Introduction
Don't you just love govenment cover ups?
In reality, mutants are still out there, but there are very few left. Most of the big ones, such as Xavior, are gone, and the Institue he ran was demolished, and all his technologies, like the Blackbird, confiscated. Any mutant claiming to be a member of the X-Men was hunted down and killed, the others were captured and taken to one of several underground testing facilities around North America. Once the mutants arrived they were observed and tested, cataloged, then placed in a special power restriction cell, where they would remain until a jury of the military and govenment staffing could decide if their powers could be of any use or not.
If you were a mutant in this situation, you hoped you were worthless, cause that meant a quick, painless death.
However, if your powers could come in handy, the government would keep you around. Most of the rest of your life you'd be locked away in a cage, except, of course, when they brought you out, loced in shackles most of the time, and took you to the labs, where they would experiment on you, trying to find out how your specific powers worked, and how they could recreate it in a normal human.
Everything was going fine until the summer of 2021.
Near the begining of the year a mutant with unknown abilities was found and brought into the lab for tests. But that's all the offical data that exists now, because the particular facility that he was brought to, near the California/Nevada border, no longer exists. Something went wrong, and the facility went up in flames, causing a wave of radiation to sweep out all around for miles and miles, all the way to the edge of the west coast when the wind picked up. This radiation didn't affect plants or animals, or even most people, and no one even knows it happened. As far as the public knows, there was a traffic accident involving a tanker truck.
Now it's summertime and odd things are begining to happen to people. They've begun to change, to mutant. well, some of them. It seems that only certain people carry what is known as the 'x-gene,' and they are the only ones to be affected by the radiation from the facility. It took a few months for the radiation to activate the gene, but once it did it affected the person in a big way.
The government is now tracking these new mutants down with a new division, the Mutant Tracking Division, or MTD. Members of MTD don't wear suits or drive black cars, or even carry guns. They dress nomally and have extensive knowledge of many mutant types and know how to take them out without making a scene. This is because they themselves are hald-mutants, normal people who under went an experimental procedure and gained partial mutant powers. Or died.
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Basic Info./Plot
People are becoming mutants but no one but the military knows why. Anyone who become a mutant is hunted down. The setting is in and around California, starting in Los Angeles.
The military has covered up the existance of mutants for roughly 10 years, and now have a division called MTD to take care of the new mutants. Members of the MTD are normal people who gained mutant powers through an experimental procedure.
You can be a regular human, a mutant, or a member of MTD
Original mutant powers would be nice, but if you can put a new twist on old powers that'd be fine too.
There are no X-Men. They are all either dead or scattered, and really only Wolverine would be sure to still be alive because, well, he's Wolverine :D
If you really, really want to be an original X-Men character then you have to come up with a really good reason behind them still being alive.
It would take at least a month for anyone to know they were a mutant, so the longest you could have known about your abilities, up to the begining of this rp, would be about 4 months, long enough for some of you to have a handle on basics of your powers, however, some of you might not even know youd have powers yet
Character Info
You will need the following information somewhere in your character submissions:
Name:
Age:
Type: (human, mutant, half-mutant)
Side: (none, military, mutants, MTD, other)
Nickname: (a name derived from your abilities, like Scott Summers is Cyclops)
Abilities: (what are your mutant powers, and any other skills you might know, like martial arts)
Apperance: (what do you look like normall? what about when your powers are active? and what clothes do you wear in either case?)
Items: (do you carry anything around with you? like a gun or a knife?*)
Other: (anything else you wanna add)
As far as History and Personality go, as far as I care, you can have a single line and explain the rest in the rp as we go
*Items- people don't just carry guns around with them, not one that can be seen at least. If you have a weapon of some sort it has to be reasonable, and it has to be something people wouldn't be able to notice right off.
If you join this RP please look at the OOC every now and then. I will use it alot, for plot and stuff. And if you have any questions or comments please direct them to me there. Thank you, and please, have fun with this :D
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Alexis rode to the mall in relative silence, the only noises she made where when she shifted, rather uncomfortably. Once they got there, she unbuckled herself, jumping out of the vehicle as soon as it had stopped. She looked around for a moment, feeling varying levels of unease. Until Psycho made himself visible, she instantly knew that this was what she had seen earlier. She also knew that it couldn't end well. She sprinted away and tried her best to stay out of sight, and out of the way. She knew that's what she would end up doing anyway, and she didn't want to be a liability. She had herself pressed against a wall, not all that far from the others, but far enough. She listened to all the sounds, the chaos, she was glad she didn't have to see any of it, to feel any of it.
She heard screaming, she could hear the pain behind the cries. It almost brought her to tears hearing the pain of another person. She tried to be strong, she was too old to start blubbering like a baby, but she was scared. Alexis felt a wave of hot tears run down her face, everything was so unreal, she was just waiting for her mom to come in and wake her up, but she knew that wouldn't happen. She was indeed awake.
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With all the chaos going on, Romeo wasn't entire;y sure what to do. Westlyn had seemed to be in a daze up until the arrival of Hunter, which didn't suprise him, she had probably conciously or subconciously senced he would be on his way. but then she had mentioned something about destracting Psycho for a moment and run off, he hadn't caught all of it. The reason for this was the spears of glass flying towards Hunter, whom Psycho must now have felt was the greatest threat. Without thinking Romeo simply moved in front of Hunter, his blade covered back towards the projectiles. They shattered against his blades, and the shards flew all around him in a shining cloud.
Once that was taken care of Romeo touched Hunter's shoulder, then turned once more to face the killer of his mother. Reaching to his side he touches one of his ribs, and a blade begins to grow out from it, which he grabs and begins to pull, slowly. Eventually his true weapon emerges. When completely out of his body it can be seen that what looks like a huge, flattened out rib cage, then spine connecting all the outstretched ribs together and forming a handle as well.
"You can't kill me Psycho..." Romeo says, hefting the huge weapon in one hand, swinging it from side aside to both swat and and shread anything thrown at him. "Like yourself, my mind was borken the moment I saw my mother..." he continued forward, keeping his eyes trained on the mutant. Already it was clear hunter's powers were affecting the surrounding area. Debris came at him with less force than before, slower, and he could over all feel a difference, as if being within this field somehow intensified his emotions and turned them into power. "I will cut you, and cut you, and cut you...until there is nothing but a black soul left...and then I will cut that as well, until the devil himself sees fit to take mercy on you and carries you down to hell in his loving arms!"
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At that moment, however, Psycho noticed two things; first, as his mind reached out to find the minds of others, he became aware that someone was attempting to sneak up on him; second, he felt the presence of a young girl, hiding behind a wall. He felt the mutant girl's fear; it pleased him greatly. But first things first. The pillars that had once held up the ceiling that the mind which was attempting to sneak up on him was under suddenly began to crumble, and the ceiling began to crumble down. Confident that the person who had attempted to sneak up on him was now either dead or trapped, he returned his attention to the hiding girl. Picking up the body of the charred teenager, he fired it; it landed in front of the girl. Using his mind, he spoke to the girl's mind. Do you think you can escape from this? he cackled.
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Romeo never heard a word of what Hunter said, as Psycho's words were still rining in his ears. "Are you serious?" He asks with a laugh as he continues towards the now momentarily knocked down mutant. "I hate my father, I always have...see, you don't know one damned thing about me, you're just trying to play mind games and throw me off my objective...yes, it's true, the people have become like a family to me and care about them all, and no, I don't want them harmed, but right now, as far as I am concerned, it's you and me..." And with that, he steps up and swings the large axe-like weapon at Psycho, aiming to take off his head.
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"Sir, we've found them..." a man in uniform says to General Margrave, "It seems they've gathered once more, this time at a mall just on the other side of the Nevade state line. what should we do sir?"
"Send in the MTD SWAT team and tell them to set up a perimeter, and have Hinder set up a barrier to try and lower the damage level of the enviroment..." General Margrave says with a sigh, "And, send in Reaper. I know we'll have several bodies to dispose of, and many more will have to have their minds erased." he pauses and rubs his temples for a moment, then adds, "And, prepare a chopper, I'll be going in once the barrier is secured..."
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"Well? Is that all?" he demanded. "If this is all you have for me, a big toy sword made of your bones, then I clearly overestimated you! Or perhaps you are not yet angered enough? Dear me, what more do I have to do? I already destroyed your dear mother and left her practically unrecognisable!"
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what was in fact happening was that the bio-metal his body made was now coating all his vital organs in a protective layering, this included his brain, which would block all comunications Psycho might have with it. At the same moment several wounds appear all over his body as the blade-spikes fall away, and from these wounds flow the bio-metal, in sheets, which wrap around his body until they reach back to the would, at which point they re-enter his body. This causes all the large parts of his body, forearms, shins, upper arms and legs, chest, so on, to become covered in a type of armor, leaving his joint completely free. Over all of this, there was a coat of blood, a sign that such a quick jump in the evolution of his powers was causing him a great amount of pain and internal damage.
Moving closer to Psycho, he coughs up blood, then reaches out with his free left hand. Just before he would touch the mutant, a blde fires at high speed from the palm of his hand.
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Under the gas mask was a pale, grey face, with short black hair. Psycho's eyes were black and empty; there was nothing, no life, no soul behind them. Scars were all over his face, burn marks accompanying them. His mouth was thin and his lips were as grey as the skin of his face. It was a horrible sight, but that was the least of Romeo's worries.
A raging, deranged, painful roar escaped from Psycho's mouth as the entire mall began to shake. Everything suddenly began flying around; nothing was left stationary. Pillars and other large, fixed objects were completely shattered into dust, and windows were entirely shattered into a fine grain. The lights in the mall began to flicker on and off as people smashed into the floor, heavy objects smashing into people, while in the centre of it all Psycho hung in the air, his scream echoing through the mall. It was absolute chaos; a small show of Armaggeddon in the mall.
And then, it was over. The lights stopped flickering; the objects that were left fell to the ground. It was a gruesome, horrific scene; the bodies of hundreds of people littered the mall; blood and gore was splashed against the walls and the floor. And Psycho was gone; his last, primal roar seemed to continue to echo in the mall. And in the centre of it all lay a gas mask.
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Hunter had started to inch forward as Romeo has seemed to undergo some monsterous transformation. It hurt his heart, somehow, to see such a thing, but then he was also assaulted by the huge wave of energy that came with the roar. Reaching down with his clawed left hand he dug in, keeping his ground and letting the area of psychic energy her had created fade away. Then, knowing that some of the others could never withstand such an attack, he reached out to their minds. First contact was made with Westlyn, then Alex, then, reluctantly, with Natasha. he wasn't able to hold them in place, however, he did manage to enclose them all in a sort of psychic bubble that would keep them from being crushed or impaled, though they would still be sent flying and be tossed around quite a bit.
(and, i'll wait for everyone else to post before i make another. sorry guys, just needed the battle to move on)
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She felt something almost foreign enter her mind, but didn't have much time to think about it as she was flung off the ground. She flew a good distance before hitting something, probably a tree of some sort, breaking a few ribs in the process. She fell to the ground in what seemed to be slow-motion, almost unable to even scream. She then fell to the ground, she had remembered enough to cover her head, hoping to keep it from hitting something. Once she was sure it was over, Alexis slowly started to try and sit up, wincing at the pain, tears rolling down her cheeks. She looked around, she had no clue where she was, that wasn't good at all.
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He got back in the jeep and turned back to the former MTD safehouse. He would pick up Maintenance and leave the organization forever. It was time to start a new family.
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Just then something inside Dustin's brain had snapped and he was overcome by rage. This rage was something that he had never felt before in his life it had taken control so fast and there was nothing he could do to stop it. Letting out a roar of his own he stood and you could see the complete rage in his eyes. He was slowly losing control of himself and he knew it. He had to get out of there and quick before he did something he would regret. Looking over at his friends as they regrouped together a single tear fell from his eye. Then he ran as fast as he could until the mall was nothing but a speck in the distance.
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The others begin their job as well. A woman known as Hinder claps her hands together and sets up a large barrier around the entire mall and the surrounding area. This barrier cannot be seen from the outside, and none may enter, though those inside can leave through it. From the inside it looks like a huge, bright pink dome. Hinder, along with Bind, a younger girl who looks alot like her, begin following behind Reaper, helping those he left behind, moving bodies, and other such things. Another member known as Feather begins moving debris as if they were nothing.
Soon the area has been cleared, all rubble moved aside, all bodies that still existed accounted for. Target, the last member, holds a touch screen phone with a list of pictures and names, and if he finds anyone on the list among the bodies he marks them off and continues on, but so dar, nothing. Until he comes across the gasmask. Smiling he checks off the name Psycho from the list. Once all of this is done the survivers are brought together. Most of the mutants are gone by now, but Hunter and Romeo are found and brought to the General.
"Hunter, go and have yourself checked out by the medics..." General margrave says, before looking at his son. "Romeo...what were you thinking? Running off like that, look how many people have died because of this."
"And what would you have done?" Romeo asks. "Could you have done any better? You never caught that bastard before, but I was able to destroy him...and yes, it might have taken more lives, but if it were up to you me and all my friends would be test subjects right now!"
"Romeo, that isn't true. I was trying to gather all of you up so I could recruit you and-" the General's words stop when his son spits in his face.
"Father...General, this is the last you've seen of your son. The next time you see this face, it'll be smiling as all of the MTD crumbles around it." Romeo says, turning, flipping the old man off, and then walking towards the barrier. Target walks over and asks the General if he should take care of the boy, but the General shakes his head and watches as Ronin dissapears into the desert.
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