BlueSky44

Darke Magyk - Concluded

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Queen Valda

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Location: The Marram Marshes
Skills: N/A

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"A dragon boat? Sounds a bit strange to me, but then again, I suppose anything is possible... So it seems like the boat can obviously fly... Do you think that perchance the boat could take us back to the Castle? Since obviously we can't go back the way that we came, it's been destroyed for whatever reason, I am still unsure what even caused that earthquake of sorts... We need to see about getting back to the Castle, to see if anyone knows what's going on, or what has happened..." Valda said simply to her sister as the boat rose up into the air.

Hearing her sister's words about the Dragon Boat made her curious as to how the boat ended up way out here, or if perhaps the boat trying to rise from the ground is what caused the earth to split. It did not matter to her very much, as she glanced over and saw Titan as the boat rose from the ground. She just waved slightly at him as they reached the surface, "Hey, how's it going there?" she asked him with a slight smile.

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Bruce Banner

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Location: The Palace - The Entrance Hall (E7-E5)
Skills: Cosmic Manipulation

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Bruce glanced over, noticing Amarantha there as he walked forward towards the vampires, staring right at them. Fire flashed across his eyes as he glared at them. "I have no idea where the Queen may be, however there is something else you should know, and that is that I don't take too kindly to a bunch of vampires deciding to show up and try and murder everyone... Sure, I'm used to dead creatures of sorts, but namely because I have a little sister who can actually raise the dead. So, I think it's time for you all to burn right now," he said somewhat calmly, before he held his hand out and his staff Gandr appeared in his hand now.

There was swirling fire now, that danced along the staff itself. He hadn't really had to deal too much with this many enemies outside, so it hadn't called for him pulling out the staff. However, now that there were multiple enemies, as well as someone beside him who he didn't really want to injure, it definitely warranted a bit more control for sure. With the fire surrounding him, he sent a flame blast flying right at the vampires, and he managed to take out half of them with one hit, killing Philomena, Vivian, Nostro, Lex, Prudence, and Indie.

"Now, anyone else want to cause problems?" he asked the remaining vampires.

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Sylvi the Bard

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Location: The Palace Courtyard - D6 -> D5
Skills: Jack of All Trades

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Hearing Tate's words, she fell silent, unsure of what to really say about everything. She was a vampire, and there wasn't anything that they could do about it. Sylvi wasn't sure what she could do right now, but something about Myth's words struck a cord with her. Her mind started racing as she realized why Myth had said what she had said to Tate. The woman was afraid that she'd hurt him, or others, and Sylvi was still fighting back tears as she looked at Tate and backed away slowly a little ways from them.

"I-I-I don't want to hurt anyone," she said softly, her eyes now flickering somewhat towards the fire now. She knew what Tate's original thought had been about everything, and a small part of her was wondering if she should have just gone along with it, but she wasn't too sure about it still. She looked back at Tate, looking him in the eyes again, "I really don't want to hurt anyone..." she repeated softly, saying nothing else about it.

Hooked on a Feeling

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Lance Banner

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"Then you can stay behind if you want to... Honestly they are kind of annoying me, a lot, and act like we can't do anything... I've never been afraid of the Hulk, or anyone like the Hulk, so this sort of thing, well... I'm honestly fine going after them and trying to fight them... You can stay behind if you want to, but I'm going outside to see what is going on and try and help out... Your choice Guin," Lance said, before he walked away from her.

This wasn't really just about what Hawkeye, Black Widow and Captain America had said. This was also about what Sterns had essentially done, he was mad, and sure, Lance was pretty sure he had inherited anger problems, but this was something else. Recreating the Hulk in any form is a bad idea, and someone purposefully doing that was just messed up. There wasn't much he could even think to do, all he knew was that he wanted to get back up onto the roof and beat the crap out of Sterns himself.

The Uncanny X-Babies - Concluded

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@eclecticwitch@Nallore@FantasyChic@Morose

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Demetria Clarke

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Location: Serval Industries - Ballroom

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Sapphire never was one to really care about appearances, how she looked, or how others viewed her. Honestly their opinions were dumb in her mind, so it didn't really matter to her too much what she wore to the party. She did at least decide to dress somewhat nicely, or more nicely then her usual appearance. She was wearing a dark blue skirt, shirt, a trench coat of sorts with a pair of black boots, it was nicer then her typical jeans and leather outfit, and yet it still allowed her easy movement to use her powers or being in a combat situation.

The party was under way, everything had been going for about an hour now, (so it's been 3 hours since they were sitting around a table talking), and honestly she was getting more then a bit bored being surrounded by all of these rich people. As if there wasn't anything else that could possibly put her in a bad mood, it was being surrounded by a bunch of people who probably thought like Watts and felt like they were better then everyone else.

The group had the doors covered fairly well, so no one was easily going to cause trouble or try and enter without being seen. This was helpful at least, it meant that they could keep everyone in one place and hopefully stop anyone from ripping each other apart, especially considering both Tony Stark and Hank Pym were notorious for not getting along and they were both in attendance. Bella before the party would have been told don't use force unless absolutely necessary to break up a fight if one broke out, while Wesley would have simply received a word about the team leader job from Psylocke who just mentioned that Gardner would have to approve whoever they chose since she'd have to deal with whoever it was more often.

Things seemed to be going fairly well, that is, before they got a call over their communications from a certain engineer who was currently sneaking into Gardner's office.

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Andrew Rossi

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Location: Serval Industries - Gardner's Office

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Andrew didn't really say much to Watts or the others after it was essentially decided what they needed to do, and he had immediately gone to work on repairing his suit. He was not too thrilled that Watts had decided to say something about the fact that his suit hadn't been working before, and that hadn't exactly been entirely accurate. Andrew had only been having problems keeping the power running without the thing completely short circuiting, he hadn't wanted to risk being stuck shrunk down! The entire thing wasn't broken, but now that it was repaired, he didn't have to worry about anything like that. "I really don't like this idea too much... But oh well... Nothing I can do about it now," he muttered to himself before he shrunk down and took off into the air.

The plan for him was to shift back to his normal size once inside, but this way would at least make it so that no one would question him or see him enter the office itself. That definitely was a necessity, especially since Gardner at the moment was out at the party, so the room was empty. He snuck in through the air vents, finding his way to her office, and once out of the vents, he landed on the ground and went back to his normal size again. "Alright... Let's see what sort of things we can find here..."

Standing up straight, he decided to just start with the files on her desk, one was labelled strangely, that much was obvious. No Electronic Copies was what the label said, and this was a bit odd, as usually you would have electronic copies of just about any file you'd have in existence. Opening it up, he saw some weird design for what could only be really described as a weapon of sorts, or something like that. Reading through the file, he noted the capabilities of the machine. The ability to transfer someone's mind into another person's body, but essentially killing the person who was having someone else's mind into them. They'd essentially be brain dead in theory, or potentially just have everything about them suppressed, he wasn't too sure what the outcome of that would be. From the looks of things, the machine hadn't actually been created yet, so that was a good thing.

"...What the hell is Gardner up to?" he muttered to himself, a part of his brain was trying to rationalize it as just something for a client of Serval, but that didn't make any sense really. As this sort of thing would have been sent down to the engineering lab to be built, so why would she keep it hidden? He set the file down before what sounded almost like a whirlwind outside of the door caught his attention. Without hesitating, Andrew immediately shrunk back down and flew up into the vent again. Just in time to avoid being seen by the person who came rushing into the room in a gust of wind.

It was Pietro Maximoff.

"Wow, not much of a place here really... To think this place is a high tech and weapons manufacturing company... You'd think that they'd have enough money to get their CEO a decent office. It would be a shame if someone were to rip it apart... Need to see if they've got any info on the thingy that we are after though... Any extra bit helps!" he said gleefully, before he started speeding around the office, ripping things apart looking for anything useful. Andrew was definitely glad he had gotten up into the vents when he did.

"Uh guys? We might have a bit of a problem..." Andrew said over the communication system, everyone else would be able to hear him too. He pulled up a display on his arm just in time to see an alarm go off in the lab. "Okay, make that a really big problem. And before anyone says anything it had nothing to do with me breaking into Gardner's office, but we have a few unexpected guests here..."

"What's going on?" Sapphire's voice immediately responded.

"Looks like the Maximoff twins are after something here at Serval, considering the fact that I just barely managed to avoid Quicksilver finding me..."

"Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, here?" Psylocke's voice chimed in the instant he had mentioned the pair.

"Yeah, well, fairly certain it is both of them, I mean I only see Quicksilver at the moment here in Gardner's office, and he's ripping the place to shreds... But an alarm went off up in the Engineering Lab, so odds are that's where his sister is if I had to guess. I'm going to head that way now, see if I can figure out what they're after, since I honestly think Quicksilver is just having fun destroying things in Gardner's office at the moment," Andrew said, before he started flying through the vents to reach the Engineering Lab hopefully.

🦄 Machiavellian Masquerade - Chapter 1

Sister Penance

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Location: Confinement (Attic)
Skills: N/A
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Penance just listened to the words coming from those around them. It was definitely something that needed to be discussed, all things considering, but there was no way that they could do anything if they couldn't see a thing. Without a light source, they were essentially sitting ducks, and it was getting more then just a little bit annoying. She didn't really want to move too much, otherwise she felt like she'd knock someone else over who was attempting to find something, anything, that could be used to create a light source. Though a fire inside of a house in a not so controlled area likely was going to end badly.

"If you can shed some light in here quickly it would be appreciated, as for the door, we might not need too much in order to be able to open it or unlock. Would help if we could see something as mentioned before, however if we can see in here, I might be able to get the door open," she said simply in response to the others, shrugging slightly despite no one else really being able to see her. Penance didn't care much to see about explaining what it is that she'd do to try and open the door, deciding to just let the others potentially speculate about it. This wasn't how she had expected things to be in this little attic room, but unfortunately it was the best that they could ask for really. At least right now it didn't seem like they had anyone around to cause even more problems for them or something.

The Uncanny X-Babies - Concluded

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@eclecticwitch@Nallore@FantasyChic@Morose

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Andrew Rossi and Demetria Clarke

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Location:Briefing Room

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Andrew fell silent at that, and he was starting to get more then a little annoyed by everyone constantly teasing him over a few things. Then again, he could somewhat understand it, however now was not the time for Watts' usual remarks basically calling him an idiot. There were other things that needed to be done, namely what their job was. Sure, no one had flat out accused Gardner of murder, but it was clear that more then a few people had that sort of thinking based on what they were saying.

"Well mes amis, it's simple - while we are guardin' this event, someone can go and search her office, see what skeletons are in her closet," Gambit suggested, shuffling his cards.

"I still don't really think that we should worry too much about Gardner, she doesn't seem like the type of person who would do something like that anyway."

"Well I like the suggestion all things considering, I say we should go along with that suggestion," Sapphire chimed in. "I mean, even if she didn't kill Snow, if the CEO is hiding secrets from us then don't you think we ought to know about them? That sort of thing gets irritating!"

"If it makes everyone feel better, then sure, we can at least see what we can find out, since let's be honest, I don't think anyone here actually knows much about who Gardner is. So, the question remains, who should be the one to go in, since think about it, Gardner is going to be at the party and expects all of us to be there, so it would have to be someone who wouldn't easily be missed."

"How about the guy who can shrink and grow? I mean honestly, no brainer there. Since Gardner knows probably a lot about all of us, so odds are she definitely knows about his history with a few people who are going to be there. So he can just use the excuse of wanting to not cause trouble and sneak out that way." Sapphire pointed out, before nodding her head towards Andrew.

"I don't really know about this..."

"Actually, I agree with her. Since from the sound of it, the only other person who might be able to easily search the office is him," Rogue added, pointing at Watts, "But sounds like he'd obviously be missin' since he wants to talk to a lot of other people clearly."

"Not to mention Andrew, sounds like you probably are one of the few people in this room who aren't really bias against her either."

"I'm still not sure this is a good idea... I mean yeah, I can easily get in there without being seen, but still, what exactly am I suppose to say if I oh I don't know, get caught?"

"Just say you are wanting to avoid Hank Pym!"

"...Alright fine... I'll do it if it makes everyone feel better... I still don't think there is anything weird about Gardner, I mean sure, she did just toss us off the deep end, but still... She's probably just overwhelmed by everything, but since you people want someone to sneak into her office, then fine... I'll do it just so we can end this conversation."

"Now with that out of the way, back to business. There are two main entrance points into the area from the staircases it seems, and a few from the elevators, so, shouldn't be too difficult for us to keep an eye out from those points as well as keep an eye on the guests, since as many people have pointed out, there is a mixture of people here who likely are going to cause a fight... So keep an eye out for anyone who looks like they might be starting to stir up trouble. Got it?" Psylocke said, before looking up at Belladonna. "We were discussing the best way to ensure that there are no problems during the event, but you are quite correct. We all have a party to go to."

The Gifted - Concluded

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Sapphire

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Location: The Mutant Underground - Washington D.C. Station
Skills N/A

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Sapphire was still not too thrilled about the newbies essentially crashing the Underground over night. It was a pain, and the fact that no one questioned anything was stupid to her. At least on this mission the people who actually were with the Underground outnumbered the newbies. Not by much, but it was definitely something in her mind. She already had decided that she didn't like Glimpse, and Tome she hadn't really gotten to know, so she didn't have an opinion of him too much. However she didn't trust him too much unless he proved to her otherwise.

Hearing Veil call her name, she walked over to where the group was forming. "Sure, I'll drive, then hopefully we'll get there in one piece. But remind me to teach you how to drive one of these days Veil, it is definitely a useful skill to have no matter what you do in the world," she said to her friend with a bit of a laugh. She was perfectly fine driving, since she knew perfectly well how Havok drove, and she did not want to get in a car with someone she still didn't full trust driving if avoidable.

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Morlock Tunnels
Skills: N/A

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"Casper... As far as I know, you are almost always bored, so I don't think you being bored right now is because of what's going on around you. I think you'll be perfectly fine, okay?" Jack said to his brother, shaking his head somewhat at him. He didn't exactly trust Casper to be alone for more then a few seconds considering how often he tended to wander. It was definitely problematic for him, considering the fact that when Jack had told him to stay put the day before he had gone off somewhere else.

He wasn't too thrilled about Sunshine getting that brand on her face, in his mind she was a bit too young to be able to make that choice. Jack didn't say anything to Sunshine, or to the others about it, considering he had already attempted to talk people out of it. They knew how he felt about the entire thing, so that wasn't exactly helping this for him. Part of him wanted to see about walking away for a few minutes or something, since he didn't really want to be there for this entire thing.

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

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Marygold Isley

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Location: Camp Half-Blood - Dining Pavilion -> Demeter Cabin

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"Well, I probably will, nothing better to do anyway," she said with a smile to her sister before she heard what the teams were for the game. Mary frowned slightly, making a little bit of a weird face when she heard what team she was on and then let out a sigh before looking over at Eva. "Yeah, sounds like we are, that's such a bummer! But I guess we have to make the most of what we've got, and even though I feel like the odds are against us, hopefully our team will win."

With that last sentence, Mary got up from where she was as well, before making her way towards her cabin to gear up. Of course she was going to be participating in the game, sure she didn't care much for the team that she was stuck on, but still, it was better then not playing at all for some dumb reason. She went into the cabin and grabbed her sword, she was perfectly fine not using any real magical weapons that shifted to other items, after all, she basically could make whatever she wanted out of the plants around her, there wasn't really a need to. Once she had her sword and gear, she headed out again, ready to go play the game. And hopefully beat the Athena Cabin's team.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: Serval Industries First Floor (F12 -> E4)
Skills: N/A

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Flynn hadn't expected the girl's powers to act that way, it was obvious she was trying to hurt them, but he had not expect there to be a shield of green smoke around her. There was something that he noticed now though, and it was not something he would have expected. "...She used to be one of the Morlocks, that brand she has, they generally did that for anyone without a physical mutation who joined there community would get a brand like that... Usually the group wasn't much of a threat unless you attacked them first or threatened their community..."

This was definitely not a situation he wanted to think about. The fact that they essentially probably just caused the death of a kid or something. They were supposed to basically be helping people still in a way, but considering how screwy the world had become that sort of thinking was long gone for the most part. Now though that there was the thought that they might be able to fix everything and stop the world from ever becoming like this (if the scientist people actually managed to pull it off) then in the long run it wouldn't really matter, but still, he felt really bad for the kid.

Darke Magyk - Concluded

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Queen Valda

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Location: The Marram Marshes
Skills: Lyte Magyk, Survival

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"I can definitely try, since we need to move," Valda said to her sister, glancing over at Titan as well, but she didn't really get much of a chance to do something like that all before the ground completely split. She found herself separated from her sister and Titan, and she had no idea what the hell to do in this situation now. Glancing down, she looked into the chasm that was separating her from them, but she didn't have too much time to think about that, as with another shake of the ground she and Luna both went into the darkness.

She wasted no time in using her Magyk to try and slow their decent, and it wasn't too difficult. They weren't actually flying or anything, more of falling slowly and softly, before they eventually reached the bottom of the chasm. "Luna, are you okay?" Valda asked her sister, before noticing that the surface that they had landed on was moving upwards. "...Let's see if we can get a bit of light in here..."

With that, Valda used her Magyk once more and created small balls of light in order for them to be able to see. Glancing around the area, her eyes widened when she saw that they were on a boat? A boat, that was in the shape of a dragon. "What even is this thing?"

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Bruce Banner and Sylvi the Bard

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Location: Castle Courtyard (T8 -> Inside the Palace, N7)
Skills: N/A

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Bruce shook his head slightly at Myth, before glancing over at Tate standing by his girlfriend, letting out a small sigh. Yup, he probably wasn't going to be leaving Midgard any time soon. "You're right, I do have a family, but you also saying to keep control of my anger and hold it in or something Myth, you clearly didn't really meet my grandfather did you? Anger issues tend to run in our family, so sorry for going off like that, but that's just the truth. Anyway, stay here with Tate, I'm going to go inside the Palace to see if there are any vampires inside of the Palace... And remind me that I should probably stick around Midgard for a while, and maybe see about tracking down my little sister," he responded to Myth, as he walked by her and to the Palace.

He took a glance back, seeing Tate, just standing there by his girlfriend. The reason he had mentioned about maybe finding Nova later was to see if she could try and fix it. He wasn't positive that she'd be able to do anything to fix it, but maybe she could, he wasn't entirely positive still what all she could do about it. Who knows, maybe Nova could figure out, but maybe not. Not to mention he had no idea where she even was at the moment, so that didn't help.

Sylvi stopped drinking Mavis' blood, pulling away from the dead body, internally freaking out as to what could be going on. She was still confused as to what was even happening to her. Glancing down at her hands, they were currently covered in blood, and she was still completely covered in it. Thankfully, she wasn't feeling the hunger anymore, and she stood up, looking over at Tate, and she was fighting back tears at the moment.

"T-T-Tate? What's going on? What's wrong with me?" she asked him, before she hugged him, freaking out still. Sylvi wasn't even caring about the fact that there was blood on her. She was panicking, fighting back tears or anything, and she had no idea what was going on. It still wasn't completely registering in her mind what was happening to her, and she was wanting to stay close to Tate, since he seemed to be able to understand it a lot better then she was.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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

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"...He isn't the ruler of the world or anything. We've had a bit of an on again off again relationship for years... Actually he was jealous of me back in the late nineties for having a relationship with Tony Stark, I remember going back there and he was kind of mad about it..." Miranda said with a slight laugh, before looking at Carolina as all of the images started slowing down. "I'll be waking up in another few moments, however... I may care about Erik, but I do not agree with everything he says and does, reason why are relationship hasn't exactly been stable all these years is because I'd disagree with some of the things that he was doing... You should probably leave my mind, I'll wake up in another few moments, but not before I help you out a little bit..." with that, Miranda took her Carolina's hand, and memories would instantly start flashing through her mind. Now Carolina would remember the main reality.

"Then perhaps the King orchestrated all of this," October proposed. "Of course, for all we know whoever did this might not even remember they did.... It could be any of us in this room."

"...That is definitely a possibility. But from what I know no one in the room currently has that sort of power, just saying. You'd have to remember that part though. I guess technically they could have made some sort of technological device to pull it off, but I seriously doubt it." he commented, glancing over at the others. Guin's outburst wasn't exact the best for the situation, that much was obvious. Flynn let out a sigh before deciding to just go along with what Guin said to hopefully calm the situation.

"Ok, I'm going to be honest, I'm still a bit skeptical of this entire situation, so how about we go along with Guin's suggestion. I mean, she does have a point, changing reality no matter how they pulled it off would require a lot of energy, no matter how they managed to pull it off, so how about we go and see what we can figure out that way..." He was trying his best to kind of diffuse the entire situation before it got into even more of a fight.

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"I can give you a hand too Runa if you need it," Klara commented, somewhat shooting a slight glare at the people coming through the portal. However when they lowered their weapons, she lowered her guard somewhat. She still didn't trust them too much, but they seemed to mean well, she just wasn't too sure what to think about them.

Hearing Novikova's words about another reality, she turned to look at her. "Might I ask as to what the hell you are talking about? I mean alternate reality? That just sounds weird."

Banner was a bit unnerved as they just let one of the Red Guard agents, James, get up and start walking to his home. He glanced over at Lance. If his son wasn't there, then he would have let go and shifted. He didn't want James having access to his lab. "Buddy, go through the portal okay?"

"...Okay, was kind of planning on it anyway..." Lance mumbled, before he stepped through the portal as well, shivering slightly from the cold for a moment. He glanced backwards at Runa, hoping she was okay and that she'd come through the portal after them soon.

Wolverine rolled his eyes slightly at Tinley, since she had essentially ignored his suggestion to wipe the memories of the members that they were leaving behind, and he stepped through the portal, not exactly raising his hands or anything, since he didn't tend to actually carry and sort of weapons on him aside from his claws.

Hawkeye walked over to the newly arrived group, crossing his arms. "You're all insane or suicidal - maybe both. Either way, welcome to the fucking resistance."

"I'm leaning more towards them being insane if you ask me..."

Back on the other side of the portal, someone was waking up from being knocked out by Tinley in the first place, and it was Sapphire. She got up from where she was, shaking her head slightly, she was a bit confused as to the rush of memories going through her mind, or at least, partially. She was really confused as to everything, but she didn't say anything, preferring to just try and sort through what was going through her head.

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Mary let out a bit of a sigh, knowing that she probably shouldn't have gone off like that. "Sorry Casper, I just am not used to people not being able to actually hear me, which this whole thing is weird," she said a bit apologetically, not too sure if he could hear her due to the pink earmuffs that Bobbi had given him. She was still internally freaking out over the whole, Gambit telling everyone to kill Chrysi.

Jack glanced over at his brother, wondering what was going on with him. "...Casper, are you okay?" he asked his brother, walking over to him.

Gambit walked up to the unconscious form of his sister and he drew a hand of cards, charging them up as he stared down at Chrysi's form. In his mind, she melted away and became the scared little kid, confused after their parents died. He had sworn to protect her. Gambit tossed the cards, aiming for the wall behind her, missing on purpose. He pulled out a pair of power dampening cuffs and put them on his sister.

Seeing what Gambit was doing, Jack couldn't help but question things, considering the guy just moments ago had said to kill her, and now it seemed like he was changing his mind. Sure, Jack was glad over all that Gambit was changing his mind, but still, a bit of a random sudden change. "...So you changed your mind I take it?"

Gambit didn’t answer verbally, just throwing a charged card at Jack, who had been somewhat prepared for it and it just sort of exploded, but since he had braced himself for the explosion the card didn't do too much damage to him, it more of bounced off of him before it exploded. "I'll take that as a yes then."