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Post by Magneto on Mar 3, 2005 3:30:42 GMT -5
Except for his pillows and mattress all the furniture in Magneto's room is metal, furniture that he crafted himself. Everything has a rounded organic design that sits seamlessly with the metal walls and floor, making everything seem like one giant metallic ice sculpture. There was a single window that overlooked the ocean, through it the evening sunlight poured in and illuminated the whole room.
Magneto stood at the window and looked out into the infinitely vast ocean, admiring the reflection of the crimson sky on the sea waves. On his desk, a computer console started humming and buzzing as text filled up the screen. Magneto's parting gift to Rogue was a silver locket, but only he knew of the microphone and radio transmitter that were concealed within it.
Magneto programmed the audio parsing filter to only recognise and record vocal activity, he had volumes of Rogue's conversations with the other X-Men members and various...activites that she had engaged in. Magneto heard talk coming from the computer speaker:
"...haven't had a "Girls Night Out" evening in ages. What do you two think about hitting the clubs tonight and just...It seems as if Ah don't have any plans anyway..."
This was a precious opportunity, to attack the X-Men while they were lured out of the safety of the mansion. All he needed now was to find a member of the Brotherhood to accompany him...
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Post by Mystique on Mar 3, 2005 3:44:09 GMT -5
She knocked on the metal door of his room and crossed her arms. What was so important that he was unable to hear her pounding?
"LENSHERR!" She bellowed in a voice that was not her own.
She kicked the door once more for good measure and started to walk away.
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Post by Magneto on Mar 3, 2005 4:15:32 GMT -5
Magneto was brought back to reality by Mystique's shouting and banging. Upon hearing her footsteps, Magneto opened the door with the flick of his hand. Mystique walks in to see Magneto staring intently at the computer console. As she approaches him, Magneto seems to answer her question before she's even asked it.
"Listen to this." Magneto plays back the recording. Mystique gives him a curious look, even though she can easily guess what Magneto has in mind.
"It's an excellent opportunity to weaken them away from the safety of Xavier's mansion. If we plan this properly it'll leave them severely crippled and weakened, creating a gap that'll allow us to attack the mansion directly. What do you think Mystique?"
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Post by Mystique on Mar 3, 2005 4:27:25 GMT -5
Her face broke out into a slightly maniacal smile. She brushed her red hair out of her eyes and nodded. "Let's do it." Moving towards the console, she pointed at the logs.
"Anything interesting about the little bitch?"
She still blamed her daughter for not breaking her out of prison when she had the chance, and she was happy to find any little things that were going wrong with her.
"I still can't believe how stupid she was to accept that little piece of scrap metal. Granted, she's always been a little numb in the brain, but I thought that I'd raised her well enough to know to look for things like that."
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Post by Magneto on Mar 3, 2005 4:47:28 GMT -5
"There's nothing else of interest right now, unless you want to hear the latest gossip going through the mansion household."
The locket he gave Rogue also housed a minute GPS transmitter which allowed him to triangulate her location to within 5 metres accuracy. Combined with the audio transmitter in Rogue's locket, Magneto saw that this ambush would be quite easy to plan. Magneto scoffed at Mystique's jewellry remark.
"Clearly your cold heart is unable to grasp the concept of sentimentality and treasured possesions. I knew that she wouldn't turn down the necklace, and I knew it would also be the perfect opportunity to surveillance Xavier's mansion."
Magneto continued recording from the audio transmission as the were discussing their plans back at the mansion.
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Post by Mystique on Mar 3, 2005 5:01:14 GMT -5
"Clearly your cold heart is unable to grasp the concept of sentimentality and treasured possesions. I knew that she wouldn't turn down the necklace, and I knew it would also be the perfect opportunity to surveillance Xavier's mansion."
She smiled, taking his first words as a compliment. "She's still an imbecile."
For dramatic effect, she morphed into Rogue and sidled up to Erik sexily. "Hey, sugah." She pranced around the room, clearly making a fool of herself, but she knew that Magneto dare not comment about it aloud. At least not if he didn't fancy being castrated.
As she returned to her normal blue form, she picked up the file folder that she had been carrying, and got back to business. "I dug up as much information as I could about the new security system. It should be fairly easy to breach, especially if the ladies of the house are otherwise occupied."
Moving back to the computer, she nudged him aside and opened up a folder. "I've uploaded the latest diagrams on the power dampener that we've been working on. It should be more effective than the last version. I'll test it on Toad and let Creed have a go at him later just to make sure, but it should be finished by the end of the week."
She walked towards the door and turned to face him again. "I'm going to go get the early versions loaded up so that we can use them tonight. I only have one condition regarding this whole situation. Let me take care of my little girl."
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Post by Magneto on Mar 7, 2005 5:09:36 GMT -5
"Very well Mystique, I shall give you your perverted pleasure. Now leave me be, I have other matters to attend to."
Mystique gave Magneto a slightly annoyed look before walking out of the room. He pressed a button on his desk and spoke into an intercom.
"Victor, I have something for you to do."
A few minutes later, a disgruntled Sabretooth entered the room. Magneto motioned him towards his desk and kept his eyes on the computer console while talking to Sabretooth.
"A transport of slaves has just arrived at Hammer Bay, I want you to take them to their quarters and get them to work straight away."
Sabretooth is about to leave, before Magneto stops him.
"Oh and one more thing, it's your turn to get the groceries. Here's the list."
Sabretooth snatches up the list, scanning through the items. He gets to the last item on the list, and angrily mumbles to himself before walking out.
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Post by Magneto on Mar 14, 2005 5:23:24 GMT -5
(continued from outside of the Brotherhood)
Sabretooth had returned with the grocery items and tampons, but an unknown stranger had tagged along with him. Magneto knew that the only time Sabretooth brought a stranger in to see him was when he saw potential in them.
Sabretooth motioned Moss into the room, who hesitantly went in before Sabretooth left. Magneto floated toward Moss and inspected him, deciding to start off with some simple questions to see what kind of response he would get.
"Tell me, who are you and why did you come to Genosha?"
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Post by zoken on Mar 15, 2005 18:43:32 GMT -5
"My Lord Magneto," Moss started. he had heard the stories... ney, legends of this mutant. "I have no respect for the species that I once thought I was a part of. humans are foul beasts, and most of them deserve to be wiped from the planet. I came to this island because I heard it was to be the new mutant home-land. I came to serve you. I was born Miguel Ricardo Martorell Juarez, but I also call myself Moss."
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Post by Magneto on Mar 17, 2005 7:17:04 GMT -5
Magneto smiled, it was just the response that he was after. He would have no trouble swaying this one to his cause, and getting him to do his dirty work wouldn't prove too difficult.
"The humans are a pitiful breed, all they can ever think about is their own greed and desires for power. I am glad that you have already realised the truth, we are the future and they will be but a relic."
Magneto started pacing around Moss, examining him and observing his expressions.
"Tell me young one, what is your gift?"
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Post by zoken on Mar 17, 2005 8:18:08 GMT -5
"Plants," he said simply. "As long as I have a seed, or a plant, I can control it and make it grow." he reached into one of the little bags he wore on the bandolier and pulled out two seeds. he put one in each palm and made a fist around them. immedieatly rose vines began to curl around his fists, sprouting thorns that all pointed outside. "pero, 'dere is a side effect. I can't handle any food from animales." he thought for a moment. "some relics... they must be preserved si?"
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Post by Magneto on Mar 18, 2005 8:44:12 GMT -5
Magneto watched with fascination as the thorned vines sprawled from Moss' hand. It was an unusual mutant ability, he couldn't deny that. He was certain though that he would be able to use this power to his advantage, just where and when had yet to be seen.
"You have much potential young one, I have no doubt that you would be a valuable asset to us. Welcome, to our Brotherhood."
Magneto put his arm on Moss' shoulder, and redirected him to the computer terminal nearby.
"Now the ones who are mainly in the way of our goals are the X-Men lead by Charles Xavier, an old friend of mine."
Magneto entered a few commands into the computer, and topographical images started appearing on the screen.
"Thanks to some of Mystique's escapades in various government facilities, we have full access to various military satellites positioned around the world. What you see now is the headquarters of the X-Men, a mansion existing under the pretext of being a boarding school. Now over here you have..."
Magneto trailed off as he noticed the activity on the screen. Several stealth helicopters were circling the mansion and the X-Men seemed to be fighting some sort of soldiers.
"Well well, what do we have here? This looks like the perfect opportunity to insert someone like yourself into the mansion to make some direct surveillance. The X-Men will be too busy concerning themselves with finding the source of the attack to worry about some new student."
((OOC: I must be missing something here, but I don't quite understand the relic thing.))
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Post by zoken on Mar 18, 2005 10:48:41 GMT -5
((OOC: I'll explain it here))
"Sir... While most humans are bigotted creatures, the saying goes that the exception proves the rule. Mi Madre y mi Abuela... my mother and grandmother. they never looked at me different, even when I got my powers. Dey... dey are familia."
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Post by Mystique on Mar 18, 2005 11:07:09 GMT -5
"Family is overrated."
She stepped into the room and walked towards the computer console. "I see you're aware of the current activities at the Xavier place?"
She pointed to the monitor that they had been working on earlier. "The transmission has stopped. The necklace must be out of range of the current activities."
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Post by zoken on Mar 18, 2005 17:04:54 GMT -5
Moss' face whipped aorund to see Mystique. 'Mi Dio' he thought. she was hot.
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