People Like Us

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OOC: post will "bounce off" the lyrics of People Like Us by Kelly Clarkson (MetroLyrics). Thread is open to everyone



IC:

Warren had gone for a flight in the cool morning San Francisco air, but his path took him to a place he really wished like hell he'd avoided. He'd been going back and forth between his more angelic state and the blue-hued Horseman of Death that everyone would have loved to see disappear once more.

But looking up at the Sentinel that was part of the Mutant Kitsch art exhibit in downtown San Francisco made him realize that the demon might be more necessary in days ahead than the gentle soul.

((I can't believe this is happening here)) he thought as he pulled out his ear buds and tucked his iPhone back in his pocket. His blonde hair and playboy good looks were on display at the moment, but that could all turn on a dime. His wings, of course, were there for everyone to see.

As he picked up one of the programs for the exhibit, Warren heard a young woman outside the gallery strumming a guitar and singing a song he'd heard the students playing in the rec room one night.

Oh woah oh oh woah oh
We are all misfits living in a world on fire
Oh woah oh oh woah oh
Sing it for the people like us, the people like us

Hey, this is not a funeral
It's a revolution, after all your tears have turned to rage
Just wait, everything will be okay
Even when you're feeling like it's going down in flames
Ohh

As he dug in his pocket and pulled out a 20 for the singer, he thought on the lyrics. "People like us indeed," he said as the young woman looked up and smiled at him. She was most definitely a mutant, but no one seemed to be all that stunned by her exotic appearance. "Please, keep playing."

The young woman brushed her hair back and started to strum her guitar once more.

People like us we've gotta stick together
Keep your head up nothing lasts forever
Here's to the damned, to the lost and forgotten
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom

Oh woah oh oh woah oh
We are all misfits living in a world on fire
Oh woah oh oh woah oh
Sing it for the people like us, the people like us

((I guess I better go in and see this exhibit)) Warren thought as he dropped a donation in the box at the door and made his way inside.

 

[Gambit]

"Dis has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen," Remy grumbled as he looked at Anna and then up at the Sentinel that was part of this exhibit. "Thought the mayor was gonna shut dis down. Merde!"

Gambit's eyes landed on a row of inhibitor collars that people were trying on, seemingly for the fun of it, as they took in the exhibit. "I swear, chere, gonna rip those off people's necks given half a chance."

"Remy, I understand, but we can't just...go..." Rogue started to say as she looked up at the Sentinel and realized that it was not dormant. "I thought that thing had been shut down," she added as she kept on eye on the death machine. "Wait...where did that second one come from?"

"Out of the floor! It's that awesome?" some teenager said as he watched the Sentinel as it seemed to size up everyone in the room.

"No, not cool. No way. No how!" Gambit said as he pulled out a deck of playing cards. "Chere, think we have to get everyone out of here before that damned thing decides to fulfill its prime directive, non?" 

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Betsy had gotten a ping from Warren to meet him at this exhibit, and the appearance of the Sentinel from the floor only cemented the fact that he really wasn't kidding when he said this thing was beyond the pale. She saw Rogue and Gambit eying the metal menace and moved to join them. "Someone thinks this is all too funny, I guess," she said as she moved between her teammates. "Warren is here..."

"I'm right here," he said as he flexed his metallic wings and, once again, took on the hue of the Horseman of Death. "And I have a call out to Sadie Sinclair. She has to know this is totally unacceptable."

"I'm sure she does, Warren, but what can she actually do about it? Freedom of speech, sadly, does apply to this nightmare," Betsy replied as she kept an eye on the Sentinel. "It doesn't seem to be making a move, but I don't trust it or whoever is operating it for one minute."

 

[Rogue]

"I think we better ask the good people of San Francisco to leave the building pronto," Rogue said to her teammates as she watched the Sentinel just standing there. "The only good Sentinel is one that is made into a big old pile of junk, and it'd be easy to do that if we didn't have so many people here. Sugah, think you can get them to skedaddle?" she asked Gambit as she flexed her arms and prepared to fell the mechanical menace once the visitors to the exhibit had left.

"Wow! Real mutants!" one of the visitors exclaimed as Rogue took to the air and waited as Gambit got people to head for the exits.

"Merde!" the Cajun yelled as he and Psylocke started to usher people outside. "You heard d'lady! No show today! Please exit and get d'hell out of here!"

"Remy, gotta be a little nicer. Tourism is a big industry here," Rogue said as she flew around the Sentinel, but it was still not making a move. "Maybe this damned thing is a dud?"