A Final Plea for a Father's Love
"YOU'RE ALIVE?" Magneto screamed at Lance.
"Yeah," Lance snapped. "No thanks to you! You're not that good at killing us off are you?"
"This is why you should leave this kind of work to the professionals!" Sabertooth snapped. "I mean I did kill those cops in Chicago without any problems!"
"You what?" Lance yelled.
"I always knew you were sick," Roadblock snarled. "Now it's time we Joes showed you a trick! NOW!"
The second team with the X-Men stormed in. "Looks like the Cavalry's arrived!" Roadblock shouted. "Give it up Magneto! You can't survive!"
Then there was a rumbling sound. "What is that?" Scott said. Something huge came out of the shadows. Actually, it was three huge things. Three very familiar huge things. "It can't be!"
"How do you like my version of Mr. Trask's Sentinels?" Magneto laughed as the metallic monstrosities entered the chamber. "With some basic reprogramming they are quite effective. As you will soon find out."
"This is not good," Mainframe gulped.
"Okay you X-Men take out those sentinels as best you can!" Duke ordered. "We'll try to give you back up!"
"Some of us better take care of our other little friends," Sgt. Slaughter noted. Sabertooth tried to attack Logan as he was finishing freeing Ororo. He tackled Sabertooth. "Until Wolverine's finished I'll take care of the overgrown alley cat for him!"
Todd and Roadblock started fighting Ramrod and Ramfist. "Toad and I will take care of the billy goat brothers!" He shouted.
Todd slimed Ramfist and knocked him out. "Yeah this won't take long!" He laughed.
Snake Eyes and Shiva were going at it. "That just leaves you and me sister!" Jinx shouted as she attacked Mystique.
The battle raged fiercely. The X-Men and Joes were fighting fiercely. Lance managed to knock one of the sentinels down onto it's back using his powers. This gave Scott and Remy a chance to use their powers to blast it open. Logan had freed Ororo by this time and they both used their powers to destroy it.
Lance managed to knock another sentinel off its feet when something hit him hard from behind. Magneto snarled as he used his powers to hit Lance again with a metal pipe.
"Lance!" Fred ran to help him, only to get knocked off his feet by a large metal beam.
"When I'm through with you Avalanche you'll wish you had died in the desert!" Magneto advanced on him. "And that goes double for you Blob!"
"STOP!" Pietro grabbed Magneto's arm.
"What are you doing, Quicksilver?" Magneto shouted.
"Father please," Pietro called out. "Stop this!"
"What did I tell you about calling me that?" He snarled. "Don't get in my way!"
"I'm sorry but you have to listen to me!" Pietro cried. "For once just hear what I have to say!"
"And what do you have to say that is so important that you distract me in the middle of a battle?" Magneto groaned. "This is not exactly the right time for a heart to heart!"
"Father, I love you!" Pietro cried. "But sometimes you don't realize how much you can hurt people! I know you mean well, but you don't realize how much you're hurting those who are closest to you! I'd do anything for you, but you can't just take mutants away from their families and hurt them! And these three…" He looked at Lance, Todd and Fred. "They're my family too! And Wanda! I need them and you!"
"You are even more pathetic than I thought," Magneto snarled. "If you think I'll have any sympathy for traitors!"
"Father please," Pietro reached out for him. "Don't do this. Please."
"You are weak," Magneto growled shoving him away.
Pietro hit the ground. "No!" Tears filled his eyes. "Please don't say that!"
"You make me ashamed that you're my son," Magneto snarled at the sobbing boy.
"Well that makes us even!" Pietro snapped, his eyes growing cold. "Because you make me ashamed that you're my father!"
He took off running as fast as he could; creating a mini cyclone that knocked down another sentinel. Amara and the other energy throwing mutants attacked it, heating up the surface. Then Bobby froze it, causing the metal to contract and expand quickly, buckling the surface of the robot. The Joes blasted it with their lasers.
"Two down and one to go!" Roadblock cried out. "Yo Joe!"
Kitty phased through the foot of the last sentinel, causing it to stumble. The X-Men and Joes destroyed it. "Yeah we did it!"
"Now let's get Magneto!" Duke shouted. They advanced on him. A burst of fire separated them from him.
"Forget about me?" John laughed.
Magneto took the opportunity to escape to another part of the asteroid, with his loyal followers in pursuit. "I'll get him!" Rogue called out. "Whoa!" Another sentinel came out of nowhere and blocked her path.
Then two more sentinels strode in. "Oh man!" Bobby groaned. "Where did he get these things?"
"Hang on kids we ain't done!" Roadblock shouted. "This party's barely begun!"
