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Posted by angelsilverrose on Apr 8, 2009 23:50:31 GMT -6
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Leoco looks at Aura she nods soon Leoco kisses Aura on the lips as she speeks "Come back to me my love." She nods as she takes of running she is soon in the jet. Leoco could not help but to feel sad foe leaveing Aura she wanted to he help her so bad. Yet Leoco knew that Aura was looking at for her like she always does. Yet Leoco could not help to have tears in her eyes over this.
Leoco did not want to leave like this. Soon Leoco puts on the seat belt as she rests her hand on the window. She can feel her heart sinking over this. Something in side of her is telling her that Aura is not ok. She wonders why she is feeling this. Yet Leoco feels like this every time she leaves Aura. She shakes her head as she lets out soft sigh some of her long read hair spilling over her shoulder. Soon she runs her hand down the back of her neck. .
She will miss Aura like she always does. The pain in Leoco's eyes gives her awry like always. She looks down as she shakes her head. She can not feel like this Aura is fighting for both of them not just herself. Leoco knows that deeply as she lets out a soft sigh.
Aura kissed Leoco and watched her go, she was releived, becuse as Aura stepped upon the rubble to see the four red behemoths fighting, she realized, they might all be damned here. Their would have been no way Aura could have defended her love in the chaos. Still her plan of action was unclear, her eyes were better now, but she had no real way of telling the brothers apart of whare the missing ones were for that matter. This mission had grown very strange though it was in many ways sucessful, true most of the city would survive but Aura estimated the lava which had rushed to the surface likely did a lot of damige.
Just then she head somthing land hard on metal and looked back at the plane, but could see nothing wrong with it yet so she ignored it and moved on, still stumbeling a bit though she did not understand why. Her Aura suddenly expanded whips made of her aura cracking like thunder. Aura tried to reel the power back in, but found it hard, like reaching for a rope only the tips of your fingers could touch, but she finnaly did it. And formed a single long blade at her arm, her aura hardened around her and visable within a ten foot radius of her, she compressed this to just past her skin, seeking to hold out as long as she could.
Still the brawl was strange, the sound of it had gone a way, it was if she was watching TV without the sound on. Focus soley on the task at hand this will pass it always had in the past, she told herself, still only the strange screams of long ago echoed in her mind. Somthing was very wrong, her powers had become much harder to control, and they were reacting violently within their normal field. Her eyes opened wide for a secound as she ran her fingers down the side of her dress, the smoothness and wetness on her leg told the story, at some point the vial containing a very potent form of the virus haywire had broken the vial then cut into her and infecter which explained a few things but she did not think halucinations were one of them, maybe it was a reaction to it.
If Emulator had enough of breath left, he would have argued that, though his skin was red and his muscles artificially inflated, his facial features and shoe size should still be his own... right? Actually there was no way of telling without a mirror. It was a strange thought that he had no time to deal with just now. He was still trying to catch his breath. Super strength should never, never be directed in such a manor toward another man. He still felt that in his spine.
But if he thought that was bad, nothing could have prepared him for the thunder clap that resulted from the crazed half-tailed Abyss tackling him to the ground. It was all Emulator could do to fend off his hands and keep his face from being smashed in. Oh but then the maddened create deemed fit to BITE him! He shoved his arm in the way of the thing, knowing that the arm was now probably as lost as his tail... wait... did that mean he had a tail too?
Emulator's tail writhed wildly until it touched something equally panicked... the severed part of a tail. One thin red bit of flesh curled around the other and slowly and clumsily flung the severed bit at the charging Mars. What was the tail doing!? Stop that!
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Oh dear. Ghost's wind didn't seem to be strong enough to move red mountains. They really didn't have time for this. Ghost cringed as she saw the jet fly over head and heard a sickening metal crunch. They really didn't have time for this.
"Sorry, Em."
She focused on the air on the clearing the clones had created. Every molecule of useable, burnable, or breathable air, she plucked away leaving only the noxious fumes of the lava that would fast exhaust the strength of the fighters.
Jude stood by her side, hand on her shoulder watching and feeling the process. He was also there to watch her back while she focused, but if he could get useable CB experience from this so much the better. If pink girl showed up, he'd signal Ghost, but hopefully she was hiding somewhere in the knockout radius Ghost was making.
~~~
“ my god, you listen to reason on this side of the moral line?" "You don't?" Dryad buckled herself a bit sloppily next to Venus.
"There is about one or two of me out there worth saving, and I am leaning closer to one to be honest. Then the face smashing can commence if need be.”
Max regarded their occupant suspiciously. What kind of man betrayed his own? Was this their tip-off man? Brown eyes narrowed. He was cynical. Verrrrry cynical.
CRACK Yep. Cynicism came in handy even when he announced that it was one of his that caused the plane to tilt and struggle.
Luckily, Strike was a no nonsense kind of guy. He flipped the storm hazard switch. "Hold on. Let's hope our electrical doesn't go out."
Dryad's hair started to raise up as Strike called his namesake. Lightning. Hopefully that would get rid of any cling-ons.
Abyss Chomped into Emulators arm and ravaged the flesh, his tail and all of their tails was forever ruined. He would die. Like a pitbull that had locked its jaw he shook and ripped and tore at the mans larger arm meaning to not let go until it was off of his torso. Rage, Absolute outrage flowed through him, He swung his head right he swung his head left, and then he couldn’t breath….he was loosing consciousness. As he started to fade he point his fingers and three stooges style and tried to jab the imposter’s eyes out.
It was about that time he went to sleep.
Mars was running at a cautious pace toward the pair when half of a tail was flung at him and while he was usually not petty and more strategically minded, HE turned and began to run at the one under Abyss. Others might not recognize who was who, but there was something in the way the other one fought that lacked their blood. He was about to pounce when the air around him simply wasn’t there, his steps faltered and went face down in the dirt about three feet away from his target. The funny thing was not too far away a mutant was about to loose their mind to haywire, and she was already major league, at the very least Russia would be paying their dues today, and with out the brothers to keep her in any sort of control well, they might destroy more than Moscow today. Mars smiled at the bright pink tentacles that were the harbinger of doom, they complemented the sulfuric scent of lava he thought..
Pluto though unconscious suffocated as well his body twitching in silent agony. ~~~
~~"You don't?"
“If they listened to reason on that side, would they be here? No they would have went directly to their government and demanded mutant freedom, or gave them their death, not out her reeking property damage to civilians.”
**"Hold on. Let's hope our electrical doesn't go out."
Venus smiled as Jupiter got what was coming to him, who attacks aircraft hand to hand, honestly. “If you have a second one of those up your sleeve, you might go ahead and use it. He is vengeful and if he is still standing or conscious, he won’t let up.” he instructed calmly as he reached for Dryads hand for comfort. He didn’t like the Idea of Jupiter being out of the game, but his deadly habits needed to come to an end.
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Jupiter grinned with voracious glee at the jet under him, for a moment there he didn’t think he flung himself far enough, and really he didn’t but they met him half way and ran into him they were going fast, and it was hard to raise his arms far enough to get a good swing in, but once it was cocked back, the wind and his strength combined to make a ridiculous force. He was about to unleash a second hammers blow on the aircraft when an old foe arrived, electricity. He hated electrical attacks. He fell off the plane with a sizzle and he smelt burnt milk, he always smelt burnt milk when he got shocked. From their childhood in that hell hole of a laboratory and its guards with Tazors. To multiple run ins with the head of the mansion, to that crazy blond in their own home. He ought to be dead by now. Somehow, he survived though. His body spiraled as he plummeted toward the ground and then he hit it with a heavy and solid thud. He coughed and he couldn’t deny that it was a good move. Hr raised his arm with a cough. Formed a gun from his finger and thumb. “pacoooooo.” Was the sound of his thumb coming down to hammer an imaginary bullet at the plane? His arm dropped and so did his consciousness. If he died, his only regret was that he didn’t take more with him. An almost dead whisper escaped his lips. “Vahalla….”
Aura's hands were on her head and she screamed a banshees wail. She was so hot, so very very hot. Breathing heavily, her panick was beginnig to show as her fingers wrapped around the skirt of her dress as she used her own strength to tear it off leaveing only a tattersd remain covering all that was private. She could hear the sounds of gunfire now, her own comfort would have to wait. Aura looked right at Mars but she saw neather him nor his fall, their were only trees she knew could not be thare. Shaking her head, her nails pressing hard enough against her skin, blood began to pour from the slits.
Her Aura however had a diffrent view like a blinded beast, a tendrill shot into the ground and then dpread like a large souncer. As it did this most of the other tendrills melted back into the main portion of the aura, which then thinned out as it probed the depths of the earth. Aura looked up at the plane but this jet was diffrent then the one from before, the paint was a milltary green and beige. Rubbing her head, her eyes were all ready starting to gloss over, as her mind quickly robbed her of her own senses true information. Raideing her hand to her chest she closed her eyes and bowed her head slightly.
"For Miracle!" She said as grunting she pointed her outstretched hand at the plane, a massive chunk of earth, almost thirty foot deep and slightly less wide. Her Head went a bit slack falling to one side but even so, the innitial soucer which wa ssupporting the weight suddenly shot forward like a pinball machine as it did the tendrill which formed the base began to spin rapidly, pushed forward the spinning mass of earth shot for the plane, it would be close but the mass was a bit to high to strike the plane and instead the mass of spinning earth came down on a still undamiged daycare crushing the wooden frame of the building with ease totalling it, water could be seen pooling just underneath some of the fallen wood. Aura no longer seeing the plane right in front o her suddenly turned and began a head long charge deeper into the city.
"We Must protect the Matriarch!" she screamed as she ran a tendrill wrapped itself around a car axel and then whipped the aquitred object into the brick of a standing house destroying a good chuck of one of its courners. A secound Tendrill had formed a large hammer and came down on the road behind her, as it struck the weakened pavement anothe rlarge section of road fell into the sewer system clogging the portion in this area.
Stopping and then staggering forward Aura fell to her knees. "No, this can not be.......I am in moscow.....but so man trees?" She said confused as a tendrill wrapped around a light post and flung into the air in a rapid spin back in the direction she had come from. Aura slowed her breathing trying to concentrate and force the images from her mind. "Abyss.....i...must find Abyss" She said but even as she closed her eyes, her feet left the ground, her Aur ahaving decided to move on. As Aura fought to rein in her powers, her powers did their best to bring misery to russia. A tendrill blindly shot down through the pavement and peirced a large tub, again the aura expanded as it lifted the tank out of the ground, black crude leaking from the dmaiged tank, chucking the Tank to her side it's side ripped off spreading crude all over the street even as the main mass of the tank struck and ripped several live electricle wires from their poled which fell onto the crude which went up in flames very quickly.
Aginst the backdrop of flames, Aura finnaly got one of hands fgurtively spaking on her Aura and fought for every inch of the whipping tendrill, trying to reconquer her power. In her mind her hands grasped onto the tendrills trying to rein them in, but then a voice called to her and her progress was erased. "Solkat, your.....alive? How?" She said, her eyes open but still unable to see what was really thare.
The blue haired girl, smiled feircely and waved her hand to the woods around them, Aura could even see the vines in the trees growing as her freind stood thare. Then the morters came crashing through the trees and she watched her freind scream as her body was consume din flame, And Aura screamed again rshing forward trying to save her freind, but no matter how she shaped her aura around her freind the flames were all cosnuming. Enrages she looked around able to hear people in the woods, just out of view, gunfire came from that direction to, the bullits bounceing off of her Aura. Aura advanced on the tree line, forming her Aura into blades she just the trees at an angle so they fell away from her. In Reality her blades had torn through two closely parked cars, her Blades cuting deeply into the hood and trunk of the cars. Despite her advance however the silderd never came into view, the explotions never struck her. hroing her hands to the side she leveld what saw as a big group of trees instead she pushed the buildings becide her to the sides, smashing into the building to eather side of her.
Staggering relaity began to come back, she finnaly gripped her powers and forcefully pulled them in, falling to her hands and knees as she did, she struggeled to keep them at bay, sweat dripping down her forhead, the scent of he rown burned clothing came to her nose in whisps as the tree seemed to shimmer out of view. As she forced her way to her shaking feet she mutterd "i..Am....aura.....I will complete my ....mission" she suddenly had a craving for somones aura. As brave as her words were, Aura knew she was in bad shape, she could not feel how much power she had left.
Slamming Her hammer into the ground again, she fell into the the sewer system And aura began moving through the sewer sytem, her aura still not under complete control, the tendrills slammed against the sides of the sewer shattering the sides of the sewer. "I am....Aura...The order will be Forever...." She said still breathing hard, trying to keep control of her Aura, repeating herself ton try and maintain her hold on reality as she made her way out of the city, damigeing the sewer as she slowly walked through it.
"He won't be standing or conscious." Inwardly, Strike was no where near as confident, but there were other problems for him to worry about. Like a HUGE MASS OF ROCK flying at the jet. Perhaps it would have hit, perhaps not but after some nimble maneuvering that left his stomach in his throat, Strike made for landing. "Froggy, Max, check the bow for red cling-ons. Dryad, big red, you're grabbing the unconscious. I'll be on the lookout for V, but there haven't been any more tremors..." That fact alone probably meant... well, he didn't want to believe it until he saw it for himself.
"Ghost and Jude? They still out there?"
Strike glanced down and out the front windshield of the plane as it descended into the clearing. "Emulator is down, but I heard from those two before we took off. Alive as of then..."
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The pink girl was not done. She was not in the radius and she was not happy about any of this. But she also seemed quite mad. Jude watched her progress with astute paranoia. As soon as the rock went up toward the plane, he was shaking Ghost's shoulder violently. The plane wold be okay, but they were standing next to an orphanage that seemed to be the next best place for that rock to land.
She blinked out of her concentration to realize that Jude was half-carrying her away. She opened her mouth to object or ask, but the rock came down with enough force to flatten the building and explode the windows and doors outward. They were showered in glass and a plastic little tyke tricycle hit Jude in the shoulder. It was enough for him to let her go and for Ghost to spend her next few moments coughing up tiny bits of glass.
Pink girl didn't even seem to know what she was doing, other objects flew and crash and smashed, but she seemed determined to head the other way. After a display like that, they were keen to let her go on her way unmolested.
~~~
Dryad summoned plants to attempt some of the heavy lifting, but as she suspected they weighed a lot more than she could carry. Strike should have thought about who he was assigning to carry huge unconscious men around. At the very least, the poor vines were directed to stem the flow of lava while Venus could perhaps manage to lift the mountainous bodies. She didn't see Emulator anywhere and that made her worry.
Another strong vine burst into flames and Dryad squealed. There just wasn't enough moisture to garner from the soil here. The intense heat just ate through her vegetation. "Watch out, this enclosure is only getting smaller." Yes, it was the obvious. But what else could she do?
~~~
Max checked the hull and confirmed that there were only black smudgy dents and hand marks left to speak of their ship's exterior passenger. He must be one of the bodies laying on the ground then. So Max, naturally went to count them. One red man up, narrow eyes, and one, two, three, four, five.... five down. Max nudged the still smoking one with his foot. That must have been the cling-on.
"We're missing one red and Emulator. They still fighting somewhere?" Oh, but something caught Max's eye. He jogged over to the edge of the lava... or rather as close as the heat would let him and peered out into the distance. It was a mangled and flash fried body, far too large to be human. Curiously enough it didn't seem to be lava-fried. Saturn's remains were slumped in the nook of a wobbly looking wall. Very crispy and all kinds of dead after that kind of damage. "Never mind. Found the last red. He's dead." Max's eyes flicked to Venus. What would he have to say about that?
~~~
Strike used a great gust of wind to help launch himself over the lava and onto a mountain of rubble above the burning heat. Where was Volcana? Her namesake was all around, she'd summoned her worst. Now where was she? How could he in confidence lead the team away without feeling that he had abandoned her? "WHERE ARE YOU?" He shouted out toward everything and nothing. Where would he even begin to look?
~~~
Ghost and Jude were on the wrong side of the lava when the plane landed. They waved and shouted. Hopefully someone would see them so they wouldn't leave before they came on board. They edged away from the scene as the heat spread out before the lava actual. "Strike?" She sent whispers along the wind searching out for her comrade. "I think a little rain would appropriate now."
~~"Watch out, this enclosure is only getting smaller."
“Thank you for the warning sweet heart.”
Venus nodded and started stacking the fellas up, when he got to the one that had crumpled in half, he realized it wasn’t on of theres, he didn’t hav the right laugh and worry lines. That eventuall set in. giving Pluto a permanent smile to his eyes and Jupiter a grimace that never left.
“ I don’t see mercury or Saturn. And Jupiter is back that way…yet here we have four not including me. And my gut is telling me that I don’t want to find Merc or Sat. Your boy is this one. Emulating was it?” He held them all by tossing Mars over the stack. His hand in one hand and tail in the other.”
***"We're missing one red and Emulator. They still fighting somewhere?" "Never mind. Found the last red. He's dead."
He glanced at the man And with tearless eyes mumbled. “this day has been a long time coming.”
^^^"WHERE ARE YOU?" ~~~
Venus looked up with the same sober look and shook his head at the man flying through the air.
“She went toe to toe with the one that jumped at the plane. He is seven kinds of vicious, I think he may be searching in vain.” It was shock he realized. He was in shock.
---"Strike?" "I think a little rain would appropriate now."
Venus shook his head trying to get the cobwebs off his mind. He grunted to max and then nodded toward the two waving and facing the flying one. “You’re last two are ok. Lets get these four on the plane, though only two deserve it. I’m guessing Pluto was you’re tipster, the bottom of the stack. he was nervous the whole ride. Its what got me thinking about switching teams in the first place, You’re gorgeous Dyrad is what sealed it.”
He rushed over to the plane and laid the four out near the plane and turned to the pair that was stranded. He ran to the edge of the volcanic edge and slapped his tell on the edge flinging himself at the pair. He had his hands in the air to show peace.
“Venus at you’re service. Thanks for stopping them from killing each other. “ he put his arms out to carry the pair if they would trust him.
~~~~~ Jupiter Groaned and rolled around on the ground after he landed. He laned well but he felt extra crispy….how was he still breathing? as he did so he watched the pink light show in the sky Pink tentacles flung them selves about. Either Aura had been working out power wise of she was hitting the capital H. He rolled over to his side and pulled himself to his feet. He was blackend. Like a spent match. His hair stood on en. His breathing was ragged but he couldn’t leave Aura to her own. Eventually she would wear herself out and until then he would try to stay out of notice. He limped along toward the destruction, skirting where the jet was, today’s game was over, they had one and Venu had even duped them into giving their fallen a ride home. Or so he thought. Foolish heroes. He watched as aura took to the sewers and followed along after a minute or two. The sewers were hot. And reeked.
Aura gripped her head once more and as sher scream echoed through the dark, damp sewer her Aura manfested first on her skin and then expaning outword in a half sphere, the wall began to crack as the aura forced it's expansion, peices of the ceiling began to fall as well, but this was aleiviated some, when the Aura ripped the top from the sewer and thrust it aside letting the first natural light in hundreds of years into the merky sewer. It Was then Aura felt somthing she had long ago forgoteen, her body's natural senses slammed back into her, and at once she knew just how drained she was, leaning back against a peice of rubble Aura slid down onto her but, and looke dup at the Sky.
Her senses were betraying her for the first time, Aura hated the idea but she did admit the raw poer she had felt, had felt good very good, almost like the aura of a nice young Human. Reaching back into her hair, Aura pulled out a joint and a lighter and lit it, blowing a smoke circle as she did, if she was going to feel like hell she might as well enjoy it. "At least, we caused them this much pain" Aura said to herself figuring over seven hundred building had likely been destroyed by her and the brothers, not to mention the mini pompai that ha docurred compared to that the last 3 miles of sewer damiage she had just caused seemed relatively petty. Still It would Take the russinas a lot of time to rebuild and hopefully in those hard times, they would remmeber why it happoned. Witha laugh she took another hit "To the Order" she said rubbing her head.
Posted by angelsilverrose on May 7, 2009 0:48:45 GMT -6
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Leoco 's eyes grow wide as she sees the peace of earth flying at the jet she closes her eyes as she grips on to the seat yet it misses. She lets herself breath again. Soon she is called on she looks at the one that is talking to her. Leoco soon growls form the name she was not foggy! She is Leoco she shakes her head as she g ets up form her seat. She sees the read man falling to earth. She thinks "Ow.." Soon they land to pick up the others. She gets off to help Jupiter she runs as she yells to him "Are you alright!?" Yes run to the man that attacked the jet. Yet she does not care he seems hurt she is going to help.
Soon he stands up and walks off. Leoco stands there well he is ok she nods to herself. She was not going to follow him that will not be smart. Aura did want her out of here and she will get out of here. Soon Leoco truns around and makes a bad dash back to the jet. She wonders what is going form this point on. She shakes her head as she bites her bottom lip. Soon she gets back on the jet she will have to do something. Yet she has no idea what the hell is going on. Who the big red men are but a few of them are dead. One got fried she is trying to put so much together. Yet she is not getting much. She sighs as she rubs her temple with her right finger.
Dryad pat Venus' arm that was supporting the stack of red men on the way back to the jet. "You do good work. I'm very glad you decided to be a good guy."
She "helped" Max settle the mountains of red flesh in the cargo hold, Emulator they strapped into a seat. Healing would have to happen back in London after they had found a safe place to keep these brothers. After that she lingered inside the plane, not really wanting to venture back out into the jungle-like heat and humidity. It would do wonders for her skin and plants, but it was also still a reminiscent war zone. Venus would return. The good guys would all return, she believed.
"What did you do to seal the deal, Dryad?" Suspicion colored Max's words enough so that Dryad's ears burned hot with her blush. "Nothing immoral." Though she was still questioning that part.
Big wide droplets of rain started falling from a roll of cloud. Each drop hissed and sputtered against the lava as it cooled the molten earth. It would take a lot more rain to wash away what happened here today, but it was at least a start. Large billows of steam rolled upward and Moscow, one of the cold cities of the North was transformed temporarily into a sauna.
Strike shook his head against the words of the red man. They struck too true and he didn't want to give up on his friend, teammate, and off and on again flame. 7 kinds of vicious wasn't enough to conquer V was it? The rain increased in frequency and power. Every drop felt good against his skin. If she was out there... somewhere... then she would find her way home again... Until then they had other things to do.
The red man flung himself through the air using his tail to help get the oomph he needed to safely clear the lava spill. The move was reminiscent of something Ghost had seen in her time in New York.
“Venus at you’re service. Thanks for stopping them from killing each other. “
He put his arms out and both hesitated. "You're the amorous one, aren't you?" Seeing the memories from Ghost, Jude no longer hesitated and clambered up into the crook of one of Venus' arms. He looked quite childlike there. "You always know others from New York, how much did you get around, Ghost?"
"Ha! It's just that New York was mutant-ville back in the days of blatant adversity. We're a bit more spread out now so when we see each other again it's rather nostalgic." Ghost alighted as well. Her false body was heavier than she was used to and she didn't dare attempt to go over the lava all on her own. Fire just wasn't her friend. Already on their way back to the plane Ghost quietly apologized to the red man. "I'm sorry about your brothers, Venus. We did what we could..." and that was as much as he would get before she turned back to take command of the broken group in Emulator's stead.
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It wasn't long before the plane was taking off again for London. They had lost one, but they'd also gained one... not to mention all the extra weight that came in the form of wounded and unconscious reds that would go into holding upon their return. Ghost looked out the window through Jude's eyes. Moscow would never be the same, but it wasn't a bare field sewn with salt either... They'd call it a bittersweet victory and then they'd call it day.
Jupiter made a mad dash through the tunnels after Aura, she was dedicated he’d give her that, and such dedication didn’t deserve to die in the sewers. He hobbled along as he went his ankle deciding that it had enough of building jumping, falling from planes and walking for that matter. A final outburst of haywire had flared at him and then he made a stumbling leap toward her just in case there was a cave in or something she couldn’t handle, as it turned out she could handle it. she gracefully came down from the Haywire and almost comically, lit up as she sat down.
Jupiter fished a canteen out of his pocket and took a hard swig of something hard enough to make him cough. “Here here. Now how about I get us the heck ou of here. Its been a long day and I think Moscow is going to cave in once this Lava madness cracks enough of it. What do you say? Are you above being carried out of here? You did a heck of a job. ~------~ ~-~"You do good work. I'm very glad you decided to be a good guy."
He smiled. “I hardly deserve much credit for helping clean up something that is partially my fault.
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~+~ "You're the amorous one, aren't you?"
He would have said something to the extent of want to find out if he wasn’t already playing the field in this group. He squinted at her.I was, that is an important qualifier, I am a bit more tame I promise. And you dear I haven’t seen for much to long. Former Xmen, If I remember correctly. Spirit?”
~*~"You always know others from New York, how much did you get around, Ghost?"
“Ghost.’ He snapped. “ close for not being formally introduced.”
"Ha! It's just that New York was mutant-ville back in the days of blatant adversity. We're a bit more spread out now so when we see each other again it's rather nostalgic."
"I'm sorry about your brothers, Venus. We did what we could..."
“You have no reason to apologize.”
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Venus hovered over the Group with a first and a tail ready to attack on the first movement any of them made. He had made it his mission to not allow any of them to wake until they landed.
"thx, i only regret we could not remodel the kremlin, i think you will need to carry me though, the haywire used most of my strength, had it gone much firther it would have used up my life force as well" She commented as she took another hit from the joint. "You look wounded as well though..." she commented concearned fro Jupitars safety as well. It was true, Hundreds of buildings and been completely destroyed, even without the magma earthquake. She did wonder just how far that had stretched, wither way the ground would not be stable again for quite some time.
"You wnat a hit?" she asked offering it to him. "It wa sso starnge, as if reality itself alterd, i saw people that have not lived in over 10 years she said leaning her head back a bit. "A real shame they managed to evacuate though" she went on. It was true had they actually killed a good number of the enimy's civillians then the impact would have been greater, but maybe the dear they would spread would work just as well.