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

[tofudog]

"Whoawhoawhoawhoooa!" It doesn't take Beast Boy long to find his feet after he sees Jack on his way back upstairs. He has the presence of mind to keep his voice down, with enemies presumably so close, but he has to stop Jack from just storming in there! "Hold it! We need like, a plan or something!" He grabs his friend's arm, as if he could hold him back.

[the_prodigal_son]

It's physically impossible for Beast Boy to hold him back, but he has the advantage of Jack being a painfully obedient boy. As soon as he's grabbed he stops, and stares at Beast Boy questioningly.

"The plan is to kill him." he states matter-of-factly. He's never needed any more of a plan than that, and he always finds his way around consequences. But... it is different, fighting without an experienced conman to call the shots.

[tofudog]

"Uh." Beast Boy hesitates. Now might be the wrong time for him to get preachy, but he'd prefer if they could get through tonight without any deaths on their heads. "I don't want anyone dying just because I got a little hurt, dude. We're good guys! We don't kill people unless we gotta."

Or that's what he believes. Beast Boy's entire life has been shaped by the censored stories of superheroics his parents raised him on, and he isn't prepared for the reality that in extreme circumstances, killing is the only way to survive. He paces at the bottom of the stairs for a few moments, trying to come up with a plan that doesn't involve Jack putting himself directly in the line of fire or necessarily killing anyone. Hmmm. "Unless you've got an army of trained vampire bat super assassins hidden away in your room, you're gonna have to throw me."

[the_prodigal_son]

Jack furrows his brow and shakes his head, "If we don't kill him he'll kill somebody else. That's how bad guys work. Let me handle it, I know how to kill him quickly."

Jack has never really been in a situation where bad people didn't immediately deserve death. Which... leaves him blissfully unaware that some other people see him as a bad guy who deserves death. His life is all extreme circumstances, so he figures he must be good still because anyone would have done what he did.

[tofudog]

"Nuh uh." Out of the question. That jerk upstairs had better appreciate how hard he's fighting for them. "No way. Nobody's killing anybody tonight. Especially not you!" That goes for both ways that sentence could be interpreted. Jack has been through enough awful stuff for this lifetime.

[the_prodigal_son]

That just makes Jack all the more stubborn. "I can take care of myself! And I've already killed people- I'm not giving anyone a chance to hurt you!" He really doesn't understand why this is a problem. Does Beast Boy want to get killed by people that Jack is generalizing as splicers in his head?