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Match ([info]son_of_discord) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-13 18:08:00


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Entry tags:inactive - match, inactive - rose logan

Mayhem...and a little dinner.
Joey and Rose arrived at the sushi restaurant, and he let Rose take the lead since this were her territory and all. They spent most of the taxi ride talking about small things and laughing at each other's jokes. He was still pretty new to the Big Apple,  so he asked questions about the different places they passed on the way.

Walking inside, Joey finds himself drawn to the quiet, private atmosphere of the restaurant, and wishes more eateries were like this. It's not Xavier's, but it's cool in its own way, and having Rose as company makes it perfect.

The pair are seated and provided menus and get set up with their drinks. Joey looks over the menu and realizes that he doesn't know what half the stuff on it is, so he learns in to whisper to Rose.

"Okay, what's good here?" he asks.


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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 01:47 am UTC (link)
It was a good place, and Rose had been quite happy when she'd discovered it had existed in this universe as well, with more or less the same people running it. She's already gotten to know the owners well, impressing them with her mostly flawless Japanese.

"Depends," she told Joey. "But for a first timer, there's a couple things that're pretty good." She recommended a couple of things, and also explained what she'd be having herself, which was a little more towards the complicated end of the spectrum.

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 02:05 am UTC (link)
"Okay, no problem. I can sit at the kiddie table for tonight." he says with a grin. Her suggestions sound pretty good, so he's eager to try them out.

Joey is also impressed with her Japanese. If he didn't know better from looking at her, he wasn't sure he'd be able to tell she wasn't Japanese.

"I like it here. It's quiet, and people seem to mind their own. Two people can talk and not worry if the people at the next table are gonna get offended in some way. That's pretty common in a lot of places back home. If the food weren't so good, there wouldn't be any reason to go out." he says.

A waitress comes up to take their order, and Rose would know she's new. She takes their orders quickly and attentively, but her eyes seem to linger on Joey just a second too long here and there. Once she has their orders, she leaves them alone again.

Joey doesn't seem to have noticed at all.

"What's on your mind, Professor Rose?" he asks.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 02:24 am UTC (link)
"Probably nothin'," Rose said, but shook her head. Something... Hmm.

"Maybe nothin'," she corrected. "Just don't usually see new staff here. It's a family-owned placed."

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 02:38 am UTC (link)
"Oh. Well, maybe it's a cousin from out of town?" Joey offers. Rose knows this place better than him, so if she's got reason to think something is off, it probably is.

But who would even know they were there tonight, besides the people at the school they had to tell?

"Let's not borrow trouble, beautiful. Besides, I heard about a pool hall a few blocks from here that's supposed to be pretty cool. You ever play?"

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 02:51 am UTC (link)
Yeah, Joey was probably right. How many people in this universe even knew about her, aside from those at the school and the few people she'd fought? Pretty much none. Definitely not any Weapon x yahoos.

She smiled. "Little bit," she said, with the air of a hustler. "But I'm not that good at it."

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 03:14 am UTC (link)
"Which means I'm in for a hell of a match." he said, recognizing a hustler when he saw one. Rose might make a good partner on a small scam sometime.

A different waiter came back with their food after a bit and set them up with refills on their drinks.

"How about that Eastern philosophy book? Anything interesting in it?" he asks.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 03:30 am UTC (link)
"Yeah," Rose replied, grinning. "I think you are."

She went on, about the book. "Lots, actually. Mostly been focusin' on the bits on meditation though and tamin' your instincts. I've got a lot of anger issues sometimes. Get it from my dad."

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 03:36 am UTC (link)
"Hey, nothin' wrong with workin' on that. I've got pretty crappy temper sometimes, too. But you know it and you're workin' on it. Most people don't even get to realizin' it, let alone workin' on it.

I admire you for that." he says, continuing to eat.

Rose's keen nose might pick out that something smells just slightly...off about Joey's dish. It's faint, but among the seaweed and rice wrap, she might smell a faint odor that doesn't seem to go with the dish.

Whatever it is, Joey can't taste it, as he continues eating with abandon.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 03:58 am UTC (link)
"Thanks," Rose replied. "I try, but it ain't always easy." Berserker rages ran in the family, after all.

She paused, food halfway towards her mouth. Something had definitely been setting off her sniffer, but she couldn't tell what. Except...

"Joey...," she began.

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 04:03 am UTC (link)
He chews the last bit of food and swallows, then smiles.

"What's up? Do I have something on my face?" he asks.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 04:09 am UTC (link)
Blast. Not quick enough. What the heck was that smell?

She kept her voice low. "Somethin's... not right here. Gettin' a weird smell off yer food... Somethin', just feels wrong."

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 04:24 am UTC (link)
"I don't smell anything." Joey says. It would be just his luck to end up with food poisoning on their first date.

"Do you wanna leave?" he asks. She suggested the place, but now his own alarm bells are going off. Bad things always happened to him at night, and damn if the trend didn't continue even after he met a nice girl.

"Hey, let's get out of here and go to that pool hall." Joey says, pulling his wallet from his pocket and dropping Franklin on the table, more than enough to cover the food. As he does so, the new girl comes from in back.

"Are you two leaving so soon? Would you both like to have desert?" she asks, looking between the two of them, but still focusing on Joey.

"No." he says, shaking his head. "We're done."

Joey stands up from the table, and his knees buckle instantly. He falls down on the table, his eyes swimming as he tries to figure out what the hell is happening to him.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 04:32 am UTC (link)
Only one thing put people out like that: being drugged. Rose popped her claws.

"What the flamin' heck is going on here?" she demanded. "Start talkin', Missy, or I start gettin' stabby!"

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 05:10 am UTC (link)
Joey was not having a good time of it. The world was spinning and he wanted to puke something awful, which he hated because he'd wanted Rose to have a good time.

Meanwhile, the waitress looked at Rose as other people began to stare at them. The waitress stepped forward and whispered.

"Listen, chicky. Sheathe the pig stickers and help me get Johnny to the back if you want him to live. I don't know who you are, and I don't really care, but I'm supposed to be watching his back. This is part of it.

He'll be fine if we get him out of here before the rest of your friend's friends show up." she says. Rose will immediately notice that the waitresses accent is gone.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 05:40 am UTC (link)
Rose reluctantly sheathed her claws. "So help me," she snarled under breath, "if you're lying, you won't live to regret it."

She didn't like what was going on, not one bit. But she also wasn't going to gamble with Joey's life.

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[info]ng_nasty_boys
2010-03-14 05:50 am UTC (link)
The handsome man is momentarily distracted from his food as the scene unfolds, but he doesn't pay it very much attention. He enjoys his hot saki, finishes his shrimp roll and places a small bit of cash on his table.

As he does so, he is carries on a mental conversation with his teammates.

The girl cannot be unnecessarily harmed, people. Kill the boy and any bystanders if needed, but Miss Logan is not to be permanently damaged. We want no mistakes. he thinks to himself.

Ruckus, Slab, are we clear?

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[info]ng_nasty_boys
2010-03-14 05:51 am UTC (link)
CLEAR GEORGIE! Ruckus thinks to herself. A klazomaniac, Ruckus is motivated to scream when speaking. This even applies to her mental conversations.

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[info]ng_nasty_boys
2010-03-14 05:53 am UTC (link)
Ugh. Fine. I get to kill the fun boy, though, if I can't kill the wild child. Slab says, waiting across the street from the sushi house.

George...can I get an eggroll while you're in there? he asks.

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[info]ng_nasty_boys
2010-03-14 05:54 am UTC (link)
Slab, shut up. Vertigo says. She has no idea why they get saddled with Slab's idiocy, but the Boss finds him useful for some reason.

She snorts under her breath, and reaches down to pat Bloodhound's head.

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[info]ng_nasty_boys
2010-03-14 05:55 am UTC (link)
Bloodhound merely growls at the side entrance to the Sushi bar, waiting for someone to appear. Then he can do what the Boss told him, to do, and take the girl.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Despite being short, Rose was an extremely fit young woman, deceptively stronger than she looked.

Getting Joey toward the back was not an issue. Trying to figure out just what was going on here was.

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[info]nextgen_baddie
2010-03-14 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Her estimation of the smaller woman went up a couple of notches as she watched her carry Johnny to the back of the restaurant. She was still trying to figure out exactly what kind of scheme her pal was running on this one, but she hadn't placed it yet.

The moment they hit the back area, the waitress rolls her neck and gets several loud pops in response, before resuming her "normal" form. Her skin pales, and her hair becomes a shade of electric blue that looks too natural to be a dye job. Her revert from brown to a deep yellow-gold, and her work uniform is replaced by skin-tight leather pants and coat, with a skimpy tube top underneath.

"Girlie, I don't know how you pissed off who you pissed off, but bringing Johnny into it was a bad idea. Normally, I'd leave you to whoever wants your head on a stick, but Johnny might take offense to that, so I'm gonna help you a little." she says, reaching into a slits on either of her thighs and producing to Desert Eagle handguns.

"You and me are gonna drive these bastards off, and then I'm gonna take Johnny and get the hell out of Dodge. We clear?" she asks, cocking the gun and locking at Rose meaningfully.

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[info]wild_rose
2010-03-14 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Shapeshifter. Of course. Well, Rose had your scene now, lady, if you ever came prowling around again. She didn't know what Joey was involved with or how he rated what might have been a guardian angel, but if he'd gotten hurt because of her...

And just who the hell could be after her? This wasn't even her universe!

No. Couldn't think like that. Focus on protecting him, doing the job, then worry if you live.

"Crystal," Rose snarled. Not that she was letting anybody take Joey with them on her watch. Not without her anyway.

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[info]nextgen_baddie
2010-03-14 10:44 pm UTC (link)
"Okay. There was one guy out there, tall, brown hair, British accent, black coat who was watching you and Johnny. He showed a few minutes after you walked in, and paid more attention to you than me when I went to his table. I tried to slip him the same thing I slipped Johnny, but he got wise to it." she said, a note of distaste in her tone.

"There was also a guy in the alley across the street. Hispanic, by the looks of him. My car is parked a couple of blocks over. It's a Black Dodge Charger, no plates.

All we've got to do is get over there alive and in mostly one piece. Which means--" she pauses and leans down, pulling a couple of pungent smelling salts from inside her coat and waving them under Joey's nose, "--that everyone has to pull their weight.

Get up, Aussie. We're leaving now." she says.

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[info]son_of_discord
2010-03-14 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Joey grunts at the scent of the smelling salts and groans in protest, slapping the hand away. When he looks up, he sees Rose...and Foxx.

"Foxx? What are...you doin' here?" he asked.

"Savin' your cute little Aussie as. I can't leave you alone anywhere, can I? You just turn around and start messin' with the natives." she says, nodding in Rose's direction.

"Chill, Foxx." Joey says, a little more forcefully than intended. Foxx's head rocked back as if slapped.

"Oh, you're kidding me. This...isn't a con, is it?" she asks.

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