[IC] Xmen: Mutant Registration is Avenged

[knighthawk]

"TRAITOR!"-"Side with your own kind!"-"How COULD you?"
He had heard it all before, he heard it yesterday, he'll hear it tomorrow. As it was he stood across the way from a sewer full of hideously deformed mutants, none passable by any standard and almost none of them with anything resembling real power, The Morloks.

Their leader was a woman by the name of Naga And she matched her namesake. Standing on a steel catwalk thirty feet above the swirling waters of a Manhattan drainage outlet he faced off against her with an electronic clipboard in right hand as his left rested upon the handle of his sheathed ninja-to in a reverse grip. Mentally he superimposed the sewer with a training dojo, a mental exercise to force light telepathy to see what he wanted them to see by using his imagination. It also kept his terrifying fear of heights in check. The son of the great acrobat, the first time he tried to teleport ten years ago was by forcing himself into a position his mutant power would activate to save his life, it broke his back instead.

"Look, you're all mutants, register, I'm a mutant, I registered. If you register, Shield can get you placed in-"
"Concentration camps!"
"Listen b!tch, My grandfather was in those camps, and this isn't like that at all. You want hell on earth? I've see int! They don't march down here and give you a fight to the death, they flood this place, they flood this whole island to sea level then flash freeze it with a cryo-bomb! Those that don't drown die of suffocation and hypothermia as the air runs out.... That is your future if you don't sign."

Nagas hands came to rest on her swords as he shouted back, her slit eyes tried to read the solid black orbs for signs of betrayal, having to trust the facial structure instead. She released the swords as he continued to talk, impassively crossing her four arms before speaking in a softer tone, concern in her voice now.
"You have seen it, haven't you? A psychic vision?"

"Something like that. Right now their are options, apartments, farms, places where you aren't part of the petting zoo. Better to do it now than wait for imminent domain to take away your options one by one until you are cornered."

"If we are to be cornered, we would lead the fight now and take it to your streets. A riot of hundreds of mutants pushing back your 'saviors' dream by centuries. What then?"

"Then I am under orders to challenge you to trial by combat and 'when' I win I 'make' them register... The only difference is that you are no longer in charge."

[Zerofighter]

David sighed and watched the students . They all seemed good . He looked at them and said "Hello kids. I'm here to help Ira today. " he looked at the girl, Ami. " what is your power?" She walked under one of the largest weights and lifted it. "I'm strong." She said . David rose eyebrow. He looked at Ira and thought to her 'that weighs almost two tons.'

[Nicias Askani]

Ira nodded. she knew all the students and their abilities, on of the perks of being a teacher here was the experience. from telepaths to telekenetics to pyros superhuman condition and every type of excretion you could think of shes used to already. hard to believe its been almost ten years since she arived here. from student...to teach.. soon to be X-man apparently.

She stepped aside and let David take the spot light as he held their attention. it gave her time to telepathically reach out to Jean to check on her

[knighthawk]

In an alley, a manhole slid to the side and out climbed the blue mutant in full shield regalia. He put the manhole back and searched around for a bright blue garbage bag he left there which had his civilian clothing, taking the bag behind a dumpster, he changed out of his uniform and stuffed the sewer soaked equipment into a second garbage bag and zipped it into a duffel bag. For a moment there was a baby blue butt in the wind as he finished changing before walking out into the street with a gym bag in one hand and a lit clove cigarette in the other, He didn't usually smoke but he had to get the smell of underground out of his nose and lungs.

"Shield, this is Wagner, I got 1,834 signatures and DNA samples, where is the closest tech agent to pass this data off to?... Understood."
*BAMF*
Fifteen stories up and he felt his heart in his throat. Teleporting again, he was on a roof across the way and making his way in a parkour style to the nearest agent he could trust. He was soon standing before a mobile station where a technopath agent was supposed to be at work.
*bam-bam-bam*
"Agent Lee, open up."

[Zerofighter]

David looked at everyone. He said "Were gonna try something different class. Were gonna try a offensive approach."
"But isnt that wrong?"
"yes but were gonna have you be attacked first." He pressed a button and the danger room sent out robots with lasers. He watched to see what the kids would do.
Marcus blocked the lasers and in a few minutes Ami punched the ground causing the robots to stumble. Searge jumped over Marcus and clapped his hands together creating a shockwave destroying the robots. David rose a eyebrow. "Impressive. What did you use to beat them?"
"team work?" Searge said
"Yes....together you can win. but divided you will fall.." David told them all

[Silver Carrot]

Heidi looks around, making sure there was nobody she recognized.

"Sometimes I feel like the Avengers nowadays are just glorified SHIELD operatives. We used to be earth's mightiest heroes, and defenders of the peace. Now, if we get an order from the Cat, we just follow it.

Hell, the amount of times I've insisted a specific mutant get schooling and then found them being treated like a prisoner is starting to get ridiculous. I trust them more than the police but they're not doing a good job of deserving that trust. When I get back, I'm having a word with Kitty."

It is at that point, the food arrives.

"Ah, thank you."

[Nicias Askani]

Ira leaned against a wall and watched her students. she trusted that David knew what he was doing so she let him work. instead she tried to call to jean telepathically again "jean can you hear me?"

[Zerofighter]

Jean sat in the chair trying to relax. Her headache banged . She felt Ira's voice. 'I have a headache right now..I can't talk." She stil felt and heard all the thoughts of those mutants. " just need to relax.."
David smiled and said "Class what will you do if this school is attacked." They shrugged and didn't know "I want you to get out and protect the younger mutants."
"Uh mr.Lehnsherr what should we do if the MRA passes?"
David sighed "we fight it anyway we can."

Anthony smiles at her "you know I don't always follow orders, especially from Kitty. We can still be the defenders of peace. This is why we need to support the MRA. You know they have great powers and need to be trained. Xavier's institution will only do so much." He smiled as their did arrived

[Nicias Askani]

Ira let out a sigh of relief when she heard from jean. Ira agreed more with Davids opinion on the MRA matter honestly but was quickly getting the feeling shed be stuck playing mediator between him and jean before long. For now that was alright because it insured that all three of them were thinking before they reacted. she checked her watch... still 20 mintues left of class, which meant David had enough time to let most, if not all, the students get a turn. but she wouldnt allow him to force anyone that was hesitant. this was a combat class not a Power Ed class. some of these kids didnt have full handles on their powers anyway.

[Casterlyrock]

hearing the knock on the door, Zandrea composed herself taking a deep breath. "its open....i think" she stood up taking in for the first time the damage she caused in her own work station looking like someone tossed the room during a robbery. she picked up her chair from the floor and looked into a reflection of a computer screen "your a mess..." turning away from herself she sat down and started fixing the mess she made in her fit as the door opened.

[Silver Carrot]

"Xavier's school's a start, but it's not big enough. Than and it was also the home of the X-men. They might come back. While more heroes is never a bad thing, they're just kids. They'll want to put their lives at risk just because it's 'the cool thing to do.' I mean, what young mutant didn't want to be an X-man when they grew up?

No, we need the MRA. There is discrimination because they fear us, and they fear us because of what we can do. Assurance that we are well trained, responsible, and in control of ourselves won't stop all the problems, but it will make a big difference."

She takes another bite of her meal.

"People have always gone against change, but in a few generations after this law passes, it'll make so much sense, it would be hard to imagine the world any other way."

[Zerofighter]

David then said "now where gonna have some spars against each other."
Why sir?" Marcus asked. "Like I said earlier we might be attacked and you need to be ready." They nod and David picked two random kids. "Your names ?" The one kid's name was Janes and the other Mike. David then asked if they could control their powers. James said no. David nods and said "I'm sorry James but I can't let you spar yet." David looked at Ira for a bit help. He helped with combat but mostly helped with power ed.
Jean sighed and felt the headache slowly go away. Those voice felt like they were right here. All of them at once. She knew she had to get used to this. She might need to use this again.

Anthony took a bite of his food and said "I know old friends of yours teach there. I know two are daughters of the original Xmen but isn't one the son of the mutant terrorist Magneto ?" Anthony looked at her and said "Having a new Xmen team will look bad, especially if they're antiMRA."

[Silver Carrot]

"If the X-men go against SHIELD, they're our problem. If they go against the government, they're everybody's problem. I like to think the people I knew are better than that, especially Jean. But David...I hope he doesn't become his father. Now there was a bad guy. Believed that Mutants should rule the world, and resorted to terrorism to try and achieve that goal. No one race, country or group has the right to the world, or even the country. Besides, could you even imagine a mutant world war?"

Being an incredibly efficient eater, Heidi had already finished her meal.

[Nicias Askani]

"everyone not comfortable with their power take steps back. if your comfortable then step forward. Mr. David is going to work with the ones who are comfortable...the rest of you will watch. " Ira said simply. it wasnt that serious. specifically since she was going to lock down the danger room after the class was over. there was a Sim she felt she needed to run. one that she felt would determine her course of action

[Zerofighter]

David picked Surge and Mike. He knew of Searge's but asked Mike's Mike said "I can do this." He closed his eyes and a purple buble surrounded him. 'must be a shield.' David thought. "Alright. Rules. No attempt to kill. When your opponent is tired, doesnt want to spar anymore, or is unconsious thespar is over." He walked back and said "Begin." He watched as Searge used his shockwave. MIke looked scared but used his shield. It held but soon broke. Mike fell back, panting. David knew this kid could control his power but needed to overcome his fear. Searge was about to do another but David ended the match. He helped Mike up and said "Who is next?"
Jean sighed and slowly put the cerebro. She felt the voices again almost instantly.'concentrate Jean. Focus on only mutant thoughts. just mutant thoughts.' The voices weakened some but still heard a lot. She shook but tried to concentrate on finding the mutants.
Anthony remembered the Brotherhood. His dad talked about them. Anthony said "The original Magneto caused one. I heard he had three other kids before David. I'm not sure what happened to them though. " He sipped his drink. "A mutant war will be awful. Some mutants are stronger then a Nuke. I agree that Xavier's academy the teachers there could only do so much."

[Silver Carrot]

"I'd suggest an initiative for a lot of large school to be built, and staffed by anyone who is pro-reg equalists, though preferably mutants. Thing is I don't think there's a society, government branch orcompany that would want to take orders from an Avenger, especially not SHIELD, and especially not anything this expensive."

She looks down at their plates, and made a cocky remark about how she had finished and he had not;

"Are you going to eat that?"

[Nicias Askani]

Ira didnt do any more that watch. she always taught them that there was no shame in losing here. some students weren't fond of losing. but its a part of growing so they would have to get over it sooner or later.

[Zerofighter]

Anthony laughed like he heard something hilarious. "Expensive? You forget who your talking to?" He looked at his food. He only ate the bread and meat ball. "Yea take them."
David pointed to ami and another girl. He asked the girl. "What can you do ?" The girl became big. About 15ft. David nods and said "Begin the match."

[knighthawk]

Magnus's pointed ears caught the sounds of a womans voice inside. "Its open....i think" Before he entered the van, he handed his bag off to a shield agent. "Get this to an analytical agent then to decontamination before bringing the results directly here. Do you understand?" He felt the agent could use a direct order from someone important to do an important deed rather than just tell them to take it to dry cleaning, besides, who knows what African toxin or nano-bot could be found in the sewer to tie up a dead case.

It took two tries to get the door open before he could look inside. " I always hear that the most brilliant people don't bother with needless other things that weigh down the mind, Einstein had dozens of the same outfit so he didn't have to bother about dressing himself." Stepping up into the mobile center he closed the door behind him, after three tries. Locking the door behind him, he perched on whatever was available to hand her the electronic clipboard and pen.

"Here you go, nearly two 'K' in in signatures, fingerprints, and DNA samples between the clipboard or the pen. Scanned one by one by every unaware Morlok who didn't know what they were holding as they might very well have signed their life away."

[Nicias Askani]

the girl who became big always experienced pain from the stretching muscles and tendons. she would feel it when she shrunk to her normal size. Ira almost winced as she watched her grow. she personally know how it felt to have your ownpower hurt you...even though her pain was mostly mental and the girls was mostly physical.