Through the Looking Glass.

[John Hino]

And so our intrepid dragon warrior simply dropped his club on top of his attacker, intending to pin his double under it with its impossible weight.

[Gemma Sloan]

And that's when, like, four people jumped on he from behind, trying to wrestle her down. It might not be effective, but it was at least a strategy.

GemmaIggy stumbled slightly, as you do when four people's worth of weight jumps onto you from behind. She started thrashing with her tail, trying to use it to keep others from approaching from that direction. Her head twisted on her neck and she sprayed a gout of flame across portions of her back, unable to quite scratch that itch in the middle.

[Narrator]

And so our intrepid dragon warrior simply dropped his club on top of his attacker, intending to pin his double under it with its impossible weight.

It worked! "John" was unable to move under the weight of the club. Hurray for John!

it also got the attention of about 10 other dudes, standing up and surrounding him. Boo for John!

[Narrator]

GemmaIggy stumbled slightly, as you do when four people's worth of weight jumps onto you from behind. She started thrashing with her tail, trying to use it to keep others from approaching from that direction. Her head twisted on her neck and she sprayed a gout of flame across portions of her back, unable to quite scratch that itch in the middle.

The site of her old friends screaming and burning may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but at least people were keeping their distance from her, now. Their eyes darted back and forth, as if they were trying to come up with a new strategy.

[Jennifer Newgate]

Jennifer scrambles to her feet and tries to make a break for the door, throwing up a forcefield to keep Nightcrawler (and possibly other people) off her back.

[John Hino]

John grinned as he unsheathed his shiny new broadsword. He took a battle stance.

"Get to whomever is doing this! I'll hold them off!"

[Trev Anderson]

Trev ran after Jen but was cut off by her force field. He mumbled a curse but then looked at the entire cafeteria full of potential resistance, nodded grimly and stood next to John. "If you see me take a deep breath, you may want to cover your ears..."

[Narrator]

The forcefield was effective!

However, what it was MOSTLY effective at was getting a room full of high-school students stuffed with ice cream to turn on Trev and John.

[Gemma Sloan]

The site of her old friends screaming and burning may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but at least people were keeping their distance from her, now. Their eyes darted back and forth, as if they were trying to come up with a new strategy.

GemmaIggy took a deep breath and let it out slowly, flattening her wings against her back. She even sighed a little as she regarded the crew of dopplegangers still looking for a way to take her down. "I don't like doing this, but you're creating imitations of people that are still alive and using them to try and ensnare actual living people. I can't let that stand. It's just not right."

[Jennifer Newgate]

Once Jennifer has cleared the door the forcefield drops again as she runs out of range and down the hallway, looking to make her way towards the source of the strange mental impression.

[John Hino]

"Stay back if you do not wish to see what you are truly made of," he told the pod people.

[Allison Rogers]

The site of her old friends screaming and burning may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but at least people were keeping their distance from her, now. Their eyes darted back and forth, as if they were trying to come up with a new strategy.

GemmaIggy took a deep breath and let it out slowly, flattening her wings against her back. She even sighed a little as she regarded the crew of dopplegangers still looking for a way to take her down. "I don't like doing this, but you're creating imitations of people that are still alive and using them to try and ensnare actual living people. I can't let that stand. It's just not right."

"No one asked you here. You came of your own free will. You will not leave again."

[Narrator]

"Stay back if you do not wish to see what you are truly made of," he told the pod people.

They did, indeed, keep their distance, but it seemed like they weren't just going to let them walk out.

[Narrator]

Once Jennifer has cleared the door the forcefield drops again as she runs out of range and down the hallway, looking to make her way towards the source of the strange mental impression.

Jen darted through the doors of the cafeteria into the mansion proper, and up the stairs, past many startled students.

It seemed, however, that around every corner, SOMETHING was there. She'd find herself having to hurtle ottomans, or with doors slammed right in her face, or with holes suddenly appearing in the floor in front of her. Still, she made her way through rooms, getting the general feeling that the source of the thing in question was both up and over--perhaps that meant in the next building over, which would be Dower House, or perhaps that just meant it was deeper in the second floor in the XI dorms.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"What the fuck is wrong with this place?" she shouts at no one in particular after having to dodge yet another random piece of furniture. She looks around briefly and decides to double back towards the stairs, sticking close to the railing in case the steps decide to disappear on her or something.

[Narrator]

Was Jennifer psychic?

Bad question.

Halfway up the stairs, they DO indeed flatten out into a very, VERY slick ramp.

[Jennifer Newgate]

It still makes Jennifer stumble and she barely manages to hang on to the railing,trying to find some purchase on the smooth surface. At least enough to allow her to slowly pull herself up along the railing.

[Narrator]

And that's when the railing retracts into the wall.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Oh for the love of god!" she groans as she claws at the wall while sliding down the ramp that used to be stairs.

[Narrator]

At the bottom of the staircase, Ayami, Rachel and Derek await, to try to break Jen's fall.

[Jennifer Newgate]

Jen holds out her palms towards them and creates a force-field in front of herself to slam into them with the momentum of her slide.

[Narrator]

Bowling for medics, apparently, is the hot new game at Xaviers, and Jen was really good at it. She knocked the three entirely off their feet.

[Narrator]

The students surrounding John and Trev tried to close the circle around them, trying to keep them restrained and from going anywhere They stepped closer...closer...closer...

[John Hino]

John gave a warning swing.

[Narrator]

And that's when people ducked under the swing and tried to overwhelm them.

[Trev Anderson]

Trev had assumed this would happen. He took as deep a breath as he could muster, braced himself and unleashed a scream, turning his head in an arc to sweep across the crowd, and hopefully push them back and bowl them over.

[John Hino]

John followed up his swing with a wave of frosty breath. Clonecicles anyone?

[Narrator]

Trev's scream sent people scatering and flying up. The poor souls who were then caught in John's icy breath froze solid in mid-air, and fell to the ground, shattering into thousands of pieces.

[Narrator]

((Because this keeps stalling, and I'm embarrassed to have held up the entire X-World thing for so long, I"m going to skip to the end))

Once regrouped, the team would find themselves climbing to the second floor of the Dower House, where the signals Jennifer was getting were originating.

The doorway that led to what had been Samantha and Nailah's old room was closed, and around it, runes seemed to have been painted. The wall across from it, where the Stanton apartment should have been, was blank.

[John Hino]

"Either this is an extreme coincidence, or Will has gotten way more skilled," John said.

"... and less sane."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"There should be a door here, right?" Jennifer wonders and knocks against the blank wall harshly.

[Trev Anderson]

"Yeah...pretty sure there should be," Trev nodded, a bit out of breath from the fight along the way.

[Vertie Easley]

"Mister Stanton was real close with Ms. McManus and Ms. Weaver, yeah?" Asked Vertie as she and a few scouts climbed in an "open" window. "Maybe if he knew the Seer..."

[John Hino]

"If this is Will behind this, he's too lost in himself to recognize any of us without a push."

"...stubborn idiot ..." he sighed softly.

[Narrator]

Jennifer's knock made a hollow sound.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"John, if you would do the honors." she says, stepping away from the hollow-sounding wall.

[John Hino]

"Certainly," he nodded, doing his best impression of a mob enforcer on the poor wall.

[Will Stanton]

The wall was strangely resilient, but it eventually went down.

There were no lights on in the apartment, and everything was mostly smashed and broken. Unlike the rest of the campus, which looked in decent nick, this room was still damaged. Furniture splintered and lay in ruins on the floor, and there was a fairly strong odor of mold, mildew and decay, alleviated some by the window, which was shattered.

Will sat there, on what remained of a rocking chair, looking out over the campus below. From up here, you could see the thorny hedge wrapped around the edge of the campus borders, or at least the part closest to Dower House.

[John Hino]

John stepped through the hole.

"Will?" he asked carefully.

[Trev Anderson]

"....The hell, man...are you okay?" Trev asked coming in behind John.