X-Men: Darkest Days

[Flex Lord Splash]

IC: Invictus (X-Manor)

 

Liam had been left alone as his mother and father had both traveled outside. He looked over at a figure as he petted a cat that was sitting on his lap. He walked over to Leeson. "Nice cat," he smiled before he reached down and scratched around its ears with his right hand, the coldness of his hand leaving behind some frost on the animal's fur as he pulled it away.

 

IC: Stranger (SHIELD Helicarrier)

 

"Sounds like a plan Patriot," Ares said as he stepped onto their transport.

 

IC: Romulus (Hellfire Mansion)

 

"Though knowing the current assault that Earl is doing on the USAMRIID I think I have a good idea of where to find him. I will be back Shaw." Romulus said before he walked away from Sebastian. He grabbed a large black jacket off a coat-hanger by the door before stepping outside into the cold. He didn't want to attract too much attention since he was a giant mutant after-all. He then vanished into the falling snow as he headed for his destination.

[Trad]

IC: Madness

 

"Hmph." was all he said as he went online to find that the sites he frequently passed through were as quiet as the grave. Possibly because they were busy doing Christmas stuff.

Oh, he wasn't a Grinch. He actually liked the holiday, except he didn't really like the constant commercialism. It was needlessly annoying.

He logged off the computer, and walked downstairs. He needed the fresh air and the extended gluing of his eyeballs to the computer screen wasn't doing anything good for his eyes. Maybe gluing them to some scenery would help.

 

IC: Sara and her brother, Will

 

"Bloody. Will, next time if you need help, could you provide me with a map or something?" she said, kneeling over her brother. "What are you doing here anyway?"

Will smiled weakly and said quietly "Hi, sis."

"Do that later." she said dismissively. "I need to get you back to the manor somehow, you bombard of sack."

 

IC: Michael

 

He had tried turning on the television and managed to do so. Then he tried to turn up the volume. It worked.

Then he began to let the images drift past his eyes.

What a lot of things he had missed back there.

[Snelly]

IC: Krystal - Krystal's Room, X-manor -

 

Krystal sighed, her breathing hard still from going all out on that punching bag. "I don't feel calm enough to do the exercises, even if I wanted too..." To be honest, Krystal really felt like just being left alone to brood, but looking at M'Kus and his currently panther sister, she knew they'd persist. "You might as well come in..." She said, walking away from the door. leaving it open. She went toward her bed, before practically falling onto it, lying on her side.

 

IC: Ashley - X-manor -

 

Ashley's face beamed with delight, happy that Matt liked it so much. It had been easy hiding such a large present either, though the mansion was pretty big so she'd found a good place for it. Though now she wished he could try it out, though she knew it wasn't possible, at least not around New York in the middle of winter. She wished the snow would go away, it killed all her plants, was cold, and being part plant herself she just didn't do well out in the cold for long, it made her sleepy. But then, she had an idea. "Hey do you think Jeremy has every been somewhere tropical before?" She hoped Matt knew what she was getting at, maybe they could get Darkfang to help them out...

 

IC: Nathan - Observation Room, X-manor -

 

Okay, so she was fighting a twisted version of herself, I thought that was rather creative actually, though I shuttered at the thought of fighting an evil me, for some reason the idea felt creepy.

 

So why was Rebekah doing this? It wasn't something one would normally do for just simple training or sparring for leisure. No, this was a very personal thing for her. I continued to watch the fight with fascination so much so that I had quite forgotten about my wounds, though the sharp stinging reminded me rather painfully that I should probably get my wounds bandaged, especially the gash on my chest, it was a bit deeper than the other wounds on my limbs. I glanced at Elijah, who seemed very transfixed by the fight.

 

I cleared my throat loudly, which was more than enough to get his attention, even if he didn't have powers over sound. "I don't want to be insistent Elijah...but would you mind helping me with this before I bleed to death?"

 

IC: Howard - SHIELD Helicarrier -

 

"See you there..." Howard said through his suit before blasting off with his repulsors at max power. He could get there faster with his suit than riding the transport and they had little time to waste. Those viruses could devastate the entire world in the wrong hands.

 

When he was a good distance way from the transports the speeding he was going at increased greatly as he accelerated to the point where he was going around Mach 5, at his current speed it would take long for him to reach his destination, the USAMRIID building, Maryland wasn't far from NYC to begin with.

Edited December 27, 2012 by Snelly Bieber

[shadow pridak money gang]

IC: Dallas (Five Guys, Westchester)

 

"Don't blame the fox. Better yet, don't even worry about it right now. You want to go in and, err...grab a burger and some fries with me or something?"

 

IC: Alaric (Institute, Westchester)

 

"No, I'd say you're fine on the spiciness scale," he joked back, pulling away and losing himself in the deep emerald pools of Ashlynn's eyes. It was odd, really, that moments like this were still possible after he had his heart cut out by Daken in the cold and the snow of Canada, and Warren's explanation hadn't made things, really, any easier at all for him to digest.

 

"It's your ring," Angel had said. "The Cheyarafim - you know all about our bloodline, right? - passed them down through their family bloodlines. I had three when I went in to fight the Phoenix, one for each member of our family: one for you, one for me, and one for Brooklyn. Now, listen to me carefully, Ric: this ring is your lifeguard. Never take it off your finger, ever, because as long as you do, no supernatural cause can touch you. If you're killed by a mutant, then the ring brings you back. If you're hit by a car and fall off a bridge and get struck by lightning on your way down before you fall into the water, and a mutant is driving that car, you will be fine. But you cannot take the ring off. Understand?"

 

Warren Worthington certainly knew when to be comforting.

 

IC: Aleksandr (Institute, Westchester)

 

"But...I don't want my own room..." Aleks mumbled defensively, unmuting the TV and turning it up to try and drown out the conversation.

 

-Tyler

[Takanuvainika]

OOC: Snelly you missed my last post here.

 

IC: Spirit

 

Will walked to the danger room but found it was already in use and Windrider was sitting against the wall. "I can heal you better then that first aid kit." Will said offerring a glowing hand to help him up. "So who's in there now?"

[otter]

IC-Elijah:

 

"Will offered to help you, and I thought we didn't trust me with first aid kits anymore," Elijah growled back. "Will, stop asking and help him."

[Flex Lord Splash]

IC: Triblade (X-Manor)Matt grinned suddenly, "That's a great idea Ashley!" He said. "Where's that blue fuzz-ball?"IC: Nicole (Parking lot, NY)"Okay I won't then," she said looking at Dallas. "Sure! A burger sounds great!" She said.IC: Songbird (X-Manor) "Mm good," she smiled before kissing Ric. "Have a lot of things on your mind?" She asked him. They hasn't talked much about what had happened in the Canadian wilderness two months ago.IC: Mimic (X-Manor) "Okay," she said as Aleks tried to drown her out by turning up the volume. "If you don't want me around just say so." She saidOOC: on my way to Georgia!

[Simulacrum]

IC: Leeson, Xavier's Manor

"Er, thank you." Leeson said, struggling to come up with the proper words of response. "I've always hand a fondness for cats; I feel that they are old souls."

[Flex Lord Splash]

IC: Invictus (X-Manor) "Old souls, what do you mean by that?" He asked staring at Leeson with his mismatched blue eyes. Liam had been only alive for two months there were many things he still didn't understand.

[Simulacrum]

IC: Leeson, Xavier's Manson

"With their dignified, elegant personalites, and they're calm attitudes, one can not help but imagine that they've seen more than we can imagine."

[Flex Lord Splash]

IC: Invictus (X-Manor)"I wonder if I have a soul," Liam said and his eyes looked faraway. He'd never thought about it before now. Maybe he was soulless, his origins were unnatural. Maybe this was why he had these... Tendencies, to want to hurt people, to enjoy their pain.

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

IC: "Ah, but if you were a girl, would you want to fin me off?" Alec responded, almost philosophically, "There a huge number of benefits to a guy who can use his arm to replicate any machine in the world. Just imagine..."

 

 

IC: "There should be another living room on another floor," Francesca shrugged, "If not, there's always one in my room."

 

 

IC: M'Kus stepped into Krystal's room a little nervously. Not because he was scared, but because he felt this was an invasion of privacy. Probably because he'd grown up with a sister of his own...sort of...he was a little uneasy about entering uninvited. But N'Dine was egging him on from behind and it was very hard to ignore a large panther, so in he went. He sat down beside Krystal and put a hand on her shoulder in what he hoped was a comforting manner.

 

"This just Shadow getting you down, or something a bit more deep-seated?"

[thelonewander]

IC:

 

(Scott)

 

"I was wondering, If you touched my armor, what would happen? Think we should test it? And for the record, i'm sure a girl could buy what the needed."

[Blair the Cat]

OOC: Thanks to Advent Aeternale.

 

IC: Fauna

 

Fauna got up suddenly, having noticed a bird hopping on the ground. "I'm going to make sure it's ok. I'll be right back." Fauna said worriedly. She had only gotten about twenty feet away when she slipped on a patch of ice and fell face forwards. "Ouch." Fauna thought as she caught herself. Suddenly, something in the ice grabbed her attention, it was apparently her reflection. "Huh, my eyes look kind of weird. They're almost blue." Fauna thought. "They ARE blue. Those aren't my eyes! There's someone under the ice." Fauna started to scream before she could even process what she saw.

[Constructelf]

OOC Still waiting for somebody to give the second approval for Daraznor.IC HeiKristy sat down on the couch and continued eating her cookie.OOC Open for Interaction.

[AuRon the champion]

IC: Chris Marie:

 

"If you know where it is, lead the way. I still get lost around here sometimes."

[Simulacrum]

IC: Leeson, Xavier's Manor

 

"That's a question philosophers have been asking for ages, I'm not really qualified to answer." Leeson said, taking the comment as a question.

[Zulu Yankee Kilo Echo]

IC: FelixFelix jumped the helicopter and pulled a tablet from underneath his seat. With a few pokes and swipes, he had a satellite image opened on the tablet."The blue dots are the military and SHIELD forces," he said, passing the tablet to James, "they have the compound completely surrounded, but judging from the damage the Cold-Bloods have done before, our chances aren't as good as you might think, so expect the unexpected."

Edited December 28, 2012 by The Zytrix

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

IC: "I suppose she could but I hear irons get pretty expensive," Alec smiled with sickly sweet feigned innocence, "why, what did you think I meant?"IC: Francesca led Chris around but truth be told she seemed a little lost herself

[thelonewander]

IC: (Scott)

 

"Honestly, i have no idea. Now, do you want to try something that's bound to end in failure of some sort?"

Edited December 28, 2012 by thelonewander

[Light]

IC: Jared turned around when M'Kus and N'Dine walked in to Krystal's room, but he didn't walk there. He wasn't eavesdropping at all, he was just having the equivalent of tug-of-war in his head.

[Constructelf]

IC: Knower

I watched as the helicopter started to near the scene. "Is this the place to which we are travelling?" I asked Natalie.

[AuRon the champion]

IC: Chris Marie:

 

Chris followed Francesca, naturally assuming that she knew where to go.

[Krayzikk]

IC: James

 

"Which is, of course, why we're here." James replied, studying the tablet carefully. "How many of the Bloods are there, and what are their estimated abilities? Mutant, or human?"

 

OOC: Where are Pantheon? Are the on the same helicopter, or are they somewhere else entirely?

[Light]

OOC: They're investigating the special ops group.IC: Natalie landed the helicopter at a small copter pad about half a mile from the news station. "Okay, everyone out."

[Constructelf]

OOC: They're on a different helicopter, flying to a completely pointless crime scene for some reason (the reporter that got gored live on tv). They have been stuck in the air for days due to the fact that Kaithas seems to be busy.

 

IC: Knower

"Hello?"

 

OOC: Ignore above. But wouldn't they get deferred to USAMARIID really quickly?

IC Knower/Odysseus (OOC Which name should I use?)

Getting off of the helicopter, I looked around. I was tempted to say "There's nothing here", but I resisted the urge I hadn't even performed the preliminary scan yet.

Edited December 28, 2012 by Constructman

[thelonewander]

IC:

 

(Hecate)

 

Carli jumped off, following the others.

[Light]

OOC: If Flex/Fury wants to have them deferred, that's his call. And yes I was busy. Christmas.

 

IC: Natalie nodded to the others and got out.

[Klak]

OOC: I've had limited computer access lately, sorry for my late reply!

 

IC: Ezekiel (X-Manor)

 

Ezekiel's eyes widened.

 

"Oh...uh...thank you, Dr. McCoy."

 

As he served himself some cocoa, he heard Alec talking about mistletoe. The thought of kissing him...Ezekiel shuddered in fear.

 

He emerged from the kitchen with a mug, laughing to himself.

 

"Mistletoe+Alec is the worse mix anyone could think of."

[Constructelf]

IC: Knower

Looking around, I cast my eyes on the news station about half a mile away. "Should we go in?" I asked. Looking around, I saw no traces of combat here. Then again, this was a copter pad half a mile away from the news station, not the news station. "Remind me why we are here again," I said, continuing to look around."Is our investigation here in any way related to the television hijacking events that transpired earlier today?"

[Flex Lord Splash]

OOC: so the enforcer/brotherhood battle why have people stopped posting in it? I guess we are waiting on gravity IC: Invictus (X-Manor)"Ah," Liam said after a lengthy pause. "I'd say my case is a bit different then the average person."IC: Stranger (Helicopter)"I always try to expect the strange and unexpected." the young sorcerer said. IC: Beast (X-Manor)"Don't mention it Ezekiel." Hank said as he moved into the grand-hall to watch students opening presents once again. Hank sighed in relief, for the first time in over two months everything seemed like it was right again.

[Constructelf]

OOC Should Pantheon continue investigating Spec Ops? Should they go to USAMARIID? Or should they go to the Enforcer/Brotherhood battle?

 

and Daraznor still needs approval.

 

And what about Vincent's codename? Should I use Knower or Odysseus?

 

IC: Hei

Kristy finished eating her cookie. With that done, and not knowing what else to do, she just sat there.

Edited December 28, 2012 by Constructman

[Advent Child]

OOC: As far as Daraznor, he's still being deliberated on. When a decision is made, you'll be made aware. Vincent is free to retain both codenames, Odysseus only applies when he's working within Pantheon.

 

IC: Siegfried landed lightly next to the rest of the group. "So what is it, exactly, that we're here to search for?"

[Flex Lord Splash]

OOC: I'd say they head over to the battle since that's where the investigation would lead anyway. Have Natalie get an order from command. IC: Darkfang (X-Manor)"What's wrong?" He asked Fauna as she screamed near a patch of ice by the front door.

[Zulu Yankee Kilo Echo]

IC: Felix

 

"Well, their leader calls himself Reptilian," Felix said, "mostly because he's a giant lizard rage-monster. He also has incredible strength--James knows this firsthand--and a highly advanced healing factor, allowing him to regenerate entire limbs if necessary. He's a force to be reckoned with, for sure. In terms of other forces...well, there's the problem. In every single attack, Reptilian's troops have different abilities, making it extremely difficult to predict what's waiting for us at USAMRIID."

Felix paused, looking at the tablet in James's hands.

"So, like I said, expect the unexpected."

Soon enough, the helicopter was hovering over the USAMRIID building. Other helicopters had their spotlights trained on the only doors to the complex, and troops hid behind riot shields and large armored trucks. They weren't taking any chances.

"Well, let's move," Felix said.

[Krayzikk]

IC: James

 

"Alright. Let's do this." James said, the grin dropping from his face. In one swift move, the supersoldier dropped from the chopper, bringing up his shield to defend himself.

 

"This should be fun."

[Light]

IC: Natalie sighed and tapped her blinking communicator, which filtered through her headset. "Agent Ishtar speaking. Yes sir. Already suited up sir, on our way." She tapped it again. "Change of plans. We have more urgent things to do."

[Snelly]

IC: Howard - USAMRIID -

 

Howard was listening to the others through there communications as he flew high in the sky above the USAMRIID, he scanned the entire building with his suit, getting thermal readings of all the targets. "I have them in my sights...I'm going in..." He said over the intercom. He rocketed down toward the USAMRIID, fulling intending to go right through the building and land right upon the biggest threat, that big lizard man, or whatever he called himself.

 

 

OOC: I'll post as the others in a bit. Just wanted to put this in.

Edited December 28, 2012 by Snelly Bieber

[Blair the Cat]

IC: Fauna

 

"Th-there's a p-person in the ice."

[Snelly]

IC: Krystal - Krystal's Room, X-Manor -

 

Krystal was silent for a moment, not sure if she really wanted to answer or not. "Deep-seated..." She said with a bit of reluctance, not feeling inclined to explain further.

 

IC: Windrider - Observation Room, X-Manor -

 

I glanced at Will, I hadn't even noticed him till just now, I must of been really out of it, or just watching Rebekah's fight too intently. "Um...please do..." I said to Will.