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[color=b71d5d]Location:[/color] Strange Academy: Medical Waiting Room
[color=b71d5d]Skills:[/color] Enhanced Reflexes (Passive)
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Andy’s form was complete. She picked a line that looked short and started to wait. She tried not to let her thoughts drift too far from the current situation. The form had been easy enough to fill out, with the minor panic at wondering if the time traveling she did was about to disqualify her from the event. She was surprised that she was actually worried about that. One of the rules had been that students had to [i]want[/i] to participate. This wasn’t forced. She did want to compete. Yeah, it wasn’t with the same desire that April and some of the others had it. But she did want to test herself. 

Andy wanted to know how to fight anyone who came across her path. She wanted strategies for how to deal with anyone who might want to free her mother. As she chewed that thought and looked around the room she saw Agatha. Magic. 

It wasn’t something she was inept at, but it wasn’t her main focus. Maybe she would need to spend more time understanding magic. That was the most likely ability someone trying to free Selene would have. Max was good at protecting Selene at the moment because he could magically remove her from the situation. Could she learn how to open portals? A few ideas crossed into Andy’s mind but it was her turn for the exam. 

The first part of the exam was a standard physical. Andy had had a few growing up, but it had been years. However, she didn’t have any physical signs of damage she had ever taken up to Genosha. At the end of Genosha all of her scars, cuts, bruises, and piercings had been healed. She had to have her ears and belly button re-pierced. It had been a little annoying. But physically there was nothing wrong with her. Not even the old pugilist break that had once caused her finger to be set weird could be found. 

During the mystic portion, “Hmm. Young lady, are you aware that you are suffering a curse? It appears to be ancient and vampiric in nature.”

[color=b71d5d]”Uh, I sort of knew, I guess. My mom did that to me.”[/color] 

“Your mother?” The person asked and glanced at Andy’s paperwork. They didn’t ask anything more after seeing her name. Andy had only nodded and shrugged. She was a bit confused. She hadn’t thought it was a curse, but maybe that was how it worked. If it was something she could break...there was a spark of hope. To have a proper hug again. To not be afraid of touching her friends. She shook a little while waiting for the next portion and was very glad it was rather uninteresting in comparison. Nothing of note in her blood came up. However, the next portion, the Future Foundation part did reveal something. She had time traveled.

“I see, you were time displaced. Should we be aware of any TVA agents who may attempt to apprehend you?”

[color=b71d5d]”I don’t think they will. It’s been a while, they are usually prompt about that sort of thing. But I’m from 2024. I was on Genosha and then came here, to now.”[/color] She had also done a bit of a time jump a few weeks ago, but the TVA still hadn’t bothered them so she didn’t think it would be an issue. 

“That is all?”

[color=b71d5d]”Well like a ten minute jump a few weeks ago, but it was still a while back. I think the TVA is a bit more reactive than that. I came forward in time, not back. I didn’t try to change anything the first time.”[/color] And apparently what they had changed just before Thanksgiving break hadn’t been enough to get the TVA’s attention. 

Then the last portion. She was asked a few questions while keeping her hand on a book. 


“What is your name?”

[color=b71d5d]”Andy Drummond Gallio-Lensherr.”[/color] Her full name. She didn’t feel right if she didn’t say Drummond. She could probably comfortably drop Gallio, but it was legally her name. If they wanted some special name that was the true one she had been born with it wasn’t something she could give them. Andy had been her name forever, since she was a toddler. Drummond was from the first people she felt had been a true family, she’d never do away with that part of her name. As for her last names those were of course her two legal parents. One her biological mother and one the father of her heart. 

“Who are you?” Andy paused, not sure how to answer that. She had already given her name, what was the difference? She thought of Ash and Jamie. She thought of Magneto. Andy could say that she was ‘Luna Minor’ or even ‘Thundering Champion’. Though, she didn’t feel either of those names were who she was. She was a lot, and she was nothing. A speck in the universe. She didn’t even [i]want[/i] to be more. She just wanted to be Andy. Wanted to live her life as happy as possible. She especially wanted to make those she considered family proud of her. If Ash and Jamie could see her she wanted them to be proud of her. She wanted Magneto to be proud of her. Be glad he had adopted her. 

[color=b71d5d]”I am the collection of people who have cared for me. I am lightning and magic. I am Andy.”[/color] She didn’t know if that was what they were looking for, but it was as true to who she was as she could be. 

Lastly, “Do you want to compete in the Contest of Champions?”

[color=b71d5d]”Yes.”[/color] She had figured that out earlier. She did want to compete. She wanted to learn. That was the whole reason she was here. 

Andy left the room, letting the next person take her place. She went back to the area where the group had been sitting and was thinking while waiting for her friends to come back.