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Guin got there just in time to hear Mary's Star Wars reference and she couldn't have been prouder of her friend. Of course, she was also beaming because her EMP grenade took down a Sentinel like a drunken prom date. She sent another one off, figuring that the more of these things they could take down, the better. "These buckets of bolts are definitely Hammer Tech," she said with a bit of a laugh. "I'm not even sure these things will be hard to hack anymore," she added to Cassandra. "Could even make a drinking game out of it - take a shot for every Sentinel you disable effortlessly. Be completely hammered by the end of the night - which I guess is why it's called Hammer Tech, right?" she boasted.

"Shit that's cool..." Guin said as Thalia landed with Folly. Folly hadn't mentioned anything about what had just happened - she didn't need to. She knew that Thalia had her little visitor on occasion and with all of the meddling with time, she wasn't surprised that he had come back. And she certainly wasn't going to be freaked out by it - when she was off of her medication, Folly saw people that weren't really there all the time. Folly stared at Mary for a moment, realizing from the conversations that the others had told her what was going to happen.

Guin tried not to gag as Nina showed up. She would have preferred another Sentinel came their way than Nina of all people coming to help. She was just waiting for the day that Nina decided to sleep with Hank Pym or someone and she'd be out of her life for good. She also was tempted to remind Nina that Cass wasn't in charge - Mary was. In fact, a lot of people seemed to need that reminder. S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't have any authority here unless the field commander of the X-Men decided they did. And that just so happened to be Mary.

Richard's words were the last straw, and while Guin knew Mary was fuming, NO ONE talked about her friends like that. She walked up to the glorified babysitter and decked him across the jaw, hard enough to send him stumbling backwards and for him to spit a bit of blood out of his mouth. He wouldn't be able to drag Mary anymore. "Okay, in case people need a reminder, Mary is fucking in charge! It's called chain of command. Until the day Xavier takes her out of the position, she leads the X-Men. S.H.I.E.L.D. is here in an assistive capacity, meaning Mary makes the plans and S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't. Don't like it, you can fucking go to hell!" She hadn't heard that Mary was supposedly going to die, but even if she had, it wouldn't have changed her mind. Any changes of heart she'd had about Richard vanished. No one called her best friend a weed. No one.

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Dean couldn't help but feel a bit surprised. He thought Starks were just born knowing everything there was to know about science and technology. However, he then remembered where Mira was from - Wakanda. Her slight accent gave it away. And from what he had heard in rumors, they were way more technologically advanced than they appeared to be. "Can you figure it out, then? Did they teach how to fly planes in Wakandan schools?" he asked her.

"Yeah, actually..." Dean said, before trying to think of something for Bethany to do. "Any chance you know how to give someone stitches and a blood transfusion?" He had a feeling Beast was going to need both of those. While he had bandaged him up and done his best to stop the bleeding, it was all a temporary fix at best. He was hoping that people would get onto the Blackbird soon, but the speedsters seemed to be off somewhere still so he doubted it was happening any time soon. The sooner they took off, the sooner they could find someone with more medical experience than a teenage boy.

"Uh, Mira....Where are we flying to if this thing takes off? Could it be somewhere with actual medical personnel? That'd be pretty cool if that's at all possible..."

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Lance just gave Carolina a small smile, and she'd notice that his face was starting to look a little pale. He was starting to feel a little dizzy from blood loss, as well as using his powers while injured. It had taken a lot out of him overall, and the blood was still dripping down his back. "I've had worse injuries, don't worry too much about it. A little glass is the least of my concerns."

They passed by the commotion in the front of the mansion, but Lance kept walking down to the hangar. His back was hurting, and he needed help with the shards, otherwise they could cause more damage, he did know basic first aid after all. They reached the Blackbird, and there was already people there, waiting for the others. "Not everyone is here yet, so what, we just sit around and wait?"

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Mira turned and just about snapped at Dean about the Wakanda comment. Her country hid from the world everything they could do, everything they had accomplished. She knew that there were rumors about it, but she was not going to betray her country because of some idiot. "For your information, there wasn't much of a school in Wakanda. We didn't really spend a lot of time learning!" she snapped at him.

Then as she finished getting the jet ready to fly, she thought about his other question. She wasn't one who took charge a lot of the time, and everything that was happening, a destination for where they were going. "I-I-I don't know..." she stuttered out, unsure of what to do. She was starting to panic now. Lance walked into the Blackbird and he heard Dean and Mira's conversation about their destination. "...We could go to Stark Tower... They have a landing pad and medical facilities... You'd just need to call them before we landed there..." he said softly, looking at them.

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"Thanks for that Guin, but in all fairness, I would have aimed lower and have used my foot," she said, backing away from Richard now that her arm was free from his grasp. She was pissed off, and Richard was not helping her out in anyway. "And she is right you know, also, believe it or not I have actually thought this planning through!" she shouted at everyone, glaring now. Everyone was starting to piss her off, and they were treating her like a child.

"Look, it makes strategic sense for me to be covering your escape you idiots! Winged dragon woman over there are the only ones with powers that actually are being useful against them. She takes out the guys from above, I knock down the giant robots with vines. We are literally in a situation where my powers are being useful, and everyone here wants to shut me out! Thalia and I actually can slow those things down, unlike the rest of you, so get down to the Blackbird and I will be right behind you!" she yelled out as she walked back outside, ignoring the others.

Pietro was unsure of what to do now, but he did know that she was probably right about it. No one had any sort of power that was even remotely able to take those things out. Guin's grenade this time only slowed the Sentinel down, but it kept on coming. Mary managed to knock that Sentinel down, completely this time. They were in her element after all. Outside, surrounded by plant life.

"He came back!" Thalia said in answer to Carolina's question. She looked at where her hallucination was now, but she didn't have time to worry about it. She took off into the air, sending down more streaks of flames at the incoming cars. Pietro looked at Future Carolina, "I'll stay by them, I'll get them down there quickly, don't worry," he said as he raced to stand next to Mary.

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Amni sighed as he knew he said something that triggered Agent Van Essenhout. "Agent I did not mean to say something that bothered you." He stated in his apathic voice. "I grew up with sisters." Amni hissed out that last word in a conflicting tone. A tone that left a questioning of if he actually cared or not.

Watching Agent Van Essenhout clip a guy caused a sharp smile to his dark lips. Also the sassiness of her stating her title 'Agent Van Essenhout'. Opening his mouth to speak back he cocked his head and shrugged his shoulders. Amni mocked the woman's voice on how she said her title. "Yea, sorry Miss Agent Van Essenhout." That tone when he said Essenhout noe subconsciously stuck to his mind. Maybe causing him to always say it in a tone or maybe remembering when he wanted to tease or mock her.

As Amni watched Agent Van Essenhout run off he stood there. Watching into the forest where men and or women appeared from the forest lining. "Why would anyone want to her innocent kids?" Amni mumbled as his eyes sharpened and gun fire started going off. Seeming to be directed towards him. Amni moved his hands and disappeared. Appearing behind an enemy he grabbed the individual by the head and shoulder and with a snap the body of thr individual fell to the ground. "Focus." He told himself picturing his car in the front of the x-man mansion. Putting two fingers up to his temples he then visualized the inside of his car. Amni went through a portal again and ended up in the seat of his car not the right way. As he fixed himself and got to the back he took off his clothes and put on a suit. Grabbing his weapons and attaching them. His suit seemed buttle proof.

Amni always carried a suit with him and weapons. Which comes in handy when events as such appear out of no where. A bullet then went through his driver side window. Shattering it. "Oh, hell no I just got these installed!" Amni glared and opened up the car door and slammed it. Grabbing his bow staff and screwing it together so it was just a solid dark metal stick. Amni started walking up to the guy and moved his hand and walked into a portal and out of one behind the guy. Slamming his bow staff into the mans ribs then moving it around the mans neck and pulling hard. Another body dropped and Amni ran off finding others.

Actually Amni ran off and found Agent Van Essenhout. "Is everything okay over here Agent Van Essenhout?" His voice genuinely caring but the time of the mock came out of his mouth as well. The appearance of his suit was an appearance of not a new suit. Not as if this was an old suit he keeps. It did not seem very advanced and basic technology. Though, it seemed like it could take a few bullets before it started to do serious damage.

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Carolina looked over at Lance seeing his face starting to pale somewhat which made her cringe slightly knowing that going pale from blood loss wasn't a good thing at all. "Yeah just walk me through it and i'll pull the glass out." Carolina didn't want to see a fellow classmate die. When they got into the Blackbird Carolina looked around as she tried to search around for Cassandra biting her lower lip she didn't see her sister yet. Which was starting to worry her, but Carolina knew that Cass was a very capable SHIELD agent and she'd be able to survive.

Carolina listened to Dean and Mirembe as they talked about flying the massive plane, she hadn't flown anything before but she knew that Cassandra had experience flying both a Quinjet and the Zephyr at one point. "If Cassandra gets here she could probably fly this thing." Carolina said softly as she looked over at Ayita who was in cat form now apparently then moved over towards Lance looking over at him then Allison. "So want to walk me through it?" Carolina asked Lance then eyed Beast for a moment seeing that he was losing blood by the looks of it from an injury of some kind.

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Bethany eyed Dean for a moment rubbing the back of her neck slightly and shook her head slightly. "Not sure how to do blood transfusions but I could try sewing it up maybe?" Beth asked eyeing Beast then over at Dean as Mirembe and Dean when Mirembe snapped at Dean she raised an eyebrow. Beth then reached over towards the med kit and started to pull out the, feeling slightly nervous looking over at Dean for a moment. "I guess try and help me clean it out then I can start stitching."

Bethany listened in on both conversations that were going on suggestions where they could go for a potential safe landing zone, she didn't know what to say she wanted to get as far away from the mansion as possible from the OMEN agents that are now swarming the place. Then she eyed the cat that was there, she of course being new didn't know that it was actually Ayita. "So who owns a pet cat here?" Beth finally asked.

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Carolina looked over at Thalia when her friend mentioned that she was hallucinating again which was never a good sign at all which was bad, she watched as the next Sentinel came crashing down due to both a combination of Cass' EMP grenade thrown by Guin and Marygold tripping the hulking robot down to the ground. Carolina watched as Nina came running up and gave the woman a friendly smile and wave towards her. "Good to see you again." Carolina said towards her, before turning her attention and couldn't help but flinch when she heard Guin punching Richard.

She wasn't sure if she was happy for it or not, Carolina knew that he was just trying to save her life, damn that must have hurt though she thought. Carolina turned her attention towards the Pietros there then watched Thalia fly off to play interference again, she just wished that her powers were more offensive. Carolina nodded slightly looking over at the others who were there she needed to get everyone else out. "Make sure you protect Marygold." Carolina said towards Pietro looking over at the Nina, Amni, Cassandra and Guin. "Lets go now." Carolina said as she turned around and made her way towards the Blackbird.

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Cassandra turned her head when she saw Nina and one of the newer faces coming over and gave her a wave and nodded. "They should be filling up the Blackbird now." Cassandra answered as she gave Guin a little smirk at her reference when Guin mentioned Hammer, and their long standing feud with Stark Industries. Cassandra watched Richard and Marygold going at it, eventually Guin punched the Adder across the face and went over to help the man up now. She knew that Guin and Marygold were pretty much besties at this point so they would obviously stick up for one another.

Cassandra nodded slightly towards Guin SHIELD was mainly just there to assist in whatever capacity possible, and were there to aide them it was Marygolds call to stay behind and help back, Cass then moved over and handed the remaining grenades towards Marygold to hopfully be of some use. "You may need these." Cassandra said looking towards the future version of her sister and nodded before looking towards the others. "Head to the Blackbird now." Cassandra said as she started to follow Future Carolina towards the hangar as well.

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Allison still felt shaky as she got on the ship and sat down. Obviously, not as bad as Lance was, with his injuries growing. If he didn't receive medical attention soon, it would be bad. However, he tried pushing it off as not a big deal. The blood told another story. As the others talked back and forth, Allison just wanted a moment of silence. Things were turning sour quickly. She was still worried about Marygold too. Did they stay or should they leave?

"Stark Tower may be the best option then. But what about the others?" If they waited, their chances of being found and attacked grew, but the rest hadn't arrived yet and who knows what would happen to them if they stayed.

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As others came, they looked worse and worse. One guy had glass in his back for Pete's sake! She wouldn't stand idly by as they were all attacked and in danger. She stood up and walked towards the door. Looking back on Charlie. He was right, in a sense, but there were still capable people on board. Plus, as others have spoken about already, if they landed at Stark Tower or wherever else, they were sure to get help.

"Appreciate the concern, but I think I'm best able to help here. You can help me or stay on the ship, but I am not going to sit around and fly off when others are in danger. That's not why I wanted to be an X-men. So you with me?" Either way, Sara would make her way off the ship and run to the others, directing any students she passed along the way.

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"Ah, shoot." Charlie muttered, hesitating only a brief second before high-tailing it after the tenacious Sara. Whether she was gunning for a fight or was just feeling heroic, he didn't know - but did know that he couldn't just chill in the jet while she was out here by herself.

"Just promise me you'll try not to die, okay? It really dampens the mood." He said as he caught up to her, rolling up his sleeves ready to shoot either flame or frost. The last thing he needed was to ruin yet another hoody thanks to his over-active powers.

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Nina watched on at both Guinevere's and Marygold's outbursts, eyebrows raised. Although it was clear by the altercation between the former and Richard that the complaints were directed at him, she wasn't naive enough to think her query directed towards Cassandra hadn't insulted Marygold in some way. Which in of itself showed how un-leaderlike the girl was being. Did Marygold honestly think that having a temper tantrum about who asked who questions - in the middle of a battle, no less - was the way that leaders acted? Did she think Cyclops would do the same, or Captain America? As for Guinevere, her behaviour was to be expected at this point. Immaturity ran too deep in the girl for it to go away when faced with aging or responsibility. Ignoring Amni's sly comments, Nina kept her eyes on Cassandra, deciding that she'd do exactly as the Agent did. No matter what the other's said about S.H.I.E.L.D only being present to render aid, Nina would trust the judgement of a senior agent over an unexperienced mutant. Especially when they acted as childishly as they'd just shown.

Immediately following Cassandra as the group set off, Nina did a double-take at the woman who had smiled at her. At first glance, she had thought it was Carolina. But hadn't she already seen her inside? Besides, this was a gully-grown woman, much older than the Carolina she knew. Realising that there was more going on here than she had first realised, Nina followed the others in silence, praying that all the students were onboard safely and unharmed.

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Richard's head snapped to the side as Guin slugged him. His snake like eyes closing, as he forced himself not to retaliate. Blood leaked into his mouth, which the assassin swallowed. It wouldn't do to leave blood- especially his- at a scene. Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand to get rid of any possible leakages, the Adder turned his head to glare at the two little brats. Now was not the time for a fight, he would deal with them later. Turning away from the field of battle lest he did something stupid, the man bolted for his rooms. Running with a speed one can only acquire when running from a tiger who had been very annoyed.

Reaching his rooms, Richard knew exactly what to grab with swift deft hands which had done this sort of grab and go a bit too often. Army, his time as a hired gun, and when you grew up with a mother and father constantly fighting. Slinging his sister's bow and quiver across his back, Laine blessed what he had once cursed. Ayita had left a trail of things about his room rather than her own for whatever reason. Often it was random bits of stone or feathers, perhaps a few bones or teeth of something she killed. Other times, it was books on animals or notes on them. Weapons made of stone and wood. Or her bow. At least she didn't sleep with the damn thing! Sweeping the small journal containing notes on Guin's little 'favor' into his sister's messenger's satchel. Wallet and cellphone? His pocket. Knives? His boots. Gun? He grabbed his spare from under his pillow and checked the clip. Full. Turning on his booted heel the assassin made a sprint for the BlackBird praying he would make it and ready to gun down any enemy in his way.

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Ayita shifted with a burst of fur and claws into her human form. Crossing the ship to grab Allison in a hug. A rare show of emotion from the woman. Amber eyes that were dark with worry flickered over Allison as the shifter assured herself her friend was alright. "You're alright." Her voice was a low and dangerous growl. She had been pushing away the worry over her friend and brother. But seeing Allison alright and alive was a relief to Ayita.

Looking over at Lance, Ayita glanced between her friend and the stranger as she subconsciously moved to block Lance's access to Allison. Her eyes narrowing slowly, before she relented to approach Lance. Pushing him gently to reveal his back without touching said back, Ayita eyed the wounds. "I could attempt to pull these out with my beak, but it will hurt and you will lose more blood." It was a weak offer, but Ayita was starting to grow restless and glanced towards the mansion with unease. Where was Richard? He should not be gone this long. Not from her side during an attack. Glancing at Allison, Ayita sent the thought of brother as well as spoke outloud. "Brother?" Her worry evident about her older brother.

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Dean wanted to kick himself at Mira's rebuttal. He always did tend to be a little bit gullible, believing the rumors he heard. He rubbed the back of his head awkwardly. "Sorry, man, that was dumb of me...Of course those rumors aren't true - Wakanda's a third world country after all," he said, making an awkwardly insulting apology. "But for someone who's never gone to school before...you seem really smart," he added. He wouldn't have guessed that Mira came from a country that lacked the resources needed to educate its population.

The idea of going to Stark Tower that the new kid had - that seemed promising to him. "Only problem with that is I'm pretty sure they don't just hand out that number...Where's Stark? She'd have it," Dean proposed. "And the others...I guess we just wait till the last possible second and then we leave," he suggested softly. He took a look at Lance before grabbing some bandages and nodding for him to sit down.

"Uh, let's not pull them out with a beak...If you can try to stitch up Beast, I can get these cuts cleaned and patched up for him," Dean said to Bethany. Although Carolina had volunteered, he had some medical training and had a vague idea of what to do. He gave Lance an awkward smile, quickly disinfecting his hands and putting on a fresh pair of gloves he found in the medical supplies. He hadn't imagined doing this when he woke up that morning - all he had really wanted to do was pass out flyers for prom and get the attendance to be higher than expected. Instead, he'd had to give first aid to Dr. McCoy, he'd insulted a Wakandan girl by accident, and now he was about to pull glass out of a new student's back - all while running from robots that wanted to kill them all, accompanied by the future version of Quicksilver.

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Folly nodded, running towards the Blackbird without question. She ran into Charlie and Sara, raising an eyebrow at the pair. She recognized Charlie - he was so young now, it was a little strange to see. She herself looked largely the same after a decade, yet the others had changed dramatically. Pietro hardly looked anything like his younger counterpart in her opinion. In some of those she had seen, the largest difference was in the eyes - an innocence that was no longer there. She then looked at Sara sadly. "You both need to evacuate," Folly told them calmly. She pulled out her daggers and gave them a twirl.

"This isn't the time to make a heroic stand," she then advised them softly. She understood the temptation for heroics - but they didn't have her healing factor. She had every intention of covering the escape route for the others, keeping it clear so that way everyone could get out - especially Marygold. Two inexperienced kids would only be getting in her way.

Meanwhile, Guin was resisting the urge to punch Nina as well. She could see the self righteous look on the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent's face and for a moment, she was seeing red. Punching Richard had given her some satisfaction, but it hadn't fixed the underlying problem that no one seemed to understand how the chain of command worked. She took her last EMP and lobbed it at an oncoming Sentinel, giving Pietro a quick smile as she spotted him. "Volim te, Pietro," she told him with a grin, having remembered that one short little phrase from the Serbian lessons.

Pulling her icer, she headed back with the others to the Blackbird, intending to stun any O.M.E.N. agent they crossed paths with. As she climbed onto the plane, she spotted a pale Lance that had lost a bit too much blood, covered with glass shards. "LANDO!" Guin called out, quickly running over to him. "What did you do, you idiot?" she asked him, looking him over to try to see if he had any other visible injuries.

"Uh, Ms. Stark?" Dean asked, raising his hand.

"Take a number, kid. My lab husband is in trouble and I don't want to find a new fume hood spouse."

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Lance just looked at Guin, giving her a smile. "I stopped someone from getting hit with a laser from those robots," he said, wincing as they started messing with his back, trying to get the glass out. "You also know better than anyone that this isn't even close to the worse injuries I've had in my life, I could name a few that were far worse... Anyway, Guin, call your dad, Pepper, someone, this thing needs a place to land with medical facilities that isn't too far away, and Stark Tower sounds like the best option, no matter how much I hate to admit it..."

Mira was glaring at Dean now. "I learned to read, I read a lot of books, and speaking of which..." she said as she shut the book in her hands, "I'm pretty sure I figured out how to fly this thing, though no promises, since no offense Carolina, but this thing is different with it's controls to anything SHIELD has... Maybe someone else knows the controls so I don't have to end up flying it though," she said, before looking back at the controls again. She was thinking, and memorizing the controls so they could take off in a pinch, though she hoped that there was someone else who could fly this thing.

He still wasn't too sure about going to Stark Tower, he did not want to see his dad who would probably be helpful to them in terms of medical care. "I also hate to say this, but if you don't call them, I will... The Tower being the only number aside from yours in my phone..." he muttered to her. He was starting to get a little dizzy from blood loss, and he was willing to call Stark if he had to, no matter how much he didn't want to go there.

Hearing him mention having the phone number for Stark Tower, Mira turned back around to look at him. She was thinking about where she might have seen him before, or something similar. Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out a phone, and started flipping through various articles. "I thought I'd seen you somewhere before... Lance, what's your last name?" she asked him.

"It's Calrissian... Why?" he replied softly.

"Well, yeah, that is technically true I guess, but that isn't the name everyone calls you I don't think... There was an incident at the Stark Expo a few years back involving Hammer Industries. Says here that it involved Ms. Stark over there, and a kid by the name of Lance Banner, but also goes by the name of Lance Calrissian... The pictures that accompany it of the boy look a lot like you..."

"...Technically my last name is Calrissian, hence why Guin calls me Lando... Banner is the last name everyone else calls me..." he said softly, not wanting to remember the whole incident at the Expo, and not mentioning what it meant if his last name was Banner.

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Mary took the grenades from Cassandra, and in turn handed them to Pietro to use and throw. The grenade that Guin had tossed before she left had slowed down the Sentinel, but it didn't take it down. Pietro tossed the ones that he held, and one of them combined with the one Guin had tossed took it down. He tossed the others at two more Sentinels, but only succeeded in slowing them down.

There was a gust of wind behind them, and the Future Pietro had returned. "Pretty sure I got everyone, we need to get out of here, now, otherwise, we might get stuck out here, or we could all end up dead, and I would prefer to keep on living," he said, looking at the small group still outside the mansion. Mary just looked at him, before turning her attention to the incoming Sentinels. She managed to send another one crashing down, and this time, it had a somewhat domino effect, and it knocked down several other robots with it.

Thalia was fighting to ignore her friend in the red spandex, not to mention that he was flying around on some crazy unicorn or something. She kept taking out the incoming cars, before circling back and landing next to the others. "He's right, we need to get out of here, we won't be able to hold them back much longer," she said, looking at the others, her voice barely more than a strained whisper, it was nearly gone now.

"Alright, we need to start going to the hangar... These guys just keep on coming, and there is no end to them in sight," Mary said, looking at the others. There was a laser shot from the Sentinels, but it missed them, it hit the spot right above the mansion doors. There was a loud crack as rubble started to fall, and the doorway started collapsing.

Everything started moving in slow motion for the two speedsters. The older one immediately grabbed Mary and rushed her inside, past where the entrance was collapsing. The younger speedster grabbed Thalia and yanked her inside, as the older one went back, grabbed Folly, and anyone else still there, and made sure they were inside, and not outside of the mansion. No one was outside of the mansion now except for OMEN. Soon, everything sped up back to normal speed as the entire mansion entrance collapsed.

"You do realize that it isn't recommended for someone with a head injury to be rushed around at those speeds right?" Mary muttered, looking a little sick, but her dizziness passed by quickly, and her head injury from before wasn't too bad.

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Thankful Ayita was ok, she stood up only to be hugged by the girl. Allison found comfort in it because she knew Ayita did not give affection often. The very fact the girl was showing some in front of others meant a lot. Allison fought the urge to bawl like a baby right then and there. Not only was it touching, but recent events were becoming too much.

She hugged back and broke away as Guin entered the ship, making a beeline for Lance. "He did it to save me. I would have been seriously hurt, probably dead if he hadn't pushed me down. And now he needs help."

Hopefully, the others would arrive soon. She was about ready to collapse again.

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Sara was thankful Charlie came with her. As heroic as she sounded, she was also terrified of dealing with the threat alone. So as they rushed upward, ready to face the challenges ahead, it was of great disappointment that she saw the others, the ones from outside, now inside safe and sound.

It, quite frankly, pissed her off.

"What the hell? We were just coming to rescue you guys! Aww, not fair! Well, the ship is going to be leaving soon, so I suggest we all get on it now or we're done for." Sara gave Charlie a look before she turned back to make a run for the ship.

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Carolina looked towards Mirembe for a moment and gave a slight shrug towards her comment, she wasn't a pilot so she'd probably end up making the Blackbird crash and burn even before they took off. Cass could probably be a copilot or something, but her attention turned towards Professor X. "Do you know the controls?" She asked the headmaster, she wasn't sure if he did or not, she knew that Beast was the one who designed the Blackbird in the first place. Carolina ran a hand through her hair letting out a slight sigh when she looked over and head Guin coming in.

She was glad to see that she was alright and she went straight to Lance, when Mirembe mentioned about his other last name she remained pretty quiet and decided to not say anything at all about it. She wasn't sure what to do exactly as she watched Charlie and Sara running off to try and help. She wasn't sure if they were trying to get themselves killed or not, Carolina went and sat down on one of the chairs in the Blackbird. And then a few seconds later Carolina's face lit up when she saw her older sister coming up the ramp as well she was glad to see that she was alright. Along came with her was an older woman who she hadn't seen before, but looked very oddly familiar to her, looking over towards the others wondering if they saw the resemblance to the two of them.

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Bethany nodded towards Dean as she knelt down next to Beast as she grabbed the thread and needle and started to slowly push the needle into the part of the torn skin on Beast's side. Closing her eyes and took a deep breath as she steadied herself and then pushed the threaded needle through the other end. Bethany was taking it very slowly as she did so, occasionally looking back at the others who were there. At least Beast was still and wasn't moving around which was a good thing, as Bethany occasionally went to clean the wound, until she finally finished patching Beast up.

She knew she wasn't going to be the best combat medic out there, but it was good enough to hopefully keep him stabilized for the time being until they got to Stark Tower if that was their actual destination. Beth made sure to stay by his side in case something else happened she also made sure that the stitches were holding up. Beth waited quietly listening to the others as they waited for the remaining people to come onto the Blackbird.

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Carolina looked towards both Charlie and Sara as she walked past them and smiled slightly towards Sara's comment. "There will be more time to do that later Sara, everyone is accounted for I believe. So head back to the Blackbird." She told the two younger mutants as she started to make her own way towards the hangar when she got there, Carolina saw her younger self there. It was the first time that she had seen herself this young. She simply gave herself a smile and went over and stood on the ramp waiting for her fellow future travelers to, she was close to all of them. And she didn't want to see anyone of her friends that she traveled with die, she was glad to see that her sister was alive still.

She looked towards her sister and pulled out her sister's SHIELD ID for a moment looking back towards her then back at it biting her lower lip, she was glad to see her alive. Carolina would occasionally look over her shoulder as the others tended to Lance, and Beast as far as she could tell they were the only ones injured. She overheard them talking about going to Stark Tower, which was probably a good idea to go for now.

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Cassandra looked over at her sister and smiled when she got into the Blackbird and made her way towards the cockpit overhearing her sister's question towards professor X. She stared at Nina and then gestured to make sure that everyone was accounted for. "Make sure that everyone is secured and safe, help out in tending to the wounded if need be as well." Cassandra said to her fellow SHIELD agent. She looked at Mirembe she looked really young to be flying it.

"You okay with flying this thing?" She asked her, while looking towards the ramp waiting patiently for the others to come back, she was really hoping that Marygold and the others would make it onto the Blackbird safely. She didn't want to leave anyone behind just as much as the next person, Cass also wondered how they would be flying out and her biggest fear was getting shot down right away the moment they left the hangar.

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"So you decided to be a human shield?" Guin scolded Lance. She gave him a look, knowing exactly what he was talking about. Their high school years had been eventful, to say the very least. She pulled out her phone and went over to favorites. Tony was on there, as well as Pietro. In fact, the two of them were tied for who she called the most - though she generally only called Pietro for a few seconds, as he'd just run over to wherever she was. The conversations with Tony were of a proper length.

She glanced up from her phone as Mira brought up the incident involving the Stark Expo a few years back. "Sonic, let's not talk about that," she told her friend. "Mind control isn't an experience you look back on very fondly," she added cryptically. Guin then glanced as the speedsters arrived with Mary, letting out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding in. She could tell that Mary had some blood loss, but everyone seemed to have some at this rate. She stepped off to the side, calling her father.

"Hey, Dad? Look, we just got attacked by Sentinels - it's like someone said Order 66 up here. Everyone's safe, but we have some injured people. Going to head off to Stark Tower, if you can get medical ready for us," Guin informed her father, leaning up against the wall of the Blackbird. "And before you freak out - I'm not hurt at all. Lance isn't in the best of shape - got a fucking glass collection in his back. So maybe pre-warn Banner, that way the other guy doesn't make a mess again. We just remodeled, after all..."

Dean was still staring at Lance with shock. Sure, part of him wanted to continue the awkward conversation with Mira, but this kid was Lance...Banner...And unless that happened to be a verbal typo, which he doubted, it meant that the Hulk had a son. Everyone knew that Iron Man had a kid - it wasn't like Guin had done a terrific job at staying out of the spotlight - but Banner?! It was blowing his mind and Dean stared at Lance, trying to wrap his head around it. It must have been as cool as it was terrible. He loved his parents and he got into fights with them from time to time - imagine getting into a fight with the Hulk!

"Woah...I didn't know there was another Avenger kid," Dean told Lance, his eyes still wide with astonishment. "What was it like, growing up with...you know, the Hulk, for a dad?" he then asked, perhaps a bit insensitively.

Folly had gone over to Mary, assessing her head wound. There were moments where she wished she could have transferred her healing factor to another. This was one of those. Mary was easily one of her favorite people in the universe and to her, she had died a long time ago. But seeing this one change to the future already come into effect - Folly couldn't help but smile. "You'll be fine," she whispered to Mary. "The injury isn't fatal," she then assured her. After all, Folly was an expert on identifying if a particular wound would end up killing someone.

Folly sat down next to Mary, after handing her a clean thing of gauze to press up against the wound. She then looked at the Future Pietro, beaming with happiness. Even if the world still ended...at least Mary was okay. She knew that her own younger counterpart was in a dangerous spot at the moment, but Folly didn't care.

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Ayita laid a hand on Allison's arm only half listening to the bickering of the others. Her dark head resting against her friend's shoulder, something she would have never done a year ago. It was soothing to her animalistic instincts. Though her eyes gleamed with worry for her brother. If she lost Richard, if that bastard got himself hurt for something stupid! Ayita wouldn't forgive him, or herself for that matter. The amber gaze of the woman kept flickering towards the entrances. Her nerves were on high alert and she was more than irritated at the entire situation. Sharp footsteps sounded the entrance of a dishelved man. His dark hair damp with sweat as long finger raked through it. "Brother." Ayita gave a cry of sheer relief as she bolted from Allison to latch onto Richard Laine.

The Adder stumbled slightly as his sister slammed him into the side of the Blackbird. Wrapping on arm around the smaller shifter, Richard gave a halfhearted shove. Pushing and guiding them both to seats next to Allison. Putting Ayita next to the slightly terrifying cheerleader. For all she looked innocent Richard had seen her in action and those powers were not playthings. "I'm fine, cher. I'm fine, see? Not a scratch." Except to his pride, but Richard was smart enough to not say anything about that. They did not need more fights breaking out. However, scarred fingers gripped his hand as Ayita peered at the slight smear of blood on his cuff, raising a skeptical brow. "Not a scratch. More of a blow to the jaw." He admitted carefully. For all that he wasn't the sort to sick his sister on people, Richard knew better than to lie to Ayita. She would not forgive him for that, not after everything else.

Ayita's amber eyes narrowed as she gave a rumbling growl. Far deeper than a mere human would be able to produce. "I hoped you killed them." No one touched her brother but her! No one had more of a claim upon his life! Ayita saw his eyes flicker to Guin, his jaw tightening. Turning with a slow and calculating look in her amber eyes. So it was Guin Stark who had punched him? Her brother gripped the back of the shirt she wore. A deeper growl coming from his own throat, "Not right now. We have bigger issues." Richard couldn't keep her from growling, but he sure as hell could keep her from throwing a punch at the Stark. Ayita grumbled and shrugged off Richard's grip. Wrapping an arm about Allison's shoulder, she pulled her into a one armed hug. "Rest, Allison. I will bite Brother if it makes you feel better." A amused and slightly malicious glint in her amber eyes.

"You'll get bitten if you try, Ay, and I'm venomous." The response was tired, and there was a edge of temper to it.

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@FantasyChic Twice in one day? Looks like Allison's powers are wanting to do a kickstart as she has another vision!

Allison's vision opens up with a man standing in an office, looking through a file. She'd easily be able to recognize him, his face was all over the news after all. Alexander Jakobsen, OMEN agent and presidential candidate. The MRA was one of his ideas, and he looked almost mad. The TV in the room was tuned to a news station and it was showing the remains of the mansion. The door flung open and a dark haired woman with a British accent entered. She had a file in her hand and she threw it down on the desk, looking at Alex with anger flashing in her eyes. "Want to explain why I suddenly got an influx in clients wondering what the hell happened to their kids?!"

"Pleasure as always to see you Jade," he replied, looking over at the TV screen. There were helicopters circling over the remains of the mansion, and it was showing several military vehicles there as well. He set the file he had been looking through down, and looked at her again. "What makes you think I had anything to do with it?"

"Cut the bullshit, Alex," Jade told him, locking eye contact. There was an engagement ring on her finger. "You know that you can't keep secrets from me. So I'm going to give you one last chance to come clean, got it?"

He let out a sigh, walking over to her. "Alright... The goal was to test out the Sentinels... They needed a test run, and we knew that the mansion was home to a lot of mutants. No one died though, aside from some of our own agents. All of the students who were left at the school have gone into hiding probably, look, they weren't meant to kill anyone..." Alex responded, looking her in the eye.

Jade didn't say anything for a moment, before she put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't test these things out on children. You know I agree with you - but you don't start with the innocents. You put them into a program, sterilize them, whatever...But you don't kill kids. The adults - those are the monsters that destroyed our families."

"I wasn't even targeting the kids. There is a group of mutants who operate out of that school, a group known as the X-Men, I'm sure you've heard about their encounter with the Brotherhood last year. They were the targets, and Charles Xavier, the man who ran the school, is an advocate for relations between humans and mutants, and he is a threat to us."

"Then kill them - can't be much harder than killing the devil," she mused, cracking a bit of a smile.

"That is indeed the plan, however, I hope to at least secure a few of them alive. To help us improve upon the Sentinels, and to run a few tests and experiments, to see what fuels their powers," he said, smiling back at her.

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Tony was silent as he listened to what Guin was saying. "Alright, get here quickly, I'll make sure the landing pad is clear for you. Everything should be ready for you by the time you get here, and I'll warn Banner so he doesn't freak out or something when you guys arrive. See you when you get here Penguin," he said, before he hung up the phone.

"Speedy, go do one last check to make sure that everyone is here," Mary said as she got on board and headed straight for the cockpit. The two speedsters just looked at each other, confused for a moment. "Uh, Mary? Which one of us are you talking to?"

"Both of you, now go!" she snapped at them, and both of the speedsters took off running. Guin would find that the speedsters had handed her the two watches before they left though. Mary sat down in the copilot's seat, and looked over at Mira. "You and I might want to trade chairs, though I'm guessing you know the controls on the Bird. I've flown simulators and have been up here in case of an emergency when it was on autopilot, ironically Hank and I were supposed to go out flying in this thing today," she said, as the two traded seats.

Lance looked at Dean when he spoke, and if he wasn't so tired, he'd have punched the guy in the face. "Leave me alone, I do not like to talk about it..." he muttered, looking away from the guy. He kind of had hoped that Guin had heard Dean, since he knew that she'd happily punch the guy for him. Talking about his dad was a bit of a sore subject for him, but he said nothing more about it. "Technically I wasn't a human shield Guin. If I was a human shield, I would have been hit by a laser and falling glass from the window..."

The two speedsters returned, and everyone was on board. The older one walked over to Guin and handed her a bag that had her Walkman and tapes in it. "We've got everyone Mary," he said, and she nodded her head. Mira went to push a button, but Mary knocked her hand away from it. She gave the ginger a confused look. "Isn't that how we get out of here, that button should have raised the platform and opened up the doors under the tennis courts..."

"That is only partially true. Those doors were added later, made it a little more convenient of an exit, however, Hank kept the original exit out of the hangar, though it means we basically are traveling a mile from the mansion, figured it would probably be a better exit in this scenario," Mary replied, before she pushed a button to raise the ramp of the Blackbird, and another that caused it to rotate 90 degrees to the right. She flipped a switch, and there was a loud clanging sound rang throughout the hangar. "Note to self, if the hangar survives this, oil those doors," she muttered.

The doors revealed a long launchpad, and at the very far end, they would be able to see water cascading down over the exit. "Wait, what is with the water of there?" Mira asked as she buckled in.

"That exit is covered by a waterfall, looks like the old mechanism for the doors that parted the water, so the Blackbird will get a little wet, no big deal," she replied simply. Once she saw that everyone was in and buckled, she pushed a lever forward, and the Blackbird shot off.

Future Pietro walked up to the front, there was a suggestion he wanted to make, and it bugged him slightly, and had for many years. "Hey Mary, quick suggestion, you might want to start carrying plant seeds around or something," he said, before stepping back again.

"...That is an excellent idea, thanks for that..." she said, before she looked out the window. "Crap, incoming! There should be a few consoles back there that help to control the weapons systems, start pushing buttons if you have to!"

There was a few Sentinels flying towards them now, and she wasn't sure if they'd be able to outrun them.

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Once everyone was safely back on board, Sara breathed a sigh of relief. She was essentially powerless until someone displayed their power. She wasn't looking forward to dealing with the giant robots with her bare hands.

Allison was dealing with more things than she was letting on. She felt the comfort radiating off of Ayita and was actually happy to see her brother alive and well. Beofre she could speak, Allison felt her head pulse and she dropped to the ground. The vision played like a small movie. She recognized the main player. She was sure her parents were going to vote for him.

The other woman she didn't know. She knew her name now though. The vision itself was terrifying to hear, let alone see. Not only were they being targeted, they were being targeted for capture. Killing was not off base with them either, if the woman had her way. As she said, they were kids. There were small children here. It made Allison's blood boil.

Sara watched her go down and made her way over. "Hey, blondie just went down. Are we getting this thing airborn soon?" Luckily, the ship took off after she said it, but she was still concerned. Especially as Marygold highlighted incoming Sentinels. Would the Blackbird be able to handle them?

"This thing has weapons, yeah? Use 'em! Also we got powers. Use them too! We need to get out of here!"

Allison's vision was ending soon, but she fought to remember every detail of it. She wanted to be able to recall it later when she told the Professor about it. And Marygold. She debated telling the others and would leave that for others to decide. Instead, she came out of her vision and stood up. "I'm ok, just need to sit down." She made her way over to a chair. "I'm still a bit woozy from before, it seems."

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Charlie had been about to argue (weakly) with the woman who had directed he and Sara back to safety. He didn't know who she was, even though there was a strange sense of familiarity in her eyes when she looked at him. Was she a teacher at the school that he'd never seen before? One of the X-Men, maybe? Either way, he - and Sara, no doubt - wouldn't be going anywhere until everyone else was safe. As it happened, everyone seemed to be following the orders of this woman, including Guin and Marygold. It didn't take long for Charlie to find himself in the Blackbird with everyone else, eyeing the hangar doors nervously to see if any metal creature decided to burst through it. Unfortunately there seemed to be some injuries on board, though most seemed superficial. He imagined everything would be easily dealt with once at Stark Tower.

Wow. Stark Tower. The thought that they were going to the headquarters of the Avengers sent a thrill of excitement through him, even in the current situation. Things would be pretty bleak and 'hands-on' as soon as they'd landed, and he'd have to act professionally. Still, it was exciting to be among the greats. The only time Iron Man had made an appearance during one of the missions had been before he'd even joined.

About to take a seat, Charlie faltered as he saw Allison fall to the ground. Before he could meander past the throng of students and get to her, she'd already regained her balance and found a seat.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked, kneeling by her seat and touching her arm gently. Had she had a vision? Or worse, had some kind of injury they hadn't noticed yet. Deciding that Allison looked pretty unscathed in terms of physical injuries, Charlie glanced over his shoulder at Sara as she began urging those up front to use the weapons. She sure did like a fight - either way, he cracked a grin, glad she was okay, and still enthusiastic about everything, before turning back to Allison.

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Once on board the Blackbird, Nina did as Cassandra suggested. Her powers were only of use when up close and personal with her enemies, and while she wanted everyone to get away safely, there was no point in disembarking just to meet OMEN out in the field. Hopefully those with ranged powers and the Blackbird weapons could do the job.

Doing a brief headcount of everyone on board, Nina sighed in relief as a full roster of students was accounted for. Naturally, since being at the academy, she'd memorised the number of students staying there in case something like this happened. A headcount was a lot quicker than going off a register, anyway. Next, she looked at injuries. Again, they were in luck - nothing too serious. Allison looked wobbly, Banner's son had some wounds from glass the would require stitching, though they were hardly life-threatening, and both Beast and Mary had some minor wounds too. All in all, they'd been extremely lucky in how fast they'd managed to evacuate.

Making sure the exit to the Blackbird was secure, Nina turned back to the front as she awaited lift off.

"If anyone needs help, just give a yell." Her voice ringing loud and clear across the babbling in the jet, Nina held onto something in anticipation for the plane to take off. She didn't know much first-aid, but whatever she could do for these kids, she would.

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Carolina looked among the rest of the students that were now in the Blackbird, she was glad to see that all of them were alive and well letting out a soft sigh as she leaned back in her seat. She would occasionally eye the others that were there, the ones from the future in particular she wasn't sure what to think of them exactly. One of them seemed to be very close to her sister, until her future self finally said that she was her from the future. That was really weird to see herself much older looking, as she looked around, she listened to Marygold as she took the pilot seat on the Blackbird. She could feel the whole thing starting to shift, and it suddenly flew forward Carolina watched for a moment.

Then she saw Allison fall onto the floor, she was about to quickly get up, when Allison seemed to finally come out of it as Carolina tried to move through the group of students. It seemed like she was better now, and there were a few people going over to tend to her letting out a soft sigh in relief as Carolina went back and sat down in her seat. Carolina watched as her sister nodded towards Marygold and moved towards one of the consoles in the Blackbird she assumed were the weapons.

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Bethany turned to look over at Dean and Lance, the Dean guy seemed to have a thing for the Banner boy since his father was apparently the Hulk. And seeing his reaction towards him Bethany decided to stand up, and to keep Dean a bit of company she was a bit out of her element she didn't really socialize with the others. "Why don't we chat or something, give the injured guy some space yeah?" Bethany said gently resting a hand on his shoulder and led him towards another seat. Beth could feel the plane shifting around slightly and looked over towards the window of the cockpit.

Beth watched as the perky blonde girl went down onto the floor, she wasn't sure if it was an injury or not, as she wasn't sure what was wrong with her. Then a few seconds later the Blackbird lunged forward, and Allison started to come to it appeared that it was just a power issue of some kind. "You okay?" Beth asked looking over towards her, before turning her attention back at Dean. "So maybe set up the dance thing at Stark Tower or something?" Bethany asked she didn't like dances but decided to think of something to talk about.

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Future Carolina was glad that they were all alive and well now, so far their future looked to be less bleak now that they saved Marygold and Professor X from dying back at the mansion. She started to approach Future Pietro, Thalia and Folly as well, and took a seat near them. She noticed the younger version of her continued to stare at her for a long while. "I am you from the future, so you can stop staring at me." Carolina said towards her younger self, before turning back to her future counter parts and smiled towards them.

"Looks like we are doing well so far, got everyone out safely." Carolina said towards them Marygold seemed to be taking the controls and started to activate the Blackbird and they were about to go on their way through the older version of the hangar for the Blackbird, she watched Allison going down as if she was having another vision of some kind. "What did you see Allison?" Carolina asked turning to face Allison, it could be important. Carolina heard there were Sentinels that were now blocking the hangar, she then got up and moved along side her sister to the weapons console

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Cassandra was glad that everyone had gotten aboard safe and sound, letting out a sigh of relief as she moved over and leaned up against the front of the cockpit watching Mira and Marygold at the controls, they were certainly very different from the Zephyr and the Bus. Cassandra looked over her shoulder and gave her sister a soft smile, she was glad to see her alright. When the hangar doors opened up Cassandra could see the water cascading in front of the hangar doors. Then there were Sentinels there, and gave Marygold a slight nod. "On it, just keep flying I'll take the weapons." Cassandra said.

She turned around and found the console and pulled up a seat as the Blackbird was launching out of the hangar, strapping herself in Cassandra quickly started to try and orient herself with the weapons system on the Blackbird. When they were out of the hangar Cassandra pressed one of the buttons out at random. She looked over her shoulder seeing her older version of her sister moving to the seat next to her.

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"Thanks Dad," Guin replied, putting her phone in her pocket but cranking the volume all the way up first, just in case he called her back. With as many people as they had crowded onto the Blackbird, she didn't want to have the sheer noise block out an important call. However, a second later she found herself being presented with a bag. She reached inside and pulled out the mixtape that Pietro had made her for her 19th birthday. Guin stared at it for a moment, before looking up at Future Pietro. She then glanced at the two watches she had been handed as well and her mind began to put two and two together.

"Oh...So then we...Wow..." Guin mumbled. She slipped the tape back into the bag and set it down on her seat, the watches on top. And while she didn't hear Dean's comment to Lance, having been off on the phone with her dad, she did hear the exclamation as sentinels began to pursue them. She tried to push the realization out of her mind, as she quickly told Mary Stark Tower would be ready for them, before she headed onto the back and took a seat opposite Cassandra at one of the other consoles. "Just like a video game, r-right?" Guin tried to joke, but her heart wasn't quite in it as she strapped herself in and began to try and unleash havoc on the sentinels following them.

The future version of her watch began to beep - which technically speaking should have been impossible. It didn't look as if anyone had made any repairs to it. For someone to change the watch enough to give it a working function - without making it look as if any modifications had been done - would have been quite the intellectual feat. Or an afternoon challenge for a member of the Stark Family.

Future Pietro looked over at the watch when it started beeping, he knew that Guina had messed with it before they had left, and now he picked it up. He knew what buttons to push to get the message to activate, since that was what he was guessing it was. After all, he had picked up most basic tech and science skills. He managed to mess with it enough so that it played a message.


Hearing her words, it made him start to tear up slightly. He had left his wife, in hopes of creating a better future, even though they didn't even know if they could return, let alone change it at all. Somehow, he managed not to break down entirely, but he didn't look at anyone else, just staring at the watch now, not saying a word.

Meanwhile, Folly had begun to feel a bit melancholic. She knew that she should have alerted someone that her medication had finally began to wear off, especially given that they didn't have anymore. Instead, all she did was watch as Mary went to the cockpit and began to take charge. On one level, Folly was extremely happy to see one of her few friends survive. They had already changed the future for the better. But at the same time, she was rather sad as well. She had imagined that she and Mary would have a tearful reunion - and instead, nothing.

I told you, she's the one who got you sent to the madhouse - she doesn't care about you... a voice whispered in the back of Folly's mind. "Maybe..." Folly whispered back to the voice sadly.

Dean, in all of his glory, looked at Allison fainting with concern, shock, and a bit of irritation. Beast was down for the count and the Hulk's kid (it was all he could think of Lance as now) had a back filled with glass. Not to mention the gigantic Terminators that were trying to kill them all. Having one of the cute girls randomly faint felt like almost too much to him. "Hey uh...You okay?" he asked, looking down at the blonde. She seemed to be, given that she got up a few seconds later and grabbed a seat. He let Beth guide him into another seat, but he was still looking intently at Allison and Lance, each for different reasons.

"Wait...You see the future?" he asked with wide eyes, after someone mentioned Allison having a vision.

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Ayita grabbed Allison's shoulders. Cursing as her friend went down hard, Richard was on his feet in a matter of mere seconds. The younger Laine felt a twinge of comfort even as she snarled away her elder brother's aid. Allison was hers. Hers in the sense that the younger girl had Ayita's completely and utter loyalty and love. Not the gooey love that Guin- who was owed a good smack down for hurting Richard- or the speedsters had. But she felt a pack bond as the wolves would consider it, with the young woman. Same as Richard, and perhaps stronger Hovering over Allison as the blond recovered enough to make it to a seat, Ayita was joined by her brother in the monitoring. This time she didn't snarl him away as Charlie was also there as well. Giving the young man a pointed look, Ayita turned to attention to Allison. There was no point in asking the question that was written on her face when everyone else had already asked it.

Richard felt his heart skip a beat as Ayita snarled at him. Looking ready to take more than a mere bite out his flesh. The assassin however couldn't stop from hovering protectively by sitting next to Allison and her furry protector- currently in a human form. Hearing Nina's call about anyone needing help the Adder smirked and gave a sharp call back to the woman he had fought prior. "Yell, yell, yell! I need help, Nina my dear. So much help. I'm in agony from the torment of being without your charming smile!" His sister gave him a look that spoke volumes about his intelligence or lack thereof, but she merely shook he head. To Ayita, Richard was a brother and it took a second sometimes to remember that he was also a 'male' of a species. And thus prone to stupidity. As she had told him. When he was telling her the same thing about her gender.

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"Folly?" Future Pietro said, looking over at her. He knew the warning signs, and she was starting to talk to herself, which was never a good thing. "I know what is going through your head Folly, I know who you are talking to... Stranger Danger don't listen to them! Stranger Danger, don't listen to them even if you recognize them, except for your Mary hallucination, you can listen to her, but that's it. Stranger Danger everyone hide!"

Lance was glad that Bethany was trying to distract Dean, getting the attention away from him. The guy really needed to learn a few things about being considerate of other people's emotions, since the guy seemed to be perfectly fine asking random questions that are touchy subjects for others. In his opinion, Dean really needed to grow up or something.

The two consoles that Cassandra and Guin went to both had weapons, however they were of different designs. The one that Guin was at was rather simple, allowing her to use it much like a video game, complete with a screen that would help her aim. The one that Cassandra was at was more complicated, with various buttons and levers, however it was obvious that it had more powerful weaponry. It would take her a few minutes, but she'd be able to aim and fire at least a few shots off.

"Crap, they're shooting at us!" Mary called out as she started to maneuver the Blackbird, avoiding the shots from the Sentinels. Problem with the Blackbird, is that it may be fast, but it was still big. She managed to make it so that the shots from the Sentinels missed, all except for one. There was a jolt as the plane started tilting to the left a lot more. "Damn! Mira, a little help here," she said as she tried to level the plane out.

Mira grabbed onto the wheel, and pulled, and between the two of them, they were able to level the plane out. "We don't have anyone with strength and who can fly, otherwise they would be able to level the plane out enough, at least until we got to Stark Tower," she said, looking at Mary as they held the wheel in place. What Mira said gave Mary an idea.

"No, your right, so we'll just have to improvise, hold the Blackbird as level as possible Mir, I'll be back at the wheel in a moment," she said as she let go, and Mira was using all of her strength to keep the plane level. Mary walked over and grabbed a spare comm link, and handed it to Thalia. "So, how strong are you?"

"Stronger than I used to be, but not as strong as you need me to be," Thalia replied, ignoring her own hallucinations as she put the comm in her ear. Marygold turned to look at Nina, "Doubt you're going to like this Nina... But we are all out of options unless we want to crash... Thalia, I need you to spread your wings, and carry Nina outside of the Blackbird, so you'll lift her, she'll lift the plane in order to level us out, just until we get to Stark Tower because we can't fix the plane in the air!"