SINISTER FINALE

[astonishing_xmods]

WHO: Those who signed up for the punching dinosaurs Savage Lands mission
WHAT: Time to get a cure
WHERE: Savage Land Nature Preserve
WHEN: October 10th
WARNING(S): Violence, language, etc

The Blackbird was getting quite a bit of use, lately. It left the Institute early, before the sun was properly up—from there, it was a straight line from New York to Antarctica, with no stops between. The paperwork had been cleared, official permission granted for the team to enter an international wildlife reserve. There would be no scandalous headlines of border-crossing house parties this time, thank you very much.

The glasslike surface of the Antarctic Ocean stretched away endlessly beneath the plane, disappearing into a fog-clouded horizon.

They weren’t there quite yet.

But they would be soon.

Comments

All Aboard

[astonishing_xmods]

There’s probably at least one person you don’t like in close proximity. Or someone you’re okay with. And it’s been a long trip with a decided lack of radio.

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, just don’t rock the plane.

OTA

[droppedbucket]

[If anything, Bringing Kisume along on a flight probably isn't the best idea when she's both worried and nervous. She's still for about..the first 20 minutes before she starts squirming and picking at the seat keeping her in place.

If someone lets her loose, she'll be pacing back and forth on all fours. She's clean for now, clean shirt and shorts and hiar up in neat pigtails. Someone decided to get her to look less like she'd been in the forest for days on end.]

[long_live_the_queen]

[A pair of Kaede's vectors reached out to scoop Kisume back away from something; exactly what wasn't important (at least, to her). She was only being a little like an overprotective parent.]

Hey, you okay?

OTA

[long_live_the_queen]

[Kaede was...actually about to fall asleep. And trying her best not to look like she was falling asleep.

She was even still grumbling and muttering at times to make it look like she was still perfectly awake, though they were inaudible and nonsensical things.]

[friendofdorothy]

[Liir was calm and still enough that you could mistake him for the furniture. Sleep-onable furniture. Well except that he's kinda bony.]

[friendofdorothy]

Liir is calm. His nose is buried in a book: The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook. He's sure that any one of the scenarios presented is likely enough on this trip. He's also trying to get some calm before the veritable animal chatterbox The Savage Land will be.

This of course means that you should bother him.

[anythingspossible]

Joss sat Liir and attempted to place her hand on his shoulder.

"Howdy there."

[totallystoned]

Reki watches the clouds through the window. Her wings unconsciously twitch in imitation. Don't tell her, her own body subconsciously acting out such a cliche would only embarrass her.

[droppedbucket]

It's not long after someone lets Kisume loose from her seat that she makes her way over to Reki. She sits down and tilts her head to the side slightly, curious.

"Pigeon...worried?"

Re: All Aboard

[valkyrianflame]

{Alicia was usually silent when she flew, Military discipline doesn't exactly go away> She mostly sits, her head just leaning against the wall behind her with her eyes closed.]

Re: All Aboard

[psykick]

[Rinka hasn't been on a flight this long since she first left Japan for Xavier's. The recent flights to and from England had been long, but not like this. In fact, before attending Xavier's, she'd never flown in a plane at all. So when they hit a spot of turbulence, she gives a rather undignified squeak and promptly clings to the person sitting next to her. In this case, Alicia.]

Re: All Aboard

[flamingfists]

{She's hovering towards the front of the plane most of the time along with the main staff. She didn't like the idea of leaving the school but at this point, she needed to be a part of this fight. She's sitting looking back at all of the students in the plane. All the kids willing to fight for their friends and race. It was admirable. It's why she couldn't stay behind. So she sits, impatiently cracking her knuckles as they fly across the sea]

Encounter

[astonishing_xmods]

[As the fog begins to clear on the water, three shapes appear, streaking in from the west. Fighter jets.

And they’re not coming from the direction of Antarctica.

The planes break formation as they approach, two taking up positions behind the Blackbird’s wings, almost like some kind of escort.

The third flies directly in front of the Blackbird, rocking its wings in a deliberate signal. You have been intercepted, follow me. The plane begins to turn, as if to lead the Blackbird away from the Savage Land and back to sea.

As it does so, it reveals "Genoshan Acolyte Air Force" emblazoned proudly on its side.]

[psykick]

[Rinka grips the edge of her seat as the three jets take position around the Blackbird. While she's relieved they don't seem to be hostile, she wonders what will happen if the Blackbird doesn't follow them.]

Genosha? Why would they try to stop us?

Re: Encounter

[legendarybub]

Somethin' don't smell right about this...

[ In both the literal and figurative sense. Genosha had no reason to interfere in the mission. They were well outside their airspace. Furthermore, a careful glance showed that each jet was carrying a full loadout... they were prepared for a fight... ]

Keep steady... let's see if they mean it.

Re: Encounter

[anythingspossible]

Joss gazed out the window with bulging eyes.

"The Genoshan air force is out here?!" She suddenly formed a smile. "Spanken!" Joss whipped out her grappling lasso.

"Bring the black bird down lower so I can bust out and latch out on of them birds!"

[friendofdorothy]

This could get awkward. Liir has little fear for his own life, but if it's found out that Gene Nation and The Son Of The Witch were shot down by the Genoshans, it could ignite a terrible Mutant People's Front vs People's Front of Mutants thing.

He rushes to the window and pulls from his backpack...a broom. A rather rustic looking one, the type you'd expect to see a witch ride. He presses it to the glass. Hopefully the pilots will see and understand the signifigance.

[long_live_the_queen]

"...Liir, they can't see you."

Actually, Kaede didn't know if they could or couldn't. She couldn't see anything but the occasional flicker of movement outside the tiny windows, after the initial disturbance of what the fuck why are there jets. She couldn't see any particular thought-colors, either; nothing of notice. Kaede didn't know who the pilots were; she didn't know what to look for.

It was...very frustrating. Only a tightening of her fists gave her away.

[droppedbucket]

Good news! Someone isn't scared or worried about this..bad News? It's because Kisume has no idea what they are of what it means. If anything? It causes her to press her face against the window in curiosity.

"What happen?"

[long_live_the_queen]

"-Kisume, get away from there!"

Part of her knew that there was no realistic risk of Kisume getting hurt through the plane window. It wouldn't be the window they had to worry about, if those jets had less than benevolent intentions.

It was also the part of her mind that Kaede was currently completely ignoring.

Her vectors reached out to grab onto Kisume, trying to pluck her away from the glass.

A Safe Landing?

[astonishing_xmods]

[The shift in scenery from the snow and ice to a sudden land of Green and sun in the middle of nowhere was shocking. The smoke from the damaged engines still smoking as the Blackbird crossed over the verdant lands until they got close to the forest surrounding Sinister's lab. A lab in the middle of a lush jungle making it impossible to land outside.

Circling around the Blackbird finally finds a place to land. A flat section of a large clearing about 5 miles away. As soon as they landed and the engines shut down they could hear the loud roaring of the local wildlife around them.]

REOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRR!!!

Re: A Safe Landing?

[legendarybub]

'Ro! Try to get a message to Jungle Boy, the rest of you that can fight, outside now.

[he pops his claws]

Keep the wildlife away from the ship.

Re: A Safe Landing?

[flamingfists]

[Oulan cracks her knuckles as the blackbirds ramp opens to the outside. A bit of a smile on her face]

I've been waiting for this.

FINAL STRETCH

[astonishing_xmods]

[After fighting through the mostly annoying and sometimes dangerous guard dogs, they came to the lab itself.

It was relatively nondescript; a single-story building tucked into the forest, worn by weather and vines—difficult to see from the air. But that wasn’t all there was to see here.

And they weren’t alone.]

[bethemonster]

[Sinister himself was the most noticeable player on the stage, dressed in the finest Edwardian-Victorian formals, black silks and velvets, and looked very much the picture of a scientific madman of his time, his inhuman eyes narrowed in a severe scowl.

Behind him was Claudine Renko, the red diamond on her forehead now fully visible, given all of her hair had been pulled back to make room for the modules on her temple. In fact most of her had been made naked, all so she could be affixed to whatever machine she was attached to. She seemed very nearly dead, no life to be found in her features. Contrary to popular belief, she did not seem like a welcome guest in the House of Sinister, but instead very much a tool to be used, just like everyone the man had surrounded himself with.]

You X-Men are frustratingly tenacious, I'll give you that much. For every thing that's been thrown at you that other sane persons would have taken as clear deterrents, you find yourselves here, battered and bruised, before me.

And yet you still think you have a chance at coming out on top. It's deluded and pathetic.