Beatrice Dayspring (charmedlife) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-04-06 15:06:00

Entry tags:

armadillo jr., bea dayspring, crosshairs, martin baum

Family Dinner
"Manny? Kelly?" Bea asked over the comms. "Could you meet me in the den?"

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charmedlife
2013-04-07 01:00 am UTC (link)

And they'll arrive on the pacific island of Providence on a bright, clear day, amidst a combination of gardens and extremely bizarre solar-paneled generators.

"Kelly..."

There'll be other people in the distance, but three will come to meet them. The white-haired, cyborg-looking fellow will be easy to place. The woman and boy even paler than Bea and Kelly, each with shoulder-length black hair and black spots tattooed over their left eyes, won't exactly be difficult either.

"Mom, Dad, Uncle Laz, this is my boyfriend, Manny Rodriguez. Manny, these are my parents, Nathan Dayspring and Domino, and my Uncle Lazarus. Mom, you know Kelly. Kelly, Dad and Uncle Laz."

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Manny swallowed once, quietly. In for a penny. "It's nice to meet you." Manny put his hand out, willing himself not to feel awkward about it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 01:04 am UTC (link)
	On seeing others coming, Cable especially, Kelly immediately opens with, "Manny, duck! Look out!" Pause, glance to Bea. "So as I was saying, Yo Mama so..." another pause, and glance to the greeting party. "Hi, Mom. Hello person sleeping with mom, hello other person." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	soft_inside 2013-04-07 01:14 am UTC (link)
	"Que!?" Manny forgets for a moment that this was Kelly and immediately goes to cover Bea, back out so any attack would hit his shell first. And he'll blink a few times when he realizes it was a joke. He'll turn as red as he's capable. He'll awkwardly move away from Bea, give a small cough, and trying to regain his composure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2013-04-07 01:18 am UTC (link)

Bea sighs a lot. "Couldn't pick which opening, huh?" she asks her sister. She tries to smile reassuringly at Manny.
Cable, one eye flickering, mostly seems to have ignored all this and shakes Manny's hand firmly, smiling slightly crookedly. "Good to finally meet you. Not bad reflexes there."
Domino just nods, and Lazarus is quick to follow up his brother-in-law with a much smaller, much more delicate hand, though with calluses in certain places.
"I'm Laz," he says with innocent earnestness. "Nice to meet you. Looks like you really like Bea, and it's always interesting to have someone at family dinner that my powers would actually work on."

Bea glares at her chuckling parents a bit before Domino stops and makes an attempt to say "Lazarus..."

"It was just an observation. You know I wouldn't." Laz then extends a hand to Kelly. "Nice to finally meet you. Bea's said such ... things. Evasive, heavily bowdlerized things."

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 01:24 am UTC (link)
	"..Gracias, sir," Manny said, hoping he sounded calm. Also, Manny will desperately try not to think about what Bea's uncle's powers are. "You too, Laz." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

goesbothways
2013-04-07 01:32 am UTC (link)

Kelly grins at Bea. "Why choose just one op... nevermind, too easy." she replies.

She casts a look back towards the greeting party. "Oh yes, I really do like Bea a lot." she agrees, with a sly grin.

She extends a hand in return. "She's been afraid that I might be a bad example. That, or just couldn't manage to describe the things we do together to a minor." The last, technically true, if suggestive in all the wrong senses.

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charmedlife
2013-04-07 01:37 am UTC (link)

And there it is, after all her calm and reassurance, Bea's twitching. But she still tries to pat Manny delicately -- her hand carefully and automatically avoiding the still healing areas -- on the shoulder. In comparison to Kelly, she's not even thinking to worry about not having told him her Uncle was a secret experiment for the ultimate mind-manipulation operative.

As Lazarus blinks a lot, Cable'll just turn and gesture that the follow as he leads them inside and to the dining room of the Dayspring apartment. "We're having succotash to start with," Nathan says.

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 01:43 am UTC (link)
	Manny's immediate mental reaction to that is an image of Sylvester the Cat. Then he immediately realizes if Cable sees that, he may think Manny was making fun of him, so he tries to get rid of the image by playing the music video of Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions in his mind. ..Of course this just means Andy Samberg is replaced by Sylvester as the lead singer. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 01:49 am UTC (link)
	"You'll have to tell us all about your powers, Laz. Bea has mentioned a few things, but I'm curious about your offensive capabilities. We deal with a lot of bad people, and I figured you're bound to get into the family business." She's pretty aware what types of powers don't work well on her, Bea or Cable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2013-04-07 02:11 am UTC (link)

There's one extra-large, obviously reinforced chair at one end of the table, and another clearly there for Manny, along with four smaller ones. Cable, however, first goes to dish up the food.

Bea opens her mouth to protest, but gives up before saying anything, taking her chair.

"Psi stuff," Laz says. "It's handy, but speaking of offensive capabilities, Dom just got me a De Lisle this year, in case of, y'know, robot emergencies."

"Yes, always good to be prepared for robot emergencies. Mom, could you pass the lemonade pitcher, please? Manny, you want some?"

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soft_inside
2013-04-07 02:18 am UTC (link)

Manny was a little surprised at the custom-made chair, but quickly felt flattered for being considered. Manny happily took his spot beside Bea. He heard Laz' conversation with Kelly, but had no idea what a De Lisle was. He chose to embarrass himself by asking about it.

"Si, Bea. Gracias." Manny carefully, maybe more carefully than he had to, took the pitcher and poured himself a drink.

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	goesbothways 2013-04-07 02:22 am UTC (link)
	"Ooohhh, a De Lisle. She give you all the ammunition options? Quick reload clips? Dragonsbreath kit? Do you have a stock preference? I mean, Christmas Present ideas... or maybe Hannukah... was never quite clear. Oh, and what kind of psi stuff? Mind reading? Mind control? Psychic blasts? Memory re-writes?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2013-04-07 02:41 am UTC (link)

"I just have the 11-shot clips. Better than seven, anyway; I'm not as quick with my hands as Bea; I don't have time to put the new ones in all the time. No dragonsbreath. I like the beechwood. Sure, it's harder on accuracy since my powers don't swing to help, but it still feels right. Mind control. I'm pretty good, but it's not something you can rely on."

"Very true," Bea says.

Cable nods as he sits down once everyone has a plate of food. "So, Manny, you used to be in the UCWF?"

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	"Si, sir," Manny answered, finally managing to assert some calm. "For a couple years." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	"True, mind control is a really inexact science. I mean, doesn't work very well on me or Bea... who, as you noted, really does have very good hands.... but it has its uses too. I could probably refit some of my rounds. You ought to at least give dragonsbreath rounds a try... would just take a little time in the lab." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2013-04-07 04:02 pm UTC (link)

Bea's torn between groaning at Kelly and being happy that Manny's calming down. The latter's more important. It's not that she didn't know that Kelly was going to be Kelly.

Laz is going to blink and... try not to think abou the insinuations 'cause Bea's right there and she has a boyfriend which doesn't really .... back to the topics at hand. "Yeah, but outside of the family, for crowd safety stuff and all, very handy. Except for, you know, the whole part with y'know, the labs and the people trying to kill me... but the mumbling comes short with a "Really? Dom, can I?"

"...If you're very careful, and remember it's just for fun and not going to be tactically useful all that often."

"Great, thanks." He grins at Kelly.

"Can't say I have very high hopes about that sort of commercialization of mutant -- Fire hazard, Dom." Cable interrupts himself.
"Nate, he's fifteen. We let Bea use similar materials by that age."
"Fine."

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 04:08 pm UTC (link)
	And Manny tries to follow all this gun-talk..and internally admits he's not doing very well at it.So he wisely keeps quiet rather than make an ass out of himself. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	"You know, you could combine your abilities... use a brief mind control spike to convince a target to hold still for just a second, then BANG! And yeah, Dragonsbreath has limited applications. Short range, risk of damage to the gun... so it will require extra double checking and work afterward. But great for vampires and small groupings." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-04-07 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	"If Laz's powers work on something, he shouldn't have to shoot it," Bea interjects. "You were saying, Dad?" "I was curious as to whether the UCWF's business practices were as, to be frank, sleazy as some of us had guessed. Never had much interaction with it." Laz is just nodding in acknowledgement of Kelly's advice on dragonsbreath. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	soft_inside 2013-04-07 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah," Manny said, clearly having discussed this before. "Well it had improved a lot after the Power Broker's influence over it was removed. It returned to the sport it was originally intended to be, but.." Manny paused a second. "..it wasn't as clean as I thought it was. I left when I objected to an angle the higher-ups wanted to run." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know what you mean, Sis... of course he doesn't /have/ to shoot it. Then its just bonus. I mean, blasting something at point blank with dragonsbreath is way more viscerally satisfying than just a brain-frying. And it lets you move on to a new target with psychic powers faster, instead of maintaining concentration. So you can be all, ZAP! BANG! ZAP! BANG!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2013-04-07 04:46 pm UTC (link)

Nate nods. "It figures. Sorry to hear." He doesn't seem to press further.

Kelly sighs. Laz looks rather taken aback by this train of thought, but just says. "Well, I'll definitely appreciate the help with the dragonsbreath after dessert, thanks."

Dom's been mostly sitting back and just observing this whole thing, but does say. "Dessert, yes. I hope you don't have any food allergies, Manny?"

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	soft_inside 2013-04-07 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	"Thank you sir, but it's okay. It led me to better things," he says with a smile, looking over at Bea briefly. "No, ma'am, none that I know of." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2013-04-07 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey, no problem. Nothing goes with dessert kind of like immolation." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)