Knightwatch and Noodles

Friday, 8:00pm



Coming straight from school without even changing, prep-school uniformed Xiao rode the secret lift down to Knightwatch Lair carrying a large, covered pot filled with Chow Mien; her own home-ec-room-made crispy noodles, and two six-packs of fancy, bottled iced tea. She didn't know what cuisine the people her would like, but given the prevalence of pizzas, mexican food, burgers and subs here in Chicago, she decided to go Chinese. she checks the pot again- the smell of peppers, oyster sauce and sesame oil giving it a strong fragrance. The noodles had chicken bits, squid, shrimps, cabbage, carrots and mushrooms, making it slightly healthier, if only to cope with the fact the noodles were fried to crispness.






The lift stops and Xiao disembarks, entering the lair for the first time... She looks around the place, and wanders around a bit, only chancing upon the Knightwatch Lounge, which had the dining area, some couches, and a kitchenette, complete with a large refrigerator and a induction stove. She places the pot in the middle of the table, and puts the iced tea in the sparsely stocked fridge. She wondered where the other members were, as it was her induction day... of sorts... the organization notices were slightly vague with information.

She sits down cross legged on a bar stool, and decides to distract herself with her iPhone, reading a novel she uploaded into it. First off though, she checks herself out in the mirror, checking her face. She notices that her jeans were getting shorter too- Xiao sighed, as apparently she was still getting taller.

It was Friday night and Ray Adrian Miller was sitting in his kitchen at the ‘bar’ going over some paperwork he had been handed on concerning the court case he was currently working on. It had to do with a domestic violence case and it was all oh so interesting, sarcasm highly intended, that the young man completely lost track of time. So much so that it wasn’t until it was about seven o’clock that he even noticed it was night time in the first place. Scratching the back of his head and messing with his rather messy hair while his stomach growled the date dawned on the District Attorney who doubles as a hooded archer. It was Friday night, the Friday night that Knightwatch was supposed to welcome Xiao into the organization fully.

He was late and he knew it, not the best image for the big bad leader, but he’d totally be able to make up an excuse. But then again, for someone who could run at around six hundred miles per hour, and that was when he was booking it, did he really have an excuse for being late to anything? Don’t answer that brain’ he thought to himself running up stairs and throwing on his crimson colored hooded costume, red ‘hour glass’ mask like you see robin wearing, grabbed his bow turned invisible and jetted outside. “The leader of the group late to a scheduled meeting type thing that I scheduled; how much worse can I get?” He asked himself out loud as he ran the ten to fifteen miles it took to get from his house to the Knightwatch secret Lair in about ten minutes, thirteen tops.

Once there he came to a halt, scanned the area with his own special hawk like vision and upon seeing no one a mile away in every direction he turned visible. Moving slowly to the door, which after just running at around four hundred miles an hour was fairly hard to do and keep concentration on. Eventually though he made it to the elevator door, pressed the button, entered his finger print and eye scanner and down he went. ‘The Ring of Fire’ conviently played the section of the song that went “down, down, down, and the flames went higher” as Ranger…well went down the elevator and to the bottom floor or the entrance to the main section of the Knightwatch’s Lair.

Hood still up he made his way over to the smell of food, which was surprisingly enough was in the lounge type area. There sitting in on a sofa was Xiao herself with the food he smelt in crock pot and on her iPhone. “Sorry I’m late, have I missed the party?” Ranger asked somewhat in a mix of personalities at the moment. Sure he was dressed as the Ranger and was expected to act as such, which quite honestly was his usual personality and the true one, but this was a light event and one where he was expected to act nice. So, his personality of Ranger fit the occasion much better. Making his way over to the fridge Ray pulled out an Orange Pop and opened it downing the drink. “Welcome to the group by the way.”

“Thanks,” A blonde teen got her drink from the barista and walked out of the shop ever so briskly. Her sneakers clicked on the pavement with every step. She knew that she was late for the little gathering. But then again, who wasn't?
She'd tried her best to dress as 'normally' as possible, with a casual pink hoodie and ratty jeans. A navy-colored baseball cap finished the touch, pulled down to hide her face as much ad possible, with the hoodie up as well. It was lucky that the weather was slightly chilly today. Otherwise, it might as well been the most noticible getup.
Arriving at the site of the warehouse, she looked from left to right, and then slipped inside, locating the lift and slipping inside once it came back up.
Man, they should really change the songs this thing plays. None of the songs in her playlist ever came out. None of them would be enjoyed by the others. She pursedher lips, and then changed themvto a smile as the lift's doors opened.
“Hey,” she said as she stepped inside, waving to the two that had made it, Ranger and that new person. She walked over to them and smiled brightly.

Xiao turned to the lounge's double doors as the first guest arrived, Ranger. She promptly ends her game and stands up. "Hello. Ah, you must be the leader." She clutched her fist and bowed, though a bit more hastily as she considered that the customs of westerners were different and she offered a hand to shake instead. "No, it seems you are the first to arrive. Please, I prepared something for everyone today." She served the Ranger a plate of noodles- definitely not store bought, but home made.

Another member arrived, this time a blonde teenager. The dragon girl was getting conscious that she was likely among the tallest Knightwatch here despite being fairly young. She had already grown to exceed Ranger, and at the rate she was going, get even taller. Xiao smiled back at Bloom as she came up to them, and offer her a plate of the steamy, fragrant noodles. "Hello. I'm Li Xiaolongnu, though people tend to call me Xia."

"So, I'd like to know a bit about my teammates... are there more? or perhaps they are busy with something else? I am not very familiar with real life superheroes... Most of my heroes are from mythology."

When the new recruit, Xia, stood up Ranger blinked in a bit of surprise as although he knew she was tall from Tyuki and Nathan’s reports he was not expecting her to be taller than he himself was. Quickly bringing himself back to a ‘normal’ state he bowed back respectfully when she bowed to him. Although he wasn’t as versatile in foreign affairs as The Black Arrow, The Black Knight, or even The Haze were he was taught the very minor things before everything fell apart. The hand shake he also returned, “a pleasure to meet you Xia, welcome to the team.” He replied taking the plate of noodles, using a fork because lazy ‘murican , he started to eat some. Which of course, were very good and much better than most of the noodles he had, had before.

When Droplet arrived Ranger set his already half eaten plate down and waved to the youngest member of the team. Droplet was a member in which he was always scared about sending on real missions because of her lack of experience but she was quickly proving herself in the training zones. So much so in fact that he was planning on having either Forcewave or maybe even himself taking her out on a ‘real mission’ some time soon. Then of course Xia caught his attention again with questions about the rest of the team and Rey turned to face her. “There are more members on the team; you’ve already met Malus and Eclipse. There is also Campeon, Ghastly, Shadow Wolf, and others whom you will eventually meet. They are more than likely busy with their alternate identities or out on patrol which is why they couldn’t make it tonight. Also Apollo, best Greek God.” Ranger said in reply to the questions and statements made by Xia.

" 'm Lily," Lily smiled at Xia, accepting the plate as graciously as possible, which meant clumsily, with her bag and whatnot. "Lily Walker. My codename's Droplet, but I like going by Lily," She walked over to deposit her drink in the fridge, assuming that she'd be able to get it back. Or not. It didn't matter, although it would be an unpleasant surprise for the other person who drank it. Personally, she hadn't expected the lair to be so....deserted. Maybe they'd all come and then left on a brief patrol. It had literally been ages since she herself had gone on one, and she suspected that Ranger was behind the whole thing. Well, she reasoned, Practice makes perfect. Even her granma wouldn't believe that, her elderly Grandmother who, year after year, sent her all those handmade doll clothes that lay neatly stacked in a box, never used. No one really bothered to tell her she didn't really play with dolls anymore. Her mom was saving them for a possible little sister.
With her bag on the table and noodles in hand, the blonde walked over to her teammates, still thinking about all sorts of random things. She'd have to fix that. She always thought so and then never did. It was a hobby of hers.

Campeon had been out and about and done just a tad a globe trotting if he may say. Adventuring he would call it. "Out on Assignment" the boss would call it, but its all the same to him as he wandered about to where he was told or where  ever the leads led him and he then would procede with punching people in the face. (or wrestle into submission but that adventure in the Philipines was quite the outlier). But now he was back in Chicago with a newfound appreciation for Google translate and a fresh traveling beard. But now with the streets that he knows underneath him he heads back to the familar haunt of the Knightwatch lair.

He only got lost three times before finding the inconspicuous warehouse and it only took a minimal amount of bumbling around it before he activated the lift.  He hums to himself as he rides downwards into the bowels of the lair but what hits him in the elevator is the trailing scent  of Chinese food.  Campeon thinks to himself that he sure did pick a good day to arrive, with a slight smile.

As the doors slide open he tosses his oversized dufflebag which would land with a notable thud. He would then wander off into the lounge, following the scent of the food.  He pushes the lounge doors open and greets all present with a substantial "Yo!" and a Campeon brand smile.  He walks over to the bowl of Chow-mein and gobbles some down before turning about face to Ranger and tossing up a joking salute to him and a smile and wave to Droplet. "I'm back as you may see..Everything went down just fine Boss, I was able to get in some nice P.R for us as well.." He says with a slight smirk to Ranger, He leans up on the counter and shines his fingernails on his shirt for a moment before snapping up to standing with a bout of chuckles. "Well how have you been Droplet?" He asks with a smile. Once he is responded to he then turns to the new recruit with a warm smile. "Nice to meet you, The name is Campeon, I'm going to take a guess that you had provided this...Ranger doesn't treat us to good..." He says that last bit with a overexaggerated fearful glance towards Ranger and then a chuckle.