Open Log

[goldenglasses]

WHO: Vash and you
WHERE: On the SS Twin Roses
WHAT: Exploring the ship
WHEN: When the ships first show up
WARNINGS: A sad Vash

Vash instantly knew what the ships were when they appear. After nearly five years on the fleet there was no way he couldn't know what the ships he lived on and saw every day looked like. He probably should be wary of the way they suddenly show up, but he throws those worries away. Climbing on board the Twin Roses straight away.

He moves down the halls of his old home. Noticing right away that the upgrades he and his crew had put into the ship were gone. Still, it was very much the Twin Roses. Here he can see parts of the Three Twins. Here was a piece of the Windrose. The reminder that this ship was the joining of two two.

When he reaches the pilot area he smiles and sits down in the seat that was his for so long. Remembering all of the times he flew the ship and all the planets that he landed this ship onto. He runs his hands over the controls and searches to see if any of his notes on all the planets they visited were hidden away somewhere, but alas they are also gone.

This ship felt oddly like home, but in other ways it felt nothing like home. The little personal touches that would have been left behind by the crew were gone. This fact hurts the most when he gets to the captain room that he had shared with Kitty. There was the bed that they shared, but anything personal was gone. There were none of her clothes. None of her treasures. Not even the few flowers he had kept. It was a painful reminder that she was gone. He was here in this world and he had watched her return home. A home he was terrified and nearly certain she would die in.

Why didn't he fight for her more!? He should have begged and demanded that she didn't go back. Or he should have gone with her!

Sinking down onto the bed he sits with his head in his hands. Quietly weeping and uncaring if anyone finds him there. “Kitty... I'm so sorry.”

Comments

[doubled_speed]

Dude, he knows how Kitty looks. She's an X-Man! But he nods along to the description.

"I mean, 'unique looking' could definitely describe Nightcrawler. But, yanno, be careful, don't wanna insult mutants there."

Because he might get offended.

[goldenglasses]

Vash winces because he really should know better, but it was the easiest way to describe Kurt. "So did you know Kurt back home?"

[doubled_speed]

Tommy shrugs briefly. "I mean 'know' implies we've met. I've heard of him. I know what he looks like. I wasn't exactly an X-Men. I was an Avengers affiliate."

Makes sense, right?

[goldenglasses]

"That makes sense." Yup! Perfect sense! "So did you meet any of the X-Men? What about Kitty Pryde? Did you ever meet her?" He might have a favorite.

[doubled_speed]

"Never met Kitty, though someone clearly has a favorite," Tommy grins, and he laughs too. "I've met some of them. Most of them were assholes. Especially Cyclops and Wolverine and Emma Frost. The others I can probably put up with. My Grandfather worked with them for a bit."

Though Magneto the X-Man seems... weird.

[goldenglasses]

Vash blushes slightly. "Yeah? I suppose it is a bit obvious, huh? What can I say? She's pretty wonderful."

[doubled_speed]

"I mean, if you don't have electronics you're worried about losing."

There's that, right? The guy seems to be way past eager for the mutant lady. And that's just weird. He only thinks of Shadowcat as an X-Man. And her rumored thing with Colossus.

[goldenglasses]

"She's careful around electronics! She never broke anything of mine!" And it wasn't Colossus that Vash was worried about losing this Kitty's heart to. "And where are my manners?" Vash holds out his hand. "My name is Vash. Good to meet you."

[doubled_speed]

"Tommy," he answers, taking Vash's offered hand and shaking it. Quickly. Then he's back a few paces in a blur of motion. "I went by Speed back home."

[goldenglasses]

"Let me guess." Vash says with a friendly smile. "Your powers are speed related?"

[doubled_speed]

"Give the guy a cookie," Tommy grins. "Anything you want from the greenhouses?"

He can demonstrate.

[goldenglasses]

"Uh, something Vision won't care if you take it?" He really doesn't want to get Vision upset at either of them. "He's been hanging out there a lot. Maybe not full on running the place, but still. I think he'll be mad if he notices something missing."

[doubled_speed]

Tommy laughs. "Dude, I work with Vizh over there. Trust me. He won't mind."

Somebody else he might mind about. Tommy? Nah. Dude's got 'sons can do no wrong' powers. But right now he makes a show of turning out his pockets and shaking out his sleeves to show there is nothing there. Then, in the blink of an eye Tommy just isn't there. Which makes sense because he's running full speed toward the greenhouse to collect a cyanana. And just as fast his back. All told, the process takes precisely half a second longer than it takes for the greenhouse doors to open. Not open twice. Because he's back to and through them before they can close.

Round trip? Two and a half seconds. And at the end of that Tommy's back precisely where he was, holding the cyanana out to Vash.

Hope he didn't blink.

[goldenglasses]

"As long as he doesn't mind." Vash has barely finished speaking when suddenly there is a cyanana being held out in front of him. His face lights up. Clearly impressed by how fast Tommy was. "Oh wow! You really can move! That was like... less than a second! I'm not even sure I noticed you were gone!"

[doubled_speed]

"You would have if I hadn't come back," Tommy shrugs, tossing the fruit-like item at Vash so he can instead focus on his bowl of paste. Which he REALLY needs to finish. Damn he burned so many calories there. And it felt good, to be fast again. So good. "I can go somewhere around four times the speed of sound. I outrun speeding bullets."

Among other things.

[goldenglasses]

Vash effortlessly catches the fruit with one hand. "That's amazing! I wish I could do that! I can dodge pretty well, but not outrun!

[doubled_speed]

"It's my mutant ability. What makes me special, like the other ones you met. I was born like this," Tommy shrugs. Dodging is nice, too. He's good at that, because he's got the speed.

"So, you and Kitty were a thing then? Sorry she isn't around."

[goldenglasses]

A blush quickly rushes to his cheeks. "Yeah. I guess we were." Ouch. He's surprised by how much saying the word 'were' hurt. "And I just hope she's happy and safe where she is." She seemed so sure she was going back to die and he couldn't talk her out of that one percent chance that she might be able to save her students. After all he couldn't go with her because he couldn't turn his own back on the people in his home who needed him to save them. "When we tried to leave the fleet we both knew we had to go home. It was a really hard choice to make."

He smiles softly and shakes his head slowly. "Sorry, there I go rambling about Kitty again."

[doubled_speed]

"Nah man, you actually hold back a lot more than my brother did. So yeah, don't worry about it."

Seriously, Billy could go on about Teddy for literally hours. Tommy's had to live with it, and he doesn't care. But at least this is all new material.

"I mean, life isn't so bad back home that they really needed Kitty, I think?"

[goldenglasses]

Vash chews on his lower lip for a moment. Not really wanting to talk about what he fears may have happened to Kitty. "I'm not sure. I hope that her future may not be the same as yours because it wasn't a good one. She said that much of the world had been destroyed and most mutants were being rounded up and killed."

[doubled_speed]

"Nah, that seems quite possibly true for us," Tommy shrugs, rolling his shoulders like it doesn't matter. "Barely any mutants left, and the world can get destroyed pretty much always."

[goldenglasses]

Vash frowns for a moment. A cold fear forming in his stomach. "I know you said you never met her, but have you have heard of Kitty Pryde, right? Or, Katherine Pryde. Such as how she's doing in your world?" Maybe there was a reason he's never met her.

[doubled_speed]

"Of course I have. Shadowcat is an X-Man," Tommy shrugs. Why shouldn't he knows of her. "I think she was a teacher for mutants."

[goldenglasses]

"She was?" WHY DID HE USE THE WORD WAS!? "Is she doing something else now?"

[doubled_speed]

Seriously? Guy, just relax. Tommy rolls his eyes.

"I don't know. She's around. But I'm an Avenger, not an X-Man. We don't run in the same circles? And I think the school got blown up or something."

[goldenglasses]

"So, she's still alive?" He relaxes just slightly. Smiling and feeling just a little bit better. Deep in the back of his thoughts they pester him to ask for more details. What if it was still an alternate reality? Vash has seen his fair share of people from the some worlds, but different time lines now. He should know better.

But he wants to believe that Kitty lives and is alright. What will knowing that it wasn't real going to do right now anyway? "I hope she got to open a dance studio of some kind. She loves to dance."

[doubled_speed]

Dance studio? Tommy looks quite confused. That wasn't what he expected from any sort of X-Man. But he'll figure it out because what other choice does he have?

"If that's what she wanted, I'm sure she could try it. Or at least teach if wherever they are now."

[goldenglasses]

"I hope so too."

Realizing that he probably should talk about more than about his missing girlfriend Vash gets to his feet. "This was my old shop. Any questions you have about it? Normally I'd offer to give you a tour, but I feel you can handle that on your own a lot faster than with me."

[doubled_speed]

"These things actually fly? Do we have to stay in them if they fly? Can we get out of them?"

Because Tommy doesn't like being stuck in one place. Moving between ships would be exciting.

[goldenglasses]

"Uh, I don't suggest jumping out or leaving anything that's up in the air and flying. Especially if that thing is in the middle of space. Unless your mutant power allows you to breath in space."

[doubled_speed]

"Uh, I don't think it does that, but come on, answer the question. What's advised never really stopped me before."

Never has, never should. And he can take pretty serious falls, his bones are stupid strong, his tendons alone are like steel rebar in strength. He could handle a good distance of a fall.

[goldenglasses]

"Are you saying you'd jump out of a flying plane!? You're joking right!?"

[doubled_speed]

"Dude, I'm asking if there are ways off the thing normally, or is it a lock down. Stop freaking out and start answering the question."

Geez, man, stop acting like this is the weirdest thing ever. Let the guy have his answer so he can determine what he would and wouldn't do.

[goldenglasses]

"No! You can't open the doors when it's flying! That would get everyone killed!"

[doubled_speed]

"Thank you, finally answering a damn question. So once these things are moving we're trapped in a fucking sardine can."

Which, of course, he sounds nowhere near pleased with. Which makes sense. It's not that he has claustrophobia. Just that he doesn't like being cooped up in small enclosed places without some way out.

[goldenglasses]

"Trust me. Being in a sardine can is a whole lot better than dead."

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, I'll make my own decisions on that," Tommy shrugs, and then he offers a brief salute and he's gone. Because why stick around. Vash has been fun, but he needs some veggies now. And to not be in the tin can.