The War Memorial (Open to ALL)

[whiteraven]

Raven could only stare in horror as the battle evolved around her. Hand clutched to her shoulder where she had taken Pepper's wound away, she scrambled to her feet as soon as the attentions of the solders surrounding her were changed to Juggernaut.

"No..." She whispered when Iron man flew out of one of the airships and began raining hell upon the memorial. Her first instinct was to save the memorial. Closing her eyes she centered all her strength, all her power, into a giant force field. Like a giant bubble, it grew until the whole monument and many of the people within it super and S.H.I.E.L.D. alike were within a huge black force field.

The earth begane to shudder and slowly the entire area started to sink into the ground. Slowly, ever so slowly, it went deeper and deeper, her shield repelling every attack from anything outside as if they were spit balls. When it finally stopped, the memorial had sunk into a chasm several yards below the rest of the lawn.

Raven was starting to tremble from the effort of keeping the shield up. She knew if she let it fade even a little, Iron Man's missles would get through an blow it all to smitheriens. She had to keep on going, but she knew she might not be able to.

[emmafrost]

Emma walked a cross the battle field to where Juggernaut in her organic diamond form by one of those S.H.I.E.L.D. idiots and was very crossed to find out one of her students had became Slade's pet killer. She would have to deal with that later after she took care of Mr. Stark once behind the unstoppable she shifted back to her normal form and sent a psionic spear into Iron Man knocking him unconsciousness as he fell Ray used her telekinesis to lower him to the ground safely then removed his helmet.

(For those of you who don't know I play all three so I'm not breaking any rules.)

[whiteraven]

Raven dug in another pocket of her cloak with a spare hand. When she had left the tower, she had grabbed some small items of little consequence, well most of them weren't that important. On a whim she had picked up one of Tim's injections. It was created as an antidote to what Raven was pretty sure was being used on Tony right now.

Hoping against all hopes it would have an effect, she shouted, "Emma!" And used her telekineses to fly the needle to the older woman. Now she put all her energy into the shield which was keeping the bulk of the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircrafts out of the area, but for how long she wasn't sure.

[Pepper]

OOC goolllyyyy this is what I get for vanishing for a day....ok I'll try to respond to everything but if I miss something I'm sorry! This'll probably be a long post...

Pepper stared up at the sky, her mind atumble. She actually felt as though she was about to start crying. Not from the pain or even from the fact that she had been stabbed, but because she was so angry she didn't know what else to do! The man who had stabbed Tony...she'd heard several people call him Slade now...had had a hypodermic needle. Things were clicking into place. Tony had been acting strange for some time now and she remembered that there had been times when he almost seemed like he was back to normal. But that was a come-and-go time, because she would leave the room for minutes or hours, come back, and he'd be just as strange again. Hypodermic needle. He was being injected with drugs. Except these drugs told him what to do. He was being controlled!

Part of her was just convinced she was in shock and denial. She was unable to believe that Tony Stark would ruthlessly attack her because she'd gotten involved in something. Except she'd been trying to save his life and that had been clear. So it made no sense for him to attack her!

She felt a cooling touch on her arm and looked over to see a woman with white eyes healing her wound. She looked quite beautiful, though hooded, and Pepper looked away from her, wondering why she wasn't being attacked. The woman told her to rest, that she'd lost a lot of blood. Pepper realized she'd also lost time - had she fainted? She watched the wound fade into nothing and smiled at the woman. "Thank you," she said softly.

Even as she did that, the world began to shatter into noises and shouts. She heard car doors slam, but with the woman's slight weight on her she couldn't push herself up. She heard Slade order the men to take her, however, and her whole body tensed. Oh no. No no no. That wasn't happening. She fought against the woman's weight and shoved herself up, pulling out her taser and her pepper spray, aiming it at the surrounding guards. One of them picked her up and she hit him square in the face with a shot of the spray. He dropped her, but before anyone else could react there entered into the scene two more women. One of them attacked a S.H.I.E.L.D. guard, the other began to speak of 'plans for Tony.'

"No one has plans for Tony," Pepper snarled. What was with everyone in this little circle? "Tony Stark is a man unto himself and no one is going to touch him..." she glared at the new redheaded woman dressed in green, "or control him..." her eyes shifted to Slade. "Because I will find a way to take out anyone who tries to do it."

The threat wasn't entirely empty. Pepper was fairly incapable of fighting superheroes alone, but she had legal pull. Of course, getting the government involved may have been a stupid idea, but this was just wrong! Control and exploitation, no matter of whom, was just wrong!

A new mutant appeared to face off against the woman in green, claws growing out of her hands. Pepper's eyes widened and she closed her mouth. Those two could take care of each other just fine. She concentrated on getting to her feet, wavering slightly because of dizziness. She looked around for Tony, but noticed he wasn't there. Where...had he gone? Everyone who was trying to kidnap him was here. Cain had even shown up, though Pepper had a feeling he wasn't there to kidnap Tony. Thank goodness.

And then an iron suit - black and silver - soared out of one of the nearby airships and began raining down repulsor blasts. Pepper screamed in denial, rage, and fear. She knew the suit anywhere, she even know the repulsor blasts. Tony was trying to destroy the memorial.

"Tony!" she screamed though she knew he probably couldn't hear her. "What are you doing?"

A black forcefield rose over the area and Tony's repulsor blasts had less and less effect. Pepper noticed that the woman who had helped her earlier was now protecting the monument with all of her might. The shield was taking a pounding, and Pepper looked up, horrified at Tony...just in time to see Emma Frost's spear knock him to the ground.

She was on her feet before she knew what was happening, and running for him. Dimly, she thought that this wasn't a good idea, that he had just tried to kill her. But she didn't care because she was going to rip that helmet off and slap him silly.

Emma got to him first, and Pepper pulled up short as the woman holding up a shield tossed Emma a needle. Pepper grabbed Emma's shoulder. "What is that? He's already been injected, you don't need to do it again! What is that?"

Not once did it occur to her that Emma might be a threat. She truly wasn't thinking clearly anymore.

[emmafrost]

Emma took the hypodermic needle and stabbed Tony in the neck with it "The cure of course." She said simply as she pulled the needed out "Should return him back to the way he was." Emma said getting up from where she was but was still looking down at the man "We have to move him to some place safe until he wakes up." She said turning her eyes to look at Pepper then down to herself and cursed she had just bought this dress three days ago and now it was ruined.

[Pepper]

Pepper looked at Emma - not really believing her but the desire to believe was strong enough. She looked back down at the unconscious Tony and then at her shaking hands. Tears pricked at the corners of her eyes but she didn't let them fall. Instead she moved to Tony and touched his face, allowing herself one moment of weakness. Just one. When he woke up she would be the same old Pepper he knew, but without his knowledge she allowed herself a moment to touch his face.

Then she pushed herself to her feet and looked at Emma. "I'll help you. Tell me what to do." She had lost blood and she was weak but her will was strong - and Emma would see it in her eyes.

[whiteraven]

Out of the corner of her eye, Raven saw Emma inject the cure into Stark. However, they weren't out of the woods yet. Deathstroke, Poison Ivy, and X-23 were still somewhere within the force field having their little cat spat.

And outside even more helacopters filled with solders were coming every second. Sending out a telepathic message to everyone in the area she could reach,

*I'm dropping the force-field. Get ready for the solders to come in like all hell's broken loose. Try not to kill, we don't need any more enemies than we already have.*

Slowly, the black bubble begane to disentigrate until the sun shone upon the memorial once again. Walking to Stark, Raven knelt by him laying a hand on his temples. He was weak, but there would be no lasting damage. Turning to Pepper, Raven said nodded slowly saying,

"Nice move with the pepper spray."

[Poison Ivy]

ooc| Sorry if my post is lame-- Catching up, is all. Haha.

Pamela Isley turned with her eyes filled with disgust as the woman hopped from the helicopter. Nothing looked more horrendous. Slade merely created her as a weapon; Pam would've hated to be in her boat. The woman's claws shot out of her knuckles and Ivy turned away to get a good absorption of the other events.

Her pale green gaze shot up at Slade who summoned the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers, just as the hooded young woman dropped the shield that had been created over the whole situation. Goddamn it. Pamela thought angrily once her eyes darted to the woman in white once she attacked Stark. Pamela could have healed the man, of course, but it wasn't her style; yet, she had to keep the man alive. Pushing her bushy hair out of her eyes, she prepared to keep off the rest of the soldiers from the dark teen and Stark's assistant. It gave her a sour taste in her mouth to protect the lot, but Poison Ivy really found no alternative. Believe it or not, Pamela didn't want to kill ruthlessly-- she wanted to be recognized as powerful. And maybe making this move on the chess field would be the right choice.

Men continued to jump through the new land that was made available, and with simple touches to the forehead, Pamela Isley pumped poison into them. It took a lot out of her, but it took a lot out of them as well. At least she didn't have to kiss anyone. "Are you going to get the hell out of here, or what?" She asked the two women furiously, having some issues with holding Slade's men back.

[Marvel Girl]

"That's my cue." Rachel said after she had made her way over to the group the Phoenix emblem made its self know once more as she changed her clothes back to her X-Man uniform before taking to the air and closed her eyes as she tapped into the Phoenix Force throwing her head back as her eye began to glow and change from blue fiery orange as a massive fire bird rosed from with in her and into the sky making it look like it was on fire. It was a lot easier for her to tap into the force with her mother being dead but that didn't mean it was a good thing there was a big chance she could lose control like her mother had been know to do. With a thought she destroyed every weapon and changed every mind that belong to a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

[x23]

One of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents tossed a small bottle of clear liquid at Pamela's feet before running off he knew what was about to happen and didn't want to stick around to see it. X-23 looked down at the broken bottle then back up at the green woman as the whites of her eyes turned blood red she let out a feral growl and jumped at the woman trying to slice her throat wide open if she missed she would try again and again not stopping until either the woman was dead or the trigger wore off.

[Poison Ivy]

Poison Ivy glanced at the bottle thrown to her with uninterested eyes. What does one do when a bottle is thrown? Throw it back. Pamela thought as giant vines erupted from the ground, grabbed the bottle and tossed it into the air as it exploded, creating fireworks in the sky. The vines continued to twitch as she sat there idly, thinking of what to do next.

Just as Pamela turned to the other officers to attack again, she felt X-23 pounce onto her, sending the plant woman to the ground. The vines flailed around once Pamela was shoved into the dirt below. As the woman continued to take swipes at Ivy's throat, she grunted as she held X-23 up off of her. Teeth gritted, Pamela shouted as she hurled her arms up at her and sent poison into the woman. It wouldn't be too effective because she had unwisely used her other poisons on the other random soldiers that daringly made their way to Pamela a few minutes past, but Poison Ivy had to try. It must have some effect.

Pamela felt herself become stronger as grass suddenly began to grow around the battle site. Power began to flow through her and the vines under her control threateningly waved behind X-23.

[Iron Man]

As everyone was fighting over where to put him Tony came to and sat up only to lay back down his head felt like it was being rip to peaces. "A small price to pay for what you've done." Emma said looking down at Tony as he stared back at her he knew what she was talking about he remembered every last thing that he did from attacking Kate to kidnapping X and he felt horrible about it. After this mess was over with he would have to go and visit and hoped the burns wasn't as bad as he thought they where.

[Pepper]

Emma didn't reply to her - instead she looked at Tony and spoke. Pepper whirled around in time to see Tony sinking back to the ground, his eyes blank and confused. She closed her eyes and sent up a prayer of thanks. I'll do anything you ask now, she thought to the heavens. Start asking.

She moved to Tony's side and knelt carefully. He would clearly see the knife wound in her shoulder. She wondered if he remembered giving it to her. "Mr. Stark," she said coolly, (oh but her eyes were full of emotion, it took all she had not to break down), "we need to get you out of here before Slade realizes you're not his puppet anymore."

She shot a look around, fairly sure they were low on time. They'd - the good guys, that was - just gotten him back, she'd be darned if she....if they...lost him again.

[x23]

The poison that Ivy put into her didn't slow her at all she was immune to it if not she would heal to fast for it to do anything. X-23 spotted the vines out the corner of her eye and let out a roar as she spun around and sliced the vines into pieces with her right foot claw before going after Poison Ivy again if she couldn't get to her throat there were plenty of other body parts to cut off. But before she could do anything one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attacked her shooting her many times in the chest it slowed her down a bit but not by much as she sliced his gun in two and impaled him in the head before savagely ripping her claws out before going to attack Ivy this time in the stomach.

[colossus]

Piotr, who had been distracted by a rather large and colorful refreshment table, foolishly thought that the sounds of a struggle behind him were caused by grieving comrades. Yet, when he turned around with a small paper plate filled with shrimp cocktail, he immediately realized his mistake. Jaw agape, he watched as the scene continued to unfold.

Confusion filled the Russian man as his hand slowly raised and deposited a shrimp into his mouth, and he promptly began to chew. For a moment, he wasn't sure whether it was some sort of a media joke, or if it was for real. But, when a strange armed man slammed into Piotr and caused him to drop his cocktail shrimp, he immediately realized his mistake.

But, before he could deal with the perpetrator, he was suddenly out of commission, thanks, he believed to the figure sailing through the sky. Then, when he thought that all was saved, the grass began to grow at an unbelievable rate.

"Do they not care for lawn?" he shouted as he transformed immediately, not caring that he had ruined his nice clothes. Instead, he grasped the fallen armed man and recognized him as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. "What is this? You interupt ceremony!"

Without waiting for a reply, he threw the man toward a group of men that were seemingly flustered over the strange grass and vines.

Then, he stomped forward, poised and ready in his torn clothing.