"Oh yeah no, I'm doing better, figured that was you who did some healing from a distance so thanks. Did not want to shift to fix anything at least not wanting to risk causing any accidents or whatever." Lance said with a bit of a shrug towards Ed when he asked how he was.
Mary was massively getting a bit of a headache with regards to the sort of arguing over various things at this point. Namely the confrontation between Guin and Robert. She personally wasn't sure how to feel with regards to Robert, aside from the fact that the guy seemed to think everyone in the area were children which was ridiculous to say the least. "Can you all stop arguing or trying to one up each other in options on what to do? Look, Guin is right, I may not be much of a chemist or anything like that, dealing more with genetics and that sort of thing, but I do know that the effects of chloroform is very different then the perception it has been given due to media of various types. We also don't have time to do something like that. But can say this, arguing isn't going to get us anywhere, and is just going to make me want to smack everyone on the head and I would prefer not to do that."
She fell silent for a moment, thinking, before continuing onwards, "The try and take him on all at once is our best bet with the time we've got. If we had the time to craft something to hold him or block his powers out at least temporarily, I'd be all for that. But we don't, so our options are very limited..."
"Yeah the potential tools and everything to even make the blockers that are just injectable would take a while to make, assuming you'd be able to even be able to get the necessary materials to make them, and making one of the other potential blockers would take like only a little bit shorter in time, but still would take a while," Lance interjected, paying attention to the conversation in front of them now.
"Exactly... Now Max, I think we might want to change that idea up a little bit but go with the basic concept, and Bethany, we'll save that one for a last resort... We have the firepower to easily knock him out from what I've been able to tell during the few interactions with him. And it doesn't matter if he's not next to you, he can use his powers from a bit of a distance, though not sure if it is limited to what he can see, seems like it though. If that's the case, Annie distracting at the beginning so we can get close makes sense, however then I'd suggest we try having Bethany or Lance blind him in some way with their own powers, as that would take that slight risk out of the equation entirely. As long as no one actually keeps contact with him for too long. Once he can't see in theory it should limit what he can do. Sure he'd potentially be able to shoot off his powers in random directions, but he would likely be slower in his attacks."
"Have to keep in mind, no matter what there always is the chance of everything in a plan going wrong, backups for backups are a good idea, at least in my experience." Flynn commented.
"That you are right, because if he gets his powers on one person the entire idea of the plan goes up in smoke. Though the power boost if it doesn't burn you out seems to be temporary, since after a while Perry stopped conjuring up ghosts everywhere, and I burned off the extra energy for me. So whoever gets hit, no matter who, we'll need to also potentially deal with the repercussions of that while continuing with the plan of knocking out Cortez so he can't do more damage. Which given how things are, might make it worth while to have two people at least for each part of the plan to deal with him, that's the main thing that I'd want to add to your idea Max, since we can't potentially just rely on a few people to do the majority, it is a team effort after all. That can make it so if one person gets overwhelmed, then another could potentially fill in that gap... Plus then we aren't relying on just a few people to carrying everything out too much."
"So if you get hit by the guy try to at least aim away from everyone else, got it. At least until it wears off."
"I feel like there are so many things that can go wrong with any of these ideas, but fighting and going in punching makes the most sense, currently anyway. I'm all for that option." Pietro added, looking at the others before adding mentally to Guin, Plus it is the plan most against what the one guy over there is saying, and I really don't like him at all.
"Well here's the thing, making illusions to distract and confuse, we have two people here who can do that. Both Miranda and Annie can do that, so if one fails we have another to fill the gap. We have two people who can potentially blind Cortez since that might be something useful to try and weaken him, Lance can with light, and Bethany in theory can do something similar with shadows. Heavy hitters wise, to actually knock him out or to deal with the effects of the others who potentially lose control of their powers. Lance, I know you wouldn't want to shift in this area given the way the space is, while large, not sure I'd want to fully risk it."
"Same here, hence why as I said to Ed, why I didn't shift before. Basically the idea is currently that it is a last resort. At least the way I see it."
"Agreed, only if it seems lie all hell is breaking loose anyway and there is no other way, or to prevent yourself from dying. Now, we technically have two potential people who can take over his body in a pinch, Guin or Carolina, if we need to, problem then exists where we have a few issues with that. Carolina would require someone to keep an eye on her body, and Guin would actually mentally switch bodies, so someone would need to restrain her a bit when she switched. But the upside being then Cortez wouldn't have any ways to use his powers. That would then be all that matters with that. Since then we can figure out what to fully afterwards, though it likely would be to fully knock out Cortez in some way."
The walls around them randomly began to rattle without warning. Not like it was an explosion or something, no, it had to be something else causing it, and Miranda was partially paying attention to that sort of thing trying to figure out what was causing it. If she didn't now better, she would have said that Magneto was the one causing it, but considering the work done to build this place, he likely wouldn't cause that sort of thing on purpose. Unless he was getting angry about something of course, and given the current situation, well that wasn't too difficult to understand why.
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