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Chapter 2 Recovery, Mystery, and Discovery
Later Bishop found himself in a hospitable bed, when the doctor came by he told him that he had been asleep a few days, it was then that Hectate came to him and the conversation began.
"Hello Lucas." Hectate said to him as she took a chair next to him.
"You know I hate being called by my first name." Bishop replied as she mentioned his first name that was Lucas.
"I want to know what happened at the prison, will you tell me?" Hectate asked as she put and extra pillow behind Bishop.
"Not much to tell, except my failure as a leader got my entire team killed, including my sister." Bishop answered.
Hectate slapped him across the face and then she yelled at him, "I will not have you blaming yourself for their deaths, now tell me what happened!"
"Okay, here's how it happened."Bishop began as he still was in the hospital bed.
Hectate sat there for a few minutes and then asked him, "Lucas, listen to me, you know how I was in the Summer's rebellion, right?"
He shook his head, of course he had heard of the Summer's rebellion, it was the battle that changed everything, for the better that was.
"I can't tell you how many times that I lost people I cared about in that battle, but you have just have to learn to move on." She told him.
Lucas just sat there and didn't respond, this prompted Hectate to tell him that he could have a little while to recover, but he was still needed at the X.S.E.
After a couple weeks, Lucas did go back to the X.S.E., but this time he became a shoot first and ask question later cop. This made him soar in the rankings, although he was offered several better jobs, he never accepted them, because he had to wait, he had to wait for Trevor, and when they met again, it would be his last.
"Another boring day." Lucas said as he came into his apartment and grabbed a beer from the refrigerator, and sat down on the couch, but every time he did, he lifted his beer and did a toast in front of a picture of Shard, Randal, Malcolm, and himself at the beach. He had been doing the same everyday, but then someone started to knock at his door.
Lucas picked up his gun and went to answer the door, and he asked, "Who is it?"
At the door stood a young woman, and she answered, "Opportunity"
"You didn't answer my question." Bishop replied cocking his gun behind his back.
"One word.Fitz Roy." The young woman said with a smile.
"Either you're toying with me, or your going to lead me to him right now!" Bishop followed with putting the gun to her head.
The woman chuckled and pulled out a card from her fingers, it was the ace of spades, then the woman told him, "If you want Trevor I suggest you see my mentor."
"And who is he?" Bishop asked as he kept looking at the card in his hand.
"No one.." The woman answered.
Bishop now annoyed then asked again, "Then how do I come in contact with him?"
"When ever he feels like seeing you." The woman answered again.
"I don't understand?" Bishop asked confused.
"You will in due time.but you haven't learned enough yet" The woman said before she reached into her pocket and through a flash grenade to the ground, blinding Bishop for a short time, allowing the young woman time to escape.
When Bishop regained his sight and found the woman gone he chose not to report it considering that who ever that woman's mentor was knew something about Trevor, and he couldn't take a chance.
A few weeks later.
"Ah man I can't get rid of him!" A man screamed as he fired his gun into a dark hallway.
"Stop wasting ammo you idiot! Laser guns don't affect him! Just keep running and maybe we'll get rid of him!" Another man said as they continued to run down a dark hallway.
These men were trying to escape the X.S.E., they made a good run but not even they could escape the man chasing them. As they kept running, one of the men slipped and fell other something.
"Man, what'd you trip on?" One man asked the other.
"I don't know it's some kind of box?" The man question in return.
Upon a little brushing away they found it was a door with some sort of tunnel that went down for a long time, then they heard someone running down the hallway, either they stand and fight against the person after them, or the face the unknown below.
"Hurry up and close the door!" One of the men yelled at the other as they both descended down the ladder to the unknown.
Bishop kept running with his right hand glowing from all the energy that he absorbed, he was on the trail of these 2 perps and to him the day was not at an end until some law breakers were where they belonged. As he kept running he too tripped over something.
As Bishop looked closer and opened the door he heard screaming down below, he wanted those men in prison not in graves, so he sighed and jumped down there too.
Upon landing he found himself in a large metal room, one with what appeared to be a control center in the middle. He started looking around and saw no men in sight, then out of the shadows it came.
"What the hell!" Bishop screamed as he looked at a towering mechanical monster that stood over a story tall, it was covered in more weapons then anyone could possibly imagine, it also looked familiar in a way.
".Buzz.mutant gene verified.buzz.scanning.no record of mutant in databanks. defense command initiated. prepare for elimination." the mechanical monster spoke.
"It's a sentinel!" Bishop screamed as he started to walk backwards only to fall over the 2 men that he had been chasing, to find that they were dead.
"Buzz.prime directive will not be compromised.buzz.unit 2039A must eliminate threat.to carry on prime directive."The sentinel roared.
"This is bad!" Bishop thought to himself, he had took on sentinels before but this one was ancient, it didn't have any of the advancements of the current sentinels that outfitted them with laser assault weapons, it had mainly projectile, which made this out dated model all the more deadly.
The sentinel opened fire on him, Bishop dodged easily enough, but this thing was just getting warmed up, it continued to fire upon him a hail of bullets, Bishop continued to dodge as well as picking up the guns of the men that the sentinel killed.
".Threat is larger then unit has realized.initiating emergency protocols.the prime directive must be protected at all costs," the sentinel roared as it stood still for a few moments.
Bishop was stunned, this unit was programmed differently then all the others he had faced, this one was following a different program, what was this prime directive it kept talking about?
".Emergency protocols activated.Danger Room Death Sequence initiated." the sentinel roared once again.
"Did he just say "Danger Room"? Could this be?" Bishop was asking himself as the room became filled with lights and things had started to come out of the walls.
"What is this place?" Bishop thought to himself once again, with all these traps and contraptions that were coming at him, it seemed that he would not last very long, now that the sentinel was breathing down his neck again.
"Threat must be eliminated.must carry on prime directive.will not fail mission given to 2039A.prime directive must be protected at all costs." The sentinel roared once again bringing once again a hail of bullets at Bishop.
"Can't keep this up for long.Only got one grenade.worthless to use it on the sentinel, I can always finish it off with my energy once it runs out of bullets.Okay, think for a moment, this room is being controlled from somewhere, if I take out the control room, then the room will become inactive.Now if this place is what I think it is, the it can only be one place." Bishop said to himself as he looked again at the room that was in the very center of this room, only had one grenade, so only one chance, with all the strength that he could muster, he threw that one grenade to the room that was in the center of the top wall.
In an ear-shattering boom, the entire room exploded, and the room became frozen and quiet. Bishop looked around and saw that all the machines that were attacking him had stopped but was still in place.
"Danger Room Death Sequence disabled.Unit 2093A will carry on elimination of threat by self. Initiating primary weapon.primary weapon charged and prepared to commit counter measures." The sentinel commanded as the globe in the middle of its chest glowed and began to let out beams of light.
Bishop smiled and got in full range of the attack of it's lasers, eventually Bishop felt that he had enough, and he let loose all of the energy that he had been holding.
".Buzz.buzz.unit 20039A.critically damaged.prime directive.has been failed."the sentinel said as it laid in pieces of it's once beauty.
"What was your prime directive sentinel?" Bishop asked now knowing that the sentinel was disabled from attacking.
".Why does threat wish to know prime directive.?." the sentinel actually asked.
"Where is this place, is this the Danger Room of the original X-Men?" Bishop asked in return.
".Affirmative. the ruins we now lay in was the training room for the X-Men under.Charles Xavier." The sentinel answered.
"I don't believe it.I'm actually standing on hollowed ground as if." Bishop said as he dropped to his knees stunned.
"Unit 2039A wishes to know threats name?.will threat comply to 2039A wishes?." The Sentinel asked again.
"Sure, the names Lucas Bishop, but people just call me Bishop for short, I'm a member of the X.S.E." Bishop answered.
".Please define affiliation X.S.E.?" The sentinel asked once again.
"It's short for Xaviers Security Enforcers, but you still haven't told me what your prime directive was." Bishop answered and asked.
"Unit's database did not apply the X.S.E., this unit is programmed to comply with any mutant affiliated to Charles Xavier." The Sentinel said but did not answer.
"What? You worked for the X-Men, but how?" Bishop asked.
"Designate Forge reprogrammed me to help the X-Men in every way that was possible." The Unit replied.
"Forge." Bishop said to himself at the very sound of his name. It was a well known fact that the mutant known as Forge had founded the X.S.E., he had also provided the weapons needed to win during the Summers Rebellion, the only way he kept himself that alive that long was by sacrificing all of his humanity to make himself a cyborg that would keep him alive. From what tales that he has heard of him, he hasn't been seen since the Summer's Rebellion, people still think he's alive.
"Unit thanks designate Bishop for being with it during it's last few moments of existence." The unit said as Bishop could easily see that it's power was going out.
"Wait, you still haven't told me what it was you were trying to protect, tell me please?" Bishop pleaded as he got up on his feet.
"Unit feels that it can trust designate Bishop, Unit was programmed to protect these grounds forever or until it was destroyed or an X-Man returned to take it's place.I have been keeping alive and it is time that I too join my place with the X-Men.With last bit of strength unit will show you all things that are left of this hallowed ground." The unit said as all the power came on and doors opened to hallways unknown.
"Thank you 2039A, I'm sorry I destroyed you though, is there anything I can do?" Bishop asked.
"Yes.when this units energy does die out.behind my left eye is my C.P.U. I would like you.to remove it and if you follow along a path you will find a grave yard where a memorial to the X-Men lies.for years I have watched over this place and have actually "dreamed" of finally being able to rest there.please place me with the people that I have chosen to serve for all these years." the unit asked.
Bishop stood there and thought for a second, these sentinels ruled his child hood while he was in the camps that the sentinels built for the mutants as well as humans, sentinels had place a "M" tattoo over his right eye as a badge of eternal shame, but this one was different, it had protected these sacred grounds for over 200 years, despite his hatred of sentinels he shook his head yes.
When the power of the sentinel did die out, he took out the c.p.u and handled it carefully as he began to explore the maze that is now the most sacred of ground to an X.S.E. officer, damn he wished Randall, Malcolm, and Shard were here to see it with him.
Next up in chapter 3 The last transmission.
Chapter 2 Recovery, Mystery, and Discovery
Later Bishop found himself in a hospitable bed, when the doctor came by he told him that he had been asleep a few days, it was then that Hectate came to him and the conversation began.
"Hello Lucas." Hectate said to him as she took a chair next to him.
"You know I hate being called by my first name." Bishop replied as she mentioned his first name that was Lucas.
"I want to know what happened at the prison, will you tell me?" Hectate asked as she put and extra pillow behind Bishop.
"Not much to tell, except my failure as a leader got my entire team killed, including my sister." Bishop answered.
Hectate slapped him across the face and then she yelled at him, "I will not have you blaming yourself for their deaths, now tell me what happened!"
"Okay, here's how it happened."Bishop began as he still was in the hospital bed.
Hectate sat there for a few minutes and then asked him, "Lucas, listen to me, you know how I was in the Summer's rebellion, right?"
He shook his head, of course he had heard of the Summer's rebellion, it was the battle that changed everything, for the better that was.
"I can't tell you how many times that I lost people I cared about in that battle, but you have just have to learn to move on." She told him.
Lucas just sat there and didn't respond, this prompted Hectate to tell him that he could have a little while to recover, but he was still needed at the X.S.E.
After a couple weeks, Lucas did go back to the X.S.E., but this time he became a shoot first and ask question later cop. This made him soar in the rankings, although he was offered several better jobs, he never accepted them, because he had to wait, he had to wait for Trevor, and when they met again, it would be his last.
"Another boring day." Lucas said as he came into his apartment and grabbed a beer from the refrigerator, and sat down on the couch, but every time he did, he lifted his beer and did a toast in front of a picture of Shard, Randal, Malcolm, and himself at the beach. He had been doing the same everyday, but then someone started to knock at his door.
Lucas picked up his gun and went to answer the door, and he asked, "Who is it?"
At the door stood a young woman, and she answered, "Opportunity"
"You didn't answer my question." Bishop replied cocking his gun behind his back.
"One word.Fitz Roy." The young woman said with a smile.
"Either you're toying with me, or your going to lead me to him right now!" Bishop followed with putting the gun to her head.
The woman chuckled and pulled out a card from her fingers, it was the ace of spades, then the woman told him, "If you want Trevor I suggest you see my mentor."
"And who is he?" Bishop asked as he kept looking at the card in his hand.
"No one.." The woman answered.
Bishop now annoyed then asked again, "Then how do I come in contact with him?"
"When ever he feels like seeing you." The woman answered again.
"I don't understand?" Bishop asked confused.
"You will in due time.but you haven't learned enough yet" The woman said before she reached into her pocket and through a flash grenade to the ground, blinding Bishop for a short time, allowing the young woman time to escape.
When Bishop regained his sight and found the woman gone he chose not to report it considering that who ever that woman's mentor was knew something about Trevor, and he couldn't take a chance.
A few weeks later.
"Ah man I can't get rid of him!" A man screamed as he fired his gun into a dark hallway.
"Stop wasting ammo you idiot! Laser guns don't affect him! Just keep running and maybe we'll get rid of him!" Another man said as they continued to run down a dark hallway.
These men were trying to escape the X.S.E., they made a good run but not even they could escape the man chasing them. As they kept running, one of the men slipped and fell other something.
"Man, what'd you trip on?" One man asked the other.
"I don't know it's some kind of box?" The man question in return.
Upon a little brushing away they found it was a door with some sort of tunnel that went down for a long time, then they heard someone running down the hallway, either they stand and fight against the person after them, or the face the unknown below.
"Hurry up and close the door!" One of the men yelled at the other as they both descended down the ladder to the unknown.
Bishop kept running with his right hand glowing from all the energy that he absorbed, he was on the trail of these 2 perps and to him the day was not at an end until some law breakers were where they belonged. As he kept running he too tripped over something.
As Bishop looked closer and opened the door he heard screaming down below, he wanted those men in prison not in graves, so he sighed and jumped down there too.
Upon landing he found himself in a large metal room, one with what appeared to be a control center in the middle. He started looking around and saw no men in sight, then out of the shadows it came.
"What the hell!" Bishop screamed as he looked at a towering mechanical monster that stood over a story tall, it was covered in more weapons then anyone could possibly imagine, it also looked familiar in a way.
".Buzz.mutant gene verified.buzz.scanning.no record of mutant in databanks. defense command initiated. prepare for elimination." the mechanical monster spoke.
"It's a sentinel!" Bishop screamed as he started to walk backwards only to fall over the 2 men that he had been chasing, to find that they were dead.
"Buzz.prime directive will not be compromised.buzz.unit 2039A must eliminate threat.to carry on prime directive."The sentinel roared.
"This is bad!" Bishop thought to himself, he had took on sentinels before but this one was ancient, it didn't have any of the advancements of the current sentinels that outfitted them with laser assault weapons, it had mainly projectile, which made this out dated model all the more deadly.
The sentinel opened fire on him, Bishop dodged easily enough, but this thing was just getting warmed up, it continued to fire upon him a hail of bullets, Bishop continued to dodge as well as picking up the guns of the men that the sentinel killed.
".Threat is larger then unit has realized.initiating emergency protocols.the prime directive must be protected at all costs," the sentinel roared as it stood still for a few moments.
Bishop was stunned, this unit was programmed differently then all the others he had faced, this one was following a different program, what was this prime directive it kept talking about?
".Emergency protocols activated.Danger Room Death Sequence initiated." the sentinel roared once again.
"Did he just say "Danger Room"? Could this be?" Bishop was asking himself as the room became filled with lights and things had started to come out of the walls.
"What is this place?" Bishop thought to himself once again, with all these traps and contraptions that were coming at him, it seemed that he would not last very long, now that the sentinel was breathing down his neck again.
"Threat must be eliminated.must carry on prime directive.will not fail mission given to 2039A.prime directive must be protected at all costs." The sentinel roared once again bringing once again a hail of bullets at Bishop.
"Can't keep this up for long.Only got one grenade.worthless to use it on the sentinel, I can always finish it off with my energy once it runs out of bullets.Okay, think for a moment, this room is being controlled from somewhere, if I take out the control room, then the room will become inactive.Now if this place is what I think it is, the it can only be one place." Bishop said to himself as he looked again at the room that was in the very center of this room, only had one grenade, so only one chance, with all the strength that he could muster, he threw that one grenade to the room that was in the center of the top wall.
In an ear-shattering boom, the entire room exploded, and the room became frozen and quiet. Bishop looked around and saw that all the machines that were attacking him had stopped but was still in place.
"Danger Room Death Sequence disabled.Unit 2093A will carry on elimination of threat by self. Initiating primary weapon.primary weapon charged and prepared to commit counter measures." The sentinel commanded as the globe in the middle of its chest glowed and began to let out beams of light.
Bishop smiled and got in full range of the attack of it's lasers, eventually Bishop felt that he had enough, and he let loose all of the energy that he had been holding.
".Buzz.buzz.unit 20039A.critically damaged.prime directive.has been failed."the sentinel said as it laid in pieces of it's once beauty.
"What was your prime directive sentinel?" Bishop asked now knowing that the sentinel was disabled from attacking.
".Why does threat wish to know prime directive.?." the sentinel actually asked.
"Where is this place, is this the Danger Room of the original X-Men?" Bishop asked in return.
".Affirmative. the ruins we now lay in was the training room for the X-Men under.Charles Xavier." The sentinel answered.
"I don't believe it.I'm actually standing on hollowed ground as if." Bishop said as he dropped to his knees stunned.
"Unit 2039A wishes to know threats name?.will threat comply to 2039A wishes?." The Sentinel asked again.
"Sure, the names Lucas Bishop, but people just call me Bishop for short, I'm a member of the X.S.E." Bishop answered.
".Please define affiliation X.S.E.?" The sentinel asked once again.
"It's short for Xaviers Security Enforcers, but you still haven't told me what your prime directive was." Bishop answered and asked.
"Unit's database did not apply the X.S.E., this unit is programmed to comply with any mutant affiliated to Charles Xavier." The Sentinel said but did not answer.
"What? You worked for the X-Men, but how?" Bishop asked.
"Designate Forge reprogrammed me to help the X-Men in every way that was possible." The Unit replied.
"Forge." Bishop said to himself at the very sound of his name. It was a well known fact that the mutant known as Forge had founded the X.S.E., he had also provided the weapons needed to win during the Summers Rebellion, the only way he kept himself that alive that long was by sacrificing all of his humanity to make himself a cyborg that would keep him alive. From what tales that he has heard of him, he hasn't been seen since the Summer's Rebellion, people still think he's alive.
"Unit thanks designate Bishop for being with it during it's last few moments of existence." The unit said as Bishop could easily see that it's power was going out.
"Wait, you still haven't told me what it was you were trying to protect, tell me please?" Bishop pleaded as he got up on his feet.
"Unit feels that it can trust designate Bishop, Unit was programmed to protect these grounds forever or until it was destroyed or an X-Man returned to take it's place.I have been keeping alive and it is time that I too join my place with the X-Men.With last bit of strength unit will show you all things that are left of this hallowed ground." The unit said as all the power came on and doors opened to hallways unknown.
"Thank you 2039A, I'm sorry I destroyed you though, is there anything I can do?" Bishop asked.
"Yes.when this units energy does die out.behind my left eye is my C.P.U. I would like you.to remove it and if you follow along a path you will find a grave yard where a memorial to the X-Men lies.for years I have watched over this place and have actually "dreamed" of finally being able to rest there.please place me with the people that I have chosen to serve for all these years." the unit asked.
Bishop stood there and thought for a second, these sentinels ruled his child hood while he was in the camps that the sentinels built for the mutants as well as humans, sentinels had place a "M" tattoo over his right eye as a badge of eternal shame, but this one was different, it had protected these sacred grounds for over 200 years, despite his hatred of sentinels he shook his head yes.
When the power of the sentinel did die out, he took out the c.p.u and handled it carefully as he began to explore the maze that is now the most sacred of ground to an X.S.E. officer, damn he wished Randall, Malcolm, and Shard were here to see it with him.
Next up in chapter 3 The last transmission.