Caught and Grounded
Dryador Gate, Arakko
Suffice it to say, they all knew what he was going to do now, “Sinister… he’s talking to you.” Alex had said as SC just continued to pull out the box, “Hey! Are you listening?!” Alex said while “Yes, yes, I am listening…” SC said before opening it, “…To my heart!” he told them, “GCDs activated.” The Box had said to them all as they went to go and collect samples from the Locus Vile.
“Vandals.” Tarn said, angry, “Make murder, my Vile.” he had told them and hearing that, “Praise Tarn.” The tumor covered one said as he fired a green blast from his club like arm, blasting and killing Nanny, “Nanny?” Orphanmaker said, “Nanny!” he shouted in shock as the bottom half stayed on the horse, Irene was about to fire when she felt a voice in her mind, “Ah, a Weapon Thief, stay there, I’ll deal with you later.”
“Oh no… no way…”Empath said scared while she could only watch in horror at them getting slaughtered, “You can have your brain back #@$%head! I’m out of here!” He said before running to the gate, “I’m out of here!” he shouted while Greycrow regained his self, “Hnng– the hell…” he started before realizing what happened, “THE HELL DID THAT BASTARD DO TO ME?” He asked.
But he was already gone and Orphanmaker was firing into the Locus Vile, nearly hitting her in the process before he actually hit her in the heart, or at least where it should have been, but the biology plus he shock started to put her under now, hopefully when she woke up, Irene would be in one piece, she didn’t want to end up in pieces like last time as
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Lebeau Residence, Krakoa
The two of them were setting up for dinner when Remy accidentally set a third plate, Irene always came for dinner, it was almost like she was addicted to the food, “Hey, Remy,” Rogue said, watching her husband doing that, “How long did Irene say she was gonna be with her… aunt?” Rogue asked, Remy shrugged at that, “Don’t know,” he said, “Let me check.” he told her before taking his phone out.
Remy had accidentally found Claudine after The Mothervine incident and after helping her, she gave him her contact info in case they needed to help each other and since she was SLIGHTLY more trustworthy than Sinister Classic, he decided having a geneticist on call would be helpful, he dialed the number and waited, “Popov and Atwood Law, how can I help you today?” A voice said.
“I’d like to hire you for a paternity case.” he said to the receptionist, “And what are the names of the parent and child?” The Receptionist asked, “Essex and Renko.” he said to them which made the woman pause, “Please hold while I connect you.” She said before there was a dial tone and a new voice spoke, “What is it, Remy?” Claudine asked, “Hey Claudy, can I talk to Reeny?” Remy asked her.
“Irene? Why, she’s not here.” Claudine said as the phone went to speaker, “That’s– no, Irene told us she was sleeping over at your place, that’s what she said.” Rogue told her, confusing Claudin, “One sec, let me check the tracker.” She said, “Wait, you have a tracker on her?” Remy asked, “We all had to, she ran away all the time, we had to LITTER her body with them.” She said.
That was surprising to them but not much, after all, Rogue always thought of putting a bell on Remy, “Then do you know where she is?” Remy asked, worried that she was somewhere dangerous, “One moment…” Claudine said, “Huh.” Miss. Sinister had said to them, getting them worried, “Huh? What does ‘huh’, mean? Rogue had asked, “She’s not popping up.” She told them.
“That’s impossible! If she was dead, all of us would be, The only answer is that she’s not on Earth.” She told them, “So Reeny’s in space?” Remy asked, already planning to steal the plane from the moon, “Not exactly,” Claudine said, “She could just be through one of those gates you have now.” She told them, hearing that, they got up, “Thanks Claudy.” “Have fun killing–” she started before it hung up.
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Arakko
Irene was having a dream about a woman, at least the right side of her was, the left side was covered in a blue and purple bark with a glowing violet eye, “Who are you?” The voice asked, the roots and branches moving towards her, “A Weapon Thief? One that can tell my tale.” The person said before offering a branch, “Here, remember my story.” She told Irene.
Irene took the offered limb it that was when she saw her story, and it was violent and beautiful, she was like listening to a symphony, but before she could be filled with it, Irene was pulled out from it and back into the waking world as Irene had snapped awake and looked around and saw that there was Tarn above her with his Locus Vile, “Interesting,” he said to her, “The Weapon Thief stole from Arakko.”
“It was offered.” she said, looking and saw that she looked more like the women that she had been seeing when she checked Krakoa and Arakko, “How are you able to take it? By touch? By sight?” he thought before she had felt a pain in her mind, “Ah, you steal through both, and you can… gift a weapon to another?” he said, “There is so much that I can do with that.” he told her.
Irene just glared, “Well then, Reen The Weapon Thief.” he said, reading her name wrong, “Let us see how we may exalt and defile you?” he had asked, hearing that, Irene had glared as she had went ahead and drew enough from him to mimic Tarn in wood form, “Only if you yourself wish the same.” she had told The Arakkii Geneticist who looked at her in interest.
“Mother Rapture.” Tarn said, keeping an eye on her, “Lock her in The Crypt with that other subject.” He said, making the Arakkii nod at that before Irene had went and had felt that her body was falling before finding herself in darkness, or at least felt that until she had saw that there were other eyes here, ones that looked like golden stars in the sky, “I am Linea the Storyholder,” they said with anger, “Who are you?”
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Krakoa, Cable #6
“Hoping the External Gate will hold is a mistake…” Sinister had said as he left them, “…that could cost us everything.” he had said just as a angry fist connected to his jaw and a even stronger one had went and pinned him to a wall, “Where is she?!” Rogue had demanded as she had held him to the wall, “What the–? What is going on?!” he had asked, making Remy jab an energized rod into his neck.
“Irene.” Remy had said to her, “We checked with Claudine and she’s not there and none of her trackers are working!” He went, hearing that, Sinister had went ahead and opened his tab for HIS trackers and tried to find her, as he had searched, he saw that she wasn’t there, so he went and checked the progress and– “Dammit Irene!” he had said out loud, hearing that, they got worried.
“Her last known location was The External Gate.” he had said, hearing that, they got angry as Rogue tightened her grip and Remy got ready to put his staff where the sun don’t shine, “You brought her to Otherworld and LEFT HER THERE?!?!” He had went, the other council members hearing that, Mystique had went and loaded her pistol, ready to join them in the murder as they were worried if she was okay right now.
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The Crypt, Arakko
Irene was bioluminescent and as she had looked at Linea who was interesting, they looked like any other person back home but with her eyes and some small horns, raven black hair, and as she had used her combo to see the inner Linea and seeing a horde of older versions of them all behind the living body, “So why are you here?” Irene had said, making Linea shrug.
“I’ve been here since I was an infant, Linea the Rebel was captured by Tarn and so I was born here.” Linea had told her, “Why are you here?” They had asked as The other Lineas started to whisper into their ears, “Because I’m a weapon thief.” she had told them, “I got caught when the Hellions from Krakoa were–” “You are of Krakoa?!” a new voice said, surprising her.
It was one of the Linea, they had overtaken the living Linea, “You are of our sister nation?” They had asked her, “Recently.” she had told them, “Who are you?” she had asked of them, seeing how their eyes were more like a single exploding star, “I am Linea The Progenitor, first of my line.” They had said, “Is it true? Has Krakoa found us?” they had asked, “Yep!” she had told Linea.
That had seemed to caused mixed reactions between them right now as they had either cheered or cursed out the whole situation before there was a noise and the two had turned, Irene had turned her arms into cannons while another Linea had appeared and bone like weapons had come into their hands when there was gas that had made them both pass out.
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Arakko
The two of them had woken up, Irene had an itch in the back of her neck as she had realized that she was wearing a collar and had a leash, “Huh.” She had thought as Irene had noticed that Linea was beside her, “Reen, Linea, get ready.” he simply said before pulling on the leashes, making both snarl, Irene had went to absorb him when she had felt a pain as she was beginning to be choked.
“Behave, Reen The Weapon Thief he had said as they had approached the gate that was before them, “It will be interesting to see how your weapons work against your kin.” he had told her, already learning how her powers work and taking her info and everything she had stolen before deciding that it would be interesting to see how she works in the field..
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Otherworld, X of Swords: Destruction
Irene and Linea had joined the Summoners like they had been commanded, attacking the enemy, Linea using their ancestors while Irene started to feel a hunger, one that she did not recognize as Her absorption had started to spread, attacking the Captain Britain Corps and anyone that was close to her range, her body changing and becoming something Lovecraftian with the mask covering her face remain the same.
The whole situation making her look like a monster and as she had felt the damage from some concussive blasts, Irene had started to head towards some of the Krakoans, roaring to them with fury as she had started to absorb the concussive blasts before she started to fire them, roaring like a beast before someone had went and attacked her mind, a static feeling at that.
Irene had turned and glared at the redhead that was trying to control her, roaring and screaming as her body was shifting and changing to the energy that was all around her when she had felt an explosion, making her turn and glare, sending out energy to create a emerald explosion there when someone had tackled here, Reenie!” a voice said, her mind feeling a pull from it.
“Are you okay? Speak to me baby!” the person who was starting to look like her had said as Irene had started to calm down and as she had started to recall who she really was, wow! Whatever Tarn did was effective as Irene started to lock it all down, “I’m better.” she had told her and hearing that, Rogue got relieved at the statement as she saw that Irene had a collar and a mask fused to her flesh.
Rogue had smiled, relieved as she had went and left her with Gambit, her father giving her a smile as he had went and wrapped her in his trench coat, “We gotta put a bell on you!” he said, Irene had smiled at that under the mask before there was a feeling, making Irene turn and see the Arakki, reacting, she had went saw that there was a sick feeling in her core.
She started to pant in panic and worry as she had went and started to work on getting this situation fixed up as she had went and ran, turning into a serpent like form as she had went and as she had went and headed back home and worried as she had headed back to Krakoa to the relief of her parents as they had went back to dealing with Amenth and the Arakki.
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Krakoa
Irene had went and torn off the the mask, the collar too as she had went and healed up on the damage before seeing that there were others there, “Irene! Moppet!” Sinister had went, heading over, “Do I need to get you a sitter again?!” he had demanded to her as she was just shaking, “I’m sorry,” she said to him, “I just wanted to see Arakko.” she had told him, demure.
“What the hell happened over there?” he had asked of The young girl, “I met the Arakki you.” she said to him, making Sinister look at her in worry, “You know, the one that SC angered after collected the samples.” she had said before remembering that there was someone else there with her, she had went to go back when she had felt metal arms around her, “Pavel?” she asked, confused.
All of the GeNext kids were there, all of them watching her, “Your parents asked us to restrain you, at least until they were back.” Nomi had told her, already creating metal bonds around her wrists, “Okay then, can I go to my art studio?” I have something to make.” she told them, making Sinister curious as TJ had went and picked up the remote “Okay.” she told her, “Wait–!” she started but it was too late.
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Sinister Space
TJ had opened the gate, making Sinister curious as they had went and entered the area, “Incredible.” he had said, making them see Sinister had followed, having never seen this place before, “Incredible.” he said before the kids let Irene work, the young girl working fast as she had created a new statue on the left of the statue, as she worked on it, Irene had started to connect the two.
As she did as much, they saw that the wooden parts were coming together and becoming a single entity that was bigger and greater than any other, a mix of the two that seemed to be protecting something with her hands before she started to work with protoplasm to create a full version of the pink haired girl with thorns over her body before putting a red robe on her.
“Annnd done!” she had told the group there before realizing that Sinister was looking at it all, especially the terminals and weapons, “Uh–oh.” she said, nervous as he picked up a gauntlet that she designed, a sniper for her gift that could increase her range on a single target, it also works with most concussive energy gifts too, “How long have you been making this?” he asked her.
“Oh! Not too long.” she had said to them, glad that they never found the final door, “Anyways, there was another that had ended up there on the battlefield and–.” “Sorry but you’re staying here, Moppet.” He had told her, “On threat of having me turned into Mrs. Sinister by your donors, Mystique, and that one.” he said pointing to Nomi who was twirling some bullets in the air.
“Et tu Brutus?” Irene had asked her, “You still have to introduce the others to their families.” Nomi had told Irene who nodded at that, they all deserved to meet their families right now, “Okay.” she said before seeing that Sinister was looking at another of her projects, “Don’t touch that!” she had said, making him curious as she had grabbed it, already looking like she was mummifying.
Irene had went and locked it in a safe before her body looked better, “That was my version of your suit.” she had told him, disengaging the image inducer, “I wanted something smaller so that I could wear actual clothes instead of this.” she had told him, making him look at her in confusion, “Why didn’t you just ask me?” he asked, pulling out a remote, “Use this to put it on whichever setting you wish.” he said.
That had made her smile as Irene had went to her dressing room that she had there of clothes that she wanted to wear and went to go ahead and change into a outfit that she had chosen a while ago and had fitted for her abilities, the others were curious at what she was getting before coming back wearing black leggings with a white blouse and wine read vest, thinking that this looked awesome.
She was putting her her hair into a ponytail as she went and gave a turn, “What do you think?” she had asked of them, “Like you’re planning a mad science experiment.” Sinister had said, making Irene grin, “Great! That’s what I was going for!” she had said, putting the final touch of a red diamond pin into the hole there before her terminal had flashed as the External Gate was.
“They’re back!” she had went with a smile, going to see them when she had seen that there was still the problem of Sinister knowing about her Sinister Space, she had scratched at the new collar that she was wearing before remembering that she had absorbed some tentacles she absorbed so Irene had went and grabbed him and started to leave before seeing that Nomi was following, “Nomi?” she asked.
“I want to meet my mom.” Nomi had told her, making Ireen grin at that as TJ and the others had decided to go and have some fun, together right now as Kendall and Azari followed by the others had all followed as well, making them curious at that as they had headed in, Sinister struggling and wanting to escape to see more of what was in there but it seemed that he’d have to do something to get back.
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External Gate, Krakoa
Irene and the others had all arrived to cheer for the victors of the competition, Rogue and Remy going to check on Irene, “Reenie! Are you alright?” Remy had asked the girl as she saw the others coming in, “I’m fine. Got it all locked away now!” she had told them with a smile as she had noticed Lorne heading to Nomi, “Sorry, I gotta make introductions.” she had told them before heading to Lorna.
That had surprised the others, “Miss Lorna Dane, Nomi Blume.” she said, the two of them already felt the draw amongst each other, with that done she went to her next target, this one was Piotr and Illyana, “Rasputin family, meet Pavel Nicholas.” she had said, pushing him forward who was looking pretty nervous, “Why is there a mini–Peter?” Illyana asked as she went and grabbed the brother and sister.
“Miss Munroe,” Irene had said to her, “Meet Azari Charles and Kendall Logan.” she had said before seeing Wolverine, “Logan, meet Kendall Logan.” she had said to them, making the pair look to each other before Irene had went back to her parents, “Hey, can we go to your house?” she had asked while the couple had looked at her friends, “Alright, but when we get there, you’re grounded.”
“I’m being punished?” she asked, “Of course!” Remy went before the two of them had a question, “Wait, has Sinister never punished you?” Rogue asked her, “Yes, disabling my abilities, making my nanny monitor me 24/7…” “Well you’re just going to be grounded is all.” Rogue had said, “Grounded?” she asked, “Yes, for a month, at least!” Remy had said to her, making her smile.
“Awesome!” Irene had went, pulling out her device and crossing it off, “What’s that?” Rogue had asked, “My bucket list! I always wanted to be grounded by you two!” she said before feeling a murderous intent, that had made Irene look around before seeing that it was only the adults that she had introduced to the GeNext kids, making them glare at Mister Sinister.
“Well Grandfather is in trouble.” She had told them, knowing that he would get out of it eventually like always, it was how he did, do something horrible, people find out, people want to punish him, people forget after a while before the next one, “Okay! Let’s get me grounded!” she had said to them surprising the two of them at that as they had followed her, unaware of the visitor.
Linea The Assassin had walked through before returning the body back To Linea, they had looked around in shock at Krakoa, having only heard of the island from The First Linea and now, they were here and it was incredible, The Arakkii had went and looked around, walking through unnoticed by the others as they had wondered where Reen The Weapon Thief was right now.