xavier_institute_logs | A Sinister Legacy [PART 2] [OPEN]

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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...-

[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.]

Edited 2015-05-29 22:33 (UTC)

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.

Edited 2015-05-29 23:21 (UTC)

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."

[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!

[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!

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.

[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.]

[Gilberte doesn't fully understand the situation, but her pulse is racing, her eyes wide. Don't use it on humans. She remembers this, and yet, seeing the members of SHIELD, she thinks of how easy it would be to do it now, when everyone's distracted. To make them better, twist their outdated genes into something superior. Strong. They wouldn't have to worry, then. Just think, if she made Nick Fury a monster, what a coup that would be! No one can stop her now.

But she'll be locked up again. She doesn't like that. Constrained. The thought makes her feel like she's suffocating. So she leaves the humans alone. Instead, she turns toward one of the stately nearby trees. Plants are a little harder to work with, but she's been practicing with plants for the past few months.

The tree trembles. It twists. Its roots rise from the ground, its branches morphing into tentacles. Within moments, it's no longer a tree, but a pestilent tree-sized monster that moves in a way that seems to defy both nature and physics. And it's very fast for something that large. Lovecraft would be proud. How beautiful! She's never made one so big before. And all the plants around her... the possibilities are dizzying.

(Yes, she mostly cares that she's allowed to use her full powers in the chaos. That counts as helping, right?)]

Where else was he supposed to go? He wasn't sure how good he'd be at defending other students, not with his powers activated, and he wasn't going to be defended in turn and hidden away somewhere. Not when Hijikata was out here, not when he might be of some use.

He knows from experience now that the impromptu weapons he might grab while already in battle aren't always the most prudent ones - like a sliver of very sharp glass, last time - so he detours by the gym and picks up a titanium baseball bat instead. And then he simply runs straight toward the canons, waiting for the first one to fire at him to activate his powers.

It's going to take a while for him, even with super strength, to break even one of them by just hitting it. In between opportunities to do damage, he is whirling and jumping in between the blasts, eyes glazed over and a look of singular focus on his face.

[His uses for protection are pretty limited - that is, he's only useful if the protection offered by others fails. Or, well, for taking hits for others. Neither prospect seems all that gainful right now, not when there are people out there getting fired at.

Heading toward the fray, he tries not to put himself in any direct lines of fire - but blind spots are pretty far between, all things considered. Meaning he has to take hits from time to time, twisting out of the way as much as possible, wincing and cursing in Volstovic. At least there isn't that big of a risk of projectiles lodging in him.

At the sight of anyone who seems to have taken damage, he'll hurry over to their side, jumping out of the way of a blast and managing somehow not to canon into whoever he's trying to assist.]

Need some help with that?

Edited 2015-05-30 13:49 (UTC)

Alric had been watching from a window. He'd really wanted to have a word with the SHIELD agents--especially once he realized Director Fury might actually be there in person--to impress upon them the importance of how Renko's treatment was handled, how it would impact the Mutant Issues in which she was so unavoidably wrapped up. However, understandably, it was considered something for the faculty to address, a point he couldn't really dispute, however much he might have wanted to.

This also meant he had a direct view of the turrets rather abruptly turning against the SHIELD agents. Whatever might have happened, that didn't seem like Xavier's style; his window was already open when he realized they were turning on the students, as well. Something was very wrong. He paused just a moment to send off a voice message to his team: Hijikata (although he probably knew already), Tiamaris, and Mitsudata.

"Lawn, trouble, security system's out of control!"

That would have to be clear enough until they were all together. For the moment, he leaped out the window and into the fray, toward one of the turrets. He pushing his hands downward to arrest his fall with an intense jet of plasma from either hand, lancing downward to cut into the turret like a pair of huge cutting torches. He dropped to the ground from there, charging more plasma in his hands as he took a quick glance about to gauge the state of that turret and look out for others that had to be neutralized to ensure, first of all, that the SHIELD agents at least had cover.

The world went crazy in seconds. Catherine had no idea about the exchange other than it was happening "today," and was spending her day like any other. In fact, she was going to get something to eat when suddenly the automated systems became live. Then came the screams of panic and fear. The boy that was sitting across from her was the first one to take a high-tech bola to the chest. Others at the far end were getting hit with suppression foam. The entire crowd scattered for the door. No... they were going to trample each other... Catherine tried to reach out to tell them, but was toppled over by a kid running into her. On reflex, her entire body became steel, which dulled the pain of getting face planted onto the ground.

"HEY WHAT WAS THE BIG--" She was about to shout, until she saw that the boy that had ran into her had taken a bola to the face. The sound of metal hitting metal came when she brought her hand to her lips in shock. No. Those things were coming fast. Could his neck take the sudden pressure?

Takakage. If anybody knew where to go, it was Takakage. She picked up the boy, who was limp but still warm, and looked for the nearest exit. Fortunately, one of the kids decided to make a new hole into the side of the walls, which other students had started to pile into.

Catherine muscled through. "Gangway. Gangway. This guy's hurt. Sorry. I'll pay for that later. Thank you!" Being steel and bionics was definitely useful for this at least. Some of the kids looked on and she heard murmurs that the medical ward would be likely to have fewer weapons. Though it wasn't her intention, Catherine started a small convoy of students heading towards there in the desperate hope that there would be some measure of sanctuary that way.

Though Catherine herself was mostly interested in the boy in her hands. Here's hoping he was going to be okay...

The security systems are freaking out. And as soon as Kanji realises just what that means, he's freaking out a bit himself. Dammit, dammit, what's going on?

What's she doing?

Too agitated to hold the sparks back, he's looking around for his team-mates, trying to see what they're up to...

...but dammit, this is chaos. There're people everywhere, stuff going off all around. If he sees anyone in trouble - especially the younger kids - he might just be able to gather his composure long enough to tell them, "Hey, stick behind me, okay?"

Naija cautiously emerged from the lake. Her sensitive ears could hear the sounds of shouting and impacts. Ear pressed to the ground, she felt it too, zaps and bumps. Into the trees she went, trusting their thick cover.

The security net was pretty thin this far out but that didn't mean it wasn't there. She waited for people to come seeking shelter...or to come after her.

[Fai has by accumulated quite a lot of ill feelings toward automated security systems and any kind of AI he comes across as an X-man in general. It's not personal, as it were; it's just that those things don't actually have emotions as a rule, and therefore his powers are about as useful as throwing pillows at a fortress.

Still, he is a fully trained X-man. That is to say, he's not going to be of any use fighting the security systems outright, but his knowledge of the manor and training can still count for a lot. He can make sure people are safe - and if he can find Feliks in the middle of this melee, make that very safe.]

Everyone not fighting, to me! [At least he can use his powers to make himself incredibly noticeable to anyone looking his way, and also rather extremely hard to disobey.] We're heading somewhere safe, okay?

[Feliks was walking around in his X-uniform all day on the day of the handoff, because honestly? This sort of seemed like a day when he might end up needing it.]

[Still, as bad as everything looked, he wasn't exactly expecting the mansion itself to suddenly turn on them all.]

[With a brief burst of obscenity in his mother tongue as the room he was in lit up with lasers, he focused his power on his uniform, adding elements of tactical gear to make it bulletproof. His power could disable things in the area he was in -- he knew the building and its defenses well, and it was a simple enough matter to make the lasers into disco lights instead, for the moment -- but the first thing his mind went to was figuring out where they could bring students that would be safe from the security systems.]

[He made a run or two for the most populous areas first, and then started looking for makeshift hiding places and more isolated areas, temporarily shifting things around him (walls into curtains, guns into water guns...), intent on getting as many people to safety as he could.]

Come on, oh my God, what are you standing around here for?

[There was a strange, sick familiarity to the rough staccato of gunfire. It made her think of the shots fired at Renko's rally, of the men who'd come to her home the night her mother died.]

[It didn't frighten her as much as she was logically sure it ought to.]

[Krista didn't really know what to do. She couldn't fight -- she didn't have a power that could fight machines, didn't have the kind of training that the X-men did. But was she going to stand around waiting for orders from her X-team's leader?]

[No. Because "Krista" was a Good Girl, and a good girl cared about the people around her. "Krista" was kind, and she was brave, and she'd do whatever she had to to be of help.]

[She made her way out of the building carefully, sneaking closer and closer to where the fighting was going on, looking for people who seemed to be wounded.]

Are you alright?

[Hijikata's power wasn't much damn use against the defense systems -- he could only keep up hurricane force winds for so long, and you couldn't smother a gun or a laser. No, he was much more built for fighting living things, but that wasn't going to stop him from being where he belonged when the school was under attack -- on the front lines, keeping his people safe.]

[He moved quickly, avoiding the security systems as much as possible on the way out. The weapons were too much for him to destroy with his power or brute force, so he targeted his own attention towards taking out the sensing and tracking devices that allowed the weapons to find their targets, barking orders to anyone who didn't seem to know what they were doing or belong on the battlefield.]

Jun was already on her way to Jack's room. She wasn't interested in seeing Renko off or anything of the sort- honestly she was scared to death. And that's why she decided she was going to spend time with Jack. Playing video games or something. Anything to just forget about all the bad things happening. Well, that didn't exactly work. And once the systems started going awry she panicked and ran screaming. But despite her terror Jun kept it together just enough to make it to Jack's room, throw open the door, and then promptly hide under his bed. There's not a lot of room there, though. He should really clean that up.

In the school:
[Eren's always on alert. He can never be truly easy here. He's suspicious (some might say paranoid), and he doesn't sleep well. His knowledge of what's happening with Renko has only put him more on edge, even if he thinks she should be given up to SHIELD. It all seems too easy. So when disaster strikes, he's ready. Sometimes paranoia pays off, in a manner of speaking.

When the security systems react, though, it takes him a minute to realize what's happening.

His first priority is the kids. The little kids. He has to help them. He races into the hall with no regard for his own safety, as chaos breaks out, looking for anyone who needs him. He's willing to use himself as a shield, if necessary.]

Come with me!

On the lawn:
[By this point, Eren has taken a lot of damage. He's covered in blood. From the amount of it on his body, it looks as if he shouldn't still be on his feet, but the blood loss isn't the problem. There's something erratic about his movements, and his body is radiating heat, like a furnace. He's never regenerated this much, and it's having an effect on him.

Nonetheless, he charges in again. There are still people who need his help!]

She should have known all hell would break loose. From here seat, she could see that quinjet land, with nothing else unusual happening until suddenly... Well, obviously someone has hacked the security systems and set it all loose on mutant and human alike.

She could not just sit idly by, anyone caught with there will need help. Her powers would be just the thing to deflect attacks.

And so, with a grim nod to herself, Patchouli heads out, ready to lend aid where she can.

[She had tried to stay calm, she really had, and if able to look at things from a brighter side she might have noticed that she'd managed to maintain her composure quite a bit longer this time. But in the end the hurry and panic all around her had left only one viable option in her mind, to get away, to get out, to run.

She'd managed to reach the front doors without anyone stopping her and could almost taste the relief but froze at the scene in front of her. This was even worse than what she had run away from, but even though the small part of her still capable of logical though was screaming at her to get inside again, but once she had started running there was no turning back.

She saw a hint of movement in the corner of her eye and her powers flared up, stopping the world around her for a moment, or at least the human parts of it. But in her frazzled state the effects would only last a second or two, just enough time for her to turn her head for a better look.]

[As much as Yuui would have wanted to head outside, more to help the students he knew would be going there instead of choosing safety than anything else, he was too aware of his ineffectiveness when it came to machines to actually give it a go. Besides there was plenty for him to focus on inside, the first of which being to make sure that all the remaining students ended up somewhere safe.

He hurried along the corridors, methodically searching every new room and area for students and making mental notes on where the security system had gone haywire and where, at least for now, it seemed to be safe.

Spotting a student he quickens his pace a bit but is sure to look as calm and collected as he can.]

Are you alright?

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HELLIONS ROLL OUT

X-FORCE ON THE LAWN

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Gene Nation: dorks.

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Team 3

OTA - going out with a bang (nuts = bullets)

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Technically on Team 4 but ignoring orders

Option 1 - OTA

Option 1 - OTA