Friends of Humanity Rally (open)

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Artemis let out a string of curses as he found his vision distorted and his music blocked by the eight identical voices singing Itsy Bitsy Spider. Through his distorted vision he saw that the water was running out the cracks in the walls faster than it was coming out. He jumped from his perch and before he landed on the rickety roof he put his hands together creating a cushioning wave of sound which slowed his decent and he landed in a crouching stance. When he did the building began to wobble a bit as he put more strain on the compromised building.

“You want spider’s, I’ll give you spiders, and I’ll show you what happens when someone steals my spotlight.” He said and his voice was duplicated to each of the clones singing’s ears.

There was a pulse from within the room and instead of water coming from the sprinkling system, spiders began to pour out. Not just your normal garden spiders but venomous ones like the Black Widow and some very large tarantulas. They attached themselves and to everyone but Creed. These, much like the gashes in the walls, were totally real. If the people knew how to act and didn’t freak out, the spiders would most likely leave them alone but as spiders do, if they feel threatened they would bite.

Artemis continued to crouch on the roof as he focused. He began to loop the sound around from the mike to the speakers and back to the mike. A feedback loop began to grow, creating and more and more shrill whine until it was nearly ear splitting. It would easily stop, as would the spiders fade if they simply quit singing.

Victor though would find that he didn’t hear the loop. As James was the master of light, Artemis was the master of sound. It was his first ability and his strongest so it was child’s play to mess with the acoustics in the room even when manipulating reality.

[Victor Creed]

"Knives and guns? What are you afraid of? Can't use your mutts enough to win your fights?" Victor laughed a bit as he tugged his arms back, trying to free himself from the teeth of the shadows. The scent of blood on the wind again as his wounds had a hard time healing with the 'weapon' still embedded in his arm. "Why dont you come back here and fight like a real man!"

The world around him was non-existant at this point. He didn't notice the change in singing or the spiders that suddenly appeared everywhere. There was something about this man that made him want to rip him to shreds. Of course there was the revenge thing but this was more primal more...territorial.

It wasn't until they charged each other that he realized why he felt that way. Oh yes...now this was truly epic. Victor has done everything now, he fought the elusive wendigo and now a werewolf...perfect. His thundering roar joined in the chorus of Night's howl as their bodies hit one another like colliding frieght trains.

Victor went more for the brute force attacks first. Punches and kicks given here and there before those metal covered claws sliced at Nights chest. His breath was growing a little shallower as they fought tooth and nail. He wasn't wearing down...he was getting pumped up. This was turning out to be the most animalistic fight he has had in a long time.

[zaintison]

Oh crap where are all these spiders coming from??? Luke shouted as the spiders turned back into water. He looked up to the hole in the ceiling. So that's how his powers worked. Come back down here and face me you... you... coward! Luke saw his brother trying to stop the girl from killing people in the back maybe he wasn't a hallucination. He could hear the ear splitting microphone as well as something else. Luke and his copies rushed up a spiral staircase he could see through one of the eight gashes in the wall. It was a very short and tiring climb he was surprised at how quickly he made it to the third floor when it was suddenly clear what that other sound was he heard earlier. Police sirens and helicopters he could see through the window. There was a light show going on outside. You could hear large pounding on the walls. Oh shi-...I mean crap. He ran back down the stairs. They came through the six holes in the wall, most of them were coming in from the back entrance. Ready to fire at the first sign of a mutant. Aiming and shaking their guns mostly pointed towards the werewolf and the large man with claws. Because you know he had claws. He could hear a few helicopters around the building. It wasn't just police force there was a swat team as well coming from the sides with their shield. It's to be expected they are destroying the building. Put your ha- hands up or we will shoot very subtle... It seems the were-wolf was the center of attention. Luke backed up slowly towards the stairs. Trying to come up with a way to save him and his brother. Trying to think through the large pounding.

[James Adler]

Things were just not going to let up today... seriously cops really? James went invisible and made sure Alice was invisible too for that matter. Night and Kitty Man (or at least that's what Night called him...it would do for now) were probably could handle a few bullets...James and Alice could not...

On top of that Alice didn't seem like she was in the mood to move...or listen anymore...so maybe running was out of the picture?...well at the very least it wasn't worth bickering about.

Cops were swarming everywhere, S.W.A.T. it looked like...they wouldn't be too hard to get by at least...they were just more pigs to the slaughter as far as these maniacs were concerned....best to stay down and stay quiet until the place was a bit more thinned out...

Could the cops really be stupid enough to think they could stop anything...Why even?

then a laser cannon shot another hole Through the building straight in Creed, and Nights direction... followed by several shots from strange looking weapons.

Up on the roof three separate teams of snipers took aim at Artemis 2 to the building to the left, 2 to the right and 2 on the roof of the building in front of them, as a rocket fired an RPG at the pillar

2 agents also shot down the stair well where Luke was seen. One firing tear gas... the other firing immobilizing cement foam. directly down at them...

Despite being invisible James and Alice were also not out of the woods....teargas was shot throughout the building covering the room as well placed shots were fired at James and Alice...He couldn't fool infrared vision...

It was only then that anybody would have got a chance to see them...

(rough approximation bear with it XD)

M.A.D. Agents dark red suits blackmasks equipped with gas-masks night vision/infrared and MSR's (Mutant supresent rifles) designed to temporarily paralyze a mutant's powers.

(guns are combination electric and chemical cocktail made to shock a mutant's nerve system to suppress the gene then introduce a represent chemical into the spinal cord each component works separately but stops powers much more effectively together.)

[alice]

Alice was staring at James this time, head tilted in a far too exaggerated way. She wasn’t really aware of what he’d done, but she’d just noticed he was a little harder to see then, not impossible, but slightly. After a few moments though, she looked towards some of the spiders, more curious about their appearance than anything else. After a moment though… She was bored, and looking for something else to entertain her. If she didn’t find something soon… She’d probably ask James to leave with her. Probably make him take her out for food even. She was hungry.

Great, now she was far too busy thinking about her stomach. Really, really hungry. She hadn’t eaten anything that day. With a far to determined expression, she looked at James. ”I’m hungry.” It was her silent order for him to take her somewhere for food.

She was so fixed on her hunger, that she didn’t seem to notice the laser fire, making another doorway. When she did, she looked at the new open. ”Why use the door when you can make your own?” She snickered slightly.

It wasn’t until shots were directed at her and James that Alice was suddenly ‘awake’. It was just like a switch had been switched. Her eyes widened slightly, solid black as shadows leaped up to act as a barrier, protecting them from the shots. ”Do I have to be nice to them too…?” Did James want her to leave them be like the other humans? Oh well, she didn’t care. The shadow wall suddenly shot out spikes at the men in red, making mince meat of a handful of men, turning the ground just as red as their suits.

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[Night Wolf]

Night Wolf had gone berserk and was acting on his new found blood frenzy. He attacked faster and with more ferosity with every wound he took and every wound he inflicted upon the kitty man. He was inflicting damage with his claws and was taking just as much from the kitty man's claws, but the kitty man's wound were healing over and his were not. Their melee of claws hadn't gone on for long when the men in red suits came in shooting at them. They had done the one thing they shouldn't have, they got involved in the fight. Night in his true to werewolf form, completely ignored the kitty man and was on them before they could react. He had clawed one of them and thrown another one into one of his friends as Alice had killed some with her powers. The kitty man had gone off to do something as well with fresh meat on the table, so to speak. Night howled again in the same blood chilling way as before and was about to take out a third one of them when he was hit and knocked backwards by that anti-mutant laser. He landed on his back near Jamie and had been forced back into his human form. The only cloths on him by now was his tattered pants. He was bleeding heavily from all the cuts he had taken from the kitty man and his body was battered as well. Night tried to get up, but passed out shortly after he started to try. He was out cold and bleeding heavily.

Outside, the members of the local New York gang had shown up to cause problems and help to gain the FoH support like they had been paid to do only to find the police and MAD agents who weren't inside yet outside the building. Some of the weaker members ran, but most of them stayed and started to attack every policemen and MAD member in sight. The attention of the people outside had been completely taken by the gang members suddenly ambushing them from behind and things had gotten just as crazy outside if not more crazy then they were in the building.

[jamie]

Jamie started to get her vision back and slowly stood up looking around seeing the spiders and these men in red and black suits come in Night had gone crazy and was full on out attacking the man who had attacked Mr. Creed.

The cops where out side Jamie looked around she had to get out and fast the spiders where everywhere Jamie didn’t want to get bit so she was moving very slowly towards on of the many exits now, that was until the men in red shot Night and he and stumbled over near her and then pasted out.

Jamie bent down near him and checked to make sure he was still alive he looked horrible, Jamie knew she couldn’t pick up a full grown man and carry him out of hear but she had to get him out before things got even more crazy and they seemed to be by the second.

Jamie lifted up his arm and tried to throw him over her shoulder her knees buckling under the weight, man he was heavy. It took her much longer then she wanted to until she was up and could even think about moving his blood was getting over her shirt and pants. She looked around and started to drag him towards the what she hoped would be the safest way out not ever sure if she could make it out the building.

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((Let the Bodies Hit the Floor—Drowning Pool Link ))

Artemis put his head down and raised his hands in the air when he first saw the sniper. He then began to whisper softly to himself out of hearing range of the snipers. They thought he was just praying for his survival but in reality he was not.

“Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the...”

Then with the first symbol hit he turned his hands and with the second pulsed his hands at the men.

“FLOOR!” he yelled out with a hoarse yell.

This sent a pulse of sonic energy that deflected the waves of bullets sent at him from the first motions and then the snipers once the waves hit them felt their bodies compelled down. Instead of being tossed to the nearer floor they got shoved down through all the stories down the ground below where they didn’t get up dead long before they hit the actual ground.

He then turned quickly as ribbons came out of his coat grabbing onto the item that was fired at this spire. He then spun on his heel, this caused the ribbon to tighten and the missile arced around the spire before being released on a new course toward a helicopter. It exploded in a fireball and fell to the floor as the other helicopter pulled itself up out of Artemis’ range.

Artemis hissed though after the missile was released. He underestimated the momentum of the rocket and it tore at the tendons in his shoulder and nearly yanked his shoulder out of its socket.

[Hank McCoy]

Beast had watched the horror that occured on the television screen for as long as it lasted. Once the cameras were out he was on his feet and moving down the halls. Luckily for him his acrobatics allowed for his movement to take him through the halls skillfully and while avoiding swarms of students in some cases.

He heard a smart alec 'where's the fire.' retort but he planned to ignore it until he thought he recognized that voice. Skidding to a stop he walked back to peer his head into the room to see the two sisters staring at him.

He smiled warmly, though there was that small panic look in his eyes. "Well it is good to see you again. I am afraid our reunion will have to be cut short. There is a bit of a...disturbance in the city. You are welcome to join me if you wish to stretch your 'legs'." That warm smile remained before he returned to his destination of the hidden elevator to the lower levels of the school.

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It wasn't long before he was suited up and in the blackbird putting in coordinates and allowing the engines to warm up. He waited for his passengers before opening the hangar and setting the plane on its destination.

* * *

Within minutes he could see the destroyed building and the people that swarmed the area. "Oh dear..." This wasn't good, this was far worse than what he had seen before. He found a roof that was large enough for the blackbird a few blocks down and set the plane down upon it. "I am not sure what is going on here exactly, but please be careful." He offered a warning to the french women before he headed out of the plane's bay door.

Traveling this area was easy for Beast. He leapt from rooftop to roof top until he reached the tattered building. It was a miracle that it still stood. He lingered at the last rooftop, watching what was going on for the moment. Who were the men in red and black? He frowned then made his way downward, using window sills and the like to reach the ground.

Rushing into the building he stopped once inside. The place was in shambled. He recognized Sabretooth in his attack of the suited men, at least he was distracted, not to mention most of the men seemed to be more preoccupied with Victor. Gruesome, he did his best not to take in too many details of the bodies that littered the floor already. Beast had more important things to worry about, like those that were injured and could still be saved. He moved through the room, doing his best to dodge the suited men that he encountered. The teargas was bothersome but it came in wisps so it seemed managable.

He noticed a struggling form in the shadows of the gas and moved towards it, seeing Jaime with Night over her shoulder. "Are you all right?" He tried to speak through some coughing, "I have him." He would offer to carry the unconscious man, he only hoped that she was in good enough shape to get away on her own.

[Freya Elensar Ashe]

Freya and Tari had been spending the day catching up, and even now, well into the evening, they were in one of the sitting rooms, lounging, when a sudden blur of blue fur caught their attention. Freya, of course, was the one to speak up, seeing as fire was her thing. And when the man returned, she grinned. It was Mr. McCoy. She honestly had to say she liked the man. He was interesting. What he had to say though caught her interest. A disturbance? What sort? Seeing as he said they were welcome to come, it was something big… Looking at her sister, Freya smirked, speaking to her younger sister in French, urging her to come as well. Now most people didn’t believe it, but on the right day, Tari could be just as violent as Freya, itching for a fight. And apparently today was one of those days.

Seeing the scene from up in the Blackbird… Freya chuckled. ”Looks lively. Should be fun. Freya nodded to his warning, smiling. Then, taking her sister’s hands, she used her power to carry them both, propelling them much like rockets or airplanes. And, with Tari’s power helping, the landing was much smoother than it otherwise would have.

In the building, Freya looked around, then at her sister. ”Almost as wild as some of our parties. Shall we help clean up?” A party with these two usually ended up in the complete annihilation of what had housed the thing.

She jogged off, spotting her kitty ‘friend’ in the process. ”Here, kitty kitty! If you be nice, we’ll bring you fish to eat, yes?” She laughed, actually not feeling like playing roast the cat today. Not unless he wanted to, of course. Either way, she was more preoccupied. She’d noticed a teenage boy slowly being cornered by some of the men in red. It was around that moment that she realized there was tear gas. Stupid, humans… Using her power, she heated the air around her to a point that it would at least help ‘burn’ the gas before it hit her.

”Monsieurs, it is no fun to play with children. Perhaps you’d be up for a more dangerous game?” They all went up in flames, no warning, nothing, before they even looked to see who this strange French woman was. ”Désolé. I forgot to give you a head start.”

Men taken care of, she looked at the teenager, smiling and holding out a hand to him. ”Come. And don’t worry, these human men will not hurt you.”

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[tari]

The twins were finally catching up, when a large beast came in and mentioned a disturbance. This actually piqued Tari's interest and decided to go along with her sister.

The view was chaotic and Freya chuckled at this. Tari looked at the scene with longing...how long had it been since she was able to let loose and use her powers just for offense? Instead of just holding back everyday, she could release the barriers that kept her powers at bay! Tari smiled, excited for the fight. "Yes...this should be really fun."

They flew through the air using Freya's power and they descended swiftly and smoothly using her own power. The sisters really did do well together when they weren't fighting each other. When they landed in the building and Freya made her remark, Tari couldn't help but giggle. "It does look like one of our parties, does it not? Yes, let's get to work."

Soon, Tari jogged toward another area, noticing more men with tear gas. "You mongrels." She growled. Using her power, she pulled the water and chemicals out of the gas, leaving it basically harmless. She froze the men the moment her cold gaze rested on them, in a blink of an eye. "Huh...I thought these humans were smart...guess not." She just shrugged and noticed a woman struggling to get up.

"You ok? Don't worry, these human men won't hurt you."

[Victor Creed]

Just as the fight was getting good...the fuzz showed. Victor snarled as he saw the men in the SWAT suits. He didn't like it when people intertupted his fights. Just as the wolf turned to attack them, so did Victor. No mercy was given as he rushed the policemen. Bullets were fired in his direction but that didn't stop the large man. Claws came out to slice the firing guns into pieces. The men barely had a chance to notice their guns disfunctionality before Victor uppercutted one and turned to snap the neck of the other. The first was then grabbed again by his helmet and slammed face first into the ground before victor's knee dropped down onto the back of his neck.

It was then that the new men appeared. Interesting... Victor smirked as he stood up again and watched them surround him. Singling him out? Smart. They all shot him at once, which brought another loud and irritated roar from him. He rushed at the men before him. The weapons hadn't slowed him down but he had yet to realize that his wounds were not healing. At least that was the only thing really effected. Well there was his strength and stamina, but he was still a large man. And while these men he faced were trained military men, Creed was still bigger. Two hundred and seventy five pounds of muscle that could still rip a man apart without the need of super strength. Not to mention those claws weren't a mutation a simple bullet could get rid of. Those claws sliced at the men infront of him, cutting anyone that dared to get too close. And the ones that got away? Well he was right on their tail, yanking on one of the straps of their gear to bring them back into his reach to snap their neck like a twig.

Oh how he wished he had heard what that Firefly said. It would have been a fun little banter session. But Victor was in a bad place right now, a place that unless someone calmed him down or knocked him out he was going to kill anyone he saw without even knowing who they were. The beast was bleeding now though, still wounded as he stood there huffing. And a wounded animal was even more dangerous. He had killed everyone near him and the civilians had been smart enough to get away a long time ago.

Where did that wolf go? Predatory eyes scanned the shambles of a room around him. The wolf was gone, who was next? Had he defeated the wolf...he didn't really know but all he wanted was the next target now.

[zaintison]

As Luke tried not to inhale the tear-gas struggling to get out of the cement. He recognized the M.A.D. uniforms. I thought they were just a state funded agency in Minnesota who spoke at schools part time and apprehended mutants at others. Because Sentinels were considered really dangerous and destructive and cost a hundred bazillion dollars. Apparently they are much larger than that. As the MAD agents were about to jump down and attack him they burst into flames as well as the tear gas can. Men with families incinerated before his very eyes as well as the corpse of one killed by guitar man falling next to him. The woman before his eyes had incinerated them in order too save him. He quickly used his copies to free himself from the cement. While the woman said something seemingly psychotic about humans. Luke tried to ignore that. Thanks umm ill have to catch your name later my name's Luke. He rushed down the stairs that definitely is my older brother using his great strength and courage to help that younger girl in jeopardy, what is he doing here? At least that's how Luke saw it. He had to do something. He saw one of the men that the werewolf had swiped away and picked up his MSR, it was a semi-automatic rifle. Luke wasn't that good with guns he only went hunting once and cried when he shot a deer. while his brother just glared at him. He saw Beast, he never had met him in person, but had heard of him. So that fire woman was an X-men. He ran toward his brother mirroring a few new copies of himself with the MSR and undoing the old ones. He mirrored the nearby men taking aim at him causing them to shoot themselves, killing about four of them before they stopped. Two of his copies got shot causing them to dissipate. He had only one copy covering him he had not fired a single shot. He handed the copies MSR to his brother it should stay tangible, as long as him or his copy didn't get shot.

[James Adler]

Alice had luckily saved him from taking a bullet, if not for that he would have fallen. Things were serious now, James no longer worried so much about protecting Alice. Instead he found himself glad that Alice was there to protect him.

M.A.D. was the turning point. Up until then James believed that they could all sneak away without causing too many casualties, but now the tables had turned. The priority was no longer the safety of everyone, it was simply to survive and get out of there. He was an idealist who believed in the best in people, but there was a point at which, following ideals became dangerous and deadly, and he was no fool.

James caught the gun tossed at him. and made sure to protect Alice's eyes as he flashed blinding anyone who might be focused on him. When the light dimmed there was two of him, both behind an agent situated at the opposite sides of the room. Which one was real? James fired the rifle point blank into the soldier's neck blowing through him and hitting the solider on the other side of the room. Didn't matter. James flashed again (covering Alice) and was in the center of the room next to Alice and focused some light energy into a laser focusing it on a man in front of him, intent on shooting creed with his laser cannon. With the man's back turned the laser easily went through him the man crumpling to the ground. "Alice we need to get out of here, don't hold back. When we get out of here and we'll go get some food."

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Only 3 M.A.D. operatives remained on the field. Command had definitely underestimated the power of these mutants....This was a suicide mission Damn it! The field commander and the two remaining laser cannon operators were the only ones still alive...The others had been shot, burned, frozen, stabbed, mutilated, and thrown through 5 floors of solid concrete. They were good men, honest men, and it was a shame they had to die so brutally at the hands of these monsters.

Command wanted them to 'Take them alive' Screw that! these Beasts didn't deserve it...They needed to die just as brutally as his men...

"Command, this is Alpha Squadron leader, Alpha team is down, I repeat Alpha team is down requesting back up." His hands shook as he held them up to commanding his men to remain at the ready, He'd be damned if he was going to allow anyone else to die today!...Any human Anyway...
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Within the middle of the police barricade the message reached the Commander of the mission. This place Was a Damn circus! these cops weren't worth anything as far as he was concerned...they only really served to get in his way....

The commander stood just on the outside of an armored van loaded with intelligence personnel serving as the base of the operation. A riot had broken out on the edge of the police barricade. Mutants and Mutant sympathizers...traditional crowd control tactics worked to a point...but they wouldn't hold those animals off for long...who even knew what some of those 'freaks' were capable of.

Word had also gotten to them that something had penetrated their airspace...sensors were having trouble identifying it, hell even seeing it, but a small scout team had confirmed that the X jet was a few blocks away from their current location, and some rather dangerous mutants were spotted heading into the fray.

He had told his superiors that one unit would not be enough to protect the target, but they were smug. Sitting in their nice leather chairs sipping their expensive coffees miles away from any real danger, they didn't really give a damn, and now an entire unit had been wasted...and for what? nothing!

The commander grabbed a walkie talkie from within the van and began to bark orders through it:"We have intelligence that suggest that these mutants plan to annihilate the city. Alpha Unit is down, with no kills and no captures, I want Units Beta and Delta down here now! Also clear air support we are going to bomb these SonsofBitches!"

As he threw the Walkie Talkie into the Van with a satisfied grunt he could already hear the distant deep roar of jets zooming toward their location.

[alice]

Alice was unusually calm for someone who had just been shot at. Actually, she didnt' even seem to realize she was in any real danger! But, it probably wouldn't surprise anyone. Alice was a bit of an odd ball after all!

At this point, James was making sure to shield her eyes every time he used his power, and Alice.... was to busy trying to decide what she wanted to get for dinner. She did expect James to take her out, why? Well, he was the only one around that she really knew, and so, by default, he was the only one around she expected to get anything from. But when she heard him speak to her, she blinked, looking at him with a puzzled look.

Don't... Hold back? That was a first... Usually, James, and everyone else, was telling her NOT to use her power! And here he as, telling her to use it to the fullest? She was very confused, as you might imagine. Even more so when he offered a 'bribe' to motivate her. After a few moments of staring though... She actually grinned. But... It was a little to twisted for anyone's liking. "Promise?"

She didn't wait for an answer, slowly turning to look at the remaining men, head tilted. Only three? She'd ignore them. Not even worth her time. She walked around them, not even giving them another look as she leaned out of one of the man made doors (holes, actually), and stared at all the police outside. Stupid humans...

There was a huge explosion as shadows under the police cars shot up, puncturing gas tanks, ripping into the engine, basically? Big boom. The whole street was lit up like Christmas as just about every car(except for a van that she was ignoring for now) went out with a bang.

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