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As Andrew talked, she felt...off at his behavior. Even Watts seemed to comment on it as Andrew swore, something she had never heard him do. Granted, he was seemingly blown up and captured, that was cause for letting off a swear word or two, but even then. Plus, Andrew was never one to stand idly by while he rambled on about something, so the fact he seemed to slow down to explain things to them was also odd. To top it off, Andrew referred to himself as an idiot, but it wasn't like he was chastising himself. If felt, to her, like he was calling Andrew an idiot like he was someone else referring to Andrew. And then Watts spoke about the stupid cupcake and she caught what he was trying to do. She tried to meet Watts' gaze to subtly nod her head in understanding. This didn't seem like Andrew. At all.

Before she could press on, she heard a sound from down the hallway, along with footsteps. She drew her sword before she crept to the door, allowing the others to remain in the room. She listened closely as the footsteps got closer. Whoever it was was not trying to be sneaky or subtle, which led her to believe it wasn't the two women they faced before. Plus, it was only one set of footsteps. As whoever approached, Bella turned and placed her sword at the person's neck, eyeing the woman as she came in. "We have a guest. Mind telling us who you are and why you are here?"

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Arthur will be able to hear the loud sounds that would be Jolene being somewhat loud wandering around the areas past where he was. Some people clearly weren't very quiet when it came to walking around normally. He'd find a few other things listed on the computer that might be helpful regarding that machine if he wanted to open up the files on it, but there wasn't anything else specifically regarding the members of the Sisterhood or anything like that.

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The woman let out a slight sigh, turning to look over at Elara and Psylocke. "Yes, I do know the group that you are looking for, I actually pointed them in the right direction of what it is that they were searching for. I am known simply as Spiral, and the ones that you are looking for are downstairs," Spiral said, before she walked over and pushed a panel on the wall, revealing an elevator, "Since they have yet to come upstairs once more, I assume that they likely went to the lower levels of the facility. We have several elevators like this one hidden throughout the building, you may use it if you like."

"How did you end up here and away from Mojo Spiral?"

"That is something I do not wish to discuss with you Psylocke, but perhaps that could be a story for another time..."

"Thank you for your assistance." Psylocke said as she walked towards the elevator.

Spiral seemed to ignore Psylocke now, and turned to look directly at Elara, lowering her voice a bit. "This is your one warning here... There are several people here who can mess with your mind, make you see things that aren't really there, and mess with your perception of reality. They also can mess with the minds of others. So if I were you, I would not trust anyone who is here. Not even those you came into the building with..."

"Vertigo, let's get going," Psylocke said, waiting in the elevator for her.

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Sapphire was just watching all of the interactions around her, not sure what else to exactly say about the entire situation. Things certainly were a bit strange with everything, and she wandered over to the machine, looking at it. It definitely wasn't the simplest of machines, she could easily tell that one, but she didn't say anything. Andrew seemed hell bent on destroying the machine though, and she was perfectly fine with the idea of smashing the thing.

"Nothing bad will happen if you smash it, there might be a few zaps or whatever from the electrical components maybe, but probably not since the EMP blast essentially shut it all down and what not, so you don't need to worry about that," he said to Evelyn nodding his head slightly as he walked over and started messing with something.

"Cool, blasting stuff is always a fun thing."

"Yeah, I just don't get the point of cupcakes - are they cake or are they not?" Andrew said to Watts with a bit of a shrug. "I mean if it is cake, why not just get a full sized cake and not the little mini cupcakes or whatever, that just is really weird to me."

Sapphire glared more or less at Jolene when she walked into the room, and was not surprised at all that Bella had been the first one to act, placing a sword to her neck. "I'd answer her question if I were you, otherwise the whole situation might end a bit poorly for you," she said with a slight smirk, just staring at Jolene.

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Arthur paused for a moment, hearing the sound of someone walking down the hallway. They didn't seem to be interested in entering the room he had found, so the emerald archer relaxed ever so slightly, typing his next query into the computer: Harrison Snow. He needed to know the truth about his father's murder - the truth about why the Sisterhood had marooned him on Krakoa all of those years ago. Their actions, their evil scheme, it had turned him into a vigilante. They had made him into a monster.

"...Psylocke..." he growled, his voice barely above a whisper. The Sisterhood seemed to have brainwashed Elizabeth Braddock into murdering his father, leaving a trojan horse in her mind. At any moment, the twin sister of the famous Captain Britain could be turned back into a ruthless, killing machine. His hands twitched slightly, torn between putting an arrow between Psylocke's eyes or admitting to himself that she was just as much a victim as his father had been. The real killer was the one who had ordered the hit - the Red Queen, Madelyn Pryor. Arthur took a deep breath as he clenched his hands. There wasn't much more that this machine could tell him that he didn't already know, and besides, he hated technology. Stepping away from the terminal, he listened at the doorway to see if he could hear Pryor outside. As soon as she was near, he was going to kill her and avenge his father, once and for all.

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A little bit of pride swelled in his heart as Belladonna indicated that she understood what he was doing. Disappointingly, Evelyn hadn't seemed to pick up on it, more focused on destroying the machine. Watts wasn't going to let anyone touch the contraption until he was certain as to what had happened to Andrew - and even then, he didn't trust these people with access to technology that advanced and powerful. One mishap and Evelyn and Belladonna may find themselves permanently switched. "Andrew" fell for his bait - the cupcake eater would never disavow cupcakes like that, Watts was certain of it. He was so focused on "Andrew" that he hardly cared for the intruder in the room. And besides, Belladonna had it handled with her sword.

Moving at superspeed, Watts knocked out "Andrew" gently - he didn't want to cause the boy pain. "Whoever you are, you picked a bad time," Watts warned, his eyes darting over towards the doorway. His body was still moving at superspeed, causing his eyes to have an eerie red glow from underneath the covering of his suit. That was the most thought he gave them though, turning his attention to the machine. Hopefully, one of his Ph.D.'s would be helpful when it came to figuring out how to fix what they had done to Andrew. If the cupcake eater wasn't alive, he was going to start ripping out hearts. No one and he meant no one messed with his team on his watch.

It had taken a lot of damage and Watts worked meticulously, repairing the components one by one. He was decent at memorization and from what he recalled of the schematics, there was an additional component added - something to reverse the mind switch. Watts let out an internal sigh of relief. They could fix what had been done to Andrew. "I can repair the machine and reverse the psychic switch they performed on Andrew," he told his group. "It may take some time."

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Evelyn heard some loud footsteps coming into the room, and turned her attention over to Jolene who had stumbled into the room only for Belladonna to step into the fray holding her sword to the girl's neck, she now recognized the woman who had came into the room. "Good work." Evelyn said as she turned her attention towards Watts seeing him knocking out Andrew without any kind of problems. He did seem to be off a little bit as well, now picking up on what Watts asked about cupcakes to him.

Evelyn watched over the room, she wasn't any kind of engineer and it was out of her area as well she'd watch everyone in the room. Then she heard a gunshot going off, and turned to see another woman coming into the room and noticed the second woman coming in and knew that they were both from Serval as well. But she quickly went over to help Watts up looking down at the gun shot and then over at the two of them "They must have been sent here by Gardner to stop us, they are with Serval as well."] Evelyn said.

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Casey shook her head slightly when she could easily hear Jolene's footsteps as she walked down the hallway, but she remained behind her a little bit. When the girl entered the room, she could hear some of the other voices from the other team members, she leaned up against the wall looking into the room. Casey saw Belladonna holding a sword to Jolene's throat, and Watts knocking out Andrew as well, before going to some kind of device.

She then stepped into the room, trying to disarm Belladonna but she miscalculated and quickly turned to Watts, taking out her handgun and aimed at Watts' foot and fired off a single shot. Looking at the other team members while her gun was trained on Watts still for the time being. "Step away from the machine, I will shoot again." She said turning to the others now. "We are here to take you all back to Serval HQ."

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Elara listened to the multi-armed (figuratively and literally) woman explained who she was and if she'd seen the rogue team members. Elara raised an eyebrow as she simply revealed an elevator that would take them right to the group. This seems way too easy.

Psylocke and Spiral exchanged words. Elara glanced between the two women. Who is Mojo? And why weren't they briefed about any other potential Serval employees at the facility? Wouldn't it have been in Gardner's interest to tell them everything about this building before sending them into it?

Psylocke entered the elevator and waited for Elara. Elara was passing by when Spiral turned her direct attention on the masked mutant. Elara slowed to a stop as she spoke. Someone here could mess with perception as well? Was it another illusionist, like herself? She was wary of this stranger's information, her brows furrowing for a moment. Don't trust anyone in this building... not even the ones I came with? She was reminded of Psylocke's presence when the woman urged Elara to join her in the elevator.

"How do you know this? How can I trust you?"

Spiral smirked slightly at Elara. ”Because I have been around people like this before. Don't trust them, otherwise it may end up with you getting more than you bargained for."

Elara looked over the woman's facial expression. Could Spiral even be trusted here? She simply gave the woman a nod before turning to slowly join Psylocke in the elevator. She said nothing as the doors closed and lead them down the secret elevator shaft. Her eyes turned to Psylocke, looking over every feature of her in case there was some detail she missed. If it was an illusion or a mind trick, Elara would have been able to tell. There was always something off about an illusion. Some little tell. It took great masters of the ability to notice them.

The elevator soon began to slow to a stop, and Elara still hadn't noticed anything unusual about Pyslocke. Was that woman just trying to make her paranoid? No. She was just reminding me to be cautious. Whether it was a threat or a warning, I should always be vigilant. She frowned, facing the doors of the elevator. When they opened, she could see into a computer room.

There were no white lab coats or glasses wearing technologists inside. In fact, the room was completely empty aside from a man dressed in green leather. Elara looked him over quickly, deciding that he was actually, physically there. He was tall, muscular, and donned a hood and an archer's quiver of arrows on his back.

Similar to her greeting with Spiral, Elara raised both hands as she slowly stepped into the computer room. She didn't want to make this man assume she was hostile. She could see how tense he looked, crouched by the door. Nearby there was a computer screen with multiple files on it's desktop. What was he looking at on the computer? Did it have to do with the rogues, or some other issue? was he listening at the door for the rogue members?

Elara cleared her throat gently. If he hadn't heard the elevator's arrival, he would know there were there now. "Hello. We work for Serval Industries. We're here on a call about rogue team members. May I ask who you are?"

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The sudden pop of a pistol discharging set a ringing in her ear, though left her coherent enough to decide on the action of diving away; using the gun shot as a distraction. Jo dove away from the blade at her neck and putting distance between herself and the rest of the group. She crashed into a roll and spun herself quickly back to her feet. She manipulated her light disks in front of herself as a shield between herself and the Rogue team.

Her eyes quickly scanned the group and noticed a fight was probably the worst decision that could be made. They were outnumbered by a staggering amount. And no matter how good Casey was they didn't stand a chance in this situation. So the best course of action was discourse.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Jo started, trying to get attention. "Let's all calm down. We didn't come here to fight. We came here to just talk and get you all to agree to come back and return company property. That was all." Jo stated as calmly and honestly as she could; conveniently leaving out the part about the 'by force if necessary' option given. Though she truly didn't find that an option, especially within this very situation

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While Bella held her sword to the woman's neck, it wasn't long before someone else emerged in the room. The other woman tried to disarm her, but missed, however, she managed to get a shot off hitting the machine Watts would be working on. And to make matters even more interesting, they were here to take them back to Serval. Bella didn't let her sword drop as she took out her gun, aiming it at Casey. While she intended to shoot the woman in the leg, she missed but hit nothing and no one else.

"Consider that a warning shot. I won't miss next time. I suggest if you do really intend to talk, you lower your weapon and I will lower mine." Bella had no intention of allowing them the upper hand, and she figured Watts and Sapphire would not be willing to just walk back to Serval because two women came in and told them too, but Bella figured they were misguided, much like all of them were before.

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Psylocke walked into the room, purple energy swirling around her hand slightly as she looked over at Arthur, the energy forming into a blade. "Who are you supposed to be? I know you aren't here because of Serval, I also know that you aren't a part of the group that operates here, so I'm only going to ask you this once. Who are you and why are you here sneaking around?"

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Sapphire stopped talking, or saying anything when Watts more or less knocked Andrew out. He started going on about something, but her mind was able to keep up with what it was exactly he was saying. She thought for a moment, thinking about how the machine must be able to operate, and exactly what sort of thing would be required to actually pull that off. "Ok Watts, I'm going to be blunt, I may not be an engineer, but I do know roughly how much power, a that would require, and b what the odds of you just fixing it are. Because I've got good news and I've got bad news for you." she explained simply, shaking her head slightly. "Best case scenario, they just switched his mind with someone else, you need to find where that other person's body is, bring it back over here, and just reverse it, easy enough. However, if what they did was essentially override his mind, then there are only two real options that could happen, with a 1 in a few million shot of him actually waking up. Second best scenario, he ends up in a coma, worse case he's brain dead. Even if you cause it to reverse, there is still a chance that he'll still be dead."

Turning her attention towards the two who just entered the room, her hands had a slight frosty mist surrounding them and she glared at the pair. "Honestly? You'd think you people would learn... Not to mention you two are outnumbered, there are four of us and only two of you. Now, why the hell would we go back to Serval? Give us one good reason!Ugh, newbies, just walking forward and just trusting anyone who gives you a job, don't ya think it's a bit weird how things seem to be going? Did Gardner explain to you just what this building is or why we would want to come here? Since I guarantee she actually knew why we headed here even if she didn't tell you."

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Evelyn had her sword out glaring at the two of them, and then heard another gunshot going off and looked over at Belladonna who made a warning shot at the trigger happy woman who had shot Watts in the foot. "It would be wise to not attack any of us further." Evelyn agreed as she looked over at Sapphire for a moment. "You do sound more like an engineer or something." Evelyn said, knowing how the machine worked but who they had switched bodies with Andrew and where the other person's body was.

"We could wake him up and interrogate him or something to, find out who he is?" Evelyn said and looked at Jolene and shook her head slightly. "We aren't going anywhere until we fix Andrew, and Gardner needs to answer some questions." Evelyn said, whether the girl attacked or not she would make sure to defend herself and the others as well.

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Casey looked at the four of them in the room and then over towards Jolene, hearing a gunshot going off from Belladonna, closing her eyes for a moment and sighed before putting her gun away for now. "I watched one of you knock him out, and then you pointing a sword at her neck so it was the logical response." Casey looked at Watts for a moment and then over at the machine that was here in the room she wasn't sure what it was aside from.

She wasn't sure if Watts wanted her help after she had shot him in the foot, she was good at working with machines as well and she could help if they needed her to. She turned towards Sapphire and shook her head slightly they were just here to recover them and then return to Serval Industries. "No, we were just told to find you and bring you back here with or without force." Casey said, she wasn't really paid to ask why anyway.

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Arthur always found Pyslocke to be a little bit weird. He didn't know too much of her history, but she was asian and her twin brother was anglo-saxon. That always tended to draw his attention, even if he didn't fully understand all of the bodyswapping that the warrior had gone through in order to end up like this. Mutants could be so strange at times. There was a brunette with her as well - he didn't know who she was. Maybe he had seen her before, but he wasn't certain. Psylocke's energy blade was more of his concern at the moment anyways. His mind worked rapidly, attempting to figure out the best path to pursue from here. But his thoughts were clouded by anger - by the knowledge that his father's killer stood right there in front of him.

"If you are Elizabeth Braddock, then you shouldn't need to ask me those questions," Arthur answered, his emerald hood covering his face. He knew he could send a grappling arrow and fly past them most likely - or he could send an explosive arrow at the telepath and kill her. He could avenge his father's murder - but Psylocke had been controlled. She was a pawn in this scheme. The Red Queen was his father's true killer... And as much as he knew that, he still wanted to send an arrow at Psylocke out of rage and fury.

"Who I am does not matter. I'm here to avenge an innocent."

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Watts cursed with pain as he was shot in the foot by one of their Serval colleagues, using all of his willpower not to scream. He couldn't let them think he was weak. And too much was at stake to waste energy on expressions of pain in front of this half rate cyborg. Gritting his teeth, he vibrated his foot and then simply raised it, the bullet dropping to the ground as he phased it out with his superspeed. "You're right, Sapphire," Watts said coldly. "You aren't an engineer. Feel free to correct me once you have at least the engineering training equivalent of a college freshman. Goodness knows three Ph.D's clearly mean nothing compared to your raw talent."

He then shook his head at Evelyn. "We don't know whose mind is inside of his head. I'm not taking any chances. We could be dealing with a mutant - you've all seen the news. You know what they're capable of." There were so many mutants with psionic abilities that he had no doubt would jump at a chance to use a machine like this. These people, this Sisterhood, they were hardly anyone he wanted to deal with. He knew enough about their members to not want to risk waking "Andrew" up at all. There was the problem of the two newcomers. The girl seemed to be weak and naive, so he focused on the cyborg. It took him a bit more effort than he would have liked, but he moved like a flash and then returned to his spot, holding Casey's weapons. "Superspeed. Google it."

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Elara was tense as she felt Psylocke move to stand nearby. Her eyes moved to the purple blade of energy that formed in the woman's hand. As she spoke to the strange man in green, Elara moved her eyes back to him. He didn't belong here, so what was he doing here? Her calm expression turned into a look of suspicion, and she curled her hands into fists. She was prepared for an offensive attack, if he chose to act that way.

Instead, he gave Psylocke an expression of pure anger. Her eyebrows furrowed. If you are Elizabeth Braddock? Her eyes glanced at the woman next to her to see how Psylocke reacted to that statement. Then her eyes moved back to the man.

"If you aren't going to tell us who you are, then I suggest you tell us who you are here to avenge." She stated, feeling as if she needed to get some of the attention off of her partner. "How did you know that you would find the person you're looking for here?"

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It felt like it took only a long blink before the speedster seemed to disarm Casey of her handguns. Mentally scorning herself for not reading up more on her team mates to know whether or not Casey was not defenseless or not. Either way, current standings were even worse for the two of them. She sighed quietly to herself, feeling like they were more like hostages than security.

Jo stood out and relaxed herself out of her defensive stance. With a quick wave her her hands the floating disks of magic light dissipated into twinkling lights they slowly evaporated into nothing. They no longer offered her any comfort as they're situation seemed worse for ware.

"Alright. Yes, we weren't informed on any of this pertinent information. So why not enlighten us? Tell us why you're here? Certainly there's a reason." Jo questioned casually, trying to keep the situation on a level of casual and non-confrontational.

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Bella still had her weapons drawn as people spoke. She would have liked for this to be over and done with, what may be of these interlopers mattered little to her, but she got the sense there was more at work here. As Watts sped and disarmed one of the woman, Bella still had her sword trained up, but she no longer had it to the woman's neck.

"We had a fight mere moments ago also, but we do not have to explain ourselves to you." She glanced at Evelyn, who felt the need to start talking about why they were here. For all anyone knew, they were loyal to Gardener and no amount of speaking about it would change their loyalty. Trust was too easily given, she felt.

"The others may wish to tell you why, but I will not. I'll allow them to say, but if they deem necessary I will force you out with force, if necessary. So, what's it going to be?" She spoke to Sapphire mainly, and perhaps Watts, if either wanted to let the two strangers in as to why they were here.

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"Most people actually refer to me as Betsy if they are friends, no one tends to use my full name," she said with a bit of an eye roll towards Arthur. "You're right, I could read your mind, but I tend to find doing so a bit rude, but since you so insist upon me reading your mind. I guess I'll oblige." With those last words, Psylocke fell silent, and heard what it was that Elara was saying, and in response, she looked over at her. "He's here to avenge his father who he believes was murdered by someone here. And he's here to essentially kill the ones responsible."

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"I actually do know what I'm talking about Watts! The strain on the human brain if it is essentially being suppressed is never good. Brain damage is a likely outcome, so how about you stick with the engineering stuff and leave the stuff involving medical situations to me, this situation just so happens to be a combo of it, so how about you don't stand there and act like you know fully what's going on. Not to mention, you've got a million other problems, but I'm not going to mention them because you seem to think anyone who isn't you is a horrible person and doesn't know anything." she snapped at him, clearly getting more then a little annoyed as the temperature in the room started to drop.

Turning to look at the others in the room, she rolled her eyes slightly. "Maybe you need to learn a thing or two, all I'll say is that Gardner knows nothing clearly," she said to them, before once more her attention was drawn towards Watts and his big mouth. "...You do realize that I'm a mutant right? A genius supposedly you should know when there are people in the room who obviously can hear you, who you should not piss off. Since genius, guess what? Super speed has problems in the extreme cold, so if you want to continue being an insufferable jackass who probably should watch what he says by all means continue talking and we'll see how long it'll take for me to turn you into a Popsicle," she continued, as the temperature in the room started to drop even more rapidly, definitely becoming more noticeable by the second.

Jolene, Casey and Belladonna however, would be able to hear something else coming from the hallway. Casey and Jolene hadn't seen anyone at all, when they had come down the hallway. Now, they (as well as Belladonna) would be able to hear footsteps moving through the rubble of the cave in further down (the direction that Casey and Jolene had come from).

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Evelyn turned to look at Watts and gave him a little bit of a glare when he mentioned mutants, she was one herself as well and she had found it a little bit offensive. She started to feel the room temperature dropping and turned to Sapphire as she started to lay into Watts, yes Watts was being a jackass this whole entire time. And Sapphire did have a point as well they could actually harm or kill Andrew if they didn't do it the right way.

Evelyn walked over towards Sapphire gently setting a hand on her shoulder while looking over at the two new comers still unsure what to think of them. Watts had disarmed the woman who had the guns, and the other seemed to drop her magic or whatever it was that she was doing. "Sapphire, relax please don't let him get to you." She said while glaring at Watts. "Watts, calm the hell down so far you've gone off on your own, shouting so that everyone in the facility could possibly hear you. And honestly I think you did deserve the bullet to the foot at this point."

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Casey watched as Watts managed to remove the bullet in his foot that she had shot him with, and then the next second she felt her weapons being removed from her. She shook her head slightly from what she had seen so far, and the way that Watts was talking he was acting like a loose canon. She could feel the temperature dropping as well looking at Sapphire as she started to get angered by Watts, she remained quiet and didn't do much at the moment.

Casey turned towards the door where she and Jolene had came into the room tilting her head slightly while the others were talking she could hear what sounded like footsteps coming from the way that they had come from. "I'm picking up some footsteps, just outside of the room." Casey said looking over at the others, she couldn't tell if it was Psylocke or Vertigo at all and started to walk over towards the door to see who it was.

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Arthur heard Elara's words, but he made no move to respond to them. He hadn't come here to explain himself to others unwittingly caught up in the Sisterhood's scheme - this wasn't about making friends. His father had been murdered and the only one who would be able to get him justice was Arthur. He didn't reply to Psylocke's comment about her friends calling her Betsy, as strictly speaking, they were not friends. She had murdered his father. And beyond that, he had never met her before - hardly the basis for friendship. Psylocke's presence in his mind was uncomfortable, yet he noticed that she continued to shroud his identity even after what she had learned.

There were two exits in the room - one past the girls (the elevator) and one behind him. There was no way that he would be able to clear getting to the elevator, but he had some trick arrows with him and could make a decent distance by going back through the door he had come from. Shooting off a grappling arrow rapidly behind him, his shot was true and Arthur managed to use the grappling hook to propel him rapidly out of the room and back into the hallway, putting as much distance between himself and the two women as possible. There wasn't really much room to hide here, but his fighting style was based on stealth. It took him a minute to decide on the best location to hide and he used the grappling line to aid him, essentially clinging to the ceiling like a bug. His stealth was so brilliant that he almost blended into the shadows and since hardly anyone would look up, he hoped to regain some element of surprise.

A little nagging voice in the back of his mind asked him why he hadn't killed Psylocke back there - he had had a clear shot. He should have done it.

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Watts wasn't one to deviate from his first impression of an individual. He decided based on what he had seen so far, Jolene was nice but irritating. Why did she presume he was going to waste his time explaining things to her? Belladonna felt similarly, another sign to Watts that he had been right about her. "One of my Ph.D's is in Bioengineering - which is a lot more experience than your undergraduate medical degree is," Watts reminded Sapphire. This was a textbook bioengineering situation, one that undergraduate students were never prepared for. He didn't believe that Sapphire knew nothing - he just thought that she was kidding herself if she believed that one undergraduate degree in medicine was enough to make a real difference in this situation. "And yes, I do know that you're a mutant - but it seems to me that the two of you forget that our opponents are mutants with psychic powers - the very mutants that I was referencing due to their infamous potential for destruction, unless you've forgotten their names already? Mastermind and Lady Mastermind, and oh, I don't know, all of the psychological hallucination we've experienced thanks to them?"

He was glaring at her as she threatened to freeze him. "Don't start something you can't finish, Popsicle," he retorted. "And please tell me more about how my shouting could be heard throughout the entire facility - since if it had been that loud, we obviously would have had these two show up far sooner. No one heard me outside of the present company. Ridicule me for that once you have evidence to the contrary, Nightingale." He then stopped talking as Casey reported hearing some footsteps from outside. "Stay back from the door," he warned Casey. Sticking their faces out to see who was coming was an idiotic idea if he had ever heard one.

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Elara felt her suspicion of this man rise, and also a bit of anger as well. He made absolutely no effort to answer her question. She tightened her fists in response and pressed her lips together, ready to take offensive action. He obviously didn't belong here, which made him her enemy for now. She was prepared to take him down physically, using her ability as an ace up her sleeve if she couldn't handle a hand to hand fight.

Unfortunately, he acted too quickly. As whatever he aimed their way came flying past, Elara stepped out of its way. She felt the air from it pass by her, and a moment later she saw a flash of green leather as the man propelled himself out of the door. She was held in place for a moment. In shock that she'd let him get away so easily. Her eyes glanced towards Psylocke, wondering if the woman wanted to pursue or not. Without waiting for her command, Elara turned and rushed out of the room into the hall. She looked both ways down the hall, and she even squinted into the shadows in case he was merely hiding in them. Nothing. It was like the man had been a ghost. A hooded, green, asshole of a ghost.

Elara huffed and shook her head. "Must have been someone pretty important to put on a costume and break into this place," she muttered to herself. She reached up to adjust the lace mask on her face, comforted that she'd hidden her identity from the stranger. At least she didn't have to deal with his silence again.

As her frustration slowly died down, Elara suddenly noticed a gaping hole in the ceiling to her left. She stepped over a few large pieces of rubble to stand beneath the hole, peering up into the hallway above. "You think this was Robin Hood or our rogue colleagues?" She asked Pyslocke, whom she assumed had followed her into the hallway. Before she could hear Psylocke's answer, she could hear the sounds of muffled voices from a few doors down. "I guess we're about to find out," she said with a much softer tone.

Advancing towards the source of the voices, Elara made sure to take light steps around each piece of rubble. She and Psylocke took similar positions as their last encounter with a closed door, and Elara once again waited for Psylocke's nod of approval before making her move. This time, as soon as Elara opened the door, she was encountered by the sight of an entire group of people. A few faces she recognized herself belonging to Casey and Jolene. The rest resembled the descriptions that Psylocke had given them of their disobedient coworkers. As she quickly glanced over them, she noticed there was a spot of blood on the ground and an unconscious man on the floor.

"Well, I see we're late to the party," she murmured, slowly stepping inside so Psylocke can follow her. "I'm also going to assume that there's no reason to feel threatened because no one's weapons are raised. So, will someone care to explain whats going on here?"

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Bella sheathed her sword finally as her group bickered amongst themselves. She rubbed the bridge of her nose. Adding fuel to the fire would be pointless at this stage. All of them were acting stupid and they were some of the brightest minds. "If you could stop arguing and let's focus on why we are here. Regardless of these two and whoever else is here, we came to find Andrew and I am not leaving until I get answers. And when I do leave I will not be walking back to Serval's clutches, so if you intend to take me you will have to do it by force and I will not hold back, intentions be damned."

She heard footsteps along with the other girls as Watts instructed them to move out of the doorway. Was it more people trying to find them or was it someone else? Or was it that hooded man from before? Either way, Bella took her sword out again and prepared for the arrival of the unexplained visitor. She glanced at her team, wondering if they would put aside their differences and arguments to come out of this and find Andrew.

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Noticing the sound that Casey announced and the fact the rogue group wasn't paying much attention as they seeming to eagerly bicker amongst themselves. No decided to use the time to quickly craft the bolster rune on her palm. The rogue team didn't seem to be bad people. If they were they'd have attacked both Casey and herself the moment they entered the room. Instead they just disarmed them, not to mention they had spoke of the fact there were things kept from them from Gardner when they were given the task.

So if down the hall came a threat to them all the best she could do is give someone a boost. So as they bickered the the steps came closer Jo slyly pulled the pen from her pocket, knowing she couldn't sneakily take out her brush and ink. She slowly removed the cap and snapped the tip off the top of the plastic ink tube. Quickly, with the action engrained in her muscle memory she brushed the open tube of ink across her palm in practiced stroke. She peaked down at her palm and noticed a few lines that needed reinforcement. She quickly brushed and thickened the lines.

As soon as she finished stepped entered the room, her heart sank with concern until her eyes fell upon familiar figures. She let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh thank God." she breathed out the words in relief. She didn't know how the group would react to their entrance so she came up with a tactic. Jo casually walked to Elara and hugged the girl, the hand with the written rune lightly laid against the nape of Elara's neck. With a faint pinch against the girls skin the rune connected the two, a magical warmth radiate through Elara slightly; making Elara feel a sense of empowerment through her. While it was only barely active if things went sideways Jolene could pump Elara with magical power to increase her abilities.

Jo released Elara from the hug and addresses the room.

"They stated there is more going on than we were told. And I feel inclined to believe them. This whole thing seemed off since the start. But they haven't really told us their side of things. Except that the unconscious guy has his mind swapped and they're trying to correct the issue
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Sapphire was about to snap back at Watts, when she saw a few other people walk into the room. One of them being someone that she didn't recognize (but clearly someone else in the room did) the other one being... "Well, wondered how long it would be until you showed up Psylocke," she said with a bit of an eye roll as Jolene more or less explained to them the few things that had just been said not too long ago.

"...Isn't he supposed to be dead?" she said, nodding her head towards Andrew who had yet to move from where he was.

"Yeah, well things are a bit more complicated then that," she responded, before something weird began to happen. The room almost began to shift around the entire group, before they'd find themselves in a rather large room. Arthur too would find himself in the room as well at least still somewhat in a corner of the room, and there was no exit, no way out. There wasn't any sort of door to reveal an exit. However, there was something else in the room. Something else was in the room.

It was a full sized Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The creature let out a rather loud roar, glancing around the room somewhat almost. Sapphire was weirded out somewhat from the fact that there was a full sized back from extinction dinosaur in front of them, but she noticed a few strange things. Psylocke wasn't there, and neither was the unconscious Andrew. "...Ok, betting on this being not real. At least hopefully since Jurassic Park isn't a real thing I don't think... So anyone got any ideas on how the hell we get out of this mess? Since I think people found us and found out what is going on..."