Hello all you wonderful readers out there, I'm back again! Thats right, here to confuse and entertain you all! n.n Not much to add, works just been a bit iffy is all, and my computer, oy.. So many ad-ware, and spy-ware, and.. Ugh, why all the 'wares?
Mistaken Identity
Chapter Seven
Someday, somehow, gonna make it allright, but not right now. I know you're wondering when......
(BEGINING OF THE CHAPTER. THIS IS GETTING ANOYING. HMMM.)
Launching himself off of the mansion roof, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spiderman, followed by Ben Riley, the Scarlet Spider, half turned to look through a window as he fell past it.
"Nothing." Sighing, Spiderman fired a strand of webbing at one of the many trees dotting the grounds, yanking himself towards the towering crimson clad figure that was lumbering towards the school behind Peter.
"Huh?" The Scarlet Spider sailed past on his own strand of webbing, a bit impaitent to deal with this situation before it got anymore out of hand than it allready was.
"Nobody's coming out, the rest of the X-men must be having a day off or something." Peter launched himself into the air, dropped a dozen feet, and fired another webline off, propelling himself higher into the air.
"I'm guessing that's a bad thing, isn't it?" Ben really had no idea what was going on, but from the way the Prof, the Doc, and Pete were acting, this guy was going to be serious trouble.
"Considering this guy could turn us into paste in a single smack? Yeah, I'd say this is a bad thing, a very bad thing." Launching himself off of his webline, Spiderman tucked himself up into a ball and flipped forwards several times as he fell, building up momentum.
"Well, well, well... If it ain't a couple of spiders, come to get squashed like flies." Chuckling thunderously, Cain Marko, the Juggernaut, turned to look at the small figure hurtling itself at him.
Uncoiling his body just a few feet away from the Juggernaut, Spiderman streched his body out, slamming into the crimson giant with all the force his lithe body could muster.
It turned out, that was quite a bit, considering he could lift ten tons over his head. The Juggernaut reeled back from the force of a pair of spandex covered feet slamming into his helmet, actully making him stumble back a few feet.
"Spider missile number two!" The Scarlet Spider slammed into the Juggernaut's massive chest a second later, with enough force to crumple a city bus like wet cardboard, knocking the titanic figure onto his back, making the ground shake with the force of the Juggernaut's landing.
"Is that it? This is all you were worried about?" The Scarlet Spider dusted himself off as he walked over to Spiderman's side, who was still in a semi-crouch, watching the massive prone figure.
"Uhhhh, Scarlet, you might-"
Rumbling, loud rumbling, and the sound of gravel being chewed up and spat back out. It was the Juggernaut, laughing, as he sat up. "Is that all you got? It'll take more than that to stop the Juggernaut you little pipsqueeks."
"Uh-oh."
(HEEHEE, I CAN WRITE ANYTHING I WANT HERE, ANYTHING AT ALL!)
"So, you're the one behind Merlin's, erm, anti-aging or whatever?" Noir rubbed his cheek through the black spandex mask covering his head.
"Hmph!" Crossing her arms over her chest, Skuld turned her back on Noir, closing her eyes and tilting her head back to indicate her displeasure with him, as if it weren't obvious enough.
"Errr, what? Was it something I said? Aside from the usual stupid things I normally say, I mean?" Scratching his head, Noir stared at the teenaged goddess for a moment, then turned to look at Arthur and Merlin. Wisely, the two had slunk off to the far side of the room, to avoid getting involved in what looked like a lovers spat.
"You know exactly what you did! And what you didn't do!" Stamping her foot, she turned back to glare at Noir, her cheeks flushed.
"Er....." He tried mentally going over every stupid thing he had done recently, a long list of things that grew more pathetic as he went along it, he wisely gave up and waited. Sooner or later she'd crack and tell him exactly what he did wrong.
"You were going to let yourself die! Just to stop that jerk!" She looked rather hurt at this revalation, hurt and very angry, faint whisps of devine power trailed from her slender frame, dancing around her head an shoulders like displeased spirits rising from the grave.
"Oh, that..... That was nothing, I handled that ass with my usual dramatic flair, skill...." Waving a hand, he dismissed the whole subject, turning to glare at the two who seemed to be conveniently blocking the only door out of the room, and doing a poor job of pretending to not be interested in the conversation.
"Nothing? Nothing?! You knew exactly what was going to happen to you, again! You were going to break your promise too!" Skuld's eyes began to tear up, the anger being overshadowed by something else.
"Whaaaa? Oh come on, you know very well I never promised anything. I go out of my way to avoid making promises." He was looking out the window now, odd, the moon seemed to be fuller now than it had been a few hours ago.
"You jerk! You, machoistic, self centered, self serving..."
"You forgot self centered, selfish, stubborn, ummm.....Any other S-words you'd like to add in there?" Folding his hands behind his head, he dropped onto his back, laying there on the cold stone that the entire castle seemed to be carved out of.
"You big, stupid, jerk! Why did you have to show up in the first place?! Why did you have to come and bother us?! Why couldn't you stay?!" Tears were trickling down her cheeks now, glaring down at his spandex covered face, she wiped them away with the back of her hand.
"S' not ment to be, thats why.... You of any people should know that better than I do y'know. Lose the denial Skuld, you'll be a lot happier when you learn to face facts." Closing his eyes he let out a sigh, shifting his shoulders as he tried to find a comfortable position on the cold stone floor.
"I don't want to! You can change things, I've seen you do it before! Why won't you change this? You change everything else around you!" She crouched down at his side and grabbed one of his arms, shaking him a little.
"Hey, it's different when I change other stuff, I don't exactly do it to make my life the way I want it to be y'know, it just doesn't work that way."
"But-"
"But nothing, it'd all just come out wrong if I changed it that way, you wanna see how wrong it could be?" He sat up and stared at her face, wiping a tear away from her cheek with his thumb.
"............................." Sniffling, she looked down at the floor, keeping her fingers wrapped around his bicep.
"Argh, you just won't listen, will you? If I find out you try to go ahead and change this anyways, I'll......"
"You can't stop me if I send you back to your body." Skuld let go of his arm and stood up, stepping away from him.
"Wh- oh no, no you don't Skuld, I'm not go-"
Sliding her sleeve up to reveal an oversized wristwatch, Skuld snapped a switch into a position marked on the dial by a red double-helix, cutting off Noir in mid sentace as his body dropped bonelessly to the floor. "I'll be nearly finished long before you're even strong enough to deal with my messenger...." Staring at his body for awhile, she didn't notice both Arthur and Merlin staring silently at her from the far end of the room.
(DUN DUN DUNNNNN... SORRY, I COULDN'T RESIST. UH, HMMM, BACK AT THE X-MANSION?)
"This would be a lot easier if we had some help." Backflipping to avoid a fist the size of the front end of a Buick, the Scarlet Spider fired his webshooters, coating the Juggernaut's arm from fingertips to elbow in grey goo stronger than steel. It snapped like thread when the hulking figure yanked his arm back to make another swing at Ben.
The Juggernaut suddenly pitched forwards, as if something had struck him in the back with the force of two or three speeding city busses. Ben glanced behind him, Spiderman was still recovering from being tossed through the air like a rag doll, in the midst of snapping a third strand of webbing in an attempt to slow his flight. If it wasn't Peter, then who-
"Sorry ahm late sugar, there was a sale at the mall." A woman clad in a green and yellow body suit grabbed the Juggernaut by the arm, spun him around several times and flung him away. Landing next to the Scarlet Spider, she finished tugging her bomber jacket on, running one hand through her curly brown hair, which, oddly enough, had a wide white streak running through it. "Who're you?"
"I was about to ask you the same question, but since you asked so nicely, I'll go first. I'm-"
Fwa-Shing!
"Save the introductions bub, we've got more important things on the to-do list than to be social. We've got a giant to cut down to size." Running past the pair in a yellow spandex costume brandishing six claws, three sprouting from the back of each hand, Wolverine charged into the fray, launching himself at the Juggernaut, only to be slapped back the way he came, landing in a heap on the ground at the feet of a man clad in blue spandex.
"Spiderman? What are you doing here?" The red tinted visor over the blue clad man's eyes seemed to glow for a moment. His hair was cropped short and his six foot frame was well muscled despite how slender he looked.
"Use your eye Cyclops, the Spider's over there." Crawling back onto his feet, Wolverine charged back into battle once more, this time, taking care not to run right up to the Juggernaut's face.
Shaking his head, Ben Riley stared at the small group of X-men. "Where did you all pop out of, the woodwork?" Turing, Ben fired a pair of weblines at the Juggernaut again, catching him just above the elbow. "Imade them extra thick this time so it-"
SNAP!
"OK, maybe I should just save my webbing for something else..." Feeling a little pathetic, Ben circled around to the Juggernauts back, crouching down to tense his body up like a spring. Full powered body blows seemed to stun the crimson clad giant somewhat, so that's what he'd do.
Glancing to the side, he noticed the X-men gather up for a group assault, a pretty good idea too, considering Spiderman was bounding over to lend them a hand. "Come to think of it, didn't Spidey mention something about working with them before?' Ben mulled that one over as he flung himself towards the Juggernaut.
Spidersense.
Grunting, Ben twisted his body around as fast as his geneticly enhanced muscles would allow, the Juggernauts gauntleted fist missing him by a hairs breadth, passing underneith his body-
And cracking the casing of one of his oversized webshooters like an eggshell. The miniature electric turbine inside the device went haywire, spilling all of his remaining webbing into the turbine gone overdrive, sadly, washing over the X-men like a small tsunami of glue, sticking everyone but Spiderman to the ground.
Peter flipped sideways through the air, adding a bit of spin to get a good look at what had happened. Wolverine was begining to cut his way free, but the sheer amount of webbing would slow him down. Ditto for Cyclops, it was doubtful he'd risk harming his team with a careless blind shot. Even Rogue would be slowed down by the webbing, it litterally had the tensile strength of steel.
"Oops..... That wasn't my fault!" Ben began slapping his hand down over the damaged webshooter, trying to shut the still running turbine down before it overheated and exploded. It was doubtful it would take his hand off with it if it went up in lights, but it'd sure hurt like hell.
"Great, anybody got a bugle handy? I'd like to call in the calvary now." Spiderman began circling around the Juggernaut to the Scarlet Spider's side. The crimson giant didn't seem to consider him a threat at all. Kind of insulting, really.
"Why does everybody allways start the party without me?" A black and yellow clad figure lept from the top of a tree, landing infront of the Juggernaut in a crouch. His costume was still in it's original, ragged state, the slash over his shoulder a rusty red color from his crash through half a pizzaria and the blood that had stained it.
"Noir? But I thought you were in a coma?" Half glancing at Noir, Spiderman held up a hand, aiming to fire a thick stream of webbing at one of the Juggernaut's legs to trip him up, leave him vulnerable enough for Ben to take him down from behind.
PFFTT!
"Uh-oh... Out of webbing..... Why now?" Peter slid his glove up his wrist to eject the empty cartridge from his webshooter, his belt should still have a few more cartridges to go, he hadn't had time to reload thanks to Electro showing up last night, and...
"Lookout!"
Raising an arm over his head, the Juggernaut brought it down on Noir with enough force to level a skyscraper, a pillar of dust and dozens of square yards of sod shot into the air, and the entire mansion shook from the force of the titanic blow.
Everything was utterly still, and eerily still as the haze of dust slowly settled to the ground. Peter and Ben were rooted where they stood, torn between morbid fascination, and the desperate need to see if Noir had moved in time.
A voice broke the silence, startling both spandex clad, arachnid superheros.
"I was..." Noir stood in a waist deep crater, his body wrapped in a sheath of shimmering blue light, holding the Juggernaut's fist inches away from his head with both of his hands. "I got better."
(CHAPTER END! SEMI-CLIFFHANGER! OH, THE FLAMES WILL COME FOR THE ONE I'M SURE!)
Well, that's probably a heap more of unanswered questions for sure, but I felt like doing an X-men cameo since I've been playing the new game. No new reviews for once... A bit of a surprise actully, but I'm sure you're all busy with life... And thats a fine excuse... For now... (Shakes his fist.)
Anyways....Um, I don't really know what else to toss in here.... Hmm... ten or so more days untill Halo 2.... (Shivers.) Mmmm yeah, eases the pain.... No wait! It doesn't! The waiting just makes it worse! Damn you waiting! Damn you, I say!
Anywho, that's it for now I guess, C&C, opinions, questions, suggestions... Erm, all that kinda stuff, is all welcome.
