Ult. Ben Grimm - Mainbar

[unbreakableben]

[OOM: Ben calls home and then gets asked a few awkward questions.]

Ben's entrance to the bar today is announced with a very loud "CLANG" as he hits his head on the obviously metal door jam on his side of the multiverse. "Oaf," he says though it really didn't hurt. It's just annoying. One more reminder how much his life has changed. He looks a lot like the other Ben Grimm that folks might be used to...that is if that Ben had started taking steroids and had gained over a foot in height. Hulking might begin to describe the differences.

He tries to close the door but the dent his head put in the frame prevents it so he takes a minute to smooth the steel back to a more or less straight angle before he turns to finally enter the bar proper. His first instinct is to turn around and go back but the possibility of real food is too strong so he heads for the bar and orders a plate of tacos. Government food just is not good for the body.

[Tiny Tag: Ult. Ben Grimm]

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[basic_powers]

...Ben might hear a surprised muffled yelp from the rafters as he's dining on his big damn plate of tacos.

[unbreakableben]

He does and he looks up just as he's taking a bite which results in the taco disintegrating as tacos are want to do.

"Damn," he mumbles turning back to the plate. Bar helpfully materializes a fork and he reaches for it only to find his fingers are too hard to get a grip on it. The fork disappears and another one with a swooped handle he can grab appears in its place with a napkin saying, "Sorry."

He sighs and then remember the yelp he heard and looks up again. What's up there...

[basic_powers]

Currently, one semi-familiar face peering over the edge of a rafter with a completely boggle-eyed expression.

This is, but he's not...okay Tyler would like Milliways to stop taking the phrase 'designated normal zone' as a challenge.

[unbreakableben]

Hey it's that kid. No need to freak him out...

Slowly he raises his hand to wave. Being careful not to make any sudden movements. Yeah the kid isn't SWAT and he's not carrying AK047s but his last meeting with normal people is still fresh in Ben's mind. What a way to find out you're bullet proof.

[basic_powers]

...Tyler waves back slowly enough, and he looks calm enough for a kid who just got surprised. He then hugs the beam a bit as he looks away from Ben...towards a spot to use to climb down.

Or at least get a closer look to say hi.

[unbreakableben]

For his part he'll watch the kid and be ready if he slips. And eat tacos.

[basic_powers]

He's not going to slip, or at least his hands aren't. Tyler doesn't quite stick the landing on the table and skids on the surface to land on his butt solidly.

"Ooff!" Nothing hurt, just a little jostle, you'd see more dangerous landings at playgrounds.

[unbreakableben]

"You okay there?" he asks around carne asada.

[basic_powers]

"I'm good-" Wait. Well. He's going to have play like he's seeing Ben rocky for the first time...isn't that hard.

Or far from the truth.

Tyler stiffens up at hearing Ben speak before fixing him with a look that's a bit confused and just a little shrewd, like a dog who just heard a familiar command.

[unbreakableben]

Ben catches the visual clue and says, after remembering their last meeting, "I swear I had a shower this morning."

[basic_powers]

"...BEN???"

[unbreakableben]

And the Oscar for best acting goes to...Tyler!

"In the...well I guess it'd be hard to call this flesh," he says with a wry grin.

[basic_powers]

"......dude." As if a little bolder knowing that at least it's someone familiar, and less likely to squish him, Tyler drags a chair to sit next to Ben. "...what happened??"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Tacos. They smell like meat. Meat is good.

Ben, there's a good-sized blue heeler with one blue eye and one brown eye looking hopefully your way.

[unbreakableben]

Ben glances down and just like that he's back in Mexico City and the black spots are dancing in the corners of his eyes. This time however he fights passing out, fights to breath and hold on. The taco slips out from his fingers to land on the floor.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

:D !!!

OMNOMNOMNOM.

... we're really sorry. Dogmeat's not good at the whole concern-for-people-who-aren't-him thing, unless they're Ellen. And speaking of which-

"Are you all right, sir?"

She's about 5'4", and her hair's only got about a month's worth of growth back from a shaven scalp, and she's got way more scars than a nineteen-year-old should have.

[unbreakableben]

Deep breaths...Just like couch always told you. As long as you can breath through it you can get through anything.

"Yeah, I'm good, just...a little under the weather." Yeah that's the ticket. Deep breaths. Friendly dog, friendly little gal. Speaking of dog..."It was carne asada so no chicken bones," he says trying to distract and assure her there's nothing in the taco to hurt the pooch.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I... okay, I don't know what that is," Ellen says, "but okay. Can I replace it for you? He startled you into dropping it, so that makes me responsible."

Nothing she saw in Vault 87 looked quite like this fellow, so he's probably not an FEV victim, whereever he's from. Although you never know. Corazon said things were different out west.

[unbreakableben]

"It's steak..cow?" He clarifies in case she doesn't have steaks on her world. (A terrible thought for him.) "And don't worry about it, I've got a whole plate. I'm Ben."

He's feeling better and glad the feelings of panic are fading. That was really weird.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh, okay," says Ellen. "Yes, we have cow at home. Just- not by that name, that's all."

She smiles then. "Good to meet you, Ben. My name's Ellen. Is this your first time here?"

[unbreakableben]

"It's Spanish," he says returning her smile. "Nice to meet you. I've been here a couple of time before but I was human then."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Ah, that would explain why I didn't know it. The only Spanish I've ever heard was spoken by a friend of mine that I met here," Ellen says. "Everyone back in the Capital Wasteland speaks English..."

Then she cants her head a little, blinking. "Oh? Um. Huh. It wasn't Forced Evolutionary Virus exposure, was it? Just out of curiosity, I mean- I have a friend who... that was a stupid question to ask, wasn't it. I'm sorry."

[unbreakableben]

"I have no idea what the Forced Evolutionary Virus is," Ben says after a pause. It's odd for him that people are actually talking to him and not cowering. "There was this accident and I was exposed to N-zone space and phased into all my apples and...Okay maybe I didn't get everything Reed said."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh, radiation," Ellen says, as if that explained everything. "Okay. That makes sense."

No, really, it does.

"I hope that doesn't mean you come from somewhere like my world. I mean, we've got radiation issues in spades. Is your world involved in atomic warfare?"

[unbreakableben]

"Not that I know of. There used to be the cold right before I was born but nothing nowadays. I mean we still have nukes around but no one is threatening to use them. This was an experiment in teleportation. My buddy Reed was trying to move an apple from one place to another by sending the apple through another dimension."

Once he's through with that he sits a little straighter, impressed with himself for getting that much.