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Log; Ongoing

WHO: X-Men Gold Team and Audrey II
WHERE: Some back alley somewhere
WHEN: Thursday afternoon
WARNINGS: Violence and possibly language
SUMMARY: Twoey has been spotted and the Gold Team moves in to take him down.
FORMAT: Para to start, but then it will probably move to quick.

It wasn't a nice part of town at all, but that was probably for the best. People in the bad parts of town knew to scatter when there was a fight. The thing that had attacked Dazzler had been spotted and the X-Men's Gold Team was moving in quick to intercept. They weren't stopping until they made sure the thing was in their custody and unable to hurt anyone else.

[ooc: Please feel free to hop in and tag yourself in. I wasn't going to have Scott be a part of the fight so go at it, guys!.]

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[Twoey's really just minding his own business, hanging out in a random alleyway in his plant form. He's gotten pretty damn big from the last time he showed his big leafy face, mostly on account of his decently steady diet of hobos and people who have gotten too close to his plant form. His vines wiggle impatiently, feeling mighty hungry and wondering why the hell he had the odd feeling that something was coming after him.

Nevertheless, he grins, chuckling as though anticipating something to come after him. After all, he has made plenty of enemies...and if they're coming for him that only means its suppertime for him.]

[Yeah, well Archangel's had enough of you after a few months, Twoey, so it's no surprise he's made it there first. The rest of the team isn't too far behind, and Warren tries not to look surprised at Twoey's ugly face up close. No, he just comes to a hover a safe distance back, and keeps his blades spread out behind him.]

Fancy meeting you here, asswipe.

[Twoey may not exactly have eyes in this form, but boy oh boy he certainly sees Dazzler's little boy toy hovering a safe distance away. He starts snaking a vine in the area below wherever he's fluttering, and Twoey grins even more, baring rows of ragged and uneven shark-like teeth.]

Well if it ain't a familiar face. Yer bitch ain't too far behind now, is she?

[It's really difficult for Warren to control his temper in this form, and the words are already enough to rile him up (even more so than seeing Twoey does on its own). He reaches back and steals two handfuls of knives from his wings, and his eyes start glowing a little red]

I don't have to wait for her. We can settle this right now.

[Alison is behind with the rest of the team, a little nervous to be facing Twoey again. She has to force herself to believe they'll get him today, even though a huge part of her lacks confidence that it will happen. She pushes away her horrific memories, and approaches. He's not getting away with killing her, or with killing Ryan.]

Let's just get this over--

[Her eyes widen when she actually catches sight of Twoey. Ohmigod he's HUGE!]

[Santo hasn't slept all night. This would be a very significant problem if he didn't have his powers, but as it is he's just as alert as he has been for hours.

And still very, very angry. It's taking a lot of willpower for him to follow orders and stick with the rest of the team. A lot to keep him from rushing in alone, pretending this plant guy was the bastard he was looking for, and tearing it apart with his bare hands.]

All right, let's compost this asshole.

[It's the first joke he's made all night. That's something like progress.]

[Twoey lifted his bulbous head, as though to get a better look at Warren, still grinning. His leaves and vines quiver as he starts to chuckle in that deep voice of his. As he speaks, he opens his mouth wide, and the pods that have started to form on his vines are a deep purple. Yup, he's been eating pretty well these past few days.

He's lucky nobody misses the homeless.]

Ooooooh, yer off yer leash, huh boy? [he's still addressing Warren]

An' ya brought others. Well hello miss Ali ain't you lookin' good.

[Okay, screw this guy. Warren lets out an annoyed grunt and throws both handfuls of blades at Twoey before charging him. Wings out.

If Twoey even tried to eat him, Warren would just try and carve his way out from the inside.

Orders? What orders? If no one was going to try and stop him, that was just too damn bad because Warren isn't feeling sympathetic today]

[Alison ignores Twoey. She knows not listening to his words is probably the best way she can go about this, and before Warren can hit him directly, she sends out a huge blast of light towards Twoey. It's hot, but it's not fatal. She isn't going to let him win and make her kill him again.

She considers yelling at Warren to not rip the guy apart, but she knows he won't listen.]

Santo, c'mon. We need to wreck this guy!

[Rachel touches down behind her angry teammates and sends a telepathic message to them.]

~Guys, I know this is personal but let's make sure he can't put the whammy on you guys before we get too close.~

[Jean-Paul appears just to the side of the group. He's been running recon, clearing people out of the area as much as possible. He glances at Alison and Warren, just a hint of worry on his face as they start to engage the horrible thing.]

Area's clear. Do we have a strategy other than "beat it into the ground"?

[Pixie's just now arrived, having flown instead of teleported, and she stops to hover just a few feet away from where Archangel had been just before he charged. Her mouth hangs open and she looks sideways at the villain of the week.]

You know... when you guys said, 'Giant Plant Monster,' who'd have thought it would turn out to be exactly what I was picturing?

Ah well. [There's a shrug, as she thoughtlessly rushes in to back up Warren.]

[Twoey's mouth falls into something resembling a frown.]

Aaaaw what's that there's more of ya? No fair y'all are gangin' up on me!

[He grins, and luckily, for a plant so large his reaction time wasn't as bad as something normally that big. Of course, he didn't really need to react...the skin of his plant form was pretty damn tough, and the blades bounced off his skin or were lightly embedded in wherever they hit.

He brings a vine over and attempts to grab at Warren's wings with it, and another in attempts to grab at Pixie. Other vines from his form start to move and spread across the ground, trying to grab or smack away whoever was on the ground.]

Noooooow, which one of ya wants to be my snack? C'mon, don't be shy. Step up step up I'm hungry and y'all best not piss me off too much.

[His persuasion powers were pinging slightly, and those in the vicinity would feel the urge to offer themselves to him, but with a strong enough will can avoid temptation. As for others, well, it's a good thing they have their friends around to snap them out of it.]

[Rachel's aura flares as she kills the siren call, placing blocks in-between her friends' minds and the compulsion.]

Sorry, no snacks today.

[With her teke she starts to parry with some of the other vines, trying to keep as many off her and her teammates as possible.]

[Jean-Paul feels the compulsion tingling in his mind an instant before Rachel pushes it out. He has always been weak to telepathic intrusions, so it's lucky he has a teammate here today who can watch his back...for now. He begins to zoom around Twoey, striking out at every vine within reach]

You. [Punch.] Do. [Punch.] Not. [Punch.] Touch. [Punch.] My. [Punch.] Friends.

[At the speeds he travelling, and with his body's enhanced durability, each hit that connects is like an axe blow.]

[As Jean-Paul does his thang, Alison sends out another blast of photons right at Twoey's face. She knows the plant is not allowed to be killed, but that doesn't mean she won't hurt it. After all Twoey put her through, she wants him to feel pain; he deserves it. She doesn't know how they'lll manage to take him out, though. Maybe if they hurt him enough he'll revert back to his human form?]

[She's quick, and knows that she can dodge the vine coming right at her. But for a moment... she doesn't want to. Obligingly she hovers in place, just long enough for a vine to lash itself around her waist, just before Marvel Girl's mental shields help her to shake off his suggestion.]

[A lot of kicking and wriggling ensues, including a well-placed punch by Northstar.]

[Warren, too, got caught in that split second of persuasion, that gave Twoey enough time to knock him to the ground and get the vines around him.

Again, like Pixie, he's squirming like a fish caught on a line to get free, trying to hack through those vines. If he can't use his wings, he'll simply use his talons.]

[Vines aren't that much of a problem for Rockslide. Any blows would glance off his rocky hide, but seeing Pixie get nabbed by one of them? Ooooh yeah. That's not something that Santo is going to let happen, especially in this mood.

With a gravely growl he leaps up to grab at the vine holding his pink-haired teammate. If he can get, it he's going to try and tear the damn thing off.]

[The Cuckoos are the furthest back of the team, out of sight and earshot, but monitoring everything that's going on. When the plant's persuasion powers flare up they sense it immediately, and add their own telepathy to Rachel's.]

[Added to their defense, they begin a low-level telepathic assault against Twoey, hurling as much as they can spare against him. It might feel like a headache.]

[He starts to grin as he gets both Pixie and Warren in his grasp. His mouth starts to open wide as he starts bringing the two of them in, not worrying which to eat first. Unfortunately for him, his body starts to lurch as he feels Jean-Paul's punching, and the weaker vines chop off easily, stumps shriveling up. There's a groan, and while he's caught off guard Dazzler's blast hits him square in the face, causing his grip on her friends to loosen.

His vines were loose enough so that Rockslide's attempts at freeing Pixie were successful, and his vines rips clean off. There's another growl of annoyance.]

Y'all shouldn't be doin' that.

[Of course, his persuasion powers no longer work, and he senses that telepathic energy.

He's thrashing, trying to grab at random people and whip others away. Damn how hard was it for him to get a meal around here?]

[Thanks Rockslide. [Pixie shakes off the remnants of the now-dead vine, and circles her large, stony teammate once before rushing at Twoey again.]

Still hungry? Try THIS!

[With that, she showers the creature with her own pink, sparkley dust. BAM. Emeril would be proud.]

[...she only hopes that any nearby X-Men recognize the attack, and remember to hold their breath if the dust gets on them, too.]

[Warren does hold his breath, and makes a break to knock Twoey out while the plant is under the influence of the dust. If anyone does get have to bit, it might as well be the guy who can grow his limbs back--so Warren's pretty fearless as he launches himself at Twoey's base to hack away more vines.]

[Jean-Paul has been wrestling with the vines; one has managed to snake it's way around his ankle. He frees himself with an almighty wrench just as Pixie's dust comes raining down over the giant monster, and takes to the sky to avoid getting dosed himself.

As Warren dives straight for Twoey, Jean-Paul takes a moment to reassess the situation from his new vantage point.]

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AND OF COURSE IT'S TIME FOR ME TO DISAPPEAR FOR A FEW HOURS /sob

it's cool! i'll definitely be around all night =D

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