X-Men Termination
Part 1
My name is Joshua Plotkin, code name: Mirror. I'm a mutant and have a power, or rather, powers. Like Taskmaster, I can pick up other people's moves just by watching them. The first time I watched Wolverine in action, claws shot out of my hands. I have since learned to control my power sets, and use them in any combination I want to. As weird as my life has been so far, this past week has caused me to redefine what weird is.
It was a normal day to begin with, until I noticed a group of robots heading into a building. These where nothing like the Sentinels I am used to fighting, but as soon as I heard gunfire, I knew I had to engage these things. I teleported into the building (a trick I picked up from Nightcrawler), and found myself in a building full of robots shooting at something. A short teleportation trip later and I found what they were shooting at. Two women and a young man (he could not have been more than sixteen or seventeen) were trying to take cover behind a wall. They were heavily armed, but not enough to take out this lot.
"Get out of here! Get out or you are going to die!"
The woman was terrified, but she wanted me to save myself first. If she had been a mutant, she would have been an X-Man. Protect others first, then save your own behind. You don't meet people like this every day. People like this need to be saved.
"Ok. I am going to blow down that wall. Run, I'll handle the machines".
"Are you insane?"
"Not at all, I'm a mutant".
She looked at me like I was a lunatic. I don't blame her, because most people don't expect a mutant to help a normal. But, that's what you do in the X-Men. I may not be a student at the institute anymore, nor am I part of the team. But once an X-Man, always an X-man. A burst from Cyclops laser eyes reduces the back wall to rubble.
"RUN". She just stares and blinks, they all do. "RUN NOW".
A machine blows up the door and comes in shooting. I use some of the Jean Grey's telekinetic tricks that I've picked up over the years to push the three civilians out of the whole in the wall, and then I blast the machine's head off with my laser vision. One down, but the rest are going to go after the civilians. I need to stop them, thank God for Wolverine's healing factor.
Walking into the hall, I get shot by two robots holding machine guns. I fall, and the machines begin to walk over me. If they had taken a little time to examine me, they would have seen that I was already healing from the gunshot wounds. After they have passed, I sprung to my feet and whip out the claws (I am not sure if whip out is the right word). I swear, it looked as though those machines were in shock when I got up. They fire again, teleporting behind them with two swings of my claws and they are both decapitated. That makes three dead robots.
A fourth robot comes out shooting, and I do the exact same thing to it. Then a fifth, sixth, and seventh show up. I teleport behind them and decapitate them with my claws, but no matter how many I slice up, more keep coming. Three more come out of a room and blow me away. This time, they try to finish me off at close range.
I unleash the full force of Cyclops laser vision and blow their heads off. Still, more machines keep coming. I cut a few more to pieces before I teleport to one of the back rooms to think up a strategy. I could always use Magneto's powers, but I do not want to become associated with that nutcase. Still, it could take them all down. I find a pack of cards in the back, and decide to try a little Gambit action against these metal menaces.
A few robots break down the wall, and I shoot the entire deck at them. Fifty two energy charged cards blast into the robots and knock them on their metal backsides. Then I perform a teleport flurry and cut their heads off with the claws. The building is overrun with robots. I blast a few more with the laser vision, but this is a losing battle. I keep getting shot, and I keep healing and I keep killing these metallic pains in the ass. I have already lost count of the number of these things I have decapitated or blasted.
Enough is enough, time to go Magneto on their asses. Using the magnetic abilities I learned by watching Magneto, I crush everything metallic in that building. Guns, beams, barrels, and yes even robots are crushed like tin cans. It takes every ounce of strength I have to summon enough magnetic energy to crush them all, but I do it. After collapsing on the floor, I reach for my communicator and contact the X-Men. Thirty minutes later, the team has arrived and is surveying the damage I have done.
"Not bad Mirror, not bad at all".
"Thanks Cyclops. Thanks for the laser vision, it really came in handy".
"You're welcome. Any idea who those people were?"
"Not a clue, but these things really wanted them dead".
"Well, good job saving them. I'll take the wreckage back to San Francisco so Beast can examine it. If anyone can figure out what is going on, it's Hank".
"If I see anything, I will let you know. Hey Cyclops?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think this is part of Weapon X? Or the Sentinel Program?"
"If it is, we will stop it. We always do".
"Thank God you are the good guys".
"Amen".
Cyclops and the X-Men take off with what is left of the robots. I hope Hank can figure out who built them and why. I wonder who those people were and why the robots wanted to kill them. I don't think they were mutants, but it is not like we wear nametags.
