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Post by Midnight on Feb 18, 2006 15:38:24 GMT -5
((Yeah, that is kinda what I have in mind)
Marie shivered as she looked down the dark hallway. She pulled close to Eric for the light of his sheild. Maybe the lights didn't work in this hallway, maybe they just used this as a security measure. A main office with several computers and lots of stored information was at the end of the hallway and one of the spots for a bomb as well. She studied the blueprints before following Chance into the darkness. The only light was the faint blue glowing of his sheild and the red numbers from the counter watch buring into the darkness. 23:14...
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Post by Chance on Mar 6, 2006 21:32:17 GMT -5
*Location currently undisclosed* Chance felt Marie moving closer to him, adn he couldn't help the tingle he always got from tickling his gut. But they had more pressing matters to attend to, so, ignoring his feelings he made his way down the hall, waiting for something to pop out at them. But, luckily his probability manipulation had a specail way of frying small electronics, making them short circuit and break. That's probably why the lights weren't turning on...
Soon, the end of the hallway was in reach. The door handle was electronic and required a fingerprint match to open it. He snickered. "What high tech security for a storage shed." He knew that Weapon X used seemingly unimportant buildings to carry out their evils. This base was disguised as a cargo hold.
"So sweetness, should I try to boost the odds and see if my print has a chance of matching, or do you wanna take it apart and put it back together?" Even through the darkness his playful smile beamed.
*At the Institute* Patrick nodded and chuckled. "No, they aren't always this happy, you should see them during Danger Room practice." He laughed again and then hugged the back of X-T, reaching around her neck to kiss her.
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Post by xt on Mar 6, 2006 21:44:56 GMT -5
X-T laughed, then turned around, resting her arms on his shoulders.
"I'll hold ya to that, captian," X-T said with a smile. She moved her head forward and met his lips with hers.
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Post by Midnight on Mar 7, 2006 6:24:53 GMT -5
"You are a pain to go on missions with," Marie retorted, the smile in her voice obviously, tinged only slightly with the fear that was raging through her. "You never take anything seriously." She bent to take a look at the finger print scanner by the light of Chance's shield and frowned. "Go for the chance thing. This is pretty complicated and wired up to the security system. I sure hope it doesn't go off if your print doesn't match though." Marie stepped back from the door to let Chance trying chance.
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Post by Chance on Mar 7, 2006 20:08:41 GMT -5
*the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters
Patrick kissed her back and all the while Jubilee sat laughing at the kitchen table, a small mug of hot chocolate cupped in her hands.
*Location currently undisclosed
Chance smiled at Midnight and cocked his eyebrow staring at the mechanical contraption. He allowed his shield to die down for the minute, cating them into total darkness. Then, with his probability power on full blast he started rearranging the odds. There were only so many different combinations of finger prints out there, one of them had to come close to his.
Finally, after a good three minutes spent on measuring the odds, Chance made his move and pulled off his glove, placing his right thumb on the control pad. In an instant the machine started glowing green as a scanner washed over his finger. Then, in an instant, an electronic lock clicked and the door slid open.
"Welcome Colonel Wraith," a robotic femine voice sounded.
"See Marie, you just need the magic touch and you can do anything." He smiled coyly and placed his finegrs under her cheek. Going in for the kiss he stopped suddenly, teasing her. "Come on, wouldn't want to be left alone in the dark now would we sweetness?" He chuckled and made his way through the door, his shield humming to life as he walked.
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Post by xt on Mar 8, 2006 16:49:06 GMT -5
X-T smiled and rested her arms on his shoulder. She then heard laughing from the dinning room. She opened her eyes, then closed them.
<Do ya know what they're laughin' 'bout> X-T telepathed into Patrick's mind, not breaking off the kiss.
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Post by Chance on Mar 9, 2006 20:36:41 GMT -5
<Something stupid> Patrick said, silently saddening at the fact that in any moment all their happiness could end. But he wasn't going to let that bother him. Instead he continued the kiss and spoke again. Although he didn't have telepathy, he knew that so long as he thought loud enough, X-T would be able to hear.
<So, where do you want to go, Paris, Barcelona?> He mentally smiled, remembering the 'round the world trip he and X-T had gone on after the mansion was first destroyed. Luckily, his teleporting powers made traveling cheap.
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Post by xt on Mar 10, 2006 6:17:54 GMT -5
X-T thought for a moment, then smiled.
<Rome an' Paris sound nice. Only two places I haven't been, er I can remember goin' there,> X-T telepathed back, laughing inside her head.
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Post by Chance on Mar 12, 2006 1:23:34 GMT -5
Patrick was about to respond when he heard Jubilee give a slight cough. "Maybe we should wait and leave the country at a more convient time...you know, when we can be certain that my powers won't shut off mid-teleport." He laughed a little, disguising his fear, and broke the kiss. Obviously all he wanted was to lay with X-T, to start a family. But now, with the world seemingly crashing down around them, he needed to curb his dreams. Ah, the sacrifice of being an X-Man.
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Post by xt on Mar 12, 2006 14:26:15 GMT -5
X-T smiled and looked up.
"I know," X-T said, "Would be horrible if we'd get caught up an' couldn't do anythin' 'bout it,"
X-T turned her sight to the doorway to the dinning room.
"Ya guys ready fer some food?" X-T said with a smile
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Post by Chance on Mar 14, 2006 20:25:22 GMT -5
Fallback smiled to, but the truth of the matter seriously scared him. What was going to happen to the mutants of the world? And now his squad would be needed to prevent the advance of the Mutant Liberation Front. Were they ready?
But Patrick had no time to think. Like an army of kings and queens Mindwarp and his snoody psychics made their way into the kitchen.
"Things don't look good," Mindwarp said, his eyes moving between X-T, Fallback and Jubilee. "We need to mobilize, now." He stopped for a minute, and Patrick watched as his team of telepaths dropped onto Jubilee, obviously psychicly filling her in on everything.
"Cerebro detects a 50% loss in the mutant population to decimation. If we don't do something soon...there might not be any mutants left."
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Post by xt on Mar 14, 2006 20:52:26 GMT -5
X-T smacked her hand down on the table angerly.
"Then we gotta act fast 'stead of sittin' 'round here. Is anyone close ta any answers as ta way this is happenin'?" X-T said looking around the room, "If no one got any, I start lookin' m'self,"
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Post by Chance on Mar 15, 2006 18:11:57 GMT -5
Mindwarp could sense X-T's determination, and he was glad for it. "We only know that mutants are losing their powers in violent and often fatal ways," he said calmly, an aire of calmness present in his voice. "Shannon believes that this is either the next stage in human evolution, or a virus that is attacking the mutant population. Right now though, our biggest concern is the emergence of the Anti-human terrorist group, the Mutant Liberation Front. These muties are being lead by ex-X-Man Sunspot, now rechistened Reignfire."
Now his strategic mind took over, proving why he was still head field leader of the current X-Men, bested only by Cyclops. "What we need to do is split the team in two. Hopefully we can send Radial and his squad to find out why this is happening, and Moria McTaggart of Muir Island claims that she has an idea. Then, we send you and Fallback with some others to stop the Mutant Liberation Front's attack on Washington. You guys got that?"
((I'll need people to help play some of Fallback's squad and Moira, if you wanna, just say so!))
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Post by Midnight on Mar 19, 2006 22:56:56 GMT -5
Marie had felt and overwhelming fear start burrowing through her mind as his shield faded, leaving them in darkness. Then a green light cast eerie shadows as it scanned his fingerprint. Her cheek tingled as his hand touched it, but that was a natural reaction. She could feel a longing in her, but knew as well as she knew the presence of the ring on her left-hand ring finger that it would be satisfied. "No, I don't want to be left in the dark," she replied stiffly, a clear understatement. She wasn't angry with him, just fearful of the prospect.
He moved away from her, and she noted with some confusion that his shield flared back up. Wasn't it on already...? Looking down at herself, she saw the blue humming over her, creating a glow. Numbers seemed to rattle through her head, telling her the odds of being found, of his fingerprint matching, of suceeding. "Eric... what's going on?" she mumbled, holding a glowing blue hand up in front of her.
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Post by Chance on Apr 2, 2006 12:36:43 GMT -5
Eric heard a sense of fear coming from Marie's voice, adn quickly he wheeled around to face her.
"What's the matter....." his jaw dropped a good two feet as he stared at his shield glowing around her. Was this his doing? Were his powers really freaking out?
"Marie...Am I doing that?" He instinctively shut his shield down, hoping that hers would do the same. It didn't.
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Post by Midnight on Apr 2, 2006 17:30:08 GMT -5
"What are the chances?" Marie heard herself mutter, and almost clapped her hand over her mouth. Closing her eyes, she willed her shield to go away. It disappeared. Relaxing, she let it turn back on. "I... I didn't mean to... do whatever I did," she stuttered, afraid that Chance would be mad that she had somehow taken his power. Drawing a breath, she tried to get her emotions in control. "Well... whatever it is... we still have a job to do. The Professor will have to examine one or both of us if and when we get back. Let's go..." She walked past him, wanting to reach out for him, but fearful of what would happen. Did she just take his powers...?!
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Post by Chance on Apr 9, 2006 14:55:17 GMT -5
Chance eyed Marie up and down. She had created her own shield, it's own blue energy humming as she willed it on and off. How had she done that? Had he done it? Chance hoped that his powers weren't going haywire again...that's the last thing he needed on this mission.
"Yeah...I guess Xavier will know better than me...but are you sure that you feel okay? I mean...try and make something go wrong." He pointed up to a small camera and motioned towards it. "Can you make it short out?" He wanted to see if she could use his probability manipulation powers as well. Maybe Marie had a secondary mutation...or maybe Eric was more messed up than he thought...
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Post by xt on Apr 9, 2006 18:46:57 GMT -5
X-T nodded with a smile.
"Gotcha," X-T said, then looking over at Patrick with a grin, "Hope ya don' min' if I tag 'long with yer squad," X-T winked and took out her cellphone.
"I also gots some friends who might be willin' ta help," X-T said, turning back toward Mindwrap, "Jus' incase we might need a lil' extra help,"
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Post by Midnight on Apr 10, 2006 9:33:54 GMT -5
Marie was shaking visibly. The fear that had haunted her was roaring with this... unexpected... devlopement. She turned to look up at the camera and then focused on it. Numbers rolled through her head, odds spinning themselves out to a fixed number. And then... she changed that number. Sparks shot from the camera and the sound of electricity shorting out reached her ears. If Marie had been the screaming type, she would have screamed. As it was, she just leaped backwards, breathing hard. "You... you can still do that, right?"
Her shield flared and hummed as it was fed by her fear. Somewhere in her body, deep within the cells, shaky genes shivered but continued to hold together the hole left by the darkness.
((I think he still has his powers, right?))
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Post by Chance on Apr 14, 2006 21:49:54 GMT -5
((yeah he still has them, they just haven't been working normally lately))
Chance watched the camera short circuit and his jaw dropped. "How...how is that possible?" He watched as he shield hummed to life, as if it had reacted to her fear...just like his. "I can do that all right...I mean it took me a good few months to figure out how..." He simply couldn't believe it. "Guess you're still a mutant." He joked.
Back at the mansion Patrick gave X-T a small smile and pulled her close. "You better tag along!" He gave her a small kiss on the cheek and hoped that she couldn't sense how truely afraid he was. As long as he had X-T in his sight, then everything would be all right.
Mindwarp on the other hand was busy coming up with strategies and battle plans. "X-T call whoever you know and get them here immedietly. We need to get to Washington pronto."
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