~~"Well they certainly have the camera work done, although it seems like something could sneak in if the camera's do not alert to transgressors. The basketball court seems more likely, it's a wide open space, where as the pool you have to deal with all that water and to much spilling would give you away"

“Hmmm, that is a big court and it’s an odd place for a camera. Then again I am sure a high school mutant basket ball game could be entertaining.”


~~"Not quite finding anything....that were looking for anyhow" "I wonder if the guy whose body your in is a pervert”

“Hey you are the one in the guy with an internet brain, I’m sure that isn’t ever distracting. Besides I’m not the one looking for girls in their night clothes.” He stuck out his tounge at his ward.


~~"Any idea if the mansion works like the order, with the special stuff hidden somwhere?"

“Nope, I don’t know too much about this place. Other than what everybody knows? School for mutant kids, houses the Idealists. Typically sponsored. “ I would say they have to have hidden stuff somewhere though. He snapped and point to the screen that was momentarily b1 as it turned to b2 and a small black jet set in view.

“I am thinking b is for basement and that shiny toy is just waiting to be abducted.”

Abyss swiveled around in his chair and looked for clues to how to get into the basement, as himself he would have simply dug a hole in the floor.

"What is basketball?" Aura asked looking at the court, she felt confident that it nvolved the two hoops as scoring devices, but was unsure of the actual rules of the game. Then again, she guessed the rule sof the game did not really matter here anyway. Looking away from these she nodded as abyss mentioned it was a big court, she had no idea how bog one needed to be however. "Maybe once i learn we should hold a game" she said picturing the ball to be a human skull. you would need a fair numbe rof them, after all one would likely shatter when it hit the ground.

Aura blushed a bit, in her boy body, then smiled. "If it's not us it's someone else" she said with a laugh, she lisentend to abyss as he spoke. Abducting a plane did sound fun. Aura had to wonder if it was armed or not, if it was they could blow things up with it. "The mansions to big to go door to door, but might their be an acess way near here?" she asked curiously thinking ti made sence to have a link from the watchtower to the jet, after all evacuations might need to be quick. "To bad we lack our old bodies, or this would be easy" she said her anoyence at her new found body had no mask to it.

~~"What is basketball?"

to most, the question might be outlandish, But Abyss had an odd upbringing as well, and while he had his brothers and the internet to delve into the outside world and now quite some time to find out all of the little things, others hadn’t had such time or convenience at their disposal.

~~ "Maybe once i learn we should hold a game"

“Definitely, It involves an orange ball” he held his hand and cast out to signify the size. “ and two teams of the same number, pros play five on five, but really you could play with any number., the ball bounces and you throw it in the hope to get points, you have to bounce it to move forward down the court and then if you score the other team gets the ball and the chance to try to score against you, so you are playing offense and defense back and forth.”


~~"If it's not us it's someone else"

“True enough, if I knew how old she was I might look too, but since I’m not a dirty old man and I don’t know well, I think I will refrain.”

~~ "The mansions to big to go door to door, but might their be an acess way near here?"


“It would make sense to keep a door near by security would be the first to know they needed the Jet I would think…but maybe if we walk around and look at the doors, I would assume it has some security on it…anychance you know how to fly a plane? I know how to fly a jet according to a video game…and I typically crash a lot. Maybe we will have to settle for wrecking it or tagging the thing.”


~~"To bad we lack our old bodies, or this would be easy"

“yeah, then we could have simply kept that goofball that lead us in here. I must admit that I am surprised that it was this easy.Then again we do have the best disguises.”

"Makes sense, i think i have seen kids play things like that before, you know maybe if bring some things like that to Sanctuary, we might attract more of the young kids. After all young minds can be shaped and purpose forged. That's what Miracle use to say at te beginning of her long talks" Aura replied, it was true Miracle had begun most of her sermons with it and Aura herself had been just 12 at the time.

"I'm not really sure how old i am, After i was put in the Kage and through my time with miracle and here, im not entirely sure how much time has gone by." It took a few secounds to really consider Abyss's words. "So their are age restrictions on people?" Aura asked the idea quite strange to her. She had grown up in a place whare no one really cared about such things. "So how old are you anyway?" Aura asked as she tore through some boxes ina small closet, tossing past her leg, a flashlight, Some pamphlets of X-men propaganda, batteries and even a baseball. "No map...."Aura said shaking her head, she had not expected one but still, Aura bagan tossing things back into the ox incase they drew issue.

"No idea how to fly, but how hard can it be"Aura said looking back at Abyss, she had not considerd that the bird needed to fly. "Maybe if we get it airborne, we should make an order book thing like this "she said picking up the earlior mentioned propaganda. CLoseing her eyes she put one of her male hands pon the computer, she could try and log in but could not guess the password. "Becides in all the tv showes planes just fly themselfs, auto pilot right?" she said not grasping the need for a destination or needing to take off and land.

"That is true, still, i would hope our home could not be breached with such ease" she said taking pride in sanctuary even if things seemed somwhat low security. Aura opened the door to the room and looked around glad to see no one. Looking around she realized many of the nearby rooms seemed to be made heavier then normal room doors but their were a goosd number of them, aura looked back to Abyss.

~~“Makes sense, i think i have seen kids play things like that before, you know maybe if bring some things like that to Sanctuary, we might attract more of the young kids. After all young minds can be shaped and purpose forged. That's what Miracle use to say at the beginning of her long talks"

“that’s not a bad Idea, maybe an arcade as well.” Miracle sounded like a cult leader…but then he was in a group called the order so who was he to talk?

~~"I'm not really sure how old i am, After i was put in the Kage and through my time with miracle and here, im not entirely sure how much time has gone by."

“hmmm, we could pick a number sometime if you like.”

~~"So their are age restrictions on people?"

“ morally, yes. Its more about what people considered mature enough to interact with beyond friendship.”

~~ "So how old are you anyway?"

“ I am the ripe old age of twenty five, If I had to guess you’d be around sixteen, seventeen.”

~~ "No map...."

“hmmmm. You know in a weird way this is kind of fun, I haven’t gotten to spend nearly enough time with you before this.”

~~"No idea how to fly, but how hard can it be"

“I guess we will find out!.”

~~"Maybe if we get it airborne, we should make an order book thing like this ""Besides in all the TV shows planes just fly themselves, auto pilot right?"


“I honestly don’t know if we get hurt trying well that’s their problem if we switch back.”

~~"That is true, still, I would hope our home could not be breached with such ease"

“Our greatest defense is the residents, people that come to the sanctuary are typically tired of running, when you find somewhere to call home after that you tend to protect your home fiercely.”

He walked into the hall, and there was his gullible little security guard again. With a grin Abyss went for two, “ hey we need to get to the Jet Asap.” The dough ball turned around fast and nearly started running down the hall, he moved a lot faster than he would have given credit for. He nodded to Aura and sprinted after the silly man.

Aura waived off the need to pick a number as her age or birth date. Her age was unimportant. Aura took more note however because people of one age or another could not be romantic with people of another age. She guessed it made sense in one way or the other. In the woods age had mattered little except that if one was young they were more open to ideas and to the ways of the group, miracle had said.

"That is true, before this we only met a hand full of times" Thinking back on those times made her recall the first time they had met and with the mission, Aura recalled one person she had not seen in some time, Leila. "I am enjoying this myself, even forgetting about this body thing for brief moments" she said and it was true, her condition, their condition she mentally corrected herself had slipped her mind a few times. The idea something like this could escape her worried her a bit.

"Yea i had figured it would be rough for someone to try a head on attack against the sanctuary. Not without some awful big fire power anyway" she said realizeing whoever attacked would need to fight through people like abyss, Isable and herself. "Still it would better if we could organize all that force, a team fight better then many fighters can alone" she said the last line repeated straight from Miracles texts, well her speeches anyway.

Tossing ideas on how to fly a plane aside she followed the abyss's lead as he took off after the running man. He could move faster then Aura had given him credit for. Aura was also a bit embarrassed by the security of this place, true they did have bodies of those who lived here, but had these people never encountered a shapeshifter before? Shaking her head she kept pace with the other two.

"That is true, before this we only met a hand full of times" "I am enjoying this myself, even forgetting about this body thing for brief moments"


“I am enjoying myself as well, It at the very least is a lesson in how the world works for everyone else. This cast is so, heavy? I can’t remember saying that sentence as anything but a joke. I wish I knew how to use this guys skills. ”

"Yea i had figured it would be rough for someone to try a head on attack against the sanctuary. Not without some awful big fire power anyway" "Still it would better if we could organize all that force, a team fight better then many fighters can alone.”

“well with the order, most of the time we organize in a brawl mode anyway. So, all it takes is Lisa, saying every body to the front. And that’s about it.”


Keeping up with the running male was't too hard for shin, he seemed to keep decently fit. hopefully it wouldn't tear open the skin on his tattoo, that he got with Circe earlier that day. The nameless allie ran to a door punched in a code with out thought one that Abyss didn't get a chance to see, and they continued down a flight of stairs turned into a hall way, sprinted down another hall way and through another door.

As they ran into the in ground hanger Abyss had to wonder what they were going to do with the guy once they got the info they needed.

"chaos has it's merits in combat" Aura conceded though she did believe i cohesive fighting force would fare better every time. Still now was hardly the time for the conversation or debate. "Lisa is weird, everyone says she's human but she seems to work way to much to be normal" Aura commented at the womans seemly endless desk working, though aura had seen her dissopear at night to what aura would guess was likely her room. She realized she had no idea whare Lisa even sleapt or why she suppoered the order like she did. Aura tried not to think about lisa as a human the thought bothered her much to much and becides that she was kind and confident.

Aura looked around the hanger in awe, she had seen planes of course, but rarely up close and none like the one that now lay before her eyes. The sleek black jet dominated the room. Doing her best she his her excitement over the plane. They did keep the jet in what seemed like a maze of corridors which was likely to confuse their enemies. A good plan in her opinion, she would have done something simmeler though she would have added a few extra traps. Maybe it becuse they had this guy with them that was happily paving their way, she almost wondered if he could fly the jet then again even if he could it would not really help them much, after all he was unlikely to do as they asked. Aura likely would have knocked him out but her concentration and lack of anything happening reminded her of the body she was still in.

"chaos has it's merits in combat" "Lisa is weird, everyone says she's human but she seems to work way to much to be normal"

“someone once told me there was an exception to every rule. Lisa is the exception to the rule.” He smirked out of the corner of a Japanese mouth. “That way if we are out there we don’t worry about taking out the wrong human, we already have the one we like back home.”

The round guy turned around giving them an od look. “Chaos in combat? That’s why they train all the time here…and who’s Lisa? And what do you mean taking out humans? He said with knowing his eyes. Unfortunately for this mutant his mutation was non combative. Shin raised his arm and clunked the guy on the head, the cast did most of the work and only shook his broken bones a little. The round man crumpled to the ground. And Abyss gave Aura a nod. “ Well Lets get this bird in the sky!”

"so much for him" Aura said leaning down and quickly relieving the man of anything in his pockets, their was a pair of keys and Aura looked at them then looked at a jet, not sure if planes used keys like that. "Do planes use these?" Aura asked unaware of what a firebird was, nodding back to Abyss she made her move to the jet, looking it over, it seemed bigger then she thought now that she stood under it's wing.

Upon finding the stairs, she carried her man legs up them and into the rather spact incide of the jet. Looking around it was to find the controls for the jet, that part was easy but the controls them-selfs looked confusing to her, buttons all over the place. "Is it to much to ask for to find one that just says start?" she said shaking her head confused hiting a few buttons that did nothing, mostly because the jet was not on.

Aura then looked at the key in her hand and at the jet trying to find a place for the key, failing she kicked the control panel and a storage compartment fell open giving her a shower of patpr and manuals. "so do we need a quarter?" she said rasieing an eyebrow though the look failed a bit in the male body.

(if you want to jump ahead we can, we were talking about that at one point right?")

(nah, lets play it out, if we are going to we might cut some flight unless you really want to.)

~~ “so much for him"

Abyss wanted to shake his casted arm, but merely held it to his chest. That was not a good idea. His arm was making his teeth hurt, how ever that worked.

~~"Do planes use these?"

“Ummmm.” Abyss answered, not quite sure what to tell the Aura. He didn’t think so. He hesitated a moment to curse out the pain in his arm and teeth and the headache threatening his brain.

~~"Is it to much to ask for to find one that just says start?"

Abyss knelt down to a emergency manual on operating the Blackbird, it had an auto pilot? That would return it home?

~~"so do we need a quarter?"

“First it says we need to buckle up.” He moved to a seat on the right letting Aura have what would be the driver’s seat and buckled the harness around him.” next it says to hit a green switch near the row of red lights?” Abyss continued to follow the steps and call them out for Aura to do. It was safe to say that if NASA could get a monkey into space, that the pair could get the black bird in the clouds. Surviving it, well that was another story.

Aura threw the keys behind her, realizing they likely were not needed. Aura sat down copying Abyss in putting the harness on her male body, Aura began looking for where the red switch could be and then just as she was about to hit one that said Eject, she realized abyss had said a green switch next to red lights and quickly flicked the switch following abyss's instructions the best she knew how. Lights began to turn on ans flicker and a strange circle atracted her attention with several green circels emanating from the middle of the device.

"I wonder if it has weapons?" she asked thinking to herself, a bird like this had to have claws right? the X-s were strange people after all and she was fairly sure some would show up naked and unarmed to a knife fight. In any case Aura looked up as well as she could out the window, she could not see it at first but she could see a line of light rapidly expand over the nose of the craft. Aura realized as well if they did encounter any resisstence in the air they might well be screwed, after all fighting on the ground wa sone thing, fighting high in the air, could be unpleasant. Aura hit one bottom which seemed to turn ona police scanner and quickly turned it off as the raspy voice was annoying. "Their sure are a lot of buttons and controls" she commented looking over them all their were even some above the window itself and Aura wonderd if this was typical of aircraft.

~~"I wonder if it has weapons?"

“I dunno, they could count on the passengers to defend the craft, they have a few flyers.”

~~"Their sure are a lot of buttons and controls."

“Yeah there are.” Abyss replied shifting to one cheek of his bottom…he really didn’t think ou the placement on that and the mix up of what he had actually ended up with on his backside. Yeesh!

He looked in front of him and flicked a few switches and watched as the night sky started to appear above them.

“ohhh, it was the basketball court.” He took abreath and realized how suicidal this really was, neither of them new how to even start the plane…much less fly it, yet here they were turning they thing on. “Flipp those three switches.” He glanced back down at the book “and then hit those three buttons.” He looked back to the book to carry on.

"Yes i beleive i met with one, a winged fire guy, when i fought that water Sack they have" she said recalling the event, it seemed like awhile ago, but she had taken pride in that fight.She had long forgotten what their names were. She knew what they looked like and could do, though she had only seen them once. That was what was important to know what your possible opponents could do, if you knew that you could prepare and better form strategy on how to fight them, because of this Aura believed she needed to fight as many mutants as she could.

"A hole in the ground,.....rather fitting" she said looking out the window, as she did the plane rocked slightly, Aura switched the three switched indicated to her. She looked around and things began to turn on and glow. Aura looked over some of the other controls, many of them were indicated by just pictires and their was no button labeld fly. FOcussing on the Plane, she did discover their was a computer in it, but she had no idea what most tof the things she could see meant. "Blah, i tried acessing the plane with davids power, but all i was able to do was button that said, "dump waste" she said confused.


"you know i wonder of the x-men realize anyone who can read can steal this thing........" she said the actual operation of the craft seemed easy so far, of course they were not airborne either. They also had the experience of whoever wrote that book, but with it they were getting the plane to rise.

"ok, ok, after this we might need to hang on. hit the green lever there and then hit that little red switch next to it."

When she hit the green lever the craft would take off into a preprogrammed flight pattern.. after that well he would consider how fast he could read and instruct.

" dump waste? maybe we can save that one for later, try to see if you can find the navigation on this thing and figure out how to change where we want to go. maybe. I know what to do if we want it to go home. but it seems like a pain in the but to do...yeah we will have gotten the jet but just to take it right back? that doesn't sound worth while. "

Abyss settled his broken arm in his lap and leaned onto one butt check to let his freshly tattooed hiney to get a break.