Morose

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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@BlueSky44@Nallore@Trainerblue192@Achronum@PatientBean@Forsythe@Ogobrogo@Blizz@Ever Faithful@Kirah@Natsu

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2:10 PM - Mon. Sep. 13th, 2038 - Margaret Carter Institute

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@Ever Faithful@Natsu@Ogobrogo: Keep on going, folks! :) Teddy will notice that he had received a spam text earlier that day - NEED SOME INSTANT CA$H? GET UP TO $1000 -- TODAY!!! Reply YES for further info. He will of course receive another text from Diana as well.

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Percy Novikov

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Location: Carnival - Food Trucks
Skills: N/A
~New Outfit~

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Percy sighed slightly in annoyance. Diana did not seem particularly concerned about making it to Agatha's for the reading or not. By her phrasing, Percy was pretty certain his sister's mind was made up - she was going to go hang out with his roommate and some random people. Maybe she was chaffing at his company. He didn't blame her. He didn't particularly want to hang around with just his sister the entire day either. "I'm sure a Kree ship will crash into the football field before the week is up," Percy reasoned. "But an immortal witch trading fortunes is somewhat of a rare occurrence. Go hang out with your friend. I'll be fine."

He'd have plenty of time to get to know his roommate later - although that wasn't much of a priority to Percy. As long as Teddy could be tidy and clean, that was all Percy asked of him. He wasn't looking to make friends. And in his opinion, it would likely be easier to live with Teddy if there were no emotional bonds between the two of them - things would be simpler that way. Just as Percy idolized Odysseus, he idolized the archetype of the lone wolf.

Zelda seemed to be rather bright - her idea echoed the one that had been mulling around in Percy's mind, only she didn't make any mention of unstable molecules. Instead, she proposed a holographic solution, eventually working into a design that would shift as needed. Percy liked that. He liked people who were creative and clever - and his ego enjoyed that they had had similar ideas about things. "Huh. If you ever manage to make one, basing the default design off of the school uniform would be a natural choice," he suggested. "I'm going to go see an oracle about my future, however. I'll see you later, Diana. Zelda."

He didn't know if she was going to come with him - and he didn't expect her to. She had already seen Agatha. Percy nodded at the two of them, before heading off in the direction of Agatha's tent. It wasn't far.

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April Flynn

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Location: the Field (School Carnival) - Outside Agatha's Tent
Skills: N/A
~First Day Fit~

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April's cheeks must've been semi-permanently red, as Sabine inquired after her wellbeing. It was super sweet and kind of her and made April want to die of shame. But a happy sort of shame. Truthfully, April didn't know why she felt so icky. So she did what she always did - conceal, don't feel, etc etc. Repressing her emotions that she did not understand was definitely the way to go. Did she logically know better? Yes. But that did nothing to change April's behavior, it just made her strategize more to try to hide things. "Oh, yeah, totally fine - nothing but great news from Agatha - she said I'm going to become like a great female person, so y'know, Prom Queen and all that jazz is def in the bag."

She didn't mention the stuff about her love life - because April wasn't insane. She would have to be threatened with death in order to discuss her love life with the love of her life AKA the most gorgeous girl at AA AKA her crush, Sabine motherfucking Bassard. Holding hands with Sabine today had been the most amazing and terrifying thing that had ever happened to April in her life; she wasn't going to push her luck.

Her attention was only diverted from her impending social doom by Danni crashing into her, wrapping her arm around his. And then, not too long afterwards, Dorian had wrapped his arms around the pair of them, nestling his head into the spot where her and Danni's shoulders met. April could have cried in that moment. Instead, she tilted her head down to gently boop Dorian's head with hers affectionately, and gave Danni's arm a squeeze.

She giggled at the boys' protests over reading. April didn't mind reading - for fun. Reading for class could be okay, but teachers tended to assign the more drab and dull books known to man. She'd much rather analyze a St. John Allerdyce novel than War and Peace or whatever garbage they were being forced to consume. "Okay, but I do need you to read the Secret Tides of Salt Wives. It's an Allerdyce novel, so def don't get caught with it, but the romance between Katya and Luz is to die for. Like, I ship them sooooo hard."

Her stomach twisted with dread though at the thought of another tarot reading. But before April could protest that she was good, actually, and that she had had her fill of the future, and that maybe seeing the future was actually a bad thing and she was happy living in the present, blah blah blah... Chi Mai showed up with a cutie in a terribly outdated and unfortunately somewhat bland fit.

April gasped upon realizing that Chi Mai was HIGH. That same queasy feeling filled her, and April tried to bury it deep down. At least this time she understood her own emotions. She was upset that Chi Mai had gotten high without her. That was one of their special activities as friends. And with Chi Mai running off, leaving them to get high and not inviting April along... It made her feel like maybe Chi Mai didn't want her as a friend anymore.

So yeah, April was DEFINITELY doing her best to keep those feelings down. If she didn't think about it, then maybe it would just resolve itself and everything would be totally fine! Everything was going to be okay! It was a great start to the new school year!

April didn't notice it, but as Chi Mai asked Andy about the chips, there would be the sound of light laughter coming from Andy's bag. "Oh woah, you knocked out Leah with just one kick? That's wild - and you didn't grate your foot like it was cheese in the process?" April asked the newcomer, forcing herself to focus on how insane that was. She had seen people fight Leah before - even had been forced to do it herself from time to time in combat class - and it usually ended with a bunch of scratches, if not shredded skin.

A green haired chick with a much better and up to date sense of fashion then arrived - with a... floating robotic eyeball trailing behind her. That triggered a memory in April and she gasped again. She knew this green haired weirdo! Sorta. Not really. She had never really met her, and she couldn't exactly remember her name, but she had seen her photo in one of those like Christmas Cards her mom put up on the fridge. "Are you another SHIELD baby?" April blurted, addressing Greenie. "Because I could've sworn that I've, like, seen your face before - and that creepy eyeball baby. But he's a cute creepy. I think. Right? Like, he's giving... the Owl House, if you've ever seen that. But steampunk. Steampunk Owl House."

April didn't acknowledge the other person showing up - Vicky, one of the quieter girls in the junior class. There was just too much going on and too many people talking for April to really say or do anything to Vicky, before Vicky left. Danni gave introductions anyways, and April smiled a little extra big when she was introduced as Princess, just so they would know who was being talked about. "Aww! You can also just call me April - almost everyone does. I'm not actually a princess, although I think I aspire to be? Maybe? Anyways, you two seem so chill! What's your SuperLink handles, I wanna add you! Also, where'd you transfer from? Another super school or somewhere else? I'm guessing a super school, because of the Eyeball Baby, but you never know, lots of kids here just came from public schools!"

"Oh, for fucks sake..." Percy Novikov groaned, arriving at the line for Agatha's tent, and seeing his least favorite people in the world clustered around it.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Guin Stark

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Location: the Mall!
Skills: Telepathy, Deduction, Problem Solving
~Fit Check~

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There was no answer from Pietro's unconscious mind. Guin did her best to keep calm, even though she felt like tearing off her own skin. This wasn't going to be like Muscles - it couldn't be like Muscles. Pietro wasn't going to die. And if he was dying, then they would save him. And if they couldn't save him, then she would resurrect him. Heroes came back from the dead all the time. It was practically a rite of passage at this point. Everything was going to be fine. Everything was going to be fine. Everything was going to be fine.

Guin forced herself to take another deep breath, as if that would keep her heart from exploding out her chest. Pietro? Please, babe, say something to me... Guin had to resist the urge to scream and shake him, to mentally force him awake. But she knew the best thing they could do for him right now would be to focus on healing him. She stayed by him as Lance left, seconds stretching out into a horrifying eternity of limbo. Guin's heart tore itself into two bits that could never quite be stitched back together. She imagined ripping Exodus' spine out through his throat. She imagined burying Pietro, dressed in black.

She didn't want to focus on it, but she saw that bleak future stretched out in front of her. She'd lose her true love here. And it would shake her. Maybe enough that the Narcotics Anonymous meetings wouldn't help anymore. Maybe enough that she'd lose her moral compass. Maybe she would set the entire world on fire, just to see it burn. Maybe she would bring out a technological doomsday, an apocalypse of sentinels. Maybe she would become something of pure apathy and hate. Maybe...

Guin breathed in again.

Everything was going to be fine.

Lance was back now - Guin nodded as he explained the plan, beginning with quickly stitching up Pietro's wounds. "Okay, let's do this," Guin said, her voice sounding calmer than she felt. Every time she closed her eyes - every time she so much as blinked - she saw Muscles dying in front of her. And when she opened her eyes again, she saw Pietro there, dying. Her hands were somehow steady as she picked up the needle, and extended out her left arm. She had done something like this before - not a blood transfusion, but something else.

She got the needle inside of her - and then, once Lance gave the go ahead - she put the other needle end into Pietro.

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Neil Spellman

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Location: the Mansion
Skills: Necromancy, Telekinesis
~Fit Check~

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Ordinarily, Neil would've withered at that rebuke from Max. He never would have dared to upset a powerful ancient mage like that. But he wasn't entirely himself right now - he never was entirely himself when he tapped into the dark forces that allowed him to reanimate the dead. Or maybe he was himself. Maybe this was who Neil Spellman really was - some gaunt creature of darkness, almost human but not quite. He didn't say anything to Frenzy, as the zombies continued to try to rip and tear and devour her.

Instead, he answered Max curtly, still gazing in his direction with his haunting yellow eyes. "You killed them," Neil echoed. He hadn't been fazed by Max's display of cosmic power - by the tombstones or the cosmic energy that had manifested in the garden. Ordinarily, Neil would have been. But not now. Not like this. Neil was connected to something else, twisting and altering his perceptions, causing the extraordinary to seem so... mundane. "Why did you kill them, Max?" Neil repeated.

Paradise. That concept caused Neil to laugh ever so softly. Mutants weren't the only ones who had bled and died in the name of paradise. People like him and Max could never really exist in one though - the snakes could not live in the garden. The devil could not be amongst the angels. Those touched by dark magic could not dwell in the light. "I can smell the death on you. You're drowning in it."

He then turned his head back to Frenzy, as she had managed to fight off one of his clown zombies. And then, calmly, with utmost focus, Neil pelted her telekinetically with rocks.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Burger King
Skills: N/A

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Nancy shrugged off Kristin's suggestion as they entered the Burger King. She was somewhat used to this - so many things were different from where she came from. It was honestly one of the reasons the Hunt appealed to her - almost every huntress working for Diana could relate to that, most of them far older than their physical appearance would suggest. Nancy wouldn't feel so displaced in time when with a group of girls where all of them were temporally displaced.

When they entered the Burger King, Nancy took a moment to note the relative emptiness - just the staff and a small family. She almost wanted to warn them all to leave the building, that a bunch of demigods in a mostly empty restaurant was a recipe for a monster attack, but they'd probably just look at her like she was crazy. However, her attention was then pulled by Janelle's noncommittal answer. She didn't know Janelle very well, but in her experience, people tended to have a food of choice at a fast food place. And Janelle had exploded on Zeke earlier that day. "Alright, you want to talk about it, or are we brooding?" Nancy asked Janelle, as she got in line behind Kristin. She was probably just going to get a whopper, fries, and a shake. "You probably have twenty minutes until the next monster decides that we're dinner, so I'd open up now if you are planning on doing it at all tonight."

Blunt? Yes. Too blunt? Maybe. But Nancy could tell this girl was hurting - and the boys weren't there at the moment.

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Under the Sea
Skills: Rainbow Manipulation, Sword-Fighting

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"Fine, keep your secrets, then," Leda said jokingly, as the little sea lion swam off as quickly as it had come. She then stood back up to her full height, as the little sea friend had gone off to do whatever it was sea lions liked to do. Sera seemed to really like this construction job, and Leda agreed with Kiera's assessment - she'd fit in really well with the Hephaestus and Athena kids. But it did make sense, to a certain extent - the legendary cyclops forges were here under the sea, so a child of Poseidon having an inclination towards creation wasn't surprising to Leda.

But construction time was short, as suddenly, they were under attack by a pack of telekhines. The demons were vaguely humanoid, but with the faces of vicious dogs. Leda was caught off guard, knocked down into the ocean floor by one of them, the demon trying to claw and scratch her. "Urgh, get off of me!" Leda shouted. She couldn't grab at her necklace to trigger its transformation into her sword, so instead Leda focused on one of her demigod gifts. She heard Sera scream for help, but there wasn't anything she could do at the moment for her - the daughter of Poseidon would have to figure it out on her own.

Leda's body changed, as she looked like she was made out of rainbow-tinted light and energy, like she was a cosmic magical girl. She blasted the demon off of her with pure rainbow light. She moved quickly, tugging on the chain of her necklace as it snapped, coming off of her and then immediately transforming into her glowing sword Ultraviolet. She scrambled up to her feet and ran the telekhine through on her blade, turning it into dust. "Your breath stank, by the way - try a fucking mint next time," she said to the pile of dust that had settled down on the ocean floor.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
Skills: N/A

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Megan decided then that she didn't particularly like this boy. He had rolled his eyes at her, but at least he had given her an answer. And then she didn't like the other one, after he boasted about his bank heist. She slow clapped. "I'm very impressed," she said dryly. She made a mental note to put a knife to their throats once another opportunity showed itself, just to make a point. "You are true heroes." Megan then rested her hand on Excalibur's hilt, before going inside with King Arthur and the rest. The way the boy had brought up the heist made her doubt him - it sounded like something someone would boast to cover up weakness.

They made their inside the tower, only to encounter Merlin relatively quickly. Megan's father hugged Merlin. Her mother Guinevere seemed rather happy to see him as well. Megan studied him, dim memories in her mind of seeing him as a child. Whereas before regaining those memories she hadn't seen him as a familial tie, now he felt something like an uncle to her - just as Lancelot did. "What's the plan to defeat Maleficent?" Megan asked bluntly, figuring they might as well get down to business. "Where are the others?" She assumed they were still missing some - mostly because she remembered a few more girls hanging around the group. But again, she had lost count of everyone who had been there at first - it had been some time.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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@BlueSky44@Nallore@Trainerblue192@Achronum@PatientBean@Forsythe@Ogobrogo@Blizz@Ever Faithful@Kirah@Natsu

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2:00 PM - Mon. Sep. 13th, 2038 - Margaret Carter Institute

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@Kirah@Blizz: The pair would be able to find their way over to Agatha's tent, and currently there was no line! A group of students - April, Sabine, Danni, Dorian, and Mads - are milling around near the entrance, but it's pretty clear that they aren't currently waiting to go inside. There's no sign of Zari and Vicky yet, so it looks like the two of you beat them there.

@BlueSky44@Forsythe@Ogobrogo: Zari paid the hottie tax. The three of you are almost at the fortune telling tent - in fact, it's right around the corner. Mai would be able to catch glimpses of Sabine, April, Danni, Dorian, and Mads - aka the people she had ditched real quick to go get high, only to be distracted by Vicky. The three of them would also see Andy and Leah arrive at the tent, so it would be easy enough to go ahead and catch up to them now.

@Ever Faithful@Natsu@Ogobrogo: There was no sign of Ser Nemo coming back, so the three of them were definitely on their own for the moment. Perhaps if Teddy wanted help with the two freshmen, he could text his friend Diana? She might be down to go check out the spaceship with them, and help to ease some of the tension - as things are definitely at least somewhat tense between the two girls. But hey, they seem to be warming up to Teddy at least - no pun intended. So let's go check out that spaceship and make some friends!

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Percy Novikov

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Location: Carnival - Food Trucks
Skills: N/A
~New Outfit~

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"Yeah, I was planning on going in alone - I don't need an audience to the mysteries of my future," Percy explained. He didn't really want his sister there - but truthfully, he didn't want anyone else there. It seemed like a private moment. Magic and whatnot was real, so it stood to reason that whatever Agatha told him would also be real. And maybe it would be something he'd want to keep to himself. He didn't intend on going down the road to villainy, but just in case, he didn't want to create issues for his own future. He didn't need people throwing him in jail before his rain of terror began.

Again though, he wasn't planning on going evil - he just recognized it was a possibility. His mom after all had helped Pym to create Ultron with purely good intentions.

"Are you not going to go see Agatha, then?" he asked Diana. "If you're too scared, I can always go in with you," he added with a smirk, hoping that would rile his sister up somewhat.

He was intrigued though with the answer Zelda gave to his question - conventional wisdom, or at least what he had learned from the Incredibles was that flyers were the worst people to give capes to. He tilted his head, thinking for a moment. "What sort of costume would you recommend for someone who blips through space-time?" he asked, curious. He had always dreamt of some sort of costume that could shift to match something temporally appropriate in attire - anything else wouldn't be particularly useful to him. He knew Mister Fantastic had unstable molecules, but Percy hated the Fantastic Four. He didn't want to use a Reed Richards invention. He'd rather die.

Some students randomly came by looking for directions to Agatha's, and Percy couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Ugh, the line is going to be the worst, isn't it..." he muttered. "Maybe we should head on over, before Agatha stops seeing people or dies. She's old as dirt, so could go either way."

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April Flynn

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Location: the Field (School Carnival) - Outside Agatha's Tent
Skills: N/A
~First Day Fit~

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April felt out of sorts as she left the tent, one hand gripping the vial of magic water. She didn't know what she'd use water from the River Styx for - it just seemed menacing. Where was the magic water with healing properties, like what Katara had gotten from the North Pole - why couldn't Agatha have given her that? The sun glared into her eyes as April shielded them with her other hand, briefly wishing that the day would be over already. Curling up in bed and going to sleep sounded like a nice idea - she couldn't be worrying about everything and overanalyzing things if she was asleep.

She rejoined the others, waiting a beat before jumping into conversation. "So Agatha says there's a like dragon manual or something in the occult section of the library, Danni," April explained. He was really close to Sabine - her stomach twisted up into knots again. But he seemed already - well, not calmer Danni was never really calm - better than she had left him. She rocked back and forth on her feet slightly, trying not to stare too much at any one person in particular.

Maybe doing another activity would shake off the weird vibes and energy from that tarot reading. April let go of the little vial that was on the chain around her neck, letting it fall flat against her chest. "Sooo where to next, birthday boy? We've got a few hours still before they switch things over for the concert. We def have time to hit up all the cool stuff, like that spaceship club or whatever, or maybe even try on outfits and take some gorg pics," April asked. The concert was supposed to be THE highlight of the carnival - and April didn't want to miss it. It was magical, hearing the music vibrate through her chest as fireworks exploded up above them. Tomorrow would be the auditions - a day filled with stress and anxiety. Today was supposed to be fun.

So why was April struggling to enjoy herself?

Bounties of Space

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April winced as the ship rocked, as Danni threw them into reverse and evidently hit something. They didn't take their eyes off of the gunnery window though. It was like being told that a car crash might happen and finding yourself unable to look away - April was transfixed by it. They felt somewhat immobilized as well, disconnected from their own body, like this was something that could potentially happen to someone else. Nothing happened though. The beginnings of the crack stayed just that - beginnings.

Their attention was pulled over by the sound of a scream and hum coming over comms - and then soon Dorian's actual voice, rather than the borrowed one. "Hmm, can't imagine why," they said sarcastically. They had briefly debated making some sort of comment about how even the dead Ravager had wanted Dorian to hurry up with things, but had decided not to. April wasn't always the most fond of conflict. It was part of the reason why they honestly preferred bringing in bounties cold - it was easier on the conscience for them, not having to look someone in the eye and argue with them. Dead bodies couldn't complain about what happened next.

Finally, finally, finally, Dorian was back on the ship. And they could go back to the hard part - getting through the Belt. "Yeah, well, if we lost out on fifteen million credits, I'm spacing you," April lied. They wouldn't space Dorian. They couldn't imagine a set of circumstances where they'd willingly kill either Dorian or Danni - an alien would have to be bursting out of their chest cavity for April to even consider it. "Unless this second score turns out to also be fifteen million credits, then you're safe." Of course, April was pretty certain Dorian could survive being vented out into space - as long as he could go ghost fast enough.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Guin Stark

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Location: the Mall!
Skills: Telepathy, Unarmed Combat
~Fit Check~

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"Pietro!!" Guin cried out, her eyes wide as Exodus threw him into a trashcan more or less, and then made sure to put on a healthy heaping of anti-semitism as part of his exit. Her fear for her husband let Phantazia get an opening on Guin, kicking her in the stomach and sending her flying backwards. But even then, Guin's attention was still mainly on Pietro - she was extremely glad to see Lance going and helping him, and she knew that he was going to be okay, but her mind was still having flashbacks to the time Pietro's future self had died in front of her. She couldn't watch Pietro die again.

Hang in there, babe, it's going to be okay, I promise! Guin urged Pietro, hoping his unconscious mind could hear. She then turned her mutant gifts to Phantazia, and it took a lot of effort thanks to Phantazia annoyingly disrupting Guin's powers. Once she managed to break inside, Guin went diving through her mind, looking for her intentions - if Phantazia would just leave if Guin held her hands up, then fine, that was good enough for her. Pietro was dying. She had bigger priorities than kicking this woman's ass. As best as she could tell, Phantazia just needed a win - for whatever reason.

"Okay, bitch, you need to win so fucking badly? Fine," Guin spat, before swinging and clocking Phantazia in the jaw. "There. I surrender. You win. Now leave us the fuck alone!" Guin gave Phantazia the middle finger, before rushing on over to Pietro and Lance. "How can I help?" she asked Lance, kneeling down next to her husband.

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Neil Spellman

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Location: the Mansion
Skills: Necromancy
~Fit Check~

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Neil didn't know what Pyro was talking about either - paradise? What even? And what did that have to do with fighting the X-Men? Had Pyro gotten one too many concussions during superhero brawls? Neil couldn't voice these questions though, as Frenzy was upon him yet again. She asked him about the ill fated mutant nation as her hand gripped his throat, squeezing tightly enough to make it difficult to breathe. "I - uh - here?" Neil choked out.

Unlike the other X-Men who had been off in space, Neil had been at the X-Mansion when Genosha was founded. He had been curious about it, if not somewhat wary - Magneto was a part of its government, as were other foes of the X-Men. He had meant to go and check it out, probably with Mira and Carolina, but that just... didn't end up happening. He stayed in Westchester. He saw on the news when Genosha was attacked - when its population was decimated. And he did... nothing. He did X-Men things. He didn't go to Genosha. He regretted that. He should have gone. He should have... he should have done something. He should have been there.

Neil couldn't help but come to the conclusion that Frenzy was right.

Was this why they were being attacked - for not being there when mutants were massacred?

Neil was taken out of his guilty thoughts as the cosmos seemed to vomit up three corpses - three corpses summoned by Max. They were a horrific and ghastly sight. Two of them were clowns - one of them decapitated, cradling its head like a basketball, and the other bent up in weird pretzel like knots. The third body wore a police officer's uniform, a gaping wound in their chest that looked like a tree must have impaled them or something. Somehow, Neil knew that Max had killed these people.

His heart twisted in terror - what had Max done over his centuries long life? And what would he do to Neil if he knew the truth?

Neil's eyes glowed a bright yellow, with bits of smoke of the same color almost emanating out of them. The corpses rose stiffly, bones and joints snapping audibly - and the same yellow color shone from their empty eye sockets. The zombies advanced upon Frenzy, moving much faster than popular culture would have had you believe. And the three of them were enough to surround her, forcing her to drop Neil as the zombies pushed Frenzy, cornering her and advancing upon her. The decapitated clown held his head out, the jaw opening up to show menacing shark-like teeth.

And then the zombies began to feast, ripping and tearing and shredding her flesh.

"Thanks," Neil said to Max, his voice strange and distant - as if Neil wasn't really there, as if upon animating the bodies, something else possessed the young Spellman... "Why'd you kill them, Max?"

Bounties of Space

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April gasped as they heard Danni pull out THE NAME. It was a rare occasion for any of them to hear their full names - largely because they were supposed to be dead. They weren't supposed to have been spirited away by Nemo and saved from the fiery holocaust that had killed every super powered person in the Sol system at once. And then Dorian had the nerve to dismiss completely what Danni and April were saying, going on about how he found a secondary ship, he'd be there soon, blah blah blah. "No shade but what the fuck, Dory?!" April chimed in over the comms. "I'm fine with dying in the vacuum of space but ideally not for a piece of fucking scrap metal!"

The ship was rattling, twisting and turning as they spun like a top. They heard Danni's voice over comms again, this time specifically directed at them. "Oh, just peachy - what about you, bossman?" April replied. They had thought about maybe trying to reach out and immobilize all the ice in the field, but they had caused this mess from the poor control, and it had taken a lot of work to manipulate the ice to begin with. They were powerful when it came to manipulating water, sure, but they had limits.

They couldn't help but screech in fear as a CAR SIZED PIECE OF METAL hit the gunnery window. April's heart was beating a thousand miles a minute. Or maybe even faster. "Okay okay okay, you're okay, that window is made out of... I don't know what it's made out of, but it's fine, there isn't even... Oh shit there's a crack forming... Oh shit oh shit," April muttered, before going back on comms. "Uh, boys? Problem maybe. Gunnery window took a good whack, I'm worried another one and she'll burst. So... Get the fuck back here already, Dory!!"

And then, as Dorian had FINALLY abandoned the cause April had deemed foolish from the start... They got to do what they do best.

And what they do best isn't very nice.

With one eye on the spider web break in the glass, and the other eye on the scope, April targeted the Ravager ship. And they let the flying piece of junk have just about everything the Excelsior was equipped with. It only took one or two shots before the Ravager ship exploded, clearing a path from the destruction to the Excelsior for Dorian to traverse.

Bounties of Space

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April screamed as they started spinning wildly out of control, as something had crashed into the ship. Luckily, they had already been strapped down into their seat, otherwise they would've been flung around the gunnery bay like a porcelain doll. It was also fantastic that any motion sickness from space travel had long since been worked out - as otherwise, April might've also ended up redecorating the place with the previous day's dinner. And no one wanted to see that. "Dee what the hell did we just dooooo?" April yelped, their vision swimming ever so slightly before thankfully clearing. "What did we hit???"

They had no idea that it was the consequences of their own actions they were currently reaping.

They gasped, though, at Danni's suggestion that the Ravagers were controlling the asteroids! For a brief second, they considered if maybe... no way. But... okay, they had to admit there was maybe a 5% chance that this was somehow their fault. "Um, Dee, that might've been me. I was trying out something new and the ice chunk kinda slipped and maybe it caused everything to go crazy almost like in a pinball machine," April suggested awkwardly. "But it's okay, because we're okay, and we're going to kill these assholes, get out of the Belt, and get those credits!!"

Their left eye twitched slightly. They didn't like failure. They didn't do well with it.

Then it turned out that they actually could not kill those assholes. Because Dorian was possessing them. And more importantly, he just explicitly asked them not to. April groaned. "But it's gonna take so much more time to haul that piece of shit, Dory! And we're gonna miss out on the scientist dude and then we aren't gonna get the money and then we would've busted the ship a lil' bit for nooothing," they complained. "Is there anything even worth it on that ship? Because I think we blow it to pieces and get the fuck through the Belt."

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Atlantica -> Rapunzel's Tower
Skills: N/A

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The party was off in the carriage again, which quickly dove under the sea. Megan watched with interest as more and more of Hook's sinking ships came into view, destined to make their homes at the ocean floor. She smiled and waved ever so slightly at the mermaids she had rescued, glad to see that they were returning home. The smile quickly faded from her face. Megan wasn't always the most expressionistic of people. A smile from her was rare - and when it happened, people usually told her that she looked at least somewhat unhinged. Demonic, even.

When they made it back to Atlantica proper, they disembarked from the carriage. Hansel and Gretel had talismans that they then used to open up a portal - on the other side, Megan spotted a tower and what looked to be a shooting range, as well as some familiar faces. She stepped on through the portal after Ariel and Sierra, emerging on the other side. Truthfully, she had forgotten most of the names of the other group - it had been a while since she had seen them, and she hadn't been exactly close with any of them.

Sierra called out to the group when they arrived - Megan recognized two of the boys that they had come here with, as well as... the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat and Tinker Bell. She blinked for a moment. "Where's Merlin?" she asked, after one of the boys got off a lucky shot of lightning. Maybe Jack could've used to have been here, learning about his powers. "Also, you should be more on your guard - I could have slit your throats by now."