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Katalina nodded more practice would certainly be very helpful and they could get better at using their powers as well if they continued to use the simulation that Miranda could make. "Yeah definitely practice would be able to improve our chances." Kat said as she stopped for a moment as she could hear a car drive up and saw Ellie and Erik coming into the mansion again and quickly met up with the two of them. Katalina stopped for a moment as she noticed the injury in Erik and wondered what exactly had happened and started to worry maybe it was something that these people wanted them to get.

"Were you guys followed or anything by these guys?" Katalina asked as she moved over to look over the plans that were made and leaned forward slightly as she looked them over. She looked towards Charles as he looked over the floor plans of the facility as well and then over towards the others in the room. While Miranda tended to Erik's injuries, she wasn't really sure what to think of everything as she shifted slightly feeling a bit uncomfortable. "So question, are you sure it wasn't a trap that these people set up?" She asked not sure if the information was accurate or not.

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"That's an understatement." They needed more training, no questions asked. Especially now that the others arrived to note they had been attacked. Mythri's suspicions and fears were confirmed. They would now be targeted and what's to stop them from targeting others close to them? She was having second thoughts again.

"Look, if we are going to do this then we need to do it fast. And are we protected here from attacks like this? And what about our friends and family? I can handle having a target on my back but I will not have one on those I care about too." It was one thing to fight back, but another to needlessly include others into your fight that had no business being there in the first place.

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"Ya sure we aren't about to create a plan for Mandy to take Erik's shirt off?" Ellie teased, smirking. She could have sworn that Miranda looked disappointed when she didn't have to remove Erik's shirt to get to the bullet wound. She was a bit surprised that she hadn't done it unnecessarily. Of course, she was shocked to see that everyone else seemed to still be here, largely. She could've sworn that Charles would've bored them to death by this point. "Did we miss anything excitin', mes amis?" Ellie then asked.

However, it seemed everyone just wanted to know about her adventure with Erik. "Eh, if we were followed, they're dead now," Ellie said simply, her hands twitching slightly as she wanted a smoke. "And we're mutants, we can kill anyone who threatens us, ma cherie," she said to Myth, giving the girl a wink. She was drunk on her own power after that chase. Thoughts of mutants being superior to humans were dancing in her head. They were the ones destined to rule the Earth - and the humans? To serve them. What else could their purpose be?

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Miranda glanced over at Ellie's comment, giving her a bit of a glare. That comment about her and Erik was a little unnecessary, not to mention the fact that technically Erik was in his 40s or 50s, she wasn't positive on that one, so the age difference was just really weird. Not that she had a thing for him or anything, after all, she hadn't known him for very long. She shook her head slightly, clearing those thoughts from her head, now was definitely not the time to be thinking like that anyway. Putting everything back in the kit, she looked over at the two of them to see if they knew what they were doing.

"I do not believe we were followed, and do not worry, your family and friends are likely safe... After all, they do not know who you are, at least for the moment anyway. I don't know enough about anyone to say definitively whether it had been a trap or not, but I am leaning towards it not being one, as they didn't try to stop us until after we were leaving. I'd bet that they didn't know we were even there."

"Not to mention Moira is on our side and likely wouldn't have done something like that. And Ellie, sometimes killing others is not the answer, you know that."

"You guys didn't exactly miss much either... Did a little training simulation proving that we are likely to fail in an actual combat situation considering how many times we got hit by holographic bullets... But we got better the farther along in the little simulation we went, so we did improve, just not too much so..."

"...Yes, that likely would be helpful... And we should see about looking through everything we have here," Xavier continued, waving the papers slightly in his hand, "We need to actually plan out what we are doing, and getting there, as the facility itself is located in Northern Canada, and as you all know, we are here in New York. Though the travelling shouldn't be too hard... Now, we are at a slight risk, because you two did at least get caught somewhat, we are likely going to be a target if they realize that we are all here. Now, hopefully, that shouldn't be a problem. But, since we likely need work in the combat scenarios and should stay here in order to do that, we should be on guard. If they come, we need to be prepared to fight them off, and run if need be."

"That isn't too reassuring, but it works," Miranda muttered, looking over at the others. To her, this was definitely not the best situation to be in. They were basically sitting ducks in her mind, and they were definitely not prepared to defend themselves, but, she knew that Charles was likely right. They needed to stay in one place to at least prepare to fight, since odds were they were going to, and so that they'd at least stand a chance against those who were after them.

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Katalina looked over towards Ellie for a moment, and raised an eyebrow towards her she certainly didn't like the idea much of mutants being in control and being the superior species. She wanted to have coexistence with each other, as Kat shifted slightly and turning back to looking at the information in front of her and the layouts as well. It would certainly be very helpful as Kat looked over towards both Erik and Xavier and then the maps. If it would mean keeping her family and friends safe back home, she was more than willing to help out and shut down the experiments going on there.

"Well, we have the layout, and the two of you have been there before. And Miranda here can make holograms with her head, we could try and piece together somewhat of the layout with your memories and her powers. And we could train with that, and then once we are satisfied with everything we can hit the lab?" Katalina asked as she turned around leaning herself up against the table looking between the other people there.

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Ellie noticed Miranda giving her a glare, causing her to smirk in amusement. She was pretty certain that Miranda had been checking Erik out ever since they'd gotten there, but even if she wasn't, it was too good a source to tease her about. Of those she had met in this program, Myth had to be her favorite so far. And Charles - mostly because he made the most adorable faces when she threw rocks at his windows. He got all frustrated and flustered, not knowing how to handle the situation.

"Sounds a bit Star Wars to me, but why not, let's hologram it up," Ellie said with a shrug. Her stomach rumbled and she glanced around, trying to see if there was any food in their general vicinity. It occurred to her that she hadn't exactly eaten yet that day. And it didn't involve reading, meaning she wouldn't have to explain to anyone that she didn't actually know how to read English. She could pick out a few common words, but that was it. All of the reading she had done growing up had been in French.

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Truth be told, it all sounded fantastical to her too, and she had been in the hologram! But if they were to piece together what happened, it was as good a shot as any. "Let's do it then." She did not ignore the girl's nonchalant comment about killing their enemies. Is that what would be required? Taking human life. Mythri thought about it and decided that she would kill if it meant protecting herself or those she loved, but killing to protect strangers? Even if they were being held in a facility against their will, it seemed...wrong somehow. Like they were no better than their enemies.

She mentally shrugged it off. Perhaps she would talk to Charles about her thoughts later, once they were done with this. If she were to stay on board, she had a lot of concerns to voice out before she agreed to help any further. There was already a lot being placed on her and she wasn't sure if it was all worth it. Saving lives was, but endangering others was not.

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It had been one week since they had gotten the plans and layouts for the facility, and it had helped out immensely. Miranda looked through the plans when they got them, and it got to the point where she memorized the entire layout. Using this knowledge, she created a realistic scenario, making a holographic projection of the facility, and recreating it in the basement of the mansion. It wasn't too hard for her, but nevertheless, she wasn't too thrilled at not really being able to participate much in the simulations. She felt virtually useless, but just went with it overall.

For training leading up through the week, the group didn't do too horribly. Each person had their good days, each person had their bad days, but by the end of the week, everyone would be able to feel more confident in their abilities. By the time they did their last session, no one actually got hit by any weapons from any enemies during the simulation. Of course, that was all it was, just a simulation, what happened in reality could be something completely different. As well as be a real life or death situation that they couldn't just get out of.

Now, they were getting ready to head to the facility itself, and luckily for them, apparently Charles had a jet or something that could easily get them to where they needed to go in Northern Canada. When they reached the facility, they would need to divide up into two smaller groups, ensuring that they could move throughout the facility quickly in hopes of shutting it down completely. However, they had yet to come up with any sort of ideas about who was going to be in which group, they'd have to make that choice on their way there.

"Follow me if you will... There is much to do in a short amount of time, and we have a long way to go before we reach our destination," Charles said, leading the group to what almost looked like a military jet or something similar. It was pretty big though, and easily could fit them all. They had a pilot who would stay with the jet when they reached their destination, so they could sit in the back and discuss more of what exactly they needed to do.

Miranda took a seat on the plane, not too sure what exactly they were going to be doing, all she really knew was that they needed to mess with and possibly destroy a facility that could cause problems for them in the future. During their week at the mansion, they had only heard rumors that the CIA was looking for those responsible for the robbery of files from their archives, but they didn't have any leads yet. Which meant that luckily, no one came after them.

The papers that Ellie had grabbed at random had more than just floor plans and an idea of how many people would likely be there, them combined with the ones that Erik had, provided an entire descriptive layout, complete with security systems and everything. So as far as she knew, they were just about set to take this facility down. "So... We already talked about splitting into 2 teams of three to explore the facility... Anyone have any ideas who should be in which group?" she asked, and once everyone was on board and in a seat, the plane took off.

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Katalina had a bit of time trying to adjust to training during the last week, she hadn't used her powers that excessively, but by the end of the week she was very much confident on what she could and couldn't do at this point. As they headed to where Charles had somehow acquired a large military jet was beyond her. She looked towards him for a moment, wondering where he had the money for one, but decided to not really bug him on the matter. "This looks amazing." Kat said, mainly to herself as she shifted slightly before heading inside and found her seat and sat down.

Katalina made sure that she was firmly strapped in and looked over towards Miranda and then the others that were there, and bit her bottom lip for a moment as she thought. "I'll go with Erik, and whoever else wants to go." Katalina said, figuring that he would be better to go with on the mission at the moment, while looking over towards the others.

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Ellie was slightly excited, but not for the reason anyone would have expected. Although she was looking forward to dealing out her own idea of justice on those running the Weapon X facility, she had never gotten the chance to fly in a plane before - much less a military grade jet. The prospect of flying was exciting and new. Her brothers had insisted that planes were propelled by Satan and because of that, she'd never gotten to go on one. She practically ran onto the plane, playing with the little courtesy buttons above her seat. She hit the flight attendant call button at least eight times before she shut it off, moving onto playing with the lights.

"Charles, j'ai une question pour toi," Ellie said, waiting for him. She then glanced at Miranda for a second. "Je voudrais aller avec Charles, s'il te plait," she added in fluent French. She didn't really feel like speaking English at the moment and figured one of the boys could translate. "Pourquoi est-ce que tu as beaucoup d'argent?" she asked, turning the fan to blow on Charles' hair, creating a slight poof-y effect as she smirked at him.

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Mythri had given it her all with regards to training. She knew it was important, she knew it, but her worries were still there. She hated these conflicting feelings. On one hand, she wants to help others like her. Others who are probably in serious danger. Or worse. But on the other hand, if they attacked this facility then people would know about her, about them, and connections would be made.

But here she was, about to go into teams to attack this facility. She didn't know who to go with. Charles had always been an interesting person, Erik was newer. "I mean, I don't really care. What team would need me more? I have no preference." Truthfully, she didn't care one way or the other. She just wanted to get started.

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"Where I got the money? Oh Ellie, it did help that my family was fairly well off, after my parents passed I inherited everything they had, that's where the money came from. Actually that mansion was where I spent my childhood, however, now is not the time to be discussing that. I'm going to recommend that Miranda goes with Katalina and Erik, that way we have a few people with powers that could be considered more defensive in each group, as well as those whose powers could fall under each one, like Katalina and Mythri's abilities..." Charles said, nodding his head at what the others had said before him.

Miranda looked over at Erik and Katalina, interested in how this mission was likely going to go if she was in a group with them. They certainly both had powers that were easily more useful than hers, at least in her opinion. They both could be used both offensively, and defensively, while hers either gave her a massive headache or made it so she could make a quick getaway if she needed to. Not very useful when odds were you were going to be fighting for your life.

"That's fine with me, I'll go with them..." she said in response, nodding.

"Which leaves Mythri to go with you and Ellie Charles. Now, there is one thing we all need to remember, and be careful of. There is only one way in, and only one way out of that facility, as much of the building is underground, buried beneath the dirt and likely snow. It is more like a maze in a way than anything, and we should be careful unless we want to end up stuck down there for the winter or something."

"Well this should be fun then, one way in, they block the entrance and exit, we basically become sitting ducks trying to figure out what to do, before likely striking back against them, fun. So, how much longer til we can get there and settle this?"

"This plane only moves so fast, it'll be 45 minutes at the least before we get to where we will be landing and getting off this thing."

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Katalina looked over towards Miranda and gave her a friendly smile and nod. "It will be nice to be working together." She said towards her as her attention turned over towards Charles and Ellie as the girl spoke in French. Which she did not even know or understand it at all which she didn't take up back in her school days. But the girl felt more like the weird wild child of the family as she shifted slightly in her seat and leaned back as they continued to go on their flight.

Kat listened to Erik as he started to speak up and gave a slight nod towards him, noting the only exit and entrance to the facility would cause a bit of an issue of the alarms were to go off or something. "So I guess we have to figure out a plan for once we get in, how are we going to get past the guard from the only entrance to the facility?" Katalina asked looking at them.

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"That'd be an interestin' Christmas," Ellie mused, before she glanced at Erik. "Or Hanukkah, I guess, in your case, mon ami." It would be kind of fun, though. Twelve days of Christmas meets murder - killing off a group of scientists and torturers each day, liberating mutant brothers and sisters all the same. She was pretty certain that Hanukkah was also a multi-day event - perhaps they could do both of them, executing those that would see them burn alive without mercy daily. She didn't believe in eye for an eye. She believed in massacre for a slight.

"If we wanna be stealth and all, Charles could just mind fuck the guard, make 'im let us in," Ellie pointed out. Her fingers felt itchy and she was craving a cigarette. Charles didn't tell her that she couldn't smoke on the plane so she pulled out her cigarette, lighting it and taking a drag. It amused her that Miranda and Erik would be in the same group. She could tell how much Miranda fancied him - or at least, Ellie believed that was the case. "Or I could throw a marble at 'em, speed it up too and bam, no more guard. Just a bit of blood on my marble that'll come off with a bit of water and love."

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Mythri nodded her understanding. She would be with Charles and Ellie and it made the most sense, power wise. It still worried her that Ellie was into blatant violence. "Why not try knocking them out first before we resort to killing them? For all we know, the guards are being lied to about the real goings on there. I'd rather not have that on my conscious if it can be helped."

It wasn't like Mythri was against violence if it meant protecting herself and others, but they knew little about what was going on in the facility. She would rather be prepared to the best they could be before going in guns blazing. Especially if there were others like her inside. She didn't want them in the cross-fire.

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Miranda nodded at Katalina, giving her a smile with what she had said about working with her. It definitely would be an interesting one, that's for sure. She didn't even really know if she could trust the others very much, so it was going to be interesting to see how things went. Hearing Ellie suggest to kill the guard kind of turned her stomach slightly, and she looked over at Ellie. "I'd prefer if we you know... Tried knocking him out or something without killing the guy, I agree with Mythri on that one..." she said, looking at them.

"I agree with the both of you, no killing Ellie unless we have to. And it shouldn't be too difficult for me to enter their mind and make it so they won't cause us any problems, that way we should be able to enter the building without many problems. Getting in is the least of our problems..."

"Getting out is going to be the hard part. Don't worry, it shouldn't be too difficult for us to get the job done, after all, we know the facility inside and out by now, looking over the floor plans and layouts, I think we have a good shot at pulling this entire thing off."

"That doesn't mean it'll be easy... You have to realize that because you guys were caught getting those files for us, odds are that they are expecting us. Not too mention that they likely have been expecting something from you two for a while now... So odds are there is going to be a lot of people there, expecting us," Miranda snapped out slightly. It was the truth, at least to her. No matter what, things were going to be like that. A lot of people probably knew what they were up to, there was nothing that could hide that. As long as their enemies had that, they were in a better position to fight back then they themselves were.

"You need to remain calm. Yes that may be true, but we still have a decent shot at this. Once we get inside, past those guards at the front, there will be a split in the hallway, one going left, the other to the right. Obviously this is where our groups will split off from one another. My group will take the left path, Charles' will take the right, and be careful, you might run into others who will get in your way. Find any other mutants who seem to be there against their will and set them free, maybe asking for a bit of help in shutting the facility down if you can."

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Katalina returned the smile as she leaned back in the seat, as her eyes wondered over towards Ellie for a moment and shook her head a little bit. "Yeah and have it come up and haunt us later on down the road would certainly be a good idea." Kat said, as she shook her head slightly sure killing would make things easier. But that would also end up making things back for them as well most likely later on down the line, she then raised an eyebrow when she watch Ellie lighting up a cigarette in the plane. They were in an oxygen filled tube literally and that would most likely make the plane explode.

"I don't think lighting up in a plane is the best thing right now Ellie." Katalina said pointing it out, she thought about just zipping over there and taking it from her. Then she looked over towards Erik and Charles giving a slight nod only killing when necessary or as a last resort. And then going separate ways once they were inside of the facility, but then she started to wonder what would happen if things went south. "What would happen if things go south, or they catch us what happens then?" Kat asked looking between Charles and Erik.

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Ellie scoffed, hearing everyone's non-committal answers to what needed to be done. Did they really think that any of the human guards would show them that same hesitation? Humans didn't show mutants mercy. She rubbed her arms slightly and as she blinked, in the split second her eyes were closed, she could still see the fire and gasoline that her supposed brothers had tried to use to kill her. Mutants were the abominations that were due to inherit the Earth. "Do ya really think that they'd give us the same mercy?" Ellie scoffed, putting out her cigarette on the tray table.

"Les vierges pauvres," she then muttered with a bit of a huff. "Ils pensent que nous sommes parasitaires!" She then huffed again as Katalina asked what would happen if things went south. Ellie had no doubt that the humans would kill them. Everyone here seemed to be naive to that fact and she got up, not caring if they were allowed to move about the plane, and she walked off until she was sitting by herself. The others could do what they wanted. But she wasn't going to hold back.

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Mythri was concerned with the amount of ease Ellie seemed to display about killing others. "That's the difference between us and them. And it's something you shouldn't jeapordize. They would kill first whereas we would not. I believe that makes us the good guys in this scenario. If we went around killing anyone who stood before us, what makes us better than tyrants?"

She shook off her nerves, especially about capture, since the thought had crossed her mind before. "If the worse comes, I will go down swinging. If this facility is as bad as described, I will go down and bring it crumbling. But if I could prevent that and save lives to see these people charged and spending the rest of their miserable lives in a cage, then that would be worth it."

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Miranda looked at Ellie. She wasn't too sure about her possibly being so at ease with the idea of killing anyone that they come across. It just didn't seem right to her, and Mythri had a point, that they should try to prove that they were better than the humans. Better than them in the fact that they didn't feel the need to do random killings or something of the sort, didn't need to kill people who likely were just doing their jobs, like a security guard or something. That was the main reason she preferred the idea of Charles knocking them out himself as opposed to them killing any guards.

"If things go south. That is a good question, unfortunately I do not have an answer to that, as one group might get caught, while the other does not. If only one of the two groups who go in get caught, then the other should try to go aid them, maybe cause a bit of a distraction or something to draw the guards or whoever is there away. We will be able to stay in contact with one another, thanks to our resident telepath," Erik said, before he nodded towards Charles. Miranda glanced over at him, wondering what exactly that would mean or such.

"What he means is that I can create a telepathic link of sorts between all of us, so if we do end up getting separated, or end up in some sort of trouble, we'll be able to hear them and possibly come to one another's aid. This makes it easier, as all you have to do is think the message, and you will be able to talk to anyone in the group. Will make it so we aren't quite so noisy while we are inside. You can talk to anyone in your group specifically, or you may talk to anyone in the other group. You need to think specifically about who you are wanting to talk to however, as you might send a message to everyone and that might get just a tad bit confusing."

"So, what? You're saying that basically we'll be able to read each others thoughts or something even though you are the only telepath here?" Miranda then asked.

"No, that isn't it Miranda, as this would only be some form of communication. You have to somewhat actively think about who you wish to talk to. So you are not able to actually read each other's thoughts, as that likely would get to be a bit annoying for those of you not used to it."

"...Good, because that would be really weird," she said, nodding her head. It would be really weird if the others could hear her thoughts. Most people would probably laugh or something at the different things that tend to go through her head, and there were definitely some mental thoughts she had that she would not want the others hearing.