X-Men Dawn Of Evolution

As Saleme and Shitoku hit it off, Florence looked up in time to see the sentinels. Seeing how the others had yet to react- in no small part possibly due to being distracted by peaches and the Sal-Shi Tiff- she readied her arm, ready to grow vines and attempt to trip, until a strange boy flew in, and with a touch, disintegrated the sentinels with a single touch.

Florence's mouth fell open at the ease of his decaying touch, and felt a slight wave of the destructive power. As someone who could give and sustain life, in plants and plant matter, she knew what the opposite would feel like.

As he approached by landing, he said nothing, but then backed away a little. Perhaps he had less choice than the others in the use of his powers?

Leaving the others to their tiff, Florence picked a peach from her plant, and decided to try an experiment.

"Hi, there. You're new too? I'm Florence. You joining Xavier?" She smiled, proffering the peach in her outstretched hand.

As it grew closer to him, the effect was instantaneous. The peach quickly rotted to black mush in her hand, and she winced slightly as her hand also decayed to dry twigs. The rotted peach dripped from them in clumps, and she withdrew her hand.

She smiled at him again. "It's okay, I'm fine. I can tell that you can't help it." She grunted softly as she snapped off the dead twigs that were her hand, growing back a new, green hand that slowly began to turn rosy pink, once more. "Just making sure, we don't wanna melt people's faces off, here." She smiled, flexing her new hand.

Sorioku looked at Florence with a bit of contempt as the fruit and a piece of her hand rotted. "I appreciate the effort, but words would've worked just fine." He took a couple breaths to relax himself after the rush of energy, walked back and took a seat against the wall. "Your ability to regenerate is cool though."

"That's insane," Zuku's eyes widened as the newcomer dispatched the Sentinels as easily as a morning breakfast. Due to his powers, Zuku had the ability to faintly feel the life energy coming off of nearby mutants, especially when their powers were in use. But this guy felt like something else entirely. In fact, his energy flowed in reverse than it normally did. As if the polar opposite. This realization caused Zuku to frown briefly, but it disappeared as soon as it came as it was replaced with his trademark smile. He looked over to Sorioku, who had backed away to some distance. "That was some display of power," he said.

He watched as Florence offered him a peach, both the peach and her hand melting away once they were close enough. "I see," Tony said. "His abilities are passive. Unstable, from the looks of it. No control over them, so he has to be careful to keep people from killing themselves....." he muttered. "I......can't imagine what he must've had to endure up to this point."

"Yeah, Charles, I saw. It's definitely him. Are you sure about this? Having him here is definitely the risky play, he needs to be moved somewhere safe.....all right, that's it," he growled lowly as he looked through the glass at Shitoku and Saleme, as Shitoku landed near where the control room was. "We'll talk about this later. I've got some recruits to whip into shape."

Florence saw the contempt in his face and instantly regretted her friendly gesture.

"Words would have worked, would they? I mean, you breezed in with your whole edgy show-off routine in complete silence, so how am I to know you even can speak?" She smiled. "Happen to fly through a Hot Topic on the way here?"

She paused while he leaned himself on a wall. "I'm glad you like my power. I used it so no one else would just melt in your company. I feel like they won't get their limbs back as easy." She smiled wider.

"And I did use words, Shadow the Edge-hog. I asked if you're joining Xavier. Or just interested in demolishing his training equipment?" She winked.

Sorioku narrowed his eyes at Florence as she chastised him. He glanced towards the  pile of dust that was the sentinels.  "I saw danger and I dealt with it the only way I knew how." He looked at her, then his eyes drew down to the rot of fruit. "But innocent life need not be killed." He glanced back up at her. "I care to not destroy life. But for one who can create life, I see it easy to forego creations that you deem as 'replaceable'."

Sorioku sighed, slightly upset he was forced to kill, even something seemingly as trivial as a fruit. "I do not know an Xavier, Florence."

Florence rolled her eyes. "No sense of humor. Figures."

"I care to not destroy life. But for one who can create life, I see it easy to forego creations that you deem as 'replaceable'."

She held up the rotted peach. "Firstly, you don't know me. Just like I don't know you, didn't know you'd automatically melt the peach, but I'm starting to get an impression. A peach is a fruit, something to sustain and continue life. Would you rather me see what you do with the peach, or would you rather someone else approach you and die? This-" 

At this, her potted peach tree trotted towards her, and she held up her hand to keep it back. She patted it's leaves absent-mindedly, then pointed at her tree.

"This is life. This creates. The peach will either nourish the life of the animal that eats it, or will drop, rot, and grow renew from soil. If you're crying over a peach, maybe re-evaluate your priorities, because the sentinels that belong to someone you don't know may not live, but the damage you've caused is probably pretty costly."

She sighed and smiled. "If you don't know Xavier, then get to know. Or go away. Who just flies into a stranger's manse and destroys their property? A death-carrying attention seeker?" 

She held up her hands and walked back to the others, her plant pot tottering in front of her.

"If anyone would like to meet him, he's a real gem. Just stay a few meters back. I tried."

“I am sloppy but you are stupid” Saleme muttered as the singularity caught Shitoku in its gravitational pull causing him to float in air.

Shitoku scoffed in anger. He wouldn’t admit it aloud, but he fell right into Saleme’s trap. “Let me outta here. Fight me with your fists, you coward,” He taunted though he’d soon come to find out they fell on deaf ears.

Saleme would then take full advantage of the helpless Shitoku deciding to fire one of his orbs not at Shitoku but at the singularity holding him. The results were a biotic explosion sending a large blast of gravitational force out from it which would in turn send Shitoku blasting towards the wall near Wolverine.

“Ugh…” He groaned from inside the newly formed crater. He was motionless for a few moments before he clutched a corner of the wall. It crumbled under his pressure. He pushed himself out of the wall and landed onto the floor. His facial expression remained angry. Shitoku mumbled obscenities under his breath as he made a bee-line toward Saleme.

Swinging in to stop his partner, Miles put his hands up toward Shitoku’s chest. “Toku, Toku, Toku… let’s go meet with some of the Professors. Wolverine is my top choice. Do you have a favorite X:Men?” He asked trying to break the tension.

Shitoku pushed Spider-Man’s hands away. “My favorite X:Men are the ones that leave me alone,” He responded. Shitoku gestured toward Sorioku. “That thing destroyed the Sentinels with a mere touch…”

“You out of all people should know calling people thing is rude,” Miles scolded him.

Shitoku shrugged in reponse. “That’s why I know he’s a thing.” Shitoku began walking toward Sorioku.

She held up her hands and walked back to the others, her plant pot tottering in front of her.
“If anyone would like to meet him, he's a real gem. Just stay a few meters back. I tried.”

“I’m not afraid of it,” Shitoku spoke, closing the distance between the two. The closer he became, the slower his movements dulled. Looking down at his hands, he could see his fingers beginning to decay. A smirk briefly danced across his face. “You’re really a monster, aren’t you… You and me both.” He took a step back, and watched as his hand healed back to normal. “Shitoku Creed,” He introduced holding a hand out to shake.

Miles waved several meters behind the duo. “I’m Spider-Man! I’d shake your hand but unlike Shitoku, mine won’t heal back,” He explained. He turned to look at everybody else. Nobody really had any costumes on. “Am I the only one with a secret identity?”