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

[lovesreporter]

Now only Azusa could hope the man hadn't seen her change either, seeing how he was focusing most of her attention on Koshi. But that didn't make her feel much better, seeing how the boy was in danger, real life, could probably die from it if she couldn't help some how, type danger.

All she could do now was try to slide against the wall past the man, to get behind him and take him down that way. A kick to the knees, or between his legs would still work...right?

[batteredbatter]

Which would have been great, if Koshi knew that was the plan. Instead, the boy had it in his mind that he was the only line of defense between Azusa and this crazed assailant. Which was why he took a little more risk than necessary, lunging forward to try to hit the U-man's head.

"Ha-gurk!" What he mostly got however, was a length of bone piercing into his chest.

i dont have a sad icon

[lovesreporter]

It's not like she could explain to him the plan in the middle of a fight! She didn't even know his ability, and apparently he didn't know her's. Just as she got around the U-Man though she turned to look at that bone going straight through the boy's chest and couldn't keep a scream from escaping. She had never seen anyone die before. She knew being a mutant could be dangerous, but it shouldn't have been like this. School was such a fun place, why had people come and ruined that?!

the only thing she could do was make a brick wall appear between herself and the U-Man, hoping it would slow him down long enough for her to run away, tears in her eyes.

[batteredbatter]

"Heh, not so tough now, are y-!" It was the U-man's turn to be surprised, as sticking his weapon through Koshi meant he was standing still long enough for the boy to finally hit him. The baseball bat hit his head with a solid crack, sending the man to the ground in a second, bone sliding out of his chest.

"Y, yeah, I am..." Koshi managed to spit out, wheezing a bit and clutching his chest, blood flowing over his fingers. "Asu..za?"

He didn't see where the girl had gone, but he assumed she was still hiding nearby. Turning around though just made him dizzy, and before he knew it, Koshi found himself on the grass next to to the man he'd knocked out.

I don't have the time to be lying here... I have to make sure everyone else... is safe...

[lovesreporter]

She didn't want to leave him. But she had to get someone to help him. He was already going to die...seeing that bone going all the way through Koshi...people don't live through that kind of stuff. People die when they are killed.

If she knew he had been calling her name like that she probably would have cried even harder than she was, running to find an X-Man, an upperclassman, anyone.