X-Men: Unleashed!

[precious_petal]

Mallory ( Rain )

" Of course someone will pay Raja... and it is up to us to find who it was that caused this destruction ".

I liked Rajas thinking, up till now he appeared to be the only one besides me to think about revenge...

I turn to Protea who was trying to vcontrol her shapeshifting...

" Well, we dont have much of a plan, our priority was to reach a safe place, where we could figure out what we could do next... I think decisions should be taken by all of us, that is if we five are going to stick together ".

I turn towards Razor and Kane and wait for an amswer...

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

Static was still in his arms as he rounded the corner.. still carrying his fellow student from the acadimy.. hopefully they had not seen the news... he just had to prove his innocents.. he heard voices not to far off.. and paused that running.. sweat beaded his brow, it took along moment even with his slower pace to catch his breath. static was heavy, not overly much.. but Jose was no body builder, and did not have the benifit of super strength as some of his follow class mates had.. he was coming closer to the voices.. his foot steps would be loud enough for them to hear by now.. he hualted... hefting static up higher into his arms to toss him over one shoulder.. firemans carry style.. he would atleast want one hand free incase the voices ahead were not friendly.. he could get a few shots off to keep them at bay perhaps not for long.. but long enough to start a retreat..

" Its alright man.. i gotcha.. " shifting Static again.. he turned to see the group talking.. he recognized a few of them from the mansion.. a deep breath taken in.. hopefully they had not watched the news yet

"I.. I need help.. he's hurt somethin fierce.. " that cowboy accient was kicking in hard

 

[geri]

Protea

"A safe place?" Protea said in disbelief,"Thats what we thought we had when we came to The Professor. There is no place that wants us unless it's our dead hides." A tear slid from her eye and she wiped it angrily away.

She did not have time to say anything else though as she heard a voice calling for help and soon one of their fellow mutants came into view carrying another. Scrambling to her feet quickly she ran to check out the wounds. She had been studying some early college courses on nursing before her powers got too bad and unpredictable and so she knew enough to help in a situation like this.

"Lets put him on that ledge. We have some med supplies. I...I think I can patch him up okay." Digging into one of the med kits she begins to work over the unconscious mutant the job totally taking her mind off her own powers and her shape shifting settling down in the process.

 

[Phoenix]

Aenas Duplaix in " Steps in the Right Direction for a change" I woke up in my beautiful penthouse apartment, cleaned up and began to plan. First things first. I have to call in a few favors and get professional help to find out who did this to the mansion, because according to the news it was a fellow student named Jose Fernandez and trust me I say this none of the student no matter the cause have enough sack to study in the mansion and blow it up with themselves inside. Calling in a private investigator who I knew was already working on a case that was already related I awaited her response.

The second I had to do was find a few uniform and find my teamates who decided to play Ninja Turtles. Hey what can I say I need to keep this team together. Xavier may have been an idealist but I will die before I allow his dream to. It is good idea but it needs soldiers to protect it and help it become a reality and that is what this team is.

Heading down the stairs, I tipped the door man Juilio to tell no one that I was there, then I made my way to the parking garage. My father always kept a few cars in town just in case he had to do buisness here. He hated rentals and his cars had to have a few specialties added to them. HMm it is either the Benz, the Bentley or the XL Escalade. Hmm I am thinking SUV today so the Escalade it is. Sliding on my sunglasses I headed toward the mansion with several supplies for my teamates. After all someone has to look after these kids.

 

[Phoenix]

Introducing....

She sat tied to a chair arms and hands bound her face showed the effects of the beating she took a few minutes earlier. While over the past few years only mutants have taken a worse beating that she has and still be alive to tell about. Unfortunately for her she is no mutants. She does not have the ability to fly or a genetically revved up healing factor. The only gift she got was the fact that she was the toughest bitch anyone has ever seen.

It took 5 armed men and half a bottle of cloroform to get her bound and it took 2 straight days of pure torture to get her to shut up and the truth of the matter is these men are still miles away from breaking her spirit. As she sat there in a cold wet dark basement of the Friends of Humanity headquarters she awaited her judge who was supposed to be the Leader of this Chapter to pass down her sentence.

As the largish balding man enters the room all other eyes point toward him giving the indication that this man was the headcheese of this operation. This was all the woman needed. All the big wigs in one room so she could do what she came to do.

The Leader walked over to her, lifted her head and said "Young Lady. You have been convicted of being a mutie lover. Your sentense is to be doorknob of this organization until we are done with you. Any last words" Taking the blindfold off her mouth the woman grins at her jailors spit out a little blood and says "Yeah. I have something to say. The only thing I have to says is none of you are going to leave this room conscious.

With her captors laughing at her, she sized up the room 10 men against one woman. It was a horrible mismatch, she wondered maybe she should tell the guys to get more antimutant facists so it could be a fair fight. Using her bionic implant induced leg strength she snapped the ropes on her feet. Leaping and spinning around in wild circle, she used the chair legs to incapacitate two of her attackers. Then using her superior leg strength and the back as a battering ram 2 more attackers were down for count.

Once of the attacker swung a lead pipe at her but swinging around the chair the pipe stuck the wooden chair shattering it and allowing the woman her hands tied but no longer bound behind her back. Wrapping her arms around the head of one the attackers she gave him a wicked headbutt while raising her foot backwards and nailing another guy square in the balls. Using her speed she used one guy as a steping stone, she flipped of his shoulder nailed a beautiful front kick and spinning on the way down to diliver and leg sweep and swift kick to the head.

With one attacker left she grinned at him backing away and said " Aww don't tell me the big bad Friend of Humanity is scared of one mutie lover with her hands tied behind her back. Come on and play after all you wanted my body before. Now I am willing to give you every piece of me that you wanted." The man tried to run but she was fast enough to flip in front of him and nail him with a roundhouse kick that sent him flying onto the couch. Placing her foot on top of his crouch the would be district leader of the Friends of Humanity let out a girlish squeal of pain, making the woman grin. Leaning down she tilted his reached into his jacket pocket and removed his wallet and began to read off his drivers liscence " Hmmmm Nelson Millhouse. 1515 Evergreen Terrance. Not a bad picture Nelson. Here is the deal this lil boy club of yours. It is finito. See your boys over there lying in heaps. They are just knocked out now, maybe if I was in a bad mood I would not be so nice on them. After all I beat all your guys with my hands tied even though on a flip two seconds ago I managed to get them in front of me I still left two of your out cold with them behind my back. So here is the drill Nelson, I know and you know you keep an very explicit and detailed diary, but here is the crux right now I do not know where it is. So tell me dear sweet Nelson where is the diary."

Adding a lil more pressure to Millhouse's groin, he began to squirm and squeal again and finally confessed it was upstairs in his breifcase in the cloakroom. Getting the information she needed the woman grinned and with one swift motion she stomped on Nelson's crotch, not hard enough to do any internal damage but just hard enough to leave him sore as a motherfucker for a few weeks.

As she thumbed through the diary on the way home she recieve a call from Aenas Duplaix. It seemed the mutant school that he was attending was burned down by an unknown arsonist. Since it matched what I was working on now I hoped to kill down birds with one stone. Well that and the 1. 5 million dollars for the identity of the arsonist. After Sincerley Dillion has to make a living somehow.

 

[DarkTalon]

Static

Static Could Fill Concsusnice returning to him
"Mmm.. I.. Live" He Mons Has He Grabs His Patched up Arm
He looks ARound And Sees Every on And Sees the girl Who Helped Him." Ive seen Yopu Around The Mansion Thank You..? Im Sorry I Never Got yoiur Name ."

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

he longed to stay with his fellow classmates, but he did not know how warmt he welcome would be if any of them had seen the news, after laying static down to be helped.. he began backing away from the group, hand lifted to tug on that cowboy hat... besides the "Lay him down on the ledge" no one had said word one to him... perhaps they had sen the news.. and were just wanting him to go away.. he nodded to himself, shoudlers huanching up, the cold of the sewers seemed none existant to him, his muntant ability over the fires kept him warm through things most others would find unbearable. those cowboy boots began to thud their melody as he began away.. holding his breath hping they wouldn't attack.. he already had it stuck in his head they had seen him on the news and were out to get him.

 

[geri]

Protea

Protea smiled at the revived Static. A tremble of relief coursed through her and she said,"I'm Protea. And I guess we are all that are left."

She heard footsteps behind her but they were moving away and looking that way she saw the mutant who had helped Static walking away. She didn't know what came over her but she rose to her feet and ran after him, stopping in front of him and blocking his path.

"Look." She said a pleading look on her face,"I'm not very good with the motivational speeches but we need to stick together. We are all that are left and if we don't stick together than we have no chance. The professor knew that. The original Xmen knew that. We have to find out what happened and we have to have everyone work as a team to do that."

She sighed and dropped the hand she had been holding up to stop his progress. "Just...please reconsider. We can't afford to lose another teammate."

 

[PmTick]

Razorback was still in a lot of pain, he thought he had blacked out for a moment but wasn't sure. One minute they ran into two other mutants in a tunnel and before he realized anything, another two mutants appeared from no where. He looked at Mallory, preparing to answer her question, "Well let's see, there's currently seven of us here right? Though if we run into any baddies we could all take them easily, we are highly visible. I think the best thing to do is to split up into two groups. If we pop up in an area with lots of cops we will evade them easier if we're only 3 or 4 people." Razorback paused to cough. "Plus it increases the chances of us finding any other students who may be lost in these sewers." He casually turned to Protea, "You got an asprin or something in that bag of yours?"

 

[geri]

Protea

I reached into my bag and tossed Razor a whole bottle of headache tablets and Raja handed him one of the canteens. "Here and give Static some too. He is going to need it."

Looking back at the cowboy I smiled a bit. "So what do you say? We sure could use you."

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

he paused as the woman came before him... a deep breath taken in and held.. "They think it was me who destrpied the mansion.. its all over the news... I'd only bring you more trouble.. from people wanting to get the man who destroied the X-men.. Until I can prove it wasn't me.. it wouldn't be safe for you.. any of you.. I dont want to lose anyone else... neither would the Professor.. God rest his soul.. "

Another breath was drawn in.. eyes closed " It wasn't me.. I loved the proffesor.. he took me in when no one else would.. showed me I wasn't just some freak.. I want nothing more than to find the people who did this.. and crush them like the scum they are... But I wont risk any more lives to do that.. I'm sorry.. but everyone already thinks it is because of me the X-men are no more.. and I wont have it be because of me that even more die... "

 

[PmTick]

Razor popped a couple of the pills and tossed the bottle over to the other mutant who needed them. He turned to Horse, "Why is it do they think you did it? In fact where were you when everything went down? We were all scrambling outside, how come you weren't out there?"

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

a sigh escapped lips as he turned back to the group.. hands coming up and closed.. with a slight focus they changed.. taking on a more molten form.. blazing hot.. his gaze shifted to the female who had come before him (geri) "excusae me miss "

Out opf ll the students who went to Xaviers acedimy.. his ability was kept a secret.. except for his horrible flying ability.. everyone knew of that.. and he even caught heat about it for some students.. but he never showed anyone but the professor his abilities with the molten lava.. he took a step forward to get her out of his aim.. hand extened away from them and in the direction of the empty sewer tunnels.. as he began to focus the motlen form of his hands began to bubble.. and with a sudden brust that jerked his arm back, a ball of molten lava shot forward... the impact on the wall only caused the molten to spead along its height.. leaving a clear trail of where it had struck as it glided down and into the sewer waters.. steam drifting up.. " you get cold.. and hot.. I dont.. My body is always warm.. the fires do not effect me.. well they can hurt me.. and burn me.. but the actual heat does not bother me.. While everyone was escapping and getting away from the police I was looking in side for survivors.. that is when they caught me.. I thought everyone had died.. when I stumbled out.. the cops were there.. they arrested me on sight.. I.. I didn't want to believe the professor was dead.. I.. I wanted him to be ok.. for everyone to be ok... "

he swallowed with what looked a great degree of difficulty.. eyes closed tight "I'm going back to the mansion.. I'm gonna look for any clues that the police have not already destoried.. "

 

[PmTick]

Razor stepped in front of Jose, "I don't think that's a good idea right now, there's still a lot of cops out there. If you escaped last time, they've probably called people in who can take you or even temporarily shut your powers off. It's best to wait until they're gone. Besides if you are going I may want to tag along, but we have to concentrate on the situation at hand."

 

[geri]

Protea watched the display and shook her head. "So what. Sure your powers could have started that fire and so could half a dozen of the other student's. I know the professor taught that we should work with the normals of this world but lets face it...they don't like or trust us. They would be ready to pin it on the first mutant they saw if that mutant's power was ice."

She looked from one to the other of her companions. "I am sure of one thing. The professor trusted each of us enough to take us in and try and help us. I will be damned if I am going to ruin his memory by starting back biting and suspicions against our own. As far as I am concerned someone out there did it and we have to find out who. And I also believe we have to do it together. We are a team. We need to act like a team if we are going to track down who did this and kick some ass!"

Her eyes blazed with her anger as she spoke and for a moment they flexed and grew almost feral before changing back. "We need each other. Of that I am sure."

 

[PmTick]

Razorback stood up and looked Protea in the eye. "I'm not saying he used his powers to burn the damn building down. Hell you don't even need mutant powers to burn down a building, all you need are matches or something!" Razor turned to face the rest of the group, "You're right Xavier did tell us to trust others but at the same time until we evidence that support the idea an outside party was at hand, everyone that was in the mansion, all of us, are suspects!"

Razorback paced around the tunnel, "I mean think about it, it's not like the mansion had a Solomon's Shield on the front lawn, it has --had a state of the art securtiy system. It would be pretty damn hard for a stranger to come on the property without someone knowing about it."

"Before you dismiss the idea it could be one of us remember that it wouldn't be the first time one of our own broke loose from the team. Remember when Sabertooth was an X-man? If Wolverine hadn't popped a claw in his skull no one would have ever have known he was plannig to kill everyone in the mansion and then hightail it to Massachutes and attack the academy! What about when Colosuss was an Acolyte? Or when Havok turned against Xavier? What about when Phoenix became Dark Phoenix? And finally, if you recall, Xavier was for a brief moment in time Onslaught. He was directly responsible for destroying half the city and almost killing off the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and everyone else who came to the aide of the X-men. So remeber, though the idea of mutant brotherhood looks good on paper, the whole reason Xavier brought the X-men togethor was to stop 'evil' mutants from destroying everyone, including each other."

Razorback turned and looked at Protea again, "Now since you agree with me that we our a team, and we should watch out for each other, their are probably some of our teammates who are down here, alone. Before we leave the sewers we should make sure that no one else was left behind."

 

[geri]

I sighed and let Razor ramble on. "I wasn't saying you were accusing him. I am saying that if we suspect everyone than we will never get anywhere. We need to let the statement 'innocent until proven guilty' rule here. I am not saying let our guards down totally but, like you said, we have to work as a team."

"And I am not so sure going to the mansion right now is a good idea. We have to let things die down. I am sure everyone topside are ready to arrest anyone they suspect of being a mutant. And I am not so sure we would make it to jail either."

 

[PmTick]

Razorback's plates had extended themselves, he had gotten really fired up during his speech. "Sorry about that, I'm not trying to point at anyone right now. I don't know maybe I saw Reservoir Dogs too many times but all I know is that we were attacked today. I'm just afraid that we may be exposing ourselves to another attack. Let's just try to plan what our next plan of action should be."

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

lower lip was suckled into his mouth to be nibbled upon in silent thought.. hands still clentched to fist as sides.. but no longer held their molten form. his breath had slowed.. and was a more clamed pace... the brim of that black stetson cowboy hat partially conceled fatial features. swallowing hard he nodded " I-I know what the professor belived-belives in... but... If what the cop said is true.. then I am all over the news for the destruction of the mansion.. others like us will want me dead.. I can't see anyone else die... I-I just cant... "

another deep breath was drawn in and slowly exhaled hands fell limp at his side and his head lowered slightly... " To many have died all ready.. "

eyes closed jaw tightened and hands grew into fist once more... " But I want the men who did this... I want to make them feel what the professor... and everyone else felt... "

those fist turned into molten lava... droplets falling to the ground below him... " I wanna make them burn... "

 

[geri]

Protea

Protea gave a nod of understanding. "I know, its what we all want and the fact is that we are in danger whether you are with us or not. Its not safe for any mutant out there right now and we need you for the team."

She looked around at everyone and said,"Anyone have an idea where to start looking?"

 

[TheHorse]

Jose Fernandez

" All depends.. who would want us dead? Well.. better yet... who wouldn't want us dead that would help us out? it seems right now there would be a lot less of those.. I still say we need to go back to the mansion.. looks for some clues.. gotta be something there.. if nothing more... I owe it to few people to say my final good byes... instead of in handcuffs.. " he gave a glance around the sewers... shaking his head ever so slightly "

And frankly I would rather be out in a forest then in here.. but thats just me... I hear they got crocodiles in these things.. we should atleast get some supplies.. some cots... something to sleep on instead of the ground.. maybe some blankets.. yall might get cold in here at night.. "

Once more he gave a look around. a shrug of shoulders given, and he began walking forward once more.. " Yall are more than welcome to come... But some one should stay back with him "

He gave a quick motion of his hand back to static.. " I only got $60 on me but I'll try to get some food.. and what ever else I can as far as blankets.. "

 

[PmTick]

Razorback

"It's probably best for us to get some help. Let's get into the city and find the Fantastic Four. Grimm was good friends with a lot of the senior X-men, perhaps they can help us. If not them then the Avengers."

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Bastard

The humans blamed him...poor fella...I felt for him, really, truly madly and deeply...I shook my head slowly, then glanced up at them, scanning the group with my eyes, looking for just one thing i could relate to.
Were they insane? Were they totally insane?
Revenge...an honest want, but a dumb one. Whoever had done this was well-organized, and had destroyed, literally destroyed the X-Men. Yeah, I was pissed, but there were other things in the world to be pissed about, and this was only one of them.
"Hey...Chico?" I began, my nature taking over now. The kindness had subsided with the shock, and now the real me was making yet another unwanted appearance. "Jose...whatever you're name is...don't do anything stupid here. You can be as worreid as you want about who blames who, and we can discuss all we want about how the X-Men have stuck together, but I got some news for all of you...we're not X-Men, we were students at the School, and that's it...Students! We're not X-Men, and now we never will be."
I scanned through them, watching their faces for their responses, hoping that the words were sinking in. The sad part was: I wanted to believe in what they were saying, but I just couldn't...not given everything I'd have to ignore to do so.
"We can talk all we want to about getting help, or about taking revenge, but we don't even know who did this...and we'll probably never find out, not without the help of some of those other groups, who'll no doubt investigate and take care of this thing however they can with ot without our involvement. They don't need us getting in the way right now. What we need to do, is get the fuck out of town, and let things blow over, let the anti-mutant rush that this'll cause ease up before coming back to see what's going down. Spiderman's already on this, i believe. We'll not find anything he misses, if there's anything to find at all. So, Sanchez, amigo, sit your ass down, and stay here, where we're at least safe until morning, then we'll do what we each feel we have to do then. This talk is just making us more agitated...not getting anything done..."
I guessed this would be the part where they look at me astonished and decide they don't need me...been there, done that. I could deal.
For some reason, i looked at Rain first, wishing for some reason that she hadn't been there when i said that.

 

[Angelus]

Andrew had been walking around the grounds for what seemed like forever looking for some clue. He also wanted to see if anyone had survived this but by the looks of things his prospects weren't good and they looked like they were getting slimmer. He walked to the front of the building and then heard some voices.

Andrew turned and looked just to see a group of people walking towards the building. He closed his eyes and slowly turned invisible hoping that he would turn completely invisible before they got to where he was. He smiled when he did and watched them closely.

He watched them as they moved towards the front of the building and shouted out, "God fucking job that the mutie headquarters is destroyed! About fucking time!" before they began spitting on the still smoldering ashes of the building, causing Andrew's blood to almost boil. He wanted nothing more than to go and beat the shit out of them but he knew that he would either be killed or beaten unconscious and thrown in the nearest jail where he would be killed there in an accident.

He walked towards one of the trees that was still standing and slowly climbed it. He sat on one of the branches and leaned against the trunk then watched the group.

 

[Phoenix]

Sincerly Dillion in "Clues"


I headed over to the Xavier estate in my black Hummer. Of course I had to bring Bonzley my partner. According our clients the Duplaix family it was the utmost importance that we find out who did this and where are the survivors of this attack. Approaching the mansion I was suprised by how few officers are there but then again this is a mutant school so of course the police did not give much of a damn. Doing a total headcount I could tell there were only 5 officers and 4 detectives. What is interesting is in a high profile case such as the destruction of the Xavier Institute there is usually dozens of officers and detectives.

Getting out of the Hummer me and Bonzley were immediately accosted by the officers however using our phony disguises of insurance officers from The El Finito Insurance Agency we were allowed access. I was happy there was no mutant inhibitors near by so Bonz can work his magic while I searched for clues.

After a few hours I ruled out that fire was caused by normal means such as electrical, or gas leak or even hotplates. Nope this was definately arson mutant or otherwise. Upon searching further I realized that whoever did this did not trip the sercurity alarms because they were already turned off, so this explosion was an inside job.