Bit of Trouble

[Athena]

Athena backed down the alley way, sending her hottest glare at the thugs sneering back at her. The mutantess had snuck out of the Institute; not a hard thing to do, really, if you coud change powers. Going to the movies, she had listened to the men in front of her talk, throw things, and generally make asses out of themselves the whole movie. And then, when the movie had let out and they were all in the parking lot, the same men had been trash-talking about mutants. When she had confronted them - which was, the spiky haired teenager was now thinking, a very stupid thing to have done - they had started insulting her, calling her the usual names; mutant trash, butch lezbo, dumbass punk.

And then she'd punched the largest one square in his fat (and now broken and bleeding) nose...then ran when the others tried to circle her; she wasn't so stupid as to fight a group of large, angry men. Which is how Athena DeCosta had been backed into a conrer, wishing deperately for help or for her powers to finally kick in with some helpful powers - so far, all she'd been able to do was turn semi-invisible.

[Reptile]

Kurt Wagner walked into the parking lot in disguise, all thanks to the hologram projector in his belt. The movie was good, he didn't have time for movies for a few months and truly missed them. As he walked through the parking lot in the shadows, a force of habit he tried to rid of, he heard some men talking. Threating, to be more exact. The word "mutant" accompanied with other indecent words. He looked over and saw a girl trapped by some men, clearly out numbered. A fellow mutant in trouble, Kurt wouldn't ignore that. Although he could just teleport both of them away, but he didn't want to just...run. He smirked when an idea popped into his head. Perfect. He thought.
With the hologram projector he could be about anyone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (although a little short) seemed to be a good choice. He walked to the thugs and patted one of them.

[Athena]

Athena was a bit surpised - as were the men, all of whom turned around - as a craggy, handsome man stepped forward to intercede. The peirced teenagers' eyebrows quirked as a flitter of recognition passed on her face; had she seen him before? It certianly seemed like it; maybe he looked like someone famous.

The mutants' mind derailed from this track when one of the men - the one she had punched earlier - spoke to Kurt. "Wad you wan'?"

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[Reptile]

Kurt finally saw the trapped girl. Athena? He raised an eye brow, both at the girl and the man's bloody nose. Shouldn't she be in the school, safely asleep? Oh well, teenagers. He thought, but he forgot how many times he sneaked out in his teen years. As Arnold, Kurt had buff body and a poker face, but he just realized the fatal hole of his "plan"--he didn't talk like Arnold. Mentally kicked himself for that, Kurt lowered his voice as much as he could.
"Leave hyer ahlone."

[Athena]

Athena blinked. Why did that voice sound familiar? Her surprise turned to confusion as she realized that the mystery hunk sounded an awful lot like the resident Institute teleporter, Kurt Wagner. And he did defineatly not look like the guy who had just come to her rescue. Disregarding this, she tried to concentrate on building a powr - any power! - that might help her and this odd male out.

Meanwhile, the leader of the group glowered - though that probably didn't help his broken nose much - at Kurt and spoke again. "Whad, you some mu'an', leibo luber, too?", he sneered, the effect of his bigotted words lost by the blood leaking down his bearded face. The other men laughed and crackled their knuckles - one stepped forward, violence glittering in his eyes.

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[Reptile]

This is not good. Kurt thought as he backed up a little. Clearly being buff didn't help at all, maybe he should follow the phrase "be yourself". He didn't want to expose his true identity so he kept the hologram on.
It was a weird sight. "Arnold" suddenly jumped and flipped in the mid air. His tail moved too fast to see, and whipped the back of the man with that bloody nose, made him fall forward. He landed beside Athena and whispered:"Yew ah suppose'da be asleep in yewr room, young lay-dy."

[Athena]

As Kurt - or 'Arnold', right now - did a few moves with grace that didn't look possible in his large body, Athena felt her concentration pop like a bubble in a gust of wind. She also had the decency to look guilty at her getting caught in sneaking out, but that was clearly not sincere; besides, the peirced teen was thankful that the teleporter had turned up. She might be mince-meat if he hadn't - or worse.

While the mutantess tried to overcome her surprise and garner a response, the other two men overcame their confusion. One shook their comrade worriedly, and the other turned menacingly towards the two mutants. His voice was clearer, though no less threatening, than the other mans' had been as he stepped forward, fists curled. "Time to teach you muties a lesson!", the pushy human snarled, aiming a punch towards Athena - who had the good sense to duck, though 'running' wasn't really an option.

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[Reptile]

Kurt avoided a furious fist and decided this was not something he should let the student get involved. "Come here, we ah leavin'." He grabbed Athena's wrist and teleported to the nearest roof top he saw. It should be enough distance to make the thugs wonder.

[Athena]

"Hey--!" To nearly everyone's suprise in the little tussle - mostly Athena and the thugs; Kurt didn't look to horribly suprised - Athena found herself on the rooftop, and the thugs below had found themselves without victims...other than poor Bill, who was out cold with his busted shnoz. The other two men exclaimed surprise, searched the alley for a little, then dragged Bill off to one of their trucks, leaving the alley way silent and empty once more.

The rooftop, however, was not silent - nor empty. The pierced, punk-dressed teenager whirled on Kurt, though she was feeling decidedly nausious; probably from both the sudden teleportation, and the brimstone smell that now clung to the both of them. She also, though Athena didn't know it, showed she was her fathers' daugter when her pride and indignation reared up. Being pulled out of a fight - out of a challenge, by those insufferable bigots! -was not going to settle easily with the teenage mutantess. "Why'd you 'port us out of there!?"

[Reptile]

Kurt frowned a little at Athena's attitude, but he wasn't the type to flip just because that. Although her attitude did remind him of someone. He turned off the hologram (couldn't argue as Arnold) and raised his hands as a gesture for calm down.
"I know yew can handle them, but ahs a student you shouldn't be here dis late. Let ahlone getting into a fight." He was glad he came to his senses. "Yew could get into trahble, we both could." Remembered the last time he was lectured by the others, Kurt made a painful expression.
"Now let's sneak bak, maybe they won't notice." He suggested hopefully.

[Athena]

A peice of Athena wanted to be childish and stay mad and surly at Kurt, but logic won her better senses over. And, of course, she couldn't stay mad at him when he suggested sneking back in; he wasn't a teacher, after all. From what she had gathered in the kitchen, he was a student still - or close enough. She wasn't going to be in trouble unless she got caught, and then she would deserve what she got, getting caught by those stick-in-the-mud teachers.

"Alright, then.", she shrugged, running a hand reflexively through her hair, which made the spikes now stand on end. "But how am I gonna explain these", she gestured to the various bumps and scrapes she had amasses, and the slowly bruising black eye, "- to the nurse or the teachers?"

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[Reptile]

Kurt looked at Athena's wounds closely, worried more about the girl's well being than getting into trouble later. "zey don't look too bad, ahther than ze bruise. Bettah get you to ze nurse." Kurt thought about the chance of convincing the others that Athena got the scrapes and bruises from falling or something. "Nein, zat wouldn't work." He murmured to himself, then looked at Athena again. "I guess ve ah destined to get into trahble, fräulein. Unless yew can zink of something, I'm out of ideas."

[Athena]

Athena paused, frowned, then brightened suddenly. "Maybe...", she muttered, more to herself than Kurt. Concentrating - closing her eyes so as not to get distracted - the teenager tried to corral her energy into healing herself. She opened her eyes after a few seconds and looked to Kurt with expetancy in her eyes. Reaching a hand up, she touched her left, bruising, eye - and winced. Yeah, it was still there.

Frowning now, she sighed and hit the heel of her hand against her thigh in frustration. "Didn't work.", she groused, before glancing at Kurt again. "Well, that's all of my ideas. Homeward bound now, then?"

[Reptile]

"Homevard bound?" Kurt wasn't familiar with the term. "Vell, if zat means accept ze lecture for both of us, detention for yew and cleaning for me...Then ja, ve are 'homevard bound'." He shrugged as he talked.
"How ah ze wounds? If they ah not zat bad, maybe ve can stay out a little longah." Kurt suggested. "Maybe valk back, no teleporting?"

[Athena]

Realizing what the teleporter was suggesting, Athena grinned. "Well, if you put it that way...walking does seem more appealing.", the spiky haired girl said. If it would get them out of trouble for longer, the teenager didn't really see any harm in staying out longer - besides the fact that she would be even more tired tomorrow. Not that, Athena reflected, that woud be a downfall - maybe she could snooze through Ms. Frosts' lecture on sneaking out, getting into fights; the usual teacher-adult-superior drivle.

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