xp_logs | Reality Coming Down

Emma's team is pushed back, forcing her to mobilize the injured as possible.

It turned out cyborg mutants were tough to kill, even with one of the world's most powerful telepaths leading the charge. The confrontation in the foyer continued to rage on, punctuated by the occasional sounds of battle that echoed throughout the mansion.

Tandy dodged a cyborg mutant attack before she unleashed her daggers toward her target. She wasn't quick enough for another one ,as her forearm was hit by another. "I can't keep this up." She retreated slightly, trying to keep distance between herself and the enemy.

Nearly tripping over a rug, Molly quickly righted herself, but at the cost of knocking over one of the vases on top of a dresser by running into it. Her eyes widened.

"Uh oh!" she said.

"Hee! You are so grounded!" a voice, belonging to one evil, alternate Molly Hayes chimed.

"Don't worry though, cause we're gonna kill you first, kay? So you won't get to be grounded!" she then added, sounding like she was sincerely attempting to be helpful as she used her cybernetic arm to grab the dresser her counterpart had just ran by and threw it at them.

The real Molly blinked. "What? Eeek!" she said, catching the dresser and throwing it back at her.

"Shut up, me! You are not!"

The Mol-Borg giggled, dodging the dresser, which shattered into a million pieces. "Are too! We're the best! We're gonna like... rip out your guts and stuff. Hmm... I wonder if I can do that to myself? That'd be so cool if I could!"

Molly's mouth dropped open, horrified. "Ew! What the heck? I am so creepy!"

Ty wasn't much for words, either one of him. The shadows pulled back and forth in a bizarre tug-of-war with neither party gaining any ground. "This isn't getting us anywhere." He dove in front of Tandy as the mechTandy threw a strange dagger at her. It struck him in the belly, and Ty stiffened as the energy hit him. And spread through his body in a warm, wonderful heat. "We gotta switch it up!"

Tandy ran forward past Ty towards the roboTy. She wasn't afraid of the shadows that seemed to be crawling towards her. In her hands were already daggers ready for striking, but she held out until she dodged out of roboTy's swing and came around in the back. She unleashed her daggers several times into his back, hoping maybe to overload him with enough light. She wasn't sure if this would work, but she knew that if RoboTandy had her powers, they would be immune to each others.

Emma glanced around her, noted that her team seemed to be holding their own at the moment, leaving her to concentrate on her alternate-self. The strangeness of seeing herself an amalgam of flesh and metal and organic diamond had long since melted away, but familiarity hadn't stopped the cyborg-Emma from concentrating on her own alternate. Not that it really surprised Emma, who was not in the least unaware of her own ego.

Nonetheless, her alternate was caught behind the battles going on between them and Emma took the opportunity to drop her form back into flesh and reach out again with her telepathy, trying to create any kind of wedge that would open up the minds in front of her. Once again there was the shape of minds and then, then, then - it was like a hole into which her telepathy fell, a gap that seemed born of the melding of mind and metal. It felt (and Emma shuddered lightly at the memory) like Mastermold all over again, and Emma's telepathy had been no use against it.

Emma shrugged, slipped back into diamond form and started hurling whatever she could get her hands on at her alternative self.

Molly shrugged, ignoring the MolBorg's disappointed reaction as she headed for RoboTandy. She grabbed the closest thing, a chair, and threw it at her.

Meanwhile the MolBorg, now a little mad, went for Ty. "Hey! I was having fun. But I can totally kick your a--er...Rear!" she said, aiming to literally do that while he was on the ground by attempting to kick him like a football against a wall.

RoboTandy was hit by the chair which caused her to be distracted for a split second. Finding the one who threw it, she gave Molly an smirk. "See if you can dodge this." She let loose five daggers towards the younger mutant.

Ty wrapped shadows around MolBorg's middle and held her up in the air, so her incredible strength couldn't touch anything. He glanced over at Tandy to see how she was handling his robotic counterpart. He seemed to be overloading his electronics, with sparks jumping from the metal bits.

Molly's eyes widened, and she tried to drive out of the way, ducking into an alcove. One of the daggers whizzed past her head, cutting off a bit of hair. Three more struck the wood paneled wall, evaporating upon contact with no living conduit in which to wreak havoc. But the fifth made it's mark, striking her in the shoulder.

For the first time in a very long time, Molly Hayes cried out in pain, clutching at her shoulder as she slid down the wall to sit on reflex. It had been so long that she almost forgot what it felt like. And it sucked. She tried very hard not to cry.

And the MolBorg was kicking and screaming like a child throwing a tantrum. Had Ty been using his arms, she would've broken his wrists. Served him right. But no, he had to show off.

"Freaking jerk!"

~All of you, now,~ Emma's telepathic voice was unexpected, as she'd spent so long in diamond form, but she switched back now as she realised how dangerous this situation was becoming. ~We can't do this alone. We need to fall back. Head towards the medlab. Eyes forward. Keep yourself safe. Retreat and regroup.~

Tandy went to Molly's side to help her. "Come on. Let's go. Let's hope the others are okay."