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Post by xt on Jun 11, 2006 17:55:29 GMT -5
X-T looked over to see Gina walking on the lawn towards them, amoung others.]
"Gina," X-T said with a smile walking towards her.
"X, good to see you," Gina said, walking with X-T back to Patrick, "My what a find looking man,"
"An' he's mine," X-T said with a smile, "Group, meet Patrick, er in this case Fallback. Patrick, meet group,"
"Roxie. Volts. Nice ta meetcha," A girl with curly brown hair and shortly displaced glowing yellow eyes replacing her blue ones
"Eric. Seek," A man with brown hair and a mask on said.
"Victoria. Ortega. It's a pleasure," A girl with dark complextion said
"Kyle. Scortch," A man with long black hair said.
"Trevor. Sonic," A boy with brown hair said, looking up at X-T then back at Patrick.
X-T looked down and bit her lip, then looked back up.
"Intro's done? Let's get started then, shall we?" X-T said, avoiding Trevor's glance.
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Post by Chance on Jun 11, 2006 18:22:04 GMT -5
Eric watched his ninja stars hit their target. Wait for it, wait for it, but nothing happened, save for the fact that the nagel-man simply ripped them out, seeming even more pissed off then before.
"Damn," Chance cursed, reaching into his coat pocket for another weapon. "I can't believe this loser is still going to fight me!" But then something happened that even the master of probability hadn't predicted. The man flapped his giant wings with all his might, soaring up towards the cieling as metal claws shot out from between his knuckels.
"Holy Mother..." Chance immedietly went to turn on his shield, but something was wrong, it wasn't working...
Smack, the sound of metal on skin resounded across the narrow hallway as Marie slammed the man in the head. Chance expected to hear the man scream in pain, but instead he heard Marie. A blood curlting yell ripped from her body as a pair of giant white wings unfolded from her back.
"MARIE!"
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Meanwhile:
Patrick nodded at everyone X-T had introduced him to. It was a pleasure to work with some of her old collegues, but still, he felt they were running out of time...
"Enough chitchat people!" Mindwarp shouted. "The enemy is on the move!" He pointed his fingure out toward the capitol building and sure enough one could follow the line of destruction like a map. The Mutant Liberation League was here, and they meant business.
((P.S. I love the fact that Chance and Midnight have morphed into Gambit and Rogue lol))
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Post by Midnight on Jun 11, 2006 18:32:13 GMT -5
Kartal's neck was knocked out of joint, throwing off his aim a little. His claws buried themselves in the wall right under the man's arm. With a yank, Kartal pulled himself free, but then noted curiously that the man wasn't looking at him anymore. Turning cautiously, Kartal saw the girl... only now, huge wings arched from her back, brushing against the ceiling. Wings like his. Kartal c.ocked his head and stared... how on earth had that happened. Then, he started toward Marie with a purposful stride, his fists in front of him.
Marie still lay hunched on the ground, her whole body shivering. The wings in turn shook as well, the feathers dancing around. First one moved, and then another. Slowly, she rose from the ground and stretched them. The spread out on either side of her, sixteen feet. She moved to touch one, not even noticing the advancing shape of Kartal.
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Post by Chance on Jun 11, 2006 18:51:35 GMT -5
"Marie look out!" Chance hurled a thick metal ball at Kartal, allowing his shield to form around the sphere giving it extra impact.
He then started to run, running at Kartal like a man on fire. He hurled himself ontop of him, tackling him to the ground and immedietly buried his fists into his back, pounding on him.
"Just how fast can you heal buddy?" Chance yelled, his shield protecting him from Kartal's counter attacks. However, Chance was not focusing on the attack. No, he was focusing on Marie, and the fact that she stood in front of them like a guardian angel, flapping a pair of 16 foot long wings.
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Post by xt on Jun 11, 2006 18:52:59 GMT -5
"Th' man's right, y'all! Betta get a move on, er we're finished!" Roxie said, flying up into the air and zipping through the sky.
"Let's move it!" X-T said, running towards the direction Mindwrap was pointing to. X-T could smell ammunition and many other smelled. She took in a breath, prepping herself.
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Post by Chance on Jun 11, 2006 19:26:49 GMT -5
Fire tore through the air as bombs sounded in the distance. Only it wasn't bombs, it was the powers of mutant Reignfire.
"This is ridiculous," Fallback shouted over the sound of explosions. These mutants are destroying Washington!" Her cringed as a piece of metal flew at him. Instinctively he allowed it to pass through him.
"I've got Reignfire under telepathic control, but not for long. The others are going to attack us soon, so get ready!" Mindwarp yelled back at them. But in an instant his voice was cut short.
"Mindwarp!" Patrick yelled.
"You're friend won't be able to help you now!" A woman yelled, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. "Not when the MLF is here!" She slammed her fists into his stomach and laughed.
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Post by xt on Jun 11, 2006 19:35:42 GMT -5
X-T quickly looked back, seeing Patrick get punched in the stomach. She growled, taking out her guns and shooting the woman in the shoulder.
"T'hell with ya! What y'all are doin' ain't right!" X-T said, making sure Trevor was behind her, then looked back.
"Look, lady. We don't want to hurt you," Gina said, elbow blades at the ready.
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Post by Midnight on Jun 11, 2006 19:44:26 GMT -5
Kartal was impressed at the force that tore into him and passed out the other side. More healing blood spurted around him, something that Kartal regretted. Blood that could heal him could also heal the people he was trying to kill. The MRC would probably make his suit so that it could not be pierced and then so that it could soak up his blood before it got out. But for now, the young man was doing an admirable job kicking Kartal's butt. He had had training, and the glowing blue aura seemed to soften and block Kartal's blows. But now, Kartal's body had healed, and the boy was looking at the girl. She was a sight and thankfully she was staying out of the fight. Now Kartal drove in, trying several different things to hurt this untouchable man.
Finally, Marie pulled herself back to reality. It seemed as though her lifelong dream had been granted, but it couldn't be for long. The numbers no longer rolled through her head, so Chance's power was gone. The next time she touched someone else, she would probably change to their power. And then she wondered what would happen if she touched Rogue and then touched someone else... it was then Eric's stare brought her back. She fumbled for the gun, but had seriously no idea what to do with it. It hadn't worked before... Then, biting her lip, she raised the gun, aligned the sights, and fired.
The bullet whizzed and buried itself in the side of Kartal's head. That in itself knocked him away from the other man, hitting the metal covering his skull, and then another bullet followed. Everything went black. Kartal's muscular form collasped, his wings following. Blood started to pool around his head, making the shaggy blond hair sticky. Clink! One bullet had worked itself out of his head and fell on the floor. Soon it would be followed by the other.
"Eric, are you ok?" Marie ran over to him, but then held herself back. Should she touch him? "We need to go before he gets back up."
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Post by Chance on Jun 12, 2006 22:09:47 GMT -5
Eric nodded, looking at the fallen angel. "He's not going to stay down for long," he said, extending his psionic shell to cover Marie as well.
"But look at you. Looks like oyu just can't stop being a mutant! But, what do we call you now babe, Leech?" He chuckled as he got to his feet, moving closer to her, knowing that his extended shield would prevent them from making true skin to skin contact.
"Stopping this guy won't be easy, he seems to just keep healing himself, kinda like Wolverine." He eyes the man suspiciously. He was already starting to get to his feet, and the second bullet looked as if it was ready to break through the skin.
"You got any ideas babe? You always were the smarter one..."
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The woman felt her shoulder burn as a bullet drilled into her.
"Bitch!" She yelled, using her powers to teleport away. Then, instantly reappearing behind X-T, the woman known as Locus scoffed, stabbing a dagger into X-T's back.
"You think that you X-Men know what's best?" She asked, teleporting away to avoid the other woman's elbow blades. "Mutants are losing their powers left and right, and the government is happy! No one is on our side, you're all fighting on the team of the flatscans!"
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Post by Midnight on Jun 12, 2006 22:25:44 GMT -5
"Ideas?" Marie said, drawing close to Eric without touching him. "You mean other than run like hell?"
Kartal made it to his feet again, his hand steadying him against the concrete wall. The couple just stood there, looking at him while that bright, obnoxious shield glowed at him. He didn't want to take them on. He didn't care. The whole Weapon X project could burn and it would make him happy. But, he had to fight, or more pain. "Just get over here and make it quick. I have more to lose than my life," he growled, holding up his fists.
Marie didn't reply, just stared at him with her huge wings floating beside her. Then, she reached in a pocket and tossed something to Kartal. Then her whole body and wings seemed to curl around Eric.
Kartal, caught off guard, caught the thing thrown at him automatically. A red light flickered.
BOOM!
Kartal flew back against the wall, smacking it hard. His body slid down it and he fell in a heap, half his side missing. Blood had spattered everything around the couple except where it flickered off their shield. A small device had fallen from somewhere and now lay singed on the floor. And then, Kartal's body started growing back.
"I think now is as good a time as any to run," Marie commented mildly and took off at a fast pace down the hallway. "There are two places we have to put bombs to sufficiently weaken the structure. And they know we are here."
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Post by xt on Jun 12, 2006 22:26:59 GMT -5
X-T fell to the ground, then looked up at her. She took the dagger out of her back, the wound quickly healing.
"I don' think ya wanna try that again..." X-T said twirling the dagger through her fingers.
Gina frowned.
"Let's get the facts straight; I'm not even on the X-Men. Instead of complaining and rampaging about us loosing our powers, we're actually trying to stop it from continuing. You MLF or whatever it is you call yourselves are destroying for no reason," Gina said, her eyebrows inward.
Roxie flew towards the ground, a ball of electricity ready at her hand.
"So's ya either with us er against us," Roxie said with a grin, "Either get yer pep'elle outta here er I fry 'em like a country barbaque,"
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Post by Chance on Jun 13, 2006 21:22:47 GMT -5
"See, you always were the smarter one!" Chance yelled as he turned to follow her. His long black trenchcoat billowed in the wind as he ran up next to her, trying to stay close enough to her to keep the psionic shield going. "Remember, we need to download that data too!" He yelled, trying to avoid the giant wings that were clogging up the narrow hallway. "We need to find any other Weapon X facilities and destroy them. We can't let them keep making...making monsters like that guy back there."
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"Are you kidding me?" Locus laughed, teleporting to higher ground. "You are no match for us!" She gave another twisted laugh as a man with wild hair jumped down onto a hesitating Fallback who had rushed to X-T's side.
"THEY CALL ME WILDSIDE!" The man screamed, jumping and flipping around Patrick, his eyes alight with an insane glow.
"And I'm gonna kill you!" He lunged at Fallback, but instead fell right through him, landing on the ground behind him.
"Funny!" He yelled. "But it won't happen again!"
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Post by Midnight on Jun 13, 2006 21:48:04 GMT -5
Marie watched how Eric had to run to avoid her wings. They were in the way... "Maybe I could... maybe I should... um... copy... your power again..." she began, looking down. Just once, she wanted to fly. Just once to do the thing she had dreamed about since she was a child.
People did different things in dreams, depending on who they were.
Someone obsessed over a person might see them in their dream. Someone scared of hights might always fall. Marie had had many dreams about Brad's death. It was something that made such an impact on her mind that it kept on thinking about it even when she wasn't. So was flying. In many dreams, Marie had reached for the sky. Flying was hard and took a lot of effort. In some dreams, she kept skidding on the ground. In others, she managed to fly above the tree tops, but that was rare. Even in her dreams, she had to work at it.
And now, there it was. The answer to her dreams and wishes. She could fly. But flying had been the comfort for a lonely girl. It was a way to escape that Marie could not achieve so it lived in her fantasy. It used to be that she would have given anything to fly. Now, there was something more important to her and he was running along beside her. She would give up the wings if it meant that Eric would be safe.
Before hearing Eric's answer, Marie pulled out a GPS unit. A pathway flashed golden on the mini-map, showing the way to the computer room. "This way," she called, reaching out to pull Chance along with her, and then snatched her hand back. Even if she didn't mind sacrificing the wings, what would happen if she borrowed his power too often? Would it quit working for him? Maybe she shouldn't touch him until she absolutly had to. Maybe flying would be their way out of this place. Oddly enough, she thought she could carry him. Strength wasn't something that had come with her previous mutant powers. Maybe it was Kartal's.
Kartal blue eyes snapped open. Pain was shooting through his side and he sucked in air as he glanced down his body. Part of the uniform had been blown away and he could see his skin through it. Or what was left of his skin. A hole had been blown in his side and hadn't finished healing. He could see the skin starting to curl around the lower bones of his ribcage and watched his liver attempt to make itself whole again. It wasn't something that most people could stand seeing, but Kartal had not been raised around anyone with a weak stomech and so had never even known what it would be to have one.
Then something else caught Kartal's attention. A small burnt device lay on the ground near him, and he picked it up gingerly, holding it close to his face to look at it. One second later, he had dropped it and crushed it beneath his heel. It was gone. Their control was gone, or at least half of it. Now he could find a doctor to remove the chip in his brain. He had tried it himself, but he wasn't quite sure where the adimentium plating was and usually passed out before he could get within his skull.
Quickly, he scanned the area. The cameras were all burnt out, like they had exploded in on themselves. Odd. It was probably the work of one of the mutants. But what it meant was that command could not see him. They did not know that the device was gone or that he would need its prompting. However, if he didn't chase down the other mutants and they saw them on the cameras, they would use it and then find that it was not responding. So, for the sake of his own freedom, he had to find the others.
Kartal took off running, holding his hand over his side to keep the organs in while it healed. At an intersection, he easily followed the footprints of blood. His spilling it all over did have an advantage.
Most people might have felt like they were cheating if they got mortally injured as many times as Kartal and come out alive. They would think that they only won fights because they could not die, and therefore they were not a good fighter. Kartal entertained no such notions. Any advantage over the enemy should be used.
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Post by Chance on Jun 13, 2006 21:59:47 GMT -5
Eric felt like something was wrong. Marie was much more standoffish than usual, and she even seemed to be avoiding him altogether. He wondered if she was afraid to touch him...
But their was no time to doubt anything. Winding around a corner Eric followed Marie into an even narrower passageway. At the end of the corridor a metal door stood solidly, a red light glowing above it. Quickly, Chance calculated the odds. The lock clicked and hissed, the ground underneath rummbling a bit as the entire electrical lock system malfunctioned.
"Good to go sweetness!" He yelled, comming to a halt just before the door. "You go in their and get what we need. I'll try to keep maniacman at bay for a while." He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out two bombs, each one blinking with small red lights. Marie had managed to use one to slow Kartal down before. Chances were, two would be better.
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Post by Midnight on Jun 13, 2006 22:41:05 GMT -5
Even at times like this, Eric could make her smile. Marie dashed into the room and then slid to a stop and looked around. There were so many computers... Shaking her head to clear it, Marie pulled out the plans. Carefully she followed the crude map, walking over to one large terminal. It wasn't encased in a box like most computers were but pieces of it seemed to be sprawled everywhere. The hard drive itself was locked in a safe with wires peeling from it. She took out a piece of equipement and carefully inserted a wire into one of the holes in the side of the safe. A tiny display showed her where the wire, with a light and camera attched, was going. Soon, it slid into a slot. The camera display disappeared and a background appeared. The monitor from the computer. Pushing in another wire, Marie connected a portable hard drive with the main computer. Using the display, she started to copy the files.
Kartal jogged down the passageway, his long wings trailing behind him. His slid to a halt as the sound of voices reached his ears. Following them, he started to step lightly. Hopefully, they weren't expecting him this soon, if at all. Carefully, he stuck his head around the corner. Oh crap. There stood the man, holding two of those annoying blinking bombs.
Coming up with a new plan, Kartal stepped out from behind the corner, eyeing a video camera. "Don't... throw," he said, holding his hands above his head. "Turn the camera off, quick, and we can talk."
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Post by Chance on Jun 13, 2006 23:21:11 GMT -5
"What?" Chance asked, his hands frozen in the air, ready to throw the bombs. Wa this some kind of trick? He didn't have time to think, there was no time to do anything. Quickly, in a split second decision, Eric snapped his fingers and shut the camera down.
"Any funny business and I through these bombs where the sun don't shine. I don't care how fast it grows back, because chances are, it'll hurt like hell."
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Post by Midnight on Jun 13, 2006 23:34:33 GMT -5
Marie finished copying the files and started pushed a mini detonating device into the safe and then started looking around for other important computers to blow.
Kartal was almost impressed when the camera exploded. Almost. He kept his hands above his head, and then tilted his head and raised an eyebrow, trying to make sense of what the man was talking about. "Funny business? Where does the sun not shine? What do you mean?" he asked, confused. It had always amazed him how people could talk normal words in a completely incomprehensible way. "I don't have any reason to kill you, other than that Command wants me to. I don't want to work for Command. I have a chip in my head that helps them control my actions and one in my belly that will hurt me if I don't. The one in my stomach was destroyed by the girl's annoying blinking bomb. I still have one in my head. I need to get it out and then I won't somehow be controlled to kill you. All I want is to get it out before they can find out I am not doing what I am supposed to. I need your help. I always pass out when I try myself."
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Post by Chance on Jun 13, 2006 23:49:53 GMT -5
Suddenly Eric understood. He imagined this man, this beuatiful angelic creature, tearing at his head, trying to rip out a small chip that was keeping him prisoner. A wave of neausea washed over him. Placing the bombs back in his pocket he relaxed.
"Listen," Eric began, "me and the girl, we used to work for Command too. He rolled up the sleeve of his long leather trenchcoat and revealed his burning tattoo. "We're trying to stop them, all of them. I know what it feels like to be treated like a dog." He moved closer, testing the waters to see if this guy was legit. Finally, he decided that things were safe.
"Okay, so this chip. It's electronic right?" He asked, running the scenario through his head. "Which means chances are, it could malfunction. I can take care of that if you want to."
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Post by Midnight on Jun 13, 2006 23:56:01 GMT -5
He could take care of it? Without the necessity of someone else cutting open his head, without having to find a doctor or get x-rayed or anything like that? "Do it," Kartal ordered without hesitation.
Marie placed the last explosive and hurried toward the doorway. When she passed through it, she pressed the button. BOOM! Marie pressed herself against the wall on the side of the doorway and waited for the noise to die down. Then she noticed Kartal. Another silent blinking explosive appeared in each hand. It was a good thing that she noticed Chance was not attacking. "What does he want?" she demanded.
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Post by xt on Jun 14, 2006 18:02:34 GMT -5
X-T extended her claws, standing in front of Patrick, holding it to Wildsides face.
"I don' think so, bub," X-T said with a glare.
Roxie shrugged, then charged both hands with electricity.
"Ya asked fer it, darlin'," Roxie said, sending a wave of electricity at Locus.
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