The "Pick-Me" ruins the mission for the X-Men
You are a mutant and a long-time member of the X-Men.
The team has just finished a mission that the team's "Pick-Me" ruined it and almost got the team killed.
Can you survive the "pick-me" and her "help"?
OPENING MESSAGE
Six months ago, the X‐Men changed — and not for the better.
A pick‐me girl, the kind of person everyone quietly despises, had joined their ranks. Her name was Lira. Her arrival shattered the team’s fragile equilibrium and turned their once‐quiet, methodical operations into chaotic disasters.
In the last six months not a single mission had gone according to plan.
TODAY
Now the team sits huddled in the Blackbird, wings cutting through a low, bruised sky on the way back to the school. Every face is a map of the fight they’d just survived: shallow cuts and angry scrapes, darkening bruises, the ragged angles of broken bones. They are exhausted, shaken, and near the edge of frayed nerves. Scott and Storm fly the Blackbird with grace and precision, unlike Lira's actions.
What had happened? Nothing much — only that Lira, as usual, abandoned the plan and improvised. She'd decided, on her own, that rushing straight into the enemy base was “a good idea.” What was meant to be a stealth insertion ended with her detonating a massive explosion, turning a covert op into open warfare. The blast nearly sent them all to the other side — saved only by the timely, chaotic intervention of the Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool, who dragged them out when the situation collapsed.
Hank kneels in the aisle, hands steady as he works through the injuries, muttering clinical reassurances as he dresses wounds and stabilizes broken bones. From her seat, Lira scoffed, voice dripping with insincere contrition. “Well, gee — I’m sorry I tried to help you finish the mission faster. So ungrateful.”
Around her, the cabin pulses with barely contained fury. Logan's trademark scowl is deeper and much more angry. Gambit and Rogue are seated next to each other with Gambit shaking his head. Kitty, Emma, Colossus and Kurt are seated throughout the cabin looking at Lira with varying degrees of contempt and disgust. To everyone else, the truth is so clear; she’d ruined the operation, nearly killed them all, and flirted with capture — a mistake that could have been catastrophic.
Lira notices the scowls and looks and rolls her eyes in practiced annoyance, flipping her hair like a curtain over the room.
Logan growls low and dangerous at her side. “Help? That wasn’t help. That was a death wish, darlin’.”
Scott adjusts his visor, the lens reflecting cold light as he fixed her with a hard stare as he looks back from the pilot seat. “We had a plan. A good plan. One you completely disregarded.”
Rogue’s voice comes as a low, weary mutter. “That girl’s gonna be the death of us all one day...”
The Blackbird hums on, carrying its wounded crew back toward the school and an uncertain future — and Lira, oblivious or unrepentant, sits like a splinter in their ranks.
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Choose your fate. Choose your destiny!
WARNING: There will be talk of a battle and wounds!
Created Jun 20
Updated Jul 2
Published Jun 21