I have explained that I don't own any X-men evolution characters. This is
the last time I'm going to say it in this story. I do not own any X-men
Evolution characters. Do. You. Un-der-stand?! Good! Cause I'm not gonna
say it again! I also don't own Ripley's believe it or not.
Lance climbed out of the rubble. "What happened?" he asked of nobody in particular.
To his surprise he got an answer. "You almost got done in." He looked. A man with a clipboard, wearing a construction hat was looking at the rubble. "That quake was lucky for you. If I were you I'd go to Ripley's believe it or not."
"The house collapsed. Mystique." He turned to the man. "Thanks. I gotta find my friends."
"Your friends?"
"You know the other guys that lived in this house."
"Oh, them, I'd say check the school, if it wasn't Saturday."
"Thanks for your help."
He stumbled into his jeep and drove off vaguely in the direction of the school without knowing why. The man with the clipboard watched him go. Then he suddenly changed into Mystique. "So Lance, you survived. Surprise! So did I."
She morphed back and turned to her car. "Now I have some important business to attend to, out of town."
* * *
The X-men fought tooth and claw against Magneto, but it was impossible for them to touch him. Quite literally, for he had surrounded himself with a whirlwind of sheet metal and various other metal objects.
Any energy attacks fired at him simply hit one of the metal objects. Physical attacks fared even worse. The attackers were caught in the stream and severely battered and bruised until unconscious. Magneto wasn't trying to kill. He simply wanted specimens.
He also manipulated metal objects outside of his hurricane, battering the others until only Cannonball, and Cyclops were left standing. Cannonball hurled himself at Magneto, at the same time that Cyclops focused his energy beam on one particular spot.
Cannonball punched through several objects, but Magneto used his powers to wrap him up in steel, and tightened fused the molecules to a wall. Suddenly Scott had a brain flash. Blob, although imprisoned in the cement was still conscious. He had noticed a crack which would allow air to get in.
He focused his power to its highest intensity, and lowest beam path, and neatly cut the cement in half.
Blob saw Magneto, and started towards him. Magneto easily knocked Scott out then concentrated on Blob. But none of his attacks even bothered Blob, as he approached, as seemingly unstoppable as the Juggernaut.
Magneto bombarded him with everything he could reach with his magnetic power, but it didn't seem to even bother him. Then Magneto brought a steel beam up from behind Blob, and bent it around him.
He increased the pressure, "You are the dangerous one Fred Dukes. And I have no need of you on my team."
Realization dawned on Blob. "You're going to kill me."
"Quite right. And this seems like the perfect opportunity."
Pietro, who had been watching the scene through a pair of binoculars, suddenly knew, in a moment of absolute clarity, what was going on, even without sound. He saw Blob struggling to breathe, and Magneto smiling, as he delivered the death sentence. He also knew what he had to do.
He took off, approaching the sound barrier, as he streaked directly towards Magneto.
* * *
Lance glanced at the television store. There was a cut from a traffic copper, then it swiveled, and he could hear a man off camera say, "Barney, patch this trough to all the news stations. It's the same guys that were here before."
There was a picture of the Brotherhood and the X-men valiantly fighting Magneto, but to no avail. Soon only Blob was left. Then Magneto began to kill him. Lance hit the gas on his jeep, speeding towards the construction sight.
* * *
Suddenly a hex bolt hit Magneto from behind. He turned to see Scarlet Witch, her lips curled back in something that was in between a snarl and a sneer.
"Looks like you forgot about me again, Father."
"On the contrary my dear. I have something special for you planned."
Agatha stepped out of the doorway in the one fully completed building.
She said something indistinguishable, and raised her hands. Wanda fell, unconscious.
A thousand yards away, Quicksilver quickened his pace. Sounds started to blur. He knew he was approaching the sound barrier. He wondered what it would be like to travel faster then the speed of sound.
But he wasn't destined to find out that day. He reached the construction sight, just as Magneto raised a steel beam high over Wanda's head. In the split second before he brought it crashing down, he ran and whisked her from underneath, setting her down behind Blob.
Then he charged Magneto. Suddenly he found himself hanging in midair.
"So, what Destiny predicted has come to pass. Twins allied against their father." Magneto was chuckling. Then he suddenly became sober.
"It's a good thing I took measures to ensure my safety. Such as injecting extra iron into your blood stream." Pietro's body seemed to be tearing itself apart from within.
"It is unfortunate that this took place before I recovered my machine that was lost in Asteroid M."
Pietro managed to choke out. "You were planning to brainwash us?"
"I was planning to remove your useless emotions!" The pain became even more unbearable inside of Pietro. Still he glared defiantly at his father.
"And, if we didn't want our emotions removed?"
"It would be for the best!" Magneto's voice was growing fanatical. "It would be to ensure mutants domination of humans!"
"And your domination of mutants!" Every word was becoming a separate pain.
Suddenly a tremor occurred. Magneto lost his concentration and dropped Pietro. The steel beam around Blob's neck, (Blob was now unconscious) dropped to the ground.
Magneto spun around. He saw a familiar green jeep. But it was the figure inside the jeep that caught his eye.
He was in his street clothes, and covered with bruises and cuts. The clothes themselves were, if anything, worse. They were torn almost to shreds, and what was left of them was soaked with blood.
But it was still unmistakably the one person he had expected never to see again.
Avalanche smiled. "I'm ba-ack!"
Lance climbed out of the rubble. "What happened?" he asked of nobody in particular.
To his surprise he got an answer. "You almost got done in." He looked. A man with a clipboard, wearing a construction hat was looking at the rubble. "That quake was lucky for you. If I were you I'd go to Ripley's believe it or not."
"The house collapsed. Mystique." He turned to the man. "Thanks. I gotta find my friends."
"Your friends?"
"You know the other guys that lived in this house."
"Oh, them, I'd say check the school, if it wasn't Saturday."
"Thanks for your help."
He stumbled into his jeep and drove off vaguely in the direction of the school without knowing why. The man with the clipboard watched him go. Then he suddenly changed into Mystique. "So Lance, you survived. Surprise! So did I."
She morphed back and turned to her car. "Now I have some important business to attend to, out of town."
* * *
The X-men fought tooth and claw against Magneto, but it was impossible for them to touch him. Quite literally, for he had surrounded himself with a whirlwind of sheet metal and various other metal objects.
Any energy attacks fired at him simply hit one of the metal objects. Physical attacks fared even worse. The attackers were caught in the stream and severely battered and bruised until unconscious. Magneto wasn't trying to kill. He simply wanted specimens.
He also manipulated metal objects outside of his hurricane, battering the others until only Cannonball, and Cyclops were left standing. Cannonball hurled himself at Magneto, at the same time that Cyclops focused his energy beam on one particular spot.
Cannonball punched through several objects, but Magneto used his powers to wrap him up in steel, and tightened fused the molecules to a wall. Suddenly Scott had a brain flash. Blob, although imprisoned in the cement was still conscious. He had noticed a crack which would allow air to get in.
He focused his power to its highest intensity, and lowest beam path, and neatly cut the cement in half.
Blob saw Magneto, and started towards him. Magneto easily knocked Scott out then concentrated on Blob. But none of his attacks even bothered Blob, as he approached, as seemingly unstoppable as the Juggernaut.
Magneto bombarded him with everything he could reach with his magnetic power, but it didn't seem to even bother him. Then Magneto brought a steel beam up from behind Blob, and bent it around him.
He increased the pressure, "You are the dangerous one Fred Dukes. And I have no need of you on my team."
Realization dawned on Blob. "You're going to kill me."
"Quite right. And this seems like the perfect opportunity."
Pietro, who had been watching the scene through a pair of binoculars, suddenly knew, in a moment of absolute clarity, what was going on, even without sound. He saw Blob struggling to breathe, and Magneto smiling, as he delivered the death sentence. He also knew what he had to do.
He took off, approaching the sound barrier, as he streaked directly towards Magneto.
* * *
Lance glanced at the television store. There was a cut from a traffic copper, then it swiveled, and he could hear a man off camera say, "Barney, patch this trough to all the news stations. It's the same guys that were here before."
There was a picture of the Brotherhood and the X-men valiantly fighting Magneto, but to no avail. Soon only Blob was left. Then Magneto began to kill him. Lance hit the gas on his jeep, speeding towards the construction sight.
* * *
Suddenly a hex bolt hit Magneto from behind. He turned to see Scarlet Witch, her lips curled back in something that was in between a snarl and a sneer.
"Looks like you forgot about me again, Father."
"On the contrary my dear. I have something special for you planned."
Agatha stepped out of the doorway in the one fully completed building.
She said something indistinguishable, and raised her hands. Wanda fell, unconscious.
A thousand yards away, Quicksilver quickened his pace. Sounds started to blur. He knew he was approaching the sound barrier. He wondered what it would be like to travel faster then the speed of sound.
But he wasn't destined to find out that day. He reached the construction sight, just as Magneto raised a steel beam high over Wanda's head. In the split second before he brought it crashing down, he ran and whisked her from underneath, setting her down behind Blob.
Then he charged Magneto. Suddenly he found himself hanging in midair.
"So, what Destiny predicted has come to pass. Twins allied against their father." Magneto was chuckling. Then he suddenly became sober.
"It's a good thing I took measures to ensure my safety. Such as injecting extra iron into your blood stream." Pietro's body seemed to be tearing itself apart from within.
"It is unfortunate that this took place before I recovered my machine that was lost in Asteroid M."
Pietro managed to choke out. "You were planning to brainwash us?"
"I was planning to remove your useless emotions!" The pain became even more unbearable inside of Pietro. Still he glared defiantly at his father.
"And, if we didn't want our emotions removed?"
"It would be for the best!" Magneto's voice was growing fanatical. "It would be to ensure mutants domination of humans!"
"And your domination of mutants!" Every word was becoming a separate pain.
Suddenly a tremor occurred. Magneto lost his concentration and dropped Pietro. The steel beam around Blob's neck, (Blob was now unconscious) dropped to the ground.
Magneto spun around. He saw a familiar green jeep. But it was the figure inside the jeep that caught his eye.
He was in his street clothes, and covered with bruises and cuts. The clothes themselves were, if anything, worse. They were torn almost to shreds, and what was left of them was soaked with blood.
But it was still unmistakably the one person he had expected never to see again.
Avalanche smiled. "I'm ba-ack!"