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Sounds slowly flooded back to Teagan's ears as she heard her name being called. She opened her eyes immediately, her heart once again racing as she realized that everything that seemed to have been going on when she was hit, was still going on. Everything in the mansion was chaos. She looked over at Porter, still feeling a bit disoriented and weak from her training.

"What the bloody hell is going on here?" She asked him, trying not to sound too panicked. She picked herself up off the floor, realizing that she had been laying at the foot of the stairs.

Forge rubbed his head and growled as his equipment tracked Penny's heat signature. No way could he let her get captured now. She had already humiliated him, now she had made the humiliation physical. Maybe if he had beaten her, he might have been able to punch some sense into her, but as it stood, she was now a liability.

"The Danger Room?" he asked aloud as he got a lock. "Why that's... well I must say that gives me a plethora of ideas... I really thought you'd be smarter than that Penny."

"X Security access: Danger Room. Access Code: 3856724."

"Welcome, administrator," stated the warm voice of the computer system.

"Activate Program: P.R.O.T.O.C.O.L ((I'll think of a meaning for that later :p )). Subject: Pennance."

As he spoke, his boots allowed him to jet down the hall, and into the Danger Room itself. He charged toward Penny, seemingly ready to engage her, but instead flew upward at the last minute, just out of reach of her to jump.

"So Penny, before you die, I thought you should know that while you guys have been training in this Danger Room, your professor has been recording every instant. He has analyzed the powers of you, and every one of your teammates, and stored them away for the computer to determine one thing, and one thing only. I found this file dubbed the 'Xavier Protocols' a while back, and my oh my were they ever informative and insightful. I really must say its almost as though your dear Professor Xavier spent hours, even days on end determining how to kill you if you ever went rogue..."

In the center of the Danger Room, a trap door opened in the floor, and emerging from underneath came a humanoid robot. Intricately designed, though lacking in any distinguishing features. "For instance, he knew that you were smart enough to run from someone who was overwhelmingly more powerful than you. But if instead, you had to face someone who was just SLIGHTLY better, he knew you'd stubbornly fight to the death."

With that, the Danger Room suddenly illluminated completely, with holographic projectors bombarding the android with its lasers, an image slowly forming...

"I give you, Penny Version 2.0," said Forge darkly as the android had formed into a near exact duplicate of the girl. "I built her myself... and I must say she's quite a bit better than you in every possible way. Of course, that won't stop you, will it?"

He smiled and landed upon the upper level of the Danger Room as his creation charged toward her very inspiration.

Was there any possible way for this to get worse? Not only did Forge show he was a totally fruitcake... he went ultimate stalker and created a dube of herself? Penance slammed her fist in the wall when she realized there really was not way out. Of course Forge had turned off the locks. One error on her part. She should have ran to the War Room.

This really was a death match.... and she was determined to walk away from this. Twirling her sword in her hand she waited for the cyborg to pounce.

"I'm flattered, but really, stalker much?" She asked and slashed away at her attacker.

"Will you shut up and die already," He grumbled as she took a solid punch from the bot. The thing really was improved on stats and it was true, she was goin to fight until it was done. Damnit, I hate when I'm predictable.

Block block block punch. Block block block kick. Block block block stab. Unfortunately the punching, kicking, and stabbing were being landed on Penance. It hurt and it wasn't going to go well. The cyborg knew every move Penance was going to throw. Predictable... have to be less so. Even Jacen started to recognize my moves... as rage. What wouldn't I do? ...let her hit me...

She didn't block the next shot and braced as the freakish twin drone landed a kick beneath the back of Penance's knees taking her down. Penance used this and jarred a knife into the bots knee joint colapsing it's leg. Already in pain herself, she didn't have as much strength as she wanted to land her next blow. Taking her short blade she turned around for a stab. Predictable. She was blocked.

"Forge, you're lucky you aren't dealing with somebody with a lot more venom, or I'd flay you alive as soon as I got my hands on you...." She yelled grabbing her opponents wrist and attempting to break the joint. It was kind of weird doing damage to her own self.

"My dear, you'll never get the chance... and then I'm heading for Jacen... and maybe those disgustingly cute family of yours..."

And that did it. Forge was dead in her mind.

Meanwhile, in a remote underground facility, a bank of monitors showed everything that was going on in the Xavier mansion at this moment. "Ma'am, I think you should see this," says the woman sitting in front of the screen. The shapeshifting woman known as Mystique strides over to the bank of monitors, and leans in slightly, taking in the sights displayed in the screens. "Well, this is an uncharacteristic move... Let's see how this plays out. Maybe I can turn this... unexpected course of events to my favour," she says, her lips drawing up into a sly grin.

"Keep me up to date on any developments," she says, walking away from the monitors.

"Yes ma'am."

Markus heard a commotion as he came out of a room. He spotted whom hge assumed was the one everyone called Toad. He figured this due to his long toung. He spotted the young woman and started t orace at her. He didn't want to hurt her but...after a long hard talk to himself he decided to go along with Magneto...who knew, maybe he was right. He shot a hand to grab her shoulder and restrain her.

OOC: Ok everyone, summary's posted in the OOC thread. Please consult that post first before continuing ^_^

Pietro turned and ran as he saw the air ripping in the face of Theresa's scream. Unfortunately for him, Victoria's actions had not been quite fast enough to prevent him from catching a bit of the scream. Though at his peak he could easily outrun it, the close proximity of the attack and the lack of area to maneuver caused the boom to catch up to Pietro, knocking him out of a window before it was muted.

"Ow" groaned Pietro as he dusted himself off. His armor was light, but strong enough to keep him from being taken out of the picture in the two-story fall. He looked over, and watched Lance fight Scott for a moment, then turned and raced back into the building, looking for people to knock out.

The two Brotherhood girls looked mighty imposing in their ‘kustome-with-a-k’ fighting suits, especially now that each looked royally pissed off. Courtney had no doubt that Miss. Emo-screamo had intended to knock out everyone in the mansion, not just the X-men. Theresa was a traitor that picked the worst moments to throw hissy fits, and Corky was not about to take any mercy. Theresa had her time to voice concerns and back out, she was only doing it now because she was afraid and was looking for attention. And Courtney was going to give it to her.

Victoria Dogwood, on the other hand, wasn’t so sure. She didn’t think Theresa’s actions were so selfish, more just based on fear and being a cowered in the face of action. Victoria was sick of succumbing to others and their power, and was tired of people who were afraid of strength. She was pretty sure Courtney wasn’t about to wait to attack, but hoped that there would be a slight chance for Theresa to explain. But she didn’t want to waste a lot of time dealing with Theresa and arguing with her. They still were on a mission.

They pass several unconscious bodies, something that creeped both girls out just a little. To Courtney, an unconscious body meant someone OD’ed on something, and it wouldn’t be long before the cops came. She took a deep breath and flipped her hair over her shoulder, looking straight ahead instead of on the floor. She really wasn’t a killer or like to cause anyone real physical pain, and usually only hurt to get even.

“There.” Victoria had said, spotting Theresa in a room. She was looking seriously beaten and tired; obviously the scream had taken more out of her than Victoria containing it.

“Silly me, I must have missed her!” Courtney replied, regaining her vicious attitude. This would be familiar to anyone who knew her back in Ohio –her tone of voice was only used when she was uber-pissed and ready to do serious damage to a few lives. It was sickening cheerful and too sweet, the cause of many cavities. “Theresa! Ohmigawd, you weren’t about to leave, were you sweetie? I mean, after a stunt like that, you must want to reap the rewards.” She put on her ‘thoughtful’ face. “Though, I don’t know if I’d want to deal with Magneto after almost ruining everything. If it weren’t for Sonic, this whole thing might have been ******** completely up! Though I’m sure you didn’t mean to! I mean, poor, innocent Theresa, who was practically forced to join the Brotherhood try to destroy everything? Of course not because you’d know you’d get your a** handed to you, don’t you, Theresa? You know you’d never get through that safely, and especially not after trying to run away from it!”


“Cour- Christal.” Victoria interjected, annoyed. She was taking up too much time, she was enjoying it too much. She turned and looked at Theresa, her face rid of emotion. “Theresa, what were you thinking?”