<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/USRiD.png)</div><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>        Xavin<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong>  None<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   Times Square, NYC<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong>          Spider-Man, Open!<br/></span></span><hr/><br/>Xavin didn't protest Spider-Man's decision to go to his apartment. She certainly didn't have any better ideas. All the landmarks of New York that she and Karolina had seen as tourists appeared to some unhealthy combination of rubble and ashes. She hung on tight as they went to a rather unimpressive apartment. Of course an unimpressive apartment in Manhattan cost more than a mansion in Nebraska, but Xavin neither knew nor care about these fine points of terrestrial real estate. She looked around for weapons, armor, maps, sensor devices, oracles, spaceships....nope just some cameras and blue jeans.<br/><br/>"This is an unimpressive hideout." She said crossing her arms and scowling. "And you are being extremely reckless. You don't know who I am or where I'm from, you haven't asked what I'm after or who I work for, and yet you not only show me where you live but you offer to lead me to the resistance?" She rubbed her temples. "If this is the quality of leadership that mutants have to suffer through Apocalypse will surely destroy you all. Do you have an interstellar communicator? Perhaps I can convince my people to intercede against him. Even if not on my behalf I could likely persuade them that Apocalypse is a sufficient threat to warrant interplanetary bombardment with gravitonic disruptors or a contained neutron star. That is likely our only hope."<br/><br/>Xavin had been speaking quickly as she poked around Spiderman's place. But she paused as she came across a picture of Peter and Mary Jane together. She saw the look of love in their eyes and was reminded, starkly, of what it was exactly she was after "I willl...be right back." She said quickly, ducking into the bathroom just as the tears overwhelmed her.<br/><br/>"Lina..." Xavin muttered staring into the mirror as she shifted her features to match the blonde human form of her currently lost lover. "You picked a very bad time to leave me here." She said accusingly, pouting as she stared at the girl she loved (well, usually at least!). "But I want you to know it's entirely your fault and you are going to miss me more than I miss you. In fact I am going to take advantage of this chaos to show you that I am the most heroic, brave, desirable, beautiful woman in the Universe. And then when you realize that you are going to come right back to me." Xavin said firmly.<br/><br/>It didn't really take, Xavin's ability to kid herself, like all of her powers, while impressive, had it's upper limits. "Bah." She muttered and switched back to her usual form.  "Very well." She said weakly, trying to pull herself together. "If the stars don't mean for me to be the happy lover perhaps I am meant to be a tragic hero." She sighed, contemplating that she might never seen Karolina again. "No, she will likely return when this little distraction is resolved. Best to take part in it heroically so that she loves me all the more when she returns. Also, make her jealous." Xavin blinked and realized she was alone with a superhero, the grin that formed on her face was anything but pure. "Very jealous."<br/><br/>She stepped out finally and saw Spider-Man ready. "Let's go." She said firmly, taking his hand and preparing to be swung about again.