Outside a dry thunderstorm had started up, the gray sky occasionally
lighting up with a jolt of energy through the clouds. Lance's head jerked
to the side to get a better look at the one stray bolt that had just landed
a few miles outside of Bayville. That was strange considering the lightning
hadn't gone to the ground yet and this certain bolt had chose a spot far
from the ground below it and the tallest building, or tree. It was like
wondering why kamikaze pilots wore helmets, just didn't make sense.
A figure stood by the closed door and a large rumble from distant clouds quickly drowned a faint click out. The storm had temporarily taken the lights as it own, making small children that much afraid and forcing it's show to be seen. The figure took a step toward the window Lance was looking out of thoughtfully like the answer to some deep question was inscribed in the sky by the thunder. From the battery powered radio a garbled, static version of "It's Been Awhile" played, the older teen's ears filtering out the static having adapted to having everything in this run down house not work quite right. A hand twisted the knob until the volume was all the way down causing the earth manipulator to look over just as a flash of lightning revealing a pair of crimson shades.
"What do you want," Lance asked quietly as not to let anyone on the other side of the paper-thin walls hear, "Scott?"
"Something is bothering you."
"Besides the blue bitch cramming us all in here? You getting all leader like and shit about your team when we showed up."
"You knew Mystique had taken Xavier's form, you allowed yourself to be manipulated," Scott snapped back.
As if they were about to engage in a fight Lance turned to face the other graduate, that was something he'd never thought he'd be able to call himself, face set in a frown that didn't reveal any emotion. "Fine, you bring that up against me so much I'll tell you why I did it. I was one of the members of the Brotherhood Magneto decided was fit enough to 'graciously' allow in his new little group, and I went cause I felt I owed the guy something, you know? I saw just how 'little' his team was. He has some mutants like you wouldn't believe, Scott; he has a girl who can mess with people brains, and not with the way Xavier or Red do, and this guy who turns everything he fucking touches into ice. I let Mystique manipulate me because I felt a need to protect the people I care about from them."
"If he has such powerful mutants why didn't he use them?"
"That's what I've been trying to figure out, and I ain't got a thing."
"How many more than the three you met in battle does he have?"
"I don't know, somewhere from ten to twenty, didn't meet them all." There was silence for a moment before Lance spoke again. "To be honest, I'm scared. These aren't any lackeys that'll just have to be pushed aside to get to Magneto."
"We aren't lackeys either," Scott stepped closer to Lance until he was inches from his face, "they might be a challenge, but nothing more." He pressed his lips against Lance's hoping to reassure him in a way.
"I hope you're right," Lance sighed letting Scott take him away from the troubles of his life, their life. What he wasn't looking forward to most was having to fight Pietro, his friend and a traitor.
Outside of Bayville a few miles in a school that had been gutted and charred by a fire and then purchased by a mysterious man and turned into a boarding house of sorts the lights were also out. A girl with hair currently dyed electric blue with purple bangs, but she was seriously considering going back to neon green, ran down the hall towards the foyer stopping as her flashlight gave out.
"Damn it." A few times Aine smacked the flashlight to try and get the batteries to work before tossing it carelessly over her shoulder. She rubbed her hands together before creating a miniature nova to light up her surroundings. Energy lit up the hall as debris was hurled toward the lockers that were now used as. what were they used for? Aine shrugged and continued on her path and skidded across the carpet of the large room, stumbling, and falling into Blue in an attempt to stop.
"Where's your flash light?" The eldest mutant asked standing the girl upright.
"Piece of crap is in the hall," Aine replied sitting down on the sofa and practically kicking Johnny as she stretched out. The foyer had been turned into the living room and mostly everyone was gathered there. "Scoot. over. John!" Aine emphasized each word with a kick.
"Hey, mate, your bloody feet don't need that much room!" Johnny snapped shoving her feet over and off the couch.
Aine shook her head multiple rings jangling from their holes in her head. "Touchy, touchy, Johnny."
The lights flickered briefly as the back up generator finally decided to come to life and a few lights turned on. The intercom was also turned on as it crackled to life and Magneto's voice rang throughout the house.
"Savage, Vampiress, Nova, Summoner, Lockpick, and Blade, to the office in ten minutes, come suited up. I've a mission for you six."
Aine stretched and got up, kicking Johnny for the hell of it and went back to her room to change into her battle outfit. Blue shook his head and headed to his own room wondering what Magneto wanted from them.
"You're going to destroy the Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding house," Magneto explained as the six he'd called stood waiting to be dismissed. Pietro stood in the corner, waiting for his part in this to come in. He sat silently, used to staying out of the way of the other residence, most of them hated him because he betrayed his team and being the boss' son didn't help matters much. "Quicksilver will show you the way. Vampiress, Savage."
The two girls nodded looking at him with their strangely pale eyes, one set blue and the other hazel.
"Bring back as many powers as you can. The rest of you concentrate on causing as much damage as possible." Nova smiled slightly imagining all the violence involved and held back an evil laugh. "If they don't have a, why don't we call it a base, they'll be easy to. persuade." He paused for a moment and shot a quick glare at Pietro who jumped and hurried over to stand next to the rest. "Bring Mystique back to me, the rest you can do whatever necessary with." He waved his hand in dismissal and the seven left.
"This'll be fun," Nova tipped her top hat to hide her eyes as she sat back in the white van.
Vampiress sat next to her, fanning out her leather jacket that was more like a cloak so she wouldn't sit on it. Savage took the last seat in the very back, Blade and Lockpick took the two in the middle and Quicksilver sat in the passenger's seat to give Blue directions.
"No funny business, daddy's boy," Maya warned from the back in her protective of her friends manner, "or I'll be coming back with a full dose of super speed as my new power, got it?"
"I don't think Magneto would like that very much," Pietro calmly replied.
"We could make up a story," Blade answered with a wicked smirk.
The lightning flashed outside the window, momentarily lighting up the house, and Mystique leaned casually against a wall with the wallpaper peeling off and laughed as Storm talked to her.
"What are you trying to do, wind-rider? Tap into my maternal instincts? I could care less what happens to Kurt." Yellow eyes turned to the white haired woman. "You think I have morals? You couldn't be farther from the truth." She walked to the door turning to speak one last time before leaving. "It's all about survival and when it comes down to it, it's how many heads you're willing to cut off so you can live." With that she left the room leaving an angry Storm behind.
"Why did I even try?" Ororo clenched her fists, making the storm outside rage even harder. "Charles, where are you?" There was a crash from downstairs snapping Storm from her thoughts.
"Don't let the girl's with black hair get near you!" Lance warned as the wall crashed down the victim of a large shadow dog with red demon eyes. It gnashed its teeth and Avalanche was the only one with a clear view of the mutants attacking them.
Naturally Wolverine didn't trust him and with the sound of metal sliding across metal he charged the one with the red shirt and black coat. He was one bound away from her when she held her hand up.
"I don't think they have much of a choice. Sleep," she moved her hand downward and the angry little man's eyes closed and he fell to the floor. Then she turned him over and sunk her fangs into his neck.
"Mr. Logan!" Kitty ran toward him phasing through the giant black dog and tackled Vampiress. "That's, like a disgusting thing to do." Large boots nailed her in the stomach and she was sent back wards.
"Not as disgusting as what you were doing before we got here." With her new heightened senses it was clear that Kitty wasn't all that innocent. "Why don't you take a nap to?" The ground suddenly lurched under her causing her to fall and letting Shadowcat phase through the floor and get away.
"Now is that fair?" Savage wrapped her arm around Lance's throat and pulled her knife out with her free hand, dragging the blade across his arm. "Never thought you to be the type to gang up on a fellow mutant." She bit the end of the fabric she used as a glove and pulled it off before tossing her knife and catching it by the blade to cut herself, then she put it back in it's sheath. Her wound was close to Avalanche's when he suddenly jerked forward to throw her off him.
"I did what I had to." His feet suddenly felt warm and looked down to see that she had set the floor under him on fire.
"Aren't stolen powers great?" An explosion from across the room lit up the dim room setting a still intact wall on fire.
Blade held the chair leg turned blue light saber to Mystique's throat. "Get the chloroform, Lockpick. I'm running out of energy with this thing."
The tan goo joined back together from being blasted in half holding a damp cotton swab. Darwin in chines letters was tattooed on her face and she shoved the swab into Mystique's face. "Don't feel bad, the strongest will always survive." She watched the older woman fall to the floor. "It's nature. Get her into the van."
Blade nodded tossing the blue rod into the wall, slicing a few people minorly on it's way. Then he threw Mystique over his shoulder and headed for the white van.
"Shit." Summoner punched Sunspot in the jaw sending him to the ground. "We've got to leave," he yelled to his teammates. "Bad Fido, down." It obviously wasn't going to work, but it was worth a try.
With that they left as abruptly as them came leaving behind one destroyed house and an evil demon dog that was out of control. They'd also taken one blue bitch with them, so it all worked out.
A/n: What does Magneto want with Mystique? Where is Xavier? Well, we might know in the second chapter, but don't hold your breath. Introduced in this chapter: Nova, Vampiress, Lockpick, Savage, Summoner, and Blade. More peps next chapter. And I apologize for any out of character-ness, it's a lot to remember. I try though, you have to give me that Disclaimer: Me? Own something? That's a riot! Only thing I own is my messed up little Vampiress.
A figure stood by the closed door and a large rumble from distant clouds quickly drowned a faint click out. The storm had temporarily taken the lights as it own, making small children that much afraid and forcing it's show to be seen. The figure took a step toward the window Lance was looking out of thoughtfully like the answer to some deep question was inscribed in the sky by the thunder. From the battery powered radio a garbled, static version of "It's Been Awhile" played, the older teen's ears filtering out the static having adapted to having everything in this run down house not work quite right. A hand twisted the knob until the volume was all the way down causing the earth manipulator to look over just as a flash of lightning revealing a pair of crimson shades.
"What do you want," Lance asked quietly as not to let anyone on the other side of the paper-thin walls hear, "Scott?"
"Something is bothering you."
"Besides the blue bitch cramming us all in here? You getting all leader like and shit about your team when we showed up."
"You knew Mystique had taken Xavier's form, you allowed yourself to be manipulated," Scott snapped back.
As if they were about to engage in a fight Lance turned to face the other graduate, that was something he'd never thought he'd be able to call himself, face set in a frown that didn't reveal any emotion. "Fine, you bring that up against me so much I'll tell you why I did it. I was one of the members of the Brotherhood Magneto decided was fit enough to 'graciously' allow in his new little group, and I went cause I felt I owed the guy something, you know? I saw just how 'little' his team was. He has some mutants like you wouldn't believe, Scott; he has a girl who can mess with people brains, and not with the way Xavier or Red do, and this guy who turns everything he fucking touches into ice. I let Mystique manipulate me because I felt a need to protect the people I care about from them."
"If he has such powerful mutants why didn't he use them?"
"That's what I've been trying to figure out, and I ain't got a thing."
"How many more than the three you met in battle does he have?"
"I don't know, somewhere from ten to twenty, didn't meet them all." There was silence for a moment before Lance spoke again. "To be honest, I'm scared. These aren't any lackeys that'll just have to be pushed aside to get to Magneto."
"We aren't lackeys either," Scott stepped closer to Lance until he was inches from his face, "they might be a challenge, but nothing more." He pressed his lips against Lance's hoping to reassure him in a way.
"I hope you're right," Lance sighed letting Scott take him away from the troubles of his life, their life. What he wasn't looking forward to most was having to fight Pietro, his friend and a traitor.
Outside of Bayville a few miles in a school that had been gutted and charred by a fire and then purchased by a mysterious man and turned into a boarding house of sorts the lights were also out. A girl with hair currently dyed electric blue with purple bangs, but she was seriously considering going back to neon green, ran down the hall towards the foyer stopping as her flashlight gave out.
"Damn it." A few times Aine smacked the flashlight to try and get the batteries to work before tossing it carelessly over her shoulder. She rubbed her hands together before creating a miniature nova to light up her surroundings. Energy lit up the hall as debris was hurled toward the lockers that were now used as. what were they used for? Aine shrugged and continued on her path and skidded across the carpet of the large room, stumbling, and falling into Blue in an attempt to stop.
"Where's your flash light?" The eldest mutant asked standing the girl upright.
"Piece of crap is in the hall," Aine replied sitting down on the sofa and practically kicking Johnny as she stretched out. The foyer had been turned into the living room and mostly everyone was gathered there. "Scoot. over. John!" Aine emphasized each word with a kick.
"Hey, mate, your bloody feet don't need that much room!" Johnny snapped shoving her feet over and off the couch.
Aine shook her head multiple rings jangling from their holes in her head. "Touchy, touchy, Johnny."
The lights flickered briefly as the back up generator finally decided to come to life and a few lights turned on. The intercom was also turned on as it crackled to life and Magneto's voice rang throughout the house.
"Savage, Vampiress, Nova, Summoner, Lockpick, and Blade, to the office in ten minutes, come suited up. I've a mission for you six."
Aine stretched and got up, kicking Johnny for the hell of it and went back to her room to change into her battle outfit. Blue shook his head and headed to his own room wondering what Magneto wanted from them.
"You're going to destroy the Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding house," Magneto explained as the six he'd called stood waiting to be dismissed. Pietro stood in the corner, waiting for his part in this to come in. He sat silently, used to staying out of the way of the other residence, most of them hated him because he betrayed his team and being the boss' son didn't help matters much. "Quicksilver will show you the way. Vampiress, Savage."
The two girls nodded looking at him with their strangely pale eyes, one set blue and the other hazel.
"Bring back as many powers as you can. The rest of you concentrate on causing as much damage as possible." Nova smiled slightly imagining all the violence involved and held back an evil laugh. "If they don't have a, why don't we call it a base, they'll be easy to. persuade." He paused for a moment and shot a quick glare at Pietro who jumped and hurried over to stand next to the rest. "Bring Mystique back to me, the rest you can do whatever necessary with." He waved his hand in dismissal and the seven left.
"This'll be fun," Nova tipped her top hat to hide her eyes as she sat back in the white van.
Vampiress sat next to her, fanning out her leather jacket that was more like a cloak so she wouldn't sit on it. Savage took the last seat in the very back, Blade and Lockpick took the two in the middle and Quicksilver sat in the passenger's seat to give Blue directions.
"No funny business, daddy's boy," Maya warned from the back in her protective of her friends manner, "or I'll be coming back with a full dose of super speed as my new power, got it?"
"I don't think Magneto would like that very much," Pietro calmly replied.
"We could make up a story," Blade answered with a wicked smirk.
The lightning flashed outside the window, momentarily lighting up the house, and Mystique leaned casually against a wall with the wallpaper peeling off and laughed as Storm talked to her.
"What are you trying to do, wind-rider? Tap into my maternal instincts? I could care less what happens to Kurt." Yellow eyes turned to the white haired woman. "You think I have morals? You couldn't be farther from the truth." She walked to the door turning to speak one last time before leaving. "It's all about survival and when it comes down to it, it's how many heads you're willing to cut off so you can live." With that she left the room leaving an angry Storm behind.
"Why did I even try?" Ororo clenched her fists, making the storm outside rage even harder. "Charles, where are you?" There was a crash from downstairs snapping Storm from her thoughts.
"Don't let the girl's with black hair get near you!" Lance warned as the wall crashed down the victim of a large shadow dog with red demon eyes. It gnashed its teeth and Avalanche was the only one with a clear view of the mutants attacking them.
Naturally Wolverine didn't trust him and with the sound of metal sliding across metal he charged the one with the red shirt and black coat. He was one bound away from her when she held her hand up.
"I don't think they have much of a choice. Sleep," she moved her hand downward and the angry little man's eyes closed and he fell to the floor. Then she turned him over and sunk her fangs into his neck.
"Mr. Logan!" Kitty ran toward him phasing through the giant black dog and tackled Vampiress. "That's, like a disgusting thing to do." Large boots nailed her in the stomach and she was sent back wards.
"Not as disgusting as what you were doing before we got here." With her new heightened senses it was clear that Kitty wasn't all that innocent. "Why don't you take a nap to?" The ground suddenly lurched under her causing her to fall and letting Shadowcat phase through the floor and get away.
"Now is that fair?" Savage wrapped her arm around Lance's throat and pulled her knife out with her free hand, dragging the blade across his arm. "Never thought you to be the type to gang up on a fellow mutant." She bit the end of the fabric she used as a glove and pulled it off before tossing her knife and catching it by the blade to cut herself, then she put it back in it's sheath. Her wound was close to Avalanche's when he suddenly jerked forward to throw her off him.
"I did what I had to." His feet suddenly felt warm and looked down to see that she had set the floor under him on fire.
"Aren't stolen powers great?" An explosion from across the room lit up the dim room setting a still intact wall on fire.
Blade held the chair leg turned blue light saber to Mystique's throat. "Get the chloroform, Lockpick. I'm running out of energy with this thing."
The tan goo joined back together from being blasted in half holding a damp cotton swab. Darwin in chines letters was tattooed on her face and she shoved the swab into Mystique's face. "Don't feel bad, the strongest will always survive." She watched the older woman fall to the floor. "It's nature. Get her into the van."
Blade nodded tossing the blue rod into the wall, slicing a few people minorly on it's way. Then he threw Mystique over his shoulder and headed for the white van.
"Shit." Summoner punched Sunspot in the jaw sending him to the ground. "We've got to leave," he yelled to his teammates. "Bad Fido, down." It obviously wasn't going to work, but it was worth a try.
With that they left as abruptly as them came leaving behind one destroyed house and an evil demon dog that was out of control. They'd also taken one blue bitch with them, so it all worked out.
A/n: What does Magneto want with Mystique? Where is Xavier? Well, we might know in the second chapter, but don't hold your breath. Introduced in this chapter: Nova, Vampiress, Lockpick, Savage, Summoner, and Blade. More peps next chapter. And I apologize for any out of character-ness, it's a lot to remember. I try though, you have to give me that Disclaimer: Me? Own something? That's a riot! Only thing I own is my messed up little Vampiress.