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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[thirdarrow]

"You're not supposed to leave!" The youth regains his composure by this time. While his expression can be likened to a snarl, his voice is trembling for some reason - as if this isn't something he quite wants to do. "You're supposed to... stay here. My superiors will come for you."

With that, he launches himself forward, and his sword would have gone straight through Kariya's chest if not for the sudden burst of pressurized water that knocked the youth backwards. One sword falls out of his hands, but the second is then held in an even firmer grip. The boy regains his balance, eyeing the two men as if unsure of which to strike.

{ You should leave this place, before it becomes too hostile to you and your comrades. } Takakage's words are directed at the youth, though what draws more attention is his tone of eerie calm.

[vermis]

Kariya steps back, eyes widening, as he's almost stabbed. Well, that's still no reason to harm a child! It's not his fault. He's being made to do this, convinced by people who should know better. Kariya's sure of it. When he thinks of how the same thing could easily have happened to him... It's hard to be truly angry at the boy, when he thinks of it that way.

Not that he isn't grateful for Takakage's intervention.

"That's right," he agrees. "It's dangerous for you here. We don't want any harm to come to you." He's nervous, but he tries to steel himself, keeping his voice as firm as he can. "There's no reason for us to be fighting. This is a school. There are children here."