Memory 001: Starting over again.

[forgotten_titan]

Good morning 625 Topper Street! Usually, the house would be filled with the chatter of the drone!kids and the drone!wife as they start the day all fresh and chirpy. However, this time there's something, or rather someone, who's acting out of the "ordinary" for drones. Rather, when the drone!mum pops up to shake her "daughter" awake, all she gets is a sleepy, "Ten more minutes dad, please...?" Drone!mum shakes her head with exasperation, but gives the teenager the extra time she wants.

Tara is in bed less than that though, as her sleepy mind suddenly realizes that something is not right. Her mom isn't home, she's working out of the country. It's dad who usually wakes her up. And he would NEVER give her ten extra minutes.

Action: 625 Topper Street
Hey Sniper, you have a blonde girl dressed in pyjamas trying to sneak to the phone. She's trying to avoid the drone!mum and the kids, but obviously she's no Spy. However, she does look determined, if not nervous, to get to that phone. Care to speak with her and say hi to your new not!daughter?

Action: Topper Street
She's just had a conversation with her new not!dad, but there's still plenty of things she doesn't get. She's taken to wondering the streets outside now, gaping at the perfect houses and trees that line the entire neighborhood.

Action: School
Mayfield High, there's a new kid who's in town. Tara "Mundy" is looking a little lost though, and she has no idea where the classes are, or even which is her locker. She's going around asking people for help. Maybe she's just waved you over then? Or maybe you see her wandering the corridor? Either way, will you help her out?

Action: Town, after school.
The moment the bell goes, she's out of the place immediately to check out the rest of town. Prison or no, she's not one to turn down the opportunity to go exploring. You might see her around as she checks out the place.

Phone, unfiltered
(She was already told that she had been taken from home, that this wasn't even the USA that she had grown up in. Still, she had to at least try. Her fingers nearly slip as she dials in the number.)
...Dad? Are you there?

Comments

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

(Tara sighs and rolls her eyes dramatically.)

Tell me about it. The guy I'm staying with is slightly nuts. I don't get half of what he says to me, and he's a sniper in real life! I mean, yeah, he hasn't tried to hurt me or anything, but he's definitely dangerous. He's a crazed gunman!

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Blue or Red sniper then? I've talked with Blue, he seems well sane for a mercenary. I have little knowledge of Red.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

There's a blue AND a red Sniper? Great. Just great.

(Yeap, stuck in a town where everyone's a killer.)

I don't know whether he's blue or red, but he's Australian, if that counts. We're staying at Topper Street. Why are they color-coded anyway?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

What color were his clothes? Blue tends to wear blue and Red tends to wear red. They're from different mercenary teams or something. I'm not entirely certain about much other than he's from a band of shady mercenaries.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

He wasn't wearing any red, so I'm guessing he's probably blue.

(What Ruri said does give her cause for concern though. She's staying with a mercenary. While Ruri may have deemed him well-sane, she disagrees. No one can be sane and want to teach kids to shoot each other, even if the kids weren't...really there in the first place.)

Hey Ruri, is this town filled with dangerous people?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Yes.

There are sociopaths, homicidal maniacs, depowered superheroes, several super villains, the desperate, the confused and more. That being said there are a lot of good people here too.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Are there any superhero groups here? Back in Jump City, we had the Teen Titans to take care of any bad guys that try to hurt the innocent.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

There was that Batman guy... And some idiot calling himself Booster Gold...

I think that's about it though, that being said, I find the whole super hero concept to be kind of disturbing.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Wait...BATMAN was here!?

(Never mind about Booster Gold, but Batman. THE Batman. The Caped Crusader, Gotham's Dark Knight, one of the founding members of the Justice League. BATMAN was stuck here in Mayfield too!?)

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

I had to chase him off my roof a few times.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

You. Chased the Batman. Off your roof.

(She's staring at you again Ruri, one third shocked, another third in awe, and the last third with horror.)

Ruri, do you know what he does to people he doesn't like!? I mean, he's a good guy and all, but still! He's the Batman!

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of technical equipment set up on the roof to broadcast the wireless network. Someone on the roof could have damaged it, that and he was just as able to access that data network as anyone else.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but...Ruri, back where I come from, the Batman is the ultimate protector and defender of Gotham City. He's a great hero, but he also hurts the bad guys REAL bad. Like, I don't think he would've hurt you, but he's super scary. He's got all these cool kungfu moves and gadgets and a really cool car, and he's always managed to catch all the villains. Weren't you scared of him?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

No. Back home I was involved in a war with the Jovian colonies, and then spent months hunting pirates in the Asteroid Belt. I've felt fear one time in my life and that's when my adopted family was killed in a terrorist bombing.

I wasn't raised to well, understand things like fear. I just know that if he were up there he may have damaged the transmitters.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

(So many thoughts going through her head at this moment. On one hand, she doesn't understand what you mean by Jovian colony, but if you're talking the Asteroid Belt and PIRATES, then you've really got her confused. However, she does feel bad when you mention that your adopted family was killed.)

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up. It...must've been hard on you.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your concern. It was bad but, we have to move on, right?

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

I guess.

(She can't imagine that she can just move on if her parents got hurt or died though. She doesn't know what she'd do.)

You're a really strong and brave person then. If you were in Jump City, you'd totally qualify to be a Teen Titan.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

No, I'm just a girl who was never taught how to have emotions. That's something to pity, not look up to.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

(Come to think of it, Ruri hasn't shown even a flicker of feelings since they've talked. Tara's just having one giant shock after another. First, her not!dad is a mercenary who has no qualms about killing. Second, a potential friend she's met at school doesn't know emotions. Is there any normal human here in Mayfield!? And she's feeling even worse now, for thinking of Ruri that way. How could she, when the girl's been nothing but nice to her? Shame on you, Tara Strong.)

Gee, that's...I don't know what to say Ruri. But...I think that you're a great person. You've been really nice and kind to me on my first day here. That's gotta count for something, right?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

[She smiles very slightly]

Thank you. This place is terrible when you are new. Also when you've been here for a long time but its even worse when its new. That and with all the crazy people and idiots giving bad information I don't want anyone to suffer from that.

And I sort of have emotions, I just don't really know how to classify them so they're.... Quiet. But helping people, its a nice feeling here.

[She puts her hand over her heart]

After school if you'd like I can show you some of the better meeting places for people who are well, people and not drones.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

That'd be really nice of you Ruri. Thanks.

Umm...if it's ok with you...can I be your friend?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Sure. Its good to have friends, right?

[She nods and tilts her head in a slightly curious fashion]

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

It's the best thing ever. I can't imagine not having them.

(She's got a giant grin on her face now. She's making friends even faster than when she first moved to Jump. This is awesome!!)

Cool! We're going to have as much fun as we can here. I mean, we may be stuck in this lousy town, but that doesn't mean we can't still live our lives here. We've just got to keep up spirits up. I just know we'll get out of here someday, so long as we've got friends to help support each other.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

[She nods]

I also have one of the largest movie and video game collections in Mayfield so that helps too.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

R-really!? WOW! Where'd you get all of those!? Do you have Mega Monkey 4?? Or, or Wicked Scary? That is an awesome movie! I've always wanted to watch it, but I daren't do it alone, and none of my other friends want to watch it with me.