Lost and Found

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

The rebel lair's outer door opens, revealing a black sillouette of a figure.

Mystique pulls two guns, instantly levelling them at the sillouette's chest. "Is he with you?" It's too tall and lean to be James, but she's still pushed the remaining grenade out of her chest and into her lap. Just in case.

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[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"Silver? Peter?"

The figure staggers forward. Once the light is behind him, he's still nothing more than a black sillouette.

"Stephen...he's still alive."

[webslingah.livejournal.com]

"Bobby! Are you allright?"

Peter springs to support Sunspot. "What the hell happened?"

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"Dani...they turned Dani..." He leans into Peter, grateful the darkness obscures his face.

"They tried to turn Sooraya, but with her powers...being made out of dust...it was," his eyes clench shut. "I only thought I'd seen horror."

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"What about you?" The guns are now leveled at his head. "Can smearing on soot protect a vampire from sunlight?"

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"I am no vampire."

The entire room dims as his skin brightens to a nearly painful glow.

"I am Roberto DaCosta. They killed my father. They took my wife. And now, I am ready to lay down my life to kill them all."

[webslingah.livejournal.com]

"I'll start getting everyone ready to move. We need to get him back, if we can, though.."

[silver-sable.livejournal.com]

Silver would make everything alright by sheer force of will - if she had the ability. She certainly has the will. Turning toward him, she murmurs something softly to him, continuing to hold him up. "Good thing we were already preparing. It'll give us a head start."

"I don't know what Stephen Strange you knew, but the one I know is a man I would die to save and count it more than a fair trade."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"His counterpart on the previous world was a bit of a drunken, lecherous pervert. But the one on my world is a stand-up guy, so I know where you're comin' from."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

S-Man has been listening, perched on the wall after following Sable in.

"Goddammit... let me guess, he's the Sorcerer Supreme. And we have to deal with magic again."

He rubs his face.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"Vampires aren't magic where you come from? Your world sucks harder than I thought."

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"Silver, Peter, I confess I am relieved to hear you were already planning to move."

Without him.

Don't think about that.

"I know we planned on taking the Mb..." he pauses, not sure how much information to give out in front of these strangers. "I remember our next probable location. But please, listen to me. We are so few. He will come for us, and at nightfall the Barons will come for us, and any surivors will be whittled down to too few for a real strike. We must attack now."

He leans back, cupping Silver's face in one hand. "We must go to the palace."

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"I'm not comitting suicide because you fucked up your previous mission."

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"I can do this!"

The lights dim again as he glares at the idiotic stranger.

"I learned from what went before. Peter, the goggles need to be darker, much darker. And I've learned upper limits to my power not even I thought I possessed."

He stares into Silver's eyes.

"I can do this."

[silver-sable.livejournal.com]

This is unexpected - not the emotional plea from Roberto but her desire to respond to it in kind. Today has been full of those sorts of moments and it briefly makes her feel old and bitter toward those gathered in the room. It doesn't last long. Even if she is getting too old for this there is no other real choice.

She is slow to respond to his words, thinking it over. "He's right. If we don't do something now we won't have enough people to do anything after we lose whoever we would lose in the retaliation tonight." Silver carefully removes Roberto's hand from her cheek, giving it a small squeeze before releasing it and starting to step away from him.

Looking to the newcomers, she seems ready to give an emotional plea. But it isn't her way. "We're going to have to go. If you come, you can figure out what it is you need to do and maybe we can help. If not - we'll either survive or we won't. The more capable people we have, the better chance we all have."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"Silver, baby, you can count on the Mighty Morph. I expect I'm pretty much vampire proof in any case, having no blood and all."

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Away from the last rituals of the doomed, Sarah is just waking up. She looks remarkably recovered and awake despite just a couple of hours of sleep, especially as rough as she looked before. The spirited discussion and raised voices are probably what roused her, but at least she doesn't look about to collapse anymore.

"Nnn, what's going on?"

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

"We apparently have to go find Steve Strange again. Joy of joys."

[discodazzles.livejournal.com]

"Should I ask about the goat or is that a better left unknown sort of thing?"

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"Let's just say that on the last world, he was a baa-aaaaad boy."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

S-Man groans.

"This is why I don't trust you yet, Morph."

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"The plan died with Dani." Roberto's face hardens, a little of the tension creeping back into his posture.

"But I learned something. Something that may be the key to the Queen's power. There's a man, Yeshua, named after the prophet. He is responsible for keeping the Queen's favourite pets alive. And her enemies... Sooraya..." He shudders at the memory.

"We take out her healer and we take out one of her greatest sources of strength. Rumor has it there hasn't been an omega level healer born in the last decade. The Cassidy's used theirs up three years ago. The one in Westchester comitted suicide right after the takeover." His lips tighten into a thin line. "Rumor says the one in Vegas is actually running the place, but that could just be a wishful thinking." False hope hurts everyone.

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

"Ok, so what do we do with this information, and who do we need to be able to counteract to make this work?"

[discodazzles.livejournal.com]

Again Alison has held her tongue listening, taking in all the information and applying it to the situation. If anyone were to look her way, they might wonder why she's smiling. Especially since she's focused on Sunspot. "For the record, this might be your lucky day, folks. And I don't mean whatever happened in the back room either," she adds. "All things considered, I am basically a tailor made vampire-fighting machine.

"You absorb light. I make light. We find something that can make a lot of noise and you'll have an endless source to power up. Not to mention I figure I can incinerate a few vampires outright or at least keep them at bay if it comes down to it." She gives another happy smile. "This is gonna rock."

The freedom fighters probably don't find it amusing but she just got here after all.

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

"Well, hold on... if light could kill these guys, they'd be dead by now anyway - we could just waltz in during the day time and chuck them outside."

A glance to Sarah. "First order of business would be to figure out how to counteract this Storm Queen herself - what was her name? Aurora Monsoon or something? What does she do again?"

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"Here's what we're going to do." (http://community.livejournal.com/elseworldexiles/6621.html)

He's impressed with the blue kid's disappearing act. If the blonde is right about her power acting as a battery for them...

Damn.

Someone might actually survive.