[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/6pXXwXFd/gifted-4-50.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/85Fxr5DY/giphy.gif[/img][/center][hr][hr][center][@Nallore][@FantasyChic][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][/center][hr][center][h3][color=f7941d][b]Washington D.C.: September 7th, 2020 - 1:15 PM[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr][@FantasyChic]: The young man glanced up at Leighton, giving her a slight smirk. "What sort of person do I strike you as?" he asked with a British accent, walking over towards her. His items were in one of the little red handheld baskets and he adjusted his glasses slightly, checking Leighton out. "My name's Luke - Luke Pritchard," he added. He waited for her to introduce herself or move on from him, either would have been fine. He wasn't exactly unused to girls approaching him to flirt with, but he had time to kill and figured that it wouldn't hurt. 

He looked away from her for a second, grabbing a thing of Advil and adding it to the basket. He had recently moved to the area and was missing a bunch of random items from his new place. Band-aids and Advil just happened to be a few things he had forgotten back home. [hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=935DB8]Veil[/color][/i][/b][/h1][img]https://i.postimg.cc/QNPJGNqm/tumblr-nem7p3-U9ji1r3ptbfo4-500.gif[/img][hr][hr][b][color=935DB8]Location:[/color][/b] Apartment Complex - Parking Lot
[b][color=935DB8]Skills:[/color][/b] Perception, Leadership [hr][/center]	Veil gasped a bit, getting back up to her feet once her friend had helped her. If it hadn't been for Spark Plug's quick thinking, she might have died. [color=935DB8]"They have new weapons - that shouldn't have taken me down or gone through my shield..."[/color] Veil muttered to her companions. It was less of a complaint and more of a warning. Her powers made her naturally very durable, but there must have been something on the tip of that bullet to cause it to just cut through like that. 

	[color=935DB8]"No, we can't just abandon everyone in the complexes,"[/color] Veil told her team, making a split second decision. [color=935DB8]"We stick with the mission - just with some improvising."[/color] Her eyes darted around for another moment. The Purifiers were unloading something from a truck - it looked like a battering ram, likely designed to take down Sapphire's ice wall. Had it been another time, she would have laughed about people like the Purifiers trying to take a wall down, rather than build one. 

	[color=935DB8]"Sapphire, it's time to play chutes and ladders - mostly chutes,"[/color] Veil explained quickly, putting together a plan on the fly. [color=935DB8]"Keep this wall as strong as you can. I'll keep a protective force field to cover us as we slide into the apartments. Get everyone we can out of the building, send them on the ice chute across the street - there's a metro stop, we can get them into the station and they'll blend into the crowd."[/color]

	[color=935DB8]"Spark Plug, you're on cover fire. If anything gets through my shield or Sapphire's wall, zap them. Non lethal is ideal, but I can take a casualty on their side if it means getting all of these people out. When we meet up with Havok and Colossus, they can assist where needed. I'm imagining it'll be on playing defense with you, Sparky."[/color][hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/i][/b][/h1][img]https://i.postimg.cc/L5Nd5Y6J/original.gif[/img][hr][hr][b][color=DAF7A6]Location:[/color][/b] Millennium Plaza - Comic Book Store
[b][color=DAF7A6]Skills:[/color][/b] Bluff, Survival[hr][/center]	"What the hell did Ah just say?!" the storekeeper snapped, looking at Grey. Hadn't she been clear? She didn't like mutants, especially if they used their powers. Sure, she might have claimed to be tolerant of them but tolerance wasn't the same thing as acceptance. Plus, she still had the weapon in her hands and she was eyeing Max like she might be about to whack him over the head next too. 

	She then made a [i]are you kidding me?![/i] face as James came in and used his powers to heal Sunshine. The blonde girl opened her eyes, as if she had just been taking a nap and hadn't gotten a head injury. She wrinkled her face up at Max. [color=DAF7A6]"If you tried true love's kiss on me, I'll kill you,"[/color] she told him seriously, before she got up and looked at the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper had started to back away, looking intimidated at the three (hostile?) mutants in her store. [color=DAF7A6]"I can get to the phone before you,"[/color] Sunshine bluffed. 

	Unfortunately, it was an obvious lie as the shopkeeper grabbed the phone and dialed 911. 

	[color=DAF7A6]"Well, shit. Call me Electra or Sunshine - we have to run before the cops come and nab us,"[/color] she told her unwitting companions. Mutants had been thrown in prison for far less than what they had just done.