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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[friendofdorothy]

Liir touched a hand to his cheek and was indeed surprised to find it slightly slimy. One of Kariya's worms was still poking its eyeless head up. The expression could almost be called adoring, if such an expression were possible on a featureless face.

"Oh." He said in realization. Right, the younger ones. How selfish you are, Liir Thropp, to not even think of the little ones, he thought to himself. "You're right, let's check on the little ones." He crouched, placed his hand on the ground. The worm's sense for vibration and moisture resounded through his brain. He closed his eyes.

"There's activity on the ground floor of the boy's dormitory." He said, turning to go in that direction.

[vermis]

"I think they like you," said Kariya, though "like" wasn't quite the right word for it, considering how differently worms processed information. "They usually don't react to anyone else." He smiled, inordinately pleased in spite of the situation. Most people simply discounted the worms or thought they were gross. But he wasn't distracted from his primary purpose for long. After a moment, he was all seriousness again.

"Yes, let's go!" He was all too eager to head toward the boys' dorm, trusting to Liir's report. He seemed to know. He must be able to sense it. "That's a useful power," he said, without knowing exactly what Liir's power was.