Chapter 11: Confessions, Criminals and Code-names part 2
A/N: I have horrible writers block. It's 12:10 am ... And I'm bad at battle scenes, but i love you all so much. So here. R&R. Plus tell me which you want to have! Kitty/Richie ship, Destiny/Andrew ship and Virgil/Rouge(Anna-Marie) ship is what I'm leaning on. I got totally (not) cute names for them too! Gearcat/Kichie, EleVolt/Destidrew, and Staouge/Viranna. What do you ship? Tell me below. Any who... Enjoy!
Virgil POV
"Come on Richie! This is taking to long!" We were racing to get our costumes on. Man, finding a place to change in a carnival is hard! And you can bet on us not wearing our costumes under our cloths in 80 degree weather. I placed my mask over my face and stepped out of the stall to see Gear waiting.
"I'm done man. Grab your disk and let's get over to the action." He placed his helmet on his head and fired up his boots. I charged my disk and we hovered out into a completely different scene than when we went into the bathrooms.
"Whoa" I breathed. Various places of the carnival were on fire, allowing for plenty of light even with the clouds covering the moon, vines grew and wrapped around everything at an alarming rate, a howling wind pricked our skin and made flying difficult.
"Dude! I can't flying in this!" Gear yelled.
Gear and I struggled to keep our balance. "We've. Got to. Keep going!''
"Static! I'm losing control!" Gear jerked this way and that. ''I gotta land!"
"Right behind you Gear!" I lowered myself, following Richie. We hit the ground, finding it hard the walk with all the vines. "Come on man, I'll fry these things up! Let's get moving!"
"Where are we going Static?'' Gear asked.
"Well, according to my calculations," I mocked. "we are going to the criminals."
"Yeah, how do you figure?''
I smiled and stepped to the side, allowing Richie to see what i pointed too. "Just the place where flames, lasers, and green tornados are popping up."
"Oh, that makes sense."
We continued on, now at a rapid pace. We were close to the 'action area' when two figures ran passed us. Gear and I readied our position, as they came closer I analyzed them. One was white, almost glassy. He was gliding over the vines on a walkway made of, what i think was, ice. The other was a girl, quite tall. She was wearing a dark blue tee-shirt and dark shades that acted almost as a mask in covering her features and identity. Yet, she some how looked familiar.
"Hey you!'' Gear yelled.
The girl looked at us."Wha- Oh-no'' She halted her parter and moved toward us. The wind was noticeably calmer when she came close. "Who are you and what do you want?!" Her palms exploded into orange flames.
"You must be new around here." I said in my best hero voice. I charged my disk and hovered, Gear followed. "Cause in this town, it's illegal to, you know, burn things into a thousand flames."
Behind her shades a red glow protruded. "You think I did this?!" The flames turned blue, suggesting she may have been angry. I'm not sure if she was. You can never tell with girls.
"Whoa, whoa. Guys..." The icy figure spoke. "Lets not get hasty. Element is not responsible."
"Yeah right." Gear sighed. "Prove it!"
"You want PROOF?" She asked roughly. "Fine. Come with me. We can ask the others, they'll know whether or not you two are helping with this."
She raised her hand, a yellow light covered her fingers as two vines rose up and, gently but forcefully pulled us into the action.
"Hey! Let us go!" I yelled.
"You wanted proof right?"
"This is the exact opposite of proof! We aren't responsible. You are obviously!" Gear said begrudgingly.
"That's it!'' I sent an electrical charge straight at her, hoping to temporarily loosen our bindings. The charge hit her and she laughed... What? Why is she laughing? "Wha- how?"
"Oh, okay, that tickles. Please! Was that suppose to convince me?" The girl grimaced smugly.
"Do you really think this is necessary?" The boy asked.
"If they can give us info, yes." She looked at us as though studying us. "Who are you anyway, and who do you work for?"
"Work for?" Gear asked, quite disgusted.
"Uh yeah." She continued walking, not looking back.
"I am Static!" I said coolly. "And I put a shock to your system"
The pair froze and turned around.
The girl stepped forward cautiously. "You're saying YOU are Static?" I nodded. She turned to Richie. "And you're Gear?"
"Duh." He responded.
"I thought they would have been older." The boy spit out.
"Oh, my, gosh." She raised her hands, the vines lifted off us and returned to the ground as her hands lowered. " I am so, so, sorry. I thought you were some weirdo criminals. You can't be to careful you know. I am really sooo sorry! Crap, i did NOT want to meet you guys like this! Hey, maybe i should go into the superhero biz, meet some people, bust up some bad guys, but this is... Oh i'm so sorry."
"Yo, chill." Gear placed his hands on the teens shoulders. "It's cool, we all make mistakes."
"Yeah, besides we have bigger problems to deal with." I pointed out.
"Right." The glass boy agreed. "Pleased to meet you guys. I'm Ice-man, the newbie here is-ow!"
The girl elbowed him. "I can introduce myself thank you. I'm Element."
"Great. How'd you like to take down some criminals." Gear suggested.
"That would be awesome!" Element shouted. "Follow me! The teams this way!"
"Team?" I asked myself.
With that we rushed into utter chaos. I was dumb-struck as i saw 6 teens in mainly dark blue uniforms fighting three others. One which i recognized.
"Crap." I breathed. I thought i was quite but apparently not.
"Oh yeah... Forgot to mention Hot-streak-" Element chuckled, then froze clutching her head. "Move!" She jumped and pushed us all out of the way. A bright flaming ball whizzed past us.
"Nice save" i commented. "I didn't see that coming."
Element was pale. "Neither did I, I felt it. The air pressure changed and I... I felt a nudge in my head telling me to move."
"Okayy. Obviously we have a LOT to learn about your powers." Iceman quipped. Element nodded.
"Static!" Hot-streak walked over. "How great to see you! I see you have some new friends!"
"You could say that." I said preparing a ball of electricity.
"Well how perfect..." He chirped. But his insanely happy attitude rapidly changed to a dark one. "Cause I have some friends too. Whirlwind and Plant-man (A/N: You thought it was Poison Ivy right? lol no. Meet Plant-Man! I did not make him up. Google him. He is lame, but real in the Marvel universe.) I met them at the detention facility YOU sent me to!" He seethed. "And together, we are the Terrifying Three."
General POV (for action purposes)
"How original..." Element commented dully.
"And who are you beautiful?" He asked.
"Thats Element to you lame flame, and unfortunately for you..." Her fingers turned red and flames leaped up. "I don't like getting hit on. I do the hitting." She punched him in the jaw. He doubled back and burst into his own bright flames.
"Oh that's the way you want to play it huh? Take this!" He threw a ball of fire at her, she jumped and flipped back gracefully. Her hands pulled the ball of fire close to her, then struggling, she pushed them forward, forcing the flames back at Hot-streak. Unprepared, he flew back into a flaming booth.
"What are you boys doing? Go help! I got this creep." She commanded.
"I'm with you on this one Element!" Static insisted. "He's my villain, i've dealt with him in the past."
"Fine," she said. "Gear, go help Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, and Spyke with Plant-man."
"On it!" He kicked on his rocket boots and zoomed off.
"Ice-man. Help Cyclops, Rouge, and Jean. They can't hold off Whirlwind for long."
"10-4!" Ice-man shot off.
"Static. Are we gonna take him down or what?"
"Taking him down isn't as easy as it sounds. We need to out think him. Fortunately for us, he isn't smart to begin with."
"Ok, here's my plan. You distract him while I gather water, then I'll douse him, once that's done, twist him up in some metal piping."
"Okay, just make sure not to get water on me."
"Right, let's do this!" She shot off.
Static cracked a small smile. "Newbie excitement never gets old."
"I heard that!" She hollered back as she ran towards a brick building near-by.
"Wait. Element. How will you get water?"
Element, now out of sight, chuckled. "I still have some surprises up my sleeves."
Static hovered over to a still slightly dazed Hot-Streak, he was getting up while Static readied him-self. Hot-Streak stood, blazing with flames. He searched the night for Static. Hot-Streak found said hero above him.
''Static, you are really getting on my nerves."
"Really? Wow I feel so accomplished."
Francis shot a stream of fire at Static. Static countered by angling his disk so he would be shielded. Once the flames yielded, Virgil dropped down and hit Hot-Streak with the disk. Hot-Streak fell back to his knees, Static took the chance and magnetized some nearby metal. Nothing that would hold him for long, but enough to keep him busy. Static wrapped the metal around Hot-Streak's torso. Unable to balance, Francis fell from the knee's to completely fallen on the ground. He let out a scream of rage which strengthened the already leaping flames. The metal melted slowly at first, but then quickened. Static kept laying pieces of metal on top of the melting ones, but Hot-Streak was just melting through those as well. Virgil struggled to keep up.
"Come on Element," he whispered to no one. "I'm running out of material here!"
Gear hovered over to 'Plant-man' and landed. A girl with a ponytail ran in front of him. A vine came straight for her, Riche contemplated the situation and ran to push her out of the way. He jump, but before he could make contact, the vine hit her... And it went right through her chest. Gear widened his eyes for two reasons. One was that this girl had just phased through the vine and second, the vine was headed straight for him. Richie couldn't move his body out of the way!
"Ohhff!" The vine hit Gear and held him pinned on the ground. The girl turned towards the noise and saw Gear.
"Oh my gosh! Are you, like okay?" She asked.
"Aww, you know. Just wrestling a giant plant. Doing great, you?"
"Sorry. Let me help." The girl grabbed his wrist and pulled. Gear felt his body being lifted through the vines, once he was free the girl helped him onto his feet. "Whoa. Incredible."
"So... Who are you?" She asked, slightly blushing at the inverted complement.
"I'm Gear." He stuck out his hand. The girl took it and gave it a quick shake.
"Like, the hero Gear?" She asked, remembering the Cerebro alert earlier that day.
"The one and only." He smirk. "I'm assuming your one of the teammates Element told me about."
"Element?"
"Your friend wearing the jean skirt, dark blue tee and shades?"
"Oh! Did she pick a codename?"
"She didn't have one?''
"She does now I guess. I'm Shadowcat."
Bamf!
"And that's Nightcrawler." She added.
"Gutentag!" The blue teen said.
"Hey." Gear wasn't fazed by Nightcrawler's appearance. He had seen much worse.
"Yo! Are you guys gonna help me? Or am I fighten' this crazy plant dude by myself.''
"I'm assuming that's Spyke." Gear finished his list of people to meet.
"Yaah. We should probably help him." Kurt said in, what Gear was noting, a german accent.
Gear fired up him boots. "I agree."
Kurt and Kitty threw each other a look of excitement. Nightcrawler then disappeared, and reappeared about ten feet over Plant-man.
"Hahaha! You dare challenge the might of Pla- Oooff!" Nightcrawler smashed him on the head before flipping off to the ground.
Gear landed a punch in the mans nose. Plant-man stumbled back and nearly hit Shadowcat, of course she phased through him then, seeing an opportunity, she swept her feet under him. He fell on he back and hit his head on a metal board.
"That should throw off his powers for a while." Shadowcat stated, remembering a time over the summer when she hit her head on the table, the phased halfway through it only to find she couldn't continue out.
"I'll pin him!'' Spyke aimed his boney projectiles at the downed criminal. He shot them, only for a vine to pop up and snatch them out of the air.
"What? I thought you said his powers would be whack for a while!" Gear yelled as he dodged a vine flying towards him.
"I don't get it..." She said, hacking at the ever growing plants.
"Nezerth do I." Kurt said as he bamfed beside her.
Spyke and Gear were pushed towards them. The four of them stood back to back hacking at the attacking plants. Spyke was pinned to the ground, the plants were slowing Kurt's teleportation. Kitty was tiring from phasing through things. And Gear was running out of ideas. He was running out of zap-caps as well.
"What are we gonna do?"
Iceman sprinted to the battle against Whirlwind. He carried an ice shield, it protected him from various things flying towards him. Ahead of him Scott's optic beams blasted out at the villain while Jean held a force field. Rouge was closer to him, the teen was fighting to stay on her feet.
"Rouge! Can I help?!" He shouts to her.
"Yeah... Make this idiot stop." She retorts. Her feet lost ground and she skidded back. Thinking quickly, she thrust out her hands and caught on a pole that was bolted to the ground.
"Do you need help?"
Her eyes rolled."Nah, I'm just gonna hang here for a while."
"Okay, i'm gonna help Jean and Cyclopes." Iceman turned and headed to Scott and Jean.
"Idiot doesn't know what sarcasm is."
"Ha! Better back down little girl. Don't you know that you should run when tornados form?" Whirlwind taught not so creatively. The winds were less fierce towards Rouge now, and focused on Jean and her shield. The strain was evident in both Whirlwind and Jean. Rouge saw a chance to weaken him more.
{Jean! Get ready to make a offensive play!}
Jean looked at Rouge and nodded, relaying the idea to Cyclops and Iceman. Scott nodded and blasted a beam that knocked him off balance, sending him spiraling out of control. Then everyone responded at once. Jean caged Whirlwind in a weak telekinetic cell, Iceman shot out balls of ice, and Rouge moved in to syphon out his power. Their powers collided with each other. Jean's telekinetic shield haltered Rouge's efforts to make contact, Rouge's collision with the shield weakened it, allowing wind to escape. Iceman's ice was sent back at him, the force sent him down directly over Jean's shield. The impact was to much for Jean, she couldn't hold it up. Rouge only got to touch Whirlwind for a second before the combined force of Jean's mental whiplash and the criminals winds blew everyone back. Jean went the farthest and crashed into a booth.
"Jean!" Cyclopes yelled, watching her fly back. He got up and ran to her. Whirlwind laughed and spit insults.
"Well, that was crap." Rouge murmured to Bobby, who was sent next to her. "What are we gonna do?"
Bobby smiled. "I have an idea!"
Rouge sighed. "Great, now I'll die too."
Hi guys! Sorry it took me long! I like to perfect this as much as possible. PLEASE R&R! I'll give you a free cape!
Destiny: is it black? I need a black cape
Bobby: Dude!
Andrew:Haven't you seen the Incredibles?
Destiny: What does that have to do with anything?
Andrew&Bobby: NO CAPES!
Destiny: *throws hands up helplessly* I swear you two...
Virgil: Pretty sure you don't wanna get shredded in a jet engine though.
Richie: That's highly unlikely, villains will use it to choke you.
Destiny: Ugg! You make your costumes, I make mine!
Andrew: Okay... But-
All boys: NO CAPES!
Destiny: I give up...
Okkaay... Virtual cookie then?
Ps: If there are any spelling or grammar errors in any chapter please inform me!
