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Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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It had been over a month since the incident at the Stark Expo. With no more threats from Hammer or Kilgrave, things quieted down somewhat, at least as much as was possible when your parents were Avengers. Justin Hammer had been arrested for the incident he had caused, and Lance was grateful for that, since to him the guy deserved to be locked up. The newspapers and magazines all over were reporting stories about what had happened at the Expo, and how Lance and Guin had saved the day. They ended up staying in the Tower for a while since they couldn't step foot outside without being swarmed by reporters.

However, a month later, much of that had died down, though on occasion a reporter or two would try to get in for an interview or two. The lifestyle was annoying to him, and he had started to wonder how Guin could stand it. Tony was pestering him a lot, trying to get him to ask Guin out on an actual date. "Look, just listen to me and it'll be fine," Tony said whenever Guin wasn't around. Lance was starting to get really annoyed by him.

"Look, just leave me alone," he muttered, and Tony shrugged his shoulders and walked away, leaving Lance. He was in Stark Tower, the place where he spent most of his time despite his protests, and he let out a sigh, before grabbing a book from his bag, sitting down on the couch, and started reading. He was wondering where Guin had gone though.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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Tony looked at Guin, he wasn't too sure about whether or not to lecture Guin, or be proud of the kids. They took down Hammer's rogue robots, by themselves, with no help at all from them. He felt bad about the fact that they had to deal with that alone made it even worse. "You aren't an Avenger Guin, though the two of you shouldn't have had to do that... The two of you took out those things alone... I'm actually a little impressed to be honest," Tony said, looking at her.

Lance had heard all of the commotion around him, but he just now was starting to feel a little better. He started to stir, before he eventually opened his eyes slowly, not really focusing on anything or anyone right then. "So... Did we win?" he muttered softly. He shut his eyes again, as the world starting spinning faster and faster around him, he didn't even notice that his dad was there really.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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Everything around him was starting to spin. He was having trouble even focusing on Guin who was right there with him holding onto him. They were zipping around at top speed, and they only had three left to deal with. As soon as she mentioned Episode V, he knew what she was going to do, but he couldn't find much strength to tell her that he approved of her plan. It was a great one, and it totally worked in their situation. Problem was, there was still one damaged bot left.

Lance pulled together every ounce of strength that he had left, he only had enough strength for one last shot at it. He shoved himself away from Guin a little, so he didn't accidentally burn her with the light he was about to fire off. Swinging his hands together, almost like a clap, and a burst of light sprung forward from his fingertips. It slammed into the robot at full force, and completely destroyed it. Lance didn't really see much of what happened, as the darkness surrounded him, and he fell unconscious.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"Alright... This is not going to end well Guin, they just keep on coming... We can't keep fighting them forever," he said, already starting to sound a little tired from his shots. He never used his powers this much, and it was starting to take its toll on him., he didn't know how long he would be able to keep this up before he passed out or something. Lance held onto Guin for a moment, to steady himself, before he could fire off more shots.

He sent light flying, and totally demolished the first one he hit. The rest of his shots weren't so lucky, proving that he was getting tired. He managed to hit two more, but not enough to be able to take them out. The rest of the light went flying off in different directions, and he wasn't able to summon up anymore. "I-I-I can't keep doing this Guin," he said, in between breaths, he was exhausted.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"I'm not too sure about this Guin... But let's try it..." he said, before he sent three balls of light flying at them. One of them managed to completely decapitate one of the robots, another ball turned into a spear, shooting straight through the chest of another one of them. Wow, did not expect that at all, he thought to himself, and the third ball cut off a robot's arm. This was going somewhat well for him, if only he could keep it up.

"You know... If they weren't trying to kill us before, they definitely are now, how fast can you get these things to go and allow me somewhat clear shots? These things I don't think are going to stop anytime soon, and they are going to try and kill us or something. Still though, why would they think of us as a threat before I even shot at them? Hammer is an idiot to think that... How did they detect the x-gene is my next questionm..."

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"...Why are those things pointing backstage?" he asked her, before chaos broke out. Lance had no idea what was going on, but one minute, he was sitting there next to Guin, and the next minute she had grabbed him and took off on her roller skates. One of the robots or whatever they were called had burst into flames, and the rest of them were going crazy, and it looked to him that they were shooting at them. He managed to nod when Guin said that they had detected the X-Gene, but he didn't know how that would be possible.

Lance was trying to think, to come up with something useful. He had better control of his powers, but since he was freaking out a little bit, they might not work right. "Do you have sunglasses or something you could possibly put to cover your eyes Guin? I don't want to accidentally blind you if I panic a lot," he said, as several balls of light started circling around them.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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Lance gave her a smile, shaking his head slightly. "Hey, I wasn't going to say anything about the dress Guin," he said with a small laugh, "But now that you mention it Guin, I think you look good in the dress, despite the whole, I know you hate dresses thing." He couldn't help but keep smiling at her, despite the fact that he knew she wasn't too thrilled. Letting out a laugh at what she had called Hammer, it was fitting.

"That is kind of a dumb name for some whacked out robots... I'm kind of hoping he decides not to turn them on, because of them probably going crazy. He tried to make Ultron clearly... This isn't going to end well Guin..." he whispered to her as he watched Hammer up on stage. The guy was making a fool of himself or something, but there wasn't much they could do about it, let him look crazy and foolish to everyone else, it was his choice.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@FantasyChic@LadyRunic@Morose@Peridot@Nallore

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Lance Banner, Marygold Isley, and Mirembe Adebayo

Location: Xavier's Institute: Blackbird

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"Well, technically it isn't a door or something like that Guin, it's a ramp, and the bird is designed so we won't get blown out of it, since there were a few X-Men who could fly at one point," Mary said with a shake of her head as she went over to the ramp, and pushed a button, lowering it down. "You two need to get to be under the left wing, and push it up to keep it level, we'll cover the two of you the best we can."

Lance thought for a moment, hearing what Dean had said about Cornish. "Yeah, that sounds about right. I've heard about her, though usually only in the same sort of context as Jakobsen," he said, looking over at Dean. He wasn't too sure if he cared about the speedster all that much, but it seemed like he did know a few things about the world. "I'm alright," he added in response to Bethany's question.

Guin's first shot was a direct hit, knocking the Sentinel clear out of the sky, and it plummeted to the ground. The rest of her shots missed, every single one of them by a long shot, looks like the first hit might have been a lucky one. Cassandra managed to fire off three shots, each one slamming into a different Sentinel. She managed to damage all three of them, but it still wasn't enough to knock them out of the sky quite yet, but another shot or two might change that.

Thalia walked over to Nina, "Your size isn't exactly relevant, I can easily carry passengers while flying, but I'm not strong enough to lift the plane on my own. Don't worry too much I've got you," she said as she pulled a rope out of her pocket, and used it to tie around Nina in case she had to drop her to deal with Sentinels. "Now, try not to move too much if you can't help it," she added as she grabbed Nina, easily picking her up. Spreading her wings again, she took off from the ramp.

She flew them over until they were at the wing that needed to be supported, and she was able to easily hold Nina in order to make it so she could support the wing of the Blackbird. Mary was running out of ideas, and this was their best bet. In another few minutes, if they didn't crash, they'd end up at Stark Tower and be able to fix the Blackbird, that is if they got lucky.

She turned to look at Allison when she mentioned her vision. "Damn, I knew people hated what the Professor talks about and such, but that is ridiculous, sending out robots to freaking kill us or something! This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Look, we can talk about the vision more later. Charlie, I wouldn't recommend using your powers against those things, since they can adapt to combat any sort of mutant power from what we can tell," Mary said, as she went back into the cockpit and took over for Mira.

Future Pietro gave Folly a smile. "Yup, stranger danger don't listen to the voices, except for Mary, she's kind of like your good conscious alright? Listen to that hallucination, but no one else alright? That work for you? Good, now how about you sit down or something," he said, taking her hand in his. Folly was like another sister to him, and after he had lost Wanda, he felt like she was the closest person he had left aside from Guin.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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Lance did not like the fact that he was being followed around by security guards everywhere. For his entire life, he had never had to deal with something like this, especially because he had never been in any sort of major trouble. Hammer was some whacked out crazy guy, and he didn't want anything to do with him, so he'd easily avoid him if he could. Though if Hammer had tried to approach him or something, that would have resulted in that evidence to hopefully get him locked up or something, but no, they had to be followed by a security team. He knew that people at school talked about him behind his back, after all, he was the biggest freak at the school.

At the Expo, Lance stood backstage with Guin, he was dressed in somewhat nice clothes, actually resembling his father quite a bit. He knew that Guin hated dresses, and he had to stop himself from making a comment about it when she walked up. Lance gave her a smile when he saw her, and he glanced over at the stage. "So... Any bets on what's going to happen when Hammer walks out on stage? Something is going to go wrong, but I'm not sure what yet..."

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"Great, because I love being followed by some weirdos or whatever... Like I'm not a big enough freak at the school already. Though that's better than being stuck in here being home-schooled," he muttered, not looking over at his dad. He did not like the conversation, but he knew that they had to have it no matter what. "Yup, life basically gets turned upside down because of some idiot who just so happened to want to mess with Guin and me, great..."

"Look, we can't do anything about Hammer until we have some proof of him doing something wrong. We don't have proof right now that he was doing something with Kilgrave or something. We need to keep you two under surveillance, in order to make sure Hammer doesn't try to pull anything again. Especially since you mentioned he approached you a few weeks ago Lance."