On the grounds

[princesspowerful]

Molly is younger than a lot of the other students (but not young enough to be left out of things, just so you know) and is a bit more excited than the others. While going to school isn't as thrilling as being somewhere completely new and awesome, she's enjoying herself none the less. Besides, she figures it's only a matter of time before she gets rescued by her friends and go back to fighting crime.

For now, this game seems kind of cool and she gets to play it! She was chosen over her friends and the older students so HA! Take that! She figures she'll go defeat some bad guys, because some bad guys need to be here, right?

Not one to understand the severity of being taken somewhere to play some kind of game, Molly is generally enjoying herself and running around the grounds trying to find anything cool.



Sorry if she runs into you.

Comments

[princesspowerful]

"Okay! Let's go find a doctor with good soap." She takes his hand again and leads him in a random direction.

[greennotgold]

All this being dragged around by a random stranger, even if she is a kid his age, is unnerving. But Fletcher is a doormat, and so he follows.

[princesspowerful]

Molly wouldn't notice even if he was putting up a fight, but he's not so she just keeps leading. Not that she knows where she's going.

[greennotgold]

Hey, who cares? This is sort of like an adventure, right? Although it should be noted that they are headed further into the woods.

"Um... do you know how to fight really well?" he asks her. Since she's planning to win...

[princesspowerful]

"Ya huh! I'ma superhero, I defeated bad guys."

[greennotgold]

"Superhero? Like in comic books? Are you an alchemist?" That's the only thing that makes sense to him, naturally.

[princesspowerful]

"Yeah! Like comic books!" she jumps a bit as she says this, obviously excited.

"What's a alche-thing?"

[greennotgold]

"Um..." He blinks. "D-did you forget about alchemy, too?"

It doesn't even occur to him that the people here might be from other worlds.

[princesspowerful]

She blinks at him, "MAYBE! WHAT IS IT?"

[greennotgold]

"It's a science! It's the discipline of understanding, breaking down, and reconstructing matter," he explains. He's got the textbook definition down pat. "I've seen people use it to fight before by making weapons and stuff..."

[princesspowerful]

"Uhh. I can hit really hard!" Yup, she has no idea what he's talking about so that's all she can offer him.

[greennotgold]

"Oh. Well, um, maybe you can do both..." He doesn't get how someone their age could hope to fight crime without alchemy. "I don't know..."

[princesspowerful]

"Maybe mutants can't do your magic thing" she nods wisely.

[greennotgold]

"It's not magic! It's--" He cuts himself off. "M-mutants?"

[princesspowerful]

She lets out an exasperated sigh, "Duuuh haven't you ever heard of mutants? Or the X-Men?"

[greennotgold]

"...no," he replies. There's not even a hint of recognition in his mind. That couldn't be something else he forgot, could it? "I mean, I've heard of genetic mutations, but..."

[princesspowerful]

"Yeah that!" She says, pointing at him as he says it, "It gives people powers!"

[greennotgold]

"Powers?!" Thaaaat can't be right, not at all. That sounds impossible. "What, what kind of powers?"

...maybe powers like using alchemy without transmutation circles? Could that explain why Edward...

[princesspowerful]

"Like super strength and mind reading and healing and lifting things with minds and laser beams out your eyes and teleporting and everything ever!"

[greennotgold]

He just kind of stares. That sounds like a comic book, all right, but there's no way that can be real.

Right?

"Um... really?"

[princesspowerful]

"REALLY!" She was jumping up and down, always filled with energy, "Wanna see!!? I have super strength!!"

[greennotgold]

He doesn't know whether to believe her, really. On the one hand, it sounds ridiculous and unscientific. On the other, he can't even trust his own memories right now. So...

"Um... okay." He nods.

[princesspowerful]

Molly led Fletcher to a tree, "Ima hit the tree 'kay? You should stand back so it doesn't hit you!" She then leads him a few feet away to avoid possible injury.

She lowered her eyes at the tree as if getting it into target. If anyone who knew her was around, they would notice that her eyes never started to glow signifying the use of her power. She clenched her fist, pulled back, and WHAM.

The tree was fine.

Molly on the other hand, "OW OW OW OW OW OW!! WHAT'S WRONG I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING!" She goes to hit the tree again, and again nothing.

[greennotgold]

Fletcher winced when Molly's fist hit the tree, and then a little more when she cried out.

"Are-- are you okay? Did you get hurt?" He sees her try to hit it again, and calls out, "D-don't!"

[princesspowerful]

Molly turned to Fletcher with tears in her eyes, either from the pain or the frustration or both, "Why won't it work!" she yelled.