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OOC: Moren, wait for the mods to okay Firewalker before posting his entrance. We've been reviewing all bios to prevent any problems like we did earlier in the month. You understand I hope smile PM myself or one of the other mods if you have any questions.

IC:

Penny stood up and smiled, "I will do my best to make sure we have to fight them as little as possible... but yes, it is a possibility. Oh, and keep this quiet if you can... We don't want the elders catching wind. I will see you all in the garage at 10pm. Bring a pillow... it's a long ride."

She left the lounge with the bag of files on her back and walked down to Forge's laboratory. Regina was walking with her when Penny stopped and knocked on the door. She questioned what Penny was going there for when Forge opened the door and put a device in Penny's hand. He said, "Fine peice of work. This will do the trick for you. Get this within five feet of their teleport devices and they will stop working."

"Thank you, Forge. You're a doll," Penny gave him a quick hug and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed and closed his workshop door.

"What was that about?" Regina gave Penny an 'oh my god i can't believe you just did that' glance.

Penny chuckled, "Heh, I dated him before you got here. Real nice guy."

"Here I thought you were celebate," Regina shook her head and took the device out of Penny's hand to look at, "Nice peice of work."

"It solves one of our problems," She took it and put it in a duffle bag that Regina was carrying for her of various weapons. They headed up to their room to start packing for their field trip, "Pack lightly, Penny. I think we're going to have a full car."

ooc: * claps hands together* this should be fun. Boho-chic meeting punk.


A nice hot shower was what she needed. ~ And to stop hearing everyones bloody thoughts ~ she couldnt help but think to herself. Being a mimic sucked sometimes and that fight with jean hadnt helped her mood any. Particularly since she managed to suck up a bit of her abilities and now could hear every bleeding thought in the damn house. She sighed john had told her what had happened but she was very glad for that bump on the head that left her not remembering a damn thing. Finally out of the shower she headed twords her bedroom. Picking out her favorite pair of black bondage pants she slid those on still thinking about the adventure. Almost wishing she could remember. Though pondering who to pick a fight with next to get rid of the damn telepath power. Snooping through the closet she settled on a black spiderweb lace shirt and a black tank top to go under it. ( *points at avatar* just imagine those pants have straps XD ) Sighing as she looked in the mirror she got bored. Now shapeshifting there was a power. Her mimic and shifting abiltiies rocked sometimes, though she hated the mimic part more often. Shifting so her hair was mostly purple and black and long her makeup appeared done and her hair was up in two very high and full ponytails and her favorite spider goggles as she called them ontop of her head. Grinning she headed downstairs before noticing someone outside. Opening the door before she even knocked noko smirked. " If your selling Mary Kay we dont want any. Im the only girl here besides wanda and well..we tend to prefer Urban Decay.."


ooc: yes ive changed nokos powers. Jedi came up with the idea of mimic/shapeshifting hence shes able to copy powers. Joy. Imagine two pyros....or pietros

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OOC: I advise folks who haven't posted recently to take a look at Noko's 's**t list.' Those on it need to start posting or bad things happen. If you are on a hiatus, you need to let us know.

X-Men let's get rolling on our road trip smile

Another joint post by Regina and myself below...

IC:

"Do you think we should leave Porter... I mean Jonothan your true love... a note?" Penny asked while lacing up her boots and rolling her jeans down over them.

"True love?" Regina repeated, laughing. "We haven't even been on a date yet. Don't make this more than it is. Besides, I bet he'll be hot on our heals before the first hotel."

Penny zipped her bag containing her uniform and essential weapons and grabbed a light jacket off the back of her chair and put it over her shoulder, "I'm just joking! We probably should leave a note in his office though... out of curtosey."

"Yeah I guess..." Regina muttered throwing a few other clothes and such into her bag. She wasn't much for weapons, she had enough by just dragging people into shadows. Should that fail though, she also carried a smallish machete.

"One day, I am going to teach you to shoot," Penny said to Regina and shut out their light, "Can you imagine popping out of a shadow and then getting a shot off? You'd be a great hidden weapon."

"I think this will scare the too." the machete gleamed in the dull remainder of light from the hallway. Regina grinned. "I'm an Indiana Jones girl at heart..."

"Long as it's not the second one... I can't get past the whole pulling the heart out of the chest thing. Makes me squeemish... ug, monkey brains," Penny led them to the elevator and they wound up outside of Porter's office door. He wasn't there so they slipped a note under it, "Yea, he'll show up... but that might be good for us in the end."

Regina laughed, stopping just outside the door. "He's still our teacher, in a way. I'm sure there's lots we have to learn from him."

"Yea, makes me wonder what they have planned for us? We can't exactly sit on the Green team forever," Penny shrugged and they headed out towards the back stairwell to the garage. A few butterflies were hitting her stomach, "Don't tell anybody else but I'm nervous as hell."

"You're not the only one I'm sure." Regina sighed and looked at the van. "For now, let's think of it as a road trip. Keep our confidence up and we'll keep the whole team's morale up."

"Always the voice of reason," Penny unlocked the garage and took the keys to one of the big trucks. There would be enough room for everybody and enough room for weaponry, "I actually brought gas masks... Venom is going to be rough. We need to get her down first... but I guess we'll work on that later."

"Frost isn't going to be much easier... I can feel cold through the shadows though snow doesn't get in." Regina looked under the seats. "Nice masks... I can live with those. Stylish." she joked.

"Hopefully we won't need them for long, I actually think Morgan will be a good match for Frost... his sheild should protect him... or if we can get Rogue to weaken her enough that might be enough for Gen to get back to her own self." Penny unlocked the trunk and threw her bag into the back, "Jacen is the one who worries me the most. He's already the darkest and I think this is going to be rough. Mentally and physically."

Regina sighed. "I'm sorry we have to fight him too... It's strange isn't it? I figured he'd be on the brotherhood side at least."

Penny sighed and leaned against the trunk waiting for the X-Men, "This whole thing is strange. Who thought we'd have to find a way to fight Gen? I always knew i'd get a rematch with Jacen... Regina, I already know the fight with him is going to be bloody. If it is hopeless, be my voice of reason. I know I"m going to go too far."

"I'll try my best..." Regina looked back at the door. "You think xavier will promote us after this? I mean, this si serious stuff..."

"I don't care at this point. If we come out of this alive and get our friends back, I'll gladly walk out the door if asked to. Some things are more important than the Institute," Penny nodded to Rogue and Kurt as they popped through the door.

"Agreed... Friends before glory." Regina said a bit louder. "We're not in this for status, just for them. We're their last hope since th eprofessor can't find them"

"Oh boy, I think we're done with the philosphies for tonight," Penny said and put the other students bags into the car. She threw some CDs into the drivers seat, "I hope everybody listents to some good ol rock n' roll..."

"Or whatever." Regina teased. "Anyone got anything else they'd like to bring?"

"Shush," Penny said, "When you drive you get to change the station. I hope my directions are right."

Jamie walked down to the car, a small duffel bag over his shoulder. Nothing serious, just a change of clothes or two, and some cd's. He'd also packed an unloaded submachine gun, and some ammunition. He had a katana strapped to his back.

"Penny? Since we're gonna be on the road for awhile, do you think you could maybe uh. . . teach me to use a katana? I mean, more than it takes to not kill myself? I'm good enough to be careful, but not to do anything useful. At least, not to someone who can still see. . ."

Danielle waited quietly at the car to leave. She had a small backpack, that had some clothes in it, and volume six of her favorite manga; "Bleach". As she waited she thought about the little incident with the guard, and how she could have been captured. 'I'll just have to be more alert this time.'

Pietro simply smiled, considering that thanks to his recent "upgrades", Wanda's powers weren't quite affecting him as much as she thought. Sure, he couldn't at lightning speed anymore, but he was still faster than any normal human at the moment. Even better, He'd spent a few happy years with his sister, and remembered something about her that she might have forgotten.

"Now, which part of you I can remove from you first?"

"Well sadly enough I already know that you won't hesitate to remove-- TICKLE SPOT!!!"

With that, Pietro's hand zipped in a blur, and tickled the one spot he knew she was ticklish from the fights they used to have when they were (relatively powerless) kids. ((OOC: For the sake of not having Val kill me or anyone call me indecent... I'll let Inuki decide where that spot actually IS))

"Well sis it was great catching up and exploring a new side of myself with you, but I gotta run," said Pietro, finally free of his sister's hex. Before the sound of his words even reached his sister's ears, he was gone.

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A few moments later, Pietro appeared at the Brotherhood House. Without so much as bothering to say "hello", he tossed a recording of his father's message onto the coffee table, which projected throughout the house:

I need to warn you that our little mind-controlled friends have been set loose to murder the poor mutant souls who were liberated in that recent assault. Many of these mutants have amassed in Boston, Massachusetts. I trust that you will prevent that from happening, and also that they know that it was the Brotherhood who gave them deliverance, rather than Xavier's drones.

"So guys and gals (un-introduced to some of you as I may be)," Pietro asked. "Who's up for a trip to Fenway?"

"Jamie, Dani, Morgan, Kurt, Rogue, Regina, and Me... I think we're ready to roll," Penny said and closed the trunk of the truck. The rest of their team piled in and shut their doors. She looked at the garage door for one second to collect her thoughts. Penny wasn't the relgious type but at that moment her thoughts went out to whatever being was out in the heavens.

Give me the strength to see this through. Give them the strength to get through this. And give me enough time to stop these hounds from hurting more people.

She flipped the keys in her hand and hit the garage opener. Time to hit the road. She pulled the truck out of the garage and flipped on the headlights once they cleared the gate.

"Dave Matthews anybody?" Penny said and turned on the CD player, "Come on, sing along! You know the words even if you won't admit it."