Author's Note: Okay y'all! This is the final story of the Failing and Falling series! The reason why it's called "The End of Everything" is because all story lines up to this point will be closed up and ended. I just did not want you all to think I was gonna destroy the world in this fic. LOL.

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Chapter I: SHIELD

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Location, SHIELD headquarters. Time: Eight AM,

Nick Fury walked down the halls of SHIELD headquarters to attend another meeting about the mutant menace. He was so sick of these meetings. Bolivar Trask's thirst for getting rid of the mutants was getting beyond annoying. And now he had some other idiotic plan. Something he called, Bastion.

He slid his ID card and a door opened. He walked into a room that had a long table and about twenty important looking people. They were all seated drinking coffee while Trask just stood there with his hands behind his back glaring at Fury.

"You're late," he sneered.

"I apologize," Fury replied simply sitting in an empty chair at the end of the table.

"Now," Trask began sitting in a chair at the opposite end of the table from Fury. "I am very impressed with the progress the Sentinels are making. I believe they will be ready for action very soon. The reason I have called you all here today is because I have thought up a new plan. Cyborgs. We will create artificial people that will hunt down mutants and destroy them. It will be easy to get rid of a group of mutants like Professor Xavier's home with the Sentinels, but with the Bastions, we will be able to track down single everyday mutants that roam this earth."

"'Cyborgs?'" Fury said in disbelief. "I highly doubt such a thing is possible."

"Oh it is," Trask said grabbing a box from under the table and placing it on the table. He smiled wickedly and opened the box. Inside looked like a human's head, except cords and wires were coming from the bottom of the neck. The head's eyes were closed and he had short silver hair. He looked like an old man, but at the same time looked ageless. "This is Bastion. He is not yet complete obviously. We are working on the body now. We have designed him to teleport and to use energy rays from his hands. No mutant will be able to escape him because of his high artificial intelligence."

'This is getting out of hand,' Fury thought. 'He is sicker than I thought. I have no choice. I'm going to have to warn someone.'

"How….…how did you do it?" Fury asked.

"Anything is possible," Trask answered putting away Bastion's head. "Especially when your will to get rid of mutants is powerful."

Fury and Trask stared at each other for a long time. The other members of the meeting were too shocked to say anything.

"That is all for this briefing," Trask finally said breaking the silence.

Everyone got up except for Fury. He was so shocked. He did not know that Trask was capable to create such an awesome force. He thought the whole Sentinel thing would fall through, but apparently not. Now he had to deal with the Sentinels and this Bastion thing. The only person he thought of to warn was Professor Xavier. But how would he without Trask noticing?

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Midnight, Nick Fury's room,

Nick Fury grabbed his leather jacket from his coat hanger and silently made his way out of his room. He would go to Professor Xavier's house for mutants and warn him about Trask's plan. He knew Xavier housed innocent children and was not about to let them be murdered.

He snuck past the guards easily even though the security was tightened with the Bastion program going on. 'I still just can't believe it,' he thought as he leaned against a wall to avoid a guard that was patrolling in front of where Bastion's head was kept. 'How did he come up with the technology the make a cyborg!'

The guard finally had his back turned and Fury quickly ran across to the other side of the hall. He was almost out of the facility. All he had to do was get to the garage and get his car.

"Where do you think you're going, Fury?"

Fury stopped dead in his tracks and sighed. He turned around slowly and saw Trask with two armed guards.

"I'm going out," Fury replied. "I am not a prisoner here am I?"

"'Going out' at midnight?" Trask asked unconvinced. "Don't play dumb with me. Ever since I started the Sentinel program you have been acting weird and now that the Bastion program has started, you are acting even more odd. You are leaving to warn someone aren't you?" He sneered at the grey haired man and walked up to him. "Maybe Professor Charles Xavier?"

"Someone has to stop you," Fury growled. "You are sick in the head! I thought for sure your dumb Sentinel plan would fail, but now I see it was a success. And now you are creating artificial humans! You're damn sick! I'm not going to stand by and watch you murder hundreds of innocent people!"

"Mutants are not people!" Trask shot back. "They're animals! I won't let you stop me!" He motioned for his guards to come forward. They obeyed and seized Fury's arms. "Lock him up! And tighten security even more in case there's another fool like Nick Fury."

"Damn you!" Fury yelled.

"No, damn you!" Trask replied. "You were a good member of SHIELD, but your love for the mutants make me sick!"

"I don't love the mutants!" Fury shot back. "I just don't love the fact you're planning to kill innocent lives!"

"I am sick of hearing the 'innocent lives' speech!" Trask yelled. "Take him away now! I am tired of listening to his ramblings!"

The two guards dragged Fury off and threw him into a cell. They slammed the door shut and locked it. Fury kicked the wall angrily and sat down in the dirty cell. 'Damn it all!' he thought. 'Now they have no warning! I just hope Logan is still living with them. He would stand a chance against the Sentinels better than anybody……..'

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Author's Note: I know the chapter was short, but it was not meant to be long since it was pretty much about Trask's new plans and Fury trying to warn Xavier, but unfortunately failed. Well we know what's going on with SHIELD, but Mystique and Sorceress Anya is still on the lose! With Bastion and the Sentinels as the new enemy, does the X-Men even stand a chance? Plus there's going to be a new enemy thrown in, but you'll find out who it is later! Oh and one more thing! I dunno much about Bastion, I only know what I saw in the X-Men: Next Dimension game and I read a bio on him on the net, plus this story is an AU so if I messed up anything with him, just remember that in mind! Teehee