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. ]]

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[divine_spirits_universe]

Miko awoke with a start at the psychic burst sent through the school like a shock wave and though she was in a special room to help filter the outside noise so she could rest without her headphones, she could still hear the intruders outside. It only took a moment for her to grab her headphones and race to the window throwing it open.

How many were there?

She concentrated, closing her eyes, listening to the ongoings outside. Ten, twenty? It was a bit hard to tell. Especially with the panic growing through the school like splash in a still pond.

Chaos, everything was being thrown into chaos. She knew what she should do was find a teacher, no doubt go to a safe room somewhere, there had to be one after all. But evacuation was never her thing, sitting somewhere safe and sound while other people unrelated to her solved the issue and shared none of the information didn't appeal. No, she would go and find out as much as she could.

She quickly threw on some shoes and some clothes, she wasn't going out there in pajamas, and the one weapon she did happen to have with her, even though it wasn't exactly helpful with people who could probably shoot lasers at her. Once set as much as she could she took to the hall, keeping an eye out for people who might need some help but mostly trying to get closer to the commotion without being grabbed by a teacher.

[brought2ubycolgate]

She's nabbed by a teacher but thankfully by one who really doesn't care if she decides to head out. Sure, students needs more experience but he's still one to believe that if they think they can handle it, they can do what they need to do for themselves.

That said, wandering the halls without a shirt and only wearing pajama pants and his sheathed sword wasn't exactly inspiring. But he wasn't in too much of a hurry. Finding the enemy was always half the battle.

"You should be using the buddy system if you are going to run around, no?"

[divine_spirits_universe]

She wasn't sneaky enough. She would have to get better about that.

"I didn't think I had the time to go out and recruit someone to join me, it seemed more important to go to the source and see what was going on," she smiled as if this was just a simple outing, and not an incredibly bold attack.

[brought2ubycolgate]

"Bravery, I will give you. Brains, I will not. Still...."

He didn't stop walking towards the way outside. She's free to follow along....and that's probably the smart idea.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"I feel a bit insulted by that," she followed him, she knew a good opportunity when it arose. After all she wasn't actually a combatant, so she really did need someone who could fight well.

[brought2ubycolgate]

"Good, perhaps you will have learned something!" Rude as hell but said completely with a smile. Then again, students are pretty much targets for taunting. Especially students making poor life decisions.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"Learned I should invest more time into stealth abilities," as if she didn't know things. "And I wasn't making poor life decisions." She could hear him just thinking that.

[brought2ubycolgate]

"If I might say so, you absolutely are. After all, what would you plan on doing if you confronted the enemy?"

He wasn't as phased as much as he should be by the pseudo-mind reading here as he should have been. Or he simply just didn't get surprised after being around mutants for a while.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"It would depend on the weaknesses of the enemy that I ended up unfortunately confronting," which probably sounded like a lacking plan. But then her plan was to not be caught by anyone and that had already backfired.

"I'm more of a strategist than a physical combatant."

[brought2ubycolgate]

"Then you would hope to rely on luck and skill, hm?" A dangerous combination.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"Not luck, simply skill. It's also useful when you know what someone is about to do before they do."

[brought2ubycolgate]

"Luck in that you hope it is someone you cannot handle. And no, luck is not a skill." Just to cut off that line of thought before it happens.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"I have never run across a person I couldn't handle," which was true, which would also make that inevitable situation all the harder to deal with.

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[brought2ubycolgate]

"Is that so? Perhaps you have prove that to me and I will simply stand to the side." He answered that with crossed arms and waited for her to take the lead. No, it wasn't sarcasm. Just a sense of wanting to see her prove her own convictions.

It's okay

[divine_spirits_universe]

She shrugged, he was a pretty straight forward and interesting guy. Probably not the best tactic with students though. She didn't stop though, she took the lead without hesitation. "Very well, if that's what you want to do."

[echoing_sutras]

Well it would be pretty easy to hear where some of the action was, at least. Dashing down a hall and causing a blasting, destructive wave of noise to echoing behind her, Kyouko was trying to lead some of the U-Men away from where the students were being evacuated, taunting them into chasing after her.

[divine_spirits_universe]

First thing was first, go towards the echoing fool and see what sort of mess she was causing. At least it sounded exciting.

[echoing_sutras]

"Well hey there Prince Pretty!" Kyouko called out to her, the voice seemingly coming right into her ears in spite of Kyouko's considerable distance. "I'm bringing a whole party with me, so if you could do me a favor and set up something to trip them up, I'll probably dislike you a little less!"

[divine_spirits_universe]

Really?

Part of her was inclined to just watch and see how she would get herself out of it. However... she was not such a petty person. No. She would help all those in need around her! First she needed to see what was actually around her though. She couldn't exactly bar the way and point a sword at a bunch of powered up zealots.

But without too much work she jury rigged some rope, a few folding chairs and a teachers desk to make for an obstacle course ahead of them.

[echoing_sutras]

Obstacles that, unlike the men chasing and shooting at her, she could tell were being set up due to casting the sound her way, and muting it for them. She deftly lept and dodged her way around them, all the while the U-Men catastrophically failing to do so. They became tangled, conked, and otherwise out of commission until Kyouko slid to a halt right beside Miko.

One of the U-Men had made it through with her, and looked a bit upset that his comrades had not.

[divine_spirits_universe]

"You know, I would head back while I could, as they say it's best to retreat so you can attack again another day," it was directed at the last U-Men, and was said so casually you would think Miko wasn't in danger at all. She even smiled towards them while resting a hand on Kyouko's shoulder.

[echoing_sutras]

"After all, my buddy here? Did all of that with their mind. And that's not the least of it. So if you don't want that armor of yours turned inside out, you might want to take them up on their offer of mercy." Kyouko played along, though the outright lie might not have helped...

[divine_spirits_universe]

If she were the type to falter in her bravado she would have shot Kyouko a look, but she didn't. However saying such a thing really was not within her plans. That sort of statement could easily backfire.

The the leftover U-Men didn't seem particularly frightened by that statement either and started forward at them.

Miko quickly slid up to Kyouko's side. "Direct a high pitch loud continuous sound directly into their ears," it was said quickly. She hoped Kyouko would act quickly as well, if done right, and Kyouko understanding what she intended, the man should be stunned enough to take down.

[echoing_sutras]

Kyouko didn't verbally respond, she just nodded and did it, putting about 20 decibals of 15khz on both sides of the man's head. She wasn't sure how the hearing on those scary helmets worked, but she figured if she just kept pushing up the gain, she'd get results eventually. Her own ears vibrated as she worked, hoping the prince had a good plan for this.

[divine_spirits_universe]

The moment the sound got to a level that caused the man to falter Miko rushed forward and, with a bit of reluctance unsheathed her sword which she had brought with her, swinging it as hard as possible against the mans helmet, though at an angle to hopefully hit the side of his head and knock him out. She didn't particularly want to kill anyone and wasn't sure of whether it would simply cut through the rest of the mans gear or not.

There was a major peculiarity about her sword though, not so much that it was extremely sharp, or made of the highest quality metal a man could obtain on the planet for a weapon, but the fact it was a gold colour. It seemed even in battles she had to show off.