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John Sublime / The U-Men ([personal profile] thethirdspecies) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2014-10-15 05:22 pm

The Ashes of the Phoenix [OPEN]

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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[personal profile] kamiizumi 2014-10-25 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
The first U-Man crumpled under Leo's weight, and Leo stayed put long enough only to slam an elbow strike into the back of the man's head before jumping up and into a strike against the next one. They were going to have to move fast, he was sure; take as many as they could out of the fight before it really started, otherwise they were going to have their hands full.

Fast, for Leo, had never equated to sloppy, thankfully, and his aim was true. His foot hit squarely in the next U-Man's side, putting him on the defensive long enough for Leo to aim for the head again.
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[personal profile] jolie_aile 2014-10-25 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
There were six shapes in all, that Flandre could immediately identify; red beams from night-vision preserving flashlights flashed every which way now that they were alerted to an attacking presence. But from where, precisely?

Flandre served as a decent enough distraction, smashing one U-Man caught on her shoulder into the next in line--then discarding them both to slide stunned into the dirt.

But the U-men had also started to respond in earnest; one responded with lightning, another with some kind of beanbag rounds. Both hit Flandre; the former grazing her, the latter infuriating her; the electricity scorched her nerves and skin, inflaming both with pain. The taller mutant snarled, horribly and almost roaring--then seized one of the assailants she had knocked down by the ankle, swinging the body with contemptuous ease towards whoever was the source of that damned lightning.

Her sister might be a target. That scoured her mind of many other things.
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[personal profile] kamiizumi 2014-10-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
The second one Leo hit, but not hard enough to take him out right away, and when he moved to hit back, there was a white glow around the fist he was pulling back for a punch.

There were plenty of things that could mean, but Leo wasn't particularly eager to find out which it was.

He leaned to the side, dropping to catch his weight on one hand and avoid the punch - or at least, that was his plan, but untrained though Leo's power was, instinct still tended to kick it off when he wasn't confident enough in his control to try to use it on purpose. He flickered and vanished as the U-Man's punch was thrown -

- reappearing directly behind the man.

It was a surprise for Leo as much as anyone, but he gamely went with it, turning that dodge into a sweep and knocking his opponent's leg out from under him.