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This is the longest Chapter I've EVER written for any story, it's GIANT. Next chapter is based loosely around Impact might I add, but with some MAJOR changes going on there. Agatha Harkensen also has a roll to play.
A Dark Future Chapter 18- Awakening Part 2, the villainous point of view
Takes place during Chapter 17
Cyclops sat back and watched his colleges mingle. He remembered Riptide from when he himself was in the orphanage, but the others where new comers.
Scott shrugged it off and went to see his boss. He got to the door to the lab and saw Jason walk out with a satisfied smirk on his face as usually. Scott then walked in and saw his employer standing there with a usual smirk on his face. "Scott," He said in an all too friendly tone. "What is it Doc? Your acting weird," Scott accused. "How funny of you Mr. Summers," Sinister said. "I've decided to give you a friend," He said 'Considering you've taken no interest in Polaris' He added mentally. "What?" Scott asked looking curious. "I decided you needed someone to be with, since no one here seems to get along with you very well save Lorna and Janos," He said. Scott's facial features didn't show any sign of happiness.
"Ms. Grey should be ready any moment now," He said. Scott then looked horrified. "WHAT?!" He shouted in shock. "Yes, Jean, I decided to clone her and I did manage to exhume most of her memories, I made some alterations to make her more agreeable." He was cut off. "I can't believe you," Scott said looking angry. Essex didn't expect this reaction. "That's NOT Jean, if I asked for help in MY personal life, I wouldn't come to you, got it?" Scott hissed. Essex looked very angry now. "Completely, I'll terminate the subject," He said looking rather annoyed. Scott paled. "What?" He asked. Sinister took a note of that. "You know, eliminate her, she wasn't cloned for the team," He said simply. "Hold on a second, you can't just kill her," Scott said. "Of course I can!" Nathaniel snapped. "Wait, just have her on the team or something, don't just kill her, please," Scott begged. Sinister knew pissing Cyclops off right now wouldn't help him greatly. 'I'll eliminate her later,' He thought. "Fine," Sinister said looking away. "Now go," He added, his entire mood for the day ruined.
Jean stepped out of the tube barely able to stand and felt weak. "Come on then," Sinister hissed. Jean looked at him with a bit of shock, who was this guy? "What?" She said looking confused. "Listen you failed little experiment, get up and get dressed," Sinister said. She noted she was naked and did as she was told immediately. "Who the hell do you think you are?" Jean snapped. "Be quiet and I'll tell you exactly what YOU are," Sinister said. "You are a clone, you are a shadow of another person's life, you have no life of your own, you have no friends, and no one cares about you, I created you for Mr. Summers, and he doesn't even care for you," Sinister said looking annoyed and angry. "Though you're lucky he said to leave you alive, if you could call it lucky, I've altered your minds thought patterns as well, to be more agreeable," Sinister said. "Jean Grey lives at the Xavier institute, you are not her, you are nothing as far as I'm concerned and I will leave you to die in a heartbeat, understand?" Sinister asked. She was trying to process all this. "What?" He said looking horrified, finally finding her voice. "I told you, I will not repeat it again," Nathaniel said. Jean gulped and sat down looking shocked. "I'm going to tell you what your job is, you work for my team now, if you die, you die, your squad commander is Scott Summers," He said. She didn't even nod. "Listen, I don't believe you," She said. "Then probe away, not that you'd understand my mind much," Essex said. Jean normally wouldn't have done this, but she dived into his mind and saw it all. She immediately grew a hatred for her true self after reading that. She had nothing and the other Jean had everything. She saw how Scott reacted too, a bitter distaste grew for him as well, rejection hurt she found. She turned away breathing heavily. "Get out of here and find a room, I'll get you a uniform, don't doodle, you've been a big enough waste of mine time," Sinister snarled. "Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Mr. Sinister to you, now GET OUT!" He shouted. Jean got up and walked out almost in tears.
As Jean went through the hall conflicting things battled away in her mind. One thing was she knew she wouldn't be able to fight her way out. But another was, Scott had changed, and she also knew she was thinking differently. She felt more aggressive and hostile, and found no matter what she disliked humans. 'No!' She mentally screamed. "Hey there, you're the new girl huh? Come on," Harpoon said grabbing her arm. He led her to a door. "Here's a room, get ready for training, boss will expect a lot from a failed test subject," Harpoon explained. Failed, that word worked its way into her mind as she sat in the bland room. She'd show them. New determination came into light. As Sinister put it she was a shadow, a copy of someone else's life. She wouldn't let herself be the shadow, she'd make her own way in life, and to hell with Scott, Sinister, or the real her. "I won't be just pushed aside," She decided, still out of it though, so much being crammed down her throat and as far as she knew, she wasn't even an hour old. "I can't believe this is happening to me," She said looking confused and sad.
2 hours later,
Scott stood outside at the training area as the team assembled. Jean came out. He noted that and felt a ping of guilt. But this wasn't his Jean, he knew that. This was a copy, and if he wanted Jean, he would work to win the one he grew up with, not just some copy meant for him.
"Alright, we're going to work on teamwork skills again today," Scott declared.
The training was hard and Jean fell over unable to stand after training 4 hours. She felt something pick her up. She saw Scott pull her to her feet. She immediately knocked away his hand. "I don't need your help!" She hissed. Scott was taken back by this comment. "Jean, listen," He was cut off. "I'm not Jean, you don't even think so, I'm a shadow, I'm not even real!" She shouted. Scott just sighed as Jean left. He then went back to the complex following his teammates.
Scott didn't exactly know how to handle the situation now. Everything here was fine, but with this new factor in, he knew things where going to be trouble. Scott knew he'd been an ass before, he really should have given her a chance at least, but now even he knew it was for the best just to leave her alone. Scott knew that this Jean was different, Sinister even mentioned that, those 'minor' alterations weren't so minor and he knew it, this Jean seemed darker, more aggressive and just not the same. Jean had always been competitive with people, but out there she was almost possessed. "Well. at least she's ambitious," Scott said to himself.
The next day Scott woke up and quickly headed towards the food dispenser for his great breakfast of foot supplements.
When he got there he saw Jean, she was already different. "You cut your hair," Scott said. Jean had cut her hair much shorter.
*Don't ask me to describe it, just use your imagination, I suck at describing hair styles*.
"Leave me alone Scott," She said. "Listen, I'm sorry alright? I'd like it if we could be friends," Scott said. She looked at him and didn't say a word. She then looked back at her food and started to eat. Scott sighed and went to a table to eat. "Shot down," Scalphunter said from the side. "FUCK YOU GREY!" Scott snapped back.
After another training session, Mr. Sinister came out and looked over his men. "Tomorrow we leave to meet with some allies of mine, we both mutually decided that Apocalypse's release interferes with our own plans far too much," Sinister said. The Marauders just looked at him and nodded. "Be sure to make sure everything is in order," He added. "I myself and Jason will not be joining you, but the allied team will be, you will most likely be running into the X-men, Brotherhood, and Acolytes, there files are on record at the main computer," Sinister explained. Scott just nodded, he didn't relish in the idea of fighting the X-men, but he felt like he wanted too, and also he hoped the professor would be there.
Jean was overjoyed to hear the news, she hoped if there was any god on the planet that they would let the other Jean be there. She would snuff the life out of her and not have to be the shadow anymore.
Sinister knew his team alone could not deal with all 3 opposing teams. It would take tactics to do this. He also knew even with the help of the others it would still be very difficult. He honestly hoped Jean was felled in battle. It would no longer embarrass him.
His mind then went to his college Mesmero, he never told him the location for Nor, but he hoped he had it right.
Scott went to sleep that night and just looked at his ceiling in color, he loved his natural eyesight. He then shut his eyes and drifted into sleep, tomorrow the plans of his new commander would begin, and he himself would be leading the charge.
Meanwhile, in Nova Roma
Void could barely move as he saw Adam standing over him. "Pathetic," Adam snapped. "Now get up before I put you down permanently," Adam hissed. "Enough!" Selene said from the side. Adam glanced over to see her looking unimpressed. "That's enough for today, he's improved," She said. Adam just spat beside his little brother's still form. "It's not my fault he's so weak," Adam snarled and walked off, he felt ashamed to be related to his little brother.
Adam walked out into the city and saw people gathering around him. 'Not again,' He thought. They started to cheer in Portuguese. "Oh holy one, they say they are most happy to see you and they see it as a blessing," A priest said. "Tell them they should learn how to fuck themselves, because I'm not going to teach them," Adam said. The priest looked shocked and turned to the crowd and explained what Adam said. A dozen looked amazingly offended while the rest looked away feeling ashamed a man who was 'chosen' by there god had said such a comment to them. Adam continued his walked and noted three young woman had attempted to seduce him. 'I hate this place,' He thought immediately. A man walked up looking desperate and began to talk. "I don't understand your language," Adam explained looking annoyed. "He says that he wants you to bless his family who are expecting another member soon," The priest said finally catching up to Adam. Adam gave him a hard glare. 'This place is mad, I hate being this holy bullshit,' Adam thought. He saw the man had a pleading look in his eyes. He sighed to himself. "Tell him he's got my blessing," Adam said, it was obvious the old man was overjoyed leaving after the priest told him. Adam hated being nice to people who he didn't care about, but even he had sympathy on some people who where down and out.
Julio walked over to Adam. "Nice thing you did back there? Is it possible Adam Akimov has grown a soft spot aside from the one crammed up his ass?" Rictor said smirking. "Sorry to disappoint Rictor, but I'm not growing any soft spot, those lead to weakness," Adam said. "And I am not weak like a little punk like you," Adam added dangerously. Julio crossed his arms. "Fuck you Akimov," He said to Adam's face. "I'm getting tired of you Julio, unless you want to square off against Perfection, I suggest you keep your worthless pathetic opinions to yourself," Adam said with hatred dripping off every word. "Fine, I'll keep those little thoughts tucked away, but I know you'll be listening in, so I don't even have to tell you," Rictor said. "Sorry to disappoint once more Julio, but I wouldn't look in your mind unless I was going to die, because I'm most likely become a mental retard trying to understand your primitive thought patterns," Adam said with a cruel smirk. "Whatever," Rictor said walking past. Adam looked at a stand there some fruit was. "Meh could go for some grub," He said to himself.
Adam finished the apple he'd gotten and moved on back to the temple, he hated the people flocking around him, but Selene's orders not to kill them seemed to get in the way of him dealing with that problem.
Adam's thoughts drifted to the night where he got revenge on his father for years of beatings and abuse and grinned. "Old bastard didn't see that coming," He said to himself. He remembered the very sound his father's bones made when they where shattered and just smiled with joy as he shut his eyes and leaned his head back. "Something wrong your holiness?" The Priest asked. "NO!" Adam snarled, going back to his less friendly mode.
Selene came towards her group with a smirk on her face. "We leave for Egypt tomorrow," She said. "Why?" Adam asked. "You will be teaming up with a group of mutants who work for someone I made a deal with, your job is to stop the X-men and anyone else from entering a certain tomb with there life," She explained. "Sounds fun," Adam said with a grin. Jubilee looked horrified. "Remember the price of not doing this Jubilee," Selene said looking at her. "Living from day to day, forced to feed off others to live, killing to survive all the time, do you want that?" Selene asked. Jubilation shook her head frantically. "Good," Selene said with a satisfied grin.
Void looked at Julio. "Think they'll be people there?" He asked. "Of course stupid," Julio replied. "And. mutants?" Void added. "Yes, and mutants," Adam said rolling his eyes. "No, you can't be there friends," Adam said reading his mind. Void growled and frowned. "Good, now that is settled, get some sleep, we'll need it for tomorrow," Adam said.
The next morning Adam and the others left in there battle attire to see Selene standing outside the temple.
"Alright, where's our right?" Adam asked. Selene just stared at him. "How the fuck do you expect us to get to the fucking Nile Selene!" Adam added angrily. Selene pulled up a photo of the area where they wanted to go. "Void," She said walking over to him. "See this picture?" She said pointing at it. "I'm 10, not 3," Void replied. "Yes, you are," She pointed at a part of the picture. "We want to go there," She said. Void nodded.
Void began to roar in his deep voice, his huge fangs showing as his pupils disappeared. A golden energy streamed off his body and he put his hands forward. A large black whole appeared in space, a vortex with the blue tint. "There you are," Selene said. "How do we know that's even safe?!" Angelica shouted. "One way to find out," Adam said, he grabbed Firestar and threw her in. "BASTARD!" Her scream let out as she disappeared as soon as she touched it. Adam shrugged and was in next.
Adam landed on his ass in the desert before the great Sphinx. "Wow, it worked," He was then blasted by Firestar. "ASSHOLE!" She screamed. "Whatever," Adam said getting up and shook his head slightly. "Where's our allies?" He asked. Just then the other team members of the Void Stalkers fell out of the hole and landed beside them. The vortex disappeared as soon as Void fell through. Unfortunately to Adam, he didn't notice this, since his not so little 600 pounds of mutant enhanced muscle brother, landed on him.
Adam found himself being pulled to his feet by someone unfamiliar. "So, you're the team we're supposed to hook up with huh?" The voice said. Adam regained himself and pushed away. "Name's Harpoon," Harpoon said. "Adam," Replied Adam. He looked over to see his team looked at the others just as Scott came out.
"Jubilee?" Scott said in shock. "Scott?" She replied looking ill almost. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "I could ask you the same thing!" She said angrily. "Never mind, we have a job to do so let's just do it," Scott said changing the subject. He didn't want Jubilee to know. "What happened?" She pursued. "I left the X-men, I can see you did the same," Scott said. "No, I'm forced into this," Jubilation said frowning. Scott felt a ping of guilt. "Summers," Adam hissed from the side. Scott turned to see Adam Akimov. "So, you run this merry little band of yours?" Scott asked. "No, just field commanding, and I doubt you're my boss's ally, even she can do better, so I assume you're the same," Adam said.
Adam turned to see someone leaning up against the Sphinx foot. "YOU!" Adam shouted in a rage. The Clone of Jean turned her head. "ADAM!?" She gasped. Adam shook with rage. "Calm down, what'd Jean ever do to you?" Scott said. Adam turned to Scott. "Nothing, she only caused my DEATH!" Adam shouted in Scott's face. Scott didn't understand, was he cloned like himself? "Are you a clone or something?" Scott asked. "No, just brought back," Adam said. He then turned back to Jean. "And you, will not live to see tomorrow," Adam said angrily. "That's not Jean," Scott said. Adam turned back to Scott. "What?" He asked. "That's not Jean, it's a clone," Scott said. Akimov just snorted. "Fine, I'll believe you, for now," He said. He in actuality was overjoyed he didn't have to kill Jean, but still felt the need to murder at least one of them.
Adam found it odd there was an electrical source nearby that he was able to draw off. "Julio, remember what Selene told you before you left," Adam said. Rictor walked over and pointed his hands at the front of the Sphinx, a massive shockwave in the ground appeared then and then died down. The front entrance blasted inwards and there was a set of steps that led to a door in the ground. "Remember, we go down there and clean it out of bad guys, then wait for them to come," Scott said.
2 hours had past since eliminating the last killer Robot, Scalphunter and Cyclops did the most damage to them, and Polaris was a close 2nd place with her magnetic powers.
No one had been injured and the 2 teams sat there until nightfall came. "God, will those stupid bastards ever get here?" Adam complained. "Shut it perfect boy," Janos said. "Fuck you weakling," Adam shot back. Just then Scott's ears perked up. "Everyone get to there hiding place! Remember the plan!" Scott shouted. Everyone then recognized the sound of the X-jet who had any contact with it. "He's right! MOVE!" Adam shouted to his team.
The Black Bird landed down with the metal orbs of Magneto and his men. Soon both teams had exited there respective transportation and stood before the already opened tomb. "What the hell?" Magneto said. "Mesmero must have beaten us here!" Xavier gasped looking desperate. "No, Mesmero didn't beat you here," A voice rang out over the desert. "But we did," A figure said stepping up from the top of the Sphinx, the night sky above the desert was littered with stars and the full moon. They could see he had his arms crossed but no features under the shadow that covered the front of his body. "Who are you?" Magneto shouted.
He jumped off from the front of the Sphinx and landed in front of the men and landed crouching and then stood his full height. The blood in the X- men's veins turned ice cold seeing who it was. He noted this and gave no response though.
"Scott. what are you doing here?" Charles finally said. Cyclops just crossed his arms. "Nothing much, just SEEING how things are going," Scott said. The Professor saw the color of his eyes and looked down. "Oh so you noticed huh? I sure as hell noticed," Scott said. "What are you talking about Scott?" Jean asked. "I couldn't control my powers before. You know that, well HE was lying to me, the whole time! I couldn't for other reasons then control, that's for fucking sure!" Scott shouted. Everyone looked at Charles. "I had brain damage, that's why I couldn't control it," Scott said. "But it's fixed now, and not thanks to any enhancer of Magneto's either," Scott said. "And since we were once on the same team, I'm giving you two options," Scott said. "Scott, I did it for your own good. Please if you'll hear me out," Xavier pleaded to his first student, but it was obvious Cyclops was ignoring him. Everyone looked back to Cyclops. "First, you get back on your little aircraft, and leave," Scott said. Magneto snorted, "And what's the other?" He asked. "We kick you ass, kill a few of you, if not all of you, and you leave on your aircraft," Scott declared. "You and what army Cyclops?" Pyro asked. "Scalphunter, if you would," Cyclops shouted.
Nothing happened for a few seconds as Cyclops stood there, all three teams frozen in face. Then everyone turned to the staircase as they heard footsteps. A man with long hair black hair and a beard appeared from the steps. holding two giant energy cannons. "Welcome to Egypt," He said as he let loose with two massive orange colored energy beams.
Magneto and his crew where the first to noticed and jumped out of the way and covered, the X-men and Hood where next. The two beams landed right where they where once standing and exploded in a massive show of power.
Magneto glared at Scalphunter and waved his hand at him, the two cannons lifted out of his arms. But suddenly they went back. Magneto didn't understand until the levitating Polaris came into view. "Child, you challenge me?" Magneto said, insulted that a young woman would dare challenge him to his title as master of magnetism. Lorna did not reply. Instead she fired a magnetic wave at Magneto that knocked him back. "Very well!" Magneto shouted. He himself now floated through the air.
Omega red was the next to recover and his tendrils thrashed about wildly as he growled with frustration. He glared at Cyclops and picked him as his first victim, unfortunately someone else had other plans. Omega Red was his by a wave of earth and went flying back. Julio came into view. "Sorry friend, but you're not going after him, your going after the Rictor," Rictor said with a grin. The Russian glared at his foe and got to his feet.
Colossus got to his feet and looked at the huge figure before him, even bigger then himself. "Let's play," Void said and punched Colossus in the face, sending him flying back. Adam the 2nd had a cruel smile drawn across his lips as he calmly walked down towards the downed Colossus.
DJ looked at Pyro. "Right mate, I'll go down under and you stay topside, these guys are trying to stall us," Pyro stated. DJ nodded. Xavier overheard as well. ~Everyone, if you get in a fight with someone, only ask for help now, we may have to leave you behind to get to the tomb first~ Xavier's voice said.
DJ was about to go when a throwing star went flying past him at amazing speed, it hit him in the shoulder and the warm blood came flying out of the wound from the velocity of what had hit him. He turned to see a silver haired man grinning at him. "Name's Riptide, and you're about to have a very bad day," Janos said. "That so?" DJ said putting his guard up.
Storm was about to move towards the entrance when an optic blast hit her in the chest and she went flying back. "Sorry, but no one is going inside," Scott said with a satisfied grin. "Is that so?" Avatar said stepping up to bat. "Try that little trick on me," He added. He then gave Xavier a glance that said 'Get inside now'. He turned back to Cyclops and got ready for battle.
Scalp hunter aimed his gun at the downed Storm. "Bye bye," He said with a grin, just then two energy bolts shot down at him from above, he barely got out of the way in time and didn't see where they came from. Specter appeared behind him. "You and me friend," Specter said. A drop of sweat came down Scalp Hunter's forehead. "Agreed," Hunter said and his guns formed into a new weapon.
Xavier, Night crawler, Jean, Shadowcat, Quicksilver, Pyro, The Blob and Chris Winters go inside. The others remained on top to fight there foes, and some just to assist there friends. The team going inside where going to meet unfriendly resistance soon enough.
***Battle scenes*** -these all take place at roughly the same time.
***Magneto vs. Polaris-
Magneto was angry, beyond angry, he was furious. Eric Lehnsherr was yet to meet another mutant with Magnetic abilities, and no one was close to matching his power in any field with metal. He would show this new comer what power was.
Lorna saw Magneto's face and knew he was not happy, Mr. Sinister had warned her that Magneto was one of the most powerful mutants on earth, but she didn't believe him, at least not yet.
Magneto looked over there surroundings and saw little metal. He pointed his hand at her and focused his power. A magnetic pulse wave hit her. Polaris went back and smacked into the side of the sphinx, she was not used to this kind of abuse, or using the magnetic fields. Lorna hoped youth and vitality would work on her side, but unfortunately for her, Magneto had been granted his youth once more by operation rebirth.
Lorna in a demonstration of power blasted Magneto and back condensed his armor slightly. Magneto went flying back and hit the side of the X-Jet. Lorna flew higher into the air and pointed her hand at the jet, it then titled and tried to run over Magneto but he got back into the sky quickly enough.
Magneto snarled and pointed his hand at one of the metal orbs his team traveled in and it shot at her like a bullet. She put her hands up and barely stopped it in time. Magneto noted her exhaustion from doing this task. Lorna was in fear now. She saw Magneto did that with little effort. "You are indeed strong, but you are no match for me," Magneto said. He put one last push of power and the Orb went flying back towards her, shattering her defense and left shoulder from hitting her and the green haired woman landed on the ground out cold.
Eric Lehnsherr floated in the air victorious.
***Omega Red vs. Rictor. one of the shorter battles. lol-
Rictor blasted out his seismic waves at Omega Red. The waves blasted a huge wave of the ground and sand at him crushing over the Russian Super Soldier. "Well, that's that," Rictor said looking at where he effectively buried Arkady.
2 coils shot out of the sand and hit him in the chest sending him flying back. Julio got up as Omega Red roared in a rage and burst out of the sand. "YOU CANNOT STOP ME!" He shouted. Rictor gulped. Maybe this guy wasn't the smartest opponent to pick.
Julio was about to fire another wave of earth at Omega Red when Omega Red's coils lashed out, he dodged one but was caught by another. It lifted him into the air and squeezed, but it also drained the energy from his body. Omega Red laughed as Julio fell into unconsciousness and whipped him away. "Foolish boy," He said grinning.
***Colossus vs. Void
Colossus got to his knees and hands. Void stopped a few feet away looking down at him. Colossus spite his slow speed shot up and landed a huge upper cut on Void's jaw, sending him flying back and landing a good 10 feet away.
He was about to leave when Void got up. He was mumbling something angrily and glared at him. "OH YEA?!" He shouted. Colossus put his guard up. Void grinned evilly and a small black whole appeared in front of him. Void punched through it. Another hole appeared before Colossus and Void's fist smacked him right in the face. Colossus went flying back and slammed into the side of a sand dune.
Piotr got to his feet looking rather distort and ran at Void in a rage. Void formed a hole in the ground in front of Piotr and the metal giant fell through. He appeared above the battle and fell down and down until he was hit in the lower back by something hard. He then hit the ground. Piotr realized a moment later it had been Void's elbow.
Void was cackling slightly when Colossus got back in action and axe handle uppercut him. He cried out in pain and reared back. Colossus followed through with an axe handle smash and crushed Adam the 2nd into the ground.
Void got up and head butted Colossus, both went back slightly dazed. Void then saw the still form of his friend Rictor on the ground. He turned to see Colossus regrouping and made a hard choice, run and save his friend, or fight and possibly loose and let him die. The decision was not hard to make. Void ran over and grabbed Julio. He then carried him quickly into the tomb in an attempt to escape, leaving the majority of the Marauders still above.
***Zero vs. Riptide-
Z's left arm was now rendered useless by Riptide. Riptide was grinning as DJ held his shoulder. "Come on then," He said moving forward and back with a grin on his perfect teeth. Zero grinned. "Alright," He said.
Riptide attacked before DJ could do anything, he spun at insane speeds and before DJ knew it 3 more throwing stars where flying at him. He dodged to the side barely in time.
Riptide repeated this process twice more, throwing his deadly attack at DJ, the stars where going fast enough to punch through steel. DJ finally got a break and formed a sandpit under Riptide as it sucked him in. Riptide sun as fast as he could and a tornado of Sand blasted around him. "Shit," DJ said as the stinging stand basted at him.
Zero got up his power and roared pointing his good arm at the storm of stand. A massive wave of earth smashed into it on an upward movement. Riptide went flying into the air. "SHIIIIIIIT!" Was heard as Riptide when flying hundreds of feet.
Zero sat back and looked at his wounded arm. "Mother fucker," He said to himself.
***Scalp Hunter vs. Specter-
Grey was no real match for Raynor as it was, Raynor just had too much of an advantage at this point, he had about the same firepower ability, but he could fly and turn invisible, the battle was won before it started.
Scalp hunter opened fired with his blasters and Raynor dodged to the side and disappeared. "Shit," Grey said looking around frantically. Above him Raynor appeared with his hands pointed down.
The last thing Scalp Hunter was a bright flash before he past out.
Raynor landed beside him and put up his hand in the shape of a gun and blew off his pretend barrel.
***Cyclops vs. Avatar-
Cyclops dodged the skilled attacked just barely and kicked him in the back of the knee, having no effect. Tyler turned and tried to step on Scott's leg but the leader of the Marauders managed to jump back in time. Tyler growled angrily and Scott knew he had to play things smart to win.
Tyler looked for something he could do to catch Cyclops off guard, because he knew a frontal assault would lead to him being blasted by those eyes of Scott's, which normally wouldn't put him down, but they could be annoying.
Tyler put his fighting stance up and slowly moved in on Cyclops. Scott fired a red beam from his eyes and Tyler saw his opening. He came in from the side and caught Cyclops with a punch to the chest and then tackled him to the ground. From that punch Scott already broke two ribs and he was now pinned to the ground.
'Gotta think of a way out of this,' Scott thought. He then grabbed some sand off the ground and threw it into Tyler's eyes. Avatar went after roaring in frustration. Scott saw his chance and blasted him with everything, and it was angled.
The next thing Tyler knew he landed in the hard desert beside a man with silver like hair. "Ugh."
***Fight Scene over***
Scott looked at how his team had faired. The Stalker members had moved back to regroup. Scott rushed over to Scalp Hunter and pulled him over his shoulder and saw Lorna getting up. "Retreat!" He shouted.
10 minutes later,
Magneto looked over the remaining group members. Colossus was in pretty sore shape and so was Zero. "You two stay up here and get medical attention on the Black Bird," Magneto ordered. "Specter, Omega Red, follow me into the tomb," Magneto explained.
***
During this time, under the Sphinx, the members walked forward cautiously.
There where ripped statue like robots torn apart and destroyed, it seemed most of the traps had been triggered as well, but they where still being cautious. Energy seemed to be coming from the walls in some places, with glowing glyphs giving off massive amounts of energy.
Quicksilver had grown tired of this. "That's it," He said. He then zipped forward to find a different route. "Pietro no!" Hank shouted looking away from the hieroglyphics he was looking at. "Quick, we have to follow him," Charles insisted. "Spyke, stay with me, we need to decipher some of this," Beast said. Evan nodded.
The ground rushed down the hall to see an unconscious Pietro laying there bleeding rather badly on one hip. "Kurt! Get him topside now!" Charles shouted. Kurt Bamfed over to Pietro. After doing that he teleported to the Black Bird, even though now there was a battle raging outside, he was too concerned with trying to assist his fallen comrade, even if it was a temporary one.
"Who did that?" Chris asked. "I'm not sure," Xavier said. He put his fingers to his temples. "I'll try to find the location of anyone else in the tomb." He was cut off by an unimpressed humph that rang out all around them. He stopped immediately and looked around.
Everyone looked around the dark area for there ambusher, or ambushers. "This is a real treat, I knew Cyclops would fail holding off the entire team, so naturally I had the perfect back up plan," The voice shouted out. Everyone still looked around for there foe. Just then in the shadows a bluish glow and lighting where seen running up a dark figure, it didn't illuminate his features, he was still shadows and unable to see seen. His eyes started to glow. He stepped out into better light and every one of the X-men, especially Jean where shocked at who it was.
"Adam! But how?!" Jean shouted in shock. "You all thought you'd never see me again didn't you? Well too bad! I'm alive," Adam said with a cocky smirk. "It is unfortunate that I cannot say the same thing for all of you in a few moments," Adam said standing there with his fists at his side standing straight and just looking at them. He loved the expression on there faces. "I'm betting you all want to know how I survived Wolverines attack? Well it's rather simple really, I didn't," Adam said and gave a harsh laugh. "What are you some kind of vampire?" Pyro asked. "Vampire?! That's childish, a folktale at best. I was brought back into this world by the great black sorceress!" He declared. From that statement he got looks of what could only be described as pity. After an uneasy silence from that statement, which was more or less ridiculous a voice finally rang out. "You've lost it right?" Fred asked. "Fuck you Blob boy," Adam snarled. "Now then, let's get this little thing over with shall we?" He said and the electricity began to run up him more violently.
"Jean, would you like to lead off?" Adam said. Jean looked at him confused. Adam smirked. "Not you," Adam said. A telekinetic blast sent Jean flying into a wall. "Her," Adam said looking at the other Jean walking out from the shadows, a look of hatred played across her face.
Adam chuckled slightly and now his eyes flashed with insanity. "Now then, which one of you worthless de evolved throwbacks is the bravest?" He said putting his guard up. Fred and Chris Winters stepped forward. "That's more like it," Adam said with a predatory grin and his eyes showed the madness that had been building in his mind over the years.
Pyro was about to move in to help when he was blasted by a beam of raw energy that was thermal, he went flying back and Firestar came into view. "Hello," She said grinning. "G'day love," Pyro said and let his flames throwers turn on. "I think you'll be going to the burn ward now Shella," He added.
Professor Xavier saw Harpoon coming towards him with a grin. "You're all mine," He said. Suddenly there was a Bamf and he was gone. The Professor looked rather shocked for a moment and then realized Kurt must have returned.
Professor X was not without an opponent though. Jubilee came out. "Jubilee!" Xavier said in shock. "Sorry," Jubilation said sadly and pointed her hands at him. Professor X quickly blasted her mind and she was downed.
*Battle Scenes*
***Jean vs. . errmm. technically Madelyn Prior. but currently, more evil Jean, who will now be referred to as, Uhhh. Evil Jean! Until later anyway-
Jean was slammed into wall after wall telekinetically by her clone. She was then smashed through a wall. Evil Jean crossed her arms and smirked at her handy work. "Not the shadow anymore," She said to herself. Just then Jean floated out not looking very happy, whether this girl looked like her or not, it was obvious she didn't wanna talk. Jean blasted Evil Jean with a massive blast of telekinesis, taking her counterpart off guard and sending her into a wall.
Jean gave Evil Jean a taste of her own medicine and fired a powerful TK bubble into her blasting her through the wall. Jean stood there, hoping victory was close, so she could see who this woman was, and perhaps to have the professor help her, she felt hatred and aggression seething off her.
Evil Jean came out of the rubble looking furious and the two blasted 2 powerful waves of TK at one another, both hitting there targets head on. Jean went flying back and hit her hand hard and fell to the ground in pain. Evil Jean on the other hand hit her head and landed unconscious.
*** Pyro vs. Firestar-
Firestar was not happy when she realized what Pyro's powers where. She dodged the fire he had shot at her, but it turned into a bird and began to follow her. She blasted him and the bird hit her into a wall.
Both competitors got up growling at one another. Firestar blasted a wave of microwaves at him and the beam melted the rock where he once stood before dodging.
Pyro was not a fan of being melted, he liked fire, but he himself being killed was just not on his plate for fun things to do. "Yoooou BITCH!" He shouted angrily and fired a huge fireball at her. It morphed into a snake and wrapped around her and turned back into a fire ball and slammed into a wall before dispersing. Firestar lay unconscious on the ground.
*** Adam vs. The Blob and Raptor,
Adam grinned. "Wolverine tried to kill me and thanks to him I am far more powerful then I thought I could have become before," Adam declared putting his guard up. "You two are fools if they think you can beat me," He then finished. Chris was sick of this guys shit. "Fuck you buddy," He said. "You've got some balls lefty, come here and try to stave me off friend," Adam said cruelly with a friendly grin on his face. Chris snarled and released an energy blast from his scaled hand. It exploded right in front of Adam.
Fred and Chris watched eagerly to see if he would come out. ~Behind you~ Adam's voice said in there minds. They turned to see no one there. They then turned back to be double close lined by Adam and hit the ground hard. "Dumb asses," Adam said in a sly tone.
Fred got up and slammed Adam into a wall. He then attacked with his huge fist and hit Adam in the stomach. Akimov gasped out in pain from the strength Fred Dukes had. He gathered himself and formed an energy wave in his hands and blasted Fred in the chest sending him through a wall.
Raptor fired off another shot but Adam moved around it and came at him. Chris's heightened senses picked up on this immediately and he knew he had to put his guard up. He put his left arm up as it was hit with a bone shattering kick. He nearly fell over from the pain. Adam noted this and grinned. He kicked the arm again and one of the thick huge plates cracked and Chris cried out in pain. Adam kicked again and again until he heard a sickening crack and finally Chris's arm fell to his side broken. Adam grinned until Chris head butted him in the chest right below the neck.
Adam stepped back in a slight bit of shock, this guy could improvise. Adam was about to press to attack again when he was punched from the side and his face contorted with pain as his body lifted off the ground and broke through one of the old stone walls. Fred was back up and ready for round two. Adam climbed to his feet and breathed out once, his insane eyes locked on Blob. "No more games," He said grinning.
Fred came at him and with grace and agility Adam came in with a punch to the gut, a punch to his face, then followed by another two, and did a back flip kick. Fred went flying back and broke through a wall. Adam quickly turned to Chris who blasted him.
Adam got up once more, now he was starting to feel the effects of the fire. He saw that Chris was using his broken arm. ~Persistent aren't you? ~ Adam asked telepathically. Chris gulped and waited for Adam to attack. Adam this time put his hands to his side as power drew from some of the glyphs around them. "This is a new little trick I've learned," Adam said as a blue energy ball formed. "Enjoy," He said and launched the small but powerful beam. It hit Chris in the chest. Just as Chris was hit he fired his own beam around Adam's that slammed into him.
Chris broke into a wall and Adam hit the ground hard once again.
Adam got up breathing heavily and held his chest. "Little fucker," He snapped.
*** Harpoon vs. Kurt-
Kurt dodged the lightning light attack from Harpoon.
"Stay still you blue bastard," Harpoon hissed. "Nien, I don't vant to die today thank you," Kurt said friendlily. He drew up his sword and turned more serious.
Harpoon launched another one of his energy like spears at Kurt who teleported out of the way and landed on the stone floor. "Where did you take us anyway?!" Harpoon asked. "To near the start," Kurt explained. "Great, just fucking great," Harpoon said.
Just teleported behind Harpoon and put his sword to Harpoon's back. "Give up," Kurt said. "Never!" Harpoon snarled and turned around to be punched in the face and his arm was cut. He moved back wincing in pain.
"You won't kill me will you?" Harpoon said grinning. "I vill only if I have too," Kurt said. "Then you my friend are going to die today," Harpoon said and used his good arm to fire another attack at Kurt. Kurt came in with teleportation and sliced his other arm, this time worse then the other. Harpoon looked at his currently useless arms and kicked Kurt away. "I'll get you for this!" Harpoon shouted and disappeared down one of the dark halls of the tomb.
Kurt let out a sigh of relief until a huge figure rushed past him. "Oh shit," Kurt said, recognizing it as being someone from the surface.
Adam stood before Jean, who was in pain. He saw Pyro then and Professor X. Shadowcat then phased through a wall and was behind him. Adam grinned. "So this is all that's left of the might fighters who are out to stop Mesmero," Adam said grinning. "Why? Why did you stop us?" Xavier asked. "I was ordered to kill anyone who trys to get in, X-men, Brotherhood, Acolyte, there all the same," Adam said.
"Adam, give up, we can help you," Xavier said. "Same way you help Scott?" Adam asked with a cruel grin. "So you're working with Scott?" Jean asked sadly. "No, not really, just this mission, we have different employers," Adam explained. "But this is an enough talk, I want to get my blood moving and I'm looking for a fight," He said putting his guard up. ~And I've got plenty of new tricks Professor~ Adam's voice said to Xavier telepathically. "Be careful! He's telepathic!" Xavier shouted.
Jean blasted him into a wall quickly before he could do much and he smashed through one of the thick support pillars. The roof started to cave just as Void arrived.
Rubble and rock began crashing to the floor. "Get everyone out of here!" Xavier shouted and wheeled out. Kitty and Evan grabbed Chris and ran out. Jean lifted Fred with TK and helped him out.
"VOID TAKE US HOME!" Adam shouted. Void opened a portal slowly and threw Julio in. He picked up Jubilee and Firestar and did the same. Adam looked over at the fallen Jean, the clone. Adam looked back at Void. "Hurry brother!" Void shouted. 'For fucks sakes,' He thought. He rushed over and picked up Jean. "You fucking owe me," He snarled to the unconscious body and jumped through. Void was last through just as the section of the tomb collapsed.
Xavier looked back. Hank and Spyke rushed in. "What happened?" They asked. "We ran into some trouble," Jean said looking at the collapsed doorway.
Meanwhile,
Adam fell out of the void and saw Selene looking down at him. "Idiots," She hissed. She then looked at the red head Adam was holding. "I see you decided to bring a toy home," She said. "No, just helping a teammate," Adam said. "That's a first," Void said. "Emphasize on the least for letters of Adam's little statement Void, that's the REAL reason why Adam helped out our little friend," Firestar said from behind. Adam snarled and turned to her. "Stop! What's done cannot be undone, perhaps this young lady could be useful to us," Selene said. Adam looked over his team. Everyone battered and bruised save Jubilee. "I have a feeling the fun has just begun," Adam said and left for his room and a shower. 'Isn't that the girl who killed Adam?' Selene thought. She then noted it was, 'Most interesting,' Selene thought.
And at the same moment,
Scott looked at his battered and bruised team as they headed back to base in Sinister's special jet, it was not black bird, but it was far better then any military plane. "Where's Jean?" He asked with concern. "Dead I assume," Harpoon said. Cyclops gulped and nodded. "Alright, get over it, we now gotta explain to Essex that we fucked up," Scalp Hunter said. "He does have a point," Lorna said. "I wonder where Mesmero was, there was no way he could have gotten past us," Cyclops said looking curious.
Magneto and Charles made it over to a pyramid like ship with the members of the team who weren't injured. They had been left in the Black Bird with Shadowcat and Storm, who had regained her consciousness.
Charles looked as the ship opened and rolled in. "A Cerebro interface," He said. "I'm going to link with the ship," He added. He put the cap on and began to read over the ship.
The teams stood behind him and he looked shocked. "I know where they are!" He gasped as the ship shut and transported to the true tomb of Apocalypse.
The teams had arrived just in time to see Mesmero lying against a wall unconscious and Gambit with Sabertooth. Logan ran past a statue of Mystique and everyone was in general shock.
A moment later a figure floated in, he looked like an Egyptian god. Everyone put there guards up, preparing for battle. Apocalypse clapped his hands. A Telekinetic shockwave blasted out and neutralized everyone there. Every mutant fell before his power as if they where nothing.
Apocalypse casually floated past everyone and was about to enter his ship but Magneto stopped him. With a gesture of his hand he defeated Magneto. Mesmero got to his feet. "Master! Wait for me!" He said. En Sabah Nor narrowed his eyes on him and Mesmero fell to the ground dead, an internal explosion in his heart.
Apocalypse entered his ship without another word and it shut and disappeared.
"We failed," Magneto said in shame. "Yes, and now the real battle will begin," The Professor declared. As everyone lay in defeat from what is supposed to be the most powerful mutant alive.
***
That's chapter 18, the longest chapter I've written for any story, it's longer then a lot of people's entire stories! Over 8500 words! LOL. Anyway, next chapter will be loosely based on Impact, and will focus mainly on the main characters of this story and some others whose rolls are going to increase.
Another Character will be in a bit next chapter, mentioned last chapter, Jacen, but nothing major until the story gets going a bit more.
This chapter took me roughly 8 hours to write. so please review it, I really went above and beyond for this chapter.
And if you do review it, please review in great detail, this took me forever and that's all I ask *Cries*
DJ 'Zero' McCoy belong to Hybrid Omega, and Michael 'Specter' Raynor belongs to Emerald Knight1. Neona 'Pixie' Shields belongs to PyroRockerGrl. Ana Catalina Maria Christina 'Dream' DeSanFe belongs to Son Gomay Videl Goku. Pyroizhot is the creator and owner of Chris 'Raptor' Winters, and Pyro Gurl2 is the creator of Isabella 'Misty' Lebeau I thank everyone who has submitted a character to me and I hope I will be able to use as many as possible.
Only one Review for Chapter 17 :(, I'm starting to feel unappreciated :(
This is the longest Chapter I've EVER written for any story, it's GIANT. Next chapter is based loosely around Impact might I add, but with some MAJOR changes going on there. Agatha Harkensen also has a roll to play.
A Dark Future Chapter 18- Awakening Part 2, the villainous point of view
Takes place during Chapter 17
Cyclops sat back and watched his colleges mingle. He remembered Riptide from when he himself was in the orphanage, but the others where new comers.
Scott shrugged it off and went to see his boss. He got to the door to the lab and saw Jason walk out with a satisfied smirk on his face as usually. Scott then walked in and saw his employer standing there with a usual smirk on his face. "Scott," He said in an all too friendly tone. "What is it Doc? Your acting weird," Scott accused. "How funny of you Mr. Summers," Sinister said. "I've decided to give you a friend," He said 'Considering you've taken no interest in Polaris' He added mentally. "What?" Scott asked looking curious. "I decided you needed someone to be with, since no one here seems to get along with you very well save Lorna and Janos," He said. Scott's facial features didn't show any sign of happiness.
"Ms. Grey should be ready any moment now," He said. Scott then looked horrified. "WHAT?!" He shouted in shock. "Yes, Jean, I decided to clone her and I did manage to exhume most of her memories, I made some alterations to make her more agreeable." He was cut off. "I can't believe you," Scott said looking angry. Essex didn't expect this reaction. "That's NOT Jean, if I asked for help in MY personal life, I wouldn't come to you, got it?" Scott hissed. Essex looked very angry now. "Completely, I'll terminate the subject," He said looking rather annoyed. Scott paled. "What?" He asked. Sinister took a note of that. "You know, eliminate her, she wasn't cloned for the team," He said simply. "Hold on a second, you can't just kill her," Scott said. "Of course I can!" Nathaniel snapped. "Wait, just have her on the team or something, don't just kill her, please," Scott begged. Sinister knew pissing Cyclops off right now wouldn't help him greatly. 'I'll eliminate her later,' He thought. "Fine," Sinister said looking away. "Now go," He added, his entire mood for the day ruined.
Jean stepped out of the tube barely able to stand and felt weak. "Come on then," Sinister hissed. Jean looked at him with a bit of shock, who was this guy? "What?" She said looking confused. "Listen you failed little experiment, get up and get dressed," Sinister said. She noted she was naked and did as she was told immediately. "Who the hell do you think you are?" Jean snapped. "Be quiet and I'll tell you exactly what YOU are," Sinister said. "You are a clone, you are a shadow of another person's life, you have no life of your own, you have no friends, and no one cares about you, I created you for Mr. Summers, and he doesn't even care for you," Sinister said looking annoyed and angry. "Though you're lucky he said to leave you alive, if you could call it lucky, I've altered your minds thought patterns as well, to be more agreeable," Sinister said. "Jean Grey lives at the Xavier institute, you are not her, you are nothing as far as I'm concerned and I will leave you to die in a heartbeat, understand?" Sinister asked. She was trying to process all this. "What?" He said looking horrified, finally finding her voice. "I told you, I will not repeat it again," Nathaniel said. Jean gulped and sat down looking shocked. "I'm going to tell you what your job is, you work for my team now, if you die, you die, your squad commander is Scott Summers," He said. She didn't even nod. "Listen, I don't believe you," She said. "Then probe away, not that you'd understand my mind much," Essex said. Jean normally wouldn't have done this, but she dived into his mind and saw it all. She immediately grew a hatred for her true self after reading that. She had nothing and the other Jean had everything. She saw how Scott reacted too, a bitter distaste grew for him as well, rejection hurt she found. She turned away breathing heavily. "Get out of here and find a room, I'll get you a uniform, don't doodle, you've been a big enough waste of mine time," Sinister snarled. "Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Mr. Sinister to you, now GET OUT!" He shouted. Jean got up and walked out almost in tears.
As Jean went through the hall conflicting things battled away in her mind. One thing was she knew she wouldn't be able to fight her way out. But another was, Scott had changed, and she also knew she was thinking differently. She felt more aggressive and hostile, and found no matter what she disliked humans. 'No!' She mentally screamed. "Hey there, you're the new girl huh? Come on," Harpoon said grabbing her arm. He led her to a door. "Here's a room, get ready for training, boss will expect a lot from a failed test subject," Harpoon explained. Failed, that word worked its way into her mind as she sat in the bland room. She'd show them. New determination came into light. As Sinister put it she was a shadow, a copy of someone else's life. She wouldn't let herself be the shadow, she'd make her own way in life, and to hell with Scott, Sinister, or the real her. "I won't be just pushed aside," She decided, still out of it though, so much being crammed down her throat and as far as she knew, she wasn't even an hour old. "I can't believe this is happening to me," She said looking confused and sad.
2 hours later,
Scott stood outside at the training area as the team assembled. Jean came out. He noted that and felt a ping of guilt. But this wasn't his Jean, he knew that. This was a copy, and if he wanted Jean, he would work to win the one he grew up with, not just some copy meant for him.
"Alright, we're going to work on teamwork skills again today," Scott declared.
The training was hard and Jean fell over unable to stand after training 4 hours. She felt something pick her up. She saw Scott pull her to her feet. She immediately knocked away his hand. "I don't need your help!" She hissed. Scott was taken back by this comment. "Jean, listen," He was cut off. "I'm not Jean, you don't even think so, I'm a shadow, I'm not even real!" She shouted. Scott just sighed as Jean left. He then went back to the complex following his teammates.
Scott didn't exactly know how to handle the situation now. Everything here was fine, but with this new factor in, he knew things where going to be trouble. Scott knew he'd been an ass before, he really should have given her a chance at least, but now even he knew it was for the best just to leave her alone. Scott knew that this Jean was different, Sinister even mentioned that, those 'minor' alterations weren't so minor and he knew it, this Jean seemed darker, more aggressive and just not the same. Jean had always been competitive with people, but out there she was almost possessed. "Well. at least she's ambitious," Scott said to himself.
The next day Scott woke up and quickly headed towards the food dispenser for his great breakfast of foot supplements.
When he got there he saw Jean, she was already different. "You cut your hair," Scott said. Jean had cut her hair much shorter.
*Don't ask me to describe it, just use your imagination, I suck at describing hair styles*.
"Leave me alone Scott," She said. "Listen, I'm sorry alright? I'd like it if we could be friends," Scott said. She looked at him and didn't say a word. She then looked back at her food and started to eat. Scott sighed and went to a table to eat. "Shot down," Scalphunter said from the side. "FUCK YOU GREY!" Scott snapped back.
After another training session, Mr. Sinister came out and looked over his men. "Tomorrow we leave to meet with some allies of mine, we both mutually decided that Apocalypse's release interferes with our own plans far too much," Sinister said. The Marauders just looked at him and nodded. "Be sure to make sure everything is in order," He added. "I myself and Jason will not be joining you, but the allied team will be, you will most likely be running into the X-men, Brotherhood, and Acolytes, there files are on record at the main computer," Sinister explained. Scott just nodded, he didn't relish in the idea of fighting the X-men, but he felt like he wanted too, and also he hoped the professor would be there.
Jean was overjoyed to hear the news, she hoped if there was any god on the planet that they would let the other Jean be there. She would snuff the life out of her and not have to be the shadow anymore.
Sinister knew his team alone could not deal with all 3 opposing teams. It would take tactics to do this. He also knew even with the help of the others it would still be very difficult. He honestly hoped Jean was felled in battle. It would no longer embarrass him.
His mind then went to his college Mesmero, he never told him the location for Nor, but he hoped he had it right.
Scott went to sleep that night and just looked at his ceiling in color, he loved his natural eyesight. He then shut his eyes and drifted into sleep, tomorrow the plans of his new commander would begin, and he himself would be leading the charge.
Meanwhile, in Nova Roma
Void could barely move as he saw Adam standing over him. "Pathetic," Adam snapped. "Now get up before I put you down permanently," Adam hissed. "Enough!" Selene said from the side. Adam glanced over to see her looking unimpressed. "That's enough for today, he's improved," She said. Adam just spat beside his little brother's still form. "It's not my fault he's so weak," Adam snarled and walked off, he felt ashamed to be related to his little brother.
Adam walked out into the city and saw people gathering around him. 'Not again,' He thought. They started to cheer in Portuguese. "Oh holy one, they say they are most happy to see you and they see it as a blessing," A priest said. "Tell them they should learn how to fuck themselves, because I'm not going to teach them," Adam said. The priest looked shocked and turned to the crowd and explained what Adam said. A dozen looked amazingly offended while the rest looked away feeling ashamed a man who was 'chosen' by there god had said such a comment to them. Adam continued his walked and noted three young woman had attempted to seduce him. 'I hate this place,' He thought immediately. A man walked up looking desperate and began to talk. "I don't understand your language," Adam explained looking annoyed. "He says that he wants you to bless his family who are expecting another member soon," The priest said finally catching up to Adam. Adam gave him a hard glare. 'This place is mad, I hate being this holy bullshit,' Adam thought. He saw the man had a pleading look in his eyes. He sighed to himself. "Tell him he's got my blessing," Adam said, it was obvious the old man was overjoyed leaving after the priest told him. Adam hated being nice to people who he didn't care about, but even he had sympathy on some people who where down and out.
Julio walked over to Adam. "Nice thing you did back there? Is it possible Adam Akimov has grown a soft spot aside from the one crammed up his ass?" Rictor said smirking. "Sorry to disappoint Rictor, but I'm not growing any soft spot, those lead to weakness," Adam said. "And I am not weak like a little punk like you," Adam added dangerously. Julio crossed his arms. "Fuck you Akimov," He said to Adam's face. "I'm getting tired of you Julio, unless you want to square off against Perfection, I suggest you keep your worthless pathetic opinions to yourself," Adam said with hatred dripping off every word. "Fine, I'll keep those little thoughts tucked away, but I know you'll be listening in, so I don't even have to tell you," Rictor said. "Sorry to disappoint once more Julio, but I wouldn't look in your mind unless I was going to die, because I'm most likely become a mental retard trying to understand your primitive thought patterns," Adam said with a cruel smirk. "Whatever," Rictor said walking past. Adam looked at a stand there some fruit was. "Meh could go for some grub," He said to himself.
Adam finished the apple he'd gotten and moved on back to the temple, he hated the people flocking around him, but Selene's orders not to kill them seemed to get in the way of him dealing with that problem.
Adam's thoughts drifted to the night where he got revenge on his father for years of beatings and abuse and grinned. "Old bastard didn't see that coming," He said to himself. He remembered the very sound his father's bones made when they where shattered and just smiled with joy as he shut his eyes and leaned his head back. "Something wrong your holiness?" The Priest asked. "NO!" Adam snarled, going back to his less friendly mode.
Selene came towards her group with a smirk on her face. "We leave for Egypt tomorrow," She said. "Why?" Adam asked. "You will be teaming up with a group of mutants who work for someone I made a deal with, your job is to stop the X-men and anyone else from entering a certain tomb with there life," She explained. "Sounds fun," Adam said with a grin. Jubilee looked horrified. "Remember the price of not doing this Jubilee," Selene said looking at her. "Living from day to day, forced to feed off others to live, killing to survive all the time, do you want that?" Selene asked. Jubilation shook her head frantically. "Good," Selene said with a satisfied grin.
Void looked at Julio. "Think they'll be people there?" He asked. "Of course stupid," Julio replied. "And. mutants?" Void added. "Yes, and mutants," Adam said rolling his eyes. "No, you can't be there friends," Adam said reading his mind. Void growled and frowned. "Good, now that is settled, get some sleep, we'll need it for tomorrow," Adam said.
The next morning Adam and the others left in there battle attire to see Selene standing outside the temple.
"Alright, where's our right?" Adam asked. Selene just stared at him. "How the fuck do you expect us to get to the fucking Nile Selene!" Adam added angrily. Selene pulled up a photo of the area where they wanted to go. "Void," She said walking over to him. "See this picture?" She said pointing at it. "I'm 10, not 3," Void replied. "Yes, you are," She pointed at a part of the picture. "We want to go there," She said. Void nodded.
Void began to roar in his deep voice, his huge fangs showing as his pupils disappeared. A golden energy streamed off his body and he put his hands forward. A large black whole appeared in space, a vortex with the blue tint. "There you are," Selene said. "How do we know that's even safe?!" Angelica shouted. "One way to find out," Adam said, he grabbed Firestar and threw her in. "BASTARD!" Her scream let out as she disappeared as soon as she touched it. Adam shrugged and was in next.
Adam landed on his ass in the desert before the great Sphinx. "Wow, it worked," He was then blasted by Firestar. "ASSHOLE!" She screamed. "Whatever," Adam said getting up and shook his head slightly. "Where's our allies?" He asked. Just then the other team members of the Void Stalkers fell out of the hole and landed beside them. The vortex disappeared as soon as Void fell through. Unfortunately to Adam, he didn't notice this, since his not so little 600 pounds of mutant enhanced muscle brother, landed on him.
Adam found himself being pulled to his feet by someone unfamiliar. "So, you're the team we're supposed to hook up with huh?" The voice said. Adam regained himself and pushed away. "Name's Harpoon," Harpoon said. "Adam," Replied Adam. He looked over to see his team looked at the others just as Scott came out.
"Jubilee?" Scott said in shock. "Scott?" She replied looking ill almost. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "I could ask you the same thing!" She said angrily. "Never mind, we have a job to do so let's just do it," Scott said changing the subject. He didn't want Jubilee to know. "What happened?" She pursued. "I left the X-men, I can see you did the same," Scott said. "No, I'm forced into this," Jubilation said frowning. Scott felt a ping of guilt. "Summers," Adam hissed from the side. Scott turned to see Adam Akimov. "So, you run this merry little band of yours?" Scott asked. "No, just field commanding, and I doubt you're my boss's ally, even she can do better, so I assume you're the same," Adam said.
Adam turned to see someone leaning up against the Sphinx foot. "YOU!" Adam shouted in a rage. The Clone of Jean turned her head. "ADAM!?" She gasped. Adam shook with rage. "Calm down, what'd Jean ever do to you?" Scott said. Adam turned to Scott. "Nothing, she only caused my DEATH!" Adam shouted in Scott's face. Scott didn't understand, was he cloned like himself? "Are you a clone or something?" Scott asked. "No, just brought back," Adam said. He then turned back to Jean. "And you, will not live to see tomorrow," Adam said angrily. "That's not Jean," Scott said. Adam turned back to Scott. "What?" He asked. "That's not Jean, it's a clone," Scott said. Akimov just snorted. "Fine, I'll believe you, for now," He said. He in actuality was overjoyed he didn't have to kill Jean, but still felt the need to murder at least one of them.
Adam found it odd there was an electrical source nearby that he was able to draw off. "Julio, remember what Selene told you before you left," Adam said. Rictor walked over and pointed his hands at the front of the Sphinx, a massive shockwave in the ground appeared then and then died down. The front entrance blasted inwards and there was a set of steps that led to a door in the ground. "Remember, we go down there and clean it out of bad guys, then wait for them to come," Scott said.
2 hours had past since eliminating the last killer Robot, Scalphunter and Cyclops did the most damage to them, and Polaris was a close 2nd place with her magnetic powers.
No one had been injured and the 2 teams sat there until nightfall came. "God, will those stupid bastards ever get here?" Adam complained. "Shut it perfect boy," Janos said. "Fuck you weakling," Adam shot back. Just then Scott's ears perked up. "Everyone get to there hiding place! Remember the plan!" Scott shouted. Everyone then recognized the sound of the X-jet who had any contact with it. "He's right! MOVE!" Adam shouted to his team.
The Black Bird landed down with the metal orbs of Magneto and his men. Soon both teams had exited there respective transportation and stood before the already opened tomb. "What the hell?" Magneto said. "Mesmero must have beaten us here!" Xavier gasped looking desperate. "No, Mesmero didn't beat you here," A voice rang out over the desert. "But we did," A figure said stepping up from the top of the Sphinx, the night sky above the desert was littered with stars and the full moon. They could see he had his arms crossed but no features under the shadow that covered the front of his body. "Who are you?" Magneto shouted.
He jumped off from the front of the Sphinx and landed in front of the men and landed crouching and then stood his full height. The blood in the X- men's veins turned ice cold seeing who it was. He noted this and gave no response though.
"Scott. what are you doing here?" Charles finally said. Cyclops just crossed his arms. "Nothing much, just SEEING how things are going," Scott said. The Professor saw the color of his eyes and looked down. "Oh so you noticed huh? I sure as hell noticed," Scott said. "What are you talking about Scott?" Jean asked. "I couldn't control my powers before. You know that, well HE was lying to me, the whole time! I couldn't for other reasons then control, that's for fucking sure!" Scott shouted. Everyone looked at Charles. "I had brain damage, that's why I couldn't control it," Scott said. "But it's fixed now, and not thanks to any enhancer of Magneto's either," Scott said. "And since we were once on the same team, I'm giving you two options," Scott said. "Scott, I did it for your own good. Please if you'll hear me out," Xavier pleaded to his first student, but it was obvious Cyclops was ignoring him. Everyone looked back to Cyclops. "First, you get back on your little aircraft, and leave," Scott said. Magneto snorted, "And what's the other?" He asked. "We kick you ass, kill a few of you, if not all of you, and you leave on your aircraft," Scott declared. "You and what army Cyclops?" Pyro asked. "Scalphunter, if you would," Cyclops shouted.
Nothing happened for a few seconds as Cyclops stood there, all three teams frozen in face. Then everyone turned to the staircase as they heard footsteps. A man with long hair black hair and a beard appeared from the steps. holding two giant energy cannons. "Welcome to Egypt," He said as he let loose with two massive orange colored energy beams.
Magneto and his crew where the first to noticed and jumped out of the way and covered, the X-men and Hood where next. The two beams landed right where they where once standing and exploded in a massive show of power.
Magneto glared at Scalphunter and waved his hand at him, the two cannons lifted out of his arms. But suddenly they went back. Magneto didn't understand until the levitating Polaris came into view. "Child, you challenge me?" Magneto said, insulted that a young woman would dare challenge him to his title as master of magnetism. Lorna did not reply. Instead she fired a magnetic wave at Magneto that knocked him back. "Very well!" Magneto shouted. He himself now floated through the air.
Omega red was the next to recover and his tendrils thrashed about wildly as he growled with frustration. He glared at Cyclops and picked him as his first victim, unfortunately someone else had other plans. Omega Red was his by a wave of earth and went flying back. Julio came into view. "Sorry friend, but you're not going after him, your going after the Rictor," Rictor said with a grin. The Russian glared at his foe and got to his feet.
Colossus got to his feet and looked at the huge figure before him, even bigger then himself. "Let's play," Void said and punched Colossus in the face, sending him flying back. Adam the 2nd had a cruel smile drawn across his lips as he calmly walked down towards the downed Colossus.
DJ looked at Pyro. "Right mate, I'll go down under and you stay topside, these guys are trying to stall us," Pyro stated. DJ nodded. Xavier overheard as well. ~Everyone, if you get in a fight with someone, only ask for help now, we may have to leave you behind to get to the tomb first~ Xavier's voice said.
DJ was about to go when a throwing star went flying past him at amazing speed, it hit him in the shoulder and the warm blood came flying out of the wound from the velocity of what had hit him. He turned to see a silver haired man grinning at him. "Name's Riptide, and you're about to have a very bad day," Janos said. "That so?" DJ said putting his guard up.
Storm was about to move towards the entrance when an optic blast hit her in the chest and she went flying back. "Sorry, but no one is going inside," Scott said with a satisfied grin. "Is that so?" Avatar said stepping up to bat. "Try that little trick on me," He added. He then gave Xavier a glance that said 'Get inside now'. He turned back to Cyclops and got ready for battle.
Scalp hunter aimed his gun at the downed Storm. "Bye bye," He said with a grin, just then two energy bolts shot down at him from above, he barely got out of the way in time and didn't see where they came from. Specter appeared behind him. "You and me friend," Specter said. A drop of sweat came down Scalp Hunter's forehead. "Agreed," Hunter said and his guns formed into a new weapon.
Xavier, Night crawler, Jean, Shadowcat, Quicksilver, Pyro, The Blob and Chris Winters go inside. The others remained on top to fight there foes, and some just to assist there friends. The team going inside where going to meet unfriendly resistance soon enough.
***Battle scenes*** -these all take place at roughly the same time.
***Magneto vs. Polaris-
Magneto was angry, beyond angry, he was furious. Eric Lehnsherr was yet to meet another mutant with Magnetic abilities, and no one was close to matching his power in any field with metal. He would show this new comer what power was.
Lorna saw Magneto's face and knew he was not happy, Mr. Sinister had warned her that Magneto was one of the most powerful mutants on earth, but she didn't believe him, at least not yet.
Magneto looked over there surroundings and saw little metal. He pointed his hand at her and focused his power. A magnetic pulse wave hit her. Polaris went back and smacked into the side of the sphinx, she was not used to this kind of abuse, or using the magnetic fields. Lorna hoped youth and vitality would work on her side, but unfortunately for her, Magneto had been granted his youth once more by operation rebirth.
Lorna in a demonstration of power blasted Magneto and back condensed his armor slightly. Magneto went flying back and hit the side of the X-Jet. Lorna flew higher into the air and pointed her hand at the jet, it then titled and tried to run over Magneto but he got back into the sky quickly enough.
Magneto snarled and pointed his hand at one of the metal orbs his team traveled in and it shot at her like a bullet. She put her hands up and barely stopped it in time. Magneto noted her exhaustion from doing this task. Lorna was in fear now. She saw Magneto did that with little effort. "You are indeed strong, but you are no match for me," Magneto said. He put one last push of power and the Orb went flying back towards her, shattering her defense and left shoulder from hitting her and the green haired woman landed on the ground out cold.
Eric Lehnsherr floated in the air victorious.
***Omega Red vs. Rictor. one of the shorter battles. lol-
Rictor blasted out his seismic waves at Omega Red. The waves blasted a huge wave of the ground and sand at him crushing over the Russian Super Soldier. "Well, that's that," Rictor said looking at where he effectively buried Arkady.
2 coils shot out of the sand and hit him in the chest sending him flying back. Julio got up as Omega Red roared in a rage and burst out of the sand. "YOU CANNOT STOP ME!" He shouted. Rictor gulped. Maybe this guy wasn't the smartest opponent to pick.
Julio was about to fire another wave of earth at Omega Red when Omega Red's coils lashed out, he dodged one but was caught by another. It lifted him into the air and squeezed, but it also drained the energy from his body. Omega Red laughed as Julio fell into unconsciousness and whipped him away. "Foolish boy," He said grinning.
***Colossus vs. Void
Colossus got to his knees and hands. Void stopped a few feet away looking down at him. Colossus spite his slow speed shot up and landed a huge upper cut on Void's jaw, sending him flying back and landing a good 10 feet away.
He was about to leave when Void got up. He was mumbling something angrily and glared at him. "OH YEA?!" He shouted. Colossus put his guard up. Void grinned evilly and a small black whole appeared in front of him. Void punched through it. Another hole appeared before Colossus and Void's fist smacked him right in the face. Colossus went flying back and slammed into the side of a sand dune.
Piotr got to his feet looking rather distort and ran at Void in a rage. Void formed a hole in the ground in front of Piotr and the metal giant fell through. He appeared above the battle and fell down and down until he was hit in the lower back by something hard. He then hit the ground. Piotr realized a moment later it had been Void's elbow.
Void was cackling slightly when Colossus got back in action and axe handle uppercut him. He cried out in pain and reared back. Colossus followed through with an axe handle smash and crushed Adam the 2nd into the ground.
Void got up and head butted Colossus, both went back slightly dazed. Void then saw the still form of his friend Rictor on the ground. He turned to see Colossus regrouping and made a hard choice, run and save his friend, or fight and possibly loose and let him die. The decision was not hard to make. Void ran over and grabbed Julio. He then carried him quickly into the tomb in an attempt to escape, leaving the majority of the Marauders still above.
***Zero vs. Riptide-
Z's left arm was now rendered useless by Riptide. Riptide was grinning as DJ held his shoulder. "Come on then," He said moving forward and back with a grin on his perfect teeth. Zero grinned. "Alright," He said.
Riptide attacked before DJ could do anything, he spun at insane speeds and before DJ knew it 3 more throwing stars where flying at him. He dodged to the side barely in time.
Riptide repeated this process twice more, throwing his deadly attack at DJ, the stars where going fast enough to punch through steel. DJ finally got a break and formed a sandpit under Riptide as it sucked him in. Riptide sun as fast as he could and a tornado of Sand blasted around him. "Shit," DJ said as the stinging stand basted at him.
Zero got up his power and roared pointing his good arm at the storm of stand. A massive wave of earth smashed into it on an upward movement. Riptide went flying into the air. "SHIIIIIIIT!" Was heard as Riptide when flying hundreds of feet.
Zero sat back and looked at his wounded arm. "Mother fucker," He said to himself.
***Scalp Hunter vs. Specter-
Grey was no real match for Raynor as it was, Raynor just had too much of an advantage at this point, he had about the same firepower ability, but he could fly and turn invisible, the battle was won before it started.
Scalp hunter opened fired with his blasters and Raynor dodged to the side and disappeared. "Shit," Grey said looking around frantically. Above him Raynor appeared with his hands pointed down.
The last thing Scalp Hunter was a bright flash before he past out.
Raynor landed beside him and put up his hand in the shape of a gun and blew off his pretend barrel.
***Cyclops vs. Avatar-
Cyclops dodged the skilled attacked just barely and kicked him in the back of the knee, having no effect. Tyler turned and tried to step on Scott's leg but the leader of the Marauders managed to jump back in time. Tyler growled angrily and Scott knew he had to play things smart to win.
Tyler looked for something he could do to catch Cyclops off guard, because he knew a frontal assault would lead to him being blasted by those eyes of Scott's, which normally wouldn't put him down, but they could be annoying.
Tyler put his fighting stance up and slowly moved in on Cyclops. Scott fired a red beam from his eyes and Tyler saw his opening. He came in from the side and caught Cyclops with a punch to the chest and then tackled him to the ground. From that punch Scott already broke two ribs and he was now pinned to the ground.
'Gotta think of a way out of this,' Scott thought. He then grabbed some sand off the ground and threw it into Tyler's eyes. Avatar went after roaring in frustration. Scott saw his chance and blasted him with everything, and it was angled.
The next thing Tyler knew he landed in the hard desert beside a man with silver like hair. "Ugh."
***Fight Scene over***
Scott looked at how his team had faired. The Stalker members had moved back to regroup. Scott rushed over to Scalp Hunter and pulled him over his shoulder and saw Lorna getting up. "Retreat!" He shouted.
10 minutes later,
Magneto looked over the remaining group members. Colossus was in pretty sore shape and so was Zero. "You two stay up here and get medical attention on the Black Bird," Magneto ordered. "Specter, Omega Red, follow me into the tomb," Magneto explained.
***
During this time, under the Sphinx, the members walked forward cautiously.
There where ripped statue like robots torn apart and destroyed, it seemed most of the traps had been triggered as well, but they where still being cautious. Energy seemed to be coming from the walls in some places, with glowing glyphs giving off massive amounts of energy.
Quicksilver had grown tired of this. "That's it," He said. He then zipped forward to find a different route. "Pietro no!" Hank shouted looking away from the hieroglyphics he was looking at. "Quick, we have to follow him," Charles insisted. "Spyke, stay with me, we need to decipher some of this," Beast said. Evan nodded.
The ground rushed down the hall to see an unconscious Pietro laying there bleeding rather badly on one hip. "Kurt! Get him topside now!" Charles shouted. Kurt Bamfed over to Pietro. After doing that he teleported to the Black Bird, even though now there was a battle raging outside, he was too concerned with trying to assist his fallen comrade, even if it was a temporary one.
"Who did that?" Chris asked. "I'm not sure," Xavier said. He put his fingers to his temples. "I'll try to find the location of anyone else in the tomb." He was cut off by an unimpressed humph that rang out all around them. He stopped immediately and looked around.
Everyone looked around the dark area for there ambusher, or ambushers. "This is a real treat, I knew Cyclops would fail holding off the entire team, so naturally I had the perfect back up plan," The voice shouted out. Everyone still looked around for there foe. Just then in the shadows a bluish glow and lighting where seen running up a dark figure, it didn't illuminate his features, he was still shadows and unable to see seen. His eyes started to glow. He stepped out into better light and every one of the X-men, especially Jean where shocked at who it was.
"Adam! But how?!" Jean shouted in shock. "You all thought you'd never see me again didn't you? Well too bad! I'm alive," Adam said with a cocky smirk. "It is unfortunate that I cannot say the same thing for all of you in a few moments," Adam said standing there with his fists at his side standing straight and just looking at them. He loved the expression on there faces. "I'm betting you all want to know how I survived Wolverines attack? Well it's rather simple really, I didn't," Adam said and gave a harsh laugh. "What are you some kind of vampire?" Pyro asked. "Vampire?! That's childish, a folktale at best. I was brought back into this world by the great black sorceress!" He declared. From that statement he got looks of what could only be described as pity. After an uneasy silence from that statement, which was more or less ridiculous a voice finally rang out. "You've lost it right?" Fred asked. "Fuck you Blob boy," Adam snarled. "Now then, let's get this little thing over with shall we?" He said and the electricity began to run up him more violently.
"Jean, would you like to lead off?" Adam said. Jean looked at him confused. Adam smirked. "Not you," Adam said. A telekinetic blast sent Jean flying into a wall. "Her," Adam said looking at the other Jean walking out from the shadows, a look of hatred played across her face.
Adam chuckled slightly and now his eyes flashed with insanity. "Now then, which one of you worthless de evolved throwbacks is the bravest?" He said putting his guard up. Fred and Chris Winters stepped forward. "That's more like it," Adam said with a predatory grin and his eyes showed the madness that had been building in his mind over the years.
Pyro was about to move in to help when he was blasted by a beam of raw energy that was thermal, he went flying back and Firestar came into view. "Hello," She said grinning. "G'day love," Pyro said and let his flames throwers turn on. "I think you'll be going to the burn ward now Shella," He added.
Professor Xavier saw Harpoon coming towards him with a grin. "You're all mine," He said. Suddenly there was a Bamf and he was gone. The Professor looked rather shocked for a moment and then realized Kurt must have returned.
Professor X was not without an opponent though. Jubilee came out. "Jubilee!" Xavier said in shock. "Sorry," Jubilation said sadly and pointed her hands at him. Professor X quickly blasted her mind and she was downed.
*Battle Scenes*
***Jean vs. . errmm. technically Madelyn Prior. but currently, more evil Jean, who will now be referred to as, Uhhh. Evil Jean! Until later anyway-
Jean was slammed into wall after wall telekinetically by her clone. She was then smashed through a wall. Evil Jean crossed her arms and smirked at her handy work. "Not the shadow anymore," She said to herself. Just then Jean floated out not looking very happy, whether this girl looked like her or not, it was obvious she didn't wanna talk. Jean blasted Evil Jean with a massive blast of telekinesis, taking her counterpart off guard and sending her into a wall.
Jean gave Evil Jean a taste of her own medicine and fired a powerful TK bubble into her blasting her through the wall. Jean stood there, hoping victory was close, so she could see who this woman was, and perhaps to have the professor help her, she felt hatred and aggression seething off her.
Evil Jean came out of the rubble looking furious and the two blasted 2 powerful waves of TK at one another, both hitting there targets head on. Jean went flying back and hit her hand hard and fell to the ground in pain. Evil Jean on the other hand hit her head and landed unconscious.
*** Pyro vs. Firestar-
Firestar was not happy when she realized what Pyro's powers where. She dodged the fire he had shot at her, but it turned into a bird and began to follow her. She blasted him and the bird hit her into a wall.
Both competitors got up growling at one another. Firestar blasted a wave of microwaves at him and the beam melted the rock where he once stood before dodging.
Pyro was not a fan of being melted, he liked fire, but he himself being killed was just not on his plate for fun things to do. "Yoooou BITCH!" He shouted angrily and fired a huge fireball at her. It morphed into a snake and wrapped around her and turned back into a fire ball and slammed into a wall before dispersing. Firestar lay unconscious on the ground.
*** Adam vs. The Blob and Raptor,
Adam grinned. "Wolverine tried to kill me and thanks to him I am far more powerful then I thought I could have become before," Adam declared putting his guard up. "You two are fools if they think you can beat me," He then finished. Chris was sick of this guys shit. "Fuck you buddy," He said. "You've got some balls lefty, come here and try to stave me off friend," Adam said cruelly with a friendly grin on his face. Chris snarled and released an energy blast from his scaled hand. It exploded right in front of Adam.
Fred and Chris watched eagerly to see if he would come out. ~Behind you~ Adam's voice said in there minds. They turned to see no one there. They then turned back to be double close lined by Adam and hit the ground hard. "Dumb asses," Adam said in a sly tone.
Fred got up and slammed Adam into a wall. He then attacked with his huge fist and hit Adam in the stomach. Akimov gasped out in pain from the strength Fred Dukes had. He gathered himself and formed an energy wave in his hands and blasted Fred in the chest sending him through a wall.
Raptor fired off another shot but Adam moved around it and came at him. Chris's heightened senses picked up on this immediately and he knew he had to put his guard up. He put his left arm up as it was hit with a bone shattering kick. He nearly fell over from the pain. Adam noted this and grinned. He kicked the arm again and one of the thick huge plates cracked and Chris cried out in pain. Adam kicked again and again until he heard a sickening crack and finally Chris's arm fell to his side broken. Adam grinned until Chris head butted him in the chest right below the neck.
Adam stepped back in a slight bit of shock, this guy could improvise. Adam was about to press to attack again when he was punched from the side and his face contorted with pain as his body lifted off the ground and broke through one of the old stone walls. Fred was back up and ready for round two. Adam climbed to his feet and breathed out once, his insane eyes locked on Blob. "No more games," He said grinning.
Fred came at him and with grace and agility Adam came in with a punch to the gut, a punch to his face, then followed by another two, and did a back flip kick. Fred went flying back and broke through a wall. Adam quickly turned to Chris who blasted him.
Adam got up once more, now he was starting to feel the effects of the fire. He saw that Chris was using his broken arm. ~Persistent aren't you? ~ Adam asked telepathically. Chris gulped and waited for Adam to attack. Adam this time put his hands to his side as power drew from some of the glyphs around them. "This is a new little trick I've learned," Adam said as a blue energy ball formed. "Enjoy," He said and launched the small but powerful beam. It hit Chris in the chest. Just as Chris was hit he fired his own beam around Adam's that slammed into him.
Chris broke into a wall and Adam hit the ground hard once again.
Adam got up breathing heavily and held his chest. "Little fucker," He snapped.
*** Harpoon vs. Kurt-
Kurt dodged the lightning light attack from Harpoon.
"Stay still you blue bastard," Harpoon hissed. "Nien, I don't vant to die today thank you," Kurt said friendlily. He drew up his sword and turned more serious.
Harpoon launched another one of his energy like spears at Kurt who teleported out of the way and landed on the stone floor. "Where did you take us anyway?!" Harpoon asked. "To near the start," Kurt explained. "Great, just fucking great," Harpoon said.
Just teleported behind Harpoon and put his sword to Harpoon's back. "Give up," Kurt said. "Never!" Harpoon snarled and turned around to be punched in the face and his arm was cut. He moved back wincing in pain.
"You won't kill me will you?" Harpoon said grinning. "I vill only if I have too," Kurt said. "Then you my friend are going to die today," Harpoon said and used his good arm to fire another attack at Kurt. Kurt came in with teleportation and sliced his other arm, this time worse then the other. Harpoon looked at his currently useless arms and kicked Kurt away. "I'll get you for this!" Harpoon shouted and disappeared down one of the dark halls of the tomb.
Kurt let out a sigh of relief until a huge figure rushed past him. "Oh shit," Kurt said, recognizing it as being someone from the surface.
Adam stood before Jean, who was in pain. He saw Pyro then and Professor X. Shadowcat then phased through a wall and was behind him. Adam grinned. "So this is all that's left of the might fighters who are out to stop Mesmero," Adam said grinning. "Why? Why did you stop us?" Xavier asked. "I was ordered to kill anyone who trys to get in, X-men, Brotherhood, Acolyte, there all the same," Adam said.
"Adam, give up, we can help you," Xavier said. "Same way you help Scott?" Adam asked with a cruel grin. "So you're working with Scott?" Jean asked sadly. "No, not really, just this mission, we have different employers," Adam explained. "But this is an enough talk, I want to get my blood moving and I'm looking for a fight," He said putting his guard up. ~And I've got plenty of new tricks Professor~ Adam's voice said to Xavier telepathically. "Be careful! He's telepathic!" Xavier shouted.
Jean blasted him into a wall quickly before he could do much and he smashed through one of the thick support pillars. The roof started to cave just as Void arrived.
Rubble and rock began crashing to the floor. "Get everyone out of here!" Xavier shouted and wheeled out. Kitty and Evan grabbed Chris and ran out. Jean lifted Fred with TK and helped him out.
"VOID TAKE US HOME!" Adam shouted. Void opened a portal slowly and threw Julio in. He picked up Jubilee and Firestar and did the same. Adam looked over at the fallen Jean, the clone. Adam looked back at Void. "Hurry brother!" Void shouted. 'For fucks sakes,' He thought. He rushed over and picked up Jean. "You fucking owe me," He snarled to the unconscious body and jumped through. Void was last through just as the section of the tomb collapsed.
Xavier looked back. Hank and Spyke rushed in. "What happened?" They asked. "We ran into some trouble," Jean said looking at the collapsed doorway.
Meanwhile,
Adam fell out of the void and saw Selene looking down at him. "Idiots," She hissed. She then looked at the red head Adam was holding. "I see you decided to bring a toy home," She said. "No, just helping a teammate," Adam said. "That's a first," Void said. "Emphasize on the least for letters of Adam's little statement Void, that's the REAL reason why Adam helped out our little friend," Firestar said from behind. Adam snarled and turned to her. "Stop! What's done cannot be undone, perhaps this young lady could be useful to us," Selene said. Adam looked over his team. Everyone battered and bruised save Jubilee. "I have a feeling the fun has just begun," Adam said and left for his room and a shower. 'Isn't that the girl who killed Adam?' Selene thought. She then noted it was, 'Most interesting,' Selene thought.
And at the same moment,
Scott looked at his battered and bruised team as they headed back to base in Sinister's special jet, it was not black bird, but it was far better then any military plane. "Where's Jean?" He asked with concern. "Dead I assume," Harpoon said. Cyclops gulped and nodded. "Alright, get over it, we now gotta explain to Essex that we fucked up," Scalp Hunter said. "He does have a point," Lorna said. "I wonder where Mesmero was, there was no way he could have gotten past us," Cyclops said looking curious.
Magneto and Charles made it over to a pyramid like ship with the members of the team who weren't injured. They had been left in the Black Bird with Shadowcat and Storm, who had regained her consciousness.
Charles looked as the ship opened and rolled in. "A Cerebro interface," He said. "I'm going to link with the ship," He added. He put the cap on and began to read over the ship.
The teams stood behind him and he looked shocked. "I know where they are!" He gasped as the ship shut and transported to the true tomb of Apocalypse.
The teams had arrived just in time to see Mesmero lying against a wall unconscious and Gambit with Sabertooth. Logan ran past a statue of Mystique and everyone was in general shock.
A moment later a figure floated in, he looked like an Egyptian god. Everyone put there guards up, preparing for battle. Apocalypse clapped his hands. A Telekinetic shockwave blasted out and neutralized everyone there. Every mutant fell before his power as if they where nothing.
Apocalypse casually floated past everyone and was about to enter his ship but Magneto stopped him. With a gesture of his hand he defeated Magneto. Mesmero got to his feet. "Master! Wait for me!" He said. En Sabah Nor narrowed his eyes on him and Mesmero fell to the ground dead, an internal explosion in his heart.
Apocalypse entered his ship without another word and it shut and disappeared.
"We failed," Magneto said in shame. "Yes, and now the real battle will begin," The Professor declared. As everyone lay in defeat from what is supposed to be the most powerful mutant alive.
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That's chapter 18, the longest chapter I've written for any story, it's longer then a lot of people's entire stories! Over 8500 words! LOL. Anyway, next chapter will be loosely based on Impact, and will focus mainly on the main characters of this story and some others whose rolls are going to increase.
Another Character will be in a bit next chapter, mentioned last chapter, Jacen, but nothing major until the story gets going a bit more.
This chapter took me roughly 8 hours to write. so please review it, I really went above and beyond for this chapter.
And if you do review it, please review in great detail, this took me forever and that's all I ask *Cries*
DJ 'Zero' McCoy belong to Hybrid Omega, and Michael 'Specter' Raynor belongs to Emerald Knight1. Neona 'Pixie' Shields belongs to PyroRockerGrl. Ana Catalina Maria Christina 'Dream' DeSanFe belongs to Son Gomay Videl Goku. Pyroizhot is the creator and owner of Chris 'Raptor' Winters, and Pyro Gurl2 is the creator of Isabella 'Misty' Lebeau I thank everyone who has submitted a character to me and I hope I will be able to use as many as possible.