I know that it's a day early, but I got finished with it and decided, why not? Enjoy the finale to Season Two!

Day Of Reckoning:
Revelation

"You sure there's anything here?" asked the girl, surrounded in a silver aura as she flew alongside Magneto. During the nighttime, she was so much less limited than in the day.

"Of course there is, Valkyrie," explained Magneto. He waved his hand, and entire pieces of the building slid away. He did this for several moments, before Valkyrie realized that there was something there.

She landed next to it and realized it was a girl who was in obviously bad shape. Her arms and legs were pointed in the wrong way, and her skin already had a sickly pallor, a stark contrast with the blood pooling from a head and chest wound.

"She's already dead, Magneto," the girl explained, kneeling next to her.

"Well then, you know what to do with her, don't you?"

She sighed as she pressed her hands on the girl's head and chest, covering both wounds. Silver light flowed around her, and shadows lengthened and stretched in a circle of darkness.

"I'm not sure if it will work," she explained. "I've only resurrected someone once, and it was under special conditions. The moon was in-"

"Yes, yes," he said, bored. "The moon was in retrograde. As it is tonight. Now, stop stalling and heal her."

She concentrated on her breathing and on breathing life back into the mutant girl under her palms. The shadows flowed freely around her, taking solid form and moving around almost like snakes. Silver energy flowed off of the wounds, and all was a good sign that it was going to go well.

Valkyrie considered stopping. She considered pretending like she couldn't heal her. But Magneto would know, and she'd rather not deal with his wrath.

She felt the energy being taken from her, and immediately, she felt pain in her head and her chest, in the exact spots where the girl would have been hurt. It was like a fiery itchiness that completely enveloped her being. She was suffering the same pain that the girl had felt, transferring it to her own body.

Slowly but surely, color seemed to return to the girl's body. Valkyrie felt the effects of the transfer, and she knew that in the end, if she tried to heal something too great, she'd die. Magneto knew that too.

And that was what scared her the most.

Suddenly, the girl heaved and shot up. A deep breath revealed her to be alive, and Valkyrie, like before, hoped that Naomi could avoid the effects of being resurrected…

Immediately, the newly resurrected girl began to cry, as though being reborn.

"Remarkable," Magneto marveled, clasping Valkyrie on the shoulder. Her false, transferred pain was still throbbing.

The Sentinel picked up a certain Canadian mutant. Its sensors checked for mutant life signs, and as they were detected, it switched to terminate mode.

But before anything else could happen, it suddenly shut down.

Trask had been watching the whole thing, and as a team of mechanics and scientists hurried to analyze the giant robot, he smirked. "Cage the mutant for now, and run a full-scale diagnostic on the Sentinel. I want to know exactly how well it stood our little exercise. And then, we'll try this, again."

"That's not good," Augustus remarked. "Not good at all. Does anyone here think this could be good, because it's so obviously bad!"

Masato grimaced. "Spindle, please, shut up."

The African-American boy frowned, but didn't comment.

"What are we going to do?" asked Reese, trying to think proactively here.

Masato sat down at the console, Haley at his side. The two of them were the only ones who had worked with the systems extensively. As they typed and clicked, trying to defuse the situation with an override, the clock still clicked farther and farther down.

"Crap," Jackie whispered. "Can't you guys go any faster?"

Haley shook her head. "No. There's quadruple encryption here, and none of Xavier's usual passwords work to break them. It's as though someone-"

"Planned it?" asked Reese. "Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing. There's something going on with Wolverine, Magneto, and the mansion at the same time? Someone is playing us. Big time."

"Damn it!" Masato yelled, after trying to hack through the four-layered wall between themselves and salvation. Suddenly, he smashed his fist into the keyboard, the extra weight even when he wasn't in his earth form causing it to crack and split in half. "I can't do it."

"Well, you definitely can't do it now," Haley muttered, shocked but refusing to show it. She still had a blank expression on her face, with tiny hints of worry and fear written in the corners of her mouth and eyes.

Jackie whimpered. "What do we do then? Where do we go? We can't leave the Institute!"

Cerebro, a voice whispered. A voice in their minds. It was too faint, unusual. But they didn't exactly have the time to figure it out.

"Would the Cerebro room hold up to the explosion?" asked Haley as they rushed out of the door. Masato raked straight through one of the turrets that spawned against him, and Reese sliced through another with a purple, glowing sword.

"It's possible! Everyone, get there now!" Reese exclaimed.

Xavier swiveled the cameras while inside the Velocity, searching the area for any oddities. He finally zoomed in on several spheres of smooth metal.

"Well, Magneto is here alright, and he's not alone," the man muttered.

"We should be out there with him," Storm pleaded, looking from herself to Keiko and back to the Professor.

"You both will be, but let's first see what surprises are in store for us."

"Team two, you'll find some familiar-looking loading orbs near the docks," explained Ororo into her headpiece communicator. "Stay alert, for Magneto brought friends."

"Gotcha," said the voice of Alex back.

"Team three, what's your status?" asked Storm.

"We're proceeding into the next sector," Beast answered back. Rivera and Astoria were behind him.

"Geez, I feel paranoid," Rivera said, shivering.

Astoria, unnaturally sad and quiet, only smirked.

"You were friends with her, with Naomi, weren't you?"

The flame-manipulator nodded. "Yeah. We were really hitting it off, but her powers were… too much for her."

Rivera nodded, knowing at least a fraction of what that was like. But she didn't comment on something that had nothing to do with her.

Grant whipped his head over and peeked into each of the orbs. "Nothing," he muttered, retracted back to his body. "They seem to have disappeared."

Alex, listening to his words, shook his head with disbelief. "The orbs are empty," he confirmed into the communicator.

"Anyone else not like this?" asked Archie.

Jade raised her hand. "I definitely don't."

"Where could they have gone? This is just too creepy," Kris muttered.

"Tempest, you got anything from above?" asked Alex into his communicator.

"No, nothing," she muttered, disappointingly. "They must be excellent at covering their tracks."

Suddenly, something struck Alex's neck. He pulled at it, expecting it to be some kind of mosquito bite. To his surprise, it was a spike formed of some kind of liquid, a spike that melted in his hands. As it fell on the ground, it corroded through some of the dirt.

He felt woozy and tried not to fall, but soon enough, he fell to his knees. "Watch… out!" he muttered, before he fell unconscious.

"Dynamo!" exclaimed Kris, wondering what could have happened. "What's wrong?"

"I believe I'm what's wrong, aren't I?" said a voice. All of them looked around, not knowing where it was coming from. "Up here!"

Suddenly, someone dropped on them. Jade held her hands up defensively, a yellow pulse of light hitting the man in mid-air and forcing him to crawl too slowly.

"Who are you?" demanded Grant.

"Acid," he explained in slow-motion, before suddenly whipping around and kicking Jade away from the area, dispelling her field in an instant. "Your powers corrode around me!"

The boy opened his palm and hurled a cloud of noxious gases. Archie flicked his wrist and a blast of water shot from the pipes, breaking the gas up.

"Get him!" Grant yelled.

Acid merely grimaced, before suddenly flipping away acrobatically. There was the sound of lurching metal as everything in the area seemed to be ripped from its place. Beams from buildings were torn and bent away, reducing entire columns to rubble.

The destruction headed for one place, where every mutant on the three teams was looking. There were some other people standing atop a huge pile of crates, each seemingly displaying their powers.

One girl with bright, silver hair was standing in the shadow of the crates, the black darkness around her bending to her will.

Another, Sabretooth, stood there, ready to pounce. If Logan were here, that look would be enough to start a fight.

A familiar face to all of them stood ready, watching and waiting. A blond-haired girl, a former member of the X-Men, was standing there with pink clouds of gases streaming around her.

And the last one was a surprise to all of them.

"Naomi?" exclaimed Astoria, fighting the desire to rush over to the girl. But if Naomi recognized her, she didn't make any sudden movements and stood there in stupor.

Shadows suddenly lashed out at the group, tinged in silver light. Anywhere a shadow appeared, something was attacking them. Rivera tried to kick through one, but they were solid until they wanted to be. Grant became entangled in one of them, the two seemingly at a stalemate.

Tempest suddenly flew in from above and tried to blast the umbrakinetic into submission with lightning bolts. She cursed as Sabretooth leapt forward to absorb the impacts, his healing factor somehow returning him to normal.

Tristan, seeing this display from the top of a nearby water tower, tried to shoot down Sabretooth like a sniper but one of the umbrakinetic's shadows blocked it.

Astoria, wanting to talk to Naomi, tried to rush forward but Acid got into her way. "No way, girlie."

"Out of my way!" Fire streamed from her fingertips, and the older man barely evaded the strike. He quickly countered by throwing more of his spike-like liquid poison.

A wall of mud appeared in between, blocking it. Camille nodded to Astoria to let her pass. The Goth appreciatively headed forward.

"Naomi!" she said as soon as she got close.

The girl didn't respond but just looked at the pyrokinetic.

"Naomi, it's me, Astoria. Your friend, remember?"

Naomi still didn't respond.

"God, we only have one-minute left," muttered Haley as they finally reached the door to Cerebro.

"Crap, it's locked!" Jackie said after trying to put in the pass code. Nothing happened.

Masato touched the wall suddenly and sucked in as much earth energy as he could. His body grew obsidian black and completely heavy.

"Reese, make a wedge," he muttered. "A big one."

Spartan barely had enough time to react before Stone-Heart turned backwards and ran towards the end of the hall at full-speed. He created a quick wedge as well as he could, putting it within the crack of the door.

Masato came back at full speed, denting the floor with the momentum such a mass could produce.

"Fifteen seconds!" yelled Haley.

Masato suddenly crashed into the wedge, forcing the hard-light construct into the crack of the door. It opened appreciatively, and not one of them wasted time getting inside.

As soon as they were inside, Reese turned off his powers. "Brace yourselves!"

Everyone backed into the center of the room as far as they could. One of them stepped on something, something they didn't expect to see.

"Professor?" asked Jackie.

The mansion exploded.

As Trask had his team running diagnostics on Wolverine, he received a startling notion.

"Is the Sentinel online?"

"No, sir."

"Well, get it back online!"

Lily rushed at her father the soonest she had the chance.

"Where have you been?" she yelled, her voice sounding much more menacing in beast mode.

Sabretooth didn't reply, but instead darted at his daughter. A quick slice to the ribs left Lily angrier than she had ever been.

She rampaged and struck, throwing him across the field, and right into Beast. The ape-like creature was waiting, however, and Victor Creed landed on the mutant's feet. Immediately, Beast kicked back upwards and hurled Sabretooth even farther. The feral man landed in a dumpster hard.

Meanwhile, Astoria was still trying to get Naomi to listen.

"Come on, listen to me, Naomi!"

"She is listening," muttered the silver-haired girl, who was standing behind a wall of shadows and blocking a lightning-enhanced Kris. "She can't speak."

"She's mute?"

The girl shook her head. "No. Not mute. She's been reborn with my powers."

"She… did die? And you brought her back to life?"

Valkyrie snapped her fingers and more shadows suddenly grabbed at Kris, holding him down. He tried to shoot sparks to destabilize her powers, but they weren't working.

"Yes. She's basically a baby right now, and doesn't know how to do anything."

Astoria didn't know how to process this information. But she didn't have to for very long. Metal beams appeared out of nowhere and grabbed her, lifting her high into the sky. She tried to blast them with her fire, but it did nothing to stop it.

A green blast of energy rocketed towards her and collided with the beams, breaking them apart and releasing her. She looked over to see Alex, having already recovered from Acid's poison.

"Gotcha covered," he muttered, still weak.

Meanwhile, Xavier was watching the whole thing with earnestness. Storm and Origami watched, waiting for their turn.

Someone forced open the copter door. Storm immediately put herself between Xavier and the newcomer, a certain blond girl they were all familiar with.

"Mandi?" asked Storm.

The girl wasted no time speaking, generating a cloud of multi-colored gas over her palm. Origami hit the button on her image inducer, revealing her paper form and changing her arms into swords. Winds began to blow within the heli-jet.

Storm's eyes flashed with white light as she pushed the girl back with wind. Origami swung and threw out several paper-like spiked balls, forcing the girl to try to dodge.

"Your powers may be formidable to a telepath," muttered Keiko. "But you're no match for us."

Mandi, for lack of not trying, threw out several clouds of pheromones and chemicals towards them. But Storm's winds deflected them as easily as anything else. Lightning raced towards her and knocked her unconscious, barely more powerful than a taser.

Ava, meanwhile, was in the air. She watched the various fights, trying to aid anyone in trouble. She saw Kris land a solid hit on Valkyrie, throwing her away from the fight. Acid was brought down, finally, by Camille.

Soon enough, the radio clicked on.

"Look! That building, eleven o'clock!" the voice of Tristan commented. "It's Magneto!"

Ava smirked. "Everyone, follow me!"

Magneto almost grinned when he saw the fights were mostly broke up now, and everyone was heading towards him. Naomi was still unresponsive, but she was following Astoria. Valkyrie, Sabretooth, Mandi, and Acid had all gone down already, and he had returned them to their pods.

"It's time."

Raising both hands, he focused all of his attention and powers on the huge construction area. The mutants were struggling to remain upright as he forced the secret base hidden underneath to rise. Finally, the ground underneath the huge group broke apart, forcing a huge hole in the earth.

Ava, seeing the display, tried to rush straight to Magneto, pouring on whatever speed she could muster. Clouds rumbled over head, lightning gathering.

A steel beam locked onto her legs, another on her arms. He flicked his wrist, and she fell into the hole that the others had fallen into not a moment before.

She fell, angry, yet thankful that Magneto had been kind enough to remove the beams when she actually landed. Her friends and the Brotherhood were all gathered, seemingly all of them, even Tristan.

None of them were seriously hurt, thankfully. The six X-Men and the five Brotherhood cursed, wishing that they hadn't been sent tumbling into some kind of underground chamber.

Suddenly, the sound of guns loading caught their ears.

"Great," Jade muttered, yanking her hand off of Kris's chest.

There were agents everywhere, all around them, wearing similar clothes. Each held a gun in hand, aimed at the large circle of mutants.

"Don't move," Tristan muttered, spitting out the grit from falling.

"Wasn't planning on it," Rivera muttered.

"Hold your fire," a voice said. No one knew who it was, but it was obvious that he was the one in charge.

Rhythmic thuds rang out from an adjacent room, getting louder and louder.

"What's that?" Alex asked.

Grant's eyes widened. "It sounds like… footsteps?"

Something very large ripped through the wall. Everyone watched in horror as a large and very armed giant robot stalked towards them.

Magneto listened closely, hearing the almost melodic sound of the Sentinel's feet. As soon as he heard it, he aimed one hand at the spheres which held his Acolytes. The spheres shut at his command and then flew far into the city, where they would be safer.

"And now, the whole world will know of us!"

Magneto held up his arms, raising the platform that the kids and the Sentinel were standing on.

Soon enough, the mutant-killing robot had risen from the underground and was standing in plain-sight.

The predator stalked toward its prey, just as a new helicopter flew by.

Magneto smiled.

The Sentinel fired at the group, shooting pink energy blasts at them. The first thing Tristan noticed was that they weren't very accurate at hitting moving targets, his brain already working in "assassin" mode, while everyone else was running for their lives.

He aimed a double fist shot, hoping to strike a killing blow with one hit, knowing that it would be the only shot he'd get. The red energy beam crashed against the Sentinel's head, but it made almost no impact.

"Shit," he muttered, swiping his hands over his arms to try and reload faster. It wasn't working.

Ava joined the air again and concentrated all of her efforts in an amaranth-colored lightning bolt. Thunder boomed over head as she hurled the lightning lance at the Sentinel. It hit the monster-machine's chest, throwing it backwards several feet.

Suddenly, a blue lightning bolt collided with it just after the other, flinging it farther away. Ava smiled at Storm, before the two of them tried to blow the creature back.

It ignored the gale-force winds, before unleashing a machine gun-like flurry of energy blasts on the group. Everyone split up and raced backwards, adrenaline pumping as they headed into the street.

Rivera, relying on acrobatics she had mimicked to get away, chose not to send out her vulnerable clones. As she did a backhand spring to dodge a blast, Lily suddenly grabbed a car up into her impressive strength and hurled it with a feral roar. Camille threw up her arms as the creature and the car met, exploding into the street. She reformed from mud and turned back to the Sentinel. Concentrating, she suddenly broke open three manhole covers with sewer water at her control, flinging it at the creature to try to blind its sensors.

Archie, noticing her sister, aimed his fist at a water hydrant and broke open the top, sending pressurized water straight into the creature.

Ava and Storm sent a huge bolt of electricity at the creature, and for a moment, it seemed it would work. But the creature suddenly unleashed several blasts of energy and hit the two Wind Riders out of the air, crashing against the pavement.

"Ava!" Alex yelled, stopping in the middle of the street. Aiming, he repulsed some of green energy in the direction of the robot; Jade, seeing the display, mixed one of her speed bolts with Alex's own attack, speeding the energy up to insane levels.

A large explosion filled the street, and only a quick, rubber-like shield made by Grant's body defended them from the energy wave.

But to their dismay, it seemed nothing had happened to it aside from tiny bits of scratches and wide berths in the street.

The Sentinel unleashed a barrage of what looked like green goop. One of them hit Lily, rendering her immobile. Another hit Beast, forcing him still. Rivera saw one heading her way, but she summoned her clone right in front of her, and it absorbed the slime. She ran backwards and re-summoned her clone to her mind, getting out of the slime at the same time.

By this time, police had arrived on the scene, but they remained powerless to do anything. Storm walked forward, a vortex of wind around her body. She raised her hands and added electricity to the tornado, before enveloping the Sentinel. Part of his cannon-like arm broke away, before it used thrusters in its feet and arms to stabilize itself and fly out of the wind-tunnel. It then flipped in the air.

"Watch out!" screeched Camille, getting her and Astoria out of the way at the last moment. But before she could say or do anything otherwise, the slime surrounded the two of them, forcing them to quit moving just as the others.

The Sentinel turned and released several missiles. Grant, thinking as fast as he could, made another wall with his arm and they exploded against it, making him scream out in pain; he retracted his arm and the entire thing was blood-red, skin wounds deep.

Rivera, scared now, rushed over to him. "Oh, god, are you okay?"

He nodded quickly, but before he could say anything, Kris suddenly called out to Jade.

"Guys, I have an idea! Jade, will you help me?" asked Kris.

A tiny blush crept to her face, even amidst all the trouble. The girl nodded, as the others (Alex, Ava, Grant, Rivera, Storm, Keiko, Tristan, and Archie) joined them.

"Jade, slow it down. As much as possible!" Kris said, before pointing to Alex, Ava, Storm, and Tristan. "Hit me with everything you have!"

Jade, no longer listening, threw a huge bolt at the Sentinel. It enveloped around the creature, buying them precious moments.

"You sure this will work? Is it safe?" asked Storm.

He nodded. "We don't have time to think about it."

He stood directly in front of the creature and everyone got out of his way. Ava and Storm nodded to one another, before firing two bolts at the boy, hitting both of shoulders as though he had wings made of electricity. Immediately, the energy slipped into his body instead of affecting him negatively.

Tristan prayed that he would have a substantial amount of energy left, as he fired what he could at Kris's body. Green and red mixed together, expanding just before it collided into the energy absorbent-mutant.

Sparks were flying from his entire body now, and he was glowing brilliantly with golden-orange light. He took a deep breath, almost screaming at the energy burning within him.

Finally he outstretched both arms and splayed all of his fingers. The yellow aura slowing the Sentinel down dropped, just as the most magnificent show of energy anyone on earth had ever seen blasted through the Sentinel.

The beam was pure white with an orange tint, and it cackled like electricity. There was a huge explosion, enough to throw everyone back and break every window for a quarter of a mile.

When the light faded, Kris was still bubbling with energy. He unleashed one more blast, this time much less powerful, at the Sentinel through the smoke cloud.

"No way," he muttered, his whole body fighting to even stand.

The Sentinel reappeared, and although it was missing several chunks and almost a whole arm, a force field surrounded its body and had taken most of the impact.

"Damn it!" Ava cursed, earning a disapproving look from Storm. "None of us have any juice left!"

They ran backwards, hoping to avoid its recovery as much as possible. The Sentinel, however, didn't aim at him.

Suddenly, it started to fly towards the building where Magneto had been. The metal-manipulating mutant was trying to keep military helicopters at bay with his powers, believing it to not be time for them to intervene.

Unnoticed before, he was blasted with purple energy beams, throwing him to the ground. Magnus looked up to see the Sentinel floating just over his head.

The mutant unfurled his fist and sent the Sentinel flying away, before making a gesture with his wrist to fling the tall metallic robot into a building. He saw the heli-jet approach in the distance, flying high above it before firing a huge chain of bullets at the Sentinel.

Magneto waved Xavier away with a hand, but that was all the Sentinel needed. It fired two missiles right at the metal-head.

Magneto parted his hands and the two missiles separated, curved around, and collided with the machine itself.

The explosives were enough, it seemed, after the children had used their potential super-weapon to their advantage.

Magneto, however, had not seen expected that the Sentinel would come crashing down directly on top of him. He gasped as it exploded.

The heli-jet landed. "Get in! Now!"

"But the others…"

"We'll have to come back for them! Move it!" Xavier yelled.

Everyone climbed inside, as the secret they had been harboring was spreading like wildfire.

Not a single one of them expected to see what they would see.

As they rounded toward the cliff, the mansion's ruins came into view.

"Oh no!" exclaimed Ava.

"What about the others? Masato? Reese?" asked Keiko, frowning.

Quickly, the heli-jet landed and everyone rushed out to look among the wreckage for survivors.

"They're not here," exclaimed Alex. "Jackie? Aug?"

"Over here!" someone yelled. A group of teenagers approached, clothing tattered and charred. Reese was at the head, followed by the other, younger students.

Masato broke away from the group and activated his earth form, confusing everyone at first. Keiko rushed over to hug him, to make sure he was all right. But he pushed her out of the way.

He rushed over to Xavier's chair, building up momentum and throwing his hand directly into the mutant's heart, crushing it like a stone.

Season Two: Complete.

I'm going to work on the next few chapters over the next few weeks, but I don't think I will post them until at least three weeks from now. If I can get lots done so I'm ahead, everything will work out just fine, and I will post on the second to last Wednesday in May. :D