Building a family [hella open]

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

 Slobo had been puttering around the ship for an hour, thinking and looking. He quickly found that if you looked hard enough, between W&P and the City itself, you could find anything. In the end, he was standing outside a Courtyard by Marriott hotel about a click outside of "Escherville" with spraypaint and a very large block of stone. At first he had thought about the Vatican, but it was too wrecked from the zombie fight. Plus, this place had an indoor pool. He spraypainted a large message on the wall next to the door, red with black outline.

"OUTSIDERS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
FIELD TRAINING

PEER COUNSELING" 

 

On the sandwich board tucked near the door, he wrote "12-21? Info and Tryouts inside" and left it out in front. Now, he took his large rock into the lobby and began carving. And waited.
 

 

 

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[static-shock68.livejournal.com]

"I can't believe you're actually going through with this." Static said as he walked up, wiping some grease off his forehead. "I mean, it's not like people don't have enough to deal with already, we're gonna toss this in too?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Hey, man, we need to build some chemistry with our peeps if we're gonna live." Slobo said as he carved away. "Ya can't build a workin' V8 by jammin' a buncha gears and pistons together. And we need serious horsepower ta save the universe. This is just me making sure a good portion of us develop that chemistry." He sighed heavily.

"Hey, man, that green kid who saved our butts? What was his name?"

[crusades]

Batman impassively watches Slobo go about his business with the spray can for ten minutes before saying, "On a ship full of interdimenional refugees, what exactly do you consider an outsider?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Me. People who feel like me." He looked at Batman, almost respectfully. This WAS Batman, after all. "Even ta the people I know here, I ain't a part o' their lives anymore. I'm not cut out fer this paramilitary crew stuff... I'm an outsider." Slobo looked back at his work.

"Sorry about gankin' yer name, Bats. 'Titans' er 'Young Justice' just don't feel right anymore."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara, after talking to quite a few people, had taken to wander on her own again. It was a weird feeling: there were all these people on the ship she cared about and were a part of her, but she also felt a weird separation. She went over and over again the situation that had happened: Lex being cocky, but still saying he had information, them knocking him out and not showing a hint of feeling bad about it. What if that action had caused Brainiac 5 to die? Why did they have to chose, at that moment when it might be beneficial, to take out Lex and go on only what information he'd had. And now she was getting looks from Kon, and it made her angrier thinking about it. What was WITH some of these kinds of heroes anyway? They reminded her vaguely of what Julian had been talking about: those Avengers that got out of control. Why were people getting angry at her when she actually TRIED to show understanding, the kind she hadn't shown to the Yeerk?

Paco's arm. Jaime's face. We could have died.

But that was being dictated by personal feelings. She could see that Lex was more concerned if they would even be able to stand against the pirate threat. But everyone had prejudged him. Mai had called him another Azula...and that bothered her too. She wished she could have unseen Azula's tears, that look in her eyes: more than anything, it was unfair, to see someone who could have been like her corrupted and then taken apart. She wanted to help her enemy at that moment and she knew that feeling ,made no sense.

Still...

And then she came upon the building. This was...odd. What was happening here?

She walked in, and was immediately put at ease. "Slobo! Static! Hey guys! What are you up to?"

[static-shock68.livejournal.com]

Static whipped around at the sound of her voice, grinning. "Hey Kat! We're putting together a new team. Guess what? You're in."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"The Outsiders?"

Mai's monotone broke the quiet, the young woman leaning in the doorway, "What is this, some kind of club?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Ya could call it that. We're a team. Like, if something goes down on ship, security needs help, we'll have trained tagether, hung out, and be more 'an prepared." He grinned.

"And we got a pool."

[starlightace]

It was maybe hard to admit - who knew something so simple could be so cathartic? - but having her flight back helped ease Nanoha's mind, particularly after such a hard-hitting reveal. (Nor did it hurt to be out of GLaDOS' labyrinths)

So the mage found herself flying through Stacy's corridors and the city, just trying to clear her mind and clear her thoughts about the people that weren't there with her... as far as she knew. Nanoha wouldn't have noticed Slobo's sign if she hadn't been looking directly at the hotel by a matter of chance, but it caught her eye.

She flew downward, touching to the ground, and the magenta wings on her heels vanished. Her gaze went to the sign, then to the open doors of the lobby... then back to the sign and once more back to the lobby. The services rendered seemed fairly par for the course, but it was the name that struck her more than anything.

So, she cautiously peeked inside to see a boy that looked unfamiliar working on a large block of stone. "Ah... hello? Are you the one who wrote the sign here?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's me." His response was punctuated by a piece of granite flying from his soon to be B5 tribute.

"How can i help ya?"

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

Roxie had been wandering, as she does, when she came across Slobo's new display.

"What's this about?" she asks quietly as she walks inside.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Heya." Slobo said, turning from the statue. "We're... uh... formin' a team. Slash support group." He suddenly felt very lame, having seen what Roxie can do on her own. This might have been how Aquaman felt looking at Batman and Superman and saying "we should hang out."

"Yanno, not all of us want to be on the crew, but we want ta still help in the mission, and keep things nice and safelike on the ship. That's what we're doin'."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

Sokka wandered quietly into the hotel lobby. He'd devested himself of his armor and so forth, but had felt it prudent to keep his weapons with him. So he had his space sword (as always) along with Boomerang and his now treasured shotgun. And of course, those ridiculous aviator sunglasses.

"What're the Outsiders?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"I ain't military, I ain't comfortable with bein' crew, but I ain't bailin' on savin the universe either. Tryin' ta just stick people together and make workin' teams ain't seeming to get anything good done. So, we're starting a team, and letting people show up and CHOOSE ta be on it." Slobo was running out of speeches. Thank GOD he had Static as verbal backup.

[actuallyahero.livejournal.com]

It was pure curiosity. He saw the spray paint and with the rather vague description, he finally just came to check it out. It certainly couldn't hurt, right?

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo looked over at the ... elf?... entering the lobby.

"Uh... yo. Can I help ya?"

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

Sheeana surveyed the rickety construction. She did not like the direction the crew's dynamics had been heading in ever since the confrontation with Luthor. There were signs of dangerous splinterings, attitudinal faults. This might have been a sympton, a reaction to them.

Already the lines are being drawn.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo, apparently the greeting service, saw Sheeana and waved.

"Heya, Bright Eyes. Nice digs, huh?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

The sign outside is... intriguing. "Tryouts for what, exactly?" Hunter asks as he enters the lobby warily.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo looked up.

"The team. See, we got a mission statement. Since bad blood in an evergrowin' crew is a problem that can, and apparently has, lead to huge fights, we stay outta the petty problems and train so if security an' command need sudden, objective backup, they can call us." He was getting used to this shpiel, it was almost becoming programmed.

"If ya do a tryout, and don't make the field team, ya can still hang out. We have a pool, and we're lookin' at gettin' video games. And we're gonna offer trainin' to folks who need it once we're all set up."

[thekohakuriver.livejournal.com]

Haku had perched on the roof earlier, dragon-formed and curled into. This place...was confusing. He still didn't know what was going on, and hadn't had the opportunity to learn more that what Stacy had announced.

And even that was too much to think about.

So, he unbent his head at the whiff of poisonous air coming off Slobo's attempts at decor and dangled it's entire length over the side to watch him work. Fascinating, the ways humans mark things...the dragon lifted on his haunches like a cat and barked a low greeting down at the boy.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo looked up at the dragon.

"Yo. How can I help ya?" Slobo said nonchalantly.

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

Outsiders, that about summed her up these days. Actually that summed her up way before these days.. Yeah and dwelling on the craptastic hand life had dealt her in the past was really going to do her so much good. Whatever, looks like round two on the freak ship was underway, only Rose felt a little bit darker, little less the social creature she had been last time around. Not that there could be all that much said for her last time she walked the meat ship.

Still she dropped her bags with a heavy thud and metallic clanging in the lobby of the hotel. "Nice digs, wonder if they still have room service." A single sapphire eye wandered around the confines of the place and a smile bloomed slowly across her lips.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Not yet..." Slobo said without looking away from his work-in-progress statue. "Not sure how ta hire a waitstaff without cash." He looked over and saw Rose, then proceeded to get up quickly.

"What I meanta say was, hi there. Welcome ta the Outsiders."

The Pool Is Now Open!!! (Nudity ahead)

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

The doors weren't chained, so all that held them shut was a single lock, not even a dead bolt. One well placed kick sent the doors open wide and let Rose look at the most invitingly lavish pool (http://www.kingsleyhotel.com/uploads/images/PhotoGallery/Indoor-Pool.jpg) she'd seen.

"Now this is all kinds of ok." She grinned broadly and dropped her bag and began shucking her way out of the form fitted plant suit Stacy was kind enough to tentacle her up in again. Once the living suit was pealed from her body she dipped a toe in the water. True to Slobo's word it was warm and crystal clear.

"Cannonball!" With a running start she launched herself into the air, curling her knees to her chest as her nude form flew through the air, landing in a ball and deluging water out around her.

Re: The Pool Is Now Open!!! (Nudity ahead)

[static-shock68.livejournal.com]

There are many disadvantages to settinjg up shop in an abducted hotel on a ship made of various forms of meat (do you want to be the one to identify them? I sure don't), but there were also some nice, subtle advantages.

This was the line of thought that found it's way into Static's head as he went down the hallway to try out the first batch of master keycards that should unlock the pool, only to find the door already opened. And the pool occupied.

"Rose?"

[is-the-ultimate.livejournal.com]

Just how big was this ship anyway?!

That's the one thought that ran through Shadow's mind as he raced across the ship. As he did, he ended up discovering the hotel and the sign.

"Outsiders? Com--" Shadow began before stopping. "Just what in the heck IS this?! It sounds like some sort of... oh, I don't know...!"

He couldn't get the words out right, but he's probably thinking of those community help center things.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo was officially thrown, for the first time today.

Dragons? Sure. Healers? No prob. Deadly knife chicks? Awesome.

But a talking anthropromorphic hedgehog? You HAD to be kidding him.

Still, beggars can't be choosers.

"Uh, 'Sup... Guy?"

[redeyes_andblue]

Sheik is, well, lurking again, leaning against a nearby wall and eyeing the sign warily. Outsiders, hmm? Well, you didn't get much more of an outsider than him.

Alright, fine, he'll bite. And if it turns out badly, well, it's a big ship and he can easily run away and hide avoid them.

He finds Slobo pretty much immediately, still staying a distance away. "What's this about?" he asks, tone carefully neutral.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo looked up casually.

"Well, we live tagether, train tagether, and stay the frag outta the bickering of the crew in the interest of solid teamwork, friendship, and most importantly, getting sprock DONE." That was the easiest way to say it, in the end.

"I can be more wordy and lengthy if ya'd like."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

It sounded like a group. An odd sort of group, but...well, she had been intrigued.

So she decided to check it out. She walked inside, looking around the building. It was certainly nicer to be in a building that didn't look alive, she had to admit.

[static-shock68.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Welcome to Outsiders Palace." Static said, leaning against the wall next to what he had deemed his office, with yet another cup of coffee. "Thinking of joining, or just came to look around?"