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

[realmenknitplushies]

Slowly, he nodded. "Yeah. I've been in a few. Nothin' quite like this, but..."

(That night. That night when he'd just had to make things stop, when enough had been enough, when he'd first turned his powers against another person...)

"I've ... fought groups'a people before, at least."

[yu_mad]

"Okay. Because all I've done is survived a mugging," he explained. "Once."

[realmenknitplushies]

"Right. And I guess ya haven't had any trainin' or whatever either..."

Crap. But ... alright. He can handle this.

"I don't wanna see ya getting beaten up, man. But if ya wanna help... huh."

[yu_mad]

He nodded. "I'm not going to sit quietly, either, so I'll watch your back. Let's go try to find out what's going on."

[realmenknitplushies]

"Sounds like a plan. Let's go."

And with that, he started to lead the way, charging up. Looking for trouble? He could manage that. It was not jumping at what trouble he spotted that would be the problem.

[yu_mad]

"My name's Yu," he said, by way of introduction as he followed behind Kanji. "We might have talked online, I'm not sure."

[realmenknitplushies]

"Yu- oh, yeah! You were the guy who wanted to know 'bout the clubs 'n crap, right?" he responded, looking anxiously around. "Name's Kanji Tatsumi."

[yu_mad]

That's a good name for a giant dude, alright.

"Nice to meet you. Ah, if it's not too personal, what's your power?"

[realmenknitplushies]

"'S alright. I do things with electricity," he explained, running a few sparks into a hand in way of demonstration and preparation. "Generate it 'n throw it around 'n all that kinda crap."

[yu_mad]

"Awesome," Yu said. He focused some memories in his mind, along with his idea of what Kanji was like so far, and felt a literal buzz go through him.

"I know that one."

[realmenknitplushies]

"You 'know that one'? What d'ya mean, dude?" That was ... an odd way to put things. Come to think of it... "An' what's your power?"

[yu_mad]

"I get kind of a...,"

What's the English word?

"Knockoff of the powers of people around me, while I'm around them. The first mutant I met had electricity or something, too."

[realmenknitplushies]

"So you're..."

No. He realises what Yu means - and starts to reflexively back away from him, in a vain attempt to stop him picking up any more of it.

"...You don't want this, man."

[yu_mad]

"What, is it dangerous?" he asks. "I only get a little bit, as far as I can tell..."

[realmenknitplushies]

"A little bit. Huh."

Well. Perhaps it'll be okay. Perhaps it'll be like when he was younger... A spot calmer (though calm is relative at the moment, when he's listening out for trouble) -

"It doesn't switch off. No matter what. I can't touch electronics without burnin' them out, I can't touch people..."

[yu_mad]

Yu grimaced. "I'm sorry to hear that..."

He then thinks for a second, and reaches out to poke Kanji in the shoulder.

Yu's parents invested in a lot of socket covers when he was a toddler. And plastic forks.

[realmenknitplushies]

It takes Kanji a moment to register that this idiot is even-

"The hell did you do that for?"

He whirls away from the contact. The thin fabric of his pyjama top might be enough to stop Yu from getting a full blast, but it'll definitely still be enough to give off a nasty spark...

No I didn't clear this I'm just trying to apply physics to comic books

[yu_mad]

There's definitely a spark there.

In a totally literal way, don't worry.

It was a bit like touching any two live wires together, given that they're both conducting electricity through their skin...

...but fortunately, Yu doesn't feel any pain from it. He thinks for a second and decides it didn't even really jolt his teeth or anything.

"I think it's alright if we're both conducting," he explains, a good few seconds later than he really should have. "We just make a loop."

It's how I thought it'd work, so OK.

[realmenknitplushies]

Wide-eyed, somewhere between alarm, frustration and wonder, Kanji stares as he realises what's happened and as Yu explains.

"I - I - don't do this, man! You don't want it!" Dumbass - why would he - Kanji just told him what his power means, and he still copied it?

[yu_mad]

Yu resists the urge to pat the taller guy on the shoulder. No need to risk starting a fire.

"Yeah, I can see how this would suck to live with," he admits. "Right now though, it's way too useful not to use, right?"

[realmenknitplushies]

Kanji sighs. Glares. Still, what's done is done. More mildly annoyed now, maybe a little saddened, but his heart's not in it -

"You're a dumbass, man. A real dumbass."

He shakes his head.

"Whatever. Let's do this."