7841/The Maximoffs Come Calling

The Maximoffs Come Calling
Date of Scene:	11 June 2019
Location:	Main Foyer - Xavier's School
Synopsis:	Wanda and Pietro visit Xavier's School to offer a magic protection spell to Lorna, Illyana and Emma. Rogue has a waterfight,
Cast of Characters:	Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Rogue, Polaris, Magik, Emma Frost
Tinyplot:	Protect Xavier's

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Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda had been doing a lot of research in the library, as well as traveling off other places saying she had to consult with some other users of magic. This had been going on since around the time that Professor Xavier was shot. Today she'd told Pietro she had what she'd been working on. Or, almost. Enough it was time to talk to the mutants at Xavier's School and make them an offer.

And so after calling ahead, both to the school and to Lorna, the twins had teleported out to the road outside the gate and walked up to the mansion. Wanda walks up to the front door, wearing boots and a skirt and a light blouse perfect for summer. She has on a bit of a floppy hat against the sun. It looks like something Janet van Dyne probably picked out for her. "I'm looking forward to seeing Lorna again," she tells Pietro, her poor brother having to move so achingly slowly if he's not going to zip on ahead and wait for her. Which he could if he chose.

Quicksilver has posed:
Well, Pietro did NOT do any kind of research, so....it looks like Pietro is being dragged along too, even if he has no idea about anything magic related. At all. Aside from the fact that it involves a weird form of hand choreography.

Though as he looks to Wanda as she speaks, he chuckles lightly. "Yeah, me too. I just hope she hasn't broken anything while we were away." he seems to be amused utterly by the thought.

"So, how long is this spell supposed to last, anyway?" he asks Wanda, the only person he's willing to endure this horrifically slow walk with.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue had gone to the store earlier today and she'd loaded up on water balloons. The kind designed to be fist sized and able to be thrown at one another as you can fill a whole batch of them up at the same time at a hose. She'd filled up probably two hundred balloons at the spicket in the stables and had carried them out to the side yard, a yard that is visible from the front gate.

So from this spot, Rogue has a whole host of summer-time students with her, standing near four laundry baskets filled with water balloons. And after a long countdown...

All the kids, and Rogue are rushing at the laundry baskets to grab balloons of hose water to go full Hunger Games on each other!

Laughter is loud, the sun is bright and there's all manner of screams and jubilation as the balloons start to fly!

Polaris has posed:
Lorna was vaguely aware of her sibling's presence and approach to the Mansion proper. She'd been having an off day. Since her meeting with Magneto had been less than stellar regarding her work with Luthor she'd been... well, sulking wasn't the right word. Frustrated and itching to do something productive and found her options lacking. She'd drawn into herself and her powers, locking her bedroom doors and losing herself in magnetic meditation. It was a good way to keep from falling into a worse mental state and it helped her with her powers... Plus it meant she was already lost into the magnetic fields, searching through tiny sparks that indicated someone was alive and uniquely //them//.

Pietro was obvious, nothing else moved quite like him. And as the two approached the door to the Mansion swung open without much more than a hand gesture from the green haired mutant as she headed out from her room to greet them in the foyer. Of course, by the time she got down there, there were already water balloons being tossed about and chaos of students on summer break all over. The green haired woman paused in the darkened door way, peering out at the sunny day with a faint twist of her lips as she wrapped her arms around her chest and squinted. She wore a black tank top, with a matching black, sheer, button up shirt hanging loose over it and a pair of ripped up skinny jeans.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda grins over to Pietro, and slips her arm in a loop about his. "If it works right, it will last for years, at least. As far as the casting of it, that could be an hour or even more. I'm still not certain. And we have a lot of work to do to be ready for it," the Transian woman tells her brother.

Wanda flashes Lorna a smile as she comes out. "Lorna, glad you could meet us," she says, letting go of Pietro to come over and offer her sister a warm touch on the shoulder. If Lorna goes for a hug it will be returned gladly. "I had told Professor Xavier I would offer what assistance I could. And as it turns out-" Wanda gets out, and then sees the splashing of water balloons as they burst on people's bodies.

Wanda glances to Lorna and Pietro and then back to the frivolity. "Hmm, well, look at that," she says, affecting a disapproving tone. Though it is just to try to catch Pietro off guard as Wanda's far hand moves, sending a bit of scarlet energy about a water balloon and launching it at Pietro.

Right, like it has any chance of hitting him if he doesn't wish it.

Magik has posed:
The appearance of the twins tickled the senses of the sorceress currently on campus. Illyana lowers the book she was reading with a curious crinkle of her nose. The book is set aside in favor of slipping away from her chair inside to depart for the front of the building in a disc of light.

The wall near Lorna illuminates a split second before the blonde Russian steps out to glance at the scene unfolding: Family meeting up, water balloons? And much more. A bemused smile tugs at her lips as she incliens her head toward them all. "Ah, I thought I'd felt some magic."

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro links his arm with Wanda's and he walks with her lightly. "Years huh? Well...lets hope it works then." Though as soon as Lorna appears, Pietro gives her an upnod while Wanda goes to hug her. Though he stands there with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face, he sees a water balloon coming after him in super slow motion.

Super speed. google it.

Effortlessly, to Pietro, he took three steps to evade it. To everyone else, it was like a blur. He was in one spot, then the next in a blink.

"Really?" Pietro says to Wanda. Though he also spots Rogue doing things like balloon fights with the other students, and he gives a smirk. If he really wanted to, he could just take all the water balloons, or shift their trajectory....

Rogue has posed:
Rogue takes to the skies as the water balloon throwers seem to gang up on her some what. Likely because she's the oldest there amongst the throwers, and likely also because she was the best aim and had already tagged several of them with direct hits. So she shoots to the sky, getting pelted with balloon after balloon, leaving a trail of water cascading down off of her form as she goes, with several more brightly colored balls of plastic encased water trying to hit her and failing to make the mark, so instead flying haphazardly off in all directions.

Up in the air, about thirty feet, Rogue pauses with an arm load of balloons and starts to just rain them down upon the kids below! One throw after another, her wet clothes shedding more water as she continues to just toss and shout things down at the kids beneath her who're running in all directions, shouting and screaming.

Its pure water balloon chaos!

Emma Frost has posed:
    What is going on?! Why are so many people congregating at the front of the school? Why isn't Emma there? She kind of is as she simply opens the door to her airstream that's been parked near the garage and the blonde effortlessly steps out onto the grass and takes a step further onto the pavement. The door shuts itself behind Emma with a satisfying click as the telepath nears the four adults. "What's going on out ---" Emma shuts up as she looks back to Rogue while wearing a white blouse and a charcol blazer, and matching pants over ivory color shoes. "Don't." Rogue gets a single finger aimed back towards her.

Polaris has posed:
Within the relative safety of the foyer doorway, Lorna lingered. There was enough 'nice' things in the entryway that she was hoping no one would get the smart idea to toss a balloon her way-- not unless they wanted to spend the rest of the afternoon cleaning up. Or at least, she hoped as much. She offered Wanda a hesitant, one armed sort of hug. A 'I still don't really know you, but don't mind you' hug. The kind that spoke of the green haired woman's distraction as Lorna watched the chaos of the yard.

Pietro earned a faint wave of her other hand.

"Uh.. so. It is a school on Summer Break."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda chuckles warmly as Pietro so easily sidesteps the water balloon. She circles it back around to send it towards one of the students, then turns away so it won't look like it came from the trio. "It seems you have fun here during the summer," Wanda says with a soft smile to her sister.

"But we did come to talk business," Wanda says. She looks over as Emma emerges, giving her a nod of her head, but not recognizing her apparently. She smiles to Illyana at her arrival, sensing the woman's magic. "Ah, excellent timing. I was hoping to speak to you. I've heard good things about you. I'm Wanda Maximoff. I offered to Professor Xavier to help the school if I could. And I have come up with a protection spell that should help cloak the school from detection. Including from Sentinels noticing there are mutants here."

Magik has posed:
Illyana Rasputin turns her head to watch the path of the waterballoon that moves not like a waterballoon at all. A single eyebrow arches even as she smiles watching the targets of the other kids. And there was Rogue above them all sending numerous balloons down to drench them. It's enough to even make the often somber Russian chuckle at the sight. "Ah, I've been inside too long today." She nods to herself at the remark, then looks again over the others, her attention fixed primarily on Wanda and her brother Pietro.

"I'm Illyana Rasputin," she offers in greeting with a small dip of her head toward them. "I believe I've heard of you as well. If there's anything to do which may help, I will do so."

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro winks at Wanda as she chuckles at him, though then there's Illyana entering the fray and greeting. "Geez, how many magic users are associated with this school." Pietro grumbles, apparently still a massive distrust of magic as a whole. Then there's Emma. He looks at Rogue, then back to Emma.

Rogue.

Emma.

"Do it." Pietro says with an evil smile to Rogue. Because hey, it'd be hella funny.

Then he looks at Lorna. "No wonder they're all running around like its the Hunger Games."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue continues to just hover up in the air with four or five balloons held up against her stomach in her left forearm. She looks down at all the kids throwing balloons still and then over at Emma as she speaks out to her. Rogue lightly laughs. "I'm not gonna throw one at someone not in the fight, silly!" Rouge calls out from her hoving place up in the sky.

"That would be horribly mean. I'm not mean, I'm... sassy. There's a diff---"

Hambone throws a balloon at Emma.

It goes right for her face!

Polaris has posed:
Lorna offered Wanda a faint shrug in regards to the 'fun' the school's students had during the Summer. "As much as they can given that many of them don't have anywhere else to go." She offered softly, her green eyed gaze lifting from the gaggle of students that laughed and tossed balloons and ran from Rogue's flying bombs. She bit back the urge to sigh, even as Wanda mentioned why she'd come to visit and Illyana stepped up.

"I'm sure you'd both enjoy having a chat about magic and what techniques you both use, or don't use as it were. I don't know much about the details." She glanced once at Pietro as he egged Rogue onward and the green haired woman took another step deeper into the Mansion.

Emma Frost has posed:
    Rogue would feel a tug at her legs in the air before the straighten up and then the girl rotates into the air and is diving at the ground near sonic speed and curls near the Earth to avoid it and takes a waterballoon across her belly with Emma standing there, crossing her arms after watching the southerner take a bullet for her. "Rogue! You're my hero!" Emma says, playing up the fact that Rogue would even do anything like that.

    Then with a glance away from the twins, but not before giving Pietro 'the look', Emma has her attention on Hambone. "Do you want to do laps around the grounds, /Hambone/? No? I thought not." Emma says with a squint at the boy before she straightens up.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda watches the exchange that results in the balloon splashing on the already-soaked Rogue. She steps back, holding up a hand to shield herself from stray droplights, though she has a smile as she does. Wanda then says to Lorna, "There will be plenty that you can help with, if you are willing."

Wanda smiles to Illyana and says, "It is going to take a bit of preparation. We need a protection circle that will run around your fence. That's acres we have to close in. So we need some potent materials for the preparation. Some of them are going to be difficult to obtain. I'm still working out the full list. One item I think we need is blood from a Stymphalian Bird, such as attacked Central Park. Diana Prince is willing to take some people with her to the island she discovered which has more of them, to get a sample. There's also a need for necroplasm. Which I only know of one source, and the obtaining of it will be dangerous," Wanda explains.

She pauses and says in her usual, slow delivery, "The casting itself will also have some danger. We will need to defend the protection circle until it is done, as it may draw some extra-dimensional visitors while the magic is filling it. Once done though, someone can stand at your gate and look in, and wouldn't notice anything unusual. Not Rogue flying, or anything you would not expect at a school. Even satellites you should be safe from."

Polaris has posed:
Lorna shrugged as she stepped back, the door staying open in offer under her powers directive. "I'll help protect the school, or whatever is necessary. But I don't know how useful I'll be against 'dimensional' monsters. Magnetism only goes so far." She murmured, and continued onwards into the Mansion proper, away from the sunlight and chaos of the students and the balloons.

"I'm going to make coffee if anyone else needs it. I'll have a whole pot up in a bit."

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro seems to look at Emma, giving her a little twiddling of his fingers kind of a wave, apparently non-intimidated by her death glare, even if others would probably die immediately from it. But then Wanda is talking about the plan, and while Pietro has no idea what the hell is any of these items, he might as well join in.

"Okay, do you need a fast guy to get the Stympatrick Bird or?" yes, he butchered the name of the Stymphalian bird.

"Oh, we have to defend the circle? Well....okay." He looks then at Rogue with a smile, and he probably gives hambone a high five. Then to Lorna, Pietro gives a light nod. "You'd be one of hte better choices to play defense."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue takes the shot for Emma, she's already soaked through, her dark green teeshirt is clinging to her form, her denim cutoffs are soaked to a darkened wetness and her skin is glistening like she just jumped out of a pool. Emma just mind controlled her though! So Rogue glares at the woman... then starts to spiiiiiiiin like a figure skater. Her left leg goes up and out, her arms spread out far, and she sends water in all directions as she spins on the driveway like it were ice and she were an Olympic Gold medalist!

Then... she stops, and falls backward onto the lawn on her butt, rolling back to lay down, she just sprawls out and laughs softly. "Diana..." She gasps quietly, looking up at the sky as the other kids continue to throw whats left of the water balloons. "Wonder Woman." Rogue adds. "She's so pretty."

Emma Frost has posed:
    Emma looks to Rogue and gasps as the woman spin dries herself and flings some of that nasty hose water at her and the others. "Rogue, have some manners." Emma says looking down at her suit with a few drops on it. With an uppity hmphf, the White Queen looks from Lorna to the twins and snarls at Rogue briefly before disappearing back into her trailer.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda Maximoff steps back, laughing softly and she raises a little shield to protect herself from getting wet due to the Rogue-shaped sprinkler in the front of the school. "We can begin gathering what we know we need, while I finish researching the rest," Wanda agrees towards her brother.

Wanda looks over towards Rogue as the young woman is collapsed dizzily on the ground. "She is. Quite striking. So are her people at her embassy. I commented that I would never get Pietro back if he went near the place and saw them," she says, casting a teasing look towards her brother.

Wanda says goodbye to those leaving. "Well, if you can let the rest of the school know for us?" Wanda asks towards Rogue. "And I'll be in touch with Miss Rasputina to see if she might help with the casting. Doctor Strange has agreed to help as well," she says, glancing Illyana's way.

Rogue has posed:
As Emma storms off, as Lorna goes in to get Lorna-things, and as the others do what it is that they're doing, Rogue leans up and rolls over onto her side in the grass to prop her head up in her left hand with her left elbow extended out above her head, her other hand drapes down her wet side and she just lays there and stares at everyone.

Its entirely possible that she missed most of what Wanda and Pietro had come here to say, its entirely possible that she only has maybe 5% or less of the information side of her head to catalogue it away, but that doesn't stop her from lowering and raising her pointed wet chin to the words from the Scarlet Witch.

"We got this, ain't no worries t'be had." She says back, her right hand drumming her fingertips against the wet frayed legs of her denim cut off shorts. But, only a moment later do two students sneak up behind her and dump a laundry basket of un-ballooned water down overtop of the southern belle causing her to shriek and leap up to her feet, she spins around and starts to Godzilla-roar at them as she chases them away across the expansive front lawn, shedding water behind her as she goes.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro looks at Wanda as she appears to be concluding her business here, for the moment. He does give a little wave to Emma when she disappears back into her all-star trailer. "Something tells me she doesn't like having a lot of fun..."

Then there's Lorna taking off to go do her thing, giving her a little wave, then there's Rogue...chasing away clever children who just got her soaked. hah.

With all that said and done, Pietro looks at Wanda with a raised brow. "So, I think that finishes our job here for now."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda gives a nod back to Pietro, though her sides are shaking with laughter at watching Rogue chase off after the students. "It is too bad she is not around the Mansion these days," Wanda says of Rogue. She pulls her eyes away from the wrath of Southern Godzilla to look back to Pietro.

"Brother, shall we return home?" she asks him. She smiles over to Pietro as they start to walk down the lane back to the street. "Thank you for coming with me," she says, patting his arm. "I will go bury my head in more dusty books, I think, once we get back." Outside the gate she'll teleport them back to the Avenger's Mansion, with one last glance back at the school.

Magik has posed:
Illyana Rasputin watches as all the others head off and does so herself only once they're out of sight. She had a lot to think about. This would be a large spell requiring much power. Power was always an issue for her... Perhaps this time it wouldn't get out of control. Turning away she slips back in through a portal to appear in her room again.