Martin Baum (magic_hands) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-11-26 16:18:00

Entry tags:

marlow, martin baum, plot-"what if", vincent vernard

AU meme: Errands galore
Martin adjusts his hat and grins. They were going to visit Dr. Strange! He didn't get to go to Earth's dimension often, and there was so much fun to do with magic. Even better? Clea would be escorting them there which meant for the first few days? Lots of long errands (which they generally ignored) and no supervision!

Translation: fun magic time.

What should we start with? I hope we stay long enough to finish our fun stuff to-do list.

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	marlow 2012-11-28 07:41 am UTC (link)
	"Clea is really unreasonable about the pets." Marlow peered down at the funny face looking around. Human voices so close must mean feeding time, right? "I think we could handle one." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-28 08:03 am UTC (link)
	"She is," he agrees. "Maybe we could find a pet she'd like too? Then maybe we'd get to have a pet! We'd take great care of it, and maybe it can come on our adventures." Because why not have a pet sidekick? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-28 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	"That's what we can do while we're here! We'll find a pet to take home! Something cuddly. What do they have cuddly here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2012-11-28 05:23 pm UTC (link)

"Oh lots of things! There's..." He stops to consider this now. It'd been years since he'd lived in this dimension and they weren't memories he thought about much. What animals were there in zoos? Hmmm... "Well there's cats. Like lions and tigers and cheetahs! But we'll get a small one. We can't name a mini tiger Hoggoth though, I don't think he'd like it. Oh and there's pandas! Black ones and red ones! Maybe we should visit them all and pick? They're all fluffy. Maybe a bear..."

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	marlow 2012-11-28 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	"A RED PANDA!" Her voice from the seemingly empty space echoed over the heads of the crowd. Some began to move on in a hurry. Some tugged their children along. "Let's find a red panda! They're so cute and they live in trees. We'll find him some trees. He can have a tree house!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2012-11-28 06:36 pm UTC (link)

"Yes!" He bounces invisibly on the spot, completely ignoring that they were emptying out the sea lion pool. At least the sea lions would get some peace soon.

"We can build a magic tree house! And put all our cool protection spells and he can come on adventures with us and he can even sit in my hat!" The perfect pet! Clea could only love their ingenuity. "Let's go find one!"

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	marlow 2012-11-28 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Let's find the panda cage!" The blue disc took off and she clung to it. In her excitement, she forgot it had no seat belts. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-28 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	His own blue disc took off right after her, being his own discs he was used to the no seat belts bit and was more stable. "Race you!" Invicible magic disc racing to a panda cage? That hadn't been specified under: magic things not to do. Besides, it was harmless fun. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-28 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty harmless, unless you couldn't those tall people that couldn't see them to duck out of the way. They'd only ruffled a few hats. They didn't actually hit anyone. She got to the cage a second after Martin, using the fence wall to stop herself. "Is there a red one?!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-28 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	"I win!" He would've tried some mini victory fireworks but he didn't want to scare off any potential pets. "I don't know, I can't see because of the trees. Should we go inside to check?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-28 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	"We won't know until we do. We'll stay invisible so we don't scare them." Because having something around an animal could smell and hear but not see was SO reassuring... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-28 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	"Good idea," he nods. It was a great thing they planned ahead like this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-28 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	"Just be careful," she warned. "We don't want to accidentally hurt them." "Did you want to transport us inside?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-28 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	"I promise," he nods seriously, then smiles again and without warning the (now invisible) blue flames arise from each of their discs and teleport them inside. Now...how to get a red panda's attention...were there any red panda noises? "What sound do red pandas make?" Okay, perhaps Marlow wasn't the person who would know that but he had to ask someone. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-29 06:57 am UTC (link)
	That was a really good question. Pandas didn't roam the Dark Dimension. Earth nature shows were in short supply. Their only real contact with nature was the Savage Land. Maybe they should've tried to find a sabre tooth tiger cub. "I don't know. They look like bears. Try growling like one?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-11-29 07:03 am UTC (link)
	He still maintained that if they'd found one it would've been a great pet. Clea had straight out turned down the proposal of the full grown one, surely a small one would be okay. "Well it can't hurt." A little swirl of magic to make his voice echo a bit more and... "Grrr! Grrr...grrrrrrr." Hmm, not much. You try too. Maybe they like your growls better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

marlow
2012-11-29 04:13 pm UTC (link)

She watched the trees in the enclosure to see if anything peered out when Martin growled. If anything, they seemed more quiet than before.

Outside the cage, the crowd was growing as visitors tried to see what was going on.

"Grrrrr!" she tried, attempting to make her growl sound friendly and come-out-and-play-like.

Still nothing. She sighed in disappointment. Maybe they're scared of us. We should look like pandas maybe?

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	magic_hands 2012-11-29 04:24 pm UTC (link)
	Nope, still nothing indeed. Darn. An illusion to make us look like red pandas? That'd be so cool! Then we'd get all sorts of red pandas to come out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-11-29 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	You're first. Gonna make you look like a red panda, and let them see you. Other pandas AND the crowd. Climb the tree and see if they'll come out to play with you. A red panda was suddenly visible in the panda enclosure. A large person size one. Hovering in the air. Maybe they should've checked to see if the Central Park Zoo actually had a red panda? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2012-11-29 07:43 pm UTC (link)

Can I just stand on the tree? You need hands to climb

The person sized red panda floats towards a tree and sits on it in a rather human-like way. Hmm, surely one red panda would come out? Maybe they didn't put all the pandas together. You'd think they'd put the red ones with the black and white ones too. It seemed only fair they'd get to play together.

Though they'd certainly got the attention of everyone but the pandas.

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	marlow 2012-11-30 07:26 am UTC (link)
	Marlow waited to see what happened, then decided that maybe another panda would be better. She cast another illusion over herself and became a red panda as well. She climbed a different tree and found a limb to sit on. With the sudden appearance of another red panda, people were pointing and taking pictures with cell phones. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2012-11-30 07:37 am UTC (link)

People here really like red pandas

Well they must, look how many pictures they were taking! Were red pandas that popular on Earth? He couldn't remember it like this when he'd been to the zoo years ago.

I don't think Clea would let us keep a big panda...I hope the red ones come out soon or we'll need to move on to another pet. I wonder if there's a map of where the best pets are...

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quitethecharmer
2012-12-03 03:27 am UTC (link)

Vincent had cast a spell on a police scanner to filter in any possible supernatural goings-on, and had come to investigate upon hearing talk of spontaneously appearing animals and possible invisible people. A quick invoking of true-sight and... now what do we have here?

Throwing a veil over himself so as not to cause any panic (sometimes if a superhero suddenly shows up, it's just as likely to convince people that a fight is about to break out), he approaches the two.

"Excuse me... are you in need of some kind of help?"

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	marlow 2012-12-03 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Marlow looked around to see who the new voice is talking to. It couldn't be them. They weren't bothering anybody. "No. You might check with those people out there." Her 'paw' gestured to the crowd round the enclosure. "They might need help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-12-03 03:53 am UTC (link)
	Martin didn't get it either, why would they need help? Had this guy never seen people looking for red pandas? But he nods along with Marlow's suggestion to the guy. "Maybe one of them called for you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)