8815/Cupcakes from heaven

Cupcakes from heaven
Date of Scene:	15 August 2019
Location:	Kitchen - Xavier's School
Synopsis:	Nori has a Pizza Related Incident and Shannon saves the day. Ellie films for school Twitter.
Cast of Characters:	Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Nightingale, Surge

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Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie is walking through the manor with Noriko, late night munchy kitchen raid.

"Okay I can't believe the Blue Beast made you guys go into the city and clean up a city park... I mean was it full of used needles and drug dealers or what?" yeah she crew up in Genosha and then in Westchester. While she is a bit of a Social Justice sort she is still a bit snarky and sheltered. "With Laura.. I mean does Laura even know how to Garden at all Nori?"

"Hey do you think Shannon might be baking... remember.. thrity five times if we catch her in here."

Voices carry as they head into the kitchen.

Nightingale has posed:
     Someone was in for thirty-five times of... something, anyways, as the student in question was indeed baking. By the smell of things, she was indulging in a late-night pizza craving. The aroma of fresh pizza dough, cheese, pepperoni, and more cheese wafted through the air. Healthy this indulgence definitely was not, but at least tasty, it would be! She's perched on a stool near the kitchen island, waiting for the pizza to finish baking, wearing a slouchy grey tank top, tartan flannel sweatpants, and... are those Old English sheepdog slippers on her feet?? Floppy pink tongues, big black noses, and all??

Surge has posed:
"She's alright... kind of matter of facty, but ya know... still kind of cool." Nori rubs at her right ear as they head for the kitchen, looking like she's proper amped up, "Yeah, I had Beast thinking I was into basketball.. I think dude is going to... I don't know like sponsor a team or something?" She /shrugs/ "There were condoms though. Laura said they were infected, but I swear to God I saw one of them move. And one of the drug dealers stuck around to help hold my bag. I think he liked me, which was even more amusing."

She hasn't yet gotten around to telling Ellie about the fight with Spawn, but after blowing off some of her extra energy, taking a shower, and changing that was the first place she went. Now wearing goggles at the hairline of her shock blue spikes, a tanktop tied off with a flannel around her waist, and shorts that are cut off pin-striped slacks, she walks with a pair of unlaced combat boots beside the explosive Warhead.

"Thirty five times.. absolutely." Bobbing her head as they pair of deliquents come into the kitchen, ducking side to side looking for Shannon, "Heeeeeey, Fluttershy! What's up girrrrl." Ducking so she can see the winged mutant through the island that seperates kitchen from dining area. Really big, probably not good, grin on her black makeup heavy face.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Okay for the record that is disgusting, that Laura can probably tell by smell and you saying it moved. Seriously we are coming to get food... and something smells good... I do not need to be visualizing animated condoms Nori... fuck." there is a mock shudder from Ellie as she looks around.

She is wearing a pretty typical Negasonic outfit, leather, leather, spikes, more leather. Probably only because it is indoors with excellent A/C she she can get her style on without dying in the hot humid summer night outside. Probably.

"Oo that smells like Pizza." she notes pleased and then leans on the island and just makes eye contact while Nori is being odd. Which she has learned so far is not very unusual. "Sup." pause "Come here often?"

Nightingale has posed:
Shannon rather pointedly ignores the Fluttershy reference, and instead giggles, wiggling a wing in Ellie's general direction. "If you bake it, they will come." Not too much of a Field of Dreams reference, right? Or was it Field of Pizza in this case? It was one of those crazy late-night things that opened the way to a rabbit hole it wasn't always wise to follow! She'd learned that Ellie was just... Ellie. The leather and spikes didn't surprise her so much anymore. "Had a pizza craving. Maybe I should have made two instead?"

Surge has posed:
Nori leans against the counter, drumming all eight fingers with her thumbs tapping every third, and clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth with her lip pulled back between her teeth. Fidgeting a little from foot foot until she loses the beat and moves her hands to slide her fingers back into her spikey hair. Just a hyped up ball of energy that looks like she might run off at any second to do god only knows what.

It is entirely possible that she will, actually.

Every hop, she jingles from the a little. Her gauntlets rattling against her belt, or the multitude of leather corded necklaces with little metal charms around her neck. "Okay, shit, I need to blow off some energy again... I'm feeling..." Fingers fling outwards, static jutting off her fingertips. Two or three times until she shoves her right hand down into one of her big pockets to grab a crumpled bag of multi-colored gummi bears. One is popped out and tossed into her mouth, the rest held in Ellie's direction.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie slides a hand out, accepts the gummi bear, then pops it into her mouth and chews swallowing after a moment. "I definitely think two pizzas would have been smarter in a school like this." she contemplates the possibility of two pizzas.

"So Fluttershy I have two questions for you. Are you trying to go by Nightingale because you can heal and your middle name is Florence?" she holds up one finger, tiktoks it. "Because I had no idea you could actually heal ... I just figured it was a bird thing."

She lets a pause hang. "Two..." two fingers now, tiktok, "If we spin you around is it true that after a certain point cupcakes will fly out of your wings?"

Nightingale has posed:
Shannon rolls her eyes and facepalms, shaking her head. "Goddamn it, Ellie, will you please stop calling me Fluttershy?" Fine, if the other girl had been encouraging her to simply say 'shit', then this should be no problem for them, right? She slides off of the stool and heads for the fridge, pulling out a bit of pizza dough she'd wrapped up and set aside to make more pies later. Okay, so she doesn't have the whole spinning-the-dough-in-the-air trick down, but she does manage to get it in a somewhat circular shape on a baking sheet. "My middle name is Marie. But you're right about the Nightingale part of it. The healing thing can really backfire on me if I don't watch it, so I don't make a big thing of it."

The second question has Shannon raising her eyebrows, and rolling her eyes. "The heck... really? Cupcakes? Okay, how did that one get started?"

Surge has posed:
Nori gets right up near Ellie's face, far closer than should be comfortable for anyone, "Told'ya." Then she's back to bouncing, unless she's thwapped, which she might be. It happens, it could happen, anything could happen. Just waiting for the gummi to take effect and calm her the hell down some.

"Oh, come on, Fluttershy-" Poke the bear, "-Nicknames are the subject of comradery, it doesn't have to be the basis for social norms amidst the entire student body, but you can rest certain about one thing." She holds up a finger now, this one sheathed in metal as is the rest of both hands and forearms. "The harder you try to fight it, the more likely it is to stick."

Ellie's explanation of the second question has Nori snickering into her shoulder, "So we were sitting around taking apart a-.. uh.. we were doing tech training last night and one of us, I don't remember which, probably Nega.... anyways one of us figured your special power was baking."

The electric mutant shrugs both shoulders, palms up, "So we decided that there had to be some revolution necessary... ya know to build up the necessary 1.28gh necessary to shoot brownies out of your ass like a baked goods supersoaker."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
At which point Ellie's eyes widen at the sheer nearness of Noriko. Blink blink. Then she thwapsout at Nori even as she bounces away.

"Nori is right actually. I called her Taser for like forever. I mean at least is isn't Kentucky or Iron capitalist..." then she adds "She is also very right about the whole fighting it makes people want to use it more. Like now Noriko is just Noriko.... oooo also better than Lamepool."

"Yeah baking is like your secondary mutation. Tertiary... wings.. healing... maybe primary. But yeah baking." at which point Negasonic pauses. "No brownies shooting out of her ass Nori... the image is ... god you and hte images tonight. No. Cupcakes." leans to brush a wing "From wings." it will be a bit for the gummi bears to really kick in.

Nightingale has posed:
Even Shannon can't stifle a giggle at that image, putting the sauce and cheese on top of the pie she's putting together. "Oh gawd, that image... yeah, those wouldn't be brownies. Not from there." She stops mid-reach as she's going for the package of pepperoni, a little bit surprised that someone who isn't a lot shorter and younger than her is going for her wings. It's a little bit odd, but nobody seemed to be meaning any harm, not yet. "No cupcakes from the wings. Baking's not a superpower. It's survival, when you have a dad who could get called out on a removal at any time... hey, death doesn't keep regular office hours... and a mom who could basically burn water."

Surge has posed:
"I thought it was adorable." Noriko says of her former nickname, rubbing her arm where Ellie smacked her even after she's walk/skipped/jumped over to the big sliding door to the backyard of the Mansion, "The point is..." Spinning to point both fingers at Shannon, "Embrace it... run with it.. make it your own.. and then, you can basically rest assured it will fly away on angel wings." Fluttering her fingers. She's still bouncy, jittery even, but it's starting to slacken up a little.

Moving back over to the stool beside Ellie to hop up on it. Both metal clad hands on the seat as if she requires that leverage to make it. She might, she's not tall. "How long on the pizza? I'm starving." Which is often the case as the charge starts to die down in her. Leaning forward so her elbows are up on the counter, one hand closed over the other, clinking fingers along teh big metal knuckles.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"So you aren't the angel of baked goods?" Ellie seems quite skeptical in tone and expression at this point as she watches Shannon listening to the explanation.

"Okay well.. I can't cook to save my life so it seems like a mutation to me when someone can." mostly she didn't really have a family long enough for lessons.

To Nori "I imagine ten to fifteen minutes... I mean those old domino ads had them like thirty minutes with delivery?"

Nightingale has posed:
In point of fact, the timer on the oven goes off at just that moment, and Shannon pads on over to get the pizza. With a mitt, of course. She might be a healer but really wasn't keen on pushing her luck! She sets the pan down on a cooling rack, though it was entirely likely the moment she stepped aside, one of the pair would be going for a pizza cutter and diving right into that pizza! "There's the first one... want anything else besides pepperoni on the second?"

She stops in her tracks as she listens to Ellie, her brows furrowing and her eyes misting over. To hell with it. Oven mitt, wings, and all, she goes over and hugs the other girl gently. "Hey, if you like, maybe I could teach you a little sometime. We're all supposed to be like a family here, right?"

To Noriko, she smiles and chuckles a little. "I'd wait a minute or two for that to cool before you rip into it."

Surge has posed:
Nori isn't sure what's happening or why Shannon is getting misty eyed and coming over to hug Ellie, but it's kind of like watching a train rush towards some damsel tied on the tracks... She wants to go grab the pizza cutter and throw caution to the wind, as she is always want to do, but here's this situation!

Spiraling towards some unknown conclussion!

Slowly, ever so slowly, she slides off the stool and walks backwards so that she can keep watching... at least until her butt hits the drawer in which pizza cutters are stored. Only then does she turn away, with frequent glances, that aren't nearly hyper as they were a little while ago. The slicer is pulled out and rolled about her finger to cut the pie pretty effortlessly into eights, a slice yanked onto a plate, then another.

The second is slid across the counter towards Ellie while she, further, throws caution to the wind and grabs it up with her gauntlet to immediately take a huge bite.

This was a mistake.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Honestly Ellie isn't entirely sure why Shannon is coming right at her wings, oven mitts, and all to wrap her up in a very all enveloping hug. "Uh" is all the teenage warhead manages in a confused moment. Honestly she will likely later blame it on the gummi bears.

Nothing blows up.

"I burn water?" is offered confused after a moment. "And ... right yeah..." she tugs away getting prickly in demeanor "Found family.. yada .. yada bada yada..." grumbling, like a teenage porcupine really. Getting close to people is dangerous for her in her experience.

She shoots a glance to Noriko in time to watch her make her mistake though.

Nightingale has posed:
Shannon pulls back from Ellie and just smiles. Yeah, she might be prickly but some of it made sense now. Maybe she wasn't all that bad after all.

She catches Ellie looking over in Noriko's direction, and, though she's closer in proximity than Ellie, she is unlikely to be able to stop the mother of all mistakes when it came to pizza--giving in to the temptation of eating a slice too soon after pulling the pie out of the oven. "Aww, frak..."

Surge has posed:
"FUCK!" One metal pair of fingers scrapes the nuclear hot sauce and cheese off her tongue into the sink, "Son of uh-" Water straight from the tap, sucking it down with her tongue lulled out trying to make the whole of her mouth not a lava-pit of agony. What a terrible night to have a curse.

Like a dog, lapping at water running from the facet, splashing it everywhere including on her fancy ass power gauntlets which don't seem at all bothered by a little moisture. "What the hell man, that was terrible... I'm going to have one of those hard pallot mouth blisters.. Dammit I hate those." This is not her first rodeo.

Her and caution are not friends at all.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Somehow in all of this Negasonic got her phone out and records the entire ordeal. I mean she is a master at social media and no one can use a phone as fast or wickedly as her. She doesn't spoil it either by calling attention to herself while she films Nori flailing and splashing water on herself trying to drink from the tap.

"It is like watching a kid touching a hot stove.. except it keeps happening." she finally notes with wry, if fond, amusement.

"Shannon can you help her or does it like actively hurt you when you heal?" yeah she said Shannon.

Nightingale has posed:
"It'll hurt me, but I heal pretty quickly, so it won't hurt me as long as it would her." Yeah, this would rank among one of the more unusual things Shannon's had to heal, but not the first time she's dealt with burns. "This is gonna sting," she mutters softly, not sure or not caring if anybody hears. Shaking her head, she walks on over to the sink and very gently rests her hand on the side of Noriko's face to turn the other girl to face her.

"Just hold still like that, okay? Yeah, tongue out and all." This wasn't at all weird, right? No, of course not! Wrinkling her nose ever so slightly, she rests her other hand just over Noriko's mouth. A soft hiss escapes her, as she begins to absorb the injury into herself. FUCK, she hated this part of it!

Surge has posed:
Nori, possibly drawn by the electronic device, or just knowin Ellie, glances right up at the camera while still splashing water on her face, and flicks flashes 'Peace Signs', then turns it into a metalic middle finger. Despite the pain of the ordeal, she's actively grinning while trying t force pat more water into her facehole. "fugh ou." Laughing and sputtering more water, from her burnt lips.

Clearly she's got zero issues with Nega recording her, even knowing that it will be all over the school twitter. As if people could possibly think Surge was /more/ weird than they already consider her?

Ohhhhh...

OH YES...

Nori opens her mouth to Shannon, tongue stuck out so the healer/angel can hover her palm all kinds of close. Just have to wait for the appropriate time... wait for the he- LICK THE PALM!

Just like a little brother might when trying to cover their mouth because little brothers are disgusting.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie cracks up and keeps filming the splashing laughing sputtering teenager even while she gets flipped off and all. Also yes it is definitely going to be used later for some nefarious purpose. Probably school Twitter.

The laughing kicks off again as she catches the palm lick perfectly on her phone "Oh.. for fucks sake..." she may end up crying at this point. This is definitely partially gummi bear induced. Honestly it is hard to say who is the worst influence.

Nightingale has posed:
"Oh for f..." Shannon rolls her eyes, glad that her now-blistered mouth prevents something more coherent than that from coming out! With the absorption of the injury actually -aided- by the puerile gesture, she pulls her hands away, going right for the soap to wash. And wash. And wash some more. Something told her this was going to be all over the school by morning--and she was very likely to face a scolding from Kitty. Again. She gets a glass of cool water for herself and drinks it slowly to ease some of the sting from the burn in her mouth. "That anthwer your quethtion, Ellie?" Yeah, she'd be talking funny for a while.

Surge has posed:
Nori grabs her slice and properly blows on it this time before taking another bite, chewing with big mouth chews to keep from burning the roof of her mouth... again. "Thanks, Shan-." Hip checking her on her way back around the counter to resume her seat beside Ellie, who also gets a hip bump. Now something more like a normal girl, she eats her pizza without just shoving it all in her mouth as she might have before the gummi finally started to kick in.

This is why she eats them after all.

Suck enough charge and she turns into a manic, bouncing around like an idiot. Get a little stoned? Completely normal... if giggly.. Eating pizza with snapping bites of gooey cheese. She's still weird, obviously, but she's just not a manic phase weird. "Did I get water in my hair?" To Ellie... she did. Not a small amount either.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie finishes recording and tucks her phone away after answering Shannon. "Yes. Yes it does."

She checks her own slice that Nori cut for her and then carefully takes a bite. "So can you fly Shannon?" being nice since she made them pizza and healed Noriko even if she was an idiot.

At Nori's question she looks sidelong and skeptical. "Yes. Also if you shake off like Rahne or Trashpuppy and get my pizza wet I will explode you."

Nightingale has posed:
Shannon nods in answer to Ellie's question. "Yeah, I can. Fun sthuff, too. Don't know how fathst I can fly, but I think Scott wants to tetht some stuff out on that." All in all, a normal late-night munchies run at Xavier's. You know, winged healers, explosive social media queens, and electrifying teens all around. Perfectly normal... right? Right!

Surge has posed:
"No you wont. You would definitely miss me." Nori calls Ellie's bluff with a side glance and another bite of pizza, chewing just as oddly, full jaw tongue pushing hot food around to keep it from sitting in one place too long. Looking, at least for a second, like she's going to either shake her head violently at Nega or just rub her wet hair against the side of the explosive mutants face. Instead she just shoulder bumps her, smirks, and stands up on the rungs of her stool to practically crawl right over the counter for another slice off the cooling rack.

With her gauntlets, she need not even worry about burning her fingers.

"Thanks for healing my tongue and lips." To Shannon, crawling back with her slice, already taking a bite as she settles back down on the stool. "Stiff ass is going to test your flying? Shouldn't... Shouldn't someone who can..." A glance at Nega... back to Shannon, "Like... someone who can.. I don't know.. fly.. do that?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Why god did I stop recording early..." she just shakes her head sadly then takes another bite of Pizza.

Well Surge didn't quite call her bluff, I mean verbally yes but not like totally with wet hair shakes or rubbing it against her face. "Do not under estimate the power of this fully operational battle station." she does lean to bump shoulders back.

"Definitely someone who can fly should do that.. I mean I can sort of fly so even I'd be better at this than Dorkmeister. I have an alien bird team mate in the Titans that could probably teach you how to fly better... he has wings kind of like yours Shannon."

Nightingale has posed:
"Hey now, he's not so bad! Whole lot nicer than I thought he'd be, actually." Shannon frowns just a little bit, and shrugs. They had their opinion of Scott, she had hers. Seems they'd have to agree to disagree. "Sam helped me quite a lot... so did Megan, and even Kurt a little bit, once, in his way."

She's just raising her glass of water to take another sip to keep cooling down the burns in and on her mouth, and stops, right in the middle. "Alien? As in, literally not of this world? Wow. That's kind of neat." The water seems to be doing its job, her speech improving as it and her own natural healing abilities kick in.

She glances over to Noriko just in time, shaking her head. "I've got a bad feeling about this." Ha! Someone had to say it! Wait... was the winged healer a... *gasp* -GEEK-??

Surge has posed:
"Don't /you/ quote Bablyon 5 at me." Pointing an accusing finger at Shannon, face scrunched up in a mock snarl that only barely manages to wipe her grin off her face. "Scott is a big Boyscout. He gave me dentention for a month my first year here for draining the battery of his motorcycle... but I was about to /die/-" She's dramatic, just not as animately so now that she's a little stoned, "-You don't tell a hypoglycemic person they can't have your butterscotch if their blood sugar's fifty... same damn thing." Grumbling, at least until a side glance is turned on Ellie.

"Mhm." Nori sucks sauce from each of her gauntlet fingers and pushes her plate away, "Let's go, I want to watch Star Trek." Clearly busting Ellie's balls, of course she knows that's Battle Star Galactica. "Thanks for the grub, Shan-o." Finger waving with little scrapy metal on metal, tugging at Ellie's jacket collar with the other.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie mrrfs midbite of pizza and manages to make it off her stool. "Hey wait.. pizza..." she carefully saves her slice with one hand even as Nori seems intent on marching them off now.

She mouths ADHD to Shannon then waves the pizza slice "Thanks for the pizza Shan-o-shy." and lets herself be led away.