8808/Genosha Rising: Phone Calls from Home

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Genosha Rising: Phone Calls from Home
Date of Scene: 15 August 2019
Location: Hammer Bay, Genosha
Synopsis: Lorna calls her father in hopes of convincing him to return to Genosha... things do not go as planned.
Cast of Characters: Polaris, Magneto




Polaris has posed:
It had been a rough few weeks for Lorna as she constantly flipped between phone calls, meetings, diplomatic conferences, and other day to day running of Genosha. But on top of it all, dealt with the sheer panic of others that came from her father's actions in lifting up his flying fortress. The youngest of his children had barely slept, and was struggling to stay calm and keep herself in check with the mounting tension.

The missiles that had been fired off the shore of Genosha had swept her back from the Mansion and back to the palace in double time, and with a hastily arranged meeting with Aquaman and his consort, things had not improved. The conversation's course had more or less, to Lorna at least, been useless, if not downright threatening. It had pushed the young magnokinetic to contacting her father, something she'd been putting off and putting off.

Fear and doubt laced everything in her, as she dialed through on the contact information channels she knew would reach Magneto. She sat perched on the edge of her seat, a plain office chair pulled up to a desk she'd had moved into her quarters as a study that she'd used more and more. She was still hesitant to use her father's and as she set up the tablet's screen to more clearly see the image on the other side she fought the urge to fidget.

Magneto has posed:
     The call had come to Magneto, through multiple channels and sources. The image started grainy, but then turned to his control room inside the fortress.

  Magneto stood, hands to his side, grasping at two metal poles. He was in his battle armor, all crimson and purple with matching helmet. The armor was synonymous with the man, but his eyes showed that he was determined to ride this out as long as it took.

  "Lorna."

Polaris has posed:
Lorna eyed the metal poles in her father's grip, and swallowed thickly as she folded her hands on her lap, her fingernails biting into the skin of her palm as she fought the urge to launch into a tirade about him pushing himself. But she bit it back. If only just. Her green eyed gaze remained locked on him however, as the image's quality improved slowly but surely.

"Father..." She stopped and started, fighting to keep her tone measured and calm. "Please, come back. Genosha's being threatened with invasions, and I've tried to make peaceful alliances to avoid it.." She swallowed thickly against the lump that formed in the back of her throat.

"But so long as you're doing what you're doing as Genosha's King, no one will discuss such things or meet with me."

Magneto has posed:
     Magneto had been informed of the incident with Atlantis. "I do not do this as Genosha's King. I am doing this as a mutant, working against whatever threatens my people." He never lets go of the poles, gesturing with his head instead.

  "Orin and Namor should mind their own business. Last I knew, they were not using Sentinels against mutantkind." The thousand yard stare he gives the camera in front of him meant business. "None of my compatriots here are working under a nation's banner. None of them under any compulsion to serve. They only care about one thing: the future for mutantkind. As do I..."

Polaris has posed:
Lorna exhaled a rough breath, "I know, and I told them as such father. But a nation is embodied in their King, and a King is a reflection of the nation.. At least, that's more or less what they told me. No one can or will separate your actions from Genosha." She bit out, her eyebrows furrowed sharply in clear distress as she spoke and leaned forward to the tablet.

"I understand why you're doing what you're doing, I do. But is it worth it if Genosha is threatened or invaded? Father..." She broke off, her knees bumping together as she shifted in her seat, uncomfortable and barely restraining herself from pacing.

"What do you mean to do? Reports say that Trask is being arrested for his crimes against humanity, for the deaths and everything else. Isn't that enough?"

Magneto has posed:
     "If you deem that Genosha is in great peril, I want you to activate my terminal and put your hand to the screen. After that, there will be no going back." Erik looks straight into his daughter's visage on the screen.

  It was then that the Master of Magnetism rose up and stood tall. "I mean to see that man pay for what he has done, I mean to see it through until he gasps at the magnificent flames of hell in his final breath."