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[youtube]https://youtu.be/iKJUxhdMOtw[/youtube][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Framing A Moose][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]February 18th, 2021 - 12:00 AM[/b][/color][/center][hr]	Veil nodded slightly, considering Spark Plug's suggestion. It could potentially work, but she wouldn't be able to maintain a force field around an explosion and keep them cloaked at the same time. She'd need to put all of her energy towards the shield. Plus, it required pretty much excellent precision from the others and assumed that the X-Cutioner didn't have anything else nasty planned. He struck her as the type to be over-prepared. He had to know that they had disarmed the other bombs. 	

	[color=DBA1DE]"Oh, Moriarty? He's like this sexy professor who kills people for fun, and he's obsessed with this detective, Sherlock Holmes. He's veeeery queer coded and dresses so pretty,"[/color] Casper rambled. [color=DBA1DE]"Except he takes Sherlock's not boyfriend but queer coded friend John to this pool and makes him wear this heavy coat, and Sherlock's all 'whaaat why are you here John' and then John opens up the coat, and BAM! He's wearing a bomb! And Sherlock's freaking out because he's also queer coded. Honestly come to think of it, pretty much every character in that show is queer coded, but not actually queer, because the BBC can't let us have nice things... And Waverley? It's always the time. That's how time works. It just keeps on going."[/color]

	[color=DBA1DE]"Wait, what do you mean by them? I thought Daddy-O's circus ponies weren't coming,"[/color] Casper blurted, confused by what Max had said. 

	Veil furrowed her eyebrows, before realizing the most logical person for Max to refer to - or people, however. The thought sent her stomach twisting up into knots. She always believed that the means and the ends had to both have honor in them - but here, when they were seconds away from the X-Cutioner's deadline, could they really have the luxury of being choosy? If they could save the mutants in the D.C. area, didn't they have to try every option available to them? [color=935DB8]"I don't think this could get much worse, Warlock,"[/color] Veil admitted. [color=935DB8]"I believe in us. But belief might not be enough."[/color]

	She turned to look at her brother, studying his face briefly as if it could be the last time she'd see him. [color=935DB8]"Je t'aime aussi,"[/color] she replied softly in her native French. 

	Sunshine bit her lip, scrunching up her face as she tilted her head sideways. Most of her diseases that she caused were admittedly pretty unimaginative - just since she didn't know a lot. It helped her to know the name of the thing and the general effects. She'd never heard of a disease that could paralyze someone before, and she decided to give it a name in her head - Max Disease - as she twitched her fingers. No green smoke appeared around her hands. 

	Everyone seemed to be coming up empty and it worried Sunshine as much as it made her angry. They were a group of powerful mutants and here, some stupid flatscan with some weird tech was about to beat them all and they weren't even going to try? If this was the best that mutants had to offer, then maybe they deserved to be wiped off the face of the planet. They weren't just survivors - they were fighters, warriors! Like igniting a flame underneath a hot air balloon, Sunshine's anger allowed her to soar. Green wisps appeared in her hands, and her eyes turned emerald green. [color=#DAF7A6]"I don't know how long it'll last, but... Fuck this flatscan."[/color] Sunshine then threw her green smoke orbs, her secondary mutation of perfect aim allowing them to connect. 

	There was silence, tension in the air, as the X-Cutioner fell still for a brief moment. 

	[color=FAFD95]"You did it, kid,"[/color] Havok said, his eyes wide as he started to collapse. 

	And then suddenly, the X-Cutioner began to move again. He turned and looked right at the group, since although Veil had made them invisible, Sunshine's actions had revealed their location. [b]"I know you are there. There's little use in hiding now. Come into the light - or I will detonate the bomb."[/b]

	The color drained from Veil's face. They only had one advantage. The X-Cutioner didn't know how many were present. She did a quick calculation, before gambling on their two best hopes. She removed the cloak of invisibility from everyone except Sapphire and Max. [color=935DB8]"X-Cutioner. You asked for us to come. We're here. What do you want?"[/color] Veil called out. 

	[b]"I asked for the pathetic X-Men, Xavier's spawn - not some gutter children."[/b]

	[color=FAFD95]"If you want X-Men, I'm the real deal,"[/color] Havok offered. [color=FAFD95]"Take me - just let everyone else go."[/color]

	The X-Cutioner laughed. [b]"A [i]real[/i] X-Men, boy,"[/b] he threatened, his hand resting on the detonator. It would take very little effort for him to cause the bomb to go off. [b]"How fitting though - Xavier shows his true colors, abandoning you and all the mutants in D.C. in favor of his chosen children, his pet monsters. You're all demonspawn, born of Lucifer's sin. Consider this a mercy killing, mutants. I'm your real savior."[/b]