BACK TO THE POORLY WRITTEN ACTION!

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Action! Someone get a spotlight on-oh wait, this isn't a movie. Crap. I'd be a horrible director.

I feel so conflicted right now…

Third Person, Because I Can.

They had arrived at a construction area-or that's what the sign had read when they had entered. It looked more like… a crumbling building with absolutely no roof whatsoever and the ground… there were various holes and cracks in the concrete surrounding it. The place was-to put in simply-trashed. Absolutely trashed and no one was sure if it was like this before or if the Brotherhood had done it. There were wrappers to unknown goods littering the ground and it just… smelled rank. Then again that could have just been Toad, the pale green skinned mutant who was perched on a turned over trash can. He had been using his tongue to catch the insects that had been buzzing around the bin when the X-Men had finally decided to show up. So now he, along with the rest of the Brotherhood, had turned to the other mutants with smug grins on each of their faces. Connor, whose hands and feet had been bound together, was leaning against an abandoned and run down car in front of the building. His eyes went wide when he saw that his older sister was there amongst the X-Men. Kailee, however, was glaring with so much hate and contempt in her eyes that her shoulders were quaking and drops of slime were beginning to collect around her feet. The young boy was positively frightened of his sister-he had never seen her this angry before and a small, really small, part of him felt sorry for the Brotherhood. He could only imagine what torture methods were racing through her mind right then. Perhaps she'd tie them all together and use jumper cables to electrocute them-or worse, she could shove Kitty's cookies down their throats and make her drive them all over town afterwards.

There was an exchange of words going on between the two groups but Kailee-who was BEYOND ticked-didn't hear any of it. Eeliak was coaching her, telling her what she should do. But the voice's words did not seem to reach her. She was too livid with anger to focus on anything at the moment. Eeliak on the other hand, was not. So… she did the only thing that came to mind. She manifested herself-using Kailee as a reference-of course she was not… experienced in this kind of thing. The end results were her now being in complete control of her host's body. Eeliak grumbled in annoyance but settled for it. It would have to do-she just had to make sure not to damage it too badly.

"So it's simple really," Quicksilver spoke, gesturing with his hands towards Kailee's direction. He had a cocky, confidant look on his face. Eeliak badly wanted to wipe it off of his face with a tire iron wrapped with barbed-wire. He continued on, "You give us the girl, and we'll give you the brat."

"No vay!" Nightcrawler snarled from Sludge's right. "K-Sludge would NEVER-"

Eeliak's eyes narrowed at the slip up. She did not like her host's relationship with the fuzzy blue elf. She knew that he would just hurt her in the end, that's all people were good for-hurting. Her host had already been hurt-she didn't need to feel any more pain. She needed a protector. And Eeliak was her protector-despite her strange methods. Everything she did, everything she said was to keep her safe.

And she wasn't going to stop that now.

"How about this?" Eeliak stepped forward, placing a finger to her chin and tapping it thoughtfully. "We-keep the girl. And you-give us the boy?" She put up her hands in a 'whatever' gesture and shrugged, "Unless, of course, you want to be sent to the ER. Or, my vote, the morgue. Oh, doesn't that sound lovely?" she clapped her hands together. "So how's 'bout it?"

Cyclops hissed at the girl from behind, "Sludge, what are you doing? Trying to get yourself killed?"

"Shhhhhhhh, I got this. Just… I don't know… stand there and look pretty. Good luck with that."

The speedster laughed, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah man!" Toad chortled, "What's a little girl like you gonna do? Slime us?!"

She pursed her lips until the four's laughter died down. "You done, 'cause I'd like to get this wrapped up. Now, if you would."

And then (The firenation attacked!... Wait, ugh! Wrong fandom AGAIN! Aang get your glider and come on, I'll figure this out.) all mutant hell broke loose. There were lasers being shot at Blob and rocks flying into the air and things being thrown at other things and Wolverine just being completely awesome and slicing at everything and everyone that came near him and Rogue was dodging Toad's tongue and there was teleporting and phasing and… and… Eeliak was trying to make her way over to Connor without getting struck by anything. Of course, this was made nearly impossible when an annoying silver-haired mutant began to literally run circles around her, preventing her from getting to her objective.

"Oh no, whatever shall I do?" she said in mock grief. "Except maybe this." She flung a handful of slime at the ground in front of her and held out her foot. She succeeded in tripping the speedster up and getting him stuck in the inky black mess.

"Hey!" he shouted in protest when she began to walk by him. She stopped, backtracked, and looked him straight in the eye.

"Stick around."

That's what heroes did right? Beat up bad guys and say witty things? Eh, who cares?

She stood before Connor and looked at him. "Hey, I'm here to… save you, and junk."

He only blinked as she bent down and began to untie the rope from around his hands and ankles. She growled when she found them to now by red a swollen. Just as she was about to stand everything began to shake. The ground was unstable beneath their feet and she felt dirt hit the top of her head. Looking up, her eyes went wide and her face paled. The building was beginning to come down on them and fast. She knew that there was no way that she would be able to make it out of there in time, let alone with Connor. Her eyes narrowed and she threw herself onto the boy, wrapping her arms around him and willing her slime to surround the two. He wouldn't be hurt at all; it would be her who would be getting the full impact.

She felt the slabs of rock crush down and she grit her teeth in concentration. 'Too much. It's too much.' She growled as the concrete began to wear down her protective circle of slime. 'It hurts, it hurts so much. I have to keep this up though.' She knew that she could just from into a puddle of slime and slither out with no broken bones at all but she couldn't leave the boy-he meant too much to Kailee. And it would kill her to see him hurt. But this was beginning to be too much; she could feel several of her bones bending under the pressure of being completely buried but she willed herself to stay put. 'Have to get through this, keep him safe.'

"Kailee?" Connor blinked up at her and she saw the girl's eyes flash as the skin on her face began to ripple. It wasn't long until she collapsed, still covering the boy in her protective shield. It wouldn't last long though, not under all of this pressure.

"Kailee!"

"Kailee!"

"Sludge!"

"Vhere is she?!"

"Are they okay?!"

"Connor! Kailee!"

"Over here, I saw somethin' move!"