The X-Project

I should have posted this earlier but I've been very busy for the past day. The Hand resurfaced and abducted a business colleague to use in some ritual, probably to summon Kemono again like they did in February. He's a mutant, and they wanted to use his strength as part of their spell. I suppose they haven't slaughtered enough innocent mutants. Wanda Maximoff and La Blue Girl Amanda Sefton, who were in Japan on their own business (which happened to be related), helped me rescue him. He has recovered and while I extended an offer to come to the Institute, he declined. It is a shame, really. He would have been an excellent asset to the X-Men.

Formal report to be uploaded shortly.

I think that Asgard may be on the move. Last week, Amora the Enchantress herself abducted me on behalf of Baron Zemo. Today, I was attacked by a group of Asgardian-speaking retards who proved embarrassingly incompetent. They didn't say whom they represented, but they seemed fearful of it when I told them to return empty-handed. After last week, it seems odd that Amora would send these boobs on her behalf, but on the other hand if she is just sending mortals to do her work, then her picking of servants may be limited. And this does not strike me as something that the Norns would do, and honestly I do not even know if these events are related. But I do not believe in coincidence.

Found him.

Clarice and I were watching Leyu, Artie, and Karolina fly their kites when two individuals approached us and tried to abduct the children. A big guy in body armor attacked and tried to distract me (he was very strong) while what appeared to be an old woman riding a wheel chair with tank treads went for the children. Clarice teleported them back here while I tried to take care of the big guy.

He almost disabled me with a punch, and Clarice and I managed to switch, so she took him on while the old lady tried to poison me with some yellow gas. Clarice disabled the man with a kick to the groin, and the gas had no effect on me, so then they fell back. We would have pursued had we had the authority. (And I apparently felt the need to get one of Dr. Voght's thorough lectures about not getting hit in the face or inhaling strange vapors. I'm a closet masochist.)

I'm in the medlab now. I'll bruise, but I'll be fine. Voght is checking to make sure that the gas was in fact harmless. I'll fill out a more concise report once I'm cleared and have had the opportunity to make sure that the kids are well.

And really? After my week, I should have known this would happen. Colbert, why didn't you warn me?

I suppose that this has already been considered, but I want to ask anyway, if for no other reason than to provide myself with the forum to voice my thoughts.

Where was Magneto last week? If I were a megalomaniacal mad evil genius, then I would use such an opportunity to launch a strike against my enemies. My first answer is that the riot was too sudden and he couldn't get there in time to further fan the flames of chaos. But he's no fool, and I would expect him to have anticipated such anarchy, so he'd have arrived in Seattle before our field trip did. Though maybe he was just working behind the scenes, aggravating and enticing people to riot, rather than making an explicit appearance himself.

So where was he?

Whose idea was it to build the basketball court as cover for the jet? Shouldn't they have chosen something a little less obvious?

That said, which mutant mastermind are we making trouble for this weekend?