[IC] X-Men: Dark Descent RP

[Royzooka]

Location/Place: Westchester-NY
Date: 11/11/2014
Time: 04:59am

The Xavier institute for the gifted is a place for learning, a place of safety and above all a place where one could be what they are without judgement. Within the halls of the mansion mutants from all over the world come, some just students and some apart of the team known as the X-Men. Long time students Jean Grey, Scott Summers, Angel, Iceman and beast can still be found helping and teaching other students with Professor X. Alongside them stand Storm, Rogue, Gambit and Wolverine though Wolverine’s teachings are more extreme than the others. Many other X-Men come and go but no matter where they are they are still a part of the X-Men.

The night sky was clear, not a single cloud in sight could be seen. The mansion grounds quite as they could be at this time. The stars and the moon glowed brightly over the mansion. The water fountain keeping its flow going as everything else rests. A slight breeze rolled over the garden areas, the trees rustling in the distance every so often. The mansion itself was quite yet not silent. Not every mutant was sleeping, some still up in their rooms either reading, preparing for tomorrow, goofing off with others or if one was like Wolverine getting ready for a hard day of being an X-Man.

The main lobby was lit though the front doors were locked, heavy oak doors having a class room, library, kitchen or other room behind them. The sound of a grand clock could be heard as it ticked, ticked and ticked some more. Never stopping, never lagging and always being handy for those who wanted to know the time. Many painting and plants were presence, this giving the place a little life and class. For a moment nothing but the sound of ticking was heard but like life that soon changed. Class would start soon, 8:00am for some and later for others. The hallways would become noisy and full but safe for each and everyone.

Up in his room Professor X was tossing and turning, sweat running down his forehead. His bed sheets all in disarray, a pillow finding itself on the floor and the other barely supporting his head. As he tossed and turned he spoke out.

Professor X: "Nooooo, stop it...."

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Professor X: "My X-Men, stop this madness before it is to late."

[Pause]

Professor X: "Nooooo, STOP IT, I, I, I can't control it....... ARRGGGGGGHHHHHH."

With that Charles Xavier opened his eyes, his breathes were short and rapid. His body shook for a moment as he looked at his hands trying to collect himself. His thoughts scattered but with some tips be able to bring everything back in order, with his eyes closed he began to inhale and exhale slowly. The professor giving himself 5 second wait times in-between, slowly but surely he managed to gather all his thoughts as he soon turned over to see the lamp on his night table. He reaches out to turn it on where he spots the clock which tole him it was 04:59am. 'What was that, a dream, an event, an outcome? Whatever it was I did not like it' he thought to himself.

[GingerBoi123]

Darren was doing a morning work out, it was important for his animal like energy to get out as much as possible so Darren was performing chin-ups on a pull up bar in his doorway. It was 7 in the morning and Darren was waiting for his first class to start at 9. Darren stopped at 50 chin-ups and went to his treadmill, setting it at a medium jogging pace and started running on the treadmill. Darren really appreciated the school but he never had a chance to get some of his equipment for making music, save for speakers and his laptop. He would have to try and find the Professor and ask for them today.

[Revans Exile]

Wolverine and Talon usually only slept six hours a day. They were late gettting to bed the previous night so they were just getting up at 0500. Talon was the first to the kitchen since her bedroom was closer. She started the coffee maker and started cooking bacon and eggs in one frying pan. Wolverine went to the danger room and went through the selection of the simulations.

He just finished picking out the simulation and turning off the safety features when Talon walked in to the control carrying a still piping hot frying pan and a coffee pot. They ate breakfast in silence. When they were finished eating they went down to the floor of the Danger Room.

The Danger Room was running a pitch black simulation. Wolverine chose this simulation to test their ability to fight without their sight. Their opponnent was able to see in the dark without any source of lights. They had both agreed the night before to only use their claws for blocking or climbing during the simulation today.

They split up, Wolverine was the first to encounter one, he blocked for a few minutes he randomized each opponents fighting style so that not a single fighting style would be repeated. While blocking he was studying the technique being used. Once he figured out the pattern he ripped the arm off the robot and jammed it through the robots chest.

Talon's first opponent carried a laser rifle. She climbed the walls and dropped down on it and snapped it's neck. She then grabbed the rifle and put three rounds through it's chest. She then set the rifle to overload, she tossed the rifle towards the sound of where she thought Wolverine was.

[Revans Exile]

Wolverine kicked the overloading blaster into the chest of another opponent seconds before it exploded. Wolverine and Talon mopped up the rest of their opponents. When it was over the computer brought up a holographic score board. Neither paid much attention to it. They would review the footage of it recorded with an infrared camera later whenever convenient.

They proceeded to change into their civilian clothes. Talon had perimeter duty while Wolverine had to check inventory and run routine maintenance on the various vehicles.

[Royzooka]

Across from the main building, the front gates which kept people out and those inside safe began to have visitors, the none friendly kind. All over the world many anti-mutant groups had been campaigning against those who were born with the mutant gene. To them it was not holy, they were the children of the devil and they needed to be removed. To date only several of the largest anti-mutant groups had done anything drastic, one of these groups being the Friends of Humanity. Graydon Creed led them; in this moment in time he was running for congress and if things worked out become president of the United States of America. A large group would form by no later than 10am where a mixture of various anti-mutant groups would stand and yell mutant hate and chase whoever came out. The following week had been at its all-time worse; two of the mutants who attended this school were attacked, now in critical condition.

Back in Professor X's room Charles had collected himself, he put his dressing grown on and got himself into his chair. Dry sweat marks could be seen though one had to be close enough. 'These nightmares, why do they keep recurring. Can I not get any rest?' Xavier thought to himself. After that thought Charles left his semi dark room and made his way to the main floor, maybe some of his students were up or maybe one of his X-Men were up. Wolverine came to mind, he was one for doing than sleeping. From the bedroom area he found himself on the ground floor, moving along and checking to see who was up. The library was empty, silent and in good condition. The room across the hall way was also empty, that room being one of the class rooms they taught students in. The hallway was semi lit, the oak doors all either closed or slightly a jarred.

Only the sounds of Professor X could be heard, soft breathing and some sounds of his movement as he traveled down the hallway. The next door on the left of Professor X was another class room, one that Jean used regularly. ‘I wonder Jean, do you have these nightmares or is it only me’ he thought to himself. As he continued to move down the hallway towards the kitchen something had caught his attention. The room to the right was the room many mutants went to hang out unless they went outside. This room had leisure activities in it. A big screen TV, a pool table, a chess set, a table for general chatting and a few other things. What got Xavier’s attention was the glow and sound of the TV, it sounded like someone forgot to turn it off.

Charles went into look seeing two mutants asleep on the sofa which was adjutant from the TV itself. It seemed two students fall asleep at some point though the early news on the TV had got his attention, the very thing that had brought him into the room.

TV Interviewer (Female): “We have confirmation today that the programme Bolivar Trask had submitted will go ahead as planned. The violence we have seen from both sides are great, Mr Trask had delivered a speech about one week ago on his project and why it should be made. We had an interview with Mr Trask who stated this is good for the nation, we as people are helpless against the mutant kind. The only way to prevent humans from being hurt is to control and contain the mutants via his programme. We will bring you more live updates as we get them, back to you at the studio.”

Professor X thought to himself, something to control mutants, this would not end well for either side. ‘Magneto, why do you still do the things you do, why do you resist the idea that we can live side by side with each other. Both humans and mutants can coexist, this I believe.’ he thought to himself. Professor X soon turned the TV off and roamed to his office where he stayed for a while. After sometime he called upon his X-Men.
Professor X: “My follow X-Men, would you come to my office. Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Colossus, Talon, Nightcrawler, Beast, Psylocke, Emma Frost and Bear. We have a matter to attend too.”

His message only went to those who he wanted to come to the office.

[Revans Exile]

Talon was still out patrolling when the bigots showed up. She was using every trick in the book that X taught her from going berserk. The bigots should count themselves lucky that she was away the day they put the students in the hospital, nothing would have stopped her from slaughtering every single one of them. As she passed by them she made sure to show off her claws. Talon was always weirded out by hearing X's voice in her head. She headed to X's office.

Wolverine just finished the vehicle maintenance. He washed his hands and then filled out some forms on the computer. He instituted the forms so all one had to do was look up each vehicle to see what was done and also so maintenance wouldn't be unnecessarily repeated. He was on his way to Xavier's office when he got the creepy voice in his head.

[GingerBoi123]

Bear was wiping his face with a small towel when Xavier requested his presence at his office. Darren put the towel on his bed and got changed from his workout tracksuit to jeans and a t-shirt with some sort of logo on the front, after spraying deodorant. Darren walked through the halls of the institution, weaving his way between the students just like him. Darren felt really humble towards Professor Xavier, who chose him to be an X-Man, perhaps one of the youngest X-Man ever. Darren saw Wolverine on the way to Xavier's office too and tailed behind him all the rest of the way there, not saying a word.

[Royzooka]

Slowly but surely the X-Men started to pile into Professor X's office. Cyclops, Jean, beast and Storm being the first to arrive. Beast was looking out of the window and into the courtyard at this time, Jean had taken a sit in front of Charles, Storm herself was checking the plants in Xaviers office for a moment, and Cyclops was leaning against the left wall of Professor X's office. Colossus, Psylocke, Emma Frost and Iceman were next in the office. Colossus had brought Magik with him and both of them stood in the right corner of the room as Psylocke and Emma Frost stood next to Professor Xs desk. Eventually the other few X-Men joined them. Professor X was looking down at his desk for a moment before he looked up to see everyone in the room.

Professor X: "Thank you for coming at short notice my X-Men. I have some troubling news, yesterday evening the news had reported that the congress building would be put on high alert. I am sure you know what this means? It means that Magneto is going to go in and cause more problems then we need right now. His methods are not ideal and we need to keep the progress we have the same as we did before or we will have to rebuild bridges. So this means seven of you will be heading off. Cyclops, Storm, Bear, Wolverine, Talon, Jean and Psylocke, you will need to to prep and head to the Blackbird in five minutes if we want to get their before Magneto does."

Jean: "How do you know he is coming Professor?"

Professor X: "Because they are discussing a bill that poses a threat to mutant kind, I will be attending to fight this bill. Your jobs will be to keep the Brotherhood or whoever else he brings from entering the building. Magneto will enter in some fashion so don't engage him unless need be. Any questions?"

His voice echoed a little within the oak room. The room having an oak desk, oak bookshelves line on the right side of the office, three chairs which had oak frames but padded sits, some plants that stood in various places, a window to the left of the room as well as various items such as a cup, a few pens and two books sitting on the desk itself on the upper right side. It seemed he was putting off the nightmare he had, but at this time they had more pressing matters to attend to. He knew his X-Men would do a fine job at keeping the unwanted out and making sure the innocent were not hurt in the process.

[Revans Exile]

Wolverine was never fond of dealing with Magneto. He may have rescued him from his forced participation in the Weapon X program and the restoration of his mind, but Magneto was a megalomaniac hell bent on world dominated by mutants with him as their emperor. What really ground his gears was that he was next to useless against with his Adamantium coated bones.

Talon was angry and in desire of revenge for the death of her father and all her friends. She didn't care what Magneto was capable of she was going to put her claws through his face no matter who or what got in her way. She had dreamt of nothing but that since she discovered who was responsible.

"If you'll excuse me, I'll get the transpo ready." He ducked out of the room. He grabbed Talon as he departed. "I know what you want to do Magneto. At the moment you have no chance, Magneto would wipe the floor with you and he wouldn't even break a sweat. You could do it but it would require working in tandem with someone willing to be guilty of murder along with you. Our fellow X-Men do not have what it takes. I am willing to help but we both have the same problem, how do we get around his master of magnetism."

They reached the hanger and Wolverine began the checklist.