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Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Super Mario
Skills: Pop Culture, Problem Solving

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Zelda wasn't sure what to think, until she heard a very familiar sound playing through the area and she looked up. Super Mario? They were literally in Super Mario? Honestly despite it being a much older game, she did enjoy it. She tended to play games from that era anyway on occasion. She was named after a video game character, specifically from an older game in that series too. So it was actually kind of nice to be in a familiar area, even though it was added onto by Ed saying that they could actually die. Seemed like someone was a big fan of SAO or something at this rate. That's when Zelda noticed the outfit she was wearing, while it was the yellow and orange of Princess Daisy (complete with the crown) it actually was a shorts and tank top outfit, looked like it was more of the outfit that Daisy wore in the sports spinoff titles of the game. Well she was glad she wasn't in a dress, considering what it was she was immediately aiming for.

Looking around, she obviously saw the Goombas heading their way, and Zelda looked up above them, right where she knew they would be, the line of blocks up above that everyone seemed to have ignored. One of the blocks was one in particular she was aiming for, one that had a question mark on it's sides. "There's more to this game then just stomping on Goombas," she ended up saying, before taking off forward, heading straight for the block. She jumped up and punch the block with her hand, before whirling around and catching the power up mushroom that emerged from the block. There was the typical power up sound effect for the game (even though it was the simplest one) as she ended up growing a bit in size so she was taller now then everyone else. Before she immediately went forward and jumped onto the nearest Goomba, stomping it down and destroying it. "Power ups are a thing, first level in the game always has a mushroom in the first block you come across, it's pretty much a given with the Mario games, specifically the side scroller ones, not the more 3D environment ones specifically... Mushrooms make it so it takes a little more to kill you essentially, so that was the reason I went for that first before stomping on a Goomba," she explained simply.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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Hey, I know you probably don't expect to hear from me this way. Not when usually I can call or something like that, but I don't know how long this will work out. I don't even really know if you'll get this to begin with. But this way, by snail mail seemed like the safest option.

I need help, and I don't know what to do.

Something is seriously wrong, and I don't really have time to explain it now. I need you here, maybe call some of the others I don't know. Just get here fast. I don't think this is going to end well. Or if I can hold on for much longer.

Hurry!

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A lot had happened in the past month. Nothing is ever so simple or quiet at the mansion really, but considering how many people they had with them who were all left stranded from the asteroid blowing up, that resulted in a bit of a scramble to try and help them all get back on their feet and space for them all to stay. The mansion was crowded for a few weeks, before slowly but surely everyone started to leave and head off in their own directions.

Magneto actually stuck around for a little while in order to aid in this, but as soon as the last people were away from the mansion. He too departed. Eventually it was just the normal students at the school along with the team, though some students were already heading out for the summer, so the school wasn't as crowded as it usually was.

Mary tended to head off different places, but she didn't seem to have any issues or anything. She'd head off places randomly, spending sometimes spending a few days away at a time. Usually any questions about where she was heading off to she brushed off and said she sometimes just needed to really get away from the place. Actually she currently wasn't at the mansion, and the last time someone saw her around was about two days ago, so who knew really where she was or what she was doing at this point.

Pietro was sort of constantly hovering around Guin, incredibly worried about her because of about a little over a week ago things weren't going tooo great for her and a slight incident happened, and now he was making sure more or less that she wasn't really left alone all too much. So that was something to say the least. It probably would get a little annoying, but at least for now he was sticking close by.

Things were fairly calm at the moment though, no more issues running around rampant, nothing blowing up or anything going wrong. Nothing. It was actually a fairly calm time, so people could go off and about doing whatever it was that they wanted to do around the mansion or its grounds. It actually wasn't a super bad day or time in general, of course with the lives they live, things could go horribly wrong at any moment, but that's just a given.

As of right now, everything seems to be alright.

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Gym
Skills: N/A

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Zelda was still not sure about this whole situation, but she followed along with everyone else to where everything was setup with the Framework. She found the idea of the Framework a little weird, but also kind of interesting to say the least, the idea of basically being able to go into a virtual world and being able to wander around that way. It basically was a really big virtual reality video game, so that was something she was more or less excited about. But also the idea of training that way was not something she was super sure of. Since it made it too much like real life, that was the reason she liked video games, they were an escape from everything.

Seeing everyone else already getting into the tanks to hook into the Framework, and she basically got ready before getting into the thing. This was still a weird feeling to her, and she closed her eyes. After a few moments, she opened them again and she woke up in the Framework, seeing the others popping up nearby in the contest arena. Zelda wasn't sure what they were supposed to do now though, since this didn't fully make too much sense to her on what to do now.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Gym
Skills: N/A

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"I will don't worry. But hey, who knows, if people want more of a challenge maybe I can trigger something interesting to happen in the arena for practice," Zari responded to Andy giggling still at the idea. She knew she had to stop herself from causing too many issues in the Framework, but if anyone wanted more fun or a bigger challenge, then she would happily oblige and give them something more interesting to say the least. That would be entirely up to everyone else though.

She got ready to go into the Framework again, climbing into the tank as she went. Zari waved slightly at Andy as she had climbed into her own tank to go in. Diving in, she closed her eyes, waiting to load into the Framework to be able to mess around in that virtual world again. Except that isn't what happened. No, Zari's eyes did not open up or anything like that, at least not in the virtual world.

Unlike everyone else, she didn't wake up in the Framework. And wasn't there at all.

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Dorm Room -> Gym
Skills: N/A

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Zelda was still not entirely too sure what to even do at this point. This whole contest thing was insanely weird and she didn't very much like the idea of it. To her it just seemed like it was kind of stupid, but that was just her opinion on it. Going into a weird training program or something in order to practice and train for it? That also struck her as weird. Yet here she was, going to see about doing that since the rest of her team wanted to do it.

"I mean I guess, this still seems odd to me..." she muttered, all ready to go despite very much not fully wanting to. Seeing Diana head out, Zelda let out a slight sigh and followed along after her. She wasn't even sure this would even be worthwhile, since odds were, they still were going to lose the contest. So why go out of their ways to actually be more of a spectacle to people and screw up and lose in front of other people? Oh well, she was here now, might as well hurry to the gym and join everyone else.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Her Dorm -> Gym
Skills: N/A

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Zari was super excited to get into the Framework again! Of course, she'd keep an eye on what she was doing this time, last time was more of her seeing about how much she could actually accomplish and get away with. This time she should probably keep things a bit more realistic, even though that was truly the first time she actually felt like a half-Asgardian. Since there she literally was a god and could accomplish anything that she wanted as long as she thought it. A technopath was very dangerous in that sort of situation.

She was all set to go, and she skipped along down the hall and to the gym where everything was setup. The instant she was in the room, she went right over to Andy, "Hiya Andy, ready to see what's in store for us? Cause let me say, I'm going to probably end up holding back a bit so it's more fair. Since as previously pointed out, I tend to actually be fairly powerful in the Framework, all of that code and all just waiting to be messed with. I kept glitching the system. But since that is a situation that likely will never easily repeat itself. I'm probably not going to do that," Zari said with a smile, rambling a bit as she spoke.

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Klara, Daughter of Thor

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Location: New York City
Skills: Sword Fighting
Spells: Kjede av Hjerter

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Klara was super happy to hear Runa was going to help them, and she recited the words to repair the veil the rest of the way. She followed along after the others now as they were all heading to deal with the chaos going on outside currently. Klara had no idea what all was going on, the main thing that she saw was a bunch of demons, attack and causing chaos. This obviously meant that she needed to try and kill some of the demons, as many as possible. And Klara wasted no time in drawing her sword from it's sheath with a bit of a smile.

"This is going to be a lot of fun," she said as her eyes started to glow pink.

A swirl of pink hearts started to swirl around her, and she instantly flung her free hand outwards, the hearts flying forward in a chain of pink hearts, as they started to shoot between different demons. Flying with such speed that it started to go straight through the demons that it hit, killing them and dropping them to the ground. The chain weaving in and out of the demon hoard as it was starting to take them out. Without missing a beat, she instantly whirled with her sword, cutting down more demons as she went along. It was hard to keep track of how many demons she cut down, but it definitely was a pretty surprising chunk of them. Nothing was better then getting to cut down mobs of something that was trying to kill you.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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They were out of time, Bethany wasn't able to get the remaining people with her own shadow travel powers, and there wasn't any more time to get anyone else. Mary stepped off the Blackbird, and looked at those still around before fire started swirling and it went right through the walls, seemingly, but that was about it. There was a loud explosion that shook everything, and the entire hanger around them started to rumble and shake. There were a few windows of sorts in the hanger, so they would all be able to see what was going on outside, at least a little bit.

They'd be able to see metal getting flung off and away, mixtures of that along with every so often fire bursting past. Somehow, by some miracle. They're little life boat was seemingly able to hold together. Putting people on the Blackbird had mainly been in the event that the hanger completely was obliterated, but given the fact that they were somehow managing to keep it together was a miracle.

There was still the slight issue of how to get the thing back to Earth without fully crashing.

They likely were going to have to use the Blackbird to ferry people from the metal structure once they got there, but as of right now, those holding it together were likely going to have to work together to move it that way. Magneto actually would probably be doing most of the heavy lifting with that part considering his powers. He seemed to figure that out as he maneuvered the structure around so they could more easily see where they were sort of steering, and he started moving the structure towards Earth again.

There was so much debris and all from the remains of the asteroid floating along now by their small life boat. Where the base had been was completely gone, save for the debris field, without that you would never have known that it had been there in the first place. It would likely take a while to get back to Earth, but that definitely was better than the alternative for what could have happened otherwise.

That could have ended worse, but that wouldn't do much to fix the fact that no matter how hard they had tried, they couldn't fully save everyone.

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A week later

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It was a bit of a sort of dreary day, sort of fitting for where it was after all. A small, older cemetery in France that was hidden away a bit. It wasn't too common for there to be visitors in the area, at least not right now, which is one of the many reasons she knew exactly who would be one of the few people to actually go there, aside from the caretakers for the place. Didn't take long to find him, and she didn't say anything at first, a hood pulled up over her head as she walked up, but kept her distance slightly, knowing fully well what the person she was approaching was capable of.

Bennet du Paris paused in his contemplations, in his prayer. His beloved's grave had decayed over the centuries, his lover and comrade in arms just dust beneath his feet. He had not been a mutant, after all - he did not bear the cross in his genes, the X. Bennet had gone somewhere that he could not follow, a place where no human could follow. And yet the wound was fresh, the grief as if he had lost him just yesterday, rather than centuries ago.

"I would remind you that this is a place of mourning," Bennet said softly, aware of his company. "A sacred place. If you are here to kill me, then know that the eyes of my Lord is upon you here."

"Who said that I was going to kill you? That sort of thing, even I know that's a bit of a low blow to do it in a place like this," she responded, giving him a bit of a smile as she walked over towards him. "That's not why I'm here anyway."

He tilted his head, peering down at her. "Then speak, child."

"I actually was wondering if you might potentially help me with something, choice is entirely up to you on whether or not you are even mildly interested in the idea. Just need to know what you answer is sooner rather than later, sorry for the rush."

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Klara, Daughter of Thor

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Location: New York City
Skills: N/A
Spells: N/A

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"I always liked the stories my dad tends to tell about his adventures and all," Klara said with a bit of a shrug towards Prudence when she made her comment about everything. She personally always liked to hear stories about everything in general, it just so happens to typically align with Asgardian history for the most part. Even when her father tended to overexaggerate everything just a little bit, trying to figure out the full truth from that is half the fun.

Her attention shifted towards her cousin again as she once again reiterated the question. Well yeah, duh, they needed to drain the cup so there wasn't water in it. Technically trying to just disconnect the horn from the ocean would make sense, but honestly where was the fun in going with the obvious solution? Besides, it was more fun to try to drink from the cup first instead of anything, so she wasn't too surprised when Prudence decided to do just that and emptied the water, so she looked at Runa, "So will you help us now?"

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Gym
Skills: N/A
Costume: Rogue

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Zelda was just kind of glad that the whole adventure was seemingly over. That had been not the greatest sort of situation to be in, and she was more then happy to see it dealt with and over. She couldn't help but wonder what exactly had happened with Kate and Diana, considering the bite on her neck, but figured maybe now wouldn't be the time to ask. Cassie was already taking off to go somewhere else and not actually mentioning what had happened with her which was kind of dumb but oh well.

It took a moment for her to get her bearings, and honestly she felt better about running around in another reality than here right now in the school. "Um... Bye," she ended up saying to the others there, before she left the area, namely so she could go be off somewhere else by herself, because that situation was horrible. Plus they were lucky that something bad hadn't actually happened.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Her Dorm
Skills: N/A
Costume: Viking

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The message played out a bit, and she rolled her eyes slightly. She was still a bit surprised that Victoria had gone to her for help, when she knew that they didn't exactly get along because Victoria decided to play military dictator or whatever. That was the only true problem she had with her, but oh well. This was going to be an interesting thing. Zari went to stop by the dorm room first, figuring she'd grab Mr. Eyeball, as well as the toolbelt she had gotten earlier that day, figuring it would probably be useful.

"01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01011010 01100001 01110010 01101001?" the robot beeped a bit at her as it followed along after her out of the room.

"Well, we're apparently helping out with some weird tech thing, still no actual idea what's going on with that, but oh well, let's get going," Zari responded, before heading out of the room. Going down to the room that was hidden or something that Victoria had indicated to her. This was still a bit weird, but oh well, can't be helped, time to fix things. Whatever the tech issue was, the whole Ultron or whatever thing mentioned was weird to her, since Ultron last she checked was dead, well as dead as a weird robot thing could be anyway. Some weird SHIELD thing or whatever, she wasn't sure, she just vaguely knew the name.

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

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: Lotus Hotel and Casino
Skills: N/Ahr]

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Janelle wasn't entirely sure what was going on with everyone. Aside from it sounded like Leandra had gotten fairly hurt or something based on the cries of pain, but she was suspiciously quiet now when it came to actually talking. So whatever happened had to do with her mouth, that much was obvious now. Everyone started talking about what to do with her now, and Demetri (the idiot) was talking about how she was the only one with any potential info and now couldn't tell them. So she was assuming that there were no more monsters right now.

From what she knew and had heard, Leandra wasn't going to tell them anything anyway. "We dahn't need 'er to talk to potentially get info... You can tell a laht about a persahn wit what goes through their mend and subconscious. I can put 'er to sleep and see about enterin and viewin 'er dreams ahr sahmethin similar, and we can see if we can get de info you want dat way," she commented with a bit of a shrug. Figuring she'd give them the option of doing things that way.

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Jason Gauger

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Location: Sierra Trail
Skills: Sword Fighting

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Well this was not going to end well, considering Atlas was supposed to be the one holding up the world, and clearly he had gotten someone else to do it. The cyclops were attacking them, and luckily he managed to avoid getting hit by one of them that had charged forward to attack. This was not going to be a fun fight, that much was obvious, and Jason instantly pulled his sword out again, figuring now was definitely a good time to attack the cyclops.

He charged forward attacking the one that had initially charged at him, and swung his sword. Nothing fancy, he was just going for a simple attack to try and kill the thing. Didn't take much as he swung and took the cyclops down, and his attention turned towards the other monsters in the area. Charging forward, he managed to take down another one, turning it to dust. As he managed to do so, he tried to attack one last one, but his swing missed, oh well, at least he managed to take down two of them.

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Marygold Isley

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Location: Sierra Trail
Skills: Sword Fighting

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Mary was wondering what best to do and who to target, when she barely managed to avoid one of the cyclops coming towards her and attacking her. Guess that answered that question as she swung her sword in response back to the monster, turning it to dust in a bit of revenge. Her attention shifted towards the other monsters, and she managed to take down two more near her. Now that they were down a few of the cyclops, they had time to actually focus on getting Atlas back to doing his job.

That's when she noticed Stella and what the hell she was doing. Her eyes went wide, wondering what the hell the kid was even thinking with regards to that. She took the entire freaking sky onto her back! "Stella what are you doing?? You should not be doing that at all! What are you thinking?" she said instantly as she raced over to where Stella was, wondering what was going through her head.

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Klara, Daughter of Thor

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Location: New York City
Skills: N/A
Spells: N/A

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Klara looked at the horn that Runa had, her eyes going a bit wide. "Ooooooh is that what I think it is?" she asked, smiling, looking at the object. Prudence tried to drink from the horn, and didn't seem to make much of an effect on the horn or its contents. That more or less confirmed what the horn was, and Klara was happy at the chance to manage to try drinking from it. Even though drinking it dry was going to be virtually impossible. Annika confirmed that sort of thinking, before she ended up walking away and doing something else, who knew what.

When Prudence asked her about the horn, she was more than happy to explain it. "My daddy told me about it. Annika is right, that draining it does seem like it'd be impossible. But when telling the story he always said there was a bit of a moral to it. My dad, being Thor, he boasted to the giants that he could beat them in just about anything, name the contest and he's the best right? Well, the giant decided to put that to the test in a few different ways. I don't remember each of the different tasks except for the last two... Being the horn and trying to lift the giant's cat or something like that. The thing is he failed at each of the tasks, or so it would seem. The day after the contests the giant commended him for his efforts, since he still accomplished feats no mortal could have. For example, the Ocean horn. As Annika said, has one end connected to the ocean. And my dad wasn't able to empty it, he was given three drinks from the horn, but couldn't obviously because it was the ocean. But he did manage after the third swig to drain it halfway. The cat he managed to lift a little bit but wasn't able to lift it fully. According to him, the giant told him the next day that he was actually worried he'd manage to drain the ocean since he got it empty so far down. And the cat was the world serpent in disguise, so the fact that he managed to move it at all was impressive. The point of it wasn't to actually be able to accomplish those tasks at all, as the odds were impossible. That being the moral, to try your best and don't be afraid of failing, you can still accomplish impressive feats, even if it doesn't seem like you did at first..."

With that, Klara walked over and grabbed the horn. "I know I can't drain it dry, but I want to try my best to do something worthwhile and impressive anyway. Plus I want to try it out anyway, always have ever since I heard the story." she said with a smile, before tilting the horn up to her mouth and started to drink as much as she could from it, getting a big swig of salt water from it.