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Post by Dazzler on Apr 26, 2017 23:40:10 GMT
"Maybe if we go to a bar or the X-Men have a party, but not at a concert," Alison replied to Sasha just before all hell seemed to break loose. "What the..." she said as the waiter fell backwards near their table. "Did you two hit him?" she yelled at Harley and Omega Red.
"Duh, no!" Harley snapped back. "The thing came out of the portal! Is he dead?"
Dazzler went over to the waiter and knelt down as she felt for a pulse and checked his breathing. "He's alive, but he better be taken to the hospital fast," Alison added as she looked at Sasha. "Sasha, does that knife look familiar?" she asked as she looked at the blade as it rested on the floor.
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Post by Sasha Sadovsky on Apr 26, 2017 23:53:09 GMT
''Craig never liked sharing the stage with anyone anyway,'' Sasha said. His eyes widened after a waiter fell. Sasha turned to Harley and Omega Red. Although Omega Red had a bit in common with him, he still scowled at the red armor-clad mutant. Sasha stepped back from the waiter. He saw the knife. ''I'm afraid I'm not familiar with it.''
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Post by Omega Red on Apr 27, 2017 0:02:12 GMT
Omega Red's eyes were wide after a waiter fell. He scowled at Alison. ''Harley and I weren't anywhere near the waiter!'' he said. Omega Red heard Dazzler as the latter mentioned he was alive. He turned to Harley. ''I just know Doc Nemesis is going to blame us for this! Perhaps we can get our food to go.''
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Post by Leonard Grimm on May 27, 2017 22:33:14 GMT
Leonard Grimm had, finally, gotten Sarah Johnson to go out with him to a decent restaurant. Well, decent might be a relative term in this case, but it was better than In-N-Out Burger. The vampire and his mutant companion had been sitting in a back corner when Omega Red, Harley, Dazzler and Sasha made their presence known with this mess with the waiter. "Oh geez. We can't even go out for dinner without some drama interrupting things. Hey! You guys! What happened to that guy?"
"He got smacked in the head with this," Alison replied as she grabbed a napkin and picked up the knife. "This look familiar?"
"Oh, it's one of the Fang Gang," Harley said to Omega Red as Grimm walked over. "If we wanted quiet, that just walked out the door, Arkady."
Grimm looked, well, grim as he saw the dagger in Alison's hand. "OK, Sparkler, put the thing down on the table. Now."
"Her name is Dazzler," Grimm's date, the X-Man known as Ballistic, said as she shot him a look. "Sorry, Alison. He still hasn't gotten everyone straight in his mind yet."
"I'm more concerned with the dagger," Grimm said as he picked it up. "Lu!" he yelled to the owner. "You have any outstanding issues with any of the mystic clans?"
The owner scurried over and looked at the dagger, and then he looked at Grimm. "No. I have no idea what that is. Just get it out of here," he said as he knelt over the waiter who was starting to stir.
"OK, so we have a dagger and nothing else?" Grimm asked as a second dagger flew out of the portal and lodged in the wall near the entrance. "Do you guys have any enemies coming after you?" he asked Dazzler, Sasha, Harley and Omega Red as patrons started to get up from their seats and run for the exits.
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Post by Omega Red on May 27, 2017 22:38:02 GMT
Omega Red began to squint at Leonard Grimm. He wasn't sure if he saw him before. He heard Harley's voice and turned to her. ''The Fang Gang?'' Omega Red also heard Ballistic's voice. He shrugged at the sight of her.
Omega Red was neutral after others ran out of the restaurant. If he still searched for the C-Synthesizer, he would have scowled. So many life forces he could have obtained.
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Post by Sasha Sadovsky on May 27, 2017 23:43:39 GMT
Sasha's eyes were filled with worry after Alison picked up the knife. Although a napkin was around it, he still wasn't sure about the weapon at all. He viewed Leonard Grimm and Ballistic. He nodded at them. Sasha scowled after Leonard addressed Dazzler as Sparkler. He almost said something, but Ballistic revealed Dazzler.
Sasha gasped after another dagger flew out of the portal. ''There's a knife thrower on the other side of the portal?'' He worried about Alison again. ''We should depart from here before you are harmed.''
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Post by Ballistic on May 29, 2017 22:33:46 GMT
"Maybe we've got ninjas coming through? Or some Old West gang that likes cutlery?" Sarah asked only half jokingly as she formed a small shield from the metal that oozed from her pores in her hands. "OK, now I can deflect any more that might come flying out. This is nuts, even by X-Men standards. You guys OK?" she asked Alison and Sasha. "I know you two can take this kinda crap," she said to Omega Red and Harley. While she knew about Doc Nemesis little band of lunatics and wetworks ops, she herself had been passed over for it. There was still too much Weapon X stuff in her mind that hadn't been unscrambled yet.
Soon a young looking, white haired Asian woman came running out of the portal, bow in hand, firing back on whatever was on the other side of the portal. She started screaming in Cantonese and then in Mandarin, but her request seemed to go unheeded.
"Yo, any of you guys speak Chinese?" Sarah asked her fellow X-Men and her date as she watched the women fire more arrows through the portal.
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Post by Sasha Sadovsky on May 30, 2017 12:57:00 GMT
Sasha's eyes settled on metal oozing from Ballistic's hand pores. They widened for a few seconds. He heard what she asked and nodded. Sasha turned to Alison another time. ''We are not safe here, Alison.'' That was when he viewed a woman running out of the portal.
Sasha gasped. He heard her as she shrieked. His eyes widened again after he viewed her firing arrows. *At least the arrows aren't aimed at Alison.*
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Post by Lotus on Jun 6, 2017 21:53:54 GMT
The white haired woman kept screaming in various Chinese dialects and then decided to take matters into her own hands by running to a box near the portal and triggering a mechanism to close the thing down until it was safe again. It was then that she saw her business partner Lu Yan and started to scream at him, finally settling on English as her preferred language. "Why didn't you just shut the portal, you old fool! And where are all the customers!"
"This is He Ying, the co-owner if this restaurant," Lu said to the X-Men gathered around them. "Ying, calm down," he started to say as the woman finally returned her bow to a sling on her back. "Who was after you this time?"
It was then that she noticed the odd assortment of people staring at her.
"Who are they?" she shouted as she stomped toward Omega Red and stared up at him. "Who are you? Those coils do not scream friend."
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Post by Omega Red on Jun 6, 2017 22:08:47 GMT
Omega Red's eyes widened for a few seconds. He stepped back after the new woman yelled. He turned to Lu and frowned at him. ''That woman is a co-owner??'' Omega Red assumed a battle stance after she asked who he was. He began to relax. ''I am Omega Red. As for the coils, I am not going to use them to attack you.''
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Post by Sasha Sadovsky on Jun 6, 2017 22:14:17 GMT
*The woman is a co owner?* Sasha thought. He was not sure if he liked the way she stomped to Omega Red. Was the woman going to address him next? Perhaps Alison? ''I'm Sasha. This is Dazzler.'' He also wasn't sure if it was a good idea to introduce themselves as X-Men.
Sasha kept a close eye on the woman just in case. There was still quite a bit he didn't know about her. *Hopefully she won't be aggressive near Alison.* He was prepared to protect his companion.
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Post by Lu Yan on Jun 6, 2017 23:09:53 GMT
"Ying, do not get them upset. These are members of the X-Men," Lu said as he tried to calm his partner down a bit more. "Well, not the vampire."
"Hold on there a minute," Leonard said as he grimaced a bit. "I am as close to being an X-Man as that pirate Sparrow is. Pompous nitwit that he is."
"What is an X-Man? Oh wait. You did tell me. Spandex and capes," Ying said as she looked at the group. "Mutants. Mystics. Immortals."
"Your friend Hayley is an X-Man," Lu continued as he moved to reopen the portal. Ying shot him a funny look, and he stopped in his tracks. "Who was throwing those knives?"
"Apparently I was in some alternate dimension. Several people thought I was a demon and quite dead," Ying replied as she looked at the group before her. "Lu, get these people food!"
"She is such a pain," he said under his breath to Omega Red. "But she is good at making money. Everyone sit. I will get you food," Lu said as Ying went to the waiter and started to cast a spell to heal him. She pulled a small drum from a bag around her waist, and it grew to normal size as she started to play it. The waiter was quickly healed of his injuries.
"Her mystic aritfacts also come in handy," Lu said to Omega Red as he handed the man a menu. "Everyone! Sit! I will get the food!"
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Post by Omega Red on Jun 6, 2017 23:16:50 GMT
Omega Red began to glower. ''X-Men?? I never was and never will be one of the X-Men. I loathe them! Wolverine in particular!'' He trembled with anger for a few minutes.
''Spandex and capes? Do Harley and I look like we wear spandex with capes?'' He gasped after the waiter was healed. Omega Red took Lu 's menu. He sat at a table. He tried to remember what he wished to eat.
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Post by Dazzler on Jun 16, 2017 23:54:24 GMT
"Pretty simplistic explanation, don't you think?" Alison said to Sasha as she watched Omega Red and Harley get a bit huffy at poor Lu. "Guys, cut Lu here a break. All of you," she added as she looked at Leonard. "Wait. Hayley? As in MacFeorais?"
"Yes," Ying said as she finished using her drum to heal the waiter. "She has sold some of her sculpture in my art gallery. I am also showing works of your teammate Piotr Rasputin. He is very talented."
"Art gallery?" Harley said with a big grin to Omega Red. "Betcha she has a lot of expensive stuff there. Maybe we need to go case the...I mean check out the beautiful artwork sometime."
"I heard that," Alison said as she started to look at the menu. "And an alternate reality, Ying? Any idea where it was?"
"No, but I apparently look like an enemy of the demon clan Harada in that world. They thought I was a tengu. I am not Japanese. They were very, very stupid people."
"Or she is one bossy lady," Harley said before Ying glared at her. "Just saying they might not be used to someone that is such a force of nature!"
"Sasha, think we should take one of those daggers back to base to have it checked out?" Alison asked as she started to look through the menu. "Maybe one of our house wizards can look at it?"
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Post by Sasha Sadovsky on Jun 17, 2017 0:04:42 GMT
Sasha began to gasp. ''Piotr Rasputin? Another Russian like me? Wait a minute. That name sounds familiar. Is he Colossus?''
Sasha tried to remember if he came across Colossus. That was when he heard Harley's words about seeing artwork. He began to frown behind his mask. Sasha turned to Harley and Omega Red. ''Both of you are always up to no good at all.'' He heard Alison.
''Let's examine the dagger after we eat.''
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