xmutanthigh | [OPEN POST] SNEAKY X-MEN TEAM

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[OPEN POST] SNEAKY X-MEN TEAM

Characters: Bobby, Kitty, Julian, anyone feasible.
Setting: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Awesometown.
Content: EPIC.
Status: OPEN AND READY.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: REFER HERE before jumping in.

SECOND IMPORTANT NOTE: It's been nearly a day since John has disappeared, along with Logan. There are whispers and rumors floating around school that John has left for the Brotherhood again and Logan has followed to skewer him. ~~Some people say they ran away together to fall in love and join the circus though.~~ Keep it in mind!

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Good. [Laura walks up to Josh's side, claws still out. Her skin is healing as she does it, ugly burns reapidly smoothing into unmarred, dirty skin. She looks to Josh.]

We are not finished.

[She looks pointedly to Polaris and Rogue, back to Josh.]

She will sense me attacking from behind.

[Josh nods and braces himself for another similar attack.]

Then you'll have to take her head on as my distraction. But Laura --

[Josh bites back his worry; they're in battle and don't have time for doubts. Josh does worry though -- anybody who can twist metal is bad news for Laura. So instead, he decides to go with:]

I'll be as fast as I can.

(OOC: PS! I want to tag into the Mystique business, but I wasn't sure if you guys had a plan already?? Let me know!)

You know nothing about me. [Rogue grits her teeth, using the borrowed powers to counter Lorna's attempts to destroy the mansion. She tries to split her focus, sending a few more of the fence parts flying towards the older girl again but with less speed than before. It's too much of a strain to break her focus like this. Her voice is purposely low as she speaks rapidly into her comm.] Forge, I can keep her focus here if you can attack from behind. [The strain of forcing the metal supports is insane.]

Go ahead and tag whatever! :D We're just playing by ear right now mostly, although I'm totally looking for an ~endgame here with John using the nullifying gun on Mystique, and somehow saving the real Kitty when she shows up. It's all subject to how this plays out I guess though. But go ahead! Get Kevie involved!

p.s. Tegan's on right now and working on the next tag, just so you know!

Edited 2011-02-25 20:07 (UTC)

[Polaris isn't too busy with Rogue to overlook the incapacitation of her lover and she turns on Josh and Laura with hate and rage burning in her eyes. Laura freezes dead in the air once more, but Lorna's eyes are focused don Josh and filled with vengeance.]

Not fast enough.

[Her hand flies open, a thrusting gesture sends Laura, claws extended, directly at Josh. Lorna grins, satisfied with how deeply the adamantium claws have sunk into Josh's gold flesh, but wants some distance to properly deal with Rogue. She flings them, joined by Laura's claws, as far as she possibly can.]

[Forge is still struggling with his leg impaled. Even though he's not losing blood, leaky lubricant and short circuits are slowing him down a lot. He's working around the shaft of metal, ripping out wiring and working furiously to try and fashion something of value to take out Lorna. His best bet, so far, is switching the casings for a tear gas bomb in hopes it'll at least slow Lorna. Watching her dispatch so easily with Laura and Josh doesn't leave him much hope.]

I'm working on it. Keep her busy, I'll need a few minutes. [He glances at the rod jutting out of his false leg.] And Rogue, if you get a chance...

Got it. [She glances over, gesturing and sending the rod flying.

The ease with how Lorna dispatched with both Laura and Josh has unnerved her, to say the least. Scaffolding's already gone flying despite her best attempts to counter it. Almost flying straight into her if there hadn't been a hurried attempt to block it. She sends half of the scaffolding back below to try and resupport the hanger substructure and uses the other half against Lorna despite the futility of the matter.] Why does everyone always have to wreck the mansion?

[Lorna puzzles at the amount of resistance Rogue puts up, it's much harder than it ought to be to rip the metal free from the foundations of the campus. She smiles, cocks her head to one side.]

You're more of a challenge than you look. [A chuckle, realization. Polaris slows her assault on Rogue to float closer to her, their banter suddenly more intimate for the lack of distance.] You weren't just Wolverine's little friend, were you? He trained you, didn't he? [Polaris stops an incoming rod from impaling her through the abdomen.] Must hurt, knowing I ripped the metal from his bones, knowing I watched Wither turn him to dust.

[Her face contorts with anger at Polaris's taunts, a scream of rage ripped from her. She focuses her anger into another wave of hurtling rods. One flies straight into Rogue's hand and she almost smiles as she hefts it before swinging it straight at Lorna as if it were a katana.]

[Lorna catches the wild swing with her fist, trying to make it look easier than it actually is. She shoves the metal back, using only her strength, not wanting to be cowed by this insignificant thief of a mutant. Lorna raises her boot, her heel connecting with Rogue's gut, sending her reeling backward.]

Don't worry, you'll join him soon enough.

[Lorna pulls back, almost reeling, gaining altitude at a ridiculous clip. The very earth beneath her shudders and something deep within the bowels of the Mansion groans, the walls and gardens and walkways all tremoring as Polaris commands them to surrender any and all alloys to her will. Even from a distance, her eyes glow with power as if her sole purpose is to come and undo everything that the X-Men, Charles Xavier, Rogue herself has worked to build.]

No.

[Rogue doesn't even think as she reaches deeper to bring forth more of the psyche. She needs more of its power, more of its control. There's no way she can stop Lorna as Rogue; she needs to become Magneto. The psyche doesn't quite have complete control but it's more than she's ever tried to channel from a psyche ever before.

It doesn't matter. She has no choice anymore.

Rogue shoots higher into the air, drawing level with Polaris again. She reaches out with the now more than ever amplified powers, trying to counter the destruction Lorna's attempting. The entire earth continues to tremble, the metal beneath torn between two opposing commands. Her eyes are glowing with power again and it's started to spread to her hands, the iron rods before just floating around her without any real focused thought. The air itself is buzzing.]

[Lorna cries out as the metals in the earth itself being to shudder under their opposing forces. Their struggle turns primal as Lorna faces the closest approximation to her father she's yet to encounter since his disappearance. Her rage is paramount, the sheer nerve, that Rogue dares to turn her Father's power against her.

Part of the supports of the east wing of the mansion break free, hovering behind Lorna, waiting for her will the shape them, mold them into projectile death. They wait, held at bay by Rogue's will, but each broad strut, each flat sheet of metal bursts into a thousand shards of razor threat at the ready.]

[The strain is taking its toll on both of them, Rogue particularly so. These aren't her powers which most definitely leaves Polaris with the upper hand. The thousand metal shards are worrying her and she focuses what attention she can upon them, trying to flip them around so they'll become a danger to Lorna instead.

The psyche's thoughts and memories are easier access now and she latches on to them, trying to find something that could shake the other mutant's focus, make her sloppy.] Destroying the mansion isn't going to make your father love you, Polaris.

[Mastermind frowns at the Cuckoos' resistance to the illusion. Perhaps they are stronger than he had originally anticipated...

The next illusion he spins is far more detailed with more of his mental weight thrown behind it. Porter is the first thing to go as Mastermind makes it seem as if he has gone only to reappear with the other Cuckoo. It's always the details that count and so he adds a few cuts and bruises to her face and arms. There's a distressed note in her voice as she calls out to her sisters and makes a move towards them only to be stopped by Porter. It's a strong illusion, a good one.

And then Jason Wyngarde allows himself a satisfied smile.]

Min- Mindee?

[The girls' eyes soften, their mental voice unsure and hopeful, echoing their physical ones; tears have left wet, messy streaks down their bruised faces and they fall cautiously under this spell. Celeste raises a hand, reaches out with her fingers towards her sister, brushes her mind tentatively forward.

Phoebe turns her attention towards Porter, the words coming from both her and Celeste's lips, echoes with fierce authority and compulsion in Mastermind's mind. The sight is eerie, the sisters wearing different expressions, but there is still an alarming power in it, a promise of untapped potential.]

What did you do to her?

[Lorna seethes at Rogue's taunt, her concentration so fixed on the other girl the Forge sees an opening. He volleys the gas bomb into the air, calling for Rogue to shield her eyes.

Unfortunately for him, Lorna lets a spray of sharp, pointy things loose in Forge's direction. He has to dive and duck for cover to avoid imminent death, but a few strike home, one lodging in his shoulder, another sinking into his abdomen, deep, but just under the angle of his ribs so his internal organs are more or less protected form it. He hopes.

[Mastermind doesn't actually let Porter speak. The teleporter may be a useful tool but he is also a fool. Instead, he continues the illusion and puts words in the teleporter's mouth.] She tried to take something from my stash. I like my stash! Had to introduce her face to a wall or something...

[The further Mastermind draws the blondes into his illusion, the more intrigued he becomes by their power. This... this might be his way back into the Club and out of this failing Brotherhood. He smiles as he starts working up his next part of the illusion.]

[Rogue just manages to turn away thanks to his warning, moving higher into the air to avoid the gas and subsequently having a prime view of Forge getting hit.] Forge! You okay? [She doesn't wait for an answer, doesn't have time to wait for an answer as Lorna turns her anger back to Rogue. Apparently her previous taunt had worked a little too well and now Rogue's starting to panic a little as she hurries to block an oncoming storm of more metal beams. She's very much on the defensive which is not where she wants to be whatsoever.]

[Emma's arrived at the scene by now, brimming with rage. Mastermind's successfully blocking her presence out with his illusion so that her Cuckoos have no idea she's here. It takes but a thought for her to shift into her diamond form, one hand curling into a fist. She's standing behind him now. The illusionist is so wrapped up in his own success that he has no idea she's there until she speaks in far too calm a voice that drips with distaste.] Jason, darling? [He turns around, obviously startled. And then her diamond fist meets his face, sending him unconscious and crumpled to the ground at her feet.] You never were worth the effort.

[Emma steps over his unconscious body, turning her focus and anger upon Vanisher.] Girls, shall we?

Fine! [Forge lies, he's clearly not fine, the wince on his face as he rips the rod from his shoulder a testament to this. He thinks better of removing the one form his abdomen, the risk of bleeding out very real.

Close to him, he spots Josh's baseball bat, grabs it and splits it in two, the wood splintering into sharp, jagged ends. He sets to work inlaying it with synthetic wiring and a contact-based taser mechanism. He thinks there's enough power to it to incapacitate a person, but getting close enough to Lorna might be a problem. She's now levitating 4x4s and riding mowers above her head which she's ripped from the machine shed, hurling them at Rogue in rapid succession.]

[Both Phoebe and Celeste turn wide-eyed, confused, and startled for a moment, the expression foreign on their usually serene and all-knowing faces. When they realize Mindee isn't there - instead Mastermind is littered on the floor behind Emma, they both let out an identical stressed sound that quickly morphs into one of outrage.

They rise, still talking both aloud and in Emma's mind.]

Yes.

[It's a struggle to keep up. Lorna's had years of practice with these powers. Rogue's avoided them. She goes deeper into the psyche, calling up all the power she can possibly find as another unsettling possibility comes to mind... the possibility of what she might have to do.

She blocks the incoming masses of metal, sending them hurtling right back at Polaris as fast as she can manage. A few of the beams are held back until Rogue judges she has enough and sends them flying at breakneck speed at Polaris from all different angles, hoping that at least one will break through.]

[Porter definitely looks a bit shaken by the sudden loss of Mastermind and even more so by the sight of the three telepaths turning their attention on to him. Emma reaches out with her mind to the Cuckoos present before turning their combined telepathic might against Porter.]

Mindee. You will return her to us now.

OMG SO BADASS. I. I LOVE IT. I CAN'T EVEN.

[Against such power, Porter can do nothing but obey. He disappears, returns but several seconds later with Mindee, who is too furious, her eyes glowing white, her body covered in a sheen of sweat and a nasty bruise on her cheek. She stumbles forward into Phoebe and Celeste's waiting arms; for a moment they merely connect their minds and cling to each other.

Then, three sets of identical eyes turn towards Porter, all full of disgust and contempt.]

That's funny. Why is the dog walking on his hind legs?

Can't we make him behave like one? [They all slid their gaze to Emma.]

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