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. ]]

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[wholovesyou]

"Come on now, sugar." Moxxi approaches him, patting the exhausted fighter on the side of the face. "This really isn't the time for a nap."

[thirdarrow]

Takakage flinches at the contact, but doesn't have enough energy to avoid her altogether. But he appreciates her concern, nevertheless - even though their previous encounters have not exactly been positive, it is reassuring to see that someone around here is on their side.

{ Kindly give me... just a few moments. } His words come out in archaic Japanese - his own mind had effectively shut down, leaving his previous life's memories to pilot his body. The amalgamation of his two identities isn't prefect, but it sufficed.

[wholovesyou]

Moxxi kind of looks on for a bit longer. What the hell did he just say? She had absolutely no idea, she didn't speak... whatever language that was. Well, whatever, having him on the floor like that might be good bait for the rest of these bastards. Gathering them all in one place would make it that much easier for her.

Might as make the most of it, right?