[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Bv89ZJ5p/512c501ac17eee35d69a9a5e0a8954ae.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Pf7DNykM/giphy.gif[/img][hr][hr][/center]	Neil was having a hard time staying calm, fidgeting a bit with his hearing aids. He knew that they would be fine - they had the majority of the old X-Men with them and they had a few other heavy hitters, like Allison, there as well. They'd be mostly fighting civilians too, meaning that it was unlikely that they'd be going up against anyone with powers or experience. But after the disasters from yesterday... he was just scared that Mesmero would get back inside of their heads. What if he killed someone this time? His hands shook slightly and he glanced at his teammates. He wished Sara had been with him - someone he knew - but he wasn't that lucky. [color=12ABB0]"... What's the plan?"[/color] Neil asked softly.

	Shelly massaged her forehead. They were in charge of crowd control when everyone else was completing objectives we were preventing them getting swamped in hordes of bodies, some of which had to be mutants. But we didn't know anything, where they were stood relative to other objectives, how many there were, what they could use to their advantage.

	[COLOR=orange]"To start, we need to know what we're fucking with exactly,"[/color] Shelly suggested in a hushed tone, [color=orange]"and then we need to make our mind up quick before another team get their attention instead. Who wants to take a peek?"[/color]

	Allison wasn't too keen on the team she was assigned. She barely knew Neil, Richard was more of an annoying older brother, and she couldn't stand Shelly. This was going to be an interesting mission. Granted, it was important. Mesmero will have a lot of people under his control and they were innocent. [color=FFD9E9]"The plan is no killing. These people, like we saw already, have no control of their actions. I know Jean is the expert on breaking it, but I could try my hand at it provided they are knocked out."[/color]

	Richard gave a slightly annoyed sigh. He was already done with Mesmero and mutants who could and, for the sake of excluding the Professor, would screw with someone's mind. Ayita had practically taken off his head when he suggested she not go after Mesmero. Privately, but she still had tried verbally. [color=Olive]"What we are 'fucking with exactly',"[/color] The Adder stated in a cold tone, Shelly was still not in his good books by any measure. [color=Olive]"Is a bunch of pedestrians we can't exactly hurt [i]too[/i] badly. They most likely don't have any extensive training in combat and this should be easy. The problem will lie with the fact they won't have the sense to stay down, and their superior numbers."[/color] Nodding to himself, the Adder gave a quick look about. Hoping to spot a lone civilian on their own. [color=Olive]"But let's get on with this so that way the others will have a clear shot towards the two-point-oh version of giant world ending computer and the poor sod who riled my sister."[/color]

	[color=a2d39c]"No killing, only disarming and knocking out. That's it, clearing the way for just about anyone else. You kill anyone, even on accident, you have ta deal with me,"[/color] Wolverine growled at the group, before heading into the Warehouse now. That was when the group was in for a bit of a surprise. There had to be over 500 people or so, just in the main area that they ended up in.

	[color=A41E45]"Holy shit, that is a lot of civilians.... Guess that's what ya get when your villains are all based in NYC!"[/color]

	[color=a2d39c]"Keep it down Swamp Rat, they haven't seemed to notice us yet."[/color]

	Neil took a deep breath, trying to imagine the civilians they were facing as nothing more than roaming monsters in Dungeons and Dragons. Whenever there was a mob this big, he'd toss aside the figures to represent them and put out pieces of candy instead. People got to eat the candy when they took out a monster. If he imagined all of these people as just Hershey Kisses, it was a little less terrifying. He looked at Allison, hoping to take some sort of cue from her as to how to use the telekinesis with these people, though his telekinesis tended to manifest mostly in terms of ripping things apart. 

	Fortunately, he had watched plenty of movies and shows with his cousin. He was scared to use his powers on the civilian themselves, but he spotted some pipes running up above them. Twisting his hands slightly, he caused the pipe to burst, sending down a large volume of smoke at the civilians. It would hopefully scatter them, but also might provide them with some cover of sorts. 

	Shelly rolled her eyes quietly, like she was the one that needed to be told "no killing", and followed in behind the guys. Shelly thought they were being hasty even if they were a lot more experienced and time was of the essence. Shelly caught a glimpse of the crowd just as the fog decended, it was terrifyingly huge. [color=orange][i]Could she really disable her fair share of the horde of civilians with just her bare hands?[/i][/color] Shelly imagined knocking out the umpteenth innocent with a simple choke hold for their own good, whispering apologies as they strained and writhed, their body desperately fighting her grip for a gasp of oxygen. She wouldn't be able to sleep after doing it that many times, she'd still do it for them and the safety of her team if thats what it came to, but Shelly knew it would be tough to soothe the soul after that.

	She had to think smarter than that, smart like bursting the pipe. Perhaps there was more stuff in the Warehouse they could use to their advantage. Obscured from sight by the smoke and footsteps shrouded by the noise of work that echoed from deeper in the warehouse, she began her hunt for something, anything.

	Taking a cue from her chat with Bobbi before, Allison paused and attempted to get a vision. She managed to latch on to something, seeing them get inside the building just fine. However, she noted some cops there and a large group of civilians. And then she saw and heard a gunshot. She came back and followed the others. [color=FFD9E9]"All right, just had a vision. We can make it inside easily, but there are a lot of people inside and Mesmero isn't afraid to lose any of them. I saw cops there and I think they may have shot one of the controlled civilians. So we need to get them out and helped as fast as possible."[/color]

	Richard studied the crowd as Neil's little pipe dream came down to earth. It was a rather splendid idea and something he could use on a few people, but on this many? He was an assassin that generally targeted people based in far smaller numbers than this. [color=Olive]"It'd be worse if he got the brilliant idea to do it down in New Orleans during Mardi Gras."[/color] Richard retorted to Remy with a groan of amusement. [color=Olive]"Though there is an idea. Could just get a rave going. Til then... I need to find a cardboard box. The perfect camouflage."[/color] The Adder noted as he slipped into the cloud and slowly worked to get close to some poor outlying fool. Quick as a flash he wrapped an arm about the man's neck after plucking the weapon from the man's hands. Shoving it into his belt, Richard covered the man's mouth and slowly lowered him to the floor as the civilian lost consciousness.

	[color=A41E45]"Ya stay the hell out of my city, Snake Man,"[/color] Gambit said, shaking his head. He threw a hand of cards at the fire alarm, intending to trigger it to add to the chaos on this floor. It would at least make it so that way Mesmero would have a harder time directing his minions and figuring out what was going on. His aim was a bit off, but he did succeed in activating the blaring fire alarm. However there was the slight problem of a few of the civilians being in the blast radius of the explosions and it injured several of them now.

	[color=CFFF5C]"Damn it Remy, thought we were trying not to injure everyone else!"[/color] Rogue said, managing to be heard over the blaring fire alarm.

	Nodding a bit at Allison's description of her vision, Neil started looking for cops amongst the crowd. He was able to spot a few of them and he focused on the barrels of their guns, using his powers to twist and bend them out of shape, preventing them from being fired. That would hopefully at least prevent the future Allison had seen of people getting shot - he didn't want to think about anyone getting seriously hurt or dying. There had been way more than enough tragedy the day before. [color=12ABB0]"Few of the cops I spotted are disarmed,"[/color] Neil told his teammates. He hoped that Sara was alright. He really hoped that she was. 

	Shelly was losing her patience, she had to start releasing people soon. [color=orange][i]Thats how she had to think about it, I was taking them out of danger by doing it.[/i][/color] Shelly commited to taking down the next person she found.

	A young girl, might have only just started middle school. Her parents must have been worried sick, unless they were in the crowd as well. Shelly was more disgusted than she could put in words, her Diary entry would be unusally distant and objective tonight. Shelly steeled herself, she was vulnerable and most in need of saving from Mesmero. She breathed before, wrapping her right arm round, braced it with the other and tightened. [color=orange]"You've been so brave, well done super star,"[/color] Shelly whispered, trying (and failing) not to cry herself. The girl was out like a light, it was precise, clinical. Shelly lifted her unconcious body, carrying the limp, defenceless creature back out to safety.

	Allison had talked to Jean before this and asked her how she broke them out of control. They had little time to crash course it, so Allison figured it was now or never. She closed her eyes and let her conscious go out of her body, entering the minds of the few civilians in front of her. Once inside, she fought the mental cage that surrounded their minds and broke it. She had only gotten through three of them before she felt weak and came back. Still, three of them were out of danger. She quickly ran over to them. [color=FFD9E9]"You were being controlled by a powerful mutant but you're free now. Quickly! Get out of here. The exit is that way."[/color] She pointed and directed them towards the exit before she followed the others forward.

	It seemed things were getting a little messy, no thanks to Remy. While he did enjoy the man, and honestly wanted to see how well a man who could blow a card up could play poker, it was a bit irritating to have an explosion go off. It was positively aggravating to have the fire alarm blare out, though Richard had to admit it was adding to the confusion. Slipping up behind another figure, his hand covered the woman's mouth as his arm wrapped around her throat and he slowly lowered her to the ground. Two down, and far too many more to go.

	[color=CFFF5C]"We need ta hurry up, none of this taking down a few at a time, there too many!"[/color] Rogue said, before an idea crossed her mind, and she noticed the large doors of the warehouse. [color=CFFF5C]"Hey Wolverine, mind gettin' one of those doors open for me?"[/color] she asked before she flew outside. Wolverine proceeded to pull one of the larger doors open, and finding a way to prop the door open so he didn't have to stand there. A moment later she came flying back inside carrying a very large shipping container and proceeded to scoop up about 20 people before she flew the container back out and locked it so they wouldn't wander off to try and stop them. She had been nice though and had found a drill to poke holes in it so that there was air able to circulate within the container.

	[color=A41E45]"That's my wife!"[/color] Gambit called out with a cheer. [color=A41E45]"She really knows how ta fill a hole!"[/color] He proceeded to pull out his his bo staff and charged in, knocking out several other civilians.

	[color=CFFF5C]"We aren't actually married first of all!"[/color]

	[color=A41E45]"Well, what do ya say we change that chère?"[/color] Gambit asked, stopping for a moment, jumping back over to where she was holding out a diamond ring.

	[color=CFFF5C]"Now is not the time for that sort of thing Swamp Rat!"[/color] Rogue said with a slight eye roll before she knocked out 2 more civilians.

	Trying his very best to aid with the entire idea of getting more civilians out sooner rather than later, Neil got a bit of an idea once more. He used his telekinesis to suspend one civilian into the air, before he started moving them around through the air like a bowling ball taking down pins, managing to knock ten civilians unconscious before his "weapon" lost consciousness as well and he had to set him back down. He was sweating from the exertion that had took and Neil wiped his brow, hoping that the group fighting Mesmero would hurry up and take him out. He didn't know how long they'd be able to last here. There seemed to be an endless tidal wave of foes to go up against. 

	Allison tried again to break more people free, but she could feel herself getting weaker. She managed to latch on to one person's mind and shatter the cage. She moved them onwards towards the exit. There was still a lot of them to go and she didn't know if she could go on.

	[color=Olive]"Speaking of propositions..."[/color] Richard called out to Remy as he attempted to put another civillian in a sleeper hold. [color=Olive]"Remy, was it?, can you happen to play cards without making them explode? I wouldn't mind another smart-assed bastard at the table. Call it an olive branch if you will."[/color] He chuckled and tried to leg sweep another civilian.

	[color=A41E45]"I ain't always a good man, Snake, but I ain't stupid. I play cards with my friends. And that ain't you,"[/color] Gambit responded, and Richard would be able to knock another civilian out. However, something else strange seemed to happen, as if the spell was broken and now several of them looked really confused.

	[color=CFFF5C]"Looks like ol' Mesmero's down for the count,"[/color] Rogue commented, landing on the ground once more, befor Gambit turned to look at her.

	[color=A41E45]"So mon amie, what do ya say? Wanna be Mrs. Rogue?"[/color]

	Rogue seemed to think about it for a moment, before she took the ring from him, covered his mouth with her hand and kissed the back of her hand, stepping back again. [color=CFFF5C]"Does that answer ya question swamp rat? Though next time, pick a better time for asking these sort of questions."[/color]

	[color=A41E45]"Ya really think I'm gonna need to propose to ya again, Mrs. X?"[/color] he asked with a smirk.

	Rogue smacked him over the head with an eye roll. [color=CFFF5C]"Let's get everyone outta here."[/color]
[hr][hr][center][h2][color=007236]October 16, 2020[/color][/h2][hr][img]https://data.whicdn.com/images/234679036/original.gif[/img][/center][hr][hr]

	She had blacked out, again. Appearing somewhere that she hadn't remembered going to, and it was starting to terrify her. There wasn't anything she could do about it, one minute she'd be in her room, next thing she knew she'd be in a tree in the garden or in the parlor on a couch. None of it was making sense to her, and it didn't help that she was hearing a voice in her mind, one that wasn't going away. Some of the things it was saying made her worry, not for herself, but for everyone else around her. She went to Xavier's office to speak with him, about to knock on the door, but she found that she didn't need to as the instant she reached the door a voice came from the otherside. [color=00aeef]"Enter Marygold."[/color]

	[color=007236]"So you were expecting me then?"[/color] she asked as she walked into the room, taking a seat in the chair that was right across from where Xavier sat at his desk.

	[color=00aeef]"Yes, I've been expecting you to come by for quite some time now actually..."[/color]

	[color=007236]"...So you know why I'm here?"[/color]

	[color=00aeef]"Yes I do."[/color]

	[color=007236]"...I think there is something seriously wrong with me. There's this voice in my head that sounds like my own... But it's saying things that I don't think and I don't know what to do about it... Then there are the blackouts... Professor I don't even [i]remember[/i] us knocking out Mesmero. I remember Ayita charging at him, and the next thing I know we were back at the mansion and he'd been handed over to SHIELD... Nothing is making sense to me anymore... I got really angry with Ayita for not listening to me, and then nothing. Now she hates me more than before, and I don't even know what I had said to her! I don't know what to do anymore..."[/color]

	[color=00aeef]"I can understand your fear Marygold, adapting to any sort of new situation is not exactly a situation one would want to find themselves in. It is your choice how you want things to go from here, but we can talk about what might be the best options..."[/color]

	[color=007236]"Please Professor, I need to know... What do you think, or likely know, is wrong with me?"[/color]

	[color=00aeef]"It is a bit complicated..."[/color]