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Evelyn just shook her head a little bit at Watts letting out a little bit of an annoyed sigh. "Well the way you worded it could have been interpreted as a little racist." Evelyn said, shaking her head getting more annoyed with Watts now she was more inclined with working more with Sapphire and trusting her than him right now. A few seconds later two new faces came in, Evelyn recognized Psylocke pretty easily and pointed out Andrew who was on the ground unconscious still. "Yeah Rae Gardner forgot to mention that he was actually alive here while we were in her office earlier, to work on that." Evelyn said gesturing towards the machine.

She didn't really trust the other girl who had came in with Psylocke either as she looked at the others in the room, when all of a sudden the room shifted. And they were now in a large room with a massive T-rex there, which she didn't expect to see at all, and backed up slightly seeing the massive dinosaur in the flesh. Evelyn drew out her swords while looking at the others and seeing the arrow guy from earlier in the corner of the room. Seeing both Psylocke and Andrew were now gone as well from the room looking at the others, they had a bigger problem to deal with now.

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Casey looked at Watts for a moment, and just stared at him so far she didn't like him to much and thought about shooting him in the foot again once she had gotten her weapons back. She saw both Elara and Psylocke coming into the room, figuring that it must have been those who were walking their way down here. She remained pretty quiet still as she listened to the continued bickering amongst each other, Casey looked at Andrew when Psylocke addressed him. "I think they came here for him, and the machine that he was forced to make." Casey said gesturing to the machine.

Then the room decided to suddenly shift and they were all now in a large room, seeing the large T-rex in the room as it let out a loud roar at them. She probably had a really dumb idea, as Casey snuck away and made her way behind the dinosaur, she tried grabbing onto the tail, and it was indeed real as she tried to grab ahold of it. But it's tail swung her and threw her across the room, slamming into the wall, letting out a slight groan seeing it's attention was now fully on her to. Casey ran forward as well, as it tried to grab her Casey managed to get out of the way before landing a punch into one of it's legs, but not knocking it down.

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Arthur had seen things on Krakoa - strange things. The inhabitants of the living island were by no means ordinary creatures. But even then, he couldn't help but be a bit surprised of the mighty creature in front of him. He hated the exposed position that he had been reduced to, but luckily this dinosaur had small arms - that would give it some challenges when it came to grabbing them in order to eat them. The other challenge - although Arthur wasn't sure yet if this was in his favor or not - was the fact that a large number of people were in the expansive room with him. Some of them at least had made preliminary attacks.

Judging that the dinosaur would most likely be attracted to movement, Arthur shot an explosive arrow at one of the walls of the room without an explanation. The arrow hit the wall and the explosion triggered, drawing the attention of the T-Rex and luring the dinosaur on over. Arthur then emotionally aimed another arrow and let it fly, hitting the dinosaur with the explosive payload. The mighty beast roared loudly and stumbled backwards, bleeding but it hadn't been a fatal blow. He didn't dare let his guard down for one moment, especially with so many unknown quantities here. His father's killer wasn't here and that just delayed his mission of vengeance - he couldn't tolerate that.

He needed to avenge his father, no matter the cost.

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To say Watts was in a terrible mood would be an understatement of epic proportions. Not only had they found themselves in some new area with a dinosaur, Andrew was missing and had been replaced with more of Gardner's mindless drones. The red coloration of his eyes while using the speed serum matched his mood - he was seeing red. He agreed with Belladonna at the very least - this wasn't the time for arguments. The explosion the hooded figure had caused had wounded the dinosaur and Watts injected himself with more of the speed serum by double tapping his watch, before taking off at top speed to punch the creature in its wound. His speed gave a lot of momentum and force, causing the dinosaur to stumble.

That answered one question then - this creature was seemingly real and he didn't need to throw a wrench at it to come to that conclusion. Dashing backwards at super speed, he then charged forward again, missing with this punch but that didn't deter him, even as the dinosaur whacked him with its tail and sent him flying. Watts spat slightly at the ground and delivered another blow to the beast, not as strong as the previous blow but it was still something that moved them closer towards defeating this creature. The sooner they killed the dinosaur, the sooner they could retrieve Andrew and get the hell out of this place. And like Belladonna, he had no intention on returning to Serval after this. He'd rather work for Hammer Tech.

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Elara was apprehensive of her calm approach as she noticed the blonde pull out an entire sword. The rest didn't really seem to care. Psylocke's presence was the only thing they reacted to. Jolene came up to give her a hug. Elara awkwardly patted her back, caught off guard that practically a stranger showed her such affection. Especially on a mission. As the girl pulled away from her, Elara felt warmth emanate from her neck and pass down her spine into her body. She blinked, suddenly feeling much stronger. Jolene had done something, and Elara gave her a small nod of thanks. She wasn't sure if she would it against this group; they seemed pretty calm at this point. If things went south, though, Elara would be able to handle each of the rogues.

Psylocke exchanged words with the rogue team members, and Elara glanced between the tall woman with red hair as she spoke and the unconscious man on the floor. Dead? Was this the team member that presumably died in the attack from Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch? She eyed the body, wondering just how complicated this entire mission was. Gardner lied to all of them, but why? What had she expected to come out of this mission?

Elara was about to voice her concern about Gardner to the entire group, but found herself stumbling back as the room around her shifted. What? Another illusionist? But how? And who? She turned to reach for the door behind her, but it and the entire wall it was attached to vanished. Instead, she found herself staring at empty space until a huge wall about 20 feet before her stopped it. Elara looked around the entire room. They'd been in a giant room this entire time. Was the whole building just a room? When had the real world melted into the illusion?

She didn't have much time to think about that, as she laid eyes on a full-sized T-Rex. "Oh, fuck," she muttered, wincing as the beast released a guttural roar. At first she was convinced that it was just another illusion, but as the quick-to-attack team members around her began to assault the dinosaur, Eli was shocked to see it was real. Especially when it tail-whipped a few of them. She was also surprised to see that neither Psylocke nor the unconscious man was in the room with them.

Frustration and anger suddenly flowed through Elara's veins. She'd been fooled, this entire time. Even when she was examining Psylocke, she appeared completely real. Either the illusionist was a strong one, or Psylocke had slipped off and been replaced by an illusion the moment she left the elevator. After all, that had been the only time her back was to the purple woman. So, was she behind this, too?

The others in the room weren't faring well against the beast, so Elara decided it was time for her to step in. There was certainly nothing she could do physically against it, but she had other means of debilitating a person or creature. Fortunately she remembered a school lesson when they covered the Cretacious period in school. Tyrannosaurus Rex were smart creatures, their brain larger than a humans, but they relied on their depth perception and smell to hunt their prey. Their hearing was sub-par. So, the best Elara could think of to hinder the beast would be to remove the most important ones, it's sight and smell. It would be the best low effort move. An illusion wouldn't be enough, unfortunately.

"Alright, everyone! I'm gonna need some cover, but I may be able to stop the beast from smelling and seeing you," she explained, shouting so that the group could hear her over the chaos. It felt odd to explain what she was about to do, but she knew that the group of old Serval employees would need an explanation. "You're all capable of stopping this beast, but you're going to need my help!"

That said, Elara backed a few yards away from the action, keeping her eyes on the T. Rex. She felt her mind reach for the dinosaurs, and an eerie feeling crawled over her body as she connected with it. She'd never attempted this with an animal, but she knew that the science behind their perceptions worked the same as a humans. First, she searched for it's sense of sight, and successfully rendered its eyes useless. It was the first step, but she knew that she still needed to remove the big one: smell. Unfortunately, as she stretched her control over the beast she found it difficult to hinder it's smell as well. She would have normally stopped and tried again, but she wasn't sure if she could. So, instead of the risk of losing the entire illusion, Elara decided to stick with the one she'd already cast.

"Okay, scratch that! It can't see you, but it can still smell you. There are still ways to get around that! You've got this." For now, Elara would just hold tight and hope that the action wouldn't come her way. "How many superabled does it take to stop a T. Rex?" She mumbled, making a joke of the situation to keep herself from fearing it.

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With the others seemingly coming down off their arguments, it wasn't long until they were joined by yet another new face, but one the two women from before seemed to know. and Psylocke. Had they sent an entire team to track them here? The woman was going to stop at nothing to get them to go back. It only solidified Bella's own resolve that she would not return and would, in fact, be the instrument in Serval's demise. Now they just had to get Andrew.

However, before she could move, the room shifted all around them and they were face to face with a T-Rex. Now, Bella wasn't stupid. It seemed clear to her that this was not real. The room shifting itself and a long-extinct animal now appearing, but even illusions could be deadly. Bella took out her weapons, imbuing them with fire. Her sword didn't catch, but her gun did. She shot off once, missing and going wide. But her second shot hit the animal in the eye as the others began to battle it too.

"That thing cannot be real. We need to break the illusion if we want to get out of here." Staying calm was also crucial, but no one seemed to be panicking. Much.

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Panic was the first thing that set in as the room swirled and distorted out of focus; reforming into a large doorless room with... a Tyrannosaur?! Her breath caught in her throat from fear as she instinctively took a couple steps away from the creature. Though her eyes quickly found the rapid movements of Casey first with others soon following after her. Taking on this huge creature as if it was no threat at all. Just another monday in the office.

Forcing action to her hand she struck herself across the face with a slap, hoping the action would snap her out of her locked muscles. Overwhelmed for a moment by the sting left on her cheek she was able to finally refocus her mind. She took a deep breath to steady her nerves, hearing as Vertigo called out her actions. It was blind, that was good at least. Though minimal it helped her gain some confidence in their situation. And it was time to stop acting like little testicles! (weak and sensitive)

She closed her eyes as she stood straight, arms reaching out away from her at the sides with her palms flat and perpendicular with the earth beneath her feet. Sparks of light began to flash down her forearms towards her flat palms; beginning to form small bright orbs seemingly floating an inch away from her skin. The orbs appeared to pull thin streaks of light towards them from out of the air, as if they were magnets for the light.

"Orbis Luminis." She breathed calmly out the words, and as the activation words were spoken the small orbs of light seemed to instantly doubled in size; more rapidly drawing light into them.

Slowly Jolene moved her still out stretched arms to reach out in front of herself, the balls of light now seeming to create a pull against each other, creating a sort of tether connecting them. Jo then opened her eyes, them seeming to glow a particular mystic blue color. She then swiftly flicked her arms in opposite directions causing the orbs to spin freely in mid air. Jolene then created fists over her chest, slowly moving her fists towards each other and seemingly the spinning, floating orbs were coming closer together as well. As Jolene's fist touched fist the orbs slammed into each other, creating a wide vortex of light that swirled rapidly in the air. Slowly as Jolene held her stance the vortex began to pull into itself and eventually forming a solid disk of light in front of Jo. She then, in a quick motion, snapped her touching fists away and apparently breaking the disk of solid light into two separate disks.

While Jolene was still connected to Vertigo with the Bolster Rune she began to spill power into her Ally, a steady stream of energy filling Vertigo with improved strength.

With another deep breath Jolene was ready. Using the distraction made by the attacking group she sprint to the side of the dinosaur, making sure to move within six feet of it so to use her disks of light. As she closed the distance Jolene threw one of her disks out and towards the ground, gliding inches above the ground. Focusing she followed the rhythm of the creatures steps. As its closest leg lifted Jolene intercepted it as it began to descend. Catching the Dinosaurs foot on her Disk she suddenly yanked it back towards herself. With the action pulling the leg out from under the creature and disrupting its balance.

The T-Rex roared out loudly as it began to teeter, beginning to fall over. Jolene was about to cheer from her successful plan but the realization that the creature was falling towards her interrupted that. In a startled panicked Jo quickly spun on her heels to run away from the falling beast, diving far and crashing into a sans graceful roll across the hard floor; clearing the distance and avoiding getting crushed. Leaving little time Jo scurried across the ground to give herself even more distance from the fallen Beast before getting back on her feet and facing it again, spinning Disks of light at the reason.

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Sapphire figured that there was a lot of different ways that things could get worse for them. At least so far no one had actually gotten swallowed by the T-Rex yet. That likely wouldn't end all too well for them. Everyone was pointing out the obvious of the dinosaur clearly not being real. "I thought it was obvious that it wasn't real. Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago, not to mention we don't exist in a world where Jurassic Park is real soooo... Yeah, fun."

"Hey Regan, I think these folks are thinking that the T-Rex is a joke. Just because dinosaurs are extinct doesn't mean they can't harm you right?" Lady Mastermind's voice said.

"Oh of course, maybe we should turn up the difficulty a bit," another voice added, but this one was recognizable as the voice of Rae Gardner, though that likely wasn't actually her name.

"How about you two stop talking about it and just do something then?" Deathstrike snapped at both of them.

"Children children, behave... Just deal with them already and we can move along with things," Madelyn Pryor's voice cut off the arguing of the others.

"Allow me, the T-Rex is nice and all sister, however let me show you how it is truly done..."

"Well clearly Gardner wasn't just lying about everything... Anyone else a bit concerned by the fact that they are practically sitting there acting like we don't exist?" Sapphire commented before there was the sounds of scurrying feet, racing around.

Suddenly, four Velociraptors appear out of nowhere, and one of them charged straight at Casey, managing to bite her on the arm. The other three tried to bite her as well, however their attacks missed her, just barely though. The T-Rex also wasn't out of the fight either, managing to stand up and letting out a very loud roar. It waved it's tail around, but somehow the T-Rex didn't hit anyone with his first swing. However, the second swing would send Watts slamming, fairly close to where the Velociraptors now were attacking Casey, and with another swing hit Jolene with his tail sending her into a wall as well.

"Okay, this is getting a bit out of hand..." Sapphire muttered, before she sent a very large blast of ice and cold flying at the T-Rex, figuring that target would result in her hopefully not hitting someone else. Thankfully, she didn't, and now the dinosaur's feet were frozen solid, stuck on the ground. "...Don't think the dinosaurs were around during the Ice Age, so cold probably isn't too good for them." she said with a slight laugh.

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Evelyn watched as the others started to attack the massive T-Rex that was in the room, she paused when she started to hear some noises and then four Velociraptors started to come out of the woodwork. The four of them found a target and went straight for Casey, as three of them nearly missed her. But one of them was lucky enough to latch onto the woman's arm, from what she remembered growing up and watching Jurassic Park movies as well Velociraptors usually hunted in packs as well.

The others focused on the T-Rex Evelyn charged forward, despite the girl shooting Watts in the foot earlier she needed some help as well, and Casey was in trouble. She swung her katana at the closest raptor which missed, but she managed to hit one of them in it's side Evelyn couldn't pay attention to all three, and one of them charged at her. Evelyn let out a cry in pain as she felt a claw cut into her arm, and could feel blood sliding down her arm.

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Casey was about to take another crack at the T-Rex when she stopped and started to hear some sounds and noticed four Velociraptors now appearing before her. And the four of them instantly went and targeted her, Casey narrowly dodged three of them, but then cried out in pain as she felt the four bite into her arm.

Casey turned to face the raptor who had sank it's teeth into her arm, and tried to use her strength to wrap her free arm around it's neck to snap it. But she couldn't do much when it decided to tear off a chunk of her arm, Casey started to stumble back looking down at her badly injured arm. When Evelyn came into the fray and attacked the other raptors, and the same one who had bit her managed to get a good clawing in on the woman as well.

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Watts had to resist the urge to turn around and inform Elara of just how much he did not need her. He didn't need anyone really, though he did benefit from the company of Evelyn and Belladonna - Sapphire was more annoying than anything else, and Gambit and Rogue were proving to be useless as they were off likely making more mutants in a closet somewhere. It was annoying for him to see one of the new girls take down the dinosaur, since it didn't fit his narrative. He had to begrudgingly admit that they weren't the most incompetent people on the planet. Watts' ears twitched slightly as he heard the voices of the Sisterhood, recognizing Rae Gardner's voice instantly. "They're above us," Watts surmised.

Arthur came to the same conclusion, though he didn't give a verbal confirmation. His blood was boiling from hearing the casual conversation of the group of women responsible for murdering his father and stranding him on Krakoa, the worst location on Earth and the closest he hoped to ever get to hell. Four new monsters appeared, and Arthur didn't want to find out what sort of damage these illusions could do to him if he let down his guard or treated them as anything other than real. The T-Rex was back in action as well, causing Arthur to grimace slightly. He aimed an explosive arrow at one of the velociraptors, hitting the beast and the force of the explosion sent it backwards.

The T-Rex hit Watts and sent him flying over towards the raptors, but that didn't anger him nearly as much as the velociraptor hurting Evelyn. He was mad at her, yes, but that didn't change the way he felt. Red lightning flickered off of his body as he rushed at the beast and ripped out its heart, having gone so fast and oscillated his molecules that he was able to phase through the creature. The raptor dropped dead at his feet and Watts crushed the heart. "Nightingale, are you alright?" he asked.

While one of the raptors was dead, Arthur realized that it was pointless for them to fight these illusions - the Masterminds could just keep on making more and more to send their way. If he could hurt the telepaths themselves, then the illusions would at least stop becoming greater and greater in number. He sent another arrow, this time up at the ceiling, hoping the explosion would disrupt the Sisters Mastermind but instead the arrow curved and went back down at him. He barely managed to jump out of the way to avoid it, but the explosion still caught him slightly, giving him a few burns and bruises. "Telekinesis," he muttered. Psylocke?

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Elara could only stand and watch as the group around her continued to battle the T-Rex. What little she'd done already seemed to be just useless efforts. Her lips pressed into a frown. All of these people had abilities that could affect things physically. Her own strength was much different. At the moment, it was frustrating to realize that she couldn't do much against a threat like this.

It was still hard to grasp that this pre-historic animal was real. If it was just an illusion, like everything had been before, then how was it able to hurt them? What other forces were at play, here?

It was then that Elara heard the voices. She immediately turned her attention towards the source of them. The ceiling? Were they in some observation room, obscured from view? The first voice was unrecognizable, but Elara felt her blood boil as she heard the second. Rae Gardner. So, this really had been just a set up? She knew they were being sent into a trap. She was most likely hoping that they would finish each other off in a fight. Now that things weren't going her way, she'd decided to do it herself.

Gardner spoke again, this time referring to the first voice as sister. It was then that Elara finally pieced two and two together, which made her feel completely stupid that she hadn't figured it out already. These sisters were behind the death of Serval Industries former CEO, Harrison Snow. In what other ways had Gardner lead Serval Industries wrong in the past few months? It wouldn't be safe to return to Serval, and now she realized that it wouldn't be safe to return home. This woman knew everything about her. She knew her identity, and her face. Father... She thought, instantly feeling fear for his safety. If they didn't stop her soon, she could use his safety as a threat.

Elara was shocked to see four new threats materialize in the room. "So, Gardner is an illusionist too?" She murmured to herself, but she soon grimaced as she saw the illusions cause physical damage to her new acquaintances. Before she could step in to help, she also saw the man in green leather aim an arrow towards the voices. Only for the arrow to come hurtling back down towards him. They're using each of their abilities against us to make the illusions real. She curled her hands into fists in anger. How can we beat that?

Looking around, Elara saw that Watts had killed one of the velociraptors. They were able to be beaten, but wouldn't Gardner and her friends simply conjure up more illusions to fight? When would it end? How could Elara help to end it in her companion's favors? She needed to get to the source. She needed to get out of this room. Or she needed to play a few tricks on Gardner too.

In order to do so, Elara stopped affecting the T-Rex's sight. It would hardly matter if the beast could see. The illusion of the beast wasn't what they needed to fear. Whatever was causing the physical pain was what they needed to fear. They wouldn't know what it was until the illusions were dismantled. "Why wasn't I also gifted with the ability to see through illusions?" She grumbled, glancing around at the action before she thought of the only thing that could help them all at once. She was going to have to take on the sisters.

Hesitantly, Elara closed her eyes to the action before her. The sounds of chaos faded into the background as Elara focused all of her attention on what she was about to do. She searched the room with her mind, seeking out the strong minds of the three women that were playing with them. Swallowing, she attempted to sneak her way into the heads of the Mastermind sisters. Unfortunately, she felt herself lose touch as quickly as she started. This isn't a good time for this to happen. She thought as she shook out her hands. One more try. She wasn't sure who the third voice had been, but she could feel their presence near the Mastermind sisters. It was the last resort, and Elara put all of her focus into reaching out for her. If she was successful, she would give the woman a strong enough sensation of Vertigo that she would be writhing on the ground.

"You should learn not to mess with people more powerful then you," Madelyn's voice appeared in Elara's head, before she would end up frozen in place, unable to move.

Elara's eyes flew open, wide in sheer terror. As much as she tried, her muscles would not budge. Instant panic set in. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, and it felt like the large room had gotten much smaller-_{as small as a car}. No, no no! This couldn't be happening. She'd underestimated the third woman immensely. What was she going to do now? _{Scream for help. Elyse is dead. There's something in the back of your neck.} Elara shut her eyes tightly, trying to block out the flashbacks that were haunting her as she stood in place.

Please, stop. She begged in her head. It was a last ditch effort that the woman would have mercy on her. If this didn't work, she was sure that the panic would overwhelm her.

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With more dinosaurs now entering and with the inclusion of the voices of people seemingly watching them, it only made Bella angrier. If they expected her to jump through their hoops, they had another thing coming. Bella listened intently, ignoring the voices of the others around her and the dinosaurs to see if she can pinpoint where the voices were coming from. Judging by the sound of them, they were directly above them. The archer seemed to share her belief when he shot an arrow, but it directed itself directly back at him.

She aimed her gun and shot off a round. She heard the impact, followed by swearing, cementing that she hit one of them. The dinosaurs shifted but returned to full form. So whoever she hit was helping control the illusions. She shot again, but she heard it miss. She didn't want to broadcast her ideas to the whole room, but hopefully, the others were smart enough to know that it was vital they stop the illusions fully if they wanted to get out of there. They would just keep putting more illusions on them if they didn't stop the one casting them.

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Jolene sighed in relief as she noticed she came out unscathed by the falling of the giant creature. Though a pack of new sounds caught her attention. Looking off at the far side of the room she noticed as a group of what appeared to be velociraptors charged out, seeming to focus their attention towards Casey.

Jo was about to rush to her aid though a sight caught the corner of her eye. Before she had time to react she saw the large tail sweeping towards her just before impact. The large muscular tail slammed into her square in the chest; sending her soaring back through the air, crashing hard into the solid floor, and sending her body tumbling until slamming powerfully into the far off wall. Jo sat there, back rested against the now cracked wall from her impact. Her body was stoic, near motionless but appearing conscious to some degree - her disks of light fallen flat on the floor beside her.

Jo expected pain, or even fear. But her senses were dull. Her vision blurred and tunneled as they stared down at her own lap. She felt numb. As if the pain throughout her body was too much to process, so her mind simply didn't allow herself to register it. She felt oddly peaceful. Like she was in a world now of her own, no longer surrounded by danger and fear. A serene void that beckoned her to advance, to let it take her. She wanted to fight it, but she couldn't find the strength to battle its pull.

Her disks of light beginning to break down, letting small sparkles of its magic to dance upwards into the air as its solidity faded. Before long the disks faded entirely, dissipating into the air. Slowly Jolene's tipped over, her body sliding along the wall before she collapsed on the floor; a streak of red following against the wall from where her head once laid.

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To say that everything was somewhat chaotic around them would be a bit of an understatement. Things were going just a bit crazy, with the dinosaurs clearly trying to kill people, and people randomly starting to shoot things off aiming at the ceiling. However, she got the idea, they needed to take out the ones above them in order to hopefully get the illusions to go away. The T-Rex seemed to still be somewhat frozen in place for the moment, so it wasn't going to be causing too much more damage hopefully. However a few things irked her slightly, involving Jolene, who didn't look to be moving anymore and she wasn't sure if she was alive or dead, and Elara who seemed to just be frozen in place. Well things were certainly looking interesting.

The raptors were still moving around, as if they almost didn't fade out of existence or something. They charged at Watts now, but they missed him entirely, and they were having difficulties hitting anyone at the moment it would seem. However, Sapphire got an idea seeing where Bella had supposedly hit someone up above them. "Hey Watts, hope you don't mind heights too much," she said towards him, before she sent ice flying towards him, and whirled around, creating a ramp that led straight towards where Belladonna had shot through the illusion.

The T-Rex started thrashing around now, and managed to smash itself free from the ice that encased it with a loud roar, and it charged right towards Belladonna. It didn't actually manage to hit Bella, but it's tail whirled around and hit Elara, which threw her backwards and managed to snap her out of her frozen state.

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Watts didn't have time to register that one of the newcomers wasn't moving. He was focused on the immediate threat and the current obstacle to rescuing Andrew. He hadn't bonded with Jolene, but the Cupcake Eater worked in the same lab space as him. He didn't want to have someone else in there with him - Andrew's skills were mediocre at best, but everyone else was atrocious in comparison. And of course, while he would never admit it, he blamed himself more than he blamed Bobbi and Wesley. "Got it," he told Sapphire gruffly, speeding up the ice ramp.

The ice wasn't too slippery thankfully and Watts made his way up to the next level, emerging where the Sisterhood was assembled. He could see Lady Deathstrike, both Sisters Mastermind, and a woman who strongly resembled Jean Grey. "Ladies," he growled, moving at superspeed as he kicked them one by one in the head to attempt to knock them out. He didn't care if it ended up killing them. All he wanted to do was to find Andrew. His blows knocked out both of the Mastermind Sisters, causing the illusions downstairs to vanish. A grappling arrow then shot up and in a moment, the Emerald Archer was there.

"You killed my father," he told Pryor coldly, staring at her with hate. His green hood still hid his face, but he had no doubt that she would know who he was - that he was Arthur Twist, the bastard son of Harrison Snow. The Sisterhood had tried to kill him, instead stranding him on the living island Krakoa, hell on Earth. And now, now Arthur was finally going to avenge his father. Blood demanded blood. Arthur fired an arrow, missing. His aim was normally better than that. He was normally better than that.

Without wasting a second, he fired another arrow. Pryor used her powers to deflect it, causing the arrow it land in her leg instead of piercing her heart. Arthur's own heart was pounding with an increasing intensity, matching the immense rage he felt both towards Pryor for murdering his father and towards himself for missing both of those shots. He didn't care if he died here. Arthur hardly felt like he was someone who could rejoin society anyways at this point. But his life had been spared for some reason - and this felt like it had to be it. He was only alive so he could right this wrong.

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Evelyn looked at Watts and gave him a slight nod towards him. "Yeah i'm fine it's just a small scratch." Evelyn said as she ripped a part of her skirt off and tied it around her arm for now it would have to be fine. She watched as the dinosaurs continued to go around and attack the others, when Bella fired off a round towards the ceiling. She got the idea now to, as Sapphire created an ice ramp Watts quickly going up through the hole and knocking out the Mastermind Sisters. The illusions of the dinosaurs quickly disappeared now and they wouldn't have to deal with them anymore.

Evelyn ran up the ramp as well coming face to face with Madalyn Pryor and Lady Deathstrike again, aiming her sword at the woman and glared at her, ready for round two. She swung her sword managing to injure her a little bit, but it quickly started to heal again shaking her head slightly. The arrow guy managed to fire off two arrows but neither of them hit, but the other girl quickly came through the opening now as well.

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The injury to her arm was pretty bad now, but everyone was more focused on the task at hand now, though the dinosaurs were easily taken out now as soon as Sapphire had made the ice ramp and Watts going up there knocking out the sisters who had made the illusions. She ran up the ramp as well now to Evelyn went to focus on Lady Deathstrike, her attention turned towards Pryor who had told them were the rouge teammates had gone to.

But since she was there with the people who had suddenly attacked them she was an enemy to her now as well, and ran forward. Casey managed to punch with her good uninjured arm the woman as hard as she could in the stomach, sending her backwards, and glared at her, Lady Deathstrike was hurt by Evelyn but her wound healed pretty quickly.

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The panic was about to creep into every aspect of Elara's mind. In a fortunate, yet painful gift from the gods, Elara was suddenly broken from her trance when the T Rex's tail came barreling towards her. She flew back about ten feet, her body rolling to a stop on the ground. Grunting, Elara pushed herself up onto her feet. Her hands were shaking, and the adrenaline was still pumping through her veins. She hadn't felt that way in a long time, and she had to shake her head around to rid herself of the terrible memories.

That fear soon turned into anger. She couldn't be defeated so easily. It was ridiculous. How powerful was this woman? And how would Elara be able to take her down, when the other had that kind of advantage? She was distracted from these thoughts when she noticed that there was now an ice ramp that lead to the ceiling. A few of their colleagues were gone as well.

So, to follow suit, Elara walked towards the ice ramp. She slipped once, but successfully pulled her way up to the level above. She saw two women unconscious. Rae Gardner was one of them, and Elara frowned at the sight of her. She managed to give her a kick to the arm when she walked by. The two women left looked strong. One had metal claws sticking out of her hands, and she was shocked to see that she could heal from an attack by a sword. The other woman must have been the voice in her head, and Elara's anger tempted her to try and mess her up. The fear of becoming stuck in place again told her not to. She reluctantly turned her attention to the metal clawed lady.

First, she connected with the woman's mind. She induced Vertigo, which would hopefully send the woman to her knees. Unfortunately, it didn't seem like Elara had that much affect on her. The woman was obviously dizzy, but not as strongly as Elara had intended. With a frown, Elara pulled her baton out from it's sheathe and charged her. She slid on her knees past the woman and whacked her right in the knee. There was a loud metal clang, and Elara's brows furrowed as she wondered what this woman's bones were made of. Any normal human would have buckled by now.

There wasn't much time to think. The woman turned and swiped at her with her claws, but Elara moved away in time to avoid it. She heard a little whish as the nails passed inches from her neck. Elara huffed as she backed away from the woman, her anger growing. "Who the fuck are you two? What kind of a trap is this?" She growled. "What has Rae Gardner put you up to? If that's even her real name." Her eyes turned to give the red woman a steely glare. She gripped her baton, still itching to whack the woman upside the head for earlier.

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Bella dodged out of the way of the charging dino, but the other girl wasn't so lucky. Before she can prepare to shoot again, the illusions disappeared as Watts made his way up to where the targets were. He must have managed to take care of the illusionist because now everything was clear and everyone was making their way up. Bella followed, and as she did so she imbued her sword with ice. It took longer than she wanted, but she was able to get it done to meet Lady Deathstrike and Pryor up on the balcony.

Everyone was fighting one of the two and Bella picked Lady Deathtrike, noting her healing factor was helping her and giving her an edge. Bella swung her sword, but Lady Deathstrike caught it in her claws and swung her away. Bella was able to meet that, flipping and slicing backward as she spun, connecting her sword on the woman and cutting her. The wound did not immediately disappear, which led Bella to believe her ice was doing the trick. She snuck a glance at Sapphire, hoping the woman would come to help freeze her out.

Bella lashed out again, nearly getting the woman, but she was quick. A worthy opponent if there ever was one, but Bella was running out of patience. They had been here too long already.

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Sapphire didn't hesitate to follow the others upstairs, and unlike the others, she could easily navigate the ramp. More or less she simply slid up the ramp, propelling herself upwards with a blast of cold air, and came to end up in the room, seeing a bunch of chaos and such around her. She looked somewhat disgusted at seeing Gardner up there, as well as someone who clearly looked to be her sister. She was just glad that they both were knocked out already. However she got the idea that at the moment, Deathstrike definitely was the bigger threat considering she was still fighting back against the others.

Deathstrike flipped around, despite her slow healing injuries, and she slashed with her claws at Belladonna. She managed to slash Bella across the arm, cutting deep and almost to the point where you could see the bones in her arm from the injury. "You need to learn a few things about how things work around here... I do not like the idea of a little girl trying to knock me down so easily..." she said with a slight smirk. Sapphire more or less rolled her eyes at Deathstrike.

"Didn't I turn you into a Popsicle earlier?" she asked simply as frost started emanating from her hands. "Never thought you'd want to go back to that sort of experience. Most people don't want to, but if you insist, we'll see what we can do." Now that she was done with her slight taunt, she threw a blast of cold at Deathstrike to the point where bits of frost now appeared on her arms, and the injuries she had stopped quickly regenerating altogether.

"Well if it isn't Arthur? I thought we were rid of you ages ago... You certainly have grown a bit since then haven't you? Of course, I'm not actually the one who killed your father... Oh no, I never laid a hand on Snow, and neither did the Sisters Mastermind, Spiral, or Deathstrike. Oh no... We never even went near Serval. At least not with Snow alive of course... I can introduce you to the one who did actually pull the trigger so to speak if you want," Pryor said with a bit of a smirk, looking at Arthur as she pulled the arrow out of her leg simply.

Arthur would suddenly feel a pain in his back, and if he looked down, he's see that there was a purple psionic blade sticking out of his side, and it suddenly would be ripped out again. "I believe you've met dear Betsy Braddock, though she's not quite herself it would seem, looks to me like she wants to kill you... Actually looks like she wants to kill everyone here," Pryor said with a laugh, backing away slightly now as Psylocke stared directly at Arthur still. "Of course, you know exactly why she's on my side don't you? Care to share that knowledge with the others in this room before she kills you or no?"

"I know what's going on, but then again, you told me so you know..." Another voice said as Andrew popped up over by Watts now. "Hey there Watts, how's it going? Though going to be a bit blunt, you are definitely rude, knocking someone else out like that? I mean seriously?"

"Oh and dear, Gardner didn't put me up to anything..." Pryor said with a laugh towards Elara. "Gardner works for me, though her actual name is Regan Wyngarde, simple as that... Daughter of Jason Wyngarde, the original Mastermind of course... Poor Jason though, something happened that resulted in him being stuck in a near death state of course... I suppose that is what one would get when you anger one of the daughters of Magneto... Of course, I promised to help Regan and Martinique reawaken their father so to speak in exchange for their... Assistance... As to who I am, well... It is rather simple... My name is Madelyn Pryor, the Red Queen, someone you do not want to mess with."

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Watts' eyes darted over towards Andrew - or rather, the unclear creature inhabiting Andrew's body. "Go to hell, Mastermind," he snarled, before kicking off at superspeed to attempt to rip out the heart of Madalyn Pryor, the Red Queen. She was the one behind all of this and the sooner she was dead, the better. If she was out of the picture, then his life would be so much easier fixing what they had done to the Cupcake Eater. Unfortunately, her telekinetic prowess overwhelmed him and threw him backwards. His eyes were glowing red from both the superspeed serum and the rage that threatened to consume his soul, as Watts ran towards Pryor again. Using his speed to his advantage, he punched her with all of his might in the throat, damaging the Red Queen severely - she wasn't going to be able to monologue again.

But Watts wasn't done with her - as long as she was awake and breathing, she was a threat. Carrying through his momentum, he slammed her head into the ground, blood blossoming from her wounds and blending in with her red hair. She was unconscious and he hoped that she would die. He didn't care if he'd be arrested for murder - that thought was far from his mind at the moment. All he wanted was vengeance. "Psylocke, if you value your spine, you'll stop this," Watts growled.

Pryor's words had felt like venom to Arthur, even though he already knew that Psylocke was the one to kill his father, but the Red Queen was the head of the beast. The bloody wound from Psylocke's strike was gushing with blood, and had it not been for those years on Krakoa, Arthur would have collapsed. He didn't care if he died - he knew the person who had to answer for his father's death. Not even bothering to deal with the woman trying to kill him at the moment, he let his emotions get the better of him and he sent an explosive arrow at Pryor. The arrow landed near her, but the explosion didn't kill her as he had hoped.

He couldn't let his rage get him killed before the job was done - he kicked Psylocke back, creating the distance he needed from the telekinetic mutant. He sent another explosive arrow at Pryor, hitting her once more. The woman was incredibly injured, but she wasn't dead - a fact that frustrated him even more. He hated wasting arrows like this, it was a stupid move to just use endless amounts of ammo. His arrows were hardly a limitless resource.

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Evelyn looked over her shoulder towards Sapphire seeing her use her powers and started to freeze Lady Deathstrike some more, Watts looked like he had things with Madalyn down as well. But then Deathstrike managed to get a good hit on Belladonna, she ran forward with her sword, getting up close and personal to the mutant aiming her sword directly at Deathstrike's throat and stabbed the woman in the throat, before taking a few steps back.

She looked at the wound seeing that Bella's wound to her arm was really bad which wasn't good at all, she turned her head hearing some explosions. The green hooded guy looked like he really wanted to kill the woman right then and there, she turned her attention back towards Deathstrike. "You are outnumbered, right now stand down." Evelyn said pointing her weapon at Deathstrike again. Evelyn eyed Andrew again seeing him appearing before them again, she still wasn't sure if he was still himself or not.

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Casey looked directly at Madalyn Pryor as she spoke, the woman certainly did like to talk quiet a lot as well, the green hooded guy who went by the name Arthur by the looks of it. The two of them seemed to really know each other really well, and then noticed a sword suddenly jut out of Arthur's side. Watts managed to knock out Pryor pretty quickly, when Arthur knocked Psylocke back Casey ran forward and used her strength punching Psylocke and knocking her backwards and unconscious now.

With Psylocke down now, her eyes scanned the room seeing Andrew in the room along with Lady Deathstrike still, there was six others in the room and only two of them now. She tilted her head slightly looking over at Andrew, he had disappeared from the room when they were suddenly fighting against the dinosaurs. She looked down at her arm still wincing slightly seeing the injury was pretty bad, still.

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Elara watched in frustration as Deathstrike continued to defend the attacks coming her way. She winced as she eyed the blonde girl's nasty cuts. Was there even an infirmary to return to at Serval? Her attention turned back towards the red woman as she began to speak, and she glanced between her and Arthur. So, the man in green leather was Harrison Snow's son?

Suddenly, Psylocke appeared from behind him, and before Elara could react he had a purple blade stuck through him. Elara grimaced, but she doubted that he would want her help. She found herself puzzled by the red woman's question, as well. Why would Psylocke be on her side? What vendetta did she have against Serval? The unconscious man from before appeared again, but Elara highly doubted that he was really there.

It was unsettling that the red woman now turned her attention towards Elara. Elara stared at her, her eyes as cold as her cryokinetic colleague. She blinked as she heard the name of Jason Wyngarde. It was obvious that he had been one of the greatest illusionists of their time. She knew well of his work, and hearing that his daughters wanted to awaken him was more of a concern than the current situation. She could only frown as Pryor told her she "wasn't someone to mess with."

Before she could react, or even make a witty retort, speedy came out of nowhere. Elara had to step out of the way as he was thrown back from Pryor, but it was satisfying to see that he managed to hit her directly in the throat on his second try. She smirked. Not someone to mess with, huh? Try saying that again.

Elara looked around at the room now, seeing that it was only Deathstrike and- well, apparently the man wasn't an illusion at all. Either way, she was ready to take another chance at Deathstrike. First, she would give the woman an ultimatum.

"Again, you're outnumbered. How about you just give up? You're not even the mastermind here. Is this really worth risking your life?"

For a moment, she expected Deathstrike to attack again. She was fully prepared to defend herself, but it seemed that she wouldn’t need to. Lady Deathstrike was still. Her hands rose slightly, and her claws retracted back into her hands. She was surrendering. For now, at least.

Elara moved towards her, wary of the woman. She glanced at the others, realizing that it would be up to all of them to keep watch of her as they took her in. She removed handcuffs from her baton sheathe and held them up. ”You know what to do.”

Even though she doubted that Deathstrike would be properly restrained by the handcuffs, it would still delay any attack from the woman in the future. She paused after restraining Deathstrike. Without warning, she struck Deathstrike on the back of the head in an attempt to knock her unconscious.

Another clang of metal. Elara huffed. ”You’re metal everywhere,” she muttered. Deathstrike just seemed annoyed. ”That’s for my friends, then.”

While they weren’t actually her friends, they’d just battled enemies together. Wasn’t that enough to qualify? ”So, how are we getting these lovely women to the jet? We can’t let them go free, can we?”

She stopped as she looked at Andrew. ”I’m Elara. Care to explain who you are, and why you were here?” She glanced at Pryor. ”Why were you with her?”