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

[turbedon]

"I've got Batman boxers on. Your point is invalid."

He just sniggers at the green boy's discomfort, though he's keeping an eye out for him nonetheless. "Seriously though, aren't you cold?"

[tofudog]

"Touche," he had to concede. Batman was seriously cool. One of the Big Names of heroism, and a personal hero of his. He wouldn't have believed half the stories if The Doom Patrol hadn't given their word that Batman really was that good.

Wait, why, did he look cold? "Uh, hello? Bigger priorities!" That means yes. "What's going on out there!"

[turbedon]

"Oh, just some guys wearing mecha suits with obviously stolen mutant powers attacking the institute, no biggie."

[tofudog]

"Oh. Right, great." If he didn't know about Sublime, he'd have called Dick out for stealing his 'ridiculous explanations for stuff' gag. "Think they'll come back in the morning if we ask nicely?"

His vision was returning to normal-fortunately, he hadn't been staring at the grenade when it detonated. He cautiously approached the window, peering down in search of the U-Man he'd heard bounce off the building just after everything went white.

Huh, the guy was nowhere to be seen. He wanted to get a look at those mecha suits, too.

[turbedon]

"Proooobably not. Their main force is headed for the main building and unless they're interested on getting our text books, I'm gonna guess they're after the teachers themselves or some of the stuff kept in the sublevels."

[tofudog]

"How dumb do you have to be to attack a school full of mutants, plus the X-Men?" he leans over the windowsill, searching for any signs of the U-Man. "We're gonna chew them up and spit them out!"

And then a giant, glowing projection of a dragon appears out of nowhere, Beast Boy's head practically already inside his jaws. There's a shriek, and a little green turtle falls to the ground where he was standing, its head retracted as far as humanly (turtlely?) possible.

Deep in the kaleidoscope of light that makes up its body, an armoured shadow is floating, apparently deep in concentration.

[turbedon]

"-!"

Dick's hands are moving before he can think things through, flinging two batarangs set to explode on contact at the man(???) at the center of the glowing dragon before stooping, grabbing Turtle Boy and hightailing it out of there.

"Need to go-" he mutters to himself, darting off and aiming to clear the building so they can reach open ground at least.

[tofudog]

Turtle Boy doesn't stay a turtle for long. Finding himself flying through the air in someone's hand instead of eaten by a giant magic dragon, he opts to take a less useless form. The turtle shrinks into a small gecko and scampers onto Dick's shoulder, keeping watch behind them. Just in case the giant glowing dragon sneaks up on them.

Plus, maybe there'll be more explosions. If he'd known there'd be stuff blowing up, he wouldn't have dodged.

[turbedon]

Dick finally comes to a stop at the end of the hall, shoving open a window and muttering to the gecko on his shoulder, "Hang on-" before leaping out, landing in a roll that he angles to avoid squishing Gar. He's then ducking behind whatever cover he can find to peer out to see if the giant magic dragon is still looming outside their dorms.

[tofudog]

In an alternate universe where Beast Boy could talk in his animal forms via comic book logic, he'd assure Dirk geckos are the kings of hanging on. As is, all he can do is prove it on the fly.

When Dick comes to a stop, Beast Boy drops to the ground and transforms into an owl. His head turns, surveying their surroundings, then he hops further into cover. There's a rustle of feathers, he sniffs the air as a bloodhound. Finally, Beast Boy whispers, in human form again, "Thanks for the save. I don't see Dragonheart anywhere, but there's someone moving in the trees way across the grounds," he indicates the direction, "I got no idea if it's us or them. Aside from that, I think we're clear. Or as clear as we're gonna get tonight."

He can't help but stare in the direction came from, though. The dragon had come out of nowhere the first time. He didn't want to be caught off guard again.

[turbedon]

"Are you game enough to go check in owl form or something?" he asks in a whisper, thinking on the matter as he ducks into the shadows.

[tofudog]

"Dude, that's practically my specialty. Be right back." He shrinks down to owl form and takes off, vanishing quickly into the black sky.

His return several minutes later is soundless until he speaks, once again in cover with Dick. "She's stealing stuff from the dorm! I saw her go dragon on some kid-he got away-but I think she's just looking to make a quick buck!" Opportunists are everywhere.

"She looks totally normal when she's got the power turned off. Think we can take her down ninja-style?" He could probably do it on his own if he was willing to kill her outright, but that's something he'd rather avoid.

[turbedon]

"Easily," he answers with a smirk. "Think you can distract her from the front and I'll take her from behind?"