Disclaimer: Only thing I own is Nightmare! Okay he's not much but he's mine! Every one else belongs to Marvel. Don't sue me. Well now here it is, the final battle between the Brotherhood and Nightmare! Or is it?
Chapter 4: Time For a Showdown! Bring the Doughnuts!
The Brotherhood glared at Nightmare. "So," Nightmare huffed. "You may have figured out how to defend yourselves, but the battlefield is still mine!"
"Oh yeah?" Lance focused his powers. The ground started to shake.
Nightmare simply floated in the sky. "Oh please," he laughed. "You didn't think it would be that easy to defeat me now did you? All your powers are useless on the ground!"
"Not all of us are on the ground yo!" Todd dive-bombed him with his wings. "Take this!" He slimed him again in one fell swoop.
"BLELECH!" Nightmare wiped the slime off him. "All right, if that's the way you wanna play…"
"Huh?" Todd yelped as his wings disappeared. "Help!"
"I gotcha buddy!" Fred held out his hands and caught Todd. "You're safe!"
"This is safe?" Todd yelped as Nightmare started to throw lightning bolts at them.
"Come on Nighty!" Pietro stuck his tongue out as he zipped around. "Can't catch me!"
"No but I can catch them," Nightmare smirked as he shot a bolt straight at Lance. Pietro yanked him away just in time.
"That was close!" Lance gulped.
"Oh oh here he goes again!" Pietro yelled. "Freddy look out!"
"No!" Todd closed his eyes. To everyone's surprise he created a force field which harmlessly bounced the lightning off.
"How the heck did you do that?" Fred asked.
"Well it always works on those anime shows," Todd shrugged. "I just concentrated and…"
"That's it!" Lance and Pietro zipped up to them. "This is our dream as well as his! We can take control! Everyone concentrate! Think of something big and powerful to defeat him!"
"How about Godzilla?" Todd gulped as Nightmare loomed over them.
"Works for me!" Pietro closed his eyes. "Let's try it!"
They all closed their eyes and focused. Soon a loud roar echoed through the landscape. "We did it!" Lance shouted with glee as he opened his eyes to see the familiar form of the powerful scaly lizard.
Unfortunately it was only two feet tall.
"Uh Lance something tells me we're not as good at it as he is," Todd gulped. "And I don't think we're gonna get the chance to practice!"
Nightmare laughed as he easily fried the Brotherhood's creation. "Hey maybe we should try growing wings like Toad did!" Lance came up with a backup plan.
"Good idea!" Pietro jumped out of the way of a lightning bolt. "Yikes!"
"Wings, wings, wings…" Fred tried to concentrate. "Yow! Lightning! Butt on fire!" Fred shouted as he ran around.
"This isn't working!" Todd hopped around dodging lighting bolts. "This isn't working!"
"Oh man for all the times to have a power shortage," Lance gulped. Nightmare managed to herd them to the edge of the cliff. "Oh boy…we're doomed."
"This will finish you off!" Nightmare created a huge bazooka. "Good bye Brotherhood! It was nice destroying you!"
A huge ball of energy suddenly appeared in front of him and exploded, sending Nightmare reeling. "WHAT?" He shouted as his weapon disintegrated. "Who dares…?"
"Hey guys!" Tabitha waved. "What's shakin?"
"How did you get in this dream?" Nightmare snarled.
"Well when the boys ditched me I found they scribbled down the address on a piece of paper they left behind." She explained. "I took the bus here and I went inside and I found you all in your little virtual reality game here. So I put on an extra helmet and went inside."
"Tabby this ain't no game yo!" Todd explained. "This guys controlling our dreams and he's gonna kill us!'
"Oh really?" She folded her arms. "So he's like a Freddy Kruger rip off huh?"
"Yeah," Todd nodded.
"Don't call me that!" Nightmare snarled. "You little bit of …Yikes!" He barely dodged another energy bomb.
"Once again it's up to the girl to save the boys and kick the bad guy's butt!" Tabitha shouted, launching a huge energy bomb at Nightmare. He created a shield to protect him from the blast.
"Is that the best you can do?" Nightmare added wryly. "Bah. I'll tear you to ribbons and use what's left of you to feed to the crows!"
"Oh I am sooo scared," Tabitha rolled her eyes. "This is a dream right? Well that means it's only as real as I want it to be! How about we change the scenery here? Too much of that doom and gloom stuff. How about this?"
Suddenly the environment changed. "Where the heck…" Lance looked around him and saw that he and the others were inside a small boat. Surrounding them were several moving dolls in the shape of little kids all around the world. Nightmare was in a boat of his own. They all flinched as the dolls sang:
It's a world of laughter, a world of tears; it's a world of hopes and a world of fears, there's so much that we share! And it's time we're aware, it's a Small World after all! It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all! It's a small, small world!
"MAKE IT STOP!" Nightmare covered his ears. "MAKE IT STOP! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE IT STOP!"
"O-kay I think I liked the cliff better," Lance felt a little nauseous.
"You gotta admit," Pietro looked around. "She's good."
"There is just one moon," Tabitha, Todd and Fred sang. "And one golden sun. And a smile means friendship to everyone! Though the mountains divide and the oceans are wide, it's a small world after all!"
"SHUT UP!" Nightmare screamed blasting the dolls all around him with energy blots. "SHUT UP! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! SHUT UP! AGGHGHH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS!" Soon all the dolls were nothing more than rubble. "You people are the sickest, most deranged lunatics I have ever met!"
"Oh take a chill pill!" Tabitha wiggled her nose, imitating a character on one of her favorite TV shows. "Let's just hang out will ya?"
The next thing they knew, they were inside a coffee shop. "I don't believe this," Lance looked around him. "Hey you know something Nightmare, your powers are pretty pathetic!"
"What?" Nightmare glared from his table. He looked at the table he was sitting at. "Tea? I didn't order this!"
"How about some coffee!" Pietro grabbed a pot off a table and zipped past him, pouring the steaming contents in his lap before running away.
"AGGHH!" Nightmare snarled. "I have had enough of this!"
"Oohh! Doughnuts!" Fred ran up to the counter. "I'll have a couple of chocolate glazed, two jelly filled…"
"Blob this is no time for a snack yo!" Todd shouted as he saw Nightmare looming over him. "On the other hand, catch!" He grabbed some doughnuts and threw them at Nightmare.
"Why you little…" Nightmare raised his fist angrily. "That's it! This has gone far enough!" With a wave the coffee shop disappeared and was replaced by an arctic wasteland. With a wave he threw a blast of freezing air and hail at the Brotherhood. Fred managed to somehow catch his flying teammates. They held onto him for dear life as Fred tried to stand against the blast. But he was quickly losing ground.
"Guys I can't hold up much longer!" Fred cried out.
"We gotta do something!" Todd shouted. "Before I become a Toadcicle!"
"There's nothing you can do!" Nightmare cackled as he rose above them in the winter sky. "You fools are finished!"
"Hang on Blob," Pietro shouted. "We gotta fight back!"
"After I finish destroying you I'll destroy the X-men one by one!" Nightmare laughed. "I think I'll start with the one you're so fond of Avalanche. Yes, I will enjoy tearing your precious little Kitty to bits. Piece by piece."
"Kitty?" Lance's eyes opened wide. "NOOOOO!"
In the real world, Lance lay there on a table, his head inside a helmet attached to a machine. Slowly, he made a fist and the ground started to move. It shook harder. And harder.
Back in the dream Nightmare was just about to blast them with another bolt of lightning when he was jolted by a shock. "Now what?" He snarled.
"Hey Lance are you doing this?" Pietro asked as the world shook around them.
"I don't know," Lance looked around. "It sure feels like me!"
"Impossible!" Nightmare snarled. "Your sonic disturbances can't affect me up here! Unless you're doing it in the real world…" He trailed off. "Uh oh."
"Uh oh?" Pietro's eyes opened wide. "I don't like that."
"You idiot!" Nightmare hissed. "Somehow part of your subconscious is controlling your powers, destroying my lab in the real world!" He hissed. "Unless I destroy all of you first that is…"
"Something tells me if we don't wake up soon, we're not gonna wake up at all!" Pietro clung to Fred as the winds blasted them. Nightmare began to increase his assault.
"We gotta wake up and warn Xavier!" Lance shouted. "Before he does this to Kitty or anyone else!"
"No you won't!" Nightmare snarled. "I'm not going to have my plans ruined by the likes of you!"
"I've got an idea!" Tabitha made a large energy bomb. "When this goes off the blast should be enough to wake us up!"
"But what if it kills us?" Todd asked.
"Then we're in trouble," Tabitha said.
"Oh great," Todd rolled his eyes.
"Here we go," Tabitha indicated the bomb. "It's almost time!"
"That's it!" Nightmare waved and sent some kind of blast towards them. "I am not taking any chances with the likes of you!"
"This is gonna hurt!" Todd closed his eyes as the small energy bomb reached critical mass just as Nightmare's wave hit them.
BOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!
