Re: Variable X-Men

[Artemis Watson]

Once the Blackbird was ready, the team boarded. The flight was short, just passing five minutes. A tourist and executive waited nearby the landing site, waving and smiling to the team as the Blackbird landed, and they got off.

[Blake Olson]

Blake stepped off the jet, approaching the executive as she observed her surroundings. It mainly looked like a modern business plaza; normal and plain.

[Lilibae]

Eve was next to get off. Her hands folded behind her back, her expression of blank and unyielding, eyes only briefly overlooking the greeting before darting around to look at their surroundings, thinking each observation as loudly as she could, so that Arty might hear them. At least that's how she thought it worked...

[Artemis Watson]

Artemis followed the two, levitating slightly. He also used his telekinesis to fake wind, blowing his cape some. He moved to stand beside Eve, lowering until he landed. Ellis wasn't far behind, arms folded and hands rubbing, keeping him somewhat warm as he walked. He was clearly uncomfortable and somewhat tired, hunched over to add to the effect.

[Lilibae]

Eve entered through the doors. Looking around for their tour guide. "Some hospitality," she groaned. "Where are we starting?"

[Artemis Watson]

Seemingly following Eve, Artemis stopped just in front of the executive and chosen guide. "Sorry for that, I'm assuming you're ready?" He offered, hands clasping behind his back. "Ah, right. This way!" The tour guide called, smiling to the group as she made her way to the doors, Arty following.

[Blake Olson]

Blake followed Artemis and the tour guide as she inspected the behavior of the tour guide and executive. Strange, she mused to herself, suspicious of what lied ahead. She gripped the strap of her gun instinctively, wary of this corporation.

[Alex McCoy]

Alex stood in front of everyone, in his beast form. He followed the tour guide, taking In every detail of the place as he walked.

[Artemis Watson]

The tour progressed as planned, Artemis listening patiently, waiting for the stealth team's opportunity.
Ellis was waiting as well, though clearly more anxious. He dragged his feet lazily, visibly upset at just how long it took to be sent out. However, as the guide and executive began to explain their process, Artemis sent the signal to Scarlet and Ellis.

[Lilibae]

Eve touched Alex on the shoulder, nodding to him. She stopped in space she was sure was just outside of the angle of the camera's as everyone passed by on a catwalk above tanks and vats that supposedly held samples of gene sequences and other biological matter. Still staring after the group as they kept walking, keeping the tour guide busy, Eve's arms inexplicably began to lengthen, stretching down to the floor, her fingers turning to iron blades as her skin disappeared; replaced with long sinew and muscle tissue, she looked up at a vent directly above her. Her lengthy, slender as we grown upwards, the blades sinking into the ceiling, to the side of the vent. She kept staring dead-on and she quickly pulled her body upwards, throwing herself head first into the vent. She ignored the fact that the vent had a metal cover on it, but she needn't worry.
Bent and warped by the colossal impact from the velocity at which she went up, using her arms like a slingshot. When she hit threw the vent an obvious sound was heard while Eve flew inside, her arms following after her as the knives her fingers took the shape of detached from the ceiling, trailing quickly after her inside.

[ScarletTurner]

Scarlet had walked behind the group until the signal was sent and Scarlet seemingly disappeared into a shadow over cast by a separate catwalk, that one with an opaque floor. Flipping over the bar, Scarlet used things near her to slow her fall, and eventually only her feet were heard, and she took off at a sprint, running to a hallway before anyone could investigate the noise. Scarlet waited for Ellis to follow her lead, assuming the two would be investigating together.

[Artemis Watson]

Soon after receiving the signal, Ellis quickly phased through the floor, his body completely disappearing into the solid ground. He then began to 'run' through the ground, the top of his head only peeking through to find Scarlet, whose escape he had watched earlier.

[ScarletTurner]

Scarlet motioned for Ellis to follow her as she walked with a brisk pace not running because it was in fact a rather large facility and it would get rather exhausting to run through the entire thing. Then again she did have access to stamina unlike any other so it wasn't exactly like she couldn't, she was however, aware that Ellis did not exactly have the stamina of a horse, nor did he have the speed of a cheetah. scarlet stuck to one side of the hall, keeping her eyes trained ahead.

[Lilibae]

Eve rounded a corner, walking briskly. She had a glazed donut in her hand. She didn't bother worring about the cameras. The first thing the silver vixen did was take care of the security center. She found the faces the personnel watching the cameras as a barrage of bladed tentacles composed solely glistening red of muscle and sinew, save for the shining pieces of sharpened metal blades formed at the ends. She left them tied and gagged by their belts and a thick a mucousy excretment she vomited upon them. She had long-since abandoned her con-jumpsuit, sporting instead her tight white latex top and matching scandalously short-shorts.
She happened to pass the hallway Scarlwt and Ellis were walking down.
"Ah, hello, you two. Where are you off to, now?"

[Artemis Watson]

"Uh, we're trying to do the stealth mission we were sent on?" Ellis answered, raising from the floor. "Slutting it up for the cameras isn't helping, b-t-dubs." With that, he returned to the floor, still searching for a legitimate laboratory to search.

[ScarletTurner]

Scarlet looks at Eve, "White couldn't be anymore flashy," this was said under her breath, "Have you seen anything suspicious?" she asks, raising an arched eyebrow.

[Lilibae]

"We needn't worry about cameras, I took care of that," she said, smiling as she remembered how she left one guy with a nightstick up his-- er, yeah. "And I'm on my way to the 'Holding Bay', as described on the map I saw in the security center." Eve ignored their snide comments. She saw little point in speech unless there was a useful message to get across.

[Blake Olson]

Blake had stayed behind with the tour group, keeping the tour guide busy while the others sneaked off to investigate. Because of the small group to begin with, and three people missing, it was easy to notice that some people had disappeared. Whenever the tour guide turned to see if we were in-fact listening, Blake had ran up to her and questioned blatant things around their path.

[Artemis Watson]

"'Cause a fucked up security... Room, won't set anyone off." Ellis muttered, pausing to re-evaluate his wording. His view was almost nonexistent, as no light came through to illuminate the underground setup. This contributed to the shock of his discovery--A dimly lit lab (which still blinded him somewhat), inhabited by the mutated corpses of disposed test subjects. Scientists were still experimenting on the deformed bodies, some which had seemingly been clinging to life. Ellis began to scream, though vomit beat his voice.

Almost immediately after the lab-workers had discovered him, he fainted, solidifying as he fell from the ceiling--Into his mess. With this, a facility-wide alarm went off, accompanied with bright red strobe lights. Meanwhile, the scientists quickly moved to retrieve the teenager.

[ScarletTurner]

Scarlet jetted off, taking turns trying to find her way back, but got lost in the labyrinth of halls. The mutant ducked into a room it was dark and no one was in it, Scarlet found some lab coats and such in the lockers left open by foolish researchers. She pulled on a blue shirt and some black slacks, and put a white lab coat over it. she pulled her hair back into a pony tail and walked out of the room, joining in with the other doctors who were hustling down a hallway. "What happened?" She asks in a worried voice, a man looks back at her, "There has been an infiltration, are you new, I haven't seen you around before," "Its my first day," Scarlet says with a frown. "Well, an exciting first day it will be."

[Blake Olson]

As the alarms began to sound, the tour guide quickly turned around, noticing the missing members. She straightened her business suit, glaring at Blake for distracting her. Blake stepped back cautiously. "It seems there has been an... emergency. Please follow me to exit out." The tour guide walked in strides, agitated as she received orders from her earbud.

The tour guide whispered back to the voices coming out of the earbud, and Blake quickly followed the group. As they passed a hall, a security guard grabbed her and covered her mouth. Blake struggled, reaching for her gun. The security guard quickly injected a sleeping drug, and Blake had passed out. The tour guide glanced back quickly, noticing her disappearance and huffed contently with a smile, straightening her back as the guided the others back to the jet.

[Artemis Watson]

Artemis took a brief recount of the group, the disappearances--and unconscious state--of Blake and Ellis going unnoticed however. 'Return to the jet, immediately.' He thought, targetting Eve, Scarlet, and Ellis. Meanwhile, he followed the guide's instruction.

"Is... Everything alright?" He asked the guide, now waiting for the jet to be prepared.

[ScarletTurner]

Scarlet broke away from the group of doctors and got up to the catwalk where she caught up with the other and began to loose the stolen clothes, still of course wearing her uniform under said stolen clothing, she arrives at the back of the group, looking just as she did before she had left. she caught up to Artemis, "I lost Ellis," She said quietly her eyebrows here furrowed and she looked at Artemis with a look that said, 'I think we may have some trouble,' She showed him an id card she stole hiding it from the guide.

[Lilibae]

Walking away from a pile of bodies, guards that attempted to apprehend her, the large bulbous tentacles that sprouted from Eve's neck wrapped around and reconstituted themselves until the flesh once again in the form of Eve's head.
'I'm going to stay behind,' Eve thought to Artemis. 'There's too much we don't know. I plan on escaping within the next week or two. If I'm gone longer than that, assume me expired. Do not come looking for me.' She raised her arms as another security team came barreling down the hallway. They leveled their rifles at her, and she kneeled down in surrender. Throughout it all, Eve maintained that same, cold unyielding expression of apathy, even as one slammed her into the wall while they restrained her.

[Artemis Watson]

'Ugh, fine, just.. Find Ellis, if you can.' Artemis thought, reboarding the jet. 'Scar, tell me about whatever you found when we get back.' He continued, maintaining a soft, yet expressionless exterior. Allowing Alex to wrap up the tour with the guide, he took the time given to remove his mask and hood.

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