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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[seduceme]

Please, if she were concerned with propriety, she wouldn't happily arrange 'dinner plans' with fellow staff members on the network. Or be out in nothing but a nightgown and her mask. Anyway-

"Are you any good at stealth or are you going to be too distracted by my derrière to pay attention?"

Yes, she caught the embarrassed eye-aversion and despite the potentially dire situation, she's still amused.

[denialism]

Apparently he harrasses women, or that's what they say. He doesn't get it. He had to go to a seminar. It sucked.

He doesn't pay much attention to the campus gossip or what people go on about on the network, so he doesn't know that much about her. One of the drawbacks of not caring about people! It's not like the U-Men gave people much time to get ready, so her state of undress doesn't mean much, not that he's not enjoying the show...

Adachi gives a start. "H-hey, I wasn't looking. Much."

He laughs, flushing, still giving off a purely embarrassed air, though inwardly, he feels a pang of resentment. It's not as if she's going to put out, so she shouldn't tease him like that. "And yeah, I can keep out of trouble. Usually. Sometimes I get caught." Like just now. Or when all that murdering stuff came out.

[seduceme]

Her current attempt at 'going steady' might decide to eat Adachi if he tried anything anyway.

"I suppose you can work as bait at the very least," she muses to herself before shrugging. "Very well, come along then."

She's turned invisible again and is heading down the hall.

[denialism]

He'll be good. He hasn't tried anything with anyone for more than two years. It only matters what he acts like, not what he thinks! Except where stupid mind readers are concerned... Anyway, he's on his extra good behavior around women.

"Bait. Great. This sounds fun." Adachi's deep sarcasm is probably enough to convey that it is not, after all, fun.

He sighs when she turns invisible. Now he's not even getting anything out of this. "Okay," he says quietly, "But keep in mind I can't actually see you."

[seduceme]

She'll just swat his ass in passing and call from down the hall, "Keep up."

[denialism]

Adachi gives a start. In theory, he doesn't mind girls swatting his ass, but in practice, it's annoying when he's not getting any. He does pick up the pace, though, hurrying down the hall and assuming they're going in the same direction.

"Sure, I'll follow the invisible person to an unknown destination. No need to keep me in the loop!"

No one keeps him in the loop anyway, so he's honestly not surprised by this turn of events.

[seduceme]

"You complain a lot for a security guard," she comments before falling silent as she moves ahead to make sure the way is clear.

[denialism]

"Wow, you sure don't know a lot about security guards." He doesn't refute the charges against him. When you're stuck with a boring job like school security guard, there's not much else to do.

All right, it's not that boring at the moment. But old habits die hard, and it's being non-boring in a really annoying way right now. Anyway, he continues to follow her, hoping that this is not going to end with him in excruciating pain, because he really hates when that happens.

[seduceme]

After walking some time without encountering any enemies, Chris rematerialises before the disgruntled security guard, wiping the sweat from her brow as she stops moving for a moment. "I'm beginning to suspect they 'ave yet to reach this level... that or they've gone so far a'ead we 'ave no 'ope of catching up before they find whatever it is they're after."

[denialism]

In spite of his grumbling, Adachi seems remarkably unconcerned for someone in his situation, almost bored, glancing around as he tries to "keep up" with the invisible woman who could be headed anywhere at any speed.

He cheers up a bit when she appears again, because then there's something interesting to look at. "Hmm, could be," he says, as if he hadn't been bothering to expend any brainpower on the question. "If that's so... I could set some traps!"

Adachi doesn't move, but his eyes suddenly turn bright gold, and he points back in the direction they came from. "Don't go over there!" Of course, there's nothing visible there to avoid.

[seduceme]

She glances back where he's gestured with a raised brow. "... I 'ope you remember to remove those traps when the attack is over."

[denialism]

He remains a lot more cheerful as long as she's materialized, because the view is so much more engaging. "Sure, I keep track of where my stuff is at. Kind of hard to lose a dimension, you know?"

Actually, he could lose one easily, but he is staying connected to these, so that's not an issue!

"I know what I'm doing. I'm a pro."

[seduceme]

"I should 'ope so," she scoffs, rolling her eyes and continuing on. Nonetheless, she'll keep note of that particular place to make sure she doesn't accidentally walk into the trap in case it's not taken down.