think fast! [der and laz!]

@"DerLampman" @"hyperhurricane"

"Clone? Crystal? Wait what?" Backing away from Alex upon realizing he had a clone Alex had mix feelings about that especially the "being faster" part. "Elizabeth never said anything about a clone...how is that possible. Sorry I don't now a Crystal nor I don't know how I have anything to do with you losing her...sorry..." He said finally. So Alex is a clone or a failed attempt at one, what's with the hair? Still trying to get a grasp on the information Alec forgot he had a job...that was overdue thirty minutes ago. "So does that sorta make you my brother?" Taking a break from Alex for a few seconds Alec would quickly turn his attention back to Coral.

"Are you seriously telling me, you're a guinea pig too?"

"Guinea pig? Were are Bioweapons or the term whatever they called us back at the lab, B.E.M? But never mind that last I check everyone went their separate ways..well the ones who made it. But I totally don't remember seeing you flying around so either there is another division of the project or there's another goofball wanting bioweapons." Alec sighed at the thought of another lab and possible more. "so you can't transform to look like a regular? because if you can't I think i might know someone who can help if you want to of -SHIT!" Taking out his phone to look at the time he would see multiple text messages from "Mom" unlocking his phone he would scroll through it and read all the angry text messages from Elizabeth and one being "HOW COME YOUR THE FASTEST PERSON ALIVE AND CAN"T DELIVER A FUCKING PACKAGE ON TIME!" That hit him hard in the feels. "....I guess I can't head home for awhile." He said miserably as he slid his phone back into his pocket.

Turning to his newly found lost brother he would weakly smile. "I know you wanted to attack me and all...but as your bro, is it possible for me to crash at your place tonight? Elizabeth is on rampage because I din't deliver this thing and she gets very scary...she even disabled my speed the last time. So Yes? No?" at that moment he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. Pulling it back out he would sigh as he read the text message. "Come home , I have a present for you."

@"hyperhurricane" @"Lazzy Kat"

"Are you seriously telling me, you're a guinea pig too?"

Alex nodded once, then nodded a few more times awkwardly, unsure if he'd nodded normally or too fast for human eyes to see. He opened his mouth to speak and slowly shut it with a stern glare at Alec for speaking up first and responding to a question clearly addressed to him. Then he spoke up, bitterness evident in his voice, unhidden as he figured it was better to be bitter than to be awkwardly shuffling around Coral. Whether his bitterness was about the guinea pig thing of about being interrupted was unclear though.

"Yeah. I was a guinea pig cloned from this person," Alex spat with disdain. He stared him down, annoyed at his paying more attention to his phone than Alex. With a thumb over his shoulder directed at Alec, he continued, "Then because he was being taken care of and protected by one of the scientists the rest of us had to go through more work to fill in the slack. I went through more tests than you ever did, Alec, and got myself cut open more - all of us down in the lower levels did. And unlike me, none of us had a guardian looking out for us."

Alec suddenly wheeled back into conversation oblivious to everything with that goofy grin on his face. "I know you wanted to attack me and all...but as your bro, is it possible for me to crash at your place tonight? Elizabeth is on rampage because I din't deliver this thing and she gets very scary...she even disabled my speed the last time. So Yes? No?"

"Now why would I want to do that? And don't call me your 'bro'... Crystal was closer to being a brother than you ever will be even if she couldn't literally be one. And thanks to your little botched escape she's gone. So don't you dare," he said, raising his voice and punctuating for emphasis.

"- call -" he stepped closer,

"- me -" and closer,

"-bro." Then he pointed his index finger onto the lightning bolt on Alec's chest accusingly.

Remembering that there was another person currently around, Alex turned and mentally cursed his incapability to handle more than one person at a time in conversation. He was immediately another person again, stumbling and hesitating over his words as he talked to Coral. "So, um. Yeah. Guinea pig. Can't say I'm as flashy as you but I, um, think flying is cool."

@"DerLampman" @"hyperhurricane"

"Fine i'm not calling you bro, even if were are technically related but whatever you say. so no staying at your place? great, I'm so gonna feel the mode." After Alex touched the lightning bolt on his chest Alec would only grin. Oddly his clothes would turn all black except for the lightning bolt which remained red and his parents which were already black then turned a dark red. "Sweet you activated stealth mode!" He said excitedly as he repeatedly hit the lightning bolt to turn it on and off.

Finally stopping what seemed like several minutes he would take time to think about Alex's and Coral's words.

"Then because he was being taken care of and protected by one of the scientists the rest of us had to go through more work to fill in the slack. I went through more tests than you ever did, Alec, and got myself cut open more - all of us down in the lower levels did. And unlike me, none of us had a guardian looking out for us."

Alec grittted his teeth, sure if he was in Alex's position he would probably hate himself too but he wasn't and weirdly he still hated himself for not thinking about the others. "You act like I actually asked for her to protect me. think about this if I weren't taken care of her we would probably still be on that island and you wouldn't even exist. Major props to me for being the special one? Everyone hated me yeah I got that. At least you had some type of friends."

"Oh good, that sounds so nostalgic! It's exactly like every other kid where I'm from! We get out insides ripped out, we get mutated into monsters, and they leave us to live out the rest of our unnatural life suffering until our own modifications kill us, while they sit in comfort taking down notes!"

Turning to Coral he would shake his head. "No, you actually can be normal. After all this place is totally not normal to the rest of the world. Me? I may look normal but I'm a freaking weapon. Made to kill people, I have nightmares of killing every person on this island which is slowly becoming reality....whoopty do i'm not as normal as you thought. Reverse over here would probably understand." After he finished there was a strange rhythmic beeping noise that would slowly become faster coming from his pocket. Taking out the package he would look at it before turning to the others. "Are regular packages are supposed to, ya know beep?"

Holding it in his hand it would begin to light up and become warm. "Or light up?' He said as he turned to face Alex which in response began to beep faster. "Maybe it like's you?" He said jokingly as he began to open the package.

@"Lazzy Kat" @"hyperhurricane"

"I - I'm not saying - I didn't mean to - haaaaaah." Alex took a deep breath and closed his eyes, exhaling the stress out. It was harder to do when there was some supersonic chatterbox next to him doing his own thing. Still trying to ignore the other guy's presence (to the point of mentally labeling him merely as "other guy"), he talked again to Coral. "I'm sorry if I offended you - and I, uh, I'm pretty sure I did..? - but I was just speaking my mind. I - well, wasn't just me, actually - always thought birds were beautiful. Just flying around, being free... I guess I assumed you were like that. It - I - um - Inconsiderate of me. So. Yeah, sorry about that."

The beeping was starting to get annoying though, and it wore on his ability to tune Alec out. With a frustrated sigh, he came close to him and said, "No, packages do not usually beep - but it's not like I had any to know anyway - and no, unless you give me a very good reason for it, which is unlikely, you're not staying at my place."

Alex had his suspicions about the package though - enough to not pay attention to Alec having a stealthsuit apparently. That beeping sound, though a bit different, brought to mind old procedures back at the labs. Explosive procedures. What he meant to say was they reminded him of bombs.

Caution was of utmost importance right now, and so, disregarding the bleeding gashes on his face caused by Coral, he zoomed off into a blur again and in a split second picked her up, princess-carried her, and put her down near the edge of the roof farthest from Alec. "Again, sorry... but it might be dangerous. Sounds like a bomb, but not like it - just, uh, being careful."

With both hands near his face, he yelled out to Alec, "You really should ask what the hell's in there first just in case it turns out to be something that could wipe us off the face of the planet!"

@"DerLampman" @"hyperhurricane"

"A bomb? Why would she have me return a bomb...it wouldn't make any sense." Alec said as he rapidly teared open the package as Alex and Coral seemed to move away. Well that made it seem like a bomb. Leaving him to blow up really nice, really nice of you Alex. "Not a bomb!" Alec shouted in relief as he would place the object on the ground which resulted in a hologram appearing. "Elizabeth was working on something as a new way of communication, seems awesome. The beeping noise is an alarm!" He said as he pointed at the holographic alarm clock. Yeah crisis averted Alec saves the day! Well not really. ..but it still counts! Sorta. Alec was acting strange however, he was way to hyper active today and now his body was vibrating and he couldn't stop it. "Crap...crap...crap. Elizabeth needs to fix the energy bars." He said as he realized the energy bars were still in prototype stage. "I'm so hungry...this isn't helping at all!" Picking up the holographic disc thing he would slide it in his pocket. "I'll keep this for now." His voice was distorted do the vibration as he waited for the effect to wear off.

Now that the package thing was done he would avert his attention back to Coral and Alex. "Alex you hate me I really don't get why must be a clone thing. Coral you seem irritated I think Anyway I think I should go run this effect off..." And at that moment the effect wore off, for now. "Or not, sooo who wants lunch? I'm buying of course well...Elizabeth but that doesn't really matter since she's already mad." Yes he felt like this should get him like points with Alex and Coral. Well mostly Coral, Alex was sorta eeeh. "I get it if you either of you don't wanna come, i'm too hyper and you guys are like...really chill." He said as he ran over to the edge. Alec didn't like the mood of the conversation before the package thing, it just sorta got gloomy? Alec didn't fit well in situations like these he was made to infiltrate not go around trying to be the social interrogator. That was what's her face job with the telepathy."I seriously feel like a third wheel, not crash." He mumbled as he sat on the edge of the roof dangling his feet as he slid his goggles over his eyes. "Today was quite eventful. "

@"Lazology" @"Lazzy Kat" @"Lazzy Cat" @"hyperhurricane"

"How would I know? She's your guardian, not mine," Alex spat bitterly at the rhetorical question. It was unnecessary and a bit uncalled for, but he did it anyway, brows scrunched up in baseless irritation. The actual contents of the box didn't quite interest him, as he instead thought of how someone could create such a device and not share it with the world.

Alec's speech, as implausible as it may sound, felt even more rapid and hard to parse than Alex's own. Perhaps it was just his irritation plugging up his ears on top of his confusion with everything that just transpired with Coral. "I - yeah, it's not a clone thing. It's a personal thing."

The word 'chill' irritated Alex, since the very first thought he associated with anything related to the cold was Crystal. He had half a mind to go up to Alec and whack him in the face, but that was too irrational, even for him. Instead, he thought of the offer for lunch.

"Thanks for the offer, but I'm not going if it's just going to be the two of us. I think you guessed that much," Alex said, shaking his head. Doubtfully, he turned his head to face Coral, who was his greater concern at the moment. It struck him how different his voice was when talking to Alec, and when talking to Coral. With Coral, he was somewhat shaky, and evidently awkward.

In a higher register, he asked, "I - so are you coming? 'Cause, yeah I'm - that's going to decide whether or not I should go. ...sounds - just make of that what you wish."