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X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Chandilar: Shi'ar Throneworld

The group headed towards the larger building nearby, following along after the guards. Lance wasn't too surprised by Runa's warning, about how they were representing two different worlds. The last thing they wanted or needed was to accidentally cause the Shi'ar to come after either Earth or Asgard. They had enough problems to deal with than causing a potential inter-galactic war.

Eventually, they'd enter a rather large chamber, and there seemed to be several other people around, likely members of the council for the Shi'ar. And up front sitting there was someone who probably was the ruler, or in this case the Majestrix, for the empire. One thing stuck out to Lance. She looked really young. Sure with alien races they could just look that way and appear younger than they are (like Runa and Klara) but considering that she looked to be the youngest person of the people in the room when they walked in, it was still a bit surprising considering she looked maybe around their age.

"Hello," she said, greeting them as she stood up from where she was. "It isn't every day that we get visitors from Asgard, or should I also say, from Earth. Welcome to Chandilar. My name is Xandra. I will say, I was a bit surprised by the requesting of this meeting. And I am a bit curious as to what brings you here. I will say depending on what is the problem we'll try to help in anyway possible."

Though Xandra said those words, the people around them not all seemed to agree with her thoughts on the matter. Several of the people were just looking at the group, some clearly were more or less looking down on them. Despite being the ruler, she seemed to have almost a slightly different demeanor with regards to those outside of the Shi'ar.

This definitely seemed like a great group of people to be asking for help from.

Mira figured that someone, anyone, really needed to get this ask for help underway. So why not have it be her at this point. "Thank you for seeing us Majestix. We're here because we heard that you might have access to a device of some sort that could help us out with a bit of an issue that we currently have..."

"Oh? What sort of issue is it?" she asked, walking over towards the group.

"That's a bit complicated to explain..."

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

"Not sure if it's a good idea to try that, unless like what Guin said, you can do it without being noticed. Probing or poking really might not be the best..." Though Guin would start to feel a slight calming effect going through her head, only a slight one. As it was obvious Pietro was trying to help Guin to stay calm at least a little bit.

The spell that Ed used seemed to lead a little farther along away from them. The possible ideas that were being thrown around weren't exactly coming up with any actual solutions. They didn't have to go super far from where they were. However as they got closer towards where the spell pointed towards, the emotions that Perry would be getting through her empathy would be a lot stronger, and start to become almost overwhelming.

Eventually they'd spot Mary, she was by a tree, lying in the shade on a bench with her eyes closed, though she didn't seem to move or pay attention to them. If she knew that they were there, she wasn't giving them any sort of indication to it.

"...So this just leaves the question of who goes over first. Because we are talking about a literal ticking timebomb here..."

“That’ll be moi,” Gambit said, before strolling over confidently to his sister. “Hey chère.”

"Here's hopin' this works out..." Rogue commented, looking at the rest of the group. There was a decent amount of people there, so at least they were prepared for things going south if it led to that.

She didn't open her eyes at all, but did at least respond. "...Go away Remy, I've got a horrible headache and it is not going away at all no matter what I try."

“That’s what ole Gambit’s here for,” he said, holding out a hand to her.

"Don't touch me, the voice in my head is really making that seem like a really, really, really bad choice right now. Just don't."

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Chandelar: Shi'ar Throneworld

The group had first had to take a brief detour to Asgard, namely so that the Shi'ar could be told that they were coming. Since dropping in uninvited to a race that was known to fight first and ask questions later in the past sometimes was probably not the smartest idea. Lance had decided to tag along with the group, figuring it better to not crowd what the other group was going to attempt to do.

The Bifrost landed them directly onto the Shi'ar Throneworld of Chandelar. The main seat of power for the entire empire, yet not the actual planet that was apparently dubbed the Shi'ar homeworld. That was another planet entirely. In the brief bit of info he had managed to figure out before they ended up going straight there was that there were hundreds of worlds that were technically all a part of the empire, even if the Shi'ar themselves weren't as massive of a force.

"...So are we supposed to just wait around for someone to get us or are we supposed to just walk in sort of?"

"Fairly certain we're supposed to wait here a moment. Probably best not to wander off."

"Considering what this place looks like, wandering away would definitely be a bad idea right now..."

"Ironically this isn't even the Shi'ar homeworld. It's just where they rule from, their official homeworld is a planet called their Aerie, though not sure if it is still around somewhere. With so many planets under their control it is possible it is still out there somewhere. Though that's mostly been speculation in general."

"Got it, so angering them might be a bad idea... Honestly though, we're kind of a bit desperate here right now so we've got nothing really to lose than to ask them for help then right?"

A few more moments passed, before there was the sound of footsteps heading there way, and what looked like a group of people heading over to them. "We've been expecting you. The Majestrix is waiting, as well as a few members of the council," one of them said, looking at the group, "To say many are curious as to the purpose of this visit, however we must be going. Follow us, and do not stray." With that, they headed back the way they came, a few of them seemingly were waiting for the group to pass by so that they'd follow after the group.

New Orleans Botanical Gardens

The gardens was a fairly beautiful area that the group would eventually be able to reach. It was fairly quiet, not a whole lot of people around at the moment. Which truthfully could be a bit of a blessing in disguise in the event that things went poorly.

Guin's phone buzzed with a response from her father, but whether or not she chose to look or not, it was fairly long, but in essence it was essentially just a what are you talking about and what's going on??? sort of response from him. Pietro wasn't entirely sure where in the gardens Mary was, she could be just about anywhere. Though the idea of being here actually was not a super comforting thought.

If things went sideways they literally were in probably the worst possible place to fight her in. Both if she used her plant based powers, or potentially choosing the gardens as fuel for a very large bonfire.

"So... What should we do? I mean I could race around to find where she is in here, but well, that might just alert her to the fact that we're here before we actually want her to know. The wind kind of is a dead giveaway. Then again there is a chance she already knows that we're here cause the entity sees all practically... So who knows?"

"There is a chance that she already does know, a decent one at that, which also gives some slight hope. Since she hasn't attacked us or anything yet."

"I mean, I guess so? Any ideas again how to find her in this place from anyone or anything like that?"

"Well looks like we're about to have more help with looking around here," Cyclops said, before pointing slightly up at the sky.

A few moments later, two figures landed on the ground, one having flown carrying the other. And the pair seemed to be nonother than Rogue and Gambit. They looked over at the group now, "Well, what's everyone waitin' around here for? This is the most likely place in New Orleans she'd be."

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Framework area
Skills: Technopathy

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Trying to figure out a solution to the current problem was not exactly simple. Zari was sitting there sort of combing through her memories of what was talked about in class about it. Though time travel wasn't an exact science or anything like that, and loops like this were weird and a bit convoluted with regards to how everything was supposed to go. Andy's question was an interesting one, and mostly one she could answer. "No, they wouldn't just disappear..." she responded, looking at the other Mary Sue in front of them.

That's when the solution hit her.

"Selvfølgelig!" she said instantly, before she started messing with her watch to program it again. "All we have to do is close the loop. So a version of you, me and Mary Sue need to be sent back in time to the point where we popped back up in this timeline. Otherwise it could cause everything to unravel and potentially go very very badly. And considering the future and timeline we avoided, I think it best to not unravel time or destroy it or mess with anymore than we need too. So we just need to round up the duplicates and send them back."

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Zelda Flynn

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Zelda felt a little bad that her sister was having a panic attack or something like that, she wasn't a hundred percent certain what had even caused it. A small part of her wondered if it had to do with what she had said with regards to Arcade, but she wasn't entirely sure. She didn't go over to her sister since there were already several people and crowding her was probably going to make things work. They still had to deal with Arcade, and the fact that they were all out of their dorms in the middle of the night for whatever reason. Honestly there wasn't much they could do to potentially explain this to any of the adults.

That was going to definitely be a big problem. And currently no one seemed to have any sort of explanation of how they were going to explain all of this to the teachers or adults. Actually she was pretty certain they were all going to get in big trouble, and a part of her had the small thought that they were all going to get kicked out of the school or something. Considering they all basically just took out someone who just tried to kill them while doing something they very much shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Yup, they were all very much screwed in this sort of situation.

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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She had to stop and think for a moment about the foods from back home, "I mean, Ireland does 'ave sahme crahssover food wise wit de UK, so dere are sahme cahnnections dere. Would it surprise you to know a laht o' defferent foods invahlve pahtatoes?" she explained simply, listening to the water around them. "Fahr instance shepherds pie is one dat also links to de UK and Nahrthern Ireland, but dere are ahther foods dat are mahre just Irish."

"Me mom taught me 'ow to make sahme dings, usually de sempler dings to make it easier around a ketchen fahr me. Like soda bread ahr boxty, whech are basically potato pancakes dat sahrt o' din." Those were nice memories to look back on now, the different things that her mom made back home. "Colcannon was anahther one she made, whech is basically mashed potatoes, usually sahme green vegetable like cabbage ahr sahmethin like dat and a few ahther dings."

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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"...Max does realize cell phones exist right?" Lance couldn't help but comment, looking back towards him as Max was dealing with whatever drama he had decided to portal into and caused.

Mira glanced over at Runa as she said that they could see about going to ask the Shi'Ar for the device that might work to remove the Phoenix. She staying behind and helping out Avery was what she had done the last time the team had a space adventure. Going through the BiFrost to go talk to an alien race might be fun adventure. That actually seemed like the group she wanted to go with, as they were leaning towards doing that sort of thing at the moment.

"Sure, we can see about doing that. We'd have to be a little careful though, The Shi'Ar can be a bit difficult at times. Though unsure who is their leader right now. Things have been a bit chaotic over with them. But whoever wants to go talk with them we can head that way."

"So some of us leave and go try to get something from the Shi'Ar, and others stay behind to hopefully figure out something and try not to make the situation worse. Sounds like fun. I missed out on the last space adventure, so I think that I'll go with to see the Shi'Ar for help and get whatever it is that they might have."

"Well, definitely sounds like splitting up is the better option, especially since there seems to be the consensus that not everyone should immediately go to confront her. So two groups would definitely make it so that there are fewer people. Who wants to go to space and talk to the Shi'Ar, and well whoever is in charge there right now."

"Last encounter we had with them, it was Lilandra who was the leader there. Though that was a while ago, so it could have changed since then."

"Well, I'm not sure who is the leader there, but just know that their title is usually either the Majestor or Majestrix. Depending." Klara added. Her knowledge of the Shi'Ar was fairly limited, but she did at least remember that.

The information that they had was somewhat outdated a little bit it sounded like with regards to the Shi'Ar, which could be either a good thing that they haven't had too many interactions with them at all on Earth, or bad since they don't have a lot of info to go off of.

"...Guess that only leaves the question of whose going with what group since that sounds like the best option to me based on how the conversation has been going. Ed and Mira already made it clear which groups they would prefer to go with. That just leaves figuring where everyone else is going, and then figuring out where we go from there..."

"Well... I'm going to probably stick with whatever group Guin wants to go with..." Pietro commented, figuring he'd make that a known thing.

It had taken a few minutes, likely due to some conversations happening on the other end of the phone line, but Guin would eventually receive a short response that was straight to the point. New Orleans Botanical Gardens, we'll meet you there.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Pietro didn't really seem to believe Guin about anything like that, but he knew that she wasn't going to admit anything was wrong or something like that. He turned his attention towards the bigger issue again at hand, as several people seemed to be asking Jean for her input on the scenario. She hadn't seemed to say a whole lot with regards to everything at the moment, so he was curious as to what her thoughts were.

Jean had to think for a moment about the situation, about everything that she knew with regards to leading up to it. Hearing Guin's question, including the one spoken through her thoughts, it took a moment as she hesitated with regards to the answer. "..The Shi'ar might have something to allow the entity to be removed. They fear it's power more than we might, but they also have worshipped and treated it like a god a long time ago. So they likely would have something, though not sure how the relations between them and Earth is right now. However they are more likely to be more likely to just kill her than to remove it. There isn't a need to despair though, there always is a chance for hope. Marygold was, at least fully in control, even for just a moment which is what it seemed, yesterday. Which is when she called out for help. Even if she is grappling, if we can get her to be stable for a few minutes, we might be able to get the entity to out that way, it is a possibility."

"So... We have a chance to get the thing out before it gets too bad then?"

"It is possible yes."

"Time is running out though that much was obvious from what's been being said, so we're kind of working against the clock."

Lance glanced over to see the portal that Max had decided to summon up out of nowhere and jumped through as he clearly was freaking out and talking to others there. Though he was making the situation sound a lot worse than it currently was based on the information they had. Actually, they didn't have a whole lot of information to go off of aside from the fact that she was in New Orleans. "...And he thinks he's in charge again because of what exactly? We don't have a plan, or even a more specific idea of where she is when she could literally be anywhere in New Orleans, the area isn't exactly small."

"And a lot of things could change in 24 hours," Mira pointed out, looing at Max and those through the portal. She had no idea who it was that was really on the other side or who they were at all, having never met any of them.

Pietro looked through the portal, and recognized a few of the faces on the other side. Namely those of James and Casper, mainly from the whole reality warping incident his sister had caused a while ago. Though he didn't recognize the other guy there, and it was a bit obvious that Casper was freaking out a bit from the portal just being open. So he definitely wasn't going to go through the portal at the moment since not a whole lot of people were heading that way.

Jean heard the comments from both Perry and Ed, and she nodded her head slightly, "That might be helpful. Emotions are difficult to grasp sometimes but it is what makes us human. Though it is the major weakness point for the Phoenix when it is in a host. As for whether or not I'll join you all, I wouldn't be here if I wasn't going to. The Phoenix Force itself is neither good or evil, it actually tends to be a necessary being to exist, and even if we could destroy it in some way, I never would. The Phoenix might have partially been responsible for my death, it has saved me more often then not. I'd prefer for this to not end like it has before."

"Things won't happen like that again, we know partially what to expect of how this could potentially end, that gives us an advantage we didn't have last time in solving this before it gets worst." he commented, and looked over at the portal Max had created, "Though not sure if we should head out without at least a vague idea of what we'd want to do once we do encounter her."

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Framework area
Skills: Technopathy

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Ah Time Travel. Something many consider to be convoluted and difficult, but to her was just another walk in the park. Though she had never actually tried to alter something that had happened with it before. So this entire situation was a bit unorthodox. Zari typically used the watch to travel between this reality and her home one more often, the time travel aspect had come later because of the Norns prophecy. It had been a fun challenge, but she was glad in this instance that she had it with her always anyway.

It had taken long to free everyone, not now that she knew what was going to happen and they could take things a little bit slower. Be more stealthy instead of bolting up the stairs like they had before. That had gone horribly wrong. So using her powers to get into the system before all had gone haywire was simple enough, and releasing everyone before he even knew what was going on.

Though she noticed a different problem now.

"...You know, might not have thought this fully through... Like great we stopped the really horrible alternative but well... We're here. But we're also still in the basement and there are two Mary Sues here right now... I've never done this sort of thing before it's kind of weird potential repercussions still..." she said directly to Andy. That definitely was going to be a problem. But now more onto the issue of Arcade, though others seemed to think that they shouldn't beat him to a pulp. She personally didn't care one way or the other. If he tried any more tech stuff she'd be able to take them out. Though hearing Dorian's comment about turning Usagi in, Zari laughed a little bit, "Yeah, Usagi isn't going to be a problem, she kind of got crushed like a tin can. Or will be if she hasn't already? It's confusing."

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Zelda Flynn

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Zelda was glad to get out of that insane trap and game. No one had died, thankfully, but still, there had been incredibly close calls to keep from trying to kill everyone. Personally she was all for trying to beat Arcade up for what he did. How could anyone let that sort of thing go? He tried to commit murder! Everyone was saying leave him alone, well think about it this way, attempted murder was a serious charge that he could be arrested for, but the issue was she wasn't sure if she actually trusted that he'd actually stay behind bars for that one for long.

"You can't actually think to just let him walk away to just be arrested or something do you?" Zelda asked, her voice still a little on the quiet side, but it was obvious she was insanely annoyed with that thought. "If people like him actually stayed behind bars for long then there wouldn't really need to be a whole lot of heroes or heroes in training don't you think? Sometimes villains do get a change of heart, but most of them don't really change. At all." Yeah, she was annoyed with them at that point for even just wanting to leave him alone.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: Dining Pavilion -> The Beach
Skills: N/A

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She was glad that they were heading out now. The chaos and noise was getting to be a bit much for her, and she preferred it from that. Whatever was going on with the others or anything like that, she very much didn't care. At this point it was just nicer to get away from all of that and just enjoy the sun and all.

Hearing Isaac's question as they walked along, it took a moment for her to come up with a full answer. "I prefer to just sahrt o' set dere, lestenin to de water... 'earin de birds around me and de waves. It's always been calmin to me," she ended up responding to him. It was always a good thing to relax and not worry about anything. Forget all of your worries and all, it was nice. Though usually she tended to be by herself when she did that sort of thing though and not usually with other people at the time.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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

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Location: Mansion - War Room
Skills: N/A

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"Mardi Gras is usually in March, so about 2 months ago," Lance commented, figuring to answer that question more or less.

It took a few minutes for everyone to get into the room, but once everyone was there, Scott and Jean walked in last and looked at everyone there. Klara was a little confused as to what it was that Annie was talking about, and actually she wasn't even sure what her name was again. "Um... What are you talking about?"

"Well, looks like everyone is here so guess it might take some explaining from the sounds of things," Pietro commented, not entirely sure what the whole plan was.

"Loos like we've got some newer faces around here since the last time we were really here for any length of time, for those who don't know, I'm Cyclops, but you all can just call me Scott, and this is Jean, we came to the mansion because we were closer and Gambit called us asking that we check on Marygold because of a message that he got from her saying she needed help."

"We don't know how many of you know the full extent of Mary's mental instability, and that is a problem. A big problem. The Phoenix can be manipulated and such usually by human emotion, it is part of what happened with me years ago. I was manipulated by a group known as the Hellfire Club who sought out to control the Phoenix, which resulted in emotions going haywire and which ended up resulting in the destruction that was caused," Jean explained, "That leads to the bigger issue."

"You mean the alternate persona that is a bit of a psycho that Mary developed a while ago?" Lance couldn't help, figuring that he'd clue in the few people in the room who really didn't know about that whole thing at all.

"Now, as Annie mentioned, the message she left sent to Gambit is one that mentions not being able to hold on for much longer, odds are this is referring to holding off the influence of the alternate personality, or it could refer to holding off the power of the Phoenix. Those are the two most likely instances of what it is.

"So if we're going to stop her or help with whatever is going on that would mean we'd need to find her first. And not sure about anyone else, but I haven't seen her in a while. Not to mention we don't exactly have any sort of idea how we could potentially help the situation. Since the the Phoenix has chosen not to leave, and it wouldn't easily be fought against for whatever reason...This is kind of seems like we're at a loss of what we can do..." Mira ended up speaking up, looking around at everyone.

"...I can answer that. Well, at least the first part. I did a spell, not sure how accurate it was with modern technology but fairly sure it worked. Spell said that right now Marygold is in New Orleans," Klara commented, looking around at everyone.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: Dining Pavilion
Skills: N/A

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She had to stop herself from laughing at what she could hear with regards to Alexios popping up when he did again. Alexios seemed alright at least to her for the most part, plus it was amusing to her how much he messed with Zeke and Demetri for the most part. They seemed to be causing a bit of chaos over there so, which was more amusing to her than anything really at this point.

Janelle noticed that Isaac was ready to head out, and she accepted his hand to get up, and was glad to be heading out and all now. "Alright, let's see about 'eadin out, gettin a lettle loud and all 'ere anyway," she said to Isaac, clearly referring to the chaos around Zeke, Demi and Alexios and all. Heading to the beach would be way more calming than being around in this chaotic mess and drama that seemed to be going over there now.