Los Angeles

As he took the left on the street he had to her he felt like he was getting weak for some strange reason. Dustin stopped and put her down on the sidewalk, as he did that he felt some of his energy come back but not all. What had she done to him it wasn't a severe weakness but he noticed it." What's my power what is your's what did you just do to me?. My power are complicated." he said not knowing how to explain it to her. Then he remembered a story that his grandma use to tell him when he was little before he went to bed." Have you ever heard of a story about a guy name wolverine who had like powers?"

"Don't worry, your energy will return in a minute," Westlyn said, standing with her arms crossed and her face impassive. "I can take people's abilities for up to an hour. Their energy goes down for a second but it will build back up quickly. In a sence I'm like Rouge, if you've ever heard of her, except I don't knock people out when I touch them and I can choose when I want to borrow someone's abilities. They also don't lose their power so I guess I'm lucky." She cocked her head to the side and watched him closely. "Oh, so you're like wolverine. That would explain it..." Her attention was now on the road ahead of them.

He stood up as he felt all his energy returning to his body. She had explained what she was and it made total sense to him." That would explain what?" he asked with curiosity. Dustin looked back and saw that the rest of the group was approaching them" Hey we will go on down to whatever it is that you are looking for when the others get here" he said pointing down the road showing her that they were getting close to where they were." So wait I have a question are all of them like us the group we are with?". If they were it was kinda strange that they all happened to meet up on this day. Something felt a little odd as he thought more and more about the situation. They needed a safe place that they could go and figure out what the hell they were going to do next.

Westlyn shrugged. "Seems like it. They all have some good abilities." She blinked at his first question. "Well when I touched your skin I got a zap of energy. Usually that means your one heck of a powerhouse." She grinned before stuffing her hands into her pockets. It was weird to grow so used to people in such a short period of time. She opened her phone looked at the time. "Damn, they better hurry up and get over here so we can check it out. I'm supposed to be back at the modeling place soon." She snapped the phone shut and shoved it back into her pocket with a frown.

"Well, if we don't go towards it then we'd have to wait till the news tomorrow to figure out what went on out here, right?" Romeo asked Alex with a smirk, "I'm a pretty impatient guy you know." He laughed a bit, then a little more at her next comment. In response he held up his right hand and caused a blade that looked somewhat like a katana blade to grow from his wrist and out through his palm. He then snapped it off, and as the jagged edge reseaded back into his body and turned back into bone, he flinched, then sighed as it began to heal.

"I think I'm a bit dangerous for their health as well, don't you?" He said with a smile as they caught up with the others. He was just able to catch the tail end of their conversation, and he smirked. "So you're worried about your modeling when there's a fight to be had? Maybe you should put a lid on your mutant stuff for the day and head on home then."

Once the girl from the bench had caught up he stood there for a moment before suddenly a sword came sailing through the air. Jumping up he knocked it aside with the blade he had just created, then looked off in the direction it had come from.

"Nice, more blades. I think I'm gonna have fun tonight..." He says before taking off at a dead run, going on instincts now.

Since he had walked there with Alex, keeping pace with her instead of hurrying on, he was still full of energy, and soon arrived on the sceen. What he saw amazed him. There was a man with a sword fighting a werewolf, as well as another man with swords floating around him in a circle fighting a man who seemed to hover just off of the ground, who had sent boulders flying towards the sword guy.
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"Nice try, but it's not gonna work Psycho!" Hunter yelled at the psychic, leaping up and actually using the rocks as stepping stones to get closer to his target. Why didn't that other sword come to me? Is Psycho affecting my powers? Or another mutant nearby? he wondered.

He had tried to summon another sword just before he leapt onto the approaching stones, but it hadn't worked. The feeling of the summon had come to him, but not the sword. Now he had to rely on the cyclone of blades around him to protect him as began concentrating, thinking of fire. Just as he was able to create a spark and ignite the sambuca, he noticed another person had appeared at the edge of the battlefield, carrying what looked like a cheap katana.
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"I am Lycan, king of the mutants and lord of the animal kingdom!" Lycan roared, leaning into the headbutt, his head becoming hard as two large, spiral goat horns appeared on either side of his head. As they slammed heads he knocked Cole away. "You are a disgrace to mutant kind, the Hitler of mutant kind! And for your crimes against us you will be punished!"

Even as he spoke he swung his clawed hand at Cole, first the left, then the right, not worrying about his wild sword or the fact that the mutants from earlier were closing in. He was lost in the fight, and the righteousness that he believed came from his mouth.

The grin on Westlyn's lips grew. "And miss out on the action? Are you kidding?" She cracked her knuckles as she chaced after him. She skidded to a halt beside him and a grin formed on her face. "Now these are the kind of powers I need." Without hesitation she let her fingers gently rake along Romeo's cheek. "I'm borrowing this, alright?" It wasn't too painful to mimick him and pull out a peice of... bone, was it? From these she bent down to the ground and picked up a slightly curved pipe that had broken off of something during the battle.

"Alright, let's hope this works." The model pulled off her elastic belt. Her pants sagged slightly but she didn't take notice as she clipped both ends onto the pipe. She took the spear-shaped bone and put it to the contraption as if it was a bow. "Which one do you figure I should shoot?" Westlyn asked, closing one eye to aim, the grin on her lips forming a smirk.

"Well, my metallic bone things are kinda like silver, so, I'd say aim for the horny werewolf, but that's just me..." Romeo said, smiling, although his eyes were set and serious. Slowly he took his over shirt off, switching the blade from hand to hand, and tossed it into the wind. After that he began to form blades all along his arms; one from each shoulder, elbow, and forearm, then another which he snapped off to use as a sword. He then formed four short, sharp points along the knuclkes of each hand. "I call this my Porcupine Mode, what cha think?"

Tiny lines of blood dripped from the base of each of the blades, but slowly stopped as his secondary power kicked in. He had noticed that the guy with all the swords had set the floating man on fire, and had seemed to notice they were there. He hoped the others would arrive soon, not for back up, but to make things more interesting.

"Alright, hope he isn't the good guy." Westlyn winked at Romeo before turning the bow and the spear towards him. She followed his movements expertly before shooting the arrow exactly where he would be when it arrived. From there she put her hand to her side and another spear like bone pulled out. She winced but was thoroughly impressed. "Damn, it hurts just pulling out one. Porcupine Mode sounds like it would be horrible." She looked over at him before loading another one.

[sorry short post]

Alexis just smiled at Ronin, she wasn't scared of him. She ran after him when she guessed he had seen the other mutants. She looked at the fight, Damn... It's not many people but... Wow. She crouched down, thinking, So I'm not the best fighter... But you don't need a gun or fancy powers to kill someone, right? She shook her head, thinking about just sitting this one out, the one looked like he was retreating. But I wouldn't have picked up on this if it was just going to end quickly, would I? She decided to sit back for the moment and help if they needed any, she doubted she would be much help at the moment anyway.

Lycan only laughed as Cole ran away, but then something caught his eye, what looked like a bone spear, only silver, flying towards him. he caught it easily and held it up to his nose, getting a good sniff. "Romeo, this is you're, isn't it boy?" He then yelled, looking right at Romeo and laughing again. "Just in time, too bad you seem to be trying to help the wrong person, and for that, you and your friends will die!

"Little one, here," Romeo said to Alex as two of his blades fell out of his body, landing before her. They were the perfect size and weight for her to use as dagger should she need to. "Stay back, and try not to let anything happen to you, alright? I'll be back..." With that Romeo rushed into the fray, aiming for the back of the black car. Jumping up he lands on the hood, then sends two small blades out towards the enemies, one towards Lycan and the other at Psycho.

After this he charges on, leaving a dent in the hood of the car. Lycan manages to catch and toss aside the blade, along with the spear, but suddenly Romeo is there, and his bladed knuckles catch him across the jaw, causing his lower jaw to rip open and bleed.

"Never...never threaten my friends!" Romeo warned Lycan, as the two began to flat out street fight, Romeo using his blades and swords, Lycan using claws nearly as hard as steal. It was obviously an uneven match, as Lycan was far stronger, but Romeo was smaller, quicker, and able to keep, and even out pace the older mutant.
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Blades, from his skin? And that girl, she has the same powers...are they related? Don't tell me an entire family of mutants were able to evade the MTD for so long that- Hunters thoughts were banished as the flames backfired. His swords, still spining, were able to disapate most of the flames, but his sleeves got scorched in the process and he was forced to leap backwards, closer to Cole's car.

"Damnit!" Hunter yells, then looks over and listens to Cole, just before the mutant boy he saw earlier runs across the car and begins to fight Lycan. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but I'm with you, let's get outta here!"

Hunter then sends his blades out all at once towards Psycho, however before they get close enough for him to use they dissapear back to the MTD base, and by that time Hunter has reached the car and climbed into the passgner seat.

When Romeo had shot off, so had Westlyn. She jumped to the roof of the car with the two MTD inside. "Hello there," she chirped, crouching on the hood. She put her hand out and a bone crashed through the windsheild. With her other hand she grabbed one of their neck's [Hunter] just long enough to absorb some of his abilities. "Thanks, hun," she said with a grin and threw herself off of the car. The model proceeded to work with the power. If what she had seen was correct, then he had some minor kenetic abilities. She threw a hand out, gazing at a small wooden crate that appeared to be filled with track. "Hey you!" Westlyn yelled to Psyco and threw the box towards him at full force. She followed up with a bone spear; it was weaker than usual due to absorbing two abilities at once.

Alexis rolled her eyes as she picked up the blades, "Yeah, 'cause I was plannin' on getting myself killed." She mumbled before running back a little and settling down behind some rubble. She then thought about where the daggers had come from, she made a face but held onto them. She didn't want to lose a weapon if she ended up needing one, that would make her idiot of the week for sure. She leaned over so she could watch some of the fight, This is insane. She pinned herself back against the rubble when the MTD flung his blades out. Alexis began to calmly tell herself that she would be okay, that nothing would happen to her if she just listened to Ronin and didn't do anything stupid. She gripped the two blades a little tighter as she listened to the fight.

Finally Lycan had had enough of this battle. "You are a worthy mutant, even if you are a halfbreed..." He says to Romeo, snatching him up by the throat, "You could have been a general in the Resistance someday, but now, I am afraid I will have to end your short, miserable life..." With that he began to squeeze Romeo's throat, cutting off his air, causing him to loose conciousness.

As this happenes, Romeo's power gives out, and his blades reabsorb into his body, becoming bone once more. Just as everything goes black, however, his spinal bones grow, fusing together to create one long fin-like blade, which slices Lycan's fingers off. The Old Mutant lets out a roar of pain, and as Romeo falls to the ground, he kicks him away, causing his unconcious body to land near Alex, the spinal blade snapping off to lie against his side like half of a large shield.

"Psycho, hurry this up!" Lycan then yells, stopping the bleeding but unable to grow back the fingers. "We have wasted too much time here!"
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Hunter was amused at first, as the second mutant landed on the roof, but suddenly the window shattered and a metalic bone-spear was right next to his head, but then gently the girl reaches in and touched his neck. This caused him to swoon a little, already exausted from over use of his powers, and for a second he blacked out. The next thing he new he and Cole were headed straight for Psycho, and Cole was actually telling the kids to run.

"You big softy," Hunter says with a laugh, placing his hand on the dash of the car and closing his eyes. Slowly a barrier forms at the front end of the car, like a shield.

Westlyn turned, hearing Alex's voice. She hurried over to her and knelt down beside Romeo. "Um... ow?" With some effort she managed to put one of his arms around her shoulders, expecting the younger girl to take the other arm. She kept looking back, wondering if the over-powered mutant would follow. She dear to god hoped not. "Common, let's get out of here," she said and began pulling away from the battle.

[ooc: evil short posts!]

Romeo groaned a little. He could feel himself being lifted up and carried away, as well as all of the cuts all over his body. His back was killing him, and even though the wound created by the finblade had stopped bleeding it was still open and throbbing with pain. The other cuts were refusing to heal as well, but had also stopped bleeding, and he knew in the back of his mind that he should sleep, that sleeping would heal him, as it always did, but he couldn't just leave his friends.

"I...can walk..." Romeo says weakly, trying to stop them. Placing a foot down he nearly falls, and so simply allows the two girls to help him away from the battle, taking as much of his weight back on himself as he can. "Are you two alright?"

(lol, it's okay, don't worry about it. we have so many people and none of us seem to be able to post at the same time, so it's kinda expected ^_^')

Dustin had still been recovering while the fight was going on. But once he got all of his strength back he noticed that Alex and Westlyn were doing to best that they could to get Ronin to safety but the couldn't carry him and watch their backs. He ran over to the girls and said" Don't worry about what's going on back there I'll cover you as you get him somewhere safe. I'll find you guys later I will follow your smells." Taking off running he didn't know what he was doing but he had to make sure that this fight ended quickly.

Thinking he came up with an idea to not hurt the agents but give the two older mutants time to get out of there. He let his claws come threw his skin and jumped landing on the back of the car that the agents were in. He climbed to the edge of the truck and leaned over and almost skidded his head against the pavement. Without really thinking of the consequences he stabbed both of the back tires which caused the car to go out of control. Falling off the back of the truck he scratch up his arms, legs, and face really bad but he wasn't concerned about that. He hope that gave them enough time as he went running following the smell of his friends.

Westly let out a cry of alarm as the peices of car came flying towards them. She put up her hand and managed to slow them down quite a bit using the power she had borrowed from Hunter. Then she proceeded to throw a few bone spears at them to knock them off course. She gritted her teeth as she stood. "Stay here. And I mean it." She turned and made her way back to the mutants, glaring. She looked older in her slightly beat up state, mostly because she was a model and was supposed to look older. "Take your friend's advice and beat it!" she yelled at Pycho angrily.

It took all Westly had not to cry out. Her mind quickly searched for something to save herself. Wait, havn't Romeo done some weird attack where... she didn't have time to think through it all. All at once she forced some of the metal bones from her body to stop the things from crushing her. The pain was almost too much to take in at once. After a second she looked around to see that only the tires had hit her, but she hadn't even noticed. With a shakey and uncomfortable sigh she let the bones leave her body. Her clother were now ripped and torn but she forced herself to stay strong.

"Get down here, damn bastard, and fight me like a real man." She could feel the sticky blood covering her body, the thin layer of sweat that had coated her skin. If only she could touch his skin, but there wasn't a lot showing. Desprately she searched for something to use. She couldn't feel the power that she had borrowed from Romeo any more so she figured that had run out. Instead Westlyn focused on the other boy's ability. She put her hand out and the bones, after a moment, lifted off the ground and shot at Psycho.

(sorry about all the posting while you were gone, i've tried not to move thing too far forward, but with so many people a huge battle had to insue)

Romeo only laughed at Westlyn and Alex, he had to do something to keep his mind off the pain, to keep from passing out again because of it. With his back against the rough wall he winced when he moved, but it took him a moment before he could stand on his own again, and by then Westlyn was gone. He was just about to touch her hand, and let her borrow his powers to heal herself from the glass, but it was too late now. And under his own wiehg tonce more he fall to the ground, catching himself on his hands. His shirt, what was left of it, fell away, revealing a strong body covered in hundreds of scars from all the times his powers hadn't worked right.

"Focus..." Romeo growled quietly, "Focus...on healing..." Again a faint growl escapred his lips, but it was working. Focusing on only the healing aspect of his abilities he was able to speed up the healing process. Son all the of the minor wounds were nothing more then thin red lines, and the gash going down his spine was, well, still a gash, but healed much more than it had been before. "Ah...much better..."

Slowly he began to raise his head up and open his eyes, and in doing so he saw a girl he hadn't noticed before. Shaking his head didn't make her go away, so he assumed she was real, and in pain by the looks of it. "Damn...another person to protect..." He said and smirked as he let out a roar and stood up, ignoring the pain and tiredness. Just then Dustin appeared, covered in roadrash that was quickly healng.

"Hey, you mind taking Alex samewhere safe?" Romeo asked, looking from him to Alex. "I know you aren't helpless, but we need to get out of here, and we need to help each other. Stay with Dustin for a while, alright? I've got to see about something...."

With that he made his way over to where the new girl was and let out a long breath before making several long blades and stabbing them into the ground before her, making a sort of gastly fence-shield before her. "I don't know who you are, but this will protect you, alright? I know this might be hard to take in, but it'll be over soon..." With that he grew two wide, long blades from above his wrists going out over his hands and started walking towards Westlyn and Psycho. Looking around he no longer saw the werewolf, but he did however spot an eagle with a damaged wing flying off towards the desert.
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"What the hell? Is it raining mutants?!" Hunter yelled as another of the kids jumped on the back of the car and slashed the tires. letting out a long stream of very colorful words, which he would never allow his family nor preist to hear, he summoned his swords and used them to form a sort of guard-rail that slowed the can down without causing it to crash. "I'm calling back up..."

Taking out his cell phone he hit a button and began speaking rapidly to their boss, a man named General Margrave.

Dustin was about to take Alex to a safe place but he heard the Hunter guy calling for back up her had to get the others and quick before they where trapped in a situation they couldn't get out. But he couldn't leave Alex unprotected she was the youngest out of all of them he could tell. He grabbed her and put her on his back. Climbing up on the top of a building he put her down" Stay here I'll come back for you okay?".

Dustin climbed down not having time to break a leg a wait for it to heal. He saw a girl behind a barrier of the things that Romeo shot out of his body. She must be another one he thought to himself. Running as fast as he could he approached Westlyn and Romeo. There was one of the old mutants with things floating around him laugh psychotically. " You guys that MTD dude is calling in the big guns the elimination team I heard his conversation if we don't get out of here now we will be Fucked". He told them watching out for objects that were in the air and trying to catch his breath.

Westlyn skidded to a halt beside Dustin as he spoke. "Nice language, big boy," she said and patted his shoulder. "But we can't just let crazy man here just destroy everything." She could have been one of those girls in an action movie, the one who looks even more beautiful covered in sweat. Her clothes were ripped and she had blood-spots all over her. She warily touched his hand and felt immediatly better. "Sorry bout that," she murmured, stretching stightly under the strain

She tested out her reflexes and speed just by taking a few steps. Nice... Westlyn's gaze flickered back up to Psycho. "What the hell are you, anyway? Why not take of that damned mask and let us talk instead of beating the pulp out of each other?" She looked exhausted but clearly not ready to give up.

Alexis sighed and sat down, I wonder if he realizes that it may be more dangerous for me up here. I mean, what if the poor little baby crawls off the edge or something! She shook her head, this fight was going to be interesting for sure. She was defiantly going to ask for some pointers of fighting so she wouldn't have to sit on top of a building the next time something like this happened, because she was sure this wasn't a one time only kind of thing. She began to look around, spotting a few emergency escape points, most being jumping onto nearby buildings and going down the fire escapes. At least I can get down if I need too...

"I thought I told you to watch after Alex?!" Romeo said angrily to Dustin as he joined him and Westlyn. "Well, screw it, it's too late now. Back up, extermination, whatever the hell might come, we gotta try and take this guy down." He doubted Westyln heard any of his speech though, as already she had taken off to face the high powered mutant once more. "Okay, new plan Claws, rip him a new one!"

With that Romeo charged at Psycho, swinging his arms to knock aside or cut up the debris that came towards him. His bio-organic metal was pretty damned strong, maybe not as strong as something military might be able to get their hands on, but close, and although he felt it, like someone smalling his wrists in a car door everytime he struck something the wrong way, he wouldn't back down.
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"Yes sir...no, it's even worse. Lycan showed his ugly mug again, and Cole is hurt pretty bad I think...." Hunter paused and listened for a moment, "There are three of them now, but my scanner says there are another two of them somewhere...one of them seems to heal very quickly and grows claws, the other guy can create blades from his body...yes, and the last is Westlyn Dynamite, yeah, the model. She has leeching abilities, but not as bad as Rouges, she only borrows a little of your strength...right, thank you sir..."

With that Hunter hangs up the phone with a sigh and kicks open his door before pulling Cole out and laying him out of the way, using the car and other debris as a shield as he trats his wounds as best he can.

"Hang in there you bastard!" Hunter says to Cole as he does what he can for him. "You're supposed to outlive me, remember? I was supposed to tbe the last mutie you killed before the jump..."

" Sorry about the language I just didn't want you two to die I just met you guys" he said as she touched him taking some of his energy but he didn't mind because he got a lot of it built up inside of him. " You have to apologize I had more energy this time but we have to come up with something to do to this guy before they get here or we are all going to die here today and I don't know about you but I got a lot more stuff to do before I kick the bucket" he said turning to face the guy in the sky. Why wouldn't he just leave his friend had. Plus the people he was fight were obviously to wounded to even think about trying to attack him. What more did he have to prove?

Romeo came up to him mad about him leaving Alex" Look she is safe okay I made sure of it and I didn't want you guys to get killed." Like I told Westlyn whatever we do we got to do it quick". Romeo then told him to rip the guy a new one. He had been waiting to get his anger out all day this was a perfect opportunity. "You don't have to tell me twice" he said letting out his claws and running jumping on the cars in his path and he jumped attacking the man in the sky.

Seeing that the two boys were alright so far, Westlyn decided to take a momentary break and be backup. She turned and skipped over to the two MDI boys. One of them was unconscious while the other was talking to him. "You really are an odd boy," she said, towering over him. After a moment she crouched down and looked at the one who was unconscious. She put her hand out and touched his cheek. Instead of taking whatever power he had she pushed out a little of what she had taken from her friends; just the part of healing, however. His woulds began to look less painful. Satisfied Westlyn stood up and gazed down at Hunter. "Don't get yourself killed, now. Your powers come in handy." She grinned before turning to watch the battle.