Attack on Xavier's ((Open to All X-ers on Campus))

[ngm_miscellaneous]

Class had only been in session for a couple days at Xavier's. Labor Day had come and gone. There were more students on campus than in previous semesters. The buzz from first day jitters had settled down. Routines were starting to be picked up. It was currently the small span of time between the end of classes for the day and the beginning of after-school activities.

A mile from the main house, a very determined man wearing purple and dark blue was setting up. He took note of various things like the range to the target, wind direction, wind velocity, air density, elevation, and the Coriolis effect. As well as the effect the window he was going to shoot through would have on his very special bullet. He peered through his scope. This would be an extremely tricky shot, but the entire operation was waiting on him to start it. He needed to take out the biggest problem on that campus. The new construction getting into his way didn't help matters.

He eventually lined up a clear shot and waited. He caught a flash of red in the window. The target must have been sitting at her desk. The sniper grinned slightly to himself. He took in a breath, let it half out, and then squeezed the trigger.
The one-of-a-kind bullet made of non-magnetic material blasted out of the barrel of the sniper rifle. His aim was dead on. He quickly tapped the signal to have the first ones launch their attack.

The walls along Graymalkin Lane were breached explosively in multiple places. Most near security nodes to delay the time the security system roused. Men and women in black tabards with white crosses poured through the openings. They ran toward the buildings and any visible muties on the grounds. They all had been itching for some action since the debacle at Veridian Dynamics. Being underground for this long made the need for mutie blood strong among the Purifiers.

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[marvel_boy]

One moment, things had been normal. Not different. No calm before a storm. Just normal. Things were going on as they always did. It was a day like any other.

Sadly, at the Institute, a day like any other generally involved something terrible happening to the school.

Generally, that was pretty much par for the course.

But this...this was bad.

Topher steeled himself, trying to throw as many shields as he could up so that all of the impending negativity didn't hit him hard.

He sprang into action. First thing's first. The youngest students needed to be led to safety. He'd do that first. Then, he'd go outside and see what the hell was going down.

[ngm_villains]

The Purifiers were less discriminating with who they attacked. If the mutie looked young, they didn't care. The only good mutie was a non-existent mutie. If the kid was at this school, they deserved to die.

Some with rifles took shots at whatever non-Purifier people they saw. Though they were shots on the run and not very accurate. Other Purifiers ran straight at students with vibranium weapons held ready to strike.

[marvel_boy]

Should've been a damn telepath, Topher thought. At least then I could lead these kids somewhere safe without the Purifiers finding out.

"Orientation packets!" Topher yelled as the Purifiers came into view. "You kids know where to go, so go!" He cracked his knuckles and tapped into the negative energy that he was so quickly pulling in and took a deep breath. Okay. He was okay. He could do this. He wasn't alone here. He had his teachers with him in spirit. Mom. Dad. Uncle Scott. Aunt Jean. Rachel. Wolverine. Others.

He could do this.

With a yell, he charged, his eyes flashing yellow. He was aiming for the closest Purifer. Disarm, then knock out. Then move on to the next one.

You can do this.

[ngm_villains]

"Got a live one! Open fire!"

The Purifiers aimed their weapons to fire. Topher succeeded in taking down one, but the others opened fire.

[marvel_boy]

Tophers invulnerability would only work for so long, but for now, there were bullets bouncing off of him.

They hurt like a mother, though.

Topher snatched up the vibranium bat that he had used to disarm the first Purifier and whirled around with it, his arms outstretched.

C'mon, I want like five home runs.

[ngm_villains]

Topher managed one homerun, a couple triples, and a single to left field. One Purifier went down like a hundred and fifty pound sack of potatoes. Two others were smacked into others. And one staggered with his gun firing nowhere near the mutant.

The staggered one tried to catch his balance and raise his gun to shoot Topher in the head.

[marvel_boy]

The staggered one actually did manage to shoot Topher in the head, and it hurt.

It didn't break skin, but a very angry bruise would blossom there soon.

Topher pulled in more of the negative energy around him, strengthening his reserves. He wasn't sure how much longer he could realistically keep this up for. His body still needed a few minutes to convert the negativity into his array of superpowers.

With a yell, he lashed out with the bat again. He wanted to knock the gun out of the Purifier's hand.

[ngm_villains]

When the mutie didn't drop from a shot to the head, the Purifier tried to do it again. He raised his gun. It was perfectly in line with the bat Topher was swinging.

The gun went flying off into the distance. The Purifier howled in pain as his fingers near the trigger shattered from the force of the gun being knocked away.

[marvel_boy]

Topher sucked in the negativity that the Purifier felt and drew his arm back, punching the Purifier in the face. One very satisfying crack later he turned to the other two, his eyes still flashing yellow.

"This mutie's taken down so many of your friends already. Wanna hedge your bets, boys?"

[dazzle_daybreak]

Sadly, horrifically, it's like being back home.

Josie had thrown herself into the fray as soon as shots started being fired. With as much raw emotion being flung around on both sides of the conflict, she had more than enough psionic energy to pull from for her constructs. Some of the energies ticked away with the regularity of a metronome (zealots, just about incapable of stringing together thoughts besides what they'd been trained to think), some of them shrieked and pulled to and fro like a violin on fire (students, running for their lives), some of them had a low sharp ripple like a snare drum (experienced X-Men, fighting back with vigor, even as it always seemed so sadly familiar to them as well). She scarcely even had time to 'look' at her next power source, as she formed a sphere of hardened energy in one hand and a sling in the other. She whipped it around her head once and then let the bullet fly at a duo of Purifiers who apparently had one of the other students cornered.

The bullet, instead of knocking one of them off their feet as it should have, exploded in a rainbow of blinding light. The impact was still there, no question, but it... that just wasn't something that happened!

The energy had come from him. She stared at the other student for a half-second, before making a shield (from someone else's thoughts this time) to deflect an incoming spray of bullets. "What's wrong with your brain?!" was what she managed to blurt out.

[marvel_boy]

"Nothing!" Topher yelled, obviously offended. He glared at Josephine, the glare made worse by the fact that his eyes were still glowing yellow. She was, of course, his ex-boyfriend's sister, and Topher was still hurting deeply from that break-up.

This wasn't the time for bringing that up, though.

"Good job," he said, jutting his chin in the direction of the Purifiers. "C'mon. We gotta get the other kids to safety before anything worse happens."

[dazzle_daybreak]

"Sorry, that sounded wrong. I mean, just...ugh!" It's hard to explain the way she perceives her power. Like talking about a rainbow to a dog.

She conjures another piece of ammunition from Topher's mental energy, and lobs it across the lawn at another Purifier. Just like before, it explodes when it should have just clobbered. "My power doesn't normally DO that!" She points, before following him.