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rogue_star ([info]rogue_star) wrote in [info]exiles,
@ 2009-09-02 09:27:00


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Entry tags:"acts of avenging", blink, crusader, doctor spectrum, exiles, ghost rider, mystic, patriot

Acts of Avenging, pt. 2 - Mother Russia
The teleportation is far easier this time. Russia is a very, very big place, and there's no magical barriers or resistance.

In fact, there's not a lot of anything. Looking around the area where they come in, remote, in order to avoid notice, it would look like the village that was once here was struck with a bomb, save nothing is burnt. A wave of destruction radiates out from a central point, and everything from there is demolished. The foundations of houses sit bare, with wreckage strewn away from them. The signs of at least two mass graves aren't that well hidden not far away from the village. A few hastily put together crosses of sticks line the sites now, but this village is lifeless. A wooden sign, far enough on the outskirts to have survived whatever hit this place can still be read, at least by those who speak Russian.
Anzhero-Sudzhensk, population: 86,480

With all the flat land, in the distance on direction, the signs of cobbled together stick and cloth hovels can be seen, a few figures moving about, never staying out in the open too long. Much more distantly the opposite direction, the faint radiance of lights of what has to be a massive city can be somewhat discerned, but the place must be massive to be at all evident at this distance.

Sarah rises a bit off the ground for a slightly better view. "Gods. This is horrible."



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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-05 06:03 am UTC (link)
"Calvin Rankin. We don't get many travelers here, but whatever your agenda is, you'd be better off working it elsewhere. Repair crew?"

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-05 05:20 pm UTC (link)
"Setting right what once went wrong... or what's going to go wrong, depending," Patriot explains. "We're each from a different universe, and we're here to help fix yours before it's destroyed. Our agenda is to save lives."

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-05 07:22 pm UTC (link)
"That's quite the mission, but you're a little late. The wars are over. Now things have settled into a long cold war period that doesn't look in any hurry to end. But if you really are who you say you are, then good luck either way. What brings you to Russia?"

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-06 12:26 am UTC (link)
He glances to Clarice. In his world, Mimic was a criminal briefly before he was killed in the Sentinel Revolt. But Bucky also knows that mutants never got a fair shake in his world, and he's willing to trust this guy if Blink is.

His look asks, wordlessly, if they can trust him.

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-06 03:05 am UTC (link)
Blink remembered her first mission. All her teammates assumed that because Professor Xavier was good on their world that he was the one they needed to free. And for that mistake thousands of people died.

That was why Cal put her in charge. She wasn't affected the way the others were. Her universe was different enough that she didn't have to worry about projecting her feelings for the people she knew onto their alternates. She could only imagine how hard it was for her friends. Now she knew.

This was Calvin Rankin, a Calvin that her alternate here had known.

"There should be a team of heroes on your world, the Avengers." Clarice began.

If this backfired then she'd just have to live with it.

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-06 04:27 am UTC (link)
"Team of heroes? Are you sure you're not from here? You sound a lot like my Clarice." Yes, he says 'my' in such a fashion as to suggest they were more than friends here. "Except now its Avengers instead of the legendary Guardian Angel of New York. There hasn't been a team of heroes since the Fantastic Four died. And that failure pretty much convinced everyone else of what happens to heroes."

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-06 04:54 am UTC (link)
"In most of the worlds we're from, there's a number of teams. The Avengers, Defenders, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Excalibur to name a few are the ones who keep people like Doom, Magneto, Apocalypse, Kang and the other big bads from taking over," Quinn explained. "It's no wonder this place turned out the way it did if none of those teams formed. We're here to bring at least one of them together." He hoped he wasn't saying too much about their mission.

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-06 10:37 am UTC (link)
Calvin frowns. "People like Magneto? I'll grant his methods are extreme at times, but he did stop Doom from conquering the world twice, and quite potentially saved homo superior from absolute destruction.... now before you worry too much about me saying anything, believe me, I understand the cost of what he's done possibly better than anyone alive, but you're going to have to be /very/ careful how you speak about the Tzar in this country. Virtually everyone alive here owes him their lives, most of them directly, you're not going to get much support if you lump him in with Doom and Apocalypse."

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-06 07:19 pm UTC (link)
"That's just it," Patriot replies. "I understand why Magneto is the way he is. In our worlds, he was a domestic terrorist, doing what he felt he had to in order to save mutants. In my world... he failed, and most mutants are dead. Here, he's succeeded."

He comes forward and places a hand on Calvin's shoulder. "I know what he faced back in World War II. I was there, too, and I understand what would drive him to take the extreme actions our Magnetos took, even if I don't agree with the methods."

He looks seriously at Calvin. "But this is a world with villains and one selfless man who will take extreme actions to protect those he cares about... often at terrible cost. There's no one to protect those who he won't. And we need to help those people... the homo sapients, not just the homo superiors."

He removes his hand from Calvin's shoulder, and offers it to him. "Will you help us?"

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-06 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Calvin initially shies away from the touch until he makes sure Patriot is wearing gloves before making contact. When the hand is offered, he shakes it though.

"I... believe you. You look a great deal like Namor's recollection of James Buchanan Barnes... he went by Minuteman here, and died in the gas chambers. I suspect that might have gone differently in your world too."

He sighs. "In this world though, I /can't/ help you much. Once upon a time, I went by Mimic, now I go by memorial. Before Magneto recruited me, I was a terrible person who did some horrific things to survive the civil war. I fought Magneto's Brotherhood, and borrowed the powers of a woman named Anna Marie - when she tried to steal mine, she died from the shock, and I took her memories and full power, it never went away. A man came to me - Charles Xavier, we talked all night, he told me that he'd failed, and he couldn't exist in a world where Magneto was the only way. When the sun was coming up, he had me take his powers and memories... keep hope alive, he said. I joined Magneto to try and temper some of the extremes - using Anna Marie's powers... and Xavier's willpower, and those of a young woman going by 'M' to help process it all... I've been absorbing the memories of dying mutants throught the wars and now during Doom and the Skull's raids. I don't kill them... I'm keeping their memories alive, to construct a memorial someday, to be able to tell their families who they were, when some families might listen. I need to be here - just like I told my Clarice when she went searching for the Guardian Angel... who, I fear, is just a pipe dream. /But/ anyone who needs it can rest here. I help the villages too, and I'll help them. But if you go to the capital, tell Allison Blaire that Calvin will speak for you, and that you want to talk to the Tzarina. If anyone can help you, she can."

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-07 01:17 am UTC (link)
Blink was trying hard to keep her composure. It was bad enough that she'd been so quick to believe that this Mimic was the one she knew.

"Who is the Tsarina? Lorna or Wanda?"

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-07 02:09 am UTC (link)
"Lorna, who is Lorna? Magneto has another child somewhere, at least in other worlds? If she exists in this world, and she's alive, you could probably get whatever you wanted from Magneto for that kind of information."

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-07 02:33 am UTC (link)
That answered her question. "Assuming she exists in this world. This is the first time I've been to a world- that I know of- where I do. And in my world Lorna, well, I'm not sure if she even existed there." Blink rubbed her forehead. She looked to her fellow Exiles.

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-07 04:24 am UTC (link)
"No matter what else, Wanda can be trusted," Bucky says seriously. "I worked with her on the Avengers, before..." His voice drops. "She's a hero. That much, I'm sure of."

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-07 04:26 am UTC (link)
"Patriot, just because you can trust the Wanda you kne-" Blink stopped herself before she said anymore. After all, what had she just done? "But I agree. We should see Wanda."

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-07 05:16 am UTC (link)
"I agree with Blink. They may look the same, but they may not be like the versions we know. We need to be careful."

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[info]rogue_star
2009-09-07 10:33 am UTC (link)
"We do need to be careful. She was a heroine in my homeworld too, but in two of our earlier stops, she was... well, one she was crazy... and really disturbing, and one she was just plain evil. We can't count on anything. But it sounds like this one might be one of our best hopes."

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-09 12:58 am UTC (link)
"One more thing." Blink forced herself to look at Cal Mimic Memorial. "Tell me more about the Guardian Angel."

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-09 01:22 am UTC (link)
"He, she or it is a fairy tale. A story that's arisen in the last few years about a secret mutant or some other super powered being who takes in mutants and somehow hides them from the Kingpin and Shaw Industry's Sentinel patrols and the gangs. The thought of a few mutants being able to hide, somehow, might be possible. But after they found and massacred the Morlocks who decided to try and stick it out and defend their home instead of siding with Magneto or Apocalypse... well, its pretty far-fetched. But you... my Clarice, felt like she had to try and find him, or her, or it. She was an idealist, and was struggling so hard with some of the things Magneto did to procure a homeland safe for mutant-kind. We never heard from her... or Kurt, or any of the others who've gone searching for the Guardian Angel." Its clear he's having a rather hard time with the whole Blink/Not-Clarice situation as well.

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-09 10:57 pm UTC (link)
"How about we take this little talk somewhere a little more private? A roof over our heads and a place to crash for the night might be a little wise. Big Ben here could use some rest."

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[info]rogue_star
2009-09-10 12:43 am UTC (link)
"Quinn's right, we should get some rest, talk this over and figure out our next step."

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