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Allison bounced inside, now with the pep back in her step. Even with doom on the horizon, she was ever the ray of sunshine! She listened as Marygold relayed the message. It made the most sense. They couldn't sit back and let this threat go on. Hopefully Beasty will be able to get a cure going soon, perhaps they could find the virus and bring a sample back.

"New teammates! Exciting! Who's driving? I call shotgun!" Allison sped out of the room, excited. She found herself in the garage in no time as others trickled in. She noticed Oshea being a little...non-Oshea. She wondered what was up, especially when he sat on the ground of all places.

"Umm....no. Nothing different, though I want to. Thinking of getting extensions, perhaps dying it. Not sure what color though. I want something fun but not one to draw too much attention to me. Maybe a light blue? Pink? I don't know..."

She took a seat next to Ayita in her tiger form. She wondered why the girl hadn't changed back? Was she stuck? Either way, she was so cute! Allison fought the urge to scratch her head, but fed into it, petting gently. Hey, it wasn't every day you had a calm tiger next to you.

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"Two things: you need a spin one half nucleus ideally, so do a 1H, not a 3H. Easier to obtain as well. And then canulate isn't a word, as useful as it may be," Tony replied, before continuing on. "I'd bring the NMR tube into a glove box and do the combination in there, in order to prevent from having to use a syringe or a canula on the cap."

Guin nodded, despite the fact that she was on the phone and that she knew everything her father had just said. It had been a simple tactic to avoid saying what was really on her mind--that this was a mission far deadlier than the last one. She didn't have any mutant powers like most of the team, just cheap tricks and cheesy one liners. "Thanks. I'll do that," Guin replied, before hearing the question she had dreaded on the other end of the line. She was too similar to her father in order to lie to him successfully. They were both genius rebel assholes.

"What's really going on, Penguin?" Tony had asked, calling Guin by her childhood nickname. Her heart pounded, trying to figure out exactly what to say. She was about to go toe to toe with Magneto in a desperate attempt to save the world. Any sane person would've run the other way, found a bunker, and just waited out the epidemic that was likely about to come. But instead, she was running right towards it.

"When you were in Afghanistan, what kept you going?" Guin asked. It was the best way for her to indirectly ask her real question: what do you do when the odds are against you? And of course, her own way of telling her dad the stakes she was up against. As much as they fought over her choice to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and assist the X-Men, they had come to a bit of an understanding that Guin wasn't going to back down. She was her father's daughter.

"It wasn't just about surviving--it was about my legacy," Tony admitted. "I was a genius billionaire playboy...but that wasn't what I wanted my legacy to be--the Stark legacy to be. And that's why I became Iron Man--why I privatized World Peace--I became a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist."

"Egotistical much?" Guin teased about, though she found some comfort in his words. She wasn't someone who ran away when things got tough. But it was also a subtle reminder that there was more to life than just this."After this mission, I'm going to take a leave of absence from S.H.I.E.L.D.," Guin informed her father."I love you, Dad," she said, before hanging up the phone. The professor's voice echoed in her head a moment later and Guin began to make her way down to the garage.

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Nina flinched lightly as felt the Professor's voice in her head. While she would have preferred a simpler and less invasive method of summoning the group (An intercom? Text message, maybe?), she couldn't doubt the efficiency. One of the conditions of her working here was for the psychics to stay out of her head as much as possible, but that order couldn't really be relayed to the Professor. It was his house, after all.

Arriving in the garage, Nina's eyes met those who had already assembled. Many of them were students, kids that she hadn't formally met. Still, she'd read their dossiers. Marygold and Cassandra were present, as was a younger looking girl who could only be her sister, Carolina. Apparently she had the power of Astral Projection, which was certainly interesting - a paranormal phenomenon for most humans, it was curious to see the power manifest as a mutation. As for the rest of the garage...

Oshea Jackson - super speed. His leg seems to have healed nicely. I wonder if Quicksilver ever had to apologise for that. Allison Andrews - future sight. Not much in the way of self-defence. Damon Fawkes - alive tattoos. They'd be interesting to study,
in comparison to their real-life counterparts. Nina's gaze lingered on the tiger, suppressing the urge to roll her eyes. Obviously, this could only be Ayita. Nina didn't know why the girl was currently in this form, but all she could assume was that it was some form of showing off. Still, she couldn't be sure, so nothing was said.

"Hello." She greeted the group with a nod, her expression neutral for the moment. "My name is Marina van Essenhout, but you may call me Nina. I'm not sure how much you've been told about me, but my mutation gives me super-strength. If you need aid on the battlefield, please take advantage of my powers and call for help. I'd hate to see anyone get hurt." As her small speech went on, her tone shifted from neutral to more empathetic. For all her personality flaws, Nina definitely had her heart in the right place when it came to matters such as this; these people deserved better than to be injured or killed by the likes of Magneto and his goons, and she would do everything in her power to avoid this. Glancing once more around the room, she saw a couple of unfamiliar faces - two boys, who were clearly new students. She thought it a shame for them to be thrust so suddenly into this issue.

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Charlie nearly jumped out of his skin as the Professor's voice echoed in his head. He had been hunched over in a squashy leather seat, in one of the several living areas of the mansion. PSP in hand, playing Final Fantasy VII, and the volume turned up as loud as possible, blaring through his headphones. To have an ethereal voice echo over such loud music and sound-effects was chilling, and Charlie pulled his headphones down so they dangled around his neck, shuddering. He'd only been at the mansion for less than a week, and had only been told yesterday about his newfound involvement with the X-Men. Fighting crime had been the last thing he'd expected when arriving here - he'd thought he would just be going to school, chilling out, maybe getting some decent pocket money for the first time in half a decade. But the Professor had requested his assistance, and considering the offensive powers he had, and what Xavier had done for him, Charlie had begrudgingly agreed. He still had no real idea of what to do, but figured if he was in a team and they had a decent leader, he'd be fine. From what he'd heard, there were some agents from S.H.I.E.L.D present, and the last mission, Tony Stark himself had shown up. That excited - and calmed - him a good bit about his own involvement with the group, but the danger was still there.

"Chill out. It'll be fine. You're working with professionals." He told himself firmly as he made his way to his room, turning off and putting his PSP safely away before heading to the garage. He couldn't risk getting his single form of entertainment damaged, no matter how boring the drive to the mission was. Speaking of, he had no idea how far away they'd be going. Or what they were up against.

By the time he peeped into the garage, there were several people sitting around. Including... a tiger? Figuring he couldn't possibly look as out of place as a giant cat, Charlie walked into the garage fully, taking a seat by a blonde girl quietly after waving awkwardly at the others. He'd been briefly introduced to some of them when he first came here, but he'd been so stressed out that he'd completely forgotten their names. Except Marygold, of course - she was their de facto leader, from what he understood, and he gave her a nervous smile. By the time more people had filed in, including a woman from S.H.I.E.L.D who introduced herself and her powers (The tiny woman looked like the last person in the world to have super-strength, but Charlie took her word for it. Mutations were weird like that.), his nerves had jumped up a notch and he was jiggling his legs, playing with his hoodie drawstrings nervously.

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Francesco was staring at the assembly in the garage with wide eyes, like a deer caught in headlights. It was a look he had on his face often, earning him the nickname Bambi. He recognized Marygold and Allison, both of whom he met just a couple of minutes ago in the Professor´s office. Marygold has given him a standard x-men uniform to wear, it didn't fit right. He could tell it was a size too big for his stature. He kept trying to make it fit better, but seeing as it was really a onesie there wasn't a lot he could do about it. Fighting a dangerous group of mutant terrorists was definitely not part of the life he'd envisioned himself living at the Institute. At the very least he should have more control over his powers before taking part in something this......

This was serious stuff, he could get hurt, other people could get hurt, maybe even because of him. He was completely absorbed within his own thoughts and only half listened to Nina's introduction. There were so many things that could go wrong and he wasn't at all ready to entrust his life to people he barely knew. Not that he disliked any of them, he just didn't know what to think of them. He really missed having someone to talk to right now.

A wisp of light was starting to manifest beside him, slowly taking on the form of a male anatomic figure. It remained in a haze like state. The fog like man was an astral spirit. It was about 6'4'' standing with its arms crossed in front of him defensively. It couldn't speak in complete sentences and seemed to have a limited vocabulary. Apart from that Francesco didn't really know all that much about him, just that he was very protective of him.

"Worry not"

"I protect"

His anxiety has probably alarmed the spirit. It was a comforting thought to have something, or rather someone watching his back. He nodded gratefully at the astral guardian. His thoughts were too scattered to properly communicate with it.

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Damon gave a shrug to carolina. "Who knows. Maybe it will be something cool" Maybe this time he could actually fight instead of playing combat medic. While making sure his team mates safe was important to him, but he wanted to actually fight dang it. He noticed Cassandra as Carolina looked over and gave a nod.

With his very methodical nimble movements he made way inside the room and clasped his hands behind his back. Damon noticed Ayita and moved near her. He looked down at her and gave a small twitch of the mouth in greeting before looking back forward. He noticed the newcomers and gave them a slight look over before looking back forward again.

Damon like pretty much anytime he was being interacted with seemed to immolate a statue as he stood there. This might be intimidating to the newbies, but its who he is. As he continued to be statue like however, the visible tattoos he had seemed to randomly move with their own life.

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"Alright, so several people know this already, we are going to be... Wait a minute, where's Pietro?" she said, as she looked around for the silver haired speedster. He just had to know to come down to the garage area, the Professor's message should have gone to just about everyone. Marygold waited a moment, looking around hoping that he would appear, but when he didn't she let out a sigh and turned to everyone else. "Guess we'll just have to start without him. Anyway, as most of you know, a month ago Magneto stole something from SHIELD, a file that generally could be used to wipe out all mutants around the world. With alterations though, and this is what Magneto's purpose is, it can be altered to wipe out all humans instead. Now, we---" she said, before she was interrupted.

In a silvery blur, Pietro comes zooming in, not really seeming to care that he was late. Marygold wasn't too thrilled about this, but continued on, "Pietro, so kind of you to join us. As I was saying before I was interrupted, it is our job to stop Magneto before he releases this virus on the globe. The reason we're not taking the Blackbird is because the lab that he is held up at is in the middle of New York City, and we don't exactly want to draw too much attention to ourselves, since we might cause a panic or something to civilians and we don't want that. Now that you are all up to speed on what's going on, let's go".

Marygold casually walks over to what appears to be a 15 passenger black van, however, once she opens the door, it is obvious that it can hold more than that with room to spare. There is a large console in between the front two seats, and there are several other smaller consoles scattered throughout the back part of the van. From the outside, the van seems small, but inside the place could easily hold 20 with space to move around and for other equipment.

"If you don't know what it does, don't touch it. I mean seriously, you should see the size of the instruction manual that Hank made to go with this thing. That was probably the most boring 2 weeks of my life," Marygold said as she moved around to the driver's seat. Pietro immedieatly rushed into a seat and started looking around at the consoles. "Ooh, what do all these buttons do," he said as he started messing with the closest panel. "Don't touch anything Pietro since I doubt you know what anything does," Marygold responded, glaring at him.

It wasn't too long of a drive into the city, but still, it would be a pain if someone decided to start pushing buttons. Marygold at least knew what everything did, while everyone else probably didn't have a clue. Hank fashioned the van with all of the cool toys, but this would be the first time that anyone apart from herself had been in it. This thing was meant for more experienced people to be operating. Hopefully no one accidentally hit something that would cause an explosion.

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By the time Guin arrived at the garage, Nina seemed to be (mercifully) silent. There were a few newcomers, but Guin had had Siri read the basics of their files to her on the drive up from New York City. In many ways, it was entirely silly. She had been rushing out to Upstate New York just a few hours ago and now, now they were all about to drive back. It was poor planning, but with five? six? seven? energy drinks in her veins, she figured she'd be fine. Besides, Guin imagined that she'd be helping with security systems and the likes. While she wouldn't mind fighting the Brotherhood members, she knew that strategically, she'd be kept away from combat.

She was "fragile" after all. Both she and Cassandra were. They were the only two on the mission that this virus was deadly to. Anyone else here, as far as they were aware, would be perfectly fine if exposed. Listening to Marygold's words, Guin smirked a bit when Pietro came in late. For someone with super speed, he always did seem to be running late. Assuming that they both survived this, she'd have to tease him about that later - hardcore.

Of course, she couldn't help but be excited with the car. Part of her was jealous that Hank hadn't shown it to her, but Guin understood why that hadn't happened. Still, she was as curious as Pietro seemed to be about all of those buttons. It was what she loved about science -- it was basically just pushing the buttons of the universe, in order to see what happens. "If you push some random combination and we get killed, I'll kill you," Guin joked, taking a seat inside the car. "By the way, newbies! I'm Star--Agent Stark. I'm a squishy human, but I'll be able to assist you with science, tech, and chemicals. So far, my success rate with not blowing up labs is 100%, which is a great qualification to have," Guin said, messing around a bit at the end.

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Cassandra turned to look at her sister and gave her a slight smile as she moved over to her gently resting a hand on her shoulder when she turned her attention towards Nina as she introduced herself to the group. Cassandra looked over as she saw some new faces as they started to file into the room, then she saw the team that was with her a month ago. She gave the newer members a friendly smile and nod looking towards Ayita for a moment raising an eyebrow the girl was in tiger form. Really inconspicuous when they would end up having to get out of the van once they were at their intended destination.

Cassandra looked towards Francesco seeing a strange guardian behind him, it was most likely his ability then, she would have to look into the other newer member's files when she had the chance to do it. Then Marygold started up her briefing for the newer members who had just came in and the others that were just coming in.

Though she was already in the lab when they started the idea of their new mission to hit Magneto first before he did. Then she saw Quicksilver coming into the room late for the briefing, crossing her arms over her chest and gave him a slight look. When the briefing was done Cassandra climbed up into the van taking a seat near one of the windows, looking at one of the consoles for a moment unsure what they did but Quicksilver quickly got in and started to press the random buttons like a child which she wasn't sure was amusing or not.

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Carolina looked towards her sister for a moment and gave her a friendly smile before turning her attention towards everyone else, she watched Damon for a moment as he moved towards one end of the room. Then she jumped slightly when she saw a tiger coming into the room raising an eyebrow at it for a moment. Then she remembered that it must have been Ayita, then she saw some newer faces that she didn't know.

Marygold started up her briefing telling what their mission was going to be and where they were going, she was very familiar with the Gifted Index that was stolen by Magneto. She was almost put on it if it wasn't for her sister and her friend and October, only condition was that she would occasionally work with SHIELD. Carolina watched as Quicksilver coming in mid briefing which gave her a slightly amused look on her face before it continued. And once it was done Carolina quickly got into the van along with her sister, taking a seat near the back.

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The gust of wind from Pietro's entrance almost woke Oshea from his slumber. A much needed crash. He had taken up a seat in the middle again where he always liked to sit. While in REM sleep, he dreamed of a blank white room. On the floor of this imaginary room were a set of brushes with coated tips of red, yellow, silver, pink, green, orange, and purple, gold. Oshea took up two brushes in hand and observed his ethereal canvas; and he was off.

X's and O's, he drew up the diagrams. Pink for Allison, purple for Guin, green for Marygold and Ayita, silver for Pietro, yellow for Cassandra and Carolina, orange for the newbies, red for himself, gold for Nina. Much of what he painted became little more than a tornado of intersecting lines of color across all four walls--it was, Oshea presumed, a plan. What kind of plan it was, well, this was an entirely different conundrum. Oshea would worry about what his lines and scribbles meant when he awoke, for now he snored. It was loud.

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Both the tiger instinct and the woman were just staring at Guin. Both holding the mental look of a confused and slightly terrified creature. Which upon a tiger was a interesting face. Apparently her words hadn't exactly comforted Ayita. Just moments before she had been staring mentally in disgust at herself for enjoying the feel of someone stroking her luxurious fur. Beautiful as she was, she was still a giant cat! A terrifying predator! Who was she kidding, Ayita gave a displeased look at the van as she shook her head vehemently in the negative. All faith was out the window. Nope, no, hell no.

She was not getting into that blasted, black box of death. There would be a hyper speedster, one who already liked chaos and couldn't be trusted! Guin, who was talking like she was planning on something blowing up. Two unknowns, something she never liked. Toss in they were going into a city and mixing in chemicals. Ayita stood up. Her ears pinned back as she gave a groaned growl. A moan of dispair for her human form. Lashing her long stripped tail back and forth while turning about she plodded towards the door. Shoving Allison along ahead of her via sheer muscled shoulders and head. Survival right now over some crazed van with a volume for a manual and the very tall possibility to blow up. Ayita wanted to hunt, not turn into a Crisped Frosted Flake. Nor was Allison for that matter. Ayita grumbled at the fact she had a bit of a heart. A small shred of humanity. Enough that she wanted to help, but that black box of death was not looking tempting.

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Allison was kind of impressed that the car they would be going in could hold them all. It seemed they added more to their numbers, which was a good thing in her eyes (can't have too much backup!). She would have to introduce herself to them later. Pietro flashed in. Allison didn't know what to make of their new addition just yet. Was he bad or good? He saved their lives in that explosion, but what's to say he would go back to his father?

Allison remained on the positive. Hopefully he was there to stay.

Before she could enter along with everyone else, Ayita moved up and started pushing her along. It wouldn't have been too big an issue, but Ayita was strong in this form. She wondered what was wrong. "Umm, it seems Ayita doesn't want to get into that car. Or me. I don't know what's up with her and I don't have the ability to talk to animals, that I know of, so not sure what you want to do. What's wrong Ayita?" She stared into the tiger's eyes, trying to discern what was going through her mind.

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The van was filling up one x-man at a time, Francesco watched each of them enter from the back. He had managed to snatch a seat next to the SHIELD agent Stark. There were control panels everywhere, every available space was used to stash away an assortment of buttons and screens. He watched some of the screens, trying to figure out what they were saying. It was all a bunch of computer mumbo jumbo to him. The mission and everything that came along with it was pretty overwhelming, Francesco just let it happen. It would be easier to just go along with things, follow orders and try to stay safe.

He had no idea how long the drive was going to take, he was horrible with directions and clueless about traveling times in relation to distance. Maybe it would be good to use this time to get to know the people he was risking his life with. Francesco glanced over at Agent Stark, remembering what she had said about her skills with technology.

"So um....if someone pushes a button on accident you know what to do?" He asked hesitantly, pointing at a random panel on the control board.

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Charlie's first thought as he entered the van was that he needed to get his hands on one of those x-men suits. They looked a lot more hardy than his jeans and hoodie that he was currently wearing, and he had a large hunch that at least one article of clothing was going to be singed away before the mission even started properly. Strapping himself in alongside the others, he didn't dare touch any of the buttons. Although not really impressed (The amount of shit he'd seen in the past week had numbed any future surprises - a decked out van was actually kinda tame compared to everything else.), knowing his luck he'd nudge a lever and end up shooting out half of New York.

"So uh... are those suits fire-proof?" He asked aloud to the van. "I'd hate to keep burning through them. When I get one, that is."

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Nina remained quiet for most of the van ride, simply raising an eyebrow in mild annoyance as Pietro arrived late, and then immediately began ignoring Marygold's orders to not touch anything. Although tempting to let Quicksilver know of their temporary partnership during this mission, Nina figured it was best to let Marygold or Cassandra break the news in front of Guinevere. The last thing they needed was the girl having a temper tantrum in such a confined space about Nina working with her new beau.

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Today was just not her day, first, there was that argument in the lab between Nina and Guin, then she has to deal with whether Pietro would push anything that could end up blowing them up, and now Ayita would not get in the car. This was just not her day, and when they went after Magneto himself, she couldn't help but wonder whether they would get any good luck at all. The power plant mission proved that they had horrible luck, and it seemed that it still was not truly on their side. She walked around and looked at Ayita, glared more of. "Look Ayita, either you change back into a human and get in the van, or we are leaving you here. We don't have time to be arguing, so either get in or stay here, I am not in the mood to argue with you about it!"

She got back in the driver's seat, and looked around at everyone else. When Guin made a joke about blowing up the van, she let out a small laugh, keeping to herself that there was a complex sequence of button pushing that would activate the self destruct. Marygold pushed a button to open up the garage door, and it was good thing that she did, since someone in the back pushed something, and with a large boom something shot out from the front bumper of the van. She turned around and looked at Pietro, who was just staring out the windshield. A small explosion can be seen near the front gate.

"Looks like someone found the rocket launcher, I thought I told you NOT to touch anything. I'm about ready to kick you out and have you run all the way," she said, as her bad day truly continued. "How was I supposed to know that this thing was armed?" he said in response, moving his hand away from the consoles. Marygold rolled her eyes at him, and turned to start the car. Once everyone was seated, she pulled the car out of the garage, and out towards the road. She decided to answer Charlie's question though while she was at it, "Don't worry, they are fireproof".

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Cassandra looked over towards Guin as she started introduce herself to all of the new faces that were in the van with them, she couldn't help but smirk ever so slightly at her friend when she teased the others a bit. "As my little protégée said the names Agent Cassandra Reed so it's nice to meet you all." She said, the ones who were on the previous mission with them already knew her pretty much Cassandra leaned back in her seat as she noticed Ayita being very hesitant on entering the van raising an eyebrow slightly. She wasn't sure why the girl was scared about the van, other then Peitro pressing away at the various buttons.

When Charley asked if the X suits were fireproof she looked towards Marygold for a moment, she knew that the suits were made out of a different kind of material to support all of their abilities in some way whatever their abilities were. Cassandra looked towards her sister for a moment, she knew that her sister didn't have any fancy suits or equipment like she and the others had like the newbies did as well. Marygold started up the van as the garage door opened and Peitro pressed a button launching a missile off into the distance. The van was certainly very interesting now to her. She looked towards Nina for a moment noticing that her friend was fairly quiet at the moment, she figured that they would start working out their plan to attack while on the drive to the Brotherhood's hideout.

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Carolina couldn't help but giggle slightly when Guin greeted the newbies, she noticed that they were wearing normal clothes like she was as well, technically she was also pretty new as well. She ran a hand through her hair as she listened to some of the others talking amongst themselves, she noticed that Marygold seemed to be slightly irritated towards Ayita who was hesitant on trying to get into the van and pushing Allison which made her smile ever so slightly it was slightly entertaining to see a giant cat pushing a person forward.

Carolina remained pretty quiet as she leaned back in the seat, she wasn't really sure what to actually talk about just yet she knew what the mission was, looking between her sister and Marygold to see if they had any sort of plan to attack the brotherhood.

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An explosion bloomed and rattled Oshea from his respite. So damn inconsiderate and rude. Oshea thought to himself. Now that he was awake, he let out a yawn and his eyes coursed along the rather packed van. There were a number of new faces, none of which he knew, and all of which had less experience than he did. From what he could gather, everyone was introducing themselves so he figured he may as well do the same,

"What up rookies! Name's Oshea--otherwise known as the Big O, Grandmaster J, and Speedy. I'm the nicest of the veterans and probably the coolest if we bein' honest. I ain't gonna talk y'all heads off, but I'mma be real; we all might die. We almost died last time, too. But uh, shit, y'all rookies follow our lead and we all might come out this thing alive--right?"

His attempt at a rally speech may have been undercut by the ever defiant Ayita who was parading her tiger form. Oshea noted she favored this new form quite a bit and made a mental note for later. Another sweep of his sight along the van and he noted Quicksilver; a single guess told Oshea it was probably Pietro who was behind the explosion which woke him up. It seemed Maximoff was intentionally giving Oshea more reasons to dislike him than Oshea already had. He spoke again to the rookies on the bus,

"Also, I ain't nothing like silver fox ova there. I'm, like, mature and shit. You know? Who wanna sing a song for the road? 99 bottles? Karaoke? I take requests."

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Guin raised an eyebrow at the Ayita conundrum. As far as she was aware, Ayita could understand English while in her animal forms, so there was no reason for her to be in the form still. Something more conducive to traveling, like some type of dog, probably would've been better. But then again, Ayita was rather strange in general. She had asked Guin a while back for a device to help her communicate with the rest of the team in her various forms, before changing her mind and insisting she didn't need help a moment later.

Glancing over as one of the newbies - Francesco - asked a question, Guin shrugged. "I'd need to familiarize myself with the system. Beast designed this and I haven't had the chance to play around with it, only Mary has. So I do know what to do - ask Mary to fix it. Or if she's incapacitated, it depends on how well I can figure out this system in the twenty or so seconds of time we'd have. So it's really a toss up." She did realize that didn't exactly inspire confidence, but it was the honest answer. She might be able to figure out what to do, but that was assuming it was similar to something she already worked with or that the system itself was intuitive, both of which were huge assumptions to make.

She rolled her eyes at Pietro's antics. "Always assumed its armed," she said, before chuckling a bit. "It's like sniffing chemicals - always assume you'll regret it later on, even if benzaldehyde smells amazing. Except for phenol. Never sniff phenol. That stuff smells like a hospital morgue." She had to resist the urge to roll her eyes at Oshea as well. Yeah, they were all incredibly mature.

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The tiger snarled at Marygold, Ayita however heard the woman's insistence and knew Allison would be going. Will the shifter or no. Growling and pacing, she slammed her paws into the ground, before bones cracking fill the garage. Wincing slightly as her body healed, Ayita stalked to the van with a deadly intent. Getting in, she heard a thunderous roar as a rocket shot out the front bumper. Blinking her amber eyes, one twitching slightly, Ayita just stood there a moment and gave a very loud and feline snarl. She hadn't shed the tiger completely. Lunging into the van the woman herded Quicksilver away from the consoles and putting herself firmly between the speedster and the danger he could cause. Nope, no. No one was blowing up her Seer or anyone else. She had be decently kind in her herding, her body ached from the shifting. Growling in a threatening tone and not so much at Quicksilver as to everyone, "I will bite the next person who touches a button without a good reason.

Her frown firm as she gave Guin a confused look. "You have a strange taste in potential mates." Her voice thick with confusion over why exactly Guin was so interested in this particular being. He was interesting, but perhaps a tad too quick with his actions. He needed to let his mind catch up. Keeping a sharp eye on the console, and keeping well prepared to intercept anyone else. She grumbled to herself under her breathe. "I dislike this human form. It is missing adequate claws and fangs." Her arms crossed over her chest. Actually sulking at being in this limited human form. To say dislike was a understatement to how she preferred her other forms. There was so much more she could do! And she didn't have to talk to people.

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Thankfully, Ayita's tugging ceased and she turned back into a human. Ayita was worried about getting into the van and, because of that, was worried about herself getting into it. Allison was actually touched. She followed Ayita inside, sitting wherever a spot was available. She had to stifle a laugh at Ayita for chewing out Quicksilver and his button touching.

She looked around. They had quite the rag tag group of people now. "So what's the game plan? What's the low down? What are we going to do? Sorry, I talk when I'm nervous and when I'm excited and generally whenever I talk and I can't seem to stop myself and even other people when they give me dirty looks like some of you are doing right now I just don't because I can't and I'm just super pumped to do this and to help save people and ok I'm done." Allison took a deep breath. Her stomach was butterflies, but she was psyched!

Damon watched as Ayita blatantly refused to get into the van. He moved as if he was about to do something when Marigold spoke up. He paused and waited to see her get into the van first before he would make any sort of movements and settled more toward the middle of the van. Where he could keep an eye on Ayita and also maybe even try to figure out Carolina. Why had she blushed so much at him? It was still in his mind as he tried to figure that out.

Damon's thoughts were soon dislodged by a comment that he heard from Ayita. You have a strange taste in potential mates. A snort escaped him before he regained his normal rather quiet self. Then he rolled his eyes at her next comment. "Its only limited to you because you do not use as often as you could" Then his hand twitched as he eyes a button nearest to him. A random curiosity about Ayita...how would see react to him reaching toward a button. Of course, he would not actually hit a button...he just was curious about the reactions.