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Building a family [hella open]

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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Sheeana followed, intensely curious about this 'pool' facility.

When she rounded the corner, she stopped still in her tracks and gaped. You would think she was staring at the naked people.

You'd be wrong.

"Well it must be a miracle, the day Cass shuts up. I still don't like it though." She made her, Rose is unhappy face. Not unhappy to the point of beating someone, but she wasn't thrilled with being back under the leadership of that blond bimbette.

"Please tell me she is not part of this--" Slobo seemed to stagger in and she grinned again. Without ceremony he stripped down and jumped into the pool. Rose half turned and snickered. "He knows how to make an entrance I'll give him that." She nodded. "But do you think the hedgehog thing was because of the paint fumes?"

Static covered his eyes. "Chalky white wang... that is something I NEVER needed to see... no, she hasn't asked to join, but I wouldn't turn her away if she did, as long as she knew that A) this isn't her team, it's mine , and B) you were here first."

He finished rubbing his eyes, hoping the image wasn't burned into his retinas. There was a series of nightmares he REALLY didn't need. "Around here, though? It's only a 50/50 shot that he was hallucinating."

"Aww' c'mon, Static. Ain't like Compumom gave us swimsuits." He grinned at Rose, then noticing Sheeana staring at the pool. "It don't bite, Bright Eyes. join the party." Then he turned to Static.

"Wondy ain't on this team till she proves herself, V. That's my call. I got good reason."

Sheeana approached the pool with slow, hesitant steps. When she was close enough she sat on her heels and dipped two fingers into it experimentally. "Never have I seen so much...in one place..." The air was thick with the scent of it and she had to resist the Fremen urge to start lapping it up.

"See? This is why this team is perfect for me. Finally some one with enough," A smirking look into the water, "balls to stand up to the Amazon Barbie."

Rose pushed off from the wall and slid beneath the surface of the water, swimming the length of the pool and back to find new company joined them. "Seen so much what? Sparkling blue chemically treated goodness? Or nudity?"

"Hey, we're building the team on the idea that all are welcome here, that's all I'm saying. You guys have beefs with her, I'm cool with saying no. Well, I knew you had a beef with her, Rose, I mean, I've seen you two fight often enough... Oh, wait, that reminds me, this Cassie was pulled from before she ever met you! That means we get to make whole new problems with her." He chuckled a bit at the idea.

Static looked up at Sheeana. "You gonna be alright? The water's nice and warm, just don't drink it."

"All I'm sayin' is she starts on that morality crap and then goes nuts. Not a good fit here." It was that simple for Slobo. That and he hated being lectured. He turned his attention to Sheeana.

"Seriously, Bright Eyes, it's all good. We got a river god. It's the newest craze in pool upkeep."

Sheeana stood, numbed by this sight, and pulled her plantsuit off as if it were the most casual thing in the world. revealing a small frame, lithe with constant Prana-Bindu training.

She got down to her hands and knees again, face inches from the water. "You put chemicals in it?" Yes, now she could smell it. The structure was different from how water should smell. "Why would you ever do that?"

"I get the feeling my existing is reason enough for Cass to hate me." She waved it off and splashed Slobo playfully.

"More the merrier." She gestured Sheeana in, knowing her or not. "It's supposed to purify the water."

"The chemicals prevent algea and bacteria from growing, and keep the water clear. But, since we've got...what-was-his-name, the dragon, on our team, apparently he's purifying the water for us, since he's a river diety." Static got up slowly and walked behind Sheeana. "It really is nice, you know."

This was probably a bad idea, but sometimes, bad ideas are the most fun. So he pushed her forward, into the pool.

"River god trumps chlorine, really." Slobo said as he saw Static begin to push. This could not end well for anyone in the water. Luckily, Slobo was pretty used to electrical shock. Even if it came from the world's biggest toaster.

"POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!" There's a brown blur, then a massive splash as Sokka cannonballs into the water with a whoop of joy. This is just what he needs after all that pirate zombie crap!

Indeed it was. "Ghafla!" A shouted Fremen curse as she seized the offending limb, purely on instinct, and twisted in midair, coming down on Static. Had this been on land it would have resulted in a vicious impact, Sheeana's shoulder propelled by gravity and momentum into his sternum.

But here it was an abrupt conversion of both into flaily drowning people, first toaster-boy, then Fremen girl.

Shai-hulud help whoever jumped in the pool at that moment.

"Wait a sec...we have a river god..in here...now?" Rose glanced around, not seeing anything in the water. But she only had a moment to look before the new girl was tumbling in. Water splashed up over her head and Rose blocked herself with her hand.

Unfortunately she missed the second cannonballer. Soon Rose was awash in pool water and laughing hysterically. "If this place had booze, smokes and sex I'd be tempted to call it heaven."

Really bad plan. As he went down, Virgil (henceforth known as toaster-boy) tried to reach into his coat to grab his disk; he could use it to keep himself out of the water and avoid the shock to everyone.

Of course, his coat was hanging on a peg on the wall.

CRAAAP!

It was about all he thought as he hit the water, trying his best to hold in his power, not let any electricity seep out into the pool.

He failed.

It wasn't as bad as it could have been, not like a full burst of his power in a small pool, but the short wasn't tiny by any means. The room sparked for a minute as his powers shorted out, giving everyone in the pool a nasty shock, like ramping a car battery through your arms for a quick second. And then the plantsuit started the drink and expand.

A really stupid idea...

Toaster-boy flailed under the water for a few seconds, trying to untangle himself from Sheeana, before getting air and clinging onto the side of the pool. "Well, now we know what happens to plantsuits in a pool," he said, taking the now overly-loose garment off and tossing it on the side.

"Ya... ya SHOCKED me." Slobo looked a bit upset. "I mean... dude... Ya need ta learn ta hold it in. No girl likes a guy who discharges randomly whenever he gets wet."

It was then that Slobo burst into a wide grin.

BUUUUUUUUURN.

Katara had decided to stay around for a little while, and was making notes about the hotel where the Outsiders were going to mark their territory. She figured that getting people together had been Slobo and Static's job: she could at least try and see what more they could do to make the place the perfect hideout. In her mind, she definitely wanted to make her plans known to Sokka. He was good at providing layouts, even if his drawing skills left something to be desired. She could handle that though.

"Hey guys, I was wondering if..." Oh, what do you know, they have a pool. Oh, what do you know, they're all naked in the pool. Katara turned away quickly, turning red. She figured that she might not be wanted in this kind of surrounding after all: she was younger than they were.

Then sniffed the air and made a face, "What did you DO to the water? It smells funny."

Normally Sheeana would have been all over these double entendres, but she was immersed in something that simply would not respond to her will and feeling the shock run wild through her nervous system. It was in her mouth, nose and eyes. She shook it out as fast as she could, grabbed hold of the pool's lip and began hauling herself towards Static, muttering ironic threats about how she would take his water and spill it on the sands.

Might be a good idea to deploy the one ability he has over her in that situation: swimming.

Sokka yelped and jittered as the shock shot through him. Ow, ow, ow! That was not a good thing! He limply paddled towards the edge of the pool, hanging off of it with a groan.

"What hit me? Did someone get th' name of that mooselion?" He hung there, not really much use for anything at the moment.

"Uhhhhhnnngggg!" Rose's teeth chattered as the shock ran through her, legs refusing to work to let her heave her body out of the pool. As soon as she regained muscle control she flopped out of the pool and lay panting and gasping on the pool deck. Her body shaking...with laughter. Loud long peas of laughter making her wrap an arm around her mid section while water puddle beneath her.

"Oh...oh god...that was... Virg you and I are never sharing a shower!" She snickered and continued trying to catch her breath.

Static started doing the traditional water-skip motion everyone in a pool does to get away from Sheeana. "I swear, that doesn't normally happen to me. Only when I'm not paying attention to my powers, like when I get surprised 'cause someone THROWS ME IN." He laughed a bit, then stopped abruptly. "Not that it's your fault, Sheeana... And my charge is dead now anyway, Rose. Water's perfectly safe now."

Safely on the other side of the pool, Static noticed Katara. "Oh, hey Kat. Guess what? We have a river god in our pool." He said, laughing.

Slobo was joining in the majority of the room's laughter. He looked at Katara.

"Seriously, river god. Tell yer friends." He laughed a bit more, then noticed Katara's back being turned. "What's the matter, Aqualass? Never seen a naked person before?"

"River god," Katara repeated. "Well, I did see Twi and La, so I guess it wouldn't be the first time I saw a river diety. And its not that naked people bother me, I was just...not expecting it, that's all. The only time I'm usually naked is when I'm bathing, or when I'm by myself."

Not that it matters, really. Katara strips down to her usual white bathing suit and plops in the water, sniffing it again. River gods made water kind of strange, she decided. But just for fun, she started to make small waves in the pool, and then she waved to Static. She wouldn't stay in the water TOO long- it wasn't fair if Static couldn't come with them.

Sheeana was not dismayed. Though she could not in the least bit swim...

(An interlude: Inside her head, a voice spoke up, maternal yet teasing: You laugh at SeaChild until you need her, eh?)

...She could suspend unnecesary functions and walk along the bottom of the pool after him like the godamn terminator.

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