[IC] Trying to save the world (Xion and Caits)

[Xion Demente]

Zach walked forward looking at Michael, he gently got Michael with the suit onto his shoulders. "He was an idiot for doing it, but he saved a lot of lives by doing it in the first place." Before he flew up to the ship, he got Michael out of the suit, and set him in the infirmary. He got the suit, and put it where Michael always put it he knew Michael would fix it up later.

After a few hours, Michael groaned in pain. His bones hurt, but he really wasn't suprised about that he knew a few bones would be broken. The thing that suprised him most was that he could move his arms and legs, he wondered what had happened while he was out. He wouldn't try sitting up though knowing a few of his ribs were broken.

He saw Connor once he came in, "hey man I'm sorry I didn't pull the switch." Michael only smiled, "Connor you were busy making sure the soldiers didn't get close to the engine, I might be hurt but you saved lives by not letting the soldiers get to the engine and destroy it completely, so no beating yourself up for it." Connor nodded, before he left the room leaving Michael with his thoughts.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda followed Zach up, disturbed. She looked about. What was the goal of attacking them? The attackers seemed to have disappeared. This puzzled her. She didn't dwell on it, but she did look around, alert for any danger or attack. She followed Zack to the infirmary, and stood there fore a minute, before heading out. She went to her room, and into the ajoining shower. She showered for a while, and then got out, dressing once more in her suit and then went to the command center.

She began to search once more, looking over the searches. She knew frost had to be around somewhere, as well as the Cube. But she couldn't find anything. She sighed, and leaned back in the chair, frustrated.

Unable to do anything else, she went to the training room to work out some of her frustration. She beat at a punching bag, used some bars and weights, and essentially worked up a good sweat. By the end of her session, she was feeling better. She went to check on Michael, seeing him awake and talking with Connor. She waited until Connor left.

"so Awake then, Micky?"

[Xion Demente]

Michael smiled a bit, as he tried to sit up. Bad idea, his arm went across his chest as he laid back down. "Yah I'm up I took a pretty hard hit on the ground didn't i?" He knew he took a hard hit on the ground, but he didn't know how bad the crash landing was onto the ground. "I almost gave you a really big scare didn't i?"

He wouldn't sit up, till the broken ribs healed all the way, he knew it was that bad if he broke some ribs in the crash. He was happy he was wearing the suit during the fall. He also knew he had a lot of repairs to do with the suit he had to do the repairs once e was fully back on his feet.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda went over, and nodded, "You did. I thought you were dead, so yeah, a pretty big scare" She said, sitting down in a chair, "I thought I was going to have to go on the run, and hide from your father" She thought she could do that, at least long enough to change her name, her appearance, and any connections she had right now.

She gave a sigh, "You shouldn't have done that without more backup. What if this is what they wanted, to put you out of action? Which they have" She said, bringing her knees up to wrap her arms around them.

She looked to him, wincing at the collection of bruises and swelling. "You'll be out of action for a bit, Micky" She said

[Xion Demente]

Michael sighed, "yah I know that. I know I should have gone with more back up, but I could only find Connor." That was one thing he was starting to hurt, if I am like my father once the swelling goes down, I'll be back on my feet they haven't taken me out of action completely."

Michael looked over at her, "no he probably would go after frost himself if he found out who those soldiers worked for." He moved his arm, he winced at the slight movement of his arm. That was the one thing he didn't like, he hurt badly he wouldn't pull that truck again for a really long time.

[MarshiestMallow]

"Yeah, but its my fault you are here. I talked you into it" Kalinda said softly. She knew that he wouldn't be here if she hadn't talked him into joining, that it was her fault he had nearly gotten killed. She blamed herself, and she would continue to do so. She had just thought it would be good to do, but now...

"I'm sorry" She said softly, looking down. "I shouldn't have pressured you into joining, and I'll do anything..." She trailed off, still staring at the floor. She was embarrassed, and knew her expression was most likely guilty.

She sighed softly

[Xion Demente]

Michael looked at her, "hey hey it's not your fault you may have talke me into joining. Still though getting the engine runing was my choice not yours Kalinda it never was." He took her hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze, "I'm tough enough to survive a fall, but I don't think I want to try that again."

He looked back at the ceiling, "don't blame yourself for this Kalinda wasn't your fault it never was, don't blame yourself for something I did. Don't ever do that Kalinda, please don't blame yourself for something I did I was the one who went and got the engine working again."

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda let him talk, but she still knew it was her fault. "You'd be dead if you tried it again" She said softly. It was a chain of action. She brought him into this, and she let him get hurt. She sighed, and shrugged, "Alright" She said, lying quite effectively, "I won't"

She rose, looking about, "Do you want anything? Food? I don't think there's pain killers, sorry" She said, "We still ahven't found or tracked Frost or the Cube. Tory's working on that. It doesn't look as if there's anyone following us again, no sign of another attack..." She trailed off and shrugged

[Xion Demente]

Michael nodded at that, "no I'm fine I don't need anything right now. I'll probably be back on my feet in a few days, since most of the bones were dislocated." He looked around the room, "just to think I'm stuck in here for a few days till I can get back up on my feet again." He let out a sigh, "just make sure Connor doesn't beat himself up for something he didn't do."

Connor was in the gym, punching a punching bag, letting out all the anger toward himself. At something else instead of himself, he didn't mean for Michael to get hurt. He didn't mean to, but he did because he couldn't get to the switch in time to slow the engine down for him to get out of it.

Zach let out a sigh, he saw how bad Michael had hit the ground, he knew Michael only survived because of the suit, if he wasn't wearing the suit then Michael would be dead right now. They had to find Frost before anyone else got hurt because of him. Frost didn't care who he hurt, and Zach and the rest of the team would stop him at any cost.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda listened as Michael spoke, and nodded, "I dont now what else I can do, I've already told him that you are an idiot" She said with a slight smile, "i'll see what else I can do. Maybe Tory or Hannah will know what to do" She said musingly, "You're suit is wrecked by the way. So when your are better you are going to have to fix it, or we will be done a good weapon"

She rose, starting to head out, "You should speak with your father. You can't lie to him forever" She jogged out the room, to look for Connor, finding him belting a punching bag, "Jeez, I'd hate to know what that bag did to deserve such a punishment" She said, leaning against the door. "It wasn't your fault Connor" She said softly

She watched him, "It was just something that happened. it couldn't have been stopped. Micky will be fine" She said, most likely trying and failing to reassure him

[Xion Demente]

Michael could only nod, he called his dad to let him know the truth. He knew he was going to get yelled at for doing this in the first place. He didn't like to imagine what was going to happen once he was back at the tower. Still he had to heal first, before the suit could be fixed.

Connor kept punching it, till the punching bag went flying off the hook hitting the wall and busting open spreading sand on the floor. He went to grab another one, "it's my fault because he told me to pull the switch to slow down the engine, and I couldn't do that for him. At least he's alright, but I'm the one that got him into tat position."

He looked at Kalinda for a moment, before putting the bag onto the hook, and started to punch it. He had a lot to think about his father and what was going on with Frost and all of that stuff.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda let out an annoyed sigh, "Micky shouldn't have gone with just you-it was clearly a trap. We all should have been there. He thinks he can do everything himself, so perhaps this was a little lesson for him to work as a team with the rest of us" She said, going over to Connor.

"You aren't the one that got him into that position. Don't blame yourself. It could have happened to any of us. Playing the blame game on yourself is just useless. We should be doing something worth while, like trying to find Frost so we can kick his butt, instead of beating the crap out of a bag. You blaming yourself is doing nothing"

She paused for a moment before continuing. "It wasn't your fault, and if you don't start believing that, than you are just making it all worse. So, listen to me carefully. You. Are. Not. to Blame"

[Xion Demente]

Connor sighed, "alright then I guess." He stopped punching it, "looks like I still need to go find the file on Frost then." With that he walked past Kalinda before stopping, "and thanks for that I guess Michael had sent you here to talk to me, but thanks still." He went to the file room, and found Frosts file after a bit of searching, he through it onto the table where the others were, "that's frosts file."

Few days had passed, Michael was still sore. Doctor said take some pain killers every now and then. He grabbed a glass of water and swallowed the pain killers before walking where his suit was. Once he saw the damage to the suit, he winced. Before he got some ear buds in and listened to some music as he worked on the suit.

"JARVIS how damaged are the power circuits to the suit," "they don't need to be replaced but they do need to be fixed sir." Michael nodded, he kept working on the suit. Sweat was covering his face, "man why is there no a conditioning down here."

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda was sitting with Hannah and Tory, having a good time talking with them, and just essentially make friends from other super kids. It was nice to talk with others who understood. Kalinda had never really clicked with the other kids in high school, being able to do things that they couldn't. Here, she was just the same as the others, albeit without the same powers and abilities. She felt that she was being challenged, that she had to work harder to become their level. She loved it.

Mostly she liked the girl time, and she enjoyed hanging out with Connor and Zack too, and she never missed a chance to drop in on Michael and annoy him.

Kalinda wasn't one to just sit around though, so after a while, she told the two girls that she was going to see about some training, but that was detoured when she saw Michael up and about. She followed him down to where he went to work on his suit.

"Its fine down here. You have a fever?" She asked when he complained about the air conditioning.

[Xion Demente]

Michael shook his head, "no more like there's no AC down here really." He grabbed another took from, the table next to him, patching up the suit for the fight with frost. He sighed a little, "why did you come down here anyway that's my question to you."

He kept working on his suit, before he stopped and turned toward Kalinda. He was supporting most of his weight on his right leg for now, since the pain killers hadn't taken full effect on him. He didn't have to go anywhere yet besides working on his suit.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda shrugged, waiting a minute before replying, "Because I am bored" She said with a bored tone, "I saw you,and thought, You're going to get yourself hurt working by yourself" She shrugged again, "Masking the pain and injuries with medications won't make them go away. You should be resting. At least let me help" She said in a tone that meant to convey she wasn't going to take no for an answer.

She moved over until she was beside him, "And at least this way if you fall on your butt, you have someone to help you up" She grinned

[Xion Demente]

Michael shook his head, he went back to work on his suit. "You know you don't really know how to fix this thing, my computer is on my desk Connor uploaded the files of Frost onto it. What about you just tell me about Frost from those files while I'm working on this."

"JARVIS do we have power back up in the suit yet?" "No sir just try to be a bit more patient as you work." Michael sighed before getting back to work on the suit for now he would work, till he fell asleep they would need him once they had found Frost.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda rolled her eyes, "Don't worry, Micky, I won't touch your precious suit. I'll be a good little Secretary and go read those files for you" She said, clearly annoyed at him dismissing her to computer work.

She never the less read out what they had on Frost, summing up after she finished reading, "Essentially, we have nothing to go on" She said with a sigh, pushing away from the computer and standing again.

Kalinda hated this idleness, and wanted to be doing something. But she knew it wouldn't do to just go charging off without all the information. And that's what sucked.

[Xion Demente]

Michael sighed, he hauled up a piece of his suit the chest he put on the table. "Alright then if you want to help the arc reactor here." He points to the middle of the chest plate, "has to be fixed if it doesn't the when I fire from the middle I basically cry myself inside the suit it needs to be patched up along with a few metal parts on it need to be replaced."

He went to the back of his suit, he winced when he saw the back. "Ok most of that's going to take a little while to fix with all of the metal I need to replace and fix." With that he got some metal for the suit, grabbed his torch and started on the back piece of his suit.

"You know Kalinda your the only person that's almost normal that doesn't say anything about my dad being a million air. I know it's not a good time to really bring this up but why? I'm asking because most people ask me what's it like being a stark and all that junk and I hate that crap." The damaged metal on the back was getting taken off then replaced by a new piece.

[MarshiestMallow]

(sorry this took so long. I've some writers block in some of my roleplays)

Kalinda jumped at the opportunity to help, andd she tried her best, but she wasn't mechanically knowledge like Michael, and she didn't get very far, but she did patch it up some, and found the parts that needed to be replaced.She was just glad to be of help, even if it wasn't very much.

She looked up at his questioning on why she hadn't asked out being a Stark. She grinned, "Oh, I'm not almost normal, Micky. I'm far from normal" She shrugged, pondering how best to answer that question.

finally, she said, "Well, I guess I just now what its like, somewhat. My mother pressure's me to be the same as her, and I want to do my own thing. I love what I can do, but...I want to be my own person, not the black widow 2. So, why should I ask what its like t be a stark, when I know what it is like to be a Romanoff?" She said softly, "i don't judge people based on their parents"