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Things fall apart [OPEN]

WHO: SLADE (

wantsapprentice) and ANYONE ELSE on this list
WHERE: All over downtown!
WHEN: TODAY!
WARNINGS: Violence, fire, and a batshit Slade!
SUMMARY: SLADE LOSES HIS MARBLES, AND PEOPLE COME TO KICK HIS ASS AND CLEAN UP THE MESS.
FORMAT: Quicklog! Tag yourselves in!

FIRE

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[Stubborn, in denial.]

No, they can't be, it was just a temporary lapse. I-

[And then he falls silent as he tries, hard, to do anything with his power at all- waves, blasts, absorbing, discharging, heating, all spectrums of energy he can access- and it fails.]

Oh hell no.

[She places a hand on him and just looks sadly. God, she can't even imagine what it must feel like.]

You can't do anything? At all?

[Frowns again.]

Alex, I'm so sorry.

[It's obvious that he's trying again, much harder this time, from the way his body strains and every muscle tenses and his fists are clenched. He's Havok, isn't he? A mutant channeler of the sun. But it's as if all that power was never there to begin with.]

Nothing at all. [His voice is scarily flat, which is only one step better from despairing.]

[Alison hugs onto his shoulder. God, she feels so bad for him. The way he's acting, though, is so much better than she'd be handling it. Alex is a tough guy, though. She knows he'll make it through the next couple of days.]

I'll stick by you, fella. It'll be okay..

Thanks, Dazzler. It's okay. I'm okay. [Pull yourself together. No falling apart on the battlefield here, Summers, he thinks very grimly.]

[He wishes he'd paid more attention to the network lately. This must've been the significance of the electric shock on Sunday night, he deduces grimly. It took him long enough to figure out.]

How long is this supposed to last?

It only lasts a week.

[She pauses and thinks back to everyone else who lost their powers.]

You get new powers in place. Do you want to try figuring out what they are?

[He thinks silently for a beat. Two beats.]

No, if they were any good they'd have manifested when the debris was coming down on me. This mission comes first. There'll be time for that later.

I'm effectively out for the count, Ali, I'm no use on this battlefield and there're still too many civilians to be saved. You should go. I can take care of myself, and maybe pull a few people out of the way.

Are you sure? I can have your back if you need me to.

[She's serious. X-men do look after their own, or something.]

No, you should go. I'm a liability here and your powers could be used to save so much more people. One depowered mutant to hundreds of burning innocents, Ali. Go.

[Stubborn like a Summers ought to have been the most regularly used simile in the X-Men's conversations.]

Oh, no way. You're still an X-man and you're still my friend.

[She grabs onto his arm.]

You're sticking with me whether you like it or not! You can still help!

[Huh. That actually made sense. Alex wondered why he hadn't even thought of that option.]

Oh. Yeah, that'd be great too. You can blast debris and I can grab people out of the way?

Yep! We can be a team.

[She powers up just a little, glowing so she could work everything better.]

Now come on. Let's save some people!

We are a team, and I shouldn't have had it any other way.

[Alex feels just a small sting of envy which he quickly quashes as he watches Dazzler power up, glowing with her own energy. He should be able to do that, but he can't. But then-]

INCOMING!

[Another building explodes nearby and more debris rains down on them. He grabs Ali and runs.]

[Alison runs with him, shooting her photons at anything that comes closer. She blasts pieces and makes them smaller, forcing the impact to be less severe.]

This way!

[She has a light shield up on her side, holding up against anything that could rain upon them.]

[That light shield was useful, very useful. Alex wondered if he could conceivably do the same with his powers, maybe fine control of them to that specific extent- but then he firmly stopped that thought. No use pondering that now. Stay in the moment. Focus. He was that much more vulnerable without his powers. They run, stopping at intervals to save civilians.]

I thought you didn't want to be a superhero?

[Alison actually glares at him for a moment. How rude. Here she is, saving his butt and helping him out the best she can and he asks that!]

As long as I get to sing, honey, I can do the hero thing too.

Hey, hey, I'm on your side! Everytime I want a break I get hauled right in anyway too.

Yeah...

[Her break was mostly because Longshot died. Alison couldn't deal with any of that hero stuff for a long time. The only thing she had wanted to do was sing because it was safe.]

It just happens when you're tangled with the X-men.

Yeah, it does. I guess that's life.

[Alex would have been very happy just working on a phD in geophysics, and doing research on Muir Island. Or just doing nothing in Hawaii.]

But, people to save, villains to vanquish, and all that.

[And she would have liked for a lot of things to have not occured in her life. Having to participate in gruesome wars on Mojoworld, for one, was something she could have done without.]

Yep! Just something we have to do.

[She holds up her finger sort of like a gun.]

Now let's go do just that, honey.

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clearly his new power = summoning Dazzler. (more like seducing her. hur hurrrr.)

bow chica

no stay close I need you aliiiii

SHE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERES

OH GOOD BECAUSE HE WAS SO SCARED (only not really)

hold her hand alex

but ali what if warren sees us

he can hold my other hand shh

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