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Forge just laughed. "That's the great thing about data these days... I can carry so much in such a little space. Names, ages, ADDRESSES... your life is an open book to me..."

He watched as Penny went off into a rage, only to get sloppy. Penny v.2.0 never got tired, and she never lost sight of her goal. Namely, killing the original. The subroutines that controlled the robots thoughts were complicated beyond measure, but luckiliy for Forge, he was perhaps the only person on the planet who could create something in just an afternoon. It all came natural to him. It was no wonder he felt superior to everyone else around him.

"Hmm, I wonder if your little mutant sisters would be useful to Magneto as well? Get'em while they're young, right?"

ooc: really no big deal this time firecrag. i like this change though. ^^

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Regina struggled a bit, but his grip on her was too strong. "The only guy I would even consider letting do this would be Porter, but since I'm not a fan of pain I'll abide..." she returned, going still.

~Until I find a better opportunity to escape at least... I wonder if the students are okay?~ she thought to herself. ~It does me no good to get knocked out. s**t...~

Gen listened to the silence, an occasional crash or bang making her wince with surprise. She felt the tension rising and couldn't contain her own nervousness. In turn, the walls began to ice up around her. The cold didn't bother her at all but she was getting steadily more anxious as to what was going on.

It was one of those weird things. She knew that he knew that making her angry makes her lose her focus. Despite knowing that he knew she did it anyway and she knew that she did it. But when he started talking about her sisters... that was the final straw. Jacen could take care of himself. She knew this, but the girls. That was different.

Thanks Forge... you just gave me the focus I need... Not that it made the fight any easier. Penance was working on several broken ribs and gashes caused by either Forge of the cyborg. This just made her own punches a bit harder and a bit more effective. The cyborg may be mathematically perfect but it had no human element.

She got one good stab into the abdomine of the cyborg but that did almost nothing. Have to destroy it's brain... the rest is mechanics... This was fine, but the cyborg already calculated her drawing back movement and used it to land a solid slice to Penance's arm. Blood started to poor down it.

Penance took two steps back, "Come on b***h. I always wanted to know what it was like to take myself out."

It came at her with an eerie silence. Damn I'm good... She thought about the perfection of the cyborg and what it meant that this whole program was created as a possible way to bring her down.... save for Forge's own psychotic creations. The thing had her backed in a corner and kicked her in the stomach. Penance landed a right jab across the hardened jaw of the cyborg and then countered with an uppercut. Her knuckles were bloody.

What is one thing this damn cyborg doesn't think I'll do... thinks I'll go till the end... She started to think more logically and think unpredictably. And it came to her amongst the blood and the punches and the cuts her body wasn't healing fast enough.

One misstep by Penance allowed the cyborg to wrap it's hand around her neck and started to crush her. Penance started gasping for air and put her hand against the face of her opponent to try and push her back. This is when she had to what she had to do. She'd be damned if she died by this abomination's hands.

She knew if she swong out to the side with a blade, the cyborg would block her. It would not stop her from injuring herself. It would not expect her to injure herself. Penance, as the room started getting spotty with lack of oxygen, took her remaining short blade and quickly without thinking or bracing put it through her own hand and the face of the cyborg. The pain seered through her body, but not as much as the shorts in the circutry burning her hand. To any on lookers, it appeared insane. Penance was holding her knife through her own hand and into her doplegangers face.

She pulled her blade out as the cyborg let go of her neck. Her hand was run completely through and was losing a lot of blood. But this was what she needed to do. Easily, she kicked the cyborg down and started to brutally stab it's cranium. Not before it took it's final death siesure, the cyborg acted on it's remaining insincts. It took it's own blade and stabbed Penny in the exact location Rage had gotten her before.

Penance was left on the floor of the Danger Room crawling to escape. It was dead... and if she didn't start healing... she was going to be soon. Her blood loss was exensive. She needed help.

So that's what it felt like to be shot in the back by a supposed friend... quite literally. Her eyes stared blankly as he walked out of the Danger Room. Blood loss was her enemy. Things were starting to go grey.

If I ever see you again Forge... I will kill you without hesitation...

She tried to force her body to move so that she could be found more easily. No luck... she could only hope she had the good fortunes of the X-Men. She wondered if it was true that you think through the happiest moments of your life before you died. The only thought she had on here mind was Jacen... so she assumed it was true.

[OOC *cough* Gen and Rachael when you get a chance]

ooc: hey rachel, forge isn't there anymore... we can just move on though. no big.


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Gen came out of one hallway to see a new girl she hadn't actually gotten to know yet dragging out Penny. She was shocked to see the Alpha leader bleeding and near death. Not normally one to get involved in it, she ran over and helped Rachel get Penny out of the Danger Room.

"What happened?" Gen asked, like either of them would be able to answer.

Well, the good knews is that she wasn't dead yet. Her sensory skills told her that she was in a lot of pain and that whatever her teammates were doing hurt like a mother effing b***h. However it came to pass, Penny wound up on her stomach on an Infirmary bed. Somebody was trying to wrap her wounds together.

This gave her healing less work to do and her mind more time to focus. Words... let's try to make some words. "Gen."

"Penny, we're going to help you as much as we can... you're bleeding really bad... and bad stuff is going on." Gen sounded paniced. That registered in her mind. Have to take control. Have to be the leader.

"Freeze me." Penny coughed blood again.

"What?!" Gen didn't understand what Penny was asking.

"Slow the blood loss... freeze..." Penny stopped talking and went weak again closing her eyes. She felt Gen touch her skin near a wound and did as told. The cold started to slow the blood loss and bought Penny more time. One problem... the bullet.

"Rachael..."

"Yes?"

"Get the bullet out..."

"What?" One of the girls asked but Penny was too close to losing consciouness to figure it out.

"Can't heal wound... have to get it out..."

The pain of what Rachael did probably hurt worse than any of her wounds. Had she the energy and the ability to get the sound out of her mouth, she probably would have screamed or at least grunted in extreme pain. It didn''t matter. Her body, given Gen''s ability, would start healing itself... and once it did. Forge and Magneto would wish they were never born. Payback was going to be a b***h.

It would be several hours before her body was functional again. It would be several more before she would be ready for their apparent next mission. Gen had slowed the bleeding enough that she could start making her own again and start mending the wounds. At least she could gain her focus and actually speak to her team.

"I am going to be out for at least half a day," Penny said to the both of them who looked like they felt like they were sitting ducks.

"What if they come down here?" Gen asked.

"We can seal off the sublevels... only people can get out, not in unless we let them," Penance wanted to motion to her where to go but she didn't move her arms.

"How?" Gen asked her.

"In the War Room, there's a control panel. I'll tell you how to use it," Penny explained to her what to do to shut off the sublevels for their protection. She also told her how to rig the sensors to let them know in the Infirmary if somebody was outside the seals.

"Penny, what is going on?" Rachael asked.

Penny focused on Rachael for a moment, "Betrayal, Rachael, of the ultimate kind. Magneto is taking all of our friends and trying to get them to join his cause... and it's going to be up to us three to rescue them."