Match (son_of_discord) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-06-15 19:40:00

Entry tags:

inactive - anastasia summers, inactive - cassidy summers, inactive - match, inactive - rose logan, plot-"the hunt", team - x-force

No More Running
Joey wasn't sure what had just happened. One moment, he was kicking Bigmouth's face in, the next minute, the whole world started shaking, and people were screaming. Buildings fell over and then he was ducking behind a car, trying to keep from getting splattered by falling debris. When the shaking stopped, Joey managed to push himself out of mass of debris and garbage, and stood up to look for his teammates.

Fargo, Georgia was a land of chaos.

The few buildings that hadn't fallen over were still crumbling, and there were people lying on the ground before him. Others civilians walked about, clutching at extremities (some missing) or trying to stop the blood flow of other people's wounds. Joey could feel something warm and wet on the side of his own face, but he tried not to think about that. If he did, it would only slow him down.

"Wild Child! Shatter! Ice Princess! Ruby! Kitten! Someone say somethin'!" Joey called out, hoping that this mission hadn't succeeded at what Krakoa had narrowly failed at.

"YOU DID THIS! YOU MUTANT FREAKS BLEW UP OUR TOWN!" a woman screams, pointing at Joey.

"You gotta be kiddin' me..." he says, calling a flame to his hand.

He did not need this right now.

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wild_rose
2010-06-16 01:36 am UTC (link)

Rose had had the rather bad misfortune to have been near a gas main when the... whatever it was... had gone off. The vibrations had splintered the pipe and then created sparks and then, well, the phrase fwooosh came to mind.

That had hurt. A lot. She was pretty certain she'd lost most of her skin there. What was seen pulling itself out of the rubble might well have been called a monster. No hair to speak of, blackened skin sliding off in chunks as new skin began to replace it underneath, eyes starting to regrow themselves.

"Ghhrh..." Great. Her tongue hadn't grown back yet.

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son_of_discord
2010-06-16 01:46 am UTC (link)

Joey sees the charred woman and wonders who in the hell could survive something like that. He immediately extends his hands, trying to corral the flame and keep it from spreading, even as he recognizes that loping gait.

"Rose?!" Joey yells, his control on the fire slipping for a moment. He wants to run over to her, to make sure she's going to live, but he's got to get this flame dealt with. Concentrating fiercely, he manages to have the flame crawl toward him and set up a barrier between himself and the screaming woman, who now has a few friends.

Once he's done that, he goes right over to Rose.

"Babe, are you...holy shit...come on, Rose." Joey says. He tries to fight down the worry, but his girlfriend is hurt and the person responsible is still out there.

He tries to resist the urge to kill this kid when he sees him.

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wild_rose
2010-06-16 01:57 am UTC (link)

That Rose was able to be moving at all was a testament to her mutant constitution. She was going to be itchy for days, if not weeks after this, when her new skin finished growing. And the new hair coming in was going to itch like crazy too.

Not to mention she'd be completely naked. Her uniform had burned off completely, though she was currently too burnt and blackened to have anything recognizable as naked.

Joey? Her ears had finished healing and her nasal passages were clear enough, even with all the dust and smoke in the air, that she could tell it was him.

"Jooo?" she managed, as he slowly came into focus. "Yough...otakay?"

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son_of_discord
2010-06-16 02:04 am UTC (link)

He quickly offers her his coat, wrapping it around her so that she's not so naked. Naked is naked, even with charred flesh.

"I'm fine." he says, though she'll see a nasty cut on the side of his face that's still bleeding a little. He doesn't feel it now, but he'll have a headache later.

"Come on...let's get you somewhere safe before these nutjobs figure a way through the fire. They're blamin' us for this. We need to get everyone and get out of here, ASAP." he tells her.

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	wild_rose 2010-06-16 02:12 am UTC (link)
	God, she hated him seeing her like this. She must look, well, like someone who was in a gas main explosion. She lurched alongside Joey, bits of blackened skin falling to the ground as she moved, revealing shiny new pink patches of skin underneath. The cut on his head worried her, but right now, she wasn't in much of a position to do anything about it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

son_of_discord
2010-06-16 02:22 am UTC (link)

Joey calls to the rest of their teammates, trying to account for everyone they showed up with. He hoped to whatever god was listening that his friends weren't dead. He'd had enough of leaving people behind in his old life.

He would help Rose to the Blackbird and get her on board. He hoped Ana-Pants or Tina wasn't too far away, because he didn't want to try flying this bird himself.

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	wild_rose 2010-06-16 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Too much smoke and dust and all she could really smell was her own burnt flesh. Now way of knowing if any of the others were still there or even still alive. C'mon, Annie... don't you die on me... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notyetqueen
2010-06-16 10:42 am UTC (link)

Having an invulnerable ruby form has its advantages at times like this.

But still, getting thrown sky high in the air and landing flat on your back hurt like hell.

Anastasia got slowly to her feet. Her head was throbbing, her uniform in tatters. She was dazed, as she lumbered forward, calling out for her friends and teammates.

"Rose?! Joey?! Anyone?!"

Her ruby form was the only thing that kept her from being blown to pieces. The others....might have not been as lucky.

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wild_rose
2010-06-16 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Rose jerked to a stop when she heard Annie's voice, her hearing locking onto it in a way her sense of smell currently couldn't. Her vision was still fuzzy, but most of the way back now.

"Annghie," she slurred, pointing.
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son_of_discord
2010-06-16 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Joey couldn't make out the exact words, but hearing Anastasia's voice in concert with Rose's words (and gestures) helped.

"Ruby!" he says, waving toward her. "Over here! You see the others out there?"
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-16 11:52 pm UTC (link)
She'd only been half diamond when the store both simultaneously collapsed and imploded on itself and the angle she'd been standing at wasn't exactly diamond side up. The steel girder that had been part of the ceiling-spanning truss had smashed down into her as half the roof tumbled down behind. She'd screamed but then gone silent. Somewhere beneath the steel, glass, and other rubble, Tina lay twisted, a chunk of rebar sticking from her side. It would have gone clean through except it had hit her half-diamond side.
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-16 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Cassidy's eyes finally open, and he stares at the demolition around him, the city in all directions damaged, nearly destroyed.

He didn't even have to ask if he'd been the one to do this; he simply knew. He didn't see George anywhere and hoped that maybe, just maybe, the man was dead. It would be enough for Cassidy if that small bit of luck was given him.

But when he saw a diamond hand sticking up through the rubble, he realized that he might have just killed someone else who'd never done him wrong.

"Tina?" he calls out, picking his way across the rubble. "Tina...?"

No...please god, no. Not again... he pleaded silently.

"Tina! It's me! Say something, please." he begs her, as he tries to lift pieces of rubble off of her. He gets several out of the way in frantic desperation, but when it comes to the girder, the young man can't lift it.

"HELP!" he screams. Then he thinks better of it. That's what led to this.

He needs to find Tina's friends, before it's too late.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 12:08 am UTC (link)
The scream of help drew Tina's awareness to the surface of her mind and she blinked her eyes open. There was a lot of rubble on top of her, but she could see Cassidy semi-clearly.

She could also feel the massive pain running through her side down towards her opposite hip and could taste the metallic sting of blood.

"If this is the afterlife I'm pissed."
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 12:43 am UTC (link)
Cassidy hears Tina's grumbling and is relieved that she's still alive. Who knows who else is in Tina's position or worse because of him?

"Tina! Um, I'm right here. No, you aren't dead, though that's probably not really any sort of consolation right now. Just...relax and sit tight. I'm going to try to get you out of there." Cassidy says.

Now, to find a way to get her out of there.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 12:50 am UTC (link)
"I...I don't know that that is a particularly good idea."

She ran her non-diamond hand along her side and found the chunk of metal, slick with blood and a few torn bits of her flesh. This was not good and she knew it. That she couldn't feel most of her non-diamond side from about hip down was also not good.

"I'm impaled on a chunk of metal."

It dawned on her that she could well die right there.
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 01:00 am UTC (link)
Impaled. That meant internal injuries. He remembered enough of that from his studies to know that internal bleeding was a bad, bad sign.

"Tina, just stay calm. I'm going to get you out of there and then we'll get you some help. You said you brought friends, right? What are their names? If their...still out there, I can find them." he says.

If I didn't already kill them.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 01:09 am UTC (link)
Right now Tina was having a hard time thinking in terms of code names.

"Joey. Rose. Anastasia. Melinda. Chris. I don't know where they are, though." Here was to hoping teamwork really functioned like it was supposed to and they'd come to...help? Perform last rites? She didn't know. She instead closed her eyes for a moment and tried to breathe, something she was struggling a bit with.

"Are you going to leave?" Her voice tinted with fear, she looked back up at him.
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 01:21 am UTC (link)
Joey. Rose. Anastasia. Melinda. Chris.

Cassidy committed those names to memory and tried to think of how to get them over here. He could try a signal of some kind...but if didn't work, they'd be in trouble.

He figured that going to look for them where he last saw George and the others was best, but when he heard Tina's voice and the fear of him leaving her, that idea went out the window.

"No. I won't leave. I'll...figure something out. Just wait here." Cassidy says. This was a Sporting Goods store, right?

There had to be some flares and a flare gun around here somewhere.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 01:25 am UTC (link)
"I just don't want to die alone. Stupid, I know. Just...I think it'll be easier on someone if they knew I wasn't alone."

She closed her eyes again. It was strange to be in such an excruciating amount of pain in parts of her body and to feel nothing in others.

She could hear him rummaging. It really seemed so far away.
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 01:27 am UTC (link)
"Hey! You are not going to die. Tina!" he says, stopping his search and trying to create a little more racket to keep her awake. He couldn't let her fall asleep.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 01:30 am UTC (link)
"It's okay if I do. Honest. I can't tell you the number of times I've tried doing this myself."

Tina tried to laugh but it only jostled the metal bar, which hurt and caused her to taste more blood.

"Okay maybe not with a metal bar. What are you looking for?"

She forced her eyes open, but they were so heavy...
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 01:53 am UTC (link)
"I'm looking for a way to get us some help." he says, his eyes scanning the area, and finding something close to what he's looking for.

He finds a shotgun and a box of shells.

"Tina, stay awake. I'm going to try to get some attention for us." he says, loading the gun faster than any sixteen year-old should be able to.
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whosperfectnow
2010-06-17 01:56 am UTC (link)
"Trying...I'm so tired Cassidy. And cold. I thought Georgia was warm in the summer..."
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sound_and_fury
2010-06-17 02:07 am UTC (link)
Crap. She's going into shock.

Cassidy aims the shotgun in a non-populated direction and fires three times, before reloading. The sound of the report filters directly back toward him, and he knows he can't do this long very long before something bad happens.
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	wild_rose 2010-06-16 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	Rose jerked to a stop when she heard Annie's voice, her hearing locking onto it in a way her sense of smell currently couldn't. Her vision was still fuzzy, but most of the way back now. "Annghie," she slurred, pointing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	son_of_discord 2010-06-16 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Joey couldn't make out the exact words, but hearing Anastasia's voice in concert with Rose's words (and gestures) helped. "Ruby!" he says, waving toward her. "Over here! You see the others out there?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	whosperfectnow 2010-06-17 12:08 am UTC (link)
	The scream of help drew Tina's awareness to the surface of her mind and she blinked her eyes open. There was a lot of rubble on top of her, but she could see Cassidy semi-clearly. She could also feel the massive pain running through her side down towards her opposite hip and could taste the metallic sting of blood. "If this is the afterlife I'm pissed." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whosperfectnow 2010-06-17 01:25 am UTC (link)
	"I just don't want to die alone. Stupid, I know. Just...I think it'll be easier on someone if they knew I wasn't alone." She closed her eyes again. It was strange to be in such an excruciating amount of pain in parts of her body and to feel nothing in others. She could hear him rummaging. It really seemed so far away. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-17 01:27 am UTC (link)
	"Hey! You are not going to die. Tina!" he says, stopping his search and trying to create a little more racket to keep her awake. He couldn't let her fall asleep. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whosperfectnow 2010-06-17 01:30 am UTC (link)
	"It's okay if I do. Honest. I can't tell you the number of times I've tried doing this myself." Tina tried to laugh but it only jostled the metal bar, which hurt and caused her to taste more blood. "Okay maybe not with a metal bar. What are you looking for?" She forced her eyes open, but they were so heavy... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-17 01:53 am UTC (link)
	"I'm looking for a way to get us some help." he says, his eyes scanning the area, and finding something close to what he's looking for. He finds a shotgun and a box of shells. "Tina, stay awake. I'm going to try to get some attention for us." he says, loading the gun faster than any sixteen year-old should be able to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whosperfectnow 2010-06-17 01:56 am UTC (link)
	"Trying...I'm so tired Cassidy. And cold. I thought Georgia was warm in the summer..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-17 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Crap. She's going into shock. Cassidy aims the shotgun in a non-populated direction and fires three times, before reloading. The sound of the report filters directly back toward him, and he knows he can't do this long very long before something bad happens. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)