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

[batteredbatter]

When in doubt... gather around the biggest, screamingest guy you can find, right? Koshi felt, that given his chances of being trampled in the chaos as much as actually, purposefully injured, this was probably a sound plan.

So Kanji, have a pink haired little gremlin short boy in pink pajamas chasing after you with a baseball bat in tow.

"Do you know what's going on!?" yelled Koshi, only knowing that they were under attack and they were supposed to defend.

[realmenknitplushies]

It's as much of a plan as anything, right now. Unfortunately, the snag is that it involves putting Kanji in the lead, but at least he's not a combat washout - even if this is something on rather more of a grand scale than anything he's been involved in before...

"Not a clue. That was the Professor, wasn't it? I just heard that thing in my head 'n then saw that lot chargin' in..."
He hisses.
"If they come any closer..."

[batteredbatter]

"Yeah, I think so... Wasn't the guy shouting that weird transpecies guy?" Koshi asked, following along. Never mind neither of them had any idea where the objective was or what they were supposed to defend, besides themselves and the school in general.

[realmenknitplushies]

Kanji was mostly just going with 'if anyone starts something, hit them'. After all, what else was there to do, really?

"Was it? I ... never actually listened t' him talking." He paused, thoughtful. "It'd make sense though. Feh. They're a bunch of crazies."

[batteredbatter]

"Well, that doesn't make them any less dangerous," Koshi reminded him. "We should definitely be careful..."

They hadn't run into anyone quite yet, but that looked like it would change soon enough as the noises were getting louder.

[realmenknitplushies]

"Yeah, no kiddin'. Crazies don't give a damn."

He frowns as he moves, looking around to see what's where, quietly trying to make sure he's charged up enough to handle any prospective attackers.

thought i'd try to get a mod in but i guess not

[batteredbatter]

Koshi couldn't do much more than ready his bat and brace for combat. He wasn't, however, braced for what came next.

There was a rumbling from behind, and there stood what, only by the outfit, was a U-man - otherwise, it was hard to tell with the 8-foot tall figure who looked closer to an ape than a human.

"Uh, you got this one?" asked Koshi, suddenly feeling even shorter than usual and woefully under-prepared with his baseball bat.

[realmenknitplushies]

Well. Crap.

"I've got 'em."

Alright. This might be a giant opponent, but... there's only one of them. Kanji's face is set in a scowl, and sparks flood into his hands as he glares.

[batteredbatter]

Meanwhile, on their side, Koshi was feeling they probably at most had one and a half. Given how their opponent seemed to have fingers comparable in thickness to the baseball bat he had, he wasn't sure how much good hitting him with it would do.

"I'll try to get around him!" Koshi said, obviously not thinking about the fact that he was shouting his plans right in front of the enemy. So it probably wasn't a surprise when he almost got punched into the lawn when he tried to flank their opponent, barely dodging an enormous fist. "Uwah!"

[realmenknitplushies]

"Hey! Hey, pick on someone closer to your own size, pal!" Admittedly, 'closer' was relative in this case. With a yell, Kanji rocketed forward in a shower of sparks, aiming a punch for the giant's gut.

[batteredbatter]

The punch landed solidly - though solid could describe a few other things, like the wall of muscle that Kanji's fist ran into. There was no dramatic doubling over, and it was hard to tell if the roar that followed was in pain or anger. It did, however, accomplish refocusing the massive U-man's attention, turning towards Kanji and giving Koshi a chance to pick himself up and run around behind him.

"T-t-tingly!" boomed the beast, twitching and smoking a bit but not stopping it from trying to clap its massive hands around Kanji.