The Ashes of the Phoenix [OPEN]

[thethirdspecies]

WHO: John Sublime, "No Girl", the U-Men, and their unfortunate target... The Insitute
WHAT: Sublime's U-Men attack the school. They're aiming for the sublevels. Stop them at all costs!
WHERE: Throughout campus
WHEN: Past midnight, Wednesday-Thursday
WARNING(S): Gonna get violent.


The time was now. The media attention over his followers actions was too much. And after all, Xavier's little henchmen in London had figured it out. He was sure of it. There was no more time to bide. No more room for hesitation. It was act now, or the revolution would end in a prison cell, festering away in the disgusting care of this unclean world. Sublime couldn't stomach it. Couldn't fathom it. And whatever god help those who stood in the way of him and his dream of Homo Perfectus.

"All units are in place," Sublime whispered, peering out over the immaculate green, covered in moonlight, staring a drilling, piercing hole into the mansion. "Martha... it's your turn now," another whisper, as the floating apparatus before him, holding a strange glowing orb, began to shine even more brightly.

Just like that, the security systems failed. And just like that, Charles Xavier gasped and sent out a short, psychic burst to all X-Men, perhaps to everyone in the school, before he was overwhelmed and silenced, collapsing from his bed to the floor, stunned into sleep by a psychic force even he was not prepared for.

"This is it, Martha... our dream... U-Men! Bring me the Ashes of the Phoenix!" And like that, dozens of the men from the blurred video that Glamour and Spy had managed to obtain swarmed the ground, organic and mechanical, using a plethora of stolen mutant powers, attacked.


[[ This is it! Our first major action post, and in X-Men tradition, it's a direct attack on campus. Feel free to start your own threads. The U-Men will be NPC'd by the mods. Their ultimate goal is the filed away genetic samples of Jean Grey in the sublevels. They must be stopped, before someone uses them to integrate Jean's powers into a U-Man. ]]

Comments

[ladyliberty]

"Get lost, you creep!" Amelia crashes down behind the suited U-man, swinging her bat into the back of his head with a sickening crunch. When he goes down, she beats him with the pillow in her other hand for good measure. It makes a much more solid impact than a pillow should.

"Pinky, are you okay?"

[batteredbatter]

Looking around in a panic, Koshi didn't notice the person sneaking up on him until it was too late - luckily, Amelia had him covered.

"やっべ-!" He winces at the sounds those weapons make, still pretty tense and now pumped on adrenaline from reaction. "Ms. Amelia? Geez, thanks for getting that for me... is it like this all over?"

[ladyliberty]

"Yeah, this place is crawling with them." Amelia ushers Koshi in front of her, holding her pillow up in front of him like a shield. "Stick with me, kid, you'll be alright. What's your power?"

[batteredbatter]

Koshi nodded, crouching and holding his bat at the ready. Luckily, it wasn't as if he made a big target to begin with, bright hair aside.

"Uh, well..." It always felt awkward explaining. "I guess... resilience or something? I don't actually have much experience with it but... well, I don't die from things that might normally kill someone." At least, that was the theory. Obviously, he hadn't really tested it very much and only had one experience to go from with it. "So, uh, I'll probably be okay!"

[ladyliberty]

"Yikes." Amelia held the pillow a bit closer. "Let's hope you don't end up using it."

[batteredbatter]

"Yeah, that's what I'm hoping too..." said Koshi, swallowing hard. He didn't want to go through something like that again...

He wasn't about to let that stop him though. "We have to help out though! I might be able to survive almost anything, but there are probably other students who can't and can't fight either... we have to make sure they're all right!"

[ladyliberty]

"Yeah, we're trying to get the students all somewhere safe. Stick with me, and holler if you see anyone. And don't be afraid to use that bat."

[batteredbatter]

"Yeah, I won't," said Koshi, running to follow. He had his bat ready, but he wasn't sure he actually wanted to have to use it. Hopefully they wouldn't run into any more of those creepy guys...