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Post by Christian on Jul 4, 2006 12:30:22 GMT -5
"Airspace is clear," said one of the air-traffic controllers on site, "Nothing out of the usual tonight."
Something caught his eye. He looked back to the radar. It was picking up blips, "Sir, we have incoming," he cried, looking over his shoulder to his commanding officer.
"Sound the alarms," the Sarge yelled, "Take them out as soon as they land!"
A siren blared over the island that housed Worthington Labs. Soldiers braced their weapons and headed outside, hoisting their rifles to the sky, "Hold Fire!"
"Sir," Shrapnel said into his headset, "We're here. And it seems they have the red carpet rolled out."
"Land in the midst of them. Scatter them," Sinister said with grin, "This isn't a seek and destroy mission, Marauders, this is a massacre. No mercy! No quarter asked, no given! Kill them all!"
One by one, the pods landed hard, and opened with a hiss. Shrapnel kicked out of his sphere, and unsheathed his blades, diving into one guard, stabbing him in the shoulder, and flinging him into another, as gunfire began to fire in disarray.
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Post by Midnight on Jul 4, 2006 12:36:09 GMT -5
The pod clunked down on the ground, but before it could hiss open, Damaris leaped through the metal side. The metal warped and clung to her form, finally separating from the pod behind her. Her thin frame was covered with a solid metal layer, her own form of force field. She could feel her telekinesis weaken and her telepathy totally faded away, but she was bullet-proof.
She fixed the goggles on her otherwise unprotected eyes as Sinister's command rang in her ears. Reaching out two silvery hands, she flung soliders left and right, clearing a path to the building down the middle. Then picking up her metal ball with the power of her mind, she brought it down hard on a small knot of soldiers, crushing them.
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Post by Zeb on Jul 4, 2006 12:36:41 GMT -5
Zeb teleported himself out of the sphere, his hands twitching. All the guns exploded in the hands of their owners, engulfing the men in flames. He began to seek out any other firearms, causing them to explode also.
Remy flipped out of his own container. He pulled out cards, charging them and flinging them with practiced aim at the soldiers.
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Post by Health on Jul 4, 2006 12:37:16 GMT -5
Ellen landed on the ground in front of the pods and smirked as bullets bounced off of her, "Pitiful," she growled crystal shard appearing in her hands, she threw them, and the crystals lodged themselves in the solider's necks.
Iada flipped out of her pod and carefull tucked her word finds in the back of her pants, "So whose first?" she asked before blowing up a couple of soliders that had gotten too close.
Jo stepped out of her pod, silent, but a glint in here eyes told the soliders that she though smaller then most of the other Marauders, was the most dangerous. She walked right up to one of the soliders and suddenly he was shot by his own gun. As Jo's powers grew stronger all the solider's anything metal on their bodies began turning on them and killing them.
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Post by Nightshadow on Jul 4, 2006 12:41:52 GMT -5
Michelle almost lazily walked out, playfully blowing a kiss at the nearest soldiers. She had carefully activated her powers. "Come here." She ordered the soldiers. Michelle smirked as she took the weapons from them. A split second later, she had snapped the first man's neck. She set the second soldier to work killing his own. Michelle used the second weapon to start her own attack on whoever came near her who wasn't a Marauder.
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Post by Christian on Jul 4, 2006 12:42:47 GMT -5
Another Unit of soldiers filed out of the interior of the labs, the ranking officer screaming commands, "Fire! Fire!"
Onslaught landed with a loud THOOM! and stood tall, "Behold! My mighty hand," he cried, using a combination of both the powers he had been integrated with from Shrapnel and Rumble, and firing a magnetic burst, and pushing it forth and away form him. It shorted out electronical components all over the island, and the facility fell to darkness. Only backup lights lit, leaving the grounds dimly illuminated in a yellow haze.
Shrapnel diced at another two soldiers, cutting them down, and then backed up to Iada, "Damn I missed this," he yelled.
Sinister fired a charge of plasmatic energies into a crowd, sending them scattering as it blew up in front of them, "Savor the fun, Shrapnel, at this rate, it won't last long!"
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Post by Midnight on Jul 4, 2006 12:47:14 GMT -5
Damaris's metal form lifted her hands and knocked backwards a wave of the oncoming soldiers. They stumbled, recovered, and fired at her. The bullets hit her with a ping and flew off in a different direction. She had to use telekinesis to deflect them away from any Marauder. The bullets flew in a circle, floated in mid-air, and then zoomed again toward the soldiers, killing several and knocking the breath out of others.
Was this what battles were always like? Chaos, confusion, and blood? She let her own mind harden to it like her metal skin and used her powers to twist a screaming man in half as the blood splattered on her.
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Post by Nightshadow on Jul 4, 2006 12:49:52 GMT -5
"Fire in the hole!" Michelle called, taking a small explosive from her zombie-like soldier beside her. She threw it into the crowd of soldiers before taking her stolen weapon and shooting the 'zombie' through the chest. "So long." Michelle turned to face about six of the oncoming soldiers. The next minute, those same six soldiers had turned on their own, firing into their own ranks.
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Post by Health on Jul 4, 2006 12:50:22 GMT -5
"Quick shield me with your body!" Iada said porting behind a solider in time for his compainions to shoot, "Tsk, tsk too sad," she said dropping the solider's body before porting several times at once pulling the gernade rings on many of the solider's shoulder belts, "You know the intelligent of soliders has gone down the last time we fought them!" she yelled to Shrapnel.
Ellen slammed another solider into the ground feeling his bones break against the contact. She threw the body into the other soliders with a rather large crystal shard following, and in a rather neat way pinned five soliders against a nearby wall.
Jo frowned as she concentrated on the mini tornado she had created. It was sweaping up most of the soliders and impaling most of them with debre, but it was alos hard for Jo to control as sweat poured down her face.
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Post by Christian on Jul 4, 2006 12:54:54 GMT -5
"This is almost too easy, Onslaught," Sinister cried over the action. He turned to the roof, as a soldier fired a rocket at him.
Onslaught took control of it, and turned it around, it hit the soldier who fire it, "Much easier, almighter Sinister, than attacking the real threat! The Xavier School For the Gifted!"
"You're an idiot, Onslaught," Sinister said, flying up to survey the island, "When take out the hapless fools who venture here to stop us, and destroy their offensive force, the X-Men will be vanquished forever!"
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Post by Midnight on Jul 4, 2006 13:02:53 GMT -5
Jasper Jones braced himself against a wall in the dimmed hallway as the force of an explosion outside rumbled through the building. The warning siren ripped the air apart with the shreiking alert and he could hear gunfire outside. More soldiers ran past him, carefully skirting him so that they didn't trip. The intercom one of them held crackled, "Go ahead and use it now! Take them down!"
Damaris hadn't seen the new group of soldiers run outside until she felt something different hit her metal body. Ignoring them, she bent over and picked up the object that had been shot at her. It was a small cylinder of some sort with a needle on the end... turning it in her fingers, she took a quick guess. Then she lifted her head and yelled, "Watch out, I think they might be shooting the "cure" at us!"
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Post by Nightshadow on Jul 4, 2006 13:09:40 GMT -5
Michelle quickly arranged a line of four soldiers in front of her, each person firing into the oncoming ranks. It was times like this, where all she could do was turn people on their own, that made her the most angry with her powers. Out of the Marauders, her powers were the most passive.
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Post by Zeb on Jul 4, 2006 13:15:46 GMT -5
Zeb felt something wiz past his ear. Could that be the cure? Or just another bullet? Nevertheless, he put up a blockade infront of him, searching out the guns that were firing the cure and destroying them.
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Post by Health on Jul 4, 2006 13:25:34 GMT -5
"Hey Cajiun watch yourself," Ellen said stepping into the path of one of the darts that was aimed at Gambit, "I doubt your life will be as exciting if you had to start working at a vegas casino."
"Here over here, try and hit the little blue woman!" Iada chuckled porting just in time to miss the darts. "Okay enough of that gents," she said and blowing up the soliders with a good energy blast.
"Damn!" Jo growled loosing concentration as a dar flew past her just barely missing her. She lost her control on the tornado and it disappeared. Jo hissed and dodged in time to miss a dart, "Wanna play that way?" she asked as wind surrounded her acting as a shield as she plummeted the soliders with lightening, "Then lets play!"
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Post by Nightshadow on Jul 4, 2006 13:31:59 GMT -5
Michelle hurriedly ducked a dart, which almost got her hit by another one. This was becoming hazardous for everyone with all these "cure" darts flying around. Michelle instructed her protective wall of soldiers to shoot at whoever was firing the darts.
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Post by Christian on Jul 4, 2006 14:40:35 GMT -5
A dart pinged off of Onslaughts armor, and the goliath charged the line of soldiers, stampeding through their ranks, and knocking them to the ground, trampleing them under his weight, "Homo Sapiens will never learn," he boomed, "It isn't possible for them to win!"
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Post by Midnight on Jul 4, 2006 15:49:39 GMT -5
Using telekinesis to rip open the doors, Damaris threw several bodies back into the advancing line of soldiers. How were they going to destroy the whole thing? Just rip it out of the ground?
Quickly strangling several who stood in her way, she entered the labs. Once in, she drove her metal hand through the chest of a waiting guard while his 'cure' pinged harmlessly off her shiny skin.
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Post by Zeb on Jul 4, 2006 21:55:41 GMT -5
"Thank you, cherie. I'm much obliged." Gambit flicked another berrage of charged cards at the soldiers, grinning as they explode.
Zeb grit his teeth. This was getting hard. Soon he'd have to resort to hand to hand combat. The boy growled, exploding a few more guns and men. If he went to hand to hand, he'd be in trouble.
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Post by Health on Jul 4, 2006 21:58:48 GMT -5
"You owe me," Ellen said and winked before taking to the air. More shards appeared in her hands and they rained down on the solider. They continued to try to shoot Elen but she only chuckled, "Iada! Come on let's get going and bury this place!" Ellen said landing beside Iada, who nodded grabbed Ellen's hand and ported.
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Post by Christian on Jul 5, 2006 1:07:57 GMT -5
"Shrapnel, send them a volley," Sinister said, landing behind him and standing tall.
Shrapnel picked up a peice of tin walling, and used his magnetism to shatter it, sending it towards another set of advancing troops. They ripped towards them and ripped holes in their forces, "Onslaught was right," he said, "This is a bit too easy. They can't have their entire force out here. They just can't be this weak!"
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