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Post by Midnight on Dec 17, 2005 5:51:08 GMT -5
"Kill the others," Midnight said without hesitation. "They are blocked in a cellar below the mansion. Careful though, there is a teleporter or something of that sort among them." The walls crumbled around her, a large chunk of concrete landing on Professor Xavier's empty wheelchair, crushing it. "I will continue to demolish the mansion." Why did they not prepare? Why did they hide instead of run? Oh well, kill them. Destroy the remnents of your memories. Then, your mind will be completely black.
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Post by Chance on Dec 18, 2005 13:24:12 GMT -5
((I'm pretending that some other X-Men are here, so if this offends you, sorry.))
"Okay," Jubilee said moving into battle formation. "Everyone start boarding the jets. "Beast, Multiple, Warren start up the engines and get the students out of here. It's time we rock this girl."
Patrick looked at X-T's extended hand. Was this really safe? He guessed that it didn't actually matter. He covered her hand with his and phased them through the door.
"Kill the others," Midnight had told her. Damn, why was this so hard? Part of Caity almost wished that she could simply let the darkness take complete control. At least then she would lose her free will, at least then any mistake she made wouldn't be her fault.
But she couldn't do that. Instead she took a deep breath and smiled a dark grin at Midnight.
"As you wish old friend." She said as she merged with the darkness and melted into the floor. "As you wish."
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Post by xt on Dec 18, 2005 19:33:51 GMT -5
X-T looked around the floor. The floor was almost gone because of the darkness feasting apon it. X-T looked over at Fallback, still gribbing his hand in fear.
"Can ya walk on th' air like th' other intangible folks can?" X-T said with a worried look on her face.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 19, 2005 10:14:19 GMT -5
Midnight waited until Caity disappeared, then destroyed the wall that led to the hall, walking back into the black fog. It was sucked into her hands and sent flying again as hard orbs to rip holes in the walls. As she walked, a black tear trickled down the side of her face. "This is going too slow!" she shouted in rage, and clenched her fists. The black poured down from the sky, crushing the roof in. She felt the higher floors crumble under her power... so much power. Then opening her hands, she threw them outward, and the ceiling above her exploded away. She could now see the sky, clear, but darkening with twilight, except where her pillar loomed over the mansion. "STOP TORMENTING ME!"
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Post by xt on Dec 19, 2005 16:40:55 GMT -5
X-T felt the ground shake beneath her feet. She grabbed onto Fallback's arm for support.
"What we gonna do?" X-T said looking at him. She looked back at the door, looking through the wholes, seeing the kids holding onto the back wall.
"GET OUTTA HERE KIDS! GO THROUGH TH' CATTCOMBS! GET OUTTA HERE!" X-T screamed as she stumbled around. X-T let go and tried to stand on her own.
"We gotta get across!" X-T said pointing to the other side. She took a step to run.
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Post by Radial on Dec 19, 2005 20:36:10 GMT -5
*elsewhere at bayville park close to the mansion*
A white helicopter landed on the park grounds in a big patch of green. On the door of the copter was the British flag. Once the copter landed Cammy jumped out in a mint green uniform. She fixed her gauntlets and took out her small X-com link from a small bag she had thrown to her side. She had recently got a psychic message from mindwarp saying the institute was in trouble. After a few years living with the x-men Cammy was reassigned as a head field agent for MI-6 and worked as a standby x-men when she was needed. She still worked closely with Xavier for government information and things of that sort.
Cammy stood at the edge of the park fearing the worst for the institute, mindwarp's message sounded urgent. Cammy waited a bit until a man flew out of the copter in a full x-uniform.
Radial had been doing work in England when he received the message from mindwarp as well. The two of them flew in as soon as they could.
"Cammy, try and reach someone on the com link i gave you and see if anyone is answering. The way mindwarp sounded it was no everyday x-men crisis."
Cammy nodded in all seriousness and opened the small communicator. "Hello? Charles? Are you there, Is anyone there" Cammy waited for an answer and then turned to radial. "Well we better get over there while someone gets the message... think you can carry me?"
Radial looked around for any people. Though the mutant population had been exposed to the public, he didn't want anyone tracing where they were going. He picked her up and flew alongside the helicopter that was taking leave. Then when they were high enough he flew in the direction of the institute.
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Post by Chance on Dec 19, 2005 20:53:03 GMT -5
Fallback held X-T xlose to him, pulling her away from a sharp piece of wood that fell crashing from the rafters.
"I can't really walk on air," he said in answer to her previous question. "But I can just phase us through." He held her in his arms and allowed the darkness to fall through him. Then, like a loose wind, the two of them slid past the darkness, towards the epicenter...towards Midnight.
"Hurry everyone!" Jubilee yelled, her voice growing hoarse. She started to shoot off more flares, alerting the students that the three jets were ready to go. Then, turning to Leech (he had joined the Institute after the Morlock tunnels had been "purged" by the anti-mutant group Purity) she begged him to lead the remaining children out of the institute and into the sewers beneith. As a student advisor she felt that it was her responsibility to save them...if a single one was lost, she would never be able to forgive herself...
Syphon grew closer to the Sub-basement as the mansion collapsed around her. Now, with Mike and Xavier in her head, it was easier to control the darkness. She even had time to react to the ringing of the com-link she had clipped to her chest.
"Oh God! EVAN!" Her heart fluttered as she remembered their horrible break up. She couldn't remember whose fault it was anymore, but it didn't matter.
"You have to get here quick!" She said. "Mike is dead, Charles is dead, the mansion is falling apart and Midnight has sent me to destroy the rest. I have a plan...here it is."
And so she told him the plan of how Mike and Charles lay hidden in her subconscious, how they were all waiting to thwart Midnight at the last second. She asked him to play along, to lead Marie into their trap...
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Post by Radial on Dec 19, 2005 21:17:10 GMT -5
Cammy fumbled the com link around in her hand as the reply startled her. Syphon was replying and sounded panicked. "Evan take a landing, Caitys got some news for us to be filled in on."
Radial landed quickly and abruptly at the name Cammy told him was replying. His head flashed back to so many memories and a horrible break up between them. It had been a while and he didn't even remember what it was about. He suddenly couldn't concentrate and Cammy though speaking couldn't be heard for his mind was taking in too much of his past. He shook his head and listened to the rest of Caity's instructions.
Cammy dropped the com link and stared in shock. Both Charles and Mindwarp were dead. It had only been a week ago when She met up with Charles to give him information on genosha, and passed both Caity and Mike in the very halls of the institute. And now, they were both gone... She picked up the com link and turned her head whipping her long braids around and stared in the direction of the institute. Cammy recovered much more quickly then Evan did as she was trained to put emotions aside for it would lead to recklessness and endangerment of her duty. She looked to Evan who stood mortified for a while.
Evan glared at a hydrant and blew it up along with a portion of the sidewalk with a burst of light. After a few moments He looked at Cammy's serious face that she had always had on, even when she was a student and Xavier's. "She said that they were still in her mind right? and they had a plan... so lets go give midnight a nice welcome home."
Cammy smiled slightly and then turned away from him looking tward the institute. "Remember, for now Caity is our enemy according to plan. Think you can handle that?"
Radial picked up the com link from the ground and spoke softly. "... yea, i can"
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Post by xt on Dec 19, 2005 22:00:12 GMT -5
X-T looked behind her as they phased through the wall. It looked like the floor had collasped just as they phased through. She shook her head then looked up at Fallback.
"Ready?" X-T said, a determinded flicker in her eye, a flicker of power she had not had in a very long time.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 20, 2005 2:14:27 GMT -5
((ouch, darkness vs. light. I didn't think of that. It actually might work. Oh Mike, I have 15 karma... I'm catching up ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) )) Midnight turned her head quickly, the short black hair flying by her ears. Someone was getting closer, teleporting through the darkness. She could see them, the holes in the floor getting in their way. Fading back into the darkness, she formed again, next to them. "Boo," she whispered, and then reformed in another part of the mansion as it fell down around her. A chunk of ceiling fell right where she was standing, passing completely through her. Once this was done, would the torment end?
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Post by Radial on Dec 20, 2005 16:18:05 GMT -5
(( well lets make it 16 so your just one away lol. wow i didn't even think of the whole dark vs. light thing hmm kinda funny how that worked out))
Cammy patted on radials back as he spoke softly. "Just make it convincing, everything will be OK in the end... I hope. Just keep your focus Evan and lets get in there."
Cammy was right, he had to remain focused in order for the plan to work. He grabbed Cammy by the waist and took to the air. A few minutes later they could see the mansion and random spews of darkness from its crumbling walls. Cammy glared down and clenched her fists while radial thought of who the culprit had been. A girl he had known since he moved to the institute and went on his first mission in Africa to stop Apocalypse. Since that time she had been through a lot especially with her darkness taking over her. He flew in closer and put up a light shield around the two of them for safe measures as they flew up the long driveway neering the gates.
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Post by xt on Dec 21, 2005 7:47:38 GMT -5
X-T looked around. She had heard something outside, but couldn't tell what it was.
"I hear someone comin'," X-T said, taking a couple of steps away from Fallback, trying to hear. It sounded like wind picking up speed very fast. X-T realizing that someone else other than themselves was here, took up to a run up the stairs to the second floor.
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Post by Chance on Dec 22, 2005 16:24:01 GMT -5
((lol wow, I do have a lot of Karma. Thanks everyone who gave it to me! ;D))
Midnight's "Boo" would have left Patrick pissing in his pants back when he was first at the institute, but after his years in the military, her surprise was nothing.
"This is gettign serious," he said to X-T. "We need to be careful, we need to find a way to stop this loon." Suddenly X-T bolted up the stairs, and a bewildered Fallback stared after her.
"X-T! Where are you going?!" With a flex of his muscles he appeared up the stairs at her side.
Evan, Radial, Evan, Radial, Evan, Radial....Kat.
The words stapped into her life a knife. Katherine, oh God.
She had never told Evan about the baby, it simply would have made things too hard. And she never told him about losing the baby...that would have been worse.
Although she had miscarriaged she had still named her daughter, Katherine Cameron Sapsig. As she wandered toward the sub-basement with the mansion she called home falling apart around her she remembered the day she had found out...
*Flashback to nine years prior*
Damn Caity Currie cursed as she heard her enemy's footsteps coming down the cold metallic hallway. She would be here soon...and Caity was in no way fit to fight. She had a giant gash down her side and she had just managed to stop the blood.
"Damn it Xavier," she mumbled through the pain. "I'm never again washing your dirty laundry!" She applied pressure to her wound and flinched a little in pain. All morning she had been sick, vomitting and the like. It figured that it would be on the day of one of her biggest mission too.
Her job had been to brake into a Neo-Brotherhood cell and destroy it. The Neo-Brotherhood's ex-leader, and turncoat Chance had supplied Xavier with the info after getting a 'lucky' break while on a mission with his long-term girlfriend Midnight. Only things hadn't gone as smoothly as she had hoped.
Halfway through the mission her partner Vida was killed and it was up to Syphon to plant the bomb and finish the place off. Damn, why didn't things ever work out right!
"Time to die X-Man!" Ladymastermind said as she finally turned the corner.
"Took you long enough!" Caity said punching her in the face and knocking her back with a powerful kick.
"Now why don't you leave me alone and let me do my job? Okay bi***?" With her enemy down she turned to pick up her bomb, but this chick didn't quit. She kicked harnd and Syphon went down. Angry she flipped up and slapped Ladymastermind with the butt of her revolver.
"Why don't you just give up!"
"Why don't you!" LadyMastermind said taking mental control of Syphon. "Oh God...you're crazy woman!" She said with a fearful look in her eye. "What are you doing out here?! Why are you fighting? What kind of mother are you?"
"Mother...?" Suddenly it all made sense. The sickness, everything. They say a mother always knows...
"I'm pregnant?" she choked, fear and happiness riddling her voice.
"And you call yourself a telepath!" Ladymastermind spat. "you make me sick!" Then, suddenly Pyro lept out of the shadows and congradulated LadyMastermind.
"Good job Martinque. You stopped the X-Man, now step aside and let me finish her!"
"No!" Caity yelled cupping her stomach. "Please, I'll do anything." Suddenly everything was different. She wasn't the prime fighter Syphon that Xavier always saved for his special missions. Now she was a mother, and her baby was her only worry.
"Please."
"STOP!" LadyMastermind shut down Pyro's body and he fell with a thud to the ground. "Now get out of here." She picked up the bomb and turned to go. Caity, thankful for Martinique's kindess stood up and held her stomach. She cried a little, and then left.
*return to present*
Ever since that moment, ever since she realized that she was carrying Evan's baby, she stopped going on mission. However, two weeks later Radial left for England, and their relationship started to fall apart. Although Caity tried to keep it together, for the baby's sake, nothing seemed to work out.
Another week passed, and the Juggernaunt attacked the mansion. During the ocnfusion Caity was slammed against the wall while trying to protect some junior X-Men. The baby was lost.
"Can't think about things like that!" She said as she walked down the halls. "That part of my life is over and done with." She looked ahead at the locked doors of the sub-basement.
Now was the time to focus.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 22, 2005 16:32:31 GMT -5
The stairs crumbled under X-T as the second floor started to collapse in a pile of rubble. Furniture was crushed and iron bars stuck out of half crushed walls. The darkness floated like a smog over it all, a thick black bubble on the map. And let darkness fill the earth and subdue it. Let them be trapped in hell... The black on the lawn flowed into the shape of a girl and Midnight formed, squinting her black eyes as she saw someone flying up. Great, reinforcements... "Syphon..." the whisper flew through the darkness as well, echoing in Caity's ears. "Are they dead? You did not swallow them, I did not feel it... are they dead?"
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Post by xt on Dec 22, 2005 17:22:23 GMT -5
X-T jumped up, feeling the floor crumble beneath her. She extended her claws and stuck them into the wall. She held herself up and looked at Fallback over her shoulder.
"Getta 'bove ground!" X-T yelled, feeling herself slowly sliding down the wall. Suddenly, iron bars flew in from the sides. X-T screamed, keeping her head back from one hitting her face.
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Post by Chance on Dec 22, 2005 20:10:45 GMT -5
"Look out!" Fallback yelled, phasing X-T out of harms way. The two appeared fully intact at the top of the stairs.
"We shouldn't go running off in here. This girl is crazy, and she isn't playing games."
Caity sighed when she heard Midnight entering her mind. In the darkest voice she could forge her telepathy into she spoke,
<I'm working on it Marie. I just got here.> She looked at the solid metal doors with disgust.
<Make this good Jubilee!> She said before using the darkness to rip the doors off their hinges. Then, with cool complacency, Syphon walked into the sub-basement, a cloud of currupting blackness swimming in her wake.
"Death has arrived children. Welcome to hell."
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Post by Radial on Dec 22, 2005 23:04:03 GMT -5
Radial sped up as he approached the gates which were now toppled over. he quickly let go of Cammy as they approached midnight and radial fired a few circular light balls at her made of radio light waves that could not be seen where they were coming from. "Hey midnight, long time no see. Why don't we catch up on old times..." Throughout the years Radial had become more talented with bending the light around him to a point where he could make almost anything invisible by bending the light around it. It took more energy to use more concentrated wave length attacks but he had been doing that since his first year at the institute and by making them invisible to the normal persons eye they were often a nasty surprise.
Cammy was dropped at the beginning of the lawn and did a flip upon landing so she would not be harmed. She then immediately checked out the area for any sneak traps and closed in tward midnight. The wind blew on the grass but in about a two foot radius around her the grass did not move. She thought as much that Evan would put a shield around her just in case.
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Post by xt on Dec 22, 2005 23:16:31 GMT -5
X-T turned to Fallback and nodded, her eyes still widened from shock.
"Yeah," She said, then looked behind them, "Thanks fer that," Suddenly, she looked out the window and saw three figuares outside. X-T shook her head and turned to Fallback.
"Hey, if we don' get through this, I jus' wanna say it was nice meetin' ya," X-T said with a sort of smile.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 23, 2005 2:50:57 GMT -5
Maybe the light was invisble to normal eyes, but Midnight's eyes were anything but normal. Her mouth dropped open in a sort of shock as the balls of light barreled into her. An explosion of black dust seemed to issue from where she stood, and the girl was gone. The darkness receeded about a foot, leaving in it's wake Midnight. She stood there, a silent smile on her face. "Nice try." The light had blown her back, but it could not destroy her as long as the darkness existed, and she was the darkness. Lifting her hands, she blew the black smoke at Radial and the girl near him, watching it billow over them.
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Post by Chance on Dec 23, 2005 23:04:29 GMT -5
"It was nice meeting you too," Patrick said as he starred down at X-T. "Very nice." He wanted so bad to kiss her, to bend down and touch her lips...but he didn't feel that this was the time or the place. Instead, he teleported them out onto the front lawn. Once they defeated Midnight there would be time for romance...
What now Professor? Caity thought. Do I kill them?
Of course not! He fired back. Just shake things up a bit. Jubilee knows the plan, she'll take care of things.
I hope so...
Caity flipped her darkening hair behind her shoulder and squared off against Jubilation Lee.
"You think you can take me little girl?" She snarled, a dark aura radiating from her pale white skin.
"You were never an X-Man, you're just a pathetic excuse of a super hero. A waste of space." Syphon attempted to swirl the darkness, to manipulate it into a form. But the nebulous cloud that surrounded her wasn't listening to her mental commands. She was fighting it too hard. She had to let herself slip further into the darkness if this was ever going to work. Holding her breath she told the Professor and Mindwarp not to be nervous, then her eyes turned black and the darkness took form.
"Ahh!" Jubilee dodged a thick sphere of black energy that Syphon had formed. Jesus Christ, this woman wasn't kidding around!
You said to make this convincing...but this is too much!Jubilee sent out a sparkle of color that split through the darkness and exploded in Syphon's face. She knew what the plan was, to make it look like Syphon was trying to kill them. But still, fighting one of her collegues wasn't very fun.
"Get back kids!" She shouted over her shoulder. "Go find Beast and Angel!" Another sphere slammed into the wall behind her and a little girl with a fox tail screamed and ran away.
"Jamie, get going! These kids need to get out of here!" Behind her about twenty Multiple Men were moving about, picking up children and taking them to the hanger. However, two children still stood huddling in the back of the room. Jubilee cringed when she realized who it was.
"Tabitha! Christopher! Get out of here! Me and your mommy are just playing! Nothing to be scared about!" But Jubilee knew that Tabby's telepathy allowed her to know everything. Jubes hoped to God that Caity knew what she was doing...
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