"No, seriously, we have a bingo card, and I am mad, because Tour of an Alien Spaceship isn't on mine. I don't even have aliens on mine," Kyle explained to Bobbi. "I mean I dunno if anyone actually has aliens on their card. Marius might have made a new one, he might have it now, we can ask. You kinda get to build your own, but we have a couple of standards, like, we all have 'briefly evil' as the bingo square though, I think." Kyle had considered taking an alien spaceship selfie, and then dismissed it, because who knew what sort of weird cultural nonsense the aliens might have against selfies.
Also his phone was on the Blackbird.
"I would've bet money on banging Warren would've been the bingo square," Bobbi replied with a shake of her head. "Aliens though, yeah, gonna need some new cards to add that onto." She took a big breath and puffed it out from her cheeks in a long, drawn out expression as she glanced around the literal alien surroundings of the ship. "Fuck me though if it ain't cool. Is it sad to admit that? I don't care if it is, because yeah." She leaned closer to one of the walls, careful not to touch anything just in case but taking it all in with big eyes.
"You wanna check out that side, I'll do this one, to start for a first pass anyway?"
"I'm not like, so jaded by X-Men shit to not be in awe of aliens, even if they're only kinda aliens. Also we're not putting Warren on the X-Men bingo sheet." Kyle gave a big, almost dopey grin. "If nothing else, not on mine. I am an engaged man, you know." At this point the entire team knew, because he had been caught out mid-monitor-duty looking at a list of reception venues rather than filling out a report sheet. He clacked his toenails against the metal floor for a moment, almost like tapping his fingers – but toes, and claws. "Look, these aliens seem nice, but we should probably not split up. Learned that the hard way one too many times."
"Fair enough," she said. "It'd be too much like cheating to have him on there anyway I suppose," she mused. "Oh, no, I meant I'll look at this side of the hallway or room, not to split up. You're dead right on that one . . . er, probably not the best term to use here, huh?" Bobbi said with a chuckle. "It doesn't look that damaged anyway, if I'm not mistaken, not that I'm an expert but . . . something seems a little suspicious," she concluded, taking a closer look at her immediate surroundings. "You seeing any signs of damage or a struggle that jump out at you?" Kyle's senses were far better than hers so maybe she just wasn't seeing it.
"I dunno, usually with smells I go off a baseline, but this is alien, so." Kyle shrugged. "Smells acidic, but just could be weird alien febreze for all I know." He chuckled a little. "Maybe we find a supply closet, and figure that out first, see if they have space mops, or space roombas. Actually, legit I want a space roomba." He picked along the hallway. "Legit I'm surprised it's not more beat up if they were struggling. Like." He waved a hand at the hall. "I mean I'd think it'd be cracks and shit, not like, whatever. Scuff marks? I dunno, what is even that?" He pointed at a long scuff on the floor.
"I bet space roombas would be so quiet," Bobbi said, "because in space no one can hear you clean," she finished with a deadpan tone and expression alike. Her face slipped into a frown though as she examined the marks Kyle had indicated on the floor, kneeling down and carefully reaching out to touch the darkened area. "Looks more like burn marks than scuffing . . . huh," she hummed. Looking around for more of the same, she didn't see any immediately. "That's odd. Something is off about this . . . which, well, it's literally all alien so maybe that's part of it, but I think there's more to it than that."
She continued to scan the area, stopping when her eyes fell on a door just ahead of them. There was a sign that read 'CRYO' and it only just clicked into her in that moment what was so odd about that.
". . . are you able to read the writing on that door too or is it just me?" Bobbi asked Kyle.
"So." Kyle started. "So what I want to know is, is this weird dimensional aliens using our alphabet and that doesn't mean cold as fuck, or is it like." He flexed his finger claws a few times, in and out, all at once. "Like, were you here for the psis having powers shit? Doug had a day where his powers hit most of the mansion. Is this English or some freaky translation field shit?"
"I can't say for sure, but you know about Occam's Razor, yeah?" Bobbi countered, still frowning as she looked throughout the rest of the immediate area for any other signs or words in their native tongue. She headed for the door marked CRYO and took a closer look at it. "It's also odd that there seems to be damage along here," she pointed out, waving a finger towards what looked like potential pry marks or places where someone or something was trying to force the door open, along with more scorch marks. "Yeah, no, something's not adding up here."
"Fuck," Kyle drawled out, elongating the 'eff' sound as he crouched down. He snuffled a little, face close to the floor and the scorch marks, and then gave a snorting inhale. "Okay, miss forensic person, what's acid and smoke together, because I get both. Like, I know I said alien febreze before, but it's stronger down here. You think someone definitely fucked with this door?" He stood, and shook his joints loose. "Let's go find our tour guides, because I have questions."
"What questions?"
One of the aliens that had been assigned to make themself generally available to the mutants seemed to have materialized behind them. Their birdlike attributes appeared largely vestigial, but it seemed they could also move with the silence of an owl.
"One, mainly," Bobbi said, her eyes turning from Kyle, to the damaged door marked Cryo, then finally to the alien. "What actually happened here?"
2015: Darcy comments on the X-Quisitr story. Ausente sin Culpa ni Presente sin Disculpa: Cecilia asks Scott for help in investigating what happened to the clinics in Honduras. Case File: A Better Mole Trap: The Mutant Chronicle reports on the murder of a homeless mutant that is being ignored by police; Sue posts to xp_teams wondering if something can be done, and Warren decides X-Factor will investigate. Clint texts Natasha about Franklin Hall, the man responsible for wiping out Ev’s SHIELD team. Jessica makes a reappearance, remarking on the awesomeness of beer and the craziness of people.
2016: Topaz complains about having ‘Jingle Bells’ stuck in her head.
2017: Sharon F. discusses a possibly risky situation with Scott and Garrison. Rogue texts Logan to see if he wants to brave the mall with her. Warren makes a journal post asking for people’s Christmas wishes.
2023: Angelo texts Terry to ask if she knows anyone in the Underground in LA. Laved by the Gulf and Ocean Grand: Clint texts Clarice to ask if she could port some of eXcal to Florida. Clint texts Darcy to let her know that they’ll have to postpone their YouTube marathon.
2004:Remy's Eleven: Remy and Nathan break into a designer's office for a look at the plans to Arcade's building and what they find is not promising; Remy calls in the prospective team to rob Arcade, and gets unilateral agreement to go. Nathan tells Cain about the baby and asks him to keep an eye on Moira while he's gone. Alison manages to sleep without chemical assistance. Shiro goes to Scott for a college recommendation, and they talk about the future.
2005: After Kyle gets kicked out of his tree by Wanda and grounded by Scott for what he did to Tommy, he stomps back to his suite in a huff. Then Jay confronts him about their ambiguous relationship and they come to terms with what they are as a couple. Scott calls Manuel into his office to discuss the situation with Tommy. The conversation goes downhill from there, and Scott finally admits Manuel is a lost cause. Nathan and Lorna spar, interspersed with fighting. Manuel sends Nathan and Lorna a bitter and paranoid email, accusing them of wanting to hurt him. Paige demands a garland for the stair rail. Scott emails Shiro to ask him to be Tommy's suitemate. Jubilee emails Alison and Scott asking to talk. Ororo reminds all the students that violence is not allowed.
2006:Operation: Xorn: Pete outlines two new areas of research for the team - Xorn and Nathaniel Essex; Doug gets stoned on painkillers and Mark takes him home. Forge emails Mark about a HeliX benefit at Silver. Nathan runs into Julio and tries to talk to him about Pietro. Scott and Ororo discuss the personal implications of Jean's return. Medusa helps Terry with wedding planning. Garrison asks Marie-Ange out. Jean and Marie have drinks at Harry's.
2007: Rahne posts an amusing cartoon about eating liver, much to Jay's disgust. Operation: Melittology: Amanda lets the rest of the team know Wanda's condition, and that they'll be breaking out of the hospital that night; Sofia offers remedies for bee stings. Jay and Kevin let things get a little too hot and heavy, and Kevin has a panic attack. Scott's broken jaw is finally unwired. Jishin Da! Noriko takes Logan with her when she visits her family, and discovers he might be her great-grandfather when her great-grandmother recognises him; Laurie is propositioned by a Japanese man.
2008: Amara Aquilla returns, meeting Julio and then running into Yvette working in the woods. Julian Keller arrives unexpectedly at the school. Domino is punchy and indulging in a prank war with Nathan; later, Nathan talks to Jean-Paul about possibly going back to Muir. Wanda tells an unimpressed Scott about Magneto's man in the government who wound up dead. Clarice 'ports in on Jean-Paul and winds up sharing the genderswap story. New York Minute: Nori has an explosive fight with her parents and 'goes for a run'; Nori winds up in New York and starts bar-hopping; Yvette comments on the shouting; Nori finds herself a drug dealer to help with things; when she gets out of her depth with two guys, she drains her phone's battery to deal with them and sets off the alarms at the school; Scott is on comms when the alarm comes through and people are sent to search for her. Catseye is excited about helping her brother decorate the tree but then refuses to leave until Nori returns. Jean-Paul comes across a disturbed Yvette and they talk about the missing people.
2009: Catseye visits her family's home and watches, then interacts with her father as a black cat; she is saddened by the encounter as her father seems to be a very nice man and she does not understand why he threw her outside to die as a baby but Kurt plants doubt in her mind about what really happened when he comforts her after the trip upstate. Kurt and Monet have a less-than-fulfilling dinner and decide to change venues for dessert, but when Kurt teleports them to another cafe they are asked to leave by a sympathetic bouncer who worries about another person's reaction to the mutants and promises them free drinks next weekend to make up for the inconvenience. Kurt invites Cammie to Germany for Christmas.
2010: Amara talks to Garrison about leaving the X-Men.
2011: Scott encounters Sooraya cooking in the kitchen, and the two talk. Afterwards, Scott emails Yvette about working with Sooraya on some self-defence. Wade talks to Scott about his mishandling of the situation with Artie. Maddie asks Sarah V. to give her iPod a talking to and then convinces her to play a prank involving the school skeleton and a Santa suit. Sarah V. drops in on Yvette to try and find out possible Christmas present ideas and winds up having to explain what 'cybering' means, much to both girls' mortification.
2012: Tandy texts Sue during her parents’ will reading to lament that her mother named Nathan Tyler as her guardian.
2014:Impossible Odds: The news reports a train crash in Tahoe City which involved Arthur Centrino; Both Gabriel and Ty comment on it eliciting mixed reactions from the mansion crowd; Wade asks Doug if Arthur is really dead. Scott announces that Sooraya has graduated to full X-Man. Angel posts wondering if she can find a Turpigducken, leading to several being located and cooked at the mansion.
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