i've got friends on the other side

“Yeah, I’m not sure what her name is, but she has been here for quite some time.” He shrugged before his eyes fell to the game. “Of course they do.” There was no way he was actually going to get 100 in a minute. He can’t move his hands that fast. As the game started, he brought the hammer down, hitting the first mole that popped out. 

"Okay, that is actually impossible. I'm pretty sure the only person that could that here is that one girl with super speed. Do a hundred of these even come up in a minute?" He found that even to be impossible. One came up what? Every second? Maybe it was faster than that. He wasn't great at math anymore. He rolled his eyes and held the hammer up. "But if you say so."

He nodded at her thanks, a small shrug taking his shoulders. He didn’t really tell people when he liked them, no matter how much it was. If he liked them, he would just be around them more and if he didn’t he would avoid them. Simple as that. “I guess that is true, but even then, it is easier said than done.” He had a little hope, but not much. After what happened to him, he didn’t ever have hope that things could change. Sentinel seemed to be filled with pricks and he wasn’t sure that was ever going to change, but he didn’t fight with people who thought otherwise. They were able to do something he couldn’t. He shook his head at her question. “No, something came up and I was taken out early. I was 13 when I quit.” He didn’t mind telling her the age, but he wasn’t going to share the actual story with her. Only Maria and Luke knew about that and he planned on keeping it that way. “Well, that disco lover needs to get out cause I am not loving or even liking it. The only good thing about it is having a friend around.” All the music and lights and people. It was actually starting to drive him crazy and he wanted to leave, but he wasn’t going to ditch Maria in there to be alone. The three amigos, musketeers even. They were the closest friends he had had and he really couldn’t imagine being here without them. “Luke is great. I think I am gonna go dunk him in a little bit though. He is working the dunk tank.”

"Well, I've been here since the beginning, so I know almost everyone. Except a bunch of the newbies, though some of them are either way too happy and chirpy like you or they seem to have a stick completely up their ass and can't take a joke." He rolled his eyes as he crossed his arms over his chest. "The difference between those two though, is even though you're all happy most the time that I see you, it means you're definitely more positive than some of the other people around here and don't tell anyone, but I like that." More positive than him even. Though what did you expect with his backstory? "Oh, no offense sunshine, but I hated cheerleaders. And I never even had the opportunity to be in high school with them." Not that he was complaining. "You think I wanted to be there? I just wanted to stay back at the compound, but Luke and Maria drug me here and there was no way I was spending the whole day alone so I signed up for a job. Some dumb reason, I let them pick for me." He nodded at her words. Maria was pretty cool. If people couldn't tell by how inseparable the three mutants were. "Yeah, we're friends. I really didn't expect to get so close to a founder when I first got here. Figured it'd be better to avoid them all, but here I am."

He took the hammer as he offered it then looked at the moles. “How many do I have to hit to win a prize?” He asked as he looked back up at him. He wasn’t quite sure why he cared about winning prizes all of a sudden, but he wanted to win a bunch to take back to the compound. Then he could show them off to Luke and Maria. 

“Only other person I could see it being is Stella. Or maybe Emma, you three are always so preppy and it is actually kind of odd.” His face scrunched up a bit before he looked at the cotton candy, shrugging as his eyes went back up to her. “Sure, why not? Don’t want to get one for myself if I end up not liking it, but I find that very unlikely.” He took a small chunk of the cotton candy off, biting some off and eating it as she asked her question. “Not bad. Very sugary. Fun though? Not really. I’ve been stuck in the disco room and while I love hanging out with Maria, that place is really killing my vibe.”

“Someone being scared of me yet also attracted to me? I could definitely see that.” Though he would admit, he hadn’t run across anyone like that yet. Actually, he was pretty sure most people were scared of him and his power. Even some of the mutants in the compound, but he didn’t blame them. If someone could control him, he would probably be terrified too. “I am pretty sure we were all homeless at some point and pretty sure my parents though I was a brat.” Though, now he didn’t really care what his parents thought. They hadn’t come looking for him. They never found him. At the though, Caspar’s lips turned down into a frown and his fingers curled into fists. He snapped out of it thought when he heard him again, his eyes flickering back to him as he let out a breath he hadn’t realized he had been holding. “Yeah, honestly sometimes I think aliens probably have it better than us.” He forced a smile, not much of one though. “Luke is a pretty lovable person, isn’t he?” 

“I would be the cool dad that everyone was scared of,” He ran a hand back through his hair as he mentioned it, a grin on his lips. Damn, this kid was building his ego, but hey, he wasn’t going to stop him. “Obviously I am the master, I have known him for a long time.” And they had been friends since the day they met, it was like an instant click with the two. Obviously annoying each other was on the list of things they had to do though, so he had to make sure to keep the title of the best. “I will laugh the day those people actually ask for our help, because I am telling you now, I won’t help. They don’t deserve my help.” If anything, he was probably going to help whatever it was attacking them. Especially if he ever found the assholes who held him hostage for a few years. “Yep, that his name. Don’t wear it out.” While he knew that, Caspar still preferred Mr. Incredible, he had always been a fan of that movie. “Everyone younger than me is kid, sorry dude.” He shrugged his shoulders and chuckled. “That isn’t true. I really don’t care who Luke is friends with as long as they don’t try and hurt him, or take him from being my best friend. Avoid those two things and I don’t really mind. Same with Maria.”

“Dammit, Orion. Not the person I was wanting to find for this, but,” he sat down across from him with a smirk of his own. “I know you just love causing trouble and you know my power is very great at doing so,” he raised his eyebrows at him. “Well, you get the enjoyment of hanging out with the coolest mutant around here.” He said, his lips turning up into a grin. “What do you want? Just know your options are very limited.”

The perkiness almost caught Caspar off guard. No one round here was that happy and for a moment, it left the man speechless. Finally, he shook his head and let out a puff of air. There was no way he was asking this girl his question. He didn’t want to actually scare people off, it just kind of happened sometimes when he spoke up about his power. So now it was either ask her the task, or stall long enough to think of a new one. “Well, I am a pretty mysterious person,” he mused, “the name is Caspar. Please don’t compare me to that weird cartoon ghost though.” Caspar loved the thought of spirits, but in no way was he the friendly type, at least not to most people. “And yours is?” He asked with a raise of a brow. After this, he wasn’t sure if he would actually interact with the girl again. Maybe he was wrong though. Some of the other people he had met seemed nice at first but seemed to be pretty tough and hell, maybe she was fun too.