Morgant opened his eyes with a blink at CC's presence, about to say "what yon hell?" at her--also with it coming out as a slew of bubbles rather than words. He shook his head, his hair waving behind him, and quickly swam upwards to pop out of the water like a cork, bounding out and landing on the ground. Saturated with water, he lay there, kneeling a moment, letting it drip off of him and puddle on the ground. He stood up, trying to control his breathing rather than take in a gasp of air and then quickly shook his head, his hair slapping around him. His hands reached up behind himself to wring it out, staring at the water to see if CC would surface as well.
"WOOOO!" shouted Mini Bot as it jumped up and down. "So cool!"
"Cool, right," Toy said as he touched down. "Come on, Mini, bed time. That goes for you too, Combat Toy."
"Awww..." Mini Bot sighed as Toy walked into the house.
Casting a quick look into the pool to make sure Combat Toy wasn't watching, Mini Bot gave Stella a hug around one leg and then dashed inside. Combat Toy, meanwhile, had clomped its way up to the shallow end and was just emerging from the pool, water sheeting off its missile racks and head.
"I hate water," the assault bot muttered as it glared at everyone around it and stomped around the side of the house.
"This is going to be one hell of an interesting vacation," Solid said as he pushed himself away from where he had been leaning against the wall of the house. "See you folks tomorrow."
With a wave goodbye, Solid slipped into the mansion, heading up to his room.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
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Morgant opened his eyes with a blink at CC's presence, about to say "what yon hell?" at her--also with it coming out as a slew of bubbles rather than words. He shook his head, his hair waving behind him, and quickly swam upwards to pop out of the water like a cork, bounding out and landing on the ground.
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"Oh...phooey," said the stream of bubbles from CC. Blinking at the sudden disappearance of the 'bots, she shrugged and kicked to the surface. Taking in a gulp of air, she held onto the side of the pool by a hand.
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His hands reached up behind himself to wring it out, staring at the water to see if CC would surface as well.
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"Hi!" she said brightly. "What were you doing down there? How could you see anything with your eyes closed? You missed all the fun!" As she spoke, she brushed her hair out of her eyes, leaving it lying hapazardly across her horns.
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The large splashes had left Kaloaten more or less drenched. Laughing and sputtering out water as he did so, he wasn't particularly worried about his pants getting soaked- he had packed six others just like them, one for every day of the week. He was thinking about hopping into the pool, but it seemed like people were already getting out, so it'd be no fun.. it was then he was reminded of the presence of the hot tub.
Standing up on the deck and walking over to it he rather crudely flung the cover off, and was greeted by a massive puff of collected steam not unlike what you got when you took the lid off of a pot of boiling water. He again contemplated taking off his pants as he looked to everyone else still outside, but again decided against it- yelping gleefully at the hotter-than-expected water as he jumped into the tub, then took a seat on the edge and sank in up to his shoulders.
After patting Mini on the back, Stella shifted back into human, her clothes and body bonedry. Walking by the grill, she snagged some left overs and made her way to her room. A bout of unpacking and a light meal while doing some of her calc reading sounded like the way to end the day.
"Night all, see you in the morning." She waved as she went inside.
Cortianna, having finished her meal and allowed it time to settle, pulled off her vest and boots before slidding into the shallow end of the pool and pushing off with some leasurly strokes.
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"Well. . . I suppose I'll just lie down here. . ." Hal sighed as he got onto a couch.
He felt so strange. He didn't really have any possessions to unpack. . .
Well, as he wasn't going to have a comfortable room for the night here anyway. . .
Hal looked around, making sure no one was watching, and his hands began glowing. As the glow spread all over his body, his hands vanished as it left, and then the rest of him gradually followed. . .
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He was standing in a long hall filled with pictures, most of them featuring himself, but one at the end featuring Essex in an ornate frame. He sighed, and pushed open the bright white wall beside him, revealing a small grey bed, nondescript in every way. As he lay down on it, he wondered whether this counted as leaving the mansion. Technically, he was still here, as he was inside his own mind, and his mind had been in the mansion last.
. . . Except that his body was now inside his mind, and so. . . Hal tried not to think about it as he closed his eyes. He really had no idea how this worked, to be quite honest.
Back on the couch, there was no trace of Hal. . . except a small green ball, glowing slightly.
Without a word or a hint of intent, Kefetasura disappeared from the poolside.
In the room he as supposed to share with Helper, Kefetasura pushed the two beds together and readyed himself for a prolonged perios of lounging and schemeing.
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Long after everyone else had settled in for the night, Helper shuffled quietly around the house. He cleaned and tidyed things up in preparation for the next day.
Morgant pulled out two hairties, quickly winding them around his hair to form it into his usual ponytail, staring down at the girl amusedly. "I wast testing mine physical limits...seeing how long I couldst go without breath. Yon longer I canst go, yon longer I canst survive in situations whither I canst nay breathe."
He tilted his head to the side to shake himself off once more. "I didst, forsooth? What didst I miss, pray tell?"
Experiment had, by now, retracted his armour and was now swimming laps up and down the pool while everyone began to leave.
Eventually, however, after he began to tire, he climbed out of the pool, normal street clothes covering him, but with a small, black, generic mask covering a small part of his face to cover his identity.
He hit a switch on his watch, which was his PDA in a disguised form, and his costume was entirely dried by a miniature heater flying from the watch, covering him, and returning.
He yawned, and into the mansion, waved to Helper goodnight, walked past the floating green orb on the couch, and proceeded to his room.
When he entered, his eyes gaped open.
Pyro was in his bed, a wall of fire blocking anyone's path to him. The fire, however, was not burning anything in the area. 2.0 could feel the heat, but nothing more. He avoided the fire, pulled his bed further away, and then slumped down on it, laying his bag on the fire-less side. He had only one hope that night.
"PLEASE don't let him have a nightmare..."
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Morgant pulled out two hairties, quickly winding them around his hair to form it into his usual ponytail, staring down at the girl amusedly. "I wast testing mine physical limits...seeing how long I couldst go without breath. Yon longer I canst go, yon longer I canst survive in situations whither I canst nay breathe."
He tilted his head to the side to shake himself off once more. "I didst, forsooth? What didst I miss, pray tell?"
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CC blinked up at Morgant. Replaying his speech in her head, she tried to translate it into something she understood. "Wast...was...limits...canst...can....OH!" She grinned. "You were trying to see how long you can hold your breath! Why didn't you just say so?" Pulling herself out of the pool, she wrung the water out of her hair. "Besides, if you're going to be somewhere and you can't breathe the air, won't Freedom Corps give you a scuba tank or something?"
"Anyway, you missed the waves! Lily got really made at the big 'bot and tossed him into the water. Big splash! And then...um...Acid? The lizard guy. I think he did something, 'cause then the big 'bot got dropped back into the water again. It was an even bigger splash!" She peered at him. "You couldn't feel that, even on the bottom?"
In the kitchen, Lily had managed to assemble a passable sandwich. Sticking a bottle of water into her bag, she made her way to her new room. She didn't see any sign of her roommate, though one of the beds had a suitcase on it. Shrugging, she tossed her bag on the other one and sat down to eat her sandwich.
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Morgant gave an embarrassed shrug, now speaking normally, though still with his english accent. "I'm quite fond of my version of middle english. Sorry. And to answer the question, sometimes I'm in areas where Freedom Corps can't get to me...like the Rogue Isles."
At her other question, he got even more of an embarrassed look, lifting up his left hand to scratch behind his head. "...Er...no...I was so intent upon my thoughts...I guess I kinda zoned out completely."
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Morgant gave an embarrassed shrug, now speaking normally, though still with his english accent. "I'm quite fond of my version of middle english. Sorry. And to answer the question, sometimes I'm in areas where Freedom Corps can't get to me...like the Rogue Isles."
At her other question, he got even more of an embarrassed look, lifting up his left hand to scratch behind his head. "...Er...no...I was so intent upon my thoughts...I guess I kinda zoned out completely."
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"Oh, that's okay. It's kinda pretty. I'm just dumb," CC said cheerily. "Talk however you want. It just might take me a minute or two to figure out what you said."
As he answered the second part of her question, her expression grew even more confused. "Um...but...if you zone out...how will you be able to defend yourself? I mean...shouldn't you practice holding your breath while fighting or something? 'Cause you probably won't be sitting on the bottom of the pool...ooh, look, a hot tub!"
CC pointed gleefully at the steam coming out of the tub, and considered jumping in. She was starting to shiver a little from the water drying on her skin. Looking back up at Morgant, she asked, "So what do you do? I mean, as a Hero. You're a Hero, right? I hit stuff. Well, kick, mostly. With those." She gestured over her shoulder towards the (now soaked) line of clothes she'd left behind, including her boots.
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Morgant shrugged. "As thou wisheth, young lady." He blinked at her question...looking genuinely stumped, as if he hadn't thought of that. "...Well...um...er...you see...ah... ...Oh, look, a hot tub!" He quickly took advantage of her distraction and shrugged, adjusting his tanktop as he shivered as well. "...'Tis FREEZING, after thou just getteth out of yon pool. Race thou yonder!" With only that, he quickly takes several paces forward and leaps into flight, diving right at the pool.
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Morgant shrugged. "As thou wisheth, young lady." He blinked at her question...looking genuinely stumped, as if he hadn't thought of that. "...Well...um...er...you see...ah... ...Oh, look, a hot tub!" He quickly took advantage of her distraction and shrugged, adjusting his tanktop as he shivered as well. "...'Tis FREEZING, after thou just getteth out of yon pool. Race thou yonder!" With only that, he quickly takes several paces forward and leaps into flight, diving right at the pool.
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"Heeee!" CC jumped into the air and hit the ground running, pouring on the speed to beat him. Naturally, she slipped in a leftover pool of water and careened out of the control. "Eeeep!" Wildly waving her arms and legs, she tried to regain her balance, but only seemed to make the situation worse. With an "Oof!" she hit the side of the hot tub and tumbled in, head first.
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"Waaagh!" Kaloaten, who had just about soaked in at this point, would be drenched a second time by CC's tumble in beside him. His first reaction would be to get out of the way to give her more room to fall- after that passed, however, he reached under until he felt his hands on her shoulders, lifting her up with a look of concern (and poorly hidden amusment) on his face.
"...Are you alright?"
Up in Solid and Essex's room, the grey android would find the little girl cuddled up in a bed near the corner, her duffel bag neatly at her feet. Her eyes were closed in sleep mode, and she had her arms loosely tossed about a large, plush Protector bot.
Rosalind, on the other hand, got out of the pool upon finding that everyone was going into the hot tub.
"Eh, I'm kinda waterlogged, guys. I'm gonna hit the stain." With that, she shifted back into dog form, shook herself all over, and headed back into the house.
She was about to go up to her room, when something caught her eye. There was something glowing on the couch...
.....BALL?
The werehuman's tail began to wag ferociously as she scooped up the green ball in her jaws and began to trot upstairs.
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As Rosie walked up the stairs, the ball simply vanished from her mouth, for it had never really been there in the first place.
"Can't a guy get any rest?" Hal exclaimed, the back of his shirt now resting in Rosie's jaws instead. "I can tell you one thing. I won't be using THAT illusion to mark my place again. . ."
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"...Are you alright?"
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CC coughed and spluttered, nodding. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks! Hey...did I win?" She glanced around to see where Morgant was. She laughed a litte embarrassedly. "We were racing, but I guess I'm less coordinated than I thought. At least it's warm in here!" Shivering a little, she scrunched up until only her head was above water. Her bangs were plastered to her forehead and wrapped around her horns. She lifted a hand out of the water and tried unsuccessfully to untangle her hair. Now she sort of looked like a copper-haired rooster with horns.
"So what's your speciality?" CC asked Kaloaten.
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Rosalind yelped in surprise and the border collie tumbled down the stairs, limbs flailing.
When she impacted the ground, she poofed back into humanoid form.
"Holy crap, you scared the bejeezus out of me!" she gasped. "Yeah, [censored], boy, don't use that one again! [censored], I orally fixate at night, so you woulda had some nice tooth marks in ya if y'weren't careful."
Dusting herself off, she trotted up the stairs with a last ruffle of Hal's hair. "Night kid."
Reaching her and Toy's room, she flounced onto the bed, and rifled about in the backpack she'd brought until she brought out a small rubber newspaper, the squeaker taken out (for politeness' sake). Transforming back into border collie form, she rolled over on her back, kicking her feet a little as she chewed the toy.
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Morgant swooped around in the air, face up and gave a quick arc downwards, creating another splash as he blazed head-first into the tub--having never experienced hot-tubs before, he quickly learned that hottubs were a lot less deep than normal swimming pools.
A sickening CRACK! echoed through the air, likely heard inside the house, too, as Morgant learned this lesson.
Morgant eventually sat up into a sitting position, looking quite woozy, blood slowly dripping from his nose. He lifted up his left hand, finger pointed in the air, looking as if to say something...then paused, as if forgetting what he said. He opened his mouth then once more and spoke in a slurred voice. "Aye, young lady...thou hast won. A winner 'tis thou...present thee...with...points...roffels..." With only that, he slumped back down into the water.
Acid winced at the sound of the crack, flailing about madly as he tried to straighten up in the water of the pool. It was a failure, but at least he got a good look at what had happened.
"Well, that's not good." he commented, deciding he'd better go and see if the guy was alright. Climbing over the pool edge, he quickly shook, the water draining off him as if laminated. Then he stepped to the hot tub, just as Morgany went under again.
"Oh no you don't." he said, reaching down into the hot water and picking up the paladin under his arms, hauling him back to the surface, "Last I checked, humans still can't breathe water, so get back up here..."
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"Um...that doesn't look so good...Are you okay mister?" CC's tone took on a worried note.
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"Oh no you don't." he said, reaching down into the hot water and picking up the paladin under his arms, hauling him back to the surface, "Last I checked, humans still can't breathe water, so get back up here..."
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CC's eyes widened at Morgant's limp form. "He needs a nurse! Where's his mediport patch? Shouldn't that have sent him to the hospital? Is he going to be okay? What if he's paralyzed? Should I find a first aid kit? What do we do?!?" She ended on a high squeaking note, clearly thinking the worst.
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Solid quietly opened the door, cast a glance at Essex, and then slipped inside. Muttering something about multi-colored robots from hell, Solid looked down at the bed on his side of the room. He poked it, looked at its supports, and then sighed. Clearly it wasn't going to be sturdy enough to support him.
Regretting the fact that he would probably wake Essex up, the android grabbed the bed and dragged it closer to Essex's bed, giving the heal bot a queen sized bed. Then, he grabbed one of his suitcases, placed it where his bed had been, and pressed a button. With a high pitched groaning noise, the suitcase unfolded several times and in several different ways, eventually constructing the exact same power bed from his apartment complete with a portable power supply that Solid plugged into a wall socket.
Figuring he'd unpack the rest of his stuff in the morning, Solid lay down and went into Sleep mode, the red light of his targeting eye fading to a dull shimmer.
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"Yo Rosie," Toy said as the were-human came into the room from where he sat at a computer desk, typing away. "How was the pool?"
On Toy's side of the room, there was no longer a bed. Instead, there were three repair gantries, a huge one currently containing Combat Toy, a small one for Mini Bot, and a more normal sized one for Toy Dispenser. And aside from the the computer and the gantries, there wasn't much else that the mastermind had brought with him.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"Nnh..." Essex sighed a little in her 'sleep,' squeezing the toy a bit closer. "...Mma...laser beam...Miss Earth....golf cart..."
Her hard memory always took the time to defragment when she slept, resulting in some pretty wacked out dreams most of the time.
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Rosie stopped kicking her legs in the air and looked over at Toy upside down, rubber newspaper in her teeth and her ears flopped open in large triangles.
"Arf!" the dog replied with a satisfied wag of her tail.
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"Much obliged." Acid called out as he caught the errant can...or at least tried to. Following Murphy's Law, the metal menace slipped from his claws and down it went.
With a shrug, Acid went after it, considering for a moment to just bite into it.
Nah, that would've been rude. He decided to just grab it and head back to the surface instead, popping it open and draining the whole thing in one swig.
His eyes darted around for a moment, and when he thought no one was looking, he quickly ate the can as well...
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