*Jason was sitting in the rec room leaned back comfortably in his seat. He had a small pile of comics next to him and a mostly empty cup of hot chocolate that had long since gone cold sitting on the floor. He'd ventured out of the warmth of the room wondering if he might find some interesting company out and about. Anyone looking at the comics ( Read more... )

Scion hadn't been caught for his late night adventure, however the weapon had taken it upon himself for self inflicted punishment. It was what he had been trained to do, X-13 disobeyed an order therefore he needed to be punished for it, even if his superiors had no idea. It was called discipline, and that was something X-13 had in folds. He was the ( Read more... )

He never slept, but for once, Martini very much wished he could. He had too much on his mind, and no relief to find from it in the realm of dreams, or any other distraction he tried. He turned over, lying on his bed, as much out of habit as anything else. God, even Atticus had managed to find relief in slumber tonight. Thoughts flitted through his ( Read more... )

Evan sat at one of the tables, nursing a now cold mug of coffee and playing with a folded and shredded napkin. He'd already put on his thermals, a half dozen pair of socks -which meant his boots didn't lace up, two pairs of pants and his five t-shirts under his military issue jacket. Pyro had even given him a pair of fingerless gloves. The guy ( Read more... )

They were in Russia, it was considerably colder than their last location they were at but X wasn't one to complain. He was wearing his standard military boots, camo pants, a black turtle neck this time which the sleeves were rolled up on his arms, the tattoo still visible on his arm but even in the cool brisk weather he had them as such so he ( Read more... )

*Talia arrived at the camp of run-down bunkers; this had not been what she expected but she would make do. She step out of the jeep and took an icy breath. Talia braced herself against the snow and began walking into the small setup. The first thing she had to do was find Stryker and see where she would be staying. Talia glanced around the camp, ( Read more... )

*Stryker had briefed the squad on the plane as to where they were now headed; Russia, a short distance outside of St Petersburg. He'd also told them of his new, stricter policies on how to run the team - receiving more than a few complaints in response - but he'd assured them all that it was for their own good. The plane had landed in good time ( Read more... )

*If there was one thing wrong with being a genius, it was that Hope got bored very quickly. For the first part of the flight, her book managed to keep her entertained when she wasn’t chatting with Atticus but she was a speed reader and quickly finished Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and Genomes. It left her with a small space and little ( Read more... )

*Finally, everything was packed up, and Team X were at last ready to leave. All the tents had been dismantled, the equipment stowed and the local goverment silenced with a hefty bribe; the squad was now preparing to head for their next base, the location of which was still a secret kept by Stryker, although he planned to brief the team once they ( Read more... )

How long was he going to have to stand still for? Just waiting here at the camp for the next mission, it was driving Scion mad. The earth that surrounded them, the constant smell of trees. It was unfamiliar to him therefore it bothered him greatly. He was used to the scent of metal, blood, anesthetics and chemicals. This 'natural' setting was ( Read more... )