776/Teddy-Boy Came Out With No Legs

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Teddy-Boy Came Out With No Legs
Date of Scene: 26 March 2020
Location: Training Gym
Synopsis: And in their place, two wooden pegs
Cast of Characters: Negasonic, Douglas Ramsey




Negasonic has posed:
Ellie walks into the Gym because she was told to, apparently physical fitness was a big deal, but she was in no mood for exercise or training or any of that. So she was still dressed in her own outfit, rather than gym clothes, and she looked anything but ready to exercise. Instead of heading to any machine, she walks over to the benches set along the wall to rest, and sits down. Hand reaching out to the pocket of her coat, as she pulls out a phone and starts zooming her thumb about it.

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
    Doug Ramsey is -- dancing.

There is a holographic projection of a tall, elegant African-American woman giving footwork instructions and stopping him when he makes a misstep. It looks like he's dancing a jig -- something with a lot of complicated footwork. Doug trips over himself, and the hologram chides him.

"Doug, we've been over this, you need to know where to put your feet on the mark, that's the whole point of dancing the hornpipe--"
    Doug rubs the back of his neck and says, "Even as a hologram you're a slave-driver, Stevie."
    "Watch your mouth."
    Then Doug looks up and holds his hand up. "...Pause hologram." He exhales, and straightens up, before he rubs the back of his neck with his techno-organic hand. "...Ellie, right? Hi."

Negasonic has posed:
"Why the fuck would you dance the hornpipe...? Sounds lame," Ellie remarks without anyone ever having asked for her opinion. She looks up when Doug addresses her, somewhat surprised he knew her name, "that's me...what's up? If it's about the hornpipe, I don't do that. Ellie don't dance."

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
    "Oh." Doug says, as he slings his towel around his shoulders. "...Footwork. Mostly. Dancing is... well it's all about being flexible, right? And being able to move in synchronicity with another person. Ergo, if you have to function as a team... you dance. That's what Stevie Hunter--" He gestures to the hologram, "...Drummed into us. Did you need the gym?"

Negasonic has posed:
"Maybe..." Ellie remarks while sounding very much like someone with zero interest in dancing. "I was told it's mandatory, so I'm here, but I'm not going to do anything with it. I'm not an athlete, it's not for me." She pauses a moment, and then asks, "are you an AP English student or something? You use crazy language, like a teacher almost.""

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
"Oh, that's just my super-power." Doug says, before he shrugs, once, "I would if they asked me, but I make myself useful in other ways, like carrying boxes or trouble-shooting computers..." Or going back to Genosha to help Mystique rip a hard drive out of a Wild Sentinel. Doug tilts his head at Ellie and then says, "I'm what you'd call a specialized hypercognative. Enhanced brain function, particularly in the area of pattern recognition and response... which is the root of all language. You're a Nucleokinetic, right? You make controlled atomic reactions? That's amazing."

Negasonic has posed:
"So you got powers...?" Ellie asks Doug, looking a bit more interested, "what exactly is it?" She honestly thinks he was joking about the language bit. "So...you got an English name for whatever the fuck you are? Something I can understand?"

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
    "...I can speak any language." Doug says, somewhat sheepishly. "It comes in handy in the WEIRDEST places and the strangest ways." He stands there, and then says, "...I was in Genosha, too. I haven't talked about it much, and the others haven't asked me much about it."

Negasonic has posed:
"Oh," that explanation seems to sit far better with Ellie, who finally gets what Doug was trying to say before, "so you're like a walking language dictionary?" She puts it in even simpler terms. "That sounds useful. All I do is make stuff explode." She actually looks interested once Doug mentions he was in Genosha, "I got pulled out by the X-Men, otherwise I'd be dead in the debris. So...it's cool someone else can understand, I had people offer pity, but it just pissed me off."

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
Doug sighs, and his head dips a bit. "Yeah. It's kind of like that." Then he mutters, "A few years ago I would've given a lot for the power to make things explode." He walks around the hologram, and says, "It's good... but she's not anywhere near as merciless as the real deal was. She's in Congress now." Then he glances up. "You're not the sort of person who wants to be pitied, no. Believe me, I get that." He grabs a water bottle and sits on the bleachers. "Between you and I? I didn't plan on coming back here. I had a life there. I had friends." He takes a pull off his water bottle. "...They're all gone now."

Negasonic has posed:
Ellie looks at Doug with an intense look that somehow gives the sense she's constantly judging him as he speaks to her. "How does a dance instructor wind up in Congress?" Ellie asks, looking all confused, before pointedly asking, "how you know I don't like being pitied, because I said so?" It's a bit testy, but just looking at Ellie, she's likely someone who enjoys making people uncomfortable. "Genosha was my home, it was the worst place on Earth, but Magneto saved us all and made it a paradise. He's the greatest mutant that ever lived."

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
Doug rests his elbows on his knees. "Well. The same way anyone else does." Doug says, "They convince enough people that they should be there." Then he snorts, and he says, "A lucky guess. ...I knew him, you know? He was my teacher, here, for awhile. On one hand, I wish I had listened to him a little bit more? But at the same time..." His gaze flicks up, his blue eyes gone icy, "If and when - and I'm going to say when - he resurfaces, I want you to remember something about Magneto, Ellie. ...How do I put it. Whatever his intentions might be, whatever explanations he gives, Magneto's the one giving orders, and you'll be the one expected to take them. That's why everything he builds falls apart when he's not there--because he can't countenance anyone but him determining the future."

He looks around the gym, and looks like he wants to say something else, but then he exhales. "...And yet here I am."

Negasonic has posed:
"Feh, I could do all the convincing in the world, I'll never be there," Ellie remarks as if it somehow is relevant to the point Doug made. But her expression darkens when Doug makes the point about Magneto, "you know what? Humans, not Magneto, were telling me what to do, how to do, and they also made sure I can't refuse them...he was the one that released me, and Genosha fell apart because humans couldn't stand free mutants. So they brought a fucking holocaust on us, ok? I bet Magneto did what he could to stop it, I hope you're right and he's still alive, because he deserves nothing but the best. I'll gladly use my abilities to support him, given the chance, he gave me my life!" Anger and angst taken to 11, Ellie gets up and stomps her way out of the Gym, her combat boots making for much louder steps then her slight frame might otherwise suggest.

Douglas Ramsey has posed:
Doug doesn't interject or argue -- he just watches her go, and then looks over at Stevie. "...She reminds me a lot of me, Stevie. Well. With more piercings, I mean."