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X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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

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Inside the Palace
"Prince Pietro is engaged to Tony Stark's daughter, Guinevere," Jade recalled, glancing at Niah. She was glancing around the room herself, making notes under her breath. While she didn't have any powers, Jade's deductive mind had carved her out a career as a private investigator. "But this is good - we know that Princess Wanda did this and we have her pressure point now - her brother."

Just then, there was the sound of someone else at the door to the room, and it opened up. "I thought I heard voices of people who don't quite belong here," Klara's voice called before she stepped into the room, her sword hanging at her side and a sling ring was currently in her hand. "So, did you find anything interesting about this place? Well, we can talk about that later, but you might want to know that the fighting outside is over, there are people inside the Palace again, so if you want a quick exit, speak now, as the longer we stay here the quicker we'll get caught."

Goose had been rubbing his head up against Niah, purring, before he ate a few of the treats that she had given him. When he saw Klara he jumped out of Niah's arms and went to investigate the new person. "...Is that what I think it is? Why the hell is there a freaking Flerken here? Awww he's so cute! I haven't seen one of these guys in what feels like forever! Be careful though, you don't want to have him scratch you, as you will definitely feel it in the morning... Now, back to getting out of here. If you want I can use my sling ring to portal us directly back to the HQ." she said, having bent down and picked Goose up sort of snuggling with the cat.

Outside the Palace
"Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she could, I mean from what I can tell her power is Chaos Magic which is a fairly unstable thing, she could probably accomplish more than people give her credit for if you ask me," Flynn said with a shrug, before looking at Carolina before she went into her astral form. "Just be careful, who knows what she'll do if she catches you trying to possess her again or something..."

Pietro looked dazed for a moment, before shaking his head and looking more of confused then anything. "...Wait, what just happened? Wanda what did you just do?" he said, looking at his sister before looking over at Allison, hearing her words about things. "Why would Wanda change the world for me of all people?" He then switched to his mental link, deciding to just talk to Guin for a few moments. Guina... I don't know what to do, but I don't want you to hurt Wanda, but I don't want Wanda to hurt you either... with his words, Guin would easily be able to tell that he was more or less torn about what to do in this situation. It was almost like Guin and Wanda at this rate were playing a game of tug-o-war and he was caught in the middle, or maybe a game of ping pong and he was the ball.

"You are my brother and I care about you," she responded, before coughing up some blood from how many injuries she had gotten between the attacks from Guin and Allison. "However, I will not lose you again my brother," Wanda added, before her hands started glowing slightly, and there was a slight flash of red once more. "Let's get out of here Pietro."

His eyes sort of went red, before he nodded his head simply, raced over and picked Wanda up, and took off again, leaving the others in the dust. Oshea had been fairly quiet for the most part, just sort of looking at the two of them. "...So what should we do now? Since those two kind of took off and she did some weird thing with her powers or something..."

The Resistance
"I'm glad you're okay Runa," Lance said, giving her a slight smile before he turned to look at the others, rolling his eyes slightly at Cass' words. "And no, not necessarily. She might not actually need another source to potentially boost her own power. I think you might be under estimating her strength. She's caused a lot of problems in the past, but not really anything of this scale sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Or she just never thought to attempt something like this before. You are making assumptions, and in a case like this it is likely you should be better prepared for her potentially accomplishing it without any aid, otherwise you likely would be under prepared to actually fight her. Like that's just common sense. It is better to over estimate an opponent than to under estimate her. Thing is we don't know just how powerful she is, but honestly, when you think about other powerful forces that have come to Earth in some way or whatever, then would it really be that surprising for her to actually pull it off?"

"For the record only one of those brothers is actually related to Xavier, the other one is kind of the oddball and isn't considered crazy," Wolverine said to Max with a slight shrug, before looking at James. "You want my honest opinion? That plan is horrible. Why do you think attacking SHIELD would fix this? It's not going to, the only way to do it is to go against Wanda Maximoff directly if she did cause this."

Hawkeye sighed slightly, glancing around the room. "We don't have the resources to attack SHIELD bases," he then said bluntly. "We were lucky to make it out of the encounter at the Palace - the SHIELD bases are heavily guarded and the mutants there are bred for combat. I want everyone to prepare for recruiting tomorrow, divvy up into teams, and then take a break for lunch. You've earned it."

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"No need to throw accusations around Ana, it might make people think you are up to something," Mary said to her with a bit of an eye roll. Turning to look at the others, she seemed to think for a moment, before answering them. "If you are lying about having the crown or not, there likely will be more repercussions for you all... But I think that if you were lying, you'd probably have a reason for it, so honestly, not going to pry too much into it... However I do suggest that we get out of this room now, we've been here for a little while, and if we stay here much longer, it might end horribly."

"We don't have the crown," Jack said bluntly, knowing perfectly well that he was more used to these sorts of things then Casper was. Also part of him really wanted to smack Casper across the head, because to him that didn't sound too convincing in his mind.

"Alright, if you say so, now let's get out of here," she said, before she headed back to the door, poking her head out, and seeing that it was all clear at the moment.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: Baskin Robbins
Skills: N/A

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Flynn had the plan in the back of his mind, the idea that he and Raynor had to go essentially kill Pym, since in his mind the guy deserved it and didn't deserve to be around. Especially because his creation resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. If Pym wasn't dead in their time, odds were that Flynn would have killed him himself if possible for what he ended up causing, same for Novikova really since she had helped him to finish building Ultron. If this works and he remembers what happened, part of him would just see about killing Novikova anyway or something for all of this.

Flynn rolled his eyes slightly at Raynor's quip about not being able to take an Uber. "Is now really the time to make jokes about that?" he asked, shaking his head slightly at him. He hoped that whatever they did to get to SHIELD it would hurry up a bit, so that way he and Raynor could see about getting away from the others in order to find Pym and Fury themselves. In order to hopefully stop them from causing anymore problems. He was just going along with killing Fury because that's what got Raynor on his side. His main priority was killing Pym, since that would stop Ultron from being created.

The Gifted - Concluded

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Sapphire

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Location: Outside
Skills N/A

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Sapphire continued dragging Havok along once they reached the bottom of the slide, and she pulled him over to the car as she also pulled the keys out of her pocket. Unlocking the car, she managed to get Havok into the back seat and looked over at the others. "Get in the car, try and wake Veil up, if not we might have to go rooftop jumping," she said, not explaining what it was that she meant by that. She hoped that they didn't have to do that, as it could end horribly if it didn't work.

She hopped into the driver's seat of the car, and looked at everyone else, "Now come on, we've got to burn rubber and get the hell out of here." Once everyone had gotten into the car, she glanced over at where they had Veil, and was really hoping that they could wake her up, but in case they didn't, she had a backup plan. It wasn't that good of a plan, and could end horribly, but it was a plan nonetheless, and she rolled down the driver's side window in order to prepare in case they did need her backup plan. Once everyone was inside the car, she fired up the engine and slammed her foot onto the accelerator, the car taking off and she was hoping that they didn't have to deal with the police too much.

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Mutant Underground First Floor
Skills: N/A

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Jack listened to what his brother said, and his mind started going through what he knew about all of that stuff. Since it didn't have too much to do with his actual family (after all, not like Xavier was his father thank god) he did know some stuff about the Dark Phoenix thing. "The Dark Phoenix incident, it wasn't exactly the best, and I heard that Jean Grey's mind was messed with in order to take her down that road. If they were essentially able to manipulate a telepath of that level, then they aren't good news at all..."

He then turned to look at Blink. "You get used to him talking to himself, well, okay, he's not actually talking to himself... He's talking to the ghost of his friend who died years back... As for why they'd target the Morlocks, I have a hunch... The original Mutant Massacre that happened in New York was because Sinister didn't believe that the Morlocks were worthy, many of them disfigured in some form, so that's why he sent the Marauders to try and kill them all... I wouldn't be surprised if that was the same reason that the Hellfire Club would send the Purifiers after us, probably for very similar reasons..."

He glanced over, hearing Colossus' voice, and saw that he had his sister with him, and he couldn't help but smile slightly at that. Yes, a lot of bad things had happened in a short period of time, but here was one good thing that did seem to happen. Colossus had found his sister, and that was something. "Hey there Colossus, I see you found your sister, that's great!"

The Uncanny X-Babies - Concluded

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@eclecticwitch@Nallore@FantasyChic@Morose

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The Library
The library was fairly quiet, and there didn't seem to be any other people in the room. Wesley didn't really have too much of a view of the door into the room, however, he'd be able to hear the door open and footsteps as someone walked into the library as well. He still wouldn't be able to see them, but based on the voice it was obvious as to who it was, and that they were on the phone with someone else.

"So, is everything almost ready with the device then Marty? You know that she has low patience... Yes the idiots here don't suspect a thing, honestly, you would think with the brains this place has that team would have at least one person who could figure things out. Though I can already tell that they don't really trust me, however that isn't too surprising. Several members don't really trust anyone and their incompetence resulted in that little "accident" last month. Even if they did figure out what was going on, I seriously doubt that they'd be able to do anything... So when is the test run going to be? If that thing works then we might not really have a use for the X-Factor team anymore... A few hours or so? Alright, I'll see if I can potentially get away from here and join up with you, if not you'll have to tell me how things go... If it doesn't work we can see about adjusting and trying again. I'll see you later then," she said into the phone, before she hung up. One thing was obvious, she didn't leave the room, and odds were that she didn't even know that Wesley was even there.

Watts, Evelyn and Bobbi
Yes I get it, you all aren't in the same room, but this is mainly to tell you that you all get to decide what it is that you do (I did do a few rolls, nothing happens yet). So you all get to come up with what you want your characters to do.

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Demetria Clarke

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Location: Serval Industries - Training Room

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Sapphire glanced over towards Bella, seeing that she was in the room as well, but she didn't say anything to her immediately. After all, she found that she had little to really talk with anyone else about, so she wasn't too sure about talking to her. However, Sapphire decided that odds were that things would be somewhat awkward if she was still in the room, so despite part of her brain saying don't say anything, she decided what the hell and walked over to where Bella was.

"Hey there, so, what are you up to?" she asked her, giving her a slight smirk, before a thought occurred to her considering the fact that they were both in the training room. "You want to spar or something? I mean we are both here and beating the crap out of dummies will only get you so far. Or are you thinking about leaving the room or something? I'm fine either way." It was simply just a suggestion, so she would have been fine if Bella turned down her offer, but her words did hold some truth to them. You didn't really learn how an opponent would really react while fighting against a training dummy. Sapphire was a bit curious as to whether or not Bella would accept the offer.

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 - 5E
Skills: Chlorokinesis

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Mary smirked slightly as Eva tied up Arthur with vines. "He makes a lovely pinata doesn't he?" she said with a slight laugh, before turning her attention back towards Kirsten and the other Athena camper. Now Kirsten was trying to free the kid that she had just spent some time tying up with vines, and that wouldn't do at all. It was more annoying than anything, so all she really needed to do was to see about fixing that problem and just tying them both up!

"This just won't do at all," Mary said with a slight laugh, before she waved her hands and vines shot up from the ground going towards Kirsten and the other camper. The vines started wrapping around Kirsten, tying her up somewhat tightly, to the point where she wasn't going to probably get free any time soon. She then sent vines wrapping around the other camper, tying up his legs, before she turned to look at Eva. "So, any ideas on what to do now?"

Darke Magyk - Concluded

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Queen Valda

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Location: Inside the Palace
Skills: N/A

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"So much death and destruction... So much chaos... What could have caused all of this to happen, who could have caused all of this to happen. I wonder where the creatures came from, and who sent them..." Valda said softly as she looked around the Palace and saw everything that had occurred, and wasn't sure really what to do at this point. All they could do really was find out where their brother was, and hope that he was alright. She was more concerned about Myrus' well being then anyone else's.

"Don't worry Luna, we'll find him, no matter what, I'm sure he's alright though, we just have to find him..." she added, giving her sister a small smile. She was sure that her brother was fine, or more of she was almost trying to convince herself more than Luna that he was okay. Valda was worried, that something horrible had happened to him, and that she hadn't been there to help him at all.

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Bruce Banner

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Location: Ruins of the Palace (3 years in the Future)
Skills: N/A

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Bruce let out a bit of exasperated sigh, looking at everyone else around him. No one was really seeing things from his point of view at all, that much was obvious. "Okay, let me be a bit blunt then... You are all essentially asking me how to stop this, what can we do. She's asking where the hell we are and she wasn't even supposed to be brought here at all, which is more then a little bit annoying mind you. So guess everyone expects me to have literally every single answer when I don't have them!"

"You can't stop Ragnarok, how many times do I have to tell you people that! It is literally the end of times! It will happen and nothing will ever change that. You can only post pone it! As for stopping the death of my grandfather, you might have to talk to my little sister about that, she tends to keep us all alive for as long as she wants, so does anyone here want to actually go back now? We can't do anything here at all, so we might as well head on back!"

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Sylvi the Bard

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Location: The Ramblings Room 847
Skills: N/A

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I am a little tired, she admitted to him, giving him a slight smile. The day had been long one, and likely one that she would not easily be able to forget. After all, there was so much death, destruction, and nothing she did could prevent that or stop it. Sure, she had been able to help people, but in the end she had been injured by one of the creatures herself, and she did not know what to really make of that. Everything was changing, or was different in some way all because of that.

Hearing his slight accusations against her family in the Land of Long Nights made her stiffen slightly. She hadn't given much thought towards her family in quite sometime, however this night had sort of brought them back to the forefront for her. No, I don't think they'd employ the aid of creatures such as those ones... The fact that one of those vampires recognized me for who I was was more then a little bit disturbing, but if they had sent them, a small part of me hopes that they wouldn't have actually had one of those things hurt me if they saw me... It was this last thought that was the most concerning to her, and it was a thought that wasn't going away.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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

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Inside the Palace
Jade kept on venturing through the Palace, stopping once they reached Princess Wanda's room. She glanced around for a moment, before she gently opened the door. "Okay, fan out. Find anything you can that's noteworthy in here, and then we're going to get the hell out of dodge before we get made. Understood?"

Goose just sort of looked at Niah, before shooting a glare of sorts at Tinley and Jade. It was fairly clear that the cat didn't care much for the pair of them. However, he started pawing at Niah's face, and it was something similar to what he did in the real world when either he wanted attention or... He was hungry. "Mrooooooooooooooow," he complained, making a bit of a face that was definitely saying Feed me!

Outside the Palace
Flynn had wandered away from his siblings for the most part, and went over to where October, Carolina and Annie were. "Do not fret, darling," October told Annie soothingly. "This is how heroines are made - and I see one inside of you, if you would allow yourself to shine. And take comfort in the fact that we are not on the side of royalty... They so rarely win revolutions."

"As for where you should go, I'd say probably anywhere but here right now... If Wanda knows that you tried to take control of her then sticking around here definitely isn't safe... You three probably need to get out of here." Flynn added, looking at the three of them. "I honestly don't really know what's going on, but a lot of people have told me the same thing so I'm just going to go with it."

Annie would get a feeling, a very strong one from her intuition, that something bad was about to happen. However, it wasn't something bad that was going to happen to them, but more of to the other group of people who were currently standing outside the Palace as well. All of the trouble she also could tell would come from one person in the group, namely Wanda Maximoff.

Wanda did not look to thrilled at the accusations against her, and Pietro wasn't entirely sure what to think of it. Yeah, he knew this world wasn't real, he trusted Guin on that, but wasn't too sure at the idea that Wanda would have caused it. However, what Guin and Allison were saying made him wonder if she did have something to do with the entire situation. "Uh Wanda, what exactly are they going on about?"

She glanced over at Pietro, and her eyes seemed to flash somewhat with a red light that the others could see. It seemed like Pietro questioning her was the last straw, and her hands started glowing as well. There was then a blast that got sent off, sending everyone around her (Oshea, Guin, Allison and Pietro) got blasted backwards by her. "I have about had it with you people!" she snapped.

Pietro managed to catch Guin before she hit the ground, Are you okay Guina? he asked her, looking her in the eye before he stood her up fully once again. Oshea hadn't been quite so quick on his feet but he did manage to use his own body to break Allison's fall so she didn't slam into the ground. "Are you okay Ally?" he asked her, giving her a slight smile.

"You all know nothing about what you are talking about!" she snapped at all of them, glaring still, her eyes were red.
"Wanda, did you actually change the world? You need to change it back!" Pietro said, and then he charged at er, trying to knock her down. He wasn't able to do much to even get close to his sister, as she put up a bit of a barrier to make it so that he more or less bounced off of it and back down to the ground.

"I will not have you turn against me again brother," she said simply, almost sounding a little bit saddened. At this point she wasn't even going to try and hide what she was doing, and Wanda sent a wave of red energy at Pietro that hit him in the head, but it was clear that it wasn't actually going to hurt him.

"Uh, Wanda? What's going on?" Pietro asked her, sounding confused.

"You were going to help me, as your fiance and her friend were attacking and threatening me."

"...Oh, okay then," he said, before standing up off the ground and walking over to her.

There was one thing that Allison would notice was off, and she'd remember something that in the real world Pietro mentioned, generally whenever people asked about how to break free of his sister's powers. He always had said that he generally never really knew how to break free, as his sister only helped him gain a somewhat resistance over minor telepaths, but that was because she never actually had ever used her powers on him to try and get him to do what she wanted him to.

The Resistance
"Honestly, most people probably weren't acting the way that they would normally have, don't worry about it... And thanks for healing Runa..." Lance said, looking over at James. Hearing what James said about Casper made Lance start to question his own relationship with his father. He shook that thought sort of out of his head, and decided to pay attention somewhat to what was going on elsewhere in the group.

Barton let out a slight sigh. There were so many people here, he hadn't realized Niah wasn't among them. She was rather small and quiet compared to most of these individuals as well which didn't help matters. He raised an eyebrow at Max's declaration that the Avengers were useless. Hulk was here with them, Thor was dead and Iron Man was still a billionaire, that much he knew. "Do you have a location on Captain America or Black Widow?" he pressed.

"Emma Frost isn't an X-Man," Banner interjected, looking confused. "And really, neither is Cyclops anymore... That generation of X-Men retired years ago."

"Are you essentially calling us old? Most of the group might have retired, but if ya need help you can almost bet on them helping out. As for Emma Frost, she's always had a bit of an obsession with shades, she was a little bit jealous of Jeannie for a while, but apparently that little obsession never truly went away. And honestly, perfectly fine if we don't go find them, feel like it would be more of a hindrance than anything."

"Yeah, well, it's time for them to stop sipping martinis on the golf range," Barton countered. "Frost can't be trusted. We'll leave her and Cyclops out of this. I want us to prioritize getting members of the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, as they have more experience. Then go for any X-Men you can find that you trust."

"You mentioned a few people down in Louisiana?" Wolverine said, glancing over at Max. "Betting that's where the Swamp Rat would be, and is the last names of those two you mentioned by chance Theriot? One related to Xavier the other is his half-brother right? Their mother, met her way back in the 80s, she's from Louisiana, New Orleans actually now that I think about it, so them being down there might just be a coincidence. Or if we're lucky they'll actually be in the same place as the others down there. Not sure who all might be down there."

Banner was curious at what Cass said. "Do we know if there is an upper limit to the Scarlet Witch's power - or is that just conjecture?" he asked. If Wanda was an omega level mutant, then she could have done this entirely on her own. If she wasn't, then Cass was right - she would need help in order to pull something off.

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"No offense Bobbi, even though we don't know you, we can't give this thing to the Guild, I'm with Casper on that one. How much do you know about the infinity stones? Not much I wager, but there are a few things that you should know. Even just one of the stones could be used to destroy, or take over, the entire world. The reason why this crown was able to restore our memories of the real world, even if we didn't want them, was because that yellow glowing gem in the middle of it is the mind stone." he explained to her, shaking his head slightly at her words about needing to finish the job.

Turning his head slightly, he looked back at his brother, "I actually do know how we ended up as members of the Thieves Guild in this reality. Our mother was apparently a member of the Guild and we ended up joining it... And actually no, I didn't kidnap a kid in this reality... That little girl is actually my daughter, so I'm just as confused as you, since I didn't have a kid in the real world as you very well know Casper... Anyway, that's enough talk, we've got to get out of here before someone catches us." He had a sort of bag with him that was slung over his shoulder and he put the crown in it, just in case they ran into anyone else in the Guild they wouldn't be able to see it immediately. Probably a good thing he did that, as there were footsteps coming down the hallway.

Mary smirked slightly at Ana's words, "Well, let's just hope we can find the damn crown and get out of here quickly, the longer we are here, the more likely we are to get caught or killed. By that I mean by more competent guards," she said as they walked along. After a few minutes, they'd come across a door that was partially open, and she snuck forward slightly to peer inside. Letting out a bit of a sigh of relief, she nodded her head slightly at Ana and walked inside.

"So, did you three find the crown?" Mary asked, entering the room, as they had managed to find the room where Casper, Bobbi, and Jack were.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: New York Sanctum
Skills: N/A

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Flynn was continuing to not really pay too much attention to just about anyone else. They were starting to talk about the science or whatever it was behind creating a time machine, and all of it went straight over his head. It didn't matter though, he was still somewhat set in his course of action, and then Raynor walked over and spoke to him. Thinking for a moment, he decided might as well tell someone who might understand his thinking, "...I don't care what the others say about it, what are the odds they'll be able to just walk up to Pym and get him to fix the code or something? No... I was leaning towards just killing Pym before he creates Ultron and being done with it..."

"That dooms Sparky - she's trapped in the Quantum Realm without Ultron," Raynor muttered. "What's your solution for that?"

"...I don't know, kill Fury?"

The Asgardian thought it over for a moment, before he nodded slightly. "Okay then...." he agreed. Sure, he had no idea what the ramifications on the timeline would be but he had to assume that the X-Men would be able to handle Loki in New York if Fury wasn't around to assemble the Avengers. "Do you know where Fury is? Would be convenient to off them in the same trip."

"I believe he would have been working with SHIELD back then still, just not as the Director or anything like that."

"Oh, fun. Pym was with SHIELD back then too - maybe we'll get lucky then and they'll both be in San Fran."

"Let's not tell anyone else what we're going to do... Since how much do you want to bet they'd stop us or something?"

Raynor chuckled slightly. "No wonder you betrayed OMEN. Alright, punk. We'll do this the dirty way."

"Not gonna lie, a little surprised that SHIELD didn't seem to care about that whole thing, but honestly. What SHIELD thinks doesn't exactly matter, since SHIELD no longer exists. The ends justify the means if you ask me, so when they get that machine up and running and we go back let's see if we can find Pym and Fury before they do."

The Uncanny X-Babies - Concluded

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@eclecticwitch@Nallore@FantasyChic@Morose

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Outside of Serval - Several Hours Later

Two people gathered outside of Serval Industries, it had been only a few hours since the incident involving the Brotherhood attacking the facility during the gala. One of the two women had just exited the building, not triggering security in anyway as she went, carrying a case of sorts with her. The other woman gave her a stone cold look, almost like she was more annoyed then anything. "So, have you found a way to fix the slight miscalculation in our plans Martinique?"

"Yes... I believe my sister and I have, the incident ending the way it did with the Brotherhood was... Unexpected to say the least, however we may have found a way to turn this into a potential success."

"You better have Mastermind, my patience is growing thin... The goal was to simply have the Brotherhood distract the X-Factor buffoons, but instead they destroyed the one thing we actually wanted to keep intact. The idiots, we told them specifically not to enter the CEO office, but of course any child of Magneto cannot follow even the most simplest of instructions."

"Yes... Well, we might have turned this into a bit of a roaring success."

"I am guessing this success has something to do with what is inside of the case you carry and why you asked to meet me out here? You clearly took something from Serval, so what was so important that could make up for this mistake that causes you to bring us out here, where we constantly have to use our abilities to make sure we are hidden from prying eyes."

"Oh, believe me, this will definitely be worth the trip... I have also spent some time while in the area to set up a base of sorts for our operations... The Sisterhood will do something that Magneto and his goons have failed to do... Make the world a better place for all of Mutant kind."

"I certainly hope so... How are things going for dear Regan within the walls of Serval Industries? I would suspect fairly boring..."

"Oh, things are going quite well, the X-Factor team that she controls, as well as our mole among them, causes great issue within them. They are more then a little divided, given what happened to one of their members."

"That is a good thing. Their division will be their undoing, and in due time, Regan will be able to leave this wretched place and join us and the others... So let's take our leave and go to this base you have set up nearby. Our mole has their orders, and us being closer will make it easier for them to give us any new information that may prove useful. Your sister has sent us the files on the roster of the team correct?"

"Yes she has, and the facility is not far," the woman called Mastermind said, before she started walking away. The other woman glanced back once more at the Serval building, this time with a slight smirk.

"If only they knew just how useful they are to us, it would definitely make things more interesting in the long run. We'll be able to do whatever we want, and they won't be able to stop us," she mused, before following after Mastermind.

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1 Month Later

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It had been a grand total of 4 weeks since the team's last, and so far only mission, went so horribly wrong. Despite Watts' protests, Bobbi and Wesley were still allowed to stay with the team, and for the most part Gardner essentially let the group do whatever they wanted, and told them that for team leader she was appointing Psylocke, as the woman had more experience when it came to combat situations. Not to mention if she appointed just about anyone else, she was fairly certain that Watts would complain in some way. Aside from that one little thing, she told them that she didn't have any new missions for them, but if something came up that they wished to pursue, just let her know about it and they'd be clear to go.

As for any information members of the team found out during the time, there was quite a bit that was discovered. Belladonna found out more then a little bit of information on the Brotherhood's potential plans, including what they might do now that they do not have the splicer. Since they essentially had access to Wanda and Pietro Maximoff for a little while, she was able to get some information from the pair about everything.

She'd be able to discover what it is that Magneto's full plan had been. His idea had been to use the splicer in order to replicate it on a much larger scale. They were going to see about turning the world's leaders into mutants, however there was no telling, as Sapphire had said, how stable the splicers capabilities would work. If there was one slight miscalculation in how it was used, it likely would result in the deaths of any human who was hit by it. With a little digging, Bella would be able to figure out that odds were that he'd send Mystique to go free the twins from their imprisonment in the Raft. After that it was up in the air, there was a chance he might start gathering his forces to attack Serval once more, or he could just attack any major city in the country most likely.

Wesley, meanwhile, in his quest to uncover information about the CEO Rae Gardner, he'd discover a few key facts about her. One of them being that she hadn't actually been a part of Serval Industries before Harrison Snow's death. She bought out the company and became CEO afterwards. A few other key things of note would be that she has a sister, but what her name is isn't exactly well known. One other thing he'd discover is that Gardner didn't really appear anywhere until just a few months before she became the CEO of Serval, which definitely wasn't something that was normal for most people.

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Demetria Clarke

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Location: Serval Industries - Training Area

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Things had more or less calmed down since the incident involving the Brotherhood. Unlike a few of the others, she wasn't too keen on trying to figure out fully what had happened. In fact she didn't really want to know what had happened. Sure, she wanted to destroy the Brotherhood for everything that they had caused a month back, but that wasn't such a simple task. The X-Men tended to do that on a daily basis practically, so there wasn't really much of anything that they could do.

Andrew was gone, and nothing would be able to bring him back, so they were stuck with a team that essentially couldn't stand to even be in the same room as each other. They weren't a team, and at this rate she figured that they never would be. Everything went downhill the instant that Snow had died, and now someone else was gone and nothing was being done. Serval hadn't even really acknowledged the fact that Andrew had been killed, they just sort of brushed it under the rug! Everything about the company was getting more and more annoying.

She threw a dagger made of ice, and it slammed into the bulls-eye on the target. Sapphire was annoyed with everything that was going on, and she wasn't even sure what to do. Gardner wasn't even sending them on missions or anything, letting them do whatever the hell they wanted. When she had looked into Gardner, she hadn't found anything about her really, but she wondered if she was the only one looking. Though Sapphire never thought to really ask anyone else for help about it. If someone found something important, then maybe they'd say something. Until then, she was just going to leave it be, and just hope that someone decides to kill Gardner at this rate.

The Gifted - Concluded

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Sapphire

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Location: Hellfire Club HQ E3 -> E1
Skills Hand to Hand Combat

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"Don't you dare call me that Havok!" she snapped at him, getting more then slightly annoyed with him. After all, he picked a great time to make comments like that. "And I'll say this again, you make Storm Troopers seem like a good aim, you were essentially trying to kill us you do realize that right?" Sapphire said, shaking her head slightly. There however was one other thing she needed to mention, and she stared at him right in the eye, before she punched him in the face.

"That's to ensure you tell no one that I kissed you, or make some snide comment about it. Got it? You tell anyone and you are going to be so dead!" she said, before she punched him again. "That's to make sure that you aren't being mind controlled, and this last one is because I feel like it," Sapphire continued, before she punched him a third time and ended up knocking him out. Rolling her eyes she stood up and glanced over at Glimpse. "You better get her out of here, otherwise you'll wish you were the one who had gotten shot," she threatened, before she dragged Havok over towards the slide.

"Damn it, you are not light at all... Not to self, don't punch people until after we are to safety, otherwise you get stuck dragging their bodies around," she muttered, before she managed to send him down the ice slide, and she jumped on as well, sliding down it too.

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Mutant Underground First Floor
Skills: N/A

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"And you people think I flirt with just about everyone," Jack muttered, chuckling slightly at his brother. "You don't have to worry about me Casper, I'm fine," he added, before suddenly the pain went away as James managed to heal him. He sat up slightly now, looking over at them now. "You two are a little obvious, I mean really... Kind of makes me feel a bit like a third wheel here, but whatever."

He moved his hand away from his brother, rolling his eyes slightly that usually it only seemed like Casper actually acted like the older one when he was injured or practically on his death bed. That was just the sort of thing that happened in their family, as the other two siblings were in a mental hospital. Jack was considered the "sane" one more or less, as his father wasn't Charles Xavier. That didn't mean he didn't have his own problems, just meant that he tended to hide his own problems. "So, the others I'm guessing are upstairs or something? What happened to you guys anyway?" Jack couldn't help but ask James.