Hell...

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

Nobody make plans tonight.

We just picked up an extremely ugly little rumour through one of our contacts in the West. Looks like Apocalypse is back in circulation, and has chosen a very concerning place to go to ground. According to our people, someone's been moving some of Apocalypse's assets we tagged in Africa into the US, specifically to a former US nuclear missile silo complex at Blue Area Mesa.

This place was decommissioned in the eighties, and sold about five years ago to some pacifist group out of California to convert into a commune. This is the bad part. We flagged this place ages ago when they started up.

It's a commune full of mutants. All of them are pretty minor in terms of power level, but with Apocalypse's power, who knows what's involved? I'm taking this over to the mansion. Marie-Ange, I want you to put together a team; stealth insertion, quick computer scan for prisoners, enough firepower to hold off defenders long enough to do what we have to do.

Hopefully the X-Men are spoiling for a fight.

Comments

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

We are involving the X-Men in this? Which is I suppose a rhetorical question since you would not say so if they were not.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

If it's Apocalypse, we don't have the firepower for this, especially without Pete and with Wanda not at top form.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am not questioning the decision, it just took me by surprise.

I am not sure we have enough people for this at all on such short notice.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

Find a way to make it work. I'll see about adding a little extra firepower while I'm briefing the mansion.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I can make it work, but no one is going to like it.

Emma's plane or regular flights?

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

Emma's Lear. We might need the room if we need to bug out with hostages. Prep it for tomorrow morning.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Oh good, because I was already on the phone with the hanger while I was asking.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

quick computer scan for prisoners

I know my job when I see it. I'll get my gear together.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Can you do me a favor and get several take-out bags of food for Jubilee from where ever you know that she likes when you are done packing?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Yes. Anything else you need?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Not unless you can figure out some way to clone Jubilee or Remy, or fix Wanda?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

The only person I could clone is in California. And that would only be by a technicality anyway.

And fixing Wanda = way past me.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am going to continue to not think of the ways that Jamie would be useful right now, and think of all of the ways that he would be a problem instead.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Hm. And no point in reflecting on what we don't have.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Can I just say how much I hate Apocalypse? I'll pack a few of my high performance bars as well.

Anything else we need to bring? (Other then our usual, that is?)

[x-bishop.livejournal.com]

Should I assume I'll be tagging along too?

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

No, I need you here. Tomorrow, when I call, you're going to hit up your highest level contact in the NYPD with a tip on Apocalypse's location. Someone you can trust to treat you as anonymous and still push it up the chain as fast as possible. I don't want SHIELD to have any hints about our network.

[x-scarletwitch.livejournal.com]

Well, fuck. Tell me there's something, anything, I can do from this damnable couch? Or, hell, the office even.