Weapon X: Ultimate Weapon

[Halcyon508]

Reader Advisory: Mature Content

He was sweating from the exertion of the day. Even the newly acquired metallic parts were secreting fluid. Out of curiosity the boy sent his finger across it and licked it. Sweat, just like everywhere else. The metallic surface was smooth like skin, with a simple color change his techno organic arm was a marvel of... well some century in the future. Besides himself only two other people had the potent technology coursing through their veins. The first had died overwhelmed by the virus. The second was basically a robot. He was the only one that maintained his humanity. And now they were trying to take it away from him.

The bear stood across from him with a large metallic cap. The virus had made him hard, fast, and strong, as such he was able to easily dodge the large creatures attacks. At least he had thought. As he approached the wall a section of the metallic barrier popped up and another bear rushed at him. He blocked with his new metallic arm and cringed as the pain filled his body.

“Release level 10.” A voice said. Julian knew where it was from. It was from the mysterious director up in his booth. The grip on his powers loosened and he could sense the bears intention. It was angry and it was going to kill him.

The fight continued as the Director looked on. Vice President Lane stood next to him. “All is going according to plan then direct?”

“Yes it is.” Director X replied. “The Weapon is ready.”

“And about those threats...” Lane began.

“Don’t worry about the threat. I already have some people going through trials. I’ll have some of the best protection when in public, and in private.” He pointed to the boy fighting four bears now. “Well...” he leaned forward to the control panel. “Unlocking level five.” Below the two he could see one of the boys eyes glowing. Without any visual sign of a blow the heads of the bears suddenly erupted in a storm of blood disappearing completely from their bodies. “I think I’m safe at home.” He said resetting the power locks.


Julian walked out of the room. He was shirtless and sweating. Deadpool threw a towel at him. “Well wire you done did good.”

“Go away.”

“Oh C’mon kid! Everyone knows I’m Adams favorite character to role play. I have to be here to provide comic relief.”

Cable frowned and pushed past him working towards the locker room. As he walked he saw Aurora standing, watching him. He still had mixed feelings about the woman. Finally he settled on a reaction. “You bitch.” He said staring her down.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora quit chewing on a wayward strand of her raven-black hair as a hurt sort of expression drape over her features. The Weapon X Agent was leaning against a row of lockers near the back of the room, keeping away from Deadpool. Aurora didn't mind the psychotic agent, however he bothered Hayden greatly. Even thinking about him again sent a shudder down her spine. Instead of constantly bickering about things, they'd compromised for the time being to keep their distance from him.

Aurora forced her sky blue eyes to focus in on Julian and sighed. While his insults and rude behovior hurt Hayden's feelings, it simply annoyed Aurora. Especially given her task of mentoring and watching over the boy. Aurora had found that more often then not it paid off to assume an approach similiar to what she had done with Miss Marshal. So that was what she did. It was slightly easier to attempt to manipulate the boy now that the Weapon X limiters were in place and he couldn't dissect her mind.

"How did your training go, Julian?" She asked, her eyes shifting to examine his appearance, looking for any obvious injuries. "Need to swing by medical?"

[Halcyon508]

"I'm fine." Julian said in a hushed voice. He hated her, but at the same time... he let his thoughts trail as he tried to concentrate.

"Well I'm going to go grin down a bear." Deadpool said lifting up his mask revealing a grotesque face and ironically shiny white teeth. He walked into the training training room turning to wink at cable before moving on.

Julian grimaced as the man disappeared. "Why are you nice?" Julian asked approaching her like a moth to a flame. "What is your game?" he walked up within arms reach of the woman and stared her in the eyes. Desperately trying to read her mind. His eye glowed and then puttered out as the technology stuttered and snuffed out his ability. "Is there anything you say I can trust?" he wondered outloud. The boy was used to having an entire person at his finger tip. Always knowing what they were thinking, what their game was. Now it was silent and the silence was deafening.

[VagueDurin]

She let her lip stick out into a pout as he confronted her. His suspicions and distrust certainly made her job that much more difficult and she had a feeling the Director knew that and was using it in some way to his benefit. It wouldn't be a problem at all if you hadn't used the poor kid in the first place. Hayden snipped at her. Oh stow it, you do-gooder. We had a mission to complete, or have you forgotten what the price is for failure around here? Hayden didn't reply to that. Aurora hadn't expected her to, either.

The woman shook her head slightly to clear her mind, then focused her attention back on Julian. "You know everyone else has to use there feelings and instincts to decipher the truth from lies. Just because you can't read someones mind doesn't automatically mean they are playing you." She spoke camly, her Alabama drawl as present as ever.

[Halcyon508]

Hearing Aurora's words Julian frowned a bit and looked down. "You used me." He said softly looking at the floor. The boys face flushed red with anger. "You made me feel...." frustration welled up, "I mean I thought you cared, and you made me feel like you cared about me." Pausing he reached out a hand and touched the woman with his index finger. I'd like you to feel what I feel." He said. a wave of emotions flowed through the woman. Betrayal, suffering, pain all burned into her body. Heat began to form in her flushing her skin as she felt pain along with the emotional suffering which had plagued the young mutants life. "This is what you've done to me." he said angrily severing the link.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora snatched her arm back as he broke the link and took a few short, heavy breaths as she sought to regain her composure. Her sky blue colored eyes glared fiercely at the boy as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"That was hardly necessary. I've explained to you before that what was done was necessary. We needed to bring you in and keep you safe before someone worse, someone evil, came along and took you for their own means."

[Halcyon508]

"Well Miss Marshall, you claimed to be a teacher." he spoke calmly. "Explain to me what good and evil is. Is it good to steal children out of their homes and threaten their family. Is it good to subject them to torturous experiments?" He paused and raised up his mechanical limb, "Because from where I'm sitting, nothing was necessary. I wasn't a danger to anyone, a threat to anyone!" he yelled the last bit as his face grew red. The eye on the mechanical side grew. "I was content to live my life and if anyone had come for me they would have been able to capture me." He frowned, "Someone evil taking me for their own means? This place is the only evil I've seen."

[VagueDurin]

Technically I am a teacher still... She thought to herself as she resisted the urge to roll her eyes slightly. When the boy started to shout and get angry, she decided it was time to leave the training area. "Walk with me, Julian." She spoke before leading him away from the training area and down a corridor.

"If this is truly the only evil that you have seen, then perhaps we have done some good, after all, Julian." She spoke softly, eyes idly wandering over the walls of the corridor as they walked. "Because I've seen the evil's that are out there. The terrorist organizations, the psychopathic murders, the sociopaths. Those people are out there, and in abundance. Weapon X stands against those people. The work we do here protects innocent lives from those people." She continued, passion slipping into her normally sweet and docile drawl.

"You and I, we never had a choice, Julian. We were born with these gifts, or curses. At the very moment they manifested we were immediately held to a different set of rules, a different set of standards, of responsibilities. Powers like ours cannot be allowed to simply grow and mature on their own, by their user's whim. They must be honed, trained, restrained under more experienced and watchful eyes. If left to their own devices, such gifted individuals will only harm themselves and others."

[Halcyon508]

Julian snorted, "Yeah right." He shook his head as he headed towards the mens locker room. "You made a choice. Chose to hunt me down. You chose to use your body and our shared heritage to lure me into the clutches of an organization that intended me harm. You chose to violate my god given rights and the rights afforded to me by the United States government." He paused his face getting red again. "You chose to kill my brother." he murmured. He had avoided the subject for so long. Tears welled up in his eyes as he thought about his older sibling. "Those were all choices, your choices." Staring at her he then stated firmly, "And I'm now making a choice." Turning the boy opened the door to the Mens locker room and slammed the door behind him. She had followed him into locker rooms before and knew that it wouldn't be a great deterrent, however he hoped the message would get through. Even if she didn't follow he expected her to be waiting for him when he emerged, ready for another lecture about the great exploits of Weapon X.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora huffed a bit in reaction and after a moments consideration and a plea from Hayden to remain calm, the Agent stormed forward and burst through the door and into the mens locker room. Her blue eyes were sparkling with pent up energy as she searched the place for Julian and then headed straight for him. She immediately started in on a tirade. Speaking sternly at first, shoving a hand into his chest or shoulder after each point. Each question she asked her voice rose and she shoved harder and harder.

"You want to talk about choices, Julian? Did I choose for my father to be killed by a rogue, untrained, unsanctioned Mutant? Did I choose for my mother to go all holy gospel afterwards and ship me off to Catholic School Prison? Did I choose for my powers to manifest while I was there? Did I choose to be beaten and abused and defiled as a blasphemous abomination by the church? Did I choose to have a split personality who used our powers to hurt my friends and loved ones? Did I choose to be singled out by a group of anti-mutant thugs who thought it would be a fun game to try to beat and rape me? Did I ever have a choice but to accept the Directors help and take haven here with Weapon X?!"

With the last question and the finale of the outburst she shoved Julian with both hands, slamming the surprised boy back into the wall. Her hands held out by her sides crackling with blue white lighting coursing up to her elbows as she breathed heavily and glared at the boy while a mix of anger and hurt and frustration ran rampant inside of her mind.

[Halcyon508]

Julian was shocked at the woman’s reaction. He had never known any of those things about her, never wanted to invade her mind, now he wished that he had. The boys eye began to glow as the woman manhandled him across the locker room. “Nice to see you again Aurora.” The boys nose began to bleed as the locker behind him vibrated. “I don’t like being threatened.” He stated in a calm voice. With a sudden burst Aurora was thrown into the wall. There she sat suspended in air by Cables telekinetic.

“Lets talk about your haven of Weapon X shall we?” The boys nose was now streaming blood faster than an open wound as his non glowing eye turned bloodshot. “Let us look at what they’ve done to me shall we?” He began to cough up blood as his body fought the spreading Techno Organic virus in him. “Let’s examine what happens when I use my gifts as you can use yours.” Red stained teeth grinned at the woman as his ears started to ooze the crimson liquid. Suddenly Aurora fell to the ground, the boys hold over her failing.

“I’ve made another choice.” He said as his organic parts began to convulse painfully. “I chose not to kill you.” Gritting his teeth he added, “Because I still think I....” he never finished his sentence and instead blacked out from his internal fight with his control locking mechanism.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora was caught off guard by the sudden blast of telekinetic power and she was smashed against the far wall. Slightly dazed and with the wind knocked out of her all the Agent could do was remain there, pinned against the wall as Cable fought against his restraints and ranted about what Weapon X had done to him. Aurora knew he just didn't understand. He'd lived a perfect life back home. They'd gotten to him soon enough, before he started to hurt others like she had done. Aurora knew that it wasn't what Weapon X had done too him, it was what they had done for him. Of course she wasn't able to explain that to him now, not in this state. Someday, in the future maybe then he'd understand.

She crumpled to the floor as the boy blacked out, gasping for breath and trying to regain her feat. That was when she heard the clapping hands. The sound was soon followed by the telltale sounds of a very distinctive walk. Within moments, Director X revealed himself from around a row of lockers. He had a smug grin on his face and continued to clap dramatically as he walked into the center of the room. "Oh how entertaining you all are." He spoke, though Aurora couldn't be certain if it was directed specifically at her. She chose not to respond as she continued to try to stand up. "So pathetically predictable. Oh waa waa they took me from my home and ruined my life. He's so naive." Then he spun and leaned over into Aurora's face. "But you already knew that, didn't you? You conniving little minx. That's why I made sure to assign you as his handler. I must admit, I am a bit surprised that he chose so easily to lash out at you. Even slightly concerned about just how easy it was for him. Something to look into for certain." She shied away in disgust as he reached out a hand towards her face and he simply snorted and walked over towards Julian's unconscious form, calling for a team of medics to come collect him and take him to medical. "Oh my dear Julian... What will we ever do with you. Aurora, get a hold of yourself and report down to medical. I want you there when he comes to. And... Do try to keep things professional from here on, hmm?"

Aurora's arms began to crackle with lightning again as the rage built up in her system and she wished that just for a second the chip in her head would malfunction and she'd get one chance... Just one single chance to take a shot at the despicable man. She too was surprised that it had been so easy for Julian to overcome the locks. She'd been told it was entirely possible, and even probable... But she hadn't expected it to be like this... She glared at the Directors back as he waited for the medical team to come in and collect Julian, still not quite able to raise herself up into a standing position.

[Halcyon508]

Memories...

He was wet and cold, and each breath he took sent a sharp pain through his body. It started to snow harder, he could barely see the granite cliff in front of him and in the back of his mind he heard something. Little voices talking about hunger and cold and needs and louder ones, angry and hard. They were too far away to hear words but the chatter induced the boy to expel what little food he had.

“It’s ok honey.” His mother said looking up the rock face.

I don’t like it.

Don’t like what? His mother asked.

The men, and the dogs. the boy replied a frozen tear on his cheek.Sulking he added, I don’t like this game.


Julian sat on the bed as he remembered every details. Dogs, men with guns, dogs. A face fluttered into view. He had killed his mother. The bastard had killed his mother while he ran. With a howl and scream of pain he yelled and stared up. Deadpool was there staring down at him with his head cocked side wise like a curious animal. In addition Aurora was there watching him intently. He felt naked, hell he basically was. And then it happened. "What were you dreaming about." The director walked into view.

"It was just... a nightmare." Julian said. "Just vague images that made me fear." He stared the director in the eyes. The man had unkept hair and always looked as though he'd ran a mile.

“When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness your foresight will become a nimble vagrant.” He said in a stern voice.

"I was just afraid." Julian said. "It won't happen again I swear." He sounded like a child telling his parent he was really a big boy and didn't need their help.

"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." The director retorted.

"Okay Yoda." Julian said rolling his eyes.

"Cut your lip son!" The director snapped. "Your entire filthy self are at my mercy and don't you forget it."

"Yakety yak!" Deadpool yelled, "Get that garbage out of sight or you don't go out Friday night!" he wagged his finger in front of the boy sternly. "And when you're finished doing that, bring in the dog and take out the cat!"

"Shut up." the director said sternly at the man. "Aurora dearest is there anything you would like to contribute? He's your kind after all. You should be able to speak to it."

[VagueDurin]

There were a lot of things she wanted to say, to both of them. But she knew better. Deadpool wouldn't even understand, and the Director... Well, she knew better than to talk back to him, especially here at HQ. She set her jaw and glared at the Director for a few moments before turning her gaze back on Julian. What could she say? What could she do? Not much with the two of them standing there. She smiled sadly and moved over to sit in a chair near the side of the bed he was laying on. "We all have bad dreams. There's something each of us fears. It's how we respond to those things that matters." She spoke quietly, not caring if the Director could hear.

[Halcyon508]

Julian frowned a bit. Everyone was staring at him, expecting him to argue like he had or to say something profound or to have some sort of fit. Everyone always expected things of him. "I'm tired." he finally said bringing a hand up to his face and feeling the dried blood. His eye began to glow as the techno organics suppressed his power. "It wasn't a nightmare." he said, "I've been sharing the nightmares of an entire neighborhood since I was a child. I'm not scared of dreams." Getting his powers under control he sighed. "It doesn't matter though does it. Memory, dream, fear, excitement. Nothing matters." Turning to the director he added, "I'm yours. You own me. I'll do what I'm told like a good soldier."

The director smiled. He knew the boy wasn't lying but it didn't matter. The young child would be his soon. "We should leave the boy alone." he said watching as Deadpool and Aurora refused to budge. "Get out Wade!" he yelled at Deadpool glaring. The man grumbled several incoherent comments as he left. Staring then at Aurora he said. "We should take." Pausing he noticed the boy still awake. "In private."

The director walked into the hallway and stared at the woman. "Can you or can you not control him?" he asked bluntly. "I need to know so I can decide when we're going to activate your unit."

[VagueDurin]

Aurora resisted the urge to peer back into the room at Julian. Instead she just looked at the wall behind the Director. Anything to not have to look at him... He wants to activate us, already? Julian is still just a boy! Hayden pipped up in concern. Aurora rolled her minds eye. Like it matters? If Weapon X had found us when we were Julian's age, we would have wanted to be active. She argued. That's not fair. We aren't the same as him... He's... What? What is he? Better? You think he's Better than us? I didn't say that... I just.. Whatever. Just keep whimpering, you're pathetic. I'll handle this.

"Would it really matter if I said no?" She asked bluntly, irritation at Hayden easily creeping into her response to the director.

[Halcyon508]

The director smirked. The crazed man gave the woman a once over staring at her body and taking in the features of the attractive woman. He reached out his hand and caressed her cheek softly. "No it wouldn't matter one bit." he finally replied. "What did you think we've been training him for? So his telekinetic abilities can be bigger? So he can shield air force one and other important dignitaries?" laughing the director winked. "No we wanted it smaller. Imagine a dangerous mutant. Or a terrorist or leader of a radical government visiting. This boy needs only to imagine it and he can pinch an artery giving these dangerous radicals a heart attack." The mans menacing laughing stopped. "You see darling. He's too important and powerful an asset to keep off the board."

[VagueDurin]

The skin of her cheek began to crawl beneath the despicable mans touch and she wanted nothing more than to rip his hand from her face and land a supercharged lightning bolt into his chest. But neither was a viable option at this point. She swallowed down her ire painfully and then nodded her head just slightly.

"Then do it. It will be infinitely easier for me to handle him when he's away from here and you're not experimenting on him every other day."

[Halcyon508]

The director and Aurora, Miss Marshall, whoever... had just finished their confrontation in the hall. Everything seemed settled now and Julian was released back to his room. It wasn't much, spacious but bare of all but a bed and dresser. They had offered him more, television, limited and monitored computer access, game stations and couches but given the amount of time he had spent dealing with the deranged tests of the program when he got into his room he only wanted to sleep. Everything else that they had suggested for recreation was useless. The boy had sat up in bed listening to the silence about him. Before even when it was silent even when he wasn't trying to hear there was always drifting thoughts and emotions that created a buzz around him. Grudgingly he had to accept that hearing nothing was better than hearing everything and that the program had helped him to control and block out stray thoughts. Shaking his head violently the boy then said, "Fuck the program." defiantly at the ceiling. He would stare at the ceiling until he finally fell asleep.


Five men worked their way down the valley. The fur trees and evergreens could keep them and the others hidden along with large complex. Much of it was underground except for the large dish array. The entire team knew what it was for. All forms of detection were disabled. Satellites couldn't see them and even cerebra of the X-Men couldn't penetrate the secretive defense which they now assailed. Eight teams of Five wearing green and yellow tore through the bushes. They approached the underground entrance. Eight known entrances, eight teams. The plan was simple the eight teams were to enter and disable defenses and alarms, following which a strike team would emerge and retrieve all the data and experimental materials within the complex.

One of the five men stepped forward and put a device on the door. He typed some commands into a display on it and slowly the door opened up. The soldier smirked as he entered and then sliced into the wiring as the others took position up on the inner door. Suddenly alarms blared. "We've been had!" the man said.

"One of the other teams perhaps." Another replied.

"It doesn't matter." The team pulled out guns and put away their engineering gear. One of the troopers ran up with a large charge and placed it on the door. "Clear!" he said as the group walked out past the second door. A large blazing fire burst the door open. "HAIL HYDRA!" They yelled as a strange airships came in from over the horizon cloaking. HYDRA airbase two. Soon the entire facility would be overflowing with high tech terrorists....

[VagueDurin]

A piercing sound slashed its way through Aurora's slumber, jarring the young woman awake with a start. A few seconds later she recognized the noise as the Weapon X facilities intruder alert. Quickly blowing a strand of hair out of her face she shot up out of bed and headed for the door, pausing momentarily to take in her dress. She'd fallen asleep after hitting up the gym, apparently, as she was still wearing a dark blue sports-bra and a pair of track pants. A quick glance around granted her no success as she couldn't see a shirt between herself and the door so with a frustrated shrug she threw open the door and took off at a light jog through the hallway.

As she dashed down the corridor she passed a small group of startled techs who gave her and her getup a curious glance before they continued to scurry off in the direction of one of the designated safe rooms. It soon became a struggle to push and fight her way through the scientists and techs as she hurried out of the female dorm area and towards the male's. Part of her wondered if the Director had something to do with there being so many female employees here at Weapon X...

A minute or so later she'd finally managed to whip around into the male dormitory and was hurrying down the hallway towards one room in particular. She was about 3 yards out when she slammed head-on into an immovable object.

"Are those real or are you happy to see me?"

Aurora nearly let the mental shriek carry on to an actual verbal one as she recovered her balance and looked up at Deadpool with an irritated look in her bright blue eyes. She tired to duck around him to the right but the imbecile leaned over into the wall to block her path.

"Dammit Wade, roll your tongue back into your mouth and get the fuck outta my way!" She shouted, her eyes lighting up brightly as she activated her powers and used them to zip around the mutant. She grumbled something else about him under her breath before closing the rest of the gap between her and her destination then skidded to a halt outside the door. Aurora pounded on the door once and then threw it open, taking a pair of steps inside as she scanned the room for its sole occupant...

[Halcyon508]

Julian had of course heard the alarms. Heard and ignored. It wasn't his problem until he was told to deal with it, and in his current state he doubted very much he could deal with much of anything. Perhaps an opportunity would arise out of whatever was going on where the director would release his powers. It was in these preponderances that the knock came on the door and Aurora busted in, scantily clad in her work out gear. "I was wondering how long it would take you to show up." He said staring past her at Deadpool. "It is good to see you wade." He stood up out of his bed wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a t-shirt.

The boy shot a look at Aurora. Emotions flooded into him along with a healthy dose of questions. Was she hear because she needed him to fight, because it was her job to watch him, or because she had feelings for him. The realization that all three could be possible with the insane woman struck Julian like a thunderbolt.

"We need to get to weapons locker." Deadpool said pulling out a sword which he seemed to keep handy. It was true that even with just his sword he was deadly, and Aurora had full access to her powers, but Julian was currently next to useless possessing only an athletic prowess unmatched by humans but by no means impervious to bullets or lasers or whatever the invaders would throw at him.

The group moved slowly down the corridors with Deadpool taking the lead. He put his hand up and spied his head around a corner. Several gunshots could be heard as Julian watched the mans head nearly explode in a fine red mist. The mans body crumpled to the floor falling back into Julians arms. Soon the wounds on the head started to stitch together and reform. Watching with a morbid curiosity Julian helped the man back to his feet. "Four right in front of the weapons locker." Deadpool said. Pulling his sword he then rushed down the hall. In a blur of steel and blood his sword cut through the four blocking the way his body absorbing a large number of bullets in the process. "Transparent!" he yelled.

"I believe the word you're looking for is clear." Julian said as he turned the corner.

They reached the locker and Deadpool hummed the intro to funky town as he keyed in the code. "Gotta make a move to a Town that's right for me" He sang as he pulled out a sub-machine gun. "Town to keep me movin' Keep me groovin' with some energy." As if just noticing Julian and Aurora for the first time he stopped. "Hey Wire." Deadpool said throwing him a sub-machine gun. The boy caught it with a smile. "Ready to test those shiny metal limbs of yours."

Looking at the weapon in his hand Julian frowned. Were they not going to unlock his powers? No there was no need to, not yet, and even if there was a need the director wasn't present. Taking into account the training he had since entering the Program cable pulled back the bolt of the weapon and chambered a round. He examined the weapon. "What should we do next?"

Even though the question was directed at Aurora Deadpool was first to answer. "Gotta Move on, Gotta Move on," The Mercenary was doing the robot as he was singing and emptying the weapons locker and placing all of the firearms, knives, and other sorted goodies on his person. "Gotta move on. Won't you take me to funky town?"

"Miss Marshall?" Julian asked a bit of a quiver in his voice.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora had one knee to the ground as she searched through the last of the HYDRA agents belongings. She glanced up from the corpse and watched as Deadpool armed himself to the teeth with an irritated expression on her face. Then Julian asked for direction as he himself started to inspect and admire a machine gun. It was all she could do to not roll her eyes at the sight. "Boys and their toys." She commented dryly before standing back up and glancing around the immediate area.

Aurora tossed a handheld device at Julian and watched on bemused as the boy struggled to catch the radio and maintain possession of the firearm at the same time. "Don't be getting all Rambo on me just yet, Boy Wonder." She chided him as she started forward cautiously. "See if you can find some chatter on that for us to listen to. We need to know what these dweebs are after."

[Mirrodin2nd]

Rebecca Wilder, who went by the codename within Weapon X of Domino had been asleep in her room when the alarms started going off. Her eyes snapped open and she rose, all in one swift motion. She was completely naked, but that was how she slept. But on the other hand, she had her gun belt in her hands. That stayed under her pillows. The two Beretta's were in their holsters, but they weren't loaded. At least they would have been, but she wasn't allowed to have the weapons on her person while she was in the building. It didn't take her long to get dressed, which merely involved throwing on a set of underwear and then grabbing her black leather uniform. She had been in a series of training exercises before heading to bed, which made sense, considering she was in line to potentially become the Director's personal bodyguard. She stepped out of her room to find the rest of the compound already in a state of alert. She grabbed one of the passersby. "What's going on?" She asked.

"I'm not sure, but we're under attack."

"Stating the obvious. Never a good thing." She replied and let the man go. On her uniform, she had her personal communicator and she dialed a channel. "Deadpool, where are you?" She asked.

[Halcyon508]

The boy picked up the radio headset and frowned. "I'm picking up the signal." he said his cyberpathy in full swing. Now that he was using his powers there was no need for the radio. He threw it to the ground. "It seems they have found five of the nine entrances into the base." Closing his eyes he felt his head getting light. "Moving in teams of five followed up by hordes of soldiers. They are after research data." The boys nose started bleeding a little. "I'm also picking up another frequency and it seems there is some sort of command vehicle out there." Opening his eyes the boy started to pant from his mental fight with the virus consuming him. "The carrier is large and isn't using any radio I can get into." After a few seconds of back patting from Deadpool the boy stood up refreshed by the mechanical parts of his body.

"Deadpool, where are you?" A mechanical woman's voice called.

"OOOO Patches honey." He cooed softly "Where are you my third love? We're at the weapons locker in sector c and heading towards the data center. That is where the enemy is heading..." He looked up at Aurora "That is where we're heading right second love?"

[VagueDurin]

Aurora turned back to look at Deadpool, her blue eyes rolling in mild annoyance. Normally there wouldn't be a question in her mind, but... Julian complicated things. He was invaluable to the Director, a fact that was continuously drilled into her mind. Should she really be running off towards the enemy with him in tow? But certainly she had a responsibility to protect the facility and its research data... She couldn't rightly leave Julian alone either... And besides, some of that research data was about Cable anyway. HYDRA couldn't get their hands on that. Finally Aurora nodded.

"Yes Wade, that is where we're going. You can ask your little friend to meet us there." Aurora spoke in her best condescending Miss Marshall voice before glancing over at Julian. "Keep your head down, remember your training, and for Gods sake don't do anything he'd do." She finished before speeding up into a jog as they rounded the nearest corner and started to head off towards the Data Center.

[Halcyon508]

The group of three moved side by side down the hallways leap frogging past one another with weapons trained. Military precision, well for the most part. Every time Deadpool had to clear a corner he barrel rolled or performed a flip in the air guns trained down the corridor. "Transparent!" or some other word each time as if to just infuriate anyone reading his life story. "Translucent!" He yelled as he flipped through another corner.

Julian ran by him and was immediately pulled back by Wade. Gunshots started firing. "I thought you said it was clear!"

"I said Translucent!" Deadpool replied turning around firing his weapons. "That means mostly clear."

"Semi-opaque more like it!" Julian yelled kneeling so he could reach around the corner and shoot with his gun.

"Pellucid" Deadpool shot back turning the corner and absorbing gunfire as he blared on his own guns.

Cable slid on his knees into the hallway and from between Deadpools legs fired into the group of soldiers. They cleared the corridor and Julian shut his eyes focusing. "I think from here on out we better expect every corner to be filled with enemy soldiers."

"What are they saying?"

"I don't know. I just know they are there." Julian snapped at the man. "My powers are suppressed. They only work sometimes and when I try and succeed it causes me pain."

"Aurora baby. Can you flash the corridors so me and my first love can blow out the brains of anyone around corners?" Creases in Deadpools mask formed a large comical smile. "What is the point of having a human flash bang if we don't use her supple wondrous hot sexual body." Cable turned around and shot the man right between the eyes knocking him to the ground.

"What?" He asked when Aurora gave him a stern look. "It will heal."

"Most astute of you young one!" Deadpool said as the bullet fell to the ground.

"See?" Cable shook his head. "Lets hurry, the data center is just two turns and a door away."

[Mirrodin2nd]

It hadn't been too hard for Domino to get her hands on mags, considering her power was all about probability manipulation. She ended up getting more than a few mags and she had a nice looking submachine gun now. She wielded it to rather decent precision, taking down a few more of the HYDRA soldiers before ducking back behind her wall cover. Rounds streaked by her, hitting the wall as the soldiers that were left tried in vain to hit her. She was about to spin around the corner, crouched as she had been before, to unload the rest of her magazine when she heard more guns go off and the cries of the HYDRA soldiers as they were killed. "Deadpool, is that you?" She asked.

"It is I, Deadpool, Master of Disaster, King of Sting, the Sultan of-"

There was another gunshot.

Domino came around the corner to find Julian and Aurora standing near Deadpool who was on the ground, bleeding from another gunshot wound, courtesy of Julian. "Strange, I like to do that too, sometimes." She said.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora frowned. She frowned at Domino, the dark haired mercenary in her black leather suit as she encouraged both Deadpool and Julian's behavior... She frowned at Deadpool as the loony stood back up with that infuriating grin smeared across his masked face... And she frowned at Julian, who she felt was getting far to comfortable with the instability that followed Wade wherever he went. The boy was difficult enough to handle on his own, much less with these two around to egg him on. If you don't like the way they're influencing him, remove the negative influence. Hayden's voice echoed inside of her mind.

Aurora reached out and snatched the weapon out of Cables hands with a stern glance before turning to nod in Domino's direction. "Nice to see you again, Beca... Why don't you and Wade go on to the Data Center, make sure we get that area secured. Julian and I will go secure the Director, I can only imagine what sort of mood he's in right now."

[Halcyon508]

Julian frowned a bit. "But Miss Marshall, shouldn't we stick together? I mean...." he glanced over at Deadpool. He knew the healing factor and the mans pure artistry in the arts of killing were valuable to him, and the sad truth was he was begining to looked up to the man. Not for his insanity but for the fact that he was and is the best there is at what he does... Although what he does doesn't make sense, at least not most of the time.

[Mirrodin2nd]

"If we're going to split up, Deadpool and I are going to the Director." Domino said. "I'm his bodyguard after all." She added. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a HYDRA soldier come around the corner and fire his weapon.

"I'll save you, Patches!" Deadpool called out and jumped in front of the bullet. He missed completely while Domino merely moved her head slightly, and the round passed by without a problem, impacting the wall.

Aurora lifted the gun she'd taken from Julian and fired, killing the soldier.

OOC: That's all I could think of.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora sighed as she lowered the still smoking weapon and then locked gazes with Domino. She didn't know why it bothered her, Domino being chosen to guard the Director... but it did. Maybe Domino just bothered her in general. She didn't really know. Now wasn't the time to be pondering it, though.

"Fine. Just get to it then." She grudgingly conceded the point to Rebeca before giving Julian a bit of a shove in the direction they'd been traveling in. "Let's go secure the Data Center, Julian."

[Halcyon508]

"Ummm..." Julian said with a bit of a frown, "Can I get a gun?" he asked looking at his sub machine gun that was now in aurora's hand.

"Here kid." Deadpool said throwing him a pistol. Cable caught it only for Deadpool to throw another followed closely by another sub machine gun. "Armed to the teeth!"

The kid tried his best to catch and juggle around all the weapons before finally finding places to put them all. "Thanks Wade." he said with a bit of a smirk thrown in Aurora's direction. "We should go now Miss Marshall."

"Yes and me and Patches will see to the director!" Wade said marching in an over exaggerated manner the other away. "We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz!" he jumped up and clicked his heels together.

"Now that they are gone Miss Marshall what do you say we have some fun." Julian said with a devilish smile.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora raised an eyebrow in Julian's direction and stared hard at him for a few moments. "Fun? Yes, fun, lets go slaughter a bunch of HYDRA minions who are after our research data. That sounds like a blast, doesn't it?" She replied haughtily before turning around the corner and heading down the corridor, not bothering to wait for a response.

[Halcyon508]

Back pressed up against a wall and preparing to burst around a corner Julian smiled at Aurora. "I wasn't talking about the violence." He winked, "I was talking about finishing what you started in the school locker room." He licked his lips and gave her a wink. "They say when two people are in a life threatening situation they have certain desires after. And the director did assign you to make sure I'm happy didn't he?"

[VagueDurin]

Of all the nerve...

Aurora's eyes flashed and lightning crackled its way up her fingertips and over her forearms for an instant before she shook her head and forced it to stop. She was so put off by Julian's remarks and attitude that she couldn't immediately think of a response.

Instead the young woman stepped out into the corridor and in an instant a blinding illumination shot forth from her body, temporarily stunning the soldiers. "Go." She shouted, signaling Julian to commence his attack. She joined in and together the pair started to mow down the soldiers.

Once the stun effect wore off and the HYDRA men started to fire back, she and Julian took cover in recessed doorways across the hallway from one another. Aurora leaned out to lay down some suppressive fire and finally shouted over at Julian.

"I don't know what's gotten into you but if you think- No, no I get it. This has him written all over it. You've been talking to Wade again haven't you?" She pulled back as some of the HYDRA fire got close to her position and shot a heated glare over at Julian from her cover.

[Halcyon508]

Julian turned and looked over at Aurora before once more sticking his head out from cover, aiming, and shooting his weapon at the soldiers. "Whats wrong with Wade?" he asked ducking in time before another barrage of bullets scattered by him. "I mean besides from the obvious insanity." The boy crumpled his face as he turned and fired once more. "And who did that to him anyways? The program! The very people you kowtow to!" He took the magazine out of the weapon and looked at the ammunition inside. Smashing it back into place he kneeled down and turned the corner firing viciously until the weapon ran dry. Throwing it to his feat he then added, "And you show more concern for the director than you do us, your own kind!" he snapped. He closed his eyes and then added, "I bet you'd sleep with him instead of me... bucking for that promotion aren't you aurora!" he spat on the ground. "I like Miss Marshall better then both of you, at least she pretended to care for me." he turned the corner and with a might of concentration blasted a telekinetic wave knocking over the soldiers and disabling many of them. With a nose bleed he then pulled his pistols out of the holsters that nestled them next to his boxer shorts and fired mercilessly into them. That is what he was now, that is what they had made him, a killer.

[VagueDurin]

Aurora's arms started to crackle again instantly after he finished speaking... Aurora don't. He doesn't know, doesn't understand. He's just a lost little kid! He doesn't get what all of that means... Hayden thought at her desperately trying to calm Aurora down. Kid or not, he's taken it too far. He needs to be tought a lesson! Aurora snapped back. She didn't wait any longer before letting loose a backhand through the air sending a shockwave out to blast into the side of Julian. The wave picked the boy up off his feet and slammed him into the wall jarring the pistols out of his hands.

Then Aurora stepped forward, eyes strobing blue and white as she unleashed a torrent of lightning bolts from her hands. Furiously flinging photo-kinetic energy down the corridor, raining destruction down on the HYDRA agents opposing them. In moments it was over and there was no opposition left to endanger them. That was when Aurora turned her fury back into Julian's direcion.

"Aurora Stop!" came Hayden's voice out of her lips. Aurora's body hitched mid-step and the crackling lightning dissipated and the flashing of her eyes slowed to a stop. She looked down at Julian and shook her head slowly. "You shouldn't assume to understand things about others, Julian. Nothing good can ever come from that. Aurora and I... Would have nothing to do with the Director. Nothing." She spat out, then started to turn away. Changing her mind, she turned back around and looked at him again. "And we have not been assigned to you to keep you Happy." She spoke air quoting the word happy. "Our job is to keep you safe, and to oversee you're progress as an operative. You'd do well to recognize the distance."

And then she was done. Done with him, done with the program, done with battling Aurora. Her body turned, stumbled over to a nearby doorframe and slowly collapsed to the floor, a light shean of sweat coating her skin.

[Halcyon508]

Julian stood up and wiped a bit of blood off his lips. His nose was running with a bit of blood from the impact of the blow. Smiling he revealed bloody red teeth. "Good job keeping me safe bitch." He said spitting a bit of blood onto the metal floors inches away from the fallen woman. "Four more coming." Julian said with a smirk. The four terrorists burst out from around the corner. Julian lifted an open hand and squeezed tightly. Suddenly the four bodies closed in together as if an invisible hand was crushing them together. Cable opened his hand and the bodies flew straight into the wall breaking upon impact. "You better hope I don't make more progress as an operative." he said his nose gushing with blood, "And that these blocks hold." Leaning over he picked up the two holstered pistols. Suddenly Cable smiled. He lifted up the scantly clad woman and slapped her face gently a few times. "Wake up sleeping beauty."

[VagueDurin]

Aurora came to groggily, as though she was waking up slowly from a confusing dream. She could vaguely remember the internal struggle that had been going on between Hayden and herself, set off by Julian and his spiteful comments. She shook her head a bit and thats when she realized she was being held up by someone, and once her vision cleared she saw it was Julian.

He had a cocky smirk on his face that told Aurora he hadn't learned a thing from her outburst and made her think for the first time that maybe he and Wade were just suited for each other from the beginning... Nevermind that now, we've got to secure the data... she thought to herself and started to remove herself from Julains grasp.

"Enough playing around, lets go see to our data."

[Halcyon508]

Julian frowned a bit. "Miss Marshall." he said as he squeezed her tightly refusing to give up his grip on the woman. "You shouldn't move until you're a hundred percent." Deepening his frown he then added, "You took a hell of a fall." He placed an arm around her midsection and pushed her gently into a wall. "I just get jealous is all. You and the director. I just wish you cared about me the way you cared about him." he frowned a bit and and looked down towards her feet. The boys eyes drifted up her legs and onto her midsection. "The concern you showed him, and yet me? I'm just another assignment." Looking up he stared the woman in the eyes. "I don't know if I hate you or love you, but either way I don't know if I can live without you." His smirk came back up. "You poor confused bitch."