"Yeah he did" Atticus lughed "Look" He showed her a gold ring which had the green stone set in it "Yeah there it is sorry i have really bad memory I really should stop this" He said gesturing towards the splif "But it calms me down and helps me control my powers"

Kilala looked down at the ring and saw the remnants of the green stone in his ring. Who knew such a beautiful thing could be so destructive. "There are lots of other healthy ways to calm yourself down. Controlling your powers though...I don't really know. You keep smoking that crap, you will lose a lot more than your memory."

Her various training techniques came into her mind as she thought of all the ways she'd learn to meditate and feel tranquil when the whole world was on your back. An image of the dojo blowing up flashed in her mind and she quickly spoke again to be rid of it. "Maybe I can show you how some time."

"Yeah maybe" kaine said dropping it and stepping on it to extinguish it "Trust me its the best way to control it at the moment my powers have done terible things as i sleep and there growing"

Kilala felt bad for him. She was thankful that her mutation was under her control and it was only when she pushed it to hard that she would actually have any physical affects. "Maybe you should try and talk to the Doc Prof about it. Have you tried speaking to Tricity about it?"

A few minutes passed beofre Daria apporached the podium. The microphones were adjusted and lowered so she could reach them. Her tiny brown face was determined and angry but her eyes simply conveyed a deep sadness.

"May I have your attention, please?" she said to the room. " I know you are all wondering what is going on. You want to know about the recent kidnappings, you're curious about the hwerabouts of lost friends and loved ones. Some of you have just come to help. Well today, I hope your questions will be answered, I will see to it that they are.

"The world isn't always the most agreeable place for us. It doesn't always welcome us with open arms, sometimes our own kind attack us. We are misused, oppressed and looked down upon. Sometimes we are even enslaved. It pains me to think that we are treated as inferior, as the scum of the earth. And even when we are viewed worhty enough to live, we are used as weapons...exploited.

"And that is why we are called here today, science, man's curiosity to know more, his hunger for power and knowledge has put us in grave danger. You were all given viles of a strange fluid. It tastes horrible but I assure you it is worth it to drink it. It counters the drug that the kidnappers have injected our missing fellow mutants with. It is potent and fast working and will portect you if or when you are attacked.-"

She paused for a minute as Iratio asked for the ingredients to the concoction. She wrote them down on a piece of paper and handed it to him, then she continued to speak.

"And who are these Kidnappers? They are scientists, working ofr a man named Fusionsist who tortures and experiments and even recruits Mutants to work for him. He is evil, turning friend against friend, adult against child and...sister against sister." she paused to glance at Emmy.

"I was captured and I escaped. But the one who helped me had to sacrifice his own escape and his survival and the survival of every other mutant in there depends wholey on the lot of us in this room. We can only count on eachother, we need to be there for our fellow mutants." Daria said.

"An attack is planned on the Labs, the location of which I have on the way. We have armoured vehicles, for air and land to deliver us there safely and back. This is crucial and serious business, not for the weak of mind or faint of heart. If you sit before me today, ready to fight good. But if you have any doubts, I suggest you leave now, before it's too late." she concluded, hearing the sound of copters outside. She knew it was Linda and left the podium.

The shadowed figure shifted uncomfortably at the part about sister against sister. It looked up at a cold breeze blew through the church echoing eerily in the massive hallway. The figure looked outside a little whiles away from the the Helicopters, flew a hawk with a snake in its beak.

The figure smirked, it was a bad omen it was a bad omen for troy and It was a Bad omen for this.

All of a sudden a murmur arose from the mutants, questions arose as well. But all where silenced by a tapping on the mike. Emerald stood at the Mike, lowering it down to her level she looked out at the audience and a small sigh escaped her lips.

"Now you probably all are wondering how any of this can be true right? Well take it from someone who was in the labs of Fusionist for ten years, Its all very true. I have a tattoo on my foot that says my number and my project name. Anyone is more than welcome to see it." Emerald explained, keeping her gaze on the audience.

"Fusionist has he Capabilities of doing horrible things to our kind, believe me I have seen it happen. I have seen him separate mother's from baby's, Fathers from sons, Sisters from sisters" On the last one Emerald got a bit chocked up but quickly calmed herself down.

"Once he breaks someones will he'll use them as much as he wants. Werther it is for Power or Murder, Fusionist is still the horrible man who has killed thousands of mutants and tortched many others, including our loved ones in there right now. To add to What Daria said, if we don't stand up for our fellow mutant, who will?" Emerald walked away from the mike and out toward where Daria was. The wolf girl walked behind Daria, standing behind her tail wagging back and forth with anticipation.

The figure looked at all the notes she had taken and smirked, beginning to walk through the stairs trying to catch any conversations she might interject in or perhaps any plans of attack, just so she will know to stay away from the attack. But that didn't mean she was gonna warn the labs about it, she was just looking out for herself.

Shortly after the speeches were done a copter landed outside. It drew little attention surprisingly.

Daria was patting Emmy on the shoulder and telling her she did a good job as A tall woman walked into the church. She was slender and wore a business suit. Her long raven balck hair flowed down her back and her olive complxion glowed.

Daria's eyes lit up at the woman's arrival. "Linda?" What are you doing here?" she asked.

"You know I couldn't just send you trrops and not use it as an opporutnity to visit!" the woman said grabbing Daria and lifting her up easily. Her thin frame was decieving. "And who is this little darling?" she said turning to Emerald. Daria was still a bit shocked and didn't answer.

"Emerald, Emerald Lupin." Emerald responded, glad to see a human with a friendly face. Her tail wagged back and forth curiously as she looked at Linda, in a way her looks reminded her of someone but she just couldnt put her finger on it.

She took her hand out of her dad's old lucky jacket and stuck it out for Linda to shake.

Ira quietly thanked Daria and returned to his seat. Half listening to what she was saying, he looked over the ingredients and memorized them.

He finished memorizing the ingredients and as he turned more of his attention to what she was saying he noted that they would be using armoured vehicles amoung other things.
<Ooo, high grade metal plating..> his mouth watered at the thought and he began to figit a bit. He couldn't wait to get his hands on some of that.
He still hadn't taken the antidote. Looking at it, he quickly downed it in one go and grimaced, smiling on the inside though. <Wow, funky. She wasn't kidding about that taste>
Waves of nausea swept through him, but he forced it down, swallowing and blinking hard.
He looked thoughtfully at the little bottle that he'd just emptied. He put his hand over it and concentrated, keeping what he'd memorized in his thoughts.
Slowly the bottle refilled.
When he was done he got a tiny bit on his finger and tested the taste. <Yup, thats the stuff> thought Ira, choking a little bit from it. He firmly replaced the cap and slipped the tiny bottle into his pants pocket.
He thought about the mission. What would be his plan of action? Ira knew he had to go back for the ball of metal he stashed in the dock's bay. The location of the target is the only thing left to wait for.
Ira's left hand idly transformed part of the arm of his stone throne into a small four ball pendulum device, like one you'd find in an office. He lifted of the balls and let it swing. Clack, clack, clack, clack. It wasn't loud, just constant and it helped focus his mind.

A copter landed outside and Daria left the podium and went to see the woman who entered the church. The three of them including a wolfy girl who came with Daria, talked for awhile.

The church was filled with the voices of many people talking at once, they all had questions to ask, points to makes, everyone had something to say. Ira just sat there with his head leaning on his right arm, watching his little pendulum thingy. All the noise was beginning to fustrate him. He thought about what he'd heard about Fusionist. He didn't sound too bad, almost like him, but unfortunately for him, raiding his labs could provide Ira with resources, information, knowledge of useful compounds, and, well, Ira needed something to do today.

He began to whistle merrily to himself as he thought of the terror he might bring to anyone (other than the kidnapped ones) he gets his hands on. Although he was whistling merrily, it was a dark tune, a foreboding tune that one might have heard from soldiers who enjoy war.

Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the hooded shadowy figure was on the move.

When she heard the name Linda paused for a minute and shook Emerald's hand with her mouth agape as if about to speak.

But she washed whatever thoughts she was having from her mind and smiled. "I'm Linda. Just Linda, hun it's nice to meet you. You're very pretty." she said.

Daria noticed that Linda seemed a bit startled by Emmy but it wouldn't be that apparent to anyone.

Emmy blushed slightly at the comment but shook it off quickly. Emerald really didnt notice Linda's startled look so she merely wagged her tail back and forth, grinning wolfishly. Emerald suddenly caught a scent in the air, a scent that she knew by heart. The wolf girl's eyes widened for a moment, "Sapphire." Emerald muttered under her breath, running towards where the scent was.

((Okay I will make the emmy an Sapphire conversation in my post after Daria and Linda's conversation.))

"What was that about?" Daria asked as soon as Emmy ran off. Daria didn't smell the scent yet because Emmy's sense of smell was, of course better than hers.

"What?" Linda asked watching the wolf girl walk away.

"You looked like u were hit in the face with a brick when you saw emmy. Thought I was the only one with a tail?" Daria grinned.

Linda shook her head smiling slightly. "she looks so familiar. Like one of my old co workers..."

Daria cocked an eyebrow. "Really?"

"yes,...I just can't put my finger on it...." Linda said but the look of confusion soon faded. "Oh, I know who she looks like. How ironic." she handed Daria a folder, in it were directions to the current locations of the kidnappings which were in Geneva New York.

"Who does she look like?" Daria asked leafing through the folder.

Linda thought about it. "She looks like her mother."

Daria gasped. "You know her mother?"

"Knew her mother." Linda said. "This isn't the time to talk about it now. I'll tell you both later, maybe. You've been taking good care of her, right?"

Daria twitched her ears. "I try."

Linda smirked. "Good."

"

Emerald ran towards the back corner of the church, in the exact spot where she smelt the scent. Emerald's eyes widened when she saw the Shadowed figure. "Sapphire, what are you doing here?" Emerald asked in a concerned tone.

The figure took off its hood and it revealed a young girl in her early twentys with long black hair, sickly pale skin and cold Black eyes. "I can't come to a mutant meeting?" Sapphire questioned in a calm tone.

"Not if you are working for the enemy," Emerald responded harshly before seeing the hurt look on Sapphires face. "Saphy..."

Sapphire merely shook her head at her younger sister. "You are right Emerald, I do work for the enemy but that doesnt mean I want to. I still try to protect you and Ruby whenever I can." Sapphire responded, voice considerably quite.

Emerald looked at Sapphire for a moment before wrapping her arms around her elder sister in a hug. "What Happened to use Sapphire? When did we become so diffrent?" Emerald asked noticing the scars around Sapphires back.

"Emmy...you chose your path and I chose mine." Sapphire responded taking Emerald's necklace out of her pocket and hooking it around her younger sisters neck.

Emerald touched her necklace self conciessly rubbing her finger of the blue stoned pendant. "Do you know why I have kept this for all these years?" Emerald questioned, looking into her sisters cold eyes. "It was because something in my mind, a little part of me knew that my big sister would come back some day. That she would break the hold fusionist has on her mind and come back to help me. that day could be today Sapphire."

"But-" Sapphire interjected before being interupted.

"COme on Sapphire you and me could work together to bring Fusionist down! We will be together again. And we have lots of people that can help you with your powers and how to control them."

Sapphire sighed deeply, she scooped Emerald easilly up into her arms like she did when they where little. She sat the younger girl on her knee, wrapping her arms protectively around her. "Emerald, I have gone to the point of no return, I cant even change my hair color and my eye color back to normal anymore."

"No Sapphire I wont accept defeat!" Emerald exclaimed, clenching her fists. "You are not gonna give up on life again! You just wont!" Emerald held back tears.

Sapphire hugged her little sister tightly, trying her best to comfort her, like she used to comfort her during her temper tantrums. "My little sister, your will has always been stronger than mine. And as much as I hated to admit it, I have always known that. Just we need to go our seperate ways for a little bit."

Emerald began crying in Sapphire's cloak, "Its not fair they have taken everything from me." She sobbed. "Fusionist took you away from me, he took Ruby away from me...I dont wanna lose what I just found."

Sapphire tried her best to remember what she would do in this situation normally before she began to compulsivly stroke emmys hair. "Emerald, Hun I will always be with you, I will always watch over you. Even though sometimes I may not show it, I really do love my angry, ambitous, stubborn and creative little sister." Sapphire said, setting Emmy back down on the ground. All of a sudden a ringing on Sapphire watch was heard and she managed to quite down Emerald enough to speak.

"Yes sir?" Sapphire asked

"Have you gotten any attack cordinates?" Fusionists voice crackled on the other line.

"Yes, they will attack on the west side."

"Excellent I will have my men stationed thier, I will start evacuating the mutants as soon as i here explosions." Fusionist responded.

"I will return shortly sir." Sapphire pressed a button an dthe line went dead.

Emerald looked at Sapphire with her eyes wide, "Sapphire I heard a whole bunch of people where gonna attack on the east side, not the west." Emerald looked at her elder sister curiously.

Sapphire smirked at her younger sister. "Oh, oops. Guess you guys are gonna have the element of surpise arent you?" Sapphire smirked wider before dissapearing.

Emerald smiled, "Same old Sapphire." Emerald thought to herself before she ran off to find Daria. She skidded to a stop next to the cat woman with a huge grin on her face.

"We should attack from the east side of the compound, Old percy Fusionist will never see it comming." Emerald grinned

Quietly Isabel moved away from the door as another woman entered the old church, moving to stand on the opposite side of Geist as she listened to the woman Daria speak about their situation. So this Dr. Fusionist was using mutants as experiments. Isabel frowned at the thought. This was the reason she disliked humans, especially scientists, they thought they could do anything they felt like, they thought they were to dominant creatures of the earth and could use the planet and its inhabitants however they pleased.

Her eyes fell to the small vial that was clutched in her fingers, no longer as wary about its contents after Daria's explanation of what it was as well as the sight of other mutants consuming the liquid. Pulling the cork from the top of the small glass vial, she lifted it to her lips and quickly swallowed the contents, a larger frown crossing her lips at the unpleasant taste, her eyes blinking heavily for a moment as she shook her head slightly. Daria was not kidding when she said the taste wasn't something that would be appreciated.

The sound of choppers replaced Isabel's frown with a small smile. Now things were beginning to get interesting. The young bone bender was beginning to grow slightly impatient as she watched the group up on the podium. She wanted to get the group moving and to join in on the upcoming battles that they would have to face. She let out a small sigh, trying to calm down. Patients was one virtue she ran rather low on at times. She would simply have to wait for instructions until the time came for the group to head out.

Linda acted cooly as Emerald approached.

"The east side?" Linda asked.

Daria nodded. "It's fine, we'll be entering Geneva from the east anyways." Daria said looking at the map. And it's not that far from here.

"How much information should we give to everyone? We have enough vehicles to transport them all?" she asked.

"We should." Linda said.

Daria turned to Emmy. "How much should they be told? We have to keep them together so that the attack doesn't go ary." she said.