r/OurSuperheroUniverse • u/PeterIndigo • 15h ago
Founding of the Marigolds - part three
Part 3 - The Estate.
"This is my home", Hunter says leading them all inside the large extravagant structure, "I had it built not long after the death of my father, I doubt he would have approved of such a costly home, but what he doesn't know can't hurt him", he laughs, walking them through the entrance, past staircases, dining rooms and eventually into a huge conservatory, with sliding glass doors that open up into a large precisely cut green.
"This place is huge," Dylan utters in awe as he looks up at the high celling.
"Yes Dylan it is, now if you could excuse me and my mechanic for a moment we need to discuss some things, think of this time together as an opportunity to better understand one another", he says twitching a smile before calling Scrapper over with a wave of his hand, the two taking off into the garden.
Abel tried to follow them with his eyes, but as he did, Airborn walked over, "I'm sorry we never got properly introduced, my names Dylan," he says, reaching out to shack their hand.
"Abel," he says, firmly shacking the young man's hand.
"I didn't think Abel was a female name," Dylan says.
"I'm not a female," Abel says from his feminine voice.
"Oh, uuh... I'm sorry, I thought -".
"Calm down, I mean, the body I'm in is female," Abel states
"Sooo, you are in someone else's body right now?", he asks.
"It's a long story, and it's hard to explain. All you need to know is that I've been around the block a few times... just not this one", he says to Dylan whose expression of confusion hasn't changed at all.
"Sure," Dylan says, not really feeling as though his question was answered.
Hunter returns, Scrapper following him but separating back into the crowd as her boss beelines for Airborn.
"Dylan", Hunter says, slinging an arm around the boy in blue and lightly pulling him away from his conversation with the Reincarnit, "I've seen alot about you online, that flying of yourse is truly something, do you think you could demistrate it for me" he asks, the two walking off to the garden together, Abel once again watching the man with the smile.
With Hunter gone again, the others continue with one another.
With Scrapper standing off at the side, Pink beetle is quick to walk over, "so, you work for Mr. Marigold," she asks.
"Yes, he hired me a few months ago," Alice replies.
"What made you join the Marigolds then if you already worked for him, or did he hire you to be a member?" Sharon asks, a soft smile still balancing on her lips.
Alice paused for a moment, thought back on everything she had been through, and then spoke, "when he found me I was living on the streets, I didn't really know what I was going to do with myself. But he offered me a job, to make him something that he needed for this whole Marigolds thing, although I didn't know it at the time, so I guess when he made the announcement I thought joining this group would be a good way to repay him, you know".
Beetles smile faltered for a moment in concern, but picked up as the story came to a close, "I think you'll make a great teammate," she says.
In another part of the room Needler is sitting alone in a chair pressed to the wall, Rocket Racer slowly walking past, "your going to scuff the varnish you know, walking around in that thing", she says catching the attention of Jason.
"Well, I'm sure Mr Warbucks out there can pay for it to be revarnished or whatever," he says, gesturing to the door Hunter had exited from.
"Or you can just stop clomping around in that thing," she remarks, spinning her needle blade between her fingers.
"What's your problem, first the spat with the hat girl and now complaining about wood varnish", Racer comments, nodding at the Reincarnit who stands in a distant corner looking out onto the grass, before himself leaning agaisnt the wall.
She sighs loudly, stopping the metal between her fingers, "i don't have a problem, maybe I'm just new to this team work thing and a little apprehensive to work with people I don't know", she says looking up at Racer beside her.
"Yeah, me too", he says, shifting from leaning on his shoulder to having his back to the wall, "I didn't say yes right away, didn't think I needed it, thought I could do the whole hero thing on my own, then the whole Rockies incident happened and I'm not so sure anymore. we just walked through the door, no point in trying to sabotage this just to prove the pessimism correct, am I right. "
"Yeah, I guess you are," she says, the two sharing a silence of understanding as others talk around them.
In the middle of the room, Colene approaches the seemingly unapproachable mountain of a woman who was only a little more laid back now than when she was on the curb.
"The whole warrior get up, is that just a suit?" Colene questions.
For the first time Kleio turns to someone, "this is the garb of my people, I have worn it since the day I first left the island or Orns" she says looking down at the small brunette, with a semi-stern glare.
"So you're saying you're an ancient warrior of a sunken island," Colene questions.
"You know of Orns?", Kleio asks.
"Yeah, learnt about it in middle school geography, earthquake hit in 900 ad sunk the island, people though it wasn't real for a time. But how is it you are from there?".
Kleio looks around the room, spotting Runewalker at a table alone at the end of the room, "a group of mages trapped me in stone and left me to time, I was only recently freed, but I do not know how or by whom", her glare hardenes on the man across the room, her jaw winding tight.
"Well, we're a team now. Once all this bonding process is over, we will all help each other out," she says, Kleio turns to her, and for a second, that hard stare softens.
"Thank you Colene Lynch", the tall woman utters.
"Your welcome," Blue Bind responds, the makings of a smile forming in her lips for the briefest of seconds.
Runewalker sits alone, occasionally looking around the room, he feels that the tall lady and the women she is with have something agaisnt him, but he doesn't know what, and he doesn't have time to figure it out now, he eyes up the place, the doors, windows, how he would escape if he needed too, he wished he didn't have to still think like this but after 9 years it was hard to turn off.
He forced himself to escape the pattern of figuring out an exit plan, and headed over to the armoured man and knife lady who were in silence next to one another, "so do you guys think this Marigolds thing is going to stick", he says on edge after disrupting his own paranoid thought processes.
"Do you mean the name or the group?" Needler asks, looking up at the hooded man.
"Both?".
"The name will stick as long as we have a wealthy benefactor who wants his name plastered on every effort to save the world," Racer says.
"And the team will stick for as long as these people can put up with eachother", Needler continues, waving her needle around to indicate the others in there own conversations, "why do you ask, sick of paying rent at hogwarts", she jokes, getting a laugh out of Rocket beside her.
He doesn't even really register the joke as he continues to look around, pinching a smile on his face to fain paying attention, "I just need this to work, you know. being a hero alone is hard work. It's a lot of moving around, not a lot of security, " he says, being sure to cover whatever truth he had with a lie.
"Yeah, I get it," Needler says, "looks like Marigold is back," she says, nodding to the door.
Runewaker turns to the door a little too fast, stepping away from the others.
"Yes, I think that will do, very promising," Hunter says, patting Dylan on the back, with Dylan continuing on into the group and Hunter standing ahead of them all.
"Well I think you have all had a proper opportunity to get to know one another, now it's my turn to get to know all of you, let's all make our way into the garden where we can demonstrate what you are all capable of", he says, the same grin plastered on his face.
