Invasion

Remote Location, Scottish Planes, Home of Alastor Moody

"Shadowcat you go through the west end and I will enter though the east," ordered Nightcrawler. They had arrived at their destination and were going to make contact. They had a little trouble getting through Moody's wards but they were X-Men they could get through anything. Shadowcat was to make her way through the western wall and incapacitate their target while Nightcrawler would find a window to teleport through, unlike her he couldn't go through walls. He would help her as quickly as possible and then they were to return to their base of operations and wait for the others.

Shadowcat made it through the wall easily and had to find the target. For a man that was so paranoid it was easy to get into his house. She crept through the house careful to not make any noise. She could have sworn that Moody was in the living room but he was gone now. She was feeling a little apprehensive now. She pulled out the heat seeker that they received from Tony Stark before the mission, so she could find her partner. One look at the device and she knew she was in trouble. It showed not only Nightcrawler coming from the rear of the building but also two more presence behind her and to her right. "Dang" was all she got out before a red beam of light hit her from behind.

Or rather it would have hit her if it hadn't gone through her and stuck the wall. She took evasive action trying to dodge the beams or light that she could not see where they were coming from. She dodged a spell that blew a large hole in the wall. Another one made all the fish in the fish tank freeze. She was about to phase out through the wall when her opponents showed decided to show themselves. One was their target Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, and the other was a red haired woman in her forties. They began firing their spells in earnest trying to bring the young mutant down.

Nightcrawler quickly came to the aid of his friend and dispatched the female attacker by dropping from the ceiling and a quick kick to the skull. Shadowcat used the distraction of the female falling to slightly phase through Moody living him unconscious but she never got close. He was quick with his spells and fast on his feet even with a pegged leg. Nightcrawler entered the fray taking some of Moody's attention. They were all quickly tiring so Shadowcat did the only thing she could think of. She phased through the floor till she was under Moody and phased him through the floor to his neck. Moody was so startled that he dropped his wand.

They tied up the woman and were trying to figure out a way to localize the threat of Moody when he started laughing. "Aye good fight. I see Xavier is teaching you well," said an amused Moody at their gobsmacked expressions. "You can let me go Xavier told me you were coming."

"Mosuir, if you knew we were coming then why did you put up such a fight?" asked Nightcrawler.

"We had to make the fight look believable incase Dumbledore showed up after he got the message your going to send. Now untie Amelia or you are going to have another battle on your hands." Moody quickly added when he notice the witch starting to stir. He did not want to encounter another redhead's ire. He still remembered having to get a new leg after that red head that took Potter set his leg aflame.

"If these are the friends you are talking about Alastor then I hate to see what your enemies would do." said Amelia. She and Moody had been discussing what Dumbledore was trying to do to Harry and neither of them liked it very much. Yes Amelia wanted the boy to attend Hogwarts and maybe be friends with her niece, but she was against forcing him to come. And then the old goat abducts a friend of Harry's to get him to come. Why not just send him a letter and see if he would agree to attend the school. Moody also felt the direct approach was best. Especially after he met Professor Xavier a year ago and discussed the well being of the young boy. He even promised to come to the States and talk to Harry about the merits of attending the school of his parents. He was even prepared to help find another school for the boy. He was also the one to tell Xavier the location of their missing mutant.

"Lets get to Flame Manor and wait for the others," said Shadowcat.

Meanwhile at Hogwarts 7:30 PM

"Quite down everyone, let the meeting come to order." shouted Dumbledore. We have issues to discuss. Now earlier today I was sent a letter from Charles Xavier stating that they have kidnapped Alastor Moody." Shouts were heard from all twelve people in attendance. Dumbledore let them continue for a few more minutes before taking control once again. "Now for those of you not aware this is also the same individual that abducted Harry Potter two years ago. They said they would trade Moody for the man we captured." More shout filled the room saying they needed to rescue Harry. One such shout came from Remus Lupin. He was a former friend of James Potter's before the man died. He wanted what was best for the young boy and vowed to rescue him from this man.

"I expect they will coming here to rescue their friend and might bring Harry with them as collateral. I have set the wards to allow Harry through but keep the muggles out." he said smugly. We will rescue the Boy-Who-Lived and send our detainee to Azkaban Prison." Those present shouted with glee.

"I don't know why we are bothering rescuing the brat Headmaster" said the snarkey tones of the Potion Master Severus Snape. "The arrogant whelp probably went with them willingly." Only Dumbledore knew how true that statement was.

"Be that as it may Severus, the boy belongs with us. We cannot return him to his relatives because the wards have fallen, so we will have to figure out where to place him" said the Headmaster.

"My family will be happy to take him, Professor!" stated Arthur Weasley. He had a son that was the same age as the boy as well as a daughter that was just smitten with the lad."

"Yes, yes that would be a marvelous idea Arthur." said Dumbledore with a twinkle in his eyes. 'Yes the boy would be safe living with a light family.'

"What about Moody?" asked Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt. He didn't like the fact that they were going to abandon his mentor.

"No worries he can take care of his self," Dumbledore waved off. "I am sure we will be able to get the location from Harry after we rescue him." He added after seeing the stormy look from the Auror. "We have five teams of Aurors that can patrol the boundaries of the school. They will be stationed one at the gates, two for the Forbidden Forest, and two more in Hogsmead. If they witness anything suspicious they will alert me immediately. The rest of us will stay alert with Remus and Severus guarding the prisoner." He gave the rest of those assembled their assignments and dismissed the meeting.

Flame Manor, Ireland 8:30 PM

When the four arrived at headquarters they entered the War Room. Moody and Amelia were amazed at the group of individuals that were assembled. Moody recognized the messy hair that could only belong to a Potter as well as the two mutants that had rescued Harry from his relatives. He also recognized the hero or menus (depending on what you read) of Spiderman and the gold and red robot known as Iron Man. The other heroes he didn't know. He was soon introduced to Steve Rodgers (Captain America), Daredevil (Matt Murdock).

"Alright now that we are all here we need to make a plan to get into Hogwarts." stated Professor Xavier. "We know Logan is being kept in the Dungeons at Hogwarts. We need a plan to get in and out with minimum injuries. We can expect that Dumbledore will have reinforcements by the time we arrive. Alastor who would he call for help?"

"Well he would call me, Arthur Weasley, Hagrid, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, and a few others. We can expect about ten to twelve others. You would have the element of surprise because Albus does not know what you are capable of. He may raise the wards to try and keep you out, but Potter being an Heir of Hogwarts can let you all in.," explained Moody. "He also might call in the Aurors." As soon as the sentence left his mouth a Black Spotted Owl arrived with a letter for Harry.

"Wait why aren't you coming with us?" asked Spiderman as Harry read his message.

"We have to make the old goat think I'm still loyal to him. He'll be suspicious if I come with you unbound. Amelia can't come because we need someone inside the Ministry to keep an eye on the old man."

"Well according to someone code named Dark Raven, it looks like there will be five teams of Aurors, and ten others will be in the castle," said Harry.

"How do we know we can trust the message?" asked Bobby Drake

"He ended the letter with Howlett saids hey runt." The boy stated like it answered everything. "Trust me this is a friend," he quickly added.

"I can take care of the Auror problem," said Amelia. "I can order an all Auror mandatory training session. It will take care of any Auror loyal to Albus as well as give my Aurors necessary training."

"Sounds good," said Scott. "We should hit the school before dawn. It will give us the element of surprise."

"True but how are we going to know where the entrance to the dungeon is?" asked Harry.

"Well Harry, that is where our friend and conspirator comes in. I will not tell you his name but know that he has helped create a map of the school giving the location of everyone inside. It is the precursor and more advance of the map the Harry's father and friends made. I will have the map and relay any information when we get there. Are there any questions?" asked the Professor. "Good now lets start planning."

The planning session lasted late into the night. Harry was so excited for his first mission he could hardly sleep. He couldn't wait to see Logan. After tossing and turning for an hour he was finally claimed by the Sandman.

4:30 AM outside Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"Why are we out here Willis, no one in their right mind would try and get into Hogwarts," whined a man in scarlet and gray robes. He was joined by another man also dressed the same. They were assigned to the entrance gate incase the invaders tried to enter that way. Another group clad in scarlet and gray guarding the Forbidden Forest.

"I know," said his partner. "But the Headmaster said patrol the gates so we patrol the gates. He's Albus freakin' Dumbledore. I wasn't going to question him. He was upset that they were out so early but he was alert al the same. Looking towards the village of Hogsmead he thought he saw something suspicious. He motioned to his partner that he saw something. They watched, as the shape got larger and notice it was a patronus shaped like a falcon.

"All aurors are to report for mandatory training at Five AM. Any Auror not present for training can kiss their jobs good-bye!" came the voice of Amelia Bones Head of the Aurors.

"What do we do Jake?" asked Willis. "I need this job."

"I know man it's 4:40 so we have to decide now. 'Why would she wait so late' he wondered. 'Would she really fire us if we don't show? What about all the Aurors on special assignment.' He knew that they had to go. They were not senior enough to skip the training.

"Hey what are you guys going to do?" asked one of the approaching teams.

"I think we should go," said Willis. "If anything happens Dumbledore will alert the Ministry before it's too late." All the Aurors agreed. Before they left Kingsley sent a message to Dumbledore. To bad he never go the message for which was intercepted by the wards controlled by the heir of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, Harry Potter.

They invaders split up into three teams. Team one was on stand by and lookout, they would stay outside. The team included Captain America, Storm, and Rouge. They would stay with Xavier and offer support if needed. Team two would be in charge of incapacitating anyone on the ground floor that approaches their position. This team was made up of Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, and Iceman. Team Three would go in and get Logan. This team comprised of Mission Leader Cyclopes, Daredevil (because he can see traps), Iron Man, Shadowcat, Spiderman and Harry. Harry was going because he refused to stay with team one and could operate the wards. Professor X would be able to communicate with all the teams.

"They entered the massive castle that they stared in awe of when they first saw it. It was the most beautiful thing Harry ever saw. He knew he could attend the school here, but he didn't know if he wanted to after all this. He would think about it later but now he had to focus on the mission freeing Logan. The two teams split up at the entrance hall with team three headed for the dungeons. Hogwarts was feeding Harry with the location off all those within the Castle. He knew that there were four people patrolling the dungeons and two inside the room with Logan. Shadowcat and Spiderman went ahead of the group as scouts. Shadowcat returned first reporting that there were two guards sleeping up ahead and one more patrolling the corridor.

POV Spiderman

Spidey watched as Shadowcat phased through the wall. 'Sweet' he thought to his self before climbing the walls. He slinked along the ceiling watching as Kitty popped her head out of the wall looking around. He snorted to his self. He quickly webbed up the two sleeping guards suspending them from the ceiling. When he reached the third guard he lowered his self with his web till he was directly behind the patrolman as he turned to go back down the hall. The guard was none other than Arthur Weasley. "Hi, I'm Spiderman!" stated the webslinger to the confused redhead. "You know Spidey, Menus to Society, according to Jameson he added under his breath, No doesn't ring a bell. Well let me introduce myself, I am your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, and the kid behind you is Mage" he added noticing Harry sneaking up on the confused man. Arthur quickly turned around noticing the eleven year old boy.

"Goodness your Harr…" he was quickly incapacitated by Daredevil.

"Cyclopes and Shadowcat took out the other guard," came the robotic tone of Iron Man. The quartet left to join the other two at the door to the room holding their friend. But not before Spidey placed the redhead in one of the many suits of amour in the dungeon.

"There seems to be some kind of alarm on the door," stated Daredevil.

"Hogwarts said she can't take the wards down," added Harry.

"Well we'll just have to blow it down then," said Cyclopes. He took aim at the door but his optical blast just bounced of the door. He tried again with a lot more power but it once again bounced off the wall, destroying a suit of armor.

"Looks like they were expecting that." said Daredevil. Shadowcat tried phasing through the door but that didn't work either.

"Well we are just going to have to blast our way in" said Iron Man. He sent a mini missile blowing the door from its hinges and sending an alarm to Dumbledore. The six heroes entered the room to find a bound Snape and a knocked out Remus Lupin lying under the door. Logan was grinning ear to ear at the sight of Harry.

"Hey runt," he said ruffling Harry's hair. He noticed the boy was wearing an X-Men suit that looked almost identical to his except the colors were blue and silver. He also had a pair of silver shades on his head "You look like a real hero now kid."

"Lets leave before we have more company," said Cyclopes.

"Too late,"

A/N sorry for cliffy, this seemed like a good place to leave off. I want to thank everyone who has read this story. As a reader I never appreciated the work that went into these stories. As a writer its awesome to see so many people reading my story especially from so many different countries. I had tears in my eyes when I saw my story stats, but I was also slicing onions at the time. Lol. I want to especial thank everyone who has reviewed, my story Fk306 animelover; serenasgurl, and Robert-19588 hope that you liked this chapter. Don't worry I didn't forget you njferrell, Iron Man is going to lay the verbal smackdown on Dumbles next chapter.