The sound of dozens of helicopters filled the air. The mutants looked up, blinking the rainwater out of their eyes to see military choppers full of swat teams heading their way.
"Perhaps you did not learn your lesson properly!" Magneto said with an air of annoyance. The looks on his Acolytes' faces said they agreed. "Maybe I should have been more strict in teaching you why you do not mess with mutants!" He raised his hands threateningly and was surrounded by a barely visible magnetic field. Gambit followed suit and whipped out two charged cards. Pyro surrounded the group with a ring of fire as protection, and Colossus and the White Queen suited up. Colossus became covered in metal and Emma became diamond hard.
"I think it is you mutant-- filth that underestimates us. You think you're so far superior with super powers but we WILL conquer you. The human race is best at wiping 'rare' species off the face of the earth and that is just what we'll do with you! We learned our lesson long ago; it is time that you learned YOURS!!!" Suddenly a single figure leapt out of the closest helicopter and landed between the band of mutants and the ring of government ops. It was a girl, barely a woman. She did not look like she belonged to the government. "Agent Winters, you're up." She smiled and it was almost creepy at the phony pleasant look of it.
"Oh he's quite right you know? It is time you mutants got yours!!"
She stuck her arm straight out and formed her hand so it looked like a gun with only her index finger sticking out. The tip of her finger glowed gold and shot a narrow beam, the same color from it with such force and precision. It wasn't like a short blast but almost seemed unending like Cyclops' optic blast. She made a perfect shot of knocking the playing card out of both of Gambit's hands with just two blasts. The cards fell free and forced their clustered group to scatter in order to avoid injury. Agent Winters then brought her hand, still in the same position, up to her face and blew air across the tip of her index finger as if it were a real gun. Her smile now represented smugness and overconfidence, for good reason.
An annoyed expression crossed Gambit's face as he took out his entire deck of playing cards. Rogue glanced at him and for some reason felt for him, even though it was something so trivial.
"You dare mess with my own and you will feel my wrath!" Magneto told their opposition sternly. With the wave of his hand, a nearby automobile's doors were ripped off and thrown at her. By the look of it they hit her hard and Magneto made them surround her in order to trap her. Although his face showed anger, there was a certain gleam of triumph in his eyes. Before he could revel in it there was some sort of force that blew the doors apart from the inside. When the rubble cleared the mutant, called Plethora, stood there with a golden, translucent shield surrounding her like a bubble. The tips of her fingers glowed as if they were on fire.
"No one can stop me, 'Master of Magnetism.' Least of all you!!" The bubble faded away. "I generate pure physical energy from my body and I can dispose it with any amount of force. If there is any power in existence that can stop me, it is yet to be discovered!"
The mutants still believed there had to be some sort of weakness, so it was Jean who tried next. She tried a mental attack, soon joined by Emma. They fired a combined mental attack, boosted by Betsy. Somehow they were unable to reach her mind. They couldn't even probe her thoughts. It was as if a wall physically blocked them from reaching her mind.
This entire time, the Professor was observing the attempts. Even he could not reach Plethora's mind. Somehow she had an immunity to that type of power.
As if they all knew what the other was thinking, which was true for some, they all began to launch their combined attacks at not only Plethora but the other agents too, threatening them. From there, the fight ensued between human and mutant; humans led by a mutant. The irony was overpowering.
High above, the choppers were creating a wind that blew a girl's long green hair around her wildly. The same one from before, who had been watching this fight as if she were a guardian angel. Some energy crackled in the air around her, letting her know an electrical field was now present.
"How dare they!!" She thought slightly aloud to herself. "We have as much right as people do. They cannot silence us. Magneto is not right but we must still take action. None of us will go down without a fight!"
The girl flew into the air and dove downward to the battle below. She was known as Polaris, a mutant of magnetism with powers to manipulate magnetic, electrical and gravitational fields. While not the Master of Magnetism, she is not without power.
The battle was quite even now, like a game of tug-of-war going back and forth. However, the mutants were slowly fading. They were in smaller groups now, making it easier for troops to subdue them. Magneto was not high and mighty at all anymore, he was running out of energy. Wolverine was tussling with about 6 agents when, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the mutant agent had been shooting beams all over the place and had hit the support beam of a tall building too many times. It didn't crumble, the mostly metal tower began falling onto a group of Magneto, Siryn, Cannonball Avalanche, Shadowcat and Boom Boom.
"What th-- Look OUT!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs and pointed with one clawed fist. Magneto was not able to act, as the building was seconds from crushing the lot of them. The all braced themselves, as Kitty got ready to phase (she wouldn't have gotten to anyone in time), but there was no impact. They all looked up to see a girl projecting magnetic waves that kept the building from crushing them into nothing. She was visibly struggling and attracted glances from other agents, because of her green hair. This allowed a couple hits for the good guys to keep some of the troops back.
"Eeerg… I--can't--hold--it much---longer!" Polaris mustered through a labored breath. Magneto, grateful, added his fading powers onto hers as they worked to put the building into place. It wasn't until Jean and Storm stepped in that they were able to fix it and it took Iceman and Sunfire to secure it by melting and freezing certain parts.
All over this fight was being televised and from all over mutants came to protect their 'brothers', metaphorically speaking. Magneto and the X-men were soon assisted by faces both familiar and new.
Angel flew in from NYC to help the X-men he knew well by keeping them out of danger and distracting some of the people targeting them. Spyke had heard about this battle and wasn't about to let his former teammates get squashed. He arrived and began firing bone spikes to destroy guns and nay other devices trying to be used to hurt mutants. There was a mutant familiar only to Lifeguard and that was, Slipstream, her brother. He saw her in trouble on television and came to help her out. Though he looked slightly out of place with a surfboard in hand, the one he used with his mutant power. Professor X had offered him a place with the New Mutants but he declined. A mutant appeared with the power to project rings of electric pulses from his hands and control movement of electricity with his mind; he called himself Zap.
More and more mutants came and it was hard to keep track of who was who and what powers they had. There was one mutant that was a human fireball who could throw flames as well and a girl whose body was below freezing and anything she touched would be coated in ice non-stop. Another could generate large sonic booms that were like rolls of thunder and still another who could transform sound energy into light to blind her opponents. These were only a couple of many who showed up to protect fellow mutants. They were NOT there for some fight for destruction that Magneto seemed to think. They were only there to protect, not destroy and Professor X knew that.
Troops were being brought down faster than new ones could come in and the only one undefeated so far was Plethora. She was knocking mutant after mutant out of her way. She had not lost a job yet and she wasn't going to let some meager mutants be the reason that she wasn't going to be paid her money 3.5 million dollars for every mutant brought in alive.
"I will get them, I can promise that!" She mumbled to herself as her rage began to take over. She plowed through a group of mutants, knocking some out, including Pyro, Jean and a couple unknown mutants. Rogue saw she was heading to where Wolverine, Gambit and Colossus were fighting off agents, back to back.
"Oh no ya don'." Rogue whispered aloud. She ran up behind her and reached out a bare hand. "Ah'm takin' you OUT!" Rogue yelled as she grabbed the back of Plethora's neck. She was surprised, no doubt about that but that doesn't mean she wasn't prepared. Rogue actually felt a shock as if her powers had bounced off and attacked her right back, somehow. Plethora turned on her heel to face Rogue who was now on one knee from the shock of pain. She could see why her power didn't work. Plethora, once again was glowing gold but at a much closer distance than her shield from earlier. It was like the shield was but it was only on the very surface of her body and her fingers were glowing again like little hot coals.
"Nice try, mutie!" She taunted.
"How can ya say that? You're a mutant too!!"
"I can say that because I'm paid to. I can make quite a fortune by taking you out." Giving Rogue a smug smile she turned on her heel again and ambushed Wolverine. He didn't pull his claws out in time and in a matter of seconds the formidable Weapon X known as Wolverine lay unconscious on the ground. Everyone couldn't help but stare for a moment, incredulously, at the heap that was their toughest instructor, no, the toughest mutant. Magneto himself could not believe that she took out Wolverine so easily.
"You force me to now take action if you wish my team harm." The voice of Professor X could be heard and he wheeled onto the scene.
"Don't deny it, Xavier," She said in an over confident voice, mockingly. "You," she pointed to him, "and all of your little 'children'--are--mine." She waved her arms, gesturing to all the other mutants. "And you!" She looked at Magneto now, "all you are is a liability to your own kind 'almighty one'." About three times as many troops now faced the mutants as when they started. She glanced over her left shoulder and then her right. "As you see, not only can I take you all down alone but I have unnecessary reinforcements to do some of the work for me. As of this moment… you--are--mine!" She yelled to all the mutants, then leading all the troops into a charge.