Mutant Generation Force

Issue #54 – The Lights – Part Two

Xavier's School for Gifted Mutants

Outside Grounds

"Stop!" Cable commanded as he leapt in front of Storm taking the brunt of the blast that had little effect on his strong metal body.

"Sorry, father. I have no choice," Mimicry said as she started to move forward.

"You heard MY dad, back off," Tosha said as she picked up Mimicry with her powers and pinned her back against the ground.

"Nothing will stand in my way, not even you," Mimicry said as her eyes flashed and a white light passed from Tosha and into her own body.

Mimicry smiled as she was no longer solar powered and had taken on a new power. With a powerful push she grabbed Tosha and propelled her high and over the mansion causing her to go out of sight and to release her. Without missing a beat, she flipped back onto her feet and sent Magneto flying into the mansion. She went to turn around when she suddenly grabbed her head in pain and then dropped to the ground unable to move. Mimicry could barely think or focus but before she blacked out she saw Jean Grey, Suzann Grey Christian Frost and the Cuckoos stepping onto the grounds towards her.

"We can, what gives?" Velocidad suddenly questioned when he realized nothing was happening.

"Sorry, my power, when forced on you, pretty much appears to cancel them out," Sway said as she focused everything she had on the Lights.

"And we can handle the rest," Wiz Kid said as he and his best friend Leech stepped out of the shadows.

Leech looked at all seven figures known as the Lights who were all now in close vicinity of each other. All of the mutants stepped back and out of the way as Leech focused his powers and reached out to cover only the area surrounding the Lights. Leech's eyes grew bright as instantly the seven Lights felt their powers drain from them and those with physical mutations found themselves now looking very normal. Then dozens of mechanical devises planted themselves in a circular pattern around the null field holding the Lights

"If any of you even think of running or even moving a muscle, Leech will drop his field fast enough for me to activate the devises which will send a huge voltage of electricity into you all causing you to drop seconds before Leech has the field back up to cancel our your powers," Whiz Kid said with a smile.

"I always heard rumors that Human Power Drainers had once existed but to see one in person," Zero said as he stared at the green humanoid teen with large glowing eyes.

"Okay, explanations, now," Storm and Magneto said in unison as everyone looked at Cable.

"Hope," Cable said staring at the girl as he also felt Tosha glaring at him as well.

"Sorry, father. I've failed," Hope replied.

"Cable, who is this and why does she call you father?" Jean asked, not needing telepathy to know it was the question on all's minds.

"Not only that, I want to know why they attacked my school," Dani demanded.

"This is Hope Summers, my adopted daughter. A long time ago, on one of my trips back in time, I stopped in Alaska to reminisce at the place my parents were from and my birthplace. While there, a group of time travelers had arrived and attacked a hospital where Hope here had been born.

"By the time I got there, the baby's parents had been killed and most of the staff. The abductors had the baby in their arms and were preparing to time jump. With quick speed and use of my abilities I not only killed them all, but found out they were there to abduct the baby as she was destined to grow up and be a powerful mutant. I used their time devise and damaged it sending it back causing it so that whoever had tried to come back would never be able to come back to this point or earlier ever again.

"Knowing that this baby would not be safe I took her and leapt trough time. For years I would jump forward in time, as in doing so would keep her safe from her attackers, that seemed to find us and attack at various points. During this time I had officially adopted her and named her Hope and gave her the Summers' last name. As soon as she could walk and talk I trained her to be a warrior. When she had turned twelve, her powers began to manifest and I learned she had the ability to mimic another's powers as well as they were in her reach, meaning I learned she could mimic a power if she saw the person or felt them or their powers on her or around her even if they were not within site.

"A few more years went by and she was developing them nicely. At times I had to leave her for my own missions, so as long as she was not with me and I went back in time alone she was safe from her abductors. On the last time I made it to her from a mission in the past, I almost didn't make it in time. She was being attacked by Apocalypse and his Horsemen, as he was the one after her all this time as in hopes of creating a weapon to stop me form ever stopping him. It was a fierce battle and the horsemen were killed and Apocalypse was sent back, crippled to his time, but in the process we too were split up and sent into the time stream.

"I spent many years trying to find her but failed. Right before landing here in this time period and making a permanent stay, I had found evidence that Hope had been killed and didn't make it. Oh, Hope, all this time," Cable said as Tosha grumbled under her breath.

"So it looks as if I have another grand-daughter to get to know and love just as equally," Jean said reaching out with a calm thought to both Hope and Tosha.

"Okay, touching now get to the part where you came here trying to kill my child," Storm said with lightening crackling in her eyes.

"Hope, what happened, please," Cable asked seeing Dani and the others growing impatient.

"The reason you couldn't find me was that I was sent into the future, but an alternate future. When I arrived I was missing my arm and legs, which must have been left behind," Hope said confirming what Cable had found and took it as her demise. Hope looked up at Cable and continued.

"The world I landed in was just as bad as the one you had always described of your future. There was a huge battle going on and I was lying there, bleeding out and near death when I felt someone near me. That is when I met the first of my Lights, Serenity. She came up to me and I felt a strange pull to her. The minute she touched me, something ignited in me and with a surge of light, I awakened something in her. It was seconds after that she touched my body and my wounds began to heal and then I mimicked her powers and my limb regenerated and I was completely healed.

"It was made clear, later after I had meet the other Lights, that I had the ability to jump start a person's mutant ability and bring it to full light. Not only did they have their full abilities but it seemed to create a bond between us. After my recovery, Kim told me about Magnetic Storm, an evil woman with great power that has laid waste in her quest for world domination. No one knew how old she was as her powers somehow slowed down her aging almost to nothing. I spent the next few years fighting and trying to form a huge resistance.

"It was a few years later when you, Cable arrived. It was a great but quick reunion as Magnetic Storm and her mutant forces were stronger than ever before. With your help, I had formed the Lights and together we created a grand resistance. We battled for years making a difference but it didn't seem to be enough. With your knowledge we learned Magnetic Storm was the daughter of Storm and Magneto from this timeline. We had just mastered the ability to open a time portal back when Magnetic Storm arrived and killed you. We managed to time jump and arrived here with your instructions to kill Storm before she gave birth at all costs," Hope Summers said completing the story.

"You won't even live to see tomorrow if you even think of harming my child," Magneto said.

"I couldn't agree with you more," a voice said from above an electrical wave of energy blew everyone away, except Storm, Magneto, Leech and the Lights.

"She's followed us," Zero said as they all looked up to see a woman wearing purple and red, futuristic armor and a crown similar to Magneto's helmet but it left her face wide open to see her caramel skin and traces of her platinum white hair underneath.

"After the humans killed my parents, I never thought I would ever see them. This is a moment I will cherish and owe thanks to you Mimicry," Magnetic Storm said as power lit up her eyes.

"Can we kill them now?" One of the five figures floating behind Magnetic Storm wearing red and purple outfits that covered their whole bodies asked.

"No one is killing," Cable began to ask when he was suddenly shot backwards like a bullet through the mansion with just a flick of Magnetic Storms wrist.

"I killed you once, I'll kill you again, but first," Magnetic Storm said as she closed her fists causing all of Wiz Kid's devices to explode as they crushed inwards.

With a nod form Magnetic Storm, one of her minions released a power blast that send Leech across the lawn. Magnetic Storm smiled as the moment the dampening field shut off she rose her arms into the air. Faster than Storm had ever performed, black clouds formed from nothing and thunder boomed as electricity crackled around Magnetic Storm as dozens of bolts of lightening shot down and obliterated the ground where the Lights had stood. When the smoke cleared, it appeared all the Lights had jumped clear accept Mimicry and Zero who stood on the fried ground under a protective shield that Hope had managed to borrow and throw up at the last second.

"Takes more than that to kill me," Mimicry said as she felt a light pass from Storm to her as she sent lightening struck the attackers sending them all flying in all directions.

"What do we do? Who do we stop?" The Cuckoos asked in unison to Jean as both parties before them needed to be stopped for different reasons.

"I will not stop till she is dead, to save our world," Mimicry said as she reached out her hand and Storm began to choke from a tek force grabbing and squeezing her neck.

"All of you will stop. I will not let anyone kill anyone," Dani said as they began to gather the others into action.

"And I won't rest until Cable and the Lights are dead. I will do anything to save my parents, even if it means killing anyone who gets in my way of this or poses a threat to them," Magnetic Storm said as she unleashed her powers causing one bolt of lightening to head for Mimicry while several huge tornados where born from the heavens and headed straight down towards Dani and the other mutants.


The Secret Mutants

The Hunt for Weapon XX – Part Five

"How are we going to get out of here?" Callisto asked as she looked from Xi'an to the spot where the portal had closed but not before Xi'an's uncle had gone through.

"Pixie, really going to need your ability to teleport," Surge said as they heard timer getting closer to detonation.

"I don't know if I can do it on this scale, let alone under pressure," Pixie mumbled as she closed her eyes and began to concentrate in a worried panic.

"Don't worry, you can do it, but we'll have to get everyone much closer," Xi'an said as she would attempt to use her powers to mentally connect to everyone to assist Pixie in establishing a bond, but made it hard since she had extended a part of her mental self to grant sight and sound to the one called Face.

"Easier said than done," Beak said as he hoards of demons kept coming and coming at them, driving the team apart as they continued to fight for their lives.

"Good thing we have a fail safe," Toko said as she pulled out a devise, activated it and stabbed it directly into Timothy's chest.

"Why?" Was all Timothy got out as Toko created a force field completely around him just before the devise went off and his powers erupted and he completely exploded in a ball of thermo-chemical energy.

"What did you do?" Shauna asked as she looked at a strange glowing energy inside the force field where Timothy had been.

"Got us a way home," Toko said as she removed her force field to reveal a portal where their former teammate had once been standing. "It won't stay open long hurry."

"They're getting away," Callisto said as the Secret Mutants looked over to see all the Inferno Brigade getting ready to step into the portal.

"Face," Toko said as she turned toward her teammate and brother.

"He doesn't want to go with you," Xi'an said.

"You don't speak for," was all Toko got out before Predator X shot out its tail, piercing all eight members trough the chest like skewer.

"No!" Xi'an screamed, not knowing if it was her voice or Face's voice channeling through her as Face stood straight up and unleashed his power with full anger and force causing a beam of energy to shoot out and hit Predator X evaporating it into nothing while severing it's tail causing the Inferno Brigade to all fall forward into the portal just as it closed.

"Great, all the bad guys get away and we're the ones who get stuck here and die," Medusa said with despair as the countdown was seconds away from sealing their doom.

"At least we brought down Weapon XX," Surge said she released an electrical blast to push back more attacking demons.

"Well a part of it anyway," Xi'an said as she heard Bart say in her mind, "the part that took Luna from you, that's got to count more than anything," and then place a hand on her shoulder and squeezed.

"Well, the Secret Mutants was fun while it lasted," Hellion said as he though up a shield that stopped a huge blast of demon fire from raining down on them as he looked over and saw the countdown of the devise was about to detonate.

"Not if I can help it. Xanth Semaj!" Pixie screamed as a powerful energy erupted from her at the same time the devise went off that would cause the pocket of Limbo they were all in to close in on itself, killing everything that remained behind.

"Wake up child, I don't have a lot of time and neither do your friends," a strange female voice said.

"Where am I? Am I dead?" Pixie asked as she opened her eyes and looked around to see that she was standing in some kind of glittery void with a tall glistening white skinned woman with pointed ears with dark pink hair tied up in a bun with small traces of white in it and beautiful sparkling blue eyes.

"We don't have time for explanations. I have used a lot of energy appear here and slow time," the woman said as Pixie looked closer and saw past the glowing void she could see her friends, demons and starting stages of an explosion all in still motion, as if they were all almost frozen in time.

"Who are you?" Pixie asked in a confused panic.

"Someone who doesn't want to see you dead. Now, it seems your father's tainted mutant gene has been erased from your body so your natural magical abilities can develop and take flight. Now, we have to move fast. I will harness what magic I can to enhance yours as I did to get you to invoke your spell," the woman said as Pixie realized that the glittery void was generating from and was a part of this woman's large and fully expanded rainbow shimmering wings.

"You're the one that has been whispering in my ear when I try to do my magic," Pixie said in awe.

"I must go, my power is beginning to waver. When I vanish, my power will flow into you, then cast your spell which will ignite these and you will have to send them at your friends instantly to port them away because once I am gone you will have two seconds before this glittering orb you stand in ports you out of here and the explosion incinerates everything in site," the woman said as she opened her hand, blew into it like a kiss sending several orbs at Pixie.

"Wait, there isn't enough orbs for everyone," Pixie said in a panic when she caught the orbs and quickly counted them.

"Then you better choose wisely, because that's all I have to spare at the moment," the woman said as she then whipped out her hands and invoked a word.

"Wait," Pixie began to plead but stopped when the woman vanished and she was hit with a burst of power.

Pixie felt the power in her start to flow into the orbs as the glittering void around her shrank and the outside scene sped up. She cried as she looked at the too few orbs but then paused and then knew what she had to do. She found a spell in her mind, invoked it and then threw the orbs out at her friends just as everything went white as she was teleported away.

"Megan! Wake up!" A voice screamed at Pixie as her vision began to come back to her.

Pixie sat up and rubbed her throbbing temples. Had it been a dream? If it wasn't who had that woman been? Pixie didn't have time to ponder too hard when she finally remembered the spell to escape and quickly looked to see who had yelled at her. It was Dryad hovering over her in worry and concern. She got to her feet and looked around to see that it was her, Dryad and Beak standing in a large meadow with grass almost up to their waist and a slight cool breeze making the heat from the seven suns above them in the purple sky tolerable.

"Where are we?" Pixie asked.

"We were going to ask you the same thing," Beak said as he kept his gun ready and continuously scanning the area.

"Where are the others?" Dryad asked.

"You mean they're not here?" Pixie asked as she frantically lifted herself into the air to see nothing for miles except a forest to her right, mountains to the north, a large body of silver looking water to the left and what looked like a dark foggy area off to the far south.

"No, please tell me you managed to save them all," Dryad said, fearing for her friends and teammates.

"I don't know. I only had so much time and tried doing what I could to save everyone," Pixie cried as she told them about the strange fairy lady and the limited orbs.

"Maybe they are here somewhere. None of us landed here in the same place. I stumbled upon Dryad in the forest and we headed this way and found you," Beak said, trying to sound positive since he knew from his experience with the Exiles that world hopping was unpredictable.

"Were do you think here is?" Dryad asked looking around and feeling a strange tingling connection with the plant life around her.

"Maybe it's the home of that lady who tried to help you?" Beak added as they both looked at Pixie.

"I don't know," Pixie said as she sat down and then passed out from exhaustion.

Next: Issue #55 – The Lights – Part Three & Secret Mutants: The Guthrie Clan