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]

Kanji's at least being relatively quiet for him. That is to say, he's not charging anywhere.

"Gotcha, man. C'mon. Let's see who's there."

[the_prodigal_son]

Well, Kanji ends up being the quieter one, because Jack's version of sneaking up on enemies is to rush into view and think later. In his defense, he's used to being stormed by crowds.

Lucky for Jack they run across a U-Man who is both very new to battle and possession of fire powers, which Jack is very used to. By the time Kanji catches up to him he's shoved the man onto the floor and is in the middle of beating him to dead with the wrench. Which... with a wrench of that size, probably happened around five whacks before Jack actually stops.

[realmenknitplushies]

"Dude. I..."

For a second, that's not a U-Man in front of Kanji but a biker knocked to the ground as his memories decide to surface. Scowling at the fallen figure-

"...I think you got him."

[the_prodigal_son]

Jack backs off when he's spoken to, taking a deep breath to clear his head. Fighting a hoard of masked fake mutants, well, it's not hard to have the splicers of Rapture come to mind. But that worries him significantly less when there's someone to give him orders and no one actively trying to kill him.

Without replying, Jack searches through the man's pockets and, when he finds nothing useful, ripping his shirt open to investigate there. Well, whatever he's looking for on the man's chest, he doesn't find it. He sighs and straightens up, "No guns yet."

[realmenknitplushies]

"Huh. Wonder if they're even going to have 'em."

Man. He can't help but think that he's got to step his own game up - but at the same time, he's sure not planning on killing if he can help it.