Disaster At the Dance
When Cobra started firing, all hell broke loose. Several people started screaming and running towards the exits. Jean put up a telekinetic shield to keep the shots from hurting the students trying to escape. Meanwhile many of the X-men started fighting back, particularly the ones with offensive powers. The Brotherhood got into the mix as well while the Joes were trying to both stop Cobra and save those students and teachers trapped behind.
"What is going on here?" Kelly screamed as he and Dorothy ducked for cover behind a table with Alpine and Bazooka. "You people are obviously not teachers. And…is that Ms. Baron?"
"That's the Baroness," Bazooka said. "She's a Cobra agent."
"Cobra?" Kelly blinked. "Isn't that a terrorist unit? Then who are all of you?"
"We're with GI Joe," Alpine explained. "Special military force. We've been assigned to watch the students and keep Cobra from getting their hands on them."
"All of you?" Kelly gasped. He pointed at Bazooka. "EVEN HIM?"
"Why are people always saying that?" Bazooka grumbled as he returned fire at the Cobras.
"Okay," Kelly said trying not to shake despite all the gunfire going on around him. "Let me get this straight, there are two rival gangs of mutants in my school, half my teaching staff are terrorists and the other half are military undercover agents, my vice principal is a renegade spy run amok…. THIS IS NUTS!" Kelly screamed. He looked at Dorothy. "And I guess you have a secret identity too huh? What are you? CIA? FBI?"
"Actually, I'm with SHIELD," Dorothy admitted, pulling a gun hidden under her skirt. That was when Kelly fainted.
"I thought you looked familiar," Alpine said. "You were there at that Moroccan incident two years ago!"
"Yup," She kept firing. "SHIELD had me infiltrate the school to keep them informed on the goings on of the mutants. Being a secretary I had access to all the files."
"Pretty clever," Alpine said. "Wish we had thought of that."
"Can we cool it with the mutual admiration society for now?" Falcon dove behind the table. "We are in trouble now! I just got word that Cobra's sending an air strike to blow up the Institute!"
"No they won't!" Bazooka took out a remote control and pushed a button.
As five Cobra Rattlers flew overhead, suddenly a hidden platform on the side of Bayville was revealed. Several missiles were launched and shot three of them down. The remaining Rattlers were driven out of the sky by a several Joe airplanes.
While the battle in the air was being settled, the battle on the ground was getting fiercer. Lance dipped into his powers and sent wave after wave of concrete towards the Cobras. "You wanna see some real shaking?" Lance shouted. "Try this!" Suddenly the entire building started to shake violently.
So violently that even the Cobras stopped fighting. "That can't be good," The Baroness gulped as she heard the sounds of creaking metal. "COBRA RETREAT!"
The Cobras nearly ran over each other in order to escape. Still the building shook. In fact, it was starting to shake even more violently.
"Lance stop it!" Kitty screamed. "That's enough!"
"Yeah cut it out with the tremors man!" Fred said.
"I…I can't!" Lance screamed in agony. "I can't stop! Kitty help me! I can't stop it!" Suddenly the entire floor buckled around him, creating small rises and hills in the floor. Kitty was thrown backwards. "KITTY!" Lance screamed, sinking to his knees, unable to move or do anything else.
Kitty harmlessly phased through the floor then came out. "LANCE!" She screamed.
"AAGGGGHGHGH!" Lance screamed in agony as another blast shook the school.
"It's gonna fall on top of us!" Pietro screamed. He ran over to Lance and grabbed him. "Let's get out of here!" The Brotherhood ran.
It was all the X-Men and Joes could do to evacuate the building before the entire school collapsed. Jean was able to save several people using her telekinesis. Kitty and Scott helped get the remaining ones out of the rubble unharmed. But the damage was done. Bayville High was in ruins.
"Oh no…" Kitty looked at the damage. "Not again!"
"I can't believe the Brotherhood did this!" Tabitha said.
"I can," Scott snarled. "And as usual we have to clean up their mess!"
"Look we need your help to see if anyone else in trapped inside," Falcon came up to him. "We'll get them later. Right now helping these people is our top priority!"
"You're right," Scott said. "Let's do it."
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The Brotherhood finally made it to the boarding house. "What were you thinking?" Pietro snapped.
"I couldn't stop it!" Lance gasped. "My powers went out of control!"
"Obviously," Mystique appeared before them. "Well it seems that once again you morons have brought disaster and destruction to my doorstep! I should have your heads for this!"
"It's not their heads you should be worrying about Mystique," A familiar voice rumbled.
They looked up and saw Magneto floating down. Several metal orbs were behind him.
"Magneto?" Pietro looked in shock at the metal orbs.
"Get in, all of you!" He ordered. "We're leaving now. Bayville is no longer a haven for us. We will go to my new base."
"How did you know…?" Pietro asked.
"I have my ways," He told him.
"Sir," Lance gulped. "The school…It was an accident…I didn't mean to…"
"No matter," Magneto shrugged. "At the very least the X-Men have lost their safe haven. Congratulations Avalanche, you have redeemed yourself. What concerns me Mystique is that how not one, not two but three different organizations were spying on us without your knowledge!"
"I…" Mystique gulped. "I don't know sir."
"You will have to come up with a better excuse than that," Magneto said. The sound of sirens could be heard in the distance. "I suggest you think about it on the trip towards our new home."
"Come on Lance," Pietro pulled on his arm as the others got into the orbs.
"But…Kitty…" Lance looked around.
"Forget that X-Geek Lance!" Wanda snapped. "Let's get out of here before the cops grab us!"
Sadly Lance did as he was told. As he rode in his metal sphere he spent the entire time fighting the tears in his eyes. "Kitty…" He whispered. "What have I done?"
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Back at Bayville High there were several SHIELD agency vehicles as well as military ones, police cars and emergency ambulances. The school was in ruins. Completely destroyed. "Anyone hurt?" Falcon asked an emergency worker.
"Minor cuts and bruises," He told him. "But no fatalities. It's a miracle no one was killed." Then he glared at some of the Institute students. "No thanks to those freaks!"
"Actually it was thanks to those freaks," Falcon glared.
"That's not what I saw," One student snapped. "That freak Alvers destroyed the entire school!"
Several people were murmuring amongst themselves. "Oh great," Falcon groaned. "Hawk is gonna kill me. I just know it."
"If he doesn't I will," Nick Fury came up. "What the hell happened here? Do you know how hard this is gonna be to keep the Institute and the kids out of the papers? What happened?"
"It's a long story," Falcon sighed.
