X-men: rise of the sentinels IC

[fawcettp]

The year is 2217 and the mutant human war has taken a turn for the worse, the humans in a do or die attempt have built a robotic super soldier, its name was Bastion, and they set it loose with only one command “wipe out all mutants from the planet earth”. The problem is that it’s AI turned on the humans themselves and determined that to kill all mutants you must kill all humans from which they came, it used the advanced technology and stolen genetic mutation powers to leap back in time to the year 500 BC, it crashed into the plants surface sustaining heavy damage and putting itself into a hyper-repair cycle to try and restore its systems; time pasted as it does and soon the robotic body found itself functional but without a new power source, the humans of the time feared at and trapped it in a large cavern.

The year is now January 2000 and archaeologists have discovered this hidden tomb for the robotic life-form, the removed it from its resting place and used the technology of the day to recharge its power cells; it awoke and killed all the humans in the labs and building before vanished from existence once more.

Once more time passed without any sound from the robotic life-form until it struck, the date was the 20th of December 2012 and unlike every other day today was going to go down in history as the day Bastion returned and turned to world upside down; his first strike was like a scalpel, he had built smaller copies of himself called sentinels and sent them out into the world to track and kill the most prominent among the mutants of that time, the X-men.

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Archive, or alex to those that knew him, was as always standing near the back of the small group of teens; his senses filled with the sounds, sights and wonders of the nation’s capital, as he followed behind the others as they walked down the street. The group of teens, all seemingly normal from the outside were in fact all mutants, they all lived and studied at the Xavier institute; there they lived, played and learned as a community of alike people, each and every one a mutant of varying powers and levels. Today however was special, their social education professor Hank McCoy had taken the group of teens on a field trip to the nation’s capital to see history; both old and in the making at the first every mutant human united peace treaty signing, it was the greatest event in years since the tragic death of Charles Xavier at the hands of the phoenix.

The class had been assembled from all the ages of the students to travel as special guests to the signing, but that was meant for the next day, today was theirs and they had along with the professor decided to explore the capital; most went with their teacher to look at the historical monuments, but a few left by themselves after having gotten permission to see friends family or other sights. The group that went with the professor held archive, cora, tomahawk and Zip along with a few others who Alex didn’t know too well; their first stop on the trip out that day had been to the Washington monument which none thought too highly of, before they headed off to the white house.

It was here that everything change, the group of teen mutants and their professor had organised for a guided tour of the white house and at the end were meant to meet with the then president. The group of teens had just begun their tour of the white house when the attack began, the purple skinned machine burst in through the stone ceiling knocking down several columns and shattering the floor with its impact, as it stood there uninjured and unaffected it looked around the room; its face stopped on the professor and the children and it spoke, “today is the end of all… today is the day that all humanity and mutants alike perish… today is the day Bastion rises” it said before moving to attack the professor. As the machine moved forwards to attack Alex could hear a rising humming sound emerging from it, and just then he felt it the draining of his energy and consciousness; the last thing he remembered about the scene was looking around to see the other students falling and the professor charging head first into battle against the machine.

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The first thing he noticed when he awoke was the burning rouble around him, the ceiling had fallen in during the fight and had surrounded the small group of teens, his immediate reaction was to look around at the others to see who was there and what was happening; unfortunately one of the things which caught his attention was the lifeless form of their teacher, professor McCoy or ‘beast’ had been struck down in the fight and was now dead. Alex didn’t have time to daydream or worry about the future without their caring guide, because even as he and the others awoke the android unit was emerging from the smoking rouble; its purple metallic skin dented and scared from the fight with Beast but still it rose from the destruction like nothing. Alex wanted to run but he knew the others like him would want to fight to avenge their teacher and friend, so he got up off the ground and into a crouch so he could move hidden by the smoke and dust that still hung in the air, he moved over beside on of the other teens in the group and gently shook their shoulder “hey wake up, please wake up” he whispered hoping the machine couldn’t hear him.

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((OOC- and so it begins, please post a brief thing about what you were doing before the attack like I have, then skip to after and we shall take it from there))

[VaultBoy]

Zip was walking at the same pace as the group. Something he hated doing, but he knew that the humans would either be frightened or angry if he started zipping around the place. He was just glad to be out of the school for once instead of being crammed into the same rooms everyday studying the same stuff. The only lessons he did like were the danger room ones, the ones where he would zip around before socking a fake robot in the face. He hoped he wouldn't shock the president with his eyes which contained no iris. Before he knew it he had been knocked out by the robotic rapscallion.

When he awoke he was being shaken by one of the other kids. He mumbled a bit of gibberish before seeing the corpse of his former teacher. His eyes filled with rage as he looked up to see the robot looking the other way. He whispered back to Alex
"I don't care who you are or what the thing is, all I know is it's going to fucking die"

[Gothpuppy95]

Damien walked along he recognized certain Mutants in the group but he was too busy looking around the capital he had always read about it. To him the history was interesting but the actual statues and everything were boring. He followed the group as Hank told them the history of everything they passed. Being away from the familiar environment of the institute got him thinking back on the 4 years he spent running with his sister. THen the giant robot busted in he just thought, Protect her. “today is the end of all… today is the day that all humanity and mutants alike perish… today is the day Bastion rises" With that he passed out.
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Damien woke and looked around noting anything that looked like life. Then he saw Hank on the ground. His mind twitched. He looked around for any and all sources of light. Fire was all he could see. Then he noted the unconcious students. He looked around and saw two others who were awake. What are their names. "Hey zippy, Archive either distract it or get these students out of here." He then positioned himself so that his shadow covered as many of the students as he could. This is going to drain me. He then began forming his shadow into a massive dome over the sleepers. Solidify.

[fawcettp]

Alex was relieved, the other student was alive and speaking softly, he looked about to see other students either moaning in pain, stirring awake or outright unconscious; he spotted another student awakening and then they spoke rather loud before forming a bubble over the other students, Alex gritted his teeth slightly and let out a ‘shhh’ to try tell the others to stay quiet. Next thing alex did was move away from the now waking form of Zip, once he was away and clear he could start to concentrate on what to do next, his first reaction was to charge straight in like the others and attack full frontal; but as he looked over at the lifeless form of their professor he knew such a tactic would only cause their deaths. He continued to move around the room until he knew he was clear of any other students of people, then he slow began to rise to stand his full high which caused the machine to turn and look at him.

The machine had been damaged in the fight with the world experienced beast, and several of its systems were damaged, it turned to face the young mutant that had stood up, “life-form detected… eliminating life-form” it said as it began moving through the ruble towards Alex who stood still waiting; the machine was closing in and began to raise one of its arms palm up towards Alex, it stopped suddenly only a few feet away from Alex who was standing dead still, “malfunction… banshee powers disabled… returning to base combat mode” it said before a small red circle appeared on its palm.

Alex had been hoping one or more of the others hand been watching and readying, or been trying to move the others to safety at least, finally he decided it had been long enough; the reason he had not been moving was not fear, caution, or even some strategy, but rather he needed time to gather the required psionic energies for what he was about to do. Alex swung into action, he mind releasing the gathered energy as a flood at his command, he ran forwards towards the machine even as it charged its own attack; he heard a soft pulsing sound from it just before it fired giving him enough time to dodge barely, this move got him in close enough to attack. Just like in his few practice sessions in the danger room Archive gathered the psionic energy into his hand and commanded it to form a sword, the energy blazed out from his palm in obedience to form a softly glowing light blue katana about 4 feet in length that blazed with soft blue psionic flames, he used the blade to perform a single upward slash from his position; the single slash was quick and clean, managing to take of one fo the robotic arms.

The machine took a step backwards after having missed its shot and having one of its arms severed, “damaged received, analyzing power… determination… gather mutagenic material for power duplication” it said as a overly large syringe emerged from its other remaining hand and jabbed towards Alex. Alex on instinct alone tried to leap backwards but fell instead, his arms rather then flailing outwards were brought up in front of his body as a large set of gloves and a shield emerged to intercept the attack; he knew that he could not hold the machine long before his power would falter and need re-charging, so he turned to look for another of the students and called out for help “any time now would be nice” he said as the pressure began to build against his hastily constructed shield.

[VaultBoy]

Zip looked at Daminen
"Don't call me, Zippy" He said as he turned to the robot and sped towards it. He curved around Alex before sending a flurry of punches all around the robot as he zipped around and around it, causing a few dents in its armor and a few bruises on Zip's knuckles. He kept zipping around before the robot became smart enough to stick his metal leg out and send Zip flying across the room. He hit a wall hard but luckily he saw it before he was about to hit it and positioned himself so that his head wouldn't take a hit but his back would. The robot started to slowly walk towards him causing Zip to push to the side and start to stumble backwards while he awaited help.

[Gothpuppy95]

Damien's shadow shield began shrinking. His energy not gone simply his control slipping away. He had never attempted a construct of that size. His skill at keeping a constant strength was rather limited. He then realized that the creatures attention was on the other two. He let his shield drop. Then Bastion had Archive pinned, and zippy thrown across the room. He knew his power wouldn't save both. zippy your speed better hold out. He left those children unprotected and ran to help Alex. Then he saw the needle and understood. His shadow was across the body of alex. Solidify. He then began to pull his shadow back trying to drag Alex towards him.

[Inkwell]

Mira had been standing at the back of group throughout the tour. Some bits were interesting others not so much. Somehow she had expected something more grand and exciting something to sink her teeth into. Alas there was nothing so she started blowing bubbles with her gum. Then suddenly something heavy smacked her on the head nocking her out cold.

When Mira came to her vision was blurry fading in and out. She felt so sick from it and the smell was terrible as she inhaled deeply and coughed on the smoke. When her vision became normal again she saw her dead teacher and a fight happening before her eyes. She stood up quickly on her legs shaking violently. She dragged a few people she fought where to close away from the fight. Before charging the machine angry and seeking revenge firing her balls of light. Closer and closer she got but still nothing even though she was at point blank range yelling "why won't you just die". She then had to go into a baseball slide so she didn't hit it but as she did the machine raised its leg then slammed it down on her body. Luckily she managed to get her body encased in her light shield. However the force of impact made a hole in the floor sending her down to the next floor "oh sh..." was all she was able to exclaim.

[fawcettp]

Alex lay on his back, his shielded hands braced stopping the machine as it tried to attack him, he was starting to get desperate when he felt it; one of the others in the room, he could see who, was now attacking the robot. In fact what had happened was Zip had begun to strike the machine in rapped succession, Alex could feel the vibrations from every strike travel down the arm and into his shield, he then caught sight of the speedster as he was tripped; he flinched as the other struck the wall hard. the next thing was another student began to fire of some sort of light at the machine, it was unaffected and simply stomped the girl into the floor when she got too close.

A slight cracking sound emerged from the shield as a hair thin crack started to form around the point of the needles tip, he began to panic slightly as he thought the shield would fail and he would be killed, then something black and hazy began to cover him; he turned his head to the side and caught sight of another student using shadows to cover him, then he felt a pulling from the shadows and with no further encouragement he started kicking backwards away from his shield which stayed where it was distracting the machine.

Once he was away from the shield and the machine he scrambled to his feet and stood beside the other student, he looked familiar and then it hit him, Alex knew him from the institute as they had shared one class before in a danger room session; thought heavy breathing he managed to thank the other, “that… was close… thanks… but how… are we… going to take that down?” he asked aloud. As he stood gathering his breath, he also started gather more psionic energy, he looked over at the other students and hoped they would be alright; “we… need to… stop him… from moving” he said still breathing heavily “i… can hold him… briefly… can those… shadows… do more, than shield?” he asked the other.

Just than the machine broke through the weakened shield and struck the ground, “target lost… locating new target” it said as its head began to swivel surveying the seen, its head stopped as it looked down on the form of Zip before it began to advance; “new target located… sample mutagenic material for duplication” it said as it moved ready to stab with the giant syringe once more.

[VaultBoy]

Zip's head raised. His his forehead had been bleeding from the fall after he hit the wall but it had stopped now. He grinned before looking at Damien and Alex and giving them a thumbs up to show that he'd be distracting the lumbering heap of scrap metal. With that he staggered to his feet before puffing out his chest and zipping back and forth around the robot, although not close enough to be attacked.

[Gothpuppy95]

He had lost track of all the people in the room momentarily. He was focused on getting Alex to safety. He saw a girl charge at the robot and get stomped on. That girl looked kinda like his sister and all he could see was the memory of his sister being attacked. He had to destroy the machine. He saw out of the corner of his eye that zippy was back up and distracting it. i… can hold him… briefly… can those… shadows… do more, than shield?” "In theory I get my shadow inside him and crack his entire physical form apart but that will require an insane amount of energy if it doesn't work I will not have any energy left to fight or protect you all."