3770/Not Mall Rats, Mall Lizards

Not Mall Rats, Mall Lizards
Date of Scene:	30 January 2018
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Gambit, Phoenix

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Gambit has posed:
Who do you call when a seven foot mutant or suspected mutant is rampaging through a Fro Yo Joint? Definitely not the Ghost Busters.

Remy LeBeau hasn't seen Jean since the other night, not when they shared a moment the night after he admitted to sneaking in and out of Avenger's Mansion to deliver a birthday gift to Rogue. A mixed idea on his part, both mistake and a sweet gesture. The embarassment not to stop there though. At least now, this time around the Cajun is sober.
Sober and clinging to the back of a brown and green lizardman that just threw a kiosk half a mall away, latched across it's throat is that collapsing bo-staff, gripped snugly in place as Remy whips around on it's back, both knees pressed hard against it's rough hide, trying to wear it out in it's panick inspiring spin, around and around the midnight colorful Gambit rides while his scaled pal thrashes, it's maw full of teeth opening and closing. Snap. Snap. Hiss.

"Just shh, it be okay. You sleep real good and I promise to leave a night light on for you." Despite the danger of it the rogue is smirking, lips drawn back in a handsome yet crooked draw. Those red to black eyes flaring, excitement in them. THIS is why he is an X-Man, not because of the eye candy associated with the team, the need to fit in with others, to help the children learn card tricks, no, redemption, cleaning himself of an overwhelming sense of guilt that makes him feel less than human most days.

The crashes and bangs are incredibly loud, walls mean nothing to the brutish 'reptilian' and the scattering crowd is very vocal. Mall security is in turn blaring whistles and has fired multiple taser rounds in to the big creature, its still wearing the barbs and has not shown any signs of discomfort at them. Eventually the police or armored metahuman divisions will show. Eventually.

Phoenix has posed:
Jean was in her X-Men attire, black bodysuit with gold X over her chest and over the fronts of her boots... brown leather trenchcoat with golden seams over the lapel and collar.

She was moving down through the mall's second floor to go and help Remy after dealing with another issue on the north side of the building.

Jean floated up over the railing and then glided her way down through the air to fly toward the Cajun on the... creature.

<<Remy...>> She mind contacted him. <<Stop playing around with that thing and subdue it. You have the tranquilzers that Hank prepared for us, don't you?>> She sighed while floating through the air... red hair flowing behind her head.

<<You lost them... didn't you...>>

It was safe to say they both made mistakes the other night, she'd tried to ignore them since too.

Gambit has posed:
"No." Remy says outloud. It's unclear if he means to stop playing with the thing or the tranquilizers. Then Jean is let in enough to see a mental flash of the tranqs being dropped a few stores back, somewhere in a sporting goods store.

<<You gonna promise not to punish me if I say yes?">> A tease to the woman. The lizard hunches low and bulldogs towards a crowd of teenagers.

Remy launches himself forward a kick off of it's back to flip up and over not releasing his staff to plant himself and twist, a practiced and artful throw follows that actually causes the angry Xorn to slam in to the ground before colliding with the gaggle of youths.
<<Might have thrown my back out on that.>> He jokes while whipping his staff around in a flourish letting it snap back in on itself.

"Everyone clear away please, this no place for your phones and videos right now." They'll ignore that. Some may even take it as a reminder as they begin filming.

Phoenix has posed:
Jean sees the tranq darts fall on the ground in that memory that flashes through Remy's mind and all she can do is just siiiigh again.

A little lean forward and she flies faster now toward Remy and the beast.

<<Everyone, please leave, this creature is dangerous and he will harm you and your loved ones.>> Jean tells everyone in the mall this... bouncing those thoughts off of all the people's minds present.

She comes to land beside Remy and she looks over at him. "You left them in the golf section of the Dick's Sports store..." She said to him vocally, displeasure lacing her voice.

Jean's eyes swept back over to the beast and she tried to reach out and telekinetically FREEZE it in place!

Gambit has posed:
Reptile brain usually quit rabid is passively influenced in the loud telepathic command. It stops entirely, laying there on it's stomach.

"That sounds about right." Remy grins at Jean, the collapsed staff thrust behind him, sidelong in it's holster across his lower back. "How long you keep it like that? Maybe now you tell it to sit, bark and shake?" Fortunately they won't have to hold it there long as the police are arriving, armored and prepared to drag away something human PLUS like this creature or say, two mutants.

"They on their way, lets go ahead and make for the JC Penny way, I seen a nice new coat in there. Pick it up on our way out." The Cajun is already moving in a brisk walk, striding through the crowd with an expertise of a man thats used to fitting in tight spaces, finding his way, an opportunist to the bone of course. Likely she can hold it for some time if she so wishes. The mental strength of the beast in question barely more than an angry animal.

Phoenix has posed:
Jean's left black gloved hand was extended out and her fingers were strained inside of it... not that she needed her hand to use her mind powers... but it was like an extension of and a focusing rod that just mentally helped 'aim' the powers.

"I can keep him like this, but if we haven't incapacitated it--" Jean looks over ot see Remy leaving. "Where are you going!" She shouts at him. "No, we can't leave yet! The thing will devour the police officers. You have to go get the tranquilizers and then bring them back... and adminster them."

Jean sighed then, her jaw was clinched... she didn't like that there were still people lingering and taking imagery of her like this either, it felt 'exposed' and not good.

Her green eyes focused on the beast as it looked back at her, almost as though it knew she was doing this to it, locking its body up like this.

Gambit has posed:
"Oh fine! Why you always got to be so difficult?" Remy taunts Jean and takes a quick turn, runs and leaps to jump off a fountain and haul himself up to the higher floor they were at earlier, Jim's Sporting Goods, it's a moment of him shuffling around and crawling about upon knees before he is returning to her side. Leaping down again to land with a 'wuff' of air from him and a clang of his boots armoring.

"I think it likes you." The man says on seeing the eye contact between both. A step forth and hes dropping his knee on to it's shoulder and slamming the needle home just near it's neck, " Mon Dieu, tu es moche."

A quick hop back and hes watching as it trembles, shudders and drops it's head falling unconscious to begin a slow metamorphisis back to it's original form.

"Happy now?" A flash of his teeth and eyes at Phoenix.

Phoenix has posed:
While Remy was gone, Jean just held the creature in place... a few shoppers were taking photos and videos and somew ere shouting questions out to her, but she didn't answer them.

When Remy returned she exhaled in relief while he adminstered the drugs... And she released the beast when it toppled over into a heavy slumber.

"Getting there... We just have to know why this was here, and where it came fro--"

"FREEZE!" A horde of cops all had their guns drawn, aimed down the corridor at Remy and Jean!

Her green eyes swept over to the police and she put her hands up, and out, toward them. "We're not your enemies! We came to stop this attack!" She shouts back at them.

"Get on the ground, now! Hands up!" One of the officers shouted back!

Gambit has posed:
"Seriously?" Remy questions, "This is why I said we need to go and let them handle it." The man's hands rise up, "No one ever listen to the guy who got mad skills at getting out of things though." A look at Jean, a wink, "In to them also." Lecherous as he sounds he's got the utmost respect for the woman, she's fast become his favorite teammate lately.

"You want to make us fly if I give us a big enough distraction? This a shame though, I really wanted that coat."

"Just say the words, belle rousse."

Phoenix has posed:
"No, wait." Jean told Remy quietly while the cops were anxiously awaiting their reaction to the demands.

"Hold still." Jean added to Remy. Her eyes closed for a moment and then the cops... all looked around. They stood up and started to walk toward them.

<<They can't see us.>> Jean telepaths with Remy <<I've removed us from their minds, as well as from the shoppers. Now we have to go, but quietly>>

Jean would turn toward Remy then, still able to see HIM and vice-versa. She put a gloved hand around his elbow and started to pull him toward the cops who were searching for them, shouting about 'fanning out' and 'find them!'

Other police officers were dealing with the giant creature, that was slumbering on the floor to the left of where Jean was leading Remy toward the Mall's front exit.

Gambit has posed:
Realizing talk is loud and not advised, Remy defaults to the X-Men field channel of 'nearest Telepath's brainphone' <<So they can't see none of this right now?>> The tug has him finding mischievous thoughts being scattered, he actually gives some resistance as if hes staring at cops and plotting something that would land them in more hotwater, which, telepathic linked as they are shes getting an idea of his intentions, hes having fun with his.

Quickly he relents though, giving in for the moment to trudge after her, Remy's thoughts bouncing from one thing to the next as he makes sure to keep his deeper thoughts contained right now, some of them are not safe to let free, dark things that hes done well to keep out of his life, bloody and horrible things involving Marauders and Morlocks and further back, the mean streets, Assassins and Thieves...
<<We are leaving, huh? That a shame. So much fun to be had... this why you so stressed, you always so business and playing things the way they're 'sposed to be. Have it your way though, ma cherie.>>

Phoenix has posed:
Jean squeezed his elbow as she could sense his mischevious side rising up to the surface level thoughts... as deep as she dared to tread into the Cajun's mind. <<Stop that.>> She chided him, leading him toward athe nearing exit.

<<This trick is something new, I'm not sure how long I can hold it and if you distract me I'm liable to drop it and then we're back to being arrested and having to call the Professor to come bail us out.>>

The mall door was already open, another Officer coming inside. Jean quickly shoves Remy through the door out to the outside and she darts through it as well, pushing it open a little longer with her telekinesis... Once outside though, they're able to slip away back toward the X-Men Van that was parked in the parking lot.