X-Files (Project Sentinel)
Author's note: A story idea that came to me, always did like X-Files TV show. I figure this takes place after the Phoenix 5 and after Scott formed his new team with Emma, Erik, and Illyana (Uncanny X-Men), but before Dormmanu and Illyana being integrated with her soul (meaning she's still extra nasty). Not sure if the X-Men has accumulated any students yet. That means of course Magnito and Emma have much reduced powers as they are just beginning to recover from the damage Phoenix did do their power sets, likes Scott.
This story is in the X-Files universe, meaning no super heroes or such. But when you able to travel dimensions, i.e. Magik, who knows where you might turn up. I decided to have Illyana do a bit of cursing for this story (you'll see why later).
Let me know if any of you think I should continue this story line.
Part 1: Intro
A grainy color video image showing a table with an odd metal torso upon it. It looks like the remains of some fifteen foot metal robot, although it was now much less tall as the head was missing, as well as the legs, arms, and the lower part of the torso. Mostly just a mass of twisted and turn metal and circuitry.
Three male researchers, in white smocks, are probing the torso with various tools. The room almost looks like an autopsy room. The quite hum of machinery and the occasion minor comment from one the researchers are the only sounds heard. Each of the researchers is wearing a name tag that cannot be discerned (too grainy).
Some random banter from the group can be heard.
"Look at how compact these micro servos are." Says researcher one holding up a tiny servo in a pair of tweezers.
"No way that came from China." Comments researcher two after taking a look. Then he comments as well at something he's been examining. "This capacitor is able to hold more then one hundred times the charge of our best hardware."
"No way that came from Japan." Replies researcher one.
Researcher three joins the conversations, talking about some internal muscle like fibers. "Carbon fibers bounded with titanium, and what appears to be room temperature superconducting wires?!"
Researcher one shakes his head. "No way that came from Russia."
Researcher three continued. "Serial numbers and product tags on some of the parts do not conform to any known products or companies. Never heard of Sawn industries."
Researcher two cracks a bit of a joke. "No way that came from the EU, just look at the spectrometer lead level, based on lead content that could… be from china."
Researcher three is not amused at the joke. "Can the jokes Frank. Hmmm, think I just found a micro processor chip. Since when did Intel produce an I17 chip?"
Researcher one points out that… "No way that came from the US."
Researcher three knocks on the armor with a tweezer, causing faint ring. "The outer shell is as light as carbon fiber, yet almost hard as diamond in places. Some kind of carbon buckyball composite matrix interlaced with vapor grown diamond?"
They all agree. "No way this came from Earth… well this Earth at least."
Then researcher one looks up, stares at something across the room out of sight of the camera, and asks. "Who the hell are you?" The other two researchers are facing away.
An angry female voice is heard speaking in Russian. "Блядь! Вы не должны были быть здесь!"(Fuck! You weren't supposed to be here!)
The other two turn to face the voice, only to have a giant glowing sword stab through the one of the researches who had just turned.
The sword is wielded by a long blond haired female wearing tight black leather top an mini shorts, thigh high boots, black gloves, and had black spiky armor on her left arm. There are some black sticks in her hair.
Researcher one, the one who spoke, pulls a 9mm Berretta while the sword made short work of the second researcher. He fires a few rounds, all of which appear to somehow miss their target, whereas she then throws the sword impaling the last of the researchers.
She walks around the table and retrieves her sword from the body. She's somehow talking to somebody as she does this. "Crap on a stick Emma! You're still broken, the so called empty lab had three people. Found them with their arms it in for crying out loud."
She listened to what was apparently being said in an ear piece as she wandered about the lab poking at things. "No... I took care of it. Yes Scott, I took care of it that way. No, it was appropriate, too late for them after that much exposure."
A few more seconds of listening. "Yes Scott I do know what the words minimal impact mean. If Mags was himself I'd say EMP pulse the entire city to fry everything, but I guess…"
That's when she notices the camera looking down. She scowls and again speaks in Russia. "Дерьмо. Пропустил одну из чертовых камер! Как вещи не могли ухудшиться!" (Crap. Missed one of the fucking cameras! Like things couldn't get worse!)
We can now see she has bangs and her black top has a rather generous boob window showing a great deal of cleavage. She waves her left hand at the camera and the picture flickers… then dies.
We switch from the video to a live view from the floor as we see the various slain personnel. We see a flash of light as something takes place out of our view. We slowly focus in on one of the fallen who sightlessly stares back, we then zoom even closer on the badge. In the end we are able to determine the name of the person, a Dr. Clark Makson. And the program name at the top of the badge.
Project Sentinel.
Theme music for the X-Files plays (tubular bells), along with the opening video sequences.
Da da da da da da…
A Fox/Marvel Crossover.
