Fallout, Part I

[ngm_ff]

After Blood Force had fled away from the Imaginauts, the team returned to Pier 4. Jacob disappeared to put his rocky hide into hiding, smarting from being controlled and made to attack his teammate. Remi had picked something out of the sand after the villains left and took it with him back to base.

Tony Stark had noticed three pings of StarkTech suits in use in North Carolina. Two of the pings disappeared as they headed inland. The third suit made its way to New York City and Pier 4 in particular.

Comments

[innameof]

"Remi." He looks towards Phil and Lem signaling them to be quite. The two men know when to pay attention to Griffen.

"You should be sitting down," he advises. He doesn't want to see Remi do any harm to himself by moving around too early.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi glanced at Lem and Phil. His eyes narrowed slightly before he turned his attention back to Griffen.

"I'm fine," he said flatly. He was trying to take the heat out of anything he said. "I need to know if Blood Force is from my exact reality."

He held up the blackened thing he had brought from the beach. It looked like a charred hand of Black Dog's. "I assume a piece of one of them will be enough to get a dimensional signature off of."

[innameof]

"That's easy," Griffen said. "It shouldn't take long."

He pulls on a pair of gloves and moves to take the hand so he can take care of this.

"Lem, fire up the equipment." Lem moves to do just that for Griffen.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi gave Griffen the hand and then brushed flecks of black off his own hand. He crossed his arms in front of his chest. He was not going to move until he knew the answer.

"Lem and Phil should have enough samples from me to test against."

[innameof]

"I know." He has poked at the samples a few times.

"It might take a while to fully verify. You really should get some rest. I'll come find you when I know something."

[aqua_gambit]

"I'll wait. They said they killed my father." He did not look like he was going anywhere. He was not even floating above the ground like he normally did.

[innameof]

Griffen nods and moves to get to work. He knows that there is some things he can do to push the test along. His experience with other dimensions was pretty useful.

He looks tense when he came over to see Remi. "I wish I had good news."

[aqua_gambit]

Boredom and impatience warred with resolve. Remi's resolve won, and he stayed right smack in Griffen's lab. Not being certain if Blood Force was from his dimension left him a glimmer of hope. A glimmer that started to fade as Griffen approached.

Whatever he felt was pushed behind a royal facade of stoicism. "So they are from my reality?"

[innameof]

"Yes," he replies finding no way to soften the blow. "I'm sorry."

He had no idea if Remi's father was really dead. He just understood being powerless when a family member died.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi blinked. Then he took it in. When he spoke, it was almost toneless and flat.

"Good work, Griffen. Thank you for informing me." He uncrossed his arms from in front of his chest and turned to leave. He didn't know what to do exactly, but he knew he wasn't needed in a lab.