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xp_logsMaya, Rahne, Xavin, and Stephen also realize that their friends are no were to be found and realize they aren't exactly in the same world.
Slowly Stephen levered himself up off the floor he'd collapsed onto mere moments earlier.The teenager's shoulder's heaved as he sucked in breath after breath, his eyes closed as he waited for the adrenaline, for the sheer terror of the moment to pass as he reached up with a shaky hand to scrub at his face, pushing his hair up in a nervous gesture. "Well, that wasn't terrifying at all. I dunno about you guys but I think I've decided, bears are a lot bigger and scarier than I thought, that really wasn't Yogi at all." Taking another breath he forced himself into a sitting position, dark eyes flicking over his friends, "Everyone ok?"
"No. They're gone." Maya had been looking around as Stephen had been getting back off the floor and what she'd noticed didn't just have to do with the fact the entire building felt even worse than what she'd been feeling all day. When she'd looked around to make sure the others were still with them, she'd realized that Clea, Nica and Miles were gone. She just...she coudn't deal with this. They needed to get out of here and bring in the adults as quickly as they could but as she fished her Xavier phone out of her pocket, she saw there was no signal at all. "Please tell me one of you has a signal right now."
Xavin shook their head. "No, there's nothing." One hand rubbed eyes and the other tapped at a phone screen over and over as though that would change things. "There's no signal. Nothing..."
Rahne was sitting on the school floor as well with her head in her hands because if they didn't hold something, she didn't think she could stop them from shaking. Something was wrong and she had an inkling of what that might be - not why but what. Because she'd spent too long being shunted to 'other places' for her powers to let her relax anymore. After a moment, she dropped her hands and got back to her feet.
Her face was a mix of anger and terror as she made her way to the nearest door. Taking a deep breath, she threw it open and stared at the world around them. The sky was a deep purple color, there was an upside down tree in the distance and cars in the parking lot were twisted metal sculptures.
"Fuck!" she spat, quietly. And she kicked the door, just for good measure.
The young girl's attack on the door caught Stephen's attention, holding it for a moment but it couldn't contend with the sight of the landscape behind her. "You know, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...Where the hell are we now?" Stepping up next to Rahne the young mage took a tentative step outside the school, and then another, jumping up and down on the ground, "It seems solid at least."
“The fact that you just stepped into a completely foreign place without even checking that the air was breathable is possibly the most boneheaded thing I’ve ever seen.” Maya had backed away as soon as she saw what was outside the door. She’d seen this episode of Star Trek, but at least she wasn’t wearing a red shirt at the moment. “Can you get back in here, please? Before I have a heart attack.”
Stephen gave one last glance around the ground of the school before he stepped back letting the door swing shut behind him. "You know these aren't airtight right? If it was poisonous or unbreathable we'd already be dead. So aside from the giant bear thing we're pretty safe, at least there doesn't appear to be any immediate danger," he reassured his friend. "Looks like wherever this is it's some kind of representation of earth, just viewed through a weird lense."
"A ... what?" Rahne asked, trying to regain her composure. "Does that mean we're still on earth or that we've been taken someplace that looks like earth?"
In the distance the sounds of the bear echoed down the halls followed the sounds of what appeared to be their missing friends.
Xavin nodded. "A place that looks like earth. But it's not..." The horizon curled up around them, skeletal trees reaching in with branches like clawed hands and the sky was wrong. Wrong in a way that couldn't be described. "Do you think it's Limbo?" If it was Limbo, they were ...probably going to die. "I think we should go back inside. That's how we got here and things are ... things are changing all the time here and if this is Limbo, there are demons and I'd like to be indoors when they attack us, because it's probably safer."
“I don’t think it matters.” Maya had hit the wall already and was headed away from the open door, unwilling to completely leave the safety of the group but unwilling to stay near the door to the open ‘otherness’ beyond. The building might feel hostile and unwelcoming but it at least had walls, a roof, a floor and lockable doors. “Does anyone know if there’s a defensible place in here? Somewhere with smaller windows?”
The hallways would simply become killing chutes for the bear if they stayed in them, they needed to find somewhere else, a room, or a place where it was at a disadvantage.
"We're at a school. Ye literally just described half of the rooms in the school." Honestly, Rahne didn't mean to get snippy but she was tired and exhausted - they were not the X-Men and they were really unprepared again for what they were facing. Scrubbing at her face, she tried to think. "One of the science classrooms, maybe?"
"A science classroom might be good," Stephen agreed, "there's bound to be something in there we can use as a weapon if it come in, or you know, all the bunsen burners and tables might make it kinda like an obstacle course for the bear. That's some kinda advantage for us right?"
"It's not an episode of Teen Wolf!" Xavin snapped before pausing. "But... actually, yeah. The supply closets all used to have ethanol in them. Let's go!"
Slowly Stephen levered himself up off the floor he'd collapsed onto mere moments earlier.The teenager's shoulder's heaved as he sucked in breath after breath, his eyes closed as he waited for the adrenaline, for the sheer terror of the moment to pass as he reached up with a shaky hand to scrub at his face, pushing his hair up in a nervous gesture. "Well, that wasn't terrifying at all. I dunno about you guys but I think I've decided, bears are a lot bigger and scarier than I thought, that really wasn't Yogi at all." Taking another breath he forced himself into a sitting position, dark eyes flicking over his friends, "Everyone ok?"
"No. They're gone." Maya had been looking around as Stephen had been getting back off the floor and what she'd noticed didn't just have to do with the fact the entire building felt even worse than what she'd been feeling all day. When she'd looked around to make sure the others were still with them, she'd realized that Clea, Nica and Miles were gone. She just...she coudn't deal with this. They needed to get out of here and bring in the adults as quickly as they could but as she fished her Xavier phone out of her pocket, she saw there was no signal at all. "Please tell me one of you has a signal right now."
Xavin shook their head. "No, there's nothing." One hand rubbed eyes and the other tapped at a phone screen over and over as though that would change things. "There's no signal. Nothing..."
Rahne was sitting on the school floor as well with her head in her hands because if they didn't hold something, she didn't think she could stop them from shaking. Something was wrong and she had an inkling of what that might be - not why but what. Because she'd spent too long being shunted to 'other places' for her powers to let her relax anymore. After a moment, she dropped her hands and got back to her feet.
Her face was a mix of anger and terror as she made her way to the nearest door. Taking a deep breath, she threw it open and stared at the world around them. The sky was a deep purple color, there was an upside down tree in the distance and cars in the parking lot were twisted metal sculptures.
"Fuck!" she spat, quietly. And she kicked the door, just for good measure.
The young girl's attack on the door caught Stephen's attention, holding it for a moment but it couldn't contend with the sight of the landscape behind her. "You know, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...Where the hell are we now?" Stepping up next to Rahne the young mage took a tentative step outside the school, and then another, jumping up and down on the ground, "It seems solid at least."
“The fact that you just stepped into a completely foreign place without even checking that the air was breathable is possibly the most boneheaded thing I’ve ever seen.” Maya had backed away as soon as she saw what was outside the door. She’d seen this episode of Star Trek, but at least she wasn’t wearing a red shirt at the moment. “Can you get back in here, please? Before I have a heart attack.”
Stephen gave one last glance around the ground of the school before he stepped back letting the door swing shut behind him. "You know these aren't airtight right? If it was poisonous or unbreathable we'd already be dead. So aside from the giant bear thing we're pretty safe, at least there doesn't appear to be any immediate danger," he reassured his friend. "Looks like wherever this is it's some kind of representation of earth, just viewed through a weird lense."
"A ... what?" Rahne asked, trying to regain her composure. "Does that mean we're still on earth or that we've been taken someplace that looks like earth?"
In the distance the sounds of the bear echoed down the halls followed the sounds of what appeared to be their missing friends.
Xavin nodded. "A place that looks like earth. But it's not..." The horizon curled up around them, skeletal trees reaching in with branches like clawed hands and the sky was wrong. Wrong in a way that couldn't be described. "Do you think it's Limbo?" If it was Limbo, they were ...probably going to die. "I think we should go back inside. That's how we got here and things are ... things are changing all the time here and if this is Limbo, there are demons and I'd like to be indoors when they attack us, because it's probably safer."
“I don’t think it matters.” Maya had hit the wall already and was headed away from the open door, unwilling to completely leave the safety of the group but unwilling to stay near the door to the open ‘otherness’ beyond. The building might feel hostile and unwelcoming but it at least had walls, a roof, a floor and lockable doors. “Does anyone know if there’s a defensible place in here? Somewhere with smaller windows?”
The hallways would simply become killing chutes for the bear if they stayed in them, they needed to find somewhere else, a room, or a place where it was at a disadvantage.
"We're at a school. Ye literally just described half of the rooms in the school." Honestly, Rahne didn't mean to get snippy but she was tired and exhausted - they were not the X-Men and they were really unprepared again for what they were facing. Scrubbing at her face, she tried to think. "One of the science classrooms, maybe?"
"A science classroom might be good," Stephen agreed, "there's bound to be something in there we can use as a weapon if it come in, or you know, all the bunsen burners and tables might make it kinda like an obstacle course for the bear. That's some kinda advantage for us right?"
"It's not an episode of Teen Wolf!" Xavin snapped before pausing. "But... actually, yeah. The supply closets all used to have ethanol in them. Let's go!"
