Chapter 4 - Ascension (Part 2)

Magneto looked at his side and saw his daughter Wanda tremble a bit. He then looked forward and saw his son stand on top of the pyramid and smirking at them.

"When Beast said his powers have been enhanced", Kitty asked nervously. "What do you think that means for Pietro?"

"My guess is that we'll soon find out", Magneto said.

Pietro smirked and started running towards them and all of them were sent into trees or rocks by the draft.

"Angel keep him off the ground", Kitty yelled. "Grab him!"

"I can't he's", Angel tried to grab Pietro. "Too fast!" Pietro ran between them and suddenly stopped in front of Wanda.

"Pietro stop it's me", she tried carefully. "It's your sister. Come on Tro we just want to help…"

"Gotcha", Angel said as he held Pietro and flew up into the air.

"No stop", Wanda yelled.

"I'm sorry Pietro", Angel said but to his shock he saw Pietro smirk and start to squirm in super speed. "Gah! I… can't… hold… him… hurts!"

He dropped Pietro and fell to the ground. He would have died if not Magneto had grabbed him. To his own horror Magneto saw that Angel's uniform and arms looked as if they'd been burnt. Caused of the friction Pietro created when he moved around. Magneto set Angel down and with a sigh used his power to lift a big part of the sentinel.

"I am sorry my son", he said and sent it after the twirl that was his son running in circles around Havoc (Alex Summers). He saw Pietro stop and smirk as the metal flew towards him. It went straight through his waist without hurting him.

"How is that possible", Sunspot asked Kitty.

"I guess he moved too fast for us to see it…" Pietro took off again and suddenly there were five of him running around. "What? I didn't know Pietro could duplicate!"

"He can't", Magneto said as he landed beside them. "It's an optical illusion. He moves so fast we think we see more than one of him argh!"

Magneto fell to the ground unconscious and Pietro smirked from behind him. On top of Magneto was a thick and big piece of metal that flown at him thanks to Pietro's draft.

"Pietro stop this", Wanda yelled and hurried over. "This is not you! You would never…"

Pietro ran towards her with a sharp piece of metal to pierce her. But he ran straight through. Wanda looked down and saw Kitty holding onto her foot.

"Wanda he's not your brother anymore…" Kitty said. "He's serving Apocalypse."

"He's being hypnotized! We can't harm him!"

"Help", Sunspot yelled. They saw that Pietro had grabbed his arm and was now spinning him around in high speed. Angel flew up from the ground groggily and when Pietro let go of Sunspot this crashed into Angel and both fell unconscious to the ground.

"No but he will harm us! If we don't stop him we will lose and we can't lose!" Kitty yelled. Suddenly the top of the pyramid started glowing and disappeared into the air. Pietro stopped running and watched it with a satisfied smirk.

"No", Kitty yelled.

"Listen", Hank's voice came over the communicators. "It's not over. Those pyramids in the sky are probably orbital relays. Just destroy the base units that's power them."

"Got it", Kitty answered. "Wanda, Havoc now!"

The three of them hurried towards the base unit but Pietro was too fast again. He ran around the three of them and took away the oxygen.

"I… can't… breath", Havoc said and fell to the ground.

"No…" Kitty fell and so did Wanda.

Suddenly Apocalypse's face appeared and he looked at Pietro.

"Quicksilver", he said. Pietro nodded and took off.

Wanda awoke and found the base deserted. She crawled over to Kitty.

"Kitty", she said weakly. "This is our chance. The base unit is unprotected, we can… we can destroy it. Kitty!" But Kitty didn't wake. Wanda rose and knew it was up to her.


In the meantime Apocalypse had guided Pietro to where he could fine the sentinel base. It was stationed near Oklahoma. Thanks to Apocalypse's power Pietro was faster than ever before and managed to get in undetected. He came into the command centre and stopped to have a look around.

"Who are you", a agent said. Pietro only smirked and ran around the room, causing havoc and then pushed a button called self destruct and the three sentinels in the atmosphere exploded. When he was done Pietro sank to one knee and held his head. Pietro moved so fast the things controlling him had almost been ripped off.

"W-where am I?" he asked.

"Quicksilver!" Apocalypse yelled. "Go back!"

"Argh!" Pietro screamed in agony as the things controlling him bit into his skin again. He rose, looked around and ran back to Mexico.


There Wanda was trying to control the energy coming from the base unit. Suddenly she heard a swish and Pietro was in front of her. She saw her brother's eyes stop gloving and he shook his head.

"W-where am I?" he asked. Again he'd moved so fast the things controlling him had almost been ripped off.

"Pietro!" Wanda exclaimed.

"Wanda? What's going… Ah!" Pietro fell to his knees clutching his head.

"Quicksilver!" Apocalypse's voice was heard again but this time Pietro tried to fight it. That was causing him more pain. "Obey me!"

"N-no!"

"Quicksilver!"

"Ah!" The pain was too much and when Pietro opened his eyes again… he was one of Apocalypse's pawns again.

"No", Wanda said. Pietro looked at her and lifted the spear he'd used to destroy one of the sentinels. "Pietro please… don't."

Pietro brought the spear down but it never hit her. A thick piece of metal hit him in the chest and he hit the pyramid and slumped to the ground. Wanda turned and saw Blob, Avalanche and Toad walk, or in Toad's case jump towards her.

"Looks like you needed help", Blob said.

"So we bummed the yet", Toad explained. "Got lost and still somehow managed to get here." Lance turned and saw Kitty lying unconscious.

"Kitty", he exclaimed.

"Come on", Toad said and hugged Wanda. "I'll hold you for a while."

But she pushed him off. He landed near the jet and suddenly it started moving towards them.

"Yikes", Toad yelped and jumped over to her and Blob. "How can it move?"

"Pietro is running around it making it move by his draft", Wanda said. Blob braced himself and stopped it from crashing into them. Pietro stopped on top of a sentinel's head and glared at them.

"Avalanche", Magneto spoke as he slowly woke up. "Bring him down." Lance stroke Kitty's head and used his powers. Pietro was buried in rubble, trees and rocks. As the sky turned dark, Toad jumped onto the pile where Pietro had been buried.

"Did we win", he asked.

"Yeah right", Avalanche said. "Don't you ever learn?"

"Oh yeah we never win…" Suddenly he saw a big piece of metal come towards them with a streak of silver. "Yikes!" He jumped off and the others followed him. Pietro stopped near them and smirked and started to run around in a circle, creating another twister. As he ran he was also lifted into the air.

"Hold on", Blob yelled and grabbed on to Avalanche, who grabbed on to Toad. Magneto flew into the air and brought Wanda with him.


Just as Pietro was spinning his fastest the light coming from the pyramid suddenly shut down. It also resulted in Pietro stopping in midair and fall to the ground.

"Hey", Toad said as Pietro touched the ground unconscious. "We won."

As Magneto and Wanda took ground Wanda hurried over to her fallen brother and saw the control panels covering his body fall off.

"Oh Tro", she said and hugged him close to her.

Magneto looked up and saw lights fall across the sky and the sun came out again. As they fell Pietro stirred and opened his eyes. He looked up into Wanda's face and reached up to touch her. When his hand touched her cheek she opened her eyes.

"Pietro", she said and tears came to her eyes.

"Hi sis…"

A shadow fell over them and Magneto sank down on his knees beside them. He threw his helmet to off to Toad and scooped his son up in his arms.

"Pietro", he said and hugged him. "I am so sorry."

Pietro smiled. "It's okay dad… you couldn't have known."

Magneto rose with his son in his arms and Wanda with his side. Pietro smiled at the Brotherhood before losing consciousness again.


TBC Again I don't the plot. I only changed the original a little.