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

[thethirdspecies]

Damn, could no one in this school stay in one place? A U-man, seemingly in a hurry, pauses in their long strides down the hall when he spots the little pale-haired girl.

"You! What are you doing over there?"

[leyabout]

That question receives no answer, but that probably isn't much of a surprise. Instead, Leysritt comes to an abrupt stop, pausing for all of half a second before dashing out of sight, through the nearest door. That puts her in a classroom with no other exit, but that's fine. She's just looking for something heavy, after all.

[thethirdspecies]

Well, he can't just let some little mutant kid with unknown powers disappear on her own like that. Who knows what kind of trouble she might start, right? The U-man pursues her into the classroom, entering the door gun-first.

[leyabout]

As soon as he puts a toe through the door frame, a desk goes flying at him with an impressive amount of speed and force.

[thethirdspecies]

He flinches out of ingrained instinct, but when he raises a hand to block the desk, a burst of pink light explodes out of it and sends it flying off into the corner. Whew, that was close!

"What the-- cut that out! Look, just come with me and get to where the other kids are!"

[leyabout]

That gives Leysritt pause. She goes still still as she watches the desk ricochet, crashing into a corner harmlessly (except for that other furniture it knocked over on the way). Maybe she's even considering his offer.

But then, no, she snatches up the chair that gone with her first projectile and chucks it at him too.

I'm so sorry, I lost the notif for this one

[thethirdspecies]

The U-man makes a deeply, deeply undignified little noise, something along the lines of doof! as the chair knocks the wind out of him. He blasts pink light through the window, shattering the glass, but it misses Leysritt by a mile -- he just lashed out on instinct, without any sort of aim. He leans on the doorframe for a second, then manages to straighten up again, reaching out to try and grab the girl before she can heave anything else at his head.

it's no problem!

[leyabout]

The good news is that Leysritt is within grabbing range! The bad news is that, given that opening, she has elected to dive at him, attempting to tackle him to the floor and wrest his weapon from his hands.

[thethirdspecies]

And now he's being tackled to the ground by a teenage girl. You know, honestly, this is not how the U-man envisioned this whole raid thing going.

"Hey! What-- damn it, get off of me!"

He goes down squirming, trying to play awkward keepaway with the gun.