nextgen_xmen (nextgen_xmen) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-08 19:54:00

Entry tags:

inactive - black tom cassidy, joe marko, plot-"from hell with love", plot-"horsemen of the apocalypse"

Bad Omens
Sean had been trying to get in touch with Theresa for a few days now and so far he's had no luck. Worry gripped him. It wasn't like her to be out of touch for so long. He left messages and in the past she would return them within a day. Four days and nothing so far.

It was time to call in some help.

He called Xavier's to see if anyone there had seen her lately or if someone could go to her apartment and check on her.

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	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:05 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately, there are very few people at home these days, who either aren't recovering from one attack or the other, or otherwise occupied (quite a few of the other adults were trying very hard to find Cait and Corey and the rest). Joe, who had brought Tom inside (Black Tom Cassidy! If his father knew about this...), briefly stopped to answer the phone. "Hello?" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 12:11 am UTC (link)
	"Hello, Joe. It's Sean. I was wonderin' if the Professor or Jean is around." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"Uncle Chuck and Mrs. Summers are both in the med-lab right now," Joe told Sean. "They got messed up pretty bad when the mansion got attacked..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 12:15 am UTC (link)
	"Attacked? What happened? Are they okay?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:18 am UTC (link)
	"Some group calling themselves the Marauders," he explained. "Some kind of high level psychic attack. They should wake up, we just don't know when." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 12:26 am UTC (link)
	"Well that's something then," he said. "Look lad, I'm callin' cause I haven't been able to get in touch with Theresa. Any chance any of you have seen her lately?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:30 am UTC (link)
	"I haven't, Mister Cassidy," Joe replied, keeping mention of his guest quiet. The mention of Theresa going missing sent a chill down his spine, though. Too many people had been captured or gone missing of late. "Could check it out, if you wanted me to." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 12:33 am UTC (link)
	"Would ya? I'd be grateful, lad. I haven't heard from her in a few days an' I may be worryin' a lil' too much, but she's my girl." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:36 am UTC (link)
	"It's no problem, Sir," he said. "I'll head out there asap." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 12:43 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks lad. Give me a call when ya know anything or when ya find her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 12:48 am UTC (link)
	"Will do, Mr. Cassidy," Joe said. "You've got my word." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_xmen 2010-03-09 01:26 am UTC (link)
	"Yer a good man, Joe. I'll talk to ya soon." The line disconnected. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-09 01:30 am UTC (link)
	Joe turned his attention to Tom. "Sorry about that," he said. "Need to go out for a few, but I can make sure you get settled in first." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tommythetree 2010-03-10 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	Tom, however, has got something of a thousand mile stare going on. "That can wait a moment. Who's "Mr. Cassidy?" " (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	"Sean Cassidy. Banshee. Hasn't heard from his daughter in a few days, wants someone to check it out." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tommythetree 2010-03-11 07:32 am UTC (link)
	Sean's ace goes still when Sean's name is mentioned, but when Terry (and it is Terry, he knows that perfectly well) comes up, he looks like he's been hit with a sledgehammer. For a second he just stands there. Then he lunges, face desperate, and grabs Joe's shoulders. "What do you mean, he hasnt heard from Terry? WHere is she?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-11 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	The sudden urgency takes him by surprise. "Just said he hadn't heard from her in a few days," Joe explained. "She's got an apartment I was gonna go check out." He frowned. "Why's she so important to you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tommythetree 2010-03-12 12:33 pm UTC (link)
	"I fucking brought her up, that's why! Fuck..." He let's Joe go, face tormented, and paces back and forth. "Not in her apartment- she's older here then back home... Fuck. Okay." He turns to look at Joe again. "I'm coming with you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-12 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Joe hadn't figured that a non-evil version of Black Tom would have been involved with Terry's upbringing. His torment takes the Juggernaut's son quite by surprise. "Okay. Let's go then." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tommythetree 2010-03-13 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	The degree of tension in TOm's face doesn't ease as he nods. "So how we goin'? You fellas still gotta workin' Black Bird? OR are we takin' a car or something?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cant_stop_this 2010-03-13 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	Joe's already heading toward the garage. "We'll take my car," he said. "Close enough that we don't need the Blackbird." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tommythetree 2010-03-14 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	"Right. Let's go then." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-14 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	Terry's apartment (and Joe had, ah, played with the lock, just a bit) had turned up no signs of the woman) and no clues. Joe and Tom had headed to the nearest neighborhood bar, asking questions of people who might have seen her lately. So far, clues were slim. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Later... tommythetree 2010-03-15 08:50 am UTC (link)
	Tom proves remarkably genial once they arrive, paying for drinks and laughing at people's jokes. Information gathering wasn't his best skill, but he had still picked up a fair bit over the years. After a little while, he comes back to Joe. "Got anything yet?" he enquires, politely. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-15 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Maybe a couple things," Joe told him. "Few reports of somebody who kind looked like he was dressed like Spider-Man, only he acted like Spider-Man on drugs. Talking to himself, that kind of thing." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Later... tommythetree 2010-03-16 08:25 am UTC (link)
	Tom frowned thoughtfully. "Spiderman on drugs? DOesn't ring any-" and then it clicked. "-Deadpool. Oh, christ, deadpool. Fuckin' hell." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-16 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Joe frowned for a moment as he put the pieces together. "Aaaw damn. That's... just plain not good." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Later...

tommythetree
2010-03-16 11:10 pm UTC (link)

Tom growled in annoyance under his breath. Still, it could have been worse. While he didn't approve of Deadpool's affections for his adopted daughter, they at least meant she probably wasn't hurt or anything.

Not purposefully, at least. The distinction was slight, but it made him ever so slightly less likely to kill Deadpool when he next saw him.

"Least he'll be easy to track," Tom muttered. "Come on, let's go get some work done."

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	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-16 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	How different alternate realities could be. Sure, the Black Tom of this universe had, once upon a time, been his father's best friend, before he'd passed what Cain had considered a moral event horizon, but still... Joe nodded and cracked his knuckles. "This is the easy part." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Later... tommythetree 2010-03-17 12:04 am UTC (link)
	Tom's first instinct, now he has quarry at least, is to head down the local police station. PRoblem is, he has no contacts here, and the geography of new york is divergent enough that he has NO idea where he's going. After a while, he turns, defeated, to Joe. "Why don't you navigate, man? I suspect we might get better results." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-17 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	Joe nodded. The streets of New York, thankfully, are well known to him. In no time at all, he's gotten them there. He doesn't know what Tom has planned, exactly, but if he's half as crafty as the one from this universe, he figures its worth following. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Later...

tommythetree
2010-03-17 10:37 pm UTC (link)

Tom looks at the place speculatively for a moment.
"Now, if Deadpool's anything like the one we've got back home, we'll find a whole lot of people with distinctly bizarre complaints once we're inside. I'm going to go in and make a formal complaint-" at which point he reaches up and with a brutal crunch breaks his own nose- "about the spiderman wannabe who assaulted me and stole my wallet. You are going to follow me, the concerned son you are, and pay close attention to everyone who comes in for the half-hour we'll be causin' trouble for the poor lady at reception. Once you've got somethin' that sounds like him, we'll leave and go and find that gobshite."

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	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-17 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Joe's eyes went wide with surprise when Tom broke his own nose. "Good plan," he agreed when his wits returned. "Let's do it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Later...

tommythetree
2010-03-18 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Tom nodded, his nose already having started to bleed heavily. He stowed his wallet into a nearby trashcan, and stalked into the police station.

The instant he was in the Police Station, he marched up to the desk and started snarling at the lady behind the desk. When he spoke, his words lacked his thick Dublin twang, instead talking like a born Boston native.
"Ma'am, I pay my taxes, damn it! How is it that I could be so assaulted with out any help from New York's so-called finest?!"
"Sir-"
"He marched up and broke my nose! In broad daylight! How on earth can we feel safe in our beds with such behaviour running rampant?!"
"Sir, I-"
"I demand this man be caught! I demand it!"

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	Re: Later... cant_stop_this 2010-03-19 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Joe followed after, trying to look concerned for Tom's welfare, if perhaps also a little apologetic, as he scanned the crowd of people inside. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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