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baby_phoenix_ in marvel_mansion

the return from her stay on the moon (open)

Apr 02, 2008 11:55

She has spent hours in the current of the timestream. Going forward in the river is easy, going backward is taxing. It is taking nearly every ounce of her strength to keep pushing forward ( Read more... )

cable, madelyne pryor, havok, rachel summers, professor x, cyclops

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cable_ready April 3 2008, 02:07:44 UTC

Mismatched eyes flare open with sudden awareness, a half-formed melody dying in his ears.

One minute later, he's teleporting to Westchester.

Directly upon arrival, he's entering the sublevels and heading directly for Cerebro. No waiting for permission, no acknowledgement, nothing but telekinesis holding the doors to Cerebro's platform open for him and firmly shutting behind him. Cable will not be denied.

He slips on the helmet, anchoring his body in the present even as he psychically launches himself forward in a rip across the astral plane toward the beacon flaming backward down the time-stream mixing into the astral plane's currents even. Now - in his direction, not far away. Flesh and metal senses dig and grapple, his psi-signature glowing a fierce blue-silver as it seeks to meet the blindingly red light...

A light he's felt before down a much treasured psi-link. Dormant until now and forged upon his birth.

Rachel... RACHEL?!

baby_phoenix_ April 3 2008, 02:16:21 UTC

She had wanted to protect him. Jean was dead. And at the time, Scott didn't know that she was his. Rachel had just wanted a family, someone to love her though the love she had when she first met the newborn Nathan was instant and unconditional and thus the psi-link had been created.

And now it is that same psi-link is what is causing her to stir from her slumber. It's amazing that it even reaches her here but for a Summers, nothing is impossible. The familiarity of it causes her eyes to open.

Nathan?

genequeen April 3 2008, 05:24:38 UTC

Nathan?

Madelyne doesn't know much of what is happening but she can feel the ripples coming from her son. Time isn't something she manupilates or will even try to do so now. The waves of emotion coming off of Nathan are almsot physical but he isn't there.

He isn't.... here. Not really.

For the moment, she doesn't reach out to pull on him, though the temptation is strong.

cable_ready April 3 2008, 17:00:21 UTC

Telepaths have drowned in the astral plane before. Every instinct demands that he shield himself tightly, or else risk losing himself in the thoughts of billions.

This is different.

It's not just billions Nathan's wading through, but infinite thoughts: past, present, future, and alternate - all sweeping from the time-stream's currents onto the astral plane. With technological aid, he's thrown his body through time numerous events before and aided easily with future technology, but never his consciousness alone.

Nathan? Nathan?

Can hear both. Sense both.

Cerebro is tethering him, but fastness is determined only through the sheer force of his will and how long he can sustain. The psi-link glows again, attempting to strengthen and transform his psi-signature into virtual chain links of the same blue-silver. The other end of the chain is flung like a life rope toward that red light -toward Rachel- pushing only so far as he can split his energies in two to cut through thought and time itself.

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And sometime later... baby_phoenix_ April 7 2008, 03:43:39 UTC

Beast had pronounced his prognoses!1 Their status? Both Cable and Rachel are confined for overnight observation. Rachel is not concussed and the most likely reason for their stay is to force them to rest.

Rachel doesn't need to have rest forced upon her. She'd exhausted enough on her own that she's having to fight to stay awake.

I told you I wasn't concussed. She just wants sleep. Really.

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1. The character Beast was borrowed from Psychic Saphie productions, all rights reserved.

Re: And sometime later... old_one_eye April 7 2008, 04:19:53 UTC

"Then take it easy," he said to her softly. He had been... hovering around them both since he found them.

"There'll be time for you to catch up later."

Re: And sometime later... baby_phoenix_ April 7 2008, 04:40:25 UTC

Rachel turns her head to the side to look up and over at Cyclops, Scott, her dad. It's then that a memory surfaces . It's the Danger Room, a scene right out of Shrek complete with a pink dragon.

A look of confusion crosses her face. That's not her memory.

Re: And sometime later... cable_ready April 9 2008, 02:37:43 UTC

"What?" Cable's watching her out of the corner of his eye.

If it weren't for the fact that astral chronotripping seems to have temporarily screwed up his bodysliding calibrations, he'd already be on Greymalkin - Rachel possibly with him. As it is, he's silently stuck on the cot next to his sister waiting for 5000mg of ibuprofen to kick in. Soon as it does and as soon as his sister gets some rest, he'll be going.

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