2480/Remy's Return

Remy's Return
Date of Scene:	23 September 2017
Location:	Xavier's School, Weschester, New York
Synopsis:	Gambit returns from the Dead! Okay, just kidding
Cast of Characters:	Gambit, Jubilee, Polaris, X-Man, Cyclops, Rogue

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Gambit has posed:
    The Alarm system deep in the bowels of the school pings the arraival at the gate and with a quick scan it reads the approacher with an oddity. Friendly, but an impossible friendly tag. The system sets off a klaxon in the basements that the students are not privy too.

    At the gate stands a rather familiar figure with a bag slung over his shoulder, cinched tightly and held by the draw string. The figure has a beard that wasn't there when everyone saw him last and he's swaying back and forth on his feet, waiting for the camera/computer to recognize him and allow him back in.

    "'Allo? Anybody 'ome?"

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee and Nate touch down some distance from the school, to keep from setting off alarms at their unorthodox arrival. The hope is to find and meet with a handful of the people who might be able to give Nate Grey some answers. "Well, I guess it's now or never eh? You ready for this?" Jubilee asks, giving Nate's hand a squeeze, as she looks back toward the school. But something's awry, as she hears a voice and mind of someone who should, by all rights, be...dead. <Gambit?> The single word is sent telepathically to its intended target.

Polaris has posed:
It's the weekend, Lorna happens to be at the school and not drinking at Harry's. She looks up and frowns at the sound repeating in her staff bedroom. She sighs and suits up before sliding out the window and drifting down to the gate, hanging back when she sees the group gathering. She sports a quizzical expression and crosses her arms under her chest a moment. "Someone should really call Rogue." She murmurs into the comms.

X-Man has posed:
    The aura that surrounds Jubilee and Nate disappears as their feet touches the ground. The light in his left eye remains for a moment longer, a little apprehension is evident, but nods his head in agreement with Jubile, "Yeah.." a small smile on his face at her reassurance, "...worst that'll happen is nobody knows anything, and I'm in the same place."

    "Looks like you've got company..." Nate says to Jubilee, his gaze taking in the man standing at the gate. He raises an eyebrow at the curious response from Jubilee, but continues to walk with her to the front of the Mansion.

Cyclops has posed:
     Scott had run to the foyer, not exactly sure he had believed the computer. With a visor over his eyes, the X-Men field leader hadn't stepped out of the elevator for more than a couple steps before he stops in his tracks.

  Scott's eyebrows raise with a good amount of surprise. "Roger that on calling Rogue." He says into his X-Comm.

Gambit has posed:
    Remy stands at the gate with his hand held to his shoulder and unaware of all the chaos going on around him mostly based on his own arrival and the arrival of both Jubilee and Nate Grey. He remians standing but he turns his head towards the idea of Jubilee and squints.

    <Since when can you read minds?> He asks mentally before looking up to the gate and the camera, waving once. "Ah said 'allo."

Jubilee has posed:
<Since I got bit, ya jerk. I haven't forgotten what a bastard you turned into the minute that happened. Since when do YOU show up like some shamblin' homeless zombie after you've been dead for a month?> Jubilee feels the rage growing within her, as she subconsciously clenches a fist and begins stalking toward him, bent on getting answers. Her connection with Nate pulses with rage. She doesn't try to hide it. Wearing a pink tanktop, black cargo pants and boots, and her signature brass goggles atop her head, she is one -very- pissed off firecracker. <If this was a trick to get outta having to get married, so help me God...>

Polaris has posed:
Touching down on the other side of the gates, Polaris studies Remy. Her eyes go white, honing in on metal around her-looking to see if he's man or machine. "Informal as always." She remarks and cants her head. "State your name for the record." She says dispassionately. For all she knows, this isn't their Remy. She looks to Jubilee and her guest, distracted for a moment.

X-Man has posed:
As others gather to check on who has come knocking, Nate glances at each in turn, trying to determine if any of them look familiar. His eyes fall on Scott, and his brow furrows in thought as there are unmistakable similarities. A quick message is sent to Jubilee <Is that your version of Cylcops?>

    There's a temptation there, more than Nate is willing to admit, but he let's out a long sigh deciding to leave it alone for now. "Is anyone goin' to let him in?" Nate asks, obviously confused on what the issue, "Seems kind of rude to..." his own path taking him more towards the gate than the front of the Mansion now.

    His own words stop at the obvious anger Jubilee feels towards the man, and he steps a bit quicker to catch up to Jubilee <Whoah, whoah, what's going on?> His eye glowing a bit brighter now that there's a sense of something off. A slight shimmer shows up around JUbilee, but doesn't stop her stalking... no one stops the stalking?!?!

Cyclops has posed:
     Cyclops buzzes the Cajun in, before looking Nate over. Not exactly sure what to make of him at all.

  He puts on a bit of a grimace, trying to piece the conundrum together. Just how did Gambit escape death?

Rogue has posed:
Rogue was in Manhattan and preparing to go out with some friends from college to Washington Square Park where a live country music festival was being held to usher in Autumn with a bit of 'southern charm' ... Rogue was embracing it this year, for the first time in a long time, she was looking forward to the next day. School was fun, her studies with Stephen Strange were 'interesting' and rarely dull... though she wasn't any good at this magick stuff he was trying to teach her.

Rogue was descending the Sanctum Santorum's main hall staircase, wearing a red/white plaid shirt that was tied off over a white tanktop, she had on blue jeans and some leather cowgirl boots... with a crumpled-up straw cowboy hat on her two-toned hair...

When suddenly that damn cape of Doctor Strange's appeared out of no where and flew around the young girl, wrapping her up like a burrito!

The cape drug Rogue through the mansion toward Stephen's office, where the Doctor was located. Stephen just (as he'd done previously) said without even looking. "Your friends need you."

And much like before, Rogue shouted back through the sentient magic cape. "Wait, what?!"

Teleported!

Right onto the lawn of the Xavier's School!

Rogue started flailing around inside of the red cape, making little squeals and shouts until she pulled her way out of the cape and it wrapped around her shoulders all snuggly and happy.

Rogue adjusted the cowboy hat ontop of her head and looked around at everyone. "Whats... up?" She asked, until she saw Gambit near the gate and her expression just went... Blank.

Gambit has posed:
    Remy turns his full body towards Jubilee as she approaches him and he looks down at her fist clenched and he squints his egyptian colored eyes at the young vampire. "Ah don' t'ink it's a good idea to be clenchin' yo fis' at me." Remy says, before turning his attention back to Lorna. "Ah am Remy Lebeau. Ah t'ought ya knew dat."

    "Dank's Scott." Remy says, as he steps in and looks back at Nate Grey. "'Allo Nate." But, they haven't met before. Have they?

    "Dat's an... interestin' cloak dere Rogue." Remy notes aloud with a casual smile towards Rogue, like nothing has happened at all.

Polaris has posed:
"Apparently we can exist in other dimensions. I'll hold my breath to assume you're ours." Polaris says and backs up as the gates swing open and Rogue appears. She looks to the woman. "You got a lot of nerve acting like you've been out on vacation." She looks to Jubilee and shakes her head. "Don't swing. If anyone has a right to pick a fight with him it's Rogue." She looks at Nate again, confused.

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee positively gushes information to Nate via her connection to him, as she continues to approach Remy, noting the pale halo of the shield that Nate has placed around her. <Dude died in front of me, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, I watched it. Sword through his heart. ON THEIR WEDDING DAY. There is no CURE for death by a sword through the heart, and if this sonofabitch destroyed my best friend in this Godsforsaken world to get out of getting married by somehow fooling everyone into falling for his DEATH, then I will show him a sword through the heart that will not FAIL him in his quest.>

As she walks, pink light extrudes from her right hand, fiery and bright, forming the semblance of a blade, yet wavering, as if stuttering to wait for the command. <No? What're you gonna do about a little girl's fist, eh, Remy?> The edge in her voice, as spoken to Gambit, is dangerous.

X-Man has posed:
    Well now, things are getting interesting for Nate as a VERY different looking Rogue falls from the sky, and then the voice and speech pattern matches up even if the looks don't, "Remy?" Nate asks, and is even more confused at Jubilee's reaction. He moves up to stand next to Jubilee, his gaze moving between the two, "Hey.." Nate says aloud, "...what's the deal?"

    Then Nate is given the deal, full detail, and his brow furrows even more in confusion. He looks to Gambit, and decides it's not a bad idea to check out what's happening. His left eye brightens as his scan attempts to understand from Gambit's perspective what happened, but nothing any deeper.

    "Jubes.." Nate starts, "..give me a sec here. If there's anything i've learned here, it's that things aren't always what they seem." He tries to calm her down for just a moment, "Trust me on this one, don't do somethin' you might regret so soon."

Cyclops has posed:
     Seems like an impromptu reunion for a second. With a gleam in his visor he looks from Gambit to Nate and Jubilee and Lorna to Rogue. Wait. "-That- is what's up. Thanks for joining us." He offers, unsure of this whole situation before it continues on.

  "So, Remy, where have you been?" He asks, arms crossed and in a bit of a defensive stance. "And who did we bury in the backyard?"

  Cyclops just steps in between Remy and Jubilee. "Take a deep breath. I'm not dragging either of you to the medbay tonight, so either calm down or do it somewhere else." He warns in a severely stern voice.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue just stared at Gambit as he spoke to her all casually with a smarmy little grin on his face like everything was 'cool'. But her eyes flickered away from him toward the more aggressive stance that Jubilee was taking on this situation... She noted the others too, Lorna-loo and whoever the hell Nate was!

But when Scott addressed Gambit, she looked back at him. "Its a trick." She said softly. "Spiral again." She had no reason to know if it was true, but why wouldn't it be?

"Kill it and lets just... go get beers or somethin'." Rogue sounded more than a little disturbed, why was Spiral doing this to her? She had no idea! She wanted that freak bitch dead though, thats for damn sure.

Gambit has posed:
    "Dank's Rogue." Remy says, his cobalt eyes flashing vibrantly as he starts to take a step onto the mansion grounds.

    He then looks to Scott. "C'mon. Ah'm not a trick. De system even verified it was me. Same genes an' ever't'in'." The young teacher says, his face putting on the best puppy dog eyes he has. "Even Jube's is mad at me for bein' afraid of a vampire... Ah'm not a bad guy. I just have a heck of a story." The young man says with a frown. "Now can we go inside an discuss this. I ain't been in air conditionin' fo' months."

Jubilee has posed:
"Nor a barber shop, from the look of it," Jubilee quips, taking a step closer to Nate, and trying to remember to breathe. Deeply and steadily. <I'm sorry.> She offers the thought to Nate, nearly shaking with rage and...something else. Fear, maybe. Or disquiet. She takes his hand, but her pink blade wavers in her free hand, with the evening breeze. Her eyes do not glow blue, but now a vibrant gold.

Polaris has posed:
"He's not a robot." Lorna comments and falls in next to Scott. She'll let Rogue take the lead here. "What do you wanna do, Roguest?" She asks and studies Gambit. Finally she drums up the urge to ask "Jubilee? Who the fuck is that?"

X-Man has posed:
Continuing to watch Remy, his left eye glows brightly, his focus as his face moves from curiosity to concern. He takes a half step infront of Jubilee, <Something isn't right...> an aura springs up around Nate, like golden lightning that shimmers over him, "The wedding you're talkin' about is right..." His voice turning cold, especially for his age, "...but this isn't who you think it is."

     His eye moves to Scott for a moment, "You might want to watch out..." before turning back to 'Remy'. "Who are you and what do you want?" For now the other questions are missed as his total focus is on whoever has come to the Mansion.

Cyclops has posed:
     Scott keeps his cool, but holds his ground to Nate. "Watch out for what, exactly?" He asks, arms crossed in front of him. He hadn't noticed any eye differences but he usually sees everything as shades of red.

  Cyclops remains adamant on figuring this out. "We take him down into the Danger Room. Set it up for containment." He offers, instead of something more brash.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue looked around from one of their confused faces to the others, she glanced back at Nate too... when he was called out... but screw it, she didn't know who he was and she'd been gone from this place for the most part for a month now.

"Enough talk!" Rogue said as she stormed toward Remy, Doctor Strange's cape flowing dramatically around her (because its sentient and it likes to do that).

Rogue would walk straight up to the man that she thought she'd been betrothed to marry and she'd aim to grab him by his clothes and lift him right up into the air as high as her arms could go.

"Screw that." Rogue said at Scott's comments about the Danger Room. "I'm gonna snap each one'a his f'ing finge'ahs right here, until he starts squealin' the truth like a right stock pig on its boltday."

The southern belle wasn't too happy, and she was getting hot under the collar. (No seriously, Strange's high-collared cape was pretty hot to wear in late sumemr weather.)

Gambit has posed:
    Remy's eyes flash a briliant cobalt at Nate's request and yet when Rogue steps forward after Scott's request. When Rogue goes to lift Remy up, she finds him beyond heavy, and his large duster is lifted up around and through is body. The cajun remains standing as if nothing just happened.

    "Now, Ah wish ya hadn' done dat."

    "You're not snappin' nut'in'. Sugah."

    Remy's eyes shift to a full blue shade, almost as if there's lights instead of eyes. "I was going to simply do what I like and not hurt anyone, but y'all have to be difficult." Remy spills out his plan without his accent.

Jubilee has posed:
"Naaaate..." Jubilee's voice has an extremely concerned edge, as if imparting caution in the saying of his name. Don't--" Then Rogue has Remy by his duster. Then Rogue has...Remy's duster? "That's it, Motherfucker, you're goin' down..." Jubilee lifts her flaming blade, intending to blowtorch Remy in two.

Polaris has posed:
Lorna's eyes go white again as green energy gathers around her hands. "Say Cyclops...Remy had red eyes..." she notes and she gathers energy, ready to blast Remy.

X-Man has posed:
    Nate's eyes never leave 'Remy' as he answers Scott, "Watch out for the guy at your back that isn't who you think he is..." His voice retains the coldness, but it isn't directed towards Scott, "...I know you can take care of yourself, but..." and then all hell starts to break loose

    Rogue makes her move, and the Not-Remy mini-monologues his plan.

    Then there is a fiery sword of doom shooting between He and Scott towards Not-Remy.

    Psionic energy starts to build up in the area from Nate, to those here it may have a familiar sense to it, and Nate waits... he tends to cause a lot of collateral damage... and that would be a bad first impression.

Cyclops has posed:
     Even if the rest couldn't see his eyes from behind the visor, Scott can only widen them in a bout of sudden awe.

  "Torturing him won't get you answers that you want, Rogue. And we will need all the correct information we can get from him."

     Cyclops taps his own visor, looking to Lorna. This was of course before 'Remy' had revealed himself. He immediately defies his visor to blast. "Who are you?"

Rogue has posed:
Doctor Strange's cloak wraps around Rogue when this 'Evil Remy' apparently makes himself known. Rogue releases the ripped jacket and then suddenly the cape drags Rogue back about fifteen feet across the driveway under its own flight power, pulling the teenage mutant back away from the evil-one, or hopefully so!

Rogue struggles against the cape, wanting to start punching and kicking and face smashing, but the magical cape is capable of easily defying the girl's immense strength!

Rogue is just a fountain of foul curse words right now that would make even the possessed exorcist girl blush in her demonic face. The cape's collar subsequently shifts its pointed left side to cover Anna-Marie's mouth, leaving only muffled cursing to be heard as she thrashes back and forth within its grasp.

Gambit has posed:
    Remy's hand drops the bag and lowers to his side before his arm rises out to his side and he starts to float off the ground and the grass and driveway beneath him cracks and blows outwards with a huge woosh of invisible concusive force errupting from the man and pushing at everyone to give the man some space.

    As he rises up slowly to be a few feet in the air, his whole outfit and even his hair and skin seem to boil away until he's an Adonis of White skin and form with blue highlights from the shadows and light.

    "I am New Sun. I am the conquerer of whole dimensions. The very world is my play toy." The being announces, his voice no longer coming from his throat and mouth, but the whole of his being.

    "And you can't win."

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee takes a tumble backward, landing hard and scrambling to get to her feet again as the flaming blade dissipates from her hand. On her belly, she struggles to even crawl, so powerful is the force that pushes at her. Even the rocks and earth tear at her skin as Not-Remy the Not Even Close to Remy floats up and gives his news flash. But the worst news yet...is that Jubes has already wasted her F bomb.

Polaris has posed:
"Oh good, I hate holding back. Permission to assault?" Lorna asks Scott, looking to the field leader as energy crackles around her and she smiles meanly. The poor school, this likely isn't the place to do this.

X-Man has posed:
A bright golden shield springs up in front of Scott, and funnels the worst of the blast around him, Nate, and Jubilee. As their foe rises, Nate begins to rise as well, "I don't care what your name is..." his own telekinetic field pushing back against the Not-Remy, "...but you're 'bout to find out how bad of an idea this was..."

Cyclops has posed:
     "Granted." Scott says, using his visor for its purpose. He mashes the button on the side, sending a couple optic blasts to this New Son. He does give Nate a hearty nod from his generous use of shielding. He doesn't say anything at the moment but remains focused on battling this false Remy.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue's eyes closed as the shock wave hit her and her protective cape, the lower half of her face still covered over by the cape's collar. But once the other X-Men started to jump to action the cape released Rogue's mouth but kept her squarely and firmly locked up in its embrace as she struggled. "Let me go!" She shrieked, but the cape did not, it feared for her life and what this enemy might truly be capable of and it cared too much for the reckless girl to let her zoom carelessly into what could be hre own demise.

Gambit has posed:
    "You are feeble children compared to -GWAH!" Cries out the villain just inside the school gates. New Sun seems to have a barrier up but the full blasts from all the x-men followed by a sizable purple explosion at his back surrounding the large sphere of influence towards the X-men obscures New Sun from all.

    The villain cries out as it sounds like someone got to him and with a sucking impolosion the foe pops out of existence. As if he was never there other than the crushed in piece of driveway and earth surrounding it.