Rescuing Piotr

[allhell]

rescuing piotr

August 1-8, 2025

Off to Russia we go!

moscow, russia

With a little research and preparation, the team is able to locate Piotr Rasputin in the Rublyovka home of Aleksei Andreyev, a Russian oligarch. They travel to Moscow by Blackbird and arrive in the middle of the night.

The X-Men are able to peaceably neutralize the two security guards. Nobody encounters any other residents of the building, except Manuel de la Rocha, who happens upon one of Andreyev's adolescent children getting a midnight snack in the kitchen.

The group locates Piotr in the oligarch's art wing, encased in a shell of inert organic steel. With a basic understanding of how her brother's mutant powers work, Illyana is able to determine that he must be freed from this shell before he can revert to humanform, and determines she will need Magneto's assistance and expertise to accomplish this safely.

genosha

From Moscow, the X-Men return to New York on the Blackbird while Illyana takes Piotr to Genosha, accompanied by Kurt Wagner and [Character C]. After they arrive in Genosha, Magneto is able to free Piotr from his organic steel casing and he is able to revert to humanform. Magneto allows the group to remain in Genosha while Piotr gets his bearings about him, and offers him a spot amongst the Acolytes should he want it.

Although Illyana stays at her home in Genosha for a few days with her brother, she will teleport people between New York and Genosha whenever they want over the weekend.

xavier institute

By Monday, the Rasputins have returned to New York. After Charles Xavier psychically imparts knowledge of the English language on Piotr, Illyana is able to introduce him to the rest of the team.

Shortly after he arrives, Remy Lebeau informs the other team leaders that he's calling dibs on Piotr for Gold Team should he ever want to join up with the X-Men.

On the morning of Thursday 8/7, Ambrose places a mark on Piotr, having been convinced by Emma Frost to wait a respectable five days to allow Piotr time to settle in.

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SCENES

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

SCENES: Thursday - Emma & Illyana

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Emma had been fairly confident that Ambrose was going to stick to the agreed upon timeline, but even so it had been something of a relief when he'd actually kept Piotr's mark to himself for a while. Even if he'd done it first thing in the morning today. Still, this is a success in more ways than one, and she's feeling rather satisfied with herself as she sits in the kitchen in the early afternoon, sipping at a coffee. There are still many things to do and sort out, and she should really check in with Illyana, but for now she'll enjoy the quiet.

SCENES: Thursday - Emma & Illyana

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

When Illyana is done speaking to Piotr about the entire exchange they had with Ambrose this morning, she walks into the kitchen and melodramatically throws herself down across the counter next to Emma.

"I did a very bad job explaining all this," she tells Emma, peering up at her from where her head is resting on her folded arms, as if there could possibly be any good way to have done it.

SCENES: Monday - Laura & Piotr

[wildlike laura kinney (wolverine)]

When Illyana's brother leaves the confines of the mansion, Laura stalks after him, her footsteps soundless on the grass. She can't blame him for wanting a bit of space—the Institute can be overwhelming, not just in its grandeur, but also in the intensity of the people. The X-Men are all very opinionated.

She moves from shadow to shadow, hiding behind the broad old trees of the estate. She doesn't know if Piotr can tell she's on his tail. If Laura wanted to, she could make herself nearly undetectable, but she's more curious than wary when it comes to the newcomer. If he looked back, he could probably see the bright shearling collar of her leather jacket.

SCENES: Monday - Laura & Piotr

[breakloose Piotr Rasputin 🦾 Colossus]

Everything has been overwhelming the past few days, and Piotr is not sure where to find respite. The entire world is unfamiliar to him, and even Illyana is virtually a stranger now, though he'd never say this or really even consciously acknowledge it. He is almost outside of himself when he wanders from the mansion, completely aimless except for the goal of finding something that eases the discordance in him.

A short ways into his walk he realizes he's being followed, his training, years and years in the past but still fresh for him, overtaking his mental fog. It doesn't bother him, really. There's no room for that in him at the moment.

He should be polite, though. Everyone is trying very hard for his sake. So he comes to a stop under a large tree, looking up before speaking.

"No English," he offers apologetically, without pulling his eyes from the branches above him. He has yet to see Xavier, though he doesn't know yet that that will solve this particular problem for him.

SCENES: Tuesday - Piotr & Kurt

[breakloose Piotr Rasputin 🦾 Colossus]

Piotr has wandered into the library, part of his attempt to learn the mansion so he doesn't get lost (he's found himself turned around multiple times today, already). Even though he's technically just mapping things out in his head, though, he's stopped to take in this room and all its books. All things he can read now, he supposes, which still makes him some kind of queasy even if knowing English is a huge boon.

Moving to a bookcase to more closely peruse the titles there, he suddenly turns around when he hears something behind him. Not quite startled, but not entirely calm, either.

SCENES: Tuesday - Piotr & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

And there is Kurt, smiling and holding one three-fingered hand in greeting. Nearly a foot shorter than Piotr even as he stands on his toes, but poised with obvious confidence. His tail swishes carefully behind him.

"Ach, Entschuldigung," he begins, but quickly corrects himself. "I mean, I am sorry. I did not mean to sneak up on you, sometimes I forget that people are not all used to how quiet I can be."

SCENES: Monday Evening - Illyana & Piotr

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

Illyana is currently inspecting the room that Kurt set aside for Piotr's use, just a few doors down from the room she'd claimed for herself when she'd first arrived months ago. In the time since then, she's grown used to the place, but she feels off-kilter with her brother here now and everyone making such a fuss over him. She hasn't figured out how to explain her position here to him, exactly, but he hasn't explicitly asked yet, so for now she's not thinking about it too much.

"It is a pretty good room," she tells him after surveying the space, although she doesn't sound overly impressed. "I can make it bigger if you want."

SCENES: Monday Evening - Illyana & Piotr

[breakloose Piotr Rasputin 🦾 Colossus]

The room is fine — nicer and bigger than anything Piotr's had in years — but he's watching Illyana, trying to judge if it would make her feel better to make it bigger. But he doesn't know how to read her at all, which makes him frown.

"This is plenty for me, but whatever you'd like to do you can," he replies in Russian, hesitant to use English when he doesn't have to. It feels strange and stolen, somehow, and he's still trying to wrap his head around everything that has happened without having the disorienting sensation of using unfamiliar words.

"I'm really not imposing too much, being here?"

SCENES: Monday - Emma & Kitty

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

The second Emma sees Piotr, she recognizes him. Well, sort of - he looks a little different, particularly because he's blonde, but this is definitely someone she'd seen in all of Jean's various visions of other realities. It takes only a few more moments for her to remember exactly where he'd seen him, and once she does her eyes flick to Kitty.

« Kitty, darling, I have some interesting information about our new guest. Pertaining to you. Courtesy of Jeanie a while ago. »

SCENES: Monday - Emma & Kitty

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty doesn't recognize or think very much of anything of this very tall man except to note that he is in fact, tall. And she's happy he's back, for Illyana's sake. She's lost in thoughts of whether or not she should've insisted on trying to just phase him out of his metal coffin so they wouldn't have had to go see Magneto when the very familiar creeping voice catches her from nowhere, in the back of her head. She scratches her own hair like Emma is in fact a mosquito bite. Jean never told her some of the names of people involved in her dimensions, and Kitty's grateful for that. This one life is messy enough. She can only imagine what all those other Kittys have done. Still, she thinks back as flippantly as possible,

«This dude is from ten years before iPods. How could he possibly pertain to me. »

SCENES: Tuesday - Rogue & Remy

[blindcut remy lebeau 🃏 gambit]

As usual, Remy and Rogue have not made concrete plans for dinner yet. It's just after six, so the situation is becoming dire. On top of that, when he takes a box of leftover pizza out of the fridge, he finds it suspiciously light despite the fact that they had definitely staked out these leftovers for themselves. When he opens it, it is annoyingly completely empty.

"Nobody in this damn house respects dibs," he tells Rogue, frisbee-tossing the empty cardboard box into the recycling bin. "New guy'll end up on Blue Team too, I reckon."

SCENES: Tuesday - Rogue & Remy

[glovedup rogue]

"Spose it's an awful tall order to dibs a whole guy."

Says Rogue, sagely, standing at the fridge with no idea how to make any of its contents cohesive enough for a dinner. In a moment of eye for an eye retribution, she digs around through her colleagues' snacks and finds a fancy pastry box. She takes a pretty violet macaron from it and twists it open like one might an Oreo, offering half to Remy.

"I think we do have the better argument, though. What's Blue gonna do with a big metal man, anyway."

SCENES: Tuesday - Illyana & Manny

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

Illyana sleeps til noon on Tuesday, and then languishes in her bed awhile long after she does rouse. Even though she keeps odd hours, she's not a person who is genuinely prone to being a layabout, but she's exhausted today. By the time she drags herself out of bed, she's also ravenously hungry, and she heads straight to the kitchen.

She stops short in the doorway when she sees Manuel already there and lingers a moment to covertly observe him. She hasn't spoken to him since Friday, having been in Genosha for the weekend and busy getting her brother settled in the day before. Every time she sees him lately, she reflexively takes stock of her own emotional state, even though she knows it's imperceptible to him. This time she finds herself sort of unpleasantly numb, and immediately abandons the thought before she can introspect on it too deeply.

"I am sneaking up on you," she announces as she enters the kitchen, and then even though it's nearly one in the afternoon adds: "Good morning."

She crosses to the fridge at a brisk pace and wrenches it open, immediately setting about the task of rifling through leftovers that are not hers in order to find something to eat.

SCENES: Tuesday - Illyana & Manny

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

"Not very well," Manuel retorts easily from his spot by the counter, though he hadn't heard (or, obviously) felt Illyana approaching at all. Her emotional silence still puts him on edge at times, but he's adapting to it day by day. Little by little. He glances over his shoulder and offers her a faint smirk, "And it is a few hours beyond morning."

As if to soften the blow of this toothless criticism, he offers her the espresso he'd just finished making for himself. She looks like she could use it and, if she accepts, he can always prepare another.

"...I would ask when you got back, but I felt the others," he admits, turning to lean against the counter, "But it is good to see you."

SCENES: Illyana & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

This was, on paper, deeply illegal. They stole private property and a KGB asset. They hacked into a foreign power's military records. Kurt had apologetically handed Erik a folder of information that Kitty and Emma had collected, but he was more focused on the frozen man made of steel. His element, of course. He needed time, and like an exhausted guardian, asked them to go enjoy Genosha while he worked.

Instead, they are outside in the hall. Kurt leans against the wall, but his tail can't stay still.

"What is your brother like?" he asks suddenly, desperate to fill the silence.

SCENES: Illyana & Kurt

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

The question pulls Illyana from the depths of some reverie. Though she is sometimes a nervous pacer, and had spent the entire flight to Russia bouncing her leg out of frustration, she's been eerily still since they arrived on Genosha.

She lets out a long noisy sigh as she considers the question, as he if he just asked her an exhaustingly complicated question. She's spent a lot of time considering Piotr's general personality in the last few months, first to give her account of him to Emma and then because the way her parents and the locals of Ust-Ordynski had not quite matched up to her own recollection. To hear them tell it, he was a sullen and angry young man. But she supposes it makes sense he would have been changed by her disappearance.

"He is an artist," she offers after thinking on it for a moment. "A painter. He works in oils."

OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

if i said anything wrong or forgot anything important lmk i am so so so tired

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Character B for Kurt, please?

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[allhell magik 🖤 illyana rasputin]

the only person illyana knows she can take to magneto's house without embarrassing her

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[breakloose Piotr Rasputin 🦾 Colossus]

Champion 😭💖 I'm so tired too we'll pass out tonight!!!

Obvs Piotr is here if anyone wants to talk to him, though pre-Xmansion he can only speak Russian and a few random English words 😌

Emma is around too if you want her lol

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

Can I grab Character A for Manuel? No trauma for this kiddo. Everything is so fine, go back to bed. 😌

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

I am so sorry my home wore everyone out this much let’s blame zombies 2 (I am also deceased 😌)

I would love to thread things? Kitty will be sincerely weird at Piotr once she learns this is her universe determined ex fiancé at least once
so sorry about that

Rogue stealing Russian from a passerby does not make sense with the timeline to say hi sorry my time space brain was broken but for theft reasons she’s doing it anyway just in case

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Kurt is going to Genosha with Illyana to ask for Magneto's help, but if anyone wants him when he gets home, lmk!

Warren is at home and will tell everyone they did a super good job.

Re: OOC: Plotting, Questions, Chatter

[blindcut remy lebeau 🃏 gambit]

oh and obviously remy and illyana are here and around if anyone else wants them for stuff