Shadow looked at Evan, "Are you sure this is going to work?" she asked, she
was eager to fight but not to die and she wanted to make sure Evan's 'plan'
wouldn't turn out to be a massacre of mutants.
Evan frowned, "No, but you got any better ideas?" he shot back, having took her question as a threat.
Shadow gave him a look that said 'watch-your-mouth'. "I was only double checking. Looks like you and Kurt both forgot happy pills, Porcupine" she said, finishing with a nickname she had heard Jean use.
Kurt glanced down at the map he had drawn, "I do not zhink zhis eez zhe time for 'happy pills'," he muttered as he traced his fingers around the routes and positions. Shadow just shrugged and moved away, she wasn't about to pick a fight with the two of them.
Wanda walked over to Kurt, "Daddy wants to know how its going." She said smiling. "I zhink ve've got eet finished." Was her only reply. "Cool! I'll go tell him, he'll be very relieved. Daddy was worried we wouldn't be finished before they attacked." Wanda replied wounding like an 8-year-old. She clapped her hands excitedly before walking away towards Magneto.Sam soon replaced her. "Y'all reada fur some Sha Are butt kickin? Ah sure am, can't wait ta show 'em how mutants fight, thad'll teach'em abou messin in otha planets affairs!" Sam declared in his Kentucky accent. Evidently he was as rebbed up about the battle as Jean was.
Evan sighed, "I sure hope so," he said as he turned to Kurt, "Think we should divide them into teams and get set up?"
Kurt nodded, "Zhe sooner zhe better, Zam, vhy don't vou go and get the others?"
"Rahto commanda!" Sam said walking over to where everybody else was. "Hey ya'll! Tha fuzzy and porcupine need ya'lls attention. They're settin up groups!" he yelled and walked back to Kurt with the others in tow.
"I really wish they would drop the nick," Spyke groaned as the others moseyed over to them.
Iceman stamped his foot impatiently, he desperately need a beer.he was being forced into becoming sober. "Well are you going to assign groups or just sit there?" Bobby yelled angrily, he had a splitting headache, and wanted a beer, which he couldn't have, AND he was about to fight a battle where he would probably die! So far the day was looking extremely horrible.
"Ok, group one is Remy, Scott, Marie, and Amara. Group 2 is Orus, Pyro, Sister Tabitha, Jubilee, and Bobby. Group 3 is Mystique, Logan, Pietro, Piotr, Ray, Todd, Rahne, and Freddy. Four is me, Kurt, Magneto, Wanda, Lance, Shadow, Sam, Jean, Creed, Jamie, and Roberto." Evan stated. "Vou might vant to move into zhose groups now." Kurt added. Evan nodded confirmation and pointed to the map, "Group one, you'll stay here in the pub, on the top floor where the windows are. Group 2, you'll be in the warehouse across the street on the third floor by the windows facing the pub." He pointed to the X's on the map to show them. "Group 3, you'll wait until all the army gets onto this street, then sneak around the pub and warehouse and attack from the back. We'll box 'em in an hit 'em hard." Evan said with a determined grin. Jean let out a cry of excitement. "Real hard, so hard they won't know what hit 'em bub."
Marie raised her hand timidly, "Evan, lak what do ya want mah ta do. Ah'm practically no use unless ah get someone's lak power." She asked.
"Well, Pyro's a little afraid of his power, so we thought that you could absorb his."
Pyro looked up from his feet, "a-absorb me? S-sure why not.not like I'm going to use my p-power right?" he stuttered trying hard not to think about fire. Marie nodded. "Sounds good ta me."
Evan let out a whoosh of relief. He had been afraid Pyro would have given him a hard time about it.
Pyro gave a weak smile at Marie, then turned to Evan. "so uh when does...s- she absorb m-m-me?" he asked hoping it would be at the last minute...that would lessen the chance of him waking up during the battle and seeing the fire...he started to get sweaty and gulped
Kurt came up, "As soon as possible, zhe Zhi-Ar Queen vill not vant of vait long.
"Oh...o-o-kay." Pyro said and closed his eyes, turned his head, and extended his bare arm to Marie. Marie took off her fashionable pink glove and said "Don't worry it'll be real quick I promise" in what she hoped was a soothing voice. She then touched his arm with her hand and let his memories and powers become her own. One distinct memory became more vivid then the others making it so it seemed like she was seeing it for herself. It was of a house burning down with a 5 year old Pyro inside...he was screaming for his mother, who was unconscious and was in the process of being covered by the flames. Marie watched through Pyro's eyes as he screamed again while his mother disappeared into ashes...Marie let out a small scream and forced herself out of the memory.
Gambit immediately dashed over to Marie, "Wha's wrong chere?"
"Jus a memory. Ah'll be okay. Don worry...happens wheneva ah lak absorb someone..." Marie said weakly, still a little shaken by what she had seen. She looked at the now unconscious Pyro sympathetically. "Now ah know why he's afraid of fire."
Evan frowned, "Are _you_ now?"
"Naw. Well not as much as 'em."
"Zhat eez good," Kurt said, "With zhat done, let'z get into positions everybody."
"Where are y'all gonna lak put 'em?" Marie said motioning to St. John
"Tabitha, vould vou take him up vith vou? Ve can't leave him here."
Tabitha nodded, "Of course brother Wagner," she said as she pushed her wimple back on her hair and bent over to pick up Pyro and hurried off with her group across the street.
"Ah guess we betta lak go now to...see ya lak later y'all!" Marie said hurried over to her position in front of a window. She picked up a lighter she had borrowed from Bobby and pressed the button making a tiny flame come out. Closing her eyes she concentrated on moving the flame over to her hand then making it grow 3 times its original size...making it into a fireball.
Evan nodded, "Port us out Captain Wagner!" Kurt touched Evan's arm and they vanished with a puff of smoke to join the others in the front lines who were already outside, as shouts were heard in the distance.
***
Cyclops heard shouts and glanced out of the back windows. "Here they come." trailed off as he jogged back to Amara, Gambit, and Marie.
Marie acknowledged Cyclops's statement with a slight nod.she was concentrating more on controlling her - Pyro's - power.
Amara went magma and two fireballs appeared in her hands as she saw the first lines of the Shi-Ar army march towards their front lines of the Shi- Ar army march towards their front lines, "It is not the warrior that makes the battle.but the battle that makes the warrior." She muttered to herself as she watched the next 50 lines march by. They were armed with guns. And there were about 500, a small force, but plenty large enough to take their meager army of twenty.
***
Jean looked at Evan anxiously; she was waiting for the signal to attack. Her eyes wandered over to the moving massive army and immediately got an image of all of them blown to bits.a smile came to her face, she was going to make that picture a reality.with the help of the others of course.
Shadow watched as Jean smiled, she had no idea why the red head seemed so happy. Sure, she was ready to kick some mutie haters butt.she might even enjoy it a little bit.but not to the extreme that Jean seemed to be at. One thing was for sure, she was glad that Jean was on her side. She then turned to watch Evan.awaiting the signal.
Wanda edged over to her father, "Daddy." was all she said, but that one little word said so much. She was nervous, afraid even, but most of all she was worried about her father.
Cannonball shifted nervously, accidentally bumping into Jamie.he watched as both of the Jamies got an eerie smile on their face. One pulled a lighter out of his pocket while the other stepped on Sam's foot laughing. Sam grunted he desperately wanted to kick the little bugger back but decided against it.
Evan glanced at Kurt, and then turned to the back lines that were temporarily up front. He nodded to Mystique, Logan, and Pietro, telling them to peel off. They were to go three at a time and wait for the others before they struck. Mystique grinned oddly and literally tiptoed to the edge of the pub and waited for the others.
Pietro quickly followed, he was as nervous about the fight as everyone else was. He was thankful though to be among a smaller group in the back, there was less girls in that one, but why Evan had picked him to be the only boy in the sneaking trio was beyond him. It seemed a little cruel; then again Evan had never seemed to like him that much.
Logan crawled over to where Pietro and Mystique were. She stood straight up as she released her claws. Logan then let out a fierce but soft meow; she was no longer Logan but Tiger!
Evan nodded to Berzerker, Toad, and Rahne next. Toad bowed suavely and strode to join the other three, Berzerker on his heels. "Howdiddilyey hi!" he whispered trying to make a light conversation. Rahne joined them soon, "Ri." She said then morphed into wolf mode, she was eager to get the battle over with. Rahne never really liked fighting and was only doing this because Jamie had offered her a Wolfsbane Treat.
Evan then turned to Blob and Colossus, they nodded and walked over to the group as well. Blob flexed his muscles, "Dude.if I flex it like this and flick it real fast it ripples.cool man!" Colossus however had a sinister smile on his face as he said darkly, "Ey'm gozing to prezend each ohf zem are Illyana." his smile widened. "Noh more zoe zis Piotr! Zhe'll die a hunzred ways.anze each time vill be better zan ze last." he added giving a low chuckle.
"Peace man! I can tell we have serious family issues here dude," Fred commented as he glanced concernedly at Piotr.
Colossus didn't even bother to reply, he was now in a fantasy world where Illyana never existed. Pietro sighed "and-I-thought-I-had-those-kinds-of- problems.Dad-thinking-I'm-gay-and-all." he said quickly.
Todd gave Pietro an odd look, "You're not?"
Fred frowned, "Come on dudes let's go sneak up on those dufuses!"
***
Gambit lit up a card as the last of the lines piled in. As one soldier wielding a gun passed him he threw it with deadly accuracy at him, just as a red streak of light blasted through a line. Not far off he saw twin fireballs rocket into two soldiers.
Marie concentrated hard as she threw her first fireball at the solider closest to the front line. She watched as it hit him in the torso and then quickly turned away, she didn't like the fact that she was killing people. She lit another fireball and made it grow again.she was so focused on the it that she didn't notice the human who was aiming his own weapon at her.
Gambit lit his next card and was aiming it just as he saw his target aim for. "Marie!" he shouted as he tossed the card out the window and dove for her, knocking her down as he heard the bang of a gun and a bullet crash into the wall behind them.
When Marie fell she accidentally dropped the fireball outside, hitting the person who had been aiming for her right after he pulled the trigger. She looked at Gambit, "Yah lak saved mah life!" she stated in a dazed voice.
Gambit grinned goofily as he rolled off of her and hopped back up, but lost his footing on the uneven floor, falling back against a wall. Righting himself he glanced back at Marie, "Tink notin' o' it," he said, distracted slightly as he charged another card.
***
Orus raised his hands to the sky, lightning crackled from it and met his out stretched palms, then slammed into a group of soldiers. Tabitha rubbed her hands together, "Father, forgive me" she murmured as she tossed a slew of cherry bombs down into the army. Jubilee sent down a spray of fireworks down at one guy who had been aiming at Iceman.
Iceman created several ice balls and threw them down on the army. He smiled with slight relief as two more guns became silent. He still had a splitting headache and all the gunshots weren't helping. Just then St. John Allerdyce woke up; he stood straight and looked out the window that Bobby had finished throwing ice out of. Bodies fell as he watched, results of Remy's charged cards. He flinched, the cards bursted into flames before they hit someone. John didn't like fire, but h would force himself to stand this little bit. if anymore came he was sure he'd lose control though. As if to make him do just that Marie chose now to toss a massive fireball at a person close to Pyro's spot in the building. John got sweaty and fought to keep control.it was just a bit of fire.nothing to worry about! Marie threw another fireball, and something inside Pyro snapped, his eyes grew wide and he began screaming.
***
Evan sent several spikes hurtling towards the nearest group of approaching soldiers. He'd never killed anyone before.the thought of what he was doing sickened him. Creed had already fallen, giving himself up as a martyr for his own cause of peace. The soldiers that had shot him dozens of times before Kurt had a chance to teleport his corpse out, avoiding the bullets with Shadow's help. Now Magneto raised his hands and commanded the metal poles, cares, manhole covers, and trashcans flew towards them, ramming against the soldiers clutching their plastic guns. Wanda stood next to her father as she threw hex bolts at the army. She made sure to only hit the aliens, her way of standing up for her father's cause.
Jean laughed as she threw a mental bolt at the nearest human. The person immediately became paralyzed. She then used her telekinetic ability to take 5 of the attackers guns away from them.making one go to Shadow, another to Kurt, and one for herself. She left the other two for any mutant who wanted them. She turned back to the army, "Not so brave now are ya bubs?" She shouted as the people she had taken the guns from looked at her terrified. Jean smirked and pulled the trigger.
***
Blob grinned as the bullets bounced off of him. Some of the soldiers kept on shooting, others screamed and joined the frontlines in order to escape him. Fred picked up one and tossed him into the wall, the man didn't' get up. Mystique had morphed into a soldier and was spreading rumors throughout the enemy force about millions of mutants reinforcements surrounding them, and occasionally shooting a few with a gun she had acquired. Toad leapt from side to side, avoiding gunfire, "ey! Don muss tha suit!" he roared as he flicked his tongue towards a soldier that had been shooting at him. The man fell back and Toad's tongue grabbed the gun as it flicked back, dropping the gun into the trigger happy frog's hands. "Wicked tongue man!" Fred grunted to Toad as he hefted up two more soldiers into a wall to join the growing pile at that particular spot.
Colossus was in his armor form, and was picking people up, strangling them, then throwing them into the pile. The bullets bouncing off him as they did Blob. He grinned as he picked up a man, seeing Illyana and not the real person, "Ey'd stop vigglin avround if ey vas vou.onvy vaking it harder von vourshelf." He tightened his grip and waited for the body to fall limp. When it finally did he whispered, "Vye Vye Illyana." before he threw the man into the pile.
Logan slashed several people with her claws. She roared like the animal she was named after as a bullet pierced her arm, but that didn't stop Tiger, she knew she would heal unlike the humans she was cutting to pieces. Rahne was right behind Tiger, she bit an alien's arm, snarling like the wolf she was. She was so intent on killing that one person that she didn't even notice the person aiming at her with his gun until.BANG! Rahne collapsed, shot in the back. She went back to her human form and manage to faintly say "relp" before all went black.
Berzerker ran to Rahne, "Hey Wolfy youidilay hiddily okay?" he said, "Rahne?" he added after not getting a response. He checked her pulse, "She's dead." He stood up, his fist crackling with electricity as he punched the person closest to him. HE had never hurt anyone before, but desperate times called for desperate measures, and at the moment he was glad to be hurting the people who had killed his friend.
***
"Brother John! Watch out!" Tabitha cried over his screaming as she tossed a cherry bomb at the man below, she heard a resounding bang.but not from her cherry bomb.
John opened his mouth to scream again but only succeeded in coughing.up blood. He looked down, a bullet through his stomach. He fell, still coughing up blood and managed to spit out "oh my, I think I'm shot." through coughs. His eyes rolled above and he gave one last cough.
Jubilee dropped a firework and screamed as she saw Pyro fall, "Johnny!" she cried as she rushed towards him, "Johnny! Nononono! Don't die! NO!"
Iceman turned around and looked at John, who appeared to be very dead. "Stop that shoutin woman! He's dead! Oh my head!" he yelled at Jubilee angrily. All Bobby wanted to do was finish this battle and get some booze.
Jubilee sniffed and glared at Bobby as she buried her head in her hands. Tabitha put a hand on her shoulder, "He's gone to a better place my sister," she told her softly. Jubilee sniffed again and straightened. Anger blazed in her eyes, "I'll kill them all!" she roared as fireworks exploded from her hands spraying down towards the army.
Evan frowned, "No, but you got any better ideas?" he shot back, having took her question as a threat.
Shadow gave him a look that said 'watch-your-mouth'. "I was only double checking. Looks like you and Kurt both forgot happy pills, Porcupine" she said, finishing with a nickname she had heard Jean use.
Kurt glanced down at the map he had drawn, "I do not zhink zhis eez zhe time for 'happy pills'," he muttered as he traced his fingers around the routes and positions. Shadow just shrugged and moved away, she wasn't about to pick a fight with the two of them.
Wanda walked over to Kurt, "Daddy wants to know how its going." She said smiling. "I zhink ve've got eet finished." Was her only reply. "Cool! I'll go tell him, he'll be very relieved. Daddy was worried we wouldn't be finished before they attacked." Wanda replied wounding like an 8-year-old. She clapped her hands excitedly before walking away towards Magneto.Sam soon replaced her. "Y'all reada fur some Sha Are butt kickin? Ah sure am, can't wait ta show 'em how mutants fight, thad'll teach'em abou messin in otha planets affairs!" Sam declared in his Kentucky accent. Evidently he was as rebbed up about the battle as Jean was.
Evan sighed, "I sure hope so," he said as he turned to Kurt, "Think we should divide them into teams and get set up?"
Kurt nodded, "Zhe sooner zhe better, Zam, vhy don't vou go and get the others?"
"Rahto commanda!" Sam said walking over to where everybody else was. "Hey ya'll! Tha fuzzy and porcupine need ya'lls attention. They're settin up groups!" he yelled and walked back to Kurt with the others in tow.
"I really wish they would drop the nick," Spyke groaned as the others moseyed over to them.
Iceman stamped his foot impatiently, he desperately need a beer.he was being forced into becoming sober. "Well are you going to assign groups or just sit there?" Bobby yelled angrily, he had a splitting headache, and wanted a beer, which he couldn't have, AND he was about to fight a battle where he would probably die! So far the day was looking extremely horrible.
"Ok, group one is Remy, Scott, Marie, and Amara. Group 2 is Orus, Pyro, Sister Tabitha, Jubilee, and Bobby. Group 3 is Mystique, Logan, Pietro, Piotr, Ray, Todd, Rahne, and Freddy. Four is me, Kurt, Magneto, Wanda, Lance, Shadow, Sam, Jean, Creed, Jamie, and Roberto." Evan stated. "Vou might vant to move into zhose groups now." Kurt added. Evan nodded confirmation and pointed to the map, "Group one, you'll stay here in the pub, on the top floor where the windows are. Group 2, you'll be in the warehouse across the street on the third floor by the windows facing the pub." He pointed to the X's on the map to show them. "Group 3, you'll wait until all the army gets onto this street, then sneak around the pub and warehouse and attack from the back. We'll box 'em in an hit 'em hard." Evan said with a determined grin. Jean let out a cry of excitement. "Real hard, so hard they won't know what hit 'em bub."
Marie raised her hand timidly, "Evan, lak what do ya want mah ta do. Ah'm practically no use unless ah get someone's lak power." She asked.
"Well, Pyro's a little afraid of his power, so we thought that you could absorb his."
Pyro looked up from his feet, "a-absorb me? S-sure why not.not like I'm going to use my p-power right?" he stuttered trying hard not to think about fire. Marie nodded. "Sounds good ta me."
Evan let out a whoosh of relief. He had been afraid Pyro would have given him a hard time about it.
Pyro gave a weak smile at Marie, then turned to Evan. "so uh when does...s- she absorb m-m-me?" he asked hoping it would be at the last minute...that would lessen the chance of him waking up during the battle and seeing the fire...he started to get sweaty and gulped
Kurt came up, "As soon as possible, zhe Zhi-Ar Queen vill not vant of vait long.
"Oh...o-o-kay." Pyro said and closed his eyes, turned his head, and extended his bare arm to Marie. Marie took off her fashionable pink glove and said "Don't worry it'll be real quick I promise" in what she hoped was a soothing voice. She then touched his arm with her hand and let his memories and powers become her own. One distinct memory became more vivid then the others making it so it seemed like she was seeing it for herself. It was of a house burning down with a 5 year old Pyro inside...he was screaming for his mother, who was unconscious and was in the process of being covered by the flames. Marie watched through Pyro's eyes as he screamed again while his mother disappeared into ashes...Marie let out a small scream and forced herself out of the memory.
Gambit immediately dashed over to Marie, "Wha's wrong chere?"
"Jus a memory. Ah'll be okay. Don worry...happens wheneva ah lak absorb someone..." Marie said weakly, still a little shaken by what she had seen. She looked at the now unconscious Pyro sympathetically. "Now ah know why he's afraid of fire."
Evan frowned, "Are _you_ now?"
"Naw. Well not as much as 'em."
"Zhat eez good," Kurt said, "With zhat done, let'z get into positions everybody."
"Where are y'all gonna lak put 'em?" Marie said motioning to St. John
"Tabitha, vould vou take him up vith vou? Ve can't leave him here."
Tabitha nodded, "Of course brother Wagner," she said as she pushed her wimple back on her hair and bent over to pick up Pyro and hurried off with her group across the street.
"Ah guess we betta lak go now to...see ya lak later y'all!" Marie said hurried over to her position in front of a window. She picked up a lighter she had borrowed from Bobby and pressed the button making a tiny flame come out. Closing her eyes she concentrated on moving the flame over to her hand then making it grow 3 times its original size...making it into a fireball.
Evan nodded, "Port us out Captain Wagner!" Kurt touched Evan's arm and they vanished with a puff of smoke to join the others in the front lines who were already outside, as shouts were heard in the distance.
***
Cyclops heard shouts and glanced out of the back windows. "Here they come." trailed off as he jogged back to Amara, Gambit, and Marie.
Marie acknowledged Cyclops's statement with a slight nod.she was concentrating more on controlling her - Pyro's - power.
Amara went magma and two fireballs appeared in her hands as she saw the first lines of the Shi-Ar army march towards their front lines of the Shi- Ar army march towards their front lines, "It is not the warrior that makes the battle.but the battle that makes the warrior." She muttered to herself as she watched the next 50 lines march by. They were armed with guns. And there were about 500, a small force, but plenty large enough to take their meager army of twenty.
***
Jean looked at Evan anxiously; she was waiting for the signal to attack. Her eyes wandered over to the moving massive army and immediately got an image of all of them blown to bits.a smile came to her face, she was going to make that picture a reality.with the help of the others of course.
Shadow watched as Jean smiled, she had no idea why the red head seemed so happy. Sure, she was ready to kick some mutie haters butt.she might even enjoy it a little bit.but not to the extreme that Jean seemed to be at. One thing was for sure, she was glad that Jean was on her side. She then turned to watch Evan.awaiting the signal.
Wanda edged over to her father, "Daddy." was all she said, but that one little word said so much. She was nervous, afraid even, but most of all she was worried about her father.
Cannonball shifted nervously, accidentally bumping into Jamie.he watched as both of the Jamies got an eerie smile on their face. One pulled a lighter out of his pocket while the other stepped on Sam's foot laughing. Sam grunted he desperately wanted to kick the little bugger back but decided against it.
Evan glanced at Kurt, and then turned to the back lines that were temporarily up front. He nodded to Mystique, Logan, and Pietro, telling them to peel off. They were to go three at a time and wait for the others before they struck. Mystique grinned oddly and literally tiptoed to the edge of the pub and waited for the others.
Pietro quickly followed, he was as nervous about the fight as everyone else was. He was thankful though to be among a smaller group in the back, there was less girls in that one, but why Evan had picked him to be the only boy in the sneaking trio was beyond him. It seemed a little cruel; then again Evan had never seemed to like him that much.
Logan crawled over to where Pietro and Mystique were. She stood straight up as she released her claws. Logan then let out a fierce but soft meow; she was no longer Logan but Tiger!
Evan nodded to Berzerker, Toad, and Rahne next. Toad bowed suavely and strode to join the other three, Berzerker on his heels. "Howdiddilyey hi!" he whispered trying to make a light conversation. Rahne joined them soon, "Ri." She said then morphed into wolf mode, she was eager to get the battle over with. Rahne never really liked fighting and was only doing this because Jamie had offered her a Wolfsbane Treat.
Evan then turned to Blob and Colossus, they nodded and walked over to the group as well. Blob flexed his muscles, "Dude.if I flex it like this and flick it real fast it ripples.cool man!" Colossus however had a sinister smile on his face as he said darkly, "Ey'm gozing to prezend each ohf zem are Illyana." his smile widened. "Noh more zoe zis Piotr! Zhe'll die a hunzred ways.anze each time vill be better zan ze last." he added giving a low chuckle.
"Peace man! I can tell we have serious family issues here dude," Fred commented as he glanced concernedly at Piotr.
Colossus didn't even bother to reply, he was now in a fantasy world where Illyana never existed. Pietro sighed "and-I-thought-I-had-those-kinds-of- problems.Dad-thinking-I'm-gay-and-all." he said quickly.
Todd gave Pietro an odd look, "You're not?"
Fred frowned, "Come on dudes let's go sneak up on those dufuses!"
***
Gambit lit up a card as the last of the lines piled in. As one soldier wielding a gun passed him he threw it with deadly accuracy at him, just as a red streak of light blasted through a line. Not far off he saw twin fireballs rocket into two soldiers.
Marie concentrated hard as she threw her first fireball at the solider closest to the front line. She watched as it hit him in the torso and then quickly turned away, she didn't like the fact that she was killing people. She lit another fireball and made it grow again.she was so focused on the it that she didn't notice the human who was aiming his own weapon at her.
Gambit lit his next card and was aiming it just as he saw his target aim for. "Marie!" he shouted as he tossed the card out the window and dove for her, knocking her down as he heard the bang of a gun and a bullet crash into the wall behind them.
When Marie fell she accidentally dropped the fireball outside, hitting the person who had been aiming for her right after he pulled the trigger. She looked at Gambit, "Yah lak saved mah life!" she stated in a dazed voice.
Gambit grinned goofily as he rolled off of her and hopped back up, but lost his footing on the uneven floor, falling back against a wall. Righting himself he glanced back at Marie, "Tink notin' o' it," he said, distracted slightly as he charged another card.
***
Orus raised his hands to the sky, lightning crackled from it and met his out stretched palms, then slammed into a group of soldiers. Tabitha rubbed her hands together, "Father, forgive me" she murmured as she tossed a slew of cherry bombs down into the army. Jubilee sent down a spray of fireworks down at one guy who had been aiming at Iceman.
Iceman created several ice balls and threw them down on the army. He smiled with slight relief as two more guns became silent. He still had a splitting headache and all the gunshots weren't helping. Just then St. John Allerdyce woke up; he stood straight and looked out the window that Bobby had finished throwing ice out of. Bodies fell as he watched, results of Remy's charged cards. He flinched, the cards bursted into flames before they hit someone. John didn't like fire, but h would force himself to stand this little bit. if anymore came he was sure he'd lose control though. As if to make him do just that Marie chose now to toss a massive fireball at a person close to Pyro's spot in the building. John got sweaty and fought to keep control.it was just a bit of fire.nothing to worry about! Marie threw another fireball, and something inside Pyro snapped, his eyes grew wide and he began screaming.
***
Evan sent several spikes hurtling towards the nearest group of approaching soldiers. He'd never killed anyone before.the thought of what he was doing sickened him. Creed had already fallen, giving himself up as a martyr for his own cause of peace. The soldiers that had shot him dozens of times before Kurt had a chance to teleport his corpse out, avoiding the bullets with Shadow's help. Now Magneto raised his hands and commanded the metal poles, cares, manhole covers, and trashcans flew towards them, ramming against the soldiers clutching their plastic guns. Wanda stood next to her father as she threw hex bolts at the army. She made sure to only hit the aliens, her way of standing up for her father's cause.
Jean laughed as she threw a mental bolt at the nearest human. The person immediately became paralyzed. She then used her telekinetic ability to take 5 of the attackers guns away from them.making one go to Shadow, another to Kurt, and one for herself. She left the other two for any mutant who wanted them. She turned back to the army, "Not so brave now are ya bubs?" She shouted as the people she had taken the guns from looked at her terrified. Jean smirked and pulled the trigger.
***
Blob grinned as the bullets bounced off of him. Some of the soldiers kept on shooting, others screamed and joined the frontlines in order to escape him. Fred picked up one and tossed him into the wall, the man didn't' get up. Mystique had morphed into a soldier and was spreading rumors throughout the enemy force about millions of mutants reinforcements surrounding them, and occasionally shooting a few with a gun she had acquired. Toad leapt from side to side, avoiding gunfire, "ey! Don muss tha suit!" he roared as he flicked his tongue towards a soldier that had been shooting at him. The man fell back and Toad's tongue grabbed the gun as it flicked back, dropping the gun into the trigger happy frog's hands. "Wicked tongue man!" Fred grunted to Toad as he hefted up two more soldiers into a wall to join the growing pile at that particular spot.
Colossus was in his armor form, and was picking people up, strangling them, then throwing them into the pile. The bullets bouncing off him as they did Blob. He grinned as he picked up a man, seeing Illyana and not the real person, "Ey'd stop vigglin avround if ey vas vou.onvy vaking it harder von vourshelf." He tightened his grip and waited for the body to fall limp. When it finally did he whispered, "Vye Vye Illyana." before he threw the man into the pile.
Logan slashed several people with her claws. She roared like the animal she was named after as a bullet pierced her arm, but that didn't stop Tiger, she knew she would heal unlike the humans she was cutting to pieces. Rahne was right behind Tiger, she bit an alien's arm, snarling like the wolf she was. She was so intent on killing that one person that she didn't even notice the person aiming at her with his gun until.BANG! Rahne collapsed, shot in the back. She went back to her human form and manage to faintly say "relp" before all went black.
Berzerker ran to Rahne, "Hey Wolfy youidilay hiddily okay?" he said, "Rahne?" he added after not getting a response. He checked her pulse, "She's dead." He stood up, his fist crackling with electricity as he punched the person closest to him. HE had never hurt anyone before, but desperate times called for desperate measures, and at the moment he was glad to be hurting the people who had killed his friend.
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"Brother John! Watch out!" Tabitha cried over his screaming as she tossed a cherry bomb at the man below, she heard a resounding bang.but not from her cherry bomb.
John opened his mouth to scream again but only succeeded in coughing.up blood. He looked down, a bullet through his stomach. He fell, still coughing up blood and managed to spit out "oh my, I think I'm shot." through coughs. His eyes rolled above and he gave one last cough.
Jubilee dropped a firework and screamed as she saw Pyro fall, "Johnny!" she cried as she rushed towards him, "Johnny! Nononono! Don't die! NO!"
Iceman turned around and looked at John, who appeared to be very dead. "Stop that shoutin woman! He's dead! Oh my head!" he yelled at Jubilee angrily. All Bobby wanted to do was finish this battle and get some booze.
Jubilee sniffed and glared at Bobby as she buried her head in her hands. Tabitha put a hand on her shoulder, "He's gone to a better place my sister," she told her softly. Jubilee sniffed again and straightened. Anger blazed in her eyes, "I'll kill them all!" she roared as fireworks exploded from her hands spraying down towards the army.