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first salvation ✝ video.

[ So there's this girl chilling out on some rock outside right now. She ventured out a little to try to get an idea of where she is, but... ]

As unlikely as this is, I have to ask- Did I timeslide in my sleep? [ She looks around warily at the landscape. She looks a little confused, but mostly annoyed as she addresses the video again. ] Not that I can without a time device of some sort, but this looks like the places I grew up in.

[ A pause. ]

Or did Bete Noire get a remodel while I was away? [ Because that's the only other option here really.

Behind her a large dog pops up to nuzzle at her, making her nearly fall and drop the communicator as she tries to shove it off a bit. Just enough so that she doesn't fall before she's reaching out to hug the big ball of fur. ] I'm leaning towards nuclear apocalypse in Bete Noire that somehow The Dog survived right now.

Anyone want to give me the real details? Thanks.

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[ Oh. you look.... strangely familiar. Enough to make her pause, but then she passes it off. ]

Then it's time to get the real details.

[ Small wonder that.... ]

Second time so far.

[And you look... like nothing familiar in the slightest. Pietro doesn't notice anything amiss.]

I'm sure you're getting the whole spiel about the Authorities and the city and all that. Their ships are pretty predictable, actually. But I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of those guns... good thing I never will be.

[Boasting, Pietro? Hell yeah. But he's also interested. Someone who wants to get things done? And, bonus, won't write him off as being too young.]

[ Uh her favorite team ever were of her and kids her age. Sometimes kids rock!

Now he has her attention, though. ]

What makes you so special you don't get caught? [ She wants to not get caught! ]

[Where he's from, most people mixed up in the mutant business are kids. The Brotherhood definitely rocks. X-men? Not so much.]

I'm just that good. They'll have to be faster if they ever want to catch me.

[He leans back against a wall and smirks. Wonder where he gets his arrogance from?]

[ Certainly not his dad.

She rolls her eyes, though, and sits back. ]

Speed's not everything.

Funny, I manage just fine.

[Yup. That's why he was living in a house that ought to be condemned, kicked out of school, at odds with his family and estranged from the closest people he had to friends before he wound up here. But he wasn't one to let logic get in the way of his ego.]

Fine enough to be faster than a gun?

[ Why thing too much, right? ]

[Pietro just grins.]

I didn't say that.

[ Oh? Pinged again. ]

But is it true?

Why would you think it was? That's pretty impossible, right? Someone being faster than a bullet.

[Oh, good, locked. He probably should've remembered to do that sooner.]

[ She didn't realize he was going to go this direction or she would have! ]

Not really. I've seen people who can do it. It wouldn't surprise me.

[He hadn't known he was going in this direction, himself. But there was the opening there to brag. And get some information.]

Really? You still consider someone who can do that human?

[Doesn't hurt to ask. Mutants haven't been out of the closet long, in his world.]

What does it matter if they're human or not? The fact is they're still a person.

Not everyone's so open-minded. Being a mutant isn't exactly a good thing, where I'm from. Not that that bothers me.

So you are a mutant.

It's the same where I'm from.

Same everywhere there are mutants, from what I can tell. That's no surprise. But anyway, yeah. I'm that fast. How about you?

[Because he found it hard to believe that someone so open about mutants wasn't one, themselves.]

[ WAIT WAIT WAIT. She only knows of two fast mutants, and only one with silver hair. And after what Erik just told her....]

Are you Pietro?!

I'm a power mimic. Not like Rogue's, though.

What? I, uh, well...

[Pietro, speechless. That's a new one. Being recognized by a stranger is a lot weirder when you suddenly have to worry whether they know some other version of you.]

Yeah. Yeah, that's me. How do you know? You didn't mimic a psychic or something, did you?

I know of another you. One who's.... a lot older.

I also know a different version of your dad. From the Erik here, and the one I'm sure is from your world.

Oh, hell! You know about that, too?!

[He runs a hand down his face. Dammit, even the Toad here doesn't know his relation to Erik.]

Goddammit. You got anything else you wanna tell me, huh? Know any more secrets?

Your sister wiped out 98% of mutantkind and then I was born a year later as the first mutant and made the messiah of our kind.

That's the end of the secrets part.

Oh wait. I may have accidentally outed you to Erik.

What? Wanda? You're seriously saying she- wait wait, that one doesn't surprise me much. You're from the future?

[What? He's well aware his sister isn't right in the head and freakishly powerful.]

You did what?!

[Pietro's voice raises a few octaves, like it usually does when he's freaking out.]

He knows? Great! Just great! Why don't you just announce it to the whole freaking network?!

Pretty much. I've never met anyone further into the future than me.

[ OW her ears are bleeding now okay!! And The Dog is whining. ]

Why doesn't he already know?! That's kind of a big fucking thing!

Why? WHY?! Because maybe, just maybe, I'm sick of doing his dirty work! Maybe I don't want to jump every time he says! Maybe I had a chance to not be his pawn for a little while, and I took it! And it's none of your damn business, anyway!

[Though it was a little late to claim that after his little outburst just now. He's waving his arms and practically shouting into the phone.]

Oh fucking shit! [ She so hasn't cussed in ages cause Nathan would kill her but today is a special occasion. ]

Your family is more fucked over than mine, I can't keep up with who's doing what anymore!

If he does try to control you, though, call me. I'll set him straight.

Re: Video ; locked now.

cantcatchme - 2012-08-16 23:15 (UTC) - Expand

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