Morlock Saga (and other bits)
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amichanEssex has Remy find some guys for him. This is payment from Remy for a procedure Essex did to calm down her abilities (how Remy found Essex for this I have no effing clue at the moment). It's secondary payment given the first one he wanted her to retrieve some files for him from a facility in Canada, but reading the files Remy was like NOPE this does not need to leave here and destroyed them, using the excuse that the place was on fire (thanks to Wolverine escaping which she didn't know) to say that she wasn't able to get to them in time and wasn't going to die in a fire over this.
Essex has told her that he wants to get in touch with the Morlocks in the tunnels/sewers/broken tube stations in the area who Remy sometimes trades information for food and supplies they can't get because danger of being killed (as they are super obvious mutants that can't pass for normal). His explanation is that he can potentially help them the way he helped Remy and give them some semblance of a normal life. She finds three guys for him. In the comics these are the mutants: Prism (Robbie), Blockbuster (Michael Baer) and Harpoon, however the info I have from memory/dream says "Jim" "Steel" and "Black Feather". Harpoon is Inuit but his name is not Black Feather it's Kodiak Noatak, but then again, they all know her as Ruse until ST shows up. The group meet at the appointed time when Essex springs Sabretooth on her which causes issues.
Prior to this she'd met for lunch with "McGee" who is some sort of cop/agent that Lapin her friend/cousin "brother - as in close as not as in some weird incestuous brother/cousin situation", who is the only NOLA person she's still in touch with after banishment has teased her about and voiced concern about since she met him a year or so before while doing a corporate espionage thing and had "a thing" with, one of her longer lasting relationships given it went on for several months, and they've been in touch here and there since. ANYWAY, she meets him for lunch given he saw her at some point being in town, and she's antsy because of job to do. He notes that she's "smoking not joking" so "something is wrong" but she can't won't explain what it is, leery that someone will find out given she doesn't know everyone's abilities (the three she's found) and she's become more leery of Essex overall. Wondering if it's vague precognition (Gambit in comics is psychic when blinded, plus she's potentially got Cyclops/Phoenix DNA in her -- background is just like WTF and probably why Essex so interested given he maybe had a role in her existing??) ANYWAY, again, she leaves the lunch early because she just can't, and "McGee" is just ???? what did I do?
She has Lapin set up a signal between her jacket (which has a bluetooth mic of sorts Lapin installed) and "McGee's" phone. The jacket can send out audio but she can only hear responses if she has an actual earbud thing in, and it's something she and Lapin set up for security shit and him monitoring her during certain jobs. Lapin is just kinda "okay your funeral if this screws things up in whatever way" and she's just "haha not funny, fuck you", "You're the one with the hots for law enforcement who doesn't know what you really do for a living" "Again fuck you."
When she gets to the Essex place he produces Sabretooth/Creed and she's just "Aww hell naww" and she and Creed verbally spar back and forth about history, up until this point she'd thought he was dead because of what happened with him, her, Genvieve (who died) and her "actual (considering adopted) " brother Henri after The Paris Job about the "treacherous star" necklace (oh, how apt). ST makes comments about "her girl" given what he did to Gen, and she pokes back about his head growing back (she blew off half of it before Henri could stop her and drag her off away from Gen and evidence). She jabs at Essex about why do they need HIM in particular given this is supposed to be an olive branch offering sortis and the other guys are kinda muscley too. Essex claims it's because he's helped ST a similar way that he's helped her and the others are "just in case". She grumbles but agrees so long as, "No matter what happen, we square after," which he consents to.
The group go underground, Remy using cards to light the way and look for symbols and signs for where the Morlocks currently are given their camp moves around occasionally. Unfortunately "Brady" a Morlock teen (fucking 13/14 years old) runs out upon "recognizing her light" and is promptly offed by ST. Remy flips out, "This is not what we're supposed to be here for!" "It might not be what you're here for, but this is what we're supposed to be doing," one of the others says. She blasts at Sabretooth and one of the others hits her in the left shoulder with some sort of bladed weapon which she charges and throws back "missing" and therefore blocking the tunnel that Brady ran out of with rubble.
Creed attacks her, at some point during the fight he gives her left arm a compound fracture to stop her being able to throw things and is choking her against the wall holding her other arm over her jacket sleeve to stop her from using cards or anything because as far as he knows she can only charge things with her hands. She uses kicking against him to get off a shoe and sock so her foot is free to charge things, and starts charging the ground focusing on spreading it across the tunnel to the walls and things, with delay to block them in. The others are on Creed to drop her and leave her given he's cut into her gut in trying to get her to talk (through reinforced/armor clothing because fuck him). She'll bleed out surely they can track the "damned freaks" down some other way, and just get the fuck on Creed she's not worth it. She makes implications that she's charged his crotch with her foot and "will dat grow back like your fugly mug?" he throws her, because JUNK COULD EXPLODE and ouch wall hitting sucks but not being held any more. Junk doesn't explode because that's not what she charged and he's going to come after again when he starts getting shot "McGee" to the rescue?-ish.
Bullets are like bug bites to ST which Remy knows and given he's about to go after "McGee" instead she slams the ground to set off the charge that was on delay and so it goes off earlier and the ST gets buried in the "cave in" that hems everyone else in with him.
"McGee" tries to help her up but holy fuck ow broken arm. "I don't know how to help you up and not hurt you" "It's going to hurt whatever so just let me do it." Can't walk right one leg messed up too (not sure when), and using "McGee's" jacket to cover gut wound he helps her back out as the "cavalry" run down to deal with things. Remy is semi-rambling about Creed and the dangers of him and hoping the gun-toting guys have enough fire power to deal with him because he won't stay out long. "McGee" says once they heard names on the "mic" they looked him up and they know he's ex-Canadian special forces and the shit he can do, so let's just get you to paramedics to patch you up...a lot. Remy leery of hospitals etc because mutant. It's "our people" (so wondering if he really is some sort of military linked or something because wind up in Norfolk, and "McGee" in show is Naval Police).
Calliope and Toad show up as they're leaving and Remy pleads with them to get out of here because they assure her that the rest of the Morlocks have fled to some other area, and she's just "why aren't you WITH THEM?" After Calliope psychically hugs her and says it's okay, Remy gets Toad to drag her off and clear out of there. "McGee" is just HOLY SHIT HOW MANY KIDS ARE DOWN HERE? "Too many."
Paramedics stabilize and air lift. "McGee" a bit green about injuries. They want her to stay awake because concussion risk. "McGee's" boss is also there and sends him with her because "you'll be useless to me". There are some jokes going on and "McGee" points out she's joking -now- but "it's over now, before it was probably bad, and it was both better and worse than I thought but now it's over. I hope." Upset about Brady and not stopping that. "McGee" distracts her asking if Creed was calling her "roux". Dude, wtf don't make me laugh. Roux is a Cajun butter/flour mix, he was calling her Ruse. "WTF why?" "These guys call themselves Black Feather and Sabretooth you think I'm going to give them my real name?" "How much about you have you lied about?? All the talk was like ... this is not some admin at "LaRoche" ...." "Mostly just name, last name -is- LeBeau like Creed said, but he doesn't know first name, just got LeBeau because of what he did with Henri, lots of omission, it's easy to get people to talk about themselves, you know? Then you don't have to make shit up." "Remy LaCoeur not name, Lapin's joke." Paramedic, "Wait...you call your brother (how McGee referred to him) bunny or bread?" Bread is "le pain" bunny is "lapin". "This is probably why he made your name LaCoeur" "No shit". Yes, I'm really from New Orleans, you think I talk this way for shits and giggles" (or chits n giggles, because accent). I guess your brother will tell your parents you're hurt? Remy pulls face.
They're getting slightly detoured because 'stealth plane' in the area but "not one of ours" (so thinking yes to military investigation division of some sort). Lapin friend like brother not actual brother, like Henri and things are complicated with "back home" because can't go back. You said before your "devil eyes" were there since you were a kid so surely they didn't disown you for being a mutant???" More complicated than that. MUCH more, but it's family things and "no more NOLA" "you have I want to call them face." Lapin interjects that if he does call "home" to M'sieur LeBeau, and not not never say cop of any sort. "McGee" just like ????
Remy has been in and out this whole time being woken up because concussion likely. Stealth plane "Blackbird"??? X-Men going to help Morlocks???
Land at hospital. MRI. Surgery.
"McGee" does call family all of them show up via plane while surgery is still going on: M'sieur, Henri his wife Mercy and Lapin.
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During flight Remy did explain that as was noted during jibes and banter that she "finds people things" "like a broker??" "like a trader...I find them stuff they want and need and they give me currency ... or information." LaRoche was industrial espionage ... pays well. McGee is grumbly about something someone at work told him at some point. Guess some sort of file that could be about Remy and now is very much likely about Remy because "Ruse" alias. No actual pictures though, just red haired, red eyed woman. Never any physical evidence. "Because I'm good at what I do."
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Imagine there's some what reconciliation with the LeBeau's and Remy but still ... not just their say so that she's banished from NOLA. Also thinking it's after this that Remy meets Jean and John Grey because they would have realized she was there because Psychics. Probably even overheard the fight between her and ST because she was willingly opening herself to yell at the Morlocks who were telepaths that they needed to get the fuck away from where they were or it was going to be Bad, and normally she's futzy to psychics and they can't read her well, or at all depending on power level. Though that might not apply to the Greys because they're UberPsychic. But I know at some point they Welcome Wagoned her and tried to recruit her to join their group.