Anthony crossed his arms defiantly as he looked at his enemy. "You will not defeat me." When there was no response Anthony just gave his Enemy a evil glare. "So you mock me!"
"You know staring it down isn't going to help." Lance commented dryly as he placed his toothbrush into his mouth. After a few brushes he spit into a glass in his other hand. "I did the same thing when I had that class."
Anthony sighed in defeat his enemy still made no response, but it couldn't respond. Anthony's enemy was a chemistry book and it was turned to a Q and A section. Anthony picked up his pencil and began to work on the questions again.
Lance rolled his eyes as Freddy walked up behind him dressed in bathrobe. "Chemistry?" Lance nodded and walked back to restroom to finish cleaning up. "The mortal enemy of the Brotherhood."
Todd took that moment to hop behind Freddy. "I thought the X-men where are mortal enemy yo?"
Anthony slammed his head into his desk he had been putting off his chemistry homework all day and now was the time to pay the piper.
It was that moment Wanda started up the hall and aimed his hand at the two brotherhood boys. "You morons better move or your insides will become your outsides." She accented her point by causing her hand to glow.
Todd smiled when he saw her. "Hey there baby cakes." Wanda responded mostly on reflex alone launching a blast of hex energy. The blast hit the floor under Todd causing it to give way. Todd crashed through the floor and found himself in Amara's room. Unfortunately Amara was only have dressed having not even put on a sports bra yet. Needless to say Todd got an eye full before becoming a flaming Toad as Amara launched him through a window.
Freddy being the smarting of the dynamic duo kept his head up and moved out of Wanda's way. Anthony leaned back in his chair. "You don't have to launch him every time he calls you pet name Wanders."
"Your next pro-be" Wanda snapped her finger which caused one of the legs Anthony's chair to break.
"ow." Anthony stood up and was tempted to saw something but, saw Freddy waving his hands behind Wanda.
Elsewhere in the manison Lucas Bishop was using a laptop to do an internet search. Behind his head was a cup of hot tea. Reaching back he grabbed the cup and took a sip. The smell of sulfur filled his nostrils as he put the cup down. "What do you want Kurt?"
"Just wondering what your doing." Kurt was using his tail to hang from a lamp that was near Lucas.
"Searching for inconsistencies." He glanced over a newpaper article. "So how are your guests doing"
"Oh there remolding an old shop in town." Kurt teleported before re appearing right next to Lucas. The two of them didn't even blink when they heard the sound of window breaking and Todd screaming in pain. Nor did either of them bat an eyelash when they heard St. John scream at the top his lungs.
"Oih someone play'n with fire!" With that St. John leaped out a window cackling like maniac. "Oih control fire!"
"Put me out put me out!" Todd screamed as he rolled on the ground. Every time Todd would manage to put the flames out St. John would reignite them.
Somewhere else in the manison Pietro was talking to a group of girls from institute. "You have te prettiest hair I've ever seen." He ran his hand through the girls hair then head the screams of pain from Todd. Rolling his eyes he kissed the girls hand. "I'll be right back."
Arriving outside he saw St. John cackling like a madman. "You can put him out now."
"Please?" St. John stated giving the silver speedster a puppy dog look.
"Put it out put it out." Todd continued to roll on the ground screaming.
"Oh stop you complaining." Pietro kicked his fellow brotherhood member. "You produce enough oil to keep from burning."
"It hurts yo!" Todd groaned out rolling along the ground. Seeing his chance to avoid work Anthony leaped out a window.
Grabbing a hose he turned on the water starting the hose filling. From same window lance tossed down a bar of soap on a rope. "Todd it's bath time!"
Todd no longer smoldering and saw the water hose and soap. "Help me!" Pietro grinned and looked at St. John.
"Of course we'll help." Peitro began to rub his hands together. With sudden burst of speed Pietro grabbed Todd by the leg as he tried to leap away.
Pulling on the handle on hose nozzle Anthony blasted the young mutant. "This is for your own good."
St. John quickly grabbed Todd's arms. "Oih had to burn the old stink off mate."
"I Thought you just liked fire?" Anthony asked as he walked with hose in one hand the soap in the other.
"Oih control fire!" Anthony rolled his eyes at the response and the three of them began to force Todd to bathe."
A young man sat on a bench as gray clouds rolled overhead. He was dressed in a simple T-shirt with the words Black Sun printed on the front. He was currently in Cardiff watching the traffic drive by.
Reaching into his jean pocket he pulled out a cheaply made lighter. Cupping his hand in front of the lighter he lit it. The yellow flame sparked and sputtered then slowly grew into a small fireball. Letting the lighter slip to the ground the flame remained. "Everything burns." The flame shifted colors changing into that of a ball dark flames.
Standing slowly the young man walked toward a fish and chips fast food restraunt. Hidden in his cupped hands was the black ball of the flame.
One of the clerks at the counter happily greeted him "what will you having?"
The young man smiled. "I'll have something to make me warm." Raising his closed hands he blew into them opening them as he did so. A wave of dark flame engulfed the clerk who just barrely had time to scream as the clerk enhaled the flames.
The clerk's coworkers seeing this made a mad scramble for the back, none of them made it as flame flaming tendril pierced each of them causing there bodies to igrnite. The young man turned around and watched as people began to pile out the doors of the restraunt. The black sphere of flame began to feed on the other flames slowly becoming larger even as the flames spread. The young tilted his head to the side before shooting out a jet of the flame from his palm.
The entire front of the restraunt ignited in flames as the young man smiled. "I always get this warm and fuzzy feeling when I smell burning flesh!"
The upper floor of the restraunt soon ignited. While all of this was going on the local fire brigade had been called in to douse the flames. "Get that hose hooked up!" As the first hose released a high pressure torrent of water it was met with an equally powerful jet of Black flame. The young laughed as he walked out of the building a dark jet of flame being produced from his palm.
"He's a mutant!" The firefighter who screamed that didn't last long as a black tendril of flame from ever growing black sun ignited him.
"This is…" The fire brigade member in the truck had no time to finish his transmission as the entire cabin of the fire engine ignited in flames.
"We all," The young man raised his hands above his head. "Burn!" He brought his hands down causing a sea of black flames to spread across the ground in three hundred sixty degree arc. Even as he did this the black sun continued to feed on the flames.
A row of police cars soon arrived around the burning wreckage. The young man was sitting in the burnt out hulk of one of the fire engines. A tendril of flame shot out from the black sun striking a police car causing it to explode and crash into another car.
Several of the police cars stopped there drivers and passingers exiting there vechiles all armed. "Put your hands on the ground and douse that," The cop looked at the black sun. "Sun or what ever it is."
The young man smiled and stepped out of the burning hulk. "I have a better idea." A blast of heat exploded outward from the black sun. Heat was hot enough that it melted the very soles of the officers shoes, needless to say the weapon they had been holding become to hot to hold.
It wasn't long before a new helicopter flew overhead. :As you can see Peters it seems to be a mutant attack as such Mutant Registration units are being deployed.." A tendril of black flame lashed out at the copter to which it narrowly avoided. "As to how they will stop this mutant who seems to be able to generate some sort of black sun."
Elsewhere back at the Xavier institute Anthony was laying on a couch flipping threw the channels. All through the mansion Athony listened to the snoring of the brotherhood, New mutants, and X-men. He heard the sound of heavy shuffling and new Freddy was going to the kitchen for late night snack, Anthony shook his head and resolved to clean up the mess afterward
Switching over to international channels and flipped to the BBC news channel. "Earlier today is was reported that a local restraunt had been set ablaze. Originally thought to kitchen accident it was discovered a mutant was the cause. We take you now life to the scene where MRD troopers are arriving on the scene."
The television switched to life view of Cardiff. A pair of armored assault vehicles had arrived on the scene with the letters MRD painted on each side. It wasn't the armored assault vehicles that got Anthony's attention. It was the young man standing out in the open. Just seeing the young man made the hairs on Anthony's neck stand on end. Something in the back of Anthony's mind told him to fight that young man. It was also telling him to prove he was superior to the one controlling the black sun. Something about the young man made Anthony feel like he was weak and needed to be stronger. It made him feel like he was made to rule.
Anthony quickly sat up and looked closely at the young man not noticing a black tendril of flame striking out at the helicopter camera. The flame struck destroying the chopper, causing the screen to change to that of static. By the time the feed changed back to news room Anthony had leaped over the couch and proceeded into the hall.
The back's of the assault vehicles opened up and two squads of soldiers proceeded out of the backs. Half the soldiers where armed with was appeared to be liquid storage tanks with hoses attached. The rest of the men where armed with large rifles of some sort. The ones with the tanks aimed at the black sun and began to fire. At the end of hoses spouted out a white foam which bubbled up as it struck the black sun. The remaining soldier fired there weapons directly at the young man.
Anthony saw the massive bulk of the Freddy and did the only thing he could. "Sorry Freddy I need to go up top!" Anthony leaped up and over Freddy using his shoulder to catapult himself down the hall. "Got someone to beat down!" Freddy blinked a few times his mind trying figure out what happened.
The foam struck the black sun but, as it it began to form up it dissobled almost as quickly as it struck. The black tendrils of the flame struck the ground becoming a shield surrounding the young man who grinned. "You all are going to die!" Then the blitz of flame began.
Anthony burst into his shared room with St. John. The caused St. John to fall into the floor. "What's going mate?" Anthony dug into his drawer and pulled out his uniform. "You like playing in fire Pyro?" A wicked grin spread across the Aussie's face. He stood dropping the blanket revealing he was wearing pair of flaming Speedos. Normally this would have disturbed Anthony but he was already busting out of them room.
A black tendril of flame nearly turned the group of MRD soldiers to become piles of smoldering ash. The only thing to stop the rain of death was arc of energy coming from the sky. The young man looked up and spotted a man in a body suit that looked as though it had been designed to look like the British flag. "Hoho…Look at that the mighty captian Briton makes his appearance."
Anthony held the door for the underground entrance of the hangar as Pryo entered locking his gauntlets into place. "Where we goin mate?" Anthony closed his eyes and opened them again. "We're going to beat the crap out of somebody." Vampyr walked up to the X-jet and climbed the ladder with Pryo following close behind.
Captain Briton landed on the ground. "I don't know who you are but, I'm going to put you down." The young man spread his arms. "My name is Gregory don't bother remembering it." Several black tendrils rose up from the black sun. "Because your going to burn away." Three of the tendrils lashed out and struck toward Captain Briton.
Vampyr entered the cockpit of the X-jet blackbird and was surprised to find Betsy Braddrock already in her New mutants uniform. "Betsy?" She looked at Vampyr. "Right now call me Pyslock and I'm going with you." Vampyr looked at Pyro. "Strap in." Pyro grinned and strapped himself into the seat across from Pyslock. "How ya doin Shelia?"
Captain Briton raised his wooden staff a beam of cosmic energy burst out intercepting the tendrils of flame. "All of you get out of here." The MRD soldiers didn't have to be told twice as the all loaded up into the assault vehicles. "I don't think so. " The black sun unleashed a tendril of flame at the vehicles only for them to be stopped by a blast from Captian Briton. "As you said I don't think so." Captain Briton smirked causing Gregory to growl in anger. "Cocky bastard." Captain briton smiled. "Takes one to know one. "
Vampyr began to do a flight check of the Blackbird. Suddenly the radio of the X-jet crackled to life. "You going to take off without the rest of us." It was Avalanche who was on his way with the rest of the brotherhood toward the X-jet. "You all looked like you needed some sleep" Vampyr said with a grin. "well where are we going." Quicksilver asked as he sat down behind Pyslock putting his feet up. "Your fast mate!" Pyro stated with a grin.
Jet after jet of flame struck the shiled of energy Captain Briton had placed up. "I can keep this up all day can you?" This only served to piss Gregory off more. "The more you lash out the weaker you get!" Gregory took a calming breathe. "Your right why don't I add more fuel!" Black tendrils of flame lashed out a unburnt cars. "Why don't get a few lorey's!" The cars all exploded as the flames reached there gas tanks.
"Blob you and Wanda stay here." Avalanche stated as he climbed into the X-jet after Toad had hopped onboard. "What about me yo!" Toad paniced as he looked at the leader of the brotherhood. "Your goin to act as decoy." The terrible toad made an attempt to leap out of X-jet only to be grabbed by Avalnche and looking down the palm of Wanda's hand. Wanda took a deep breathe. "Tell you what Toad," Wanda looked at Avalanche and Blob who where intently looking at her. "I'll…I can't believe I'm saying this but,…I'll give you a kiss." Toad grinned and quickly leaped back into the X-jet. "You have no intention of kissing him?" Blob asked looking at the Scarlet Witch. "I'd sooner go to Mephisto's realm than kiss him."
Captain Briton watched MRD trucks quickly made a retreat before turning back to Gregory. "Feed my black sun and fuel the warmth inside me!" The insane look in Gregory's eyes was all Briton needed to see as the black sun began to draw in the newly produced fire. "I have to stop you!" Captain Briton raised his cosmic staff and fired a steady stream of energy at Gregory. "Burn with me." A blazing tendril arced out and intercepted the cosmic energy stream.
Avalanched strapped himself into Co-pilots seat looked at Vampyr. "you ready?" Vampyr placed his hand on the throttle of x-jet. "Are asking if I'm ready to fight a blood thirsty lunatic mutant? Or am I ready to play hero?" Avalanche began to ready for launch. "Either or." Vampyr grinned as the doors above the X-jet opened. "To the first hell no, to the second been there done that." With those words Vampyr activated the X-jet's vertical take off abilities. "Brotherhood in the da house!" With those words they took off.
Elsewhere with neither the brotherhood or Gregory another even was taking place with Tsuki Tokogawa. "Moon…"Tsuki rolled over in her bed. "moon…" Tsuki rolled again this time into a wall. "moon…" Tsuki groaned as the voice became louder and clearer. "Shadowmoon!" Tsuki shot up like lightning as though someone had screamed in her ear.
She was dressed in her sleeping gown and had gray sleeping mask. Pulling the mask off she walked into her bathroom. Turning the water on she began to splash her face. As she looked into the mirror she screamed and smashed into back wall. "What…what was that." What she had seen in the mirror hadn't been herself in fact it was some type of silver insect like armor.
"Don't be afraid." Tsuki spun around and saw a man in a tan trench coat. He was holding out his hand "I'm a friend."
Tsuki slowly stepped back into her shower stall. "Who…who are you and how did you get in here!"
The man slowly began to walk toward her his hand still out stretched. "I called out to you didn't you hear my voice?" He smiled stopping just outside her bathroom. "Haven't you ever wondered why your name means Moon?"
"No."
"Pity there is a very good reason." The man put his hand down. "I guess I'll get to the point then." His smile disappeared and his face became rigid almost showing a sign of sadness. "Kaiser is a monster."
"your lying He's a hero!"
"He's a weapon that has broken away from his creators." He clenched his fists in anger. "He isn't the only one his so called siblings have also broken free." The man raised his palms up. "Even know he goes to fight one which will begin a spiral of destruction which will lead to this worlds end."
"I don't believe you!" Tsuki picked up her eaist basket. "I've seen him fight for people."
"What you saw was him saving his own life nothing more." A silver veil appeared and took the man in the trench coat disappeared.
With the man gone tsuki collapsed on the ground and cried. Some how she knew her guardians wouldn't be able to find any evidence of the man.
"Vampyr you might want to try and focus and attempt to lower you psionic defenses." Vampyr began to rub his temple. "Avalanche take the controls, Give me few seconds Professor." Avalanche took controls and looked at his team mate. "What is it?" Vampyr smiled and took a few deep breathes. "Okay Professor it's still gonna hurt me but, you can communicate with the others without causing the blood vessels in my brain swelling or me creating a feedback loop."
Suddenly a telepathic image of Professor Xavier appeared. "First off I would like apologize to you Vampyr." Vampyr nodded as he took back control of the X-Jet. "what you are about to face is enhanced mutant the likes of which I've only encountered once before." Vampyr tightened his grip on controls. "His name is Gregory Cornell, formally his mutation allowed him to control fire much like Pyro."
"But, now?" Psylocke asked asking the question verbally.
"As of now he is able to generate a black sun the flames hot enough melt through most any material known to man." There was breif pause as though Xavier was checking something. "in terms of psychological profile even before his enhancement as child he was diagnosed with psychopathic tendencies along with sadism and homicidal bent. According to his juvenile record he murdered his own parents, burning them inside out, to in his own words to feel warm inside."
Toad began to twitch. "We're gonna die yo!." He looked at the others hoping someone would listen to him. "I don't want to be frog legs yo!"
Quicksilver rolled his eyes. "Are we there yet?"
"Oih like fire." Before anyone could make a snide comment Psylocke and Quicksilver saw the grim look on Pyro's face. "Even Oih ain't homoseedal"
"It's Homicidal Pyro and your right." Avalanche comment. "Sound like we got a rule winner there." He looked at Vampyr whose knuckles had turned white from gripping the controls so tightly. "We can turn around you know."
"The X-men are following you though by time they get there." Xavier didn't need to finish his statement. If the brotherhood plus Pyslocke didn't stop Gregory there wouldn't be anything left for the X-men to save.
"I'm going wiether any of you do or not. I have family in Britain and if you don't want to help you all can go bloody sod off!" Pyslocke had slipped into her British accent getting angry at the brotherhood looking at each of them.
Vampyr let go of the controls letting Avalanche have full control. "I have to go out of all of us I have the best chance of putting that guy down for the count." Xavier nodded before disappearing. "My healing factor should keep me alive and if I'm lucky the best fight this guy can omly put up is some basic boxing I should be able to knock him into next week1"
"If we're unlucky yo."
"You don't want to know." After few minutes Vampyr spoke up again. "We'll be entering British air space in approximately five minutes." Vampyr began check the radar oboard the X-jet. "I'll check on our stowaway."
"I'll try and make sure we have a soft landingl." Avalanche responded as Vampyr unstrapped himself. "Toad you go with him."
"Why me I ain't done nothing wrong!"
Vampyr got up out of his seat and walked up next to Toad. "C'mon frog legs your gonna help me incase our stowaway is dangerous." Toad gulped and joined Vampyr.
The two of them walked into the galley of the aircraft and stopped in front of floor cupbaords. Vampyr kicked the cubboard a couple times before opening them. "Cramped Bishop."
The African-American youth glared at Vampyr. "Worse now that you found me." He slowly crawled out of the cabinet rubbing his head. "Now I have a headache."
"Toad?" Vampyr looked back at the terrible toad who grinned spitting out a viscous wade of mucus. Bishop stood no chance of the fluid smacked him in the face and hardened. "Not bad." Toad and Vampyr fist bumped.
"Who says I can't aim." Bishop glared at them both.
Vampyr grinned. "Sit down strap yourself in we're in for some chops." Toad and Vampyr walked back into the cockpit.
Avalanche turned his head toward Vampyr as he sat down. "Who is it?"
"Just a pest don't worry He'll be helping us."
Gregory hit Captain Briton with a powerful blast of black sun's power launching one of the Hero's of the British Isles into the side of store front. "Are you ready to burn?" The sound of X-jet coming down caught Gregory's attention. "More fuel to the fire!"
Vampyr glared at Gregory as they approached. The hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. "Avalanche get everyone ready to jump."
"Why?" Vampire pulled hard right on the controls of the X-jet narrowly missing a jet of black flame. "I see your point alright brotherhood let's bail!"
Vampyr pulled hard left narrowly missing another jet. "Don't forget Bishop."
Avalanche nodded. Before entrapping himself. A blast of black flame managed to scorch the right wing. "Everbody up!" Avalanche and the others got up even Toad who was managing to hold his panic in.
Vampyr glared down at Gregory. "You want something to burn!" Vampyr shifted the X-jet into a nose dive right at Gregory. "One flaming spit ball coming right up!"
The brotherhood leader unstrapped Bishop he managed to peal off the Toad spit. "We just went into a nose dive!"
Avalanche put on his shoot. "Tell me something I don't know!" He tossed another shoot at Bishop. "Everyone else is already off Vampyr's keeping the lunatic of the day off our backs while we get clear."
Bishop began to strap the shoot on and looked back a the rack. "I'm wearing the last shoot!"
"I've got a gut feeling that he'll be fine come on!"
Gregory spotted the falling Brotherhood and grinned. "Target practice." He launched another tendril of flame from the black sun only for it to be intercepted by the flaming X-jet. "Stupid metal death trap!"
Vampyr grinned like a wild man as barreled toward the black sun itself. The X-jet had been reinforced to with stand rentry and the glass was specially designed to with stand high levels of pressure. "Daddies coming home!" Vampyr set the X-jet for collison course then unstrapped himself.
Gregory roar in rage. "Burn!" A black tendril of the flame erupted into the x-jet. "burn!" The first was soon joined by a second. "Burn forever!" Several more jets of flame engulfed the X-jet.
The X-jet held it's course true and smashed into the black sun causing a massive explosion as its fuel tanks ignited. The Brotherhood plust, Bishop and Psylocke watched in horror as the wreckage of the X-jet rained down from above. Gregory danced in the rain as more and more pieces of flaming wreckage came down. Captain Briton even stood up and watched the spectacle.
"All is right in world even a flying tin can couldn't stop me!" Gregory danced with glee as his black sun feed greedily on the flames around it. His happiness was short lived as the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.
Avalanched dug his hands into the ground tears running down his face. "Damn it he was our team mate why did have to do something that stupid." Quicksilver placed his hand on Lance's shoulder. "He was brotherhood that's why." It was Pyro who spoke up next catching everyone's atttention. "Look mate's!"
Captain Briton tried to see through the haze of the smoke. The hero of briton could have sworn he saw something moving in the smoke. He could just make out a humanoid shape but, it was slightly off. That's when he relized why it was slightly off.
Gregory glared at the person who dared survive his black sun. Something about the person in wreckage set Gregory off telling him not only to burn the person but, utterly destroy him. "Who the hell are you!"
Vampyr grinned and grabbed the wicked piece of shrapnel that had imbedded itself into his shoulder blade. "In an incredible amount of pain thanks for asking!" Gripping the piece of reinforced steelVampyr tugged cringing in pain with each slight tug. "As to who I am," With one last powerful yank he pulled out the piece of metal stifling a scream of pain by nearly bighting straight through his own tongue.
"dude that had to hurt." Toad stated as he and other brotherhood joined Vampyr. Vampyr nodded letting his body do it's work as Avalanche took the lead.
"We're the brotherhood and we're going to bury you!" Avalanche hefted up his foot and slammed it down. This caused the ground under Avalanche's foot to crack. The crack soon became a quake which spread out toward Gregory.
Gregory released his anger in form of jet of black flame form his black sun. A flame shaped dragon caught the tendril in it's mouth and cut off the stream. Gregory glared at the mutant master of fire and cut loose with another tendril of flame Unfortunately for Gregory Quicksilver began to run in circle creating a vacuum effect depriving the flame of fuel. "I'm getting tired of this."
Pyslocke ran over to her brother and helped Captain Briton stay stable. "What are you doing here and who are they?"
"Are you complaining?" Pyslocke asked a psionic aura forming around her body.
"No I am not complaining, though still want my questions answered though." Captain watched as Gregory back pedaled trying to avoid going underground.
"There the brotherhood and do I need a reason to help my brother." Pyslocke and Captain suddenly heard the sound of a groan.
The two of them saw a young man buried under some fallen debree. His entire chest area seemed to be on Fire. It only took Pyslocke a few seconds to realize the flames weren't even real. "help me." When Pyslocke realized he wasn't talking it didn't take her long to figure out what he was doing.
"He needs our help!" The siblings quickly got to work. While captain Briton held up te debris Pyslocke pulled the young man out. As she pulled him out the flames around his body seemed to sink into his body.
That's when she noticed as she put her hand on his chest she felt a massive amounts of psionic energy just no pulse. "You're a mutant!"
The Youngman nodded weakly. "My name is Jonothon Starsmore." When he noticed Pyslocke about ask him a question he stopped her. "I'll…explain latter." He passed out , even unconscious his body was still produce high levels of psionic energy. Neither hero noticed a deck case of some type in his jean pocket nor did that notice the case seemed to shimmer in the light.
Vampyr took a deep breathe and tore off the sleeves of his jacket. "I'm gonna bum rush him, Pyro cover me!" Vampyr took off in a dead run toward Gregory. Unfortunately for Vampyr the closer he got to Gregory the more aware of each other they became.
"Stay away from me!" Black tendrils of flame attempted to cook Vampyr only for them to be intercepted by a literal sheet of fire. "You think that will stop me!" The black flames began to consume the flames being produced by Pyro. In response to this Pyro pumped out more fire.
"Hey looney toon ever see a Toad spit?" Before Gregory respond The Terrible Toad chucked out a wad of mucus.
The black sun began to lash out violently in random directions. "Get this off me!" Gregory clawed away at the hardened mucus.
"Time to rearrange some organs!" Vampyr drew back his fist and prepared to drive his fist directly into Gregory's stomach.
A wild tendril of flame arced outward and nearly cooked Toad only to be stopped by a flaming pumpkin head. "Thanks."
Pyro grinned releasing several bird shaped fire balls loose. "you're my mate If anyone gonna burn ya it gonna be me!"
Lance closed his eyes causing the ground to shake and rattle. "everyone around me!" The brotherhood quickly gathered around there leader except for Vampyr.
Gregory yanked a piece of mucus from his eye and saw a rock wall for around Lance and the others. Unfortunately for him it was to late for him to stop what happened next. Vampyr slammed his fist full force into Gregory's stomach.
Gregory tried to not vomit only to discover the mucus was still on his face. Unfortunately for Gregory Vampyr wasn't done yet. "Shoryuken!" Vampyr ducked down then delivered his signature spinning uppercut . The force of punch was enough to crack the mucus allowing Gregory to empty the contents of his mouth into the ground below.
"You ever been preached?" Vampyr spun around and raised his leg. "Well your about to be." Vampyr then drove his heel into Gregory's already cracked jaw saddening him flying into the stainglass window of a burnt out church.
Gregory smashed into the charred remains of a set of pews before fallen unconscious
Captain Briton smiled and approached Vampyr holding out his hand. "You did well today."
Vampyr looked up at the still burning Black sun then suddenly realized something. "Get down!" Before Captain Briton could say something Vampyr yanked the both of them to ground. The black sun began to pulse and throb.
Toad climbed up top and saw the Black sun. "hey guys the looney toon is gone."
Quicksilver called up. "That fireball gone yet?"
"nah it looks like it's throbbing."
Suddenly Avalanche realized what the throbbing meant. "Quicksilver get him the hell down now!" Quicksilver quickly yanked Toad down as a wave of heat began to wash over the rock and dirt shield.
Meanwhile outside the shield of earth. Vampyr and Captain Briton where awash in flames and heat. While Captain Briton was shielded by the heat and flame Vampyr was not. Vampyr suddenly once again learned what it was like to feel like a hotdog on a grill in fact his skin and clothes where starting to burn.
Psylocke and Jonothon where lucky enough to be inside a building when the Black sun had went nova. Looking around Psylocke saw the brotherhood where shield. "This building is coming down so hang onto me." Jonothon was to weak to argue so he just held on. The two of them quickly walked into a shadow. They soon reappeared inside the rock enclosure created by Avalanche.
Then as quickly as it had begun it had ended. Vampyr stood up somewhat singed but, otherwise he was fine. "sorry about that."
"No problem," Suddenly the clouds turned gray and the rain began. "I had forgotten without the mad man to control it would simply collapse causing a nova."
The sound of rotary blades filled the air as the mutant known as Storm and a helicopter with jet engine descended. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah we took care of the problem." The rock shield dropped with the brotherhood walking out like conquering heroes.
"Hey fang face." Avalanche walked up to Vampyr. "How the hell you survive the big bang?"
Vampyr grinned. "Well as I set the jet on collision course I unstrapped and got the hell out of the cockpit. Unlucky me the entire fuel tank ignited just as the jet impacted that black sun. As the jet exploded around me shrapnel was flying all around me." Vampyr continued to tell the story of how he had survived doom of the X-jet.
Meanwhile inside the church a young man was standing over Gregory. "wakey wakey my friend we have much to discuss."
Gregory slowly opened his eyes. "Who," He spit up a wad of blood. "Are you."
The man smiled offering his hand to Gregory. "My name is Vayu" Gregory took the hand and stood up. "Do you want to feel the warmth inside?"
Gregory smiled wickedly. "Yes I want to feel warm."
"Good."
The X-men and Brotherhood took off after saying there goodbyes to Captain Briton. Suddenly Vampyr realized something. "Uh guys I think we forgot something."
Avalanche shrugged. "What ever it was probably wasn't import or you would have remembered."
Somewhere in Bayeville a woman was sitting in a window loading the clip of high powered sniper was dressed in skin tight black outfit with a gun holster on her hip. Her skin was almost ghostly pale but, a black oval covered her left eye. Several blocks away she could see the Brotherhood boarding house under reconstruction.
The woman didn't notice as a man with silver hair walk in. She didn't notice him approach her from behind. Nor did she notice that his hand was raising. With one quick motion the man yanked her hair back. "Neena Neena…" He forced his lips on to hers.
Neena reached up and grabbed his neck. With one fluid motion worthy of a gymnast she slammed him back first onto the floor of the room. She quickly straddled him and forced herself on him. Few a few minutes the two of them fought dominance rolling on the floor groping clawing anything they wanted. The two of them finally had rolled onto a mattress that had been lain on the floor.
Finally sitting up her legs locked around him she traced her fingers along his shirt. "Playing rough today Derek?"
He put his hands behind his head and smirked. "Just finished some business my benefactor."
She slowly began to unzip the front of her body suit. "So did you manage to track down the man that nearly killed you or did you steal something for your benefactor?"
"I stole something for him and he gave me some new information on that man." He slid his hands into her body suit rubbing her smooth white skin. "So are you going through wit that contract."
With his help she slid out of the upper portion of her body suit. "I have to can't go back on my word now can I?"
Derek reached up behind her head and forced her down. "Guess not." He gave her a rather forceful kiss bighting her lip. "Atleast leave Kaiser Alone he's mine."
"My pleasure." She unbuttoned his shirt and dug her nails into his chest. She smirked. "We're in for a rough night now aren't we." With that the two of them began to get down to the business at hand.