Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 12:57 am**

The helicopters sat, a safe distance apart, prepped for departure. There was one for each team to load into.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 1:29 am**

Will showed up, his skin an ashen-gray, shortly before the assigned departure time.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 1:44 am**

Bear entered, moving to her copter and loading her satchel and comm gear.

Her uniform was still lightweight to allow her as much acrobatic freedom as possible, but she did opt for a leather collar and some strategically placed leather patched for protection.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 2:11 am**

Rick approached his helicopter next. He appeared no worse for wear from the evening before; his wounds were mostly healed, though he was still wearing some bandages on his arm and leg, beneath his uniform.

"Morning," he said to Will.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 2:34 am**

"Morning, Rick. You ready to go?" Will said, all business.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 2:52 am**

"Definitely." You have no idea. "How about you?"

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 2:59 am**

"Ready or not, here we go, yes?"

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:00 am**

Sara arrives in her usual uniform, no fancy stuff done to it aside from being cut off at her calves. Her nervousness is pretty well hidden due to the fact that she's currently shifted into granite for that exact reason.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:03 am**

Will smiles at Sara, and waves from across the yard.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:05 am**

William Stanton wrote:"Ready or not, here we go, yes?"

"That's the spirit!" He smirked a bit. Outwardly, all that he conveyed was a sense of calm confidence.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:32 am**

Spotting Will and Rick she walks over to them. "Hey. You don't look too well, Will... Or is that on purpose?" She faintly furrows her brow as she notices Will's skin-tone.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:38 am**

"And you're looking particularly craggy this morning, as well," Will laughed back.

"I've got zero blood at the moment, so I probably look a little pale."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:42 am**

"Well, I try to not gawk at shapeshifters, but since you brought it up..." Rick purposely cut his sentence off there, just chuckling a bit along with them. "Do both of you need to shift before you go on a mission for some reason?" He was a little confused.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:44 am**

"Don't have to, but it's one less thing to worry about when I get there. Plus, something this...fine, I suppose...takes more effort than mass construction and the like, in my case."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:50 am**

"Oh! Not a bad trick. And I figured I'd get myself used to being like this for longer stretches. Going back and forth like usual doesn't seem too appealing." Plus it's so much easier to look calm when your features are literally set in stone...

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:54 am**

"Good thinking," Will nods. "Hate to be in midfight and have to, I dunno, shift out, right?"

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 3:59 am**

"Not mid-fight anyway, but just walking around 'enemy territory' and leaving myself open doesn't sound too smart if I can avoid it."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:03 am**

"Well, it's a good plan. A firm plan. A well thought out plan.

It's rock-solid," Will smirked, giving Sara a kiss, rock or no rock.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:09 am**

"Hey, if I could run in there as a human boulder, believe me, I would."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:10 am**

She barely feels the kiss but smiles brightly anyway at the gesture.
"It does have it's advantages, yeah. Don't really have to worry about a bunch of things that'd be nasty otherwise."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:13 am**

"I'm sure. I can protect myself pretty well in a fight, but it takes some effort; I'd show you now, but I think I oughtta save my energy for now."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:15 am**

"Right. We know what you can do, I guess we can take it for....granite, right, Sara?"

Will is having too good of a time, here.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:18 am**

"Keep it up and someone's gonna crown you 'The Prince of Puns'."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:20 am**

"Gotta do something to keep my mind off the mission, right?"

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:36 am**

"I guess so. You get a bit more used to all of this mission stuff in time, though."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:39 am**

"I suppose so," Will said, a bit uncertainly. I hope not...

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:43 am**

"Well I know I'll sleep better once I can convince myself Will going on a mission is just 'business as usual..."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:45 am**

"Same here, m'luv. Except, y'know, with you in place of me."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:48 am**

"I know how you feel. I guess I'm sorta used to Marcus being in the field and fighting, but I still worry about him."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:49 am**

"And that's good--I'd hate to think what it would mean if you weren't.

'Woo! Marcus is putting himself in danger again; TV all to myself!'"

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 4:57 am**

"Well, I don't have to watch quite as much ESPN when he's out..." He smirked.

"But seriously, I know he's a very capable X-Man. With a good team around him, to boot," He smiled, looking at Sara, knowing that she would be part of his team, in this case. "That always helps."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:06 am**

"I suppose, but to worry is human, I suppose."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:09 am**

"Yeah. As long as Ryan doesn't encourage Will's crazy ideas too much..." she chuckles.
"I guess this all is just too new still. All of it." she throws a quick smile Will's way.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:10 am**

Will nodded back. "Still, I suppose I COULD get used to it," he said with a smile.

"And don't worry. Ryan's the common sense on our squad," he said, sagely.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:17 am**

"Ryan's from a family of superheroes. He's been in this 'business' even longer than I have. I think he probably knows what he's doing more than anyone else on the teams."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:37 am**

"Yeah, you're right. That's definately better than who apparently seized team leadership for our squad..."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:49 am**

"Hrm? I thought John was the leader, or you, or something..." Will asked, confused.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:51 am**

"John and me both kind of lead the last time, but I'm not too fuzzed about doing that again, to be honest. Constantine picked up that mantle at the meeting at least."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 5:56 am**

"Oh." Will said, flatly. "I worked with him before, during the attacks on Mutant Town.

Be prepared to take some initiative."

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2009 6:00 am**

"Well I dunno about his leadership skills. I just didn't like his attitude. Or Jayda's. If it was for them we'd be going in there loaded with guns, or that's the impression I got at least. The plan to hand Nina and Kaylee pistols only got abandoned because they're not licensed to wield them."

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