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The dust had settled and in the small clearing laid the one that caused so much devastation in a short amount of time. Tandy was the first to move towards him but stopped short when she was a few feet away. Her face hidden from view as she clicked her tongue at Kuurth in disappointment. She expected more from the one that was called Juggernaut. "What should we do with him?"
"We can keep him restrained for now, use our psychics to keep him unconscious while we get him out of here," Scott allowed, "but in the long term we're not set up to handle a prisoner capable of his...destructive capability. We might actually need to reach out to SHIELD, or another group with better confinement facilities."
"I'd still like to know why he was here in the first place but most of my energy's being devoted to keeping him asleep to go any deeper. He's--very strong," Jean said with furrowed brows, her face a little strained.
Curiosity had always been Rogue's downfall. Hands on her hips, she assessed the situation and looked around. Cain was down, the team was scattered around, and there was that hammer. Heading to it, she tilted her head -- it didn't look any different than any other hammer. She reached down to try to take it and was shot backwards by a jolt of energy. "Ugh." Rogue caught herself mid-air and looked sheepishly around. "Guess I ain't gonna be the next Queen of Camelot or nothin'. No one's touching that baby."
"The hammer has better taste than the Old Man. Colour me shocked, Beulah. With a 'u' and everything." Kane said as he looked around for a downed powerline. He grabbed it and tore a good fifteen feet off from the felled and fortunately powerless lines and started to tear it into strips and braid the thick cable. "I know a couple of tricks with restraints which can keep him from applying his full strength to them. It's not a permanent solution, but at the very least, it will take him time to break free. Hopefully long enough to get him to Triskalion."
"And once he's there he's Shield's problem, at least until he inevitably manages to escape and run rampant again when we'll have to shut him down. Sometimes I really have to wonder if SHIELD really knows anything about incarcerating mutants, or anyone with super-powers given how many of these guys seem to constantly end up on the street." Scott sighed, rubbing one hand over his drawn face as he turned away from the downed Juggernaut, "Ok Kane, he's all yours, wrap him up, the rest of you, good job. Let's start getting packed up to head home."
The wind whipped up as another portal opened not far from the hammer that had sent Rogue flying. Skadi was impatient. Freeing and finding the other Worthies and their hammers was a more complicated process than she had expected. The world had changed much since the last time she walked it. They did not fear and did not know the old stories like they should. Like was their due. She stepped out of the portal and her lip curled in distaste as she saw the weaklings surrounding her latest Worthy. That would not do. Would not do at all.
Her own hammer hung from a modified belt at her hip. Unlike what the weaklings had cheapened its image into being, she did not need to perform with it to cause the effects she intended. She flipped back the fur lined dark evergreen cloak she wore and pulled the hammer from its sheath. She murmured beneath her breath then pressed her hammer to the ground in front of her as a ripple of energy that matched the color of her cloak rippled out from it and headed directly toward the assembled group. It built in power and intensity as the ground roiled and heaved. The idea of stability long forgotten as if the soil had turned into the sea's waves. A resounding crack like a tree splitting in winter finally sounded as the ground tossed them up and threw them away from Cain's body, clearing the area around him.
Kurt landed where he'd been thrown and almost instantly, bounced back up to his feet, charging back towards Skadi as fast as he could manage on the roiling ground.
Using his telekinesis to stabilize his freefall, Julian sent a pulse of energy out to find Tandy and try to keep her from tumbling too much with her landing- he was still nervous about her having passed out at work recently. Ground beneath his feet, Julian turned to face the new comer and did a quick assessment. "Well this just keeps getting better," he mumbled as his hands detached and floated over to Rogue to help her up. Sparing a glance toward Tandy, he planted his feet and got ready for the next volley.
Rogue leapt into the air and went flying towards the new threat. "This jus' keeps gettin' better and better," she grumbled through clenched teeth. Reaching out, she picked up one of the tree's broken branches and swung it towards Skadi. By this point, Rogue didn't care about residual damage -- enough had happened that she needed to do something to end all this.
Skadi looked bored as Rogue flew towards her. This group was a bit more resilient than she had anticipated, but Dweller had informed them as much. Skadi simply swung her hammer to meet Rogue's broken tree branch and the moment they did meet the boom of force flung Rogue back even farther than before. She smiled at the long furrow in the ground that resulted from Rogue's impact. Their attention was directed at her and would remain so. She motioned for the cultists to come forward and retrieve Cain's body.
Dagger stood up after the first initial blast and cracked her neck. Skadi could pack a punch for sure. Finally shaking her head to get her mind clear, she looked up to the see the cultist moving for Cain's unconscious body. Have to make it seem she was still a good guy and lifted her hand to send five daggers thier way, she only hoped that it wasn't powerful enough to drop one of them.
Kurt knew Rogue was invulnerable, but there was magic at play here. Just as Skadi expected, he turned his attention to checking on her.
"Is that a portal?" Rogue furrowed her brow, and wiped some dirt off her face. She tried to get closer to Skadi, but the hammer kept pushing her further and further back, even without touching her. She pointed over to one of the cultists. "I think that's a portal!"
"I'm really starting to hate portals. I mean, I fucking hate commuting too, but magically bending space and time instead of taking a cab seems like cheating." Kane said, pushing against the force. He could feel the tingle start at his fingertips as his skin tasted the energy, analyzed it, and adapted. "Keep Marko here! I'll see if I can buy some time!"
Suddenly, Kane passed through the wall of force like it was mist. One of the only nice things about fighting god-like magical creatures was that they were so all powerful that they tended not to lose much and more importantly, had never developed the right mindset to react quickly when a plan went bad. Which was why, for all her power, Skadi didn't have time to do more than pull a surprised face before the first titanic punch sent her staggering. Kane slammed two more, hard, into where her kidneys would be. If Gods had kidneys. Did Gods have kidneys? He shook away the thought with an uppercut to the mouth and a right cross that smashed into her cheekbone. He knew he was outmatched and that this was going to hurt very, very soon, but the longer he could keep her off-balance and distracted...the longer before he had a hammer shaped hole through his chest.
Kurt glanced from Rogue to Skadi to the prone Marko, narrowed his eyes as he saw the cultists dragging him away, and attempted a teleport to stop them.
One of the cultist held up their hand as it appeared that they were calling out for the energy surrounding them before pulling up a shield around Marko. "Magic." Tandy recognized it anywhere, especially from all the times she had been in the magic class. Tandy unleashed five more daggers but they disappeared once they hit the shield, causing it to ripple.
With a glance towards the hammer-wielder, Julian turned his full attention toward the shield. Extending both wrists towards it he focused every bit of energy and focus he had on pushing on the shield, causing greenish ripples to form in the air around it. Already exhausted from the fight with Juggernaut, he knew he couldn't keep it up for long. Straining, Julian could feel what he thought was probably a tendril of blood drifting down from his nostril and across his lips and gritted teeth. Finally, a tiny hole began to form around the top of the shield, maybe enough for Kurt to get through?
The blows immediately focused Skadi's attention on the impudent fool that had dared come into contact with her. It was a surprise that someone attached to this group had broken through her magic. But it would soon be their mistake. She leaped backwards from Kane, giving herself time to wipe the distracting blood from her face and ease a hand over her sides. Those would ache later but the swell of power under her skin would soothe it soon enough.
A malicious grin drew across her face as she gripped her hammer with both hands and swung it in Kane's direction. She mouthed a rapid series of incantations to imbue the strike with the howling gales of winter storms that whistled through the endless mountains and the ferocity of the blinding snow that swirled in their wake. The power contained in it was levels higher than what she had been using before, enough to bowl Kane over and pin him there. Then the wave of power swept around him and aimed itself at the rest of the group.
Julian disappeared in a swirl of snow followed by an immediate pelting of hail the size of baseballs while Kurt was buffeted off course just as he reached for one of the cultists. Everyone else was swallowed up in similar, isolated fashion. Sharp, frozen pieces of burst trees arrowed through the snow, lending even more menace to the sudden fragmented storm cells.
She bellowed for the cultists to hurry up with their task. She let her hammer drop to her side and smoothed a sigil into its handle that floated her Worthy off the ground so the cultists could drag him rapidly through the portal. His weight had been clearly complicating their task. She strode toward the portal after them and as she did the other hammer rose from the ground, flying straight up into the air then disappeared from view.
Skadi threw one last glance back at the group. She was curious to see if they would break through these spells too. No matter. They were insignificant. She stepped through the portal and waved a hand. The portal pinched together with the quietness of a first snowfall, leaving the area suddenly and rapidly silent as her magic dissipated.
The dust had settled and in the small clearing laid the one that caused so much devastation in a short amount of time. Tandy was the first to move towards him but stopped short when she was a few feet away. Her face hidden from view as she clicked her tongue at Kuurth in disappointment. She expected more from the one that was called Juggernaut. "What should we do with him?"
"We can keep him restrained for now, use our psychics to keep him unconscious while we get him out of here," Scott allowed, "but in the long term we're not set up to handle a prisoner capable of his...destructive capability. We might actually need to reach out to SHIELD, or another group with better confinement facilities."
"I'd still like to know why he was here in the first place but most of my energy's being devoted to keeping him asleep to go any deeper. He's--very strong," Jean said with furrowed brows, her face a little strained.
Curiosity had always been Rogue's downfall. Hands on her hips, she assessed the situation and looked around. Cain was down, the team was scattered around, and there was that hammer. Heading to it, she tilted her head -- it didn't look any different than any other hammer. She reached down to try to take it and was shot backwards by a jolt of energy. "Ugh." Rogue caught herself mid-air and looked sheepishly around. "Guess I ain't gonna be the next Queen of Camelot or nothin'. No one's touching that baby."
"The hammer has better taste than the Old Man. Colour me shocked, Beulah. With a 'u' and everything." Kane said as he looked around for a downed powerline. He grabbed it and tore a good fifteen feet off from the felled and fortunately powerless lines and started to tear it into strips and braid the thick cable. "I know a couple of tricks with restraints which can keep him from applying his full strength to them. It's not a permanent solution, but at the very least, it will take him time to break free. Hopefully long enough to get him to Triskalion."
"And once he's there he's Shield's problem, at least until he inevitably manages to escape and run rampant again when we'll have to shut him down. Sometimes I really have to wonder if SHIELD really knows anything about incarcerating mutants, or anyone with super-powers given how many of these guys seem to constantly end up on the street." Scott sighed, rubbing one hand over his drawn face as he turned away from the downed Juggernaut, "Ok Kane, he's all yours, wrap him up, the rest of you, good job. Let's start getting packed up to head home."
The wind whipped up as another portal opened not far from the hammer that had sent Rogue flying. Skadi was impatient. Freeing and finding the other Worthies and their hammers was a more complicated process than she had expected. The world had changed much since the last time she walked it. They did not fear and did not know the old stories like they should. Like was their due. She stepped out of the portal and her lip curled in distaste as she saw the weaklings surrounding her latest Worthy. That would not do. Would not do at all.
Her own hammer hung from a modified belt at her hip. Unlike what the weaklings had cheapened its image into being, she did not need to perform with it to cause the effects she intended. She flipped back the fur lined dark evergreen cloak she wore and pulled the hammer from its sheath. She murmured beneath her breath then pressed her hammer to the ground in front of her as a ripple of energy that matched the color of her cloak rippled out from it and headed directly toward the assembled group. It built in power and intensity as the ground roiled and heaved. The idea of stability long forgotten as if the soil had turned into the sea's waves. A resounding crack like a tree splitting in winter finally sounded as the ground tossed them up and threw them away from Cain's body, clearing the area around him.
Kurt landed where he'd been thrown and almost instantly, bounced back up to his feet, charging back towards Skadi as fast as he could manage on the roiling ground.
Using his telekinesis to stabilize his freefall, Julian sent a pulse of energy out to find Tandy and try to keep her from tumbling too much with her landing- he was still nervous about her having passed out at work recently. Ground beneath his feet, Julian turned to face the new comer and did a quick assessment. "Well this just keeps getting better," he mumbled as his hands detached and floated over to Rogue to help her up. Sparing a glance toward Tandy, he planted his feet and got ready for the next volley.
Rogue leapt into the air and went flying towards the new threat. "This jus' keeps gettin' better and better," she grumbled through clenched teeth. Reaching out, she picked up one of the tree's broken branches and swung it towards Skadi. By this point, Rogue didn't care about residual damage -- enough had happened that she needed to do something to end all this.
Skadi looked bored as Rogue flew towards her. This group was a bit more resilient than she had anticipated, but Dweller had informed them as much. Skadi simply swung her hammer to meet Rogue's broken tree branch and the moment they did meet the boom of force flung Rogue back even farther than before. She smiled at the long furrow in the ground that resulted from Rogue's impact. Their attention was directed at her and would remain so. She motioned for the cultists to come forward and retrieve Cain's body.
Dagger stood up after the first initial blast and cracked her neck. Skadi could pack a punch for sure. Finally shaking her head to get her mind clear, she looked up to the see the cultist moving for Cain's unconscious body. Have to make it seem she was still a good guy and lifted her hand to send five daggers thier way, she only hoped that it wasn't powerful enough to drop one of them.
Kurt knew Rogue was invulnerable, but there was magic at play here. Just as Skadi expected, he turned his attention to checking on her.
"Is that a portal?" Rogue furrowed her brow, and wiped some dirt off her face. She tried to get closer to Skadi, but the hammer kept pushing her further and further back, even without touching her. She pointed over to one of the cultists. "I think that's a portal!"
"I'm really starting to hate portals. I mean, I fucking hate commuting too, but magically bending space and time instead of taking a cab seems like cheating." Kane said, pushing against the force. He could feel the tingle start at his fingertips as his skin tasted the energy, analyzed it, and adapted. "Keep Marko here! I'll see if I can buy some time!"
Suddenly, Kane passed through the wall of force like it was mist. One of the only nice things about fighting god-like magical creatures was that they were so all powerful that they tended not to lose much and more importantly, had never developed the right mindset to react quickly when a plan went bad. Which was why, for all her power, Skadi didn't have time to do more than pull a surprised face before the first titanic punch sent her staggering. Kane slammed two more, hard, into where her kidneys would be. If Gods had kidneys. Did Gods have kidneys? He shook away the thought with an uppercut to the mouth and a right cross that smashed into her cheekbone. He knew he was outmatched and that this was going to hurt very, very soon, but the longer he could keep her off-balance and distracted...the longer before he had a hammer shaped hole through his chest.
Kurt glanced from Rogue to Skadi to the prone Marko, narrowed his eyes as he saw the cultists dragging him away, and attempted a teleport to stop them.
One of the cultist held up their hand as it appeared that they were calling out for the energy surrounding them before pulling up a shield around Marko. "Magic." Tandy recognized it anywhere, especially from all the times she had been in the magic class. Tandy unleashed five more daggers but they disappeared once they hit the shield, causing it to ripple.
With a glance towards the hammer-wielder, Julian turned his full attention toward the shield. Extending both wrists towards it he focused every bit of energy and focus he had on pushing on the shield, causing greenish ripples to form in the air around it. Already exhausted from the fight with Juggernaut, he knew he couldn't keep it up for long. Straining, Julian could feel what he thought was probably a tendril of blood drifting down from his nostril and across his lips and gritted teeth. Finally, a tiny hole began to form around the top of the shield, maybe enough for Kurt to get through?
The blows immediately focused Skadi's attention on the impudent fool that had dared come into contact with her. It was a surprise that someone attached to this group had broken through her magic. But it would soon be their mistake. She leaped backwards from Kane, giving herself time to wipe the distracting blood from her face and ease a hand over her sides. Those would ache later but the swell of power under her skin would soothe it soon enough.
A malicious grin drew across her face as she gripped her hammer with both hands and swung it in Kane's direction. She mouthed a rapid series of incantations to imbue the strike with the howling gales of winter storms that whistled through the endless mountains and the ferocity of the blinding snow that swirled in their wake. The power contained in it was levels higher than what she had been using before, enough to bowl Kane over and pin him there. Then the wave of power swept around him and aimed itself at the rest of the group.
Julian disappeared in a swirl of snow followed by an immediate pelting of hail the size of baseballs while Kurt was buffeted off course just as he reached for one of the cultists. Everyone else was swallowed up in similar, isolated fashion. Sharp, frozen pieces of burst trees arrowed through the snow, lending even more menace to the sudden fragmented storm cells.
She bellowed for the cultists to hurry up with their task. She let her hammer drop to her side and smoothed a sigil into its handle that floated her Worthy off the ground so the cultists could drag him rapidly through the portal. His weight had been clearly complicating their task. She strode toward the portal after them and as she did the other hammer rose from the ground, flying straight up into the air then disappeared from view.
Skadi threw one last glance back at the group. She was curious to see if they would break through these spells too. No matter. They were insignificant. She stepped through the portal and waved a hand. The portal pinched together with the quietness of a first snowfall, leaving the area suddenly and rapidly silent as her magic dissipated.
