Sep 24, afternoon--Nothing Amiss Here

[Domanic Taylor]

"Like I said, I'm not angry. Just advice for another time."

He squats down by Ayami. "Mood Ring, how do you feel? Do you feel up to being moved to a less public location?"

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami stirred. "Wha...ohmygod...what h....ohno..."

And she begins to break down, sobbing.

[Domanic Taylor]

Domanic sighs, having feared that Ayami would be pretty badly traumatized, but having hoped it was more on the prank end. "Genbu, I know you two are close, go ahead and comfort her if you can until we are ready to move her."

He stands up. "Portal, get me a trauma team that includes a strong teek." The security guy nods, and takes a couple of steps away, and then teleports out in another spray of lights.

[Teri Napliotis]

You cannot threaten us with accusations of maybe having done something. Is there even a crime you accuse us of? You have no legal ground to hold us, let alone extrude us from this country. Tell us the crime we are supposed to have commited.
Despite her denial and the angry tone flowing along the message Teri flies closer to the ground a good distance away from the group. Letting the cloud of insects not being part of her keep her assembling form a few feet off the ground in a boiling cloud.

[Ayami Morita]

"YOU", Ayami growled, getting to her feet.

[Teri Napliotis]

"Welcome back, Rainbow."

[Domanic Taylor]

"Very well, I didn't want to get this formal about it, yet, since all we have is the testimony of a single traumatized mutant, but if you insist on procedure, you are hereby under arrest for suspicion of Rape, Assault, and Felonious Mental Suggestion. I have the authority under the X-Team provisions provided this school by Parliament. Remain here in the Quad until security can process you."

[John Hino]

John glared at Teri with all the contempt he could muster.

[Domanic Taylor]

Dom puts a hand on Ayami's shoulder as she gets up. "Mood Ring... we're handling this as an arrest right now. Don't open up on her, we'll get your testimony as soon as we can."

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami attmptes to shrug off the coat, as it's encumbering her, and attempts to shrug of Dom's hand too, to try and start to run towards the cloud of bugs, projecting as she goes.

Pain, pain, pain, a thousand knives in your gut, a potato peeler scraping across your skin, burning hot pokers, pain, pain, pain, PAIN!

[Domanic Taylor]

Dom grabs Ayami's arm. He's not super strong, but he has some training, and anyway Ayami isn't very tactical at the moment. She can probably pull out of his grip in a moment.

Ayami feels her empathetic powers hit someone... but not Teri. They're being absorbed by someone else.

"Mood Ring, stop! You just hit Network with that, she's feeling all that pain. I'm not going to let you assault her right now, if I have to arrest you too, I will. Stop it now, you're hurting my secretary, and you're out of line, even if I understand why you're angry."

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami stops, but she turns her glare on Dom.

"Let me go. I will KILL her, let me go!"

[Teri Napliotis]

Teri gives John a friendly wave before Ayami's sudden onslaught distracts her. Her and the entire cloud flinches before she manages to withdraw herself and let the accumulated insects take the brunt of the pain, her face scrunching into a scowl before it suddenly disappears to somewhere else.

"We will take you on in a fight one on one if you want." she grins.

[Domanic Taylor]

Dom's expression is flat and angry, but not raging. "No, you will not. It's understandable for you to want to kill her, but you're not going to do it. Do you understand me? I will not permit it. Take a deep breath, and just stop. You're angry, you have good reason, and there's no reason you have to stop being angry. But I won't let you commit an act of violence."

[Narrator]

"And you..." Dom looks over at Teri. "You stay quiet, and stay there."

Portal re-appears in a splash of light with two other mutants in EMT uniforms. They stand by, having been advised that the situation is no longer one of helping out a traumatized girl.

[Talia Fawnsworth]

With Network spreading the word, Talia hurries out of the building she is in and ignites in flame. A quick leap and she's airborne, soon hovering over the developing scene and waiting for more instructions.

[Teri Napliotis]

Despite trying to keep her cool Teri visibly flinches at the sight of the 'ignited' Talia, the cloud growing more restless.

[Narrator]

"On-call Team members, this is Network. Lumis has activated all student-team members who are on-call. Report to the Quad and prepare to surround and contain Teri Napliotis. Do not initiate combat unless she does, and then only to defend yourself and contain. The situation in the Quad is extremely tense, please be as non-confrontational as you can."

[Zero]

Zero steps out onto the grounds, looking for the rest of the team casually.

"My my my," Zero says, "Doesn't this look like trouble."

[Kevin Gravis]

Kevin came running out of the North Campus building in a plain apron.

My pie better not burn.

[Morgan Evans]

Morgan approaches the group slowly, she was heading back from the library when she noticed the commotion and quickly realises its Teri. The hub-bub of mental voices around her make it hard for her to concentrate soley on Teri and Ayami but in doing so she pauses.

Teri.. did you rape her? The mental voice is mono-toned and detached, projecting so that everyone around can probably hear her. Her eyes flash white.

[Talia Fawnsworth]

Once there is a little more coverage on the ground, Talia pulls up a bit to hover higher. She doesn't want to risk burning anyone with an errant wingflap, though she's leaving it up to the insects to keep clear of the flaming strokes.

[Teri Napliotis]

As the quad fills with more people Teri slowly rises a few more feet.
"What is this, a lynch-mob? Or should we be flattered that you think it takes that many people to contain us?"

Casting a glance at Morgan she frowns. We didn't force her into anything. She's putting a good deal of efford into keeping her anger out of her mental voice.

[Morgan Evans]

Morgan was irrationally annoyed with her new friend and she felt her power flicker to life within her, the unfelt breeze swirling close around her body as it rises. Her eyes were now fully snow white now and she turned them blindly to Ayami.

Show me.

[Domanic Taylor]

"Alright, everyone calm down. Ms. Napliotis, you are to go to Security immediately. X-Team members will escort you there."

"Mood Ring, we're going to escort you to the infirmary. Please come with us."

"Everyone else, please find somewhere else to be. Making this a big crowd will only make the issue worse."

[Zero]

"Ms. Napliotis, if you'd please come with us," Zero says, approaching the girl slowly but informally.

[Kevin Gravis]

"Yeah... lynching is soooo last century. We waterboard now," he said, rolling his eyes.

[Teri Napliotis]

"Don't call us that!" she snaps at Zero, ignoring Lumis and rising further up. "You're not taking us anywhere!"

The cloud surrounding her explodes outwards, spreading through the crowd in waves and flying into people's face, trying to generate as much confusion as possible as the rest of the cloud rises along with the swarm of locust, spreading and making a break for several directions at once, excluding the area Talia is in.

[Domanic Taylor]

Domanic sighs, shaking his head. "Network, tell Phoenix to hit her."

The next thing that comes down on Teri's hive-mind is a massive shutdown signal from Jean Grey herself.

[Kevin Gravis]

Kevin brought out his swords to warn Teri back.

"I do not want to have chopped locust for dinner. Don't attack me and things won't get... dicey."

[Teri Napliotis]

Teri's mind squirms under the powerful attack, trying to find any way through, around or past the signal to shut off, her thoughts racing. The first thing to fall are her accumulated 'allies', her room to wrench her mind around in quickly shrinking and locust start falling from the sky, with a psychic scream of thousands of voices the rest quickly follows.

[Ayami Morita]

"Is she dead?"

[Domanic Taylor]

"X-Men, I want this area cleared of non-team members, other than Mood Ring here. Portal, get a container for the insects. Trauma team, start gathering the insects up."

"Mood Ring, I need you to come with me, alright? She's not dead. She's knocked out, we'll be incarcerating her."

[Morgan Evans]

Morgan reacts instinctively her power flaring but she manages to barely supress it, projecting towards her dropping friend.

Teri! She rounds towards Ayami's retreating form, her very posture cold as ice.

What have you done now?

[Ayami Morita]

"Pity," Ayami spat, tempted to run over and start stomping.

[Zero]

"If you think I'm touching those things, you're mistaken," Zero says, glancing at the mess of insects.

[Domanic Taylor]

"I asked you to clear the area of non-team members, Zero." Lumis motions at the angry Morgan.

"Psyche, please clear the area. This is a police situation at the moment."

[Zero]

"Of course, fearless leader," Zero says, heading over to Morgan, "Come along dear. You're leaving."

[Kevin Gravis]

But Zero you'd just be touching family... oh right they aren't roaches.

"You heard the man folks!" he said to the crowd, "Move along, nothing to see here!"

[Morgan Evans]

"I suggest that you do not touch me." Morgan's voice is cold and deadpan, neither a threat nor a promise.

"We really don't want that.."