the garden to grow year round as well."

Gold-Fire

Terry followed Sabrina into the hall where she pulled him and eyed the pair in the dining room, conversing about their plans for a garden and some weird graphite generator. He thought for awhile and nodded quietly. He glanced at the screen that was in view from where they stood, and disliked the man that appeared on screen.

"Yes. I'm sure our defenses will hold, he modeled the force field after my powers, which are, with perfect concentration, nearly impenetrable. They're computer generated, with a nearly limitless source of energy. We're safe here, and from what Kami said earlier, she can't use the Machina Mana, which means, it's logical to assume most earthly mages haven't seen something like it either. Whatever that was, was a test of our defenses, or an unaware threat..."

Terry lowered his eyes when the subject broached their deceased friend. He simply nodded quietly.

"He's definitely coming out of his shell a bit. Strange though, haven't been able to get him to do much besides research and inventing since..." He trailed off as well. "He usually eats at the consoles too."

Tobias

Tobias was tense the moment he heard the alarms, he sensed something as the barriers were activated that made him shiver. He hunched in his chair slightly and gripped the table without a word. He glanced up at the screens and then looked away abruptly, his nerves were shot, he'd been unable to rest or relax for the better part of 2 years. He thought, perhaps loudly enough for Sabrina to pick up, that now would be no different...

"E-excuse me." Tobias said, getting up abruptly and going to the room he had 'claimed'. Once there he picked up his jacket and backpack, dumping the magically expanded bag on the floor and leaving everything magic related. He put his old ratty sets of clothes back and started towards the top floor, trying to avoid sight, but that would be impossible, with Terry and Sabrina in the way! 'I gotta go! I gotta go! I gotta go!', his conscious mind continued screaming, while the dark mind shouted back 'Join him! Join him!', the light mind was just as simplistic, screaming 'Smite the demon! Smite it!' Tobias hid behind the corner of the hall and clutched his head, trying to ignore the voices.