CHAPTER 1 Announcement
the title will probably change...
Disclaimer: I don't own X-men or anything, (sadly)
Italics = telepathy
Dear Diary,
I will always remember the day my life came to an end. I will always remember the terror as every sense of security I had was ripped from beneath my feet. I will always remember the day that mutants were finally exposed to the world. The day my world and my life came crashing down…
34˚ 05' 13.82″ N 118˚ 11' 40.81″ W. Los Angeles, California USA
MISSION OBJECTIVE: Stop illegal weapon deals at given coordinate. Weapons are extremely dangerous, stolen from a preliminary government testing facility. The man in charge of this crime ring was a mutant capable of cyber manipulation, a level 4 mutant. Highly dangerous and resourceful. Permission to kill if detaining him is impossible.
The team leader, Psylocke grumbled clearly annoyed at the silent and abandoned warehouse. She flexed her arm and lazily swiped her katana through the empty air smirking at the swishing sound it made.
The mission that initially seemed to promise an intense and glorious battle was falling far short of expectations. The small team had arrived over 45 minutes ago and they hadn't even been shot at once.
She was bored. She scanned the building one last time, not surprised at all to find it still completely void of any life forms.
"East wing is clear. Anyone else find anything?" she said sourly into her communicator.
The response from her teammates was immediate.
"Hell no!" snorted Carol. "This place is a wasteland."
"The west wing is empty as well." lulled Emma Frost, sounding just as bored as Psylocke.
"Yeah, South gate and back lot are empty too." came the even, telepathic reply from Chamber.
Psylocke was a soldier, she was brave, loyal and fiercely intelligent and she trusted her new family; her teammates and her boss Adam with her life. So when Adam gave them this mission she accepted the without question, just as she always did.
Adam explained that this mutant was dealing illegal weapons both to various gangs and supposedly to a mutant rebel group. It was an undeniable fact that this man needed to be stopped before he exposed all mutant kind.
Adam said his source was reliable, but when they arrived the warehouse was deserted.
It didn't make sense. They were at the right location but there was no robbery or illegal doings in progress and it looked as if no one had set foot in this place for years.
"Let's meet up in the entrance. Let's get out of here."
"Northstar?" Come in Northstar. Report, what is your status?" Psylocke asked into her communicator.
There was no answer.
Something didn't feel right. The young Asian woman sighed; she did not like this at all.
Five minutes passed and Psylocke, Ms. Marvel, Emma Frost, Chamber and Sage all stood together waiting for their last team member.
"Is anyone else worried?" Ms. Marvel asked.
"What? About Northstar? Nah. He probably dropped his communicator or something—"
"I really don't like this. Adam was wrong."
"When has he ever been wrong before?" Chamber joked, failing miserably in his attempt to lighten the situation, as they all realized at the same instant what was really bothering them; Adam had never steered them wrong before, something was terribly, terribly wrong.
Suddenly the silence of the abandoned warehouse was shattered by a giant crash. The group of mutants froze.
"Sounds like we found Northstar." Carol laughed.
Several more gigantic crashes rang through the warehouse, one after another.
"I don't think that's Northstar."
"They sound like footsteps."
"Shh." Sage hissed, eyes closed, she was trying to sense what was coming.
The ground was shaking beneath their feet, what ever it was it big. Very, very big.
"Run?" Emma inquired.
"Yeah." Sage answered hastily.
The small group, short one member, turned and fled. But they were unable to get very far.
Out of the shadows stepped the source of the earsplitting crashes. It was an enormous thirty foot tall robot, equipped with various and very dangerous looking guns, all of which were aimed at them.
It looked as though they were going to get the dangerous battle they had been looking for but they weren't so confident anymore. In fact they sincerely doubted that all of them would get out of this alive.
~2,825 miles away. Bayville, New York ~
"Oh my god! Look!" someone shouted pointing to the big screen television.
Just who had made the announcement was overlooked and forgotten as soon as the rest of the people in the recreation room stared at the television.
A sudden, eerie silence fell over them all. The ball Sam and Bobby had been throwing fell to the ground and rolled ignored into a corner. Jean dropped her book and Jubilee who had been sitting upside down righted herself and moved closer to the TV.
Everyone in the room held his or her breath as they watched in horror as a group of mutants fought a giant robot. The robot shot green blobs that encased several of the mutants. While those captured fought for their freedom another mutant took to the air and flew into the chest of the robot knocking it backwards into a building.
Professor! Tell everybody to get to the TV room now! There's something you should see. Jean said telepathically. A few moments later the professor and the rest of the residents of the Xavier Institute filed into the recreation room and settled around the TV.
After seeing what he needed, he turned and left the group of stunned mutants starring blankly at the television. Charles Xavier rolled into his office. He had a phone call to make. And so it begins he thought bitterly as he began to dial the number to an old friend…
So here's chapter 1, I wrote this years ago so everything (ie grammar, general English) should get better. Please tell me what you think and thanks for reading. Please review