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 Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:25 am
Porter escorted the students down to the infirmary. The most they really received were some cuts and bruises. He was proud of them. They handled themselves well. There was some guilt for Danielle getting hurt. She shouldn't have been on the mission yet. One of the nurses pulled him behind a closed curtain and stitched up the gash on his back. It was fairly deep and painful. That was, thankfully, the worst of his teams wounds.
Trying not to pull the stitches, Porter put his shirt back on and went out to meet his team in the War Room. He pulled both Summers and Xavier out of the room before the meeting began.
"I need to know two things before I left you speak to these kids," Porter glanced at Scott clearly challenging his authority over them, "Did you locate Evelyn, Freya, and Gen? If not, are we going to find them?"
Xavier nodded his head, "The X-Jet sensors picked up Evelyn and Freya leaving with Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. We do not know where their current location is or the status of their well being. We do not yet have any readings on Gen."
Porter lowered his head, "Any of their other classmates?"
Scott shook his head, "No."
"And I assume they aren't our top priority at this moment," Porter had a feeling that was where the conversation was going. At best the X-Men had to leave the scouring of the base to military operatives. Also, he assumed that any truely dangerous mutants from the prison block were going to have to be detained.
"Wolverine is being sent to track down Ahab. Ororo, Jean and Scott have to help detain the rogue mutants who we released. Not all of them have good intensions. I am going to keep searching for Gen, Jacen, Teagan and Blair with Cerebro. Cerebro is the best way to find their location if they are to be found," Xavier said and led the way into the War Room. He explained as much to the team who were devestated about their lost classmates.
Porter led the group of Matt, Morgan, Jamie and Regina to the student lounge and sat down with them, "I'm not going to tell you that this is going to be easy. It's not. It's not fair and no kid mutant or human should have to be put in this position. I do have to tell you all that I'm proud of you. All of you demonstrated real courage and real loyalty to your friends and your team. Don't get into your head the shoulds and coulds of what happened today. We have gifts other people do not have, but it doesn't make us gods."
He stopped for a moment and clenched his jaw. He was feeling the hurt of possibly losing two of their own students, "I know you're all strong willed, but I ask you to listen to Xavier right now. Do not go seeking them out. These are dangerous times. I will do my best to locate them."
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:39 am
There was smoke everywhere after the building collapsed. But the little rescue team took refuge in the forest and waited for the smoke to come down.
Freya was sitting down, her back againts a tree. Dirty and bloody were the best words to describe her. "The x-men have already withdraw," she told Wanda and Pietra. "And Penance is waking up. However, I think she's still too stunned to understand the present situation."
"I guess we will have to take her back to them ourselves," said Wanda. She kneeled to Freya and looked at her. "You need a doctor. What were you thinking? Using yourself as a shield to protect her?"
The blond smiled to her. "Life is precious no matter whose life it is. This is what I told you when I got you out of the asylum right?"
The Scarlet Witch nodded silently. "Are you going to be alright until we get you to the x-men?" She glared at Pietra who has started to protest. "What are we suppose to do? We have a x-girl on our back and Freya needs medical attention! We can't take both to the local hospital. If the humans there knows we're mutants, it's going to be hell," Wanda said her double sex sibling with a tone of voice that mostly mean "shut up and do as I say".
"You have changed, Wanda," pointed out Freya. "You are not as thirsty for revenge as before. Or maybe not as deadly as before."
Wordlessly, Wanda grabbed Freya and got her on her back then looked at her sibling. "We're going to walk until we find a way to get faster. I don't trust you so don't try anything funny."
On this, they left the forest and set their course on the institute.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:54 pm
ooc: joint post between penny and me
IC:
Regina watched as everyone was looked over. She felt horrible but not physically. They had to leave Penny and Gen... and more of their housemates than that. She knew that Porter had been hurt, he was trying hard not to wince but while driving over bumps he couldn't help it. When he finished, she followed after. "Hey."
"Regina, hey," He said slightly taken off guard when trying to leave the lounge. God this day was hard but it wasn't about him really. It was about them. He motioned with his head for Regina to follow him to his office, "How're you holding up?"
"Been better..." Regina answered, tailing after him. "Did the nurse fix your back? how many stitches did it need?"
He gave a half laugh, "More than I wished it needed. I don't think Nurse Reyes belives in pain killers. But you know, being a militant superhero type I have to suck it up."
He closed the door and fumbled around through messy stacks of paper, "I have something for you."
"Oh gods. If it's an evaluation just keep it. I know I've got work to do." she groaned, sitting in a chair. "No one is perfect, we're all forever learning our powers... all that."
He was slightly caught off guard with Regina's mini tyraid and pulled out a manilla packing envelope and got a little flustered, "No, no it's nothing like that. Before this whole prom mess, we received a packet from Bayville."
He pulled out two peices of paper. One had her name on it and the other had 'Evelyn Chayse' on it, "I don't know Kelly's motives but he had the diplomas mailed out. I think he knew this was going to happen deep down and convinced himself it was okay if the kids still got to graduate or something equally as ******** up. Congratulations graduate."
Regina blinked at the paper. "But we haven't finished our exams yet. We don't deserve a diploma until we finish..." She saddened looking at Penny's folder. "Do you think we'll find her...?"
"This is legitimate... already checked... and, yes, I do think we'll find her. We'll find her and Gen," He sat in a chair opposite of Regina and decided to do something he never imagined that he would do. Putting a bullet into the head of an enemy was easier for him, "That peice of paper means that you're officially not one of my students anymore. So... um, when this is all over, could i buy you dinner or something? I mean, I'm not that much older than you... and..."
Regina looked at him in surprise. As much as she thought he was... cool, she really hadn't expected him to ask her out. He did have a good point though, they weren't student teacher anymore. "Ara..." she replied eloquently.
He laughed at that moment at the whole situation, "Sorry. I don't know what Xavier has planned for you and Evelyn. But, honestly, Regina. I've liked you since the moment you got into the truck I was driving. I hate this whole teacher and student thing."
"Ditto." Regina quipped. After a couple moments it sunk in. She was young so even if she did get hurt, there was lots of time to get back... "I like you too. You've got this... bad boy but good thing about you."
"Yea, well, it comes with the territory. Let's keep this on the down low for now.... until this are more official around here."
She nodded. "I don't want any kind of rumors to spread either. As much as I'm not a trend setter or follower... I'm not one to ruin what kind of reputation I have until we're sure on this... but sure. I'd love to go out."
"Good," He got up and put a hand on her shoulder, "Something to look forward to for a change. Okay, I am going to get sleep. I don't think I've slept a week with you guys getting into trouble every other day."
"Hey, it's not our fault... Usually." Regina grinned, feeling her face flush just a bit at the contact. "Okay, so we get in trouble... The other guys start it."
"That's not what I hear about your leader," He said and locked his office door, "I'll let you know when I find out about Evelyn."
"Please do." the flirtatious air leaving a bit. "I hate to have left her. I should have gone back and tried to find her. The shadows would have protected me for the most part..."
"If there's one thing I've learned in my experience is that you can't dwell on what you can't change. I'll talk to you later," He smiled and got into one of the elevators. Slumping against the back wall he took his glasses off, "This is going to be interesting."
Regina waved a bit. "You got that right." Her room was on the second floor so she just headed to it. Though once she arrived she sighed and looked at the mess. Penny wasn't there... and she didn't know how long until she would be.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:06 pm
In an instant Rage and the others were standing in front of Ahab in yet another science facility. This time, Ahab seemed rather confident that they'd not get caught here.
"I'm glad to see you four survived," he said as he turned his back to look at a glaring computer monitor. The monitor was about half the size of the wall, and had glowing red dots here and there. "Though, I'm certain for now, it's time for us to lay low for a spell."
Rage blinked. "........Sir? Lay low?"
"Yes. The recent arrests at the high school have shed a bad light on our exploits as of late." Ahab turned around and looked at the four. "Apparently, some of my higher-ups are not happy with the public and media backlash. I want for you all to go into a form of relative hiding."
Rage was not happy with this at all. He was promised a chance to use his abilities. He was promised a chance to cause mass suffering. "That.....is not......how I wish to do things....."
"Do not be so anxious, Rage," Ahab said scolding his one of his most insidious creations, "The time will come. Trust me. But what I need for you to do is to go home. To YOUR home. I have a lead on something rather big in that area, and I will activate you when everything is in place."
Hanging his head in frustration, Rage stood there like a monolith. After a few button presses and a loud chirping sound, Jacen's transporter device was coming to life, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.
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When Jacen reappeared to the world, he found himself standing in a miniscule complex, although it was laden with vast technological devices. The most noted was a miniature version of Ahab's mainframe. Then, there was a crackle on the communit.
"This facility shall shield you from all forms of detection, telepathic or otherwise," Ahab said loudly, "All provisions there should supply you for longer than expected. You will only leave the facility when I activate you. Do you copy my order, Rage?"
".....Yes.......Master," Rage said as he turned the communicator off. With another button press, he shut off most of the lights off in the facilty, leaving only the ambient light of the facility's shielding unit glowing dimly in the room. And there he sat, waiting patiently for activation.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:28 pm
"Lay low?" Frost repeated, frowning. "I want another chance at the fire mutant. He was an actual challenge to my new abilities. Why can't I hunt him down?"
"Because I don't want to chance you being caught by those pathetic xmen." Ahab returned, turning back to the computer monitor.
"I wouldn't be. I would freeze them before they get within 20 feet of me." she insisted.
"Obey me." Ahab growled softly.
Frost went silent, watching him but a defiance on her face.
ooc: i'm not good with badguys... so if someone else wants to do bad guy, i'll rp gen. aim is good.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:40 pm
LadyJedi OOC: Who are you calling boy? smile j/k Personally, I would call a 25 year old a man wink And AAAHHH Mr.Logan has turned into PYRO!!! OOC: Hey this is Cloudkicker..... Whoops sorry about that...You see what had happend was, I was trying to remember his password (you'd think since I created him I'd know it rolleyes ) So after about three tries I finally remembered it. And then I went to the guild, to see what was going on, and I posted.....and it wasn't until I finished posting that I remember I was still under this name....sorry 'bout that sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:23 pm
OOC: Haha, I figured that's what happend. I just thought it was funny that a Pyro post was done under him smile
IC:Ahab thought for a moment, "Frost Queen... take the others. Those damn X-Men let all the prisoners loose. They are dangerous to us and to all humans... do your purpose and kill them all. But stay away from Xavier and that Brotherhood house. I want NO INTERFERANCE."
He actually wanted his hounds to live as long as possible. Ahab had a feeling if Xavier got involved his plans were going to be ruined.
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Porter walked to his room which was on a seperate floor from the student rooms. He thought of a hundred different scenarios for Regina's place with the X-Men and the school. Truthfully, he wouldn't mind remaining a teacher of hers... just on an unofficial level. He knew she still had a lot to learn before being inducted onto the X-Men squad... if she even wanted that.
He definately had to think of a scenario that didn't get him fired. She was 19, though. He wasn't really worried about age things. Mostly, he was worried about an Xavier Institute taboo. Actually, no I"m not... if they can blow up damn buildings with kids in it.. I can date an adult.
Sitting on his bed he took off his shirt and unwrapped the bandage. Breathing in slowly, he redressed the wound. "God I wish I was a healer."
The Institute seemed to have a haze over it and he found himself staring out the window, "Come on Penny, where are you? I don't think team can take losing two people today."
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:35 pm
Jamie stood in the middle of the danger room, panting and sweating. He had just thrashed several dozen robots with his katana, and he'd taken most of his frustration out. I hate that we had to leave them there. We should have stayed in there! He looked around the room, and saw one final robot charging in at him. He feigned right, and then pulled back, and kneed the robot in it's midsection. It keeled over, and he swiftly beheaded it.
He walked up the stairs in the mansion, a towel over his shoulders, until he finally came to the showers, and rinsed off. So what do we do next?
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:17 pm
Frost grinned wickedly. She would get a chance to play with one of the xmen leaders that had left her at that place, she'd get her revenge. She wouldn't have the chance to deal with the fire bug...
~Maybe I'll do some things on my own...~she thought, not letting her thoughts be too clear on her face.
Looking to the others, Frost nodded to them and they headed to where the others had escaped to.
Regina flopped on her bed, turning her head to face the other bed in the room that belonged to Penny. She wanted more than anything to go out on her own and investigate the shadows. Maybe she could find some trail on where Penny had ended up.
Do not do that Regina. We need you here. You're acting leader for the Gold Team while Penny is MIA. We will find her, not to fear... Xavier's voice said in her head. His voice was reassuring but Regina was still worried.
~I'd like to think that professor... I'm worried. I can't stop the fear. She's become my best friend here and I can't just leave her out there. But I'll stay... ~ she answered, sighing.
Other things were on her mind at the moment. It made sleep difficult to say the least. During her studies, she'd never really dated. Mutant or human. She didn't want it to get in the way of her training or her schooling. Now she was free of high school... and about to date one of her trainers.
~What am I getting myself into...~ Regina thought, wondering just what was going to happen.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:31 pm
"I'm starving!"
"Yes! Me too!"
"Can't we steal a car or something? You can't possibly carry me all the way there."
"WILL YOU JUST SHUT THE HELL UP?!" yelled Wanda at Pietra and Freya. Those two were the worst whining girls she ever met. Even the ones in the asylum weren't that whiny. And that was something considering the place.
They have been walking for a time along a road but no cars in view. It had been about a hour or two since they started walking and in all honesty, Wanda thought Freya needed a diet. A really really serious diet.
"HEY! That's mean! I don't need a diet!" whined the blond.
"If you weren't hurt I would drop you on the ground. Besides, if you can whine and b***h like that, does that mean you can call your spirits?"
"I'm too hungry for that..."
"Let me put it this way: you summon a spirit to take us to the x-mansion and you get to eat faster."
Freya made a cute thinking face and after few minutes, she said: "But I like it on your back."
"Dammit Freya! You want me to kill you?!"
"I was just kidding. Wanda, you really need to lighten up. You still have much to learn---"
"---my padawan," finished Pietra at the same time as Freya.
"I swear you get me another star wars quote and I'm tearing your limbs apart!"
"Maybe you are still as deadly as before," answered Freya. But Wanda was right: enough jokes. It was time to go faster. Besides, Pietra was starting to get impatient since walking was never her style and Freya was feeling well enough to start summoning again.
She called the half naked one. Being a wind type, the spirit could easily take them. That is, what Freya explained to them when Wanda blinked at the very light clothing of the spirit.
"Why can't they be better dressed?" she asked Freya.
"Don't offend her!"
"Well I'm just asking since your taste in dress is close to hers."
"Windy is the wind. Wearing clothing embarass her when she flies."
The Scarlet Witch rolled her eyes and the spirit, with a jiggly sound, took them in the sky.
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Ding Dong goes the bell.
One of the x-men opened the door and saw three girls and Penance.
"Can we come in? She's starting to get very heavy," sighed Wanda.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:55 am
"Oh thank god," Jean said as she checked the security monitor before going to open the door. She hit the comm, "McCoy, we need you in the Infirmary. We have Freya and Evelyn. Scott, a little help here."
She ran to the door to let the group of teenagers in with Scott Summers on her feet. One glance at Pietra and then Wanda and she shook her head, "I'm not even going to ask you what happened there. Come on, you all should see the doctor just to be safe. Freya looks like she needs it."
Scott took Penny from Pietra and thanked them for getting her back home and out of the building.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:28 am
"Does anybody ever sleep around here," Porter mumbled as the comm went off. Hank McCoy requested his presence in the Infirmary and requested that Regina be brought too. That only meant one thing. One of their classmates had resurfaced. He threw on a tshirt and jeans and headed down to the student dorms. Regina's door was cracked and he peered in, "Regina you awake?"
"Yea," She said sitting up and fumbling around for a robe or something.
"Our presence is requested," He said and waited outside the door for her. In about five minutes they were standing in an observation room looking through a window at Penny who was in and out of being unconscious.
"The best I can tell is that her body has been healing itself. I would give her something to keep her knocked out, but her healing factor seems to be eating it up," McCoy explained, "It appears that they did something to her there. She's healing at a rate faster than before. But I won't know for sure until she wakes up."
"How are the other kids who came in?" Porter asked.
"They'll heal," McCoy answered and went back to see Freya.
Porter saw Penny's eyes open up and stare at the ceiling. He took it upon himself to let Regina into the room with him. He was pretty sure Regina would have walked herself through the shadows to get into the room anyway.
"Evelyn?" He asked and walked over.
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"Before you ask, I feel like I've been hit by a bus and rolled over a few times," She said somewhat soft and strained staring at the ceiling knowing exactly who was in the room by their sound and their smell. She smiled happy to know that Regina had gotten out of the base okay, "Reg, you okay?"
"Yea, Pen, I'm fine," Regina sat down on the side of her bed.
"Noko, Freya?" She asked avoiding the question she really wanted to ask.
"Yea, got them too," Regina said.
"Gen... Jacen... and those two other kids were with me..." Penny already felt her eyes watering cause she knew the answer. She put her hand on Regina's shoulder to sit up. Her bones ached.
"We didn't find their life signs," Porter answered and put his arm around Penny when she slumped over to her her head in her hands. She had hoped hte X-Men had found them... she hoped she would wake up and the day would be saved.
"I'm sorry, Pen. We don't know if they're alive," Regina sounded pain stricken just to think they might be dead.
"They're not dead," Penny said looking up at the both of them, "They're hounds. Had Garrison not made one fatal flaw with me, I'd be with them. Freya got me out of there... and I think Pietro, I think I might owe him something now." She realized she was rambling on.
"Hounds? Evelyn, you need to tell me what happened there," Porter was alarmed by the fact that four potentially powerful mutants were turned into the enemy... their friends were turned. Penny nodded and told them everything that happened from the prison cell to her escape.
"Are you still amped?" He asked her and didn't expect an answer because she was so upset.
"As far as I can tell, my senses are what they were before. My healing is better," She nodded, "Can we talk about this later? Can I go back to our room?"
"Yea, we'll talk in the morning."
"Good," Penny said and took Regina's arm to head back to their room.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:33 am
OOC: Crap I'm in the lion's den.
IC: Pietra looked around somewhat fidgetty, hating to be anywhere near Xavier's mansion whenever he wasn't there to cause trouble. S/he reached for a slot on his/her armor, and retrieved the scrambler, attaching it to his/her temple. Even with his accelerated thought patterns, he didn't want that damned Xavier attempting to crawl around inside his head.
"Say Wanda," he asked, figuring that being surrounded by a bunch of dirty little do-gooders might pressure her. "Do you think you can reverse this perversion of nature already and return me to normal?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:40 pm
"Why? You think FATHER won't like to see you this way? I think he'll be very proud of this new daugther," answered Wanda. She walked around Pietra slowly just like a dangerous predator. "A daugther he can control. Unlike me."
In the infirmary, Freya was having a chat with Beast. "I'm sorry but I will not tell you anything about my powers," she told him.
"I need to know what you can do in order to take care of your wounds properly," Beast answered with patience.
"All you need to know is that I have no healing powers and I can't summon a spirit who can heal me. I'm mutant, yes, but not a summoner like the ones you see in video games."
OOC: Shot post I know but I'm leaving it open for people to interact. Mostly Jack. Hehehe. But don't worry. Pietro's suffering will soon be gone after a little conversation I promise. The joke is getting old and I have a feeling you're starting to get tired of the grammar problem. Don't you just all love me for that? 0=)
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:12 pm
Regina helped Penny get back to their bedroom. She hadn't even been asleep when Porter had poked his head in. How could she sleep with Penny in some danger that she had agreed not to go face? Not in this lifetime. She wore some camo gear pants that had a zillion pockets and a ghost busters top.
"I'm just glad you're alive... we'll start a rescue mission for Gen and the others soon. Believe me." Regina told Penny as they slowly made their way to their room. "And some good news, we don't have to go back to school. Principle Kelly sent our diplomas to the house. Looks like subconciously he figured something was going to happen."
"Figures... What a loser of a principle..." Penny muttered, watching Porter ahead of them. "Why's he staying so close by?"
"Dunno." Regina replied. "Is his room nearby?"
"I don't think so. but I could be wrong. I never have been able to figure out where the teachers sleep." Penny answered. "Oh... sweet relief." she groaned as Regina helped her sit on her bed.
"I have more... news." Regina said softly after sitting on her bed. "Porter asked me out after we found out that I'm no longer a student. Technically...."
ooc: gonna let jedi finish it off or continue with me via AIM cuz I'm not sure how penny would react to taht.
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