X-Men X-Emble!

[wild_child]

The Blackbird was about fifteen minutes out from Cape Citadel. Supposedly, Topher's boyfriend was going to meet the rest of them there.

Rose, meanwhile, was working up a fight plan in her head. It mostly involved slicing.

"So... we got a nutjub who thinks she's the second comin' of Magneto, somebody encoachin' on Little Miss Hellfire's trademarks, and a bunch of other flamin' nuts. What's the game plan, Summers?"

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[wild_child]

"Lady, ya gotta lotta nerve," Rose growled. "Especially if ya think anybody's gonna buy what yer sellin'."

[ngm_sisterhood]

The helmet, fortunately, was proof against any attempts to influence her mind.

"Then you should know, more than any, nephew," Magneta growled in Topher's direction, "that what I do is righteous. It is our people's destiny to rule over the humans, to grind them beneath our boots!"

She gestured, sending any loose metallic objects flying toward them.

[marvel_boy]

Of course she was an aunt. Why wouldn't she be?

Topher scowled as he ducked and weaved around the metallic objects coming in his direction, knocking away those objects that he could so they didn't hit teammates or innocent bystanders. He flew forward, going straight for Magneta, glad that his costume didn't have any metallic elements to it. It was meant to be protection from Grandfather, but this worked as well.

Clearly - unfortunately - Grandfather was magnetic in more ways than one.

[hellfire_empath]

Brooke kept on glaring but looked at the rest of her teammates the other X-Men.

"Anybody got a modern version of the Fastball Special down to an art form? Because I'm thinking we could use it."

[fanboytemplar]

And those metallic objects will bounce off of Jeremiah's armor. Which hurts, yes, but not more of a headache tahn he can handle. Especially when he's busy focusing on the blasphemer. He just flies closer.

[fourshelled]

D'Artagnan glanced down. "Mayhap I am able to throw Young Lady Rose, but we must not tarry. I will not be present much longer."

He increased his density as pants started the shift from samurai to ninja.

[wild_child]

Rose's claws extended. "Gimmie whatcha got, Shelly."

[ngm_sisterhood]

Unaware of the other plotting, Magneta unleashed a magnetic force bolt at Topher.

[fourshelled]

"The name is "D'Artagnan!" The turtle picked up Rose and flung her with all his might. As soon as the clawed wonder was out of hand, the samurai turned into a ninja in black and red.

"..." Athos crossed his arms in front of his chest and stared up at the fight. The ninja was not sure how to get up there to help.

[marvel_boy]

"Hrrnk!" The force bolt hit Topher on his side, though he'd tried to dodge it. He clutched his side and glared at Magneta angrily.

He pushed past it and rushed her, though.

If he and Rose could get to her at the same time...

[hellfire_empath]

Brooke stared at Athos from the corner of her eye, wondering what the hell had just happened there.

Then she looked up at Topher and Rose and wished, briefly, that she had more proactive powers.

So she could help kick the poseur's ass.

[ngm_sisterhood]

That, she had not been expecting. Her apparent nephew hit hard, and worse, the other girl caught her completely unawares, claws tearing through her uniform. Unable to stay aloft, and bleeding, Magneta hit the ground, pulling herself to her knees as she tried to raise a force field around herself.

"You shall pay for this!"

[wild_child]

Rose landed in a crouch, claws dripping with Magneta's blood.

"Yeah, yeah," she growled. "We heard it before, lady."

[fourshelled]

Athos started to move as Magneta plummeted. Though he wasn't quite fast enough to get to her before she put up the shield. He bounced off and squinted at the shield. He tapped into his flame inner aura.

The bluish-skinned turtle started to glow slightly. Then he stepped forward and put his burning hot hand against the shield. He wasn't sure it would do much, but it was an attack against it.

[pym_kitten]

It had taken her a while to recover from the electrical shocks, but Chris finally caught up with her teammates. She ran in behind Athos, using him for cover, and took a nimble step up, using his shell as a firm place to stand to leap over Magneta. She fell neatly into a flank with Athos, and made a wicked swipe of her claws, going after the wounds Rose already opened up.

[hellfire_empath]

Brooke stepped back, away from the others. She looked at Topher's back and concentrated on him. She knew that he fed on negativity, that it gave him strength and all that.

So, she did the only thing she really could in the situation. She gathered as much negativity as she possibly could, and she pushed it towards him.

[marvel_boy]

"Hnnngh!" Topher felt that, the strong wave of negativity that was surging towards him. His eyes flashed a dark, shadowy blow for the briefest of seconds before he realized where it was coming from. He turned back to look at Brooke, who had her eyes focused on him.

His own eyes narrowed. He was going to need to speak with Brooke later about the dangers of doing what she was doing.

Even if she was trying to help.

He turned back to Magneta, then.

"Shields down. Don't make this uglier than it needs to be, Auntie M."

[ngm_sisterhood]

Her shield was holding, at least for the moment. Magneta slowly got back to her feet, bringing her gauntlet up near her face. She tapped a stud there with her other hand. "Full evacuation. Now."

A moment later, she and the downed members of the Sisterhood began to sparkle with light as they began to vanish. "Know that when we meet again, X-Men, we shall be enemies. It did not have to be this way."

And they were gone.

[wild_child]

"Well," Rose said, "somebody's gotta pretty high opinion of herself."

She looked around, and saw that the military was organizing again, now the the barrier and super-villains were gone.

"I'm thinkin' this is about ta get ugly."

[marvel_boy]

Topher was seething as he stared at the spot where Magneta had been. They got away. They freaking got away.

They were right there, so close to being apprehended, and they got away.

He scowled and turned back to look in the direction that Rose was.

"We should retreat. Maybe have Rachel issue a statement of some sort or something. But being here now can't possibly end well for us."

[fourshelled]

The red hot turtle had been staggered away from the shield when a catgirl had decided to use him for a stepping stone. He left scorch marks as he got steady on his feet.

Athos ignored where Magneta had been and scowled at Chris. Not that anything but a narrowing of his eyes showed beyond his red half-mask.

[pym_kitten]

"I think we should all be making a statement." Chris says, pointing at where Magneta was. "We friggin' saved the day and sent her running scared. It's about time people started knowing we're the good guys."

She gives a slight nod to Athos as she catches the look.

[wild_child]

"You wanna stay, you have good luck with that, Kit-Cat," Rose said. "Me, I'm not exactly comfortable with guys pointin' guns at me."

She looked over at Topher. "Whatta we do, Summers?"