Corpse Collecting
Krakoa, X–Factor #1
Irene had finally gotten out of Sinister Space and had laughed at the genealogy that she was making, sending the data to Grandfathers computer so that he wouldn’t know what she was doing, taking a breath, Irene had went and kept to her true form, smiling as she had went ahead and got ready for something to do, so she had started to wander around to try and find… anything.
Eventually she had found a shrine, and as she had looked at it, Irene had realized that it was made of missing people, all of them had been praying to the five for a resurrection, thinking on that, the young girl had gotten an idea at that, Irene had started to think at that before she had seen that Northstar was there, making her curious before she had decided that this was interesting but it was not for her.
She had started to walk away from all of the insanity that was there to go and hang out in The Green Lagoon, as she had went and headed to the Lagoon, as she headed away, Irene had started to think if there was anything that Grandfather was up to or if there was something that she could do as Doctor Sinister, making her smile in interest as she had decided to get a drink.
Irene had activated the Protoplasmic body as she had made herself appear as a adult as she had went to get a drink, as she had did that, Irene had decided to change a few things before she had decided to reverse the hair color and make her natural iris green, giving her a reverse look that was kind of, like some sort of Bizarro her as she had went to go and get a drink.
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The Green Lagoon
Irene had decided that she was going to have some alcohol as she had went and drank more of the booze that was so strange, it had tasted awful and thanks to the liver that she had designed from some of Grandfathers research, it did nothing to her, the worst that she had felt was her tongue losing its sense of taste, “What’d you say your name was again?” Blob had asked as he had looked at her.
“Call me Conduit.” she had told him as she had looked at Daken who had went ahead and was still on the ground, trying to outdrink her and had failed, she had chuckled at that before seeing that her grandmother was there, “Hello, Raven.” she had said, making her look towards the woman and look in surprise, “I–” “Conduit.” she had said to her, making her nod at that.
“What happened?” she had asked, wondering if it was a Cable incident, “Got a touch of Random and this was what happened.” she had said, making the woman nod in understanding as she had observed her appearance, seeing that everything that she had done to herself, reversing her colors and aging herself up to appear the way that she did right now.
“So why the change in appearance?” Mystique had asked of her, hearing that, she had went and looked down at herself, “I wanted to see what I’d look like grown up and realized that I could get away with more stuff like this.” she had told her grandmother as irene had noticed that Northstar and Polaris were there, seeing them, she had smiled at that, “Why’re you smiling?” Mystique had asked.
“Oh, no reason.” Irene had said before she had gotten up, accidentally kicking Daken as the two of them had went and walked away from the lagoon, both of them having nothing to do right now as they had went and left the bar, just as Daken was waking up and saw that both Polaris and Northstar were leaving to find someone to help in the search for Aurora.
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Mystique’s Residence, Krakoa
The two of them had returned to her home, Irene dropping the form before she had went and smiled at Mystique, “So what are we going to do?” she had asked her grandmother, smiling and happy to hang out with her when she had seen that Scorpion Boy and Ziggy Karst were walking by, making her smile and look at the pair dreamily, making Mystique raise an eyebrow at that in curiosity.
“They’re cute,” she had told Grandma, “Rico’s hopeful and has dreams of being an astronaut, and Ziggy is intelligent, breaking people down to their components but not being like Grandfather,” Irene said, “If I were their age, I’d date either one.” Irene had told her grandmother, the two of them being on her long, and she meant LONG list of crushes which made Mystique curious.
Before she could ask any more though, Sinister had marched past number 113(Rico), and 120(Ziggy), “Irene, I need you with me to Genosha!” he had told her, making Irene curious, “Why?” she had asked, already heading over to follow him, “Plant aliens and mutant zombies.” he said and at that she was hooked, “By Mystique!” she shouted, waving at her before they headed to the nearest gate.
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Genosha, Empyre: X–Men #3
Irene and the others that were called all looked around, having heard the message from Magik for all psychic mutant, Irene had guessed that she counted as psychic if she set off a few, “What madness is this?” Selene Gallio had asked of them, “Old women and plants fighting?” Exodus said, “This is beneath us.” he had told Magik while Irene was more interested, she never fought plant aliens before.
Zombies and Old Lady’s, yes, but– “Finally!” Magik shouted as she had slashed at something while holding one of the ladies, “Krakoa needs you!” She told them, “Without you, she cannot fight here. She needs your psychic energies. The more the better” Magik had said which Irene understood as one of the Cuckoos spoke, “And where are you headed?” she had asked of their War Captain.
“Bringing this golden oldie someplace where she’ll be of some use.” Magik had told them all, “Just be a good cuckoo and give Krakoa a hand.” Magik had ordered, “Krakoa good. Plant People bad. Kill them dead.” she had ordered of the psychics there which was when The Pink Haired Psychic had spoken up, “All right, you heard the demon lady…” Quentin Quire told them all.
“Psychics…” He had said, forming a pair fo machine guns, “…Mount up!” hearing that, the psychics that were there had all started to be enveloped in Krakoa, even Irene who liked the feel of it, making her look like a French Knight with a Rapier(Thank you Grandfather bringing her to those tournaments personally), before she had started to pierce and slash at every enemy that was there.
“LET’S GO PAUL BUNYAN ON THEIR ASSES!” Quentin shouted as Irene was beginning to enjoy herself, hacking and slashing at everything there, it was almost like a real life video game, “Irene, stay close.” Sinister had demanded, but she didn’t listen, instead, Ireen had decided that it was time to try out some combos, maybe a little dazzler with a touch of Kid Omega would do.
Making an array of band drums to create a fast beat that she had turned into a minigun line of light, firing upon them with a grin as if she was a British commander in a 18th century firing line, “Is that the best you got!?” she had shouted before seeing that the zombies were starting to circle, making her start to circle around herself but firing at multiple enemies with what was the equivalent of deal rain was tough.
There were gaps in her line and as she had continued with it, Irene had seen that there was some of them getting closer and closer to her before eventually they had gotten close to her that she had to start slashing for her life, trying to survive when she had noticed that there was one that had gotten too close to her, making Irene lose concentration and panic now.
She had looked through her repertoire before finding that she had nothing that come to mind, so Irene had decided on the next best thing and had absorbed the zombie, once she had done as much, they had rotted away and she had started to feel… necrotic, they had started to avoid her and as they did, Irene had started to feel hungry, a hunger that wanted to spread the gospel.
Sinister had went and approached her, “You alright Reenie?” he had asked of her, “Oh just fine, I’m ready to spread the gospel.” she had told him, making Sinister tsk, “Great, you got bitten, looks like I have to put you down.” he had told her, ready to decapitate the child when she raised her hands, “I’m good, I can control the hunger.” she had told her grandfather when there was a voice.
“Attention, X–Men!” One of The Cuckoos had said in their minds, “I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…” She had started as Irene had seen a demon flying upwards with Magik’s sword and a strange staff, “…We have a complication.” She had said and that was a problem, because Irene could feel herself wanting to obey the demon lady right now as she had walked towards her.
But as she did, Irene had noticed that there was another problem, A zombie that had risen up and was made of plant vegetation, “GLOR GLOR GLOR GLOR!” it had shouted out, “Glor glor glor glor!” Irene had shouted, feeling like she should go native before all of a sudden, she had felt someone hit her in the back of the head, knocking Irene out and not seeing the rest of the fight.
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Irene had just about woken up when she had heard Magik had spoken up, “I regret nothing, “Regret what?” she had asked Grandfather, “Oh just slavery and a concubine is all.” he had told her, “Nightcrawler?” Irene had asked him, “How’d you guess?” he had asked, “Come on, I’ve absorbed enough girls, and few can resist the fuzzy.” she had said, so glad she didn’t let them control her.
Sinister decided to deal with that later as he had helped his granddaughter up, “Well then, lets go home before Mystique decided to kill me.” he had told her and so the two of them had started to leave when she saw Nightcrawler, “Actually, I’m gonna hang out with Kurt for a bit.” she had told him, heading towards the mutants teleporter, Sinister had wanted to make a deal of it.
But he also knew that she would go when he wasn’t looking, “Fine, but don’t get caught in any trouble.” he had told her and hearing that, she had started to shamble away like a zombie before Irene had started to log it away, not wanting to accidentally bite anyone right now as it were, thankfully it was all starting to go away, even the Gospel that she was supposed to be spreading.
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Krakoa
The man she knows as her uncle was teleporting her through the island, making her laugh in joy and cheer, Eventually he had taken her off of his back and that made her pout before she had smiled again, “Thank you, Nightcrawler!” she had said to him, “Ah, it was no problem.” he had told her, it was all she wanted for her help with Genosha anyways as they stopped, Irene asked a real curveball.
“What’s it like, having your mother and your sister here/” she had asked of him, hearing that, he had looked at her with confusion before he remembered, “Ah, right,” he had said, “Sorry but sometimes I forget that Rogue and I are siblings.” he had told her and hearing that, she could only look at him with confusion, “So you two never do anything together as siblings?” she had asked him.
“Not in this life.” ha had told her, making Irene quirk her heard in curiosity like a lizard, “Huh?” she had asked of him, “There was a universe, that Wanda Maximoff had created universe where–” “Oh, I remember that, M–Day.” she had said, remembering how nearly everyone had lost their mutation, she was lucky and in school at the time, “Yes, well she also made a world where mutants were superior before that.”
“Oh, I know that universe!” Irene had told him, looking through the memories of the place she had absorbed a while back, “I was Five back then.” Irene had told him, “I was living on a farm with grandfather who had adopted me after Mother had given me up, not wanting me to be a target.” she had admitted to him, hearing that, Nightcrawler had gotten another question.
“What did your mother do to make her do that?” he had asked, no one having a clue about anyone in her family except for Sinister and Miss Sinister who she sees as an Aunt, “Mother was a member of something called the… Red Guard I think? And she never told Father who was a criminal she met on a mission.” she had told him and hearing that, he started to think on that.
“Huh.” he had thought to her before deciding he had some questions to ask later, “I have to go, there’s a meeting I have.” he told her, “We can play later, yes?” she had asked, wondering if she had accidentally scared him off, “Of course,” he had told her with a smile, “Whenever we have free time we can.” he had told her before vanishing to go and check on a possible answer.
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Blackstone, Hellfire bay
Sebastian Shaw was surprised to see Nightcrawler waiting for him, “Mr. Wagner, what can I do for you?” he had asked of the teleporter, “You were director of SHIELD in The House of M universe, correct?” he had asked of him, hearing that, Sebastian had glared at him, “Yes, and?” he had asked of his fellow council member, “Did any of The Red Guard get pregnant around Four Years before M–Day?” he had asked.
At that, Sebastian had looked at him odd at that, “You expect me to remember when one of the guards from another universe I barely remember got knocked up Four years before the universe actually happened?” he had asked of Nightcrawler, “I know it is a long stretch, but…” “You’re lucky I thought this might happen.” he had said before heading to a file cabinet that he had, pulling out a drive.
“This has everything that I had a telepath collect from that time.” he had said, tossing it to Kurt, “There should be some info for what you’re looking for.” he had told Kurt, hearing that, he had examined it, “What do I owe you?” he had asked of Shaw, “Oh, just agree to a vote involving the resurrection of those before Cerebro.” he had said, Kurt nodding at that as he went and teleported away.
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Kurt’s Home, Krakoa
He had went ahead and plugged the drive into the computer that was there, curious as he had plugged it in, Kurt had remembered that time after they had remembered after Layla Miller, but not enough to remember Four years of a life they're no longer living in, “Now, let us see who was…” Kurt had started up and saw the medical leaves before seeing that there was one that caught his attention.
It was for a Darkholme, a A. Darkholme, that had made him pause, there was three Darkholmes in that universe, him, his mother and– Kurt had paused at that before he went and checked the father, al that was there was a name, Le Diable Blanc, reading that, Kurt had backed away before he had remembered how Irene and his mother had been acting close together recently.
Thinking on that, he had went and called his mother, “Hello Kurt, what can I do?” Mystique said, knowing that her son wouldn’t call her for anything, “Do you know?” he had asked of her, “Know what, Kurt?” She had asked him, not giving it up easily, “That Irene is your granddaughter.” he had said to her, there was a pregnant pause then, before his mother spoke up.
“After she absorbed one of the invaders that killed Xavier.” Mystique had told Kurt, “I had confronted Sinister about it and he didn’t deny it.” She had explained and that had shocked Kurt, “Why haven’t you told her parents yet?” he had asked, knowing that his mother was vicious but she wouldn’t be that cruel to Rogue at the least, Remy, yes without a doubt, but not Rogue.
“Because I promised to not tell anyone so that he wouldn’t try and keep me from seeing her.” Mystique had said and Kurt could understand that, better to have at least one of them keeping an eye on her than leaving her with him and whatever menagerie that he had around him at the time, “So what now?” Mystique had asked of her son, knowing that he wouldn’t just let it go.
“Now, mother,” he had said to her, “I am going to go and properly introduce myself to my niece.” he had said, hanging up the phone and teleporting away, honestly curious on what she would do when he had found out, and also curious on what the parents would do when they found out, almost making him feel sorry for the scientist as he had went and headed to her.
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Bar Sinister, Krakoa
Irene was thinking of working on Geokinetic molding when there was a warning from one of the sensors that they had installed there, curious, Irene had went and opened up the screen to see that there was a picture of Nightcrawler, seeing that, she had went and let him in, “Hello, Mr. Nightcrawler, how can I help you?” she had asked of Kurt who was starting to notice things.
“Image inducer?” he had asked her, making Irene tense, “I don’t know what you–” “I found out.” Kurt had went ahead and told her, making Irene scowl at that as she wondered who the snitch was, “Your M–Day explanation.” he had told her, making Irene cuss something she heard from Northern Ireland, Kurt had looked surprised at that, “May I…?” he had asked her.
Hearing that, she had went and disengaged the Image Inducer and had revealed her real eyes, her real hair and the actual outfit that she was wearing, it was a little surprising to say the least as he had went ahead and examined her and saw the features that had made him know that she was who he had thought that she was, “May I…?” he had went, spreading his arms out.
“Yes!” she had went before she had leapt into his arms with a smile, the two of them embracing and Irene glad to do that as family now, she had given him a smile, big and happy before she had went and sat down, Kurt had did as well, “I have a question.” Kurt had said to her, “Shoot.” Irene had said with a grin, “Why haven’t you told your parents?” he had asked of Irene which made her lose her smile.
“Because she doesn’t want a kid.” Irene told him, “Momma’s worried about others using her to make a baby, she signed up for a life with Pere, no kids.” Irene had said, sounding heartbroken at the memory, hearing that, Kurt had went and gave her a hug, not knowing when Rogue had said all of this and knowing that if they had ever gotten the chance to know her, they would love to know her.
“Now I have a question for you.” Irene had said, appearing to have calmed down now compared to before, “Go ahead.” Kurt had said to her, smiling at the little girl, “Can I call you Onkel(Uncle) in private?” she had asked of him and hearing that, Kurt’s heart had fluttered at the thought, “Of course nichte(niece).” he had said to her, wrapping his arm around her when he noticed her little studio that she had.
‘You are an artist?” He had asked of her, “Sometimes, when I need to empty my head.” she had said, showing images of memories that she had wanted to bring out into the real world, “My latest fork is that.” she had said, pointing to a fully functioning academy that Maxine and Manon remembered, she even had figurines in extreme detail for those individuals, she was just trying to figure out how to make the Krakoa work.
“It is amazing.” he had said to her, “It’s cute, but nothing like what I’m trying to make.” she had said to him before going and picking up a container that she had, “I’m working with some mutations I got to make these.” she had said, showing odd, Glass sculptures that have some sort of sand flowing and shifting inside of the glass, making Kurt look in wonder, “What is it?” he had asked her.
“It’s a secret.” she had said, making the Onkel in question look at it with curiosity before he decided to go and listen to her tell him about it all while something in Sinister Space had went off, it was a part of her research in finding some of the other Chimeras that Sinister had been making over the years and as it had went off, a ten year old had looked around in America.
“Miss Blume,” her teacher had said, making her look up from her wonderings, “Is everything alright?” she had asked, having noticed like others her blue hair and… draw, at that, Nomi had nodded her head, “Yes,” she had said, looking to where she thought that Krakoa was, “At least I think so.” she told her homeroom teacher, trying to figure out why she wanted to go there now.