Let's Raise Some Hell (MH15)

After the Storm Trooper pressed the button, he threw the remote down, smashing it near April's feet. She winced and cast a deathglare at him, but he disregarded it. The Trooper removed his gloves and quickly grasped her by the nape of her neck without warning.
"Get your hands out of the way, let me see."

April put up no struggle, even as a thumb somewhat roughly swiped the blood off her lips and dried her chin.
"You'll be fine." The snobbish Storm Trooper announced, though he didn't release her yet.

She demonstrated a small, sour smile.
"Should I feel flattered? You almost sound like you care." April laughed softly.

"It's time to move to the second phase. Get in there and lie that little heart-shaped ass off.. Leia."
After he released her, the Trooper ran off in the direction of the other small group.

April stared down the dark alley as if in a trance for a moment, then shuddered and finally turned toward the door. Waiting for someone to walk out didn't take long. Now people were beginning to feel the effects of the vaporized inhibitor, and that was bound to make a few upset to say the least.

As questions began to fly, the brunette stepped in through a back door and proceeded to search for her audience. Both hands and face still stained crimson, it was obvious something happened to her. It took only moments for someone to notice her and ask; then it was time to let the pandemonium begin.

"They're out there! We caught onto them, but they ran away!" She related, pointing to the door while trying to keep one hand over her nose.

"I heard them, saying they want to take us down a few notches."
It didn't take long at all, and bystanders added to the small spectacle, some bringing napkins or tissue so April could stop the trickle, and as each reached to help her their favors were returned with a tiny glimpse of how glorious they could truly be.
Even a little drop of April's blood was like a drug from another planet. Mutant super-steriods was a good way to describe it. Normally the brunette was very mindful of where it went if she was ever injured.
Tonight, however, was all about trickery and deception.

Jason turned to someone loudly saying, "They're out there! We caught onto them, but they ran away!" It was April, one of the students from Xavier Institute. He looked at Sara and then pushed through the crowd to reach the girl. People were already swarming around her, offering help from what looked like a nose bleed.
"Are you alright, April?" asked Jason, looking very concerned."What happened?"

He had no idea what went on outside of the room, but he had to guess it wasn't going to be pretty. Should they evacuate? Some people already left the building. But Jason wasn't going. He had to get to the bottom of whatever was going on. He knew there was no point in calling the police. Because they weren't going to help, they knew mutants weren't friendly. At least that's what Brotherhood made everyone look like.

Niko made his way to Axe, wondering what the next step was. Allayne was talking to another man, who Niko assumed was the Mr. Andrews he talked about who ran the special school. It would be great to get a hold of someone to help with this situation. Something was not sitting right with Niko; using a gas to take away powers, but not to kill?

Niko went to use his cell and call the cops, when he noticed there were no bars whatsoever in this area. It felt too coincidental to Niko that all these ominous signs would happen on the day mutants were grouped together.

Natalie, Chaos, Archangel and Archard were on alert. The AoE was ready should something happen. But what of everyone else? Niko couldn't help feeling like he did when he was hunted down from OKC. It gave him chills. He didn't give a damn about any flatscans, but he had to protect the depowered mutants. Without his synergy, he was still a good fighter.

He was about to ask Allayne what the next step was, when Axe started talking to Mr. Andrews about his thoughts.

Natalie was enjoying her night,dancing with Allayne and flirting around with Niko,completely oblivious to what was going on around her.Though when that mist broke out,she started feeling cold,which was somewhat ironic since she could never feel cold.Everyone was startled and people started running around afraid,screaming at the top of their lungs.
Natalie's head started to throb,and she almost fell down,shivering as she felt colder with every passing second,but in all truth,she was warming up.She was getting hotter than usual,making her body act weird.

Niko was soon by her side,and she tried to steady herself by wrapping her arms around him.She was scared,and felt terribly ill.She couldn't understand what had happened,and was too weak to use her powers.Niko's concern was acknowledged,but before she could answer he had already left,trying to find people and talk with the rest of the team.In the meantime,Natalie was trying not to puke,and mostly-keep herself conscious.

A man approached her once again,and told her that Dragon had ordered him to take care for hair.Under other circumstances she would be extremely mad at Dragon for ordering someone to take care of her as if she was a little baby,but at that specific moment she actually felt thankful.
"I..ill...dizzy...can't.."she managed to say before she collapsed into the man's arms,unconscious.

Sara was trying her best to keep people calm. She wasnt worried so much about the danger lurking in the crowd as she was about Jason. He was her life. If anything happened to him- she didnt even want to think about something like that. " I dont know whats going on. Can you still use your abilities?"

Natasha's world was going black and she couldnt stop it. She needed to raise her blood sugar and soon.nif she didnt she could go into a coma and die. She tried to ward the nice man but she couldnt get the words out before she passed out. A watch on her wrist started to beep a warnin.

Allayne was holding Natalie's unconscious form stable while instructing Niko to get a cold cloth. He saw a beautiful blond whom he thought he recognized from the Institute crumpling onto the floor, and Allayne instructed his new guard (courtesy of Niko's teammate Archangel) Kane to see to her quickly to make sure she was ok.

Jason's wife was asking about abilities as well, confirming Allayne's beliefs that this 'power-outage' was definitely planned. Allayne wasn't sure what came next. He was looking around and saw April, the amplification girl, bleeding. What was going on? Where were the heroes? Why was he playing Sherlock-frikkin'-Holmes when there must be hundreds of other mutants here, some with detective and police backgrounds, no doubt.

Beginning to feel like McClane in Die Hard, Allayne thought to himself with a grin Yippie Kay-yay, motherfuckers!

Catching one familiar voice out of the cluster of strangers, April turned to see Jason and immeadiately stumbled over her words.
"There were these three.. they were doing something outside, and at first it looked like they were maybe drunk and goofing off. But then we saw one more of them come down from the roof and then they were talking and laughing about how they were going to teach us a lesson.."
April's babbling run-on broke for a deep, shaky breath, and she moved a bundle of tissue away from her nose to observe the trickle had nearly stopped. A few tears rolled down her cheeks while she attempted to explain it all.

"We went up to them and asked them what was going on.. and then they started pushing my date around, and a girl came after me. She hit me, and I fell down.. when I got up, they were all running away.. I don't know what happened to my date.."
Divulging everything made the brunette shake uncontrollably, and wrapping her tiny arms around her barely-covered skin didn't seem to be helping chase the chill away.
"Mr. Andrews, I'm scared..! What's going to happen?"

They were almost in the clear, nearly through the crowd and to the front doors which were congested with people.. then the fallout began. In less than a moment's notice, the Russian girl that had been right behind him staggered and fell. A quick shift in air density put an invisible pillow between Natasha and the hard surface of the floor. A glance around noted other individuals dropping like flies.

"Looks like this fandango was doomed from the start."
As his intuition was telling him all along. Though who could have guessed it would turn out like this?
Getting Natasha out of the way before some careless idiot trampled the girl, the Lone Ranger moved her to a nearby table, shoving forgotten glasses off to clatter and crash on the floor with a low-key swipe of moving air.

"What's this chirpin' doohickey?"
Lifting the girl's wrist to read the incessantly beeping 'watch', Kas quickly got the meaning behind the annoying alert.
Keeping Natasha in the corner of his vision, Kas went for the bag she'd been carrying and hoped to whatever benevolent entity that may hear a plea that the girl came prepared for such an eventuality, and there was something to level her out quickly. Other stuff happening; well that would have to wait. One lone cowboy could only save one damsel in distress at a time.

Dragon sighed. He watched the events unfold. "Niko. Not to alarm you but I am about number 3 on america's most wanted. The police being here is not good. Lets go" his eyes darted from side to side as he began to reach into his jacket pocket and he drew the folded Katana capsule, press the button of this 1inch wide, 3 inch long, 1cm thick device a full sized Katana was drawn. Dragon rushed over to Nat whom was hanging in Jace's arms. "Jace get her out of here. Now!" he shouted at his friend. Jason nodded and scooped her up in his arms and began to leave, He stopped and threw his gun to Dragon and his folded Katana's "Take em boss" he said before leaving with Nat

Dragon smiled catching the gun then putting it in his waistband. He caught the Katana's one in his other hand, the other into his pocket. He saw Kelly Andre Sharp near some girl with an annoying beep. Dragon moved over. He looked at the watch and seemed puzzled "Wow her blood sugars low...You got anything for that? What about insulin? Would that work?" Dragon reached whistled Johnny whom came over and threw a small case at Dragon then left once more. He looked at the other guy with an raised eyebrow "Who is she anyway?"

Niko didn't know who she was, but Allayne wanted her safe. The air guy that Axe knew and Archangel were already working on the blonde that passed out. Arch was telling Niko about his current status in the criminal world, and Niko understood what he meant. "No worries, man. I got this. Take the girls and bail. I don't think it's cops anymore. I'm afraid it's like the movie SAW or something.", he told Archangel, feeling more nervous than when he first lost his ability.
Seeing Natalie's unconscious body was not something Niko was happy about. He admitted he actually had feelings for her, and it was confirmed not long before when he went to her workplace. Now, her body hung limp, and it was worse to feel her warm body. Not a trace of the cold snap that was Natalie. Niko was getting mad.

He looked around for Archard and Eris, for Allayne, for anyone who could put this right. Niko wanted out of this suspense film, but he also wanted to help Allayne know the 'why' of it all.

That Leia girl that was crying was the same one sauntering all over the room earlier, and it seemed to Niko that the tears she was shedding felt like the ones his ex shed years ago when she cheated on Niko. They felt contrite, if not all together fake. Niko wanted to tell Allayne that, but was it just because he still hurt about his ex? He didn't know what to think anymore.

Rachel tried again to change her look. It only fizzled as her dress never took another shift. Shit, cursed Rachel under her breath. She had no idea what was happening, and no was talking until some girl ran into the room, with blood on her. She seemed pretty shaken up at what must have been some sort of a brawl. She walked to Andrews. "We need to go after them, before they get away." stated Rachel, impatiently. Everyone was getting ready and Rachel wanted piece of the action.

She noticed a man with katanas. He must be the leader of these people with guns. Now, however he was helping Natasha on a floor. Poor kid, shouldn't eat this many candies. Russians, and their sweets. Rachel didn't know how to approach the man, but she was going to do it, nonetheless. "Let me come with you, I can be of help." said Rachel. "We are not getting any younger staying here and waiting for help We need to go and we need to go now..." Rachel was getting very impatient now. She turned to April and stared at her. "Where did you see these people?"

Dragon heard a voice talking. He turned his head then back to Natasha. "Here." He gave Kas a lollie "Enjoy" he got up and left walking to the person whom adressed him "I am getting my people out, you're more than welcome to join those leaving. Under mine an AoE's guard, cause I am not staying if thats the cops, I am thrid most wanted man, in everywhere. Anyway, if its not. Get a weapon or something."

Johnny looked at Eris and Archy "My Lady, Dragon has told me we are leaving. He's asked me to escort you. You there, you are welcome to join us. We are leaving. Please, don't argue, I am just following orders, he doesn't think its safe."

Dragon pressed a button and his katana folded down. He put it in his pockets once more. He moved swiftly to Allayne "Mrd or cops, whats more likely?"

"M.R.D., if anyone, judging by the gas' ability to knock our powers out.", Allayne said eyeing April. "But I don't THINK it's the M.R.D., to be honest." He looked at Kas, Jason and Dragon, and decided he was going to let on his suspicions to the three guys he thought would give more light of their own. "Niko, can you take care of the young April over there?", he asked with a barely perceptible nod to Niko. Niko smiled and walked over to calm April down.

"Alright guys, here's my thoughts before we make a move.", Axe said to the other three. "If it were M.R.D. or cops, as soon as we got shut down, they would've stormed in and gunned down. But we're not. Why?" Allayne put his hands up in an inquisitive manner.

"I think someone is watching us, like a behavioral experiment.", Allayne explained, "Kinda like a whodunit mystery." Taking in a breath, he asked "The only person that said anything about other people being here is April. Why has no one else seen anything?"

"I don't know about any of you, but I want to know the mechanics of this situation." He looked at Dragon and said, "I want a Katana and a pair of guns. That's my little brother Niko there. Make sure if he wants to go, you find him a way out." 

He looked around, hoping for others to chime in. He didn't want to go in McClane one man army style, but he wanted the final answer to this mystery.

Scooby-Doo, where are you?

Dragon nodded. He spoke to Kain "Go see if Niko wants an escort out." he turned to Allayne and chucked him a silver pen like thing. "Press the button in the top, it will unfold." He passed him the Desert Eagle Jace chucked him, and then gave him the one Bruce put in his hand. "They aren't normal Desert Eagles, they have an added kick, its like holding a 50 cal, keep a good grip, they are FMJ, with armour piercing rounds and a inferno capsule at the front and cryo capsule at the back, in the middle are explosive ball bearings. So, try not to miss." He turned to Bruce, "go check on Natasha." he looked at Allayne "So, lets get ready" he reached into his waist cut and put together three parts of an UMP-45 smg. "Mines bigger than yours" he said with a grin

Listening to Johnny and chuckling at what he called her, she listened to the rest. Looking at Dragon with a look of disbelief and anger, she growled but didn't argue. ''Fucking bastard doesn't think i can look after myself even though i did that a lot when he was away. Goddamn dickhead not getting any tonight.'' She mumbles to Johnny and took his hand in hers like she used to years ago. Staying close to him, Eris looked around with her hazel and blue eyes that seemed to pale compared to the normal gold and electric blue.

Jason watched Allayne, the man who just spoke against April. Not thinking about it for a while, Jason turned to the girl. Well, she was at the dance floor, earlier, but no no one saw her leave or even slip away silently. So, what happened? Where did she go. Jason's powers, didn't completely faded. He was still slightly was able to search into people's heads. It was much harder then usual, but he had to get to the bottom of the problem. "April?" said Jason, turning to look at the young girl. "Where were you when everyone was getting gassed?" Jason silently slipped into her mind, and placed himself there, waiting for her to answer. Was she going to lie or just bend the truth to an extreme where she sounds like she is right?

People gathered around, casting speculation on the why's and what's of the chemical agent 'XX' being introduced via the heating vents. MRD, police, or simply some sadistic individual wanting to wreck the party?

April stood off to the side, blinking as if dazed. She frowned a bit as weapons were being passed around. A woman approached and asked her where she saw the suspicious group. Raising a shaky hand, she pointed at a rear exit. A tiny smile was given to the friend Allayne called over to help. Then Mr. Andrews questioned her further.
The girl turned her colorless irises on Jason, opening her mouth as she thought to say something that never made it out. 'Sorry'.

Staggering forward a step, April grasped Mr. Andrews' arm to keep her balance. Her hand ever so briefly brushed his, transferring a small red stripe from her pale skin to his.

"I-I was outside that door, having a cig."
Which was the truth, partially..

Johnny sighed. "He's not worried about you not being able to handle youself Chaos, he's just worried. He's got no powers, and he's only solution is retreat. Its either Police or MRD, in the world, you and him are the 3rd most wanted people, if its MRD he doesn't want you taken from him, he doesn't want to lose you again" He smiled at her "Don't be angry"

Jace walked over was outside still carrying Nat. "You better wake up soon girl. I gotta stuff to do." he carried her out side and waited Johnny and Eris.

"Much obliged, pardner." Commented the cowboy, also outside with an unconcious girl draped over his arms. He gave the scruffy-looking fellow a goofy smirk.
"I reckon if some lowlife was gonna turn this shindig into a shootout, the woulda started already.. don'tcha think?"
Leaving with an implied suggestion for someone else to consider, the Lone Ranger disappeared into the dark parking lot.

Something still didn't sit right with Axe, as Niko came up next to him. April was outside smoking a cigarette, so that took care of why she was outside and got hurt. But why didn't anyone storm the party?

People were starting to leave in little groups, but there were still tons of people left in attendance. Who did April come with? Allayne tried to remember, but he was so drunk on being able to use his powers freely. Was Jabba the Hut the one she came in with? No, that would've been noticeable. Maybe a StormTrooper?, he thought to himself, and his mind filtered back images of earlier that night.

Walking up to Jason and whispering "Can you look in her mind and search for a Stormtrooper?". Allayne was sure about it with each minute. Why didn't she run to her date in a moment of fear? Where was the date now?

For a moment, his power flared and he heard heartbeats like a sonar. He wasn't sure, but it seemed there were some within the walls as well. But with his power giving out, that couldn't be trusted.

"By the way", he said to Jason, Dragon and Niko, "I think there are people in little rooms on the insides of the walls."

Jason leaned in closer to Allayne as he was whispering to search April's mind. He was still inside her head, and he knew something wasn't adding up in her story. There were too many holes, and too many missing parts. He'd have to search her furthermore. But as Jason was looking through every part of her mind, she pushed and grabbed onto him, his powers ceased to exist. It felt as if someone just kicked him out of the bar, and he landed hard on concrete. "I got you," said Jason as he steadied her. 

'Sorry'. was all Jason heard before his powers went out like a candle. He realized that she was source of some of the people losing their abilities. "I-I was outside that door, having a cig." At this point, Jason had hard time believe April and her story. She might have gone and had a cigarette, but something told him it was much more then just a smoke.
"Well, thank you. You've been most helpful, April." said Jason smiling at the girl to reassure her everything was fine and she wasn't the main suspect. Then, he turned to Allayne and took him by the elbow as he gently led him away from everyone.

"I know there is something big going on. April's answers are very vague and short. She is stuttering as she is talking. I got into her mind and heard 'Sorry', whatever that means. However, I think she knows much more then she lets on. I think she is somehow tied into all of this. She might even be part of this." said Jason, walking with Allayne. "If you think there is people in walls, then we have nothing to lose. I think we should take a small group up there and see what's going on." s

Eris listened to Johnny and squeezed his hand before snuggling against his side. Johnny was like a brother and deep down, she knew he was right but Eris is stubborn. ''Well i best be wanted...I'm damn sexy.'' She winks, teasingly and then sighs. ''I won't be taken away, ever and i'll be angry all i want, sweetheart. You know my temper. It takes more than your words to calm me down now. Having a long time away from you caused that.'' She grins madly and leans up, kissing Johnny's cheek before looking towards Jace. ''NO WAY! Jace!'' She exclaims and looks down to see Natalie in his arms. Putting her spare hand to her mouth, she strokes her hair out of her face. ''Wake up girl...wake up..Don't leave me with these two thickheads.'' She winks at Jace and Johnny before snuggling closer to Johnny. Eris herself was feeling colder without her pyrokinesis.

Logan arrived at the party late. It seemed that he missed the excitement. He saw Kelly carrying one of the students in his arms. The shrill beeping from her watch was hurting his ears. He ran over to them and grabbed her wrist. He looked at it while he turned off the alarm. " Take her to a hospital immediately.Dont argue. Just go."

He ran past him inside. He could smell blood, tears, and fear. What a party he missed indeed. He weaved through the crowd and made it to Jason. " Whats going on?"

Lingering near Mr. Andrews and Axe, April shifted from one foot to the other, rubbing her arms and shivering slightly. Faint flecks of blue slowly returned in her eyes as a chemical cocktail burned its way out of her system.
At last, Jason said "Well, thank you. You've been most helpful, April."
The girl nodded shortly.
"Whatever."

Seeing as how the group was breaking up to investigate the building and circumstances of the entire incident, April turned to disappear into the diminishing crowd, brushing a few elbows as she passed, watching a certain light surface in thier eyes as a realization hit them. The gas had taken away thier powers; but now they'd returned at more than full capacity. It was a feeling some could get addicted to, like the rush after your first kiss or first shot of liqour; and it was just as bittersweet. A sense of longing for more even before the first effect had set in completely hit fast.
April knew what that feeling was like, even if she couldn't 'amp' herself.
Making a slow trek to the front doors, April wiped her tear-streaked and bruised face, failing to pay attention as she bumped into random people. One a gruff, rugged man with an expression of great displeasure on his face. She staggered slightly, and patted the fierce-looking middle-aged man on the arm in apology, giving him an extra shot of amplification. He looked like he could really liven up this party.
Stopping short of the doors, April watched the man talking to Mr. Andrews for a second, waiting to see when realization would take hold.