To Me, My X-Men!

[CybercideTech Gray]

Gray drove the heavily armored transport down the road. Cybercide had been put on assignment to head to Eagle Plaza and meet with Forge for more details on a very detailed mission. Nemesis hadnt given much details but the belief was that it involved the resurgence of purifiers that were popping up.

Gray knew everyone on board was picking up all the events taking place back at the mansion and the race for the kid. And like the rest of them, Gray was wishing she was back there fighting, making sure the baby was in the right hands.

She turned to the others. "We're only about 30 minutes out." Gray was starting to get an odd feeling. Looking around outside, everything seemed too quiet, too complacent. That wasnt a good thing when everyone was already tense.

[Cybercide Arsenal]

Paris kept her eyes closed for most of the ride and used her mind to sweep the area during the ride to Eagle Plaza. She could tell her teammates were very jumpy about this ride, and she could not blame them.

"Gray, I am not picking up much of anything, and that is not good," she said quietly as she kept scanning. "Not even the usual stray thoughts bouncing around. It's like someone came in here and sent everyone packing. I don't like it."

Paris started to feed some of what she was scanning to the others so they could see what she meant. "it's like going into a ghost town. Think Forge does that on purpose to keep the snoops confused?"

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[Duke]

Duke was on edge but he rarely let that show. He wasn't the kind of guy that liked to worry outwardly, what good would that do? It would just make everyone else worry even more. So instead he was stone faced and silent, a family trait. Both his older sister and mother were like that.

He reached into his rucksack and pulled out the scope and began to attach it to his rifle, he glanced over at his best buddy and gave him a nod, then his eyes shifted to Paris. He could tell that she knew that he was worried about the mission...damn those telepaths...but he didn't need to be a telepath to know that she was just as nervous as he was. If the circumstances weren't so great and pressing at the moment he would have went over to her and held her hand or something like that.


"Yeah, ghost town...." He said quietly agreeing with what Paris had said.

Sakura leaned back in her chair a little bit. "This is really eerie...I don't even hear any birds or anything out there...."

[CybercideTech Pantheon]

As the vehicle began to climb up a steep hill, suddenly the line of vision radiated with bright flashes of amber light. Follwoed by flashes of red and blue light. "What the hell is that?" Eun called out as she moved to look out the front windshield.

Once things began to come into view, they could see what was going on. "It looks like some kind of car accident, the road is totally blocked." Eun said as Gray finally moved the vehicle to a stop. There were several squad cars and ambulances, as well as fire trucks.

But something was very odd. Although people could be seen admist the accident, on the outside there was no one. Not even one bystander which made a very surreal feeling creep over.

Eun looked at Gray. "I dont like this sis, not at all, I feel like we just landed into Silent Hill."

[Cybercide Arsenal]

"Guys, I am getting a null," Paris said as she looked at Gray and then Duke. "Dead space. I do not mean dead people. I mean a psionic vacuum. Just...nothing."

"No chronal distortions that I can pick up immediately," Sarge said as he made a final check of his gear. "Deion...what the hell are you doing? Think before you do something stupid."

"Eating a steak. What does it look like I'm doing?" Roadblock replied as he lowered his visor and flipped the switch to amp up his armor. "Duke, you and I know Silent Hill is ba-a-a-ad news. If something is out there, Jim, I want to be able to knock it clean across the border to Mexico! And who are you calling stupid anyway?"

"Boss, do I keep sweeping, or do we got out and investigate?" Paris asked Gray as she kept up her mental passes for the moment. "And watch yourselves, gentlemen. Whatever is out there is likely very good at playing tricks."

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[Duke]

"Dude, where the hell did you get a steak?" Duke whispered to Deion, he chuckled and shook his head. A chill ran up his spine, and that's something that never happens to him. Whatever was out there was going to be really bad.

He grabbed his leather gloves and began to put them on, he wasn't much of a helmet guy but maybe just this time he would actually wear one. He picked it up and put it on.

Sakura raised her eyebrows. "Marmaduke in a helmet? Now that's something I've never seen before."

He raised up the blast shield and smirked. "No sense on messin' up my pretty face." He winked. "Where are all the people? This just weird." He grabbed his gun and checked it again (even though he just checked it twenty seconds ago).

[Alias]

"You mean the ones besides the dead one?" Becca asked looking out the window. It was rather odd...the whole situation. Of course Becca had seen her share of oddness but Eun was right, this did seem like something out of Silent Hill. "No clue"

Was she scared? Worried? No.

Becca had never been scared in her life. What was the point of being scared? Where did that get you?

Nowhere.

"I think we should get out and explore. We might be able to pick up something being closer to the action." She sugguested.

Sakura nodded. She liked Becca, she was tough and didn't look like she would take sh*t from anyone. But she also looked like a team player. "Yeah, that probably a good idea."

Becca checked her gear and waited for instructions.

[X-Men Narrator]

As the group began to grow impatient, finally there was a sign of life as a female police officer started to make her way to Cybercide's transport. She made her way to the drivers side door as Gray slowly lowered the window.

"Sorry about the hold up, fatal accident, it's a mess up there." The female officer looked at everyone in the vehicle, then looked back to Gray. "We're working on getting the road clean, shouldnt be much longer, and thanks for your patience." Gray nodded her head. "Thanks."

The police officer began to walk back to the accident scene. She seemed to almost vanish into the fog and mist of the accident. Gray turned back to the others. " I get an uneasy feeling about this, regardless we should get out, stretch our legs if nothing else."

Gray slowly exited the vehicle, then turned to the rest fo the group. "Nobody wanders off just in case." She said before checking her gear to see about how much further they were from Eagle Plaza.

[Cybercide Arsenal]

Paris was one of the first out of the van, and she still had the feeling something was really wrong. {{I am not liking this. I am not picking up any thoughts beyond our own. I mean not the cop who just spoke to you, Gray. Not the workers. No one}} Arsenal stayed close to Duke and Deion as the others got out of their ride.

{{I am going to keep sweeping, folks. Either someone is messing with my head, or Forge has something to block telepaths for a huge radius around his base. If he has something that strong, my Dad may want to know about it}}

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[CybercideTech Gray]

As the group tried to stay close to thevehicle while trying to get their berrings as to what exactly was going on, things began to get even stranger. A mist had rolled in and then what seemed like snow began to fall in large clumps out of nowhere.

Gray shook her head. "In october in Texas, it's not going to snow like this." Gray moved her finger from the hilt of her gun to the trigger, her body posture became tense. It was then a flek of what seemed like snow landed on her arm, she then smeared it to realize it wasnt snow. "It's ash."

Eun started to back up. " Omg if pyramid head comes out of the fog i'm going to freak out." Out of her hands and feet she ppopped out vibro blades as she prepared for anything.

Gray moved close to her sister. "Everyone move back to the vehicle, be prepared for anything." Gray's eyes went left to right, watching everything, but visability was getting to the point you couldnt see the person next to you.

[Duke]

Duke flipped down his face shield and raised his gun, looking in every direction as he and the others moved back towards the vehicle. "What the muthaf*cka is going on..." He said over his com.

{{Duke, language!}} Sakura scolded over her com as she trailed behind making sure no one was sneaking up behind them. {{But seriously, what the hell?! This is probably one of creepiest situations I've been in. And I've been in some sh*t.}}

"Now who's got the potty mouth?" Duke smirked. "So no brainwaves but our own? Weirdness. And I'm waiting for the zombos to come crawling out of that cornfield." He pointed his gun over to the field to the left of him.

{{Don't like that zombie sh*t.}} Becca said shaking her head and keeping her gun pointed and ready.

"Remember our last zombie encounter? I don't know what I hate more the fast and stupid f*ckers or the slow and smart ones." Duke looked up. "What hell is this nasty ash? What the hell is it from? Can't see sh*t hardly anymore. Not with all this dandruff falling from the sky."

[Romulus]

As Gray was the first to almost make it to the transport. A voice echoed through the ash and mist, the slight lining of a shadow formed on top of the transport. "Sorry toots, ya guys aint goin nowhere." The figure grunted and laughed.But had yet to move.

"Ya see the bossman says ya guys are gettin a little too close, wants to make sure ya dont make it to where ya goin, atleast not in one piece." The man cracked his knuckles with a grin even though he was still rather hidden by the mist and ash. " I reckon this'll hurt alot but dont worry, i aint goin easy on any of ya'll"

Romulus grabbed Gray and instantly slammed her into the side of the transport with brute strength, the transport dented inward from the force. Romulus then flipped off the transport, driving both feet into the chest of Duke, knocking him backwards and through a park bench. "Okay kiddies, play time is over."

A brightly lit adamantium disc went flying through the air as it clanged off both Eun and Paris's armor, forcing both of them to the ground. The disc then returned to its sender as Adamantia stood, tearing off a police uniform she had been wearing. "This is the anti weapon plus group that was raved about, hah, rather pathetic if you ask me." She smirked.

[Alias]

"I had a feelin' you weren't no f*ckin' cop!" Becca growled as she whipped around and sent her boot flying into Adamantia's chest knocking her back onto the ground.

"Sonofabiotch...." Duke grunted as he began to pull himself up off the ground. Busting through a park bench wasn't really fun but at least it didn't wound him so much that he couldn't fight. "D.....Paris...you two alright?" He asked as he started to fire his weapon at Romulus

Sakura ran over to Gray's side to check on her. "Get up hun....No time to lay on the job." Sakura was worried, she wasn't sure if they had the man power to take this knew group on.

Alias had knocked the pretend cop to the ground but she was already getting back up. "You wanna f*ckin' play?" Becca growled again as she pointed her cybercide machine gun at Adamantia. "Then let's f*ck!" She said as she began to fire at her, she doubted it was going to do much but at least it would keep her occupied until Cybercide could regroup and get back into the fight.

[Cybercide Arsenal]

"I'm fine," Paris shouted to Duke and Deion as she tried to get her bearings. Someone was messing with her head, and she was going to drive a spike into the offender fast. She turned to see who else was lurking around in the the crappy, ashy air, but she got a fist to her chest for her trouble. She flew backward toward where Duke had landed. "Sonofabitch!" she screamed as she tried to get to her feet and found some sort of inhibitor device clamped to her armor. "Get this off me!" she screamed as blood ran out of her ears and nose. The device had looped into her armor and was making her powers go crazy.

"Aw crap," Deion growled as he looked at the thing stuck to Paris. "Duke, I got a feeling you want to dance with Moron Man, right? I'll get this thing off Arsenal."

"The Director said you were going to be no challenge for us, but I thought he was wrong," a man wearing a hoodie said as he moved forward to get in Duke's way. "I really wish you jerks were more of a challenge."

"He gets points for being stupid, right?" Deion said to Duke as he kept trying to get the inhibitor off Paris' armor. "What stupid Weapon X name did they give you? Pain in the Ass Man? Bore Them to Death Guy?"

"Try Prototype, genius," the guy in the hoodie snarled as he sent an energy blast into Deion's back. "OK, twit," he said to Duke. "You gonna play hero?"

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[Damon Sterling]

The ash had been cover for what was going on around the fringes of this fight. Weapon X was fairly certain a mystic was sent out on every mission the X-Men took part in now, so they ramped up their own mystic operatives as well. A man had been moving in and out of the fight as he formed a pentacle around the battlefield. It was a draining spell to sap energy from X-Man and machine in this battle.

"And you said this was going to be an evenly matched fight, Romulus? This is the kiddie corps as far as magic goes. Not a single one of them is a mystic. Too damned easy!"

Damon did have to admit to himself that the ladies in this crew were damned pretty, and their blood smelled sweet as candy to him. But if he went to feed now, he'd get his nano-chain yanked. He did not need to sit in some dark hole with no hope of blood for weeks.

"Need help, Romulus? I could use a snack, and those two look delicious," he said as he bared his fangs and looked at Sakura and Gray.

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