Welcome to Gaia! ::

Hello everyone! ^-^ It's been a long time hasn't it? Did any of you wonder if I fell off the face of the earth? Well in a sense that is true, I've been able to conected to gaia for the past few months due to problems with my computer. Which will hopefully be fixed soon.

As much as I like to say I'm back for good, but I can't. I've come to say goodbye. I know it may be sudden to all of you but this coming Sunday I will been getting ready for my Tuesday shipout to the Lacklen Air Force base in San Antoino, Texas. That's right, I am heading to basic training to begin my new caree as a private in the United States Air Froce.

So a lot is going to be changing for me. The next four years of my life are going to be radically different. I'll curently be gone for a little over six and a half weeks in basics. Where I will be training hard, having training instructor yell at me and telling me I'm worthless, and the only communication I will have with the outside world is throught letters and very short few minute phone calls.

But on the bright side, I will no be there forever. Once I finish with basics I will be allowed better comunication with the world again. Because after basics I will heading to tech school, where there will be computers, and you know what that means.... ^_^ internet!!!!

So I will come back and visit someday. I hope you won't me coming back after to very long absences. Well take care everyone and I love you all.


Esper

"I haven't been told either, this is just a mystery to me also." Lindsey said with a shrug. Jamie then sighed and sat back in his seat and pulled out his CD player. He popped in a CD and turned it on, letting himself get lost in the music.

OOC: Good luck Esper! *hugs* I hope to see you around soon! biggrin

IC: "So will you tell me what the ******** was that blast? It really hurt you know! Like hurt like hell!!!" yelled the little squirrel.

"Keep it down," said Wanda angrily. She grabbed the animal, stood up and walked away from the scene.

"HEY! Let go of me! This is a squirrellnapping! Help! Somebody help!!"

"Shut UP! You want people to take you away and study you?"

"Heh. On second thought, I prefer stay in your coat and pretend to be invisible. Much cooler than being stuck in a lab."

Wanda sighed and rolled her eyes. "I'm honored," she said with a bit of sarcasm.

"You better be honored you witch! Now can I know what happened to me? I mean here I was in my tree, eating nuts and hoping to kill one or two civilians and their kids until you hit me with a super strange beam. I want ANSWERS you hear me? Or I won't shut UP."

"Fine fine... I was planning to hurt some stupid fan girls when a kid bumped into me and made me miss my target."

The squirrel looked at her with a really doutbful look. "What kind of excuse is that? And how the hell can you shoot beams like that?!"

"I'm a mutant. I do stuff normal people can't do..."

"Oh! Sounds cool! Ok then! I'm staying around you. And you better feed me correctly. Like now. I'm hungry. Let's go to a bagel shop."

"I don't know if there's any around here," answered Wanda.

"Well ASK you jackass! It's not that hard is it?!"

Wanda was tempted between killing the little b*****d now or kill him slowly... Then she saw Gambit talking with Yukiko and the new mutant girl Sorsha. "I think I know where to get that answer," she told him with an evil grin.

OOC: Lynzie, I’m using your character to say one line. I doubt you’ll mind but just in case I figure I’d warn ya ^_^

IC: Xavier could sense the tension within his young students. Jacen appeared to have a dread deep inside of him, one that never overwhelmed him but never let him go. Lynzie was feeling uncomfortable in her time back, almost restless. The newer students, they were simply confused. Sadly, Xavier simply couldn’t devote time to such things at the moment. Deep down, it felt like the current situation held a higher priority. Still… he felt as though they were coming apart at the seams… he’d have to rectify that when he could.

“My children, it has come to my attention that a presence calling herself Cassandra Nova is currently on the loose, and for some reason appears to be targeting our school.”

Immediately, Xavier noted at least half the class thinking “well what the hell else is new?”

“The problem in this case,” started Xavier, “Is that… she’s claiming to be my sister. I’ll tell you all right now that this is as much news to me as it is to you, as I thought I was my mother’s only child. However, regardless of her true origins, she represents a mind more powerful than anything I’ve ever felt, and is no doubt planning something big. Therefore, we must look for clues.

Our new student, Eric, claims responsibility for releasing her from Area 51 along with a few other children here. If she was imprisoned, that means she had a weakness. And so, that’s where we’ll be going.”

“What about the school?” asked Lynzie.

“Wolverine and Storm are remaining here while we conduct our search. I should hope that any attack will not come for at least as long as it takes us to finish this.”

As he spoke, the auto-pilot was engaged, and ready to take off, with Scott at the helm. “This mission shouldn’t be dangerous, but anyone who doesn’t want to go is free to stand guard at the mansion,” Xavier stated, though he didn’t really expect any of his students to want to stay. They seemed like they needed some excitement.

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Over the city of New Orleans, a lone robotic probe scanned the occupants.

“Scanning… mutant signatures… multiple… target mutant found… awaiting command… acknowledged… terminate all mutant signatures…”

With that, a swarm of chicken sentinels flew down from the sky, followed distantly by a man-o-war. Half the chicken sentinels flew off in the direction of Gambit, Yukiko, Pietro and Gen. The other half, along with the far more deadly man-o-war [[for the uninitiated, think a gigantic robot jellyfish with hooked tentacles and cannons all around its head]], headed for Pyro, Noko and Wanda. They flew in silence, and would attack by surprise.

Jacen sat back pensively while he absorbed every last detail of what Xavier said. An uber-powerful telepath was hell-bent on destroying the Institute? "All in a day's work," Jacen thought as he nervously started to tap his foot. He felt torn. He felt like he was needed to help out at this military base they were going to be infiltrating, but upon hearing that only Wolverine and Storm were guarding the Institute....it made him think on whether or not he should stay and help. They might need all of the help they could get if this Cassandra Nova were to attack them soon.

While the pondered his course of action, he heard a few of the other students conversing amongst themselves. Nothing more than basic friendly banter. The longer he sat there, the more anxious he grew. Then, for whatever reason, the thought to accompany them to the military base had abandoned his mind.

"I'll stay," Jacen said as he stood from his seat. Kim looked up at him, almost in befuddlement. A couple of the others looked just as confused.

"Are you sure, Jacen? If Cassandra Nova does indeed attack, you three will be dead in the water, so to speak. You would not have any possibility of reinforcement until we came back."

"Yes," Jacen replied as he started to walk back out of the jet, "If she really is as powerful as you say she is, they're going to need someone else to back them up."

"I'll stay too." Xavier and Jacen both turned their heads and saw Kitty speak up. For whatever reason, she decided to help out. Another one for the defensive cause. The Professor's smile didn't hide the concern in his eyes. He knew what they were more than likely going to go up against, but then again, that was always the risks they took with being X-Men.

"Come on, kid," Jacen said as Kitty grabbed his arm and prepared to phase them both out of the jet. "Professor, I'll keep my commlink on just incase something does happen. Good luck!" And then, Jacen and Kitty were out of sight.

OOC: Ch-ch-ch-chicken sentinels?! What do these do anyway?

IC: "Umm, say Gambit? Do you have any other mutant friends out there as sexy as you? It's not that you aren't good enough for me but--" before Yukiko could finish her sentence, something rammed into her back making her nose get unpleasantly acquainted with the asphalt. She groaned painfully and stood up while rubbing her bruised nose.

"What's wrong with me and the ground...?" she said.

Snowflake turned around and was met with a mechanical chicken strutting around and clucking robotically... its fifty or so friends waiting just behind. She heard Sorsha and Gambit gasp in alarm and the eyes of the bird started glowing red as beams of energy bursted forth.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!" she ducked just in the nick of time, barely avoiding getting reduced to a melted popsicle. "What are those things, you guys?!"

Jamie thought quietly, not sure what to do. He finally decided that no matter what he did, he didn't have power to fight a telepath like that, and he would be more useful with the group at the base. Well, I hope this doesn't go terribly, terribly wrong. Jamie looked around at the people deciding to stay. Storm, Wolverine and Jacen made an extremely formidable team just by themselves, so he wasn't as worried as he might be.

"Hey, good luck Jacen." Jamie said before leaning back again.