Xaviers!

Late in the day, a large dark shape moves beneath the waves along the shore.

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Nailah was out and about, exploring the grounds. She had wandered along the cliffside for a while and finally just decided to say screw it and took a running leap off the cliffs and now she's slowly gliding through the air above the waves, grinning like an idiot. At least until she notices the large shadow in the water and she stares at it with her mouth hanging open for a moment.

A strangely ridged shark's fin breaks the surface near the front of the shadow before vanishing again.

"Holy shit!" she gasps and flaps her wings like crazy to try and gain more height. Getting eaten by a shark within the first week of college would be terrible. She'd never live that down.

Then a distinctly humanoid, and very large, shark-thing leaped from the sea dangerously close to Nailah.

Nailah scrambles in mid-air when a huge... thing leaps out, sea-water splashing at her. Her arms and legs wave around pointlessly, trying to instinctively find purchase on thin air as she goes down. Thankfully she wasn't too far from the shore and manages to go far enough to clear the water, but her landing could be better. She comes in too fast and with her hands forward and only barely manages to not face-plant into the sand, going into a roll that turns into a tumble of sand and feathers.

It crashed back under as Nailah made a sand castle with her face. Mere moments later it climbed out onto the rocky beach and stood, towering over the scene. Its eyes shone with an inner blue light as it looked at her.

Nailah is just getting up and dusting herself off when she turns around and watches Tosh emerge from the ocean. She promptly falls flat on her ass and scrambles backwards, pushing herself away with her feet, which only kind of works in the loose sand. "Oh my god it's Sharkzilla!" she screams.

"Sharkzilla" is apparently wearing a black and yellow training uniform. He holds up his clawed hands in a placating gesture.

"Whoah. Calm down babe. I'm a friendly," he said in a vaguely familiar voice. Sounded kinda like a surfer, oddly enough.

"You... okay?"

"Oh my god it can talk!" she says, the hair on her tail still poofed out but she's no longer scrambling away.

"Duh. Mutant, not Kaiju," he said, tapping the big yellow X on his chest.

"Sorry about the whole making you crash deal. I totally didn't see you."

"Oh shit... shark... You're Tosh!" she says, dusting herself off as she stands up, her tail finally calming down as well.

"What's a kaiju?"

"Oookay... So you got a different name than him?"

"Name's Bruce," he grinned, "Or Captain Jawesome if you prefer."

That's not our codename.

"Captain Jawesome it is then. You startled the hell out of me."

"Are you, like, completely different than Tosh? Like, a separate person?"

"Nah. I'm just his inner awesome," he smirked, "Well... without the smarts."

"Huh, I guess that makes sense. It's easier to be awesome when you look the part, right?"

"It gets awesomer," he grinned.

"What? This isn't even your final form?"

"I spit lightning," he said proudly.

"No way? Electric Shark? Like someone mashed two critters together..." she says with a grin that makes it obvious she is aware of the joke, though maybe not of how lame it is.

He opened his mouth and let a little electricity dance between his arsenal of teeth.

"Ugh! Makes my teeth hurt just watching that." she says with a shudder.

He stopped.

"Doesn't hurt me a bit."

"I'd hope so, or I'd have to officially declare you insane." she laughs.

"So... what's up anyway? Just flyin' cause it's awesome?" he asked, awkwardly flirting it seems.

Duuuude... dooon't...

One of us has to bro, before they all friendzone us.

"Yeah! The cliffs are perfect for taking off and getting some height. I was gliding for, like, 10 minutes with only a couple of flaps."

"A terrifying thought." she chuckles. "But yeah, it's really awesome. I was kind of bummed out by my mutation for a while until the first time I really managed to fly. There's nothing like it. You're just completely free!"

"Yeah, I guess I can kinda see that. Except for all the water stuff." she chuckles. "But yeah, just getting to glide along with nothing beneath you is just... it's awesome."

"That totally sounds like cheating." she chuckles.

"Science is the best kind of cheating," he smirked.

"Well I'll be up there, waiting as I gracefully dance across the sky, waiting for you to go hurling past, strapped to a piece of junk that's on fire." she grins.

"Oh hell no," he laughed, "Not me me, him me. I'd probably push the wrong button and rain crispy fish nuggets everywhere."

"Rocket-powered shark monster would be pretty epic though."