I am sorry I know that's not nearly enough of an apology, but unfortunately that is the best I can do, as for what happened to me that caused me to be absent for so long, well the TLDR version is: university literally just spread my legs and fucked me, meanwhile I had to go back to my home country to settle a problem with a last will during the summer, so I didn't really have time to write and while I know that's not enough of an excuse I hope that you would forgive me.
I OWN NOTHING!
Chapter 12
"Alright everyone let's begin strategizing for tomorrow's field day." Zane announced after he got together with his entire team, excluding Havoc.
"Also known as: "How to Get Ganged Up On By All The Other Teams, And Try To Survive As Long As Possible Before Inevitably Being Eliminated Simulator." Jackson added, earning him a smack on the head by Clary via a newspaper roll.
"No negativity allowed." She said.
"Yeah," Lily agreed. "And does the idea that the new team always ganged up on even have a legitimate explanation?"
"It does," Noah spoke up. "The new team is, and should, always be eliminated first because they're an unknown, because we don't know how strong the new team is we should always get rid of that variable before it comes back to bite us."
When he puts it that way it makes sense, Lily thought.
Zane coughed to get the group back to him.
"As I was saying, because we know we will be ganged up on, we should adapt our strategy to something like that of defending against a castle siege, before I go any further, are there any questions?" He asked and instantly Clary's hand went up.
"Yes?"
"Define 'castle siege'."
"What I mean is we mostly focus on defense, and wait for the other teams to either give up, or make a mistake." Zane explained.
"So how do you propose we do that?" Noah asked.
"I was getting to that," Zane answered. "As I was saying, we should have a formation that mostly focuses on defense and sustain, so I propose that we first have Clary, Jackson, and Lily set up force fields around us, then I will reinforce the defense by destroying anything projectiles I can see with anti-matter, meanwhile Noah will be at the innermost part of group using his spells to top us off." Zane explained while unfolding a diagram he drew.
"And what happens when the enemy team makes a mistake?" Lily asked, ignoring the mumbling Jackson.
"When they make a mistake, we will have Clary head out first, given the fact that she has faster than light speed it's gonna be a pain for people to deal with her, and while she grabs the attention of most telekinesis users or alpha level mutants, that's the cue for the rest of us to move out, but remember to play protect the president with Priest, and since we are assuming that Lily's powers and mine are going to be restricted so we don't kill anyone, we will have both Jackson and Lily protecting him for extra security, and while you guys are doing that, me and Clary will go and make short work of the rest of the teams.
"Um, why us?" Clary asked.
Zane inclined his head towards her. "Good question, I picked the two of us because we have the lowest chance of being hurt when we head out of the protective bubble, since anyone outside of the force fields will most likely need to be supported by Noah- I mean Priest," Zane caught himself before continuing. "We'll need to make sure he needs to use as little stamina as possible for it is likely he will be worn out after keeping us topped off while inside the force field. Which is why I picked the two of us, Clary, like I explained before, can move at the speed of light which means trying to hit her in anyway, save telekinesis, is semi-impossible, and me because I can just coat myself in anti-matter, and pretty much survive anything, but since my power can't do much against telekinesis, we're gonna either take out the telekinesis users right away, or have Clary pull them away from me, especially Hellion." Zane finished, putting emphasis on that name.
"Julian? Why?" Lily asked.
"He has a grudge against me and I think he will be gunning for me during the game." Zane answered sheepishly.
"Why?"
"I may have tried to maim him with my sword the first time we met."
Lily gaped.
"What does 'violence is not the answer', mean to you?"
"I'm sorry, but he was bullying Jackson, the punk had it coming, in fact I was most likely doing public service."
"See? It's attitudes like that that gets you into situations like this." Lily scolded him.
"Yeah okay, scold me after, now is there any other questions, or concerns relating to the plan? Or are we just going with this tomorrow?" Zane asked looking around the room.
There was none.
"Well, then let's see how we screw up this time, meeting adjourned." Zane announced.
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Gilgamesh lay in bed with Nem on top of him.
"Oh, that felt great, way better than it was in your head." She groaned.
"Well that's one of the advantages to having a physical body." He laughed.
They two of them had been going at it nonstop pretty much ever since Nem got her new body, and now she finally seemed sated.
"Oh, God I'm so worn out by that." He complained.
"Yeah, but it was worth it, no?" Nem giggled in a very un-Nem-like way.
"For a woman capable of having multiple orgasms, maybe." He noted quietly. "How long did that go on for anyways?"
"Hours." Nem replied.
"Felt like a year." Gilgamesh yawned, and stretched.
"Hmmm. By the way I've been meaning to ask, what is this weird abdominal pain I've been having?" Nem asked while patting her stomach.
"What?" He immediately sat straight up and examined her. "How is that possible that body was constructed by the Fulcrum himself-." He stopped as he heard a sudden sound from her stomach.
*grrrrrowl*
"Never mind, mystery solved." He said, relaxing.
"What is it?" She asked.
"It's called hunger pangs its basically your body's way of telling you that you need food. Makes sense considering it has been hours since you've been in that body, speaking of what time is it?" The alarm clock that should have sat on his nightstand had disappeared to Kingdom Come about half way through their session.
"Found it." Nem lifted the clock up from the ground, well if you could even call it a clock that is.
Gilgamesh clearly didn't. "Ok, well that thing doesn't help does it?"
"Nope."
"Well, at least we know its day time." Gilgamesh said as he saw the rays of light peeking through the heavy drapes.
"Whatever time it is, these hunger 'pangs', are starting to feel like hunger hernias."
"Alright just get dressed and we'll get you some foo- wait, how do you know what hernias feel like?" Gilgamesh suddenly paused in the motion of putting his pants on.
"I don't, but according to your mind it is 'excruciatingly painful'."
"You can extract knowledge from people's mind? That sounds awesome- *cough, cough*. Sorry, I lost my composure there." Gilgamesh coughed to try and forget that embarrassing display.
"Oh, that's fine, I lived in your head for years, you know every time you internally scream?"
"Yeah?"
"I heard all of that."
"Dear Goddess, forgive me for I have sinned for showing you such a display," Gilgamesh started to bow, then tilted his head off to the side when he noticed she was still naked. "By the way, why do you still have no clothes on?"
"You didn't give me any." Nem answered.
"Right, sorry, that one's on me." Gilgamesh answered and walked to closet and pulled out a dress that he'd got from alongside Nem's body.
"Try it on." He said holding out the dress alongside a new shirt for himself it was a good idea that he went shopping earlier for clothes.
"Thank you," she took it and put it on in a flash, for someone who's never worn human clothes before she was able to dress herself astonishingly fast, without even needing Gilgamesh to zip up her dress.
"Mmhm, it fits." Nem said as she examined herself in the blood red dress.
"Looks nice." Gilgamesh commented as he examined the one shoulder dress, the patterns on the dress seemed to shift and change as Nem moved around, but he soon realized it was nothing more than an optical illusion.
"So how does it feel to wear human clothes for the first time?" He asked.
"It's… interesting." She answered and twirled around, making the patterns shift rapidly.
"Nice, now that you're dressed let's go get you some food." He said as he picked up his coat from the ground.
They stepped out into the hallway, and saw that no one was there. After checking the coast was clear Gilgamesh beckoned for Nem to follow him out, almost everyone here was going to have a fit if they saw an unidentified woman come out of his room, especially when no one was with him when he went in, and while they would find out eventually, Gilgamesh would much rather delay it as much as possible.
Gilgamesh mused as he tried his best to guide Nem through the halls that he has once practically memorized as a teenager.
Seems like a lifetime ago. He thought as he remembered those times, granted he wasn't old in fact he was only 24 years old, but to him it felt like it had been millenias ago. But then again anyone that has lived his life would feel the same way.
He was suddenly jolted back to reality when he heard the PA system above his head.
"Would any students who has yet to show up to the field day tournament please come to the tournament site immediately? This is the last call for all field day participants to please come to the tournament site."
Field day huh… Gilgamesh thought as a light bulb suddenly lit up in his head.
"What is it?" Nem asked.
"I just had an amazing idea to keep us entertained." Gilgamesh said as he began to lead her to the cafeteria to quickly grab some food. Before he missed the greatest ass kicking of the decade.
"What is it?" She repeated the question.
"I want we're gonna grab some food and then go watch an amazing battle royal featuring yours truly." Gilgamesh answered as they arrived in the cafeteria in a flash. "And it is going to be great."
"Uh-huh," Nem said as Gilgamesh grabbed two BLT sandwiches from the refrigerator they were sitting in, along with an extra-large bag of popcorn and a bottle of wine alongside two glasses. Why would a school cafeteria serve wine? Not to mention already popped popcorn.
"Hey you can't just take that." The cashier shouted across the room, and not a second later did a stack of hundred-dollar bills hit him square in the face, meanwhile Gilgamesh began to leave with the spoils of his raid.
"C'mon let's go, we have not a second to waste." He said as they started running towards the spectator's room for the "danger" room, to this day he still has not figured out why it was called that.
When they arrived Gilgamesh quickly opened the door with the master passcode that he got while hacking into institute's main network a few days ago.
As soon as the door opened an optic blast shot out from the opening, luckily Gilgamesh had already summoned a wall of anti-matter to block it.
"Geez Quick Shot, relax its just your God giving you the honor of gracing you with my presence." Gilgamesh laughed as he got as close to the monitor/window thing as he could and conjured two chairs side by side, meanwhile giving a nod of notice to everyone else gaping at the two of them.
"How did you know the code of the door, and who's that woman next to you?" Cyclops asked as he relaxed, he had thought an intruder had entered, though compared to this man he almost preferred that it had been an enemy.
"Relax you mongrel, all I needed to do was a little hacking and I got the master code."
"But our systems are protected by one of the best on Earth." Beast frowned.
"For your time maybe." Gilgamesh scoffed as he pulled Nem into a chair with him, who was a bit too busy ooing, and ahhing to the fancy technology in the room to pay the others any attention. "As for who the girl is Scotty, well, all I'm gonna say is: Out of your league…. you filthy mongrel."
"Zane please stop insulting my student." Xavier said calmly, which amused Gilgamesh, nothing ever fazed the old man, but he also wondered if his expression would change if he told the man how he died. "Oh, and one more thing, when can we discuss about this apocalypse you came back to the past to avoid?"
Zane licked his fingers as he finished pouring the wine. "Try when I feel like it. Also, I'm not Zane, I'm 'Gilgamesh'."
"But we all know your name." Alex frowned.
"I tried so hard to think up of this alias Alex, at least let me use it."
"Mr. Haides, I must insist that you tell us how to prevent the incoming apocalypse as soon as possible."
"Fine, but after this show ends. Now announce the beginning of the tournament so we can watch my current self kick some serious ass." Gilgamesh said as he tossed a popcorn into his mouth.
Xavier relented seeing that this was the best deal that he was going to get from this man and spoke into the microphone to signal the beginning of the tournament.
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"Alright we're about to be introduced, you guys nervous?" Jackson asked as he picked at the emblem on his uniform.
"I would be if I didn't look as amazing as I always look." Zane answered with his usual "charm".
"Well unlike you brother, I am." Lily commented as she fidgeted with her fingers.
"Yeah, same here, by the way Lily can I ask a question?" Clary asked.
"Yeah?"
"If you can reality warp, can't you just take away your own anxiety?"
"Well my reality warping isn't as intense as that of other reality warpers." Lily explained sheepishly.
"That is to say it is virtually useless." Zane cut in.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Noah asked. "I thought reality was insanely powerful no matter how potent it is."
"That's not exactly right, while reality warping as a power is without a doubt one of the most powerful abilities in existence, the problem comes in when a person is not exactly supposed to have the power has it." Lily explained.
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
Zane sighed and responded in Lily's place, she was very embarrassed of the fact that she technically couldn't do anything with her reality warping powers so far anyways.
"It's like this, Lily has so much raw power bottled up inside of her that her existence itself is an anomaly, something interferes with the fabric of reality, it is because of that she is able to warp reality, like an ocean, if you toss a stone in it there is bound to be ripples, and the rock cannot stop that can it? No, it can't. Now think of the ocean like all of reality, the rock being Lily, and these ripples being her reality warping abilities, so technically she can warp reality, she just can't control it. Just like how the rock can't control how the ripples form. Understood?" Zane explained in the simplest terms that he can think of.
"Huh, and I always thought you were more powerful than her." Said Jackson.
Zane looked at him strangely, before shaking his head.
"Anyways, do you guys all remember what our plan was?" Zane asked.
"Yes." They said in unison.
"Alright, then let's hope we don't screw this up."
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"Now before we begin the tournament," Xavier spoke into the microphone. "We have a newly established team joining us today, the team's leader is Cyclops' brother Havoc, now allow me to hand the mike off to him as he introduces his own team."
"Thank you, professor," Alex thanked him as he took Xavier's place. "Now my team has five members now without any further ado allow me to introduce them one-by-one, first of all we have the team leader of our team, I'm sure you've all heard of him, one of our newest omega level mutants, welcome: Harbinger."
Zane walked out on cue, flashed a smile that would've had all the women in the room swooning and waved to everyone here, then without another word or theatrics (surprisingly), stood off to the side.
"Next we have his sister another omega level mutant, yes you heard me right, please welcome: Scathach."
Lily walked out and snapped her fingers, as she did an electrical blue spear that Zane had never seen before appeared in her hands, which she spun a few times before making it disappear, as soon as it did she joined Zane on the side.
"Thank you, now please welcome another mutant, while he may not be an omega level mutant like the other two, his shock blasts are guaranteed to pack a mean punch, in fact he was even able to drop one our previous omegas with it before, come show us who you are: Feedback."
Jackson walked out and as he reached the center of the platform multiple lightning bolts fell around him from the ceiling, after the lighting came down Jackson went and stood next to Lily.
"Alright now that we have seen lightning, let us now see light show us what that's all about: Photon."
A flash of light appeared on the stage, and as people watched the light slowly materialized into Clary after that she blew a kiss to the crowd and went to stand next to Jackson.
"And finally, last but not least, please welcome the final member of our team, now this guy may be a catholic, but rest assured, he is no saint, welcome: Prophet!"
A golden emblem appeared on the ground at the center of the platform right where everyone else were, and from the emblem rose the figure of Noah, after he appeared Noah gave a bow to the crowd before going off to join his team as well.
"Thank you, and that was all the members of team Morningstar, I hope today we will all have a fair and clean game, I hereby announce the beginning of the Field Day Tournament. MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN!"
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Sometime later…
Zane's POV
10 minutes later and as soon as Zane's team were introduced, all Hell broke loose, fortunately they were able to stay in formation.
Harbinger raised his non-sword wielding hand, and a wall of pitch-black anti-matter rose up to deflect a few energy projection bolts from a girl named Noriko, he'd seen her in the halls a few times before, the blue hair kind of made her stand out, but never interacted with her, neither did he think that she was a x-men in training.
"Clary help me!" Harbinger called out to Clary, and not a second later a flash of light knocked the blue haired girl out, and in its place his friend.
"You really can't hit a woman, can you?" She asked incredulously.
"Sorry, but no."
"Well it looks like-" She was cut off by Harbinger when he knocked her down to avoid being tagged by what looked like a walking mountain.
"Save the insults for later, keep running distractions." Harbinger quickly straightened up as Clary nodded and disappeared in a flash of light.
"Alright big guy, you and me let's go." Harbinger said as he pointed his sword at the mountain.
"Rockslide." Said the mountain.
"Excuse me?"
"My name is Rockslide, and you must be the new omega level mutant everyone's been making a fuss about." Said Rockslide.
"Yeah, name's Harbinger nice to meet you."
Rockslide grinned and punched at Harbinger, who side-stepped it and knocked his sword into a crack on his hand, which did nothing.
"Damn you for being a literal Rock!" He shouted and had to quickly jump back to avoid the deadliest bear hug of his life.
Unfortunately for him Rockslide held out one of his hands and a finger shot out like a bullet. If Harbinger wasn't the one being shot at he would've laughed at the fact that it was the middle finger that was fired at him.
"Finally, something I can de-materialize." Harbinger said and a ball of anti-matter devoured the finger.
Unfortunately for him that pissed the Mountain off more than anything.
"You destroyed my finger!"
"I know, no hard feelings, right?" Harbinger laughed jokingly.
The response from Rockslide however was a bellow he attempted to flatten Harbinger like a train.
"Oh no! He's running at me, what will I do?" Harbinger put his hands up to the sides of his head and feigned terror, but the second Rockslide got close enough he swung his sword in an expert slash and severed one of his legs like as if it was butter.
As Rockslide fell Zane swung his sword again to loop off one of his arms, then quickly slid under another swipe from the other hand, and as he was under the arm he cut it off as well. The limbs dropped to the ground with a resounding crash, and Zane jumped back up again.
"Now be a proper Mountain and don't move." Harbinger ordered the rock.
"Go to Hell!" The rock roared and of the arms shot at Zane.
Zane made it dematerialize like the finger from before.
"Look man, I know you think your ability is stupid, to which I agree, it is very broken, but let me assure you, mine are far more broken." Zane said and signaled Lily to knock Rockslide out mentally.
"Now stay here as I win-." He was cut off by having to dodge a fireball being hurled his way.
"Just one pest after another." Harbinger grumbled under his breath, and hurled a ball of anti-matter at Match, who threw the fireball, only to have it pass right through the guy's image as if it was a mirage.
"Oh, but there's one more of us after you." A shrill female voice sounded as Zane realized his mistake, Match's teammate Pixie was able to use something called pixie dust to make her opponent hallucinate.
"I Applaud your tactic Megan, but unfortunately for you coming after me is a terrible idea." Zane looked around and found that the winged Pixie was nowhere to be seen, no doubt she hid herself using her hallucination inducing dust.
"How so?" The annoyingly chirpy voice asked.
And as she said that another fireball flew his way but his anti-matter armor consumed the flames completely.
"Because I'm a-." He was cut off by another fireball.
"I'm starting to really get tired of this shit. Lily!" Harbinger said and raised a hand sign that only his sister would understand into the air.
Not a second later did Lily's voice pop into his head.
Pixie is 6 meters to your 5 o'clock position.
Zane dashed in that direction, ignoring multiple incoming fire balls, as soon as he reached the position, Pixie soured into the air with her wings.
Give me control of one of your arms and I'll herd her down.
Zane immediately released control on his left arm, Lily took aim and shot out 5 missiles that forced Pixie onto the ground close enough for Zane to reach her. Just as he was about to dispel his anti-matter shield to make physical contact with her Match turned himself into fire and dashed in between the two of them, the surprise forcing Zane to involuntarily back off.
"Can you not? Just wait your turn, the second I take out your friend I be with you." Zane raked his hand through his hair, these two were getting on the last of his nerves.
The response was a wave of fire that covered Pixie's retreat back into the air where she had free reign.
"A man of few words I see." Zane said, in the fire, but before Match knew it the flames in front of him parted to reveal Zane's face barely an inch away from his own. "I can appreciate that, but not nearly enough to spare you." After saying the Zane hit Match on the forehead with the butt of his sword and knocked the mutant out, before he was able to disengage
"Now, to hunt down Pixie, and make her pay for making a fool out of me." Harbinger mumbled and began to search for Pixie, he saw her just as she dived into a group of people.
"I'm coming after you." Harbinger growled and attempted to bypass the people fighting in front of him, but he stopped when Lily's voice appears in his head again.
Zane duck! He did so without questioning her. Just in time to see an armored fist fly past his head, alarmed Zane quickly turned around to face his new challenger, and he looked right into the armored face of Indra.
Indra's real name Paras Gavaskar he was an Indian guy with purple skin and red eyes with lines running up and down his body, the guy was able to conjure and dress himself in an exoskeleton that looked like armor, as well as creating weapons out of the same material, according to the rumors that Zane heard, Indra was one of the best in the school at utilizing his abilities.
"Alright Indra let's see if you can live up to your name sake." Zane said as he swung his sword again, but Indra nimbly backed off.
"As if I'll allow you to run." Zane smirked and moved in with a text book sword step, but to his surprise his sword was caught between a pair of purple knives that suddenly appeared in Indra's hands.
"Oh, it looks like you know your stuff." Zane complimented him as he pulled his sword out off the trap by casing it in anti-matter briefly, then he began to circle Indra.
"So, do you it seems, that was the sword step yes? I've heard of it though never seen anyone use it, I suppose you are more than just an average omega level mutant." Indra remarked as he kept his eyes on Harbinger.
"Does seeing it in person please you?" Harbinger asked.
"Mmm, I suppose." Indra replied.
"Interesting, then how about this." Zane stepped in, and in an instant swung two whirl wind slashes, but Indra lowered his upper body to avoid them.
Only to have Zane's fist come flying at his face.
Indra however dropped his knives and conjured a Greek hoplon shield to block Zane's anti-matter coated fist.
"Hey, that was pretty good." Zane grinned, then quickly raised his foot to break through the shield, against anti-matter even Indra's durable exoskeleton shattered like glass.
"You know if I didn't control anti-matter you might be a serious problem." Zane remarked as Indra backed off again as he dropped the shattered pieces of his shield, this time he summoned a pair of swords, to be specific one Kayamkulam vaal which is a traditional Indian straight sword, and an Egyptian kopesh a sword that specialized in trapping other blades in its curved blade, and stood in a guarded position.
"Oh? It seems you plan to actually fight me this time." Zane smiled and advanced.
As soon as Zane got close enough Indra threw his Kayamkulam Vaal, but Zane simply tilted his head to the side to avoid it.
"Careful with that." Zane laughed and swung his sword in a grand downward slash, a move reserved for only when one was sure their opponent would be defeated in the next strike, as while the move had outstanding destructive power it would leave openings all over the person using the weapon, but Zane didn't care to him Indra was harmless.
Or so he thought, Indra had intentionally put on a bad display so his opponent would underestimate him, though against Zane it worked far faster than he expected.
Without warning Indra dashed forward in a burst of speed, and stabbed at Harbinger's stomach.
But then Harbinger dispelled his anti-matter shield to grab one of Indra's gauntleted hand, meanwhile his sword continued its movement almost as if they were two separate lifeforms each with their own mind, but Indra foresaw this, and then he made a fist with his other hand and instantly all the weapons that Indra dropped earlier behind Zane all came flying towards him, the knives, the sword and the shattered hoplon shield all flew towards Zane's defenseless back at breakneck speeds, and as soon as Indra called his weapons back, a tower shield appeared in Indra's unoccupied hand, he shoved the shield forwards hoping to trap Zane between it and the weapons behind him, the anti-matter armor on Zane might be powerful, but even it won't be enough to block the sheer force of the shield bash, not to mention now he didn't even have it activated, this was the last of Indra's energy, constantly summoning complex weaponry like before was placing a huge drain on him, but it was worth it, he's won.
Or at least he should have, but just a moment before the weapons and the shield made contact Harbinger let go of Indra's arm and swung his sword down with both hands the speed of the sword doubled, and Harbinger's sword easily cut through the tower shield like it was wet paper towels, the sword stopped an inch before it reached Indra's face, then it went back up as Zane lifted it back onto his shoulders.
"But the weapons, how did they not hit you?" Indra asked genuinely puzzled, he sounded way too calm for someone who was almost just decapitated.
Zane grinned before gesturing to his back, and the weapons were lodged there, stopped by a thin layer of anti-matter.
"I've learnt to keep my back covered at all times, even when my frontal armor is turned off my back will always to protected, that being said," Zane spat out a small bit of blood. "Your idea to attack with sheer physical force was a good one, even my anti-matter couldn't beat pure physics, the force at which those weapons slammed into my back almost made my concentration give out, almost." Zane laughed and wagged a finger.
"I see, I have been had." Indra said as his armor peeled back. "That was all I had left, I concede this fight to you."
"You're giving up?"
"Yes, I used up all of my energy just now, it's a miracle I'm still standing honestly." Indra laughed and signaled to the teachers that he forfeited, and instantly a portal appeared in front of him.
"Good fight man." Zane said as the portal appeared. "Next time we duel let's not use our powers yeah?"
"I'll look forward to it." Paras waved behind his back as he walked through the portal, officially declaring his team has ran out of members to participate in the tournament.
The second the portal closed pain raced through Zane's body, it must've been because of the adrenaline of the fight that made it so that he didn't feel the pain earlier.
Groaning he straightened and scanned the room, a large number of combatants has already been defeated, either by him, Clary, Lily, who had left the shelter of the dome that they had set up at the beginning of the fight, or by one of the other teams, so far it seemed that the only teams with all their members intact was Zane's and the New Mutants, the Hellions were also only down a single member.
Zane staggered towards the dome that Noah and Jackson were keeping up on their own, in case any of them needed first aid during the fight, which happened to be Zane now.
"Priest, treat me." Zane said as soon as he was inside the barrier.
Noah, without a second to waste, casted a healing spell on Zane.
"I'm Prophet by the way, call me by my codename while we're in combat." Prophet spoke up as he healed Zane.
"Man, you and Lily are kicking ass out there." Jackson whistled. Completely ignoring Noah's comment. "Sure wish I was an omega mutant right about now."
"Jackson despite what you may think being an omega is not as glamourous as it seems." Zane responded.
"Right I know, so let me rephrase that, I wish I was you right about now."
Zane looked at him then gestured to his backside.
"Oh you know I mean you minus the injuries."
"why do you always envy others?" Noah asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you seem to always think other people are better than you."
"In other words: You have low self-esteem." Zane said.
"No, I don't have low self-esteem, and I'm not envying them, I just wished that I was able to go out there and fight like Lily is right now, speaking of Lily, man she is going to town out there." Jackson said.
"Well If you want to go then go, I'm in no shape to fight right now, so go take my place, I'll set up my shield in place of yours." Zane waved his hand as if to shoo Jackson away.
"For real?"
"For real."
"Thanks!" Jackson said and retracted his shield, and in its place a black tinge covered Noah's dome. Then he left.
"Why can't I leave?" Noah asked after a while.
"Because Priest you're the medic, so long as you're here we won't have to drop out instantly because of an injury." Zane explained and waited for the healing magic to work. "Now let's just watch as our team win this."
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5 mins earlier….
Lily's POV
After helping her brother with Pixie, Lily saw the Clary was starting to get overwhelmed.
"Prophet, and Feedback can you guys hold down the fort while I go help Clary?" Scathach asked the two of her teammates.
"We've got this, go." Feedback Responded and intensified his electric shield as Lily let hers go, meanwhile Prophet dropped his.
"…. Hey can you intensify the shield after I leave?"
"Oh yeah, sure, sorry." Feedback quickly dropped his shield as well, as soon as Lily was outside the two shields went back up.
Scathach stretched her legs before using her telekinesis to launch herself into the group of people that has been chasing Clary down for a while now.
"Woah there!" Photon exclaimed as she almost slammed into Lily, she had a few scratches here and there, but otherwise she was fine.
"Sorry I thought you needed help." Scathach apologized and looked at the group of mutants that followed Photon.
Out of which she saw: Hellion, Three-In-One, Prodigy, Surge, Icarus, and Wither.
"You really are taking your roll as distraction, seriously aren't you?" Scathach asked.
"Well yeah, but now that you're here I no longer need to be a distraction, right?" Photon responded.
"Yes, go help take care of the stragglers now, I'll take them off your hands." Lily said and pointed to the group chasing Clary before.
"You're kidding right?"
Scathach let a very rare smirk appear on her face, which made her look a bit too much like her brother, then her spear appeared in her hand.
"Do I look like I'm kidding?"
"No."
"Then go take care of the stragglers."
"Roger."
As soon as Photon left, Scathach got into on of the martial stance her brother taught her and angled her spear at the group of mutants as blue arks of energy leaked from her eyes.
"Now to quote my brother: 'Bring me everything you have and then some.'" Scathach smiled sweetly.
Hellion immediately sent a bolt of green energy at Scathach, which she was able to easily deflect with her own blast, and then lunged forwards like an arrow heading straight for Hellion, who quickly put a shield just in time to stop her, meanwhile Wither and Icarus attacked her one from above one from the side.
Scathach used her telekinesis to levitate herself in order to dodge Wither's swipe and then kicked him into Hellion's barrier knocking him unconscious, then she lifted her hand and sent out a wall of pure force to push Icarus back into the air.
It was then Three-In-One made their move, the triplets' psychic abilities were incredibly impressive given the fact that their three minds were practically one in the same, according to rumors there was originally four of them, but now there were only three. Nonetheless Scathach's mind shields were able to withstand their assault, but not for too long, with a shout Scathach sent every one near her flying back only those behind Hellion's barrier were safe, but even Hellion had to concentrate only on his shield to keep it from breaking. As soon as she was in no immediate Danger Scathach strengthened her mental defenses, and after having a short mental battle against the triplets she realized she couldn't keep it up so she threw her spear at them, just the spear would've reached they became three separate bolts of energy and they knocked Three-In-On unconscious.
The three bolts of energy quickly flew back into Scathach but instead of recombining back into one spear they formed three different spears two of which floated in the air next to Scathach meanwhile the last one landed in her hand and reformed into a spear.
"Well who's next?" She winked at them.
Hellion dropped his shield and sent a psychic wave of his own at Scathach, but it was countered by a blue hand that appeared in the air, meanwhile Prodigy charged at her, just before he reached her he tilted his head to allow a blast of energy from Surge to get dangerously close to Lily, but she simple waved her hand last second and a shield shaped like a lily flower appeared and blocked the blast of energy, and one of her floating spears started to hold prodigy at bay, allowing Lily to focus on Hellion to she immediately maximized her power out put and the giant blue hand transformed into an arrow head that pierced through his wall, and knocked him to the ground.
"Aurgh!" He groaned.
Then Scathach turned her attention to Surge who was charging up a beam that he was no doubt about to fire at her, she decided to attack him first, she made a fist with one hand and immediately a hand made of blue energy grabbed Surge, and threw him at Prodigy, causing them both to go tumbling.
"Damn it, how are you this strong?" Hellion roared in frustration and fired a blast with all of his might.
"Because I'm an Omega." Lily responded matter-of-factly, without a hint of arrogance in her voice, and thrusted out her spear with all her strength which scattered the green psionic blast as soon as they made contact, after that she used all of her strength to knock Hellion out mentally, she was met with some resistance, but he had already taken, too much damage from their fight earlier, and couldn't stand up to her telepathy attack.
Just as Prodigy got up and prepared to charge at Scathach her last remaining spear pointed at his face, half an inch away from his nose.
"Cede." She commanded.
"No."
"Fine then." Lily's second spear looped to Prodigy's back and knock him out with a good hit to the back of his head.
Then Lily suddenly sensed something approaching her from the air, she lifted her head in time to see Icarus get struck by a bolt of electricity from none other than Feedback.
"I thought I told you to hold down the fort."
"Yeah, but Za- I mean Harbinger told me that he could take care of it." Feedback responded.
Scathach frowned.
"My brother gave up gloating over someone to hold down the fort? That doesn't sound like him." She said.
"Oh yeah, well he's not really in any shape to fight right now, he kinda got injured during his fight with Indra."
She sighed and shook her head.
"I told him not to underestimate his enemies, but clearly he couldn't stop himself."
"Hey its Zane, if he doesn't make some stupid mistakes due to being cocky then he isn't himself." Feedback remarked.
"True that. Now," Lily looked around the room just in time to see Clary flash behind Wind Dancer and dropped her with a chop to the back of her head, leaving only Elixir, who surrendered after seeing he was the only other person remaining.
Then Xavier's voice came over the system.
"Halt! Now seeing as team Morningstar is the last team remaining I will now announce you the winners."
They heard someone shout "Hell yeah!" In the background and the sound of high fives that followed.
"YES!" Lily cheered and hugged Jackson, who looked like he might pass out from the sudden intimacy.
"Nice!" Zane laughed and fist bumped Noah.
Meanwhile Clary felt a bit miffed when she was left out, but that didn't last long as Lily pulled her brother, Noah, and Clary to her into a huge group hug.
This was their win, their first win as a team, and as they say: "You never forget your first."
But as they celebrated Gilgamesh suddenly felt a great disturbance in the flow of reality, something that he's only felt a few times before, no it couldn't be, this was too early, he should've had another week before it happened, Gilgamesh looked at Nem in alarm and she nodded, she felt it as well. Without a single word being spoken between the Gilgamesh teleported them downstairs and put a hand on his sister's shoulder, then before anyone had time to ask him what happened he shouted.
"FULCRUM I'M GONNA NEED THAT FAVOR NOW!" Then in a flash of cosmic energy, team Morningstar, Gilgamesh, and Nem disappeared, and the reality changed half a second after they did.