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A Sinister Legacy [PART 2] [OPEN]

WHO: Students and faculty of the Institute, plus some unfortunate SHIELD agents caught in the crossfire
WHAT: Sinster did something, ah... sinister... to Martha, and now the school security systems are attacking anyone and everyone that might interfere with his um... sinister... plans.
WHERE: The Institute
WHEN: STILL ON THE 25TH. TRUST US.
WARNING(S): Violence hooooo

As a reminder, there are THREE ways to be involved with this event:

1. Help the SHIELD agents on the front lawn survive against the school security systems! This will be combat heavy and will involve NPC assists from Nick Fury

2. Help protect other students, and those who can't fight, get to safe places! Not every section of the school is as automated as others and there are places that Sinister's infection of the security systems hasn't reached. This can be combat heavy or not at all, and will involve NPC assists from Storm

3. HELLIONS your girl No Girl needs help. Also the Professor and Logan. Your job is to head to the sublevels and break in to the most heavily secured area of the school and stop whatever is causing things to go haywire, and possibly stop Sinister himself from whatever he has planned. As usual, you will be assisted by Emma.

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[All Hellions got the call, right in their heads, to rendezvous with Emma at the emergency entrance shaft to the sub levels. If they could dodge their way through laser fire and containment walls, they'd find her already at the foot of the stairs... which were, of course, being flooded with frigid anti-fire coolants that normally triggered during fire scenarios.]

Stay as warm as you can and let's get down there as quickly as possible. It's only going to get tougher once we're there. [Emma's skin and hair had already started to transform into their diamond state...]

It's always something, isn't it? -Reimu had been on standby in case something went wrong. Of course of all the scenarios he had played out in his head of things going wrong, the school security systems suddenly turning on everyone was definitely not what he had in mind. His team was called and Reimu was rushing out, unfortunately being swatted around by the powerful pulse rifles in spite of his barriers. Those things hit hard...-

[Flandre had found the entire process so...distasteful, even if Renko had voluntarily surrendered herself. She hadn't been looking out the window when the quinjet landed, sparing only a glance when it disgorged its soldiers.

So she had been rather off-guard when the security systems lost their shit.

Scrambling outside took surprisingly little thought; she was getting used to rushing places in uniform, it seemed. Just as she was getting used to controlling how her vision saw through things as materials to the points beyond it.

Flandre crunched the point of the nearest pulse rifle in her palm, though only enough to shear the gun from its base, rather than atomize the entire thing.

But that was just one--and there were how many more? One less of "too many" wasn't much of an achievement.]

I won't be able to get all of them from here.

[Well, at least she was in her room doing homework when the attack klaxons started going off and the emergency systems started to kick in, so by the time Emma called her, she had Magnhild mostly loaded, and her outfit pretty well and on.

Nora arrives on the heels of the explosion of a turret down the hall, jumping down most of the stairs and landing hard, with her grenade launcher in her hands... and the beginnings of that manic grin she always has in combat situations pulling up the corners of her lips.]

So are like... all of the defense systems trying to kill us or what? Geez. [She takes the brief respite to pop open the chamber of her grenade launcher, and reload the couple empty barrels.]

[There was no in hell that Zancrow was going to help SHIELD agents after they came to take Renko away, so he was helping out by protecting the other students as they escaped for cover. There was a grin on his face as he attacked the freaking out security system. He was alternatively shooting out black fireballs and swiping at things with a scythe made of the same black flames.]

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Kaguya wanted to watch the exchange, now that Renko had given herself up. And to see to herself that some of the other student's misgivings were mistaken after all. As luck would have it, bad luck as it would turn out, she was outside on the lawn when the Quinjet landed.

However it wasn't long before someone told her to go inside, and she reluctantly complied. She would have made it too if all hell didn't promptly break loose with the security systems going haywire, shooting everything in sight. Including her.

The next thing she knew was only blinding pain.

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They were going to send Renko off with a salute. It was going to be deep and meaningful and not at all corny. Instead things went...different.

Liir couldn't begin to care less if the security system eliminated the SHIELD agents. It only represented an opportunity for them. Liir rolled behind a bush, beckoning his people to follow.

"Let's head for the lower levels. They haven't made the transfer yet."

[Now that was a kind of painful head call, but Eddie answered it nonetheless. He had plans to lay low until all this crap went down. Of course it never pans out that way.

Once he's suited up, he hauls ass down and is greeted by the damn cold. Man he's glad his uniform's insulated. He takes it a step further and coats his body with his shadow armor.]

How far down is she?

[Oulan was outside waiting for the exchange to take place when the security system went haywire and started attacking. Weapons firing every which way, trying to take out everyone that was out there. She was prepared for something to happen. It's why she made sure to keep her team ready. This though, this wasn't what she had in mind. She expected S.H.I.E.L.D. to do something stupid or for Renko and her cronies to do something. Not for the security system to go haywire and start trying to kill everyone.]

TEAM! Go, find a safe place and get as many students as you...

AGH! [she reacts as a shot nails her in the shoulder. She barely had time to react before it hit. Shifting the energy in her body to the area to both mitigate the damage and heal it quickly]

Get everyone inside! Find a safe place and get as many kids and non combatants as you can there! NOW!

Eli was so good at following directions, wasn't she? Or... was it a clone? Hard to tell... really. She raced for Oulan, worried about their faculty adviser, diving towards her, concern on her face.

"Are you okay?!" She asked, wanting to help her if she needed help.

Kaede was going to actually participate this time--right up until a turret lifted up out of the ground where there were only sprinklers before.

So much for that.

It didn't even shoot bullets, just--energy. Energy she'd never seen before or had to deal with and it was flying right at her. She didn't move instantly, trusting to her vectors to deflect it like they did so many other things. But they had trouble adjusting to something so new so quickly. They screeched to higher resonances than they should, even turning plainly visible and ghost-white to untrained eyes--and audible as a whining, buzzing sound. The vectors held, sparks cascading off of the field--but that wasn't the only turret showing its face.

"Move now, talk later!"

[Tenma didn't want to see Renko off. He tried to play soccer, but the debacle still weighed heavily on his mind. He couldn't concentrate and that would make soccer cry. He was already back inside texting his team members to meet in some lounge before the SHIELD agents arrived. If they were going to be stuck inside, they might as well do some more team bonding and strategizing.

He wasn't waiting for them for long when the security systems began to attack outside.]

Whoa!

Don't worry about me, get inside! I'll be right behind you.

[she's grabbing her shoulder, holding back the flow of blood as she yells back at Eli.]

Make sure you take any kids you see in with you!

Aqua had been coming in to check on the team when it all went so terribly terribly wrong.

Her face grew grim and serious, and she looked to Tenma. "Get the team together, stay in here, I need you to form a Triage unit. I'm going out to look for anyone who is injured, or in distress and bring them down. I need you guys to see who is hurt, and get them to the medical area, who is shocky - those people should be brought to sofas, talk to them gently, try to help them come back to themselves."

"Anyone else who is capable, get them to help. And the little kids... keep them inside, keep them safe."

She looked at him seriously. "This is a lot of responsibility. Can you guys handle it?"

"You're our leader, you have to get in first! I'll be right behind!" she insisted as she looked around, looking for Krista... or anyone else she knew who might need help.

Rhia had been sitting in the trees when everything started, munching on some berries. She hadn't liked the fake wind caused by the new people in their weird thing. She mourned for the branches that broke, though thankfully there weren't too many.

She had moved to one of the injured trees, cooing to it, wooshing at it... when everything went wrong. She had no clue what was going on, or what those odd things throwing projectiles out were. But the trees knew.

These trees had seen gunfire before; they tried to warn her.

Rhia listened, and believed them, to a point, that these were bad things, and it was dangerous. But they spoke of having these things lodged deep in their bark, they spoke of the loss of limbs and leaves, not the loss of lives.

These trees were not the trees back home, she had not spent as long with them, and they were not as "awake" or aware that soft fleshy skin was different than thick bark and roots. So they warned her that it might hurt. Not that it might kill her.

So she was careful, but not as careful as she would have been, as she should have been. She was careful... as she tried to catch one of the weird shaped "nuts" that were flying past the trees, to figure out what it was about them that made them so dangerous.

But she wasn't fast enough. It was luck that had the first two that came close missing her. The third grazed the side of her head. It hurt, but the trees had warned her that these things would hurt; so she pushed past it, reached, trying again to catch a projectile.

One caught her instead.

Rhia SCREAMED as the thing ripped through her, and fell against the trunk of the tree, squishing all the red berries in her pouch, so that blood from the bullet wound on her left side, in her stomach, poured down from her gut, down her left leg.... and something that looked a lot like blood with bits in it squished out from under her belt to run down her right leg.

She screamed as she fell against the tree, the nut-thing was still inside her and she had never felt so much pain at one time. The trees tried to defend her, branches bending and crossing and curling to protect her from any other projectiles... which also served to protect her from potential rescuers who might react to hearing a 13 year old screaming, or the scent of blood.

I've taken a lot worse than this.

[right as she says it she takes another blast, this time in seeing it coming she's able to adjust quicker, taking the energy of the blast transferring it through her body and transferring it all to her shoulder to help finish the healing process.]

It's my job to put my life on the line to protect you! Now get inside and get as many kids to safety as you can!

[If anything, Marisa had long since gotten used to being pulled out of work and hoping into action. Sometimes it payed to pay attention to the security systems..although she still fought her way out to the lawn.

Once she was out there, a star was tossed out into and it exploded, not a full explosive nor a full flash bang. She was trying to get them to scatter a bit so they could get set up.]

Can't make anythin' easy around here can they? What's the plan?

[And of course this is when Meiling shows up, shoving things aside quickly and standing close, glancing around quickly.]

But we can do the same as well..But those kids come first.

[She's gazed by a few bullets but doesn't budge.]

Let's go Eli, we should make sure that kids don't hide and get hurt.

She hesitated, then nodded. "Alright, but you should all be careful too! Lets go!"

[Of all the places to be...Kisume had the worse luck at this time. The little feral had ended up outside, doing some training and hunting and had been starting to head back in when everything went south so fast.

She had growled at the guns, not fully understanding what it was before she was fired upon. She took off quickly before she had been caught in the side by one of them. The tiny feral stumbled and fell before taking off as fast as she could towards the building. This was something that the feral could not fight and it was scary.

If anything, she quickly found a small hiding spot and wedged herself in, hoping to keep her out of sight until things calmed down..Although her luck wasn't the best at the moment.]

"I--I already mailed them!" He managed to gasp out in response. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, taking it all in. He wasn't going to let it get to the point it had when the U-Men attacked. Never again.

"We can handle it."

The answer was surprisingly calm, but he made up his mind. There was no time for doubts, no time to second-guess what he was capable of. He trusted his teammates, and that was enough for him to lead them.

"...mail?" she asked, confused and distracted. Then she blinked then realized what he must have meant. "Email? Alright. She kissed his forehead. "You can do this. I know you can. I'll be back in as often as I can, bringing people in. If you need me, just wait tight, or if you have to call my phone. Do not come after me, stay and help keep everyone here safe. Alright?"

[Raven had come to find out that whenever Emma called, you'd better answer. The fact that all of this was going on made it all the more important. So much for a quiet day of reading and meditation.]

Let me guess.

As far down as it goes.

[Why would she ever think otherwise.]

[Thanks to lingering hypervigilance - and pilfering weapons during the District X riots - Luvander has at least two guns on him that can be seen. He looks conflicted, half of his mind shouting at him to follow orders, the other to do what comes most naturally to him. The second part is winning out, however.]

The only thing I'd be useful for like that is as a meat shield. I'm heading toward where there will be wounded people.

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