http://x_cyclops.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] x-cyclops.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] x_team2007-10-24 02:45 pm
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I'm sure you all noticed the helicopter on the lawn. Some of you might have seen Val Cooper emerging from it. She came with some exceptionally bad news.

Succinctly, Magneto is currently orbiting the Earth in a Russian space station, in control of a satellite-based laser weapons system. If the US and Russian governments don't fulfill the first of his demands - releasing all mutants they currently have in custody - in a week, he's going to destroy Washington and Moscow.

Forge, I need you in the Situation Room right now. Everyone else, I need you down here in 30 minutes, once Ororo and I have a basic plan to present.
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[identity profile] x-traction.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I at least get to hit him? Hard?

[identity profile] x-dominion.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. A couple of times.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't this bloke somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty? That doesn't seem quite sporting.

Then again, from all accounts if one manages to get close enough to score a physical hit perhaps one is entitled to take it.

[identity profile] x-dominion.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not big on sporting. That man needs to be back in prison.

[identity profile] x-wolverine.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been tried.

Didn't take.

Looks like folks are anglin' for the shallow, unmarked grave in the ass end of nowhere approach.

Can't say I think they're wrong.

[identity profile] x-cyclops.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone who can't get that impulse fully under control gets to stay home.

[identity profile] x-wolverine.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You're breakin' my heart, Summers.

I'm no good against Buckethead anyway. More a danger to everyone else than I am to him. Took my shot against him. Didn't go well.

So I'm staying home anyway. And you're a little thin to start tossing away people just because you don't like their style, Slim.

[identity profile] x-cyclops.livejournal.com 2007-10-24 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's got nothing to do with style. It's got to do with precision, which, shockingly, we're going to need in spades in a zero-gravity atmosphere in fucking orbit. I would rather take fewer people than we need than anyone who's going to blow out a bulkhead trying to get at Magneto and kill us all.
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