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Post by Foley on Nov 14, 2005 14:11:57 GMT -5
Henry Peter Gyrich had worked for the government throughout the entire of time that historians in the future will call the Age of Marvels. Just how long was his civil service career is unknown. When he first came to be the official liason to the Avengers, he had already risen to an impressively high rank with open orders. He worked with Boliver Trask, the original inventer of Sentinals, and helped bring about the famed, and feared, Project: Wideawake program that was tied to the failed Mutant Registration Act.
That fact alone made Gyrich less then loved around the mutant XSE. A feeling that anyone ever associated with the product of Xavier's dream, be they X-Men, or the school, shared. Gyrich himself did not care overly much for mutants, or any superhumans at all. He felt they were just too dangerous and should have been rubbed out a long time ago. Which is partly why he was here now on the edge of the Xavier Institute with five metal giants and a host of smaller human sized Prime-II sentials, based on the same design that the mad machine Bastion created, only these were purely machine and not cyborg.
The wrinkled government age chewed on his cigar but then quickly threw it down in anger as he saw Nocturne and Bloodwolf charging toward him at breakneck speed.
"Damn," he hissed, "I knew this was going to happen."
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Post by batman on Nov 16, 2005 0:13:14 GMT -5
Bloodwolf reached Gyrich first. his clawed hand wrapped around his throat. "Tell me what we ant to know and you might live through this!" He growled.
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Post by Foley on Nov 16, 2005 17:54:29 GMT -5
The sounds of ten pulse weapons being cracked and powering up filled the air as ten Prime Sentials whirled in reaction to Bloodwolf and aim wicked looking blasters at him. Each muzzle was aimed squarely at his head.
Gyrich just smirked, "Im ready to die for my country, mutant, are you ready to die for your stupidity?"
Nocture bounded up on to the scene, "Bloodwolf dont!"
"Listen to your blue furred teammate. One Im not on the schools property, and two Im here on official government business. The 'escort' is because the report we recieved from Cerebro said a know mutant terriorist that has on more the one occasion tried to kill me was here, and because the last time I had anything to do with a team of mutants it didnt end...well."
Nocture savagedly kicked several Primes out the way so she could get in Gyrich's face and scream, "You killed Beak!!!"
Gyrich sniffed the air unimpressed, "Things happen."
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Post by Phoenix on Nov 18, 2005 3:37:38 GMT -5
Stacey was awoken by the sound of a loud bang. Quickly she got dress. Curiosity more then anything drove her. Putting on her black jeans and red and black mid-drift top, she headed out into the hall. Noticing that there was no one grading her. She could feel alarm from some people wile most were still asleep. She followed the feeling of panic out of the house. And soon her eyes caught sight of a tin monster.
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Post by Foley on Nov 28, 2005 1:16:10 GMT -5
"Stand still, Stacey!"
Cerebro was moving towards the young mutant with determination and purpose. His voice was like iron yet warm and reassuring at the same time. He was also telepathicly sending her feelings of calmness and strength.
"We have a situation," he said as he came to stand beside her, "But if you dont do anything that the Sentinal would consider hostile it wont attack."
At the same time he was telepathicly monitoring the actions of his two X-Men down on the lawn with Gyrich. He could feel both individuals anger like sharp stabbing daggers of pure fire. Cerebro shook his head sadly, given Nocturne's anger over her teammate Beak's death due a munipulated Gyrich, he had hoped to reach her before she reacted to the sight of the mutant hunting machines. So much for that, he thought to himself sarcasticly.
He sent a telepathic-call to Bloodwolf, Do not engage unless provoked, Scruffy, I do not want a pitched battle outside the school if it can be avoided.
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Post by Foley on Nov 28, 2005 1:26:03 GMT -5
Nocturne heard what Cerebro had "said" to Bloodwolf only because he had meant for her to on purpose. It had been done in order to establish who was going to speak for the team until he could arrive and to cool her jets as it were. The latter motive was not a resounding success.
Cerebro, this monster killed Beak!!!! And not during a fight or anything where Beak could defend himself...Beak was...
She heard Cerebro's "voice" resound in her head in his stern Im-giving-orders-dont-argue way, Beak was an X-Man, therefore he knew the risks to his life when he put on his uniform. Gyrich was controlled by Exodus at the time, right now he is not a true ally. But he is NOT the enemy either. Stand down unless he attacks first.
Not happy, Nocturne backflipped away from Gyrich and perched like a bird of prey in a nearby tree glaring at the civil servent. Gyrich just smirked.
"Does this mean we are friends now?"
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Post by Phoenix on Dec 21, 2005 22:11:59 GMT -5
She tried to stand as still as she could. But she had never seen something that big before. And the sight of a large gun coming from it's arm didn't help either. She began to feel herself get hotter as if she was running a fever. But she knew she wasn't sick. It wasn't her controlling the heat inside of her, it was her nerves.
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Post by Foley on Dec 28, 2005 23:07:59 GMT -5
Ever wonder what goes through a mind of an artificially intelligent machine?
The Sentinal that was making eye-to-optic-sensor contact with the young mutant began scanning her. It detacted the rise in her body temperature and how it was much much higher then it should be humanly possible. With a detached care, the Sentinal decided that what it was looking at was a mutant. It then asked its CPU for instructions.
Under normal circumstances those instructions would be to attack the mutant and either capture for detention or destroy should that prove impossible or unwise. This time however the instructions were to scan further and determine if this mutant was a paticular mutant which the unit had been sent to locate.
So the Sentinal quickly scanned the young woman's genetic signature. It matched. The CPU then sent a message to the units by Control-Gyrich to inform him that the querry had been found. Next the CPU instructed to peacefully detain said mutant til outside instructions were recieved.
The Sentinal looked at Stacey and announced in it's hollow machinical voice, "You will cease and desist using you mutant powers and come with this unit."
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Post by Phoenix on Jan 2, 2006 23:34:07 GMT -5
Even though she was scared she tried not to show it. But that was hard when she felt herself getting hotter. "I can't." She said to the large robot. "That is why Iam here I can't control it."
Lifting her hand in a peace gesture, a small spark came from the palm of her hand. As if she was flicking on a lighter.
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Post by magneto on Jan 3, 2006 12:14:24 GMT -5
Gyrich took silent note of the synthesised words of the sentinel unit; knowing forewell what it had found and knowing instantly that being close was nota necessarily brilliant idea. He backed away slowly a steadfastly not retreating but tactically withdrawing to a safer position, two of the large sentinels and three Prime-II's circling around him making a defensive screen.
A machines CPU is incapable of creative thought unless given the capacity to do so, and the Prime-II sentinels were not given that ability at all, and so it was that the sentinel unit reiterated its last request with increased decebels and a more forceful tone. "You will desist in using your mutant powers and committ yourself to the detention of this sentinel unit." The unit spurred to life and began to walk towards stacey; two others followed in a delta formation their weapon systems activated and tactical logarythms engaged.
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Post by Foley on Jan 3, 2006 15:54:52 GMT -5
Cerebro watched as the two-story tin can got closer to the school and the human sized ones start their cautious advance on the ground.
"Gyrich!!" he called, telekineticly amplifing his voice, "Call them off or this is going to end very badly!"
Everyone who knew Cerebro knew this was not a threat or a bluff. He would seek out a peaceful solution because that was what a leader did. But when it came down to a fight, especially defending his students, very few ever walked away from his attacks. And those who did were allowed and hardly ever in one piece.
There were times when Wolverine, the berserker king, felt that Cerebro had gone to far in a battle. And that was saying something.
"First and last warning, Gyrich! Call your 'bots off!"
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Post by magneto on Jan 4, 2006 12:46:34 GMT -5
Gyrich tried to track the source of the voice, but to be more than honest he'd didn't necessarily care all that much, orders were orders and he had his. Turning to two of the giant sentinels he transmitted it new orders and left the rest with a new set of encrypted code orders. One of the giant sentinels stopped down and picked him up remarkbly gently for a machine its size. The two then activated their jet boosters and lifted off the ground and blasted into the air; burning little bits of foleage nearby. As the two giants rocketed away from the scene at a fantastic speed; the remaining sentinels seemed to halt for a brief moment . . . . . then with speed their weapons systems whirred back to life and the moved in unison towards the small girl. Gyrich's logic was that the X-men would try to avert a potentially destructive scene outside their house, should they feel the need to engage the sentinels, then the ensuing fight would leave them with plenty of bad publicity and accusations of not being capable of keeping their own affairs in order. The sentinels advanced, no longer issuing verbal commands, their tactical logic engines were now fully active and predicting all the logical and sentient response the X-men would make.
Gyrich, now far above the developing battle and moving away faster than any of the X-men could react to him, he had an oxygen mask fitted across his face to ensure he didn't die from lack of oxygen. ~ The ball is in your court Cerebro, which is more important? The girl or your school? ~
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Post by Phoenix on Jan 4, 2006 13:00:52 GMT -5
Stacey took a step backwards, when she saw the weapons that thing had to offer. She felt her powers rise within her as her nerves controlled them not her. Her pupils flickered from blue to red. Fire flowed from her hands like water from a shower. "This isn't me!" She shouted. Fear increased within her as she fought to stop whatever was happing.
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Post by magneto on Jan 5, 2006 15:14:36 GMT -5
Gyrich was now a safe distance away from the budding skirmish and was being spirited away to a safe location. The sentinels however were about to discover whether they could subdue the phoenix force . . . . or not. Moving as one they had reduced the distance to only a few metres, noting that the remaining X-men did not offer any resistance, but instead backed away. Although this was not logical to the machines; no resistance meant they were not an initial threat and so they were left unengaged but still watched. Moving closer to the girl, two of the sentinels reached out long grapling arms and made ready to seize the girl, it was the telling moment.
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Post by Foley on Jan 6, 2006 13:30:47 GMT -5
Cerebro heard Gyrich, but made no reply. He was more concerned with the waves of panic that were rolling off of the girl standing beside him. The choices in front of him were simple. He could let the machines take the girl or battle and endanger everyone. Or...
Cerebro's eyes snapped shut and suddenly without warning the two Sentials that were converging on him and Stacey were sent flying back. As they landed they pushed up a mound of earth as if they were steam shovals.
Cerebro stood with his hands outstretched and a trickle of blood flowed from his nose.
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