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From Dust; [Open to SHIELD]
Topic Started: Dec 12 2013, 02:48 PM (263 Views)
Titan
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Three Weeks following the neutralization of the Illuminati Threat
6 PM



The hum of the barrier dome accented the hum of the budding dots of city street lights, and Cassandra Lang lost herself in the monotone drone of it all.

Looking down into the foliage through the transluscent energy field that acted as a deterrent for anything that wanted to escape airborn, she saw the flora stirring. The horrors that might've sat in wait down below were something she didn't feel particularly threatened by, but all the same, she didn't relish imagining them.

The prime concern had been pathogens. What new manners of disease could have been introduced in all the chaos. Inside that semi-permeable field sat a billion years of evolution, all come to pass in at most an hour. While Alix Smith had absorbed part of the Phoenix Force and used it to reverse much of the damage, there were still concerns.

Horizon Labs and other research firms had been brought in and contracted. Nobody was to enter the containment zone without armed escort and proper safety gear. A scale of quarantine durations was issued. Guards were posted. Today M-Div had been given a crash course tour of the facility itself. Safety Protocols and otherwise, things of that nature. The tour was over now, and they were waiting for the go-ahead to take their leave.

Lang sipped a bottle of water, turning back towards Mutant Town proper. It'd been so quickly decimated by Spiral, and yet, in almost less time, it had been nearly completely healed over by Alix Smith.

The Phoenix Force was truly something terrifying, and something Lang hoped she'd never have to deal with again.

Back on Duty now, she felt less forlorn. Less like she had no future to match her non-past. She still didn't know these people. She still didn't trust them. There were agents on the Helicarrier who gave her dirty looks; she'd fought these people, killed them, but that had been under duress. That excused it didn't it? Of course no.

She felt like a spectator to her memories instead of the one who lived them.

She spied one of the short, thin, dark-skinned tribesmen rush from one bolt of flora to another. The tribals; those had been kept somewhat under wraps, for various political reasons. "I sort of feel bad for them." She said, to nobody in particular. "They pop up out of nowhere, to them they've been around forever, but for us its been what? Not even a month."

She shook her head again. "They must think this is the end of the world."
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Hiding like a coward; that was how it felt when the Illuminati unleashed the Phoenix on the world. While he still had his job; he wasn't sure what would have happened to him if he had, that taken away from him. The reality warper already felt like he was trapped on a downward spiral; it was penance for what he had done while he was with the Dark X-Men, he knew that. Sebastian wasn't one to sit on the sidelines though even when he knew he couldn't help. Instead he had been kept on the Helicarrier providing logistical support to the agents on the ground.

However with the end of the illuminati and the phoenix force no longer being used for evil, Sebastian was trusted to be out on the ground again. For the first time since his return from the Dark X-Men too, Sebastian had taken the null-cuff off; it was a crutch and he knew that if he was going to get better and overcome what had happened to him he was going to need to stop using and learn to trust himself with his powers again.

Today wasn't exactly taxing on Sebastian's front; he didn't have to use his powers, he didn't even really have to do all that much. M.Div had been shown around Spiral's gift to the world when she was a god. Tabula Rasa was an interesting place. Deadly, but interesting. Spiral's creation had taken over a large part and was sat beneath a protective dome which brought about some logistical situations. Was the new biosphere going to be kept here indefinitely? Were SHIELD going to continue to protect it from here on it?

They weren't questions that Sebastian had the answers to, but they were questions that would need answering eventually. Though for now SHIELD were more than happy to protect the ecosystem within while a number of research companies went about carrying out research on the new inhabitants that lived beneath the dome and to see whether they were safe for the dome to be brought down one day or whether they were bad for the environment.

Being off the helicarrier was good. It was doing him good to act normal as if nothing had ever changed and he was mixing in among his colleagues in M.Div again. Perhaps Sebastian's world was turning a page and not quite at risk of imploding as it had been in the past few months.

"It's sort of like a lesson in what happens in places like Amazonia where tribes are still being discovered down there." Sebastian spoke to Cass as he looked across at her. "Theirs isn't an easy existence and maybe they do think it's the end of the world - but it's all part of evolution. Something new appears in the environment and the creatures within adapt and get used to whatever is new being there."

Sebastian shrugged. "Or maybe it's just like watching a mirror image of what our lives has been like in the past few years?"
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"They've been pretty terrible," She said in response.

It looked like nobody else was around. Just she and Sebastian Druid. He was a friend, and to be truthful she did like him. He was, from what she knew, kind and sweet and good-natured. But whatever they once had? Whatever they'd been before? Friends, something more, she didn't know. It didn't matter. Cassie Lang was still piecing her life back together. It was a slow, antagonizing process, one that kept her awake at night, that haunted sleep with bad dreams and cold sweats.

What would she do if she came across Paris Bennet? Raise her arms into the air and start screaming at him? What could she do? It was fear, shameful, stark fear.

And she didn't want to deal with it anymore.

It was a life of high adventure, she'd tried to argued to herself once upon a time, and though that memory was gone, the sentiment behind it remained. SHIELD had certainly given her some great adventures; she'd read through her dossier, she knew her achievements, she knew her failures.

Twenty four? Years old and she'd accomplished so much.

"Seb..." She said, leaning further over the railing that separated their walkway from the force bubble that kept a madwoman's legacy at bay.

"I..."

Cassie shook her head and heaved out a great sigh. This wasn't easy and it made her more than a little sad, if only because after a manner it felt like burning a very imporant bridge. Like she was giving up. But in a sense, she was, and in another, that was okay, because all things run their course.

"I sent my resignation to personnel this morning Seb. I'm off MDiv next week."

She stood back up, wrapping her arms around herself. "I'm tired of fighting."
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