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The assault of New York part 1

(Forge) "I wasn't surprised when I found out Kitty and Jubilee went to New York, they always tried to help when and where they could. Once the x-men stopped helping the people, Kitty started up the Bayville Sirens to help the people once again. After Xavier was murdered the Sirens fell into darkness once again, only to leave the streets to crime once more. Under Scott the two formed a unique bond as they did everything together and were completely inseparable. After Aployapse rose to power, Kitty and Jubilee with Wanda's help formed the first alliance; they planned every detail to break into his fortress, unfortunately they were betrayed before they could do anything. Now, I guess they have gone to New York to aid the resistance movement, Logan and Storm might be with them as well. If you are lucky enough there might be some others there as well, good luck Jean. You'll need it."

Jean surprised at her progress to unite the x-men, she thought she still would be alone at this point due to all the chaos that was caused just from her disappearing. The group had long forgiven Jean for disappearing, knowing it wasn't really her fault or choice. Everyone in the group was extremely worried about the current mission to New York, Brick would have fitted in at the mansion with Logan as he was always unhappy with everything around him. His rocket launcher he cherished like Logan did with his bike.

At the moment the group had almost reached New York, over the next hill stood the ruined city. When the group reached the city Jean couldn't believe her eyes. The city was full of blacked out buildings, burnt from the soldiers; there was no sign of life from human, animal or plants. The statue of liberty, from what Jean could see was destroyed, only the feet remained. Around the city, on land and water, Aployapse's troops were stationed around making sure no one entered or escaped.

"We need to get to the centre."

"How the hell are we going to do that?"

"Hello, I can teleport."

"Oh."

Grabbing hold of Thomas, with a BAMF the group found themselves in the centre of New York. Not exactly what Jean had in mind but he got the job done.

"What's next then?"

"Shit, Tank."

Down the street, the group ran for cover as they saw a tank followed by a dozen soldiers turn the corner. The group split up hiding on opposite sides of the street waiting for the tank to come nearer so they could attack. When the tank almost reached their hiding spot, Jean mouthed 'go', unfortunately someone else attacked the tank before they could get a chance. Out of one of the burnt out buildings, a man in his late 30's dressed in a white shirt, black trousers and a coat down to his knees, raised his arms to the tank and out of his hands shot a huge red beam which destroyed it. From the sky came two people, one with wings the other used the wind to stay in the air, dived down into the soldiers causing them to scatter. Those that scattered to the left found themselves facing a man in his 30's with razor sharp claws coming from both hands, attacking without mercy. To the right the soldiers were blinded from a woman producing fireworks, sending them to blind the soldiers head on while some resistance members shot them. Those at the back died easy as a group of resistance carried machine guns, killing all that tried to retreat.

Steeping out from their hiding places the team stood in the middle of the street awaiting for the attackers to calm down a bit, as they were whooping and cheering over their small victory. The man with the claws noticed the group and signalled for the rest to follow him.

"Well, well, well. Hello red, long time no see."

Logan looked like he did 20 years ago thanks to his powers, the woman who produced the fireworks was of course Jubilee who looked a lot like her counterpart in x-men the animated series. The man who had destroyed the tank with his powers Jean recognised as Alex whose hair had grown down to the middle of his back, broader with bulging muscles, the two people who had flown through the air Jean recognised as Strom and Warren. Strom and Warren looked like they did 20 years ago except with bigger muscles.

"Logan, we came for your help against Aployapse."

Looking at the group behind Jean, he nodded to the others assembled round him.

"Let's move now, questions later red."

Following Logan into a nearby building which was littered with debris, but this place was different to other buildings. Around the place was resistance members sitting around on burnt chairs playing cards on tables or standing around with others brandishing guns. Logan led the group to the back where a couple of fighters rose from their chairs, lifting a painting off the wall to reveal a huge hole in the wall.

"Leads to the resistance centre, so get your arses through."

Logan hadn't changed a bit over 20 years, still acts the same. Brick and Logan would hit it off really well.

The tunnel led downwards through the cut of the earth, the ceiling, floor and walls were all white stone, every few metres flaming torches brightened up the place. After a while the team find themselves in a small cave with other tunnels leading off to other places in the city, at the front of the cave is a huge steel door guarded by a few resistance fighters.

"Password." One of the biggest of the guards asked.

"Shut it and open the bloody door."

"Nice to see ya too Logan."

The other resistance members, grumbling, opened the door revealing the command centre of the resistance force. Long, narrow tables stretched from one side of the room to the other each containing a computer, radio or any other useful device each manned with others running about with orders or paper in their hands. To the back left of the room Jean saw a tunnel leading off to the hospital as the tunnel had a sign with a red cross on top. At the top end of the cave, stairs led to offices over looking the centre with a few tunnels beside the stairs leading off to other places. Above, long narrow lights lined the ceiling.

"Dave, get the boss, we have guests."

"Boss? Who's the boss?"

The groups' attention was diverted to Dave running up the steps and knocking on the door to the office, the 'boss' opened the door and descended the steps. Jean was gob smacked, the boss was in fact Kitty Pryde who looked exactly like she did (or should have looked) in Xavier's vision.

"Hiya, Jean. I was wondering when this day would come."

"Yeah I was… wait what do you mean by that?"

"Unlike the others who jumped to conclusions about you leaving, I did some experiments. I swabbed the black powder that was left behind showing….. What do you want?"

Kitty was distracted as she answered her phone.

"Dam, no luck."

"What's up half-pint?"

"Still no luck finding Scott. Oh Sam, Rhane and Jamie are in the accommodation quarters with the kids, you can go if you like."

Back on street level a cloaked man approached the building which the others had gone through, entering the burnt out building, almost immediately a dozen resistance members held guns up to the cloaked person's face.

"Oh it's you. You're late, they've already begun."

The cloaked person walked to the back while the guards at the back remove the painting behind a few other cloaked people turn up, on the other side the cloaked person is stopped by the guards at the back.

"Password."

Under the hood the persons face glows bright orange and so do his hands.

"Boss, we have a problem."

"What is it?"

One of the resistance members closest to Kitty, was on a computer, eyes widened at the incoming e-mail.

"Aployapse's troops have moved into a circus in Massachusetts and also moved into a city in Iowa and also attacked the Thieves' guild down south."

"Shit, that's the Morlocks, the first alliance and the thieves' guild gone."

Kitty turned to Jean with a serious look on her face.

"Who knew about your recruitment drive?"

"Well everyone we rec….."

Behind the group, the steel door leading to the tunnel, was cleaned off it's hinges flying across the room destroying the tables and computers in it's path, thankfully no resistance members were hurt. Out of the dust the guards on the other side of the door were threw across the room, out of the dust emerged 3 cloaked figures. Pulling their hoods down, they revealed their faces to the resistance. Their faces covered in blue bits (See the last episode of x-men evolution, you'll know what im on about.) Roberto, Colossus and Sabertooth stood in front of the entrance ready to attack.

To be continued