Worse Than Death 2

By slickboy444

AN: Hey! Here is the next part to this fic. Remember what I said in the last part, the story does contain some language and violence. This is a result of my obsession with X-men and my love of horror movies. I've always liked to get scared by something and this fic is a result of that habit. I urge you to tell me what you think of this story, along with all my other stories. The more reviews I get, the more motivation I have for completing the next part. Send reviews to slickboy444@aol.com. Remember, I don't own X-men or Zelda or any of the songs I may mention in the future so please don't sue! I have nothing. Thanks, and enjoy!

All my x-men evolution fics are dedicated to Jen (aka: littlesortaredheadedgirl) the author of the x-men evolution fic "Snow." I highly recommend you all read it.

AN: 'these mean character thoughts.'

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Tabitha Smith, aka: Boom Boom, was outside near the cliff casually listening to her CD player. Because of this she didn't hear the urgent announcement from the professor. She just sat there, oblivious to the terror that was going on. She was just listening to her music, when all of the sudden her player went silent.

"Huh?" she said as she looked to check the batteries.

However, there didn't seem to be anything wrong. It just seemed to cut itself off. Just then she got the strange feeling that she was being watched.

"Tabitha........."

She promptly turned around to see where the voice came from. She prepared an energy bomb in her hands.

"Kurt? Evan? Come on guys stop fooling around," she said out loud, hoping it was just them. Her heart rate began to pound relentlessly as she became consumed by fear.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed as she felt a heavy blast of red-hot pain shoot up her spine. Before she could react another blast caused her to scream out even louder than before. The pain.........The torment kept surging through her body without mercy. Then, a mysterious shadow came over her. She looked up and saw her attacker. The black trench coat and the blood red eyes that Lance saw now stood before her. As she looked in to his eyes, fear consumed her.

"You stupid bitch!" yelled the attacker.

He then sent another round of pain through her body with his taser weapon. He listened to her scream in anguish. The louder she screamed, the bigger the smile got across the attacker's face got.

"I've seen your attitude Tabitha!" he said as he gave her another excruciating shock. "All you do is leech off of others." He sent another shock deep in to her body as he looked her deeper in the eyes. "You sadistic, controlling, bitch!" Now fear griped the young girl unlike anything she had ever felt. The fear and pain burned her soul as the mysterious Morris pulled out a knife.

"Now it's time for you to learn what real pain and fear truly are!" he yelled as he lunged at her helpless body and began to ruthlessly cut in to her flesh.

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"Tabitha! Tabitha where are you!" yelled Jean as she searched her room.

Just then Kurt teleported right next to her.

"Did you find her?" asked a worried Kurt.

"No. I can't find her anywhere," said Jean with a sigh.

'Has anybody found her yet?' said the professor telepathically to each one of the students.

Everyone said right back to him, 'no.'

'We've looked everywhere outside and inside we can't find her!' said Kitty with her thoughts.

Just then the doorbell rang.

"I wonder who that could be?" said Hank who was searching with the professor.

"Why don't you go see, Hank?" asked Professor Xavier as he was still trying to locate Tabitha telepathically.

Beast then ran downstairs past the rest of the students who were still searching for Tabitha. He looked out the window to see who it was, but he couldn't see. He then promptly made his way to the door and opened it. He quickly stepped back in horror.

"Everybody! Come quick! I found Tabitha!" yelled the Beast.

The rest of the students made their way to the front door and were equally horrified at what they saw.

"Oh.........My.........God," was all anyone could say.

Tabitha's body was ravaged like a rag doll. Her cloths were ripped, her body was drenched with blood, and her eyes were wide open and petrified with fear. For a brief moment everyone who saw the terrible image stood in shock. Toad responded by throwing up at the ugly sight. Finally, Scott approached the mangled, yet still alive, body of the girl and noticed something. There was a note pinned to her bear neck with needles. Slowly, he removed the needles and opened the note.

"Special delivery," Scott read aloud, "For all you bastards. Nobody is safe. Because I am a god. Morris."

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After finding Tabitha's mangled body she was bought down to the medical quarters and treated. However, she was beyond help just like Lance. She constantly yelled out in pain and trembled in fear. She was completely incoherent just as the rest of the attacks.

"Well," said the professor as he was coming out of the infirmary, "What do we do now?"

Nobody knew, so they said nothing.

"I don't think there's anything we can do," replied Beast.

"I don't believe that," said Logan in a frustrated and infuriated tone.

"This guy is terrorized innocent people and members of the family! I don't care who this guy is, we've gotta bring him down!" yelled Logan.

"I feel your concern Wolverine, but..." started the professor.

"Wait," said Jack, "I don't think we have a choice now."

"But you said........." started Jean.

"I know what I said, but now it's different. He's not just choosing random targets now," said Jack in a worried tone.

"What do you mean?" replied Jean.

"He's attacking us.........The mutants of this town. He's gonna try to take us down one by one!" Jack exclaimed.

"How do you know that?" asked Kurt.

"Because he's focusing on us now. First Lance, then Tabitha. Not to mention the note he left us and only us. He's after us all for some reason now," said Jack frantically.

"Great, now what do we do?" said Rogue.

Jack began to think briefly.

"We stay in groups like before and beef up the security up here. Everyone bunks up with someone else for protection. The Brotherhood should also stay here," said Jack.

"What!?" said the Blob.

"No way man!" added Toad.

"Hey!" yelled Jack, "If Morris attacked Lance he probably knows where you guys live now. If you go back there you'll be sitting ducks! Now you can go back there and end up like Lance and Tabitha, or you put your petty little grudge aside and stay with us. Normally nobody in here would care, but I think we need to stick together here!"

Jack's frustration shut the rest of them up.

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The rest of the night was sleepless and anxious. The Brotherhood agreed to stay in the living room while the rest of the X-men bunked up in pairs. While the rest of the team was sleeping, Hank and Jack were hard at work trying to form a spell that would rid the victims of Morris's clutches. Needless to say, nobody got much sleep that night. The next morning everybody was tired and groggy from the events of the previous day.

"You sleep at all Kurt?" asked Kitty as she got some breakfast.

"No.........Not really," he responded groggily. "It's just so hard.........When you feel like you have to look over your shoulder every five minutes."

"I hope they can catch this guy soon. It sucks always living in fear," said Kitty.

"I know," said Kurt, "I think that's what this guy wants."

As they ate the others joined them. All they could talk about was Morris. They later turned on the TV to see if they could get any information that might help them. It was a simple task since every station was covering the story.

"Last night the mysterious attacker Morris struck twice," said the TV new anchor. "The attacks took place in Bayville New York. One was against a young man named Lance Alvers in the late afternoon, the other against a young woman named Tabitha Smith at the boarding house where she stayed. New York police along with the National Guard have closed off Bayville and surrounded the city along with many of the outskirts. The streets are now basically a ghost town as people are too afraid to leave their homes. Local events have been cancelled due to the attacks and may stay cancelled until Morris is caught. Police are confident that since they have sealed of the city area, they will apprehend the attacker and put an end to his bloody rampage."

While they listened to the broadcast, they stayed transfixed with a mixture of emotions. They felt outrage, fear, anger, dread, anxiety.........Then all of the sudden somebody cut the TV off.

"Hey! We were watching that!" said Kitty in an irritated tone.

Scott just stood there with the remote in his hands.

"Look.........You guys can stay here, trembling in fear about who will be the next victim or you can fight back," said Scott.

"Well.........What else can we do?" said Pietro.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm not going to let this psycho control me and my life," said Scott with seriousness in his voice.

He then threw the controller back to the crowd who was gathered around the TV. Then he began to walk off.

"Where you heading?" asked Jean.

"To the Danger Room to blow off some steam. I'm not gonna let that psycho asshole win that easily, anybody who want's to join me can join me." responded Scott.

As he left the rest were left to contemplate Scott's words. After a brief moment, Jean was the first one to get up.

"You know he's got a point. I'm not letting Morris control me either," she said as she walked off following Scott.

"Me too, man," said Kurt, "This news is too depressing. Morris may be after us, but I'm not going to give up and make it any easier for him."

After Kurt left the rest of the group began to understand.

"Anybody up for some football?" said Evan all of the sudden.

"Sure, anything's better than this," said Toad.

"Count me in too," said Amara.

"I'm game," said Roberto.

Soon the only people left were Kitty and Rogue. The rest had gone out.

"I can't believe them. They're gonna get themselves killed out there," said Rogue.

"Yeah, but I guess they don't care," said Kitty as she turned the TV back on.

As Scott, Jean, Kurt, and later Wolverine put their fears aside and had a little workout in the Danger Room, the rest were out on the front lawn playing a game of football. From a distance, however, they were still being watched.

"These dumb asses never cease to amaze me. They were so afraid, the fucking pansies! Oh well, I still win. If you stay afraid I win, if you pretend nothing is wrong and I bring you down, I win. No matter how you try to outsmart me, I still win. You will all suffer, mock my word you will all fucking suffer!"

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AN: Well, that's it for part 2. Want to see what the psycho, Morris, means by those words. Stay tuned, and don't forget to send reviews to slickboy444@aol.com. The more reviews I get the faster the part will come up. Thank you very much for reading my story thus far and best wishes to you all.