[IC: Forward dated to Saturday 19 May]

[julienned]

[YEAH I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GUYS ARE IN HERE. it's a comatose teenager hooked up to a bunch of machines.

it's really boring.] 

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[extremities]

[digs his fingernails into his palms as he slowly opens them]

[julienned]

I was drugged when they infected me, so sorry for not paying attention to how it happened.

...wait, do you even know that? Hell, I always forget who knows what about that black ops team.

[skinofalizard]

Yeah, I know. You told me about it before.

[julienned]

[as he opens them, he can see his optic blasts being directed down to the ground. Julian looks a strained, but not dangerously so]

And this is control.

You can put them back on.

[julienned]

[shrugs]

I can never keep track of who knows and doesn't anymore.

[skinofalizard]

I know the feeling.

[extremities]

[does so, pushing them back hard, and looking at the mini-crater in his room]

I'm going to get into trouble for that.

[julienned]

Blame it on the telekinetic. Everyone else does.

Anyway, the point is that that? Ms Grey doesn't have that kind of control. She has a lot of power and a whole ton of repression, but because she repressed her powers she has no control over what she could be.

That's what you got to work with if you have to fight her.

[extremities]

I rather not.

It's a lot to work with, but I'll see what I can do.

[julienned]

As for someone taking the Phoenix Force off her, there's ... three options? Four? Foley, Magneto, the Professor and me. They're all really bad choices.

[julienned]

There should be a multiple choice quiz on this.

[extremities]

Forget bad, they're not choices.

[julienned]

Gee, thanks.

But she has to control it. In our universe, she did. So did your and her daughter.

[extremities]

There's no need to take this the wrong way. It's not an inflection of your skills, it's that no one should have to live with the Phoenix.

[pauses over the word "daughter" before moving on] Do you remember any of the particulars?

[julienned]

It's the future of our species, you know. That's why we put up with Hope Summers - no relation to you this time - and her temper tantrums. Treating it as like it's the world's biggest curse isn't going to help her get it.

[extremities]

What are you talking about?

[skinofalizard]

Or just write our own files and hand out copies to everyone in the cabin.

[julienned]

No-one told you? One day over ninety percent of mutants woke up without their powers, and after then no more mutants were born until she was. Eight percent of the entire mutant population lives right here.

[julienned]

It'd be more fun if we wrote each other's.

[extremities]

I heard that the powers were gone, but I haven't heard of Hope Summers.

[skinofalizard]

Might defeat the point though.

[julienned]

Vic, Alani and I are from the furtherest point in the timeline. It's likely they don't even know who she is yet.

[julienned]

Just because we'd describe Foley's powers as "he's a Disney princess who might be high at all times".

[extremities]

How is the Phoenix going to save mutants?

[julienned]

[shrugs]

Maybe they know over at Utopia. We're over at the ... the school.