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Post by Chance on Dec 29, 2005 22:44:38 GMT -5
Patrick allowed them to turn tangible and then looked around the grounds, lowing them to the grass.
"Damn, she got away." He cursed. "But, that boy over there, the X-Man Radial, I bet he can stop her." He turned to face the space where no grass was blowing in the wind, the space where he knew Radial or Cammy were standing.
"You need to stop her, your light powers seem to be the only thing that can melt away her darkness."
Meanwhile, in the sub-basement, Caity cursed under her breath as she watched Midnight form in front of her.
"I can take care of things myself Marie!" She screamed, darkness overflowing from around her. "Go back and take care of Evan, he's your biggest threat!"
She had to buy herself some time, she had to take Jubilee out without having Midnight kill her.
"I got this!" She yelled as she cloaked Jubilee in a thick cloud of dense fog. "Go back and stop the defense they're mounting!"
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Post by Radial on Dec 29, 2005 23:55:18 GMT -5
Cammy pulled Patrick in the shield and smiled at him for half of a second remembering him as the boy who teleported out of his clothes when she first got to the institute. "Those aren't my powers that are doing this, i wont be much good in this fight unless i can get to touch her."
Radial had heard fallback's statement and continued to create large ribbons of light that were swallowing up the darkness around the mansion. Once there was a clearing he flew directly inside the doorway lit up like a shooting star. He landed and immediately filled the entire top floor with a glow eliminating the visible darkness from the surface of the mansion. "Well hopefully this will weaken her but i can only imagine how the subbasement looks and how Caity is faring."
Cammy ran out of Radials shield and over to the mansion looking around for any sign of midnight's reappearance. "Seems like something important is going down below..."
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Post by xt on Dec 30, 2005 0:00:57 GMT -5
X-T felt her feet touch the ground. She smiled.
"An' give us a yell if ya need any help distractin' her. Trust me, I'll here ya," X-T called out, a hint of pride in her voice, knowing that this plan would work, "An' when ya get her so that ya can touch her, let me know right away," X-T faded back in, extending her claws with a smile.
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Post by Radial on Dec 30, 2005 0:09:30 GMT -5
Evan nodded back to X-t and then flew over to where everyone could hear him. "Chances are if we can get her to touch something we can have a pretty good barrage of attacks coming from many directions to keep her occupied." He looked over to both X-t and Cammy. "If depleting the amount of darkness she has control over is indeed weakening her then she may have to turn tangible if most of her dark clouds are gone. But it's all riding on a chance that she will be indeed weakening."
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Post by xt on Dec 30, 2005 0:18:18 GMT -5
X-T nodded as the man named Radial spoke.
"Well, no matter what happens, I'm there 100 percent all th' way. Ya got my word on it," X-T said with a smile as she held up a hand, "Soldiers honor. No way am I backin' down. B'sides, I'm workin' with th' best mutants possible, how can we loose?" X-T bowed to Radial, then stood back up.
"We'll be waitin' fer yer call, Radial," X-T said with a nod.
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Post by Radial on Dec 30, 2005 0:27:57 GMT -5
Cammy stood posture straight as most people trained in a military positioning would and and smiled over to X-t. Her words gave Cammy a bit of a confidence boost that she was loosing since she wasn't really actively participating in the brawl like she was used to.
Radial lowered his head in a small bow in X-T's direction and looked over to the mansion. "If this works it will take a team effort from everyone but i believe we can do this, no matter how bad it gets. I've seen midnight's powers before, and they are a force to be reckoned with. I might be able to put up small shields around all of you for some protection until it comes time for you but they may break. I don't know how strong she is now, i can only imagine. But we can't loose, for mindwarp and the professors sake... we cannot lose." There and then he was willing to give his life in order to bring peace once again to the institute grounds.
Cammy looked to all of them standing on the lawn. "And now comes the hardest part of all. We wait."
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Post by xt on Dec 30, 2005 0:42:48 GMT -5
X-T smiled, then sighed.
"You can say that again," X-T said as she sat on the ground, "I ain't th' type of person to wait, if ya get what I'm sayin'," X-T looked behind her at Fallback and smiled, then looked back up at the girl standing beside her.
"You can relax now, hun. This ain't th' military yet," X-T said with a laugh.
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Post by Midnight on Dec 30, 2005 1:55:44 GMT -5
"I am no longer Marie," Midnight said in a soft but deadly voice, her eyes narrowing. "Since when did you give me orders? I am the darkness that infests you, and you will take orders from me!" With a wave of her hand, she dissapated the cloud around Jubilee. "Run, girl, and tell others what you have seen. Go take care of the escaping children. It seems that they are important enough to stay Syphon's hand. Go!" Turning back to Caity, her eyes hard, she spoke again. "You have no idea what threaten's me. They cannot kill me. Yes, my darkness is being dispursed, for now. But my goal is done. The mansion crumbles and is about to fall. I have destroyed this place." Now to the Brotherhood! We shall end this! No more will his face torment you! Destroys them remnents of his memory...
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Post by Radial on Dec 30, 2005 12:04:35 GMT -5
Cammy wasn't sure what she had meant at first but then realized she was standing straight and still as a pole. It wasn't something she thought was strange from being around people saluting all the time back in England. Cammy laughed a little. "Sorry. I'm a head field agent for England's MI-6..." Cammy rolled her eyes and spared the group her half hour introduction of herself and what MI-6 is all about. She laughed again and then averted her gaze back at the mansion.
"Knowing midnight we might not have to wait very long." Evan saw a small thin cloud of darkness appear from the floorboards of the mansion and he quickly shot light in its direction.
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Post by xt on Dec 30, 2005 21:54:12 GMT -5
X-T nodded impressed.
"MI-6. Nice. That' mus' of been tough ta get in, but considerin' who we are, maybe not," X-T said with a wink. She looked back at Fallback and turned her head to the side.
"Weren't you part of a MI group er somethin' like that?" X-T said with a smile and the raise of her eyebrow.
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Post by Chance on Dec 31, 2005 0:50:56 GMT -5
Patrick smiled, "MIU acutally, Mutants in Uniform." He laughed a little and then turned to the others.
"Maybe you can infect her with light the way she has been infected with darkness." He had been thinking about this plan for a good five minutes, and he doubted that it would work, but shooting Midnight with a piercing ray of light may have its benifits. He looked over at Cammy, the girl he remembered from his first day at the Institute, and spoke,
"She'll have to go tangible once the light infects her darkness, giving you the opportunity to touch her. I'll teleport you and X-T up to here. Then Cammy, use your atom burning power to paralyze her for a few minutes. Then, X-T can attack her."
Patrick's passive powers had always forced him to use strategy over brute-force, and so he figured that this plan actually stood a chance. However, Midnight's insanity was the only obstacle. With nothing left to live for she was basically fearless. What wouldn't she do to dismantle the X-Men?
Jubilee locked eyes with Midnight and snarled. She felt the energy pulsing in her fist and she wanted so bad to blast her through the ceiling. But Caity stopped her, taking mental control over her hand.
Fine, I'll listen to her, but you better be able to handle this! Jubilee thought as she stared into Midnight's black eyes.
"Fine." She started to back away from the two of them until she reached the hangar. Then she turned and ran, getting into one of the X-Copters. She switched it on and the copter rose. From here on in, she was taking this battle to the front lawn, with the others.
"You think for just one second that you can comman me Midnight!" Caity shot back. She was never one to take orders, and she was never one to bite her tongue.
"You gave this curse to me! Remember? Back when I was seventeen your darkness flowed through my veins and infected my body! So don't you dare tell me what to do! It is because of you that I am like this!" Darkness billowed out from the recesses of Caity's mind as she yelled at Midnight. She tried so hard to control her powers, to keep her cool, but she was running out of options.
"I know it's revenge you want, but how far are you willing to go?!" Her voice grew cold as ice as Mindwarp and the Professor begged her not to finish her statement. As always, she didn't listen,
"It wasn't Professor Xavier, or any of the X-Men that killed Chance. It was you."
Then, turning from her long time friend, she melted into blackness. Back on the front lawn the molecules of smog being chased away by Radial shivered and shook. Out of the blackness the figure of a girl formed.
<Don't shoot> Caity said telepathically as she finished her manifestation. Now, in full form, she walked out onto the damp grass.
"Midnight's coming."
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Post by Radial on Dec 31, 2005 1:03:34 GMT -5
Radial stared at his hands with a look of doubt. "I don't know if my powers can infect her... Her own powers made her like this, I don't think that another persons mutation can have that same effect." Radial could surround her with light and pierce through her ghost like form with it, but each time she would just reappear in a different spot freeing herself from an attack.
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Post by Chance on Dec 31, 2005 1:09:54 GMT -5
"But Midnight's darkness isn't fully a mutation. This is something else, something greater. Besides, she can't reappear from darkness if there isn't any left!"
Syphon nodded having heard the little bit of the plan.
"I agree with Radial, it probably won't work. But we need to try it anyway. Midnight is getting too strong, and stopping her is near impossible." She looked up at Evan,
"But if we don't do something to stop her soon, the darkness will finish taking over me. And then not only will you have lost the minds of Mindwarp and Professor Xvaier, you'll have to battle me as well."
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Post by Midnight on Dec 31, 2005 1:57:44 GMT -5
Midnight stood still, listening to Caity's barrage with her head tilted to one side. Her great black eyes blinked as if she was trying to understand. And then Caity was gone.
It is true, isn't it? It wasn't any of them, it was me.
They could not help you, they would not help you. Caity thanked you for your gift back when she was seventeen and now she curses you. I do not have full control of her mind, but I am gaining it. You must destroy the Brotherhood! The last of his memory resides there. Then you will be free... to rule to world, to cast it into an everlasting darkness.
I don't want to rule the world... I want Eric back.
They are waiting, Marie. They are waiting for you, they are waiting for me. Show them that you are more powerful than they are.
Eric...
GO!
Midnight walked into the darkness, then flowed into it, letting it carry her out to the front lawn. She knew what she had to do. She wanted revenge.
Her body started to form from the swirling cloud, leaving her standing there as it receeded from the unnatural light. Black eyes blinked as she looked at the people out there. Drawing a deep breath, she made her body solid, flesh that could be touched.
No! Stop! What are you doing?
Will it hurt...death?
Extending her arms toward the people, she turned her wrists upward, waiting for them to be cut. She turned her eyes to X-T, who she knew wanted to kill her, wanted revenge as well. Midnight would get revenge by being killed, the murderer of Chance would be destroyed. "Eric..." she whispered as her eyes started to glow like hidden embers of a larger fire. "Forgive me..."
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Post by Radial on Jan 1, 2006 23:35:52 GMT -5
Radial thought to himself as midnight came out and was surrendering herself. They could save her still, right? If she had the power to disobey the darkness within herself then there was still a chance to bring her back. He wanted to know what was going through her head, and if she could in fact be stronger than the darkness. "Caity, do you think you can use your telepathy to help her?" After all Caity did have both mindwarp, herself, and the Professor in her head. Maybe a fight on the astral plane was what midnight needed to overcome all of this.
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Post by Chance on Jan 1, 2006 23:41:31 GMT -5
<Do it now Patrick, you know why Professor Xavier wanted you for this mission! It's the only way!> Caity yelled telepathically as she braced herself for what was about to happen.
Patrick heard Caity's words and suddenly he knew. He ran toward Midnight and grabbed her tangible body, phasing her solid form as he did so. With a loud thump they landed on the floor. As he gazed up at where Midnight used to stand he saw a swirling black smokescreen. Somehow, Patrick had managed to phase the darkness out of Midnight's DNA, he had managed to loosen her molecules and free her from her curse.
<It worked Professor.> Caity said telepathically as tears rolled down her cheeks. <and now...it's time.>
Caity whiped her tears with the back of her hand and then walked toward the darkness. She extended her arms, opening herself to the world and allowed the blackness to fully infect her, to take her over and possess her body.
Now, as the smoke took control, the Professor and Mindwarp had only seconds to work with it, to pull the bodies of everyone Midnight had killed out of her head...
**if you don't like this Midnight, I'll change it**
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Post by Midnight on Jan 2, 2006 12:12:50 GMT -5
((Hey Mike, that's pretty cool. No problem. I can't figure out what X-T is talkin' about though.))
Midnight hit the ground hard and gasped for air as her breath was knocked out of her. She lay there, panting, for a second before she started. She glanced around rapidly, watching the black smoke flit through the air. Then she blinked her brown eyes. A tendril of hair fell over her face and she examined it carefully. It was a deep brown color, not the black she had been used to. "I... can't feel it..." she said, her voice full of fear and awe. Shivering, she wrapped her arms around her legs and started to cry. She was crying for all those dead. She was crying for the loss of the darkness. She was crying for all the pain she caused. And she was crying for Chance. Clear tears flowing out of her brown eyes...
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Post by xt on Jan 2, 2006 12:52:08 GMT -5
((sorry for the mixup! deleted it to make it easier on your souls!))
X-T bent down to Midnight's level and hugged her.
"It's alright, Midnight," X-T said, "Th' nightmares over fer you. Yer free,"
Suddenly, the sound of jet engines and the x-copters could be heard not to far off in the distance. X-T looked to the sky and smiled happily.
"They're back," X-T said, the rays of the sun hitting her face and warming it, "They're safe. Thank God, they're safe," X-T stood up and held out a hand to Midnight.
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Post by Kerri on Jan 2, 2006 20:35:48 GMT -5
(Who? All the kids and people who left?)
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Post by xt on Jan 2, 2006 21:04:08 GMT -5
((both. thought'd i get the people who were taking care of the kids and such back))
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