Foreword: I do not own X-Men Evolution or any other characters of Marvel
Entertainment. I have no rights whatsoever, I am not getting paid for this,
so please, don't sue me!
Foreword: I do not own X-Men Evolution or any other characters of Marvel Entertainment. I have no rights whatsoever, I am not getting paid for this, so please, don't sue me!
Chapter 3 The Last message.
The mere smell would have brought a man to his knees, but to Bishop this still has hallowed ground, and he had to learn as much as he can about the last days of the X-Men.
Following corridor after corridor he found empty rooms with nothing in them, but when he came to a particular passage he found rooms with beds and posters of things of the past, but most of everything else had been eaten by rats. Depressed he decided to look into one last room; it was in here that he found his treasure.
"I don't believe it." Bishop said to himself in disbelief. In his hands he held a picture frame, and in it a picture of all the original X-Men, it had Professor X, Night Crawler, Shadow Cat, Wolverine, Storm, Spyke, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, and Rouge. The photo seemed to have been taken at a beach, they all had smiles on their faces, if only they knew the horrible fate that awaited them all for following their dream.
It was true that everyone on the face of the earth had heard of the X-Men, they were the ones that inspired to keep on fighting, it was them that were in the minds of every soldier that had thought during the Summers Rebellion. The only thing was no one knew what happened to them, most were killed in combat, but not all of them were accounted for.
While sitting on the bed it broke, and Bishop fell to the floor, but he had landed on something other then the floor, after getting up and reaching down he found a small book. To Bishops delight it was a diary, after blowing off the dust he found that it was Rouges Diary, he had heard a lot about Rouge, on how she was the Goth and Untouchable one of the group due to her powers, the diary had a small lock on it, but Bishop broke it pretty easily because of how old it was. He started flipping through the first couple pages, until he found something very interesting.
".I had that stupid dream last night, I mean it doesn't make any sense at all. It's about that one guy I met before we had to fight that big robot thing; it was that one guy with the cards that blew up in your face. Why do I find it hard to take my mind off of him, why am I falling for him? He's one of Magnetos men after all."
This brought a cold look of anger to his face, all that had happened to him and his sister, not to mention the entire world was his fault to him. If Magneto hadn't set up that fight between the X-Men and that Sentinel, then the humans wouldn't have become so petrified of mutants, and then the humans wouldn't have pushed the sentinels production so far that there were so many sentinels not even he could contend with. Yes the sentinels put him in a concentration camp and they were systematically terminated just for being who they were. The humans didn't seem to mind at all at first, but when the sentinels started putting more and more mutants into the camp, they started to realize that us mutants truly were the next stage of humanity and that by just killing the few at first they were truly dooming all of humanity. When they tried to correct this mistake it was too late, the sentinels grew too smart even for them, and they were put in the concentration camps too, where if the sentinels didn't kill them first, the mutants did. Bishop brings a slight smile to his face, considering that in the end Magneto brought to pass everything that he hoped to prevent.
Bishop flipped through even more pages, most of them concerning Magnetos acolyte Gambit. But then he reached the final page in Rouges Diary and it read.
".Hard to believe all of this is happening to us at once. It's not turning out as Professor X had planned, and I can tell it's beginning to take a toll on him, I'm getting worried about him. Well I hate to wrap this up but we got to take out another sentinel processing plant tonight, so I better get going. I wonder if I'll ever work up the courage to tell my team that I'm seeing Gambit during the off time, I don't see why they would be angry, Hell, The Brotherhood, The X-Men, The Acolytes, names don't matter anymore, only survival."
This last entry brought a few tears to his eyes. This must have proved that by the date she was the first X-Man to die. Bishop took the diary and put it in a bag next to the photo. As he went out the room and began to shut the door he whispered, "Rest easy.Rest easy."
After finding a few more items such as a pair of Cyclops ruby red visors, one of Spykes skateboard that were not eaten by termites, a odd pyramid shaped hat, an old lab coat with a name Hank McCoy on it, a rusty old image inducer that made him look like a regular kid with black hair. Following another corridor he walked into a room That seemed to be sealed off for sometime, even the air was exquisitely putrid, after coughing for a few moments he ran into something, falling on his but he opened his eyes and say that he had ran into a vintage Harley Davidson Motorcycle! These things were only rumors in his day, but this one had been perfectly preserved, it was clearly Wolverines considering how much he loved his motorcycles, after taking in the absolute brilliance of the motorcycle, he moved on and found the graveyard of the X-Men, there were statues everywhere, of all the X- Men, some he could easily tell where made by the sentinel, after finding a nice place he dug a hole with his hands and put to rest the C.P.U., he then located a large stone that he had to use some difficulty to move, when he got it to the hole that he had dug, he took out his gun, set it on the lowest level and he carved into it.
"Here lies sentinel unit 2039A, who for untold decades defended these holy grounds with his own existence, may he always be remembered for what he did for the X-Men, and not what he did to us."
After saying a few silent words over the grave of the C.P.U, he chose to explore the rest of the facility. He went in and out of rooms and found nothing truly interesting or of any use, but then he came to a sealed off room. It was heavily locked and shut, but as they say "The harder the door, the greater treasure behind it", after having to drain the guns dry of their energy he was able to blast the doors wide open to reveal a large room with a platform that ran to the center, there was also nothing truly inside but a console at the end of the platform, on the platform appeared to be a computer and a helmet that ran all the way from the ceiling to the console, it was not until he got to a closer view of the console that he did see that it was cerebro! The device the Professor X created to find mutants all other the world. With this Bishop studied it closely, it appeared untouched by time, and that meant that it still might be workable for the X.S.E. to use, in fact this hallowed ground could become the new X.S.E. head quarters!
Bishop now astounded with his discovery could not resist putting on the almost crown of the X-Men, as he drew closer his breaths became shorter and harder, when he reached for the helmet his hands began to shake with adrenaline. Slowly Bishop began to place the helmet on his head, he was filled with a joy unimaginable, and he of all people would know what felt like to have such an unknown honor. As he placed it on his head something happened.
Bishop began to scream as the computer on the console sprang to life and began displaying items, the only things he saw one the console screen were.
".Cerebro emergency system initiated.File download commencing in.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.File download system prepped.subject prepare for file download."
Bishop continued to scream as image after image was pouring through his mind, these images were the complete history of the X-Men, the system began to slow down and he was able to catch these sayings.
Cerebro File 493
".The professor has become more withdrawn, Scott has had to take up the entire responsibility of leading the X-Men. I don't know why he's doing this, we have been training for this are whole lives. I know I'll never be the tele path that Professor X is but I have to keep trying, mutants are being rounded up and herded to camps and we have to do whatever we can to stop this at all costs."
Cerebro File 506
".With the sudden death of Rouge, us X-Men now know that are forces are dwindling, and our dream is fading. Wolverine has run off to find the Acolyte Gambit, after finding that his scent was on her at the time that we found her body. I don't know why he doesn't see that we need to stay together, the Brotherhood has even joined are cause, I just hope we'll be able to deal with are former enemies as are new allies."
Cerebro File 539
".One more from are team is taken away from us, Kurt Wagner. I know what he did was noble, but I guess that no matter how we look at it, what he did is foolish. To think that he would actually go after an entire manufacturing plant on his own just to avenge Amanda's death after she was killed just for holding the X-Factor Gene. I wish I knew what he was thinking when he took that bomb that he had built on his own and took out the Sentinel central command at the manufacturing plant, just to make his peace. We will miss you Kurt."
Cerebro File 581
".The killing has begun. Mutants and carriers of the X-Gene are being killed at every hour at unknown rates. We want to do more but there are just to many, we have chosen to go underground with the Morlocks and increase our numbers in hope that one day we will be able to strike down all the Sentinels so we may have our freedom once again.
Cerebo File 629
".I hear it and I still can can't believe it. Magneto actually joined us in the sewers; he has chosen to lead us although Scott still opposes it with all his might. I also know he would oppose me sneaking here every once and a while to make these messages. What he doesn't understand is that some one has to leave a record of our days because the professor has become so withdrawn that not even he speaks anymore, let alone eat."
Cerebro File 666
".It's happened! The Sentinels have found us and they are hunting us all down in the sewers even. They've already place all the humans in the same camps as the mutants, I was fortunate to escape and make this last file before I get caught or I turn myself in. I just have to be with my husband Scott and my daughter Rachel. I just wish.wait somethings going on..you..you were the one that led them to us..you betrayed us all!..You may think the dream is dead but it will carry on forever.The dream will never die.buzz.the,,,dr..dream.will..nev.never..die.."
End of Files
"Thank you." A voice said in the deep recesses of his mind.
"Who's there?" Bishop asked as he found himself lost in his own mind.
"Thank you for releasing me." The voice answered.
"Who are you?" Bishop yelled.
A flaming bird of flames appeared and answered, "I was trapped in Cerebro until you accessed the Files.Thank you.now I can go on..thank you."
"Wait, who was it who betrayed you? Who betrayed the X-Men?"
"One of the X-Men themselves" The bird of flames answered.
"Which one?" Bishop asked.
"I'm sorry, but that's all I can tell you, I have to go now." The flaming bird answered as she disappeared in a beam of light.
"Who?!?" Bishop kept yelling in his dream.
"Bishop? Bishop! Come on wake up!" Hectate yelled as she slapped Bishop in the face again.
"Hectate.?" Bishop asked as he slowly opened his eyes.
Hectate smiled and told him, "Now I don't know whether to promote you or slap you around some more? Bishop, you've have got to stop pulling this lone ranger act on us."
Bishop grinned as he opened his eyes and found himself in an ambulance parked outside the ruins of the Xavier Institute. Bishop then asked what was going on.
"Well dummy, do you know what a development this is! Your looking at hallowed ground, you're looking at the future X.S.E. base site! And it's all thanks to you" Hecate answered giving Bishop a hug.
Bishops smile faded and he began speaking, "I saw it Hectate."
"Saw what" She asked now becoming concerned.
"Everything.the history of the X-Men, even their last days, all in the voice of Jean Grey.it was horrible." Bishop answered as he put his hands in his face.
"Yes, but you cant forget that it was them that inspired us to victory. Now what do you mean you saw the last days of the X-Men." Hectate asked curiously.
".Cerebro.It showed me all its remaining files." Bishop answered with his hands still on his face.
Hectate looked at him questionably and an asked, "What files?"
Bishop looked at her stunned and screamed, "There all right down there in Cerebro! I saw them myself! What do you mean there's now files?"
"We checked it, all of them are erased now, even if there were any left after all these years." Hectate said comforting.
Bishop closed his eyes and went back to sleep, tired and angry that not even Hectate believed him about the files.
Somewhere far away.
"It's time.He's ready..He knows the truth." A dry, musky, old voice said in the shadows.
"Are you sure? I'm sure there are more qualified people then him, my lord?" A quivering voice asked.
"No.I've been keeping my eye on this Bishop for a long time.I know he's just the right man for the job." The old voice answered.
"But he's reckless, rude, and does not have a lot of patience! I tell you we must get someone else!" The young voice shouted.
"He's perfect.And my say is final!" The old voice yelled.
"Very well, I'll have Mr. Bishop picked up immediately." The young voice answered as it walked away.
"It's time.It's finally time.It is time for my atonement." The old voice cracked as it sat down in a throne.
Next up in Chapter 4 The Chance.
Foreword: I do not own X-Men Evolution or any other characters of Marvel Entertainment. I have no rights whatsoever, I am not getting paid for this, so please, don't sue me!
Chapter 3 The Last message.
The mere smell would have brought a man to his knees, but to Bishop this still has hallowed ground, and he had to learn as much as he can about the last days of the X-Men.
Following corridor after corridor he found empty rooms with nothing in them, but when he came to a particular passage he found rooms with beds and posters of things of the past, but most of everything else had been eaten by rats. Depressed he decided to look into one last room; it was in here that he found his treasure.
"I don't believe it." Bishop said to himself in disbelief. In his hands he held a picture frame, and in it a picture of all the original X-Men, it had Professor X, Night Crawler, Shadow Cat, Wolverine, Storm, Spyke, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, and Rouge. The photo seemed to have been taken at a beach, they all had smiles on their faces, if only they knew the horrible fate that awaited them all for following their dream.
It was true that everyone on the face of the earth had heard of the X-Men, they were the ones that inspired to keep on fighting, it was them that were in the minds of every soldier that had thought during the Summers Rebellion. The only thing was no one knew what happened to them, most were killed in combat, but not all of them were accounted for.
While sitting on the bed it broke, and Bishop fell to the floor, but he had landed on something other then the floor, after getting up and reaching down he found a small book. To Bishops delight it was a diary, after blowing off the dust he found that it was Rouges Diary, he had heard a lot about Rouge, on how she was the Goth and Untouchable one of the group due to her powers, the diary had a small lock on it, but Bishop broke it pretty easily because of how old it was. He started flipping through the first couple pages, until he found something very interesting.
".I had that stupid dream last night, I mean it doesn't make any sense at all. It's about that one guy I met before we had to fight that big robot thing; it was that one guy with the cards that blew up in your face. Why do I find it hard to take my mind off of him, why am I falling for him? He's one of Magnetos men after all."
This brought a cold look of anger to his face, all that had happened to him and his sister, not to mention the entire world was his fault to him. If Magneto hadn't set up that fight between the X-Men and that Sentinel, then the humans wouldn't have become so petrified of mutants, and then the humans wouldn't have pushed the sentinels production so far that there were so many sentinels not even he could contend with. Yes the sentinels put him in a concentration camp and they were systematically terminated just for being who they were. The humans didn't seem to mind at all at first, but when the sentinels started putting more and more mutants into the camp, they started to realize that us mutants truly were the next stage of humanity and that by just killing the few at first they were truly dooming all of humanity. When they tried to correct this mistake it was too late, the sentinels grew too smart even for them, and they were put in the concentration camps too, where if the sentinels didn't kill them first, the mutants did. Bishop brings a slight smile to his face, considering that in the end Magneto brought to pass everything that he hoped to prevent.
Bishop flipped through even more pages, most of them concerning Magnetos acolyte Gambit. But then he reached the final page in Rouges Diary and it read.
".Hard to believe all of this is happening to us at once. It's not turning out as Professor X had planned, and I can tell it's beginning to take a toll on him, I'm getting worried about him. Well I hate to wrap this up but we got to take out another sentinel processing plant tonight, so I better get going. I wonder if I'll ever work up the courage to tell my team that I'm seeing Gambit during the off time, I don't see why they would be angry, Hell, The Brotherhood, The X-Men, The Acolytes, names don't matter anymore, only survival."
This last entry brought a few tears to his eyes. This must have proved that by the date she was the first X-Man to die. Bishop took the diary and put it in a bag next to the photo. As he went out the room and began to shut the door he whispered, "Rest easy.Rest easy."
After finding a few more items such as a pair of Cyclops ruby red visors, one of Spykes skateboard that were not eaten by termites, a odd pyramid shaped hat, an old lab coat with a name Hank McCoy on it, a rusty old image inducer that made him look like a regular kid with black hair. Following another corridor he walked into a room That seemed to be sealed off for sometime, even the air was exquisitely putrid, after coughing for a few moments he ran into something, falling on his but he opened his eyes and say that he had ran into a vintage Harley Davidson Motorcycle! These things were only rumors in his day, but this one had been perfectly preserved, it was clearly Wolverines considering how much he loved his motorcycles, after taking in the absolute brilliance of the motorcycle, he moved on and found the graveyard of the X-Men, there were statues everywhere, of all the X- Men, some he could easily tell where made by the sentinel, after finding a nice place he dug a hole with his hands and put to rest the C.P.U., he then located a large stone that he had to use some difficulty to move, when he got it to the hole that he had dug, he took out his gun, set it on the lowest level and he carved into it.
"Here lies sentinel unit 2039A, who for untold decades defended these holy grounds with his own existence, may he always be remembered for what he did for the X-Men, and not what he did to us."
After saying a few silent words over the grave of the C.P.U, he chose to explore the rest of the facility. He went in and out of rooms and found nothing truly interesting or of any use, but then he came to a sealed off room. It was heavily locked and shut, but as they say "The harder the door, the greater treasure behind it", after having to drain the guns dry of their energy he was able to blast the doors wide open to reveal a large room with a platform that ran to the center, there was also nothing truly inside but a console at the end of the platform, on the platform appeared to be a computer and a helmet that ran all the way from the ceiling to the console, it was not until he got to a closer view of the console that he did see that it was cerebro! The device the Professor X created to find mutants all other the world. With this Bishop studied it closely, it appeared untouched by time, and that meant that it still might be workable for the X.S.E. to use, in fact this hallowed ground could become the new X.S.E. head quarters!
Bishop now astounded with his discovery could not resist putting on the almost crown of the X-Men, as he drew closer his breaths became shorter and harder, when he reached for the helmet his hands began to shake with adrenaline. Slowly Bishop began to place the helmet on his head, he was filled with a joy unimaginable, and he of all people would know what felt like to have such an unknown honor. As he placed it on his head something happened.
Bishop began to scream as the computer on the console sprang to life and began displaying items, the only things he saw one the console screen were.
".Cerebro emergency system initiated.File download commencing in.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.File download system prepped.subject prepare for file download."
Bishop continued to scream as image after image was pouring through his mind, these images were the complete history of the X-Men, the system began to slow down and he was able to catch these sayings.
Cerebro File 493
".The professor has become more withdrawn, Scott has had to take up the entire responsibility of leading the X-Men. I don't know why he's doing this, we have been training for this are whole lives. I know I'll never be the tele path that Professor X is but I have to keep trying, mutants are being rounded up and herded to camps and we have to do whatever we can to stop this at all costs."
Cerebro File 506
".With the sudden death of Rouge, us X-Men now know that are forces are dwindling, and our dream is fading. Wolverine has run off to find the Acolyte Gambit, after finding that his scent was on her at the time that we found her body. I don't know why he doesn't see that we need to stay together, the Brotherhood has even joined are cause, I just hope we'll be able to deal with are former enemies as are new allies."
Cerebro File 539
".One more from are team is taken away from us, Kurt Wagner. I know what he did was noble, but I guess that no matter how we look at it, what he did is foolish. To think that he would actually go after an entire manufacturing plant on his own just to avenge Amanda's death after she was killed just for holding the X-Factor Gene. I wish I knew what he was thinking when he took that bomb that he had built on his own and took out the Sentinel central command at the manufacturing plant, just to make his peace. We will miss you Kurt."
Cerebro File 581
".The killing has begun. Mutants and carriers of the X-Gene are being killed at every hour at unknown rates. We want to do more but there are just to many, we have chosen to go underground with the Morlocks and increase our numbers in hope that one day we will be able to strike down all the Sentinels so we may have our freedom once again.
Cerebo File 629
".I hear it and I still can can't believe it. Magneto actually joined us in the sewers; he has chosen to lead us although Scott still opposes it with all his might. I also know he would oppose me sneaking here every once and a while to make these messages. What he doesn't understand is that some one has to leave a record of our days because the professor has become so withdrawn that not even he speaks anymore, let alone eat."
Cerebro File 666
".It's happened! The Sentinels have found us and they are hunting us all down in the sewers even. They've already place all the humans in the same camps as the mutants, I was fortunate to escape and make this last file before I get caught or I turn myself in. I just have to be with my husband Scott and my daughter Rachel. I just wish.wait somethings going on..you..you were the one that led them to us..you betrayed us all!..You may think the dream is dead but it will carry on forever.The dream will never die.buzz.the,,,dr..dream.will..nev.never..die.."
End of Files
"Thank you." A voice said in the deep recesses of his mind.
"Who's there?" Bishop asked as he found himself lost in his own mind.
"Thank you for releasing me." The voice answered.
"Who are you?" Bishop yelled.
A flaming bird of flames appeared and answered, "I was trapped in Cerebro until you accessed the Files.Thank you.now I can go on..thank you."
"Wait, who was it who betrayed you? Who betrayed the X-Men?"
"One of the X-Men themselves" The bird of flames answered.
"Which one?" Bishop asked.
"I'm sorry, but that's all I can tell you, I have to go now." The flaming bird answered as she disappeared in a beam of light.
"Who?!?" Bishop kept yelling in his dream.
"Bishop? Bishop! Come on wake up!" Hectate yelled as she slapped Bishop in the face again.
"Hectate.?" Bishop asked as he slowly opened his eyes.
Hectate smiled and told him, "Now I don't know whether to promote you or slap you around some more? Bishop, you've have got to stop pulling this lone ranger act on us."
Bishop grinned as he opened his eyes and found himself in an ambulance parked outside the ruins of the Xavier Institute. Bishop then asked what was going on.
"Well dummy, do you know what a development this is! Your looking at hallowed ground, you're looking at the future X.S.E. base site! And it's all thanks to you" Hecate answered giving Bishop a hug.
Bishops smile faded and he began speaking, "I saw it Hectate."
"Saw what" She asked now becoming concerned.
"Everything.the history of the X-Men, even their last days, all in the voice of Jean Grey.it was horrible." Bishop answered as he put his hands in his face.
"Yes, but you cant forget that it was them that inspired us to victory. Now what do you mean you saw the last days of the X-Men." Hectate asked curiously.
".Cerebro.It showed me all its remaining files." Bishop answered with his hands still on his face.
Hectate looked at him questionably and an asked, "What files?"
Bishop looked at her stunned and screamed, "There all right down there in Cerebro! I saw them myself! What do you mean there's now files?"
"We checked it, all of them are erased now, even if there were any left after all these years." Hectate said comforting.
Bishop closed his eyes and went back to sleep, tired and angry that not even Hectate believed him about the files.
Somewhere far away.
"It's time.He's ready..He knows the truth." A dry, musky, old voice said in the shadows.
"Are you sure? I'm sure there are more qualified people then him, my lord?" A quivering voice asked.
"No.I've been keeping my eye on this Bishop for a long time.I know he's just the right man for the job." The old voice answered.
"But he's reckless, rude, and does not have a lot of patience! I tell you we must get someone else!" The young voice shouted.
"He's perfect.And my say is final!" The old voice yelled.
"Very well, I'll have Mr. Bishop picked up immediately." The young voice answered as it walked away.
"It's time.It's finally time.It is time for my atonement." The old voice cracked as it sat down in a throne.
Next up in Chapter 4 The Chance.