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Post by Night Angel on Jul 5, 2013 3:44:13 GMT -5
Kari could feel Jean loose inside of her all throughout the night. Furiously fighting to get out of her inprisonment. Most likely she'd simply lost her patience and was attempting to use the Phoenix Force to get out. "Just sit back and chill out you stupid bitch... You're forgetting I was created to contain you." Kari said with an annoyed voice. "I'll let you out in the morning." She continued as she rolled over and tried to get some more sleep. In a few hours morning came, and she was shocked to see herself floating in mid-air. "What the-?" She paniced.
"What's going on?" She let out a brief shriek when random areas in the room burst into flames all at once. The Phoenix had somehow forced it's powers up to the surface. "Somebody help me!" Kari called out hoping someone was already awake.
Betsy ran into the room intent on finding out exactly what was going on. "Kari... What's going on?" Betsy asked as she looked around and saw the fire. "Since when could you-?"
"These aren't my powers it's Jean she's trying to get through! She's gonna get us all killed!" Kari's eyes took on a firey glow unlike anything they ever had. This wasn't something her body was meant to take. These weren't even her own powers. "Do something! Anything! NOW!" Kari shouted in desperation.
"I don't know what to-" Psylocke was cut off by Kari's exasperation and hearing her screams as she watched her friends body engulfed in psychic fire. "PSY SHOT!" Psylocke shouted out sending a large purple manifestation of a butterfly out from her head. The butterfly flew forward furiously as a conusive blast rendering Kari unconcious. "I'm sorry girl, but you weren't giving me much of a choice." Kari said feeling alieviated that the incident was over. Even the flames that had been burning in the room extinguished themselves. "I hope she's ready... We don't have much time."
"What happened?" Harada said with concern, as he was the first other person to arrive on the scene.
"It's worse than we thought. The Phoenix, is trying to break free. She almost destroyed Kari just now in the process." Psylocke's voice was so heavy with concern, no fear. Fear for her best friend's life. "I know she needs rest, but she can't keep this up. We have to get them out today..."
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Post by kerri on Jul 5, 2013 16:50:50 GMT -5
Virgil and Vincent were the next to enter. "What's going on." Virgil asked rather freaked out.
'Ah ain't never herd anybody scream like that.' Vince said telepathically.
"Holy crap! What happened?" Dustin asked as he entered soon after the twins.
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Post by Night Angel on Jul 5, 2013 17:25:18 GMT -5
"I'm curious to know why there's singe marks all over the place." Amp said striding in and leaning to one side. "Is kari alright?"
"There's no time to explain this to everyone. We need to get at least The Phoenix, out of her today." Psylocke responded to the newcomers that entered the room. "We'll need your help though. Assuming that Kari's willing to go through with it when she comes to." Psylocke looked at the twins knowing that though they were new to the team and their most junior members they wre needed. "We need to bring out two people, so two will have to go in, and two psychics strong enough to guide them in and out."
"I'll go in, we'll just need one more person." Harada said neglecting to even think about the risk. He anticipated Psylocke's dissagreement and interrupted her before she could even get started. "I won't debate this, I'm her brother, I know her. And as the only remaining patriarch in my family, this is my responsibility."
Terrence clenched his fists with hesitation. Kari had gotten him out of a really bad jam a few years back. He was scared to be honest, but he owed it to her. "I'm going too, risked her life to help me. Now's my chance." Amp wasn't exactly too thrilled with the idea of venturing into the infinity void, but they had to.
"Forget it Harada, you're not going in. I think I can let them out, it'll be up to them though." Kari was finally coming out of a daze. But it seemed to make little difference. "You're my little brother, I look out for you. Not the other way around."
"You're not strong enough for that Hikari. We can guide them back out. It'll be simple enough."
Psylocke turned over to the boys and sent them a mental message. "She's not going to go along with this, can you two persuade her a bit?"
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Post by kerri on Jul 5, 2013 22:14:16 GMT -5
Both boys looked at each other before sanding a mental reply. "We're still new at this outside of our own conversations but we can try." They took about 3 or 4 steps forword then faced Hikari. "Kari you cain't do this by you're self."
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Post by Night Angel on Jul 23, 2013 0:27:13 GMT -5
"Look I can handle thi-" Kari was interrupted by a feeling of strain in her head. It seemed that The Phoenix was reacting to the twin's psychic suggestion. Flames came up in her eyes until they were swallowed by something far worse. A black shadow overtook the flame and stopped the charging of a psycho-kinetic flame. "See? I can keep this under control." Her mind suddenly dropped all its defenses. "You have to be careful, the inside is very disorienting. And you could come out of it differently than you are."
"We'll be fine." Harada said with a glance and nod in Amp's direction yo see Terrence nodding back. "You're sure about this though? There'll be no turning back from this. We see this through to the end."
"Wow- You make it sound so... Fun." Amp said sarcastically, Harada's words of cuation certainly weren't helping in this situation. "So Betsy, what do we have to do?" Terrence turned to ask. He hoped that there was at least the slightest hint of a plant to be had otherwise he'd completely lose it.
"The job is simple, enter the void, and find both the Professor and Jean. But remember in any event Jean is the priority-"
"No, we have to get them both." Kari interrupted. "How many times do I have to say this? I was MADE to handle The Phoenix, it's keeping the professor under control that's making me leak." Kari said in an almost forced voice. "I guess Onslaught got loose in there."
"Then it's far worse, I was thinking that perhaps I would stay and help coach the boys. But it seems you'll be needing me in the void. With Onslaught loose I'm the only one who'll be able to reach Xavier." Psylocke knew the kind of risk she'd be taking. But at least to her, this was the kind of thing you did for friends.
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Post by kerri on Aug 3, 2013 1:50:54 GMT -5
Both boy's looked at her a little shocked and worried. "Are ya crazy? Neither of us have any experience in this." Vergil half shouted.
Vice put a hind on his brother to try to calm him down. 'The thing is, we don't know what we're supposed to be doin to start with. But to leave us on this side alone with no experience? Not what Ah'd call a good ahdea.'
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Post by Night Angel on Aug 3, 2013 2:22:18 GMT -5
"Well there's no point in just standing around and talking about this, lets go..." Amp said impatiently, he saw this as leaping from a plane thousands of feet in the air. If he didn't jump now, he would probably never.
"I too, would rather be done with this. If you're ready Kari, we are." Harada said, but hearing what the twins had to say was a bit disheartening for him. He wished that he could say something to reassure them, but he had nothing.
"It's simple really, Kari's going to open a portal, we'll go through, and I'll try to contact you two when we're ready to come back. When I reach you I'll need the both of you to send a psychic ping through the portal, I'll use this to guide the others back." Betsy said explaining what she wanted the twins to do. It was a simple enough task, though she didn't want to leave them alone on the outside, she had no choice, there was no telling in what state Jean was in, she could only hope that she would be fighting Onslaught as well.
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Post by Wolverine on Aug 3, 2013 2:24:42 GMT -5
I'll go too" Tanwen said, making his presence known, "Kari is my friend, and I'm willing to take a risk to help her out. You said something about being changed if we go into the void. What kind of change are you talking about? I don't fancy becoming a twelve-foot tall green monster."
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Post by Night Angel on Aug 3, 2013 2:50:12 GMT -5
Amp's head jolted around at that comment, sure Jackson wasn't twelve feet tall, but he was green, and technically 'monster-ish'. Though Amp was actually more attracted to him for these differences, they made him more beautiful where it really mattered. "I'm not sure how I feel about that statement." Terrence reached into his pocket, and unfolded a promotional poster from the boxing ring that Jackson worked at. The paper sporting his mug on the entire page. "Boyfriend..." Terrence whispered with a smile while pointing to himself, and then to the paper.
"I wouldn't worry about it too much. It might be nothing at all, but it's usually a small difference. Like maybe... Changing your powers a bit, evolving them most likely." Kari half muttered at the end.
"We can't let ourselves get hung up on these things, let's just do this before something else goes wrong." Harada said trying not to imagine these 'changes...'
"Ok, girl we need to get something straight... Changes are deciding to have tea instead of coffee in the morning one day... Are these changes, or are we walking out of there with gills?
"Terrence that is highly unlikely... The most that's supposed to happen is maybe evolve your powers a bit, bring you closer to your maximum." Kari was thinking optimistically, this is what Sinister had told her, but she didn't know if it was correct or not. She certainly wasn't going to explain this to them however. Exasperated at this point, dealing with her new 'soon to be mom problems', Kari stretched her hand out opening a rift in the void for them to enter. "Jump in, whoever..."
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Post by Wolverine on Aug 3, 2013 2:57:37 GMT -5
"I sure as hell hope I don't come out of there with gills" he muttered. He stepped through the rift and into the void.
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Post by kerri on Aug 3, 2013 3:02:46 GMT -5
Just then Kerri appeared form the shadows. "I'm coming as well." Kerri said in her usual calm tone. "I may not know exactly what is going on but it doesn't matter."
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Post by Night Angel on Aug 3, 2013 3:23:12 GMT -5
Harada couldn't help but smile. "I was sure you wouldn't let me take this kind of risk on my own. Ready?" Harada said taking her hand and stepping into the portal.
"Screw it..." Amp said jumping into the void behind Harada. The good thing was that even if he didn't change, he knew he'd still have something. Even if he'd have to convince Jackson that it was indeed him.
"Here goes." Betsy said as a serious face came across her countainance. She lept into the unkown, the only thing she did know awaiting on the other side. The most powerful psychic force ever to exist.
The appearance on the other side was bleak, for the most part there was an empty blackness all around, what looked to be a star in the distance, and amid the vast emptiness there was a path of strange brown rock floating in the vast nothingness. Much further along there were bright flashes of light periodically, and a storm.
"That's where we're headed." Betsy said after reaching out with her mind to sense the forces at work there. Indeed psychic flame, and telekinetic shock where sending sparks flying. Whatever side the Phoenix was on she was battling Onslaught.
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Post by Time Guardian on Aug 3, 2013 3:28:54 GMT -5
Anaya knew just what was going to happen, none of them would be the same. But quite possibly one more than other's could come to resent this moment. It was all she could do to retrain herself from stopping him. But if she spoke out none of them would take the risk, and Kari would be destroyed by this conflict inside of her. They had to do this, she'd have ot find someway to prevent the insetting of bitterness, and she was willing to do anything to stop this. The world she came from was a hellish place. No place to raise a child, and yet there she was just on the edge of womanhood.
Jean did her best to continue fighting back, she'd long since had to allow herself to embrace the Phoenix Force. Something about this place had shaken The Professor to the point that he couldn't contain his evil alter ego. She'd given up trying to reach him, her words could do nothing. Onslaught would only answer to force, but her power was only enough to protect herself, she could gain no ground. But a glimmer of hope faintly appeared in her mind with the sense of some familiar minds. Suddenly she blazed back and burned across the empty sky, as she tried to make her way across the void to her only hope of victory.
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Post by Wolverine on Aug 3, 2013 3:40:23 GMT -5
Tanwen carefully stepped onto the stones, hoping they didn't drop him into the abyss.
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Post by Night Angel on Sept 10, 2013 20:12:32 GMT -5
"It's good to see you Jean." Harada called out to his old team mate sure he knew that Kari wasn't ever really on good standing with the woman. That never stopped Harada from developing a friendship with her. Harada was found that as she drew closer his mind was distracted for a moment. He felt different, as if something was out of place. His skin felt warm to the touch, warmer than normal. Not that he was uncomfortable, but this was a temperature he'd never experienced since he'd become an adolescent. He was pushing 105°s, but he didn't know why, or even that his temperature had risen so high.
Amp had been feeling a bit strange since he'd come through the portal, the fact of the matter being that here he was facing a strange universe for all he knew where the laws of his universe no longer seemed to apply much. He chalked it up to being just his nerves. Even as Jean drew closer he could do little to ease his discomfort. He just played it off as best he could, pretending that nothing was the matter. "Can we just get to kicking Onslaught's ass and get out of here?"
"Relax Terrence we'll be out of here soon enough." Psylocke said unleashing a disapproving glare for his language in front of the youngest member present. Turning over to Jean she merely smiled, and reverted back to her usual collective and cool expression. It wasn't like she was being rude or anything, just that her and Jean could commune back and forth without need for words anyhow. Besides, she knew that there were things that she'd done to bring this fate onto her. It wasn't like Kari had just lost control for no reason. Were it not for Jeans mindless flirting with Logan, her friend would've already had a husband long ago, and she wouldn't have been where she was now.
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