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Reaper watched the rest of his group take off, then took another quick look back at the alley way. Perhaps it was best to just move on. Ignore it. With any luck it was just...well something other than-

"Me?" a familiar voice said behind him.

Reaper grimmaced and glanced behind him, finding X leaning against a nearby wall with his arms crossed.

ENTER from Choosers Realm
"Are you having fun over there?" X called out, staring past Reaper and into the alley.

Reaper's grimace relaxed a bit and he turned back towards the alley. After a moment, a woman with long dark hair and an exotic looking outfit sauntered out of it and gently leaned against the nearest building. She gave him a brief smile, then turned to X and gave him a slightly more smug grin.

ENTER from Choosers Realm
"A little." Alcina replied. "I was actually hoping he'd come and investigate my little breeze. Unfortunately you have him more paranoid than I thought. I can't much blame the poor thing though. You are being rather ruff with him."

X simply shrugged and turned his attention back to Reaper. "You'll have to excuse her. Seems she's bored as well." he said.

"Ever consider getting an actual hobby?" Reaper said in a near growl.

"Nothing's ever good enough for him." Alcina said with smile.

"I have one. I just never seem to get the results I seek." X replied as he stood up and moved towards Reaper. "And at the moment, you have a part in my little hobby."

Reaper glared back at him again. He was really, really getting tired of this guy. "You know I still haven't quite figured out what you want with me." he growled.

"You'll find out eventually if you don't realize it after another visit or so." X replied simply.

Alcina turned towards X and shook her head a bit, thenglanced back at Reaper. She seemed to be thinking about something, then opened her mouth to speak.

"Alcina..." X said almost repremanding.

Alcina turned and gave him a small look, then sighed and shook her hand again. "Alright. But don't do it now. Let him enjoy himself for a while." she said.

"Fair enough." he replied, then absently glanced towards the Empire State building. "I suppose I could let him think on it more. Provided no one has to spell it out for him." he said, glancing back at her.

{Enter from Gotham}

As the Batmobile passed from the dark streets of Gotham to the clean, modern architecture of New York, Batman's eyes caught sight of something rather odd flying over his head. The girl he was looking for... flying on a door. And... was that Spider-man? But he'd just left him in the cave! Bringing the car to a stop, he tossed the activation chip from his Batbelt to Diana. "We'll have to split up. Look for Kenji. Recon only, Diana," he added severely. The Amazon was used to charging into battle, but that wouldn't work in this instance. "I'll see you in a few minutes." Without waiting for her response, he sent a grappling hook up to the roof of a building and swung off. He'd have to stay well behind the telepath if he wanted to remain outside of her range. Logically, there was no way that she could be reading everyone's mind at once; really functioning would be impossible. It had to be a concentration thing. If she couldn't see him, and he was fairly far away, she couldn't focus on him.

{Exit to Gotham}

Alcina gave X a bit of an expectant look, then glanced off into the city a moment. "Alright. I'm going to explore a bit before you decide to blanket this world in total chaos. As usual. We still need to have a talk about a few others." she said as she slowly faded into silver dust, broken away by the breeze.

X sighed slightly and glanced around a brief moment before turning his attention back to an irritated looking Reaper. "Alright then. I suppose it's time for us to go. It takes a few minutes to reach any of my realms."

Reaper's eyes widened slightly and he whirled around to face him. "What?"

"You heard me. Honestly I'm not sure I can trust Alcina to let you stay down here for a while. So, we're just going to stay at one of my places for a short while." X said as he moved a hand up as if he was going to snap his fingers.

"Now hold on. Didn't you just agree to leave me alone for a while?"

X smirked slightly. "I did...and I didn't say that I was going to harm you or anything for the time being. Of course if you'd rather stay down here, I suppose we'd just have to cut straight to the chase. And with Blackstone on his way here, I'm sure that would be an interesting little reunion." he said, then paused and thought a moment. "Then again...that might not be such a bad idea..."

Reaper's face twisted in anger and he opened the shadow under him to escape. Not necessarily from X, but he wasn't risking having him here too. The shadow was open and ready for him to slip into...but he didn't move. He couldn't. "D-dam-" he snarled with enough rage that he couldn't even push the words out.

"Pathetic." X sighed as he ran a hand through his hair. "That's all it's going to take in the end, isn't it?" he said to himself. "Fortunately for you, I did agree to give you a small break, so I won't bother with that yet. Oh, and you may again feel some discomfort entering my realm. I have a very strong wall when it comes to strangers with powers entering any of my homes." X said and prepared to teleport him and Reaper away.




Alcina appeared in the hallway of the appartment building Greed had entered. She flipped her dark hair back as she casually strolled down the slightly damaged hall towards where the large creature had gone. She'd changed her outfit into a more human and modern white suit and skirt, didn't need to draw too much attention to herself than needed. After all, she meerely wanted to see the creature that she had senced a moment or two ago. It wasn't like any of Xaio's little creations, yet it had strange similarities. She was just curious to see what it was like. After a moment, she reached the room that he was in and looked in the doorway at him. Definately different. Actually looked a bit better without the spikes and claws. Not much on manners though from the looks of it.

{Enter from Sanctum Sanctorum}

Just then, Strange appeared, looking completely exhausted and furious beyond belief. "That's. IT. The next person who wakes me up is turning into a pile of compost, and they aren't turning back. Looks like your stuck in my house," he growled to the Reaper.

A muscle in Strange's jaw tightened. "So kind of you to worry about my well-being. This conversation is finished, and as soon as I'm done with my nap, you will be too." He spoke a word of command, and both he and the Reaper vanished.

{Exit Reaper and Strange to Sanctum Sanctorum.}

X watched as both the man and Reaper dissapeared again, and after a moment started laughing. "Done with my nap..." he giggled "...some wizard. Honestly. Still has the flaw of being human." He paused and glanced away at some of the other rooftops. He thought for a moment about finding the one who needed help...perhaps get him to unleash a bit of chaos. But then again...
He turned his attention back towards the Empire State building again. He needed to have a little chat with the boy too. The alien girl was doing a marvelous job and putting many of the others at panic, quite interesting results so far. But since Reaper seemed to be a bit difficult to hold onto...perhaps he'd just have to settle with giving the boy another temporary being. Worse came to worse...he'd have to give up on Reaper and simply do what he wanted himself. But that was such a hassle.
He glanced back towards where Dracula was and thought for a moment. Then smirked a bit and dissapeared.