Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends. Once More.
Characters: Open to All
Date&Time: August 15th, all day long baby.
Setting: The Battlefield
Summary: WAR, BITCHES, WAR
Rating: Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll... oh, AND WAR!!!!!!!! <3
Status: OPEN
( {Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our Mutant dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest X-Men!} )
Date&Time: August 15th, all day long baby.
Setting: The Battlefield
Summary: WAR, BITCHES, WAR
Rating: Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll... oh, AND WAR!!!!!!!! <3
Status: OPEN
( {Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our Mutant dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest X-Men!} )
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In fact, his hair was on fire.
"Not inside the building," Reed commented, smelling the smoke before he even looked up from his work to glance at Johnny. When he noticed the look on his brother-in-law's face, however, he paused. "What is it?"
Johnny glanced at Hank, giving him a 'here we go' look before explaining, "Victor is here. He wants to see you two. Something about a time machine and alternate realities. I told him to shut the hell up but he started in with some calculus, so I said I'd get you two."
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"Do we let him in? Should we?"
Even as he questioned their location possibilities, he was standing up and removing his lab coat- one should always dress their best in such... situations.
"Your call Reed."
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Johnny rolled his eyes. "I may be a hothead, but no, I'm not that stupid," he replied. And then, glancing up he realized his hair was still on fire and put it out.
Reed glanced at Hank, sighing for a moment before telling Johnny, "Send him up." He wouldn't really try anything in the lab, would he?
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He refused to admit the third option, where Reed had gone ahead and contacted him in regards to this without telling him. He wasn't of course, Reed's babysitter, but he had thought there was some form of an understanding between them.
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Looking at Erik, she sent him a thought she also broadcast to Havok, Magma, and Polaris.
[[I can't tell who they are in particular, but there are far more of them than the Guthrie family. We are facing an army. They want Havok alive for some reason.]]
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Erik relayed back, knowing she'd send it through the mental communication bond to the others too.
But just to her, he sent:
[[Protect the mansion, and stay safe. Keep an eye on Alex, and if it seems he's been taken by them and we can't get to him before they give him to Charles, shut him down.]]
No matter what happened, they couldn't let Alex fall into the Shadow King's hands.
That was even more important than protecting the children.
With that power, the Shadow King could kill them all regardless.
His speech finished, Erik assigned everyone to their teams and their tasks.
But everyone had trained for this, everyone knew what to do, and everyone knew that Emma would be with them as an open line of communication when they needed orders or assistance.
Everyone knew how to best play their part.
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Emma sighed, looking around the battlefield before taking on her diamond form. A lot of these kids were going to die, which was unfortunate because she was fond of some of them, but they needed to save Benjamin. No one knew better than her what Ben was suffering through.
She glanced at Amara in particular, sending her a psychic message as well.
[[Havok is our priority. I will keep him sane, you keep him alive. I can hide us from the enemy as long as their powers are not psychic.]] God forbid the Shadow King show up himself.
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[[I understand. I'll make sure he stays with us, or I'll make sure he can't be taken back to be used against us.]] It would kill her, but she'd do what had to be done. This was war. Hard choices had to be made.
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That had been part of the reason that Jean had mind-fucked Havok. It had been a very clear message that she sent; “DO NOT MESS WITH ME.” She had done something similar with a member of The Shadow King’s cadre. He had, unfortunately, not made it through with his sanity fully intact. Of course, The Shadow King had royally pissed her off by sending the Guthries after her. It was only after the mind-fuckery that they had stopped ( ... )
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Until he caught her scent. And then suddenly it was all worth it.
Catching a ninth kid by the ribs with one blood-covered hand, his claws slicing out through the spine and back, he looked around. "Jean?" He knew she would be able to hear him--or sense him, or both.
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This was a necessary battle, so she might as well find enjoyment where she could. And currently, that was going to be fighting Wolverine. The flames enveloping her body burned brightly, and she soared higher, scanning the crowd with both her eyes and her mind. To anyone who didn’t know her, it might have seemed a foolish move. Those that did, though, knew that she was FAR from vulnerable.
[[Hello, lover]]She couldn’t help the burning that accompanied her message; it was one of the side effects of fully embracing the Phoenix. She had tried to tamp down on it when she had been speaking with Erik or the others prior to the battle beginning, but she didn’t bother with that ( ... )
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"Oh darling," he replied sarcastically, eyes scanning the sky to look for her, "you've made a mistake siding with them."
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Eyes dropping down to his hand for a second, she smirked. “No one will ever leave a scar quite like you.” She grabbed his wrist excruciatingly tight, holding his claws inside her body unless he retracted them. At the same time she tangled a hand in his hair. And then she channelled more cosmic fire, pulling it into her. It filled the flames emanating from her body, enveloping the two of them.
As she did so she reached out, scanning the battlefield for one mind in particular. Found you...
[[Have a gift for you]]
She tamped down on the burning again for Erik, keeping it to a minimum. Then Jean wrenched his claws from her stomach and lifted off the ground, carrying him with her. She was carrying him to Magneto.
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It wasn't until he caught Erik's scent that he stilled in his struggle to break free of Jean and instead focused on looking around to locate the man. The one mutant Logan feared.
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He just got done slicing Lizard up, his sword gliding clean through him a few times, splitting his abdomen from his thorax, Erik moved towards where he felt Jean coming with Wolverine, practically salivating.
"Why, Logan... it's been a while, hasn't it. Missed me?"
Close enough now, he took full control and hold over that glorious skeleton, and hauled Logan from Phoenix, tossing him about midair a little, smacking him hard against the cold ground, battering him against the earth, before throwing him back.
"Do you think you might be so kind as to keep a firm hold on his flesh and blood body for me, Phoenix, dear?" He had an ever so strong craving for skeleton to be parted from body.
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