Corona tried to relax as he waited for people to clear out enough for Heka to open the portal. He felt like he was forgetting someone and looked around to check on the members of his team. That's when he realized that he didn't see Protiv. "Protiv!" he called out, but didn't get a response. He had to act quickly. Yes, he had to be with the team that went to Cable's, as he knew them and they would trust him enough to run. Other people didn't. "Sal," he said, running over to his assistant that was about to lead a group of former prisoners away. "Have you seen Protiv?"
"No," Sal responded. "He wasn't here as far as I saw."
"Damn it." He responded, "How long until the SS get back there?"
Sal checked his Ipad. "The alert went out but there's no response to it. It will be at least an hour before they can get a robot out there, and he can handle any humans."
Corona pulled out his phone and tried to call Protiv, but there was no response. "See if any human passing mutants want to be part of a stealth team." he said. "We'll need to get someone back there to get him back before SS gets him." Running over to Heka, he asked the sorcerer "I'll need you to open another portal back to the prison when we return. That should give Sal time to get a team together. Protiv didn't evac with us, and isn't responding, and I need to send a team in to pick him up or arrange for pickup."
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Corona stepped through the portal beside a log cabin. A man with a cybernetic arm was cutting wood by the light from a standing shop light, but when the portal opened he walked over with the axe slung over his shoulder. "Kyle?" he asked, dropping the axe and running over to hug his cousin. "It's been four years. What are you doing here?" As he said that, a middle aged Asian woman ran out of the house. "Kyle?" she asked and ran over to hug him as well. "How are you doing?"
"I'm fine Miss Lee." he responded.
"Oh, just call me Jubilee." she responded. "So, what brings you here?"
"I just received word that Sentinels are inbound. You might have a few minutes, but we need to evac you and any refugees you have."
"We just dropped the last of the refugees off with the Underground this afternoon." Jubilee said as Cable ran inside.
"Forge! Dazzler! Sentinels incoming!" Cable yelled as he entered the front door. "They'll be here in a few minutes!"
"But I don't detect anything." said Forge from a room just off the main one. "None of my sensors..." An alarm went off. "Sentinels incoming." he said, then stared at the screen in shock for about a second before snapping out of it. "At least five of the big ones and over a dozen small ones, plus five personnel carriers." The rest of his speech was a series of expletives as he removed the harddrive from his computer, put it in a briefcase with several others and waved his hand towards the remaining hardware, causing it to spark violently as all power settings were maxed out within it. He ran into another room and then ran outside, followed by two rotor drones with lasers mounted on them. "Let's go," he said, running past Cable as Dazzler ran down the steps, hair wet as she was still in the shower when the warning came, while putting a speaker collar on.
As she and Cable left the house, though, several MK1 robots started to land around them, with MK2 and personnel carriers visible over the treetops.