9901/Post Mortem Discussion

Post Mortem Discussion
Date of Scene:	30 January 2022
Location:	Recreation Room
Synopsis:	Tabitha catches up with Noriko wandering around for snacks the night after the vampire attack on Xavier's. Noriko helps fill Tabby in but gets miffed about some of the things that come out of Tabitha's mouth.
Cast of Characters:	Noriko Ashida, Tabitha Smith

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Noriko Ashida has posed:
A dreadful unease has settled over the mansion, to say the least.  There were lots of rumors that started early last night when the alarms went off and teachers shuttled all of the students and people defending them down to the sub-levels to the Danger Room to take shelter.  Some were inside, vital to getting the students out should things go south outside, and when they emerged, it was impossible to hide the piles of corpse and ash littering the grounds outside.

And there are whispers about what happened to Bobby Drake.  It's been 24 hours...so few since the attackers were fended off and no doubt plans have been put into motion to shore up defenses.

Noriko, one of the students who was caught up in the battle, haunts the snack table wearing an oversized Xavier's sweatshirt and a pair of short cotton shorts, as well as her socks.  That's about it though.  Well that and she's got a car battery that she's tugging around on a wagon by the lead.  On the sides of it is two worse-for-wear sticky notes that say, "DO NOT TOUCH!" and "PROPERTY OF NORI."  The speedster has gotten more than a few stares and quiet murmurs.  She looks wan and isn't buzzing around.

The word is, vampires and zombies attacked the school, but why?!

Tabitha Smith has posed:
Tabby might have been on the side of spacy the last few weeks, months. Her chotic nature that is totally undiagnosed ADHD and PTSD among other things. But she seems to be back and even in the mansion.

At least for now a lot of the more blatantly trashy style has been switch up. she could still be descibed as Trash but now she's added kind of a biker vibe in her look. Way too tight bluejeans a syunthetic leather Bomber Syled Bolero. Even has an explosion with BOOM! in cartoon lettering embroidered on the back. A heavily cropped and cut up gray X-Men training hoodie, minus the hood to show as much collarbone as she does her abs. Black combat boots with lime green laces and a stufded synthetic leather belt with the buckle shaoed like the standard X-Emblem on most of everyone's uniforms slings low on an athletically curved hip from the one loop in her jeans. Red frame and black lensed sunglasses sit on her nose.

Tabby started hearing shit about vampires and Bobby in the walk from her apartment to the mansion proper. "Nori hon? What the fuck did I miss. I heard zombies or vampires and combinations of. No werewolves of I'd have been wondering about Rahne. But yeah. Folks are like super wigged and not in a way even I do some times." she lookks about with actual concvern. "So like spill. You okay. Bobby okay? Jubilee Okay? Everone OKAY?" she asks as she looks pretty stumped instead of just pretty.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko looks sidelong at Tabitha, just staring dully as she slowly (certainly for anyone and not just the speedster) opens a bag of chips, struggling with the bag a little with those gauntlets.  She even drops the bag and takes her time to fish it up from the ground, rising and putting a chip in her mouth after she thinks Tabitha might have finished.

"Oh.  I don't know.  I haven't visited him yet.  I've been recharging slowly.  Did you go to some kind of backwoods biker spa or something?"  It lacks any of the speedster's usual edge that she uses by default with most people.  "Jubes is okay.  I think I got zapped of my electricity.  I don't know what happened.  I just hit this invisible barrier and it felt like everything went dark and slow.  I think it has something to do with something Jubes was reading.  They said they were looking for us or wanted to take us or something?  I don't know.  They had Jubes' library card.  Pretty sure they didn't even know we were two different people.  But then," Noriko smirks.  "One of our new guests fried one of their asses," she says a little more quietly, "with her /eyes/.  It was crazy.  She was just a pile of ash."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
The struggle with the chips gets tabby taking the bag when it next drops and the girl just goes to a cupboard, and pulls out a bowl. The bag is upended into it and soon brought back to Noriko to more easily nom on stuff without risk of mess, "There. easier!" she states and smiles.

"Umm, kinda went for some self introcpective shopping. It's a thing after I gave Jim back his ring," she explains.

"Anyway, wow. So like maybe if you'rev recharging and poweree down you should enjoy it and ditch the gauntlets for a while. So you might make my hair stand on end..." Tabby's wilder short mane looking pretty close to having hugged Nori already. "Sometimes the break is good for you. But yeah aghain wow. Eye blasts? I mean we seen that a million times but vaporisied? That's new. I mean even I can't do that. Decapitation maybe don't ask how I might know that." Tabby has been through a lot but vampires and maybe a war is new to her. "Anyway, You're X-Mans Nori, You and Jubes. We ain't letting them have you!. They sound like shitty dates!"

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko actually sighs when Tabitha helps her out, begrudgingly accepting it and the chip bowl. "Got it.  Well, I'm sure you'll get tons of compliments," which is a compliment coming from the girl if anything.  "Eh.  Then I might take in too much power too quickly.  I've been slow napping like everyone else," sleeping like everyone else? "which is kind of nice in a way, like being in an infinite dream.  Plus I'm clumsy without them...and I've already mastered that with the gauntlets," she says with a little laugh before three chips disappear in blurred succession.  "Ha.  No.  We're just the bait.  Unless someone gave me a hideous costume when I wasn't looking.  I won't be fighting in a bikini again though if I can help it-Yeah..." Noriko's mind goes back to the decapitation think, her eyes flitting back to Tabitha as she thinks about not asking about it. "...shitty dates? If anyone even thinks about touching Jubes I'll give them a Viking funeral." CRUNCH. A chip is devoured.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
Tabby grins as she watches Nori get extra protective. "Having fought in bikinis. Yes, that is awful." she agrees and chuckles as she leans against the back of a nearby couch to relax a bit, hands on hips. "I'm sure it'd look more like that old movien Highlander with the electricity flyinmg everywhere and stuff. And no way would I touch Jubes like that I'd make sure you were there and touch you both. She's got you as girlfriend? And I'd rather keep a couple together than spliit them apart. I'm Trash but I'm not mean." she states and smiles. "But in any case why I date or wish to date in numbers isn't the point. We got your backs. They started shit, Getting eyebeam vaped is their own dumbass fault. Shows they're villaisnand shit cause they act like instigating it isn't like blame catching."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"If /anyone/ touches Jubes," Noriko repeats darkly, but there's something beyond the fierce usual protectiveness of the girl, a warning behind her eyes.  "I've never known Jubes to be good at sharing."  The thought actually brings a little smirk to the girl's lips.  "I don't know who started what.  They were just rolling up to the school and shit happened, so who knows.  Besides who started it, we totally destroyed one of the smart ones and they hadn't done anything to Bobby or us yet like that."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"There's no question. You break into our home. They start shit. They get eyebeamed to poofy dust in the wind. We end shit. Only the starter is at fault and it is not you Jubilee or anyone here." Tabitha explains in as best an attempt at reassuring and badass as the wanna be biker lookiing chick can manage. "They just can't handle losing. Cut and dry shit Nori. They bad guys, we beat the bad guys. Like fuck their shit up royally!" she encourages. "I'll have some bombs ready for next time. Assuming I don't sleep through it again. Nowe that's some dead girl shit right there!" she jokes and makes a hands together sleeping gesture. And fake snores.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"They didn't break in.  They just came out of the forest," Noriko mutters quickly as if getting the record straight for the kids who have definitely been eavesdropping and those with superhearing.  "I just said...I don't know who started it.  I mean I think Jubes stole their book.  Maybe it was a holy book or something," she says as if trying to work out her thoughts when Tabitha takes a breath between getting worked up.

Noriko quiets herself by shoving more chips in her mouth as Tabitha continues to rev up until Tabitha says something about 'dead girl shit.'  There's a beat of fake snoring before Noriko's gauntlet is suddenly darting for the closest scruff of clothing on Tabitha she might be able to snatch.  It becomes painfully obvious how vulnerable she is by how easily Tabitha can dodge her grip which is naturally buzzy and uncomfortably charged as electricity pools in her eyes like a gathering storm.  "Don't ever talk about dead girls," she growls even as she moves, not like some controlled threat.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Nori babe! They came here we don't want them here. That's starting shit." she reminds, But when they outburst comes and Nori tries to put hands on her she linda lets it get close enough to contact, Tabby's isn't a great fighter but she allso kinda gets that the comment earned an asskicking. "Sorry hon. Mouth gets away from me a bit to much. The zap dfrom the cotact does make Tabby twitch and shudder and roll one eye up in her head, "That's a new one!" she says and exhales like she got a punch.

"This isn't like on of those random culty texts like Fifty Shades right. scratch that the dark hold ios a better read than Fifty Shades. If she still has the book. It's probablky a good idea that she has it and not them. Keep your McGuffins where you can see them!"

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko takes a whole moment to release Tabby, which she does so with little warmth, but seeing the little independent roll of Tabby's eye causes Noriko to double-take at a velocity only detectable by the hitch in movement.  "No shit," the Japanese girl says with as much attitude as if she were homegrown in the States.  The streets certainly sped up her assimilation, of a sort.

"I don't know what the hell it is.  Just Jubes was reading some book.  I think the teachers have it now."  Noriko reaches up and rubs at the back of her neck, not minding the pinch of her gauntlets for once.  "Your bombs would have been useful though.  There were a lot of them."  The horde still swarms the images in her mind.  "I need to get another battery.  For some reason I'm not allowed to suck all the power I need off the power grid directly, something about the power company getting wind or taking out Westchester or something."  Which means Nori will just go and hang onto the live wire she's exposed in her bedroom over in the college quarters with Jubes.  She got to move over from the student dorms for their second semester.

"Just, don't blow up any vampire you see...we don't know what else is going to come out of the woodwork, and not everyone who isn't living is an enemy.  Maybe these awful bitches made some enemies we can leverage against them," Noriko practically thinks aloud as she swoops a whole bunch of snacks into her wagon.  Then she flashes one of her electrified peace signs over her shoulder, lightly crackling.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"I'll try not to. But I won't start shit. Finish it. Vampires don't need legs and stuff anyway so I figure anything but the head." Tabby sates and starts pondering the math of how much a vampire can lose before poof and an ashtray. The wagon is loaded up and Tabby smiles. "Get down to the gym and hook a charger up to a bike and make someone cycle. They get cardio you get charged. Win-win!" she says and looks for something high in sugar for her own snackage later on.

Heaven forbid she go back and raid her own fridge.