[IC] The X-Pendibles

[pyroman]

"Alright kiddies! It's time to go!"

Wade took the jump on leading the group to the hangar. Cable and Laura would have to pause their conversations, even if only for a second. The three stood in the front, directing this mission as they said they would. There was a serious air around the group, something about actually walking towards this dangerous mission filling Shawn with uncertainty.

A large and heavy hand set itself on Shawn's shoulder, weighing him down just a little. He could tell by the metallic shine that it was Cable, probably hoping to settle his nerves.

"You grow up to be what you've wanted to become. You're essentially immortal, and don't need to eat food. But yes, you can." Cable seemed to answer each question as they were popping up in Shawn's mind. Of course, they had gone through all of this many times before. Still, that didn't deter Shawn from being amazed at his future. He was an X-Man? an immortal X-Man who didn't need to eat food? Cable It had to do something with his mutation, Shawn was sure of it. Was he like a living lightning bolt in the future? He wanted to ask, but Cable was already shaking his head in denial. Though smiling, Shawn hung his head a little. He should have known that Cable wasn't going to tell him everything.

He was almost going to ask about a love life. Was he going to settle down? Maybe find his parents and see them for the first time in a long time? Maybe start a family? Was he even a family man? Shawn stilled himself from asking those questions. It'd be much more fun to let it play out and be a surprise to him, than know all of the answers and simply anticipate them.

In the Hangar, Booker stepped up in front of everyone, standing tall in hopes of getting them all (especially Rose Mary) to listen to him and heed his words.

"Alright everyone. When we get in the Blackbird, I'm going to need all of you to strap down and stay secure. We're going to be going at supersonic speeds, and I want to make sure that all of you are safe in that jet until we touch down. It's going to be about three hours in the plane until we reach our destination, so I hope you're all ready to get comfy."

"Cool." Shawn nodded in understanding. "But where are we going? Cable didn't exactly tell us that part."

"Hermosillo, Mexico." Laura gave the answer, stepping onto the plane with nothing else to say to anyone. Her accent showed a little more than it did before, but it wasn't surprising to Emma, Booker, nor Shawn.

With everyone in, Laura was Joined in the cockpit by Cable, leaving Wade to deal with the little rapscallions in the back with Emma and Booker.

Shawn tried to sit with Heidi, being the one on that team that he knew the best. Had Jacob been on the team, Shawn would have found a way to sit between the two of them. "So, get any cool answers about the future? Apparently I become immortal. Probably through eating raw plasma or something."

The Blackbird shook once, the platform underneath the plane rising to allow them access to the sky. Once the skies were clear, another shake alerted them to the active turbines. In a split second, they were up in the sky and off to the border.

[Silver Carrot]

@pyroman

Heidi strapped in to the Blackbird, thinking about what she had heard Caleb tell Shawn. Essentially immortal? What did that mean, and how did his mutation make that possible? Plus, did that mean that he'd die before me, his wife? Wait, why was she thinking that? Get a grip, Heidi! It's mission time!

She meeped adorably when Shawn sat next to her, and then preceded to ask what she'd learned about the future. Heidi had gone bright red. "Well," she answered, "I know that I help invent Time Travel, and that in the future I'm also not socially awkward, and I'm married. And apparently I make really good X-Men uniforms. Anything beyond that's just conjecture."

[CleverFox]

Olinda was sitting on the ground her two three foot stone and rock golems sitting next to her. She had been watching some guys moving ,what she thinks, are drugs. She glares at the men laughing as the come out carrying boxs into a truck.

"These were the guys that Roman said attacked the town?" She asks looking at a Golem who nods. That was muched more designed than the others the first one she ever made, Uno. Olinda nods before standing up."Alright, we're going in hot. Uno, wait for my signal alrigt?" She says standing and runs around to some trucks looking under them at the clearing where some men were standing.

She stood up walking towards them whistling."Hey guys." She says coming forward the girl collecting rocks around her hands and wrists making."Wanna play?" She ask cocky.

Guns aimed at her firing she stomps her foot making two rock sheild's before having the thrown at the group before launching herself at some of the men. She takes one of their gun hitting the other in the stomach. She turns around hitting the guy across the face with her rock glove turning them into small rock pellets before propelling them towards three other guys. She felt an arm go around her neck."Don't do it." She says.

"Or wha-" Olinda head butts the guy making him loosen his grip on her. Shifting his weight she quickly flips him over before having made another wall to block the on slot of bullets she closes her eyes and focus there were at least 5 more guys. One had a rocket launcher..aimed at her!

"Shit!" She yells throwing up 4 more walls hearing the hiss of a missile and felt it hit one of the walls throwing her back against the ground. She was dazed for a moment before trying to shake it off."Ow.." She says looking down at her shit."HEY!" She turns looking at the running men."Oh hell no." She says making her hand into a fist it shaking like she was struggling in an arm wrestling match and slowly began to open her hand. As she was doing this the ground before her began to shake breaking and the trucks started falling in especially the one with the drugs in it.

"Get her to stop!"

Olinda smiles thanking the idiot who spoke for giving her a general location to aim. The girl aimed her hand at the front of the large cubical truck sending a crack towards them. Olinda smiles watching them all scramble out of the truck as its front wheel's fell into the ground. By the time the men had aimed at Olinda she had enough play time. She snapped her fingers and six 3 foot tall golem's came out of the ground.

"Tie them down while I check the drugs. Keep one awake okay?" She says walking away as the Golems charged towards the men. She waited behind the truck listening to the fight until she heard grunts of her Golem before opening the back."What the hell?" Olinda says grabbing a container looking at the liquid inside. "What..What is this? She asks herself. She walks out of the Truck and see one of her golem's were standing near 5 knocked out men.

Olinda storms over to one that was still conscious and picked him up by the collar."Why do you have this?" She asked showing the container.

"I aint tellin' ya shit." He spits at her face.

"Uno. Grab his hand." The Golem grabs the mans hand and squeezes making him scream."Why do you have this? I am not asking nicely again."

"Burn in hell!"

"Fracture." Olinda says not even blinking at the grunt the man made when the Golem Fracture the mans hand."Now tell me or I'll have him break your hand. Now I don't want to do that."

"You wouldn't."

Olinda sighs."Uno. Break his hand."

"NO! Okay, Okay! It was some sort of delivery. We were told not to ask questions."

Olinda stared at the man before nodding."Where?"

"North of here North east maybe." The man says quickly.

"Alright." She puts the man down stepping around him. He sighed before he was met with a rocky fist."Uno that wasn't nice." She says looking at him making the Golem shrug. Olinda chuckles going to the front of the vehicle and opening the door grabbing a map."Uno, wanna go on a road trip?" She asked turning to her rocky friend who had a rock suit case in hand making the girl giggle.

[pyroman]

"Well!" Shawn smiled and patted Heidi on the shoulder. "Looks like you've got your future handled, then. Billionaire, genius, inventor, philanthropist Heidi Williams, taking on the world with her hus... Life partner." His face reddened just the slightest bit. He tried to reassure himself by saying that maybe she wouldn't get married to a man. Maybe a woman, or an alien. That sounded cool. "Life Partner."

If she could really be the inventor of time travel, as well as apparently really good mission suits, then Shawn couldn't wait to see the person that Heidi would grow to be. He began to lose himself in thought. Maybe the whole team would last long enough for Cable, Laura and Wade to see them all in the future. He wondered what they'd all be like twenty years from now.

He could see Rose Mary being something like Laura. Rose couldn't die, or at least, Shawn was sure that she couldn't be killed. Maybe she'd come to accept her powers, maybe even control them to adapt and change how she saw fit. Maybe she'd be like Logan, a loner who disappeared when she saw the need to, but always came back home.

Tatiana will always be a mystery to him. Maybe she'd lead the vampires and make peace with the humans and mutants, maybe she'd take over the world from the shadows. It was hard to tell what kind of path she could even be on.

Chrys was in a bit of a situation too. Something about Chrys felt off today compared to the day before the mission. Maybe something with his powers, maybe something personal after the bank explosion. Chrys would always fight for good, though. Shawn knew that. Chrys would put the earth before his own needs, and use his omega level powers to help.

Maybe they'd pick up some more? Who could tell. At this point, Shawn had been playing songs in his head to pass the time. There wasn't a whole lot to do for the time being.

"Hey, Prof Smith." Shawn spoke up and raised his hand. "You got anything we can do to pass this plane ride? Any team building exercises or anything?" Shawn was anticipating the oncoming groans, but his mood didn't change. If he was to be hoenst, he didn't know a whole lot about his teammates. Maybe they could just talk things over until the flight was through.

"Tatiana." He called out a second person. "How'd Xavier find you? Where were you before the X-Mansion?" Shawn knew the least about her, so he figured that he'd start with her, and then they could make their way around to learning about everyone in time.

Wade could be heard laughing to himself. He wasn't going to tell anyone what he was thinking, not even reveal the secrets of the future to the prying narrator, no matter how much he wanted to hear them. He obviously knew something about Tatiana, though he still refused to spill the beans.

Shawn glanced at wade, the man's face hidden behind his red and black mask. There was something about him that made Shawn feel uneasy, but he didn't voice it. Looking back at Tatiana, he motioned for her to go on.

[Burning Kitty]

"A street." Tatiana didn't elaborate, she didn't feel the need to or want to elaborate. Her stomach was beginning to growl, she was looking at everyone like they were food, technically they were food to her. She heard something about blood bags earlier from one of the time travelers. She was trying to sniff out which one had them, but the way the red one smelled was off putting, he smelled like an old avocado used for something foul.

Rose Mary was playing with her left hand flexing it and adapting it into various lethal things, mostly unsuccessful because she couldn't visualize what she was trying to do. She then remembered Logan's claws. She flipped her hand over and tried to mimic the claws. She visualized the claws but was only partially successful. She began rubbing it, until she cut herself. "Interesting." She licked her wound.

[GrizzTheMauler]

Chrys stayed rather silent. He was focused inward, half meditating/half sensing the world around him. With the proximity of the three travelers, he could feel that his own powers were starting to adapt to lessen the strain. Experimentally, he used small fields around their boots or near them as they sat, and found that they bent outward from them. The space they took up distorted everything around them, but unless you could sense it, you'd never tell.

With this revelation, Chrys decided to dive deeper into himself, finding that he could enter that strange space in his head again. On the outside, Chrys subtly emitted grey light and a near inaudible hum.

In his mind he walked over to the box, and touched it. The room seemed to mirror the plane and the space around it for a dozen meters. Everything was transparent, except he realized that Laura, Cable and Wade were all emitting some kind of energy. He couldn't tell what kind, but he understood that it was from their time travelling. That this was the cause of some kind of repeated action they had been doing. Cable was by far the most traveled. It was almost certain to Chrys that he had been responsible for many different changes in the wide river of time. He was sure that this man had seen more than he was willing ti share. It made Chrys curious, opening his eyes he asked Cable the questions on his mind.

"What happens to me, in your time. Do I finally master my abilities?"

[Silver Carrot]

@pyroman@Tickout

"Husband," Heidi corrected, blushing even more at her own assertiveness, and the possibility that Shawn might interpret that as a hint. But...wasn't that a good thing? Heidi didn't know any more. There were no books to teach teenagers how to handle crushes. Well, there were, but they were useless, as this wasn't something that could be simply taught. Heidi knew they were all useless. She'd read so many of them she'd started noticing patterns, and that's when she knew it was time to stop.

Besides, 'life partner', applied to Shawn, was ironic and left a bitter taste in her mouth as well as a lump in her chest. She didn't want to contemplate that at all right now. Instead she started thinking about plans. Immediately, she hit a roadblock; she didn't know all the variables.

Heidi turned to the new girl. She did not yet know her name, or her mutation, and now was a good time to find out. Of course, the task of starting a conversation with a stranger wasn't the easiest thing in the world for the shy Scottish girl.

"Uh, hi. I'm Heidi. You're the new girl. What's your name?"

The moment she'd finished speaking to Bonny. she realised how stiff and awkward her opening sentence had come out, and cursed herself.

[pyroman]

Despite her distance from Rose Mary, Emma watched the her from her position on the plane. Though she didn't say anything about her using and practicing control over her mutation, a pleasant smile graced her features. She was glad to see The girl growing into herself, becoming more comfortable with her abilities and becoming mentally strong enough to will her body to change how she saw fit. She would truly be unlike any other. This whole team was filled with ambitious young men and women. In an interesting turn, there were more women than men on the team.

"What about... diamonds?" Emma suggested to the girl beside her, transforming into her own diamond form for reference. Perhaps it was something dangerous to have Emma suggest to Rosemary to change herself into something that was absolutely solid. What if she couldn't change back? "You know... Don't. I don't want you to be stuck as a diamond figure for the rest of your life." It was ultimately Rose Mary's choice, but Emma was just tossing an idea around to pass the time. She was well aware of Rose Mary's stance on Telepaths, and while telepathy would have made their conversation easier, she chose to respect her wishes and not have her mind invaded by Big Brother.

Cable was well aware of Chrys' activities. Due to his cybernetic eye, Cable was able to see a large number of things that normal humans were unable to see. Psionic energies, among many others, are things that that he can detect. Chrys' use of subspace was included.

"In my time?" Cable echoed, almost smiling at the thought. His time was something else entirely, one that Cable couldn't even access normally anymore. Chrys did not exist there. To make things simple, he used this future. Laura's future. "Finally is a relative term that doesn't really apply to you, Chrys. So, yes. You do master your abilities. However, how and when you do achieve mastery is completely up to you." That sounded vauge enough to keep Chrys at bay. They were all children, they all wanted to know when they grew up and saved the world. Cable wanted them to experience growing.

Chrys was something special. He, like the others on the team, were all very special in Laura's time, in their future. Even Bonny, who didn't quite believe in herself, would grow rather well in twenty years.

Shawn wasn't quite sure how to react when Tatiana gave him absolutely nothing. Even he was willing to share his life's story if she would put at least something on the table for them to learn about her.

"Come on." Shawn dragged, his clear cut american accent slipping just enough to tease anyone who might be listening in. "You weren't in any crazy vampire gangs? Living it up in secret underground vampire clubs where they spray human blood on you or whatever? I'm sure you would have loved the crazy mutant club in Takachiho." He wasn't sure how well versed about the world Tatiana actually was, but if she really was into all that vampire stuff, maybe she's know about his type of vampire. Of course, they were called something different, but they were too similar to not know of each other at least.

[Burning Kitty]

"If you really want to know, I'll tell. Blade the enemy of every vampire is half vampire, a Dhampir, a daywalker. He has their strengths none of their weaknesses. My queen wanted the same thing but one that worked for her. No one knew how he came about, so they experimented in creating one. I am the fourteenth attempt the others were failures they were turned into vampires. My clans 'day job' so to speak was contract law, we hired humans to do actual court proceedings since they are held during the daylight. Most of the work was done by the vampires behind special UV filtering glass that allowed them operate during the day. My job was head of security, I had to fight to the death against the previous occupant of that position. I routinely made trouble makers disappear into a our blood bank. A vault where we kept humans alive to drain repeatedly. I also on a number of occasions impersonated my queen perfectly when a rival clan came to visit or whenever she didn't want to deal with someone. It was a perfect existence never wanted for anything I was the left hand of the Queen. Then one day my appendix gave out on me, while I was in the hospital Blade came and destroyed everyone I love. He will die by my hands no matter what Charles has to say about it, anyone who gets in my way will perish. All the money that my clan had automatically goes to the last surviving member, me. The law firm is still operational, not as prosperous at is once was. I own it, you won't find my name on the letterhead, have to keep Blade unaware of me. I use that money to hire people to track Blade as best they can to protect other clans from that traitor Blade. After I got out of the hospital and found out what happened I wandered the streets in a near feral rage feeding on anything I could get my hands on, leaving a pile of human and animal corpses in my wake. I had just drained something I can't tell you if it was an animal or human, covered in blood when Charles found me. As for that club you mentioned my clan never was that stupid, what a waste of blood. You know those water coolers you see people in tv shows talking around when they should be working. We had one of those but instead of water it was blood, not really my thing, they mixed blood from various sources, made it taste weird. I like it from a single source."

Rose Mary ignored Emma. Emma clearly knew how she felt about telepaths but hid the fact she was a telepath herself, intentionally allowing Rose Mary to believe her mutation was simply that gorgeous diamond form. She felt like a fool, she felt used, she felt aroused, she felt confused. She felt many things, some things she hadn't felt for a long time since before she lived on the streets. Most of all she felt angry at herself and at Emma. She also stopped fidgeting with her hand, not out of embarrassment but because Emma approved of it.

[Tickout]

Mexico, huh? That was quite the long flight. Even with some team building activities, she still might be well off taking a safe nap at the end. Ah well, she’d see. As they boarded the plane, Bonny took a quick look around in fascination before taking a seat. The shark punching person and the other- tatiana, was it?- gave her some bad vibes, so she thought it was well to sit away from them on the ride there. And back, hopefully. Laura had mentioned something about blood bags and feeding off of people, and from the girls reaction to everything going on, Bonny didn’t want to be close to her at all.

She took her seat as the Blackbird took off, and she was rather quiet until Shawn spoke up on the idea of team building activities. At least she wasn’t the only one thinking that line of thought to actually get to know the people on the mission. Tatiana, or the girl that looked ready to turn on them all, was the first to be asked something, and she provided the least detailed answer possible. Well, someone certainly wasn’t a team player. Bonny felt that they weren’t going to get along very well.

Her attention went to Heidi when she was addressed as “the new girl”. Not exactly the best at starting a conversation, huh? She lifted a hand and waved in a leisurely manner. “Sup, Heidi. I’m Bonny; nice to meetcha.” she offered a small grin and a thumbs up to assure that everything was fine. “So, do you have any mission advice for the new girl?” She could briefly hear Shawn and Tatiana continue their discussion, but she decided to focus on Heidi instead.

[Silver Carrot]

@Tickout

Well, she'd bitten. It couldn't have been that bad of a conversation starter...

"Mission advice? Well, I don't know what your mutation is, but that aside, I'd say stay calm, and if Shawn of any of the adults here give a commend, do it as soon as it's safe to do so. Also, if you feel yourself starting to panic, get back to safety immediately, if you can."

The dark-haired Scot wasn't selling the mission in a particularly reassuring way, but then again, rare was a mission where you aren't putting your life on the line, and Heidi wasn't going to reassure anybody with false promises. It's better to be scared and cautios now than scared and taken by surprise out there.

[pyroman]

"Heavy." Shawn nodded to himself. Tatiana was making the vampires rather sympathetic. As long as she wasn't on board with the whole world domination thing, Shawn really didn't care who she killed. That was her business, and this blade guy seemed to have it coming.

He was quiet afterwards. It was only fair that he share his story too, whether or not anyone was actually listening in. Tatiana probably didn't even care. In a plane full of talking teenagers, his story would probably just be some white sound. He used these thoughts to assure himself that he didn't actually have to do much of anything.

"You're story is much more interesting than mine." He looked around, trying to focus in on where everyone else's focus was. "I woke up, yawned, and shot lightning out of my fingers. My parents started looking for some Mutant schools, but they were hoping that charles would find me. Now, here I am." There was some truth in there. He was in one place, and now he was with the X-Men. Simple as simple could be.

Emma frowned only just the slightest bit. She could feel anger emanating from Rose Mary now, but she still refrained from sifting through her thoughts. It was better that way, Emma told herself. But she knew that she'd have to tell Rose Mary at some point. After the mission. When nobody was in danger. Telling her now would only make things worse during the mission.

"Mission Advice." After Wade had listened in on the conversation between Heidi and Bonny, Wade decided to make himself useful. "Bonobos, listen. Your big thing, your thing that nobody else knows about, is going to change the playing field when we need it the most. Sure Booker can make walls out of energy, but you can make them out of anything! Every little child is special in their own way, but you and Chrys are going to be the ones to decide whether we all live of die after the end of this mission. You're in the big leagues now, and you get full disclosure like everyone else."

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And the conversations went on. Some died out during the ride, some others may have lasted for longer. Emma had connected all of the adults- with the exception of Wade, telepathically to have their own conversation on the mission, but it was all still quiet.

When the Blackbird finally did land, it was done with a delicate hand. So much so that Shawn didn't even wake until Booker had unstrapped himself and tapped him conscious.

To anyone who had been sleeping at the time of landing, Booker had continued his work in waking the teenagers. Only Bonny would have been left undisturbed, who had to be woken by Emma from inside of Bonny's own dreams. It was the safest way, and they needed a ride back.

Once everyone was awake and ready, the adults of the mission stood at the cockpit of the jet. Emma and Laura were now in Alkali-Transigen staff uniforms, and Booker was dressed up in a labcoat bearing the company's name.

"Remember. You are test subjects. Transigen wants children who have recently gained mutations to study on. If possible, do not speak English. The further you seem apart, the less likely anyone will notice." Laura pulled a pair of glasses from the breast pocket on her shirt and put them on.

Shawn sighed. The universe was really harping on him.

"Emma will distract anyone who gets too suspicious. Laura is there in the event that the situation escalates." Booker wanted to remind them all that they weren't going to be be doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this mission. "I will be the scientist personnel that is escorting you all to where you need to be. Cable and Wade will handle security in the background. That's why they don't have lab coats"

Wade chuckled and wrapped his fingers around the edge of his mask. "They don't wanna see this, Freddy Kruger looking, topographical map of a mess." He didn't actually pull his mask off, but Shawn would tell that whatever was underneath it wasn't very pretty.

They were about three miles from the lab. Everything had been set up in advance, however. The outfits, the transport van, even the security data to get them around. Doing the same thing a million times over prepared you for just about everything. However, that didn't mean they could slack off or under perform. Things could still go wrong if they didn't put their all into it.

Wade was on the edge of making a plain white van joke, but a quick hit on the back from Cable prevented it. "Alright everyone, into the... Transport vehicle." Cable was trying to avoid making that mistake, but there really was no way around it. Wade chuckled, but said little. "Booker, Emma, Laura, we'll be keeping in touch. Through you three, we can talk to the children if need be."

Being a Grey/Summers, Nathan was a marvelous telepath at one point in his life. His mutation had long since been burned out, but he found other ways to make things work. He didn't need to be in the transport with the others, it would only draw attention. He and Wade would cut their own way in. Besides, there was someone that he needed to pick up. It was only a matter of time before they arrived in town.

[CleverFox]

Olinda turned off her bike looking at the gas station. Almost to Mexico and in the middle of no where. This has to be an outpost or something but it can also be just a gas station. She stands up Uno and one other golem appearing on her sides.

"Be ready for anything but stay hidden." She says walking to the entrance while the two went to hide."Hola? Mi nombre es olinda, Alguien aquí?" Olinda asked entering the near abandoned building.

"Hola!" A deep voice came from no where making Olinda jump a bit.

The man was old about late 40's early 50's and he wore a simple white t-shirt tucked in to blue jeans with a big smile on his face."¡Bienvenido!"

Keeping her guard up she walks over to him."Habla inglés?"

"Si cariño. I do so what can I do for you Olinda?" The man asked kindly leaning forward onto the counter.

"I was wondering if you would happen to know where a warehouse or a big is? My brother forgot his freaking ID and surprisingly enough he may need it since he's delivering some stuff." Olinda says smiling kindly.

The man stiffened standing straight."Show me his ID."

Olinda brought out one of the ID's she had taken from one of the men that had the same complexion and eyes as her. Hopefully it works but she was fully prepared for it not too.

The man stared at the ID then looked up at her."You take me for a fool little girl?"

Oh well was worth the try."No. But I was hoping that you wouldn't act like an idiot and just tell me where I can get some answers."

"Ve a algún lugar,la perra." He says angry reaching under the counter.

"Now thats not very nice,señor."

The older man pulls our a gun she grabs his wrist bangs it against the counter making him cry out. As he drops it she jumps across the counter kicking him down and grabs his gun."Now answer my question. Where is the place that man was going?"

"I'm not talking." He says sitting up only to be pushed back down by Olinda. She stomps her foot and two rock hands came from the floor holding him down.

"I really don't like hurting old men señor." Olinda says losing her patience.

The man laughs."Bite me."

Olinda aims by his leg and shoots ignoring it when it ricocheting back barely missing herself. It got the reaction she wanted though the man yells moving his legs but with another stomp of her foot two more rock hands held down the mans legs."Are you going to talk?" She moves the gun to his shin."I won't miss again."

"I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" He screams panting."I-I am just the check point. I give the guys driving from farther away from us. I have never seen the facility-"

"Do you know where it is?" Olinda says squee

"An idea but not complete--ah!" He yells."HONEST! I don't really know where it is I have a map though." He says." On the wall in the back room!"

The was a graveled grunt and Olinda turned watching as Uno and the other golem bring in another man. Uno walks towards Olinda and hands her a folded piece of paper. Olinda unfolds it,"Is this the map?"

Uno nods making Olinda smile at him."Thanks Uno." She looks at the man."Knock him out." She says walking away.

"Wai-" CRACK

"I said knock him out Uno not hurt him!" Olinda says with a sigh."Lets get some snacks..I am starving."

After getting a bag full of goodies she checked the map and sighed."Its another 45 minute drive. I can handle that." She says walking to her motorcycle. Hopping onto it she smiled."Lets make it 30." She says before speeding off with a woop.

Leaving behind two tied up men struggling to get out of their earth and rock binds.

[Burning Kitty]

They said not to speak English they didn't say anything about speaking the native language of Vampires. Tatiana was trying to work out her character in mind. She was in back of a plain white van with creepy looking scientists, so she went with scarred little kid. She altered her appearance to that of a little girl around eight years old. When they got close to the facility she started wailing, her wailing was fueled by her grief. She really shouldn't have used her family's death as a source of inspiration, after their deaths she focused on venting her anger on any random stranger or animal that crossed her path then to becoming stronger and protecting other Vampires, she never allowed herself to mourn, her fake crying turned into real crying.

Rose Mary planned on pretending to be mute. She didn't like talking much anyway. Her first year in foster care she never said a word. Her teachers thought she was broken in the head they wanted her foster parents to send her to a therapist, her foster father refused. She didn't speak because she had nothing to say. She found most people spoke way to much and said very little that was worth saying. Especially adults with political power. She really didn't like listening to baby Tatiana crying, it was like fingernails on chalkboard. She concentrated as hard as she could to make her ears disappear, but the damn crying was just so distracting. So she just jammed her fingers into her ears as far as she could.

[GrizzTheMauler]

Chrys was thoughtful, staying awake for the rest of the trip. He headed out of the plan and too the car with the others. When it was mentioned that English shouldn't be used he smiled, remembering the time he often spent with his italian immigrant grandmother, the only one who didn't care that he was a mutant.

"Nipote, they will always judge you. Not because you are a mutante, but because you represent something that they do not like. Cambiamento. Now help your dear old Nonna with the trays, sì?

Change. It was something that stayed with him well after her passing. It was why he devoted himself to the X-Men cause. He wanted to make change. By controlling his incredible powers he could prove that mutants weren't monsters, and slowly show that they too bad a place in the world.

"Tempo di fare qualche cambiamento reale."

[Tickout]

Well, that was some… confidence boosting advice from both parties. Bonny was silent as she listened to Heidi and Wade, looking between them as the speaker changed. Follow commands to a tee, escape if panic starts to set in, her role would more or less determine if everyone lived… yeah, this seemed like a happy go lucky mission of rainbows and sunshine. And to think she was just enrolled in this group the day before with minimal warning on what it would entail…

She slouched forward slightly as the two finished up. “Well, that was an optimism boost right there. I… thank you though, both of you. It’s good to know this stuff in advance, at least”. She definitely didn’t look the happiest at how… real everything was, but it was going to happen whether she liked it or not. She briefly turned her attention to the masked man. “And thanks for the vote of confidence. No pressure or anything, eh?”. She didn’t really have much to say otherwise, so she fell silent and listened to the others chatter. Once some of the team started to fall asleep, she found and took the medicine she was suggested to before taking a nap to join them.

A dreamless sleep she was promised, and a dreamless sleep she had got right up until the telepath entered her mind to wake her up. She waited for the rest to be woken by Booker, and followed the rest of the team out once everyone was up and ready to go. Everything was heavily planned; the transport vehicle, the adults roles, everything. All she had to do was act terrified (well, she was already kind of terrified, so there wasn’t much acting needed), not speak English, and use her mutation when the time came. Seemed simple enough, though the pressure the masked adult had put on her reminded her that her actions still had to be at 110 percent. She mentally recorded everyones roles and headed into the… transport vehicle. The big, white van of a transport vehicle. … she was sure someone else had to be thinking it too. If only she was psychic…

[Silver Carrot]

Heidi nodded. They had to look like children from completely different walks of life. Heidi's pale Scottish skin would not pass for Mexican or Mediterranean, so she decided to pick French as her language of choice, with a northern Hauts-de-France accent. She also ruffled her hair and smudged her makeup, drawing attention to both her hair and her makeup, which instead of looking ordinary as they had, now looked like they might have been very well maintained by vanity before she had been taken.

With her new persona ready, she entered the transport vehicle, and sat down, muttering to herself. First it was 'I don't understand what you're saying' in flawless Spanish, but then she tried it again, a focused look on her face as she tried to speak Spanish with a French accent, and make grammatical errors, but ones that a French speaker might make as opposed to an English speaker. It was a lot of effort and detail that nobody would notice, but that was the point; nobody would notice.

[pyroman]

Everyone already seemed to be versed in another language, which made Shawn feel a little better for when he would switch back to Japanese. Moving with Laura, Booker, Emma, and the other X-pendables into the ped-white transport vehicle, Shawn took a seat and waited for the vehicle to get a move on. This time it was Laura sitting in with them, while Booker and Emma were up in the front.

"So, what are Cable and wade going to be doing?" Shawn was rather curious as to what their exact thing was, but never received an answer from Laura. She sat quietly, having decided that she had done enough talking for one day.

It took then about thirty minutes to get from the landing zone to the lab that they were going to. The vehicle stopped briefly, just so that the people in charge of the gate were aware of who was coming into the building. Emma made quick work of the guard's head, convincing him that they were supposed to be there, and the vehicle was on it's way again.

When the van stopped for a second time, the doors in the back had opened. Instead of a little walk from the van to the facility, they were already completely inside.

Laura stepped out first and kept the teens from leaving. Once Booker and Emma joined her at the back, Booker took his place between the two women.

"Come on, let's go." He tried to be cold and monotonous about it, but these were his students. Even after a rough first mission, he was excited to see how everything would play out in the second half of the mission.

Shawn stepped out of the vehicle, looking a little lost and trying to steal as many looks as he could from the pure white walls of the building. He could smell how clean the air was. It was almost as if they were afraid to let anything from the outside world in. "This is all so strange." The words rolled off of his tongue a little too well in Japanese. He hadn't spoken his own language in so long, it was almost strange to be speaking it again. However, he rolled right back into it. He was much more comfortable now, even during a dangerous, future saving mission.

Laura led the team through the halls, using a small card on her belt to get them through each and every door. They moved deeper into the facility, and the higher the security clearance, the more equipment was on display.

There weren't any live subjects for the team to witness, but various test tubes and computer screens showed them what Transigen was doing. They were examining how the X-Gene worked, which of the two parents was responsible for its placement in a child, how it grew, and if a specific mutation could be anticipated before the gene even began to erupt.

Several staff members looked at the group of teenagers and their guards, but said and did nothing to keep them from progressing. They could easily see what their purpose in the lab was, and Laura didn't look like someone you wanted to confront about her presence.

There was a stop. Laura stood before a door that looked a little different than the others. Instead of the metallic greys that most of the doors consisted of, this one was the color of enamel,and just as flat. She looked back at the teens.

"After this door, we will be in a maximum security area. The President's office is further down. Continue being a distraction." With a wave of her key card, the door opened, whistling as the hydraulics pulled the doors apart. Once everyone was on the other side, Laura closed the door back up and kept on pursuing to the next stop.

Now, more and more rooms were revealed through glass windows. Children, all about their age and younger were seated in various spots, all being poked and prodded like experiments. Shawn wanted to break the glass and free them all, but he wasn't sure if the mansion had enough space for all of them. Some of them, however, weren't being shot with syringes. One little girl was simply flipping a coin. Every time it landed on her hand, she grew excited, as if she had won, despite it seeming to be completely random. Another boy's room had dents in every wall. His body was restrained heavily, but the look on his face promised that the jacket wouldn't hold him back. The clip board on another room simple said "Bone growth and control".

"We will get them on the way out. There is a safehouse in North Dakota."

Shawn was getting a bit bored. He didn't much like being the distraction, but he could feel the tension rising the further they moved. Another door blocked their path, but Laura didn't move to unlock it.

Approximately seven minutes passed before Laura opened the door. She had been looking at her watch the entire time. She needed to give Cable and Wade more time to pick up the cargo and get there. She knew exactly when they'd arrive.

"Once we go through here, we can begin incapacitating people. The last security door was to keep people from escaping the inner sanctum in the event that something happened. That also means that nobody will be able to get in as long as the threat, us, are active."

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Wade and Cable walked through the streets. They would join the rest of the group in time. They just needed to pick up a certain someone first.

"Olinda?" Wade called freely. After the last few times, Wade made sure that he had everything that he needed to convince the girl to come along with them. Nothing was strange about moving several children into a van and escorting another child with a bribe. "Olinda! We know that you're going to be at this spot in... forty two seconds!"

[CleverFox]

Olinda had followed the van from afar not only did it look weird but she hear a wailing child. Now she feels kinda stupid. When she got there she wanted to smack her forehead and scream. She was good at her powers but she can make a total of maybe 10 Golem's counting Uno.

So now she is following two guys in their suits in her fighting clothes and her hands covered in rocks ready to take out anyone. Olinda had made sure to be very quiet and to keep her footsteps light. So imagine her surprise when the guy in red called out for her. Punching the ground she allowed her armor to build onto her before standing and slowly make her way towards them. The guy who called her sounded playful so it made her relax a little but the other guy made her feel even more uncomfortable. Allowing more rocks onto her hands she made her way forward.

"Who are you and how do you know me,el desconocido?" She asks looking at the guy.