Something was off. This was not seemingly working out, not so much the fact that they were going against Cortez, but more of, the fact that he wasn't really fighting back. Something was seriously wrong with that. Why wasn't he actually trying to get away? Sure, he seemed intent on causing chaos, and was doing a really good job at that, but still. What was the point of all of this? There had to be a reason. The question is, what was it?
"...Something is wrong. Sure he's causing chaos with powers but... He's up to something... Don't you think it's a bit odd that he hasn't really fought back? No... This is a distraction... But not entirely sure why or what even his actual plan is..." Mary said, though it was more of to herself than to anyone in particular.
Her attention shifted slightly towards Guin now as Guin would be able to hit Cortez in the face with her kick, giving him a decent black eye.
"...This reminds me of back at the mansion, when Mesmero attacked. He turned everyone against each other, to serve as a distraction for something else. We learned why eventually but still, that didn't exactly work out... Something's definitely up with this, more then what meets the eye..." Mary was half paying attention to anything as Neil would be able to cut Cortez up a little bit with metal shrapnel, causing him to bleed a bit with his attacks. His whole instant seemed to be trying to go for people who might have chaotic powers to cause destruction. Why? Well the easiest answer would be that he was trying to stall them to accomplish something. That once again led to the question of why would he do that? When they initially encountered Cortez, he had powered up her and Perry's powers. Perry was a newer member of the team, whereas Mary's powers were likely decently known but it'd also be known that her powers in space aren't as effective as they are on Earth, while Perry was a wild card, her powers unknown. Okay, that led to them eventually encountering the people from earlier, those who manipulated various elements. He probably had known of their powers or at least vaguely had.
Which led to the here and now, where Cortez had initially targeted Magneto and Max's powers.
That one was interesting, since Magneto is obviously well known, Max from what she knew was known partially because of the whole Genosha thing. So it was possible Cortez knew how chaotic his powers were... But then... Why was Cortez causing all of this to happen? Why now? There were so many questions with regards to it that she wasn't entirely sure.
"There's just way too many variables and explanations... Way too many questions and I guess he's not going to just tell us. Guess we just punch him a bit more or something and figure it out..." As if right on cue, a green colored fist came out of nowhere and slammed right into Cortez throwing him backwards with tremendous amount of force and a bit of a crack. The restraints that Mary and Max had on him held, barely though and they did give ever so slightly from the strength, so at least the crack didn't seem to be his back snapping in half or something. But his arms seemed to be a bit loose, likely having somewhat gotten broken from the hit and he let out a scream of pain at this point. Mary turned to look over at Lance who was just shifting back to normal, but there was hints of green on his face as he did so. But now the burns he had seemed to be gone now.
"I thought we said don't shift unless you have to?" "...I was getting tired of him screwing with everything, burns hurt, and I heard someone say punch him so I did. Also the thought just crossed my mind... Do you think he could potentially cause that to go haywire because that would not end well." "I'd prefer not to find out." Unfortunately, knocking or severely injuring Cortez did not seem to stop the powers he already had messed with. As Carolina would still have a bit of a hard time going back to her body, but it did seem like she was starting to get the hang of it again, so that was something. Annie's powers were still sparking here or there, but didn't seem to zap anyone else, so yay for that.
Magneto's powers were finally starting to slow down a little bit, though the walls were still rattling a bit but at least he seemed to have figured out (somewhat anyway) how to control his abilities. Though maybe it isn't recommended to anger him. Something that Robert was probably going to figure out very quickly.
"Don't you dare yell at me and speak of that which you know next to nothing about," Magneto had snapped at him instantly, as he did so the metal was starting to rattle even more.
"Erik just stop there is a whole lot more that needs to be dealt with you can try to use him as a pincushion later or something," Miranda spoke up. She had been relatively quiet during the encounter, as she wasn't exactly easily able to get to where Cortez was, and the trying to distract him with illusions for the plans didn't seem to pan out and work out that way. Flynn meanwhile had chosen to stay back as well, since his powers were not ones he wanted to use in an area with a lot of people in it, and getting up close also didn't exactly seem to be the best idea either.
"Yeah seriously just shut up about your damn ego no one right now cares, we mainly care about not letting Cortez try to kill everyone on board so thanks for the not skewering me with metal I guess for that. Makes you wonder if you had more control over that then what appeared." "I do not know what you are referring to, aside from the fact that I manage to at least seemingly slow it down in it's trying to destroy the hallway we're all in." "...Wait so the metal just magically shifted around me without much of a care in the world as if I wasn't really there?" "I was trying to stop the metal entirely, that is all I did." Pietro was insanely confused at this point, but paid no attention to that conversation anymore as he turned to actually look to see what was going on with those who had been dealing more specifically with Cortez. Honestly if his father hadn't managed to regain some control of his powers when he did, Pietro had been prepared to race through the metal and tackle him.
The gears were continuing to turn in Mary's head, before a sort of sinking feeling popped up, a lot stronger when she realized something and remembered a bit of a vital piece of information.
"...His sister... Where is his sister?" she then asked out loud, looking at everyone around her.
"Whose sister and what do you mean by that?" Mira asked, a bit confused by what it was Mary was going on about.
"Cortez has a sister, she's on board. Cortez couldn't possibly seemingly take down this place by himself. He'd need some help and it was mentioned he has a sister here with him. He's distracting us from something. So where is she?" Mary finished her question right when another alarm started blaring.
"...Guessing from that sound she might have been the backup plan to if he couldn't get Magneto to rip this place apart by accident. I mean this is a space station, and as was proven earlier this place can get holes blasted into it fairly easily. The main thing powering it probably if it got damaged severely it might be able to blow everything... Kind of like the one weakness point on the Death Star in Star Wars, instead of just blowing holes in it, find the one spot to take everything out, probably a lot quicker." "Yeah and we just walked right into Cortez's hand with that."
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