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"Icarus, can you carry another person and still fly?" Porter asked wanting to get Kaida out of the firing ground as quickly as possible. He would send Regina but they needed her for transport later.

"Yes, I believe so," He answered having just taken down some security guards who really weren't taking no for an answer. Porter maneuvered himself in front of Freya, Noko and Regina who were getting their dampeners off of themselves. He looked over at Regina to make sure she was okay. I'm sorry this happened to you, Regina. Nobody should go through this... I should have volunteered to protect you... you guys I mean.

"There is a window in the guards room over there. Take Kaida and go. I doubt they will be aiming for you as there are bigger fish to fry by the looks of the fire fight down below. Get her to the SUV and stay with her. The X-Jet is above head, if something happens contact them through the comm," Porter told him and gave Jamie a set of keys, "Open these doors."

"What if these mutants really are dangerous?" Regina asked.

"Then these aren't the men who should be holding them prisoner... and it would be wrong for us to leave them here when the X-Men are going to level this place. What cell are the rest of the kids in from prom?" He asked her and fired a round of shots at three security guards coming up the stairs. This couldn't have ben their only defense.

"I don't know," Regina said, "They're not with us."

Dammit.

"Okay, then here is what we're going to do. We have fifteen minutes to clear this building. I am going to look for the others. You all need to get out of this building. Blackout and Shroud know where the SUV is. If I am not back in twenty minutes, you take it and resturn to Xavier's without me."

"But-" She protested.

He put his hand on her shoulder thankful she was alright. Funny, he was most concerned about her, "I will be okay. I am trusting you and Shroud with this."

His military senses kicked in at the moment. Bounding from the shadows against a wall was a mutant who's skin was as black as the shadows. It had claws that sheened against the light Jamie was producing and they were aimed right for Regina (as she was closest to it.) He pushed her down to the ground and the mutant landed on top of him. Porter made no cry out when the claws dug into his back. Instead he rolled over and pumped two bullets into the stomach of the hound. God that hurts.

He grabbed a pistol from his boot and handed it to her for protection, "Just hit the right guys... and anyway, I have a feeling Freya can handle the situation."

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Don't go insane... just don't lose it. Penny stared at the door because it was the only thing to focus on. She had one shot at getting out of this if the X-Men never arrived. Her mind had to remain her own and she had to pray to god they made the mistake of removing this collar.

OOC: Phoenix, I gave you an easy task here so you can jump in easy enough. Vegeta > Nice post. You evil hounds are going to be out reaking havok soon. Fun fun. Hope nobody minds the mad scientist and his codenames. I was having fun with him and thought proper hounds needed new names wink

Okay. I think my creative energies have been making me move way too fast so I apologize. I'm not going to write anythign else tonight and maybe most of tomorrow to let folks catch up and things and have a little fun... work tends to get boring right now so I've been writing up a storm.

OOC: I couldn't find a post that told me this, so I'm asking: Are we in X-men uniform, or the clothes we went to prom in.

OOC: Porter had their uniforms in their truck. I believe I had a post where he told Jamie or Morgan to change but I don't think I mentioned it for everybody else. I'm just assuming that when Jamie brought Danielle back to the Institute that they changed.

A few hours had passed and Jacen was still in his solitary cell. Inside, he was strapped to a chair that had devices keeping his eyes open constantly. On the far wall was a projection screen that showed atrocities beyond the wildest imagination. Wars, death, civil uprisings, government oppressions. All of this was brought up further with the constant taped loop with anti-mutant propaganda.

As he struggled to get free, he had been strapped in for an hour and a half, he noticed someone come into his cell. He couldn't tell who it was, but he immediately stopped wiggling around when a couple of clear, liquid drops were placed in his eyes. That was followed by yet another injection of the mind-control serum into his carotid artery.

".........Ugh....," Jacen said as the film kept on repeating over and over.

All of the disasters of mankind are a direct result of mutant uprisings, mutants in hiding, and the fact that there are mutants. If we detained or eliminated all mutants, then all the strife in the world would cease to be.

"......If we.....eliminate.....all mutants," Jacen mindlessly repeated, "If....we.....eliminate.....all........mutants....." He was slipping further and further from his mind. Unfortunately for him, the more fighting he did internally, the farther away from himself he became. And after another half an hour, Jacen sat still in his chair. While he sat there, he sat up a bit and stared at the screen. When it showed the horrific scenes of the battles and people being slaughtered, Jacen only smiled. It was done, and Scion was broken completely.


From a remote camera, two people in an upper level control room watched as Scion became docile.

"It's seemed to have worked, Ahab," the doctor known as Garrison said with a hint of pride in his voice.

"Indeed it does, but I think there may be something wrong with his protocols. It seems that for him, detaining a subject isn't on his agenda." Ahab stood there staring at the camera. He noticed Scion getting an even sinister look on his face when he watched some poor schmuck get a .45 caliber round to his head. "He will only be happy if he eliminates his quarry."

"That's a concern?"

"Not at all, Dr. Garrison," Ahab said as he noticed another security monitor lighting up. There was a group of mutants in their midst. A group of mutants that were trying to set free their captives.

"Give Scion three more minutes to make sure he's perfectly subjugated. Then, we shall set him loose on our intruders."

Don't fight them now. They'll think you lost your will. Penny could hear the footsteps coming for her. Would it be the telepaths or would it be one of her companions?

Poker face. Don't let them see your emotions. Her voice screamed in her head when indeed it was all four of her companions sent to get her. Sent to knock her down if she fought. Sent to break her will. They weren't going to do it. Penance had trained to hard and too long to be broken down so easily. She didn't take beatings by Wolverine over the past four years to let them break her will. Blair grabbed her arm and she could feel him trying to pound her with whatever psychic attack it was he had. She couldn't be broken, she didn't trust anybody else to bring her back if she was.

She said nothing and just stared at Dr. Garrison as he popped two vials of his syrum into seperate needles.

"I'm surprised you haven't put up a fight yet, my dear. I guess you realize that it's futile," He walked over to her and snapped his fingers at all of the hounds. Teagan and Blair grabbed her legs and Jacen and Gen grabbed her arms. For show, she tried to wrestle against their grip. Gen can't hold me down that hard... they're seriously juiced up... She stared at Gen for a time as Garrison pumped her neck with the first drug to weaken her. I failed you, Gen. I promised to train you better. As the drug started to weaken her body she looked at Jacen. He wasn't there anymore, something else was. His black eyes were almost dead looking. Gen's too, but she could tell they were still there... back somewhere in their mind.

Garrison put the second injection in her neck, "And now you will be Fate. You're abilties will be ampliphied and have healing factor that will put Wolverine to shame. My employer isn't very creative, but this will do... Your spirit is really the most fun to break."

Idiot, you just gave me my escape. She closed her eyes and let the second drug take over. Go ahead, raise my healing factor... It's going to eat your drugs all up and spit them out. The first syrum was systematically eliminated from her body. He popped the collar off of her. Penny sat up and looked at him dead eyed. Her factured bones started to mend themselves and the cuts on her face started to fade.

"Idiot," She said and lunged acrossed the room grabbing Garrison's throat. She put him in front of her and stepped backwards towards the door, "If you come close to me, I will snap his neck. Who's your daddy now, b***h," she said and slammed him into a wall for fun.

FRROOOOOMMM BOOM BOOM BOOM The sound of something like a bomb went off.
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"Leave her," Garrison said, "Use your transports and get out of here now. My hounds are no good if they are dead. Go, do your bidding and make me proud."

OOC: Oh yea, RUUUUNNNN. Jack > Have Ahab where you will. I don't have any use for him in upcoming plots. You have fun with that. The Hounds a loose and going to be running amok.

The others seemed to jump out and get ready for a fullout attack on Penance. She would prove to be a most formidable foe with her amped up healing factor. Not that the newly christened 'Rage' cared. He knew if he set his mind to it, he could easily tear her apart limb from limb.

He smiled when he saw Penance slam the doctor into the wall. It wasn't a normal smile. It was one of those disturbing smiles that one got when they witnessed a bad carwreck or someone getting hit in the groin.

As the others were preparing to attack, Jacen held his arm out, stopping them in their tracks.

"You'll snap his neck?," Rage asked calmly as he took a step forward, "You know. I'd like to see that happen." The doctor got a wild look in his eye and started to yell at Jacen to stop what he was doing. Jacen was trying nothing more than to call the girl's bluff.

"Honestly," he continued as he slowly took steps towards Penance, "Do it. Snap his neck. There's nothing stopping you from doing so."

"Did you not hear me tell you all to leave?!?!?," Garrison yelled at Jacen again.

Rage snarled out of anger. He was pissed cause he wasn't going to be able to watch anyone suffer right now. And oh how he wanted to witness this doctor's death. With a shake of his head, Rage took one step back and looked straight at Penance. With a cold, dead voice, he spoke to her.

"Next time, girl," he said as he pushed a few buttons on his transport device, "You will not be so lucky. I promise you that."

OOC: Ok. Now that should fit alot better.

OOC: Haha we all keep responding and rewriting on top of each other smile GIve me a second to rewrite.
Ahab is Garrison's employer. Garrison is going to die when the building comes down.

She wasn't bluffing and she knew it. Penny had the deep ceded X-Men 'do not kill' conscience, but there was a dark side to her as well. The hounds disappeared and she was glad. They scared the s**t out of her. <********, gotta get out of here. She threw the doctor into the wall and ran like hell. She couldn't help her friends if she was dead.

There were sounds like a building crushing to the ground. Her head hurt so badly. They screwed her up. Her body wasn't ready to handle the over load of higher senses than she already had. Somewhere around a stairwell she collapsed. Was that Freya up there... would be nice to be rescued right now...

Before she blacked out, she prayed to god for the first time in her life to forgive her for failing her friends.

OOC: Gotcha.