Post by RazzleDazzle on Jan 1, 2022 12:52:13 GMT -6
(11/19/21 : 20:47:35)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *the refurbishing of Asteroid M had been a thing quite a long time in the making, longer perhaps than he might have wished, but given the specificity of Sinister's warnings about this data stick, he felt it best to take no chances...the asteroid's life support systems have been upgraded to support a larger group - until very recently it was at a minimal level since only he have visited, and even then only occasionally...there is still much to do, and it still has much the appearance of something in neglect, except for the places where specific efforts have been made to upgrade things, namely the computer systems which have been almost completely rebuilt, with not a little help from Kitty* Well, now that we are all here..... *he turns to Kitty* ...my dear, I believe you have been keeping the parcel for us for safe keeping. We cannot tarry any longer, our mutant brothers and sisters need us, and for that we need the information on that tape.... *he holds out a gloved hand to her, expectantly*
(11/19/21 : 20:56:18)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: You asked for an upgrade and unlike Theresa, you didn’t have to impose a limit, so she asked and you eventually got the parts the asked for. How, she doesn’t know. She just knows that they didn’t come from the school. The central control of the asteroid has been fully integrated and updated per your request. The defense systems have been overhauled and maxed out. It can house as many as you need, but per request can be run by just one if need be. The only stand out is this one small table with a single computer system. This system is powered by a generator and is NOT linked in to any system. It’s function is for one thing and one thing only, reading the data. She took his warning seriously as well. At your outstretched hand, she glances at you, smiles, and shrugs her shoulders. “I gave it back to Theresa before we left earth.”
(11/19/21 : 21:02:49)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex was hanging at the back of the group near the fancy new computer console or whatever Katie The Brain had hooked up. Alex had been warming to Magneto and his cool "Fuck everyone up" sensibilities, but all this tech stuff was quickly cooling Alex's hero worship of the old dude. He had come along mostly to check out the kick ass new orbital abilities Forge had added to the X-Jet. Pretty rad, blasting up to this creepy old asteroid. He grinned as Kitty mentioned you had the doohickey. He grins, looking at your backside*Hand it over red, or do I need to shake you down *He winks, hoping you put up a fight, hehe*
☆ (11/19/21 : 21:12:13)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: oh yay, she gets to participate in the narrative! Theresa narrows her eyes at you as she pulls the data stick from unnamed places (her pocket really) and slowly offers it to Magneto... this was serious bizniss Alex! Try to show some gravitas. She wears a solemn look during the delivery, waiting until Kitty and Magneto turn to busy themselves with the complicated job of plugging it in before she leans in close to your ear and whispers* If we don't immediately die, maybe ye can shift yer way into me knickers back in that utility closet before we go home. *G*
(11/19/21 : 21:18:57)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *he takes the data stick from you with a stiff nod* Very well then. *he is not one to waste time on speeches or ceremony; he is, and ever was, a man of action....he moved to the terminal, plugging the data stick into the appropriate jack on the air-gapped terminal, his eyes flicking over the screen expectantly...will the data just start to appear or must we go digging around the files to find something worthwhile....he has some expertise, but it is more Kitty's forte*
(11/19/21 : 21:38:17)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: The screen goes dark. There’s a single blinking prompt. “Excuse me, sir. I believe this is where I come in…” She’ll reach for a box that is under the table to pull it out and set on it’s side to make a crude seat. She starts tapping on the keyboard. A simple command and hits enter. Suddenly that dark screen isn’t so dark anymore. Suddenly window after window pop up in a nice tiled layout that over laps. Over this a map of the world that pops open over the windowed display. There are a few red dots, but mostly there are green dots. Kitty selects one of the green dots that looks to be in the middle of Alabama and clicks on it. The map fades and windows are pulled forward. Flipping through you can see lists of projects, completed and ongoing and the materials being used for each. There’s several lists: names of workerbees, soldiers, scientists, politicians, agents, prisoners/tests subjects as well as each’s power sets and what specific projects they are to be used for. There’s a blueprint for this site as well. Several links are given for related projects at other bases. Clicking on this brings up the similar lists and blueprints specific for that location. Several clicks later, she finds a reference to the kids we were working for on the east coast. “I found them!” She opens up the blueprint. This prompts another list to open, then another, and another. At this point she isn’t touching anything but things keep opening and opening. “Uh…that isn’t me.” Her voice is a little wary. The speed of the data flashing increased. The background of the screen long since covered now. The monitor flickers and the generator sputters. Kitty stands abruptly, knocking the makeshift seat down in her rush. Her eyes are still following the opening windows, her wary expression turning to one of concern bordering on fear. This should NOT be happening. Her gaze snaps to yours. “If you have any defense systems offline, you might want to fix that immediately.”
(11/19/21 : 21:46:57)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Kitty does whatever she does, hopefully getting us a list of places to go knock on doors and names of faces to punch. Then things seem to speed up, her computer going wonky, some wild flare sucking up energy from the generator suddenly. A beat after her words the room seems to humm then THUMP. A quiver that echoes out from the computer, seemingly down the corridor away from us, traveling out into the base. Alex stands up a big straighter, forgetting his nonchalant slouch against the wall. The hairs were standing up on his arms. That was some kind of energy pulse. His powers absorbing cosmic energy were having an odd tingle. He looked at you a moment, then Kitty. He was going to say something, then stopped. He thought he heard something...back down the corridor, or maybe...he looked around. Not quite sure what the faint sound was. Where it was coming from?* Does anyone else hear ...something?*A scratching? A scraping? A clicking?
☆ (11/19/21 : 21:54:17)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: Och, Alex, ye broke it...*she started, once the computer started acting up. But she was only joking...they expected something to happen, didn't they? That's why they were here and not back at the school. Or on Earth for that matter. But the moment you straightened, alert and suspicious, Theresa realized they may have gotten themselves in over their head. If YOU were concerned, then things were about to get banjaxed. She held up a finger in response, canting her head slightly to the side as she listened as well.
(11/19/21 : 21:59:55)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *They had been sleeping for a time. A second? A day? An age? They were creatures of the void, accustomed to long periods of floating dark nothingness. It was no unusual thing to sleep through an eternity while in transit. They had been hunting. Hunting...what? No, not a what...a who. They had been sent from the stars to hunt a man. A man who had eluded them, frustrated their attempts to fulfill their directive. Arriving at this blue orb they had been weakened, taken by surprise by their prey. He had escaped...and they had sought refuge upon this cold, quiet rock. Sleeping as they healed, recharged. Hibernating as their kind did, invulnerable to the ravages of space as they phased slightly out of synch with this dimension so they need not hair nor water nor energy. Invisible, undetectable...but ever present. Now the energy pulse had shook them from slumber. The hive quivered as one and solidified once more. Burrowed in throughout the asteroid. They caught the scent, warm bodies, sentient life, biologicals native to this planet. And so the Sidri hive reactivated. If they had to wait a thousand centuries they would not forget their directive. Find their target...secure base in this quadrant, on this rock from which to launch attack on the planet. Start with these biologicals...pacify, gather information from them, continue hunt for prey. And so thousand and thousands of little crab like creatures with a big red triangular eye in the middle of their big heads skittered forth, some moving over the surface of the asteroid, some over the base. Some skittering in to gain access to the interior already...a few dozen quickly moving down the corridor toward the special computer room where all the alluring body heat was emanating. As soon as the human bodies came into view the front row of Sidri hunters fired crimson force beams at the figures. Pew Pew Pew! They come skittering quickly forward on the floor, walls, ceiling*
(11/19/21 : 22:11:05)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : *his expectant expression changes, turning to a frown as it becomes clear that something unexpected is hapening...is his experience "unexpected" is almost always synonymous with "bad"....he sets his helmet, which he'd been carrying under his arm, back on his head with a resigned sigh* I thought we were the defense systems.... *in any case, there's no time to fix anything that may still be broken....he moves to another terminal, quickly tapping in a few keystrokes of his own to activate some anti-personnel devices...mostly auto-firing cannons, which emerge from the walls and ceilings at several places inside the base, most of them elsewhere...the creatures are almost too numerous for the targeting systems to fix upon, but there would be several dull blasts reverberating down the hallways as he lets it on auto-target for now, turning to the X-Men* Whatever it is, there are many of them-- *his words are cut off by the sudden appearance of their quarry, and without wasting time trying to think about what they are, he raises a hand and several sections of the floor peel up, jumping to block the first volley of blasts...this is just ordinary steel though, without any extra special strength so who's to say how long it could stand up to them, and there are more of those things coming besides*
(11/19/21 : 22:22:04)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: At their appearance, Kitty is shocked back into action. She spins back to the terminal and kills the power at the generator. Unless there was a code to eliminate the data, what was show was copied. She pulls the data stick from the computer, tucking it into a pocket and then unplugs the CPU. She tucks it under her arm before turning to face the opposition a beam from the ceiling barely misses her and slams into the generator. A second one takes out the computer’s monitor.
(11/19/21 : 22:27:41)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex wheels back from the doorway in a sudden flail as he spots the mass of dark crab things skurrying toward us, shooting their blast before the floor rips up to block the beams.* How many is "many", exactly? Like...30-50 wild hogs out there? *Alex moves back toward Theresa to stay between her and the things. He clenches fists and his wonky Havok circles start to appear around his hands, revving up. He gives a blast to one that pops up over the peeled up floor. His mind flashed through the goals here. Stay alive. Protect the data.*
☆ (11/19/21 : 22:40:08)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: You stepped between her and that spidery things, for which Theresa is eternally grateful...but she can't stay protected behind you. She ducks out, her voice warbling as it echoes through the room and down the corridor they were entering from, using sonar to get a better idea of what they were dealing with* 50 isn't even close. Hundreds. *a few scenarios flit through her head in the span of a few milliseconds, but there's only one that makes any sense. She looks over at Kitty just as her teammate pockets the data* Retreat. Back to the Blackbird, keep the data intact. *she turns to attention back to the scurrying creatures, delivering a sonic lance, a focused concussive force of sound that bowls the first waves over backwards, buying them a few seconds at least* Team, to Kitty. Get her to the Blackbird. Kitty, protect the data at all costs. Get it back to the others.
(11/19/21 : 22:48:27)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *The Hive gets picks up numerous power signatures. Magnetic distortion bars their way. Comics energy blasts at them, sonic manipulation. Interesting beings, these creatures. The hive mind searches memory, potential analogues to Shiar with an array of powers, Skrull agents with multiple powers, Kree experiments. But these creatures did not match any of those signatures. A new race with power all their own. The force beams beat at the bent up floor. Then a handful of the small crab sidri swarmed together, combined, growing into one bigger pony-sized crab thing. The new bigger Sidri unleashed a much larger, wider force blast that bent the floor panels further back, opening a way to the computer room again. The sonic blast sends little sidir tumbling end over end far down the corridor, even the larger one skids back on the flooring, as if pushed by gale force winds. Pushed back for a moment, the corridor opened up. The swarm still flows however, more and more coming out of the large asteroid, skurying on the exterior of the base, the void of space not seeming to give them the slightest pause. They found more and more entry ways, force beams burrowing down toward the computer room so the little buggers could pour in behind the team. Clawing toward the pulse origin from ceiling, floors and walls. They really wanted to get their claws into you interesting little creatures.
(11/19/21 : 23:00:56)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *your powers are intriguing, if a bit hard on the ears...at least his helmet provides a modicum of protection; he wonders how the others put up with it....still, your logic and tactics are sound and he has no argument with that* Very good, then. *spoken in a brisk tone...he strides over to Kitty, knowing full well that she is capable of protecting herself, but who is to say whether these strange energy blasts could still somehow impact her form....the initial shielding he'd provided was meant to be just enough to buy them time to regroup.....he strides toward the passageway that leads to the hangar...as he moves, large sections of the flooring roll up like some kind of metal carpet, trapping (and hopefully squashing) any of the creatures that get caught within....these metal rolls are then pushed ahead of him like a cowcatcher, clearing aside any more that pour through...he can only hope Havok and Siryn can cover their retreat, as he's focused solely on his and Kitty's 12:00*
(11/19/21 : 23:05:43)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: She’s no dummy. She phased immediately after having both the data stick and the CPU in hand. So far she’s safe enough. She hasn’t had a direct hit though, so lets just hope her luck holds. She’s right behind you, heading toward the Blackbird, casting a worried glance behind to make sure Theresa and Alex are coming with us. She doesn’t want to leave them behind. Mainly because, while she can fly the Blackbird, she hasn’t mastered landing yet.
(11/19/21 : 23:10:14)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Well, at least the things could be squished! Just another bug hunt. Alex backed up along with you, fists blasting at the swarm that seemed to fill the computer room as soon as we evacuated. The mass of Sidri swarming over themselves as their burrowing through the asteroid suddenly opened up to the room and they spilled forth in a mess. They soon recovered and chased after us. Zap zap! Alex blasts at them, side by side with you. We make good progress, watching the back, then one drops on him from above. Its pincers sinking into his shoulder as Alex lets out a howl. Then they all seem to become -very-interested in Alex. They all seem to try to rush toward him, ignoring you as they press forward. Too many for him to blast, he soon as a few more latched to his leg, arm...*
(11/19/21 : 23:20:51)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: No! *Theresa cries out as you start to get swarmed, reaching out and grabbing one without thinking, ripping it off your shoulder. She feels a surge of panic rising up inside of her, mind racing as she tries to think, but more are coming for you with each moment. She grabs and kicks and throws any that she can to keep them off you. * No, no, get off! Go away! Just.... STOP! *that last word echoes strangely through the corridor, Theresa unconsciously employing her vocal manipulation... inducing a sonic vibration that causes disorientation and then unconsciousness. Of coures, you'll be affected too, but being unconscious for a wee bit is a small price to pay if these creatures are knocked unconscious too. Kitty and Magneto are probably far enough ahead to not be affected*
(11/19/21 : 23:25:13)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *The things try their best to stop the progress, but they are fairly squishy when small so they get bulldozed into a slimy path as Magneto pushes to the hangar. Force beams blasting all over, unable to penetrate magnetic shields, just zapping through phased kitties. Those behind manage to get a bite out of Alex, and the swarm shifts suddenly toward him. The taste...yes, this is the same species of their target. There was something else about this one...analyzing....genetic makeup...x-Gene... match with- Interuption! Disruption! The swarm in the immediate area seizes, freezing in place. They go toppling over after the sonic disruption creating a cascading skitter of carapaces tumbling together. Siryn gets her moment to drag Alex along
*In the hanger more wait. Skittering along the walls from the exit out into space, through the air lock shield. Groups of them begin to converge. Assemble... hundreds to dozens...growing in size as more and more small sidri merge to fewer bigger ones. A few as big as cars already. A few larger force beams zipping in as toward the group entering the hangar once spotted
(11/19/21 : 23:33:31)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *he hears your cry and glances back, his expression twisting as he sees Alex beset by the beasts...he hesitates for a moment, but he can't afford to split his attention too long, with the creatures converging so quickly...you rattle Alex to unconsciousness and that seems to end the immediate threat and this frees him to focus on clearing their path out of here...his gaze rests briefly on Kitty's phased form as he turns back around to face forward* Are you injured, my dear? *for a second he wonders if you phase with Alex, if that would make him light enough for you to easily carry or if the relative weights are the same once phased...but that is something for a less critical time....he waits for you to respond and assuming that you don't have any injuries, we proceed into the hangar bay..he raises his hand and the large rolled metal sections, now oozing and dripping with alien blood and guts, seem to shred themselves, exploding into hundreds of shards that he sends outward in a metal tornado, the dual effect causing the blasts to spatter ineffectually and piercing the bodies of the alien bugs like pins in a collector's case*
(11/19/21 : 23:45:56)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: She turns at Alex’s howl. She even starts back to the two of them when suddenly they are all out except Theresa. Oh…wow. Kitty wasn’t aware she could do that. Your question catches her attention once more and she turns back to you long enough to answer. “Not at the moment.” Her she turns back to her teammates, torn between going back and going forward. Theresa?” At the moment she’s cursing her inability to have a more active power. See, if they had brought X, she could have helped. Or Kurt could teleport us all to the Blackbird and we’d be out of here. Why did we leave them behind again? Who’s in the Blackbird?
(11/19/21 : 23:50:57)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Knows you are a strapping scottish lass and could drag him along far enough. He dizzily comes back around not too long after, and tries to help stumble himself along, leaning heavily against you until his head clears some more. Stumbly along well enough to get to the jet so he can collapse in there so you can focus on blasting us out of here!*
(11/20/21 : 00:01:09)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : Saints, Kitty, GO! *didn't she say they had to save the data, at all costs? Even if that means you leave them behind. But.... don't leave them behind! LOL She grabs Alex and drags him along until he starts to stir, the little creatures blessedly still knocked out.... though the ones out of range are skittering forward now. She all but pushes him into the Blackbird after you and Magneto, leaving Alex to collapse into a seat while she jumps into the pilot's seat and starts flicking switches, powering up the jet. * Seatbelts, everrrrryone! *Please let this be a normal field trip - with the X-Men, no way! Just as take-off commences, they hear little skittering noises across the top of the Blackbird. Whooooooosh, let's see if they can hang on as she blasts away*
(11/20/21 : 00:08:27)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *They do not, in fact, hang on. The little ones suddenly go flipping into the air as the jet moves and blasts down the hangar. But the hundreds and hundreds of little beasties assembling in the big open room are merging and merging and merging again. Soon it is one big mass, the many Sidri turned into one big ass, space ship sized Sidri as the hive comes together. It swooshes along a few moments later, out the hangar after the jet, drawn by their hunt, their bounty, their only objective*
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:08:35)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Let's say it's been about 8 minutes or so, for not particular reason, since the activating of the data and the energy pulse now. The intergalactic bounty hunting crab things all up in a tizzy, chasing. While outside a whole other problem has arrived. Launched from planet side, a squadron of building-sized heavy armor sentinels have blasted up and now float out in space approaching the Asteroid. They signal each other as the x-jet comes flying out. Mutants detected, data source detected. Command/retrieve data/destroy mutants. And so they raise their palms and FOOOSH! New laser blasts of doom come flashing toward the ship from the new arrivals at the party.
*Also, for anyone sensitive to extraordinary discharges of energy, there is a disturbance in the force. Some large pulse, from somewhere in near space.
(11/20/21 : 00:21:41)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *we pile into the jet and Magneto spares a glance out viewscreen, to his base that is now apparently overrun with...whatever those things are...he doesn't have time to think about it, but there's a definite sense of loss about him...he doesn't, in fact, buckle his seatbelt as Siryn orders, holding himself steady by means of his powers....as we emerge from the asteroid his head whips around toward a....something, he can't quite place it yet, but the fact that he can feel it does not bode well....before he can even process this new input, the interior of the jet is lit up by blasts from the Sentinels* What the--! How did they follow us? *that is the first and most logical explanation, right? he wheels on Kitty* If you have any defense systems offline, you might want to see to that. *he repeats her words back at her with a dark sort of humor*
(11/20/21 : 00:31:43)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to ALL: Kitty straps herself in beside Theresa. The CPU is stored in a slot for safekeeping. Then she takes over half the tasks until we are blasting in space. She notices the Sentinels as specks of…something to start with, but they quickly grow in size as they approach. By the time she realizes what they are, they are preparing to fire. Kitty barely has time for a warning cry. “Theresa!” As she points toward the Sentinels. She instantly raises a hand to shield her face at the first volley of blasts. At Magneto’s words, she tosses his right back him as well. “WE are the defense system!” She unbuckles her seat belt and falls out of her seat on purpose. “Grab hold of something!” It is the only warning anyone gets. Hopefully Magneto plants his feet or whatever. Kitty flattens her hands and closes her eyes. She hasn’t tried this on something this large, but there’s always a first time for everything, right? With a deep breath, she concentrates…and…phases the whole jet and anyone inside or outside that might be touching. Any further blasts will just pass through harmless while the jet SHOULD in theory keep on flying. Should we roll for it? If we do, michael can’t do it.
(11/20/21 : 00:35:27)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex slouches in one of the back seats, holding his head as we take off. Gathering his head more and more as we fly off. Then he pics up a bit of the weird energy vibe as his body absorbs a bit of cosmic energy** What the hell now...*Kitty phases everything, maybe the first time Alex has phased, the tingle of his powers and the phase making him feel sick as he rides. He looks around for a space suit, just to get ready for disaster*
(11/20/21 : 00:45:08)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : Jaysus Mary and Joseph, I see 'em. *Theresa reaches over and pushes a few buttons or whatever, though nothing seemingly happens. However, she's activated stealth mode, so between Kitty's phasing and stealth mode, that ought to confuse the Sentinels for at least a few minutes, right? She expertly pilots the invisible and phased jet right through the center of a Sentinel, just to see if anything would happen to it. Next stop: Earth! She hopes.....
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:48:03)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[in space]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *The good news for Magneto is the Sidri seem to have no real interest in his base. They were swarming out of it in a huge mass now. Spinning through space in a long coil to fly out and join the ever growing merged Sidri. Their mass making the flying Sidri grow to a big ship sized thing, swooshing after the x-jet. One big pincer swipes at the jet as it flies in, going right through the phased ship. The giant Sidri loops off...flying a distance away to avoid Sentinel blasts...but turning to make another pass. They had some kind of vampire lock on Alex, the visibility cloak not hindering them so easily
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:49:12)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Sentinels continued to palm-blast a moment later. Then they paused as they ship phased. They had no care for the alien ship creature flying about, just the data, and mutants. Some of the Sentinels flew closer to the x-jet in pursuit. Calculating, given time their mutant countermeasures could find some cure for the phased defense. The remainder of Sentinels flew toward the Asteroid.
In the distance the sun seemed to flash, far off, halfway across the solar system. The flash seemed to grow a bit brighter. It was a pulse, some weapon in orbit around the sun had focused a sun flare and created a solar plasma blast, aimed at the Asteroid where the energy pulse had originated. It had taken a few minutes for the signal to reach the sun weapon...now mere minutes remained until the blast would arrive back to the plotted location of the asteroid in orbit*
(11/20/21 : 00:57:06)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *he doesn't waste any time questioning Kitty's barked command; he trusts her inasmuch as he trusts anybody, and he presses himself against the side of the jet, so he is able to be included in the phase effect....his eyes narrow as the energy he senses starts to crystalize, becoming more and more defined...it's a blast of some kind and despite its speed when crossing galactic scale there is still time to plot, triangulate....he narrows his eyes* Wait.... *he likes not at all what is happening, the trajectory this thing seems to be on....his asteroid has already suffered enough this night!...he stretches out with his powers, putting all his might into it, the lines of magnetic force spinning crazily, invisibly, and the whole of Asteroid M is shifted out of place....the motion itself seems slow, but shifting something of such incredible size makes the scale deceptive, and given its mass, it's like a huge wrecking ball of doom for any sentinels or bug ships that miscalculate its new course*
(11/20/21 : 01:01:47)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to ALL: With labored breath, Kitty remains on her knees with her hands flat against the floor. She’s beginning to shake from the strain of keeping the jet and all it’s contents and passengers phased and safe. There are beads of sweat upon her brown. Her concentration is so focused that if anyone asked her anything she wouldn’t hear to answer. And please don’t touch her if you want to stay safe.
☆ (11/20/21 : 01:05:01)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Rides along, hopes we dont die, is too young and pretty to die!*
(11/20/21 : 01:11:34)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : they're trapped, between Sentinels and Sidris, each converging on the Jet...the bright light pulses from the distance and in that moment, Theresa gets an idea.* Kitty, give me five more seconds ok? *she doesn't explain her plan, but banks slightly to the left and zoom straight toward the incoming solar plasma blast. They are in a direct trajectory and it will hit them in 5...4...3...2...1...brilliant light fills the interior of the jet as they pass harmlessly thought the blast and come out on the other side in one piece. The same cannot be said for the giant merged Sidri ship thing that had been following them.
(11/20/21 : 01:13:03)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[in space]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *The Sidri start to take the Sentinels as a threat, competing hunters out for their bounty?!? The giant-sized super Sidri ship swooshes ahead of the sentinels in pursuit. Thinking only of capture, fulfilling it's target objective. The hive of merged Sidri don't even see it coming. Flying to try and catch the jet, they swoop right into the focused sun-blast beam weapon and seem to disintegrate into a million little bits that burn up. Foosh! Bye bye pesky space bug bounty hunters.
☆ (11/20/21 : 01:13:07)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Alas, even the most heavily armored of heavy armor Sentinels are no match for the concussive force of several million tons of rock shifted dramatically into them. Crunch, splat, smash that group goes onto the surface.
The sunbeam weapon flashes in, missing the Asteroid as the huge mass impossibly alters it's course. The beam wasnt a smart weapon after all, once it was let loose from the sun all that massive deadly power was on a straight shot for wherever the pre-calculated target was. So it instead flashes through the phased x-jet, burns up the Sidri, and pursuing sentinels in a terrible display of friendly fire, then zips off around the curve of the earth. Providing a extra spectacular aurora borealis, and then zips off further into space until it eventually shimmers out hours from now. So the plucky mutants survive, evil mutant orbital base intact, a massive trove of data to at last stage a real rescue of the kidnaped mutant kids and other test subjects...and they have learned they have an enemy who apparently has a weapon orbiting the sun, something to check into, in the future!*
(11/20/21 : 01:21:02)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: You didn’t get five seconds, you got ten because she didn’t hear the request. Instead, she held on until she couldn’t anymore. With a very weak, “…sorry…” The poor girl, blacks out and slumps to the floor. She doesn’t even wake once we land. It’s a safe bet she’s out until tomorrow sometime.
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *the refurbishing of Asteroid M had been a thing quite a long time in the making, longer perhaps than he might have wished, but given the specificity of Sinister's warnings about this data stick, he felt it best to take no chances...the asteroid's life support systems have been upgraded to support a larger group - until very recently it was at a minimal level since only he have visited, and even then only occasionally...there is still much to do, and it still has much the appearance of something in neglect, except for the places where specific efforts have been made to upgrade things, namely the computer systems which have been almost completely rebuilt, with not a little help from Kitty* Well, now that we are all here..... *he turns to Kitty* ...my dear, I believe you have been keeping the parcel for us for safe keeping. We cannot tarry any longer, our mutant brothers and sisters need us, and for that we need the information on that tape.... *he holds out a gloved hand to her, expectantly*
(11/19/21 : 20:56:18)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: You asked for an upgrade and unlike Theresa, you didn’t have to impose a limit, so she asked and you eventually got the parts the asked for. How, she doesn’t know. She just knows that they didn’t come from the school. The central control of the asteroid has been fully integrated and updated per your request. The defense systems have been overhauled and maxed out. It can house as many as you need, but per request can be run by just one if need be. The only stand out is this one small table with a single computer system. This system is powered by a generator and is NOT linked in to any system. It’s function is for one thing and one thing only, reading the data. She took his warning seriously as well. At your outstretched hand, she glances at you, smiles, and shrugs her shoulders. “I gave it back to Theresa before we left earth.”
(11/19/21 : 21:02:49)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex was hanging at the back of the group near the fancy new computer console or whatever Katie The Brain had hooked up. Alex had been warming to Magneto and his cool "Fuck everyone up" sensibilities, but all this tech stuff was quickly cooling Alex's hero worship of the old dude. He had come along mostly to check out the kick ass new orbital abilities Forge had added to the X-Jet. Pretty rad, blasting up to this creepy old asteroid. He grinned as Kitty mentioned you had the doohickey. He grins, looking at your backside*Hand it over red, or do I need to shake you down *He winks, hoping you put up a fight, hehe*
☆ (11/19/21 : 21:12:13)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: oh yay, she gets to participate in the narrative! Theresa narrows her eyes at you as she pulls the data stick from unnamed places (her pocket really) and slowly offers it to Magneto... this was serious bizniss Alex! Try to show some gravitas. She wears a solemn look during the delivery, waiting until Kitty and Magneto turn to busy themselves with the complicated job of plugging it in before she leans in close to your ear and whispers* If we don't immediately die, maybe ye can shift yer way into me knickers back in that utility closet before we go home. *G*
(11/19/21 : 21:18:57)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *he takes the data stick from you with a stiff nod* Very well then. *he is not one to waste time on speeches or ceremony; he is, and ever was, a man of action....he moved to the terminal, plugging the data stick into the appropriate jack on the air-gapped terminal, his eyes flicking over the screen expectantly...will the data just start to appear or must we go digging around the files to find something worthwhile....he has some expertise, but it is more Kitty's forte*
(11/19/21 : 21:38:17)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: The screen goes dark. There’s a single blinking prompt. “Excuse me, sir. I believe this is where I come in…” She’ll reach for a box that is under the table to pull it out and set on it’s side to make a crude seat. She starts tapping on the keyboard. A simple command and hits enter. Suddenly that dark screen isn’t so dark anymore. Suddenly window after window pop up in a nice tiled layout that over laps. Over this a map of the world that pops open over the windowed display. There are a few red dots, but mostly there are green dots. Kitty selects one of the green dots that looks to be in the middle of Alabama and clicks on it. The map fades and windows are pulled forward. Flipping through you can see lists of projects, completed and ongoing and the materials being used for each. There’s several lists: names of workerbees, soldiers, scientists, politicians, agents, prisoners/tests subjects as well as each’s power sets and what specific projects they are to be used for. There’s a blueprint for this site as well. Several links are given for related projects at other bases. Clicking on this brings up the similar lists and blueprints specific for that location. Several clicks later, she finds a reference to the kids we were working for on the east coast. “I found them!” She opens up the blueprint. This prompts another list to open, then another, and another. At this point she isn’t touching anything but things keep opening and opening. “Uh…that isn’t me.” Her voice is a little wary. The speed of the data flashing increased. The background of the screen long since covered now. The monitor flickers and the generator sputters. Kitty stands abruptly, knocking the makeshift seat down in her rush. Her eyes are still following the opening windows, her wary expression turning to one of concern bordering on fear. This should NOT be happening. Her gaze snaps to yours. “If you have any defense systems offline, you might want to fix that immediately.”
(11/19/21 : 21:46:57)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Kitty does whatever she does, hopefully getting us a list of places to go knock on doors and names of faces to punch. Then things seem to speed up, her computer going wonky, some wild flare sucking up energy from the generator suddenly. A beat after her words the room seems to humm then THUMP. A quiver that echoes out from the computer, seemingly down the corridor away from us, traveling out into the base. Alex stands up a big straighter, forgetting his nonchalant slouch against the wall. The hairs were standing up on his arms. That was some kind of energy pulse. His powers absorbing cosmic energy were having an odd tingle. He looked at you a moment, then Kitty. He was going to say something, then stopped. He thought he heard something...back down the corridor, or maybe...he looked around. Not quite sure what the faint sound was. Where it was coming from?* Does anyone else hear ...something?*A scratching? A scraping? A clicking?
☆ (11/19/21 : 21:54:17)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: Och, Alex, ye broke it...*she started, once the computer started acting up. But she was only joking...they expected something to happen, didn't they? That's why they were here and not back at the school. Or on Earth for that matter. But the moment you straightened, alert and suspicious, Theresa realized they may have gotten themselves in over their head. If YOU were concerned, then things were about to get banjaxed. She held up a finger in response, canting her head slightly to the side as she listened as well.
(11/19/21 : 21:59:55)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *They had been sleeping for a time. A second? A day? An age? They were creatures of the void, accustomed to long periods of floating dark nothingness. It was no unusual thing to sleep through an eternity while in transit. They had been hunting. Hunting...what? No, not a what...a who. They had been sent from the stars to hunt a man. A man who had eluded them, frustrated their attempts to fulfill their directive. Arriving at this blue orb they had been weakened, taken by surprise by their prey. He had escaped...and they had sought refuge upon this cold, quiet rock. Sleeping as they healed, recharged. Hibernating as their kind did, invulnerable to the ravages of space as they phased slightly out of synch with this dimension so they need not hair nor water nor energy. Invisible, undetectable...but ever present. Now the energy pulse had shook them from slumber. The hive quivered as one and solidified once more. Burrowed in throughout the asteroid. They caught the scent, warm bodies, sentient life, biologicals native to this planet. And so the Sidri hive reactivated. If they had to wait a thousand centuries they would not forget their directive. Find their target...secure base in this quadrant, on this rock from which to launch attack on the planet. Start with these biologicals...pacify, gather information from them, continue hunt for prey. And so thousand and thousands of little crab like creatures with a big red triangular eye in the middle of their big heads skittered forth, some moving over the surface of the asteroid, some over the base. Some skittering in to gain access to the interior already...a few dozen quickly moving down the corridor toward the special computer room where all the alluring body heat was emanating. As soon as the human bodies came into view the front row of Sidri hunters fired crimson force beams at the figures. Pew Pew Pew! They come skittering quickly forward on the floor, walls, ceiling*
(11/19/21 : 22:11:05)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : *his expectant expression changes, turning to a frown as it becomes clear that something unexpected is hapening...is his experience "unexpected" is almost always synonymous with "bad"....he sets his helmet, which he'd been carrying under his arm, back on his head with a resigned sigh* I thought we were the defense systems.... *in any case, there's no time to fix anything that may still be broken....he moves to another terminal, quickly tapping in a few keystrokes of his own to activate some anti-personnel devices...mostly auto-firing cannons, which emerge from the walls and ceilings at several places inside the base, most of them elsewhere...the creatures are almost too numerous for the targeting systems to fix upon, but there would be several dull blasts reverberating down the hallways as he lets it on auto-target for now, turning to the X-Men* Whatever it is, there are many of them-- *his words are cut off by the sudden appearance of their quarry, and without wasting time trying to think about what they are, he raises a hand and several sections of the floor peel up, jumping to block the first volley of blasts...this is just ordinary steel though, without any extra special strength so who's to say how long it could stand up to them, and there are more of those things coming besides*
(11/19/21 : 22:22:04)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: At their appearance, Kitty is shocked back into action. She spins back to the terminal and kills the power at the generator. Unless there was a code to eliminate the data, what was show was copied. She pulls the data stick from the computer, tucking it into a pocket and then unplugs the CPU. She tucks it under her arm before turning to face the opposition a beam from the ceiling barely misses her and slams into the generator. A second one takes out the computer’s monitor.
(11/19/21 : 22:27:41)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex wheels back from the doorway in a sudden flail as he spots the mass of dark crab things skurrying toward us, shooting their blast before the floor rips up to block the beams.* How many is "many", exactly? Like...30-50 wild hogs out there? *Alex moves back toward Theresa to stay between her and the things. He clenches fists and his wonky Havok circles start to appear around his hands, revving up. He gives a blast to one that pops up over the peeled up floor. His mind flashed through the goals here. Stay alive. Protect the data.*
☆ (11/19/21 : 22:40:08)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: You stepped between her and that spidery things, for which Theresa is eternally grateful...but she can't stay protected behind you. She ducks out, her voice warbling as it echoes through the room and down the corridor they were entering from, using sonar to get a better idea of what they were dealing with* 50 isn't even close. Hundreds. *a few scenarios flit through her head in the span of a few milliseconds, but there's only one that makes any sense. She looks over at Kitty just as her teammate pockets the data* Retreat. Back to the Blackbird, keep the data intact. *she turns to attention back to the scurrying creatures, delivering a sonic lance, a focused concussive force of sound that bowls the first waves over backwards, buying them a few seconds at least* Team, to Kitty. Get her to the Blackbird. Kitty, protect the data at all costs. Get it back to the others.
(11/19/21 : 22:48:27)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *The Hive gets picks up numerous power signatures. Magnetic distortion bars their way. Comics energy blasts at them, sonic manipulation. Interesting beings, these creatures. The hive mind searches memory, potential analogues to Shiar with an array of powers, Skrull agents with multiple powers, Kree experiments. But these creatures did not match any of those signatures. A new race with power all their own. The force beams beat at the bent up floor. Then a handful of the small crab sidri swarmed together, combined, growing into one bigger pony-sized crab thing. The new bigger Sidri unleashed a much larger, wider force blast that bent the floor panels further back, opening a way to the computer room again. The sonic blast sends little sidir tumbling end over end far down the corridor, even the larger one skids back on the flooring, as if pushed by gale force winds. Pushed back for a moment, the corridor opened up. The swarm still flows however, more and more coming out of the large asteroid, skurying on the exterior of the base, the void of space not seeming to give them the slightest pause. They found more and more entry ways, force beams burrowing down toward the computer room so the little buggers could pour in behind the team. Clawing toward the pulse origin from ceiling, floors and walls. They really wanted to get their claws into you interesting little creatures.
(11/19/21 : 23:00:56)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *your powers are intriguing, if a bit hard on the ears...at least his helmet provides a modicum of protection; he wonders how the others put up with it....still, your logic and tactics are sound and he has no argument with that* Very good, then. *spoken in a brisk tone...he strides over to Kitty, knowing full well that she is capable of protecting herself, but who is to say whether these strange energy blasts could still somehow impact her form....the initial shielding he'd provided was meant to be just enough to buy them time to regroup.....he strides toward the passageway that leads to the hangar...as he moves, large sections of the flooring roll up like some kind of metal carpet, trapping (and hopefully squashing) any of the creatures that get caught within....these metal rolls are then pushed ahead of him like a cowcatcher, clearing aside any more that pour through...he can only hope Havok and Siryn can cover their retreat, as he's focused solely on his and Kitty's 12:00*
(11/19/21 : 23:05:43)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: She’s no dummy. She phased immediately after having both the data stick and the CPU in hand. So far she’s safe enough. She hasn’t had a direct hit though, so lets just hope her luck holds. She’s right behind you, heading toward the Blackbird, casting a worried glance behind to make sure Theresa and Alex are coming with us. She doesn’t want to leave them behind. Mainly because, while she can fly the Blackbird, she hasn’t mastered landing yet.
(11/19/21 : 23:10:14)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Well, at least the things could be squished! Just another bug hunt. Alex backed up along with you, fists blasting at the swarm that seemed to fill the computer room as soon as we evacuated. The mass of Sidri swarming over themselves as their burrowing through the asteroid suddenly opened up to the room and they spilled forth in a mess. They soon recovered and chased after us. Zap zap! Alex blasts at them, side by side with you. We make good progress, watching the back, then one drops on him from above. Its pincers sinking into his shoulder as Alex lets out a howl. Then they all seem to become -very-interested in Alex. They all seem to try to rush toward him, ignoring you as they press forward. Too many for him to blast, he soon as a few more latched to his leg, arm...*
(11/19/21 : 23:20:51)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ..( { [H A V O K] } )..=: No! *Theresa cries out as you start to get swarmed, reaching out and grabbing one without thinking, ripping it off your shoulder. She feels a surge of panic rising up inside of her, mind racing as she tries to think, but more are coming for you with each moment. She grabs and kicks and throws any that she can to keep them off you. * No, no, get off! Go away! Just.... STOP! *that last word echoes strangely through the corridor, Theresa unconsciously employing her vocal manipulation... inducing a sonic vibration that causes disorientation and then unconsciousness. Of coures, you'll be affected too, but being unconscious for a wee bit is a small price to pay if these creatures are knocked unconscious too. Kitty and Magneto are probably far enough ahead to not be affected*
(11/19/21 : 23:25:13)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *The things try their best to stop the progress, but they are fairly squishy when small so they get bulldozed into a slimy path as Magneto pushes to the hangar. Force beams blasting all over, unable to penetrate magnetic shields, just zapping through phased kitties. Those behind manage to get a bite out of Alex, and the swarm shifts suddenly toward him. The taste...yes, this is the same species of their target. There was something else about this one...analyzing....genetic makeup...x-Gene... match with- Interuption! Disruption! The swarm in the immediate area seizes, freezing in place. They go toppling over after the sonic disruption creating a cascading skitter of carapaces tumbling together. Siryn gets her moment to drag Alex along
*In the hanger more wait. Skittering along the walls from the exit out into space, through the air lock shield. Groups of them begin to converge. Assemble... hundreds to dozens...growing in size as more and more small sidri merge to fewer bigger ones. A few as big as cars already. A few larger force beams zipping in as toward the group entering the hangar once spotted
(11/19/21 : 23:33:31)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *he hears your cry and glances back, his expression twisting as he sees Alex beset by the beasts...he hesitates for a moment, but he can't afford to split his attention too long, with the creatures converging so quickly...you rattle Alex to unconsciousness and that seems to end the immediate threat and this frees him to focus on clearing their path out of here...his gaze rests briefly on Kitty's phased form as he turns back around to face forward* Are you injured, my dear? *for a second he wonders if you phase with Alex, if that would make him light enough for you to easily carry or if the relative weights are the same once phased...but that is something for a less critical time....he waits for you to respond and assuming that you don't have any injuries, we proceed into the hangar bay..he raises his hand and the large rolled metal sections, now oozing and dripping with alien blood and guts, seem to shred themselves, exploding into hundreds of shards that he sends outward in a metal tornado, the dual effect causing the blasts to spatter ineffectually and piercing the bodies of the alien bugs like pins in a collector's case*
(11/19/21 : 23:45:56)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: She turns at Alex’s howl. She even starts back to the two of them when suddenly they are all out except Theresa. Oh…wow. Kitty wasn’t aware she could do that. Your question catches her attention once more and she turns back to you long enough to answer. “Not at the moment.” Her she turns back to her teammates, torn between going back and going forward. Theresa?” At the moment she’s cursing her inability to have a more active power. See, if they had brought X, she could have helped. Or Kurt could teleport us all to the Blackbird and we’d be out of here. Why did we leave them behind again? Who’s in the Blackbird?
(11/19/21 : 23:50:57)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Knows you are a strapping scottish lass and could drag him along far enough. He dizzily comes back around not too long after, and tries to help stumble himself along, leaning heavily against you until his head clears some more. Stumbly along well enough to get to the jet so he can collapse in there so you can focus on blasting us out of here!*
(11/20/21 : 00:01:09)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : Saints, Kitty, GO! *didn't she say they had to save the data, at all costs? Even if that means you leave them behind. But.... don't leave them behind! LOL She grabs Alex and drags him along until he starts to stir, the little creatures blessedly still knocked out.... though the ones out of range are skittering forward now. She all but pushes him into the Blackbird after you and Magneto, leaving Alex to collapse into a seat while she jumps into the pilot's seat and starts flicking switches, powering up the jet. * Seatbelts, everrrrryone! *Please let this be a normal field trip - with the X-Men, no way! Just as take-off commences, they hear little skittering noises across the top of the Blackbird. Whooooooosh, let's see if they can hang on as she blasts away*
(11/20/21 : 00:08:27)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *They do not, in fact, hang on. The little ones suddenly go flipping into the air as the jet moves and blasts down the hangar. But the hundreds and hundreds of little beasties assembling in the big open room are merging and merging and merging again. Soon it is one big mass, the many Sidri turned into one big ass, space ship sized Sidri as the hive comes together. It swooshes along a few moments later, out the hangar after the jet, drawn by their hunt, their bounty, their only objective*
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:08:35)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Let's say it's been about 8 minutes or so, for not particular reason, since the activating of the data and the energy pulse now. The intergalactic bounty hunting crab things all up in a tizzy, chasing. While outside a whole other problem has arrived. Launched from planet side, a squadron of building-sized heavy armor sentinels have blasted up and now float out in space approaching the Asteroid. They signal each other as the x-jet comes flying out. Mutants detected, data source detected. Command/retrieve data/destroy mutants. And so they raise their palms and FOOOSH! New laser blasts of doom come flashing toward the ship from the new arrivals at the party.
*Also, for anyone sensitive to extraordinary discharges of energy, there is a disturbance in the force. Some large pulse, from somewhere in near space.
(11/20/21 : 00:21:41)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *we pile into the jet and Magneto spares a glance out viewscreen, to his base that is now apparently overrun with...whatever those things are...he doesn't have time to think about it, but there's a definite sense of loss about him...he doesn't, in fact, buckle his seatbelt as Siryn orders, holding himself steady by means of his powers....as we emerge from the asteroid his head whips around toward a....something, he can't quite place it yet, but the fact that he can feel it does not bode well....before he can even process this new input, the interior of the jet is lit up by blasts from the Sentinels* What the--! How did they follow us? *that is the first and most logical explanation, right? he wheels on Kitty* If you have any defense systems offline, you might want to see to that. *he repeats her words back at her with a dark sort of humor*
(11/20/21 : 00:31:43)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to ALL: Kitty straps herself in beside Theresa. The CPU is stored in a slot for safekeeping. Then she takes over half the tasks until we are blasting in space. She notices the Sentinels as specks of…something to start with, but they quickly grow in size as they approach. By the time she realizes what they are, they are preparing to fire. Kitty barely has time for a warning cry. “Theresa!” As she points toward the Sentinels. She instantly raises a hand to shield her face at the first volley of blasts. At Magneto’s words, she tosses his right back him as well. “WE are the defense system!” She unbuckles her seat belt and falls out of her seat on purpose. “Grab hold of something!” It is the only warning anyone gets. Hopefully Magneto plants his feet or whatever. Kitty flattens her hands and closes her eyes. She hasn’t tried this on something this large, but there’s always a first time for everything, right? With a deep breath, she concentrates…and…phases the whole jet and anyone inside or outside that might be touching. Any further blasts will just pass through harmless while the jet SHOULD in theory keep on flying. Should we roll for it? If we do, michael can’t do it.
(11/20/21 : 00:35:27)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Alex slouches in one of the back seats, holding his head as we take off. Gathering his head more and more as we fly off. Then he pics up a bit of the weird energy vibe as his body absorbs a bit of cosmic energy** What the hell now...*Kitty phases everything, maybe the first time Alex has phased, the tingle of his powers and the phase making him feel sick as he rides. He looks around for a space suit, just to get ready for disaster*
(11/20/21 : 00:45:08)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : Jaysus Mary and Joseph, I see 'em. *Theresa reaches over and pushes a few buttons or whatever, though nothing seemingly happens. However, she's activated stealth mode, so between Kitty's phasing and stealth mode, that ought to confuse the Sentinels for at least a few minutes, right? She expertly pilots the invisible and phased jet right through the center of a Sentinel, just to see if anything would happen to it. Next stop: Earth! She hopes.....
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:48:03)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[in space]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *The good news for Magneto is the Sidri seem to have no real interest in his base. They were swarming out of it in a huge mass now. Spinning through space in a long coil to fly out and join the ever growing merged Sidri. Their mass making the flying Sidri grow to a big ship sized thing, swooshing after the x-jet. One big pincer swipes at the jet as it flies in, going right through the phased ship. The giant Sidri loops off...flying a distance away to avoid Sentinel blasts...but turning to make another pass. They had some kind of vampire lock on Alex, the visibility cloak not hindering them so easily
☆ (11/20/21 : 00:49:12)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Sentinels continued to palm-blast a moment later. Then they paused as they ship phased. They had no care for the alien ship creature flying about, just the data, and mutants. Some of the Sentinels flew closer to the x-jet in pursuit. Calculating, given time their mutant countermeasures could find some cure for the phased defense. The remainder of Sentinels flew toward the Asteroid.
In the distance the sun seemed to flash, far off, halfway across the solar system. The flash seemed to grow a bit brighter. It was a pulse, some weapon in orbit around the sun had focused a sun flare and created a solar plasma blast, aimed at the Asteroid where the energy pulse had originated. It had taken a few minutes for the signal to reach the sun weapon...now mere minutes remained until the blast would arrive back to the plotted location of the asteroid in orbit*
(11/20/21 : 00:57:06)
-- tomorrow's - dream --
M A G N E T O
- Erik Lensherr -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good that he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
| The Brotherhood |
Marvel Utopia @ ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to ALL: *he doesn't waste any time questioning Kitty's barked command; he trusts her inasmuch as he trusts anybody, and he presses himself against the side of the jet, so he is able to be included in the phase effect....his eyes narrow as the energy he senses starts to crystalize, becoming more and more defined...it's a blast of some kind and despite its speed when crossing galactic scale there is still time to plot, triangulate....he narrows his eyes* Wait.... *he likes not at all what is happening, the trajectory this thing seems to be on....his asteroid has already suffered enough this night!...he stretches out with his powers, putting all his might into it, the lines of magnetic force spinning crazily, invisibly, and the whole of Asteroid M is shifted out of place....the motion itself seems slow, but shifting something of such incredible size makes the scale deceptive, and given its mass, it's like a huge wrecking ball of doom for any sentinels or bug ships that miscalculate its new course*
(11/20/21 : 01:01:47)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to ALL: With labored breath, Kitty remains on her knees with her hands flat against the floor. She’s beginning to shake from the strain of keeping the jet and all it’s contents and passengers phased and safe. There are beads of sweat upon her brown. Her concentration is so focused that if anyone asked her anything she wouldn’t hear to answer. And please don’t touch her if you want to stay safe.
☆ (11/20/21 : 01:05:01)
..( { [H A V O K] } )..
=- Alex Summers -=
Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia | Revochat
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *Rides along, hopes we dont die, is too young and pretty to die!*
(11/20/21 : 01:11:34)
.call . of . the . siryn.
Theresa Cassidy
(...(..(.SIRYN.)..)...)
The Xavier Institute
Marvel Utopia : ReVo
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to --== Can’t Touch This : they're trapped, between Sentinels and Sidris, each converging on the Jet...the bright light pulses from the distance and in that moment, Theresa gets an idea.* Kitty, give me five more seconds ok? *she doesn't explain her plan, but banks slightly to the left and zoom straight toward the incoming solar plasma blast. They are in a direct trajectory and it will hit them in 5...4...3...2...1...brilliant light fills the interior of the jet as they pass harmlessly thought the blast and come out on the other side in one piece. The same cannot be said for the giant merged Sidri ship thing that had been following them.
(11/20/21 : 01:13:03)
:_Death from the Void_:
=SIDRI=
-[in space]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: *The Sidri start to take the Sentinels as a threat, competing hunters out for their bounty?!? The giant-sized super Sidri ship swooshes ahead of the sentinels in pursuit. Thinking only of capture, fulfilling it's target objective. The hive of merged Sidri don't even see it coming. Flying to try and catch the jet, they swoop right into the focused sun-blast beam weapon and seem to disintegrate into a million little bits that burn up. Foosh! Bye bye pesky space bug bounty hunters.
☆ (11/20/21 : 01:13:07)
|||SENTINELS|||
-[on Asteroid M]-
says to -- tomorrow's - dream --: *Alas, even the most heavily armored of heavy armor Sentinels are no match for the concussive force of several million tons of rock shifted dramatically into them. Crunch, splat, smash that group goes onto the surface.
The sunbeam weapon flashes in, missing the Asteroid as the huge mass impossibly alters it's course. The beam wasnt a smart weapon after all, once it was let loose from the sun all that massive deadly power was on a straight shot for wherever the pre-calculated target was. So it instead flashes through the phased x-jet, burns up the Sidri, and pursuing sentinels in a terrible display of friendly fire, then zips off around the curve of the earth. Providing a extra spectacular aurora borealis, and then zips off further into space until it eventually shimmers out hours from now. So the plucky mutants survive, evil mutant orbital base intact, a massive trove of data to at last stage a real rescue of the kidnaped mutant kids and other test subjects...and they have learned they have an enemy who apparently has a weapon orbiting the sun, something to check into, in the future!*
(11/20/21 : 01:21:02)
--== Can’t Touch This ==--
Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
X-Men
Marvel Utopia
-[onboard the Blackbird]-
says to .call . of . the . siryn: You didn’t get five seconds, you got ten because she didn’t hear the request. Instead, she held on until she couldn’t anymore. With a very weak, “…sorry…” The poor girl, blacks out and slumps to the floor. She doesn’t even wake once we land. It’s a safe bet she’s out until tomorrow sometime.