Meet'n Greet Part Deux

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

Obs Deck usually had the most people at any given time. It was a large comfortable room, and it had places to sit.

This was where Leela led Kurt.

"Looks like we got some new people other'n you," she said, gesturing with her thumb towards a floating boy with a leather jacket that was mingling with other people nearby. Looked like there were a few others, too.

"You wanna meet the bosslady first or just everybody?"

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[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

"My best friend has alien tech making sweet buggy love to his spine," Paco said with a grin. "If I wasn't into all the costume stuff before, that would have changed my mind. Someone's gotta watch his back."

[blue-fuzzy-dude.livejournal.com]

"That sounds.. special." What else was Kurt supposed to offer? It sounded like his buddy had one hell of a parasite. He rubbed the back of his neck, absently.

"I bet he is glad to have you." They did sound close, despite Paco's crude explanation of it.

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"'Sweet buggy love'?"

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

"The love that dare not chitter its name," Paco explained, grinning. "Khaji's pretty awesome. He and Jaime are partners in the super hero business, I'm the sidekick. It's my job to drive the Beetlemobile and make sure that Jaime doesn't fry his brain with too many responsibilities."

[blue-fuzzy-dude.livejournal.com]

"So is his super-weakness a can of pesticide?" Kurt already felt sorry for Paco's friend, and he hadn't even met the kid. He was possibly imagining the completely wrong thing; despite Leela saying the guy didn't have a bug-face, he was starting to imagine something pretty grotesque. His imagination was running away with him.

"Huh. The car is a Volkswagen, ja?" Kurt had always felt pretty privileged to be behind the wheel (or stick) of any of the gadgets the X-men got to play with, but if it came down to ferrying a bug-person around, it might not be that much fun. A grin, then. "You have to relax after a long day of saving the world."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"If you have an actual VW Beetle as the superhero car, I'ma laugh my ass off, I promise you. I'm imagining a little jet on the back like the Batmobile..."

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

"Nahh, the Blue Beetle's super-weakness is that Jaime and Khaji disagree on whether or not they should kill the other guy," Paco said. What, it was true. Jaime freely admitted it. Also, it wasn't dangerous to Jaime to spread around.

"And no, no, and no," he said, waggling a finger. "The Beetlemobile is a very sexy cherry-red T-bird convertible that Jaime and me fixed up. Yeah it doesn't go with the 'blue beetle' theme, but we were working on that before he got his special bug-hug, and the paint-job was fantastic -- hell, it only needed a few touch-ups after the big fire-fight with the Reach."

Quick, stop him before he never shuts up about his car.

[blue-fuzzy-dude.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Well, an insect mind was probably very survivalistabout the whole thing; a big bad couldn't kill you if he was dead. It made sense, as far as horrible bug symbiotes made sense. As in, it made Kurt's head sort of hurt. "Well, there is always another way." Though that was perhaps preaching to the choir.

"Really?" Alright, it was a teenaged-boy thing, but shiny red cars generally made the eyes light up, and despite all the fuzz, well, Kurt was pretty typical. "There is no need to constantly advertise a theme, so why not?" He sagged for a moment. "I never did get my own car, though Scott would let me drive his once in a while." Then again, Scott had a freakin' Cobra. It was ridiculous, really.

Leela probably wanted to strangle them both by then.

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

Yes she did.

"Where I came from didn't even have any goddamn cars," she grumbled.

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

"Jaime's teaching him that," Paco said, before returning to the far more interesting topic of cars. "Get a job in a garage, seriously. Best job ever, especially for getting your hands on awesome cars that are just too broken-down for most people to want to bother with."

Sorry Leela, male-bonding car-talk time. At least Kurt had a new friend?

[blue-fuzzy-dude.livejournal.com]

"Well, that is good. That this Khaji listens, at any rate." Maybe Kurt wouldn't have to go around, cramming his ideals in everyone's face.

Him? At a garage? For a moment, Kurt entertained the idea in his mind's eye. "Unfortunately, I am not, uh, very handy. That does sound like fun, though." Then again, he was an acrobat, for Pete's sake. Most kids daydreamed about running away to the circus at least once.

Kurt then grinned sheepishly at Leela. "Ah, sorry." He did look contrite, though. "What a real pity. Did you at least get a chariot or.. something?"

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Wasn't ancient Rome or nothing. I had a donkey, a horse at one point, and this weird thingy that's like some sort of mix between a bat and a camel. And my feet. Mostly my feet. I ain't even seen a car in years."

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

"You had a bat-camel?" Paco asked, trying to imagine what that might look like. "I'm not sure if that's awesome or just creepy. How did you go from cars to bat-camels?"

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Interdimensional portal doohickey. Came from a normal world with McDonald's and monster trucks, wound up in a place like out of a cheap fantasy paperback."