Arrival [Future Foundation]

[heirtoinhumanity]

Black Bolt and Medusa had known known their son wanted to see the outside world, to explore it, under his own control. He'd gained enough mastery over his powers that such a thing was doable. Black Bolt had, however, asked Reed and Sue, as a personal favor to keep a watchful eye on his son and heir. They were not to intervene unless absolutely necessary, just to watch Ahura.

Ahura knew that his father loved him. He was far less sure, however, that his father trusted him. He was a member of the Royal Family, however, and the heir to the throne, so his desires did need to be taken into due consideration. Ahura also privately suspected that there were reasons his father did not mind having him gone. Many Inhumans had lost faith in their king when Apocalypse had saked Attilan, and some of them looked towards Ahura.

Others feared that he was Maximus come again, destined to go mad like his uncle. Ahura had wondered that himself from time to time. Certainly, he had much of his uncle's look, and his hideous power reflected Maximus more than his father's.

He put those thoughts out of his mind now. Lockjaw, faithful companion that he was, had just transported him to the Future Foundation headquarters, where he was to be officially greeted. He'd be staying there at least until which time he'd secured lodgings of his own. Attilan had little use of money domestically, but many years ago, the Royal Family had quietly made provisions to provide their needs financially, should it ever come up.

It would not do for a Prince to live in anything less than comfort. That much was agreed upon universally. There was a dignity to being an Inhuman prince. He imagined, in the future, that ambassadors would have similar dignities. For he truly believed that Attilan's isolation was dooming it to slow failure.

In a flash of light, through the medium of a singularly enormous dog, Ahura Boltagon, Crown Prince of Attilan, found himself in the lobby of the Future Foundation. He idly wondered who would receive him there.

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[aqua_gambit]

"I can understand that completely," he commented as they came to a rather large pair of double doors. Remi waves his hand over a panel. There was a chirp and then a small pause before the doors slid open.

"Imaginaut leader access. For all your alien delivery needs. Let's see what the scientists are studying today." This lab was not as creepy to Remi as the one where they studied the multiverse. Where Lem and Phil eyed him as a test subject.

They deal with AUs all the time, why *can't* they have a tribble? :3

[heirtoinhumanity]

Ahura peered into the lab. The scientists looked busy on their latest project, and he was pretty sure he saw a couple of strange ... creatures being examined. His eye caught one that appeared to be under very heavy security, and yet, seemed spectacularly harmless. In fact, it looked like a lump of soft fur, moving just enough to indicate that it was living.

"... do you know what that creature is?" It looked curious. He suspected that many would find it cute, even though cute things had lost much of their appeal to him a long time ago.

Or tribble like creature. Not like Marvel's never lifted something from elsewhere...

[aqua_gambit]

Remi strolled into the lab, but he did start floating off the floor once he got past the threshold. While Ahura looked at the creature, the Atlantean peered at some of the documentation near it.

He hummed thoughtfully. "Most curious creature, Ahura. Its trilling seems to have a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system."

To which the lump of fur started to trill softly at Re3mi's humming.

Quick, find a name that is just different enough to avoid a lawsuit!

[heirtoinhumanity]

"Unusual. Tranquilizing ... that seems vaguely sinister." Saith the man with the literally fatal, soul-stealing gaze. He regarded the creature for another moment or two before moving on to slightly less unusual specimens.

"This laboratory is impressively equipped. It reminds me more than slightly of the genetics facilities in Attilan." In which the great geneticists mapped the future of their race, as best they could.

Quibbels?

[aqua_gambit]

"Well, the overly nervous might like it, I guess." He scratched the back of his head. This room was so full of science, that he tried hard not to think about it. His was to lead while theirs was to think and discover. Or some such.

"They have the funding and resources being connected to the Fantastic Four can provide. So they figure where the edge is and cut deeper." His own people were slightly advanced. At least in using some of the alien technology they brought to Atlantis.

[heirtoinhumanity]

"I'll be sure to suggest one for all of my overly nervous friends." Ahura noted dryly.

"Ah yes, the neverending quest for knowledge. Perhaps in the future, there can be some meaningful exchange between my people and others." He seemed to consider the point for a moment.

"Who are your Imaginauts? I'd like to meet some of them if I could."

[aqua_gambit]

"I'm sure you have plenty of those," he noted back just as dryly.

He turned away from the trilling little fur ball.

"Mary Storm, Jacob and Ryan Grimm, Alexa Stark, and Griffen O'Niel. Three legacies and two super-smart scientists."

[heirtoinhumanity]

All this dry wit was going to dehydrate poor Remi.

It was interesting that neither of Reed or Sue's children had signed on to the Future Foundation, but it wasn't something he was going to press. Just an interesting fact that he filed somewhere in the back of his mind. "I look forward to meeting them. Our people have always had a great respect for the Fantastic Four. It is a noble thing to carry on their work."

[aqua_gambit]

Remi did not find it interesting that Franklin and Valeria weren't there. If either of them had been, he wouldn't be there. The Atlantean was aware of legacies and knew by the act of eschewing them lead to a place for him to go.

"We can see which ones are around the Pier if you'd like. Somebody should be around."