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Tandy Bowen	The Holy Ghost Church stands on it's own in the night, broken down and ramshackled. It has been a long time since this was once used as a place of worship. Now, it is boarded up and forgot about within the shadows of Hell's Kitchen. This area of New York City has no room for religion, hope, or false promises of redemption. This is where sin happens. This is where you walk down the wrong side of the street and disappear. This is where hope goes to die, to suffer, to be snuffed out like a match. This is an area of the city where screams are ignored and drugs run like blood in the veins. It's a swallowed up hole of shadow in the city of bright lights. Within the church is Tandy Bowen, dressed in a pair of worn jeans and a baggy sweater. Despite her beauty, she looks rather ran down and tired. Her thick blonde hair is pulled up behind her into a pony tail and her clothing is smudged with dirt. She has a few candles lit around the church for light, being that there is no electricity. There is water, cold water, in the back of the church that was rigged from a garden hose to be a 'shower' of sorts. There is also a solar panel generator hooked up to give small bursts of electricity at times. Currently, she is gathering up her costume in her hands, that of a long white leotard with a sword cut out through the middle. Her face is tight, her blue eyes narrowed as she peels out of her sweater to reveal her upperbody, clad in a bra. Her skin has a few scars along her arms and ribs, some fresh, some old.
Dani Moonstar	Yet another church. Yet another visit to yet another church, with Kurt. Dani was not too happy when the offer to accompany him came. As they're about to walk into the doors, she pauses and glances sidelong at him. "I swear to your God, if you attempt suicide one more bloody time in the name of his religion, and if you survive, I'm going to kick you where it counts." She glances down. A very meaningful glance. Then up to his glowing eyes. Dani holds his eyes for a moment, and then reaches out to pull the door open with no difficulty what so ever. Having been apprised of just where they were coming, Dani wears her sword belted at her side. Open and unashasmed of its presence. And she's not about to lose it, church or no. The sound of the door being opened comes just after Tandy has stripped her sweater off.
Kurt Wagner	This is not the best part of the city, and Kurt knows it well enough. But he still comes here. He has a reason to come here. There's a knapsack slung over his left shoulder, and it's got a bunch of candles and matches in it as well as having a combination of both perishable and non perishable foods within it. One of the pouches has a couple of bars of soap, and another has some two-in-one shampoo and condition and some other things along those lines. It's packed full and there's no room for anything else within it. Kurt looks to Dani, and his ears lay back a little bit, submissively, and he ducks his chin a little bit. "I promise, Dani... that's not why I asked you to come here with me. There is another reason that I asked for you to come," Kurt says softly, watching her for a long moment. He doesn't shy away from her gaze when she seeks to meet his own, willingly meeting it instead. He gives a small nod to her, watching then and stepping back just a little bit as Dani reaches out to open the door of the church. He's not going to get in her way or stop her. The church is one that hasn't seen a service in years, a rundown place, and he usually teleports into it rather than walking here.
Tandy Bowen	As the doors creak open to let the sounds of the city spill into the church, Tandy pauses with the sweater in her hands. Her blue eyes can be seen glowing in the dark at the sight of the two X-Men. Kurt she recognizes, but Dani she doesn't. She puts the sweater to the side on the back of a pew, then unbuckles her pants. Without a care, she shucks them down to her feet and steps out of them, followed by pulling on her leotard with practiced motions. "Hey, Kurt. Who's your friend with the sword?" Her voice doesn't radiate much softness to it. She has a look on her face. Rigid and intense. Wild. Once she zips the back of her 'costume' up as high as she can, she reaches up to tug her hair free so it spills along her shoulders.
Dani Moonstar	Dani Moonstar glances sidelong at Kurt again. She blows out a breath, and then takes a deeper one. "It better not be," she says. That statement has a feeling of, 'or heads will roll.' And it might not be the one he'd prefer! Another deep breath and she calms down some. This anger at him over that one incident just is not letting go. "Fine. Why did you ask me here?" She turns to walk into the church and stops as she takes the run down nature of the place. Though her eyes slide past Tandy, they don't stay on the woman. It wouldn't be polite to stare, afterall. "Dani," she answers for Kurt. "Kurt, who's your friend with the leotard?" Oh, this is going to go sooo well!
Kurt Wagner	Why did he get this grand and glorious idea again? Kurt takes a moment to look heavenward and perhaps offer a silent prayer to the Almighty above that neither will kill or hurt the other. It takes him a moment before he follows Dani into the church, his tail quietly and slowly swishing along behind him. He has a feeling that he's going to be hearing about this from both of them. Sometimes, there isn't winning. Sometimes, there's just doing. Kurt takes a moment to look from Dani to Tandy, and his chin ducks a bit as his ears stay lowered some. He looks to Dani for a long moment. "I asked you to come here to meet someone," he says softly. He slips the knapsack from his shoulder before setting it on the floor. Then he lifts his right hand to first gesture towards Dani. "Dani Moonstar, meet Tandy Bowen," he offers, gesturing towards Tandy when he speaks her name. "Please do not try to kill each other, ja?"
Tandy Bowen	"Why would I want to kill her for?" Tandy says as she gives a suspicious look towards Kurt, then back to Dani again. She shifts her jaw slightly. She looks hopped up on emotion for some reason or another and the way he phrased that? It got her guard up. "Hey, Dani, nice to meet you. I'm Dagger." She's in costume now, may as well introduce herself the right way. There's no point in hiding it. As she charges her hand up with a ball of light, a cresent moon shaped light appears over her eye and begins to glow. She takes in a deep breath, then lets it out slowly. "Cloak will be here in a few minutes I think. We found the Vatos gang. They took three more children. We're going to end this, /tonight/." She says with a quiver in her voice.
Dani Moonstar	Dani Moonstar has no idea where the grand and glorious idea came from. Not a single bit. Somewhere in that fuzzy blue head of Kurt's. Because with Dani's temperment... there's nothing saying she won't... okay. No. She won't. She won't kill anyone unless she has to. Something about being an empath, which Kurt should rutting well know. She looks to Kurt, her brown eyes level. And continues to look at him. Until she's introduced. Then she looks to the other being introduced. "Now what fun would that be?" she asks Kurt. About not killing each other, it would seem. Then she relaxes and smiles to Dagger. It's not the costumed woman's fault that she's still mad at Kurt. "I'm Valkyrie," she replies. "Nice to meet you. You can call me Dani." Her brow furrows and all joking and grumpiness leaves her as those words are spoken. "Children? What children?" It seems she may not have heard a thing about this.
Kurt Wagner	Sometimes, there's that feeling of wanting to have the floor open to swallow one's self up. And Kurt has a moment where he'd really like for that to happen. He could teleport away and just let the women sort themselves out, but... he doesn't. He stays where he is, and his tail lowers a little bit still swishes quietly from one side to the other. "You said that you wanted to meet Dani, and I thought this would be a good opportunity for that to happen," Kurt says softly, looking from one to the other of them. He watches Tandy, and then he gives a small nod, worried a bit by her words. "There are... how many of them, in the Vatos gang? It should be more than just you and he to fight them," Kurt says, his brow furrowing a bit. "The mutant children that have been going missing. The ones that are never found," Kurt says softly, giving a small nod. Tandy's told him a thing or two about the situation. "I have this crazy idea that you two will get along, seeing as how neither of you are keen on anything bad happening to me," he adds, glancing from one of them to the other.
Tandy Bowen	"They don't have /enough/ people to deal with our rage, Kurt. I am tired. I am so fucking tired." Tandy says as her voice tightens in her throat. As her hands blaze up into a pair of blades that form along her palms, she squeezes her knuckles over them as the shadows bleed around her to fill the church with her power. "You shouldn't even be here. I don't want you to see me like this." She says as she glances away from him as one blade spins about in her fingers before it flickers away in a burst of twinkling light. To see her so full of rage and anger? Or maybe to see her about to commit murder. She and Cloak made it clear that their mission, their /life/ can't change over pretty words and pleadings. Not even love .. can slow them down. "Sorry to meet under.. these conditions, Dani. I'm sure you're really nice. I just.. I can't right now." She says as she gives a shiver as the air begins to grow cold around them, frigid and icy. The shadows are starting to thicken once more as Kurt would know it's Cloak's arrival. They can hear his growl from the background, from the deepest part of the church, followed by the billow of black and blue folds of cape. His eyes? They are dangerous. "Dagger, we don't have time to waste." The command is simple, gravely and full of cold. If there was any humanity left in Tyrone, it left him long ago. "Just go home, Kurt, okay? Just .. " She sucks in a deep breath and turns, running for the back of the church as she starts to power up, racing for the inky black that is revealed when Cloak opens his folds for her. The deep, dark, nothing. "The kids need us."
Dani Moonstar	That feeling Kurt has is not missed by Dani Moonstar. Oh no. She lifts her right hand and points a single finger at him. A wordless 'you better frickin' not, buddy.' And when he stays, she nods once and huffs out a breath. She raises a brow and looks from Kurt to Tandy to Kurt again. She hooks a thumb toward Tandy. "How does she know about me in order to want to meet me?" She shakes her head and looks to Tandy again. "He's right. Backup would be a good idea." Her expression goes a bit blank and she shakes her head. "Kurt, the worst thing likely to happen to you is yourself." Oh, so not over it. And, she has a point. Dani shakes her head. "See you like what? Who you really are? A person who wants to save children from bad people?" She shakes her head again. "Nah. This is the perfect time, actually. Maybe we can help." She glances at the shadows before the cloak even emerges. Somehow knowing precisely when he comes. And then the other is running. All Dani can do is stare after the departing figure. She turns back to Kurt. "Now what?"
Kurt Wagner	The answer that Kurt earns isn't the answer he was hoping for. It doesn't tell him how many of them there are, which is what he had asked. But it tells him that Tandy is pissed off even before she tells him herself. His ears go back a bit further from where they'd already been, his gaze passing briefly over the blades of light that come to her hands. "It is a part of who you are, Tandy," Kurt says softly, a gentle note to his voice. He's always accepted her how she is. How could he not, given how he is? He doesn't exactly have a schedule of when to come or when not to come. But her anger, and that she directs it at him, it's a thing that stings him. He looks over to Dani at her question, and he gives her a little smile. "I might have mentioned you once or twice, and that we practice together," Kurt admits. His tail lowers first, and then falls still. He leaves the backpack where he set it on the floor, and he takes half of a step back before giving a small nod to Tandy. He recognizes the impending arrival of Cloak, but he doesn't say anything, not even when he glances in the direction of where he does appear. "Viel gluck euch beiden," he says quietly, giving a small and single nod. 'Good luck to both of you'. What he might want doesn't matter, or such is how it feels to him in the moment. 'Just go home', she said. She doesn't want him here, she doesn't want him where she's going. He could stop her, if he wanted to. But that would only make her angrier, he reasons, and so he doesn't. He looks to Dani and he lifts one of his shoulders in a faint shrug. He'll do the hard thing -- he'll respect her wishes and respect what she wants. "Now we go home," Kurt says softly, giving a small nod to her before he turns to head out the door of the church. This definitely did not go as planned.
Tandy Bowen	Glancing over her shoulder as she runs towards Cloak, Tandy can see the hurt upon Kurt's face. She swallows tightly in her throat, sliding to a stop inches before the dark can grab her. She reaches out with her hand to touch the inky void of pure cold ice, then looks back towards Dani and Kurt once more. "Dagger. Now." The voice of Cloak rumbles in a demand as he gives a low rustle of fabric as it starts to spread around her. "Kurt! Fifth and Justice avenue!" She calls out before her voice is snuffed out, leaving nothing behind as the shadows settle once more.