Finding Family - Part 2 ~ Chapter 14
hey guys and gals, this is another of my chapters written before my Muse flew for greener fields. I hope you enjoy.
Huge, huge thank you to AgentMaryMargaretSkitz reading some of your Skitz fics has helped rekindle some of my motivation.
I refuse to leave this fic unfinished but it will take some time to do this story, giving it the justice I feel it deserves, I would benefit hugely from reviews to keep this motivation growing.
Mimic stared aghast as out of the fire shot a bolt of lightning, it furiously circled the fire which slowly abated becoming nought but smoke. The lightening then coalesced into the body of a man, his maroon suit speckled with ash. As Mimic lowered himself to the ground three women stepped from the burnt out husk, a redhead, a brunette with a bob and another brunette with her hair in a ponytail.
Mimic felt his powers reach out to the four searching for a mutation he could mimic, the girl with the bob and the one with red hair didn't appear to have any powers. The remaining girl had an elusive power which for some reason he couldn't mimic, it felt like smoke, there yet not. When he found the man's power he gasped, subconsciously reconfiguring his appearance to a more suitable form.
Hacking and coughing the three clambered out of what remained of Leo's pride and joy. They stood behind Leo as he faced off against Mimic.
They all watched as Mimic's form changed becoming hazy before he reformed into an almost perfect replica of Leo's suit, but for its colours of yellow and black.
"Quicksilver, you're a kite in a hurricane," said Mimic in a deep resonating voice.
"I've got this," said Leo nervously, motioning for the women to go around continuing to Cape Town.
The women made it to the outskirts of Cape Town before they finally managed to find some form of viable transport, in the form of a Land Rover Defender. Getting in Black Widow gunned the engine steering the Land Rover towards the sound of explosions and automatic rifles.
"Come on then," said Leo, "you called this fight."
In a blink the dark Quicksilver was upon him blitzing him with well-placed punches to his chest and abdomen. Only by immersing himself in the speed force and relying on it totally was Leo able to dodge some of them, even so the sheer volume brought him to his knees. Gasping, Leo rose to his feet, "you've got a punch on you, I'll give you that." Without further delay Leo ran, as fast as he could, he hit the city at full speed. Racing up a skyscraper he saw the dark Quicksilver in hot pursuit and gaining quickly. They came to a stop on the roof, face to face.
"I've seen what it can do, the speed force can be used for so much more, I see it now, I can travel through time, move faster than light. You waste its potential by using it, we could be gods."
"I'm not a god, this gift I've been given, is for helping people. We are not above them," said Leo looking at all the people below them.
"You sicken me with your optimism, you are not worthy..." He would have continued his monologue had Leo not sprinted forwards striking Mimic in the midriff and taking him over the edge with Leo attached.
Careening round corners Black Widow had her hand pressed firmly on the cars horn, it was a miracle she drive while doing it, but somehow they arrived in one piece. They were met by a ring of police all pointing assault rifles at the Hulk, in the centre Hulk was staring them all down, a frenzied gleam in his eyes.
"Stop!" Shouted Black Widow, stepping into the circle.
"Move out of the way ma'am, we've got our orders," said the leader of the police.
"We can help," said Skye, joining Black Widow in between the police and Hulk still staring them all down.
"I'm afraid you can't, Johnson cuff 'em."
"Then I'm sorry for what has to happen next," replied Black Widow.
Sensing what she was about to do Skye and Kitty had moved into more suitable positions. Sure enough Black Widow dropped a smoke pellet before sprinting at Hulk. With a whispered, "I'm running with it," she leapt into Hulk's arms before he took off leaping across the city.
Left alone with the coughing and spluttering police Skye and Kitty turned back to back, ready to face their inevitable wrath. As soon as the smoke lifted, the police opened fire on the two young mutants.
"Phase," shouted Skye before she swung her arms in a wide sweeping gesture. Without a second thought Kitty phased, it was lucky she did had she not she would have shared the same fate as the unwitting police. As she swept her arms round she unleashed a rippling iridescent blue wave of power, which blew outwards in a storm. Bullets were ripped from the air and the police were thrown around like rag dolls, all came to a stop in various states of pain.
"You knock them out?" Asked Kitty.
"Not yet," said Skye drawing her ICER, "but soon they will be."
"I'll deal with their weapons, then."
Kitty ran round phasing the polices guns into the floor making them unusable. While she was doing this Skye was shooting any of the police who were still groaning.
Finishing up they turned to each other with huge grins, "now let's hope Widow's sorted out the Hulk problem," said Skye.
Natasha had indeed sorted the "Hulk problem", as soon as she'd leapt into his arms the "other guy" had leapt them to a building's roof across the other side of Cape Town. As soon as they landed Natasha dropped gracefully from Hulk's arms, looking up at the giant behemoth she could see the rage in his eyes. She also saw something else, a protectiveness, the sort a wolf has over his pack. Slowly she lifted her hand into the air between them and watched as Hulk mimicked her motion.
Slowly but surely the huge green monster shrank into the less intimidating scientist Bruce Banner.
"Better," enquired Natasha.
Bruce said nothing but nodded grimly.
On the way down Leo and Mimic traded a flurry of blows, each giving as good as they got. As they came closer to the ground, time appeared to slow for the two speedsters, seeing the ground coming closer Mimic reached out and grabbed Leo.
"What are you doing boy?"
"You need to be more observant," grunted Leo turning to face the ground with his arms free.
The building they were currently falling from was the Olympic swimmers training building, what few know is that beneath the building is an Olympic size swimming pool. The pool is larger than the floor of the building, meaning the two tousling speedsters were heading for the concrete covering of this very pool. Leo began vibrating with increasing speed till his molecules were moving between the atoms of the air.
"Two can do that," said Mimic, he too began to phase between the atoms.
In a flash of darkness the two speedsters had phased through the concrete covering.
With a jolt Leo turned tangible once more, causing Mimic to fall through Leo's back before he too managed to turn tangible. As soon as he became tangible Leo began circling his arms as fast as possible, creating a powerful downdraft which kept him in the air, hovering. Mimic on the other hand wasn't quick enough, ironically, causing him to fall into the pool, spluttering. Leo stopped circling his hands and started running, he landed on the water but instead of sinking he sprinted across the pool to the far end. As he was running small sparks were released into the water, these had the affect of stunning Mimic slightly. As soon as he reached the poolside he looked back to see mimic where he landed, splashing around disorientated. Leo decided to help his confusion along, so he got to work, he ran, round and round the pool building up speed and with speed came sparks. Circling the pool Leo became bathed in yellow lightening, with a, "arghh," of strain Leo swept his arm at the pool, concentrating with all his might he threw the stored lightening at the pool. Mimic didn't really stand a chance, the amount of lightening surging through the pool arced across the whole room, it left Mimic unconscious floating in the centre of the pool.
He was interrupted when he heard Skye say, "we need an evac quickly, the locals are getting rowdy."
Over the coms he heard Storm say, "we're on our way but the jet took a hit. We're sending Thor and Stark on ahead they should be able to bring two of you aboard."
In a flash Leo was besides Skye and Kitty, Natasha and Bruce had managed to find their way off the roof to join the trio. Now however they were starting to garner the attention of the crowd who had gathered. They seemed to know that Bruce was the Hulk as they were concentrating their anger towards him.
"This is Widow, we're gonna need an evac, Bruce is getting some looks." No sooner had she said that than Tony dropped from the sky, grabbed Bruce then took off back to the X-Jet. Thor then followed him taking Natasha to the jet.
"It's the Avengers," shouted someone angrily. "And the X-Men," shouted another equally angrily. The crowd were now more apprehensive, everyone knew of the powers the mutants had, no one wanted to piss them off.
This fear kept them from attacking the mutants until they were collected, barely.
Mimic climbed out of the pool just as his powers left him, he could no longer feel all the surrounding metal nor could he move with blinding speed.
"Well you took quite the hit there," said a silky smooth voice from the shadows.
"What who's there, who're you?"
A figure stepped from the shadows to reveal a handsome but unremarkable face.
"I'm Grant Ward, I'd like to offer you a job, good health plan, holidays, all the perks really."
"What d'you want?" Said mimic suspiciously.
"I saw how you single handedly brought the Avengers and the X-Men to their knees."
"But I didn't take out any of them."
"But you uprooted them, you showed they can be beaten, that they aren't the heroes people believe."
"I don't know, I..." Before he said anything a man snuck up on him and stabbed him with a hypodermic needle, seconds later Mimic was unconscious.
"It wasn't a question, you have a job to do. You'll advance HYDRA if it kills you."