<div class="floatleft">(http://images.wikia.com/xmenmovies/images/b/b4/Nightcrawler_creepy_smile.jpg)</div><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>      Kurt Wagner<br/>  <strong>Title:</strong>         Nightcrawler<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong>  The Resistance<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   Part Said<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong>          Open, Agent Brand<br/><br/></span></span><hr/><br/>Well, the Director had a little more time then that. Kurt didn't like teleporting anywhere that he didn't know intimately or couldn't see and Al-Abassi Mosque didn't fall into either of those categories. That he had a SWORD Agent, 4 Militia Men, and 7 civilians who only were still alive by virtue of just being that lucky. Two of them were young children for God's Sake. He may look like a moody demon, but in his heart he was something else- something that wasn't about to leave them behind in a hostile city.<br/><br/>Oh, he's tried to lighten the mood a bit- for the sake of the children. Being an ex-circus acrobat certainly helped with that as he does some walking on his hands to mix it up a bit. They keep moving. Al-Abassi Mosque, for now it was the safest place even if Apocalypse himself was coming.<br/><br/>"<strong>So I have to ask,</strong>" starts Agent Kang starts, "<strong>So you look like a demon, you teleport, you cling to walls, you're agile- why Nightcrawler?</strong>"<br/><br/>Ah, he was hoping this question would never get asked. Ever. *sigh*<br/><br/>"<strong>I was raised by a Circus in Bavaria, Germany while I become something of a star as an Acrobat and on the Trapeze. That was my Stage Name.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Okay, but why 'Nightcrawler'?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>There's. . .a species of a rather large worm in Bavaria. My skintone is surprisingly close to the color of a Bavarian Nightcrawler when viewed under Moonlight. It was a term of endearment from the people I called my Family, it stuck when I started performing, and it carried over to my heroics.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Oh, man- you're named after a Worm?</strong>" Agent Kang says almost starting to laugh- and some of the others in the group<br/><br/>"<strong>By the people that raised me. And my first love, I might add. We were circus folk!</strong>" he defends, but smiling a bit. Of course, it keeps up when they start to take a shortcut through a public forum with a covered stone roof miraculously still standing. Where it instantly becomes obviously forced merriment on the part of Nightcrawler and Agent Kang, and a couple of the militia members pick up on it instantly and raise their weapons.<br/><br/>"<strong>You heard it too?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Too late to back out without tipping them off. We're not alone. Something scurrying on the walls. Something big.</strong>" he says, his german accent getting thicker as he gets ready for what's coming up.<br/><br/>"<strong>Need a Gun?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Agent Kang, no teleporter with any sort of skill ever carries a gun. What use is a ranged weapon to a man for which range is just an illusion? Just get the fighters around the civilians, I'll take care of it.</strong>" Kurt speaks, and disappears in a BAMF! of smoke.<br/><br/>Circle up they do. Time passes. Tense seconds with the 5 with guns just trying to see something along the stone of the inner walls, trying to back out in a way that doesn't expose to them to<em>something</em>in the dark. Nothing, where was it? Where was. . .<br/><br/>"<strong>EN GARDE!</strong>" in a thick German accent echoes off the walls as something else lets out a sort of screeching sound.<br/><br/>"<strong>Where is it?</strong>" A militia man asks looking up, trying not to panic as the gun moves around look up and try to pick out something in the dark. The next sounds that come down sound like wet wood-chopping sounds, a series of them in rapid successful that end with one that sounds deeper and wetter then the others.<br/><br/>Something falls from above into view. It looks like a cockroach- but it's wearing a modified version of the power armor and is at least 12 feet long. The body lands directly in front of them, the head landing a few meters away and bouncing further away.<br/><br/>Of course, this time they SWORD agent is joining in as everyone carrying a gun unloads on the still moving headless body and still gnashing teeth of the head. Just a like a cockroach- it can survive a surprisingly long time without a head. With no head and riddles with bullets though? No, it doesn't take long before it stops moving.<br/><br/>"<strong>Nightcrawler- you okay?</strong>" Agent Kang<br/><br/>"<strong>Ja! Ja, I'm fine!</strong>" a voice from the dark calls back, "<strong>This Mosque? About 2-and-a-half kilometers north? With a security perimeter?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Yeah, what about it?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Looks like someone tried to use this as a sniper nest, found a pair of binoculars. Looks like we get to take a shortcut.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Yeah, how's that?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>We should be within my range. I want everyone to stand perfectly still for me. This may smell strange and feel kind of funny. . .</strong>"<br/><br/>BAMF! BAMF! BAMF!BAMF!BAMF!BAMF!. . .<br/><br/>The cloud of purple smoke smelling vaguely of rotten eggs that suddenly appeared on the grounds of Al-Abassi Mosque understandably raised some alarm- but the smoke quickly cleared revealing 13 people. 7 unarmed civilians, 4 militia members a little weirded out but no worse for wear, Agent Jin-Tae Kang, and a man who looked like a demon of gloom in an X-Men uniform of black with a large and thin indigo X across the chest and smaller X's on the shoulders.<br/><br/>"<strong>Hold your fire, we have refugees!</strong>" Agent Kang smartly calls out, and SWORD agents start taking these people to safety as well as they can. Kurt rolls his shoulders a bit, feeling how he's been pushing himself today especially with that last stunt.<br/><br/>"<strong>Thanks 'Crawler.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>X-Men, mutant superheroes vowed to protect the world that hates and fears us. It's kind of our thing.</strong>" he chuckles, "<strong>Now, Where can I speak to some people in charge?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Earpiece says she's in the Conference Room, wondering how a man who can teleport be late to a meeting. It's also saying that the HYDRA people are on our side- for now- so just ignore them.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>HYDRA?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Enemy of my Enemy, 'Crawler. He'll at least listen to what I have to say and consider stabbing somebody else in the back first. Conference room is that way,</strong>" he points, "<strong>I know you said you don't carry a gun- you at least drink?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Ja, though I'm more about Quality then Quantity.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Good, because I owe you 'Crawler. Give 'em hell for me.</strong>" Agent Kang chuckles, and gets back to work. Kurt Wagner has a job to do of his own and gets to this meeting.