[IC] State of Heroes and Villains

[MarshiestMallow]

Connor

Connor had just returned, landing on the outskirts of the destruction, away from others, when Kijani called. A relief thudded through him, and that made he realised that he had fear there would be an attack, on any academy students, and teachers, graduates and retirees.

"Most of our class are here. Adrian's putting his skills to use trying to find some survivors, as well as those with empathic or telepathic abilites.. Kagerou managed to protect her class, so there's a class full of students. McCoy has survived, although unconscious, dragged out the rubble by Deadpool. I'm not sure if there's been any more survivors."

As she asked what was needed from her, he paused. No doubt she had already tried to find any information that could lead to what happened here. There had to be some sign, some way of figuring out what happened. If there was, Kijani would find it. "The only thing you can do is find out who did this" An impossible task. But he knew he wouldn't rest until he knew. "what if this isn't their only target? What would they go after next? How are we to bloody know?" There was anger in his tone, as well as fear that no matter what they did, they would be too late to stop more of this destruction.

He took a deep breath, and let it out in a sigh. "It's bad. Can you find a list of the students names? Their parents? They have a right to know if their son or daughter is alive, or dead" He could try and find a server that would still let him connect, but that seemed like something for later, not now. And now there was only sadness in his tone, a terribly grief for the loss he could see.

Kalinda

She had given up searching for the black cloaked stranger. There would be time for that later. Right now, they didn't seem a threat. She found her way to Estella, looking about, she could see the boys, but seeing Arnold in charge, she didn't go over. It saddened her that she couldn't talk with her friends, because of him. She sighed softly, "How long do we continue to search for survivors? there's so much suffering, whether from the survivors we've already found, or those trapped that I"m unable to pin point anyone, unless they're in a big group like Kagerou and her class"

[Flood]

Flood rode up on his motorcycle and stopped. He parked it and took off his helmet. He looked at the school and Deadpool dramatically yelling. He then started chuckling. He pulled out his phone and took a couple of photos before laughing harder. "Phoebe! Long time, no see! I heard you had a little one! Congrats!" He walked towards Phoebe and began shifting through rubble with her. He picked up a particularly large piece of rubble and tossed it to the side. He found a small box and he laughed some more. It was engraved with an ornate F and the lock was busted. He opened it and pulled out 100 bucks. " So that's what happened to this."

[twave]

Estella

Whilest taking a break Kalinda approached her. While their mental abilities varied they both were having a similar setback. Talking to one person, or even several, telepathically wasn't that hard. But here now trying to find someone you may not even know was difficult with all the chatter going through people's minds. Not even being a natural empathy she could feel the stress and an anxiety coming off of people.

Nodding to what Kalinda said she sighed "I know what you mean. There's too much going on for me to tell either. I guess we just keep looking until Kagerou says to stop. She can sense life or something like that if I remember correctly." It had been a while since she'd talked to the teacher in question. Looking at the small woman she hadn't aged a day in the last five years. Estella herself had grown and was taller than she. It was still hard to believe that she was as old as she claimed.

@Caits

[MonsieurShade]

Adrian lifted a large chunk of debris that he assumed at one point had been a portion of an art class given the tacked on paintings, and heaved it to his left. He'd been at this for a while, and he was tired; his muscles were cramped and his lungs ached from breathing in dust and powdered rubble from the ruined school. "Can't stop, won't stop." He muttered over and over as he reached down to pick up another piece of the school. Just as he wrapped his fingers around a chunk of wall and started to lift Adrian's grip gave out without warning, causing the wall to fall back into its position, though now it sported a few bloody smears. As he noticed the smears, Adrian realized for the first time how sharp the stinging in his hands were and raised them to eye level to get a good look. The sight was not pretty: Adrian's hands trembled weakly, his palms and fingers were cut to ribbons by the unforgiving drywall, brick, and glass, and there were more than a few friction blisters dotting the spots where his hands hadn't been cut.

He fell to his knees and stared down at his hands for what felt like an eternity, not really looking at them so much as through them as he came to grips with the fact that he couldn't continue to work in his current condition. A second, two seconds, and then, "FUCK.". The word tore itself from Adrian's throat, sounding more like a snarl than an actual word. He balled his hands into fists, ignoring the pain as he raised them and slammed them weakly onto the ground. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!". Adrian continued this until he'd exhausted himself, then stumbled defeatedly towards the medical tent to wait to have his hands bandaged.

[MarshiestMallow]

Kalinda

Kalinda gave a nodded, and walked away without saying anything else. She would continue, even if she thought it was helpless. As one of the searchers seemed to have a small break down,s wearing and such, Kalinda looked over.

It was she supposed inevitable. This destruction. The bodies. The hope crushed with each lift of the rubble, each failure.

She hesitated, and then diverted towards him. She didn't recognise him, but then, how many people had gone to this school?. His hands were bloody, and Kalinda winced. She stepped to his stride, and said softly, "In things like this, you have to b e careful for your own health, physical, mental and emotional. You can't just do what you were doing. You need to rest, if only so you can be helpful. Get your hands treated-i'm sure there's a healer around someewhere-, rest for a little bit, have something to eat. And then return if you can" She soothed away some of the pain, and the more fearful emotions.

Phoebe

As Flood came over, Phoebe gave him a smile, but it was brief. Flood was as strange as ever. "Yes, thank you. Danial. He's a bundle of joy." her voice was soft, and indulgent as she spoke of her son. She watched as Flood found his box and his money. "We're searching for survivors, Flood. You're lucky to find that. See if you can put that luck into finding people alive"

[Flood]

"Yeah." Flood's face was serious as he pulled out his motorcycle keys and pressed a button. The motorcycle drove towards him and stopped nearby. It began shaking slightly until the wheels and other parts began shifting. It eventually shrunk to the size of a large phone and he put it in his pocket. "Let's get to work." He began searching through the rubble and whenever a piece of rubble was too big he froze it and shattered the rubble. He was in the process of doing that when he heard a light moan. He turned to the sound and dug a 14-15 year old boy out. "You're good kid." The boy looked up at him and looked almost frozen in awe. "You're Logan's grandson right? Good seeing you." He carried him over to the infirmary tent and came back to sort through more rubble. "I know him. Hot headed like his granddad, good kid at heart."

[Eviledd1984]

While walking out and going back he bumped into the shoulder of Flood noticing the son of Deadpool,He was cutting his loses now and he needed to leave because his business here is finished and he didn't need to be here anymore.

[Flood]

Flood looked over at Nicholas and smiled. "How's the experiments going?" He asked while he continued to search through the rubble. "Actually, don't tell me. I'd rather not arrest you. I'm a hero now apparently. Crazy huh?" He continued as he unearthed a large piece of chalkboard. He froze it and shattered it into dust.

[Eviledd1984]

"A hero?i always though you would be a brooding anti-hero of some sort" The tall scarecrow chuckled at this notion but knew it was true,"Never the less i came here for one reason of course I cannot tell you because I would have to kill you but Ki must leave give Phoebe and Ryan my regards if you see them..." Nicholas said to Flood waiting for his respond.

[Flood]

Flood chuckled at Nicholas' response. "Look who developed a sense of humour." He looked over at Phoebe. "If you could kill me, I would welcome it. Either way, I'll give them my regards. Farewell Nicholas." Ryan walked away but stopped and looked over his shoulder. "Do know this... If you're continuing you're experiments, no innocents. I can look the other way, but if you involve innocent people in your research..." He let the threat hang in the air, then turned back towards the rubble and searched through it.

[twave]

Things were not looking good. These kids were not prepared for this. Both the heroes and the students. already she know they had found everyone alive they were going to. Given the level of destruction it was only luck that he was in a position to save a good portion of the students. But that wasn't much to cheer over. Of the teachers it seemed to be a rather mixed back on who survived so far. Some were strong or extremely hard to kill while others must have been in the right place at the right time. McCoy, Deadpool, Captain Atom, Metamorpho, Wasp, and herself. And of those only Deadpool, Metamorpho, and herself were relatively unharmed, the others were severely injured or unconscious. One could only hope that not everyone was at the academy when the attack hit.

But there was still a lot of rubble to go through. This was about the point she expected things to get real. When people were faced with such a crushing reality it could bring out many different results. Honestly this was no easy for her either. Many of the people here were old friends. How something like this could happen right in front of her was hard to come to terms with.

[Eviledd1984]

"You don't have to worry about that most of my "subjects" are criminal scum...in fact how about we leave this place and have some fun" Nicholss said stroking up the idea of them punishing some criminals.

"We can go out and torture some scumbag..." He said wanting to caught Flood's attention.

[Flood]

"Most?" Flood questioned. He sighed. "As much as I would love to, and I really would, I have to help find survivors. I hold no love for the school, but the students here need help." He sorted through more rubble and found another student. He held his fingers to her neck and blanched slightly. He pulled his hand away and mentally catalogued the kid. "Daughter of... Matthew Murdock AKA Daredevil. Deceased." He called out loud. He reached into her pocket and pulled out a wallet. "Age 15, name... Jennifer Murdock." He put the wallet down and sighed. "How the hell do I explain this?" Flood picked up the body lightly when she suddenly started coughing. "Crap, she needs serious medical attention stat! She's close to death!" He rushed her over to where all the other injured students were and grabbed some medical supplies. "Who's the nurse here!"

[Eviledd1984]

"Mhm I also have no love for this school but perhaps I can help you and you can help me" Nicholas following behind Flood,"I am a doctor you know...I can help her for you...and after we can head out to Gotham for some fun..." He added taking a look at the girl seeing a fractured arm and ribcage pulling out a small medkit to work on her.

[MarshiestMallow]

Phoebe

As Flood talked with Nicholas, Phoebe continued doing what she could to find other students. When he started calling out that another student had been found and was in dire need of attention, Phoebe looked over, but knew she would just be in the way.

Don't die She thought, turning to continue strengthening the rubble, she looked over to Nicholas, "Don't be reckless, Nick. Please" She said softly

[Flood]

Flood backed off and let Nicholas do his thing. "If you insist Nicholas." He chuckled slightly before going back to the rubble to search through it.

[Eviledd1984]

"Stay still and please don't move too much i want to help you as much as i can" Nicholas said to the young girl,The tall man opened up the medkit picking up her arm gently helping her first with her fractured arm.The frightened girl looked up at Nicholas and his mask must have been quite frightening to most.

In a rare moment he took off his mask to show off his ridged face with a friendly grin,"Sorry how is this?" He said to her fixing up her arm putting it into a cast and now started to work on her broken ribcage.

[MonsieurShade]

Adrian stared at Kalinda with a haunted expression as she fell in with his step. He'd seen many bad things in his life, and done a few bad things as well, but never something this horrid. Never in his life had he harmed or allowed to be harmed through his actions children. It was safe to say that he was shaken to his core at the carnage he'd bore witness to. Adrian opened and closed his mouth, however no words came out as he made an attempt to respond. Eventually he just gave up and gave a weak nod before shuffling towards the medical tent.

[twave]

Hours later

After several hours just about everyone was beat. Either physically or mentally. When it was apparent that the majority had reached their limit Kagerou sent everyone to the medical tent to rest. She didn't say it but she knew that rescue was over, all that was left now was recovery. Several other former students had joined them by now and were sent off to wait with the others.

Kagerou

With everyone else done and out Kagerou continued on her own. As many of the students found she seemed to have a tireless energy reserve. As far as anyone knew she never needed sleep, food, or drink. It was something that gave her the upper hand in most situations. Lifting wreckage with both her strength and TK she could lift weight much greater than anyone currently present.

She appeared to be looking for something in particular. However she was careful to pay respect to any bodies she found along the way. With it all she wanted to try and get through as much of this herself as she could. Everyone else didn't need to see this.

Estella

Exhausted she occasionally drifted into sleep before waking again with a start. During the search she had found someone clinging to their last moments. It was Ororo Munroe, Storm. She did her best to keep her mind occupied and going. Knowing Gale would be heartbroken she dove a bit deeper into the teacher's mind than she should. Ordinarily it would have just been ill advised but in the turmoil she had found herself mentally locked together with the woman.

It was not something she was prepared for. But in a strange way it gave them a chance to talk. Things can go much faster in the mind than in reality. Seconds felt like minutes. But Storm was no stranger to this kind of interaction. She knew what had happened and tried to tell Estella as much as she could in the time she had. When it began to look like the end was near she made sure to express her love for Gale. She was like a daughter to her and that made a very strong impression in the alien's mind.

Toward the end it was like the world was falling apart and the memories of Storm's past began to flash and swirl around. With the grip loosening Estella finally broke free. Fresh in her mind Ororo's memories were stuck in her head. She had done this before with Ben. Something clearly was wrong because coming away with things like that should not happen. Perhaps it was that others didn't have the same mental defenses her kind did. Or the unknown side effects of the weapon she encountered years ago. Unlike last time though she was better able to discern the difference, most of the time.

[MarshiestMallow]

Phoebe

Phoebe had only taken a few quick breaks, to call her mother and make sure Daniel was okay. Beyond that, Pheoebe had continued looking. She needed to know. She wouldn't leave, until she knew. And she needed to be there. If her fathers body was found, Pheoebe wanted to be there. If it wasn't, then she would know he needed help.

But she didn't have much hope.

As the hours went passed, all she wanted was Ryan, was Daniel. Weariness swamped her, but still she continued. Eventually she had managed to get through the rubble, marking any places that she found bodies with large flowers, so those that were stronger then her would be able to retrieve them, managed to get to where she remembered his office was. But then she just stood there, suddenly unable TK look. She didn't want to do this alone, and she looked for anyone, for Katherin, for any of her hold classmates.

kalinda

Kalinda had had to stop. She had had to move away from the emotions, to block herself, and sort her own emotions out. She sat a little away from everyone else, her mind tired, her heart aching with a million different feelings, breathing in and out slowly. Even now, after so many years, she could still lose control.

She dropped her head into her hands, and cried. It was the easiest way to let out what she felt, and when she had finished, she felt better. But her body was weary. With her own telekenisis, she had helped removed rubble, lifting far more then she ever had before. She hadn't wanted to risk using the emotions she was feeling to fuel her TK, not wanting to lose control.

Now she stood, looking about. It could take days to find all the bodies, she thought. She had managed to find several more students, survivors, and had gotten them help. But there was still more.

So taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes, and reached out to feel more emotions