Okay.
Attention all happy readers; those I know, those I don't, those that review and those that don't. I have something sort of important to tell you all, so I will try to be brief.
This story is a long two chapter, one shot, I am aware of this as much as you are. Also, a lot of you might be wondering why I am putting this up instead of working on Capoeira De Toad or Secrets I Keep From You.
The reason why I am putting up more one shots as of late is because I have gotten some inspiration from one of the most creative and humorous writers on FanFiction, Madam Red Witch. I truly take my hat off to this woman and her incredible abilities in humor and storytelling abilities. In fact, she was one of the authors that inspired me to originally write since she writes about my favorite character in X-Men, Toad, a lot. And recently I was browsing her author page when I though of something.
So, I recomend checking her out...
You see, I have a lot of ideas for storied but some of them are not related to either of my main stories, while some are. And the next chapter for Capoeira De Toad is on my computer…back home in Bermuda and some how it crashed. Since I don't wish my writing to halted by this inconvenience, I have decided to do a few one-shots until I can get back to my computer back home and I might even continue some to four or seven shot stories.
Whew, that was longer than I wanted. So, basically, your going to get several one-shots until I get my machine fixed. I hope you all can understand.
Now, please enjoy the story without any further adieu.
Free-Running Savior
The afternoon sun was glowing relentless down on the New York City, cast shadows in a recently started construction site. The progress had halted when a legal issue came up, a fraud charge filed against the contractor as to him embezzling thousands of dollars for the construction job.
Also, there had been some issues involving several workers union being threatened and unfair treatment. So, several of the workers had decided to fight this by going on a strike on this day.
So the construction site had been left as it was, unfinished and with equipment everywhere. No one was around, except for a lone Brotherhood member.
Todd Tolansky grinned as he looked at the construction sight, the bare metal frames and slight concreted areas looking like a master grade gymnasium.
Just what Todd wanted to see.
Looking around first to see if the coast was clear, Todd hopped the fence and jogged over to the site. He had opted to dress in clothes he wasn't often seen in for his little excursion this evening and stopped in front of a large crate to decide his plan of action.
He had traded his jeans in for a pair of loose cargo pants, the flexibility needed for what he was going to be doing, and he was a sleeveless shirt with a hooded vest, his arms range of motion increased by this.
In front of him was a series of stacked creates and storage containers, the metal structure of the building going two stories up. The crate before him had a double stack behind it and then a container, the partially concreted first level above that.
Taking one last look behind him, Todd grabbed the crate and jumped up onto it. Todd twisted his hips as he floated in the air so he was facing the edge he had just jumped up, jumping at a steel beam that hung just in front of him. Todd landed in a perched crouch, his hands hung over the top of the beam and his legs bent against the metal.
Todd then flipped backwards onto the double stack and grabbing the container, Todd easily did a cartwheel onto the container. He continued his momentum by going into a roll and ran along the container as soon as he stood up.
Ahead of him, where the container ended, the concrete floor began and Todd increases his pace. He then leaped into the air, tucking his legs up to his chest and used his arms to balance him as he flew through the air.
It was a good seven foot jump but Todd was used to jumping heights twice that amount. He breezed over the edge and due to the dirt and dust, his sneakers easily sliding along the cement floor. Todd let out a loud whoop of laughter as he hopped over a stack of bricks, his body spinning three hundred and sixty degrees around before he landed.
Todd bounced slightly before continuing to run and paused when he rounded a corner, taking in the sight.
There was a large gap where the elevator went up and down, but the lift was half way there and the second floor. From what he had seen outside, the second floor only had a little bit done but there was some sick piping work going there and that was prime conditions for acrobatics.
Todd grinned and took off again, leaping through the air and bouncing off the elevator to reach the second level. Todd jumped onto another pile of bricks and looked at the massive array of pipes, beams and wooden planks.
It looked like a massive, 3D checkers board. Todd chuckled as he looked at it and then at how high it went; this was going to be sweet.
Todd jumped and easily grabbed a steel beam two stories above his head, swing onto it with a monkey's grace. Crouching on it, Todd raced along the beam and up a diagonal piece before leaping off into one of the squares. Todd twisted in the air and kicked against a pole, sending his body rocketing across like a bullet.
He let himself glide for a while and then grabbed onto a bar, grunting as his shoulders screamed with pain while his arms were nearly torn from their sockets. Spinning around the pole, Todd released the bar to somersault into the splits between two poles.
Todd stretched his arms as he thought about what to do next, looking down on either side of his legs. Due to the super human strength in his legs, Todd never remember having a stretching problem and found out by accident in his old orphanage that he could the splits.
Todd opened his mouth and his tongue lashed out, letting his body drop. His tongue lashed around a pipe and the amphibious mutant swung under it. Releasing his tongue, Todd twisted in the air so he was upside down and caught another pole with his hands.
He only held on for an instant and instantly let go spinning one hundred and eighty degrees. Todd suddenly kicked against a pole and shot between a square, dropping down as he did so. He repeated the process until he was ten feet from the ground; as he approached the pipe, Todd somersaulted so he glide over the bar and grabbed it with one hand.
He waited until he had swung around completely before letting go into a backflip and landed in a crouch, Todd's body completely curled around.
Todd stood, laughing as he heaved in breaths and relished in the feeling of his lungs and body burning from the workout and enjoyment he just had. It was nice to be able to goof off with his powers like this and damn be the consequences.
Jumping up, Todd grabbed the pipe above his head and swung to the one in front of him. Letting go, Todd flipped around to grab the next piece and continued along until he reached the end, somersaulting in the air with a spin before landing in a crouch.
Todd ran at two containers, a width of minivan between them, and ran up one, taking two steps before hopping off it. As he flew off it, Todd turned around and grabbed onto the edge of the other container.
Todd had been taught this by an older mutant that had taken refuge in the same streets that Todd was from and later they wound up at the same orphanage, although they both came back to the streets four years later.
His named had been Darius Swanson, an African-American with the power to make his body lighter and heavier at will and increase his strength at the same time. He had been kicked out of the house when he was seventeen by his parents when they found him out, nearly taking his head off with a shotgun.
Todd first met Darius when he helped him escape the police and for six years they stuck together, despite the age difference. Todd had to have been six year Darius's junior but they became like a family, Darius teaching Todd the art of free-style running as well how to handle himself in a fight.
Darius had been extremely skilled in martial arts and had taught Todd all of what he could have handled, which was everything and more. They became quiet a pair, a motley crew if there ever was one.
The rest was history.
Todd kicked off the side and flipped onto the top of the container, rolling on the metal. Coming on his feet, Todd race down the container but froze when he heard the gunshot.
Todd crouched over, his eyes darting everywhere until he saw the three cars pulled up at the construction site. The were all black but only two were station wagons, one was a full sized van.
There were about seven to nine goons dressed in some weird gray outfits, the writing on the back to far away to make out but oddly familiar. They were around something, four of them hitting and kicking whatever, or whoever, it was while the other watch with some sick pleasure. One hand a weird gun pointed skyward, a molten hole above them.
Narrowing his eyes in curiosity, Todd crept back to the construction site and leaped up into the steel rafters. Creeping silently, Todd gaped at what he saw when the four flung the person they had been beating against the crates.
Scott Summers looked like hell, literally.
His face was banged up, his shirt and pants were torn and grimy, his arms were covered in blood and he was sans his glasses. Todd was surprised at that last part and looked around to see the man with the gun in possession of the shades, the red glasses perched on his head.
Todd snorted. The X-Geeks were of no concern to him and if they got a little beat up, then they might take the whole human-mutant relationships a bit more seriously. Shaking his head, Todd prepared to hop away; Xavier would show up anyway to save him.
That's when a snap was heard.
"AIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Todd froze at the sound of Scott's bloodcurdling scream, slowly looking over his shoulder.
One of the gray suits had a long metal pole and Scott was doubled over, clutching his arm and his side. Todd noted how the left arm was bent at an awkward angle, flinching that he knew it was broken.
"How you like that, freak, huh?" One man said, smashing his fist across Scotts face and sending him sprawling to the floor.
Todd saw a man had back up so he was closer to him and felt a cold chill sweep through his body as he saw the words on the jacket.
FOH; Friends of Humanity
Suddenly everything became very quiet and a distant sound rose up. Todd now knew why they look familiar
"NO! TODD HELP ME!"
"JUSTINE! ALEX! NOOO!
BLAM!
BLAM!
"NOOOO!!"
"TODD, GET OUT OF HERE!"
"WHAT!"
"YOU HEARD ME! RUN! NOW!"
"DARIUS-"
"DAMMIT, KID, PLEASE! I CAN'T LOSE ANY MORE FAMILY!!"
Todd snapped his eyes shut, gritting his teeth as he remembered. He forcefully rubbed his eyes as tears formed at the edges, his right hand nearly bending the metal he was holding onto.
"Hey, let's take his leg next." The guy with a gun said.
Todd growled and wrestled with his choices; save an X-Geek by putting his life at risk just to get revenge for his friends or walk away and live with the guilt that he had let these monsters kill another of his people.
The man with a pipe began to twist it in his hands, approaching Scott again.
Todd's knuckles cracked maliciously; he had no choice left
Scott panted, out of pain and of fear, as he tried to pull himself away, the FOH member with the pipe chuckling in mild amusement while the other walked over to him.
"Damn, boy. Stop squirming!" He seethed, booting Scott in the chest.
Scott's world was on fire, his arm and firs felt like broken glass sliding up and down his arm. And not the kick hammered into near his heart, his whole clavicle feeling like had caved inwards.
Scott felt helpless. He was at the mercy of nine people, blind and crippled. The goons had grabbed him while he was leaving school; bagging his head and shocking him with a stun gun him, all the while beating him.
Then he was brought here and lost his glasses, the mutant hater obviously knowing what his power was.
Someone tapping something in their hands now stood over him, a metallic sound letting him know what it was.
"Oh God, please, please don't!"
"And let a freak like you endanger our friends and family again?" The man asked snidely, his grip audible on the piece of metal. "Like hell that's goanna happen, you monster."
But something thudded next to him and then hit the man with a powerful blow, the man's body sprawling on the ground. Two hands then wrapped around him and dragged him away from his attackers.
Someone had just saved him, the person grunting as he dragged Scott's body. Xavier had gotten his message, the X-Me-
"Fuck, Summers, I thought you could take care of yourself, yo!" His rescuer groaned, Scott's train of thought stopped dead as he recognized the voice.
He had been saved……by Toad?
Todd leaned back on the metal beam and leaped forward, dropping through the air as he shot through the air. He then bounced off the next beam and backflipped in the air, his body arching in the air above Summers and his attacker.
Todd landed in crouch and before the FOH member had a chance to even register the mutant's appearance, Todd twisted to deliver a powerful rear kick to his gut. The man was launched seven feet, landing on the ground with a solid thud the man's body reflexively vomiting.
Todd didn't waste time; grabbing Scott under the shoulders, Todd dragged him around behind the crates and, minding his left arm, dragged him to the denser areas of the construction site.
Todd grunted as he dragged the prone leader of the X-Men under the concreted floor, looking for the FOH members. "Fuck, Summers, I thought you could take care of yourself, yo!"
Todd felt the bewilderment in Scott, his whole body loosening up and slacking down. His face was completely bewildered, his eyes nearly opening due to his surprise.
"T-Toad?!" Scott said, his voice laced with pain and disbelief. "You saved me?!"
Todd rolled his eyes as he bent down to pick Summers up, dropping in a crouch when he heard the gun go off. Scooping Scott in one motion, Todd vault up onto the first level and lowered him down, propping him against the wall.
Todd didn't know why but when the other gunshot rang out, he covered Scott's body with his own and waited until he heard them run for the stair.
"Yeah, it's me, yo." Todd said bitterly. "Stay here and don't move!"
"Like I'm really goanna go far, Tolansky." Scott moaned sarcastically, Todd snorting in disgust but otherwise ignoring him.
Todd glanced over the edge and saw the nine of them looking for the stairs.
Todd shot his tongue at one, the one with Scott's shades, and hauled him up onto the level, slamming him to the wall opposite wall of Scott. The man bounced off the due to so much force and he waved his gun around disoriented.
The other FOH shot blindly, but it did little good for their member.
Todd rolled over to him; the mutant fiercely elbowed his knee outwards and gave an uppercut to his jaw as he stood up and the man fell. As the gun came around, Todd grabbed and twisted the arm. Several loud snaps and crunches were heard as Todd dislocated the man's shoulder and hand.
It was a move Todd never nearly got right while Darius taught him; the older mutant would have been proud.
Todd stuck the gun in his belt and plucked the shades from the man's head, stepping back to kick the man in the side of the head.
Todd ran to Scott, sliding down next to him and placing the shades carefully on his head. Scott hesitantly relaxed his face and looked at Todd in amazement, the amphibious mutant looking at his body rather than his face.
"You'll hold up fine until I'm done with these guys, yo." Todd said as he got up and walked to the wounded man.
"Todd!" The green mutant paused and looked at him over his shoulder. "Don't kill anyone, please!"
Todd looked forward with a grin and a roll of the eyes. "We'll see." He baited, continuing to the man.
He wouldn't. If he did, we might as well put on the FOH uniform and march along their beat like the rest of their puppets. No, he would make them feel like hell, but they would be alive.
"We goanna fucking kill you, freak!" The FOH man spat, Todd smirking as he got closer.
Heaving him up, Todd slammed him against the wall. "Please, yo. I've faced you jokers once before. This time, you assholes get the ass-whopping."
"What?" The man tried to ask, but Todd just dragged him and put him in a headlock.
"Just be quiet for a minute." Todd quipped, pulling the out and looking at the edge while using the man as a shield. "OI, DUMBASSES!"
Some of the men had gotten on the crate and others had begun getting equipment to help themselves up to where Scott and Todd where. When they saw him and their member, they all had their guns out and trained on him.
Todd smirked at them, placing the gun by the man's temple.
"Okay, all of you Friends of Humanity jerk offs, ditch the guns or I'm going to empty this man's head for a new brain." Todd said, pulling the hammer back to emphasize his point.
"Will you let him go?" One member asked, his grip flexing on the gun.
"I don't want to touch him any longer than I have to." Todd spat, twisting his arm tighter on the man to get a yelp from him. "Guns, now! Lose em'!"
The member looked at each other and they hesitantly threw them away, the firearms hitting the barbed wire of the fence as they went over.
Todd lowered his gun and ejected the magazine, pulling the chamber back to pop the last bullet out. He dropped it on the ground, his heel smashing it to pieces seconds later. He then released the man who wobbled on his feet.
And then the chaos began.
Todd kicked the wounded man in the back of kneecaps and he screamed as he dropped onto the dusty ground. A crunch was heard as he landed on his dislocated arm, the joint now broken.
One down.
The Brotherhood mutant then jumped off the cement level onto the nearest crate, open handedly backhanding a FOH member who was on the same crate. Todd turned with the blow and gracefully backflipped to the ground as the man fell back on the lower crate.
He turned to his right to see the man get up and grab a wrench. Todd spun around, his heel bashing against his shins and the FOH member fell on his face. As he tried to get up, Todd hooked him across the face and followed through with an elbow to the temple.
Two down.
Todd ducked under a swinging pipe and somersaulted over another, the two FOH members rushing him again. Todd landed and then shot forward, sliding on the ground on his back and rolled between them. The green mutant then jumped onto the crates, landing in the prone FOH member, and did a cartwheel over a swung pipe.
Landing and rolling, Todd stopped in crouch and shot his foot backwards, the balls of his feet hitting him in the jaw. His body shot straight up and around in a loop, landing on his face to not move again.
Todd then did a handspring onto his feet, punching the man in the chest as he rotated in the air. The man grunted in pain as he stumbled back and tried to throw a punch, the amphibious mutant catching his arm.
Todd twisted the arm down and out from the man's body, the joints forcing him over. Todd then began to slam his knees into the man's chest and threw him to the side, his head slamming into the crate that the other man was on.
Four down.
Todd leaned away as an FOH member threw a spin kick at his and kicked his other leg away as he tried to follow up with a second attack. In the same motion, Todd booted his ass and the FOH member sprawled with another ran at him.
Todd didn't even take step, but just hopped up as he switched legs and planted his foot in the man's chest. The man took the blow and grabbed the green mutant's foot, trying to twist the ridiculously strong legs.
The mutant just stood their and kept his leg flexed, the man fighting a losing battle.
Todd smirked and the man gulped, the amphibious mutant spitting a glob of smile in his face. The Brotherhood mutant then jumped with his other leg and nailed the now blinded and gagged FOH member across the face with a kick from the same leg.
He spun around like a child's top, the previous man, whose ass had literally been kicked by Todd, shoving him aside. Todd darted to the side, completely evading the attack. His elbow then gave a brutal clothesline to the man and completely flipped him over.
As he tried to get up, Todd backflipped onto his back and winded him before unconsciousness took him. The slimed covered man wildly waved his arms around as he staggered about to his feet, wandering away to Todd.
Todd's tongue lashed out and wrapped around the man's wrist, jerking him over. Jumping up and spinning like a Frisbee, Todd let his leg fly out when as soon as the FOH member fell close enough and whipped the man across the face.
Six down.
"Todd! Behind you!" Scott yelled
Todd turned around and stumbled back as a FOH member surprised him and punch him square in the face. His hand grabbed Todd's neck, Todd's other arm blocking and holding his body off the crate with his leg as well, grunting as a foot nailed his kidney.
"Thanks, Shades…for the piss poor warning." Todd growled.
Todd glared at him and his left arm bashed his arm away from his neck, the teenager ignoring the scraping feeling at his neck. He then grabbed the man behind the head with both hand, smashing his forehead to the man's mouth and nose.
As he staggered away, Todd spun and delivered a rear kick. No power was held back and the man soared across the semi-enclosed area and through a crate.
Seven down.
Scott watched the Brotherhood member, the supposed weakest member, brutally tear man after man down in a furious display of street fighting skills that even Logan would like.
Todd blocked a side kick aimed at his ribs and smashed his forearm on the man's thigh. He was about to sweep the other leg when the last man threw a kick at Todd's head, the mutant ducking under the other man's leg.
The last man kneed at Todd, but the amphibious mutant elbowed the knee down and was about to smack him with the back of his hands when the man he was holding tried to elbow him.
Todd finally swept the leg and as the man dropped on his back, Todd backhanded the other so hard he stumbled back. Todd then launched forward and kicked him with both feet midair, backflipping onto his feet.
The man bounced off the ground and smashed into the same crate he sent the previous man. Looking over his shoulder, Todd saw the other man was up and was about to kick. Dropping down and spinning around at the same time, Todd clipped the man's leg as he threw his other in a roundhouse kick.
The FOH member twisted around in the air and landed in the splits, his eyes bugging out as he fought to scream. He didn't have to hold it long, as Todd's foot brutally collided into his head in seconds.
Nine down. Clean house.
Todd exhaled completely, shaking his head to clear his mind. Fighting was something he had to focus on all the time or he would easily put his foot through someone and he wasn't in the mood to deal with that.
As he turned and prepared to jump up to Scott, a blue light glimmered from the shadows of the construction site. Todd narrowed his eyes as he bean to crouch and the light seemed to intensify enough to make Todd hear a low humming sound.
There was a small "voom" sound as the blue light shot forward and Todd bolted from the floor, a bluish-purple ball shooting between his legs. The orb impact on a steel beam and exploded with such forced that Todd over shot Scott by ten feet to land in a heap.
Todd groaned as he picked himself up into a sitting position, Scott coughing as he sat back up. Todd swatted the dust away and shook his head.
"Hey, Summers! You alr-" Then the floor bust opened and a figure flew through the floor.
Todd rolled over his right shoulder and came up fast on his feet, his bare arms getting scraped slightly as his momentum making him skid on the dusty concrete.
"Mutagenic threats located…Extermination commenced…" An eerie voice said, his tone dead calm.
The figure was standing up completely straight up near the hole, his back maybe slightly curved over as he looked around. His had a short haircut, the clear white color strange on the young body and he had several, oddly long, locks that hung completely over his face.
He was very plain sighted had it not been for the facial hair that decorated his face, trimmed in a way that covered his jaw and chin as well as his upper lip and had three line curving from his jaw line to point on his cheeks.
In fact, Todd would have guessed he was only a few years older than himself.
His whole body was a deathly pale color, as though no sun had ever touched his body. He looked, however, like he had spent every day working out in the gym and had made his body pure muscle and bone
The only reason Todd was able to tell this was that he wasn't wearing as shirt. He had a pair of black pants on and a red sash wrapped numerous times around his waist. The tails hung off from his right hip, hanging just above the ankles.
Todd found his sight concentrating on the right arm, something odd on the skin. Between the bicep and the triceps and on the lower part of the forearms, had a series of metal plates attacked to skin and seemed to be attached by hinges. As though they were flaps…
And at the wrist, there were two large rings attached that looked like permanent identification bands.
The white haired man looked up at Todd, his artic blue eyes startling Todd with three crescents for pupils and a circle round them. The circle widened and closed, a small buzzing sound heard.
"You're a mutant, yo?" Todd asked, his stance relaxing uncertainly. "Why the fu-"
The figure dropped in a crouch and shot at Todd in a lunge, kicking out in a fierce attack. Todd ducked under the attack and jumped as the other leg followed in a low, sweeping kick. The man spun around with blinding speed, his fist flying at Todd's head.
Todd kicked the man in the chest and head as hard as he could and the white haired attacker was sent through the wall beside them.
Todd dropped down onto his toes and hands, looking through the hole to see if the man was alright. The amphibious mutant felt the world tip when he saw the man casually stand up and flex his arms. Todd scrambled to his feet and watched at the person stepped back trough the hole perfectly fine.
The man threw a kick at Todd again, the creepy eyes studying the mutant for weakness. Todd met the kick mid air with one of his own, the two holding each by sheer force, and the man twisted his body around with a high speed punch.
Todd side stepped the punch and delivered two deadly kicks, one to the throat and one between the man's legs.
The first blow just made the white haired assailant snap his head back but the second blow lifted him off the ground, Scott flinching as Todd literally booted the man between the legs.
The man cocked his head and rolled his neck before grabbing Todd by the throat, lifting him two feet off the floor.
"What…the…fuck…?" Todd groaned while pulling up on the arm as the hand tightened, Scott absolutely jaw slack.
No guy, no matter how strong they were, took a shot like that and didn't roll over.
Todd gagged as he felt the iron grip nearly crush his throat, the white haired man showing perplexity at this. Todd forced his focus on his opponent's eyes, using it as a point for focus so he didn't black out.
He glared deep into the sky blue eyes, every detail of his veins and-
Todd's eyes widened as he looked closer at the veins, realizing that the white haired man wasn't a human and he pieced together what he really was.
Twisting his body around, Todd hooked one leg around the man's neck and kicked into the thing's ribs. Todd then twisted and the odd pupils went wide as the white man flipped around onto his feet.
Todd then kept his grip as he leaned back and sat on the shirtless man, his eyes noticing writing on the back of the man's neck. An inscription that froze his blood.
AMHS – 1000P
FOH Android Mutant Hunter
Prototype 1000 Series
"You're a robot?" Todd asked in disbelief.
The android then lurched up, flinging Todd through the hole as he rose, and turned to pursue the green mutant when he was intercepted.
By a red laser.
Scott glared at the android, his glasses held in one hand while the other held his body up. The white hair android was blasted through a wall and Scott closed his eyes when he saw the android was gone.
Todd looked down in the section he was in and saw the thing pulling itself out of the wall, flexing its arms. The Android then looked at him and began to walk toward him, Todd growling as he two headed towards the thing.
The same people that had tried to kill him years ago, and just now Scott, had made a machine design to kill all of Todd's kind. Like hell he was going to go without giving a hell of a fight first.
Todd side stepped the flying fist, punching the android with all his fury in the sternum. The thing didn't even breath, it's arm flinging at Todd's head in a backhand swipe. Grabbing the arm and spinning around, Todd used the limb as leverage to hoist his body up in the air to kick the android in the head.
The thing jerked forward and spun around with a spin kick, a screeching scream coming from the mouth. The amphibious mutant ducked under the limb and hammered his foot against the abs of his attack, sending the android skidding backwards.
Todd attacked first this time, his foot a blur to the normal human eye as he launched a kick at the things head. But this thing was on a robotic level and swatted his attack away with the flick of a wrist.
As his leg was falling down, the android stepped in and punch him square in the chest. Todd barely tightened his muscles in time, the force of the single blow launching him backwards.
As Todd flew back, he lashed out with his tongue and jerked the android into the air with the same force used on him. The android screeched as it crashed through all the construction crap.
Todd landed in a heap and tumbled head over heels until he hit a wall, all the way down the floor from the section Summers was in. Todd gasped as he sat up, the android bolting up in a robotic fury. Todd groaned several curses out as he scrambled to his feet
They were fifteen feet apart, crates, tables, unused bricks, tools and other equipment all laying between them. Todd jumped up onto a large table and ran to the android, the machine jumping up at Todd reached him.
Todd just jumped slightly and spun kicked him back off, the pristine body crashing through a crate. The android rolled onto its feet and flipped onto the same table as Todd, the two staring at each other.
Todd stepped forward and began a frenzy of kicks, the Android matching him kick for kick. Sometimes they blocked with their hands, most times they just collided together with kicks.
The only reason Todd was able to keep going with impacts against the metal bones of the android was due to his superhuman strength in legs and his super-strong bones.
Todd and the android both spun at the same time and their legs collided, holding each other again. Todd pulled his other leg in and dropped down to his hands while his other went behind the one the android was standing on.
Twisting his body and hips around, Todd tore the android off his feet and sent him down on the table. The impact was so powerful that the table was split in half and both fell through on the concrete.
Todd rolled back and flipped up from a handspring, the android rolling up into a crouch as he started to stand. The teenage mutant launched a side kick at the androids head but the thing caught him with one hand and flung him off to the side.
Todd screamed as he went through the side of a crate and out the other side, knocking over a box of tools. The android stood up and stalked towards him, Todd rolling along the ground as he came closer and rolled over his shoulder as the thing arched its foot over and around to crush the cement where he had been
Propped up on one knee, Todd leaned back out of the reach of a kick and, as he came back up, used his forearm to block another attack.
Quick as a snake, Todd lashed his arms around the androids leg and slammed his shoulder into his hip joint as he stood up. Swinging him around, Todd slammed the robot into a stack of bricks.
The thing dropped to the ground when Todd released it and rolled onto its feet. The thing's skin was chipped in a few places and a blue liquid oozed out, similar to the way Todd's arms were bleeding.
The android looked down at its body, arching an eyebrow at its apparent bleeding. It then looked up at Todd, glaring at him from under half-open lids.
Todd turned with the oncoming punch but this time rolled away from the thing, moving diagonally away. The Android let a hiss out and jumped atop a crate in front of Todd, flipping over his kick.
Arching over Todd, the robot landed behind him and blocked the rear thrust kick. Knocking his leg aside, Todd was spun around and lifted up by the uppercut to the chest. As he came down, Todd slapped the next punch aside and pummeled the android in the face with a jab.
The thing's head snapped back and went to punch him again, this time in the diaphragm, but Todd lunged to the side. As he leaped away, Todd slammed his knee into his chest.
As the robot fell back, Todd landed on his hands and shot both feet into the android's back. The machine was so caught off guard, that it was sent through the ceiling and landed with a thud.
As Todd rolled forward onto his feet, the thing let out another banshee like screech and punched another hole in the roof, dropping in from the roof. Todd spun around and kicked back the kick that was sent at him, both fighters sent skidding away.
Todd then saw the path he had run down earlier, the elevator still there. Instead of turning to run, Todd rolled on the ground and took off to the exit. The android screeched and the sounds of it following him at a fast pace. Todd felt every ounce of him, every bruising piece of skin and aching bone, give more than he ever had before to maintain his lead.
He leaped up onto the elevator and made it look like he was going to bounce onto the next level, the android following right behind him. Todd then backflipped, grabbing the metal cord as the android cleared the length easily to the next level.
The thing watched as Todd shimmied up the wire and swung onto the piping area. The android's eyes glowered a blue color, the metal flaps opening as it did so.
Todd frowned when he heard a humming sound, the right hand of android sliding forward from the wrist where the metal disks were. The hand rotated out and replaced itself with a nozzle, the robot aim it at Todd.
"Aw, shit!" Todd yelled, a blue orb fired at him.
Stepping back and letting go of the pipes, Todd dropped down just as the energy shot over his head. It raced through the air and struck the edge of a pipe.
The explosion shook the entire foundation, Todd barely landing on the pipes and had to leap from it as shards of fire rained down around. Todd landed in a crouch and roll on the semi-complete roof of the second, not more than twenty feet of room until the piping took over.
Todd looked behind him as the android jumped up onto the roof, the gun switching out for his hand again. The android then kicked a piece of burning pipe at Todd, launching it like a fireball. Leaping up in a spin, Todd nailed it back at the android and as he landed the thing was right beside him.
Moving at the same time, the android hooked Todd in the stomach and Todd kicked him in the kneecaps. As the android fell to one knee, Todd stumbled back and coughed as his lungs burned with unholy pain.
The android then swept its leg around and Todd was knocked clean off his feet, the androids foot continuing around to drop its heel in Todd's stomach. The amphibious mutant screamed as the blow pounded against his body.
Grabbing the leg, Todd twisted with all his strength and made the android twist off of him. Rolling to the side, Todd went to punch the robot but the android swung back and sent Todd bouncing back without more than a glance.
Todd narrowed his eyes as he climbed to his feet, trying to think of what he could do; every ounce of his strength wasn't doing him any good because the android kept coming back with more. And he was nearly faster than Todd too, his superhuman strength the only thing that kept him some what ahead in the fight. Shaking off all the burning sensations, Todd looked for a weakness the thing had but didn't seem to be one.
Then it hit him; a lesson he had been taught by Darius.
"But what happens when I fight someone strong than me, yo?"
"Then don't use strength, dude. There are more factors in a fight than strength; skills, speed, endurance, will, fury, flexibility. Chances are that you will have at least on of these things that the other doesn't have and you can always combined two to make a dangerous advantage."
"Will that always work?"
"I dunno, little bro. You'll have to see one day, if you ever fight a giant…hahahaha"
Todd took a deep breath and exhaled, shifting his position so he was sideways as the android started to come forward again.
The hook came but Todd punched up on the bicep, pushing on the arm to make the limp wrap around the androids neck. Todd then punched the things face and kicked it back, the android screeching as it threw a kick forward.
Todd arched his leg around and slammed the robots foot down, the power from their kicks crushing the cement. When the thing tried to kick him, Todd slammed his shoulder and elbow into the things side.
As the android went to punch him, Todd grabbed his shoulder and jumped over him. Landing behind him, Todd jumped back at him and kicked him with all this strength with both feet.
The android flew into a steel beam, denting it from the pressure of the kick. The android whirled around and ran at Todd, tackling him head on. Because of the dust, they went sliding to the edge and Todd kicked him off as they just rolled off.
Todd twisted around and free fell for twenty feet before landing, rolling on the ground to save his legs. Looking up, Todd watched as the robot crashed into a massive pile of barrels and sent a wave of liquids streaming everywhere.
The Brotherhood mutant then turned around and raced back into the construction site, intent on getting Summers and blowing this damn joint. Todd jumped up and grabbed onto the edge of the elevator and pulled himself up.
Todd then jumped to first concrete level, grabbing onto a rebar that was sticking out and swung down to the floor. Racing back down the hallway, Todd leaped back through the hole in the wall to where Scott was standing.
"Yo, Summers, you ready to bust this joint?" Todd asked as he grabbed Scott.
"Yeah, you said it, man. My arm feels like it's on fire." Scott hissed as his good arm was swung over. "Did you beat that guy?"
"I think so." Todd said, his breath hitching. "He didn't get up anyway, yo."
"Jesus, he was strong. Do you think he was a mutant?"
Todd was about to reply, when he finished turning around and froze, Scott freezing too.
The android was right there, standing on the edge. Its body was covered in small nicks with a long gash along his side, the blue liquid seeping out slightly. There was strong, sickly stench on the robots body and the two mutants realized the thing was doused in gasoline.
The thing screeched as it lift it's left arm, Todd detangling himself from Scott.
"Christ…" Scott exclaimed under his breath.
"He ain't a mutant; he's a robot, one designed to hunt us mutants down, yo." Todd said, circling the android. "I might be ab-"
Scott reached for his glasses and ripped them off, his optic laser searing to the android. The robot side stepped the beam and backhanded Scott. The blow sent him sprawling, his glasses skidding behind the android.
The android was about to punch through Scott's head when the leg of a par of cargo pant hammered his chest and two bare arms grabbed him in a headlock. Todd heaved the android back, the two crushing Scott's glasses before they made yet another hole in the wall.
"Thanks, Summers, thanks a whole shit load...AGAIN!" Todd shouted, rolling onto his shoulders.
The android had no idea what happened next; Todd held him upside down on his shoulders and then kneed him with one leg and kicked him with the other. The robot fell forward on its face and smacked down on its chest.
Todd rolled to the side and stood up quickly while the android literally pushed its body up from the floor.
The android lift its left arm again and this time, Todd saw why.
The forearms spilt in half and the hand folded into it, the arm closing up. Lashing its arm out to the side an eight foot metal cable whipped out and gouged a tear in the wall. The cord looped over his head and hung over his shoulder, his blue eyes now showing a hunger for battle
The metal whip flew at Todd, the Brotherhood mutant barely ducking over as the whip brushed over back of his hoodie. The whip came around again and Todd managed throw himself over in a handless cartwheel but was kicked in the side just as he landed.
Todd flipped up and his head whipped to the side with a scream as the tip of the whip caught his face. Todd grabbed his left cheek, the cut running from his nose to his ear.
There was no reprieve in this fight though; the android lashed the whip around his neck and threw Todd across the room while he recoiled from his wound. Todd flew through the air and crash back into the construction equipment.
Groaning, Todd looked around the stuff to see what could help him and saw a six foot pipe seven feet away. Looking over his shoulder, Todd saw the android rapidly approaching the amphibious mutant. Scrambling to his feet, the teenager jumped as the whip lased under him and he spat a glob of slime in the robots face.
The android stumbled back, the whip lashing rapidly before it as it clawed at its face. Todd lunged forward and grabbed the pipe, swinging it around with all his strength at the robots head.
The thing went flying head first into a group of barrels, tear some open and knock others on top of its self. Gas and oil poured all over the robot and seeping out through the rest of the floor. The android stood up and used the only hand it had available, tearing the gunk off his face with a sing motion.
Todd spun the pipe around and held it at one end and the android cocked its head, a gash on its head showing the metal skin beneath the skin.
Before Todd was able to make a smartass comment, the android lashed its arm forward and the whip sailed through the air. Todd brought the pipe down the whip as he spun around and threw his foot out in a kick at the android's head.
The android caught his foot with its right had and Todd spun to his leg, the pipe bashing against the things head. Landing in a crouch as the android slid back, the Brotherhood mutant used both ends of the pipe to smash its body. The thing took the first few hits but suddenly lurched to one side, ducking in the direction of the pipe and kicking the center of it into Todd's chest
Todd flipped back and over onto his back, yelling as he cracked the pipe against the androids foot. The thing staggered away as it lashed down at Todd, cutting the pipe in half.
Twisting his hips, Todd spun his legs around and fell backwards onto his feet. The android swung its arm around again and Todd dropped down to avoid the cord that could easily take his head off.
Grabbing the pipes, the amphibious mutant pelted the android in the head with the pipe. Todd chopped the thing on either side of the head next with both pieces, backflipping over the whip and landing on the tip.
The android pulled it and Todd's feet out from under him, the tip wrapping around Todd's ankle as he fell. Todd was suddenly jerked off the ground and bodily slammed against the wall, the amphibious mutant dropping the pipes on impact.
Todd groaned as he fell to the ground; he was beginning to feel the fight, his muscles losing their energy.
He screamed as he thrown back at the construction equipment again, landing on top of tools again. Todd grabbed the palate of cinder bricks and anchored his body there when the android tried to pull him again.
Growling as he held himself , ignoring the ripping feeling in his leg, Todd looked around the tools and saw a hammer that could double as a hatchet. The android just then gave a brutal tug and Todd felt his shoulder sockets bounce, the wood he was holding on to cracking in his hands as well as his hip joint straining to hold its self together.
Todd's tongue flew out and wrapped around the hammer, pulling it back to him. Todd let go as the thing tugged again and flew right at the android, the Brotherhood mutant turning his body as he flew past the left arm.
His arm swung around and spark and blue gunk sprayed out, a mechanical scream filling the room.
Todd somersaulted midair and landed in a crouch, looking over his shoulder at the thing. The android was looking at its whip-less hand and it had a pissed off look on its face. Its crescent eyes black and blue eyes looked at Todd as the left wrist rotated the destroyed whip back into the arm and brought its hand out.
Todd swung the hatchet at the androids head, the robot side stepping it, and the Brotherhood mutant gave a backhand slash, the android backhand the hammer from his hands. His foot then flew up and kicked Todd in the ribs and in the head with the same leg, in the same motion. Todd grunted as he stepped back and only just blocked the third kick with his arms.
The android twisted his body to deliver another kick but Todd kicked it back, dropping down and sweeping the leg with a spin. The android's body made a wet smack as it hit the gas and oil covered floor.
The robot simultaneously kicked Todd behind the legs and in the stomach, flipping him over onto the ground. Todd used the momentum of falling to roll back into a hand stand and fall onto his feet, the android flying up with a handspring onto his feet.
Todd then noticed how far the gas was spread, ducking under a spin and returning one of his own. The robot blocked it with its forearm and smacked its forearm against Todd's head. The Brotherhood mutant spun back and jumped over another kick, blocking as he landed.
The android sent a barrage of punch to Todd, the amphibious mutant blocking and dodging the torrent of fists. The android grabbed one hand, hooking Todd across the face with its free arm. Todd took the blow and the grabbed the hand, hammering the robot in the side.
Leaping up, Todd slammed both feet into his chest and sent the thing back into a wall. Todd landed on his back, one of the pieces of pipe under his back as he crashed. Rolling off it, Todd looked up to see the android pulling itself out of another hole.
The construction company was goanna hate the-
Todd saw the piping system he had been climbing, the mutant deciding to move the fight elsewhere.
Todd ran at the android and before the thing reacted, Todd spun kicked him aside. The android was only knocked aside and grabbed Todd, flinging him at the hole he had made. Todd flew outside and grabbed a bar, flipping around and he began climbing it.
The android screeched and lurched after him, Todd backflipping so he was behind the robot. Todd grabbed the bar and booted the android as he swung around. The thing slipped down a pipe and Todd jumped on its shoulder, pushing up on a bar when its head caught on the pipe.
Todd yelled, the android soon joining in with its screeching, as the bars began to groan and the android grabbed Todd's foot.
The green mutant was ripped from his pole and slammed against the other poles before being hurtled upwards. Todd bounced off a pipe and landed fully on his right shoulder, screaming as he fell off. The back of his right shoulder his another pipe, the amphibious mutant hooking his legs around the pipe to steady himself.
Swinging down, Todd grabbed the pipe below him and held himself steady as he looked for the android.
The thing was hopping up pole after pole, the android three sections below him. Todd growled and swung out into the center of the square, dropping down. His legs shot out and wedged himself between two pieces of pipe, Todd's tongue wrapping around the android's throat.
Todd then leaned back and kicked off of the pipes, snatching the android off the pipes.
The two battling freaks plummeted down until Todd released the android and jump up from a nearby pipe to kick the falling robot in the back. Because he kicked the thing at an angle, Todd's attack tore a hug chuck of fake skin off of the robots back.
Todd hopped off another pipe and held himself in a square of pipes while the android caught itself above a pipe. It was missing skin all down the right shoulder and partially the upper ribs, nearly half an inch of the body gone.
Underneath the skin was a silver metal, the smooth plates of the steel smeared with a blue grime. The android looked up and screamed, lunging up to Todd.
Todd backflipped away, grabbing a pipe as his back arched over and swung around the pipe as the thing punch the pipe, bending it. Todd then flew up the rigging, using on of the vertical pieces to scurry up it like a lizard.
The robot grabbed the pipe and ripped it off, pulling it down through the binding that held it in place.
Todd yelled as he didn't let go and fell back ten feet, the pipe he grabbed bending since it didn't have the support to keep them secure. Todd saw the android toss the pipe away and begin climbing again, noticing the edge of pipe frame and the container beneath them.
The amphibious mutant dropped down on a piece of pipe and then began to hop from row to row, the android following him underneath. Todd suddenly stopped, dropping down behind the android and hammering him with both legs as he grabbed the pipe and swung forward.
The thing screeched as it flew out from the twenty foot structure, twisting around to face Todd and the flaps opened up. Todd watched as the wrist switch itself and the muzzle of the cannon began to charge.
Todd jumped after him, the blue energy gathering as they started to fall. The teenage mutant then arched his body in an aerial flip and spat a glob of slime at him as he came around, the green mucus covering the gun.
The cannon piece began to spark furiously, the android face showing surprise. One of the sparks hit his chest and the gas and oil was ignited, the android covered in flames. Since he had absolutely doused in it and his skin was only some fake substitute, Todd guess the thing was actually saturated in the flammable liquids.
His body rolling into flip, Todd used his tongue to grab a pipe and pull himself in. Grabbing onto the pipe, Todd looked over as a massive explosion erupted from the things arm.
The entire right side was gone and the fire on the body was still burning, the blue eyes going dark as it fell through the metal container.
Todd released a breathing he had been holding and his body sagged in relief. Twisting around, Todd carefully climbed the piping back to the hole he had been thrown through. Clumsily landing in the concrete room, Todd rolled his neck and looked around for one of the holes.
Todd gasped, his chest shaking in spasms from all the blows he had taking. His lungs were also on fire and his muscles were raw, all their energy completely drained. Even his tongue felt it had been in a tug of war with a great white shark.
Shaking his head, Todd pushed all his pain and exhaustion aside and focused on getting Scott and himself out of here.
Wobbling slightly over to the hole and stepping cautiously through it, Todd saw Scott leaning against the wall. His eyes were squeezed shut and his right arm was nursing his left, his breath ragged.
"Hey, Summers, how are you doing, yo?" Todd asked, his voice raspy from his fight.
"Toad? I'm alright, just as long as I get to the X-mansion." Scott said, looking around blindly for Todd. "How are you, Tolansky; is that thing gone?"
Todd chuckled, leaning down on his knees. "I'm good and that thing's in the scrap pile."
"What happened?"
"Nothing much; it punch me, I punch it, I clogged its laser gun thingy up and it went ka-boom, yo." Todd said with a chuckle, Scott joining in with him. "Come on, let's you back to ya mansion."
Todd carefully took lifted Scott up, one wrapped around his back and the other held his legs up as well. The shorter mutant held him without as sign of strain, although his muscles were burning.
Looking down at the FOH men he had taken care pf earlier, Todd dropped down with Scott to the man he had kicked off the concrete level. The Brotherhood member set the X-Men down and stripped the FOH member of his jacket.
In three quick ties, Todd securely bounded Scott's arm to his chest and proceeded to check his other arm. All the while, Scott was stunned by his knowledge.
"Where did you learn this, Tolansky?" Scott asked as Todd picked him up and slung his good arm over Todd's shoulders.
"First Aid training in school, one class I figured that would be useful, yo." Todd said offhandedly.
And with that, Todd jumped Scott and himself over the fence and they hobbled off to the X-Mansion.
Todd rested the taller mutant down and leaned against the wall, hissing as he rubbed his shins; he could feel the bruise swelling under his pants and the rest of him wasn't so well either. The nicks on the side of his arms weren't bleeding anymore, although they were covered in much blood and grime and the gash on his cheek stung.
Scott rubbed his face, careful to make sure his eyes stayed shut, and adjusted his broken arm in the makeshift sling Todd had made him. He was holding up well but they had to be careful moving him and get him as quickly to the X-Mansion as possible.
They weren't that far from the mansion, not like they had been half an hour ago. It had to be another half a mile or a mile at max. Considering the three they had just made, Todd figured they were doing well, all things considered.
"I need to rest, yo." Todd groaned, glancing back down the alley. "That guy was pretty good but I think I could take him if he pops up again, just gotta be more careful."
"I didn't think you could fight like that, Tolansky." Scott said as he rearranged himself
"And you're the expert on me, yo?" Todd asked snidely.
"Considering how crappy you normally are, I would guess so on your fighting skills." Scott retorted, earn a disgusted snort from the Brotherhood member. "Where did you learn that?"
"From the streets, from a friend I grew up with, yo." Todd said offhandedly and quietly, crouching down.
Todd sighed, looking at his knuckles and how red they were from all the punches and chops he had done, remembering Darius as he did.
Darius would have been proud of Todd had he been shown him all the moves Todd had just done, the older teenager having taught Todd that there was more about fighting than just punching and kicking, as well as free-style running was more than met the eye.
Darius would also be proud of how Todd had acted in the end, saving someone regardless of how felt about him and risking his life to make sure the threat was out of reach.
"Was he good?" Scott asked, earning a glare from Todd.
"I guess you could say he was…if he was a third degree black belt in seven styles before his parents kicked him out for being a mutant." Todd said coldly, looking away as he felt a wave of pain and his toned lightened. "I miss him, actually."
"Maybe I'll meet one day, if Xavier finds him." Scott said, sensing the dejected feeling from Todd and tried to cheer him up. "Then you two could ge-"
"Hey Summers, how do you find someone whose dead?" Todd asked bitterly.
Scott suddenly felt sick in his stomach, realizing his mistake. "I'm sorry, Tolansky, I didn't know."
"No, you didn't, yo." Todd said flatly. "You didn't need to know, either."
Silence stretched between them, Todd staring out as he remembered and Scott realizing that he had pushed too far.
He had just learnt more about Todd in five minutes than his entire time at school with him, surprised at the depth of the supposed useless member of the Brotherhood. Todd was an orphan like him, while his past almost as shadowed and jaded as Wolverine's compared to his own.
"I'll give you this; you got a lot talent with what your friend taught you." Scott said, trying to compliment him. "I seriously think you can give me and any X-Man a run for our money."
"No, I wouldn't." Todd said simply, standing up and twisting his back a bit. "I would beat the sniveling snot out of all of you."
"What?" Scott asked, miffed by Todd's apparent arrogance.
"I got something more than you when it comes to fighting, something you can't learn in that fancy mansion of your's or from any formal teacher." Todd said as he waited for Scott to get his breath. "Your way is good but it's too clean, too perfected and by the book. We got something more, learning it from the street."
"And what would that be?" Scott asked snidely. "Below the belt techniques? Cheap shots?"
Todd looked down the dark road, Scott turning his closed eyes to where Todd was standing and waited for the Brotherhood member to answer. When Todd just slung his arm around Scott's waist and placed Scott's arm on his shoulders, Scott's face became confused.
"Seriously, what do you have, Toad?" Scott asked again, Todd sighing as he walked which perked Scott's curiosity. "Todd?"
"Hatred; I have hatred."
And with that said, Todd carried the battered X-Men leader to the X-Mansion, nothing left to be said.
Well, that's all for now. I'll tidy the rest up of the story up later and post the last chapter soon. And for those of you wnating an idea of what the android looks like, think of Chad Michael Murray. The next won't be as long nor a violent but it will a consquence chapter, if anything.
So, send them reviews on down and tell me what ya think.
Until then, later
-Lin