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X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Chandilar: Shi'ar Throneworld

"Oh? Well, it only takes a few moments, about ten seconds to charge up the shot necessary," the scientist responds with regards to how long it takes to charge a shot.

"So ten seconds to charge it up, which means we'd have to try and line it up we'd have to start it firing before we actually want to... But Avery's suggestion might make that a bit easier, give us a bigger window to do it... But sometimes tech and magic don't work so not sure how well that'll work out..." Lance commented, thinking about what they could possibly do.

"As for how it works, well that is not such a simple idea or an explanation. See because when the entity bonds with a person, they merge and essentially become entangled. So the only way to potentially separate the two by force would be to separate them on a molecular level."

"So it basically rips them apart?"

"Exactly."

"That sounds painful... And also like there could be so many things to go wrong with it."

"We had to develop a potential way to even attempt to do something like that. Painful? Certainly. Potential side effects that we don't know of? Most likely, however it also is the best potential solution to separate them without killing the host, which from what seems to be discussed here would be the preferred option I take it?"

"Yeah, that would be the preferred choice." He knew that if all else failed, if the device did end up killing Mary, then they wouldn't have to deal with the potential destruction of everything. But that was not exactly still something he wanted to happen. At least if it was avoidable.

Why would I wish to aid you Runa? Things seem to be much more interesting this way, was the only response she got from Loki. The way he spoke made it seem like he wasn't super likely to help them.

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

Rogue walked over to Guin when she offered her hand to let her use her powers with a shrug, before she tapped on her hand, not really grabbing onto it, and Guin would feel slightly dizzy for a moment afterwards, but it was apparent that Rogue took care to not drain too much from her. "If we're gonna try something best to do it quick then," she ended up saying.

Chrysi for some reason decided against saying much more of anything, actually she sort of just sat down in the bubble shield that Ed had formed around them, and wasn't doing much of anything at all.

When Guin (with Annie and Rogue attempting to help her) tried to stun her though, nothing happened, at all. Instead she'd hear a voice in her head, (Annie would hear the voice too) You shouldn't mess with the minds of others, it's rude.

To those around them, Annie and Guin would instantly seemingly fall to the ground, Rogue would somewhat stumble backwards, but seems she managed to get out, barely anyway. That was probably a not good thing to happen to just take out two people, while Chrysi was seemingly doing absolutely nothing at all but sitting there. To the pair though, they'd seemingly find themselves (together at least) in a bit of an empty void. It was grey in color, and they seemed to be the only two around that they could see.

But even with that, Guin and surprisingly Annie would be able to hear Pietro's voice, but it sounded like it was through a bad radio, full of static and the loudness was going in and out for the words. ...Are---okay? were the only words they'd easily be able to make out from the interference.

Outside of that though, Chrysi seemed to contemplate what Jaclyn had said and shrugged a bit, finally saying something else for the moment. "I don't have to tell you my reasonings for anything," she said with a bit of a smile.

Pietro though was not thrilled, at all. He tried to reach out mentally to Guin but it was not exactly working out too well with some sort of interference. But that, he had to tell himself, was the least of their issues. Chrysi decided to just not do anything. That was the concerning part. She let herself sit in the bubble now, doing absolutely nothing.

"...Um... Why is she just sitting there?' he ended up asking, not super caring if she heard him or anything at all at this point. "She could break out, she could teleport to anywhere in the universe and probably out somewhere into space... So why is she choosing to sit there and do nothing?"

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: The Beach
Skills: N/A

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Janelle thought about the invitation about going to the arena for sparring now. Isaac had mentioned potentially going there and a few other places, she wasn't entirely sure what would be better now. She had more of hesitantly agreed to go to the strawberry fields because it seemed like it would be nice, not necessarily since it was the best option or anything like that. Now there were others talking about going there, and thinking on it that might be more fun to do with more people.

"Actually, I dink I change me mend," she said to Isaac, after hearing the invite from Kristin and Andy, "Sparrin sounds like it might be fun wit mahre people. I dink taggin alahng wit dem to de arena would be fun," she finally ended up saying with a bit of a smile that was directed towards Kristin and Andy.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: The Beach
Skills: N/A

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Janelle thought about the suggestions and ideas that Isaac gave her, before she responded, "Goin to de strawberry fields might be fun." She wasn't too sure what else to really do, and that was at least fairly calming for the most part. Sure training was fun and all, but that seemed to be what just about everyone was doing constantly.

Her attention shifted a bit when she heard Kristin say her name, and then she heard Andy also start talking to her. "I'm alright, what about you two? What are you guys up to?" she asked the two of them. Sure heading to the strawberry fields would be fun, but she was a bit curious as to what the other two were heading off to do.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Zari and Andy

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When She-Hulk approached Andy and asked for the number of a parent or guardian, Andy looked at Zari. "Uh, I'm with her." She indicated Zari for She-Hulk. This was awkward. She hadn't put her mom down as a parent due to her being stuck in a doll, and since Zari's parents had recommended her to the school Andy had just put their names down for contact information. Also, Andy wasn't certain how long they could get away with having two Mary Sue's in the room. She was concerned about what might happen soon when the other Andy and Zari came up. Why they hadn't yet, was beyond her.

Zari had been slightly hoping to just be able to deal with the time travel issue, but figured it'd be better to get this over with now. "You're phones won't work, here we'll use mine," she said, pulling out a phone that was specifically wired to be able to make calls across realities, and dialed up her mom, figuring she'd be most likely to answer. "Hei mor," she said, switching languages to greet her mom when she answered.

"Zari? Is something wrong? Isn't it the middle of the night there?" came the response, as Zari put the phone on speaker. Though to anyone who could hear it, the voice on the other end sounded a lot like She-Hulk's voice.

"Well not sure how to explain as I'm still kind of confused what happened considering I was kind of out of it for like, the first part of it soooooo. Just that another student tried to kill us."

"...Wait what happened?"

Andy shifted from foot to foot as Zari spoke with her mother. She hoped this would be resolved quickly. She gave a small half-hearted smile to She-Hulk. At least she seemed to be accepting that Zari's parents were Andy's guardians. It'd be weird to explain things and she didn't think she could. Zari might have to and while Zari was very smart sometimes her explanations assumed too much of the listener. But also people were very bad about asking follow-up questions or really listening to her. She remembered how back on Genosha the others didn't even believe Zari. "I can explain some of it." Andy said when she heard Zari's mom ask what had happened.

"Hello, this is Andy. Basically, there is this other student, uh, Ed. Anyway we went into a program he made in these tanks, uh I think they are called the System or something." Andy didn't remember what the Framework was called. "While inside he started messing with the program and trying to make us die. Zari wasn't allowed in cause she can manipulate the program from inside, but I was, uh able to get out...and together we freed everyone." Boy was that a simplified version of what had happened but there was a LOT that Andy didn't want She-Hulk, or the others to overhear. Like their time travel...her killing someone...her actually having died in the program. It was much easier to just give the simplified version for now. If Zari's parents wanted the full story later she could tell them.

"That's what I said, just a much shorter version! And not mentioning the freeing everyone part."

"That sounds insane..." Sparky responded, before pausing for a bit of a moment. "Might take a little bit since figure if I take off to head over there your father is going to be annoyed since he's not here. I'll give him a call after this conversation. But really, I partially wonder if you try to stay out of trouble, or are you a magnet for trouble like your father."

"I don't go looking for trouble!" Zari protested, looking a little annoyed at that comment.

Andy shrugged. "People like details." Andy turned to She-Hulk "Her mom is on her way." She hoped that'd be enough to satisfy her.

"We still need to do that thing." Andy said glancing at the extra Mary Sue.

She said a quick goodbye as her mom said it'd be a little while since she was going to wait to head over until her dad was able to go too, and she looked at the issue. "Yup, call done, but since this isn't the craziest thing that has happened in my life not sure if I'm going to be in too much trouble, aaaaaaanyway, got to go do something, so bye!" she said to She-Hulk, before she grabbed Andy's arm and started dragging her along, and she grabbed the arm of the extra Mary Sue and started heading off.

Andy smiled and waved. She was holding back laughter at the comment from Zari. She was definitely underselling the weirdness that was her life. She let herself get dragged. They had to fix the current weirdness still.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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Chandilar: Shi'ar Throneworld

Runa's spell would go off seemingly without a bit of a hitch, but there didn't seem to be a response from Loki. Either he was busy doing something else (which was it really a good idea to think of what he could be doing?) or he was completely ignoring her ask. Both were fairly viable options given the last few interactions that they have had with Loki not going too well.

"Oh it is more durable than that, of course it is fire resistant. That was the first thing they ensured when crafting it. More of it's structural stability isn't as great as they would like, meaning it could likely get crushed pretty easy by heavy weights, and we aren't sure if it'd even survive what it is built for. I suppose something fragile to us is a bit different for you all." Xandra responded with a shrug.

Eventually they would come to a rather large chamber with various machinery and technology lying around. What each machine did was anyone's guess. However there was one that Xandra was walking straight towards. It was decently large, looking to be about 7 feet tall and it looked to be almost like a massive laser of sorts. The base seemed essentially like a really really large tripod for it.

"Majestrix, I see we have visitors," someone said, walking over.

"Yes, well it seems they are wishing to test this out for us."

"I see, well as you can tell, it is a decently large machine, the main thing is you likely would want to plant this down in one area and draw the Phoenix to it, as it doesn't obviously work to go chase the person around with it."

"So to make it the most effective shot we'd have to set a trap, sounds like fun. Not sure what would be the best sort of lineup or place to do that for."

"So how would you activate it? Not to mention aiming it?" Mira asked, figuring it would be probably for the best for them to ask how the thing works and to maybe create a plan to use it after getting that knowledge to plan for it.

"Fairly simple, the control panel on it can be used to aim it towards your target, though if you are feeling less daring, aiming and activating it can also be done from this," was the response, as they held out a computer pad, "Though it is a bit more difficult to get the correct aim from this as opposed to actually triggering it on the device."

"...Well sounds like we'd want to be as accurate as possible with this though both options are a good thing to have though... Figuring out how best to line this up properly and where, since if we miss that much energy could cause some damage if I had to figure."

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

"Who says that I need or want anything? Aside from maybe to mess with all of you. Not to mention what you are suggesting to do also is not as simple as you would think."

"Him? Non, mon amie, you cannot trust him!" Gambit's eyes narrowed. "Chère don't need dat."

"Remy maybe right now we shouldn' be really talkin' bout that," Rogue muttered, since the situation was clearly going downhill. Now was probably not the time to get into the arguments over why doing anything with regards to Mr. Sinister was a bad idea.

"Clearly we're all on the same page as to who you're thinking of. Not to mention any potential price might not make it worth it, that'd be assuming I'd agree to it, which honestly just no. Especially since I'd probably just get thrown in prison by you all anyway. So why bother? As mentioned before. Way more fun to mess with all of you anyway. Plus can get back at her for trying to get rid of me, that also adds to the fun now doesn't it."

Fire started dancing around her fingertips as she looked at everyone else around her. "So many different things can go so very wrong with your idea of potential solutions to the predicament that has kind of been ignored for a while. Love how it is only a major concern once some insane amount of power is involved."

With a flick of her hand, fire headed out in a burst. Pietro managed to get Guin out of the way, but not much in the way of anyone else. Ed's shields managed to protect people, or at least dampen some of the fire, but the fire burst out, resulting in several people being targeted and getting attacked. Unfortunately he wasn't able to throw up a bubble to protect himself as fire charged right at him, however there was a slight glow of pink light coming from the amulet that Klara had gifted him, and he'd find that the fire didn't seem to do any damage.

As for the others, Jaclyn would be completely unharmed, Ed's bubble protecting her rather easily from the attacks, and Annie would as well be perfectly fine. Perry would get a bit of a graze attack, feeling the heat from the flames, but nothing too horrible. Bethany unfortunately would get hit pretty hard, Ed hadn't been able to shield her, and Pietro hadn't been able to pull her out of the way. Seemed like Chrysi didn't like her attempts at an attack. The fire would hit her throwing her backwards, causing her to land fairly hard and have a few burns on her body. Before more fire could hit her though, the flames were pulled away from her and sent flying straight up in the sky. Jean having used her own telekinesis to redirect the fire instead.

"I don't think talking her down is really going to work..."

"I did give you all a chance to just leave, though I knew you probably wouldn't do it, I at least offered. This is going to be so much fun though in the end I think."

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: The Beach
Skills: N/A

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The question as to what it is that she was wanting to do now and what her favorite thing to do was, that was a bit of a not so easy question to answer. Personally she didn't have too much of a preference as to what it was that they did, personally just sort of being on the beach or whatever would be fine with her. Staying here at the beach was okay, but if Isaac wanted to do something else, she was fine either way.

"I dahn't really 'ave a favahrite din to do, I enjoy mahst dings, though stell somewhat prefer anythin dat isn't overly loud. But if you want to peck sahmethin out, I'm fine wit whatever, whether dat's stayin 'ere ahr goin off to do sahmethin else," she ended up saying with a bit of a shrug. Wherever they go or whatever they did, she personally didn't care one way or the other.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Zelda Flynn and Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Framework Area
Skills: N/A

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Zari was a little weirded out at seeing She-Hulk there, as technically speaking, she was related to her. In a really weird convoluted way anyway, alternate realities are really weird and confusing at times. Made her head spin just thinking about it really. Then came up with the question of how they would really see about calling her parents, though she had a feeling it wasn't going to work out too well. Of course considering Novi and Maria were there, she figured it was going to be a lot easier for them to contact them since they could call her mom.

There was still the issue of the two Mary Sues. Thankfully, the Scarlet Witch had healed the one they had time traveled with, so she didn't have to worry about that. Just had to worry about the doubles. Though this just begged the question of what was taking so long for her and Andy's doubles to come up from the basement. "Well, two of you have a way to get a hold of my parents, I've got something I need to do though that is kind of an issue so excuse me," she said, before grabbing the other Mary Sue to drag her out of the room and towards the basement area.

Zelda was just standing off to the side not openly really saying or anything, everyone else started sort of talking around the issue of talking to their parents and letting them know what happened. Personally she didn't overly care, they probably already knew by now what had happened. So it was just sort of something that was going to happen and be talked about. Danni was freaking out over talking to his parents, so it was kind of dragging the attention away a little.

April was kind of being quiet and not saying anything, which considering she just destroyed the room and nearly killed others in the room from her freakout. Zelda contemplated saying something to her sister, but figured against considering that she was surrounded by Leah and Sabine at this point. This was going to be interesting to hear what her parents were going to say though when they eventually showed up or something and talked about it.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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Chandilar: Shi'ar Throneworld

Well that took a bit of a dark turn. Actually if he remembered correctly, the last time this happen it had ended with the host (in that case Jean) dying, but then she eventually had been brought back and resurrected by that same entity. Still, the fact that they had two people being perfectly fine with killing Mary in a heart beat was a little concerning. Actually, Lance wasn't too surprised by the fact that Runa had said that, a little more surprised that Max had said it but considering he didn't know the guy too well, that didn't exactly amount to much for it.

"...Well perhaps we can help you. Though there is another problem or so with regards to it. That being the device might not even be fully portable yet. Or well, more so easily portable. That and the amount of energy it requires likely means that for this test, you essentially would have one shot at it before it could easily be burned out."

"So basically don't miss with it if you do loan it to us to test out, got it."

"Yes, very much so. I only know the fundamentals of it, you'd likely need to discuss more of it with those who actually have been working on it..."

"Majestrix you can not be serious about letting them take this do you?"

"I am, especially since we know their faces, if we have to retrieve the device from them ourselves, it seems like that wouldn't be much of an issue. Though just know, that if something were to happen on a catastrophic scale that we could detect, we will not be hesitating to step in and go to Earth ourselves over it."

"It seems like we should be stepping in ourselves now!" the same person was saying, and there seemed to be a murmur of agreement from those around them.

"I said no, if something happens we will step in, however it seems in the best interest of everyone involved to let them try and solve the issue for themselves. So we shall let them."

"Thank you Majestrix," Lance ended up saying, as Xandra motioned for some of the guards to come over.

"I'll go with you myself, if you will follow me and the guards here, we will take you to where the device is, and those there can explain more about it and how it works, in theory anyway."

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

Perry would start feeling a strong sense of emotions fluctuating stronger once more, as Mary simply nodded her head without saying anything else, closing her eyes. Between Annie and Guin, they'd start to try to use their powers together to help, hoping to make things easier. Except something goes horribly wrong, and what they caused was definitely not the intentions.

The emotional turmoil that Perry had been feeling seemed to go away entirely, as if one of the two main sources that had been there was just gone up in a puff of smoke. Guin and Annie would both be able to tell that something seemed to have not gone quite the way that they had been hoping.

"Well that was an unexpected surprise," she said, her tone shifting as she spoke and she opened up her eyes again, this time both were a bright red color. "Think you might have screwed that one up now didn't you?" the ground was starting to shake, almost as if from an earthquake. Black vines started rising up from the ground around everyone and the trees and foliage around them seemed to be getting a little closer.

Another moment later and plant life shot out, and was heading straight for Guin, Annie and Perry. Ed's shield would go up, however moments later it flickered before shattered as the attack hit it. Luckily Pietro seemed to have been paying a lot of attention to the sudden seeming shift, and he took off, managing to grab and yank the trio out of the way of the attacks. Barely getting them out of the way though.

"Well this is not good..." he muttered under his breath as he let go of the three.

"I think I was doing perfectly fine. Honesty still surprised that she managed to get control again late yesterday, after I'd been in charge for what like a month now. You all were so easy to fool with it. So how about you all though now leave before you end up getting yourselves hurt. Wouldn't want that right? Mary's not exactly here anymore, you all kind of decided to mess with something you shouldn't have and look what happened. I'm not complaining though, works out for me in the end."

"You know that we can't exactly do that considering right?"

"Oh I know that, figured I'd ask and say something anyway to make things more interesting."

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: The Beach
Skills: N/A

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Isaac posed an interesting question to her. Whether she would actually want to go back to her hometown or not. A year ago, she probably wouldn't have hesitated to say yes and in a heartbeat. Now though, not so much. Thinking about it now, there wasn't even really a reason for her to go back anymore. She did have any friends over there, the few family members that she did have that were still there had chosen to not help her or Jason out back then at all either.

"Hahnestly? pPahbably naht. At least naht to live dere, maybe to visit fahr a lettle while. But I dahn't really 'ave mmuch in de way o' family over dere anymahre," was the response she ended up settling with. There wasn't a whole lot more that she could really say about it. With regards to his other question, she just shrugged. "Naht really, I'm ahpen to suggestions."

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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Chandilar: Shi'ar Throneworld

Xandra paused for a moment, as Carolina introduced herself more directly, and mentioned where they were from. She looked at Carolina, thinking for a moment, "So I take it you know my father then?" she asked, the council members in the room were muttering to themselves and not speaking aloud yet.

"...Sorry your father?" Lance couldn't help but ask, a bit confused to the matter.

"Yes.... My mother is Lilandra Neramani, the former Majestrix of the Shi'ar. My father however, is from Earth, and his name is Charles Xavier."

That was an interesting development, one that would hopefully work in their favor. However that didn't necessarily mean anything, considering while that might help out with Xandra herself, the councilmembers and everyone else, that was a completely different story.

"Now, as to the issues with regards to the Phoenix, it is true that most members of the Shi'ar hold no are for the entity. Especially after the... Incident that happened last time. An entire planet was wiped out. We did start development on something to potentially separate the entity from the host. That was in part, because some of our laws with regards to the Phoenix aren't very well written. Actually part of the conflict between the Shi'ar and Earth had to do with those laws."

"What sort of laws if you don't mind us asking?"

"They don't recognize the host and the entity as two separate things. You mention that you need to remove it, I suggest you deal with it rather quickly because if a catastrophic event occurs that is caused by the entity that is of a large scale enough to get our attention, that likely won't end well."

"...You mentioned having something in development that could separate the Phoenix from its host?"

"Yes, we do. However it hasn't been tested and the potential side effects with regards to it aren't exactly something you can easily predict. That is if the device even works. Its design and function are entirely based on hypothetical situations and theories. So there isn't any sort of tell that it would work fully as intended."

"Excuse me Majestrix," one of the councilmembers spoke up, clearly one of the older members, rising from where they were sitting. "Do you believe it wise to trust the humans. The last group with regards to the problem of the Phoenix were willing to fight and possibly die in order to defend it. Even after the planetary destruction."

"From my understanding they were more of defending the host more than the entity itself."

"There is no difference between the two intertwined! The previous Majestrix started that research into the device only because she befriended the humans from Earth."

"And I chose to continue," Xandra responded, before looking towards the group, "As you can see, this is part of the problem of our laws and such."

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

"Please, everyone else was thinking it and I didn't say it loud enough for her to physically be able to hear, and she could hear everyone's thoughts so how about you stop talking considering you clearly don't know much about what you're talking about it seems, as we went into this without much of a plan," Pietro was a bit short with his response to Jaclyn, but he didn't care. He was only half focused since he was still partially paying more attention to trying to keep Guin calm to the best of his ability. Which to him was definitely not super easy at all.

"You all are a bit loud..." she muttered under her breath, only seemingly half paying attention to what everyone else was saying. From the voices drifting through her head it was getting difficult to pay much attention. She opened up her eyes and sat up, looking at everyone who was nearby.

As if to show what was going through her head, one of her eyes was red, and one was green.

I'm shocked you managed to wrestle control back from me, you know that you're weaker than I am. the little voice in her head started saying, before Gambit's words broke through talking to her.

“Chère, ah’m here ta help. What’s goin’ on?” Gambit asked, kneeling down next to her.

It took a moment for her brain to register what he had asked, and another few moments to respond. "There is a little voice in my head that is psychotic, and not a good thing. Said little voice had been quiet and seemingly went away a few months back. And then last month it's like something ripped poked a hole in the dam in my head that had been keeping said not so great voice out and quiet, so it hit me hard. And pretty sure it was a month ago, I don't really remember much from the last few weeks. Actually really only remember waking up this morning..." she ended up rambling a bit, however it did shed some light on a few things that had been going through her head more recently. Though something else struck Pietro a bit. Namely the fact that it was apparent that something had to have happened on the asteroid to have escalated things. Given when she said things happened and Jaclyn thinking she might have talked to Chrysi while on the asteroid and none of them had encountered her for a while before then.

Mary then took a moment to breathe a bit, before she answered Guin's question. "You can definitely try, not entirely sure what all might help with that but if you've got an idea I say just try it at this point." Guin also would feel someone else boosting the little telepathic cone of silence that she had created around Mary. It wouldn't take her much to tell that it was Jean adding a little help to reduce any potential strain on her.

"Ed," Jean said, keeping her voice down so that he could only really hear her. "I know that we're all hoping for the best, but it might be best to prepare for the worst, I'd recommend potentially being ready to throw up a shield or something if needed, considering either she could use the greenery around us either as a fuel source for a fire, or as a way to attack us if things go south... Though things seem to be maybe going in a more positive direction..."

Mary seemed to notice Perry now though on the ground, and that drew her attention a little bit now. "...Is she okay or what's going on?" she asked. The bubble that Guin had put up did seem to be helping, at least a little, to filter out the voices around her that were in her head. No matter how small it was at least something. The turmoil that Perry was feeling would go down a small amount from just the bubble being put up, and a little more when she ended up rambling, so at least the moment seems to be heading in the right direction.