The New Exiles

Issue #12 – Sinister Squads – Part One

The Time Brokerage

Calvin and the Timebroker came back into the meeting room. Sitting there waiting for him were five members that he was able to pull from stasis. Three of them had joined after he had left the team. WizKid was from Earth-616 and was an unofficial member of the Exiles. IceyLink was an advanced holographic A.I. from Earth-8266. BattleStar was a super soldier from Earth-732. The last two he did know from his time on the Exiles. Sunfire from Earth-100, who he had thought he had killed and Storm from Earth-23895 who he had known from the other time hopping team, Weapon-X.

Calvin knew that he had taken who was left but he knew he had a potentially great team in front of him. He had needed two more members to fill his roster but there was no one left for him to take. So the Time Broker had allowed him to choose two final members from other stasis crystals from other time hoping teams. It had taken him a long time to scroll through and find two members that were in great condition and a good fit for his team, but he had made his choices.

Time Broker stepped aside allowing the final two members to walk into the room and for Mimic to introduce them to the team. The first of the two was Jake Gallows the man known as Punisher from Earth of 2099 was an ex-officer whose family had been murdered. He wore armor that was blue with red knee, elbow and shoulder pads. The middle of his armor looked like a skull. It was clear he was packing some serious hardware. He glanced at everyone, nodded and began checking his guns as the last of their team entered.

In walked an average built man wearing a red sleeveless spandex costume with black boots, gloves and the letter T on his chest. A red mask covered his head only exposing his face and blond hair on the very top. Around his waist and sleeve line were dark gold belt like bands. In his right hand was an odd looking hammer. He was introduced as Henry Pym the hero known as Thor from Earth-5000.

On his Earth Henry invented two kinds of Pym Particles. One allowed a person to run fast while the other increases strength and resistance. Only one could be used at a time. He also created an Uru hammer out of technology that generated lightening-like bolts and allowed temporary flight. In honor of his favorite childhood character he took the name Thor. On his Earth he fought with a team called the Avengers until he was pulled from his reality.

Timebroker told everyone about their mission. Their job was to find and take out the individual or individuals that were causing white outs in realities. The Time Brokerage would like for them to take the person or persons into custody alive, but they must do what is necessary to take them out. He thanked them and warned them that someone with this kind of power was considered very dangerous.

"Okay, team, for us to succeed we must work together and follow my orders. I know we can do this and for this mission we will be known as the X-Terminators," Mimic said as he prepped his new team.

"Time to go," Timebroker said as a light signaled on Mimics wrist indicating another white out was occurring.

Mimic touched a few buttons n his wrist band and the X-Terminators vanished from site.

Alternate Earth- Weapon-X

"Everyone, be on your toes," Sabretooth said as Weapon-X appeared from thin air.

"This is getting old. They are hopping too fast. This is the seventh reality that we have landed on and found nothing," Firestar said.

"No, I can smell him," Wolverine said as Creed sniffed the air and agreed.

"Vision, now," Creed shouted.

Vision pulled out the Ultimate Nullifier and used is powers to discharge it. A pulse went out draining the devise and Vision. It would take thirty minutes to recharge before they could use it on Hyperion, but with the pulse it would disable his and their ability to reality hop. They new they had to find Hyperion quickly and buy time till the Ultimate Nullifier was ready to be used.

"Now you've really made me angry," Hyperion said from atop a rooftop as he realized he couldn't reality hop.

"Give up now, Hyperion. You can't win. We're Weapon-X and you're going down," Hulk shouted.

"Oh you think? Let me introduce you to my team, the Squadron Sinister," Hyperion said as seven figures stepped up next to him.

Most of them recognized five of the members as former Weapon-X members. Peter Parker who was bonded to Carnage was called Spider. In one of the realities they had hopped to he had received the ability to bounce and move real fast instead of Robert Baldwin. He was bouncing back and forth with speed till Hyperion grabbed him and stopped him. It seemed that Hyperion had taken the liberty of upgrading his team on their quest through realities.

Ms Marvel looked the same except for a metal devise on her head. In one reality she had ripped it form a man named Bishop and placed it upon herself. Now she could absorb energy and discharge it giving off even more powerful blasts than before. Next to her was Deadpool and he looked no different than before. What they did not know was that on one reality were Sinister was performing experiments on test subjects labeled Gen X, Wade was induced with the DNA of Everett Thomas. Now he could synch with others powers. This made him deadlier.

The Kingpin's former assassin, Daredevil stood on the other side of Hyperion. In one hand he holds his baton but in the other hand he holds the Shadowlance he took from Blackwulf when he killed him. Next to him is Iron-Man from Earth-2020. His armor was now glowing a fiery blue. On another reality he had absorbed a portion of the hellfire energy from a demon called Zarathos. The last two members were brand new taken from other realities.

The first was what appeared to be female Iron-Man but the armor was grey and white and seemed to glow green. Her name was Erica Rhodes, the daughter of Jen Walters and James Rhodes. After watching her parents killed by a super hero war she vowed revenge on all super heroes. She combined her father's work on armor tech and her mom's studies on gamma power and created a gamma powered super battle armor. She took on the name Thunderstrike and began hunting heroes.

The last member was a man by the name of Dane Whitman. Possessed by an evil sword and his mutant powers over magnetism he took the name Vendetta and struck out to take over the world. He wears no costume, just a pair of jeans and a tight fitting t-shirt. His sword and his powers are all he needs in his quest. Vendetta stairs down below as he holds his sword up high.

"So how much longer before the Nullifier is ready?" Heather Hudson asked nervously.

"Twenty-eight minutes," Creed said with no fear in his voice.

"Kill them!" Hyperion shouted as he sat back and smiled as his Squadron headed down to towards Weapon-X.

Wolverine stood stir growling with anger as Spider bounced around him at super speed slicing him with his Carnage bonded skin. She-Hulk yelled as she was thrown back by a super powered blast form Ms Marvel. Deadpool growled as he synched with Creed's powers and engaged in savage battle. Vision became intangible and made is way up behind Hyperion. Daredevil came up fast behind Firestar and hit her hard in the back with his baton sending her to the ground. He then prepared to use his Shadowlance.

Thunderbird laughed at the man in armor until the Zarathos powered Iron-Man hit him with a blast that sent him flying through a building. Just as fast, Thundersrike did the same to Magnus with a gamma powered blast form her armor. Sasquatch didn't make it two feet when Vendetta used his magnetic powers to sandwich her between two cars. Hyperion laughed as he saw his team get the immediate upper hand in the first strike.

Alternate Earth – Exiles

"Of all the Earth's we land on we have to land on one like this," Nocturne barked.

This time the Exiles had found themselves on a world where Dr. Banner had accidentally set off a mega gamma bomb. The radiation wave was so huge that it had contaminated everyone living in all the western states. Every man, woman and child had mutated into a Hulk-like creature. Mass destruction followed immediately but that wasn't the worst of it. Any one bitten or scratched by a Hulk was contaminated and transformed themselves into a mad green creature. As of now, there were very few humans left in the world, including Dr. Banner, who they had to find and convince to create an anti-gamma bomb to revert everyone back.

"Weather we like it or not it's just us. Because of when this bomb went off there was never a chance for super heroes or villains to be created," Blink said as she caused a few more Hulks to vanish from sight.

"They're not so tough," Morph laughed as he morphs into a weak looking Hulk.

"Whatever you say, Morph. Just don't let those things bit you," Power Pack said as she uses her powers to punch a Hulk high into the air.

"Any luck in locating Banner?" Darklight asked as he tried to dodge a massive Hulk-looking grandma.

"Not yet. As much as you all seem to think, I haven't developed stronger powers. It's still taxing to do this level of mind scanning," Phoenix said as she mentally grabbed a few Hulks from around Darklight and sending them miles away.

Darklight nodded thanks and held out his hand. Calling forth his powers a dark cloud began to form around his left hand and then expand. Even when the Hulk's screams vanished within the darkness, Darklight could still feel them. The Hulk was feed him a lot of energy and it scared him how much he was enjoying it. Darklight shut his powers down and saw a winded Hulk gaining is strength back quickly. It appeared it took a lot more than his dark powers to stop them.

"We're not going to last much longer. There's just too many of them," Power Pack said landing beside Darklight.

"Maybe we can help," a voice said from above them.

They all turned to see seven figures standing on top of the hill. Blink had to shake her head to make sure she was seeing what she was seeing. Among the few she didn't know she clearly made out the others.

"Mariko? Lamar?" Blink asked blinking twice at seeing them not only here but alive.

"Hey there. Miss me?" BattleStar asked with a smile.

"I can't believe it. How?" Blink asked again.

"I'll explain that, but first let's finish off these Hulks," an eighth figure said stepping form behind the others.

"Cal?" Nocturne barked.

"Wow, I leave for a bit and things go to the dogs," Mimic laughed as Nocturne growls at him.

"I can't believe it," Blink said as she looked from Lamar to Calvin.

"We'll explain in a bit. X-Terminators, attack!" Mimic shouts as his team goes into action.

Mimic becomes steel as he punches Hulks with his fist and blasts them with his optic blasts. WizKid bulks up is suit of armor to a Hulk-Buster armor and trades blows. IceyLink creates holographs to confuse them into hitting each other. BattleStar uses his strength as Sunfire let's lose her fire. Storm and Thor both let loose lightening upon a bunch of charging Hulks. Punisher, arming himself with his guns opens fire with crippling shots. He would shoot to kill, but Mimic has made it clear about intentional killing. With the combined powers of the Exiles the Hulks are taken out and teleported away in a matter of moments.

"I can't believe you're alive," Nocturne said to Sunfire, sniffing back the tears.

"I can't believe you're a dog," Sunfire laughed.

Blink was going through the most, seeing both Mimic again and finding BattleStar alive. She had loved Calvin, but when he left and after going through what she had gone through with BattleStar she had developed feelings for him right before he had been killed. Or so she thought. She sighed as she recapped to the X-Terminators all that they had been through.

"So the device brought us to this world here," Calvin said as he told them about their mission and how they all had come to be here and others to be alive.

"So what do you do now," Blink said fearing that Cal and his team would be leaving them again.

"I don't know. We," Cal started to say and then paused looking at his device on his arm.

"What is it?" Blink asked confused at the way he was looking at her.

"According to this, the person we're looking for is among your team," Calvin said.

"What are you saying," Nocturne barked.

"For the sake of the universe, I'm going to have to ask you and your team to come with us," Calvin said.

"We're not going anywhere with you," Darklight said eyeing them.

"Hold on, I don't want to cause a fight. I think it's best we all," Mimic began as his team looked at him nervously. He wasn't the only one with old friends on the Exiles team.

"You think my team consists of evil?" Blink said suddenly getting defensive.

"Clarice, we don't have time to discuss this. My Tallus can't tell who it is but it is saying we must take you all back before it's too late," Mimic said

"I can't let you do this," Blink began to say.

"You won't have to. My hand has been forced but I'm ready," Phoenix said as she steps forward surrounded in a fiery white flame as the Phoenix Force comes to life.

"Phoenix?" Most of the Exiles question in surprise.

Phoenix waves her hand as the Phoenix Force reaches out and grabs IceyLink. In an explosion of fiery white power IceyLink is no more. Phoenix then points to the sky and a fiery white portal opens wide.

"IceyLink's death has given me the power to open the portal to let my friends through. Together, with the death of you thirteen we will rip a portal open that will take us directly to the Time Brokerage. Exiles, X-Terminators meet your death, the Phoenix Elite," Jean Howlett laughed as seven figures came through the portal, all glowing with fiery white power.

Next: Issue #13 – Sinister Squads – Part Two