Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, except for those I invent.
D.C. and Dean characters I invented. For details on DC, see "D.C. and the CN Tower." chapters one through five. For info on Dean, see "Mutant Roundup: Chapter Nine."
"The alien spacecraft is down! The alien spacecraft is down!"
The pilot screamed the words over and over, as if making sure everyone in the world knew it.
After the destruction of Kahoolawe and the volcanic eruption that came right after, fighter jets had been dispatched to attack the spaceship. It was moving northeast towards mainland USA. The fighter jets had flown around it a couple of times, then released a couple of missiles to see how the aliens would react. The result was…astounding. The missiles exploded about ten meters away from the UFO. And it suddenly and unexpectedly caught on fire.
Giant jets of flame poured out from the ship. The whole twenty mile wide thing started to wobble like a top that's slowing down. The edges splashed down on the sea, and the ship suddenly righted itself, stopped moving, and then dropped like a stone.
When it hit the water it created a twenty foot high wave that washed up in Alaska, Canada, the US, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The spacecraft then listed to one side. The water was only two miles deep here, so the dipping edge hit the bottom before it could tilt very far. When it did hit the bottom it cut a phone line leading from Hawaii to the mainland. The military wanted to hop onboard for a look-see, but somehow the crazy man with the shotgun had managed to save his rowboat from the tidal wave and the volcanic eruption. He had also stolen a rocket launcher from a battleship which he fired at anyone who came anywhere near the spacecraft. However, the spacecraft started to sink, so he jumped off into his rowboat. The spacecraft disappeared below the surface and settled onto the seabed without incident.
Then it blew up.
It heated the surrounding seawater so hot that the hydrogen and oxygen broke apart, releasing giant bubbles to the surface. On the surface, an area twenty miles across was boiling like mad. When it finally stopped, a submersible was sent down to find any wreckage left behind. It didn't find a thing. It repaired the phone line and headed back to the surface, only to be greeted by the crazy man, his shotgun, and his rocket launcher.
And now we're headed back to New York City, baby!
DC and Dean, after going through the phone line to the mainland headed back to New York to find the odd looking man with blue skin DC had left in the OMA's former capitol room. When they got there, the fellow was nowhere to be seen in the common room, so they headed down to the blue room. When DC opened the door, a sudden blur passed through the air and a foot planted itself squarely on his face, knocking him backwards.
"Hey, hey, hey! It's me you dolt!"
"Sorry."
The fellow gave DC his hand, and as DC took it, he noticed that instead of feeling smooth skin he felt short fur. The fellow didn't have blue skin, he had blue fur that was very short. And he also had only three fingers. Oh well. It's not like I've never seen that before. Iliad has only two fingers. DC thought. Iliad was a red DC was very good friends with, but at the moment Iliad was in Australia for some reason or another.
"Vhere have you been? You left yesterday, und I stayed avake all night vaiting for you."
"I got a little sidetracked."
"Um, DC? Who is this guy?"
"Oh yeah, um, Dean meet…"
"Kurt."
"Dean, meet Kurt, Kurt, meet Dean."
"Hello."
"Gutantoug."
"Riiiiiiiight. Let's go."
Two days later.
"The military is getting more and more embaressed as the scandal reveals more and more. It turns out the Virgo was sunk by a military submarine. The sinking left all 963 on board dead. In addition, there seems to have been two mutant prison complexes, but the mutants in the other one, located in upstate New York, broke out and destroyed the complex and presumably fled to Canada.
"In other news the alien spacecraft that blew up several warehouses and destroyed the Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe and then crashed into the Pacific 500 miles from Hawaii, has left no traceable wreckage. Authorities have concluded that-"
At that point, Dean shut off the TV. He got up to find DC and walked down the hall of the stately old mansion that Professor X had moved his school too. Dean had been told that before the passing of the MRA, it had just been a high school, but with the addition of 100 or so younger kids an elementary and junior high had been added. And the school had acquired two new teachers as well. Remy Lebeau and Kurt Wagner had both agreed to stay at the mansion. Remy and Kurt also opened a new class, gymnastics and acrobatics. It was extremely popular.
Professor X had asked DC whether he wanted to become a teacher. DC thought very hard for a couple of seconds before declining.
"Why?"
"I was always planning on leaving as soon as I graduated. I'd love to be a teacher here, I really would, but not now. Maybe sometime later."
"Will you be leaving soon?"
"Maybe in a couple of months."
The professor did not press the issue.
Dean was a very good student and for his help in freeing the mutants from Kahoolawe, had been upgraded in the OMA to green and was just starting his six month period of work as ambassador to another certain organization of mutants that was very very small at the moment. He was of course very disappointed that DC wouldn't be staying, but a guy who commands energy is not a guy you want to argue with.
"There's one thing I don't get." said Dean. He had found DC and they were walking to lunch together.
"Why didn't you create a hologram of the UFO? It wouldn't have been a strain on you or I."
"But it had to be as convincing as possible. A hologram doesn't show up on radar screens for one thing. And how else was I supposed to prove you worthy for the blue class?"
Dean smiled slightly at this.
"Also, how did you get all the members out of the spaceship to Canada? We weren't connected to any power or phone lines."
"When I blew up the warehouse, the fireball engulfed ten other warehouses, each of which still had power."
"I got ya."
The OMA now existed everywhere in the world except the US. Professor X had seeked membership, but was told he was too old. But he did have the satisfaction of knowing that if the OMA did get in some kind of trouble, his name would be at the top of a very short list of people to call.
And the crazy man popped up out of nowhere, ran for president, and won.
The End.