To Me, My X-Men!

[Cybercide Claymore]

Liam had no idea what a Skrull was, so he kept focusing on the healer named Remedy. "Gray, my healing isn't working," Claymore said over the commline as he looked at Deion's armor. "Wait. Your suit is powering up. Gray, the effects of the EMP may be wearing off!"

"Hot dog!" Roadblock yelled as he saw his HUD light up again. "Oh, this is more like it, baby!"

"Just go get Duke!" Liam yelled as he pulled the exhausted Remedy to the side and out of the line of fire. "Oh, this is just beyond all reasoning now," he said as his barrier fell and the cat girl lunged at him. "Oh, no, you are not getting to her, kitty girl.'

Liam flipped the girl over his head and spun just in time to get hit in the face by her feet as she came flying back toward him. "No fair," he grumbled as he felt his own armor kick in. he sent a blast at the cat girl and sent her flying back into the pack of Weapon X operatives. "Gray, my armor is running again as well. Ready to fall into pyramid formation."

[Remedy]

Emily was about to reply to the huge african american man when she was knocked to her knees by a loud feedback of neuro-energy at the back of her skull. She dropped into the dust and lay insensible for a long horrible time, unable to do much other than blink and breathe.

She saw the mystic, Liam, kneel by her and put up a shielding, heard his low voice. He pulled her aside, handsome face concerned. The golden haired cat-feral woman attacked him, but he flipped her aside with a blast.

Remedy blinked, feeling something shift under the base of her skull and her hands finally moved to catch a silvery chip-like device as her body spat out it's remnants.

"Well THAT explains a lot." she said, eyeing it angrily.
"Looks like my old bosses had me implanted to blow up. That EMP or something must have made it short circuit or it'd have blown my head clean off."
She threw it into the sandy ground a great distance from the melee.

"Liam, thank you." she said gently with a genuine smile. "Great news on the armor, sorry for getting knocked out of action."

Then she saw a familiar blonde haired male feral figure...

"Kyle! What the hell!? How much hold does that Wolverine-wanna-be bastard have over you?!"

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[Cybercide Claymore]

Liam's eyes went wide when he saw the disk Remedy showed him. "I have no idea who your old bosses were, but I think they need to get blown up for pulling a stunk like that."

Truth be told, Liam saw a lot of things like that in his world. It made him very angry inside that anyone else had to deal with this type of garbage. He was going to say that to the healer when she saw someone familiar to her. That had to be a very bad thing for her, and he understood full well why it likely hurt her like hell. The faces here were all too familiar, but the places they held on the chess board were all wrong.

"Wolverine wannabe?" Liam asked as he finally saw the big feral that had thrown Duke around like a rag doll. "Oh, that one," he said as he gritted his teeth and looked at the man Remedy was talking to. "Mister, if you are being held here against your will, we can get you out of here," he said in a calm, low tone as he tried to keep the man Remedy had called Kyle engaged. "I trust the lady knows a thing or two I don't yet where you and this whole operation are concerned."

Liam looked at Remedy and tried to keep the situation from going bad. "If I can help set him free, I'll do it. I lost too many friends back home. Way too many."

TBC

[Cybercide Roadblock]

"Just keep working, baby!" Deion said under his breath as he started to barrel his way through Weapon X operatives. He had to get to Duke and get to him fast. "If you die on me, Duke, I'll have that mystical dude resurrect you so I can kill you again! Now if I don't run into that freaky chick from before with the weirdo dreams or the vampire who looks like Mr. Movie Star, I will be golden!"

Roadblock became more of a Juggernaut as he amped up his suit as much as he could and kept tossing Weapon X ops into the air and away from the fight.

By the time Deion got to Duke, he could see how badly his friend had been hurt. "I am so going to beat on that traitor's ass for this," Deion said as he lifted Duke up off the crumpled car where he had landed. "Gray, I got Duke!" Deion yelled over the commline. "His gear says he still has a pulse. I intend to keep it that way!"

Roadblock hefted Duke onto his back and started to make a run through the gauntlet of soldiers once more. "You better not die on me! You hear me!"

TBC

[Remedy]

The brown haired man’s eyes went wide as he saw the now-broken implant, and his reply earned him a steady look and a sober nod. He was very kind, well mannered and efficient. Emily liked him immediately, a first in a long time of not daring to care due to the horrific conditions at Weapon X. You didn’t dare like anyone lest they be turned against you. It was becoming obvious to Emily that her rigid control over her emotions was slipping, which meant she was finally free of at least SOME of the conditioning the implant had stuck her with.

“Almost all these folks you see here will be similarly implanted or conditioned.” Remedy told him, fending off an attack from behind.
“Got your back. If you CAN somehow liberate these folks or get them away from here without killing them, maybe they can be saved.”

Her golden eyes narrowed as she glanced hard at Romulus between melee partners. There was something about him that tugged at her empathy, a kind of siren call to the feral in her. It made her want to savage the man behind her, to run to the huge man and kneel at his feet…
Her eyes widened. That was it! Some kind of innate feral-specific empathic bond? She could almost sense his leadership, like the ultimate Alpha-wolf. She struggled to find the words, turning her head towards Liam as she blocked another incoming foe with merciless precision, tossing him back into his compatriots temporarily.

“That big guy there, the one going toe to toe with your buddy there, there’s something about him that’s different than the others. He’s in charge, and the other feral types are completely loyal and even dependant on him somehow. If we could break the link he has on them… or even render them unconscious for a brief time so you could shield them? DOES your shielding block out any kind of psychic connection?”

She bit her lower lip, thinking hard for a moment.
“I think I can provide the loss of consciousness for a brief while, but I’ll be down for the count… what do you say we try it if you can hold off the link?”

TBC

[Cybercide Claymore]

Liam took a deep breath as he thought about Remedy's request. The last time he had done such a feat, his Mom was with the team...

{{Liam, you are not going to go off and risk anyone by thinking about what isn't anymore}} he said to himself as he watched all the carnage around him for a brief moment. {{You know the risks}}

After a brief blink, Claymore looked at Remedy and nodded his head. "Yes, I can do that. I was trained by the best. My Mom was an X-Man in my world, and she had a lot of friends who helped me learn a few tricks."

The one thing Liam knew little about was this Alpha Feral Romulus. His world had no Romulus. Heck, their Weapon X wasn't even this far flung as far as he knew. They seemed to have every race and species in their thrall here. He had heard Deion mention a vampire before, and Liam knew he'd be ready for the bastard when he popped up.

"Go ahead, Remedy," he said as he started to amp up his armor. He was not used to the fusion of Celtic and Asgardian magicks, but if it gave him a power boost, he was all for it. "I'm ready when you are."

Liam tapped his comm and called Sarge. "Jim, I need backup," he said over the link as he prepared for Remedy's next move.

[Duke]

Duke groaned and opened his eyes only to find Deion hauling him over his back. "Oh for the love of.....D, put me the hell down." He said a bit groggily. He got down onto his feet and shook his head. Last thing he remembered was being thrown back and then he blacked out. "F*ck...we're still in this mess?" He said as he checked to make sure he didn't leave any of his weapons behind. When he was satisfied that they were all accounted for he looked over at Deion as they began haul ass again.

"Where is Paris?" He said trying to sound not overly concerned, but he was. He didn't see her anywhere and prayed that she didn't take a hit like he did.

[Remedy]

Remedy spared Liam a brief genuinely gorgeous smile, noting his body language was one of doubt at first but that he was professional enough to take a solid breath and get his groove on. She gave him a grave nod of appreciation as he replied. Runes flashed and disappeared over the surface of the armor, lighting his handsome face weirdly before dissipating.

"Any and all tricks you can pull will definitely help, and any by the best of the best is icing on the cake. Let's see if we can't turn the odds in our favor. I just hope I don't make things worse. This will take most of my mojo, so let's hope this works... if I bleed from my eyes and ears etc, don't panic, I'm self healing."Remedy replied with a casualness she didn't feel. It'd been years since she'd honestly cut loose with her healing powers in such a big range. She'd been used mercilessly as an assassin, but now with the implant missing, she could truly see where the boosts from Weapon X left her.

Liam gave her the go-ahead, nodding once encouragingly. She nodded back.
"I'm ready when you are." he said, and spoke into his commlink asking for backup.

Emily focused on the twisting blue-violet fire inside her, the very essence of life inside each living cell in herself reflected in her perceptions of the other living tissue around her. With a deep breath she reached out her mental fingers, delicately gathering each of the threads of life force of those around her, carefully leaving out those of Liam's compatriots.

Slowly painfully, Remedy blocked off the links to her own life force and reached deep into her body to harness the raw energy. Actinic ultraviolet light leaked from her closed eyes as she gathered the energy, building it until it seared her. Then, with a surgeon's precision, she opened the floodgates to all the other bodies around her and sent a hard sharp pulse to the sleep centers of the brains, causing a brief feedback that SHOULD render the affected unconscious... and a heartbeat later sent an altered pulse specific to the unique feral minds attached to Romulus in the hopes that it would do the same.

A trickle of blood traced it's way from her nose and over her lips, dripping down her chin... but she paid it no heed. If there was pain, she was beyond it, her every nerve ending singing a siren song of blessed sleep to each of the ferals and normal humans within her range...

TBC

[Nightshade]

Sakura had been blown back and buried in a heap of rubble when things started blowing up. She had been knocked unconscious but was slowly starting to come to. {{Oww...where the hell...Oh shit.}} She thought as she finally figured out where she was. She tried to hit her comm link but her hand was trapped between two rocks. "...Ugh...damn it to hell!" She grunted as she tried to wiggle free. She could feel a sticky substance running down her head and she knew it was her own blood. By now she was feeling the pressure of the rocks on her chest and legs and if she didn't get out of this mess soon then her chances of getting pulled out alive were slim to none.

Finally after a bit of struggling she got her hand free, even though in the process she tore it wide open on the rubble. She hit her comm and yelled into it.

<<...Guys....guys....Gray.....anyone.....I'm under some fuckin rocks...someone...get...me...>> Then the com went dead.

"son of bitch...." Sukura muttered as she continued to try to free herself.

[Cybercide Claymore]

Liam put all of his energy into the shielding to keep Romulus or any other Weapon X weirdos from reconnecting psionically to their teammates. As he poured more and more of himself into his work, Liam could not help but feel his mother there with him.

Doctor Nemesis had told him this world had its own Karenza, and one day he'd meet her, but right now that was not the touch he felt. He felt his own Mama guiding his hands, keeping his mind focused and sharp as he held back the pings and digs of someone trying to reconnect to the slumbering operatives. He could tell Romulus was not the only one trying to undo what he and Remedy were doing.

Sarge tapped his gun on a rock to let Liam know he was there to guard Remedy. If she fell to an attack, this would all mean nothing, and Liam was not about to let her work be for nothing.

{{Gotta hold on a bit longer, Mama. Just like you taught me. Gotta do this for you and everyone I ever knew and everyone here}} he said to himself in what could only be thought of as a prayer as he kept working on the shielding. He turned for a moment and saw some freakish man with a cyborg guard squad making his way onto the field.

"Oh freak! Mindbender is in play!" Sarge yelled as one of Weapon X's demented medics came out onto the battlefield.

[Dr Mindbender]

OOC: For those new to the warped man known as Mindbender--Mindbender's app!. And yes, he is a creepy dude when it comes to the ladies.


IC:

"Oh no you don't!" Mindbender hissed as he and his bodyguards made their way onto the battlefield. He had so many chips in his head that no one was likely to knock him out psionically, but that little glowing purple plaything was having more luck than anyone ever had. He felt weak, and he feared his personal guard would be taken out soon as well. "Oh yeah, I like ones like you. So much beautiful mutant raw material I can mold into what I want! But this power trip has got to stop, cupcake!"

Mindbender gave a signal to his bodyguards to start firing on the group near the woman with the purple power signature. If they took down the clowns in the high tech armor, they could get to the woman. But there was some shield that was blocking the hits.

"What are you morons waiting for! Take down that shield! Get me that girlie!"

Mindbender was already trying to plan out how he would augment that little mutant morsel as his cyborgs kept firing.

[CybercideTech Gray]

Gray was not enthused with how this was turning out. On the plus side, the suits were now finally engaged and the prime package was recovered. On the downside, more heavy hitters of Weapon Plus were still arriving and this was turning into an onslaught.

" Everyone stay focused and on task, now isn't the time to become unbalanced, form the lines around the downed transportation, hold the ranks until I give the signal." In bigger hectic battles, it was always harder to keep everyone focused. On a good note, big hairy seemed to now be occupied with the biker dude from hell, and big hairy jr, now seemed focused on the new girl Remedy.

Gray hit her com. " Fantomex and Wraith, do you read me?" Wraith picked up on line. " Yeah, we're kinda busy, what you need?" Gray dodged a blast as she hit her com again. " Extract the main package and then get everyone not fighting us with a pulse out of there before we initiate Operation Cleansweep." Gray could then hear a plethora of explicit curses in the background. " Are you crazy woman, that wasn't part of the plan, you know.." Gray cut Wraith off. " I don't give a rat's ass what the plan was, we are not going to just blow up innocent lives, that is not what we do, get it done." Gray cut off her com.

She then heard Sakura calling out as Gray started to run in that direction. " Hang in there beautiful." Gray called out. But she then suddenly felt a sharp sting in her shoulder, right between the armor plating. Then a warm sensation as blood trickled down her arm beneath the armor. She had been shot by Maverick, who lined up a precise shot. Gray snapped her sniper rifle into her armor as she puled out a sidearm with her not injured arm and fired wildly in the direction of Maverick. Just enough distraction to keep him from lining up another shot.

Gray slid down next to Sakura. " I got you." Gray said as she lifted off the debris and used it as a shield as she tended to Sakura. Thankfully they quickly had more help as Amber's bunny mech landed landed in front of them. " Thought you could use some heavy metal." Amber called out form the mech as she began to open fire and send missles into the crowds of Weapon Plus ground troops.

~Elsewhere on the field~

Gibney stared at the woman, even tilting his head to the side, from time to time. As if something was supposed to be there, some kind of thought, some kind of memory. But there was nothing, just blackness, hate, despair, fear. There was no memory or feeling to hold onto. Just one command by the master, kill.

Gibney hissed before charging towards Remedy, at an uncanny speed as he shifted his weight to his right side and drove his shoulder and then a claw into Remedy, cutting a swath in her midsection, before flipping over her and driving his feet into Liam's chest. He then grabbed Liam and tossed him backwards and away from Remedy for the time being.

" Master says it's time for you to die." He grunted out as he turned to face Remedy again. He ran towards her, then pounced in the air and landed on top of her. His feet landing into her stomach as he almost sat there crouched on her. He could still feel a slight mental tugging, but still, nothing to be found, not even the essence of a memory. His only thought now was to gut the woman beneath him.

[Grendel]

Grendel began pulling the rope up out of the hole. When he got to the end, Jynx and Feral were dangling like a couple of fish.

Jynx hoped off and back into the fight.

Grnedel threw Feral over his shoulder and began to move, fast.
Jynx covered him and screened his break for it.
He made his way for the truck that Lobo came in on.

Jynx laid down supporting fire and threw some more high explosives into the mix.

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[Weapon Alpha]

Alpha made his way alongside Gray.

"I have my package, and the two operatives downstairs are leading out the rest now.
I'll give you whatever fire support you need, but I'm moving my package out now. That was my assignment. Everything else is bonus."


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[Cybercide Roadblock]

"She wasn't hit, but I haven't seen her for a bit. Things went bat shit crazy!" Deion said to Duke as he scanned for Paris. "OK, she's by the transport. Oh crap!"

Roadblock turned just in time to see Wild Child toss Liam right in Paris' direction. Deion was going to open his mouth as Liam suddenly stopped in mid-flight and then was lowered to the ground. "OK, Paris got him. Boss lady said to get to the transport, so that is what we are gonna do! But first we get Paris and Mr. Newbie Magic Man."

Deion shook his head as he ran at Duke's side until they got to Paris and Liam. "Nice work, Arsenal. Now, I think we need to get the hell out of this crazy place before we run out of luck! I can help Dr. Stranger than Strange here, Duke. Why don't you make sure Paris is OK? Come on, Houdini," Deion said as he looked at Liam and shook his head. "Uhm, guys, he looks weird. Got blood running out of his ears and nose...oh shit. Duke! Get her helmet off!"

"I'm OK. It's that vampire guy," Paris said as she wiped blood from her nose. "I'm still tied to him. And so is Liam. You are not going to believe this, guys. The vampire is related to Karenza. He's her son. And Liam is, too. And everyone says the Summers family tree is weird."

"OK, Paris, enough BS," Duke joked as he handed a med kit to Duke. "Your's got hit, buddy. Yo, Magic Man! We need to get back to the transport."

"Not BS Deion. It's true," Paris said as she smiled at Duke. "I'm fine. I just want Liam and that vampire out of my head."