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Moment of Awesome - Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman: Sue and Hope Abbott team up to save a group of kidnapped mutants while Alex Summers and Callisto draw fire. Hope ducked and caught the bat on her metal pipe. "See..." She hissed at Sue. "That is why I kept the damn thing with me. If we could just have stayed invisible... but no... you had to trip over that brick..." Hope stayed low and finally swiped the pipe low, hitting the crook in the back of his knees and neatly sending him to the ground. "Do you have that door open yet?" "Well, if someone had told me that these guys are the messiest villains I've ever seen then I might have been looking at the ground. I mean, seriously? My arch nemesis is a mole and his lair is so much clearer than this. Seriously, whatever happened to classy villains?" The blonde kept up a flood of speech as her fingers deftly fell into familiar patterns, taking apart the padlock before swinging the door open. "All aboard, the freedom express is leaving the station." She counted as three figures hesitantly left the room. "That's three. Two more to go. There should be one each section left. I'll take this one, you the other one." Hope twisted to one of the boards of sections and upon spotting the rest of the men still being distracted by Alex and Callisto, she pulled out her own lockpicks, but kept the pipe nearby. Luckily the lock was as flimsy as the plasterboard and she pulled open the door quickly. "You are safe now, but we do need to leave quickly." She encouraged the slender girl inside and upon seeing her wobble, she stepped inside and pulled an arm over her shoulder to help her outside. Sue instinctively ducked as the sound of gunshots echoed around the warehouse, her blue eyes casting around as a forcefield flickered around her for a moment as she faded in and out of sight before ducking down and gesturing to the kids. "Come on, this way guys, door's right there." At the sound of the gunshots Hope immediately popped back into her body, the coast outside clear and slowly raised herself on her knees to pry the door open. Unfortunately this was a more challenging lock and she stifled a growl when her first attempt didn't work. She quickly pulled out another pick and slowly inserted it, jiggling it around and finally getting all the pins and turning the lock. Slowly she pushed the door open and waved at Sue. The blonde gestured at the kids, one hand lifted as a forcefield flickered to life for a moment, intercepting a stray bullet before dropping as she glanced down at the opened lock, "Not too bad..." a small smile as she watched the kids stream out, interposing her body between them and the fight. "You lead them out, I'll bring up the back."