BlueSky44

The Gifted - Concluded

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@Nallore@FantasyChic@BlueSky44@Achronum@Trainerblue192@KazAlkemi

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Washington D.C.: September 8th, 2020 - 12:30 PM

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The Luxury - Washington D.C. Waterfront:

The servant fetched the drink for Requiem, serving it up for him on an actual silver platter and crystal glassware. Another then prepared what Jinx had asked for. There was no expense spared when it came to the items that the Black King kept on his pleasure boat of sorts. Most in the Hellfire Club were aware of the extensive time he spent here with the White Queen, Emma Frost. The sun was starting to beat down on them, at the highest point it would be in the day and it made Shaw's sunglasses an incredibly practical choice.

"Perceptive," the Black King praised Requiem. "I did not rise to this position of power, commanding the Inner Circle, without having a similar quality. Unfortunately, it seems that some need to be reminded of that... A certain asset of mine has gone missing. I believe the culprit to be one of our own. Find them and bring them to me - and you shall have their throne."

He then smirked slightly at Jinx, ready to respond to his questions now. "You will be under my protection as Black King of the Hellfire Club. As for how you accomplish it... I do not truthfully care, as long as you are certain that you have identified the thief or thieves."

The Mutant Underground - Washington D.C. Station:

Colossus shook his head at Spark Plug. There hadn't been any word back yet from Sunspot and Cannonball, but he wasn't worried yet. It was entirely possible that the most anti-climatic thing of all had happened and that they were stuck in traffic. However, his personal opinion was that Sunspot and Cannonball were having a talk about everything that had happened with Veil and Sunspot's fiery response.

"Good," Colossus smiled, hearing that Veil was okay and was on her way back. Havok was still looking at Glimpse a bit suspiciously, waiting for her to explain who the hell she was - and if she didn't, he was going to get his hula hoop of doom on.

"Who put you in charge?" Havok asked with an eye roll at Luna.

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Sapphire

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Location: Flynn's Car
Skills N/A

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Veil held up a finger, though she was hoping Sapphire would have Flynn take them to Dairy Queen. She loved the shakes and she also loved that they had "real food." Or at least, what qualified as real food when it came to fast food. Sapphire and her looked like absolute messes with all of their injuries and given that her boyfriend was shirtless thanks to his fire problem, she imagined they'd be using the drive through. If not, she would have to seriously question the intelligence of the standard S.H.I.E.L.D. stormtrooper.

She pinched the bridge of her nose slightly. A lot of mutants with good intentions would bring tips like that to them - but the Mutant Underground barely had the resources to accomplish its primary function. If they started kicking down doors and going after the one percenters pulling the strings, then they'd be abandoning the mutants who needed them. That was the X-Men's job. "Okay, if Cannonball and Sunspot don't check back in within the hour, then I'll take a small team to go find them. Tell the friendly neighborhood lesbian that we appreciate the information and we will pass it along to the X-Men. I'm sure the spandex brigade will be more than happy to move on it."

"I take slight offense to the Spandex brigade term! I didn't used to always be with the Underground you know! I was with a superhero team too, so thanks for that one Veil," Sapphire said, glancing back at her friend with a bit of an eye roll. She didn't generally talk much about what it was that she had done with the team she had been with, namely because she kind of wanted to put that part of her life behind her. It had been interesting to say the least, and sure, she knew that in this case Veil was referring to the X-Men, but still, didn't mean it didn't annoy her somewhat.

"Right you did mention it at one point didn't you..." Flynn mused, glancing over at her. "Alright, so where are we headed?"

"...Dairy Queen, I need ice cream or a milkshake or something!" she responded, glancing back towards her friend with a smile. To think that just a little bit ago they had been talking about that sort of thing in a jail cell. Well, at least they'd be able to get some "actual" food. Or more of ice cream at the least in this case.

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Morlock Tunnels
Skills: N/A

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Sunshine stiffened up as Stretch hugged her. She had just met this man the day before and he was already one of the weirdest people she had ever seen. First, he had turned into Captain America - and now he was...hugging her. No one had hugged Sunshine in years. She braced herself for him to pull out a knife and stab her in the side or something that would make sense. "...Are you trying to smother me?" Sunshine asked him cautiously. There was a bit of a wild look in her eyes, like she was a feral animal brought in from the cold and someone just tried to pet her.

"Sure, you can try again if you'd like, I won't protest," Casper told James with a happy grin, after they had gone through the portal and emerged in the Morlock tunnels.

"I've got the body," Blink said, before she made a portal directly beneath the corpse and it fell through. "There's a nice active volcano I more or less use for these situations," she explained, but it was clear by her body language she wasn't going to speak too much on why she had had to incinerate corpses before.

"As for the weapons... We wouldn't have been able to take them anyways. The entire corpse was a huge biohazard thanks to her," she said, nodding at Sunshine.

"Thank you," Erg told Leighton. "You protected a member of my community and put yourself at risk - the same goes for you, little one," he added, looking towards Sunshine for a moment. "Though Stretch... Why?" he asked, a bit puzzled as to why the elongated man was hugging this kid he had just met.

"Few things, one, she's a kid and you basically had her by herself here to defend the tunnels, so in my mind she deserves a hug. Two she did a good job at it, but I do not like the fact that she ended up having to deal with killing someone to do that! Honestly, a kid shouldn't have to kill anyone ever! Then there is the whole weird thing that occurred before we got here that resulted in me not seeing anyone else around here for what was to me 10 months and for all of you people one minute, so cut me some slack here," Jack said with a bit of an eye roll, before turning to let go of Sunshine. He still was not too thrilled that they had left her alone and had her kill someone to defend the tunnels. Sure, he never hid the fact that he'd probably take a life in a heartbeat to protect the Morlocks, but she was just a kid. No kid should ever have to deal with that sort of thing ever in his mind. Though in his mind no kid should ever have to deal with this sort of life either.

"You alright there Rookie, honestly... You should not have had to do that..." he said, shaking his head slightly. Sure, he had just met these some of these people the day before, but he generally cared about them, especially since so far they hadn't really done anything to prove otherwise. Save for Max ending up drawing attention to them by using his powers in the middle of city or something, that part was a bit ridiculous. Still though, just like anyone else in the Morlock community he'd help them out however he could. Even if some in the group chose not to become a part of the Morlocks, he'd still help them out if he could. That just was the type of person he was, and he wasn't really in the best mood at the moment, but it was definitely getting to be better.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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The Playground - Washington D.C.: October 24th, 2020 - 5:00 P.M.

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Novikova knew that there was one most likely explanation as to why Niah would eventually travel back through time: there would be some sort of malfunction with the Ultron device. Opening up and retrieving individuals from the Quantum Realm had never been done before and it was an incredibly dangerous prospect. Yet she remained silent, perhaps determined that they could change the future and ensure it all went smoothly, or perhaps she had chosen Sparky's life over Niah's.

"...How the hell does this mission turn into time travel?" Barton asked. This was getting above his pay grade. "This is about getting people out of the Quantum Realm, right? Whatever that is? Not going back to the past to grab them?"

"...Maybe don't call Goose a demon cat, given that he apparently has above average intelligence and can sprout tentacles," Bonnie pointed out to Harry. She was interested in taking some brain scans of Goose, as well as running some samples on his blood and DNA to see if he somehow was a super powered cat. "I can try to figure out what Goose is however..."

Barton nodded. "Let's continue this conversation on the jet. It's a long flight," he said, before leading the team out of the room and towards the hangar. It was fortunate that he was a decent pilot himself and he got into the pilot's seat, waiting for everyone else to strap themselves in, and for Agent Bautista or one of the science types to explain the time travel thing to him.

"Honestly, whatever you say," he said with a bit of an eye roll at Tinley. Sure, Tinley was the one who called the shots after all, but still, the fact that she basically was yelling at him for going out and grabbing Novikova and Maria by himself and without her telling him to was a bit ridiculous. "Not to mention fairly certain you wouldn't have been able to carry the pair by yourself, especially given that Wu turned out to be HYDRA."

Goose was still not too thrilled that Harry was calling him a demon cat. That certainly was the makings of a horrible hooman, but he wasn't on that list yet, he was just getting there and leaning off of the "decent hooman" list that was where he currently was placed. "Meow," he said, somewhat softly, as if trying to say that they were on the right track with that post card.

"...Yeah, time travel sounds a bit far fetched, but eh, who knows, it could be a lot of fun," he commented, glancing around at the others. Flynn shrugged slightly at the thought, before he headed off after the others, going to the quinjet. He'd done the flight between the east and west coasts more than once, so he agreed with Hawkeye on this one. It definitely was going to be a long flight, and more than a few problems likely could happen in a space the size of a quinjet with emotions sort of running high.

Goose was a bit concerned about what it was that Bonnie was saying as she carried him onto the jet. It had been a bit since he'd been on one of the SHIELD flying things, and he wanted to take his favorite spot up front by the pilot's seat, sitting on the dashboard. He wasn't too sure that Bonnie would let him down onto the ground however, and he looked up at her. "Mrow?" he asked, before making a motion to get out of her arms, he even pointed slightly with one of his paws to try and tell her he wanted to sit up by where Hawkeye was.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@FantasyChic@LadyRunic@KazAlkemi@ColouredCyan
@eclecticwitch@Kirah@Trainerblue192@Achronum

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"Nonsense, zombie unicorns are well noted symbols of unity and togetherness," October told her wife with a smile. "My cousin Bartholomew proposed to his fiancé with one while on a trip to Atlantis."

Wanda giggled slightly at Annie, giving her a bit of a smile when she saw the illusions marching through. She was getting a bit bored of the party herself, usually only really there because she was made to be there. "Well that certainly sounds like a bit of fun to me," she said with a smile.

Guin tilted her head slightly at Allison. "Engaged, not married. Remember that - since if you get that wrong, people might think you're crazy," she told her friendly honestly. However, she did smile slightly as Allison told her she held more power in the real world. She felt powerless here - she had to give up so much of herself and her identity for the Royal Family. She loved Pietro, but sometimes it was like she couldn't breathe. "Does he hang around me all the time there?" she asked, a bit amused. "But... I like the idea that I have power there. People assume that you gain power, marrying into the Royal Family, but you more of lose it."

She then took Allison's hand and guided her out of the restroom, taking them back into the ball. Looking around, she tried her best to locate her fiancé, until she eventually spotted him and Oshea. Going up to Pietro, she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I need to go to my lab - with Allison," she told him quietly.

"...Alright, I can see about covering for you if anyone asks Guina, get going, and take your guards with you alright?" Pietro whispered back to her, giving her a smile.

"Oh, uh, thank you..." Miranda said, almost like she was a bit startled by his sudden appearance by her. She glanced around the room somewhat, almost as if she was seeing if anyone else was nearby, or if anyone else could really hear them. "...Thank you for the gift... Max," she said, using his first name as she looked right at him. "A part of you knows that this world is false... Perhaps I can help you..."

Instead of grabbing the gift from him, she extended both her arms and gripped his wrists, and she looked him in the eye. There seemed to be a purple glow in her eyes as she looked at him, and in an instant Max would regain all of his memories of the real world, the main reality, but he would still have his memories of this one as well.

"Blend in, don't do anything rash, otherwise you could put yourself in great danger here... There are others who remember, find them and decide if you wish to fix things..."

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Jack was starting to feel really bad about things. Part of him really wanted to go after Casper and talk to him, to apologize, but he kind of had Lexi with him and couldn't easily chase after him, and he looked over at Bobbi, "Yeah no... I'm not going to have Ayita watch her, and I am not leaving her alone! That honestly has got to be the most idiotic suggestion I have ever heard!"

"...Calm down Jack, we get it, give Val a call and see if she'll watch her, make things a bit easier. Sound alright?" Mary said softly, looking over at her cousin a bit dubiously.

"That's what I was planning on doing," Jack responded with a bit of an eye roll.

"Mes amis... Do ah really need ta remind y'all that Jack's babysittin' arrangements are not the priority here?" Gambit asked, shaking his head slightly.

"Exactly! So why are you all acting like it truly matters!"

"Calm down Jack, we get it... Anyway the diadem is in a secure room in the Red Guard base, luckily for us, this facility is actually their lesser guarded one... Not to mention I heard that the Red Guard isn't even in the country themselves right now, so it'll make things easier..."

"Now, ah am thinkin' we have one group that will go inside and do the actual stealin'... Ah will lead 'em - and that'll be Marygold, Jacques, Anastasia, et Bobbi. The other team'll clear out any security or problems, as well as run point on our exit strategy - that'll be led by Rogue, ma chère, and include Chrysi, Casper, Ayita, and Richard. As long as no one has any problems, head on into the training room and we's gonna practice skirmish to warm up - two teams, same as the ones for the mission."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Mary said, nodding her head.

"Cool," Jack agreed, though he wasn't too sure how Casper was doing, after this talk, he'd see about leaving Lexi with Mary and going after Casper to see where he went.

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Chrysi looked over at Casper, giving him a bit of a smirk. She had been fairly certain about something, but him still acting a bit clueless was the dead giveaway, and she walked over to him. "You don't remember this world do you? This reality? Ha, should have known that there would be one or two people in the area aside from myself of course who knew that, but um, I actually remember this world too. But not you eh?"

"I've got a bad feeling about this...." Ben muttered, shifting with unease. It was difficult to make a ghost afraid to die, but Chrysi was managing it. Casper, however, brushed his friend's concern aside. "No, I don't and it's really confusing," Casper told her, but he was relieved that someone else knew what was going on. "...Can you tell me what happened, please?"

"Well what does it look like? The world got screwed up majorly, I know how and why of course, but why would I tell you that? Wouldn't be any fun if everything was so simple."

"....Because you'll need me to keep quiet about this to my brother," Casper wagered.

"Oh please, after all, he won't believe you, though I will say this, just go along with things, and there is something that could potentially give someone their memories of the real world but well, you'll have to figure that one out for yourself. Honestly, all you need to know about the world is that your father here is not Charles Xavier, he's been dead since before you were born, your older brother and sister, David and Val? Aren't crazy, and you all have the same dad as Jack now. Oh, and I'm apparently your cousin, well, kind of me, but more of my twin sister, I don't exactly exist in the real world."

"...So what's the catch? Since that all sounds pretty great to me."

"Mutants are the majority, anyone who is not a mutant, humans mainly, are persecuted and treated like nothing and Magneto is king of the entire world."

"....Bummer. Guess it's their turn now, though," Casper said, not too sure how he felt about that.

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"As I said before, I'll drink if I want to, deal with it," Wolverine grunted, rolling his eyes at the group who were there.

"You should have stayed where you were Kingston, with the others," Mystique said to him, shaking her head, "Agent Reed brings up a fair point, you might tip them off... However," she continued, looking at the layout of the house and looking over at the others. "There appears to be a back way in, the rest of us can go back there and surround the pair if you will..."

"Sounds like a plan to me," he commented, setting his drink down, "I'm getting a bit sick and tired of sitting around doing nothin', it's a bit boring, let's get going then."

"Not to mention Agent Diggby is hopefully correct about the situation, we must tread cautiously no matter what we do, as if Banner believes that the Hulk can solve the problem that he'll likely see as being us, then he will undoubtedly strike out against us, even if it has been some time since then, everyone, let's get out of here, don't keep us waiting Abercrombie," she added, nodding her head towards Shelly, before she walked off the quinjet. They'd easily be able to get around to the back door of the house without Lance or Runa seeing them, however it would appear to be locked at the moment.

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"They're lying," Runa told Lance softly, the color having drained from her face. In the real world, she was the Goddess of Lies. She could always tell if someone was trying to deceive her.

Novikova nodded at Maria, when asked if the girl was a threat. "Yes, she is," she told her girlfriend quietly. "...I keep seeing Loki near her... She may be under his influence or just... affiliated with him."

Lance glanced back at her, wondering how she knew that instantly, but he wasn't too sure about this group at all. Nothing really seemed to be adding up at all with what the group was saying. His father didn't exactly have friends, and as far as he knew, no one really came up to the house. "...Um, maybe you should come back in an hour when he returns if you're looking for him..."

"Are you sure we can't wait inside the house? It is awfully warm out here if you ask me..."

"Yeah, sorry..." he said, shaking his head as he went to close the door all the way. Sapphire glanced over at the others, wondering what they would think the best move was in this situation, her solution was to blast at the door and blow it, or probably more of freeze and shatter it, off of its hinges. Though she was being nice and letting someone else take the lead with this one.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

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Marygold Isley

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Location: Granite Falls, North Carolina, Outside of Crystal River School For Troubled Youth, Parking Lot

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Mary rolled her eyes slightly at Ezekiel, did he really just feel the need to repeat what Kirsten had said? Then there was also the fact that Leda was deciding to be a bit picky about what people were on her chariot. "Honestly snail, you really felt the need to kind of repeat what literally was already said?" she said towards Ezekiel, referring to him by the slow creature since he had been the slow one before. Maybe he was also a little slow on catching things? That might explain why he didn't seem to pay attention to what Kirsten had said.

"Anyway, all aboard and let's get out of here, honestly this place just became really boring without monsters running around," she said with a bit of a smile towards the group who hadn't known that they were demi-gods yet. That certainly was going to be a lot of fun, and she got back into her chariot, waiting to see if any of the group would follow along, and she just waited. Deciding it was best to wait for someone else to take off before following along after them.

Darke Magyk - Concluded

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Bruce Banner

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Location: Asgard

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Bruce nodded, giving Myth a bit of a smile as he followed after her into the Great Hall, both of them following his mother. He knew everyone who was within the Great Hall fairly well, not so much the newcomers who weren't usually around Asgard. It didn't matter to him too much though, as long as they actually got the wedding done and over with before it ended up getting screwed up for some reason or another. Though he did have to fight back the urge to laugh at Klara's words, as she went on about always wanting a pet goat. She constantly had mentioned it when he was growing up, that he did know.

Taking a bit of a breath when it was his turn to talk, he gave Myth another smile, "I've never been one to really talk for a long time, or really talk in front of groups if I can't help it, but I'm glad for the chance to be able to talk about you. I never thought I'd be able to find love or anything, especially considering how long I've been around, but that thought changed when I met you Myth. It doesn't matter that we haven't known each other for very long, none of that really matters except for the feelings I have for you, and I am more than happy to be starting a family with you. I love you Myth, and I do have to agree, who knew those months ago that we'd be here right now."

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Queen Valda

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Location:The Palace - Dining Hall

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Valda was just listening in on the conversations that the others were carrying out, just looking at the ring. There was something about it that seemed interesting to her, but she wasn't positive what exactly it was. She shook her head slightly when someone suggested talking to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard about what this ring could potentially be for. Rowland was a nice person, and she wanted to give him some time to deal with the aftermath of Arya's death before she interrupted him with anything that couldn't wait a little longer. Let him be for a little bit, it was the least she could do really.

After a moment, he eyes widened as she realized something about the ring, and looked up at the others who were there now. "The ring... It's enchanted to unlock something, so it does have some Magyk. Now, what it is that it unlocks, I don't know... I can't tell you too much about it... And I for one think that we can ask Rowland in a little while perhaps, not right away. The ring isn't going to be going anywhere... And he is busy dealing with other things... That sort of thing can wait... Maybe we should see what we can figure out on our own about the ring without his help..."

The Gifted - Concluded

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Sapphire

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Location: Flynn's Car
Skills N/A

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Sapphire was more than happy to be out of that prison, it brought back way too many bad memories of what happened a few months back. Though those memories weren't all that bad, after all, she had met Freddie there, so that was definitely something. Part of her wondered what was going through Veil's head, but she didn't really think too much about it, or really she didn't want to dwell too much on it. In her mind, Veil was being a bit ridiculous about the whole, trying to throw her together with Freddie thing, but she knew that there was nothing more she could really do.

Hearing Veil calling the Underground, she nodded her head slightly, "So, they know we're out and that we're coming back over there, so that's a good thing," she said with a slight smile. At least that was over with anyway, when she heard Veil's stomach, she couldn't help but laugh and she glanced over at Flynn to ask him something. "...So, you mind taking us to get some actual food? That horrible food was disgusting..."

Flynn chuckled hearing that, nodding his head. "Sure thing, just tell me where and we'll head there."

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Outside Coldstones -> Morlock Tunnels
Skills: N/A

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"Casper, I only met her like, yesterday first of all, so I would have called BS on that anyway," Jack muttered, his mind racing through a few things, and he was also reminded of just about everything that had happened before hand in much more vivid detail and flinched slightly at the memory. His mind was essentially wanting him to beat himself up over it all over again, even though he had already spent the better part of a week doing that. He had no idea what to even really do, and he glanced over at Blink, giving her a slight smile, "Don't worry, I figured it was an accident, so let's go already," he said, before he stepped through the portal, glad to see the familiar Morlock Tunnels.

He followed Blink's instructions to where he knew Sunshine would be, eventually coming along in the tunnel, seeing her. Nearby he saw the corpse of someone who probably was a Purifier when they were alive, and it wasn't too hard for him to think of what likely happened. "Hey there Rookie, you alright there?" he asked her as he walked up and gave her a hug, whether she wanted one or not. He usually could tell if someone needed one, and right now he felt like Sunshine needed a hug.

🦄 Machiavellian Masquerade - Chapter 1

Sister Penance

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Location: Shadowell Manor: State Dining Room (3rd Floor)
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"Just wine for me please," Penance responded gently, glancing around at everyone else who was within the room itself. She did take notice of those within the room who had decided to have their masks remain on, however she didn't think too much of it, as it was a choice in her mind. Let them remain cloaked in shadows if they so choose to, it is their choice as to whether or not they unveil themselves to everyone else, and it was their own choices as to whether they spoke kindly to everyone else. It did not matter too much, but she personally would prefer them to remove their masks, but if they didn't want to then so be it.

She looked over at the woman who had entered the room, not too sure what to say to the woman. Others seemed to already be attempting to distract her or converse with her, so she wasn't going to try. Too many people talking at once could overwhelm a person to say the least. Then she glanced over at Rave when she heard the woman scream, and saw that she had somehow managed to stab herself, or did someone stab her? With the group that they were around it was very difficult to tell. "Are you alright?" Penance asked her, concerned. The woman had seemed nice enough before when she had been walking with her and Moss, so she hated to hear her in pain, especially since she still felt that the woman might be helpful to have around later.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: The Playground - Holding Cells -> Common Room
Skills: N/A

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Flynn smiled at her slightly when she mentioned the part about kissing someone who could burst into flame. There wasn't much else he could really say about that, and just sort of went with it. Hearing Barton's voice, he let out a bit of a sigh, before he took one last look at the two HYDRA agents who were in the cells and followed along after her. Fairly certain that he was going to get chewed out by Tinley for deliberately ignoring what it was that she had said and ordered to do. Though he had to face that eventually.

Goose was just purring happily in Bonnie's arms, he approved of the hooman who was holding him at the moment, and he didn't seem to mind being carried around places. "Mrow?" he called out to her, as if questioning where it was that they were going. He wanted to know if they were going to go deal with any more bad hoomans or something, since it would help for him to be aware of the situation first if that was the case.

Walking into the common area, Flynn just listened and let out a bit of a sigh. Yup, here he was, getting chewed out by Tinley, and he rolled his eyes slightly. "Look, honestly I don't care too much to follow orders, you're right, but here's the thing, you literally had the one person who likely even knew how to deal with people like the Purifiers literally stay behind and do absolutely nothing so what did you think I was going to do? So don't you day try and get on my case about it. You knew that there were a lot of Purifiers in the area, and your plan was to literally have yourself and one other agent leave the base and odds are if things went south you'd have ended up dead, so how about you stop trying to pin that on me! Especially since the agent you asked to join you outside was HYDRA, so whose to say they wouldn't have ended up just pulling the trigger once you stepped outside, killing you, and then blamed it on a Purifier and we wouldn't have known the difference! Sorry if I'm being blunt, but the orders you gave didn't exactly make much sense to me, not sure about everyone else."

The cat was just watching the interaction take place, and was still purring somewhat in Bonnie's arms. However, the instant Niah pulled out the postcard, he stopped purring, looking over at the card. He moved slightly in Bonnie's arms, and his paw almost somewhat seemed to be pointing at the postcard. "MEOW!" he said loudly, looking at Niah and pointing at what was in her hands.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"...Figured that would be the case."

"...Well honestly discovering that listening to people only gets you so far in life and honestly really really sucks. Not to mention I don't really care to listen to the Avengers if they basically are patronizing us just because we're not actually adults," he said a bit bluntly. This was true, and honestly he didn't want to talk to any of the Avengers especially if they were essentially treating them like they were stupid, and that was the main reason he was kind of getting pissed off.

Thinking for a moment about what best to do, he held his hand up, his fingertip had a small ball of light, and he seemed to just bend in, and a moment later, he seemed to disappear. "...Did that work? I don't really know if it did... It's just a trick of the light thingy, and I was running out of ideas," his voice said softly, coming from where he had been just seconds before. Seemed like he'd found a way to turn himself invisible or something.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@FantasyChic@LadyRunic@KazAlkemi@ColouredCyan
@eclecticwitch@Kirah@Trainerblue192@Achronum

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Alright, keep an eye on her, but let me know if anything changes or something about it, Pietro responded mentally to her. He just watched as Guin and Allison left the area, and he and Oshea started talking about a few other things while they both were off somewhere else.

"Yeah, well we aren't all so powerful or whatever, gets to be a little difficult to do much of anything really without the world knowing. Problem for me is I do tend to catch on fire a little bit," Flynn commented, before he shook his head at Max's offer for dancing. "No thanks, I'm not one for dancing, however, it does look like your chance to talk to my mother at least is presenting itself," he added, nodding his head that direction.

It seemed to be true, as Miranda seemed to wander away from Magneto, going elsewhere in the crowd of sorts, though actually. It looked almost like she was getting away from the crowd more of to stand by a wall. She was by herself for the most part, aside from every so often someone would start talking to her, before a few moments later she sort of directed them back to the party itself. "If you wanted to give her a present or something, now would be the time to do so..."

"I think perhaps a small army of penguins would be a lovely illusion," October told Annie with a smile, dancing with her and her wife once the song began. "Or perhaps zombie unicorns?"

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Hearing the drug addict start exclaiming, Gambit sighed. Jack had brought a little kid and a confused idiot today - great. "Mon ami.... Ton frère," he said pointedly to Jack, before throwing him a look that more or less said that needed to be handled instantly. His attention then shifted to Anastasia, nodding a bit. He only had the bare bones of a plan in mind. "I'd like to open that to the floor, ma belle. In order to steal le diadème, we need to take out security, neutralize the agents, and get into the vault. Was thinkin' it might be best to try to sort people into groups on strength - and I think you would be perfect for handlin' the agents."

Gambit then gave Bobbi a bit of a smirk. He was known to be a bit of a flirt, but he was married to Rogue. "Bien sûr," he told her simply. He just ignored Richard, since clearly the man thought Bobbi had been speaking to him and not Gambit.

"Yes really... Honestly she's kept an eye on Lexi before, so don't know why you are freaking out or whatever... And sorry Ayita, but if I can't exactly bail on it you can't either, so I'm just going to have her stick with them... And Casper? Are you sure you're alright? Since honestly, you are sounding a little, off... Even for you... Maybe you could use some fresh air?" Jack suggested, hinting that maybe Casper should leave the room and come back in a few minutes since he was acting so weird.

He turned to look at Gambit and gave a slight apologetic expression for Casper's idiocy, "Apologies for my brother... He seems to be even less competent than usual today," he said, before looking back at his brother. Jack was really hoping that Casper would take his suggestion to leave the room temporarily.

Mary sort of just glanced around the room at everyone else, wondering a bit about what it was that they were thinking. This was going to be an interesting job to say the least, though one thing did make her a bit curious. Why did the Red Guard have this sort of crown anyway? It essentially sounded like glorified jewelry to her, so why would they have it? It didn't make too much sense, but she figured there had to be a reason, sentimental value to one of the higher ups maybe? Who knew the answer to that question. All that mattered was if they managed to get their hands on it. "...So we're going to steal a crown right out from under the Red Guard's noses? Sounds like fun to me."

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Wolverine nodded his head at Cass and Tinley, before he fell silent. He found a cooler on the ship a pulled out a bottle of beer, using one of his claws as a bottle opener he popped it open and took a drink. "Why wait for the chance to take a drink or to go out for em if you can have one right now if you ask me."

"I think going out away from all of this would be a lovely idea. Though honestly we likely are going to all want to crash after this one. Even if we don't end up having to fight the Hulk, jet lag will definitely make you want to crash. It was a pretty long way to get here even with the Quinjet," Mystique commented with a slight shrug. Once they caught the Hulk it likely wasn't going to just be a walk in the park to get him back to their headquarters, only an idiot would think that. "And Howlett, thought you weren't supposed to be drinking on the job."

"Well we're sitting around here playing back up in case something goes truly wrong, so why the hell not? Not like we have anything better to do," he responded, sitting down in a chair and leaning back. Mystique let out a sigh, she'd been trying to get him to stop it with the alcohol for a while, and had been trying to get him to admit that he was an alcoholic but that wasn't going too well.

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Lance glanced around at the group who were there, not too sure what to think about all of this, He had no idea who these people were, and as far as he knew, his father didn't really have any sort of friends. He preferred being away from other people, so who exactly were these people to come and ask if he was around. This whole situation was a bit strange, and his hand that was holding the doorknob and wasn't visible to anyone but Runa started to glow with a faint light. "...No, he isn't here right now... Left about half an hour before you all showed up... Um... Who exactly is asking? Who the hell are you people?"

Sapphire glanced back at the rest of the group. Now wasn't this just way too convenient, the good doctor wasn't home. Meaning that the Hulk wasn't going to be able to screw up this plan really, which was just great. Turning back to look over at Lance and Runa, she had just one question to add to what Niah had asked. "...So, any idea when he'll be back?"

"...Not really, I mean, I don't think he'll be back for at least another hour or so..." he responded, he moved partially so now he was between them and Runa. He knew that she could use magic, but he didn't want her to get hurt if it came to something like that.