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Post by Chance on Jan 25, 2006 23:12:07 GMT -5
Background Information: 1. This book takes place four months after Book One. The mansion is still being rebuilt, with one of the wings still under construction. 2. The League of Tomorrow is an organization whose sole purpose is to make the future a safe and secure place. Now, it has stepped in to take control over the many mutants who are losing their powers. Shannon Kealey is a healer and the co-president of the organization. 3.The X-Man have agreed to send some of their agents to help the League of Tomorrow. So far, the X-Man Fallback, was the first to volunteer.
Chapter Two: Decimation
Luke Bentley ran along the sunstreaked road until he couldn't run anymore. His breath came in quick, short gasps, and his skin felt like it was burning. Screaming, he collapsed into the dirt that bordered the concrete and grabbed at his skin, trying to tear it off of him.
"What's...happening!" He yelled and pounded his chest as sharp pieces of glass-like organic material began to poke through his pores, making him look like a sort of cyrstalized porcupine. He was used to the usual pain that occompanied his odd mutation, but this pain wouldn't stop, it was excruciating. He screamed as blood started to flow out from under the shards, blocking out the light that they usually refracted, making the scene dark and forboding. As he lay screaming, twitching on the ground, a van pulled up, seemingly out of nowhere.
"We need to hurry!" Said a woman speaking in an exhasperated tone as she ran toward the collapsed man. She ripped off her gloves and immedietly began to touch his wounds, trying to heal them with her fingertips.
"It's not working, we got another one!" She screamed back at her team, as they too exited the van trying to get the situation under control. Already the League of Tomorrow had stopped the traffic on the street, and ambulences were on the way, but Shannon Kealey thought it was too late.
Calling to the teleporter that got her van here she yelled, "Patrick! Go to the Xavier Institute and get Professor Xavier, NOW!"
"Of course!" Patrick Delaney said, immedietly disappearing with a loud popping sound.
Shannon let out a tiny cry as the man, formally Luke Bentley, fell limp in her arms.
"Damn it!" She cursed, trying to revive him with a defibulator that one of her team mates had handed her. But it was no use. His crystalized heart had reverted back to its original state, and his body couldn't handle it. His glass spikes began to fall off, unhinging from his body. Quickly, Shannon took out a tiny device and took a blood sample from the man's finger tip.
"Mutation...negative," she read the words over and over, hoping that it was just a trick, that the device was wrong. But this time, like all the others recently, it was right.
"Call it," someone next to her said somberly. "You have to call it Shannon."
"I know, I know," she muttered, still listening for a heart beat. "Time of death...four thirty." She let the man drop to the floor and then moved away from the scene, her hands to her face, whiping away a few tears. Why was this happening?
"You okay Shannon?" A familiar voice asked.
"No Jack," she said turning to face him. "Mutants all over the world are losing their powers in violent, uncontrollable, deadly occurances. It's almost as if mutants appeared only to disappear in a few years." She looked at her own hands, wondering when it would come for her.
"Decimation isn't a myth Jack. It's real, and it's here."
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Post by xt on Jan 26, 2006 15:12:05 GMT -5
Back at Xavier institute, X-T stood in the bed room next to hers. Wiping the sweet off her paint covered forhead, she gave a sigh of happiness.
"Finally done," She said with a smile, putting the paint brush she was holding on the news paper covered floor, "Won't he be surprised when he get's back," X-T smiled widly, stroking her pony tail as she thought for a moment, then sighed. She looked down at her clock.
"I've been workin' ever since he's been gone... Where'd he go?" X-T said bitting her lip. She exited the room, spotting her tank toped, grey shorts self in the mirror. She smiled at her reflection.
"Good mornin', beautiful!" X-T said to herself, which she played every morning ever since hearing those words. She smiled and giggle happily. Suddenly, there was light footsteps on the wooden floor. X-T looked over to see a little boy with brown hair a freckles.
"Why, hello there Micheal, what can I do fer ya?" X-T said, bending down to his level with a smile. The boy fiddled with his shirt and looked up at his teacher.
"I'ma lil' hungery, Miss T," The boy named Micheal said with a smile. X-T picked him up and carried him on his back.
"Well, we can't have that, now can we?" X-T said with a smile, "Oh, and you can call me X-T, Micheal. Only in class will you call me Miss T,"
X-T, with Micheal hung off her back, paraded down to the kitchien, making a great meal of belgium waffles and orange juice. After eating them, they sat in the kitchien, X-T showing the lastest math problem they learned yesterday.
"X-T?" Micheal said looking up at X-T. X-T looked up and smiled.
"Yes Micheal?"
"I don't hear any voices in my head," Micheal said. There was a long silence between the two, then X-T laughed.
"This is a joke right? Your pullin' a joke, right Micheal?" X-T said with a smile, but the shake of Micheal's head changed X-T's emotions from great, to bad. X-T scooted out of the chair and ran out of the kitchien.
"PROFESSOR! IT'S HAPPENED!" X-T yelled, running through the halls of the mansion.
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Post by Chance on Jan 26, 2006 22:43:07 GMT -5
Professor Charles Xavier was sitting in his office overlooking some old newspaper articles. They were of men and women, past mutants, who claimed to have lost their powers. It was the strangest thing to happen in the world thus far, mutants everywhere were simply losing their powers, but recently things were getting worse. His eyes shifted to another article. This one discribed a mutant who exploded upon the lose of his powers, and another spoke of how a woman's ability to control electricity went crazy, killing five people before she finally lost her powers. Things were getting worse everyday. Mutants seemed to either simply lose their powers peaceful, or in a violent uproar.
So now, sitting in his office reading, the Professor sighed. What else could go wrong? Suddenly a loud popping sound filled his small chamber, and the arrival of X-Man Fallback immedietly signified that bad news that was about to follow.
"What's happened?" The Professor asked, wheeling out from behind his desk.
"Shannon....the league..." Patrick was exhausted. The giant leap he had just made had taken alot out of him. Lately it seemed that his teleportation powers were being overused. And with the League traveling all over the world to save mutants from Decimation, it didn't look like he would be getting rest anytime soon.
Falling into a chair, Patrick sighed. "It was...another violent one." He said, pushing his bright orange hair out of his eyes, and using his visor to hold it in place. "It was Fragment, an instructor from the San Fransciso school, his glass spikes cut into his veins...then his powers...they just disappeared, just like all the others." Patrick was too tired to speak, and Xavier used his telepathy to monitor his memories, gathering the rest of the information. But then suddenly Xavier let out a small yelp. Someone in the school was screaming...
"What is it X-T?" Xavier asked, his hands shooting to his temples, trying to gain better control. "What's here?"
"X-T?" Patrick asked, snapping his head up, suddenly worried. "What's happened to her?" He imagined her losing her powers too, only violently, like all the mutants were starting to. "Is she okay, what's happening?!"
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Post by Radial on Jan 27, 2006 9:41:45 GMT -5
Radial stood outside smoothing out the stucco on the wing of the mansion that was still being redone. He and a few other students worked alongside the small contracting crew in whatever way they could. Evan had been working hard and diligently and for the most part in silence. He used the construction to help his mind cope with he pain of loosing Caity.
The crew was gone but the winds were making the stucco dry quickly and clump together. He gave each of the students working beside him a hand sized spackling blade, made of pure solidified light, in order to try and smooth it out evenly before it hardened.
An hour or so went by and the students did a very nice job helping him. "Alright guys, the wind has died down a bit and i think she'll hold up OK. Nice work." The students smiled and a few were startled as the spackling blades simply disappeared. He looked toward the sun and wiped the bit of sweat from his forehead.
There only a few inches away from where he had been looking he could see Xavier's office. He could see some sort of commotion in the room but wasn't sure of who or what was going on. He put his shirt back on and took the kids inside and lead them to the common room where they all dashed for the remote or the computer. He laughed and then took the elevator up to the second floor and down the hall toward Xavier's office to see what it was all about.
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Post by xt on Jan 27, 2006 17:13:41 GMT -5
X-T barged into the office, ignoring the psychic messege from the Professor.
"Decimation," X-T said, still in the door way, "It's a mad house. All th' kids are standin' in th' foyer,"
Outside the office could be heard of louds cries and screams. X-T looked outside, then back at Professor Xavier.
"Charles, some o' these students can't take it. They ain't ready ta be normal yet. What's yer call," X-T said a worried exspression on her face. Spotting Patrick in the room, X-T sniffed back her tears and ran to him. She jumped up and hugged him.
"Are you ok?" X-T gasped through her sobs, "I was so worried where ya were," X-T pulled back and kissed him tenderly.
"Didja get hurt by someone? Becuas e if you did, I'll... I'll..." X-T begain to say, but then began to sob again.
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Post by Chance on Jan 28, 2006 13:05:06 GMT -5
All of Patrick's fears and apprehension evaporated as X-T melted into his arms. Holding her close he kissed her and smiled, whiping back some of her tears with his fingertips.
"I'm fine, I'm fine," he said to her in a quite voice. "I was helping some people deal with adult mutants losing their powers, they seem to be losing them more dramatically than the children at the school."
Professor Xavier wheeled to the window and gazed out at his property. This was a haven for mutants, a sfae place to escape the persecution of closeminded humans...but now...now everything was falling apart. With his students losing their powers and all...what place did mutants even have in the future?
<Radial> the Professor said into Evan's head. <Gather up some of your favorite students and bring them to my office.>
((OOC: I was thinking the mansion would run kind of like it does in the newer issues of the X-Men. For example, a lot of the X-Men are advisors to squads or students. I was thinking, maybe Radial could be a squad leader?....))
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Post by xt on Jan 28, 2006 15:38:18 GMT -5
X-T wiped her eyes with a nervous laugh. She sniffed then looked deep in his eyes.
"Who's been effected?" X-T said, biting her bottom lip, "And are they ok?" X-T let out a nervous sigh. She couldn't believe this was happening. The kids wouldn't be able to handle this sort of change. Not so soon. X-T looked over at her hand, taking it off of Patrick's shoulder and making a fist. Three claws quickly extended from it. With a sigh, X-T sheathed them and dug her face in Patrick's cheast.
"Fer once, I'm happy they're still there," X-T said with a laugh.
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Post by Chance on Jan 30, 2006 16:24:11 GMT -5
Fallback smiled, holding her. "it was a faculty advisor from the San Fransisco Institute. His powers basically killed him before they disappeared. I don't know what's going on really...only that we're all at risk..." The thought of losing his own powers made him shiver...he couldn't imagine actually having to walk far distances. The fact that he was just worried about walking made him chuckle a bit. But then he got serious.
"Professor, what can we do here, M. Kealey said that she wanted to talk to you."
"Shannon and the League will be here soon, don't you worry about her. What we need to worry about are the students. I already have a bunch of them with Mindwarp in the psychiatric ward...he's been doing some mental healing, helping them cope." Suddenly, a flash of Midnight and Chance entered his head, he wondered if they even knew...
"If you excuse me, I'm going to contact some others that could be in danger. You two just relax, don't mind me." Xavier smiled and turned around, placing his fingers to his temple. Within moments he was mentally connected to a mutant in northern Canada...
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Eric James crept silently in the shadows. His psionic shield, glowing a dim blue in the dark room, threatened to give him away, but, with a few moments of concentration, the shield quieted down, and he started to blend into the shadows.
"Marie," he whispered into the darkness, "you okay 'hun?" He couldn't help but worry aobut her, even though they both clearly knew what they were doing. After a month of tracking down Weapon X subordinates, they had finally made it to the Canadian Base. It had been difficult getting in too, a tricky test of his skills, but none-the-less he and Marie had done it. Now, in the darkness he waited until Marie spoke, but suddenly, a nervous Professor Xavier filled his head.
<Eric?> Xavier asked, talking telepathically into his head.
<Xavier? What now, me and Marie are almost in, we don't need your psychic interuptions now!> He was kind of annoyed. Fingering his gun he hoped the Professor would be brief.
<I'm just warning you, mutants every are losing their powers...just be careful.>
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Post by Midnight on Jan 30, 2006 16:28:59 GMT -5
"I'm fine," Marie replied softly, but even so, she shivered. She wasn't used to darkness the way other people were, something that surrounded and blinded. And after what had happened last time she broke out of a place like this, she wasn't sure she would ever be comfortable around utter darkness again. She could see Eric's shield glowing softly and let that fill her vision, trying to make the darkness seem less threatening.
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Post by Radial on Jan 30, 2006 17:57:20 GMT -5
((should i put Cammy with chance and midnight to get back at it, or at the mansion so it could be like a date mission for the two of you? he he he))
Radial could see Xavier's office down the hall when he got his telepathic message. He stopped and looked both down where he came and to the professor's office. He wasn't sure if he should go and see what was going on, or do exactly as Xavier had told him. He decided to quickly round up his squad and then report to Xavier's office.
Evan flew down the hall fast and into the common room. He wondered if both he and the professor were still linked at the moment. he tried to reach him anyway just to be informed. <Professor, what exactly is going on?>
There was a period of silence so he figured that he was contacting someone else at the moment. Evan burst into the library and found two of his students there studying. One, a girl named Roxy Breeze or Psyshot who had the ability to produce psyonic blades/shards that held negative psychic energy. They would cause people them to become incapacitated or go through an array of trauma.
The other was a boy named Corey Millstone. He went by the name of Caulk because he produced a sticky string from his fingertips that he could spew from 5-7 feet. The substance looked like caulk and hardened quickly. It contained a slight acidic compound which burned as it dried.
The two of them looked up as radial burst in on their studies. "Guys pack up your books and come with me." The students groaned as they figured it would be another danger room practice. Evan flew over to Corey and rubbed his head. "Eh suck it up princess, the training ain't that hard... Anyway thats not why I came here, you guys are coming with me to the professors off ice... Do you guys know where the others are?"
Roxy: Ariana and Beau are in the kitchen i think, as for Mathew, I have no clue..."
"To the kitchen then." The two of them started to get excited as they ran through the halls looking for the other members of their group.
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Post by xt on Jan 30, 2006 18:27:43 GMT -5
((haha, my friend's x-men character was roxie on another board. *clears throat* 'scuse me, on with it))
X-T shuttered, shaking her head.
"Easy for him t'say," X-T said, crossing her arms. There was a knock on the door, not your normal knock, but a despret sounding knock. X-T jumped over the chair and opened it. She looked down at the little girl standing in the doorway, tears in her eyes.
"What's th' matter, Cindy?" X-T said bending down to her level. The little girl bit her bottom lip and sobbed.
"My brother ain't wakin' up, Miss T. Ah tried ta wake him, but he jus' won't get up," The girl said through her cries.
"What happened to Tuck? Did he do somethin' that ain't makin' him awake?" X-T asked, putting her hands on the girl's shoulders in reasurrence. The girl sobbed once more.
"He said he thought he could still fly. I told him he ain't gonna, 'cause he wasn't flyin' in th' hallway like he done ev'ry mornin'. So... he climb up on th' banaster... an'... an'..." The girl tried to say, but then began to go deep in a huge wave of emotions. X-T looked up and down the hallway, where she saw students imerging with tears in there eyes.
"Oh my..." X-T began to say, but then stood up, sprinting down the hallway. There at the steps, laid a little boy, is body spred across the ground. Usually in this case X-T could handle herself, but she took a step back in shock. There were cries all around the house. Grabbing Tuck's limb body, she rushed into Professor Xavier's office.
"These kids ain't stable, Charlie! Shut 'em down!" X-T begged, blood getting on herself as Cindy cried in the corner of the room.
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Post by Chance on Jan 30, 2006 19:54:55 GMT -5
((hmmm, i dunno, Midnight would you prefer Cammy to be alone with them, or have her back at the institute?))
"You afraid of the dark or something, Midnight?" Chance asked with a chuckle in his voice, referring to her old handle. "It wasn't so long ago that you were made of darkness." He smiled a smile that he was sure she couldn't see, and then he moved closer to her, making his way through the dark room. The two of them were crouched next to large crates, waiting at the loading station of a giant cement structure. The gates would open in about fifteen minutes, until then, they had some time to kill.
"Charlie just tele-messaged me," he said, making out her slim fram by the dim light of his shield. "He says that mutants are losing their powers...something freaky's going on back home."
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The sight of Tuck made Fallback's heart wrench. Immedietly he bent down to him, trying to detect a pulse. He wondered where Shannon was...she was a healer...maybe she could help...but things didn't look good. Tuck was beaten up pretty bad, and the others, the students crying in the halls, were beginning to panic. Something had to be done if they were going to fix anything.
Suddenly Mindwarp burst into the room. Behind him were his prized students, a set of telepathic triplets known as Trio and a twin pair of boys known as Janus. They marched in behind Mindwarp, their blonde hair glowing in the sunlight that filled the room. Tagging along behind them was Tabitha, Mindwarp's 8 year-old daughter.
"Professor, all six, umm seven of us," he said as Tabitha tugged on his pant leg, "have telepathic waves shooting through our heads. The student's minds are reckless and wild, totally out of control. I thought it might be best, for now, if maybe Trio, Janus and myself could mentally place all the students in a coma. This way, we could work to solve the problems without any more...casualties..." his eyes shifted to the body of Tuck and Elsie, one of the Trio triplets, burst out in tears. As if on cue her other two sisters followed suit.
"He was a close friend," Elsie, Celia and Chloe said in unison. "I he going to be all right?"
One of the boys spoke next. Bending down, Dallas Abrams spoke silently, using his telepathy to probe Tuck, "I think he's still alive," he said finally. "But he needs medical attention immedietly. His brother, Xander, nodded in agreement.
Finally, Professor Xavier broke out of his trance. Eyeing the young boy, tears welled in his eyes. "X-T," he said, "Lay this boy on the couch and watch him, Shannon, a healer from the League, should be here any minute." Then, he turned to Mindwarp and the mass of telepaths that had followed him into the room. Considering what Mindwarp had said, he nodded.
"Very well, place all the younger students, and those who have already lost their powers, under a telepathically induced coma. Then, call all the older students into the danger room. Keep them there, out of harms way. But," he said, adding it quickly, "I want Radial and his squad to stay intact, I need at least some X-Men to be on call."
"Yes sir, we'll head out to Cerebro immedietly." Mindwarp turned to go, ushering out his posse of telepaths. Tabitha followed behind him, complaining of a headache.
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Post by xt on Jan 30, 2006 20:35:05 GMT -5
X-T placed the boy on the couch, reajusting his head to it wouldn't be bent back. X-T put her face in her hands and rubbed her face.
"If that was... my child.... I don' know what I'd do," X-T said slowly, trying not to imagine what could be her son or daughter would go through. She looked back at Cindy, who had been hunched over at Xavier's desk, shaking from her sadness. X-T went over to her and scooped her in her arms.
"It's alright, Cindy. I'm here. I'm here," X-T said gently as she hugged her. The little girl sobbed into X-T's shoulder.
"He was th' only family I got's. Ya gotta help him, Miss T," Cindy said with a sort of begging notion. X-T stroked her on the back of the hair.
"It's going t'be ok. We've got a healer comin' in soon," X-T said, still stroking her hair, "Now take in a deep breath," X-T took in a big breath along with Cindy, "Now let it all out," They both let their breaths out. Cindy rubbed her eyes, getting the tears out.
"Now, ya see? Don' that feel better?" X-T said with a smile. Cindy gave a nod, looking down at her hands in X-T's lap. X-T hugged her again.
"Jus' think of yer bein' asleep," X-T said tapping her noise, "That way, when he wakes up, ya can yell at him fer sleepin' in late, like usual," Cindy let out a giggle, and nodded. X-T looked back at Patrick, giving a smile, then shook her head. She turned around and rested her head in Cindy's blonde hair.
<This is gonna be one, long night...> X-T telepathed to Patrick as she picked up Cindy in her arms.
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Post by Midnight on Jan 30, 2006 23:18:27 GMT -5
((Cammy can be with us if you want))
"Yes, I'm afraid of the dark," Marie replied, allowing her smile to sound in her voice. It sounded silly as well, and her voice sounded like she was joking. Some truths were easier to tell that way. "Mutants are losing their powers? Weird... You don't think it is a kick-back from anything to do with me, do you?" She shivered slightly at the thought. Trying to force her mind elsewhere, she glanced again at the gates and fingered the switchblade she had kept with her since Chase Jordan showed up in town. That had memories too, but she blocked them.
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Post by Radial on Jan 31, 2006 6:34:25 GMT -5
Cammy stood in between two large Vats which she assumed held a chemical compound years ago. She crouched down in the shadows and looked either way for any security cameras. Where she was there seemed to be little to no activity, it had seemed to be abandoned for the moment. She could hear metal clanging together though, along with a crackling coming over the large intercom's they had throughout the place. She fiddled with her headset that was linked to any com-links in the area as well as to the professors office if she needed him.
To her knowledge she saw no cameras however she did see a set of stairs going downward nd an old set of stairs going upward. She hesitated from moving for a moment longer and hated it. Cammy wasn't one to hesitate, she would always do anything to follow out orders... but there was something about this place. It was like it held an eerie vibe that was brushing up against her. She thought about the possibility of finding the people who ran their revival of weapon X that she was a part in and the hesitation was gone.
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Radial swooped into the kitchen with his two students. Sure enough Ariana and Beau were chowing down on sandwiches.
Ariana also known as Trough, was a girl who could focus sound vibrations and alter their perception to others ears. Unlike Siren she did not scream and her powers were much more easy to control. Beau was a mutant who possessed super human strength and invulnerability.
"If you guys are done stuffing your faces we are wanted at Xavier's office." He laughed though sometimes he was strict with them, most of the time he was full of sarcasm and the students loved him for it. The two of them smiled and threw the sandwiches out as they walked over to the group of three.
Beau: "Professor Xavier's office? "
"Yea, I'm not even sure of what it's about, but he asked me to gather my squad so thats what I'm doing... Do either of you know where Mathew is?"
Mathew: "Yea i think i found him..."
Radial turned around to see him standing in the hall before the kitchen. He laughed and walked over to the group. Mathew was called Bolt because he could turn his entire body into electricity and enter electrical wires as well as discharge electricity.
"Alright guys, to Xaviers..."
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Post by Chance on Feb 1, 2006 21:56:31 GMT -5
Chance fingered his firearm once more. Marie had asked him once or twice why he carried the thing in the first place, and Eric never gave a straight answer. Normally he would reply with something vague and uncertain like, "why don't you?" But the truth of the matter was, Eric James was scared. Recently, his powers had been doing strange things. Like now, his shield was glowing an uncontrollable blue, something that had stopped happening when Chance turned twenty-three, when the final ramifications of poberty had finally disappeared. After that, he had almost complete mastery of his abilities, altering the probability of his shield's color, and causing it to glow a strange translucent clear-color. And even his probability was on the fritz. Although Xavier thought he was crazy, Chance swore that the random bad luck that was occuring in the people around him was not accidental. And now the Professor told him that mutants were losing their powers...was he going to lose them too?
Looking over at Marie he sighed. If she had managed without them, then so would he. But still, as his fingers stroked the cold metal of the gun he felt safe. Suddenly, a red light turned on, illumintating the dark scene. The doors of the loading dock were openingand men with shotguns dressed in kevlar walked out, slowly approaching the crates. Chance eyed Marie whispered
"Ready when you are babe."
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Shannon Kealey ran up the front gates of the Xavier Institute as quick as Quicksilver and immedietly threw open the doors, heading in the direction of Xavier's office. The Professor had been terse and to the point, a student is dying, we need you, and for twenty-seven year old Shannon Kealey that's all she needed to know.
Wheeling into the office on the balls of her feet she saw the small child laying on the couch. There was no time for salutations, Shannon went to work immedietly. While Xavier mentally prepped her on the situation, she peeled off her gloves and touched her fingers to the child's skin. The skin from her fingers began to melt, molding into the boy. Soon, her healing anti-bodies and enzymes were flowing freely between him, healing him slowly from the inside out.
"Amazing," Patrick said as he sat next to X-T, trying to keep her calm through everything. Staring at the two children, he couldn't help but wonder what the future still had in store for the two of them.
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Post by Midnight on Feb 2, 2006 2:46:31 GMT -5
"I'm ready," Marie whispered back. In the dim light from the loading dock, she saw Eric finger his pistol and prayed that he wouldn't use it. The sound would give them all away. He seemed to cling to the gun more recently as if it would save him, although she couldn't understand why as long as he had his shield. For herself, she snapped open her switchblade. The slim knife would slide through the fabric of the kevlar where a bullet would not. Her muscles were all tense and she could almost feel her hands shake, but she swallowed and tried to hold steady. "One... two... three!"
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Post by xt on Feb 2, 2006 5:58:38 GMT -5
X-T turned to Patrick and smiled.
"What?" She said warmly, raising an eyebrow, "Jus' doin' what I can ta help th' kid,"
She looked over her sholder, seeing the healer at work. She then brought the child closer, making sure she wouldn't see what was happening behind them. X-T looked back at Patrick, smiling again.
"I know that look," She said with a laugh, "What are ya thinkin' 'bout?"
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Post by Chance on Feb 3, 2006 12:54:21 GMT -5
On Marie's "three" Chance sprung to action. From his coat pocket he pulled out four silver dollars. With ease, he swung them towards the guards, smacking them in specific pressure points. His probability manipulation easily allowed him to hit his mark, and he was happy that his powers were still working.
However, the men didn't all go down, and already they had switched on their night vison goggles and were beginning to fire their weapons. Chance measured the odds, a 9-10 chance that this would all end in a few seconds. He smiled as his shield activated, causing the bullets that hit him to clatter to the floor.
"You're going to need more than just bullets to stop me!"
* * * * * * * Within minutes Shannon had fully healed the child. His bones were mended and his arteries were closed, but still Tuck lay unconscious. She smiled, her work here was done. Ever since her childhood her power had always been a gift, never a curse. Turning now, she gazed at Xavier.
"It's happening here as well." She shook her head. "Things are getting worse Charles. I'm afraid that in a few weeks...there won't be any mutants left."
Patrick was eyeing X-T. He pointed to Tuck and smiled. "I was thinking...one day...what our kids would look like." But his happy demeanor was ruined by Shannon's bad mood.
"No more mutants? What do you mean...can't we stop this...this thing?"
"Not unless we know where it's coming from." Xavier said solemly, his fingers resting on his chin. "We need to find the source."
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Post by xt on Feb 3, 2006 15:05:22 GMT -5
X-T stood up, a worried look upon her face.
"How's suppose we do that?" X-T said, holding Cindy on her hip, "Can ya use Cerebro?"
X-T didn't want the mutant race to earse. If it did, that mean her and Patrick wouldn't be able to be together, which tore X-T apart. She did want to carry on her life with him. Settle down... have kids...
"C'mon. I'll use Cerebro if I hafta!" X-T said, biting her lip.
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