(no subject)

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

Yeshua hangs back for the carnage.

The Queen leaves her youngest vampires down here to season. They don't make it into an apartment of their own until they can brag they've killed at least twenty rebels. It also makes the surviving rebels better hunting. A group making it past this point sets off a little mini-holiday in the castle. Their intestines will be festively strewn about the throne room by this time tomorrow.

But not Laurie's. As long as he keeps behaving, Laurie...she won't be safe, but at least she'll be alive.

Comments

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Mystique watches Luche Libre sulk off. If she's right, they're done. If she's wrong, well, Goldilocks will be dead soon anyway.

"I'm sorry, kid."

She shoots him in the head.

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

Yeshua's body slumps down along the wall, a look of genuine shock on what's left of his face.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"Finally. Something here that dies when you shoot it."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

Spider-Man spins on his heels at the sound and is instantly horrified.

Then, an immediate webline fires out to snag Mystique and yank her over where he can punch her square in the face.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

She takes the blow so she can grab his wrist, just below the Tallus.

"Well? Does it have anything to say?"

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

"I don't give a shock WHAT it says! We're not gonna go around world-to-world executing sad sack kids who don't know any better!"

The clawed hand reaches to clutch her throat to drive the point home. "I don't care HOW many babies you throw off of cliffs or HOW many hairy psycho mass murderers you fuck! WE WILL NOT BE KILLERS!"

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"Moron. Do you think the Timebroker sent us here to help the Storm Queen balance her budget? We're here TO KILL HER." She points at the other Spider-Man and Sable. "They're here to kill her! You don't get to the leader by ignoring the lackeys. Grow some damn balls."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

"VAMPIRES! Human PREDATORS! We'll kill THEM because they're shockin' MONSTERS. We're not gonna kill KIDS trying to HELP US, you sick fr-"

His head suddenly jerks to the Tallus, and he shuts up for half a minute.

Then he shakes with rage, and another fist comes right at her nose.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Fuck that.

Her neck snaps straight back at an unnatural angle before he can hit her again. At the same time, her knee comes up towards his balls. If he has any.

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

They aren't where the knee will find them, as he's already moving with those insane reflexes of his.

"YOU PSYCHOTIC BITCH! You just got us STRANDED HERE!"

He starts to pour out webbing at her, to try to bind her to the floor.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"What?"

Not more of this shit. If they survive one more world, she's going to cut his arms off at the elbow some night.

She tries to twist enough of an angle to keep at least ten centimeters of her body free. It'll take a LONG time, but if there's one thing the raid on Istanbul taught her, it's that she can eventually shift her body through a hole that small.

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

"The shockin' thing says we FAILED, and the Timebroker's recruiting a whole new TEAM! The fact that we haven't been YANKED yet means we're here 'til we DIE. Thanks a lot, really, for all your help. Enjoy becoming Dracula Chow."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

Morph's just aghast - utterly speechless.

[webslingah.livejournal.com]

The strangers seem to be coming unglued. His danger-sense is starting to tingle. With a touch on Silver's shoulder to warn her of approaching danger, Spider-Man disappears into the shadows.

[tj-nocturne.livejournal.com]

"No! No!" TJ blurts out, gaze shifting between Spidey, the Tallus on his arm, the dead kid, and her grandmother.

In a desperate motion, she dives towards and into Yeshua's body. He's got a healing factor, right? Maybe a little life inside the body can jumpstart it again. It worked for the hypnotizing!

--C'mon kid!--

[silver-sable.livejournal.com]

Silver takes a few steps back into the shadows as well. Roberto gets a tap on the shoulder as she starts to make her way away from these people. While she'd love to stand around and help them sort this crap out, really she would, she has a little bit of something to do here if she wants to continue living.

It's time to get on with it.

[discodazzles.livejournal.com]

"Back off, Spider," comes Alison's voice as she steps over next to Mystique. "She did what she thought was right. Even if it didn't work, at least she had the guts to act on her convictions." She shakes her head at the entire mess. "If we are stuck here, we're stuck here. But I sure as hell am not going to let this Storm Queen keep control of the land if I'm going to need to find a hovel of my own to settle in for the rest of my life. I say we go finish what we started. Who knows, maybe we can still pull our asses out of the fire if we save this land."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

He's done spewing forth now. He's latched himself to the wall, staring at the Tallus. Smacking his forehead against it a couple of times, just in case it's broken.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven stares, expressionless, at the body.

"Get out of the corpse, T.J."

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

"Psycho killer."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

Morph's simmering with anger - the fact he's not literally simmering probably means its serious.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Failed.

You could always replace the local version of you....