Uncertainty at the Mansion (open to mutants ask first)

[stormshadow]

Recap

A long time ago:

Three books became known as the Iron-Bound Books of Shuma-Gorath. The Vishanti and Shuma-Gorath were eventually known to each other sometime after the formation of the mystic trinity and became bitter foes to this day, neither succeeding in destroying the other.

In World War 2. Hitler seized many of historical artifacts including the spear of Destiny, the shroud, and a (false) ark of the covenant. The Howling Commandos move into Romania to take down Dracula. Then Captain America and Bucky gets caught in Germany. Peggy Carter joins the Howling Commandos with a young Nick Fury to help rescue Captain America and Bucky it goes wrong. Captain gets lost along with bucky. A Year later The Howling commandos attack, before the fall of Hitler breaking in and taking back the artifacts.

2014-2018

This all began as the Purifiers raided a heavily defended S.H.I.E.L.D. installation with the help of several double agents including Eli Bard, murdering sixteen S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel before breaching the primary vault and recovering an unidentified artifact along with a few other artifacts. The fact that the Purifiers launched an attack specifically on baseline humans was very strange. Also, fears that whatever the Purifiers stole from S.H.I.E.L.D. was worth enough to risk bring down the agency's wrath upon them. An outfitted reconditioned Sentinel that was helping guard the X-mansion was reprogrammed to attack the X-mansion killing several children. S.H.I.E.L.D. had a few missions and came up still looking for Bastion's head along with the Spear of Destiny and few unnamed artifacts. They needed to find those responsible.

The Purifiers bring the object, revealed to be the head of Bastion, to one of their churches, installing it onto the Nimrod unit they recovered from Forge's Aerie to return the mutant-killing machine to life. Bastion reveals his secret weapon in his war against mutants. He seeks out the Technarchy leader, Magus, who is lying in the bottom of the ocean and takes one of Magus' non-sentient offspring to graft it into himself. The spear winds up in Madripoor then back to New York. Eli Bard steals the Spear of Destiny again in New York after a prison escape from the raft. There are still some prisoners at large one being Carnage. The first Purifier base was taken out by X-force. Bastion and two others escaped the base siege and their plane disappeared. Eli Bard presumed dead along with many others. Purifiers retaliate with eight children and their parents were killed because they were mutants. Their bodies are left propped up at the elementary school's playground near the X-mansion, with the label "Mutie" written on them as a sign for the children at the school to discover them the next day. The group of Purifiers with Ajax were stopped by the X-men along with Deadpool and a few others.


Stryfe comes from a failed future were Apocalypse and his Horseman have taken over. He has no way to go back he is stuck here. Rumors are people might be sent back. The information from this timeline has been lost over decades of darkness so he has no idea on most things from this timeline. In order to ensure a future for himself Stryfe needs to accomplish many things the first is to get control of the spear of destiny. Many were released from the raft and still wreaking havoc throughout New York the first battle ensues. Shuma- Gorath is coming he is released by the Green Goblin during the Heart of New York by accident. Madame Hydra breaks a major deal starting a problem during the Heart of New York story.

A new player has come into town, Romuus. Daken is not too kind to the idea of Romulus coming to America furthering his evil plots. Before his arrival his men already started taking people mainly mutants to a hidden concentration camp for their exploits. Romulus becomes interested in the Spear, Eli Bard double crosses Romulus and takes the spear to Selene.( Years ago, Romulus had selected an area to build a new powerful particle accelerator like that at Cern, it was going on for ten years now and is currently ready to start. He hopes to find the god particle for Mutants. He also wants to be able to access different dimensions.) The key is the Spear of destiny he needs it to study it and then use it for himself. Stryfe was defeated along with Bastion, Romulus; Selene escaped X-mansion. Shumma- Gorath was stopped, and everything seemed to go back to normal almost like nothing happened.

Over the past six years many strange things happened everywhere around the globe and New York, a gang war began. In New York a shifting of Power. The Spear of Destiny is now hidden in Madripoor once more. Rumor has it in the possession of Gorgon and Hydra hidden in Hightown. An unknown person has put out spies looking for the Spear of Destiny. Now evil is resurfacing along with the Purifiers.
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Warpath



"I've been told that a mutant is a devil... in its genes. A mutant could never really amount to anything in this world. A group called the Purifiers did this they turned me into a killer. When my brother died, I was deceived by the Hellfire club... a woman named Emma Frost helped start this lie in my head. Charles helped me, in the end, and I decided to spare his life. Storm and Logan took me in as a brother one of the family. I've been betrayed by other X-men so those who I trust, I can count on one hand. After Jean died, I decided to stay behind and try to find what destiny awaits me. I've been helping out with moving displaced mutants even saving a few Odiela and Razor. With the X-men divided in some areas it is time we got the band back together. I tried hard to finally kill off... the cancer known as the Purifiers, but they resurfaced. I heard rumors Jean is alive but how? First things first, time to come back."

Six years ago, after the first incident with the Purifiers, who was really responsible for that? Eli Bard along with others acquired various DNA still unknown and other important stuff; he even had left a sample of his blood along with other various things in a suitcase for the Purifiers to find. The CDC had quarantined at least two blocks of the city for a month. A scientist who was there in Arizona and a Doctor who was there now being blamed for the virus released into the open back then. I hunted down the Purifiers and helped the Mutant underground for a year or two. The trail went cold, I left for New York then soon after returned to the mansion where I met up with Scott. We mainly discussed the resurgence of the Purifiers along with the resurgence of sentinels. As for the suitcase of Eli Bard from years ago with important information, unknown to me. So, what is in it? Now hidden in the American Museum of Natural History according to notes I found in a rescue mission, inside a fake statue but which one.

I also found out a secret invite for a gathering of the Elite known as the Hellfire club is supposed to happen in a few weeks. Maybe we can get some answers. Religious type artifacts are in danger all over the world, who is behind these thefts and attempted thefts who knows but I bet that Hellfire group knows and have their hand dirty in it. The alarm went off at the mansion, I went to check about an hour ago and did not find anything, no tracks, not evidence of anyone. Only been here a few days and things are getting strange, an uncertainty in the air. The X-men are in high alert, I'm heading back inside.

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[John Kilroy]

Gwen road down the highway as the song "Like the Wind played on her radio, things were going great until her motorcycle suddenly stopped working. Seriously? She just gassed this thing up how could it all of a sudden decide to stall? She looked over and realized she was near the X-Mansion. This was cool. Maybe she could get some help from someone like Wolverine or Jubilee and get some help. Maybe she could find Professor Xavier and warn him about the potential future with Krakoa and how the X-Men of Earth-616 prime fell from grace. She managed to walk on the walkway but couldn't help but shake the feeling that something wasn't right. Was someone watching her?

Maybe it was just her old navy paranoia instincts. but she found herself suddenly getting on high alert. Were the X-men in trouble? If that was the case then they needed help. While she didn't have her hands on her weapons yet, she had them within arm's reach. After all, it was good to be ready for anything. 

[stormshadow]

Warpath




Jimmy heard a noise nearby right before entering the mansion, sounded like a motorbike just stopped whoever it was might be endanger as of now there was no indication on whom was their earlier. He quickly sprinted out looking to see if there are any intruders, he comes up quickly on what looks like a young woman. He slowed down to not approach her to fast and freak her out. He stood 7foot 2inches about 350 lbs. of muscle it might freak her out a little. She looked young he was not sure how old.

"Hi there lady, are you okay? Don't be afraid I'm here to help you. Ride like the wind interesting, I have that on cassette tape for my old truck. This is a dangerous place do you need help with your motorbike?"

Warpath was looking around and listening to make sure no others were approaching. Jimmy knew something was coming so he focused in for a moment. A fairly large black bear was approaching from across the road further into the woods about a half a mile. Jimmy knew the bear was coming but was not concerned. The bear roared and moved in faster then stopped. Warpath smiled but didn't want to panic her with the bear. He knew the bear was a friend of Logans, ate dinner with the bear about a week ago after fishing. He was a friendly bear just trying to put on a show. While the Bear was making noise Jimmy was trying hard not to laugh while keeping a straight face.

" Oh no it is a bear!! Stay calm lady we don't want to provoke it. If it gets close to you play dead."  

[John Kilroy]

Gwen wasin't afraid of the thing. She had gone camping a lot in the mountains after her service. She had hoped that getting closer with nature would help find herself after the James Village incident. While it didn't exactly help on that front, she did learn how to get along with the animals of nature, bears included. 

"Easy boy, easy are you hungry? she reached into her back and pulled out a gooey fruity chewy bar (Made with 100% fruit) as well as some pieces of jerky (made with 100% meat) and tossed it on the ground. She was very careful not to invade the bears space. That was the thing about wild animals, they were well...wild, and the last thing one wanted to do with a wild animal was accidently provoke them, don't do anything sudden or in a panic, and you'd be fine. As it was the bear looked as though it was used to being around humans before. Maybe it was an unofficial pet of the X-Men. That was all but confirmed when it got close to her and started licking her palms and she in kind petted him behind the ears. The bear closed it's eyes with a happy look on his face. if this thing was going to hurt someone it'd likely be by accident or someone it cared about got hurt."Aw you're just a big old puppy dog, aren't you? Yes you are oh yes you are!" she said in a sing songy voice.

 she then looked over at warpath blushed and cleared her throat. "Sorry, I have a thing for big fluffy animals. Look I hope I'm not intruding but my bike is stalled." 

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Warpath



Jimmy was a bit upstaged but smiled for a moment. He made a slight laugh then nodded his head. Jimmy was shocked at how well she handled herself. The Bear seemed happy as can be when she handed him a gooey fruity chewy bar and some jerky. He looked over at the bike. "It is probably something simple, my name is James Proudstar, my friends call me Jimmy. You should come back to the mansion with me it is only a short walk, it is kind of dangerous out here besides him. I can carry your bike for you, and we can look for someone to look at it. Are you hungry? We have all kinds of foods, even health food and some leftover spaghetti also. That was interesting most people either freeze up or just lie on the ground." He looks over to the bear who waves at her then puts out his paw.

"He likes you; I just call him Bear not sure what his real name is. Some of the people here befriended him many years ago, only a few of us here know Bear, he is still around very old lives out in the woods around here. At the moment we are watching for a few things so it would be best if we moved in towards the mansion. Not sure who is in at the moment, some of my friends here been out on the town. I guess, I could say." Jimmy gets ready to lift up the bike if she says it is ok.

[John Kilroy]

"Gwendolyn, Gwendolyn Danvers Poole, some call me Gwenpool AND NO I'M NOT AFFILIATED WITH DEADPOOL!" she took a deep breath. "Sorry, sorry I just get confused for Deadpool alot. It's nice to meet you Jimmy." 

She didn't know much about Jimmy AKA Warpath, she knew about him from the X-Force series, but after a certain point, she tended to not follow any X-Men-related content beyond those who had cameos and series outside of the X-Men. They had a habit of repeating the same couple of stories over and over again. Namely Mutant Massacre,  the Dark Phoenix saga, and Days of Future Past "Sure, just please be careful with my motorbike, it's a custom. I put a lot of TLC into it. Who are you watching for? Maybe it's just the neck of the woods I'm a part of, but I think anti-mutant sentiment is going down significantly....not so sure about Anti X-Men sentiment, but anti-mutant sentiment seems to be going down. A couple of days ago while I was eating lunch One of those Purifier scumbags was trying to recruit people with a streetside "Sermon" and people began to mock and scorn him and told him to get a job. One guy even told him that if he had superpower envy so bad, he should jump in a vat of toxic waste."

 Gwen really hoped that particular incident wasn't a fluke. If the world as a whole were viewing mutants as a norm, then maybe that'd mean that the X-Men weren't doomed to tell the same stories over and over again. 

[stormshadow]

Warpath




Jimmy looks over at her and then with a stunned look on his face as he lifts up the bike. Jimmy listens in on her heart.
"Gwen the world is not a fairy tale there is no happy ending. Your heart seems to be in the right place. You mentioned Deadpool, he is a good guy deep down. What you talk about is important. To me the words they speak with no meaning, they are about meaning less as the filth that says them. The agenda is much more than just mutants, we are being hunted down and turned into lab rats or even killed also the non-mutants that help us. Back at the mansion hundreds of kids who might not even make it to their 18th birthday. They view us as Demons and want to kill us, some say Magneto was right to some degree, but I don't believe in killing unless it needs to be done. The innocent should never have to suffer. They killed my best friend Caliban who took a bullet for me. The government can't be trusted also. You have a good heart Gwen but are you prepared to die for it, even if the world is against you?"  Jimmy sighs for a moment the depressed talk is hard for him.

They manage to make it to the mansion rather quickly. "Gwen, some say we are oppressed; I say we are free to get ourselves in trouble, freedom is not the way we want to be though. As for who is out here, I don't know but they are waiting for something. Not sure who else is around, lucky for you Scott isn't here far as I know. Kind of a Dick but a good leader. He is not someone you want to mess with. Hold on one second. I know I offered you a food already, would you like a drink? I wonder who can take a look at your bike, Forge maybe, not sure he is here. Possibly Quentin or one of the teens might be able to help." He makes sure the cameras spot him before Gwen, so the alarm does not go off again. A bit on the defensive not showing it though, not knowing who she is but does not see anything wrong with her.

[John Kilroy]

Gwen didn't outwardly show it but on the inside, she was facepalming. She was quickly reminded why after joining the military she became far more of an Avengers girl than an X-man girl. "Well, you're just a ray of sunshine, aren't you?


She sighed.


Look I know for a fact you're not going to listen to me, but the world IS changing out there. Maybe not as fast as we like but IT IS changing. This cycle is not going to last forever. You'll be able to tell new stories eventually and people like me are going to look back at these dark times as a part of history that we can learn from. 

She wasn't sure if she wanted to stick around the Mansion THAT long but she didn't want to turn down any hospitality. especially if it'd make him more comfortable.

"If you have Coffee, I will gladly take some."

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Warpath




"I'll be sure to tell them. Once I was saved by a woman from a bear at the road by here. I'll have to make it sound more exciting though. The world isn't sunshine and rainbows...(He paused for a moment hoping to get a smile out of her.)... just kidding. I can have fun also, I'm not that old, there is still some hop in my step. We have some cool secrets around here. Lots of ease dropping and other things going on. At the moment I'm trying to help out one of the young ladies, who has powers similar to me. Others are very mean to her but that is how life is."

He points over to coffee area which is rather large. He smiles and pulls the hair back out of his face to not seem so intimidating. He looked back saw some teens off in distance across the hall area.

"Yeah, we can throw some big parties as long as Scott and others don't shut it down. You have a little spunk in you, I can see and hear the conviction in you. I like that, means we have something worth saving. As for coffee we have all kinds almost what you could get a coffee house, so help yourself almost all of it is state of the art tech. Not my cup of tea or coffee at the moment." Trying to brighten up the situation but he knew any moment they would be fighting or might be visited by someone but who?

"About seven years ago things were going great, then everything went south quickly. I had new recruits Odiela and a few others had to rescue with the team and help out. We had battles all over even in a place called Savage land. Been gone for a few years, well... just returned and things are going south. Thing about the past is it repeats itself unless you find a way to fix it. This time things are different we need to change it, for the better, I hope. We can't have good without the bad, a sad thing. We are fighting not only for our survival but from our dark future from happening almost same as before since you really can't change fate. Me meeting you outside was it supposed to happen? Hopefully, we can find someone to make sure your bike is safe and running again. You ever heard of the butterfly effect?" 

[John Kilroy]

"Yeah I know what you are referring to. I'm a wildcard that much I know for sure. I'm not native to here, the very fact that I am is going to have some sort of effect. Hopefully, it's for the better." Gwen gave Warpath a reassuring smile. "I know one thing. I don't believe in fate, I don't believe in things like Canon events or destiny. Our fates are the culmination of the choices we make and how we react to the things around us both good and bad. As long as there is still breath then there is hope. Half of that battle is in the mind. 

She let out a sigh. "My father before he died told me once that there were two wolves inside of every person, a wolf of light that brings about hope, and optimize, and the other feeds on darkness and despair. The question is...which one do you feed?" she took a sip of coffee after putting in 5 sugars and 5 creamers. 

[stormshadow]

Warpath




Warpath grabs four slices of left over pizza, meat lovers and eats it while drinking a few energy drinks. He points over to the fridge while moving back over to a table. He began eating when she mentioned a quote he uses. A look of disbelief for a second. His immediate thoughts she is like Jean grey can read minds. He takes a few quick sips of his first energy drink. He then proceeds to eat fast enough to not look sloppy but keeping clean the whole time. Then he drinks the rest of his first energy drink.

She let out a sigh. "My father before he died told me once that there were two wolves inside of every person, a wolf of light that brings about hope, and optimize, and the other feeds on darkness and despair. The question is...which one do you feed?" she took a sip of coffee after putting in 5 sugars and 5 creamers.

"Coffee good choice. That is a great quote, he sounds like a very smart man. Are you a mutant? I thought you might be, but some things are leading me to believe otherwise. Grab a snack or bite to eat, I'm about to show you a really cool room soon. You're going to need the energy. See here at the school we have fun sometimes. You ever heard of the X-men?" Warpath listens for her heartbeat to try and tell if she is lying. He finishes drinking up his second energy drink.

[John Kilroy]

Gwen nearly coughed on her coffee as Warpath asked if she was a mutant. "No I'm not a mutant, but...let's just say I'm not from here. Just traveling around getting into trouble and going onto my own adventures. Right now I'm looking for the Necronomicron. It's said to contain the real script of the King In Yellow Play and...well call me a sucker for creepypastas and cursed writings, but I want to read it. Legend says that nearly everyone that read goes insane so...I want to see what all the fuss is about. It's silly, dangerous and stupid I'm aware. I still want to do it though.  Of course I've heard of the X-Men." she was hesitant to tell everything she knew about the X-Men so she only said what she needed to. Her heartbeat remained even though. Her time in the Marine's taught her how to control her nerves. Besides. She wasn't lying. "The outside world's relationship with you guys is complicated. mutants are becoming more tolerated....it's the X-Men mainly Xaviar that people don't trust, and before you ask I'm aware of what he's done for people like you...I...don't know what to think about him. There was much about Professor X that she knew, things of him that were both good...and bad. Things that could happen under his leadership...and she couldin't say anything about it.   

[stormshadow]

Warpath


Jimmy has a bit of concern on his face when she mentions necronomicron, he has a slight idea of what it is.
"Is there something you are not telling me Gwen? People that are interest in magic are normally magic users and most of them I met are evil. So, the Necronomicron, well I guess it could be worse, you ever heard of Selene Gallio. She is an evil witch. She is probably looking for the same book. Why exactly are you looking for something evil like that? Just to read it. Shumma- Gorath has books that are just as evil or worse. If you go looking for trouble most of the time it finds you. As for the X-men they welcome strangers most of the time. Occasionally you will run into to mutants that hate humans, they are normally called the brotherhood of evil mutants sometimes even the Morlocks. The way you speak do you know the X-men personally, who have you met?"

Jimmy is ready to go have some fun in the danger room."Well there is a place you could do it. It is called the danger room, don't let the name fool you though. Would you be interested? Most of the X-men are busy now but it is possible one might show up. This would probably be one of the coolest things you ever did." Jimmy gives a slight wink and nod with the smile the ladies love.

[John Kilroy]

Gwen couldn't help but laugh. "HA! No, I'm not a magic user. As much as I'd love to be..." *...I'm not entirely sure the mods would let me.* She didn't say that second part out loud. "As far as seeing any other X-Men, I think I had an encounter with Jubilee. I don't fully remember all of the  details something about a bazooka...honestly, it feels like it may have been a fever dream... " She wasn't sure how to explain how she knew about how she knew about the X-Men. Tell him that he and his entire live and all his . She heard danger room and she imediatly got exicted. However she stoped herself.

"Wouldin't I need special permission from somebody like Storm, Cyclops or one of the other leaders of the X-Men to use it? As much as I'd love to use it, Like I said earlier, I'm not a mutant."

[stormshadow]

Warpath



" Mods???, we are running on danger room settings also Jubilee is a sweet girl really fun to hang out with. Well, first I need to set this thing up it is A.I. basically. We need to amp it up a bit. They don't call it Danger Room for nothing. I can pass almost all the levels the last few are really tough. I get knocked out every time. A safe word, ***Firecracker***. As for permission, I'm the one who uses this most of the time to train people so don't need permission." He smiles in his sexy way. Knowing Cyclops might chew him out later for bringing a stranger in here. Storm and Logan would have his back, although he has not seen Logan in months or heard from him maybe they're keeping something from him. "Necronomicron, evil book, you like Sentinels to fight or do you want Hellfire club henchman, Purifiers... hell we can do Aliens if you want, Brood are fun. I been to Hell and back so no evil book scares me, unless it is in the hands of someone like Selene or Emma Frost. I don't trust too many of the X-men anyway. If someone joins this will be even more fun. 1997 sounds like a good year."