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Post by Midnight on Dec 9, 2005 2:07:54 GMT -5
"Don't get ahead of yourself, hon," Midnight smiled, her black eyes making it seem sinister. "You cannot walk through walls, and you can't see, but now that you have embraced it, you can feel things. Such as I can feel Mindwarp trapped in my column." Midnight turned to face the pillar of darkness know, softly caressing Mindwarp with it. Then with a slow smile, she clenched her fist and began. The darkness now started pulling at him, eating at him, first skin, then flesh, then bones. The process was very painful and if she stopped now it would leave a bleached skeleton with acid marks in the bones. But she wanted to absorb all of him, to destroy him completely. He would float in the dark realm. She never went there. It was the one thing that she was still afraid of, a fear the mind of the old Midnight clung to.
The pillar of dark disappeared, nothing beneath it. Mindwarp was gone. Midnight turned back to Caity, and frowned slightly. She could feel the darkness infesting Caity's mind, and wasn't sure that it was enough, that she had fully changed her. Caity had a strong mind and the darkness there did not seem enough to encompass it. But she seemed changed, and if she was not, Midnight would deal with that later. "Come. Let us cast the world into eternal night!" Now, on to Professor Xavier!
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Post by Chance on Dec 10, 2005 11:17:25 GMT -5
Fallback looked ahead, his eyes ful of determination. He could do this, he decided.
"Okay, here we go!" They both felt a powerful ripping sensation and their vision blurred. As it cleared they found themselves standing on the lawn of the Xavier Institute, the mansion coated in a thick blackness...
Way to play it up Cait. We are trying to be convincing, aren't we? Mindwarp said from inside of Caity's head.
Sorry hun, I'm just trying to sell this. Caity replied. But now she had to keep her cool. Her black eyes stared straight ahead, unflinching as Mindwarp's body was ripped apart and sucked away. She was happy that Mike was safely inside her own head, and that he didn't have to experience his own death.
You okay baby?
I'll be all right. But it's not everyday you get to watch the flesh be ripped from your bones. Promise me we can somehow get my body back later.
I promise Caity lied. She knew he could read into all her thoughts, and knew she lied, but she couldn't admit what she didn't know. The darkness was always a tricky substance, and Caity was still trying to figure it all out, even after living with it for so many years...
"So," she said aloud, her voice dark and cold. "What are we waiting for? The Professor isn't going to kill himself."
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Post by xt on Dec 10, 2005 17:35:24 GMT -5
X-T tried to look around in the patch of darkness scattered across the lawn.
"What th' heck is goin' on?" She said walking around the yard. Then something caught her eye, the garden. She walked over to it and bent down. The flowers that her class and her planted last spring had shrived up and died.
"Oh no..." X-T said picking up a dead petal. She looked over at Fallback with a worried look on her face.
"C'mon! We gotta get in there!" X-T said dropping the petal and running into the patch of smog.
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Post by Chance on Dec 10, 2005 23:17:32 GMT -5
(( lol it's Fallback, but whatever ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) )) Patrick shuddered. What was happening?
"Yeah...uhhh...let's go inside." toward the darkness, great idean. He shivered, something seemed out of place. But Mindwarp had called him for a reason, obviously he was meant to play something big in the whole thing, both him and X-T.
As he walked toward the giant cloud he shivered, it was cold, every bit of life seemed to be missing from the air that the darkness infected. He couched a little, but he didn't even hear the sound of it, in fact, his visions was beginning to blur and he started to feel uneasy.
With a loud *popping* sound he appeared next to X-T.
"You have hightened sense right?" He asked. "Can you hear and smell and stuff in this smoke? Because I'm lost," He said.
"But maybe you can be my eyes and I can be your vehicle. I can get us around faster than walking, and I may even be able to phase through this fog, but still, it's too thick for me to see or hear through." He explained. "So stick close and you tell me where to go, and I'll take us there."
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Post by Midnight on Dec 11, 2005 15:25:13 GMT -5
((She can barely hear anything farther than a few feet away, cannot see at all. Sense of smell is still perfectly in tact, so go for that.))
Midnight nodded toward Caity. The darkness whispered in her mind, directing it, and it must do so for Caity as well to know about the Professor. "Come, then," she said, and turned, simply walking through the Cerebro door. The hallway was pitch black, but Midnight could see every nook and cranny about it. This was her realm and she was Queen. Caity would have a more difficult time following, but if she was part of the darkness, she would be able to feel things through it. That happened when it infested your brain.
Frowning slightly, she felt someone else enter the darkness for a second, then dissappear. Teleporter, outside on the lawn. Oh well, he could not hurt her or her cause. She continued to walk down the hallways, rounding a corner to reach the Professor's office. It was not filled with the smoke, merely surrounded. Walking in, she stepped into a box formed by the darkness. "Professor Xavier, aren't you going to welcome me back?" she said with a smile, her white teeth showing, her black eyes glittered eerily.
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Post by xt on Dec 11, 2005 18:54:30 GMT -5
((actually, X-T can hear a little farther than most Weapon X people since she was fused with two Weapon x's. but i got something that will not let that happen.))
X-T nodded and looked at the building. She closed her eyes, trying to listen in. For some odd reason, all she heard was high pitched mumbles.
"I can't hear much, fer once. But ta me, it sounds like screams er somethin'," X-T said turning to Fallback, "An' I don' think they're watchin' a scary movie in there,"
X-T looked at the building and focused on it.
"Can ya poof us in th' sub-basement? I think that's were ev'ryone goes when there's an emergency," X-T said to him without really looking at him.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 12, 2005 2:19:25 GMT -5
((Ok, then add a few feet to the original figure. Even Midnight cannot hear far at all in her own darkness. It muffle sounds, snuffs them.))
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Post by xt on Dec 12, 2005 15:10:52 GMT -5
((that's exactly what i thought. x-t could only hear high pitched mumbles from the kids screaming. thought i wouldn't go god model ;D))
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Post by Chance on Dec 12, 2005 21:50:25 GMT -5
Fallback nodded. "Of course I can get us in there. After all, I did just make it half way across the world." He smiled and held onto her hand. He could tell she wasn't the touchy feely type, so he made the touch brief. With a loud *pop* they appeared in the sub-basement surrounded by whiny kids scared out of their witts and a sole Jubilee attempting to quiet them down.
Meanwhile Mindwarp tried his hardest to filter the darkness through Caity's mind. He wanted her to be able to access it's powers, but not be overcome by it. So far, it was working.
Caity stared at the door. She could feel every piece of life that stirred within the recesses of the darkness. It was like being in touch with every molecule, every fiber of every being. It was very alluring, but she had to keep a clear head.
As the darkness continued to infect her body she put her mind into overdrive. She only had a few more hours (tops) before the darkness completely took over. She though of her kids, of Mindwarp, and suddenly felt strong again.
Midnight has nothing to fight for She thought. I do
Walking toward the metal doors of Cerebro she reached deep into her mind and allowed her mental defenses to fall, just for a second. As the darkness flooded her she felt herself slipping away as she melted into it. Then, just as quickly as she had let go, she grabbed hold again. She opened her eyes and realized she was on the other side of the door.
"Good, okay, I can do this." She said it quietly and she knew Midnight, who was already almost at Xavier's door, hadn't heard her. So far she had been able to keep the darkness as bay, although, part of her quite enjoyed the dark sensation that inundated her body every time...
"Ah Midnight," Xavier said calmly from the security of his wheel chair. Already the darkness had filled his office, completely cutting him off from the minds of his students. He had to admit, he was a little nervous, but he kept his head. He could do this, he could stop Midnight. And if he couldn't...he always had another plan to fallback on.
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Post by xt on Dec 12, 2005 21:57:58 GMT -5
X-T looked at Fallback as they poofed in the sub-basment. Her students were safe with Jubilee.
"Thank you so much," X-T said, letting go of his hand and running to the little ten and under kids standing by Jubilee's feet. X-T croutched by them and hugged them all. She looked up at Jubilee with a relieved look on her face.
"Thanks a bunch, Jubs. Hope they ain't been a big pain. Are th' others still here, er did we loose any?" X-T said, then growing into a weary sort of way, "I'm gonna get whoever did this to us. They gonna pay what they did to these childrens,"
"Miss T, are you going to kill the mean person?" A little boy with blonde hair said pulling on X-T's arm. X-T smiled at him, then sighed.
"I don't know yet, Johnny. But I have to, I will. Jus' stay down here where your safe, an' don' let any of the others fallow th' big kids, 'lright?" X-T said with a smile ruffling the boy's hair, "Can ya do that fer me, Johnny?" The boy nodded and went to tell the other children. X-T shook her head and stood next to Jubilee.
"This ain't gonna end well with th' lil' ones..." X-T said with another sigh.
((forgot to mention that X-T's a teacher for the mutant kids that hit their mutant gene under purberty. so there ya go. explains it all ;D))
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Post by Midnight on Dec 13, 2005 1:56:17 GMT -5
Midnight smiled at the Professor. She had been a pretty girl and now was a beautiful woman, but in ever her smile, something sinister shone through. Maybe it was the effect of her eyes, totally infected by the darkness like a disease overcomes a body. They glittered and shone like shiny stones in the dark of the room surrounded by a blackness so thick and impenitrable that it cast fear into the hearts of all that were in enveloped in it. Thunder rumbled through the room as if close at hand.
"You think you can take me, Professor? You did wait for our appointment instead of running away with your precious X-Students," she spat. "But you have lost some already... oh, you don't know, do you? You remember Chance?" Midnight asked, waving a hand and forming the man out of the darkness. The image moved and Midnight wondered at that, but she snapped her fingers and it disappeared. "He was the first one. Now I have eaten your favorite student, Professor," she said, forming Mindwarp out of the darkness. Something rushed through her, a sense that he somehow was alive. "Mike," she addressed the image, wondering if it would respond. "Tell the Professor what it is like to be eaten alive and cast into eternal darkness to float in the endless void until it corrupts you."
A feeling told her that Caity had entered the darkness as well and was moving through it. Midnight herself could not be detected by other people who used the darkness because she was the darkness. It had corrupted her, eaten her own mind so that there was nothing left to detect.
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Post by Chance on Dec 13, 2005 21:31:57 GMT -5
Fallback looekd at all the students that were crowded into the tiny sub-basement. It made him sick.
"It sure is going to get messy." Jubilee said to X-T. She was so glad that some more X-Men were coming back from missions and crawling out of the wood work.
"But your kids were a breeze, it's the older ones, the ones that want to play hero, that are annoying me." She pointed to a group of rowdy teens and fired a jet of sparkling energy at them.
"STOP IT!" She yelled as the jet exploded and showered them with sparks.
Meanwhile, Caity moved through the darkness. She felt as if she was gliding on air, an air so dense that it literally pulled her along. As she flowed freely, as if by an unknown force, she thought about what she was going to have to do. She was going to have to help Midnight kill the professor, kill the one man that had always been their for her. She hoped to God she knew what she was doing.
Before she knew it she stood in front of Xavier's door. she had been there only minutes before, pleading with him to leave. Now she was back, completely transformed and completely different. She melted into blackness and phased through the door...
Xavier stared at the smokey image of Mindwarp. Oh God...what had she done?
"Marie, tell me you didn't do this, tell me that you haven't killed anyone." Xavier was practically crying. It was all his fault. Mindwarp had been a very noble and powerful young father and so had Chance. Oh God, what had Midnight done to her child?
"Marie...what have you done?!"
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Post by Midnight on Dec 14, 2005 1:36:15 GMT -5
"Marie is gone, Professsor," Midnight said, snapping her fingers and making Mindwarp disappear. "I am all that is left. You have seen what I can do. Now it is your fate. I have killed people. I've stripped their skin from flesh and flesh from bone to cast them into enternal darkness where they die and their bodies are corrupted like corpses with maggots. If I could kill the person Marie loved, then what will prevent me from killing you? And this time, I will take a few people with me. Caity," she said, stepping aside so that the girl could enter the room. "You couldn't help me so long ago, Professor. Now there is no one to help you. Join the others." Midnight's eyes narrowed and she lifted a hand to let darkness flow out of it.
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Post by Chance on Dec 14, 2005 21:32:36 GMT -5
"CAITY?!" Professor Xavier nearly screamed it and Syphon felt a pang of guilt ring in her heart.
<I'm so sorry,> She said to him telepathically. <But listen to Mindwarp...we have a plan.>
All the while she maintained her dark demeanor, and she raised her hand as well. She felt the darkness struggle to be in control, and she allowed it to take leave of her. It wafted out of her soul and out into the world, attacking and destroying everything it touched. Caity felt the power she weilded and couldn't help but enjoy the taste of the darkness. She hoped she hadn't allowed it to infect her too badly just yet...
"Xavier...meet you fate!" Caity moved the darkness and it began to close in around her dearly loved professor. She fought back tears and he struggled to stay alive. At least Mindwarp was able to maintain a little bit of telepathic contact. They all still had a chance...
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Post by xt on Dec 14, 2005 21:37:30 GMT -5
X-T laughed at the teenagers' exspressions. Then suddenly, she heard a faint cry, but it was still mumbles to her ears.
"ALL Y'ALL SHUT UP!" X-T spat loudly, trying to hear the voice. It was a man's voice, deep and powerful with words. X-T only knew one man who had that type of voice.
"We gotta get to Xavier!" X-T said running forward.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 15, 2005 0:31:16 GMT -5
Midnight looked on impassivly as her darkness absorbed, eating his skin from flesh and flesh from bone until bone too was absorbed. If she left anything out, the darkness would fill in for it in her mind. "Don't worry, Professor. I won't forget you. Your screams will live on forever."
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Post by Chance on Dec 15, 2005 17:21:17 GMT -5
Caity flinched, her mind racing as a little bit of Xavier was absorbed into her subconscious. The plan was working so far...
"What now?" She said addressing Midnight. "We got what you wanted, we killed Xavier."
"What's happening?" She asked X-T in a sudden panic. "Is everything okay?" She hated how she was stuck down here, away from the fight. Typical...so typical.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 16, 2005 2:02:21 GMT -5
"Now we destroy this place. Maybe you don't understand, fine. It wasn't your fault he died, but it was mine. Now we destroy this place," she repeated. "It was Chance who taught me to concentrate the darkness," she added as an afterthought as several globuals of darkness formed in front of her, warping and twisting until they made complete balls. If you looked a certain way, you could almost see faces reflected on them, many different faces, the ones that tormented Midnight's diseased mind. Lifting her hands, she had them fly towards the walls, shooting straight through them in a smashing of brick and glass. Back and forth they went, deadly rubber balls until the office was a shattered mess. "We will bring it down."
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Post by Chance on Dec 16, 2005 16:57:07 GMT -5
"Destroy the house that Xavier built." It was so proverbial in a sense that Caity felt as if Midnight's revenge was almost Biblical. This was it, this was the end. It was the destruction of Xavier's dream.
"Fine." Caity knew that Midnight did not expect her to know how to harvest and command the darkness. Caity was simply now a part of it. And it was this sole fact that was giving her the edge she needed to defeat Midnight.
And so she watched as Marie destroyed everything that she and Xavier, as well as all the other X-Men, had helped to build. Although she didn't outwardly show it, a little of her died inside. All she had worked to achieve...if she and Mindwarp failed, if the X-Men failed, everything would be gone.
"What now? What shall I do?" Caity asked coldly.
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Post by xt on Dec 16, 2005 18:10:43 GMT -5
X-T tried to listen again, but she didn't hear Xavier's voice anymore. She extended her claws and headed toward the door.
"NO!" X-T said, taking a run towards the door. She tried opening it, but it would not budge.
"Can't be happenin'!" X-T said. She shoved one set of claws in the door to see what was blocking. She looked through the wholes, seeing black fog make some sort of shield around the door.
"We're stuck in..." X-T said with a nervous laugh. The suddenly, she looked up back at Fallback.
"Help me," X-T said pleadingly as she stuck out her hand.
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