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

[friendofdorothy]

"Let them know who they might be killing."

Both good and bad that she was following him. It might lend support to the argument. Or it might make them think it was an attempt at a hostile takeover. He burst through to the flight cabin.

"Please, let me try the radio. I can at least make them a little more hesitant to kill us."

[legendarybub]

"Don't even think about it, kid... If they're threatening Xavier's bird with guns, you're already well past the diplomatic limits," Logan grumbled. And it was true. No connections to Oz were going to save them if Magneto had already given orders to shoot down the jet of the one person in the universe he could actually call a friend.

[long_live_the_queen]

Kaede stopped--and two of her vectors reached out to grab Liir's elbows, trying to pull him back a few inches before releasing him. She started speaking over his shoulder, towards where she heard Logan's voice coming from.

"If they fire, I can only keep the bullets away from the passengers."

She didn't know how her vectors would fare against missiles; she could catch them, sure. But would they have reached their arming distance and explode when touched by the time she could reach them?

Let alone the wings or the engines or the innumerable fins she kept staring at as they were lifting off.

[friendofdorothy]

Liir struggled, but there was nothing he could do. Kaede was definitely about to be more useful than he was. He looked back at her with annoyance. It wasn't as if he were going to try to rush the mic if she said no.

"I'm no use helping to defend the bird. Let me at least put a bit of doubt in their heads. Magneto might not care about the X-Men but he does care about his reputation among mutants."

[long_live_the_queen]

She turned away and paced to the nearest window, ghost silent. She could only see one of the jets from here, not both; someone else would have to get the other half.

"Can someone reach the other side of the plane?" Kaede spoke up louder, in hopes one of the other passengers would answer.

Well since you asked.

[anythingspossible]

"Yeah I can!"

Joss shouted back.

"But me an Rinka are still figgrin thangs out."

Joss had no plan and it was making her anxious, but she sure the best bet was to coordinate with everyone.

"It would help if we could bring this bird lower!"

[long_live_the_queen]

"Do something or get out of the way, I'm not the driver."

Kaede didn't mean for her voice to come across harshly; it just had an unfortunate tendency to do so. It didn't help that she even turn to look at her, the horned mutant's gaze fixed on the jet. Her vectors curled out of her back, the field sinking through the Blackbird's walls and fuselage into a barrier that reached two meters--no more. She grit her teeth.

[anythingspossible]

Even with an emergency going on, Joss raised her brow at how nasty Kaede was. Still she kept working.

"Rinka, and Zancrow got the other side of the plane. I'm takin the roof, and back."

[long_live_the_queen]

"So go, don't just stand there!"

There's a few people she actually cared about on this trip; one of which she was especially possessive over. For a stranger to see how little Kaede could do here rankled at her.