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

[tofudog]

For the second time in seconds, the third U-Man's face is blasted with energy. He's frozen in place as the electricity forces every muscle in his body to tense up, and it's only when he falls over that the current is broken by the batons hitting the ground. Beast Boy returns to his normal form, looking down at the twitching U-Man, then suddenly grins. Here it comes. "Now dab's whab I call grounded!"

Dang it. He can't believe his double pun is being ruined by a few lousy burns.

[windtail]

It takes a few seconds for Xu Shu to get it, but the pun manages to make him smile - if only a little. He isn't one to do this usually, but the battle had them all on edge and a little joking around did help to diffuse the tension.

"Hey, that was good." Definitely something he wouldn't have come up with himself, in any case. But his attention is quickly returned to their adversary - the U-Man is still spasming on the ground, but he can't be sure if it would work long enough.

With a flick of his wrist he hooks one of the batons with Windtail's dagger, flipping it over so that it shocked their opponent for a few more seconds.

"I can't hit people without possibly slicing them open, so if you could sock him in the head a little he should probably stay down."