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[team_sociopath]

Dude, when I said sometimes the City gets boring, I so did not mean I wanted to see it turn into a Times Square tourist trap at Christmas kinda mess.

Seriously. The Carousel is even lamer than the department store windows. Trust me on this.



[ooc; ...honestly? bring out whoever you like, doubles freak me out a bit but Tommy can probably handle it. XD]

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[passingthrough]

I guess that depends how far away you were. [Not exactly the type to hand out compliments left and right.]

[team_sociopath]

Picky. [Dramatic eyeroll is dramatic.]

[passingthrough]

Mediocre gets you dead. [So does trusting your husband not to smash you to death, but we're not talking about her.]

So, are you a "Young Avenger" too? [Hasn't missed that you look like that Billy kid.]

[team_sociopath]

I'm fast enough. [It isn't just a brag, for once.]

That's what they tell me. There's worse things to be.

[passingthrough]

You don't sound very sold on the idea.

And you know Magneto and Quicksilver?

[team_sociopath]

Don't get me wrong. We're definitely the good guys. I just don't get as hung up on the A-word as the rest of 'em.

[He shrugs.]

And I never met either of them, but come on, who doesn't know about them?

[passingthrough]

I'm more familiar with the X-word.

And I don't know. I'm not from your world, but I guess that's true in mine. [Very true.]

[team_sociopath]

I figured you aren't. [Interdimensional travel, just another day. He almost asks what Magneto's like in person-- that Magneto, anyway-- but decides it's honestly just not worth it.]

So, are you gonna show me how you do it?

[passingthrough]

That's how it always works. [She's used to people she's familiar with coming in but not being from her world.]

[If he doesn't move, she'll stick her arm harmlessly through him. He shouldn't even feel a thing. Maybe a light tingling at most. If he does move, and let's face it, he's fast enough to then it won't be a very interesting demonstration.]

[team_sociopath]

[He's fast enough not to flinch away. Not visibly, at least. Even he's not sure if he moved and came back or not. He just kind of stares at the arm.]

Creepy. Bet that makes crowds a lot less annoying.

[passingthrough]

Thanks. I almost named myself The Creeper. [She withdraws the hand.]

[team_sociopath]

[Good, because... yeah, he's not sure he's comfortable with this whole thing for more than about five seconds.]

But like, how do you do it? How does it work?

[Once something manages to pique Tommy's curiosity, he's pretty relentless.]

[passingthrough]

[It's not like she's pulling any organs out. Calm down.]

Why so curious?

[team_sociopath]

[Ew, why would you even think of that.]

I just am.

[passingthrough]

[She knows a guy who does it. And she was trained as an assassin at thirteen, so not that far from her mind. You can thank Magneto for that by the way.]

I slip my molecules between the molecules of other things.

[team_sociopath]

But like, how do you know how to get them to go where you want them to?

[passingthrough]

How do you know how to go really fast?

[team_sociopath]

That's different. Anyone can run, I just run faster.

[But... well, he knows how to do other things, and those are harder to explain. Food for thought, at least. It's not like he expected her to give him an instruction manual.]

[passingthrough]

It's second nature. And I think you have a specific reason for wanting to know. Spill.

[team_sociopath]

It's complicated.

[He glances around, decides it's probably not the best idea to blow up anything big or important. So he grabs a discarded soda can. Not idea, but he can make this work.]

I told you, I do other stuff.

[passingthrough]

Go for it. I showed you mine.

[team_sociopath]

[He holds it on a flat palm and just looks at it for a while, lips pressed flat in concentration. It takes a moment for anything visible to happen; then it starts to twitch, slowly, in his hand. The pace picks up and before long it's wobbling like the metal's turned to jell-o, and then-- BANG!-- it's shrapnel, falling over his fingers.]

[passingthrough]

[There's no flinching of any kind as she watches. Of course she stayed phased as he did it.]

Hmm.

A little Gambit-ish.

[team_sociopath]

[Poor Tommy, fated never to seem original.]

I'm pretty sure I should be able to... move things, the right way, you know, to walk through a wall.

[passingthrough]

Vibrating to the point you go out of phase? [Hey, she's smart. The word genius has been used. Granted, usually more with computers than genetics.]

Did you do it on accident or did someone tell you that's possible?