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[sixthdeadliest]

Who: Six sixthdeadliest, OPEN
What: This time, the Convergence is dumping people in Little Love where Six has set up shop. Time to meet the new neighbors.
When: January, all-month
Where: Little Love, Kansas for most of the month. One prompt is in Central City, Michigan.
Content Warnings: Should be fine. Will update as needed.


[January 3rd - 10th: Little Love, Kansas (De-Aged)]
Six was rather irritated that he'd been transformed into a kid about ten years old, the same estimated age he'd been when One had found him. At least this time around, he was scrawny and a bit underfed, not starving and half-dead.

Still hated it though.

But life went on, and apparently so did the Convergences. And it looked like Little Love was their latest pick for a dumping ground.

He craned his neck to look up at the latest newcomer. "You're new. Just arrived or moving in from out of town?"

[January 11th - 31st: Little Love, Kansas (Normal Age)]
It felt good to be big enough to properly handle his magna blades again. Even with the shuriken constantly on his person, he'd felt naked.

Now that things were calming back down to their typical chaos, Six wandered the area to see what might need to be done to fully restore the weird status quo.

[January 14th: Alliance HQ and the surrounding area, Central City, Michigan (Nanite Checkup)]
Six adjusted his jacket. While he waited for the results of the tests to come back, he had plenty of time to kill. He might as well go out and about.

First order of business, coffee. He could put that gift card Prodigy had given him to good use.

Second, well, he'd just take in the local sights and browse the shops for anything he might need that Little Love didn't have.

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[sixthdeadliest]

"Pull the other leg. You might have better luck," Six said dryly.

Yeah, no one could get so lost that they'd meander into a medical ward and still think they were heading in the right direction.

[formerspybrat]

...Huh. Alright. Welp, this definitely was game over then.

It's hard to hold back a smirk at that line, but he manages. It's impossible to hide his intrigue though. Giving the room a better look, it seems to be a biohazard room...interesting.

"Okay, you got me. I wanted to see how far I could get in this place before someone stopped me. Looks like I got this far." He probably could have come up with a better lie and went with that, but he got the feeling digging in like that with this guy, would only get him in more trouble than just telling the truth at this point.

[sixthdeadliest]

Six's lips twitched into a small smirk. "Next time, look like you actually know where you're going. Fewer people are likely to stop you if you look like you know what you're doing."

Quite a few targets had met their Maker due to Six using such tactics to case a location.

There was a chime before an announcement came over the speaker in Six's room, the door unsealing itself. "Tests should be done in an hour or two. We're a little backed up here, but scans show no loose nanites. We'll call when we've got the latest results."

"Understood."

Six opened the door and stepped out, facing the kid.

[formerspybrat]

The little smirk catches him a bit off guard, but not as much as the advice. The last thing he would have expected from someone catching him was encouragement to do it better. This time he can't help smirking back, tucking his hands in his pockets, and rocking back and forth on his heels a little.

"Here I thought I was doing a pretty good job'a that for not actually knowin' the layout. You're the first person to seriously clock me." Then again, he was probably a little rusty. It had been a while since he'd tried this kind of thing in any place other than a mall or a low-tier thug hideout. Standards for skating by unnoticed were a lot lower in those places.

When the speaker chimes to life, he goes still again while listening to the announcement, raising an eyebrow curiously at Six when he comes out and faces him.

"Nanites? Was there a problem with those around here recently?" Frankly 'loose nanites' made it sound like something other than a recent infection scare, especially in combination with him waiting on the results of some other kind of tests. But what else that could be exactly, he had no idea. This just felt like a safer question to go with.

[sixthdeadliest]

Others probably would have, but Six could recognize someone learning infiltration. If the kid was aiming to make trouble, he now knew who to keep an eye out for.

"What gave you away was you saying you were new. Most people who are new and lost would immediately recognize a medical area and turn around if it wasn't where they'd been aiming to go. People have a natural aversion to being near the ill due to self-preservation. If you'd said you were looking for a doctor or a patient and asked for a particular area -- patient rooms, x-rays, etc. -- you would've sold it since you'd have a solid reason to willingly be in such a place."

He placed his hand in his pockets. "As for the nanites, unfortunately they came along for the ride when I was dragged here. There's a worldwide plague of them where I come from, so we're making sure mine don't spread it here."

Or that he didn't transform into a rampaging monster.

"The name's Six."

[formerspybrat]

Good point. He'd never actually snuck into a medical area before. Hospitals had always creeped him out, but after spending the last three months of his life in and out of one he was a bit more numb to them.

"Noted. You do a lot of sneaking into places?" The advice was a little too in the know. Like the kind of advice Faraday would have given him, minus the man's usual condescension and obligatory barbs. There was also the get-up. The sunglasses indoors and a suit didn't exactly scream superhero. Not the typical kind.

At the explanation of the nanites, he can't help himself from giving an empathetic wince. Masking his reflexive reactions had always been hard for him.

"Sorry...I...that sucks?" He didn't have much experience with nanites, but what little experience he did have was...painful. Hopefully that wasn't the case for an entire version of the earth, but whatever they did, it must not be good.

"I'm Danny." Six, huh? That also didn't sound like a typical superhero code name. At least, it didn't exactly have the pizzazz a lot of them went for.

[sixthdeadliest]

"Two jobs ago if you count working with the Alliance here. Not exactly above-board."

Six swallowed a dry comment of "you have no idea" in regards to the nanites. However, there was no reason to spook the kid unless he asked for details. Or if he ended up assigned out in Little Love and ended up staying in Six's farmhouse.

"Nice to meet you. The coffee in the cafeteria isn't great but it's free. Plus you could grab something if you're hungry."

In his experience, kids with superpowers were living garbage disposals.