Must Run In The Family...

Scenes taking place outside of London or Muir, but still on the Islands.

Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:44 pm

The HMS Dauntless is preparing for a drone-interception exercise when the ship's system detects a sudden anomaly on their radar. Moments later the deck distorts in a torrent of energy, the groaning of the metal resolving into the strange undulating cry of a squat prehistoric creature covered in thick armored scales. Riding on the back of the Ankylosaurus on all fours is a young teenage girl, hands pressed against the metal fitted around the creature's neck and covering part of it's head, woven around it's horns. She carefully stands up to look around.

"Did NOT expect a boat, Mr. Stompy." she says as the sounds of numerous weapons being readied draw her attention to the people taking position behind railings and such above her. "Wow. Rude." she says, hopping down from the dinosaurs as the creature kind of circles around her defensively. Slinging her backpack off she reaches into it to pull out a handheld device of some kind.

"Hands where I can see them, whoever you are!" a higher ranking officer barks and when the girl waves her hand at him dismissively he only has to make the tiniest gesture and a shot rings out, ricocheting off the deck next to the girl's foot and a couple bouncing off the dinosaur's thick armored hide. The girl jumps, more out of surprise and concern about her companion than herself it seems, and looks at the shooter intently as if she's studying him. "What the hey? You got a chipless gun! That's hardly fair!"

"Next one won't miss! Stand. Down!" the officer informs her and several more guns end up aimed directly at her.

"Hey just for the record? You guys started it! You shot my friend!" she says and for a moment seems to lean on the more childish side of her maybe 14 years of age as she stomps her foot. Her eyes begin to glow with a golden sheen and she seems to mostly lose interest in the people surrounding her, silently rattling things off a mental list before ending on an excited "Ooh..." She starts singing to herself as numerous systems all over the ship begin throwing up errors, first and foremost all lines communications suddenly shutting down while doors slam shut and electronic locks engage.

"Hey there Mister Radio, won't you shut up please.
You too all you uplinks, go ahead and freeze.
Don't you talk to no one else, I'm your only friend.
Slamming doors and shutting locks, I would recommend."

She stops for a moment and frowns at the more than clunky rhyming before shaking her head and going on.

"So take my cue, do as I say
It's Mister Warhead's time to play
I'm in charge now, dontcha know
This party's gonna blow!"

Somewhere below deck a dozen warning klaxons suddenly begin to blare as one of the ship's anti-air missiles arms itself and all the various proximity and launch safety systems seem fail out of nowhere. The people on deck have maybe a second of confusion at the alerts blaring before the deck underneath their feet erupts in a giant explosion as one warhead ignites the next, obliterating a decent chunk of the ship and throwing those that aren't swallowed up by the resulting fireball over board among debris hitting the water around the giant smoking hole left in the billion dollar warship.
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Postby Narrator » Tue Jul 05, 2016 5:43 pm

About an hour later...

As the QuinJet comes in for a landing a small group of crewmen begin marching over to the landing pad, forming two lines some distance away from the opening hatch, guns resting against their shoulders.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Haley Crusek » Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:24 pm

Haley unfastened herself from her seat cautiously. She'd seen the thick plume of black smoke rising from the water, but the ship seemed...pretty much intact if they were landing on it. She rose and turned to face the opening rear hatch, but made no immediate move as she saw the soldiers approaching.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:03 pm

Tosh stepped up beside Haley. "Umm... if this normal military behavior?" he asked with mild nervousness.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:22 pm

"No, not really," Will smiled and nodded, waving.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:26 pm

"Welcome aboard!" the cheerful voice of a young girl sounds from several of the ship's speakers. "Are you here to be rude? Cause the last one was and I'd hate to toss a fancy plane like that in the ocean."

The crewmen seem to react to neither the people leaving the jet nor the voice.
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Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:27 pm

"Hi there! Are you supposed to be on this ship?" Will called out, cheerfully.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:29 pm

"Probably not!" comes the answer, followed by laughter. "But it's my boat now, so maybe?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:36 pm

"Well, that's... odd," Sam says as she disembarks. She casts her mind out to see if someone is controlling the soldiers.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Narrator » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:44 pm

The soldier's minds feel... weird. They're definitely there but weak and there's some kind of icy nothingness wrapped around their minds that feels like it's evading her grasp. Along with that impression comes the vague feeling of a stabbing pain in the temple and looking more closely Sam might notice that half-hidden underneath the soldiers' hats is a piece of metal sitting against their temples, like a flat four-legged metal spider. Here and there some dried blood shows that whatever it is, it seems to be embedded into their heads somehow.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:47 pm

"Okay, guys... this is bad."

"She ah... she put something in them."
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:50 pm

"What KIND of something?"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:58 pm

"Going by the blank expressions, I'm guessing mind control," Tosh theorized.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Haley Crusek » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:01 pm

"Great..." Haley grumbled. "Morrigan...you think pulling the something out might fix them or kill them?"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:03 pm

"Aww man, you guys are good. The guys in the helicopter didn't even notice them." The voice sounds disappointed before tilting right back into excited that she has an audience to explain her brilliance to.

"They're neural probes! They drive a connector electrode into... Waaiiit a damn second! If I tell you how they work you're just gonna break them, aren't you?"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:16 pm

"Oh, we don't want to break anything. Tell us how to remove them, and we'll make sure they're unharmed!"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:21 pm

An overly melodramatic sigh comes over the speaker. "I shoulda just tried to shoot you down. I got distracted by your fancy plane. No one ever wants to be friends..."

At that the dozen soldiers suddenly move. They're a bit jerky but manage to ready their weapons and fire at the group.
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Postby Toshiro Narumi » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:24 pm

"Friends don't... aww crud," Tosh yelped, diving for cover.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:26 pm

Will flung himself in front of the group, expanding out into a steel wall to provide cover.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Narrator » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:04 pm

The wall provides extremely good cover. It also blocks the immediate path off the landing pad, but it's certainly better than dodging bullets that are instead ricocheting off of Will.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:06 pm

"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow, ow. Ow. Ow."

Will was a great help.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Haley Crusek » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:18 pm

Haley's eyes widened in fear as the soldiers took aim and flung a wall of telekinetic force forward while flinching. Her wall, as it turns out, wasn't really needed thanks to Will, so she dropped it.

"I'll try to disarm as many as I can...Morrigan...can you find the crazy bitch talking?" Haley mindspoke to the team. And hopefully just the team. She was pretty sure she did that part right. Maybe.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:24 pm

"I can try..."

She casts out the flock over the boat, trying to find someone who isn't mind-controlled.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Tue Jul 05, 2016 10:17 pm

Picking out the one mind that isn't shrouded by who knows what isn't all that difficult. As her ravens spread across the ship Sam would also notice that a huge chunk of the people left are working near the giant hole in the ship, presumably patching it up. The one clear mind is in the mid-ship tower where, presumably, the control center of the ship is.

"Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater!" the owner of the mind is shouting over the loudspeakers at Will's shenanigans. Seemingly in response to her complaint there's a strange drawn-out grunting yell as Mr. Stompy storms out onto the deck. He pays little mind to the soldiers, bowling over the few who fail to jerkily throw themselves out of the way before the easily mini-van sized dinosaur slams into the metal wall with all it's armored bulk, toppling Will towards his teammates.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 05, 2016 10:32 pm

"...she has a dinosaur."

Sam starts concentrating on trying to make Conduit sleep.

"...why does she have a dinosaur?"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:53 pm

"So I can punch it!" Bruce grinned as he ran forward to intercept Wall-Will. "Open up clay dude!"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Will Stanton » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:38 am

"Not my name!" Will said, opening up a gash in the wall for Bruce to dash through, as his surface dented and deformed under the sudden slam of the dinosaur.

He wobbled, and fell towards the remaining X-Team members! "Look out belooooow!"
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Haley Crusek » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:05 am

Haley flung out a wave of TK to slow Will's fall backwards enough to give everyone time to get out from under the wall of Will-metal if he didn't catch himself before turning her attention to the soldiers still standing whose guns she tried to pluck from their hands.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:18 am

Samantha McManus wrote:"...she has a dinosaur."

Sam starts concentrating on trying to make Conduit sleep.

"...why does she have a dinosaur?"


"His name..." she interrupts herself with a yawn. "His name is Mr. Stompy..."

Sam is making some headway, but the girl is actively resisting her. Her mental defenses are pretty strong and Sam can glean that she probably has some kind of non-telepathic mental power.


Will Stanton wrote:"Not my name!" Will said, opening up a gash in the wall for Bruce to dash through, as his surface dented and deformed under the sudden slam of the dinosaur.

He wobbled, and fell towards the remaining X-Team members! "Look out belooooow!"


Toshiro Narumi wrote:"So I can punch it!" Bruce grinned as he ran forward to intercept Wall-Will. "Open up clay dude!"


Tosh manages to throw himself through the opening in the wall and instead crashes into something almost as hard. The ankylosaurus that just tackled Will is waiting on the other side, swinging his clubbed tail straight into Bruce's stomach.


Haley Crusek wrote:Haley flung out a wave of TK to slow Will's fall backwards enough to give everyone time to get out from under the wall of Will-metal if he didn't catch himself before turning her attention to the soldiers still standing whose guns she tried to pluck from their hands.


She easily slows Will's fall and, turning her attention to the soldiers, finds them acting kind of sluggish thanks to Sam's mental meddling. Guns go scattering into the air as they're plucked from their hands, most of them going overboard.
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Postby Will Stanton » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:00 am

Will shifted back into a person on the deck of the ship...and then, after a moment, into a uniformed British soldier, with a (fake) doohicky on his neck. He began to march forward, as if possessed, towards the entrance to the ship itself.

~Camouflage~
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:53 pm

Bruce managed to catch the tail. Unfortunately, it was with his stomach.

"Oof!" he exhaled before being launched back a few feet. "No fair... lizard bro..." he huffed as he stood, catching his breath.

"My turn," he grinned, electricity crackling from his glowing membranes. He charged, aiming a hard electrified punch at the dinosaur.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Narrator » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:15 pm

Will Stanton wrote:Will shifted back into a person on the deck of the ship...and then, after a moment, into a uniformed British soldier, with a (fake) doohicky on his neck. He began to march forward, as if possessed, towards the entrance to the ship itself.

~Camouflage~


Will manages to slip among the rest of the soldiers unnoticed. Maybe under normal circumstances they might notice someone they don't know among them, but brainwashed and disoriented as they are they definitely don't. He manages to get into the main structure without anybody stopping him. Inside are various rooms and a central staircase leading up and down. He might not be familiar with this particular ship, but he can figure that while the bridge is clearly up, there should be an Operations room in the bowels of the ship that is the true nerve-center for the various weapons and systems on board. The question is where does he want to go...

Toshiro Narumi wrote:Bruce managed to catch the tail. Unfortunately, it was with his stomach.

"Oof!" he exhaled before being launched back a few feet. "No fair... lizard bro..." he huffed as he stood, catching his breath.

"My turn," he grinned, electricity crackling from his glowing membranes. He charged, aiming a hard electrified punch at the dinosaur.


The dinosaur takes up a sideway stance, presenting Tosh with it's swinging tail and the horns sticking out on it's side. But Tosh is much more agile than this creature and has no trouble getting in a punch towards the dino's head. It's got armor almost everywhere and where it doesn't, metal wraps around it's neck so the punch almost seems to hurt Tosh's hand more than it does Mr. Stompy, but the electricity discharging into the creature definitely seems to hurt him. The dinosaurs screams out in pain and rears back on it's hindlegs, electricity still cracking on the metal fitted around his neck and head. As it stomps back on on top of Tosh with it's significant weight Mr. Stompy's tiny eyes seem wild, almost angry.
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Postby Conduit » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:23 pm

At the same time as Tosh punches the Dinosaur Sam would feel a surge of emotions from the girl. Mostly anger, but mixed with some fear and a strange sense of betrayal? She manages to shake off some of the drowsiness and the group can actually see her, running up to the window front of the bridge, glaring down at them with brightly glowing eyes. She almost seems familiar... She kinda look like the girl working in the Infirmary.

"Don't hurt Mister Stompy!" she screams over the loudspeakers. It sounds petulant and would be almost a little pathetic for someone her age if it wasn't for the fact that her tantrum seems to come with one the ship's giant naval guns springing to life and rotating towards the group of X-Men
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Postby Toshiro Narumi » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:11 pm

"He... started it!" Bruce groaned as he struggled to hold back the beast's tremendous weight. He attempted to tip Mr. Stompy to one side before his own strength wore out.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:42 pm

"Damn it..."

Sam tries to get creative, sending Conduit a vision of Bruce and the dinosaur frolicking together in a field of flowers to a familiar tune.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:12 pm

The response is the angry scream of a petulant child. That seems to drop all the soldiers to the ground, clutching their heads. It's hard to tell whether it's affecting the dinosaur or not, because the creature already seems kind of enraged as it wrestles with Tosh. Perhaps most relevant though is the giant naval cannon going off with a staccato of thunderclaps. Badly aimed in her anger the shots hammer into the deck behind the group, tearing through metal and throwing everybody to the ground. Even Mr. Stompy is knocked back enough that Tosh manages to throw the creature off of him.

As the smoke clears and X-Men as well as soldiers pick themselves up there's the ugly sound of metal tearing and grinding against each other what remains of the small flight deck collapses under the weight of the Quinjet, the bow of the ship tearing off and crashing into the waves along with the plane. The toppled dinosaur groans and grunts as it tries to rock back and forth on it's back, trying to get back on his feet.

"Look what you made me do!" the girl who looks like Heather West laments. "You made me break my toys!" It's hard to tell whether she's talking about the dinosaur, the soldiers, the ship or even the Jet. Quite possibly all of them. "I'm just trying to fix the Breach!" she cries, sounding like tears are involved.
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Postby Will Stanton » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:28 pm

Will manages to slip among the rest of the soldiers unnoticed. Maybe under normal circumstances they might notice someone they don't know among them, but brainwashed and disoriented as they are they definitely don't. He manages to get into the main structure without anybody stopping him. Inside are various rooms and a central staircase leading up and down. He might not be familiar with this particular ship, but he can figure that while the bridge is clearly up, there should be an Operations room in the bowels of the ship that is the true nerve-center for the various weapons and systems on board. The question is where does he want to go...


Dealing with people or machines? Will knew exactly who the more reasonable ones were likely to be, so he started heading down to try to tell the guns and things to stop shooting people already!
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:55 pm

"Ash!" Bruce shouted, gazing in disbelief at the sinking jet.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Haley Crusek » Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:56 pm

Haley picked herself up off the ground from where she had been knocked prone in time to see their jet knocked into the water. She tried to force the loading hatch shut with her TK to hopefully keep their way home afloat and in one piece.
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Re: Must Run In The Family...

Postby Conduit » Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:01 pm

Haley Crusek wrote:Haley picked herself up off the ground from where she had been knocked prone in time to see their jet knocked into the water. She tried to force the loading hatch shut with her TK to hopefully keep their way home afloat and in one piece.


It's close, the hatch refuses to move for a couple of seconds but finally the struts for lowering the hatch snap under Haley's telekinetic force and the hatch slams shut just before the jet hits the water.


Will Stanton wrote:Dealing with people or machines? Will knew exactly who the more reasonable ones were likely to be, so he started heading down to try to tell the guns and things to stop shooting people already!


Will has no problem making his way down through the ship. No one stops him and most of the crew seems to have passed out from Conduit's tantrum and is only now beginning to even pull themselves up again. The Operations room is mostly empty, although that's apparently not stopping from being in full use. Especially the radar and various detection systems appear to be in full swing. Turning into a console and trying to talk to the ship's computer system however is a little trickier. Everyone here seems to be just as zombie-like as the soldiers, if not more so. Except here he can actually tell why. There's a voice echoing through all the systems, constantly talking, coercing and talking things into doing what it demands. Taking control back from everything seems to be a no-go, but he manages to get the targeting computer to calm down at least, which in turn makes the naval cannon shut down and turn back into a neutral position.


Toshiro Narumi wrote:"Ash!" Bruce shouted, gazing in disbelief at the sinking jet.


"Aww man! That woulda been the perfect gift too!" she sniffs, realizing she blasted the robot off the ship along with the plane. "You guys really are the worst." she suddenly stops her rant when the cannon fails to take more careful aim and fire again. "What the hey! What's going on here? Are you guys cheating agai--" she interrupts herself with the drawn-out sound of surprise as she breathes in. "Oh my god, it's right there! How did I miss that? Did you guys sneak this in as a surprise? Hey, what the... you're louder than the rest of them. Hang in there, I'll come pick you up!" her form disappears from the bridge window as she runs for the stairwell.


Meanwhile the dinosaur is laboriously turning itself back onto it's feet, looking woozy and making defensive grunts.
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