Havok's Group

[amieva]

Wanda's brow furrowed. "{I don't lie to you, Pietro. Gambit did save my life.}"

She swallowed before sighing, trying to find the words to say this. "{You're above this. I don't care what you did, or whose orders you're following! Ignore all that now! Your life is yours.}"

Her hand gently touched his cheek as she spoke softly. "{Please. I'm asking you to stop this. You can start over. Here, with me. I only just found you, and I don't want to risk losing you again!}"

[quicksilver]

Quicksilver looked down at her, fingers still curled around the handle of the knife, face closed off and remote. They were so different, the two of them. Light and dark, man and woman. But in the end, he would do anything for her. Slowly, he opened his hand and let the knife fall. It hit the wooden floorboards with a soft clatter, light beams spinning off the deadly blade.

"{For your life, I return his. I will just have to explain to my employer that I couldn't do it. I can do without the money.}"

He sighed and kissed her on the forehead, before brushing her hair out of her eyes with the hand that had held the knife moments before. Then he turned and looked at Gambit.

"Wanda tells me you saved her life, Gambit. Because of that, I will not fulfill the contract I took on to assassinate you."

[Magneto]

After listening to Havok, Magneto nodded. "I believe we have everything we need here."

The young silver-haired kid did not escape his attention. He was in fact the only one in the room who Magneto did not remember bringing along with him.

Turning his full attention on him, Magneto could tell that there was a brash arrogance about him. Something that reminded him of how he might have acted in his younger days...something around the eyes also rang a bell of familiarity, though he could not put his finger on it right away...that is until the young man stood right next to Wanda.

Magneto's eyes widened just slightly. He could see her there...in Wanda's face. How could I have not seen it before?

A field of blue electroplasma formed around Wanda and Pietro, and Magneto drew them over in front of his face as he studied their features. His eyes were clouded over with a rare moment of emotional weakness.

"Mag-"

He did not finish the sentence, but rather seemed to get ahold of himself suddenly. "We leave now!" he said. Pietro and Wanda were back on the ground. Magneto wove the energy field around all who could not fly and rose into the air.

With explosive energy Magneto shot forward, pulling the Acolytes in tow along with him.

[amieva]

Wanda let out a short scream of suprise when she and Pietro were ripped from the ground. The look in Magneto's eyes startled her, as if he was examining them.

"Si-?"

She held Pietro tightly as the sphere of magnetic energy wrapped around her for the third time that day and pulled her along behind her leader.

[Rogue]

Padding up a few seconds behind Gambit and Jubilee, Rogue watched this new addition to the team with intrest, her bag full of medical supplies in slung over one toned shoulder. Her green eyes flashing between the silver-haired young man and Gambit, they narrowed intently, her arms crossed and deep red lips pursed. Moving most of her weight to one leg, she resettled the bag on her shoulder.

Now this is interestin'. She wrinkled her nose a bit at his spunk and arrogance and quirked an eyebrow.

As this new character and Wanda were ripped from the ground, Rogue took a small step back, remembering her first meeting with the man. Gaze darting around the group, just as quick as the intensity began, it was gone and everyone but herself was wrapped in another magnetic feild/bubble.

Glad Ah can fly... those things don't look lahke much fun. She thought warily with a quick glance at the Scarlet Witch.

Taking off into the air after the rest of the team, Rogue did a couple spirited loops, twists and flips, as the breeze ruffled her two-tone hair. She was just glad to be leaving this wrecked place.



(OOC: Sorry, guys... got dragged to dinner and a church convention thingy *Blech* so I couldn't post earlier... *growls*)

[Jubilee]

Jubilee's hands sparked briefly with fireworks as the silver haired man drew a knife and threatened to kill Remy. And then Wanda was distracting him and the two jabbered back and forth in a language she didn't know. It was all rather irritating and she was very edgy; what if the dude just threw the knife? Well, Magneto could stop it but y'know, it wasn't a very settling thing. It didn't take very long for Wanda to talk him down from killing Gambit and the knife hit the floor.

"So...you're alright now and *not* going to kill Gambit because he saved Wanda?"

Jubilee looked up at Gambit.

"Your penchant for saving damsels in distress comes in useful yet again. Weird, no?"

And then Magneto obviously decided that they'd been here for long enough and they'd gotten everything they had come for, because he surrounded everyone in the forcefields and the group took off. Jubilee swallowed heavily, then closed her eyes and concentrated on keeping her breakfast down.

[quicksilver]

Pietro immediately tried to throw himself and Wanda out of the forcefield, eyes narrowing in panicked rage like a furious cat as he found he couldn't. It was a novel experience. It was also something he didn't want to repeat. He also really didn't like the sound of Wanda's short scream of shock. He glared at the older man in a helmet, holding onto Wanda so he could protect her.

But instead the other man just leaned in closer, studying the two of them, and breathed one syllable before he cut it off.

"Mag-"

Pietro glared back, shaking slightly with the restraint he was excerising over his powers. And then they were flying. Glancing around, he could see that the rest of the group had been gathered up as well, with the exception of the woman with a stripe in her hair. Since she took off from the ground a few moments later, he quickly found out why. Pietro scowled.

"{You have interesting friends, but I do not think I like being jerked around like a doll.}"

He sighed, and schooled his features to a blank, but turned his head to watch Rogue fly with interest. And not a little envy.

[Gambit]

Gambit was aware of the glare the silver-haired mutant was sending his way, but he couldn’t help the momentary look of surprise when said mutant called him by name and drew a knife.

Paid? Oh great, anot’er one. Dey should all jus’ take out eachot’er an’ leave me be.

“Mais, y’ better get in line. Y’ ain’ de only assassin wit’ m’ name at de top o’ deir ‘T’ Kill’ list,” Gambit shot out, his glowing red eyes narrowing. But it seemed his words were lost as Wanda stepped in, and the two began conversing rapidly in what the Cajun assumed was her native tongue.

Eventually, she convinced the newcomer to drop the knife, although Gambit had the feeling this wouldn’t be the end of it. Wanda and this man seemed very... close. Grinning at Jubilee’s comment, he agreed. “What can I say? I be a sucker fo’ a femme in need. An’ when it turns aroun’ an’ saves m’ ass later, den dat’s jus’ a bonus.”<br>
Magneto appeared rattled for a moment, a fact that wasn’t lost on Gambit, but he quickly covered it by lifting them all from the ground, and starting the journey home.

((Damn, I missed a lot! That’s what I get for sleepin’, eh?))

[Vapor]

Vapor watched as everything came to be. The younger man with white hair attempted murder but the brunette supressed him into letting his contract go free.

Not much for talk, Celise managed to keep quiet while Jubilee and the others conversed. Their take on the situation was just as prominent as hers. While listening to their murmurs, she kept a close watch on the twins and Magneto- his sudden surprise and gesture to envelope the group in the transport that brought them there in the first place.

Once again lifted into the air, Celise tapped the field for safety precaution. You can never be too careful.

[arstyn]

Mortimer paled conciderably, looking at the ground far below. "Y'know Mags, you could give a person a bit of warning before you haul 'em hundreds of feet off the ground." He'd have to see about informing his master about how normal people travel. Or, as normal as they could get seeing they were all slightly insane mutants which were involved in a criminal group. He held on to the shred of hope that Magneto still had his 'copter, and tried not to look down.

[Havok]

As soon as Havok gave his report, his mind turned back to what he had learned on this mission. And his emotions turned back to tearing him apart. He was unaware of the things going on until Magneto brought the non-flyers together in his magnetic field. He broke out of his reverie only briefly to regard that this was happening.

[Magneto]

((For the sake of moving the story along, I think we should bubble this thread off. Anyone who wants to post a reaction here, fine...otherwise we pick up the action back at Acolyte headquarters.))