Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters except for those I invent. I am not, in any way, making any money with this story.
Bear with me please. I get a little long with the details, but they are essential to the story. I also changed a few things, but to quote an American president, "It's fiction, stupid!" Also, I've never been to the CN Tower and I don't know what it's like, but I have a lot of respect for it and Canada. I think it's a wonder anyone could build anything that tall. CANADA RULES!
He opened the door, and suddenly he was against the wall. He looked at his arms and legs. They were being held to the wall by twisted bits of steel. Oh, shit. I've been captured.
"Hello. Sorry about that surprise, but it was important that I do that." A man, maybe in his sixties or seventies, walked out of the door. He had gray hair, a wrinkled face, and some sort of a headphone by his ear.
Magneto.(Or was it the tooth fairy?)
"That was quite the thunderbolt. It got a little hot in here for a few seconds. But don't worry, nobody died. Yet. Now, what was your name?"
David thought it wise not to tell him his real name, so he decided to give him a code name of some sort. But what? What?
"DC. My name is DC. What do you want me for?"
"DC? I suppose for direct current. Now, I believe you are aware of the hatred normal people have towards us from your earlier experiences?" David scowled, then nodded. "Well, I thought at first that I would only have to mutate the world leaders to bring about mutant rights. But I realized that wouldn't help anything. The general public would just overthrow them, get new ones. So I've taken it upon myself to turn the whole world into the Brotherhood of Mutants."
He wouldn't dare! But it made perfect sense to Davi-no, DC, now. Magneto had used his own… "gift" to power his last machine, but he couldn't possibly mutate the entire world by himself. And then here comes a kid who is made up of 500 trillion watts of energy, who causes an explosion in Central Park and gets on the news. This guy sees him, and realizes-
"Of course, we'll have to power you up again. Traveling from California to Ontario by lightning must have taken a lot out of you. Mystique? Start transmitting signals again, then I'll take him up to the antenna."
Start transmitting? Why?
DC knew that the antenna transmitted radio and microwaves. But at the present moment he couldn't imagine why Magneto thought that would power him up again.
After Mystique radioed back that she had powered up the antenna, Magneto rose off the floor, and drifted toward the shattered windows. The steel bars holding D.C. wrapped completely around his wrists and ankles, and he started floated in through the door. He could now see Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, and a man he presumed was Logan strapped by metal to the ceiling. Cyclops' goggles were off, and his eyes were shut tight. Jean and Storm were knocked out. But Logan lifted his head and looked at D.C.
"So you're the kid Magneto was looking for."
D.C. nodded before he was abruptly turned towards the windows. His mind raced furiously. What could he do? He had no idea where Magneto was outside the building, so he couldn't zap him. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? D.C. quickly reviewed what he had done before. Could turn things on and off. Caused some explosions. Can travel through electrical lines, but can't right now because the nearest working cable was too far away from him to jump into because he was at a low energy level. I wonder-oh, I'm so stupid! I must have been panicky to forget about what microwaves do to me. Wait…
D.C.'s face lit up. What if, he thought, my power isn't just controlling electricity and heat? What if it was controlling every kind of energy there was? Radio waves, gamma waves, X-rays, visible light, gravity and microwaves?
Outside, on the roof, Magneto was wondering where the kid was. He should be up here by now. Then he saw the twisted and mangled bits of steel rising towards him. Suddenly, he heard a ripping sound behind him. He turned around, and saw the roof collapsing into the building!
Suddenly, he was feeling heavy, like he was experiencing G forces. But he couldn't have…
"Surprise."
And a burst of energy that was colored red hit him from behind. He spun away towards the edge, but managed to keep himself from falling with a well-placed magnetic beam. He looked at his attacker. Cyclops.
Mystique looked out onto the roof from a room next to the base of the antenna. Oh no. The prisoner had escaped. She must go help Magneto. But before she could go one step, she heard a footstep behind her.
"Remember me?"
She barely escaped the eighteen-inch claws that slashed towards her. She tried to kick her attacker, but she had no idea where he was, and then a wastebasket hit her on the head. Now she was dodging claws and various objects being bombarded at her.
Magneto was having a harder time. An alarming high wind had come up, and he was pretty sure who was behind it.
Sure enough, Storm came rising up from the side of the building, a controlled tornado sweeping around her. She landed softly on the roof, lightning skirting around her dead white eyes. The tornado twisted itself around the roof, picking up various debris and pelting Magneto with it. And then he saw DC.
What a horrifying sight! Shoulder length electric blue hair flying all around him, his eyes now an even brighter blue then ever before, and the boy floating above him. Sparks were flying from his eyes, literally, and his face was twisted into an evil grin.
"Feeling a little heavy, Magneto?" As he said this, Magneto's weight seemed to double, making him wheeze for air. DC smiled even wider and spoke again. "Never get a kid like me desperate. Because a kid like me just might figure out that he's more then just some guy traveling through telephone wires." The wind blew faster, threatening to rip off any roof tiles that hadn't already collapsed into the Tower. "A kid like me might realize he can control the ultimate power." So heavy. The Tower groaned under the weight it was never intended to bear. "The power to be Supreme Master over energy." Craaack. Pop. Boom. Screeaaach.
Mystique was an expert in the martial arts, but she had always been trained how to fight when she could see the attacker. Now she was punching and kicking at random, while dodging chairs, garbage cans, desks, pencils, pens, and claws. Logan was somewhere in the room, and so was Jean Grey. But enough of this! She had to go help Magneto. She tried to run toward the door, which was nothing more then a slightly lighter gray against black. Suddenly it was gone, and a menacing figure stood in its place.
Time to fight back, thought Magneto. Out of the ruined roof flew hundreds of steel bars, metal chairs, and other assorted metal objects. They were about to hit D.C. when he suddenly surrounded himself with blue-hot flame. "Never ever try to attack me." D.C.'s voice rumbled like an earthquake, and Magneto could fell the Tower vibrating. "I command energy. That means creating plasma at will." The various metal objects were vaporized.
The last thing Magneto heard was the metal covering the top of the antenna burst outward, and then he blacked out.
D.C. looked up at the top of the antenna. There was an odd looking thing. It had two prongs that were shaped into a semi circle, with a half arch above it.
That must be the mutation machine! Suddenly, the semi circle started to spin. But he wasn't in it. How could it…? Suddenly, D.C. felt himself weakening. Uh-oh…It might be one of those devices that collects the energy from around it, and if it was they were in trouble. They had built ten of those things, but it wasn't practical because usually there wasn't enough energy in the air or in the ground for it to collect unless the collecters were spaced far apart, so when it was demostrated they had to put it all over the Empire State Building. But of course, right now he was made up of 900 trillion watts because of the microwaves, so that should be more then enough for it to work. Eight of the ten machines had disappeared. I wonder where they got it?
No time! A white light had appeared at the end of the half arch, and it had spread out into a ball. It was already half way down to the roof. OK, let's evacuate.
First, Magneto and Mystique to a secure location, now that he had enough power (Nobody has any idea how secure Canada is. They will take over the world, someday. Don't say I didn't warn you…), Now, everyone within a mile…Quebec. Quebec's a nice city for all of them to go. There. Now it was only Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Logan and D.C. here. Jean and Logan came running out onto the roof.
"Hey! Mystique just disappeared!"
"I know. I sent her and Magneto to a place where they won't be able to get out. By the way, I'm DC."
"I'm Logan."
"Pleased to meet you."
"OK, enough of the chitchat. How are we going to stop that this time?"
Good question, Cyclops.
"OK, let's try a plasma explosion." Blue flame erupted out of nowhere, engulfing the spinning machine. But it didn't stop.
Uh oh.
"Would I be wrong to presume that the machine is made of adamantium?" Logan nodded. "I don't understand though. I was able to destroy the last one. Adamantium doesn't cut adamantium."
"I'm willing to bet the last machine was made of steel. They aren't taking any chances now." OK, adamantium, alloy, theoretically indestructible, gray color, nice, shiny, getting off the subject a little… Adamantium couldn't be destroyed… but it could be bent. It wasn't magnetic though; Magneto was the only person who could possibly bend it enough to stop it…
The radiation passed through them. DC shuddered as it passed through his body. It would soon reach the ground.
The machine was getting its power from energy sucking apparatuses that were probably over the entire building. They would never find them all in time. Unless…
"I'm so sorry Canada," DC whispered. Then he spoke to the rest of them. "I've got a plan. I've got to demolish the Tower. The force of the impact on the ground should be able to destroy all the energy suckers."
"Is it the only way?"
"Do you have another plan?"
Cyclops considered it for a moment. "All right."
"Stand back everyone." D.C.'s eyes, if possible, glowed an even brighter blue. Sparks weren't coming out anymore though. The lights all over Toronto started to flicker. Then, a bluish mist seemed to come out of the buildings, cars, and streetlights. It flowed like a blue fog toward the Tower, concentrating at the base. Gradually, started at the rim of the city, the lights died. It was like a wave of darkness, sweeping across the town closing in on the Tower. A bright blue haze was hovering a few meters from the base.
Then suddenly, it rushed in like mist sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
Cyclops, Jean, Storm, and Logan suddenly vanished, finding themselves in the park across the harbor from the tower.
Meanwhile, the radiation had gotten to the ground. It looked like a rapidly expanding, pulsating, upside-down bowl with the CN Tower at its center.
A giant boom was heard, smoke, dust and debris came from the base of the Tower- but it didn't have a base anymore…
Whee! Here we go! The whole of the CN Tower was tipping over toward Lake Ontario. The sound of collapsing concrete, steel, and glass filled the air. Chunks of the Sky Pod broke off and fell like meteors. It all seemed to happen in slow motion, even as what was left of the roof tilted enough for the antenna to break away, becoming its own falling building. The radiation was still expanding, and then what was left of the falling CN Tower was lost from view in the dust.
The impact of the main piece of the Sky Pod was felt two and a quarter miles away. The impact of the antenna wasn't felt, but the thud was heard three miles away.
The antenna hit the ground on its side, breaking like a glass tube dropped from a ten-story building. The machine's left arm bent in so that it hit the half arch, which then twisted from the impact, hitting the ground. The momentum of the impact sent the whole thing bouncing away until it splashed into Lake Ontario.
And the radiation belt fell apart and disappeared from sight.
DC floated down, slightly dazed, coming to a landing among the debris. The CN Tower, the world's tallest freestanding structure, was no more.
Two days later.
"The two mutants responsible for the destruction of the CN Tower have been sentenced to life in a maximum security prison in a secret location. Rioting broke out in 93 countries, as both pro and anti mutant supporters fought in city streets. Martial law has been declared-"
At that point, DC turned away from the TV, and walked out of the main room back at the mansion. Poor Canada. Losing its most famous icon. It would be like the U.S. losing Lady Liberty. It almost had, but Canada, because of him, was not so lucky. He was going to go out into the playground, but then the door to Professor Xavier's office opened.
"DC, won't you come in?" DC walked in and sat down in front of the desk. The Professor looked him from his position behind the desk. "Are you familiar with the fact that in nuclear fission and fusion, matter gets turned into energy?" DC nodded. "Well, you have discovered that you can control every kind of energy known, with the possible exception of the mutation radiation. I'm still trying to figure that one out. But I believe you will be able to do the same thing nuclear fission and fusion does, but backwards." DC looked up.
"You mean-"
"Yes. You may be able to pay Canada back."
Five years later.
Oh, it seemed like yesterday. DC looked around at the former site of the CN Tower. They had cleaned up the mess years ago, and were trying to figure out what to do next with the land. Many offers came in, apartment complexes, amusement parks, public restrooms… Well, he was about to answer that question.
Again the bluish mist came out of the buildings in downtown Toronto. Again it gathered around the site, except there was nothing there to surround. Then, quite suddenly, the mist disappeared with a building in its place. It looked slightly like the old CN Tower, but the new Sky Pod had twenty stories instead of seven, the antenna stretched to 3,000 feet with an observation room at the very top, and the restaurant revolved, completing a circle every half hour. DC smiled as people came running out to see the new CN Tower.
"Canada, now we're even." Then he disappeared into an extension cord.