nextgen_misc (nextgen_misc) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-11-21 00:44:00

Entry tags:

inactive - anastasia summers, inactive - chris pym, inactive - match, inactive - rose logan, plot-"gretel", team - x-force

Gretel--Present Day
When X-Force returned they had attempted to use Anastasia's idea to find Christina using Cerebro. Jenny, the same girl Tina had been hanging out with when the anomaly hit Cerebro in the first place, scanned several times, but found nothing. It was as though Tina had disappeared.

She did, however, find something interesting on the website the team had cryptically been given.

"Hey, guys? New events have shown up on this site since I first loaded it. Take a look."

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	nextgen_misc 2010-11-22 04:12 am UTC (link)
	"...Jack the Ripper was a woman?" Jenny pulled up the page. "With 'knife fingers'?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notyetqueen 2010-11-22 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Anastasia perked up, moving forward. "Let me get a good look at that..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wild_rose 2010-11-22 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	"Okay, I ain't exactly a history major or nothin', but even I know that ain't right..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	son_of_discord 2010-11-23 01:19 am UTC (link)
	"I call bullshit. Sounds like Tina-Pants." Joey says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_misc 2010-11-23 07:14 am UTC (link)
	Jenny clicked on some more of the information, bringing up the booking documents for the woman--who was noted to have escaped--as well as sketch of the woman. Like the Roman article before, the likeness was strongly Christina's. Jenny moved aside and let Anastasia have a good look. "Why would she leap from Caesar's Rome to the Ripper's England?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wild_rose 2010-11-23 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Rose frowned. "Mebbe... she ain't in control of it?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notyetqueen 2010-11-24 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"She most likely isn't," Anastasia said, taking a closer look. "But there's something about these leaps that she's making that are really familiar, in a weird way." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_misc 2010-11-24 04:17 am UTC (link)
	"What do you mean?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wild_rose 2010-11-24 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Rose gave her a look. "Whatcha seein', Annie?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	son_of_discord 2010-11-25 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	Joey wasn't sure what Ana meant by familiar, but it did seem weird to him that Tina was being time-shuffled. It seemed like this dimension was good for being the dumping point for anyone from another reality. He waits for Ana to clarify before speaking. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notyetqueen 2010-11-27 02:10 am UTC (link)
	"I could've sworn that Tina bought a bunch of books that were all about the time periods that she's making these jumps too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_misc
2010-11-27 02:20 am UTC (link)

Upon hearing Anastasia's thoughts Jenny turned back to the computer and started doing some quick research. The great thing about the systems here, they could get information about anything, especially one of their own, though Jenny wouldn't easily reveal just exactly how she'd gotten to things.

"She bought them at Pages, didn't she? About a month or so ago?" Jenny was looking over the bookstore's receipt system. She'd matched it with Tina's card.

"I've got a book on Ancient Rome, a book about Jack the Ripper, one about the American Revolution, and one on the London Blitz."

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	wild_rose 2010-11-27 02:34 am UTC (link)
	"Revolution's the next closer time period," Rose opined. "Think maybe she's there?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notyetqueen 2010-11-29 01:40 am UTC (link)
	Anastasia nodded. "It's a possibility." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	son_of_discord 2010-11-29 01:42 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe we should hit the London Blitz. She looks like she's movin' through all of these pretty quick, doesn't she? Maybe we should catch her at the end instead of waitin' for her in the middle?" Joey suggests. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wild_rose 2010-11-29 02:44 am UTC (link)
	"Bub's got a point too," Rose said. "'course... ain't exactly like any of us can time travel." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pym_kitten 2010-11-29 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	"Your guys' guess is as good as mine." Chris shrugged. This was all a bit over her head. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notyetqueen 2010-11-29 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	"The question is...if this really is Tina, how the hell do we get her back here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wild_rose 2010-11-30 12:16 am UTC (link)
	Rose frowned. "Plans are usually Tina's department," Rose admitted. "Failin' that, it's your job, Annie." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_misc
2010-11-30 03:24 pm UTC (link)

At this point Jenny looked up from her reading and looked at the group.

"I can time travel and dimension jump. I'm actually not even from here." She wasn't going to elaborate on that and turned back to the computer screen. In a few keystrokes she had what looked like something out of a Science Channel program about string theory. Colorful lines crossed the screen, tangling in a few places while others were entirely independent.

"This is my own personal roadmap of the various dimensions I've encountered. This green one? That's where you two are from. You can see where it touches the yellow thread--which is where we are now. Now, these blue ones," she pointed to two light blue strands, "are fragments of dimensions. Pocket universes, if you well. Sort of the waste that's created when people jump around willfully and mess with stuff. Someone with some pretty crazy jumping skills has put Tina here. This one specifically."

Jenny clicked on the screen and pulled up all the data she'd added to that string, mostly the information from the website and then plotted in the two other locations that Anastasia had guessed might be possible.

"I can get you there and I can get you back but we'd have to work fast. I've got maybe three jumps left in me before things get shaky."

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	wild_rose 2010-11-30 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	Her own dimension. Home. Mom and Dad. She did the math. No way fer gettin' her and Annie (And Joey!) home, if they used up a jump to find Tina, another to get them all back, there'd be only one left before it got "shaky" and that wasn't something she could ask. Guess she was here for the long haul. Not too bad a place, really. "Then let's go find our Frosty." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

son_of_discord
2010-12-03 02:25 am UTC (link)

Joey does some of the same math in his head that rose is doing, noting that there are four people in this dimension that need to back home. He knows that Rose would stay if he couldn't go, but was it really right of him to hold her to that when she had a chance to go?

"Jenny, I need to talk to you in private. Now, please." Joeys says, and turns to leave the room.

When Jenny follows him, Joey turns and whispers in her direction.

"Jenny, do me a favor and clarify somethin'? How many people can you take on your three jumps before it gets shaky? If you can get us to Tina and back...you got one more jump left to get Rose, Ana-Pants and their friends back home, right?

And how long do you have to wait until you've got good jumps built up again?" Joey asks. If there's a chance his girl and her friends can go home at all, be it today or next week, he's not going to let it go wasted.

Even if it means...well, Joey doesn't think about that right now.

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	notyetqueen 2010-12-03 03:50 am UTC (link)
	She could go home. They could all go home. Her, Rose, Brad, and Gretchen. But her sister was more important right now. "Let's go get Tina." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_misc 2010-12-05 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Jenny spoke with Joey privately. "I can carry up to six and I don't really know if it does build up again...but if I have a stable jump, I'll offer it to your friends." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	son_of_discord 2010-12-06 03:43 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, thanks. If you can do it when you come back, you'd have four people to take with you, five max. I want to give Rose and her friends the chance to go home if they can." Joey says. "Again, thanks for helpin' with all of this, Jenny. But don't hurt yourself. We'd rather you stayed in one piece than did hurt yourself trying to get the others home." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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