A Security Upgrade (Luke)

"Yup bring it on in." Streak said to Luke one he'd pulled up. The other supplies they needed were mostly here already. That made things easier. Streak helped unload the remaining things that Luke had brought out of the truck and set them near the gate. After everything was unloaded they would start the work on the cameras and wall sensors. "Luke you'd better lead the way because I don't know how this stuff is set up, or how it works." Streak admitted to him. He was excited to start the work and waiting outside for Luke was just showing his impatience.

Streak started absentmindedly sorting through the piles of of wires, lenses, sensors, cameras, and everything else that was there piled near the gate from today and the day before. "So where do we start?" Streak finally asked looking throughlly confused. All this was beyond him. He would eventually figure it out but he needed it to go up today and as fast as possible with as few people knowing about it as possible. "The faster this goes up the safer this place'll be." He said more thinking outloud than anything else.

Luke had been more informed of what was going on than Streak had been. He knew that Luke's men had been out here the day before but they wouldn't tell him what sort of work they had done. He was glade that the men had done so much of the work already. That meant less work they had to do today. Streak then replied to Luke. "Sounds great man. I'll just make a ladder for wherever we need it. It'll make things go faster"

Streak piked up some of the camera's and parts as they started to make their way to their destination. Once they were there, he set down the box and started setting up the cameras in places where people wouldn't normally look. Some of the older cameras were a little obvious. But that was ok because if you couldn't see any cameras people might get a little paranoid. What people wouldn't know is that if they were to still be seen even if people didn't think they were being watched, people would do things that were more reckless and easier to get caught. "I'm guessing this is the easy part right Luke?" Streak asked as he finished setting up a few of the cameras.

Streak to was enjoying the time spent outside. He didn't know much about Luke except for some obvious hints and tings that he'd picked up on when they'd spent time together. Apparently Luke thought that this was a good time to bond with Streak. He didn't mind, afer all who doesn't spend hours on end setting up security systems with their team mates. Streak started to answer the question.

"Well I came here with the intent of taking classes, but things didn't exactly work out as planned. I took my time deciding on whether or not to take classes. I finally decided not to since I'd already graduated. That's about the time when things started to get hectic and they raided the mansion for mutants to throw in their camps. After that I decided to stay here and help out as much as I can to prevent something like that from happening again." Streak said. The memories of the chaotic times came back to him as if they had happened yesterday.

Streak moved on to another area and started to put up another camera. They were moving along quickly and neither of them needed to be a genius to figure out how to set up the cameras. After the time that passed he didn't mind talking about some of the things and he was sure that it'd only get better with time. They were almost done with the cameras and would soon be able to move on to other things that would be harder to place. "I don't think I'll have any trouble responding to any attacks once we're done Luke." Streak smiled. He was open for any more questions that Luke had for him expecially since he'd told many of the stories over and over again to various people.

Streak looked at Luke probably a bit colder than he intended. It wasn't his fault. It was the memories. Shawn then looked away and continued his work as he answered. "I was in the camps with Raina and Neena and a lot of others here. That's where I got these scars. I guess they aint as apparent as they used to be." The scars were definitely apparent to him, whether he was using his powers or not. Streak had to suppose that they could be seen easier when he wasn't using his powers.

"Well you were a lucky one I guess. It seemed more like anyone and everyone they could get a hold of ended up in the camps. There were even some there that registered that were thrown in the camps." Streak said to him. "If anything, being in the camps made people more paranoid and hateful of humans than they were before. Heck when this place reopened I didn't answer the door for a while without using my powers. Mainly because I didn't want to be caught unprepared again. So did you help the resistance?" Streak asked Luke as he connected the last wire to the camera he was installing.

"Well I think that's the last of the cameras." Streak finally said looking around. "What's next?" They were on a roll and he wanted to keep it going.

Streak followed Luke to the van and helped collect more equipment. "Sounds good man." He said as he started heading back towards the fence. Finally LUke answered his other question. He didn't hold it against people if they didn't help with the resisitance. In fact, he wasn't all that surprised that the resisitance was hard to find. He personally would have thought that someone who registered was a traitor. He still thought that in some cases because he was sure most people weren't happy about it and if they did they had something to gain from sending people to the camps.

He started to insert a wall sensor and hook it up. This was a lot harder than setting up the cameras and he was having a hard time geting it all set up. After a little grunting, groaning, and maybe even a little bit of cursing, he'd managed to get one of the sensors running. He took a few deep, exaggerated breaths before saying, "So do you have any more questions about the camps or something else?" He picked up another sensor and moved along the wall.

They would be the only ones that would know where these were going to be placed. Not even the other X-Men would know. But that was all for the better. They would also have to know certain things about determining the seemingly randomness of their placement of the sensors. Just to make it harder to decifer a patern there were two people setting up the sensors, therefore they'd have to know that before they could avoid any of them. Good luck getting around this stuff. Streak thought as he worked on another sensor. It was going to be fun to see how well it all worked.

"Ok." Streak said. He was happy with the answers that he'd provided Luke with. He was also content with Luke's answers. Some of the answers begged a few questions but he didn't want to press any issues. He also wanted to turn his full attention to the security task at hand. He would be very happy once they were finished with this. Of course once Luke and him were done he would still have some other security measures to install. Those would go much slower because he would be working on them alone and he would be working on them during the night so that he wouldn't be drawing attention to himself with the other residents.

Since the two mutants had stopped their conversation things seemed to be going a lot faster and both were making a lot of progress on the sensors. Streak looked at his pile and noticed that there were only about two left. He took a step back to look at his work. The sensors were small and the wires were even smaller. When he looked at the wall as a whole he couldn't even see some of the sensors. He could see a few of the others because he knew where they were and he had just finished installing them. He stepped back up to the wall and continued putting the sensors in.