<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>   Port Said<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong> Open<br/></span></span><hr/><br/>Half of an hour. Half an hour from when Count Neferia and Apocalypse unleashed what was the closest thing to Hell on Earth that he could imagine, then man tried to swat the man left standing like a fly from God's Earth - except the Fly didn't swat. If anything he swatted back with more then Kurt could imagine.<br/><br/>The most horrifying part was when Neferia and Apocalypse unleashed their shockwave he saw the wave of signals get snuffed out. There was a large swath of the city, and everyone who had been fighting in it, now just<em>gone.</em><br/><br/>---<br/><em>"<strong>. . .holy shit. . .</strong>" Kurt hears over the comms in the helmet, it sounded like Spymaster but he couldn't be entirely sure. He just knows it was certainly a male voice, leaving Agent Kang. BAMF! A wounded member of one of the local militias makes it to a stretcher on an evacuating ship.<br/><br/>"<strong>'Crawler, strap into a seat - we're bringing the rain on this ugly bastard.</strong>" he remembered Agent Kang then saying.<br/><br/>"<strong>Negative - I'm still seeing some surviving fighters down there.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Thought you'd say that, feeding data into that helmet as fast as I can put it there.</strong>" Agent Tokoro said with a smirk in her voice and more symbols start popping up. Known locations of wounded allies, at least the ones that shared their comm frequencies.<br/><br/>"<strong>Seriously? You're going back down there?</strong>" the Spymaster definitely had asked, "<strong>You're not even sure your own ass is going to make it, let alone anyone else's. You can't save everybody.</strong>"<br/><br/>BAMF! The Israelis had tried to make an impromptu med station in a library for an evac truck that never came, and it was the first thing they fed to Tokoro.<br/><br/>"<strong>I'm sorry, I can't here you over the shooting outside.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>. . .You willing to grab our guys too?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Nobody gets left behind. Not if I have anything to say about it.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Alright, you're the one risking his life for supervillains. Sucker.</strong>" Spymaster shot back, but with no bite behind it. Of course a villain can't ask for help from a hero, they have to be tricked. Both men in strange costumes inwardly chuckle to keep from going mad from fear and grief - and a battle is joined against time and Death itself.</em><br/>---<br/><br/>When the order came to rain down Havoc upon Apocalypse they'd tell the tale in terms of nations and air forces raining missles from the sky onto the master of this madness, but sometimes smaller people helped too.<br/><br/>Ringer and Beetle couldn't help but feel like they were at the end of a movie about Bonnie and Clyde, if Bonnie was wearing powerful body armor so bulky she looked like a man that could fire missles at Apocalypse right there with the fighter jets while Ringer watched her back. When it started, Ringer only regretted that she looked like a man while joining in the Rain. By the time her armaments were half depleted he had decided that she looked good doing it anyway.<br/><br/>When the official orders to evacuate came Beetle immediately grabbed her husband and flew back toward the coast as fast as his suit would allow. Thank the Count for the Commlinks.<br/><br/>"<strong>Have I told you I love you today, babe?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Just let me drive, dear. This isn't good. The king freak is still standing.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Even with all the Dreadnaughts?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Even with a lot of the Dreadnaughts programmed to kamikaze the big guy and set off their power cores when they ran out of armaments.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Shit! And the guys?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>They're saying Plantman, Porcupine, and Unicorn were in the blast radius. Eel got run through with a metal pole, died before anyone could get to his. Cyclone - man, they're saying he was just eaten by something big.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Oh man. We're dropping like flies here. Leila, I love you.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Don't talk like that Tony. We're going to make it.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Just saying, if it comes down to a situation where you need to leave me behind to save your own ass - do it.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Back at you, Mr. Davis.</strong>" she tries to be cute about it while not thinking about it or the list of confirmed dead she's seeing. Paste-Pot Pete? What was he even doing out here? What was Tony even doing out here - at least she was using fully functi-<br/><br/>The boulder the knocks her out of the sky smashed into the Beetle armor like a missile on its own and sends the pair smashing into a wall, only an instinctual grab of her husband and tuck into a sort of ball prevents Ringer from being smashed into paste. More boulders fly through the air at where they went down - most miss. One doesn't, smashing Ringer free of Beetle's grasp and landing him on the other side of that alley - and it doesn't even take a good look to tell him that one of his arms are broken.<br/><br/>"<strong>Babe, you alright?</strong>" he manages to croak out as he tries to get back up.<br/><br/>"<strong>No.</strong>" she responds, and he looks up. The rock has smashed the armor hard. It's not flattened enough to crush Leila inside but a boulder the size of a pick up truck has smashed the armor to visibly make it flatter.<br/><br/>"<strong>Can you get out?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Hatch is on the back. Tony. . .I'm stuck. You know what you said about leaving you behind if it means saving my own ass?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>. . .No.</strong>"<br/><br/>Around the corner the minion of Apocalypse came. Some sort of terrakinetic, standing on a stone hovering about the ground while other stones orbit her like planets.<br/><br/>"<strong>Tony, please - don't make me watch you die.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Then close your eyes, honey - because I'm not leaving you for this bitch.</strong>" he speaks resolute. The Ringer versus a Terrakinetic throwing boulders the size of trucks at least - but for her? The Ringer pulls out a Freezing ring with his good arm. He might be a villain, but for Leila, he could be a hero - Not even a question.<br/><br/>"<strong>Got back-up heading your way.</strong>" Spymaster's voice comes over the commlinks, not even finishing ringing in their ears when a BAMF! sounds nearby. A Roof? Maybe?<br/><br/>Ringer only barely catches a glimpse of the indigo demon leaping from the rooftop with three swords drawn that then disappears in a puff of smoke, the Terrakinetic only begins to wonder what's going on when Kurt appears on a stone over her shoulder and makes a slash with the blade at his tail. He tells himself it wasn't a kill shot but knows he's lying, she just managed to react quick enough that instead of stabbing her through the head he just put a deep and nasty cut above her eyes - but it bleeds hard and fast enough that she has to back off a bit for her vision's sake.<br/><br/>"<strong>Herr Davis, can you make a hole in your wife's armor? Big enough that I can grab hold of her?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>Time Me.</strong>" Tony Davis smiles as he switches out with an Expanding Ring produced. For Leila, she could be a Hero - but not an Idiot.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Leila Davis stayed in the medical transport ship next to Anthony Davis. Now, she was just Leila Davis - the Beetle Armor smashed to pieces back in the city. Tony's arm was broken in at least 4 places but he still some of his Rings.<br/><br/>"<strong>So, Lady Ringer? I bet you could get good with these things?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>In your dreams, Tony. The Beetle may be squished but I'm finding new Armor. Count on it.</strong>"<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>When even he couldn't justify continuing his ignoring of the official evacuation order, Kurt had made one last jump - back to the Hydra Stealth Transport with Agent Tokoro, Agent Kang, and Spymaster. He pushed himself, hard, in multiple ways today - and now he finally allows himself to feel it. Sitting in a chair on the bridge, he finally lets himself relax and sleep quickly overtakes him.<br/><br/><strong>NPCs</strong><br/><br/>Ringer (http://www.comicvine.com/ringer/4005-14046/)<br/>Beetle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Davis)<br/>Plantman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantman)<br/>Porcupine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_(comics)#Alexander_Gentry)<br/>Unicorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(comics)#Milos_Masaryk)<br/>Cyclone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(Marvel_Comics)#Andr.C3.A9_Gerard)<br/>Eel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_(comics)#Eel_.28Leopold_Stryke.29)<br/>Paste-Pot Pete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapster#Peter_Petruski)