Five Lights

[N/A]

They gained access to the facility and fought their way down into the depths of the facility relatively easily. Polaris was feeling confident and her adrenaline was pumping as they rode the elevator down further. Firebird took care of the immediate threats as the door opened, but then they were confronted by much worse. Delilah looked at the poor test subjects with pity. Who could do such a thing to these people? But she knew the answer.

STRYKER!

He would pay.

They had finally found him, but suddenly they were fighting for their lives. Several psychic hounds came for her. A glance at Firebird told her she was keeping that THING busy, at least for the moment. That glance cost her, as one of the hounds pounced on her, knocking her backwards onto her back. Polaris squinted her eyes, and a laser beam of blue light shot out, slicing it in two with surgical precision.

She was able to stand, just in time to see Morgan pushing Predator X backwards…and bringing debris down on herself.

“Mistral!”

But there were still more hounds between she and Torrent and Morgan.

 

[Persephone]

They had finally arrived in the control lab where Stryker was hiding out. He was about to beat a mutant child when Morgan quickly acted and saved the child's life. Then the fun began. Stryker unleashed some massive mechanical dog thing in which Firebird decided to take on. Helena was more than happy to let the pyromaniac throw herself into a fight with something bigger than a damn tanker. So while she was fighting that, Helena started to pick off some Purifiers.

Two purifiers shot a stream of plasma blasts her way to which Helena raised her hands and morphed the deadly ammo into silver glitter.

With a giggle.

"How very Kesha!"

Two more purifiers began to run in Helena's direction for hand to hand combat, knowing that their weapons would probably fail against her. Humming "We R Who We R" by Kesha as she round house kicked one purifier in the neck before slamming the palm of her hand into the others face shield, morphing her hand into steal for added impact.

"You all bore me."

Hearing the massive yelp of the mechanical dog thing, Helena turned to see it laying on the ground next to a mass of blond hair underneath some rubble. Team work....she had to keep telling herself this was all about team work and for the well being of all the mutants they saw trapped in this hell hole and those who could be captured later.

All the debris and rubble that was surrounding Morgan and covering her instantly morphed into small particles of sand creating a softer surface for her to lay on and much lighter weight on her body. Running over, Helena knelt down and began to dig under Morgan's shoulders, pulling the sand out from under her by the hand full in an effort to help her out. She grabbed under Morgan's arm pits and pulled her body from the sand pile.

While all this was happening, Helena was already 2 steps ahead of the mechanical dog beast. The second she morphed the debris around and on top of Morgan into sand, she ALSO morphed the ground beneath the Predator X into QUICKSAND; the dog sinking by the inch as each second passed.

Dragging Morgan a few feet away to a covered area, the others were keeping the purifiers in check giving Morgan some time to wake up and recuperate.

"We don't have time for you to play sleeping beauty, princess. [slapping her cheek] Wake up!"

 

[Rampage]

They made their way inside where the worked through their adversaries, becoming more fluid as ateam as they went on. they arrived to find Stryker beating a child.


Before he could take it all in (the psychic lash of the child's fear stunned him at first), the purifiers were upon them in waves. Helena dispatched hers with ease as he manuevered as many as he could around him, then slammed his hands together, creating a localized sonic event that, once he augmented it with his TK, hit the guards like a Mack truck.

HE looked up to see Helena SAVING Morgan and trapping the beast in quicksand. He pushed the robot downward mentally, speeding up the process of entombing it. Meanwhile he strode quickly over, took Morgan from Helena gently and spoke as he worked.

Allow me. AWAKEN Mistral.

He touched Morgan mentally, willing her consciousness forward from her stunned state. As he did so, the doting he received earlier was more than reciprocated and, for a second, none of THIS existed. For a moment, it was only the two of them. TOGETHER.

 

[Firebird]

battle underground

Blaze was in pain! But her emotion over her sister falling, possibly badly hurt as she had saved Blaze from Predator X overrode the pain. She struggles to her feet. She groans as she rubs her forehead and shakes her head.


No. Won't wimp out!

She bends down, holding the palm of her hand over her wound and using her heat to cauterize the wound quickly. She looks up, ready to launch herself at the Predator X but to her surprise, Mirage had stepped in! She saved Morgan and trapped the beast. The fire elemental's stare of disbelief for a bit before she exhaled with relief and gratitude, turning her attention to her dear friend Polaris as Torrent revives Mistral.

She was able to stand, just in time to see Morgan pushing Predator X backwards…and bringing debris down on herself.

“Mistral!”

But there were still more hounds between she and Torrent and Morgan.

Firebird sees Stryker and the Doctor standing there, observing! Those arrogant bastards!

Alright...that's IT!

We're coming for YOU, Stryker!

But first...

Firebird narrows her eyes and attacks the hounds with ferocity and a splach of style to do her sister proud! the powerfull attack sweeps across the the floor and utterly consumes the hounds advancing on Polaris and then charges toward Stryker and the doctor themselves!

Firebird was done playing. Mess with her, her family or her kind...and it's GAME OVER! :fdevil:

 

[Spellbinder]

Underground battle

<< Mistral would not know who it was that had just assisted her when it counted most.>>

Dragging Morgan a few feet away to a covered area, the others were keeping the purifiers in check giving Morgan some time to wake up and recuperate.

"We don't have time for you to play sleeping beauty, princess. [slapping her cheek] Wake up!"

<< Morgan's head whips to the side as Mirage all to EAGERLY slaps her across the face...her body flinches, a good sign. She's coming around but she needs help...>>

HE looked up to see Helena SAVING Morgan and trapping the beast in quicksand. He pushed the robot downward mentally, speeding up the process of entombing it. Meanwhile he strode quickly over, took Morgan from Helena gently and spoke as he worked.

Allow me. AWAKEN Mistral.

He touched Morgan mentally, willing her consciousness forward from her stunned state. As he did so, the doting he received earlier was more than reciprocated and, for a second, none of THIS existed. For a moment, it was only the two of them. TOGETHER.

<< from within the darkness of unconsciousness, which her form simply drifted along in...there was that momentary flash of sensory...of PAIN as Helena slapped her and then a light, a booming voice as Torrent reached out to her with his psi powers and pulled her forward, back to consciousness! She gasps as she jolts with a start as awareness returns to her. As her violet eyes flutter and she gains her bearings, she sees Nicolas...and HELENA. THe noise of battle is all around them.>>

oh...my...

<< she says, as Nicolas ensures she's okay and provides her with a quick telepathic recap of what happend. With his help, she stands to her feet.>>

I thank you, Mirage, for saving me.

<< Despite her dislike of her rival, Morgan, above all else, always tried to fly the flag of finesse including giving thanks when necessary.>>

And you as well....<< reveling in another all to brief, but tender moment they managed to share between them.>>...Nicolas.

SIS! thank goodness you're okay! But no time for hungry eyes now! We gotta get Stryker!

<< Firebird called out, as she helped Polaris and they regrouped with the others.>>

 

[Seer]

things change

<< The battle is intense as it is earnest. The five lights learn as they go and adapt as quickly as they can. their enemies are many and relentless, but they are young, brave and full of the fire of courage and conviction.>>

<< as they regroup after their latest round against Stryker and his purifiers, the man himself FUMES with rage that they are not defeated or dead already. He had evidently become too used to picking on mutants who were too weak or too afraid to fight back.>>

<< He and the doctor have been observing all of this, the doctor seems to be taking in data but not showing nearly enough emotion to Stryker's satisfaction>>

Stryker: Essex! You promised 100% results with the Predator X! ALL THAT MONEY I PAID and it's been defeated by a group of mutants!

<< the rabid preacher bellowed.>>

Stryker: ESSEX! I DEMAND RESULTS!

<< as Firebird called the two men out and sent a powerfull attack against them, things were now getting more intereseting>>

Dr. Essex: SILENCE!

<< his voice seemed to change, having a deeper, reverberating tone to it.>>

<< as he commanded STRYKER to be silent, his eyes glowed...RED. the same eyes Torrent had seen when he was repelled earlier! and Firebird's sweeping attack met with an invisible forcefield and was STOPPED then and there!>>

Stryker: you...dare to give ME an order!? you work for ME! YOU....

<< as the man witnesses what the doctor apparently caused...he goes pale.>>

Stryker: A mutant...a FREAKING MUTANT!? I WORKED WITH A MUTANT!?


<< Essex SMACKS Stryker away with a powerfull back hand, sending him sliding across the floor.>>

Essex: To think that I would be under the command of a FLATSCAN?

<< he laughs loudly as he grows in height and stature and changes form.>>

Essex: Stryker and his insane Purifiers were the perfect ruse and means to achieve MY OWN END. Baseline humans are worthless! HARDLY worth preserving! NOR are most Mutants! ONLY those of OMEGA level ability will be used to further my agenda!

<< his form changes into that of a massive, hulking creature that towers over ALL of the Five Lights, casting a large, forebording shadow over them as his red eyes glow.>>

<< Stryker lays on the floor, bloodied and bruised and yet...something else his happening. His skin literally begins to crawl as he shows signs of infection from the deadly VIRUS, the one contained in the large floor to ceiling test tube!>>

Essex: behold the fruits of my labor. I shall cleanse the earth of the genetically inferior and make room for a world made in MY image!

<< stryker begins to convulse as he bleeds from his eyes, ears and mouth. a strange "techno organic" pattern begins to manifest across his skin as he foams at the mouth.>>

Essex: Using the very man who imagined himself a messenger of god...to destroy "satan's children"...

THIS << gesturing to the giant floor to ceiling testtube and then the dying Stryker>> is god....and the beginning of the END of this dead end genetic cesspool.

<< Stryker's gurgling/screams are heard as his violent convulsing comes to an end and he drops to the floor...dead. a TECHNO ORGANIC VIRUS riddled corpse lays before a horrified group of super powered mutants. It wasnt Stryker they cared about but themselves...their friends...mutants and life as they knew it. They were facing the TRUE threat now. this monster and his virus!>>

 

[Spellbinder]

the real threat

<< Mistral and the others stood together, battle worn but no less determined. They were ready to attack and bring Stryker DOWN. Firebird called him out first and thats when things took a shocking turn.>>

<< the doctor revealed himself to be a mutant....a powerfull and apparently INSANE one bent on destroying EVERYTHING.>>

<< Stryker was painfully killed. Though it was perhaps shameful...neither Mistral nor anyone else seemed to feel any compassion or sympathy for HIM. Her face remained stone as she watched him suffer from the effects of this deadly virus and die.>>

But he means to unleash this upon EVERYONE.

<< she says in a whispered tone before...>>

You're INSANE!

What do you gain in your demented vision of conquest if you annihilate nearly ALL the world's population!

You're too insane...

<< a haunting flash of the twisted, contorted, virus infected, DEAD Stryker

too dangerous to be allowed to LIVE!

: I am the APOCOLYPSE, wind elemental! You five are OMEGA level mutants. Mutant's who power and potential are higher than most and thus you are fit...to SERVE me!

<< Morgan's blonde, pulled back hair whips up as the winds whistle, howl and increase to a higher level around the chamber.>>

We will NOT be enslaved by YOU! You're a MONSTER. You're WORSE than Stryker! You're a threat to ALL life!

<< Morgan shouts as she points at the man.>>

Take him down!

<< she gives the call to the team to attack Apocolypse!>>

<< lifting off the ground and taking to the air, she avoids a blast by Apocolypse and lashes out with a powerfull and vicious wind attack, blasting him with such high velocity streams of air and creating a sheering effect SLICING at his form. Its similar to what she did the night she shredded Helena's dress at a party in retaliation for a cruel prank...but on a much more vicious scale.>>

<< horrifyingly, the attack does only MINOR damage to his body...only his face seems to be effected causing him to grunt and wince with pain but even so, the slash wounds begin to regenerate as quickly as they happen!>>

 

[Firebird]

new battle

Firebird's smug smile faded as a mysterious forcefield of some kind stopped her fire wave cold and dispersed it. Standing between Polaris and Mistral as the group was now back together facing Stryker and the doctor, the fire elemental was none too pleased.

Ugh. Why didnt it work!?

The fire elemental's apple green eyes fixed on Stryker with grim disapproval and she watched as he and the doctor squabbled before the doctor smacks Stryker away and then infects him with this creepy virus!

Oh my god!

Transfixed, one of her hands covers her mouth as Stryker, the rabid antimutant hater didnt seem so scarey or large anymore. He was wracked with pain, turning into something totally gross and then he was dead.

The evil doctor was a twisted demented mutant calling himself Apocolypse. He had a deadly virus he wanted to unleash on the world and he wanted the five of them as slaves! No way, no how. Mistral said it best and Firebird nodded as her apple green eyes sparkled with defiance.

We will NOT be enslaved by YOU! You're a MONSTER. You're WORSE than Stryker! You're a threat to ALL life!

<< Morgan shouts as she points at the man.>>

Take him down!

<< she gives the call to the team to attack Apocolypse!>>

Awright! Let's GET the bastard!

Firebird joins her sister in the air, flying and dodging some deadly powerfull blasts by Apocolypse. Mistral lashes out with a vicous wind attack but its effect is not quite on the scale it should.

It's not affecting his body, only his face! He's regenerating! This is NOT good!


Apocolypse: Firebird, sister of Mistral- two mutants with omega level elemental powers.

That's my name...don't wear it out, tall dark and UGLY!

Firebird scoffs but then her apple green eyes widen as Apocolypse throws his arm forward and it extends, growing, changing into a PILE DRIVER as it reaches for her and attempts to SMASH her into the ceiling!

Firebird, WATCH OUT!

Firebird twists and speeds forward, dodging the massive pile driver! it slams the ceiling and ROCKS the room awful!

I don't mind playing rough...but you're REALLY not my type, Apoc. Try to smash me? I'll BURN you!

She swoops down closer to the ground, near Torrent as Apocolypse was also firing upon him!

Take THIS!

hovering upright, with style and top form, Firebird takes aim and attacks

 

[Seer]

unstoppable

<< Firebird's aggressive attack charges madly for Apocolypse but is once again repelled by a barrier he errects. He is strong, fast, able to adapt on a multi front and VERY powerfull. Just HOW powerfull and how MAD they would see as they continued to go at him unwaveringly.>>

<< Apocolypse PUNCHES Firebird away, leaving Torrent with Polaris and Mirage flanking him while Apocolypse closes in on them.>>

Apocolypse: Your courage and resistance is admirable but utterly FUTILE. Powerfull as you are, I am as BEYOND you as the human is beyond the amoeba! You will either serve me willingly. Or i will CRUSH you and simply harvet your genetic material for my own agenda!

<< his arms extend, turning into massive sledge hammers as he slams the ground creating massive shockwaves beyond anything Torrent could generate and slamming Mirage and Polaris with that battering force. He then turns one of his hammers into a massive scythe, swinging it with terrifying form across toward Torrent.>>

 

[Rampage]

The data was overwhelming. Dr. Essex revealed himself to be APOCALYPSE, a monstrous mutant who seemed capable of anything according to Nicolas' scans. For a second, he stood in awe...mapping a way in, until the beast struck at him.

Not so fast.

Torrent teleported out of harms way and reached up with his TK...

...snatching eletric cables out of the ceiling and pulling them to meet the scythe in his place.

 

[Persephone]

So Stryker wasn't their true foe afterall. He was just a typical lunatic human who got a MUTANT to back him and his cause. But unlike his flock of sheep, this mutant wasn't following his orders...he was taking out the trash. Watching as Apocalypse thew Stryker into the large glass test tube, shattering it, he was now becoming what he loathed so much. HA, irony at it's best. Helena liked this Apocalypse persons style....if he wasn't trying to enslave her, she'd totally work with him.

But alas, he wanted to create a world under his image....scowling at the thought of how ugly the world would be, Helena decided she'd much rather live in a world full of stupid humans that have this dickwad as her leader.

Apocalypse turned his arms into sledge hammers, slamming them into the ground and creating a shockwave that was heading straight for herself and Polaris.

"He can shift?!"

Helena gasped, watching as the shockwave sped towards her. Raising her hand the wave of concrete shifted into a wave of water, slamming into both her and Delilah and making them tumble backwards from the sheer impact of the waves power. Water pooled around the lab and Helena coughed, spitting out water before looking up at Delilah. She had a pretty pissed off look on her face.

"Oh shut up! It was the first thing I could think of!"

Pushing herself up off the ground, she was sopping wet but alive and well. Looking at the hulking beast in front of her...he was obviously all power and strength. He was smart too...smart enough to manipulate this entire situation.....but would he be smart enough to get passed one of her illusions? Most weren't.

A massive black fog began to flood behind Helena, growing in size and moving toward Apocalypse. The entire black fog enveloped him in seconds, blinding him to everything in the room. It wasn't simply a dark fog that mutant or mechanically enhanced eyes could see passed, it was a sensory illusion specifically for Apocalypse which enabled him from seeing ANYTHING, no matter how hard he tried.

[to the others] "Hit him with everything you got!"

 

[Spellbinder]

underground

<< Mistral swoops down to see to Firebird, keeping her from hitting the wall behind her w/ a cushion of air.>>

This brute is relentless as he is powerfull. We're not making much in the way of headway against him!

Are you allright!?

<< Morgan checks over her sister.>>

Yeah sis. I'm fine. Just a little winded. But what are we gonna do about HIM!?

<< Apocolypse HAMMERS Mirage and Polaris and attacks Torrent, who manages to defend himself and check Apocolypse's next deadly pass long enough for Mirage to open a window of opportunity>>

We're going to beat him back long enough to find our END GAME.

A massive black fog began to flood behind Helena, growing in size and moving toward Apocalypse. The entire black fog enveloped him in seconds, blinding him to everything in the room. It wasn't simply a dark fog that mutant or mechanically enhanced eyes could see passed, it was a sensory illusion specifically for Apocalypse which enabled him from seeing ANYTHING, no matter how hard he tried.

<< Firebird helps Polaris get her bearings and dry off quickly & evening using her power and Mistral rushes up to the front just a step ahead of Torrent and Mirage.>>

[to the others] "Hit him with everything you got!"

I've got it.

<< the winds picked up whiping with fury as they howl. Mistral's pulled back hair along with Polaris, Mirage & Firebird's hair also blows in the wind as Mistral gestures, and the winds sprial down in front of her as she pulls the powerfull gusting air toward her.>>

<< holding her hands about her chest, she gestures, and the winds flow in tighter, coalescing into a focused "ball"....a "WIND BOMB", a tight sphere of gusting air with the same impact of a F4 tornado.>>

<< with gracefull form but EARNEST effort, Mistral pulls back and HURLS the "wind bomb" at Apocolypse. It charges madly for the mutant.>>

 

[Seer]

team work

<< Mirage and Polaris are hammered, but saved from bone breaking shockwaves by Mirage's power while Torrent defends himself from a deadly pass by Apocolypse.>>

Apocolypse: you fight that which you can't comprehend. You stand in the way of PROGRESS and a world that your narrow mind can't fathom. But when I BREAK YOU and reshape you in MY image...you will know better!

<< how much smug satisfaction would it bring to Mistral to know that Mirage secretly admired...IDENTIFIED with their terrifying foe. His methods, his outlook, it matched HER'S and if it were not for him being a direct threat to her...she would almost CERTAINLY work WITH him. In Mirage, there was the foundation for a true SUPER VILLAIN and yet here she was, forced by circumstance and fate beyond even her power to control to work with her greatest rivals, the Glamazons & a man just beyond her seductive reach, Torrent. The irony was better left unknown at this time.>>

<< Apocolypse's voice boomed as he continued to advance toward them all. Mirage launched a clever defense/blocking measure and managed to temporarily stall him. But that moment would soon pass.>>

<< Mistral takes the point, channeling her elemental control over air and pulling violent gusts of air into a tightly focused "WINDBOMB" which she then HURLS at the monstrous mutant!>>

<< Apocolypse's laughter can be heard as his red eyes begin glowing and he seems to be burning through Mirage's illusion but his effort is wasted as the Wind Bomb hurls toward and SLAMS into Apocolypse.>>

<< he can be heard grunting loudly and staggered as the wind bomb actually knocks him off his feet spinning him around before sending him sliding back several feet THROUGH a wall!>>

<< the impact is incredible and the structure is starting to SUFFER because of it. time is running out, on a variety of ends and the Five Lights are no closer to VICTORY even with Stryker dead.>>

<<even now, Apocolypse was emerging from the rubble.>>

Apocolypse: MUTANTS. I cannot be defeated by YOU!

 

[Rampage]

Mirage envelops him in darkness and signalled the others to hit him. As he attempts to shake off the illusion, Mistral hits him with tremendous force. As he is pushed through the walls of the structure, Torrent takes note of the structure. The other will note the robotic tone of his voice as he gathers menta strngeth to attack full force.

MISTRAL. Building integrity at 46%. Collapse likely.

As Apocalypse starts to emerge from the rubble he is SLAMMED by a girder, staggering him. He recovers as the girder explodes into shards...

...all of which embed into his form. Nicolas advances to try to push the advantage, trying to fell the beast so he can extract his friends, but a large hand grabs him by the throat. Nicolas struggles as Apocalypse recovers, using his body as a shield against the others. He roars as the shards fall out of his skin, then hammers Nicolas dozens of times in the chest...a vicious attack that leaves the mutant spitting blood as he is tossed into the midst of the ladies.

 

[N/A]

Firebird came to their rescue, taking care of the remaining hounds. And Mirage of all people helped Morgan up.

“Well, I think HELL has officially frozen over.”

Luckily Morgan was alright, but that had been too close a call. She was starting to regret her gung ho attitude from earlier. Even moreso as this “Dr. Essex” suddenly became “Apocalypse” and disposed Strykker with extreme prejudice! Despite how much they all hated Strykker, it was still a disgusting thing to witness.

Mistral and Firebird attacked, with minimal effect. Apocalypse came back at her and Mirage, shaking the ground beneath them with his massive hammer hands. Mirage turns the hammers to water, soaking them. Delilah turned and looked at her pointedly with annoyance.

“You couldn’t have picked something else?”

"Oh shut up! It was the first thing I could think of!"

Mirage attacked directly next, rolling in a blinding black fog surrounding Apocalypse.

"Hit him with everything you got!"

Mistral attacked with a wind bomb, hurling him through a wall, yet he got up and was coming towards them again. Torrent attacks but is quickly down for the count. It was now or never. The noise from Mistral’s tornado coupled with Apocalypse’s own attacks had fueled her powers to optimum capacity. It was time to unleash them.

Delilah looked intently at Apocalypse, squinting her eyes a bit. A rapid succession of photon blasts issued forth from her eyes, repeating in a never-ending stream of hits.

 

[Spellbinder]

battle underground

Torrent!!

<< Mistral and Firebird exclaim as Apoclypse brutalizes him and then hurls him away. They rush forward instinctively to aid their fallen friend while Polaris attacks Apocolypse.>>

<< Mistral gestures and quickly summons a powerful vortex of wind, strong enought to CATCH Torrent in mid path and steady him and carry him away from the immediate danger. The winds help provide Torrent with some extra air to breathe in as well. >>

good move sis. Bring him down over here gently so I can help him. He'll need time...he really needs a hospital but we can't really help him with one of those can we??

<< Firebird asks with worried sarcasm as she looks at her sister, who is kneeling down behind Nicolas, resting his head on her lap while Blaze begins to close up some of his wounds with her firepower much as she had done her own. Using her soothing heat touch. She was somewhat familiar with biology due to her studies and knew Nicolas had a higher level of durability due to his mutation.>>

This is no time to cop out now, Nic. We gotta do something about tall dark and ugly! Don't worry, Polaris is going after him now and Mistral and I will keep you covered till you can get your strength back.

Polaris! BE CAREFULL!

The longer we fight him, the more the battle turns in HIS favor. He's able to adapt to everything we throw at hime. We werent prepared to face somone...something like HIM! We have to GET OUT OF HERE but not before we give him something ELSE to focus on. Something HE isnt expecting.

Something like WHAT? I'm all ears!

<< by now Mirage had regrouped with them as well.>>

Stryker is dead. We need to make our end play now that will devastate him and allow us to get out of here.

Apocolypse is bent on domination and destruction. He wants us as his catspaws and he has his ultimate weapon...that virus!

<< nodding to the large floor-to-ceiling testtube which rested upon an electronic control panel pedastal, contiaining the flowing, bubbling liquid which was in fact the churning virus.>>

The best way to stop him and stagger his approach is to DESTROY the virus!

<< she leaned in and lowered her tone.>>

Mirage, back Polaris...keep him busy long enough to give us time to destroy the virus.

Torrent, on my mark...be ready to clear us a path DIRECTLY UP to the surface using your telekinetic ability while I carry us ALL out of here with my winds! BURY Apocolypse with the FULL WEIGHT of this structure behind us if you can once we reach topside!

Get ready!

 

[Seer]

growing danger

<< Apocolypse marches toward them with a cold, methodical stomping path. He laughs smugly as he tosses Torrent away. He does not pay attention to sisters Mistral & Firebird rushing to their fellow mutants aid.>>

Apocolypse: your struggling will avail you nothing. you merely delay the inevitable. you're like the neanderthal, resorting to crude physicality to try to stop the dawn of cro-magnon! your screams of agony will be the first cries of a new age being born.

<<Delilah looked intently at Apocalypse, angered and also worried. squinting her eyes a bit. as the hulking shadow looms large.>>

you have another problem to worry about at the moment, Pocky. You just pissed off a woman whose looks can LITERALLY KILL!

<<ZARK!>>

<< from her eyes , the beautiful mutant unleases focused pressor beams of light. PHOTON BLASTS. they manifest and travel at LIGHTSPEED and pack enough punch to smash through battle tanks!>>

<< surprisingly, the blasts HIT Apocolypse and cause gaping holes to appear in his body. The blasts also stagger him. His face contorts with a frown and he grunts with displeasure.>>

Polaris....mutant. The power you weild is impressive. Scanning indicates no known upper limit to the amount of energy you can channel....

<< several more blasts follow...momentarily interrupting his approach and statement.>>

with you five omega level mutants serving as my genetic templats. i can create a new race shaped and tempered by my will and formed in MY IMAGE! Your resistance was amusing and TOLERATED so that i could further scan you but you will not make worthy horsemen. I only need your genetic material. That does not mean you need to be to be ALIVE.

<< Apocolypse extends his arms. one hand shifts and forms a large SHIELD that begins to DEFLECT Polaris' blasts. while the other arm extends and grows, shifting into a massive PILE DRIVER that is coming for Polaris, intending to SMASH her.>>

<< the floor rumbles as the pile driver barrels forward like a relentless high speed train. if it hits Polaris, it will pulp her.>>

 

[Rampage]

5 pairs of ribs broken...punctured left lung...full repair in 4 hours.

4 hours he did not have. Nicolas looked up to see two angels working on him feverishly..and they were managing to increase his recovery rate.

Integument integrity now at 97%...full repair in 2 hours, 78% operational

At Mistral's bidding, Torrent rose, the sound of his ribs cracking evident as he took in a full breath of air. Grimacing, he saw the attack coming for Polaris and made two quick moves.

1) the ground Polaris stood on shifted 3 feet, causing the attck to BARELY miss and giving her a new vantage point to get her lasers through. He would have his hands full LITERALLY dealing with the new onslaught.

2) he created a column of psionic force that, once Apocalypse punched it, shattered the two load bearing columns that stood near the center of this large laboratory that he'd attached it to at the other end. He turned to Mistral.

Building failure a certainty. You have less than 90 seconds.

 

[Firebird]

her plan

Firebird...use your power to DESTROY this structure....generate as POWERFULL a blast as you can to IRRADICATE the virus while it's in this form!

Firebird listens to Mistral's order and hears the dead serious tone. She nods as Her apple green eyes survey the large test tube containing the flowing liquid that was the virus. The fire elelmental's mind can't help but flash back to moments earlier when that asshole creep Stryker was murdered...infected with the virus.

I can't let that happen to me....my sister...Dee...ANYBODY! Nobody deserves that shit BUT Stryker!


Alright!


Mistral stands between Firebird and Torrent , both their backs to the wind elemental as she coordinates them and keeps an eye on Mirage whose helping Polaris.

Steady....

Blaze calms and centers herself even as the room quakes from Torrent helping Polaris avoid being smashed by Apocolypse.


Just think of it like you would be doing something to piss Mirage off!

She said aloud before smirking and laughing to herself as her flame aura formed around her and shifted from red to orange to yellow to WHITE as her energy signature...that of a "Phoenix" raptor formed and expanded.

Nothing but the most PRIMAL elemental fire energy will stop this! I've got to focus my power...and channel it ....release it with as much gusto as I can manage! Don't worry Mistral! I won't....

the firebird aura cries out out over her as she shuts her eyes tightly and takes aim.

Let you DOWN!

the temperature in the room skyrockets. Mistral attempts to keep it from overwhelming the others by using her wind power to generate a gust of air that swirls and pushes the heat down. Firebird's eyes pop open, now glowing bright white as she unleashes a powerfull attack of primal fire energy that is so hot...so deadly...beyond that of a VOLCANO.

the firebird form charges for the test tube and CRASHES into/through it, causing rays of white energy to blast out every which way. the glass shatters, the structure overloads, goes haywire and explodes and the liquid is burned, irradiated and EVAPORATED even as it comes spilling out all over. the shattered glass is melted into nothingness before it hits anyone. the metal parts are melted into molten slag, which begins to flow and touch other computer systems, causing massive cascade failure. As Mistral had hoped this UNLOCKED the holding cells on other floors and mutants in the facility were now free to ESCAPE and their powers were no longer dampened. Another score for the Five Lights against Apocolypse!

The explosion and backlash is blinding and impressive. But Firebird, though she succeeds in destroying the sructure and killing the virus, consuming it with the fury of the BEYOND white hot elemental energy, is now EXHAUSED.

Mistral....I did it! I hope it...was enoughhh....

Her [once again] apple green eyes roll back as she crumbles from faint exhaustion into Mistral's arms.

 

[Spellbinder]

getting ready to go

Oh no...POLARIS!

<< Mistral lifts her hands, summoning a powerful gust of wind to yank up a LARGE hunk of thick metal debris and some concrete from destroyed walls.>>

<< Torrent manages to MOVE the path of ground Polaris is standing on just enough to narrowly AVOID her getting PULPED by the rumbling massive PILE DRIVER Apocolypse sent at her but she would no doubt be momentarily shaken and disoriented.>>

Keep AWAY from her you beast!

<< Mistral screams as she directs the flowing gust of wind, carrying the huge debris and concrete chunks. the wind HURLS the objects at Apocolypse with the velocity of a powerful WRECKING BALL intending to do something to him similar to what he had planned for her best friend.>>

that should....should by them some time get their bearings...while...

<< it was hard to breathe. the temperature in the facility was SKYROCKETING as Firebird was using her power to its utmost, manifesting a truly intense elemental display.>>

<< Firebird succeeds in obliterating the machine and testtube structure containing the virus! her attack goes on to totally erradicate the virus in its vulnerable liquid form as well as set off a chain reaction in other systems as the liquified, melted slag touches other compters and structures in the lab and causes them to fail and explode.>>

FIREBIRD...

<< Mistral catches her exhausted sister who collapses.>>

Alright...that's it! she's DONE it! Stryker's dead...the virus DESTROYED and the prisoners have been freed! Everyone regroup and let's get OUT OF HERE!

<< Mistral releases Firebird to Torrent's custody and he carries the exhausted and slightly disoriented woman.>>

Gather round! Next stop...the surface! Remember Torrent...once I begin to carry us up...DROP EVERYTHING you can down and bury this demented monster in his own HELL!

I don't have time to be gentle....so hold on to your stomachs!

<< Mistral warns as she motions for them to gather around a little closer and the winds begin to whistle and HOWL, flowing faster and faster as the women's hair begins to flow UP and objects around the room, no matter what size begin being hurled around , crashing into walls and each other.>>