Battle Samara, Meet Crystal
"The Russian Mutant Regime was put together more like a terrorist back up." Loki explained. "They took mutants from all over Russia and the Greek islands. I myself am from Northern Russia, and Samara is from the Greek Islands. Crystal is the big man from Moscow, he runs this mission and when word reached him of my bailing he got mad. He ordered me killed after the slaughter of the Odd-Quad. He is here now," Loki whispered. "He's in the attic searching all nooks and crevices for potential threats. He'll search the entire house, every crevice, everything room, every hall and when he discovers that no one is here, he'll destroy the place and come looking for you with more rage again. He is Crystal, his mutation, as stupid as it sounds, it the power to manipulate crystals to create barriers, traps, and coffins. Crystal can seal people inside crystals, killing them slowly. He's a brute, the perfect person to run this show."
"Why did you want to come to America?"
"Because life it free here." He said. "And my sister lives here somewhere. She said if I was ever to make it to America that she'd be able to find me and we would live together if it was at all possible."
"Who is she?"
"Her name is Anne-Marie but she likes people to call her Ghost."
"How old is she?"
"She is your age, and I am eighteen." Loki smiled. "But time for merriment and chat will have to wait for later Koda, we have to plan."
"Plan," she nodded. "But how?"
"Your friends can come back, I will have to avoid them, they will not like me, but if you can create a diversion, have your friend Kurt teleport all over the mansion making noise, then I can creep up on Crystal. I am afraid you'll have to deal with Samara on your own, I hate her, she's to powerful for me."
"Too powerful?"
"Not in mutation strength, but physically, she can evade my psychic powers, in a fight of brute strength she'd kill me."
Koda nodded. "I see."
"So, yeah, you deal with her and I'll deal with Crystal." Loki nodded. "Yeah," he assured himself. "That should work. Crystal is a tyrant but he's not all that smart." Loki leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "Jak will be your eyes, and if I can so will I."
She heard him walk off then she heard Kurt appear.
"Where is he?" Logan hissed. "Where's that little bast-"
"Calm down Logan, he's gone." Koda said. "Where are Jak and Satine?"
"Oh," Kurt teleported away then reappeared with Satine and Jak.
"Are you alright Koda?" Satine said rushing to her.
"I am fine." Koda said.
"Fine?" Jak chuckled. "Fickle, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional?"
Koda shook her head. "Look, there are two people here, the cloaked thing and someone else."
"How do you know?" Logan asked.
"I heard them upstairs." She lied.
"How are we going to do this?" Jak asked.
"Well, I figure we'd take out the clocked thing first." Koda said. "Kurt, can you teleport into the rooms upstairs and make a lot of noise so one of them comes to investigate?"
"Of course." He said and left.
"Now we have to get up there and when it comes we can fight it. Jak,"
"Yeah love?"
"I need you to be my eyes, stand behind one of the pillars and watch it for me, let me see what I have to do."
"Of course."
"What about the second one?" Logan asked as they ascended the stairs.
"We'll deal with that one when we get around to it." Koda said.
When they reached the top they saw Kurt laughing his head off and run into another room. The cloaked thing ran after him but skidded to a halt when it saw Koda and Satine by the stairs.
Samara let out a shriek and charged them, her cloak came loose and flew off. Samara was tall, a running, screaming, skeleton with gray skin tightly pulled over the frame of the bones. The lips were pulled so tightly over the jaw that the teeth showed, bleached and fanged. Her eyes were a screaming red and her long black hair flew about her head like snakes.
Satine and Koda sidestepped as Samara toppled past them and down the stairs. This gave them time to get into the middle of the hall and Jak took cover behind a pillar and projected the image into Koda's mind. Her claws fell and locked into place as Logan extended his own claws.
Kurt appeared still laughing. "That was fun," he remarked. "When this is over, remind me to tell you what happened."
Satine and Koda smiled. "Can't wait."
Samara jumped up the flight of stairs and rushed again, Logan lifted his claws catching Samara in the right thigh, while Koda threw a punch, piercing Samara in the left shoulder shredding the skin to bits. Satine leapt into a high kick, knocking Samara's head into an odd angle, the bones snapping.
The body fell to the ground, but there was no blood seeping from it. Slowly, Samara forced herself up.
"Holy god!" Jak gasped. "What is that thing?"
"I don't know!" Satine screamed back. "But I don't like it!" she dropped to the ground and swept her foot out, but Samara jumped into a high kick, her foot connecting with Koda's jaw. The force sent her flying into the wall, her bones morphed into adamantium. Satine pushed herself up on her arms aiming a kick at Samara's back, but Samara turned and grabbed Satine's foot. Satine spun over, her right heel connecting with a thud with Samara's chin. Samara dropped her and Satine morphed into Wolverine and extended the claws.
Logan and Logan starred at each other then down at Samara who looked up at them in a daze.
They reached down and grabbed her with their claws and threw her into the air where Kurt appeared and kicked her back down. Logan and Logan reached out and clawed at her as she descended to the ground. Kurt appeared again with his leg and tail under her and he threw her back into the air where the Logans slashed down on her.
She shrieked in pain, falling to the floor, her back, sides and stomach held long, deep gashes, blue blood oozed out, staining the wooden paneling.
Koda stood over her then in a swift movement dropped to her knees, bringing her claws down, decapitating Samara. Satine morphed into Pyro pulled out a lighter and created a massive fireball out of Samara's head then body.
From the stairs that led to the attic there came the sound of eerie clapping.
"Bravo," a voice in a low voice. "Bravo, a blind girl kills my best worker on the job."
"Crystal," Koda hissed.
"Yes Koda, I am Crystal, I am glad to see that Loki has explained the short of it to you."
"The short of it?"
"Yes, you didn't think we came all the way over here just to kill you for being spies did you?" He laughed a cold laugh. "Good heaven's no, that would be such a waste. You see, the Mutant Regime of Russia are in it for one thing really, the destruction of Mutants everywhere."
"Why?" Logan demanded.
"Why not?" Crystal asked. "You mutants are like ants, pests that need to be disposed of."
"Mutants are here to stay." Satine said morphing back into herself.
"Ah, yes, beautiful Satine." Crystal cooed. "I think you would be a very promising courtesan, I'll let you live if you'll be mine."
Satine spat his way. "Like hell."
"No?" he chuckled. "Well that's fine too, I really don't need you, I have so many back in Russia." He stood up from his seat on the stairs. "I always thought of Loki as a traitor."
Koda's breath caught. "Where Is Loki?"
"He's dead, sealed inside a crystal coffin."
"YOU WISH!" a voice shouted behind Crystal. A tall figure jumped down from the stairs and tackled Crystal to the ground.
Crystal shouted a curse and threw Loki off his back and into the wall close to Koda.
"Why the hell don't you ever die?" Crystal demanded. "How many time do I have to kill you?"
"What can I say?" Loki coughed. "I guess I do take after the God I was named after." He stood up, stumbled a few feet then steadied himself. "Ow, that hurt."
Koda listened to him move. "Jak, give me eyes."
"I'm trying," Jak said.
An image flew into her mind, she saw Jak and everyone, and then realized her sight came from Loki.
"Stop wasting my time Loki!" Crystal shouted. "I will kill all of you if I must." He rushed them, and then suddenly stopped. His body quivered then crumbled to the ground.
"That should hold him off for a few minutes." A voice said.
"Ghost?" Loki said smiling.
"In the flesh, well, sort of." A faint apparition appeared flossing out of Crystal's body then it took physical form.
Ghost was tall like her younger brother, with a lean body and long white dread locks. She wore a long black trench coat that brushed the top of her combat boots. She wore black shades over stunning green eyes. Her skin was dark like Loki's and flawless. She smiled at her brother then surveyed the rest of them.
"I know you," Kurt said. "I saw you before."
Ghost looked over at Kurt and lowered her shades. "Yes," she smiled. "But that was long ago Kurt."
He nodded. "But I remember."
"Good, then you know I am not here to hurt you?"
"Yes." He nodded. "You were kind back then as well."
"Yes, I came here to live in America, but I realized that they were just as afraid of mutants as any other place in this cruel world. Have you kept the faith?"
"Of course." He pulled out his rosary.
She nodded. "Good, now, let's go."
Loki took Koda's arm; she was stunned that even though the danger was lying behind them in a heap, she could still see.
"I am more powerful then your friend Jak, I can give you the sight as long as I can." Loki confirmed.
"Where are we going?" Koda asked.
"We need to talk this fight elsewhere."
"Why should we trust you?" Logan asked.
"You don't," She shrugged. "Leave if that is your wish, I don't care."
Satine looked over at Jak who nodded that they would stay with them as long as Koda did.
"As Loki said before, we are not your problem."
"The Russian Mutant Regime was put together more like a terrorist back up." Loki explained. "They took mutants from all over Russia and the Greek islands. I myself am from Northern Russia, and Samara is from the Greek Islands. Crystal is the big man from Moscow, he runs this mission and when word reached him of my bailing he got mad. He ordered me killed after the slaughter of the Odd-Quad. He is here now," Loki whispered. "He's in the attic searching all nooks and crevices for potential threats. He'll search the entire house, every crevice, everything room, every hall and when he discovers that no one is here, he'll destroy the place and come looking for you with more rage again. He is Crystal, his mutation, as stupid as it sounds, it the power to manipulate crystals to create barriers, traps, and coffins. Crystal can seal people inside crystals, killing them slowly. He's a brute, the perfect person to run this show."
"Why did you want to come to America?"
"Because life it free here." He said. "And my sister lives here somewhere. She said if I was ever to make it to America that she'd be able to find me and we would live together if it was at all possible."
"Who is she?"
"Her name is Anne-Marie but she likes people to call her Ghost."
"How old is she?"
"She is your age, and I am eighteen." Loki smiled. "But time for merriment and chat will have to wait for later Koda, we have to plan."
"Plan," she nodded. "But how?"
"Your friends can come back, I will have to avoid them, they will not like me, but if you can create a diversion, have your friend Kurt teleport all over the mansion making noise, then I can creep up on Crystal. I am afraid you'll have to deal with Samara on your own, I hate her, she's to powerful for me."
"Too powerful?"
"Not in mutation strength, but physically, she can evade my psychic powers, in a fight of brute strength she'd kill me."
Koda nodded. "I see."
"So, yeah, you deal with her and I'll deal with Crystal." Loki nodded. "Yeah," he assured himself. "That should work. Crystal is a tyrant but he's not all that smart." Loki leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "Jak will be your eyes, and if I can so will I."
She heard him walk off then she heard Kurt appear.
"Where is he?" Logan hissed. "Where's that little bast-"
"Calm down Logan, he's gone." Koda said. "Where are Jak and Satine?"
"Oh," Kurt teleported away then reappeared with Satine and Jak.
"Are you alright Koda?" Satine said rushing to her.
"I am fine." Koda said.
"Fine?" Jak chuckled. "Fickle, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional?"
Koda shook her head. "Look, there are two people here, the cloaked thing and someone else."
"How do you know?" Logan asked.
"I heard them upstairs." She lied.
"How are we going to do this?" Jak asked.
"Well, I figure we'd take out the clocked thing first." Koda said. "Kurt, can you teleport into the rooms upstairs and make a lot of noise so one of them comes to investigate?"
"Of course." He said and left.
"Now we have to get up there and when it comes we can fight it. Jak,"
"Yeah love?"
"I need you to be my eyes, stand behind one of the pillars and watch it for me, let me see what I have to do."
"Of course."
"What about the second one?" Logan asked as they ascended the stairs.
"We'll deal with that one when we get around to it." Koda said.
When they reached the top they saw Kurt laughing his head off and run into another room. The cloaked thing ran after him but skidded to a halt when it saw Koda and Satine by the stairs.
Samara let out a shriek and charged them, her cloak came loose and flew off. Samara was tall, a running, screaming, skeleton with gray skin tightly pulled over the frame of the bones. The lips were pulled so tightly over the jaw that the teeth showed, bleached and fanged. Her eyes were a screaming red and her long black hair flew about her head like snakes.
Satine and Koda sidestepped as Samara toppled past them and down the stairs. This gave them time to get into the middle of the hall and Jak took cover behind a pillar and projected the image into Koda's mind. Her claws fell and locked into place as Logan extended his own claws.
Kurt appeared still laughing. "That was fun," he remarked. "When this is over, remind me to tell you what happened."
Satine and Koda smiled. "Can't wait."
Samara jumped up the flight of stairs and rushed again, Logan lifted his claws catching Samara in the right thigh, while Koda threw a punch, piercing Samara in the left shoulder shredding the skin to bits. Satine leapt into a high kick, knocking Samara's head into an odd angle, the bones snapping.
The body fell to the ground, but there was no blood seeping from it. Slowly, Samara forced herself up.
"Holy god!" Jak gasped. "What is that thing?"
"I don't know!" Satine screamed back. "But I don't like it!" she dropped to the ground and swept her foot out, but Samara jumped into a high kick, her foot connecting with Koda's jaw. The force sent her flying into the wall, her bones morphed into adamantium. Satine pushed herself up on her arms aiming a kick at Samara's back, but Samara turned and grabbed Satine's foot. Satine spun over, her right heel connecting with a thud with Samara's chin. Samara dropped her and Satine morphed into Wolverine and extended the claws.
Logan and Logan starred at each other then down at Samara who looked up at them in a daze.
They reached down and grabbed her with their claws and threw her into the air where Kurt appeared and kicked her back down. Logan and Logan reached out and clawed at her as she descended to the ground. Kurt appeared again with his leg and tail under her and he threw her back into the air where the Logans slashed down on her.
She shrieked in pain, falling to the floor, her back, sides and stomach held long, deep gashes, blue blood oozed out, staining the wooden paneling.
Koda stood over her then in a swift movement dropped to her knees, bringing her claws down, decapitating Samara. Satine morphed into Pyro pulled out a lighter and created a massive fireball out of Samara's head then body.
From the stairs that led to the attic there came the sound of eerie clapping.
"Bravo," a voice in a low voice. "Bravo, a blind girl kills my best worker on the job."
"Crystal," Koda hissed.
"Yes Koda, I am Crystal, I am glad to see that Loki has explained the short of it to you."
"The short of it?"
"Yes, you didn't think we came all the way over here just to kill you for being spies did you?" He laughed a cold laugh. "Good heaven's no, that would be such a waste. You see, the Mutant Regime of Russia are in it for one thing really, the destruction of Mutants everywhere."
"Why?" Logan demanded.
"Why not?" Crystal asked. "You mutants are like ants, pests that need to be disposed of."
"Mutants are here to stay." Satine said morphing back into herself.
"Ah, yes, beautiful Satine." Crystal cooed. "I think you would be a very promising courtesan, I'll let you live if you'll be mine."
Satine spat his way. "Like hell."
"No?" he chuckled. "Well that's fine too, I really don't need you, I have so many back in Russia." He stood up from his seat on the stairs. "I always thought of Loki as a traitor."
Koda's breath caught. "Where Is Loki?"
"He's dead, sealed inside a crystal coffin."
"YOU WISH!" a voice shouted behind Crystal. A tall figure jumped down from the stairs and tackled Crystal to the ground.
Crystal shouted a curse and threw Loki off his back and into the wall close to Koda.
"Why the hell don't you ever die?" Crystal demanded. "How many time do I have to kill you?"
"What can I say?" Loki coughed. "I guess I do take after the God I was named after." He stood up, stumbled a few feet then steadied himself. "Ow, that hurt."
Koda listened to him move. "Jak, give me eyes."
"I'm trying," Jak said.
An image flew into her mind, she saw Jak and everyone, and then realized her sight came from Loki.
"Stop wasting my time Loki!" Crystal shouted. "I will kill all of you if I must." He rushed them, and then suddenly stopped. His body quivered then crumbled to the ground.
"That should hold him off for a few minutes." A voice said.
"Ghost?" Loki said smiling.
"In the flesh, well, sort of." A faint apparition appeared flossing out of Crystal's body then it took physical form.
Ghost was tall like her younger brother, with a lean body and long white dread locks. She wore a long black trench coat that brushed the top of her combat boots. She wore black shades over stunning green eyes. Her skin was dark like Loki's and flawless. She smiled at her brother then surveyed the rest of them.
"I know you," Kurt said. "I saw you before."
Ghost looked over at Kurt and lowered her shades. "Yes," she smiled. "But that was long ago Kurt."
He nodded. "But I remember."
"Good, then you know I am not here to hurt you?"
"Yes." He nodded. "You were kind back then as well."
"Yes, I came here to live in America, but I realized that they were just as afraid of mutants as any other place in this cruel world. Have you kept the faith?"
"Of course." He pulled out his rosary.
She nodded. "Good, now, let's go."
Loki took Koda's arm; she was stunned that even though the danger was lying behind them in a heap, she could still see.
"I am more powerful then your friend Jak, I can give you the sight as long as I can." Loki confirmed.
"Where are we going?" Koda asked.
"We need to talk this fight elsewhere."
"Why should we trust you?" Logan asked.
"You don't," She shrugged. "Leave if that is your wish, I don't care."
Satine looked over at Jak who nodded that they would stay with them as long as Koda did.
"As Loki said before, we are not your problem."
