Part 11:
This wasn't the smartest plan in the world but she didn't care. Sabretooth had been gone for too long. She had to find him. Wild Child, one of her fellow X-men, had told her where he was but even as she went towards the place, a part of her wanted to turn back. What would she find? Him…or his corpse? Never had she prayed so much as she did when she walked the few meters from where she BLINKED in to the position Wild Child had given her. Turning a corner she saw him. She fell to her knees on the cold ground.
" NO! Oh, God…..no," she whispered in despair. There before her was Sabretooth. Or what was left of him. He had been hung up with chains in a street lamp. His body was broken and bloodied. His death hadn't been an easy one. Tears fell from her eyes to the ground. Promise…promise….a voice ran in her mind. She had given a promise. Her hands made fists. And she would keep it…or die trying. All she loved was dead anyway. She had nothing to live for anymore. Hot rage replaced her sorrow. She knew where Holocaust was. And she knew what she had to do.
BLINK!
"Holocaust!," Blink yelled as she appeared before him. He turned rather surprised towards her.
"I'm sorry, child, I don't believe that we've met," his manners were strangely out of place considering that he a few hours before had been torturing the man she loved.
"The name is Blink. And I'm not a child. I'm the X-Man that is going to stop you and your genetic cullings once and for all," Blink vowed strongly, anger giving her strength.
"You misunderstood me... Blink. I know who you are -- indeed I recognize all the genetic turncoats foolish enough to defy the will of the High Lord Apocalypse. I meant I am genuinely sorry that we have not met before now. Assessing the damage you've single-handedly wrought upon my Infinite processing plant -- creatively using your natural spatial displacement power -- it's clear that you're a mutant of untapped potential. In a world where the strongest survive... you are a survivor. I almost feel badly about having to kill you," Holocaust said and clearly didn't mean it. Enraged Blink turned towards him and….
BLINK! She appeared behind him.
"I don't think you've ever felt anything!" she yelled angrily. Such a monster as he was incapable of feelings.
"Not true, Blink. Killing Sabretooth -- your mentor -- was extremely gratifying!" Holocaust said with a smile.
"Don't you dare make fun of Mister Creed!" Blink said furiously. Holocaust smiled.
" Now I see. He wasn't just your mentor….he was your love. Killing him wasn't just gratifying then. It was a pleasure!" Blink began to BLINK things in from different places and threw it at Holocaust. He tried to dock but knifes and tons of other things BLINKED in on him. He took quite a few hits. He turned toward Blink and with his powers shot invisible daggers of pain at her.
"Whu-?" Blink asked confused as she couldn't see her enemy.
"Be grateful I'm allowing you to die quickly. It's an honor I didn't afford the mongrel Creed!" Holocaust said as the pain increased. I mustn't fail. I can't fail. I promised….I promised…., Blink thought and fought the pain. She BLINKED a big stone forth and it hit Holocaust on the chest. He fell back and Blink got pained to her feet and leaned over him.
"Mister Creed was a decent man who died fighting a homicidal maniac. You Holocaust...? You don't even deserve to lick his boots! You've tortured and killed a lot of people over the years. Innocent humans, mutants you deemed useless, anyone who opposed you and your lord's survivalist racist dogma. So tell me... how's it feel knowing you're about to die?" Blink said with fury in her voice as she got ready to BLINK him out of existence. This is for you, Victor, she thought.
"You must be joking, girl. It appears that you and I have come to something of a stand-off. Nothing more, nothing less. Tell me, Clarice... Do you really think you can survive?" Holocaust asked as the pain in her body increased.
BLINK! She BLINKED him out of existence or more accurately into outer space.
"No, I don't. But I never came here with the intention to live. I came….to take revenge….and to die," Blink said softly as her body was falling apart from the needles of pain he had put in it. " That was…for you, Victor," Blink said softly and with her last powers she BLINKED herself to the hilltop where she had said her last farewell to the man she loved. As soon as she appeared on the hilltop she collapsed from the strain.
" Victor…….I shall join you shortly," she whispered as her life was leaving her. She pulled forth a locket she always wore around her neck. Inside was a picture of Sabretooth, smiling at her. She smiled back but it turned into a grimace of pain. She wished she had Sabretooth's strong arms to hold her now. She wasn't afraid but she didn't want to die alone.
" I……I'm coming, my love. We can be…together….always," she whispered hoarsely. Then her body lay still and the locket fell out for her outstretched hand. The sun rose and it seemed to blink down to the girl laying on the hilltop, her hand stretched out in front of her as if she reached for someone. Her lips were curved with a small smile, such a rare thing in this world, yet she smiled….even in death.
TBC
