@Caits
"I know sweetie. I know. I am not big on killing but I've learned that sometimes it's unavoidable. We will do what you have to do. These people can not be allowed to live. Not after all the lives they've taken."Katherin told her old friend. Too many young lives had ended for no reason. It had to stop. They might be Heroes but that didn't mean that they had to allow the bad guys get away with killing so many.

Phoebe

Phoebe wasn't worried about the killing. She knew she was capable of it-everyone was under the right circumstances. She sighed softly, no, what she feared was, how many more lives would be lost, before they could stop those responsible? It made her tired just thinking of it. It also made her sad, and just plain annoyed. Because she would have to make sure Daniel was safe, and therefore, she would have to stay away from him, at least for a little bit. She could lead killers right to him.

She wiped her eyes, and sighed "we need to finish up here. We need to set up a hot line, for worried parents, and we need to make sure that the students will be safe, and that their families will be too. If whoever did this just wants to take down those with super powers, then any of us could be the next targets. I need to make sure the students will be okay. They need a safe place. If we can find one"

@t2wave@Hidden Lilly
Flood lowered his head but looked back up when he heard Storm. But it wasn't her, it was Estella. "What the hell?" Flood looked confused for a second but quickly adjusted. "Is that you Storm? But you're dead!" For one of the first times in his life Flood was left speechless. Or he would've been if he hadn't been so curious. But he knew he shouldn't intrude on this private moment. "I'll wait outside." He walked out and composed himself. "Figures things would start to get interesting, when class gets back in session."

@Caits
[/KATHERIN
"I will start working on a hotline. Im not doing much at the moment. I just need a list of students and staff that have been found. It would be helpful if I also knew their current conditions that way I can reassure as many as possible. As for somewhere safe. I think this" Katherin indicated to the debris around her. proved that no where is safe. I don't think we should waste time looking for something that doesn't exist. Whoever did this wanted to demoralize us. They wanted us to shut down the school and hid. We cant give them what they want. We need to find out what buildings are still usable and use them. Some of the student will want to go home. Some of the parents will insist their children go home. But I think most will stand up and fight. Because that's what we as superbeings so. Good or evil we all fight back when someone tries to push us down.

Exiting the rubble she began to transport the bodies down an opening she created. She floated them with her TK one after the other. They couldn't leave them outside exposed. Very likely someone could come by and try to snatch them for any number of reasons. Of the main structure nothing was left. But below there was still the bunker like space created to withstand extremely powerful metas. It would have to serve as a morgue for now. Stepping over to Katherin and Phoebe she nodded. "I agree, we cannot just go into hiding. We do that and people will start to wonder. We want the public on our side as much as possible. Sentiment for metas has been on the decline lately but now... We have an opportunity."

Most of the time she didn't like to make things political. It made people into objects more than the souls they really were. But they did need the public eye on them beyond getting attacked. "Whoever did this has something to gain from eliminating both sides. There are a lot of people who could want that. But only the most ruthless would do something like this." There weren't enough leads right now. Who would do this? Also who would have the ability to. If there was any luck someone would claim responsibility. But those were usually fanatics that wanted to appear bigger than they were.

""I didn't mean for us to go into hiding, obviously we can't, but we cannot expect students who have barely been in the school to fight. Some of the older students, or those that have been in longer could fight. But i think most will need time to recover. How many survived?" It was a rhetorical question, but it was what she needed to say. Phoebe sighed, "What are we meant to do? There's no leads. It's not like we have anything to follow at the moment."



Connor grabbed Adrian as he continued to search. "If we haven't found them yet, Adrian, then there's no one else to find. The telepaths and Empaths haven't found anyone else for a while. Stand down. Rest" he said, pushing Adrian towards the food tent, now equipped with warmers for hot food.

He sighed, and looked about, weary beyond belief.



Kalinda knew she could do know more the find survivors, and so, she teleported away, back to her home. It was a small apartment building, chosen only because the apartment she had had a small, secret space that didn't seem to be known about. In there, she had computers, and some training equipment. Mostly though, her training was done at night, using the city itself.

this was were she went now, in her suit, and opened a compartment, where she armed herself with the weapons she had trained with the last five years. Several throwing knives, placed in strategic places around her body, the bow and quiver of arrows that were black, and laid flat against her back. As well as some tech that she had had made for herself. Spy tech, really.

And then she headed out.



the young boy woke to a world that was darker then when he had fallen asleep. How long ago was that? Four, five hours? More? He jolted up, and let out a cry at as the sudden move hurt his side. bruised or broken ribs. Fabulous he sighed, and gingerly pushed himself out, looking about.

There was the school. Or rather where it wasn't.

it really happened

Of course it did, boy-o. You might be half crazy, but not even you could imagine something like this! the voice that was, it seemed a million different voices in his head seemed amused at this.

Shut up!

He ignored this mental chat, as he began his way back down to the school. He could see movement. Shame washed over him. He should have stayed, and tried to do more. But he was scared.

he didn't want to die. He stumbled over the wreckage, seeing a couple of people he recognised. When he saw Kagerou, he looked down, his cheeks reddened. Surely the teacher would be ashamed of him, be disgusted for him leaving and not doing anything. But he suspected that he needed help.

"Ma'am..." he looked, fleetingly at the others she was with, then away, not wanting to meet their eyes, despite his glasses. Somehow, they had survived the destruction. "ooh" a wave of lightheadedness washed over him and he fell to his backside with an "oof". He reached out, to brush his hair back, to feel his own fore head, but it came away sticky with blood and encrusted with dried blood. is this my blood?

"I...I don't feel so well"

@Caits
"Phoebe, if we can't hide them they have to fight. They are going to be in the crossfire as long as there isn't a safe place to put them. I want to protect them as much as you do honey but we don't have a lot of options. Whoever did this isn't just going to ignore them. They won't be safe anywhere. So we might as let them fight. Their going to end up in the line of fire no matter what. It's better if that happens when they are with us who are fully trained rather then when they are alone with their parents." Katherin took Phoebe's hand. She knew that her friend was thinking about her son. Be what she said was true. There wasn't any place safe to put the students.

"If they intended to kill everyone they would have stayed to make sure the job was done. If someone claims responsiblity it is a scare tactic. And if no one says anything then it's probably a power play." There weren't many options on the table. And even less with where to move everyone. Without knowing the motive they could be hit again even with the public eye watching.

Looking over she quickly picks Harry up off the ground. He was a reletivly new student. His powers made it tough for him to be around others. Apparently she was an exception though which was good. Everything that she'd seen and done would probably drive most others mad. Carrying him over to the tent she began to care for his wounds herself. "Stay still. Do you feel any pain?"

Flood walked around and checked to see if anyone needed help. He saw Kagerou enter the medical tent with a student and walked in as well. "Need any help?"

Covering Harry's eyes a bit she looked back over her shoulders. "No I'll be fine, thank you. You should know you'll have to be careful around this student. I seem to be immune but eye contact gives him memories of the other person. Everybody needs to be careful but I'm sure you understand your mental history would be extremely difficult to handle."

Having gotten a call from her superiors about the academy she made her way to the location. Given how briefly she was at the institution there wasn't really much sentimental attachment. No she mostly was here to find Nicholas and monitor the situation.

Riding her bike made pretty quick work getting in the area. Pulling up to Nicholas she came to a stop and sat up. "Where are you going? Isn't the academy the other way?" He didn't seem too interested but then again he never did. "Can you tell me what the situalion is there at least? How many made it?"

Nicholas looked over at the women taking a short breath before speaking,"The academy blew up and their are many dead both students and teachers but i don't care...it's not my problem..." Nicholas said to the women on the bike.He didn't knew who this was but he didn't care about that either he just wanted to leave.

@t2wave

Flood snapped his fingers. "And to think I was going to work on making eye contact today. Darn." He smiled and walked outside. He stepped on a pair of glasses and flinched. He picked up the remains and looked at them. "Property of Harry? Hey is the kid in there named Harry?" He shouted into the tent.

Harry

Horror and fear filled Harry as he felt his glasses fall when Kagerou picked him up. He had a spare set, of course, but gods only knew where they were, if they had survived the destruction. But then all thought of his glasses were gone, as the movement of being picked up, sent pain stabbing in his side.

He gritted his teeth, and managed not to cry out. "My side hurts, like hell" he managed, relief, a great magnitutde of it, that she didn't pass him off to someone else. Kagerou was one of few who he could meet their gaze without his glasses and not have his powers work. Immune, just like his adoptive father-and wasn't that relief. Harry imagined there were something's a son didn't need to know about their father.

But as someone came in, he lowered his gaze quickly. Mental history? What's wrong with this guy? But Harry didn't waste much time thinking on that. just go away, please. he thought, but in the silence that seemed to follow, he could hear the crunching of glass, of plastic, of his glasses.

"Of course. Survive me being hit over the head by god knows what, but can't survive a blundering fool. Perfect" he muttered, more to himself then anyone else. Heedless of his head wound, he pulled the hood of his jumper over his face, shadowing his eyes.

phoebe

"You don't think whoever did this would care? that they can easily go after the students parents?" Phoebe said, "What do you think most of the students will want to do? Go home and protect their parents. Which will lead to more deaths. Whoever wants this, wants us, our kind, destroyed." Please, please, run, stay hidden, don't let anything happen to him, mother She thought, even though she knew Daniel was safe. "A power play. Someone wants us gone, so they can do what anyone who craves power does-take it and destroy everything"

Examining Harry's side she very carefully pulled his shirt up to see if there was any debris in his side. "Try and not to move. Does anything else hurt besides your side?" Moving over a bit she scooted over some medical supplies she might need.

Studying Nicholas a bit she made a mental note. "Yes, I read that in my report. You aren't a particularly emotional person. Which is why you've been selected for the team." Taking out a small data pad she tossed it to Nicholas. It detailed information about a project to form a new team. It was to be separate from any other team thus far. Apparently they would be funded by the government and given quite a bit of freedom to complete a mission. "This has been in the works for a while. It's been pushed ahead because of this attack."

Kijani felt like she'd been digging for hours. It had taken a lot of work, not to mention some questionable code-breaking. Thank goodness for Bruce Wayne. Kijani knew that he'd have his own separate source of information about the school. After calling in a few dozen favors, she'd gotten the access she needed. A student and parent list that she quickly put under several different firewalls and encryptions. Connor knew most of hers, and she sent the list directly to him. With that done, she told her agents that she would be unavailable for the next 24 hours, and to continue with what she'd given them.

Fifteen minutes had her on her way back home, to Stark Industries, and hopefully to Connor.

harry

There was no open wound to his ribs, but his side was turning black and blue, and each breath hurt. Nevertheless, Harry took the examination in silence. not broken, he thought, then winced as it immediately brought a response from the voice

of course not, Boy-o! Still hit you hard enough to bruise them, and that isn't easy for you ! he winced at a memory, falling off the roof. His own, for once. He had smashed his head on the pavement, but apart from a headache, hadn't done any damage to his skull. Harry suspected his superstring theory protected his body. looks like you now know a building falling into of you can hurt you! the voice seemed to cackle, and Harry gritted his teeth.

One day, he would have his head to himself.

"just my head, Ma'am, but I think the bleeding has stopped" he said after a few moments, looking down, into his hands.

connor

When Connor got the lists, he examined them for a moment, before sighing softly. He didn't think anyone else, for now, would feel up to calling distraught parents, and the teachers that had been found were either hurt themselves or had their hands full.

Connor couldn't do anything else here, but he could do this job. Figuring that it would be better done in a quite location, so he ducked his head into the medical tent, figuring that Kagerou was the one to talk to "I'm going to speak with the parents of those we have found, and those we can confirm are dead. They've been waiting too long"

He didn't wait for a response, seeing that Kageroh had her hands full with a student. He took off, back to Stark Industries, where he began the process of calling parents. He had security increased even before he arrived. And then he just sat, staring at the lists on his computer, wondering. Where to begin

Kijani rolled the car up to Stark Industries, dialing in the password at the small, secret elevator at the side. It provided Connor- and her, by extension- quick access to the labs and computers. When Ingot asked for two more passwords and a retina scan, she knew Connor was home. After she got by, she went straight to the computer room. She could see him there, staring at the info she'd sent.

Even while seeing just the back of his head, she could see the exhaustion in the way he carried himself. Whatever was going on had barely begun, and she knew it would put a horrible wear on everyone. She had to be strong... but not too strong.

He'd taught her that.

She strode into the room and went to his side. Laying her hands over his, she held his hand. "...Connor." She wanted to say something, but realized that there really was nothing. A tear hit the back of their hands and she didn't realize it'd come from her.

"I'm here."

Flood picked up the glasses and looked at them carefully. "It's not terrible... They can be salvaged." He began working on repairing it as he pulled some string out of his jacket pocket. He tied a few things together and other then a cracked left lense it was fine. He put the glasses on and walked back in. "Fixed em." He took the glasses off and shut his eyes quickly before putting the glasses on a nearby table. "Sorry about that kid." He walked back out after colliding with a few things on purpose for comedic effect. "Lord knows we all need to lighten up." Flood muttered to himself.

connor

Connor grasped Kijani's hands, gently, glad of her presence. As the tear fell, moved around, to pull her into a hug, taking comfort and hopefully giving it with the hug. There was no words to say. Connor thought he'd be prepared for anything. But there was no preparing for this, this act of...terrorism. This utter destruction of something worthwhile.

He'd already put into action helpong to find the rebuilding of the school, but the actual building would have to wait, for now.

"I love you, Kijani" he said softly, so soft, it was almost a whisper. It times like this, it was important to remember that, love. He was silent for a few moments, content for the moment, to just hold her.

"So many..." He hadn't eaten for hours, and sleep was but a distint memory, but he didn't even notice either human need, "so many, dead or hurt. I didn't see any sign of bruce, or Clark, and only five teachers, six if you can't Kagerou, have been found..." Speaking about it, only made it seem more real, and yet, more bearable. Slightly bearable.

harry

"It's harry, not kid" he muttered, taking the glasses and quickly putting them on. They stopped the immediate viewing of a person, but he still couldn't meet people's eyes for more than a few seconds. Not that he wanted to. He pushed back his head, so Kagerou could clean and bandage the wound there. "Thabk you, Ma'am, for not passing me off to someone else" he said, meeting her eyes. He gave her a small smile

Nicholas grabbed the pad and took a look at the information on the pad,He slowly absorbed the information and seeing that their was a new group like she said paid by the government."Darksider?Sounds like a stupid name" He thought finally looking though what the group does and how they are basically heroes but are paid and can kill to get the job done.

"Interesting...and this "Darksiders" do they mostly go after villains and criminal scum?" He asked June wanting to know if they will be doing the right thing without being held back my morals.