Annie was laying on a patch of dirt not far outside of Emma's school. She was running her index finger through the dirt, drawing little shapes or letters.

She was thinking, mostly about the people she'd met while wandering around aimlessly. She'd seen dozens, and had a full conversation with two.

"Two people out of dozens... why? Colin says I'm nice... people are weird."

She thinks as she looks at the sky, specifically the sun. That's supposed to hurt... but she's completely fine. Her "eyes" didn't hurt, not even an ounce.

*A bright orange mannequin girl stumbled onto the X-Mansion's campus, looking like she'd only learned to walk an hour ago.*

*She was only wearing a dirty lab coat as she fumbled her way across the courtyard. She moved over to anyone she saw, getting close enough for people to see that there was a name tag pinned to the coat that said "Int. Annie".*

*SnowFlame walked slowly out of a burning building, the base of operations of some small competitors to his drug empire... he thinks, he doesn't exactly know whether he just burnt down a cocaine or flour production plant. And frankly, he didn't much care what was melting in there.*

*He'd had a saunas worth of steam to blow off. And that's what he'd been doing for the past 2 days. He hadn't slept since he talked to Grey about her and Superboy. He hadn't ate or drank either, running purely off the coke that gave him his powers.*

*Even for an addict like him this was unusual. Snow usually had a constant small buzz, but he rarely ever stayed fully high for longer than an hour, not unless he kept taking hits every hour.*

*As he walked back to his car, blood began trickling from his nose down his face. SnowFlame didn't notice it, concerns for much of anything dulled and drowned out by the fires of his high.*

Ooc: closed interaction for this one. Have a wonderful day yall!

*Annie marched over to Walter's excessively large desk. Boots thudding against the nylon tile of Walter's office.*

"Where is he!? Where's Viktor!?"

*She screamed at him telepathically, rounding his desk and pressing her magnum to his temple. The elderly man cowered, hands raised as he spoke.*

"I-I don't know. H-he kept his whereabouts secret, I swear!."

*He said, voice shaking. Annie sneered invisibly before placing a hand on his head and beginning to use Zoey to read his mind.*

"He's in Siberia, Liar."

*Annie said, grip tightening on the revolver.*

"W-w-wait! Please! I-I can give you money. A-anything! Anything you want, it's yours just-just don't shoot!"

*Walter begged, looking up at the bloodsoaked mannequin. Annie didn't want his bribe, but that brief moment of time he'd bought by speaking had been enough for Annie to come off the rage induced bloodlust she'd gained.*

*So she stood there, hand trembling, gun against his head. Then a shot rang out, a different gun than hers. A bullet pierced the window behind Walter, and promptly pierced his head too.*

*Before Annie could look for the source, Walter's phone rang on his desk. Annie stared at it for a while before answering the phone.*

"Hello again, mannequin. I took the liberty of saving you the trouble of killing him. You're welcome."

*A Russian man's voice said from the other end of the line. That was him, that voice was Viktor, the researcher who'd started all this, who'd turned her into what she is.*

"Unfortunately I can't hear how much you're thanking me right now. But anyway, I'm impressed, mannequin. I didn't think you could kill. Glad I was wrong eh? I'll leave you to it, see you soon, mannequin. And pack a jacket, the motherland freezes tools like you for breakfast."

*He said before a second shot fired and the phone was shot from Annie's hand. She stood there for a while, staring at where the bullet came from until she saw her reflection in the window.*

*Annie stumbled back, bracing herself against the desk as she looked at her own bloodsoaked self. She sank down to the floor, closing her lack of eyes as she realized what she'd done.*

*After what felt like forever, Annie fumbled through her suits many compartments, eventually finding the beeper she'd made. She pressed the button and pressed her hands to her head, the gravity of her actions slowly settling in her plastic shoulders.*

CW: immense amounts of violence. Think of the Zen’in Clan massacre, it’s like that.

Annie knelt before the furnace, trying desperately to read the minds of the living objects trapped in it. It’d been minutes and there wasn’t a trace of psyche left for Zoey’s telepathy to find. They were gone, melted down and burned to ashes.

She leaned her fore head against the furnace until the voice of a guard rang out from the reinforced steel door behind her.

“Mannequin, come out with your hands raised and weapons down! We have you trapped, stand down!”

A guard called out. Annie slowly stood up, hands curling into fists and trembling at her sides. She picked up her discarded weaponry, reloaded them all and walked to the door. She pulled one of her hands off, holding her shotgun in said hand and opened the door, tossing the removed hand out. Immediately the guards followed its movement instead of hers allowing Annie to exit freely, Hayato in her attached hand.

She swung for the neck of the nearest guard, decapitating him in a single swing. Her detached hand pulled the rigger, firing a rubber round into another guard leaving them open for Annie to split in half.

The guards finally caught up with the actual threat and began unloading bullets into the mannequin. Her suit and already immense durability made the bullets near useless as she hovered Hayato in the air above her. The hand focusing telepathy onto Hayato began rotating rapidly, causing Hayato to do the same.

She flung the living katana into a group of 6 guards, Hayato cleaving through them like they weren’t even there. Still spinning, Hayato circled around to a cluster behind Annie, slashing them apart as well.

Annie picked up two of the dropped assault rifles as the few remaining ones fled. She aimed and fired, unloading lead into the gaps between their armor. She didn’t miss a beat as the guards dropped dead, marching back to the elevator past the bloody mess staining the concrete cellar.

She pressed the button for floor twelve, the floor Walter’s office was on. The elevator’s ascent felt agonizingly slow as Annie practically boiled with rage. A sudden rumble halted the elevator, the lights flickered and the door was indented by something. A large metallic hand pried the sliding doors apart, the glowing red eyes of a sentinel greeting Annie as the elevator was tugged inwards toward the 10th floor.

“MISSION DIRECTIVE: TERMINATE SUBJECT X-001”

The mini sentinel’s metallic voice boomed as it reached for Annie. She ducked and slid under it, slashing at its knee with Hayato, the living katana managing to actually damage the sentinel’s thick armor.

Annie immediately got back up and threw Hayato, cleaving a gash into the side of the sentinel’s head. Annie leaped onto the sentinel’s shoulders, propelling herself with the magnum and then to Hayato, catching the living sword and launching him back at the sentinel, burying him in its elbow.

She fired opposite of the sentinel and landed back on the sentinel’s shoulders. She pressed the barrel into the gash on its head and pulled the trigger, blowing a hole in its face. The sentinel twitched in place for a moment, undamaged hand reaching to grab Annie though the metal monster fell before it could. The building rattled as it faceplanted into the floor, that impact being the last straw for the damaged elevator, sending it cascading down the elevator shaft.

“Dammit”

Annie thought as she pulled Hayato from the sentinel's arm. She looked around for a moment before marching to the stairway, kicking the door open and immediately firing a bullet at a guard stationed there. Red painted the wall behind him as more guards flooded the stairwell, Annie hacking, slashing and shooting through the lot of them

When her magnum inevitably ran out of bullets she holstered it and stole a lethally loaded 8 gauge shotgun, blowing guards down and launching herself through the air until she reached the 12th floor. Before entering, she searched the room’s mental signatures, finding it full of around 40 guards.

Annie thought for a bit before looking at one of the guard’s bodies beside the door, specifically the grenades strapped to his vest. She picked up the dead man, pressed him against the door, opened the door and kicked him in, and used telekinesis to pull the pins on his grenades before leaping over the stair railing and down a few floors.

The loud BOOM of dozens of grenades detonating in quick succession signalled her plan worked. That and the door was flung off its hinges and into the blood stained stairway. Annie climbed the stairs again and marched into the hallway of eviscerated bodies.

Halfway to Walter’s office the ground behind Annie erupted as the sentinel from before burst through the floor, laser cannon aimed for Annie as it shouted “TERMINATE!!!” at her. The yellow blast screamed through the air and Annie dodged to the side, sprinting at the sentinel, Hayato raised.

“I killed you once! I’ll do it again!”

She yelled in her mind as she ducked a swing from the sentinel’s one arm, slashing at its already damaged leg as she cruised past it. It spun its torso around, bringing its massive hand down on Annie indenting her silhouette into the floor. Annie quickly recovered and slashed its wrist before it could blast her point blank.

It raised its hand again, missing this time, leaving it open to Annie burying Hayato in its other elbow. Despite the damage it grabbed Annie and tossed her to the other end of the hallway, her thudding against the door to Walter’s office.

“M-MISS-SION DIREC-ECTIVE: TERMINATE!!! S-SELF DEST-T-TRUCT SEQUENCE IN-INITIATED!!!”

It shouted as its thrusters activated and it turned to Annie. Annie clicked her heels together, wheels popping from her boots as the sentinel rocketed forward at her. Annie skated to its side, pulling Hayato from its arm as she went.

The metal thud of the sentinel’s impact against Walter’s reinforced door was drowned out by the following KA-BOOOM of its core detonating. Annie stabbed Hayato into the wall to avoid being blown too far back, having successfully escaped the harmful blast radius with her rollerskates.

Her “ears” rang as she moved towards the blown open door, gaze locking onto an old man behind a large desk at the far end of the office. That was him, the man who’d funded all this.

“You! You’ll pay for what you did!!!”

Annie screamed, aiming the shotgun she’d picked up earlier at him. Before she could fire, the glass wall behind Walter shattered, two mini sentinels crashing into the office and landing at either side of Walter’s desk.

The two’s metallic voices shouted their directive in unison as Annie readied herself. One rushed at her via its rocket thrusters while the other fired blasts from a distance. She tossed Hayato aside, telepathy propelling him to attack the distant sentinel.

The close sentinel grabbed Annie, though she separated her legs and torso to avoid a follow up eye beam. Annie held the sentinel’s head with one hand, using the other to press her shotgun into its neck and fire, propelling her upper half away while it tossed her lower half aside.

It stomped after her, firing blast after blast at the mannequin, Annie using the shotgun to launch herself out of the way as it fired at her. She barely attacked it though, instead dodging it to the best of her ability, reuniting with her legs in the process.

Eventually she slipped up and was struck in the chest by an underhanded slug, sending her careening into a wall. As the sentinel marched forward at her, arm raised and charging a finishing blast Annie reached out. She grabbed at the air and pulled her arm back, pulling Hayato away from the other sentinel which he’d finished cutting down and sending the living sword spinning back like a buzz saw. The sentinel’s sensors kicked in too late and it turned its head just in time to be decapitated by Hayato.

She watched the machine collapse before standing up, holding her chest, which had been partially caved in by the attacks she’d taken as she slowly walked at Walter’s death, seeing him cowering behind the mahogony.

Annie stood outside the Puri.Co headquarters, staring up at the 12 stories of glass, steel and concrete. She did some brief stretches before walking into the building, the doors automatically sliding open for her, hands at the ready to draw submachine guns at a moments notice.

The lobby was empty, no office workers, no secretary, no one. Annie tapped her heels together, wheels popping out from her boots and began skating slowly across the nylon tile to the main elevator.

Annie: “Zoey, can you find them?”

Zoey: “Nowhere, but there’s a mental dead spot on the 2nd cellar floor, if I had to guess they’re there. Careful, there's a lot of guys down there too, and they’re all thinking about putting you down.”

Hayato: “Karera ni wa sasenai!”

Annie: “Okay. I’m coming guys, just hold on a little longer.”

Annie thought as the elevator opened and she was greeted by 4 guards, all armed and heavily armored. Off reaction she sidestepped the first one’s gun and fired rubber bullets into his helmet, stunning him . Hayato shot from his sheath via Zoey’s telekinesis on Annie’s back, striking the first guard in the neck with his hilt to knock him out and blocked bullets from the other guards as Annie subdued the second guard.

With two guards down Annie pulled her shotgun off her back and put rubber slugs in the guts of each guard, opening them up for proper takedowns. Hayato pommel struck one to knock them out and Annie kicked the other in the chin twice to put him out.

Annie selected the second cellar floor and removed the firing pins from the guards guns while confiscating their flash grenades. Once the elevator opened Annie tossed 2 flashbangs, blocked her “ears” and ducked behind cover while using telekinesis to pull the pins. Once she saw them pop she ran out, submachine guns drawn and began firing rubber rounds into the guards. There were 20 in total, so she had enough to give all of them 3 bullets each.

The guards dropped to the ground in pain as Annie ran through them all, jumping over their head and off walls when necessary. As she moved Zoey told her which directions the dead zone was in. Just before she reached the room she snatched a guards key card, Hayato slashing the security cord keeping it on their hip and opened the high security metal door, immediately locking it behind her.

“S-stay back!” someone shouted from the other end of the room. Annie turned and saw someone, clearly not a guard, clearly not Walter Smith either. But more importantly, she saw a massive furnace, a massive furnace loaded with four of the living objects. “D-don’t come any closer! I-I’ll do it!”

Annie’s metaphorical heart stopped as she looked at the furnace. She dropped her guns and slowly raised her hands, thinking over possibilities to get out of this. As she thought, she remembered what Aizaru told her. “Things won’t end well…” “If you don’t kill…” Then, she remembered the magnum Grey gave her, the only gun she brought loaded with actual bullets.

She slowly rotated her belt so the magnum was on her side as the random kept telling her to stay back. Then, via telekinesis, Annie roasted the magnum on her hip, and- BANG, clink she missed, the bullet flew past the random and hit the furnace, denting the steel.

The random gasped and cowered briefly from the shot, but true to their word, pushed close the furnace. Automatically it started up, the insides heating rapidly.

“NO!!!”

Annie shouted in her own head. Immediately Hayato flung from his sheath and struck the random in the head as Annie ran to the furnace, hands flying to the latch trying to pry it open. It didn’t even kind of work. Annie began kicking the latch instead, didn’t work either.

“Come on, come on, come on!”

Annie thought, looking around the room for anything to open it with. She saw her magnum by the door, it’d flung out the holster when fired, that could work. She pulled to her with telekinesis and began unloading its rounds into the latch. But even that couldn’t get it open, nor was it loosened enough to open. Regardless of the impossible odds, Annie kept trying, pulling, kicking, punching, anything to open the furnace.

“No no no. Come. ON! Open! Please! OPEN!!!... please.”

Annie’s efforts slowly weakened as time dragged on. Her fist pounded against the door weakly as she sank to her knees against the unforgiving steel. It didn’t open, it never would have, the lock was too strong and Annie too weak.

“...please…”

Annie skated through the streets of New York, moving far faster than anyone would expect. 40 mph. Between being ultra lightweight and using whatever leverage she could, Annie’s rollerskates made her fast.

Though she wasn’t just skating, she was dancing. As she skid past New Yorkers on her way to the Puri.co headquarters she looked like a figure skater who’d made the concrete their ice. She leaped over a box, using it as a ramp and landed with a spin, turning around and skating backwards with one arm out in a thumbs up.

She moved past everyone flawless, not so much as grazing an obstacle as she danced to her destination. She felt electric, this week had been great. She saved another object, she got an awesome boyfriend, and now she was about to save even more of the living objects. She was unstoppable, nothing could ruin this rhythm.

Ooc: just a quick little precursor to the main Puri.co mission. This is mainly to show her suit’s redesign and to set up the 4 or so post series. Have a wonderful day yall.

*Annie stood in front of her full length mirror, adjusting some parts of her brand new supersuit. She wasn't fully sure it looked as nice, especially compared to her first suit, but it was certainly more durable. Stronger fabric, polycarbonate plating, and a few non durability related upgrades. Like rollerskates that popped out of her boots when she kicked her heels together.*

Annie: "Okay. Zoey, you comfy?"

Zoey: "Yep."

Annie "And Hayato?"

Hayato: "Hai, kaitekidesu."

Annie: "Good. Now, rollerskates?" *She says before clicking her heels together.* "Check. Ammo?" *She pats the various pouches on her belt.* "Check. I'm good to..." *She trails of as she spots the heart-shaped ruby necklace Colin gave her sitting on her nightstand. She grabs it, puts it on and tucks it under her suit.* "Okay, now I'm good."

Ooc: open to interaction for people to react to her new suit... and the copious amount of guns she has.

*The lights pointed at the runway in Gosamyr's studio dimmed slightly as Annie's shift finished. Her performance was great as usual, but Annie wasn't quite as photogenic today, primarily because her main focus wasn't on posing or strutting, but instead a visitor who'd not shown up yet.*

*Colin was gonna stop by for a bit once her shift ended and Annie had been thinking about hanging out with him since she clocked in.*

Ooc: closed interaction, only Colin and anyone who'd be at Gosamyr's studio allowed. Have a good day everyone!

Ooc: been a HOT minute since the last outfits post. And that's the best I could do for Alastor's staff

*Annie had felt dirty ever since Robert kindly introduced her forehead to the Chicago pavement. Her theory was that there was dust and other stuff stuck in her hollow insides.*

*So, Annie had found her answer in the X-Mansion's kitchen. Her savior of cleanliness: the humble dishwasher. She figured her status as object would make it no problem for her to just load herself in.*

*Hesitantly Annie undressed, folded her clothes on the counter and opened the dishwasher. Her face felt warm as the thought about how to fit herself into the machine. She was so used to clothes by now that not wearing them felt weird, even if there wasn't anything to cover.*

*Annie stood with her arms crossed staring at the machine for about 10 minutes before finally placing her hands on her hips and pushing, separating her halves.*

*She loaded herself in, and Zoey closed the door and turned the machine on. Without context it just looked like someone had left a set of clothes and Zoey by the dishwasher.*

Ooc: feel free to interact either before or after Annie's already loaded herself up into the dishwasher. Have a good day

*Annie sat outside another Purity Salon... again. She'd done this twice already, and she was doing it again if it meant freeing another living object.*

*She did the same thing she did last time. Jump onto the roof, enter through a vent and open up the bunker. Though this time it was easier. Too easy, even.*

*No guards got in her way, no security measures activated, every door was unlocked. It was like the place was abandoned.*

*She searched the place for hours, eventually finding the observation room that the object was usually kept in. Though it, much like everywhere else, was empty.*

*But there was a difference to it, the monitors all began playing a message when she walked into the room.*

"Hello, mannequin."

*A man's voice said with a heavy Russian accent.*

"You'll notice that outpost is empty. As are all the rest. You can thank my employer for that. He wanted all the objects brought to him so you couldn't steal anymore of them. At least all the ones he knew about."

*Annie's hands clenched as she listened.*

"So you'll be wanting to bring up your issues with Walter Smith about that, he runs Puri-Co, for now at least. You'll wanna look at the company's main headquarters. Anyhow, goodbye mannequin. And if whoever is listening to this *isn't* the mannequin, then I'd suggest texting your family that you love them."

*And with that, the message ended. Annie stood there for a bit, thinking about what he'd said.*

"All if them are with the H.P.O's boss? Okay. That'll make this easy, everyone's in one place."

*She thought before marching out of the outpost. She'd have to do a little research, but she was so close to finally saving all the poor people who the H.P.O had hurt. An invisible smile painted her "face" as she walked home to the mansion.*

*Annie's hand shook as she pointed a pistol at the unconscious Beatrice's head.*

“Come on… just do it… you did it before, that time was easy… it was an accident too…”

*She thought, hand not steadying even slightly as she built up the willpower to purposefully kill someone.*

“No… no, you don't need to. Yeah, yeah you can just leave her there, like those soldiers.”

*Just as Annie was about to lower the gun-* BANG *it fired, the shot deafening as the bullet carved its way into Beatrice's temple.*

*Annie dropped the gun immediately and recoiled back in shock, falling down.*

“Oh my god!! No… no no no I didn't… I didn't shoot I swear-”

“Relax, lady… mannequin… whatever we are.”

*A girl said, cutting off Annie's thoughts.*

“I shot, not you. Now are you gonna pick me up or what?”

*She asked as Annie's lack-of-eyes fell on the mask on the floor. Annie slowly got up, briefly looking at Beatrice before immediately looking away again and going over to the mask.*

“Zoey? Are… are you Zoey?”

“Sure, we'll go with that, now are you going to pick me up?”

“Oh, right.”

*Annie thought before collecting the orange mask off the floor. Now that she had gotten Zoey, she checked to make sure she still had Hayato and began making her way out of the outpost.*

“So… how can you talk?”

“I'm psychic, that's what teatime was doing to you back there.”

“Oh… so you can hear my thoughts and talk to me?”

“Yes. The sword guy too.”

“You can hear Hayato? That's great!”

*The three began a telepathic conversation that continued for the entire journey back to the mansion. It took a few hours of walking, but Annie finally pushed open the gates of Xavier's, tired, but glad to finally be home.*

Ooc: ignore how Zoey looks different, you can't hold certain masks in hero forge and the mask I picked for Zoey is like that. Anyway, feel free to greet Annie now that she's back

“How bothersome.”

*A posh, woman’s voice echoed over the outpost’s PA system.*

“You’re interrupting my freetime, mannequin.”

*She said, sounding more annoyed about the active intruder hunting her down. Annie paid the voice no mind as she searched through the H.P.O facility, knocking out anyone who got in her way. The voice scoffed

“Ignoring me? How typical of you mutants. You can stop searching now, I’ll be waiting for you in the dining hall.”

*Annie paused and looked at one of the cameras that this lady was surely watching her through.*

“And on your way, you should know the name of your captor. I am Beatrice Montagu XIII.”

*She announced before a maniacal giggle rang through the mic.*

“See you soon, doll.”

*And with that, Beatrice turned off the PA system and turned to a display case containing an orange mask. She took a white, latex glove and pulled it taunt over a scarred left hand before pressing a button on the display case. The case filled with gas, the gas dissipated and then a spray of air and water cleaned the mask.*

“Come now, face, we’ve a girl to kidnap.”

*She remarked as she put on the mask and strutted out of the room and into the cafeteria.*

*A few minutes afterwards the door into the cafeteria hissed open and Annie marched through. Her gaze locked onto Beatrice and before the noblewoman could get a word off Annie raised a pistol to fire at her. Beatrice waved two gloved fingers, pulling a tray from off a nearby table and blocking the rubber bullet, as well as several following rubber shots.*

“Aren’t you trigger happy?”

*Beatrice remarked, waving her hand again and pulling the guns from Annie’s hands, or more accurately, pulling the hands from Annie’s arm. Annie stared at her now stumped wrists for a moment before being pressed back against the wall.*

“Viktor will surely see to it I’m paid well for your capture, doll.”

*Beatrice Mocked before tossing Annie to the other end of the room with her telekinesis. Afterwards Bea pulled a flip phone from her pocket and dialed a number. She tossed Annie up and over her head, sending the mannequin crashing into a table.*

“Hello? Viktor? Yes, I’ve got her… The sword too… mhm… don’t call me Bea… not Monty either! You know my name, use it! Now about pay…”

*She spoke into the phone, eyes on Annie as one of the mannequin’s detached hands adjusted itself to be aiming at Beatrice. She pulled the trigger, rubber bullet flying from the pistol and nailing Beatrice’s mask in the forehead.*

“Ack!-”

*She exclaimed in shock as the rest of Annie got back up and rushed her. Before Annie could close the gap, Bea stuck out a hand and held the mannequin in place. The noblewoman squeezed her hand into a fist, glove stretching tighter over her skin and putting Annie in mild pain.*

“Why you little- do you have any idea how much it would’ve cost to undo that if you’d hit somewhere else!? I’ll make you pay for-”

*Before Beatrice could finish speaking, Annie was suddenly pulled in closer and her arm immediately swung into Bea’s face, stump connecting perfectly with Bea’s nose. Annie was dropped and the noblewoman stumbled back, clutching a now broken nose.*

“You… you b@#$”

*Once more Bea was cut off as Annie high kicked her in the chin, knocking the mask off and knocking the noble out. Annie looked at Bea’s unconscious face, blood slowly leaking from her nose and lip before she went to collect her hands.*

*Once whole again, Annie took the magazine out from one of her pistols and loaded real bullets in. She looked back at Beatrice, aimed and…*

*Annie sat in her room, pacing back and forth. Her feet, light as a feather, were silent as she ran ragged her room's floor. Everything happening was overwhelming her.*

*Apocalypse, Gosamyr's company being attacked, the schism, Hisako being hospitalized, all of it was far too much for a mind as young as hers. Rapid learning could only cope so hard for her being less than a handful of months old.*

*She didn't understand why things weren't okay. Why couldn't people just be nice? It was so easy, she did it every day. She wanted to scream about it, to holler from the rooftops about how easy being nice was. But of course, she couldn't, she could never scream no matter how much she wanted to.*

*She didn't know what to do, how to deal with everything going on. Her gaze settled on Hayato, sitting on a shelf in a custom sword stand she bought for him.*

*He was like her, forced to be silent and expressionless. Even more so than Annie because she could at least walk and move like a person. He couldn't.*

*Then she remembered the other living objects. That was something bad too, but that was something bad she did know how to fix.*

*So, with newly gained inspiration, Annie packed her weapons, put on her suit, and set off to rescue as many of those living objects as she could.*

*The engine of SnowFlame's hot pink Lamborghini died out as he pulled in to a bar in [insert city here]. He stepped out of the car, purple sneakers meeting concrete and white suit catching the light.*

*A black suv parked behind his car, 4 large men in black suits stepping out. He didn't need a security detail, but 4 guys wearing suits worth triple what most people make in a month and who looked like they could bench press a family car definitely helped his presence.*

*He stepped into the bar, adjusting his collar and scanning the room with eyes that glowed a faint blue. He was looking for a very noticeable face. He wasn't sure she was here yet, but just it doesn't hurt to look.*

God it is GOOD to be back! Look out ladies, the one and only SnowFlame is in town, babes!

Infinity Annie: a version of Annie from a universe much like the one where earth was overrun by zombies. This world's Annie proved a suitable vessel to contain the energy of the rampant infinity stones. That immense power led to the living mannequin restoring reality to before the infection and remaining as the vessel of the stones.

Future Annie: this universe's Annie is near identical to our own, though with the difference of being 1000 years older than our universe's. Her rapid learning allowed her to advance humanity's technology far beyond what it is now. Now Scientist Supreme, Annie continues leading a united human and mutant civilization to its bright future.

Mannie: Annie except in a universe where men are women and women are men. Mannie's original host Mariah is instead Marty. Viktor Wellington is instead Victoria Wellington. And so on and so forth. Hayato is also a mace now.

Villain Annie: this Annie joined the Young X-Men and was soon after captured by the H.P.O. The Young X-Men attempted to rescue her, and while successful, they were all gravely injured. So, before they could die, Annie extracted their X-genes, imbued them into objects and set out on a mission to exterminate humanity for what it'd done to her friends.