Marvel, Rebirth:

Ic:

"So?"

IC:

Johnathan winked at Angela, since she caught the reference.

"So, I think she's saying that we could team up, fight boogies, save the world, and we don't have to listen to Beast preach or anything since we're on our own. No guidelines, we do what we think is right, take out threats before they cost innocent lives."

IC:

The pizza came out now and was laid on the table. Kane thanked the waitress before grabbing two slices and plopping them onto his plate. He then lifted one up and took a big bite. "New York has the best ****in pizza."

IC:

Christine waved goodbye before closing Sierra's door. She then turned down the hall, wondering exactly where she would find Aleks. After searching the school for  a bit she headed to the gym, since she remembered he taught a combat class or something like that in there. She opened the door to the building and stepped in, her green eyes searching the large spacious gym before she noticed Aleks in one corner having his way with a punching bag.

She started across the floor towards him. "How's it goin sugar?"

IC:

"So can you like shoot electricity out of your hands? Or do you have to touch them to shock anyone?" Nicole asked as she moved through the water, continuing to glitter thanks to the sun.

IC: Ashley (Ultimate)

"When have we ever listened to anyone?" Ashley said between a mouthful of wings.

IC

"Yeah, it's pretty good."

* * *

IC

"Fighting bad guys is overrated."

Ic:

"Sounds like you're going to have to preach to get people to go along with you."

Ic:

 

Trinity turned, her blank eyes meeting Aella's for a moment, constricted pupils registering no response to her words. She quickly tried to break free, hands reaching out so that she could try to turn Aella's clothing to stone.

IC: Aella

I'd seen Trin turn things into other things enough times to know what she was planning to do, so I quickly grabbed both her wrists so she couldn't touch my shirt. I was much quicker and faster than the smaller girl so it wasn't all that hard. 

"Trinity what are you doing stop!" 

Ic:

The doctor looked bored as he watched the feed.

"She responds to the whistle. Turn it off and prepare to recalibrate. This field test was a success."

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Trinity struggled to break free of Aella, finding herself too weak to do so.

Then the whistle slowly died as it was turned off, and Trinity's eyes slowly turned back to normal. She stopped struggling as she went slack in Aella's arms.

"Woah," she said, looking around her, "Aella? Why are we outside?"

IC: Aella

I blinked, looking at Trin with confusion. "What do you mean? You're the one who ran outside." How could she not remember what she just did?

Ic:

"I did?" Trinity asked, tilting her head to the side in confusion.

IC: Damian

"Huh... I guess we can make an attempt...? What would you have me do? If I mess up..."

IC (Alecto)

"Honestly, I'd have you observe. These rituals aren't a task for a layman. But you know the staff better then I, know how it ticks to a certain extent. If something is going wrong with the staff as a result of the ritual....well, you'd be the first one to notice." Alecto gave a slightly crooked grin. "Aside from that, a phone a number certainly couldn't hurt...."

IC:

"And...I think that about sums it up?" Dallas drummed a fingertip on the air in front of his shirt's neckline and half-closed his eyes in thought. "Team forms, DC, Nicole, Ultimates, Canada, Alex leaves, Alex comes back, Alex is a dick, California, back to New York, Nicole again, Alex is a dick." His lips pursed in thought around his straw and he took a sip of water to wet his throat after the "Cliff Notes" version of the last two years and all the battles and misfortunes that had left those years scars and pitted. He mouthed the last bullet on the list again and then sighed, looking over at Sakuya. She hadn't said a word at all - aside from several animated punching and slashing motions when he had related how Nicole used her powers on him in as few explicit terms as he could - which had surprised him. He expected someone a bit more...off-putting. Maybe not a social animal, but at least someone who made their presence known. The idea that she could be a listener had taken him aback, but when he thought about it, he didn't even really know Sakuya anyway.

Which begged the question...why was he ranting to her? Why was he calling Alex a dick in front of this stranger? Why was he calling Alex a dick, again?

"I don't mean he's a dick," Dallas sighed, taking another sip of his drink. "Or...you know what, I do! But he's not, like, a jackass. He just...happens to have come back from the Ultimate Universe a dick. I don't know if I blame him for that or what, or...I dunno. Maybe I do blame him. I can tell what he's feeling, but I can't tell why he's feeling it, or what he saw that taught him how to feel it. It's all confusing..." Dallas turned, caught a glimpse of Sakuya's dark green eyes staring at him, and grinned sheepishly. "...and boring. Sorry. I'd have zoned out by now if someone were telling me all this ######. I think Morrison already has."

-Tyler

IC: Damian

"Ah, okay." Damian was afraid that this bat-man would have him do something like memorize the entire Abramelin ritual or go and collect 667 newt eyes or, you know, crazy magic stuff like that. Still, what he did say troubled him a little. Damian didn't know the staff well, and the staff, from how it had treated Damian his entire life, was either a recluse or simply a dick. He sighed.

IC (Alecto)

"Problem?" Alecto hadn't missed the sigh, or it's implications. "If not, do you have particular time you'd want to attempt this? Next week? Three weeks? Today?"

IC: Damian

"Maybe two days from now; I don't have class that day and my homework's pretty light."

IC: (Alex)

"Good question." The car pulled out of the space, smoothly sliding into traffic. He let the lights take their normal course, rather than trying to influence them in his favor; he wasn't really in a rush. Alex drummed his fingers against the wheel for a few moments in silence, staring at unending road. "... He's because he can't understand."

"It drives him crazy. You know him, he can always tell what you're feeling. I don't know if that's what pisses him off, knowing what I'm thinking, or not being able to understand why. He sees what I do, what I think, but he can't understand it." A few more moments of quiet, his fingers beating out an absent, half-hearted rhythm against plastic. "I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm an , but he's too polite to say it. He doesn't want to."

I can't really expect him to get it, not without being there. He doesn't understand why Alex didn't come back."

IC:

Morrison jumped up onto Dallas's shoulder and gravely patted the man on the head with a single paw.

IC: Julia

Julia was silent for a moment, staring blankly at the road ahead.

"Yeah," she said. "I'm not sure anyone who wasn't there can really understand. Not even I'm sure I understand you sometimes, but..."

She sighed.

"I don't know."

IC: Aella

"Tera help Trin is broken!" 

Ic:

"I'm... Broken..?" Trinity asked, not entirely sure what that word meant... But the way Aella had said it didn't sound right to her. It disturbed her.

Water slowly began to form around her eyes.

IC: Aella

I felt terrible as I saw Trin on the verge of crying, I didn't mean to make her cry. So I gave her a hug. 

"Hey it's okay...we just have to fix you..." I had no idea how but I was sure Tera did, she knew everything. 

Ic:

Trinity hugged her back, starting to sob.

IC: Gabriel

"You know, I met this cheeseburger mutant the other day."

Ic:

Raguel just looked at Gabriel on confusion.

"What?"

IC:

psssst card

psssst

how am i doing

-Tyler

Ic:

you haven't killed anyone yet. Julia and John are obsessed with you. So far so good I think.

IC: Gabriel

"I'm not joking. There's a mutant out there who produces cheeseburgers."

IC:

Good call on the 'I'm the other Card' thing. If only you didn't look at me out of the corner of the eye every time you lie I'd actually buy it. What kind of cool stuff can your robot arm do

"Let me just rewind that real quick...you want us to be a Band-Aid for this universe's bullet wound. Us. And...I'm captain?"

-Tyler

Ic:

its a robot arm. It works like a regular arm. Alex said if I wanted it to do anything extra like shoot lasers or something it would cost me

"... There have been worse plans," Kristen admitted.

IC:

It'll cost HIM if I can't shoot goddamn lasers from my pinky

-Tyler

Ic:

im pretty sure you can get him to add some.

IC: U! Julia

"I don't care who's captain or who's on the team," Julia said. "as long as we're doing something. Who says our own world is the only one we can save?"

IC:

"Pretty much," Johnathan nodded at Dallas' words. "You always sort of were our captain anyway. We have to face the fact that we probably aren't going back to our home dimension, and have to make the best out of the one we're stuck in. I can't see a better way then trying to fix some bullet holes." he took another sip of root beer.

"If we had a way to dimension hope and fix more the one, then that would be awesome too. Would keep us from getting bored." he commented on what Julia had said.

IC:

"If we go after the guy who killed me I'm down." Ash said. "Isn't he the same guy that caused the Vegas thing?" Ash asked, not even sure if the group would include her in something like this since the nature of her being.

"That is if I'm even invited being a vampire and not a mutant anymore."

IC:

Kane munched on some pizza, "Whose been your favorite leader so far? Pietro, Abraham or Dom?"
 

IC:

"You...and you're all serious about this." Dallas searched Julia and John, and then looked at Card, over to Ashlynn, and finally even spared a desperate glance at Bekah. "This...is what you want."

He bit back a sigh and stuffed half a buffalo wing in his mouth to avoid having to say something.

"...Yeah. Fine, yeah, whatever. We'll do it. God ###### you all."

-Tyler

Ic:

"Ok, cool. We're now a team. We need a base. Anyone got any ideas?" Kristen asked, "'cause, I don't think we'll get the manor."

IC:

"I didn't vote. Or comment. I am blameless."

IC:

"Let's go to the Hamptons. It's always summer in the Hamptons," Dallas said, adopting a snobby accent. "We'll squat out the biggest, flashiest bank owned foreclosure and each pick a room."

-Tyler

IC:

"The Hamptons are not a defensible region."

IC:

"I could stop a whole zombie apocalypse from the Hamptons."

-Tyler

IC:

"Yes!" Johnathan said. He looked over at Kristen, "Metal arm high five?"

"As for a base, well its not like the X-Men use the basement level anymore..." he pointed out. "If not I'm sure we can find something abandoned and fix it up a bit or something."