Fandom High Lawn, Tuesday Morning

[multiplez]

After SPD Officer Blake dropped Z off at the gates, she shouldered her backpack, picked up the SPD issue duffel bag she'd been given, and headed off to find someone who could help her find her new dorm room. She was wearing an SPD cadet's black and grey uniform because, well, it was clean, and hopefully it would help her to ID this other cadet. If it didn't, the giant 'SPD' emblazoned across her bag probably would. Space Patrol Delta, it seemed, really liked labeling things.

As she was crossing the lawn, she almost ran into a petite girl hauling a duffel bag of her own. The girl had messy blue hair and clothes with a lot of safety pins, and seemed kind of cranky. Z guessed, somehow, that she was going to meet the woman in black in the convertible down at the gates, the one Officer Blake had tried to flirt with until he realized she was pregnant. There was definitely a family resemblance.



"Watch it!" the blue-haired girl snapped.


"Sorry! Hey, I'm new here. Do you know where I need to go?"


"Uh, yeah, they're settin' up some kind of welcome thing over there."


"Thanks! I'm Z."


"And I'll have forgotten long before I see you again, so...later."

The blue-haired girl headed off, and Z shrugged. Whatever, she was used to unfriendly people by now. She headed for the front lawn, since the blue-haired girl didn't seem to be wrong about that. Time to make a good first impression.

"Okay, Z," she said to herself under her breath. "Whatever you do, don't replicate."

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Meet Z!

[multiplez]

Or wait. She's on her way to the arrivinating party, after all.

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie has his bag slung over his shoulder as he watches the girl with the blue hair zoom by. "Well she was... brisk."

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

Z shrugged. "I guess she's in a hurry."

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Guess so," Jamie said mirroring the shrug. "Any idea where we're supposed to go? I'm new around here."

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

"No clue--I'm new, too--but the blue-haired girl said something about the front lawn?"

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Good to know I'm not the only one," Jamie said with smile. "I'm Jamie Madrox by the way. Need any help with your bag?"

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

"Z Delgado. Thanks, but I think I've got it. It's not that heavy." And she could always create a double to carry it if she wound up on the sixth floor or something, but she really didn't want to give her secret away this early in the game. No point in getting labeled a freak before she could help it.

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Well if you're okay with it," Jamie said as he looked over and saw a bunch of kids beginning to mingle on the lawn. "So where you from Z?"

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

"Yeah, I'm tough. I can handle it. California, Newtech City, do you know it?"

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"You look like the type of person who can handle herself," Jamie said with winning grin. "Never heard of Newtech before, but I'm a New Yorker really. Well... New Yorker by way of Kansas."

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

"New York must be fun. I've always wanted to go there. You've seriously never heard of Newtech? I know it's kind of new, but it's the base of SPD Earth, for crying out loud."

Re: Meet Z!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"SPD Earth?" Jamie asked with a confused look on his face. "What the heck is that?"

Re: Meet Z!

[multiplez]

"Space Patrol Delta? You know, they keep the alien lawbreakers in line?" And the street kids trying to eke out a living, too, but Z wasn't bitter. Really.

Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

Last chance! But you've got a little time, because she'll be making more than one trip to Arsenal's car.

And don't worry. She'll be back sooner than she thinks you think!

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter rushed down from his room to make sure he caught Zero before she left. "Hey there," he said, giving a quick kiss. Best not to linger with the PDAs with Arsenal just over there. "Need any help carrying stuff?"

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

"You have your choice of a shopping bag full of Fish's stuff or the suitcase," Zero said. The suitcase was notably larger than the shopping bag, covered in travel stickers, and overstuffed to the point of a shirt sleeve dangling out of it.

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I think I'll be nice and go with the suitcase," Peter said. He picked it up effortlessly (yay powers!) and took a quick look at it. "Wow, you've really travelled a lot."

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

"We travel a lot." Zero was very relieved to find the weight she was carrying more than halved. "Thanks."

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome," Peter said. "Really, I'm just trying to make sure you have a couple more fond memories of me before you go. 'Peter carries heavy bag. Aww.'"

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

"I've got a good boyfriend. He carries heavy objects for me." Zero shot Arsenal a 'be nice' look as they approached the car.

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I can also juggle. I'm both nice and potentially entertaining," Peter said.

He turned to Arsenal and gave a bright smile when they closed in on the car. "Hi. It's nice to see you again."

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

Arsenal made a, "Hmph," noise and settled her sunglasses more firmly on her nose. Zero shot her a Look and then turned to Peter, smiling brightly. "Hormones. You know. And some guy in a uniform was hitting on her before I got here."

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Ah, okay. That explains it," Peter said. "So. This is it. Four months."

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[swerval_zero]

"Yeh. Four months."

Fish squawked, "Guten morgen!"

"It's not too late to put him in the trunk," Arsenal offered.

Zero ignored them both in favor of gazing at Peter.

Re: Say Bye to Zero!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter wasn't sure if Arsenal was talking about him or Fish. Either way, he was ignoring everything but Zero and the way his own heart was beating at the moment.

"Zero," he said. And then he paused, looking for words. "Okay, I have no clue how to lead into this, but I can't let you go home without letting you know that I love you. So. Yeah. I love you. So you'd better not find an excuse to not come back in the fall unless you want me to go all emo."