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

[kamiizumi]

"I'd be surprised if at least a few didn't get down there. After the way that wake-up call cut off -"

Well, he's worried about the Professor, even if he's not saying it in so many words. He knows he can't be the only one.

Swords aren't always the greatest weapon to bring into a fight when one lives by a no-kill philosophy, but Leo's good at controlling how much force he puts into things - and he's also good at noticing when his enemies are zeroing in on the sword at the expense of possibly realizing that he's about to slam a foot into their gut, instead.

Swords still have their uses.

[turbedon]

Yes, lovely and distractingly bright swords are very useful.

When the would-be attacker hunches forward with the turtle foot in his gut, Dick leaps onto his shoulders, legs winding around the U-man's neck as he tasers the guy through his robotic protection that's now serving as an excellent conduit.

Stepping away from the enemy as he falls, Dick stares down at the man while idly putting the taser gun away. "... Is it just me or are these guys... not properly trained? I mean, some of them are kinda strong but for the most part they're leaving me whelmed."

[kamiizumi]

There is a point there, certainly. Leo's in a better position than most with regards to combat training, of course, and he's a perfectionist to boot, so he knows full well that he's going to be naturally inclined to judge the skills of others a bit harshly, but this guy's skill level certainly doesn't seem consistent with where one really ought to be to try and launch an attack on a place like this. Which raises a few questions, such as whether his presence here is stupid or merely desperate, and if so what could he be that desperate about, and -

"...whelmed?"

Clearly the important question of the night.

[turbedon]

"Being in a state of neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed," comes the chatty response as Dick makes sure to tie up the unconscious U-man.

[kamiizumi]

Leo turns to cover Dick while he works, keeping his swords drawn and his eyes darting across everything around them, looking for anyone else who might be around.

"Is that even a word?"

[turbedon]

He sniggers as he drags the man into some bushes. "Yup, but no one uses it anymore."

[kamiizumi]

"I hope your knots make more sense than your vocabulary."

[turbedon]

"English is broken, not me," he answers cheerily, dusting his hands as he straightens. "And Houdini would have trouble with my knots."

[kamiizumi]

"Then we should be fine to dump this guy and find some more interesting company."

[turbedon]

"I like this plan," he chuckles, abruptly vanishing in the night with an echoing laugh. "Come on, slowpoke!"

[kamiizumi]

Leo's still working on getting proper control over his teleportation, but every now and then (usually when it counts), he manages to very precisely do exactly what he needs to do - and sometimes even what he wants to do.

Which leads to him reappearing a few yards ahead of Dick, already back in motion like it's no big deal.

"Who's slow?"

[turbedon]

"That's cheating!" he crows back cheerfully, catching up to Leo with a deliberate increase in speed and bumping shoulders with the turtle boy for good measure.

[kamiizumi]

"Nothing wrong with using what you've got!"

[turbedon]

"Next time, offer a ride," he snorts before vanishing again to engage with the next enemy.