Cameron Crazies

Up until recently maintained as a museum, the childhood home of the Braddock family has been pressed into service as classroom space for the University. Additionally, the increased demands have led to the main ballroom being converted into a cafeteria for University students on a meal plan. The old library has been bolstered with college textbooks.

Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Wanda Johansson » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:43 pm

Wanda says, in as loud and commanding a voice as she can muster, "I think we're going to go with 'No'!" She turns to face the shouting Skrull and raises a hand to the sky. It's a common myth that lightning can't strike the same place twice, it's just highly unlikely. But everyone here tells probability to get stuffed in their own special way. Wanda sinks to her knees, descending into unconscious. The results of getting batted around multiple times finally get to her as she depletes the last of her energy reserves calling down mother nature's meteorological fury on the boasting Skrull.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Chisaki Watanabe » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:04 pm

Chisaki had been laying prone and trying to muster the energy to get back up again. One can have all the bravado they like, but they also can only take so much abuse.

Whatever injuries she didn't manage to get by being beat down, she was still trying to get off her back and onto her feet again, with much less haste this time.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:06 am

Tosh ran onto the roof carrying a strange blinking assembly roughly large enough to hold the time disc. He also had duct tape. "Got it!"
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:27 am

"Perfect. We can slap that on here," he said, pointing to the vacuum, "and I can take it into the affected area."
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:37 am

He blinked. "You? Alone? What about the radiation?" he asked worriedly.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:42 am

"My tech doesn't work without me around," he admitted, a bit more sheepish than Tosh had seen him. "We were going to work on remote activation, but..."
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Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:16 am

"But there's no time now," he concluded, having a greater respect for Cam despite the admission. Self-sacrifice wasn't something Tosh expected, even if hopefully temporary. "Then I'll make sure you get there."
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:18 am

"You're not projecting it from here? Shoot a beam or something!?" Shari asks, suddenly worried.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:22 am

"I don't know if the amplified pulse is even going to be big enough to envelop the whole Point, much less everything from the here to the Point and out the other side. The smallest needed diameter would come from the epicenter itself. There's not a heck of a lot of options."
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Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:36 am

"He's right," Tosh said gravely, "It's our only chance."

Then he swore. "Shiiit. A human can't activate it."
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:14 am

"But I can..." she says, brown skin giving way to green.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:25 am

Cam raised an eyebrow. "I'm sure I can hack around the security system, right? Wouldn't be much of a mad scientist if I couldn't get past a security barrier?"

He took a half-step forwards towards Shari, intrigued by her change.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:36 am

"There's not much time as it is and you don't have to." she says, reaching down to place her palm on the alien disc and it activates, the central piece lighting up along with the strange letters giving off a faint glow. She lifts up the whole kludged together contraption and holds it out to Cam. "You better get going. We'll distract them for you."
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:22 am

Cam nodded, and headed down the stairs.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:09 pm

"He's a better person than I gave him credit for," he said regretfully.

"But let's not waste any more time talking," he added resolutely. "Turn into me and play along, I have an idea." With that, he went for the stairs.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:22 pm

"Okay..." she says, not really following what Tosh is planning but slowly shifting into Tosh. Or at least a very close resemblance.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:33 pm

Cam, the vacuum strapped to his back and carrying the nozzle with Tosh's adaptations on it, snuck out a side entrance and started making a beeline for the point.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:57 pm

Tosh led ShariTosh out by the exit most visible to the attacking aliens. He felt a fresh wave of grief and anger as he saw the devastation from a new perspective.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:02 pm

"That plan of yours better be good..." Shari says as they emerge onto the grounds, the two Skrulls maybe 20 yards away from them and turning their heads (well, one head and one amorphous blob) towards the newcomers.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:14 pm

"Okay okay, I give up. Just don't hurt them anymore!" he called out.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Secret Asian Man » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:19 pm

Secret Asian Man, still smoking from the second lightning strike takes a step towards them as Business Mandy bats Diego off of herself with one of her tentacles. Seeing two of him he seems to grow suspicious.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Shari » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:21 pm

Spotting Cam trying to slip past on the other side of the battlefield, Shari's heart sinks for a moment when the two Skrulls clearly grow suspicious and when Secret-Asian Man begins to turn his head she runs a couple steps forward.

"It's me! I give up! Just... just leave them alone!"
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Secret Asian Man » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:23 pm

"There you are. Always the pathetic one, eh Shah-Rhee?" he grins as he walks towards her, grabbing her by the throat and lifting her off her feet effortlessly.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:29 pm

"No! It's me! Not him!" he pleaded as he ran up to the Skrull, grabbing at his other arm as if to beg him to stop. But by then he was a shark monster. A shark monster with an electric grip.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Narrator » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:39 pm

This was about the third time in maybe twenty minutes at most that he had been shocked by electricity. Resilient or not, this was beginning to wear him down. The shock also reaches Shari, but fortunately only knocks her free andbackwards into a wall with a loud bang of electrical discharge. The large Skrull grunts in pain and tries to get his twitching muscles to twist himself around and throw Tosh off, but finds himself surprised by his increased size.

Meanwhile Business Mandy has lifted herself from the hole entirely and uses her tentacles to launch herself at Tosh, folding in on herself as she does so and turning into some kind of large, rolled up armadillo that slams into the two, sending all three of them sprawling.

The commotion is more than enough distraction for Cam to make it past them and towards the Point though.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:52 pm

Bruce roared in pain as the Skrulladillo slammed into him, feeling a rib fracture. Silly boy, sharks don't have rib bones. He electrified himself and, with a mighty bellow, attempted to free himself through sheer exertion of his considerable brute strength.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:59 pm

The heat radiating from the point was intense, as might be expected from a reactor blowing. It certainly wasn't safe to go down into the crater by any stretch of the imagination.

Cam went down into the crater, pointing the nozzle of the vacuum in front of him. He stumbled and fell to the ground as he tried to get down to the epicenter of the disaster -- physical actions were not his forte, afterall. He had people to do this sort of thing.

Clutching the activation button like a dead man's switch, Cam switched everything on, swirling the nozzle around to attempt to get even coverage, even as things went hazy...
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Narrator » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:16 pm

As Cam activates the device an undulating dome of energy slowly forms and grows as if he was filling up a floating water-bubble. As the energy expands the landscape starts to move in starts and fits. Rubble begins floating as waves begin to recede from the cliffs below. Bricks fly from the sea and slowly assemble themselves into a tower as they float back up into the lighthouse as it slides up to the cliff. And then the uncomfortable heat suddenly ramps up as a ball of fire manifests inside the bubble. For a moment it feels like being roasted alive before the explosion begins to suck up heat, pieces of metal and machinery forming back together out of thin air as the fireball recedes, leaving behind gleaming hallways and technology. Among the self-assembling building, the shrinking fireball reveals people underneath one by one, washing back into reality. The process accelerates until it suddenly stops with a loud bang of Cam's device breaking apart. The time disc power the rest of the contraption cracking and collapsing in on itself as time stabilizes with one final jerk, settling into it's correct pace of one second per second as quantum vibrations align with those of the rest of the universe.

In the workshop, the US military people blink at what felt like a strange moment of massive deja vu, riddled with visions of a massive explosion engulfing them. Sam's vision clears, whispering voices dissipating as she finds herself in the Danger Room all on her own, memories of the Skrull attacking as Tereza still fresh in her mind. In the control room the assembled X-Men are staring at monitors that suddenly show no alerts, only a single warning about an empty holding cell. On one monitor a query blinks about a disparity in server time versus outside indicators as Cam seems to materialize out of nowhere in the middle of the room, a modified vacuum cleaner strapped to his back.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Cam Beckett » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:20 pm

Cam collapsed to the floor, smashing his head on the hard floor as he went down.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:29 pm

"W-what?" Sam blinks in confusion.

"...you."

She heads for the showers.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Byrna Cooper » Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:09 pm

"Oh shiii.. huh?"

Bear blinked unsure what just happened- She had been sure things had been much, much worse a second ago.

Regardless, she got up from the console and headed to the holding cells, as apparently that was the only pressing incident.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Narrator » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:07 pm

The cells are quickly checked and the room that's supposed to be holding the Skrull is empty. Bear makes it back to the control room just in time to be swept along by Sam and as they emerge from the Point they soon get a good view of what's going on.

There's a crater in the ground just next to the mansion. Numerous students are scattered on the grass around it in various states of conscious, but all fairly beaten up. One large Skrull with tufts of black and white fur all over him is smoking slightly, panting and standing over a second, much smaller one that has been knocked to the ground. Next to them a giant Shark is currently wrestling with some kind of huge alien armadillo and getting punched in the stomach by the additional arms it's growing while it's main hands are interlocked with the Shark's hands in a contest of strength.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:13 pm

"If you've hurt her, you'd best start praying," Sam calls out to the larger Skrull, sprinting to close the distance.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Secret Asian Man » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:18 pm

Secret Asian man spins around, a look of utter surprise on his face whne he spots Sam. "How..." Then his eyes fall on the restored Point and the Lighthouse behind the group of advancing X-Men and his mouth drops open. "How... No matter!" he growls, more fur sprouting as he unleashes a blast of cold on Sam.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Trev Anderson » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:24 pm

Trev ran topside and surveyed the situation as quickly as he could. He saw a blast of cold heading for Sam somewhat near him, so he focused his voice into a tight beam that would hopefully deflect most of the icy blast.

"GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!!!!" the shout reverberated strangely through the area given its focus, and the air in its path was warbly and distorted.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Byrna Cooper » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:31 pm

The combined attacks were joined by a flurry of solid steel balls, striking at various joints and the Skrull's head.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Secret Asian Man » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:37 pm

Trev's blast dissipates the cone of sheer cold into the rest of the atmosphere, giving Sam a clear avenue of attack while the Skrull retreats a couple steps from the projectiles slamming into him. After the first two he starts growing armored plates that absorb the hits a little bit better.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:01 pm

"How's the wrong question," she growls, charging in and putting on mass as she aims a bone-plated uppercut at his chin.

"What you'd best start telling me is where."
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Haley Crusek » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:29 pm

Haley dashed outside and tried to assist Sam's uppercut by forcefully ripping off the armored plates that the skrull was growing with her TK.
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Re: Cameron Crazies

Postby Byrna Cooper » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:33 pm

Seeing the Skrull is adapting to the assault, Bear switches it up, aiming two glue balls at the feet of the alien, to allow Sam and Haley to get their shots in.

"I just got here! You can leave!"
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