BlueSky44

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah

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Bifrost Bridge
"But you don't know that it isn't. Since even though I'm not a magic user, I do know that if you mess with a spell, it might not work fully as intended," Sif commented softly. Of course this did make her a bit more concerned about something, "And if that isn't Klara, where is she and who is that? And why would they have helped you all at all?" she added.

"Are you guys coming or nooooooooooooot?" Klara called back to them. They were heading into the city, and were getting ever closer to the palace that they were aiming for that was in the center of Asgard.

"We have no proof aside from that spell that you just did to be able to see if it actually is Klara... And without that, how do you propose potentially proving it to anyone else? Klara is a magic user herself, so she does typically try to use a few potential defenses that are useful. Especially since she is, well, a bit of a minor trickster god. Knowing how to cloak oneself from tracking spells without too much thought was one of the first things she learned how to do... And that being a skill that she learned from Loki. She typically tries to remain hidden, so she can sneak up on unsuspecting people without them being able to catch her" she continued, saying the last sentence with a shake of her head. "The best we can do is keep an eye on her... Since that still might be her... I don't know, she's seemed a bit different since returning to Asgard after the whole Loki incident on Midgard not too long ago... So it might just be because of that..."

"Anyway, we're fairly close to the palace, should be there soon!"

"We might wish to catch up to them. All we really can do is keep an eye on her, we have no proof that she's someone else, and we have no idea who she could be if she's not Klara. It might, as I said, be her subconsciously tricking the magic of others to be unable to track her, that might be what messed with the spell..."

The Falls
Mary had to stop herself from giggling at Runa's interactions with the teddy bears. It was funny in her mind, watching an Asgardian fear, of all things, teddy bears, or at least hate them enough to try and destroy them. Watching her throw the last one was beyond amusing to her, so now they weren't having to deal with the bears anymore, which was nice. Since it meant that they might be able to move on and actually do something useful in figuring out what all is going on. A few questions popped into her mind though with regards to where they were heading.

"So Runa... We're heading towards your father's halls and all... So what exactly is the area like anyway? Since I can vaguely see it in the distance through all of this fog, and I know we're by your mother's flowers and such, but you haven't really mentioned much about what it is like inside or anything... We also only know that the streak of light came from near it, not necessarily from inside of it... Just wanting to know a little bit about your home and all, since we're so close to it and all..." she asked Runa, figuring to try and distract her a little bit from the chaos that seemed to be occurring. Plus Mary was somewhat curious about the place.

The Palace
The two remaining wolves were not happy that the other three were taken down so easily, and went into a bit of a frenzy lashing out at just about everyone with an attack in one way or another. The one that had initially attacked Pietro lashed out at him once again, slashing him with his claws yet again barely, Pietro just missing dodging out of the way, before turning his attention to Guin, managing to give her a decent gash across her left arm that was starting to bleed. The one by Lance slashed at him again, this time managing to gash his shoulder fairly badly. It turned to Annie, and didn't manage to scratch her, only managing to knock her to the ground bruising her a bit so she was only a bit sore.

Guina are you okay? Pietro asked her mentally, panicking a bit now.

Lance was seriously hurting now from the attacks, and he was really trying to keep it together. Since he really didn't want to potentially explain to Odin what happened to the throne room if it got more destroyed by him than by the werewolves (since that one at least would be a simple explanation that hopefully Frigga would help with). He sent a blast of light slamming into the one by Annie, though it would be obvious that he was starting to have a hard time, as instead of the bright white/yellow color of the light, it seemed to have a slight greenish tint to it currently. "...I hate these things..." Lance grumbled.

Pietro instantly went to the one that had attacked both him and Guin, he instantly was behind it, and before the wolf could turn around to strike back at him or react, the speedster had already phased his hand into the creature's chest, and yanked his hand back out. The wolf dropped to the ground as its heart was in Pietro's hand now. It had happened so quickly, you actually could see the heart beat one last time, before it fully went limp in his hand, and he dropped it to the ground. He took a few deep breaths, before stopping to actually think about what happened or what he just did, and he was now oddly quiet.

The last wolf was now the only one standing, and it seemed like it realized that now. It got up from where Lance had managed to knock him around, burns and spots of fur singed from where he got blasted by Lance, and it slowly started backing away. It clearly was still prepared to fight, and was growling at all of them, ready to pounce at a moments notice, that much was obvious.

What If?

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@Morose@Nallore@Kirah

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Outside of New York City

It was clear that he had expected the question of a potential extraction plan and how to get them out with regards to that. Alex let out a bit of a sigh, leaning up against a table, "...Currently there isn't really a plan in place to get you all out. But from what I've heard, some people are trying to get authorized a few supposedly "fool proof" plans which... Well... Aren't exactly going to end well let's just say..."

"So... Basically we're on our own and hope for the best then? Sounds like fun. Though why do I get the feeling that those fool proof plans that people are wanting to do involve something that probably isn't going to work based on what you were just now saying."

"Yup, it won't work no matter what they might think. People are scared of what could happen if Magneto decides to leave New York, what might happen to the world if he decides to attack with that virus again. So of course they are going to try just about every measure that they can to prevent that. Problem is most of people like that are the ones far away from the situation off in Congress or the White House and think well... That anything that would work on a normal person would work against him."

Thalia got a slight glint in her eye, as if she was seeing something else, "They do realize that if they try nuking the city odds are that he'll just send the bombs flying straight back at the people who launched them and a hell of a lot more people are going to die."

"Which is why this mission is so important. Because we have one shot at this before they decide to launch an attack that likely will be the end of the world. We are working on a time limit, and need that info so we can launch one more strike before that, and from what I've gathered, we have two days tops before they launch that strike. Which means that we need to hurry, luckily we already have the entire force that we'll be using in the last potential attack already, we just need to know where to attack or where we're aiming for."

"Oh a time limit, this sounds like the best thing ever in the wooooooorld," she commented with a bit of an eye roll. Though to her time was a bit up for debate. Her powers sometimes were a bit wonky with how they worked, she could manipulate time on a small scale, not fully travel through it, but she could freeze it at times and knew vaguely how to rewind it, but it wasn't exactly easy. She tried to avoid that whenever possible, preferring to use her wings or something of her powers, though if she had her way, Thalia wouldn't even use her powers at all. "Well, since we are so pressed for time, we might want to get a move on then right?"

"Most likely, one more thing," he said, before handing each of them a small list of people with a few pictures included, "That's a list of known associates of Magneto who are likely in the city and to keep an eye out for while there. Since this is just recon, do not engage unless you absolutely have to since that will just take up the time that we do not have. The much smaller list is for the heroes who likely might be stuck still in the city to keep an eye out for, and both lists include what their abilities are."

"Fun."

"Do any of you have any other questions? Now is your time to really ask anything."

New York City

Mary was still relatively silent as she lead the way through the sewers, before eventually, she'd stop and climbed up a ladder, popping the manhole cover slightly to make sure no one else was around, before climbing up and out, they ended up popping out in an alleyway just a block away. As the others would eventually climb out of the underground tunnels, the ground would shake and there would be the sound of another explosion not too far away. Anyone looking at the street would instantly be able to see bits of rubble flying down the street and bouncing around. "Well that isn't great now is it?" Mary commented with a shrug, walking forward now, peering around the corner down the street.

There was a building that looked like it got reduced to rubble very recently. There were a group of 7 standing in the street, staring at a building next door to the new pile of rubble. One was a man in a long red cloak that covered most of his face, as he was standing off to the back of the group, another was a woman with a bit of a grin who looked part cat. The others included one who seemed to be part of the muscle in the group, one with strange claws for hands that had some weird electric field around them, and then two much more familiar faces; Avalanche (who likely caused the building to crumble), and Boom Boom (who likely was the one causing the explosions).

"Come on out and play, we don't bite, it'll be fun!" Boom Boom called out in a bit of a sing song voice, laughing a little bit as Avalanche made the ground shake once again.

"Soooooooo... What's the plan exactly?" Pietro asked, glancing around the corner.

"We need to at the least distract them until those stuck in the building can escape... And one or two people might want to be there to guide the group out a back way and defend them if the fighting ends up going inside..."

"...I tend to use my powers more defensively... So someone else can join me in getting them out or trying to protect them or something..." Lance suggested somewhat softly, he didn't really care who tagged along with him, but he wasn't too much of a fighter unless he had to be, preferring to use his powers to heal or potentially to create shields, that's about as far as he tends to go, since blasting things isn't exactly something he wanted to do.

"Well, they don't seem to notice that we're here yet... Which means we probably should get out of this alleyway and just address them head on..." Mary muttered, Pietro rolled his eyes slightly at that comment. Before in a gust of wind the speedster was no longer next to the rest of them, clearly more than a bit bored.

"Yo Avalanche, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Pietro called out, kind of taunting him a bit with a bit of a smirk.

"Well look who it is, Quicksilver has decided to join in the fun huh?" Avalanche said with a laugh. Pietro rolled his eyes, before zipping forward and slamming into Avalanche, throwing him backwards away from the others.

"Well that's no fun!" Boom Boom complained, before sending some bombs flying directly at Pietro, but he zipped away slightly to avoid them.

"Alright, whoever is going to go with Lance to try and get the group trapped out, go now. The rest of us should help out the speedster who decided to go racing in before he gets himself seriously hurt or killed," Mary said to the group, before taking off out of the alleyway herself. Vines started to pop up along the broken and cracked city streets and charged directly at the man in the robes. She recognized him as a former Morlock by the name of Masque whose powers were mainly useful if you kept him at a long range. The vines slammed into him, managing to cause him to stumble backwards.

"Alright, who wants to tag along with me?" Lance asked.

Boom Boom was clearly getting annoyed with the interruptions, and figured there might be others nearby, "Alright, who else wants to join the party?" she yelled out, more of her explosives appearing in her hands.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Elevator
Skills: N/A

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Klara was fairly silent as the elevator started to go upwards to the floor that they were after, floor 100, when the elevator suddenly jolted to a stop in between floor 99 and 100, which was not a good thing. Much like Arnora, she wondered how common an elevator breaking down was, since the modern elevator was definitely newer than what they used to have operating in the hotel, so she wasn't too sure how well they worked. The answers that were given with response to that question weren't exactly too helpful, or great really, considering how things were going for them.

"Well, before what we have now we had something fairly similar. These are modern elevators, but as far as I know, this sort of thing have been used as far as I can remember. They just were powered by people or animals or something as opposed to electricity. But they were fairly similar, and good thing too, not sure how many people would be fine using stairs for all eternity or whatever," she commented with a shrug. Her attention was drawn away rather quickly by Runa, who seemed to be panicking. "It'll be alright Runa..." she said rather softly to her.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rosalia Rider

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Location: The Moors
Skills: N/A

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She was still not entirely on board with this entire plan, it was still a bit on the suicidal side, that much was obvious in her mind, though of course, there wasn't any other plan that existed apparently. Rosalia wasn't one to come up with plans that involved more than herself, or that involved breaking people free from some other people. Yeah, she wasn't too sure how this was going to work out in the end. Actually, she was fairly certain she'd likely be more of a liability in this sort of thing than actually helpful, since she wasn't a fighter, at all, and it was pretty obvious that she wasn't.

Her attention was pulled away from her thoughts as the others started heading off, and Merlin suddenly asked her if she was alright. Hearing the question, she laughed a bit at it. "Oh I'm doing just great. You know, finding the family who more or less just left me by myself and in a world where I very much had no one else for my entire life. Also continuously being told that my life up until this point was partially a lie considering the fact that I'm from this world and not the world I thought I was from. Oh, and we're going to go off and do something that I basically can't do at all, since if it wasn't obvious, I am not a fighter. I am a thief, I hide, avoid confrontations, try and sneak my way into areas, and runaway from fights that start up. But oh no, I'm doing perfectly fine other than all of that," she responded rather quietly so that only he really could hear her little rant.

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Jack Gold

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Location: Atlantica
Skills: N/A

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Well, that was definitely a bit concerning hearing what specifically Gretel had to say about the guards and all, and how they were more or less corrupt. Then again, in the real world (also known as not this one) cops could become fairly corrupt, actually it was a little surprising just how easy that sort of thing was. Personally, he hated people like that who could easily be bought, and he couldn't be, hence why he actually tried to do the job that he had without any of that sort of stuff. It was just the type of person that he was, and he didn't care for those like that at all.

His attention was drawn back out of his own thoughts to what actually was going on around them as they eventually caught back up with where Sierra and all were at, and he heard Meg ask what sort of stuff they'd be offloading those ships, and his attention turned to look at the boats that were seemingly moving cargo about. The flag stood out to him, which meant that the group over there were a bunch of pirates, and he shrugged his shoulders slightly at Meg's question, "If I had to guess whatever it is probably isn't good," he said with a bit of an eye roll.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: Arena
Skills: N/A

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Janelle was starting to get a little bit bored just sitting around waiting to see what the prophecies were partially about. Now she was a little annoyed with herself for just not asking more about it earlier when she and Cassian had more or less been wandering around and encountered Chiron and Rosie earlier. Then she'd have more of a clue as to what all would be going on, at least maybe just a little bit. That would be nice now wouldn't it? Then again, all they were doing currently was just sitting around doing nothing.

Though a part of her did wish that she could see what was going on in the world around her. For instance, she was a bit curious as to what Zeke was up to, but she wasn't sure if they should talk or something now. Maybe after the prophecies were revealed she'd seek him out to go talk to him? It was a thought, something that she could go do afterwards. Or maybe she could go do that now? It was a thought, though she wasn't exactly saying anything to her brother now, staying relatively quiet waiting for something to happen really.

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Jason Gauger

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Location: The Arena
Skills: N/A

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Aaaaaaand his sister was back to being quiet and mentally sticking around in her own little world, and he wondered what was going through her head now. It was near impossible to ever tell what was going through her mind, though he did glance back over to where Zeke was, figuring that she was probably thinking about him in some way, and when he saw him heading off with Demetri, he figured that she might want to know. "Tá do bhuachaill ag siúl amach le Demetri," he commented to her with a bit of a shrug.

"Ní hé mo bhuachaill é!" she protested in response.

Jason just laughed a bit at his sister with her protest. It was a bit obvious (at least to him) that she had a bit of a crush on the guy, and the fact that she was protesting and saying stuff to deny it just added fuel to the truth that was that. "Tuigeann tú go bhfuil sé níos soiléire gur mhaith leat an fear mar gheall ar do agóidíocht." he pointed out to her with a bit of a smirk to her, and she made a bit of a scowl which made him laugh even more at the entire thing.

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Marygold Isley

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Location: The Arena
Skills: N/A

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Mary just gave Stella a smile in response to her comment about having a fear of fire. That sort of thing wasn't too uncommon she would think, sure it wasn't as common as a fear of heights or spiders or something like that, but it wasn't too bad she thought that way at least. Currently there wasn't all too much going on, with the Romans not really showing up anytime soon, that sort of just left them sitting around the fire sort of just waiting for the Romans, since the Romans got on her nerves for the most part (well, Leandra really).

"An Iris message would be pretty easy to do right now... Since otherwise we are literally just sitting around waiting for the Romans to all decide to show their faces finally. That is if you wanted to," she added to Stella, going along with what it was that Kristin had been saying about it. They were doing nothing, and personally, she was getting a little bit bored, so helping Stella to send off an Iris message would give her something to do in the meantime.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Location: Subway
Skills: N/A

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Everyone seemed to be having different thoughts or issues on the situation. Though Raynor essentially sitting there and having a bit of a mental breakdown over this situation was, interesting. The guy seemed to be freaking out more than a bit, and that was not exactly something that happened, that much he did know for sure. Of course, Bonnie questioning Raynor about what happened or what exactly he had done had caused his brain to go along that way too. "I'm in the camp of you telling us more about this place later, just not right now since sounds like we have a whole bunch of issues that kind of need addressing, like getting away from here."

Of course, he was really starting to wonder what his counterpart had done to end up on the same sort of wanted poster as Raynor. That was something interesting to think about, and it made him wonder what exactly Maria had done too. He wasn't going to bring this up though, at least not at the moment really. Everything about this world just sounded bad, and he wasn't exactly too thrilled about Bonnie being in this reality for the sole reason that everything was crazy, and people were talking about going through the scanner or whatever it was, but from what he gathered, him, Maria or Raynor going through would be a bad idea. So how exactly were they supposed to deal with that then?

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Location: Subway
Skills: N/A

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Sparky wandered along to the subway, and seeing Raynor seemingly having a bit of a breakdown, she instantly went to standing right next to him. "Ray? Are you okay?" she asked him softly, a few others were more or less asking questions currently about things, but she figured that now was definitely not the time for that sort of thing. They had other things that they needed to worry about. "It'll be alright Ray, you'll see..." she added to him with a bit of a smile, before turning her attention towards Niah and her question about Novi.

"Of course I've talked to Novi recently, why would I not have?" she asked her, clearly confused by the question, before she turned her attention towards the scanners, and what Celestine was saying about how they might not have a choice but to go through the scanners if they wanted to get away. Not to mention they were starting to draw some attention. As soon as Oliver had mentioned another Stark, she shook her head, "I don't think we'll have much more luck trying to get past the system, that's just me. I'm not a hacker type, at least not really, so I'm not sure if it would be worth it. However, we are starting to draw a bit of a crowd, so I suggest that we might want to get moving..." Sparky said, before she stepped through the scanners and nothing happened still. "We need to get moving, since we might run into more trouble or something the longer we stand around..."

The Gifted - Concluded

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Location: Akademos
Skills: Sword Fighting

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Zari wasn't sure how Andy was doing, as her attention was entirely focused on Cadena and her fight with her. She hardly noticed anyone else, that is... Until Aguja started saying something and seemed to start dying or disintegrating or whatever right in front of them. "...What the hell is going on?" she muttered, before her attention was dragged back by Cadena accusing her of being the one responsible. "Something tells me that you have no idea how my powers work, cause I sure as hell can't do that sort of thing." Of course, Cadena didn't believe a word that she said and proceeded to lash out and attack her anyway.

"Wow, so kind, I'm not primitive," she commented to Cadena, before she whirled around with her sword and stabbed Cadena right through the chest, mere inches from her heart. "To think you'll never learn the lesson of never underestimating your opponent," she added rather coldly, before yanking her sword out and slashing at Cadena again, striking her dead. Unfortunately, that released a large electrical discharge of energy that slammed into her, injuring her even more than she already was, and Zari collapsed to the ground, her body aching. She moved her hand over the severe electrical burns that blackened her skin along her neck for a moment, before flopping her hand onto the ground, "...I'm just going to lie here... Don't mind me."

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Location: The Roof
Skills: Elasticity, Telepathy

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He was definitely glad that Veil and Kris were alright from their falls, and he wasn't too sure who Aurora was, but was glad that she had shown up to help. Things were a bit chaotic, but at least the guy who had been chucking asteroids at them was dealt with (with a very resounding splat of a noise of course) so there wasn't anything actively being thrown at them. Tic Tac was a bit of a strange one, and he wasn't entirely sure how all his powers worked, aside from he more or less had turned the building into jelly. So he was a little confused when the guy pointed at him.

That's when everything went wrong.

The feeling at first was really painful, as he felt himself lose complete control over his body and powers, and eventually he seemed to fall into a puddle of sorts. After that initial burst of pain, everything went numb, but he was finding it fairly hard to breathe and he wasn't entirely sure what all was going on with the other two. This was an interesting way to potentially die, it just was super uncomfortable. Something must have happened though, as after a few moments he managed to find that he could reform and be back to himself, and he basically took a big gasp of breath, "Okay, that was the weirdest thing and also that made it really hard to breathe..." he commented, before going over to see what was going on with Tic Tac, and seeing the ground by him collapsing for the most part. He was definitely mad, and he instantly put his telepathy to good use, as he focused on Tic Tac, which resulted in him getting put in so much pain, that he ended up passing out. "I hate that guy..." he muttered.

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Location: House of M
Skills: N/A

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"Erik, that doesn't always mean what you seem to think it means, we need to find her, okay? She could be seriously hurt..." she said softly, knowing that he seemed to at least be starting to show that he might actually somewhat care about her. Sometimes it was difficult to tell, even for her, and she's known him for decades. Of course, she suddenly was a bit confused when she heard what sounded like children screaming, coming from the rubble. It took a moment for her mind to potentially recognize the voices of the children, and it confused her to no end.

She knew that her own children were grown up by now... But those definitely were their voices coming from the rubble. Taking a few deep breaths, trying to calm down, she closed her eyes to try and focus on reality and not the children screaming like crazy. Unfortunately for her, whatever was messing with her head seemed to be stronger than her mind, as when she opened her eyes and listened to the chaos around her again, the screaming was still there. A small part of her instantly thought about how it could be real, that it really was her kids. But the more rational part of her brain pointed out otherwise, and that it was completely impossible, but she wasn't too sure what to do.

What If?

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@Morose@Nallore@Kirah

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Outside of New York City

The base of operations for the combined group efforts of SHIELD, OMEN, and various other personnel from across the globe that had arrive to help take care of "the problem" that was Magneto and what he had done to the city and all of those still in it. Truthfully, despite the constant clashing with Magneto that occurred, there was no real proof that there were any heroes still left in the city who might have been alive when all hell broke loose. So all of the heroes in the city had been written off entirely as deceased, including those who were mutants and likely survived the initial incident.

There were a few mobile buildings and tents used to essentially act as small bases, and currently, there was the plan to have a small group enter the city, do some recon to try and figure out where Magneto's base was, and report back with their findings. There wasn't much in the initial part for them to try and actually engage Magneto. A smaller group would likely be able to move around unnoticed more easily in the warzone that was the city. There was the added bonus that if there were any heroes left in the city, this would help to serve as a way to tell, though no one was getting their hopes up on anyone still being around.

Thalia was somewhat unsure of everything. She had only joined this effort a few days ago, so she wasn't even a hundred percent sure what the new plan was. Or who exactly she would be joining up with. Eventually, she entered the main hub of activity, and she recognized a few faces that she would have preferred not to have ever needed to run into again. That being she saw Jade Cornish and Alex Jakobsen, people she hadn't seen since she was in Coventry with the circus and she had more or less changed her identity and hid from everyone. Here she was, working with a few people she had spent the past three years hiding from. Yeah, her life sucked horribly.

There was a third person who she didn't recognize, so at least there was one person who had to deal with being in the same room as Alex and Jade aside from. So that was definitely a nice thing. "Hey there," she commented with a slight wave towards Ed. She was wearing a silver colored shirt, but aside from that, she was wearing all black, black jeans, a leather jacket, and black combat boots (she made sure that her outfit was as metal free as possible, so there was hardly any on her aside from a zipper or two). Her hair used to be naturally black, but she had dyed it before she joined the circus (took a long time for it, but it had been worth it at the time), but now it was obvious that her hair had naturally turned that color for some reason. Clearly she wasn't too thrilled to see Alex and Jade, and Alex rolled his eyes slightly at her, before he looked at the group of them.

"Good to see you again too Thalia," he commented, holding a few files and there was a large case of sorts on the table in front of them. "You all know the basics of the situation I'm assuming? But I'll go over it really quick anyway, everything has gone to hell. The city has become a war zone and no matter what we seem to throw at Magneto, he manages to either completely kill our forces or he manages to turn them back and they leave the city. Now, the situation is starting to get even worse, and we lose more and more people every day from his retaliation attacks. Likely it'll only be a matter of time before he decides to launch another form of the virus at other cities across the country and potentially around the world..."

"Most of us knew that part, even me and I just got here not too long ago," Thalia commented, "What is our mission exactly?"

"I'm getting to that. We've decided to try a different tactic... A small group is going to sneak into the city, and do more of a recon mission. A small group will have an easier time slipping in and out undetected, and what exactly will the recon be? Your primary objective is to locate Magneto's base of operations, as well as give rough estimates of how many people are in his own forces, and potentially note what seem to be the most common abilities each person has. There is one to not get your hopes up for, but the secondary object is to see and potentially make contact with any of the various heroes who were trapped in the city. Many were likely killed by the virus, but some likely survived the initial attack. Only keep an eye out, and potentially make contact with them if need be."

"Well, let's hope we don't end up dead, how exactly are we supposed to relay this info to you and all?"

"Simple," he replied, before setting the files in his hands onto the table and opening the crate to reveal inside were a few different types of weaponry if needed, as well as what looked like communications devices and what looked like one gas mask and a few wrist watches. "None of these have any traces of metal within them, so they can't be used by Magneto against you. Jade, as you are the only human going, the mask is for you. The watches all have act as a bit of a GPS system, and will allow you to keep track of where you all are in the case you end up getting separated. Will help you navigate throughout the city. The comm devices have a wide range, so if you learn anything useful, feel free to relay the information along."

"Okay, next question. How are we supposed to easily slip into the city. I mean yeah, there aren't that many of us and a small group can move about easier, but we still can't just go waltzing in."

"SHIELD's part of this plan to get you in is that they are hopefully going to be able to cause a large enough distraction in order for you all to more easily get in. There is still the chance that you'll get surprised, so be on your guard." Thalia reached into the crate and pulled out a few knives that were inside of it. Sure, she had claws, but personally she preferred to not have to rely on them, and she pocketed a few of them, stashing them away in various hiding spots. Perks of living your life away from everyone or constantly on guard, you learned how to hide things. She had two hooked to her belt, one slipped into an inside pocket on her jacket, and one she instantly hooked around her right ankle.

"I don't know about you guys, but this sounds like it'll be fun. Thoughts?" she asked Ed and Jade as she grabbed one of the comm devices, putting it in her ear, and hooking one of the watches onto her wrist.

New York City

With all of the chaos going on, it was hard to actually pay too much attention to what all was going on and happening potentially outside of the city. The group had taken refuge underneath the city, as the sewer system allowed them to more easily travel without being seen by Magneto and his goons, and they all led to one place; the old Morlock Tunnels. The Morlocks had abandoned the tunnels when all humans had ended up dead from the virus, and many of them had gone on to join Magneto, which resulted in many of them dying in the ensuing fighting.

Of course, a lot of people had ended up dead in the city, even those who survived the initial attack, and bodies littered the streets. Most were still there from the initial virus attack, others just from the sheer fighting and war that had been raging, no one did anything, just leaving the bodies there. The streets were mostly destroyed, buildings were smashed up and some had been leveled completely, Stark Tower included. A few other buildings were still around, but most of them were abandoned and more or less just served as hiding places if needed.

Street level, currently Magneto and his forces were just causing mayhem, trying to draw out the remaining people who might oppose him. Since he knew that there were people still there in the city that were actively fighting back against him, the city was just so big, that it was near impossible for him to easily find them. He was just causing destruction, which is what the remaining heroes in the city were more or less having to deal with daily.

Including right now.

There were talks about a few mutant civilians who weren't with Magneto's cause who were under attack, and there was a rather large explosion coming from a very specific building, nearby where the small group clearly was hiding out according to rumors. Mary knew that they needed to deal with this now, and at the least get the Brotherhood away from them in order to give them a chance at not ending up dead. Personally, she didn't very much care if the others followed along after her. She was going to go deal with the situation no matter what happened whether the others wanted to go along with her or not.

"Alright, anyone who actually wants to go help me deal with this situation, feel free to follow me. Magneto's goons are striking out again against a few civilians who want nothing to do with them. They blew up the building next door, but it's only a matter of time before they try full on engaging with the group, and probably killing a lot more people in the process. Not to mention another rather large building would be grounded into dust," she said rather quickly, before heading for the tunnel that was in that direction somewhat, at least it would get them close to the area before they had to go above ground for it. Mary had more or less used her powers to create in a way a sort of surveillance system throughout the entire city. Electricity was scarce for them, and since she didn't want to have them waste what sort of power that they had on a camera system, she had more or less created her own sort of cameras using her powers. She had set up plant life on several rooftops across the city, and using her powers she could "see" through them to see what was going on in that part of the city.

"Sounds like fun," Pietro commented with a bit of a shrug. It gave him something to do, and honestly he didn't care much for the tunnels. There were only so many places that you could run around in them after all, and sometimes he'd just get bored. Problem was, he really didn't want to risk running into his father in the city. Actually he wouldn't be surprised if he would have ended up dead because of it.

Lance wasn't very much of a combatant, actually for the most part, he used his powers more defensively, and typically played the doctor and patching up any sort of injuries that the group ended up with. Using both his powers for it, and just his random skill set that he had already that lent to this sort of thing. He was sort of just off to the side or something right now, but he was willing to go with them, and since he wasn't much of a fighter, he would probably just help to get the small group or whatever out of there in general. "Well, okay then..."

"Whoever is coming let's go already," Mary commented then, and already started heading off fully down the tunnel, not really caring if anyone followed after her or not.

What If?

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Thalia Maehers

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Aliases: Silver Dragon
Age: 24
Power Source: Mutate
Powers: Dragon Wings that sprout from her back, minor time manipulation, fire breath, claws that sprout from her fingers
Personality: Thalia typically is a more caring person than she might seem. She tends to try and put the needs of others above her own, and she'll do whatever it takes to help out if need be. Her personality has mellowed out over the past few years, no longer being the girl who flirted with most people and cared only about her looks. Now she's a lot more of a fighter, and she's been doing all she could to gain more knowledge in everything, particularly how the world seems to work nowadays. Sometimes that old arrogance resurfaces, but she typically is able to keep it under control and too herself. Occasionally, the more monstrous side of what she was came to light, but she was fairly good at keeping that part of her personality hidden, only having it pop up with regards to her temper. Or if she used her powers too much.
Skills

• Knives
• Acrobatics
• Stamina
• Aerial Combat
• Sleight of Hand
• Boxing
• Claws
• Flame Attacks
• History
• Geography
• Perception
• Stealth

Life Since the Reality Split: Thalia had been living more or less off the grid, using fake names and creating a whole new identity for herself following what happened in Coventry. Partially to protect not only herself from people learning the truth of what exactly she was, but also to protect others from what might happen if she lost control and more or less gave into the monster instincts that resided within her. Over the past few years, she gained a better understanding of who, or really what, she was, and could easily keep all of that at bay, but she kept to herself for the most part. When she heard what had happened in New York though, she knew that she couldn't just stand by and watch what was happening in the world. Especially considering how many people had died. Even though she didn't typically see eye to eye with OMEN, or any other government agency for that matter, she wasn't going to just stand by and do nothing. Thalia headed towards New York, eventually meeting up with everyone there to try and figure out how to stop Magneto. The fact that she technically wasn't classified as a human anymore definitely was a perk for going into a city that had all humans completely eradicated from it.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah

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Bifrost Bridge
Well, everything was still a bit chaotic for the group. The red haze that had popped up before was still hovering around the area, and now it was starting to become thicker and Bethany would be able to see it at this point too. Lady Sif jumped up and drove her sword right into the forehead of one of the monsters, and it fell to the ground with a thud, while the other 3 took out the remaining one. Or at least, what they thought was the last one, as more seemed to materialize at the end of the bridge, appearing out of the red fog.

The creatures now were clearly not too thrilled, and started charging down the bridge.

"Get away!" Sif called out, as she jumped out of the way, more or less grabbing the edge of the bridge and trusting her strength to hang on as she hung herself off the edge of the bridge to avoid getting flung off. Hogun did something rather similar, hanging onto the edge. The other four though (Volstagg, Fandral, Bethany and Ed) weren't so lucky, as the creatures were very fast, and there hadn't been much of a warning. All four got caught up by the bilgesnipe and thrown off of the bridge.

Bethany and Ed would remember there had been the conversation of what happened if someone fell off, and the answer had been fairly chilling, that no one truly ever came back from it, only one person ever had been known to survive it. They'd see what looked like an endless vast of stars below them as they fell, and who knew what would happen.

Thankfully, they didn't have anything to worry about, as someone else seemingly appeared out of nowhere to lend them some aid.

A swarm of water seemed to dive off the bridge, and wrapped around the four who had gotten flung off, before they'd end up getting tossed back up onto the bridge (on the side closer to the palace, and a little ways away from where the bilgesnipe were now). Bethany and Ed would both end up with some cuts and bruises from the initial impact, and perhaps a little shaken from the experience and wet from the water (plus on the ground from the sudden landing), but otherwise they were fine. Volstagg landed on his feet up on the bridge, but Fandral like them had ended up falling.

"Well now, isn't that an interesting turn of events," Fandral commented, glancing around as a familiar person came racing over from the end of the bridge.

"Are you all okay?" Klara asked, she had what looked to be a few injuries, cuts and bruises and her sword arm seemed to be severely bruised, as her wrist looked a bit swollen. Which was impressive considering the fact that Asgardians were notoriously durable.

"Ah Klara, perfect timing!" Volstagg said with a bit of a laugh. Sif and Hogun had managed to pull themselves rather effortlessly onto the bridge.

"Mother!" Klara said happily with a smile, before racing over and giving Sif a hug. The pair was fairly equal in height, with Sif only taller by about 2 inches or so.

"Klara, what happened to you? You look like you ended up on the wrong end of a fight," Sif commented to her daughter, raising a bit of an eyebrow seeing her injuries after Klara stepped back.

"Huh? Oh this? It's nothing, we can talk about it later," she commented brushing her off a bit, before looking at the bilgesnipes, that seemed to be turning around to charge again. "Alright, this is annoying," she added, as she walked straight for them, and suddenly a huge wave of water appeared out of nowhere, and the creatures were all thrown off of the bridge.

"Impressive Klara, but we could have handled it," Fandral commented to her, walking over to her.

"Oh? Then maybe I should have let you fall entirely off the bridge then?" she said with a bit of a giggle, and Fandral was starting to attempt to protest it, as they'd be able to start heading off of the bridge and back into Asgard itself. They were still a little ways away from the palace, and Klara was chatting happily with Volstagg and Fandral, with Hogun not too far behind them, but of course Klara was rambling a bit. But it sounded like from bits and pieces they could easily tell that she was explaining the entire situation with her helping the group break out of prison and all.

However, Ed and Bethany would be able to tell that something was up with Sif, as she hung back and let the four head off ahead of them. "Something doesn't seem right..." they'd be able to hear her mutter to herself.

The Falls
"Runa? Are you okay?" Mary asked her, going over as she almost had seemed to be panicking a bit from the bears that seemed to be surrounding her. Actually, in Mary's mind, the entire scene was kind of amusing, watching an Asgardian trying to bat away at a swarm of teddy bears that were more or less trying to all give her a hug at once. She had to stop herself from giggling at the sight, and instead decided to try and help get the bears off of Runa, after they had ended up getting transported along with them to be closer to Baldur's home.

The instant she reached out to touch one of the bears to try to get them off of her, one turned and instantly bit Mary's arm and she jumped back slightly, as a few instantly jumped at her, and seemed to be attacking her now. Though the ones around Runa were still just hugging her and not really letting go of her still. The ones attacking Mary were more or less chomping on her, and she was starting to more or less toss them off, letting out a bit of a huffy breath. "Okay, I am not going to die because of evil teddy bears, no way..." she muttered to herself.

She managed to get a few of them off of her, and she could more or less move around, though there were teeth marks and some blood on her arms from them, and she looked at Runa. "Ok, I hate these things, and we really need to get moving... Can't you just try tossing them off? Since they clearly don't like it if I mess with them."

The Palace
"Well, not sure how this situation could really get worse..." Lance muttered as he picked himself up off of the ground. Of course, then things did get worse, as Annie for some reason decided to create a full moon? Uhhh... In his brain and any sort of fantasy lore that he could think of, wouldn't that make them stronger? Then the universe decided to agree with him, as the werewolves seemed to grow in size, and now were towering over them even more than they had been before.

"Okay... So anyone have any bright ideas?" Pietro asked, and Frigga just completely drew her sword, holding it in her hand.

The werewolves went onto the attack, and one made the mistake of trying to seriously injure the Asgardian queen. Despite her appearances, and the obvious idea that she likely used more magic than actually sword fighting unless necessary, and the wolf clawed at her. She rather easily sidestepped and dodged him, before she ran her sword through it, and the creature dropped to the ground, and looked to be very much dead. "Get out of my home," she said rather simply.

Okaaaaaaay, she's not how I'd have envisioned her to be at first, but that's cool. Pietro said mentally to Guin.

The other wolves jumped on the attack, and considering that it was still a decent sized pack (about 4 of them now or so) that meant that they were still going to cause them major issues. One of them charged straight at Lance, and he raised his arm slightly to at least try and block what he figured was coming. And the wolf slashed his arm and it was starting to bleed rather heavily. Currently, Lance actually was able to keep his temper down, and in retaliation sent a rather large blast of light at the wolf (despite the blood dripping down his arm) that sent it flying backwards and away from him.

Another wolf charged straight at Annie now, leaping at her with a loud snarl. The werewolf slashed at her. causing blood to come from a slash across her face and another one along her arm. They were bleeding, and rather painful as she got knocked down to the ground again. It went to try and slash at her again, but a shield seemed to appear around her, and she'd be able to see Frigga had cast a spell, shielding her for the time being. "Perhaps after this a different protection spell would be better," she commented with a bit of a shrug.

The next one went after Pietro, and despite his own speed, somehow the werewolf was almost just as fast. This was really annoying to him, as he managed to avoid the first swing at him, but ended up getting caught on the second swing and he ended up with more of a few scrapes than anything. Pietro instantly swung his fist around and managed to punch the wolf with his first swing, but on his second it wasn't too surprised and somehow managed to dodge out of the way. Actually, looking at it now, this wolf was bigger than all of the others, so now Pietro was starting to think that maybe this one might be the leader? He honestly weren't sure how werewolves all worked with a hierarchy or whatever.

Guin had it the best out of the four of them, as somehow she ended up against the most uncoordinated werewolf imaginable. The creature almost seemed like it was drunk or something as it charged in almost a zig zag sort of pattern. It took a few swings at her, but maybe it was because she was a lot shorter, or that the werewolf was drunk or something, as all of his swings missed her entirely, a few just going straight over her head.