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After a while of walking, Eilidh's eyes were stinging, and she was coughing up spit that was more dust than water. Breathing was becoming a chore, and she didn't feel safe on these streets, being able to hear the moans and cries of creatures she couldn't see. Luckily she knew that she was near the shops that connected to the mall, and that level B2 of the mall had a subway line to the main train station of the Southeast district should she need to leave the city entirely. She could get to the slums, and through the wall as there wouldn't be guards there if the whole city was like this.

She reached the first shop that was part of the mall. It was a chocolate shop. She kicked the glass door in with her rear hooves, and fell over from the inbalance. She'd have to get used to doing that. Once she was in the basement levels, she'd try and get some practice in. Picking herself back up, she entered the shop, and then the mall proper, naturally shoplifting a small box on the way, and eating it as she navigated the less dusty mall, though it still wasn't ideal, so she descended the stairs carefully, and with her hands on the railings at all times, until she was at B1, where she went to the hardware shop and took several packets of disposable safety masks, and some very expensive looking goggles. Putting the goggles on her head but not over her eyes, she carried on to the pet megastore, grabbed a saddle, acquired some satchels from the trendy handbag store, and with a little jiggery-pokery, soon had, on her back, a saddle with a satchel on either side, that she put the masks and chocolate in.

She spent the next half-hour looting anything useful from B1. Food, provisions, a tent, and on the way to this journey, she encountered several mutated nightstaff corpses and one janitor who had fused with his floor-cleaning vehicle, and he didn't approve of her stealing. Eilidh responded to his attempts to stop her by pushing him down the stairs to B2. He'll live if he goes down the rest himself, but wouldn't be able to come back up.

She then went to the PC store to see if she could get an internet connection. That was a negative, naturally. This was the Apocalypse. She took the best computer they had anyway, and their best MHD. She'd taken portable drives containing her hacking programs from her flat before she left, which were now in her satchels. She took some cables too, for connecting to other machines if wireless wasn't an option.

After a quick meal, she sat down in the middle of the mall, and tried not to let the horror and loneliness around her bring her to tears.
@pyroman

The information that in the future, Heidi was partly responsible for inventing time travel was staggering. From all her current understanding, it was impossible without mutations...Then again, if it was possible in any form, then...that train of thought could wait until later. Right now was time to get into mission mode.

So, this team was the best combination to deal with this mission? What was the mutation of the new girl, then? And if Heidi was an important factor, was it her brain that helped them to avoid danger? Should she be specifically trying to prevent danger in this mission? So many questions, but none that the team who had assembled them would know the answer to. Only her future self. But why hadn't she come? Heidi herself had began to suspect why, and if she was right, it was either death, or that her path and Xavier's had finally parted as she suspected they would. Her ideological differences, she kept secret from her mutant classmates for now, but she wouldn't suppress them forever.

Heidi had already suited up in preparation for Gym, but she did use this time to calibrate her new prototype exoskeleton, and quickly check that the power they were being fed from her gauntlet was such that she could power them both. Satisfied, she headed back to the hangar. She was the first one back besides Bonny, who hadn't left.
Having PC issues. Will try and post tomorrow
Mina checked her phone. Only sixteen minutes until she was late, and the ominous threat of 'severe consequences'. Her mom warned her that they make day one a very difficult test and expel those without potential. She has also given Mina the advice that "no matter what happens, stay calm."

So Mina was calmly tapping her foot, calmly gritting her teeth, calmly trying to stop her heart from bursting with stress, and calmly watching the gate not open. She checked her phone again. 8:15. Now the gate opened, and Mina immediately sprinted inside the grounds. Now the stress was gone, and she was re-afforded control. She was now something close to being called calm, as she efficiently scanned her card and slipped through the gates with ease, before people started to congest the barriers in their panic.

She eyed up the large man stationed at the entrance to the classromm. Even before he announced that he wouldn't let the students use that entrance, Mina had figured that much out herself and had made a beeline for the right entrance. She stopped right before the door, got her breath back, fixed her hair and uniform, then strolled in with an air of dignity.



Right Wing


Mina immediately noticed, and rolled her eyes, at the spoooooky atmosphere that had been set up. It was like the haunted hose of a fairground. Did they honestly expect anybody to-

Mina jumped out of her skin and made a loud 'Eep!' sound when the chair shot of of a side-door and rolled to a stop in the corridor. The young lady quickly glanced beside her to see some students had caught up. Luckily, they were too busy and panicked to have pointed and laughed. Mina leered at the crowd anyway, then turned back and carried on. That's when she almost ran into the emerging school nurse. Or...a teacher dressed as one. Mina wouldn't judge. At least not until she's less busy with trying not to be expelled. Then she'll judge.

"Students! Do you have time for a small check up? I do like to keep my medical records up to date after all...I believe most of you require a blood test," spoke the nurse.

Mina sensed a lot of danger coming from this woman. On the other hand, this sense to not get closer was nothing compared to Mina's will to make it into this school. She would not lose at the first hurdle! Swallowing her fear and steeling herself, put on her ever-professional mask of rigid, inexpressive pomp, and approached the nurse.

"I have to get to class," Mina started, rolling up her sleeve, "but make it quick!"

Taking advantage of the fact that the nurse probably was not expecting a student to actually volunteer to get blood taken, Mina closed the gap between them, quickly raised her bare limb, and from her whole upper-arm, emitted a blinding flash of light, which will have stunned all the students behind her as well as Kiwi. While she was reeling from that, Mina bolted past her, and onward towards the classroom.
Now...how to proceed from here so that people start meeting up...
This falls into the realm of 'the characters don't know that' A bit like when Dalry's backstory has her screaming "NOMADS!" and I got told that the Nomad is a singular entity. Yeah, but Dalry doesn't know that.
@pyroman

Heidi had been silent during the whole conversation. She didn't know enough about what was at stake, and while she'd personally find killing hard, if it was logically the best option, she'd have no moral objections. Just personal ones. She was relieved when she heard that none of them would be killing.

Even so, why this team? At least last time was just a routine training mission that went wrong. This was different. This volatile group was willingly assembled and put on this high-stakes plan...

"Why us? Why specifically us? Are we a diversion? Or do you need us to meet with the target for some reason? Is this this anything to do with our future selves?"

Possibilities, as well as possible plans and reasons for this mission were swirling around Heidi's head. Some were more pleasant than others. She hoped that the answers to these questions might narrow them down.
@Starlance@Elevation

Dalry heard Miranda's warning to hide, but she couldn't move. She couldn't will her legs to get up. She might be able to open her eyes, but she didn't want to. She couldn't cope with this. With being thrown back into the chaos and gunfire. If she shut it out for long enough, it might die down, or put her out of her misery. She din't know which one she'd prefer, but she'd prefer both to having to face the chaos again.

She felt herself getting lifted up, and gasped in relief, grabbing a tight hold of the soldier who'd just rescued her. When she was put down, she dared to open her eyes, and as soon as she saw it was safe, she sprang to her feet with poise and grace that nobody possessing should be fearing this situation that much, and she backed herself against the wall furthest from the entrance before nodding. She was breathing heavily, but less in a 'physically exerted herself' way and more in a 'panic attack' way.

"I'm okay now. Just...that chaos and gunfire...I'm Dalry Soumers. Ex-UWLA. Corporal. I'm a First Contact survivor."

She didn't need to elaborate what she'd had first contact with, or why that explained how she behaved the way she did. Any soldier who knew about the Nomad would understand.
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