This Has Not Been the Field Trip He Signed Up For ((X-Adult First, Maybe More Later))

[fourshelled]

After Athos had been released from Murderworld, the ninja stealthily and silently went farther into New York City. Eventually the turtle found a nice park with some well-used benches. He sat down on one and tried to achieve utter stillness.

What Athos achieved instead was a transformation into a redheaded teenager sitting on a park bench. Pete looked around nervously. He wasn't sure where he was. Or where his chaperone was. He rubbed his hands together and watched life go by.

This place wasn't filled with mutants, but he still felt very alone. He wondered if there were even pay phones around any more. Though he wasn't sure who he would call.

So, he decided to sit there until someone found him or he got a better idea.

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[fourshelled]

"Guess it is now," he mumbled more to himself. He wasn't awed by the big mansion surrounded by buildings going up at a quick pace for the school's fall semester. He just looked at it all like he was going to prison.

"Athos handled most of it. I closed my eyes and hummed when I woke up while he was attacked by devil robots."

[firstbornrichards]

"If there's anything I can do to make this feel more like somewhere you want to be, Pete, you just ask, okay?" Franklin replied, sincerely. "Even if I have to get Hana to bake a special, specific kind of cupcake every day." His expression turned to a smile for a moment before becoming a little more serious when Pete told him about what had happened.

"I'm very, very glad he did. We'll find out more about what happened, I promise you.

Is there anything you need right now?"

[fourshelled]

"I don't know if I'll ever get used to being a..." he gestured in the air to try to find the right unoffensive word to use. He came up with nothing, so he finished lamely with "... mutant. A weird mutant."

The kind that gets dropped out of things like a family because he's so freaky.

"I-I was out shopping with Dani. So, uhm, make sure she knows? ... and maybe a cupcake."

[firstbornrichards]

"We're all weird here." Franklin replied warmly. "I know what it's like to want to be normal. And how easy it is to say that 'normal is boring'." Franklin was the last person to criticize someone for feeling weird or freakish. For him, it'd been less his mutation and more to do with his struggles with depression.

"We'll let her know. As for the cupcake, let's get into the kitchen and see what's around. Maybe we can even dragoon one of the cooking people into whipping something up for you."