ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀғʟʏ ✖ ʟᴀʏʟᴀ ᴍɪʟʟᴇʀ . (knowstuff) wrote in beyond_evo, @ 2018-08-06 00:51:00 |
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Entry tags: | !plot: 2026, amity, echo, rebound |
THE CHILDREN PRAYED THE PREACHER PREACHED, TIME AND MERCY IS OUT OF YOUR REACH.
Suddenly she had become very interested in the watch on her wrist. It wasn't actually working, it had stopped in the journey to get here and she was debating the use of getting it fixed by someone in the Tunnels or the Junkyard when she got back there but what she was really doing as she looked down at the motionless face was keeping her eyes averted from the goodbyes. Some of them were a bit teary. Some were overly loud. There was a lot of compensating for the shortness of time they had together. Layla didn't want to intrude, she was already doing enough of that, she was the one ripping these people apart, away from their friends, their significant others. Some of them weren't going to like what they found out when they got to 2026.
She had specially requested that Everett Thomas be brought down to the Danger Room, too, and when he arrived she looked up from her very interesting broken watch and walked over. Getting here had been one thing, she had only needed one mutant for that, one mutant that was powerful enough to do it on their own but she had known that once she got to 2018 all the mutants she had known would be eight years weaker, eight years less experienced, and getting herself and all the names on her list back to 2026 would be a feat she would need a little more power for. So she collected together Everett and Margarethe and explained to them: "You two are how we get to the future." What followed was several minutes of explaining and re-explaining what she needed them to do, that she knew they could do it because she had seen them all in the future, so one way or another they had to get there. That probably wasn't that reassuring. It certainly wasn't easy to explain.
They got there in the end, though. Everett duplicated Margarethe's powers and within minutes her hands started to glow blue, his reflecting it. That light grew, enveloping them both until it started to expand out to fill the Danger Room. It was working. They were creating a pocket of time out of time that could be compressed and manipulated and it was working.
Something went wrong, though. Didn't it always?
Layla had seen it as a possibility, of course, she always saw the possibilities, but she had neglected to mention it to Cal and the others. They might have told her no, called the whole thing off, she couldn't have that. The names on her list all disappeared with her in a flash of blue light but so did a percentage of the school who weren't all even in the Danger Room with them. Just like that, blue light filled the school and pulled people away, seemingly at random and with no way to get them back.