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xp_logsLegion, Cyclops, Bevatron and Firestar attempt to herd Tildie away from the crowds...
"Giddyup horsie!"
Really, it was a miracle Angel didn't call "yeehaw" as she rocketed past the horse, trying to get in front it. When she was about twenty feet ahead she blasted off a short burst of fire right in front of the horse's face, and it veered off the left, trying to get away from the bright burst.
"Coming at you Bevatron!" She reported into the comm.
"Merde," Jean-Phillipe muttered. Being in the path of a horse the size of a small elephant was unnerving, no matter how much one trained for these sorts of situations. At least the horse-construct-thing seemed to be reacting mostly on instinct, shying away from bright lights and heat, hence why this particular group was herding it. He spread his hands wide and sent out a wide sheet of electricity, doing his best to turn it back in toward the safe area they were carving out.
Tildie's front legs were splayed wide as she stamped the ground nervously with every flash of fire, but a sizzling blast of electricity had her jumping back and rearing towards the sky in fear, overbalancing in her haste to get away. Once she'd scrambled back up, she galloped off to the right and ran headlong into an invisible wall. She shook her head, ears pinned back and neighing in confusion, before trying to go forward again. Hitting the wall once more, she skittered backwards, then decided to divert to the left.
The wall held, but Tildie's impact had unforeseen consequences. The repulsing qualities of the girl's construct punched the telekinetic field outwards like feet striking a trampoline. At the second collision the barrier bowed so violently it smashed into a building Haller had been trying to protect.
The corner of a two-story house exploded into the street. One hand snapped up to halt the shrapnel while the other raised to catch a collapsing wall. There were screams, and it was too dark to tell whether they came from inside or the street. It was enough to prevent further damage, but too much a demand on Haller's attention. The telekinetic cattle chute disappeared.
"Cyclops, the left!"
Scott's head snapped over, an optical blast instinctively flashing out just to the left of Tildie to impact a pile of rubble throwing it up into the air and showering the construct. The X-man slowly edge to the left, giving himself a wider angle to shoot from as he stared at the horse, both of his eyes glowing. "I've got left, he called to the rest of his team.
Angel was up in the air, watching the action and trying to track the horse, figure out where it could go next. As it ran from Scott she dropped down, throwing her hands out to the left and right, and twin streams of fire burst out from her, effectively creating a wall of flame. "I got here!" She reported.
Tildie flinched as the rubble showered her, skittering backwards and considering making a run for it. She charged forward, scream ripping from her throat as fire appeared right in front of her. She started skidding to a stop, dirt flying up from her hooves as she tried to avoid running headlong into the fire. She wasn't quite successful, and her forelegs slid into the fire. She screamed again in fear as she felt the heat, but a lack of pain had Tildie firming her head and stampeding towards the wall of fire in an effort to jump through it and escape.
If they could fence her off, then perhaps... Jean-Phillipe shook his head. But he didn't have the kind of raw energy and fine control to create some kind of electric fence out of thin air. Then his eyes fell on a fire hydrant nearby. "Legion," he called. "I need...a fence, but of water. To carry current."
"Done." The debris was settled, the damaged house stabilized. Haller turned his attention to a spewing fire-hydrant the rampaging horse had knocked from its moorings. The water began to spin into a shimmering corridor, now drastically narrowed to compensate for another potential rebound. Something to carry a live current -- and a barrier Tildie could see.
Jean-Phillipe was glad that Haller had picked up on his intent - the corridor would be ideal. Reaching out toward the nearest tendril of water, he concentrated and poured as much power as he could muster into it, watching as shimmering and sparking spread quickly along the length of the water.
Desperate to escape, but hesitant to injure herself and make that even more unlikely, Tildie raced along the forming corridor in one last ditch effort. The sparking static buzzing along her form when she brushed too closely to the walls were an excellent distraction, and a last burst of speed saw Tildie's front hooves stumbling over a rough patch in the ground. Her front legs buckled, and she slid to a wobbly stop, sides heaving in exhaustion.
Haller closed the makeshift corridor behind her. They'd gotten her to the park, now they just had to keep her there. Closing the water into a loop to form a massive, makeshift corral, he tilted his head to speak into to the comm in his collar.
"Firestar, keep her away from the edges to take some of the stress off Bevatron," he instructed.
"On it," Angel said, taking off into the air and adding a ring of fire to the corral below her.
Scott reached for his radio, "Rogue, it's now or never, we've got her as corralled as we're ever gonna get." he informed the other team shooting a series of force beams near Tilde's head confusing the poor girl even more as the X-men circled her.
"Et rapidement, sil vous plait," Jean-Phillipe murmured, the muscles at the point of his jaw visibly quivering with tension from his clenched jaw.
... and Wolverine, Rogue and Dust finally manage to reach Tildie.
"Now how are we going to do this..." Sooraya looked back and forth between Rogue and Logan.... "There was one thing that I noticed... when I was 'pushing' on the field... in other spots it seemed to be just a little lighter. Might be that it's weaker there?"
Rogue nodded slowly. "Yeah, I mean, look at her!" She motioned to the destruction that was happening all around. "There ain't no way that girl can concentrate THAT much on everything." She tapped her foot for a moment before snapping her fingers. "If it's a little bit weak for just you, Dust, maybe if you and Wolverine both try at the same time, I can squeeze my way in. I'm a psychic grey zone anyways, and that way I can maybe get close enough to shut this whole she-bang down."
"Gotcha." Sooraya nodded at her friend and dissolved into her sand form, taking position about two feet from Wolverine, so Rogue would just be able to squeeze through.
"Best idea we've got so far." Logan looked at the grass, dirt, and trees being trampled into nonexistence. "And the sooner we figure out if it works or not, the better. The people here are gonna be pissed enough as it is." He turned to track the girl-horse's movements, settling himself into a crouch with his arms braced on his knees. When he saw a chance, he signalled them forward and launched himself at a spot on the horse.
Rogue tried to gauge the middle distance between Dust and Wolverine and took a deep a breath. Here goes nothing, she thought as she threw herself at the barrier with all her strength. For a second, she thought it didn't work as she could feel the electricity in her body but somehow she was in ....well, not all of her. "Oh for fuck's sake," she grumbled looking down. the leather hadn't stood up too well, and her uniform looked like it'd gotten into a fight with Logan's claws and lost. At least her underwear was somewhat intact.
Stepping forward cautiously, she could see that all the girl's attention was scattered. It wasn't too hard for Rogue to gently float into the air, and soundlessly come up behind her. "Sorry girl, but this is for your own good."
Tildie's concentration was shot from exhaustion and these things and people poking at her construct. A large ripple had her head aching, with the voice behind her causing her to spin in shock. "Who are you? Get out!!"
Rogue didn't even bother responding. Instead, she quickly placed her bare hand on Tildie's cheek and gritted her teeth. The process was always unsettling when both parties hadn't consented.
Mentally counting to 5, Rogue pulled away and caught Tildie who, while still slightly awake, was clearly not functioning, much to their relief. "Psychic down," she called out.
Sooraya resumed her normal forms and watched as the horse shaped energy field slowly faded away and left two people kneeling in the upturned sod of the park. Ignoring all of that, she hurried over and knelt next to Rogue: "Are you okay?" Her friend looked pretty worse for wear.
Rogue shook her head. "Not really, but now's not the time for that." The girl in her arms shifted and Rogue brought attention to that. "We gotta get her safe and somewhere she can't lash out again. I didn't wanna drain her completely. Her mind has been traumatized enough."
"That means getting her out of here." Sooraya glanced around her, taking in the situation around her. "Back to the mansion, I'd say."
"Couldn't agree more. Let's get outta here before the townspeople figure out where we ended up." Motioning for Rogue and Sooraya to get going ahead of him, Logan cast a wary eye around them before following. It hadn't looked like anyone else was in the park with them but this hadn't gone according to plan since the beginning. So no use in taking chances.
"Giddyup horsie!"
Really, it was a miracle Angel didn't call "yeehaw" as she rocketed past the horse, trying to get in front it. When she was about twenty feet ahead she blasted off a short burst of fire right in front of the horse's face, and it veered off the left, trying to get away from the bright burst.
"Coming at you Bevatron!" She reported into the comm.
"Merde," Jean-Phillipe muttered. Being in the path of a horse the size of a small elephant was unnerving, no matter how much one trained for these sorts of situations. At least the horse-construct-thing seemed to be reacting mostly on instinct, shying away from bright lights and heat, hence why this particular group was herding it. He spread his hands wide and sent out a wide sheet of electricity, doing his best to turn it back in toward the safe area they were carving out.
Tildie's front legs were splayed wide as she stamped the ground nervously with every flash of fire, but a sizzling blast of electricity had her jumping back and rearing towards the sky in fear, overbalancing in her haste to get away. Once she'd scrambled back up, she galloped off to the right and ran headlong into an invisible wall. She shook her head, ears pinned back and neighing in confusion, before trying to go forward again. Hitting the wall once more, she skittered backwards, then decided to divert to the left.
The wall held, but Tildie's impact had unforeseen consequences. The repulsing qualities of the girl's construct punched the telekinetic field outwards like feet striking a trampoline. At the second collision the barrier bowed so violently it smashed into a building Haller had been trying to protect.
The corner of a two-story house exploded into the street. One hand snapped up to halt the shrapnel while the other raised to catch a collapsing wall. There were screams, and it was too dark to tell whether they came from inside or the street. It was enough to prevent further damage, but too much a demand on Haller's attention. The telekinetic cattle chute disappeared.
"Cyclops, the left!"
Scott's head snapped over, an optical blast instinctively flashing out just to the left of Tildie to impact a pile of rubble throwing it up into the air and showering the construct. The X-man slowly edge to the left, giving himself a wider angle to shoot from as he stared at the horse, both of his eyes glowing. "I've got left, he called to the rest of his team.
Angel was up in the air, watching the action and trying to track the horse, figure out where it could go next. As it ran from Scott she dropped down, throwing her hands out to the left and right, and twin streams of fire burst out from her, effectively creating a wall of flame. "I got here!" She reported.
Tildie flinched as the rubble showered her, skittering backwards and considering making a run for it. She charged forward, scream ripping from her throat as fire appeared right in front of her. She started skidding to a stop, dirt flying up from her hooves as she tried to avoid running headlong into the fire. She wasn't quite successful, and her forelegs slid into the fire. She screamed again in fear as she felt the heat, but a lack of pain had Tildie firming her head and stampeding towards the wall of fire in an effort to jump through it and escape.
If they could fence her off, then perhaps... Jean-Phillipe shook his head. But he didn't have the kind of raw energy and fine control to create some kind of electric fence out of thin air. Then his eyes fell on a fire hydrant nearby. "Legion," he called. "I need...a fence, but of water. To carry current."
"Done." The debris was settled, the damaged house stabilized. Haller turned his attention to a spewing fire-hydrant the rampaging horse had knocked from its moorings. The water began to spin into a shimmering corridor, now drastically narrowed to compensate for another potential rebound. Something to carry a live current -- and a barrier Tildie could see.
Jean-Phillipe was glad that Haller had picked up on his intent - the corridor would be ideal. Reaching out toward the nearest tendril of water, he concentrated and poured as much power as he could muster into it, watching as shimmering and sparking spread quickly along the length of the water.
Desperate to escape, but hesitant to injure herself and make that even more unlikely, Tildie raced along the forming corridor in one last ditch effort. The sparking static buzzing along her form when she brushed too closely to the walls were an excellent distraction, and a last burst of speed saw Tildie's front hooves stumbling over a rough patch in the ground. Her front legs buckled, and she slid to a wobbly stop, sides heaving in exhaustion.
Haller closed the makeshift corridor behind her. They'd gotten her to the park, now they just had to keep her there. Closing the water into a loop to form a massive, makeshift corral, he tilted his head to speak into to the comm in his collar.
"Firestar, keep her away from the edges to take some of the stress off Bevatron," he instructed.
"On it," Angel said, taking off into the air and adding a ring of fire to the corral below her.
Scott reached for his radio, "Rogue, it's now or never, we've got her as corralled as we're ever gonna get." he informed the other team shooting a series of force beams near Tilde's head confusing the poor girl even more as the X-men circled her.
"Et rapidement, sil vous plait," Jean-Phillipe murmured, the muscles at the point of his jaw visibly quivering with tension from his clenched jaw.
... and Wolverine, Rogue and Dust finally manage to reach Tildie.
"Now how are we going to do this..." Sooraya looked back and forth between Rogue and Logan.... "There was one thing that I noticed... when I was 'pushing' on the field... in other spots it seemed to be just a little lighter. Might be that it's weaker there?"
Rogue nodded slowly. "Yeah, I mean, look at her!" She motioned to the destruction that was happening all around. "There ain't no way that girl can concentrate THAT much on everything." She tapped her foot for a moment before snapping her fingers. "If it's a little bit weak for just you, Dust, maybe if you and Wolverine both try at the same time, I can squeeze my way in. I'm a psychic grey zone anyways, and that way I can maybe get close enough to shut this whole she-bang down."
"Gotcha." Sooraya nodded at her friend and dissolved into her sand form, taking position about two feet from Wolverine, so Rogue would just be able to squeeze through.
"Best idea we've got so far." Logan looked at the grass, dirt, and trees being trampled into nonexistence. "And the sooner we figure out if it works or not, the better. The people here are gonna be pissed enough as it is." He turned to track the girl-horse's movements, settling himself into a crouch with his arms braced on his knees. When he saw a chance, he signalled them forward and launched himself at a spot on the horse.
Rogue tried to gauge the middle distance between Dust and Wolverine and took a deep a breath. Here goes nothing, she thought as she threw herself at the barrier with all her strength. For a second, she thought it didn't work as she could feel the electricity in her body but somehow she was in ....well, not all of her. "Oh for fuck's sake," she grumbled looking down. the leather hadn't stood up too well, and her uniform looked like it'd gotten into a fight with Logan's claws and lost. At least her underwear was somewhat intact.
Stepping forward cautiously, she could see that all the girl's attention was scattered. It wasn't too hard for Rogue to gently float into the air, and soundlessly come up behind her. "Sorry girl, but this is for your own good."
Tildie's concentration was shot from exhaustion and these things and people poking at her construct. A large ripple had her head aching, with the voice behind her causing her to spin in shock. "Who are you? Get out!!"
Rogue didn't even bother responding. Instead, she quickly placed her bare hand on Tildie's cheek and gritted her teeth. The process was always unsettling when both parties hadn't consented.
Mentally counting to 5, Rogue pulled away and caught Tildie who, while still slightly awake, was clearly not functioning, much to their relief. "Psychic down," she called out.
Sooraya resumed her normal forms and watched as the horse shaped energy field slowly faded away and left two people kneeling in the upturned sod of the park. Ignoring all of that, she hurried over and knelt next to Rogue: "Are you okay?" Her friend looked pretty worse for wear.
Rogue shook her head. "Not really, but now's not the time for that." The girl in her arms shifted and Rogue brought attention to that. "We gotta get her safe and somewhere she can't lash out again. I didn't wanna drain her completely. Her mind has been traumatized enough."
"That means getting her out of here." Sooraya glanced around her, taking in the situation around her. "Back to the mansion, I'd say."
"Couldn't agree more. Let's get outta here before the townspeople figure out where we ended up." Motioning for Rogue and Sooraya to get going ahead of him, Logan cast a wary eye around them before following. It hadn't looked like anyone else was in the park with them but this hadn't gone according to plan since the beginning. So no use in taking chances.
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