HEAVY IS THE HEAD: Part One, SINISTER LEGACY Fallout

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WHO: The Students and Faculty of the Xavier Institute
WHAT: Charity work in District X, but things are getting bad again
WHERE: District X
WHEN: Thanksgiving Weekend
WARNING(S): Violence, language, etc

So this was Christmas, and War was Not Over. The soup lines, this time, were alongside official Vaccine Centers, cures to the Legacy Virus being handed out alongside plates of hot food for the needy. Once more, winter was bleak in the world of mutants living in forced squalor. Attitudes were not particularly bright. People were no longer dying in the streets from illness, but were conditions really any better? War with Genosha was imminent. The National Guard was already standing post around the community, enforcing curfews, treating the area now more than ever like an internment community. Xavier's students were allowed to move around freely, but only with special ID badges that marked them as such. It was the same all over the country.

This wasn't Mutant Registration... it somehow felt worse. And it didn't help that the Mutant Liberation Front was still very active in the area, and many of them entirely blamed the X-Men for Renko's apparent 'death'. There were antagonistic forces around them, and desperate faces looking at them for some kind of hope. And if they couldn't get it there...

There were whispers, a lot of them, about fleeing to Genosha. About joining the MLF and working alongside Genosha for 'true' mutant liberation. About kickstarting this war on local soil. And really...

... was there anything the X-Men could do to stop it? Should they stop it?

Comments

[thenewbrotherhood]

Well ain't that my luck, eh? Two hotties to tango wit, heh ha ha ha! [The tongue whipped out again, aiming for Meiling's arm.]

[colorfulbrilliance]

I seem to have that timing sometimes.

[It won't be that hard to hit her arm, as Meiling pulls back on it hard. Stupid move or not, Who knows but she seems to think this is the right idea]

Nah, I think the tango is too much for you.

[knowledgeandshadow]

[ Know what else he gets? Psibolts. Right to the face. ]

[thenewbrotherhood]

[Well that sucked. Toad didn't have much choice but to be paddle-ball'd right into the psibolts, knocking him back again as his tongue sadly retreated.</small]

[colorfulbrilliance]

Are you learning anything yet?

[She's trying hard not to laugh at that because that was seriously funny. He walked right into that one!]

[knowledgeandshadow]

Perhaps he needs a few more blows to the head.

[thenewbrotherhood]

See... that's the problem with you x-types. Too arrogant for y' own good, y'hear? [Toad staggered back to his feet, shaking his head.]

What makes you think that stoppin' me... is gonna stop any of this? [He motioned to the chaos around them, and in particular the National Guardsmen slowly baring down on them, weapons raised.]

You might notice... they ain't just pointin' at me. [And he was right.]

[colorfulbrilliance]

[Meiling had been amused until now..Now it was just pure worry. What was going on? She'll move closer to Patchouli at this point.]

....I can't exactly argue that but it would have been calm if no one had started something.