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This chapter is going to go through everyone's reactions and there particular new situations they put themselves in, like Scott, Adam, Tyler, Wanda, Jean, Madelyn. list goes on and on. There are some key differences to this story line though, like Rogue not knowing that Mystique is her mother, and her hatred is not as great for Mystique. There are some other things. Also the Brotherhood and Acolytes will be getting a lot more attention next chapter.
A Dark Future Chapter 19- Cruel Fates and Cruel People
The day after chapter 18...
Tyler woke up in pain from the day before. He remembered it all, the X-jet picking them up, Mystique being taken in her statue form to the institute, all of it.
He sighed as he got up and got dressed. He was glad Wanda had not been chosen to go on the mission. Things would have been worse off in his opinion.
Tyler went down stairs to see everyone looking pretty miserable. "Jubilee too," Cannonball said. "At this rate we won't have anyone left," Roberto said. Everyone then saw Tyler, things where uneasy still. Tyler saw Ray and nearly moved back in fear, though his nightmares had ended, he still saw Berserker as something to fear. He cautiously sat down and looked at the others, not say a word.
Avatar knew he wasn't welcome at the table once they all just stared at him and stopped what they where doing. He sighed and got up. He grabbed a piece of toast and headed to his room.
Tyler ran into Wanda on the way and smiled. "Hey," He said with a tone of happiness. "Hey Tyler," She replied smiling back. "How do you like this place so far?" Avatar asked. "It's great, it has a lot of stuff," She started. "That it does," Tyler said. "But?" She asked. "But what?" Tyler replied. "Something's bothering you," She said. "The others, they have decided to exclude me of course, not that I blame them, I nearly killed a few of them, and I killed a lot of people," He started. Wanda looked very angry. "Don't go and do something stupid Wanda," Tyler warned and went to his room to finish his meal.
Avatar finished his toast, took a deep breath and went to his window to look over the institute grounds. 'Hell on earth never looked so nice,' He thought.
Michael saw the new 'family' member leave the kitchen and Wanda come in a few minutes later, Tyler used to be an Acolyte, was notorious for killing innocent people, but the X-men accepted anyone, that doesn't mean the people in it did. Michael was no exception, after the hell he went through by Magneto. This guy deserved what he got for even being on that team for a minute.
He remembered what that god like figure looked like the day before. It scared him to start with. His confidence returned once again and he was ready for battle after only a few moments. But it soon left him, and everyone, within a second, a single motion with his hands. that's all it took to beat everyone, that type of power should have been illegal by laws of nature let alone man.
Michael heard the door and went to go answer it, still too many subjects on his mind. He opened the door to see a young man standing there with a duffle bag. "This the Xavier institute?" He asked.
"Yea, who's asking?" Michael said looking at the sunglasses wearing man. "Names Jacen, that's who's asking," Jacen replied. "Business?" Raynor asked. "Here to see the Professor," Replied Jacen. "Appointment or drop in?" Specter replied with a grin. "You pick," Jacen replied. "Ok, come in," Michael said.
Jean was still trying to get over her exact double, it made no sense. She went to her room after breakfast to think about it. Her mind then left the clone and shifted to Scott. "Scott. what have you done?" She said to herself sadly.
"Mother," Kurt said looking at the statue with intrigue. "It's been a long time," He then said sadly. Of course no response came. He let out a sigh. "Ve'll find a vay to help you, I promise," Kurt said trying to act optimistic.
Amara looked at Hank still feeling ill. Hank had been working on the injured from the mission. He finally had time to talk to Amara now. "Amara, now this is hard on someone your age, and once the professor is finished with Cerebro he'd like to talk to you," Hank started. "But right now, I just want to give you some advice if you decide to keep the child," Hank started. "It's ok," She said quickly. "I read all the stuff you gave me," She added optimistically. Hank smiled back. "Good, I'll see what I can do for your condition. Maybe you should go do something that relaxes you for now, ok?" He said. She nodded and left for a nice hot bath, somehow she knew things where going to get a lot more complicated before they got better.
New York-
"That sucks yo," Toad said hanging off the wall. "You're telling me, your arm isn't he the one in the sling!" DJ shouted. Fred held a pack of frozen pees to his head. "Yea, well you didn't have to fight Adam. fuck he was an asshole," The Blob stated. "Did you know he died?" He added. "Cool, when?" DJ asked. "Ummm, apparently a while ago, the Professor explained to us Wolverine got him later," Fred said. "Wow," Lance said. "What about in the tomb?" Neo asked. "We dunno, the professor thinks he's dead though," DJ said.
"Well, from what you told me at least Summer's finally grew a backbone," Lance said. "He's grown a lot more then a backbone," DJ said. "Anyway, what do we do now? Mystique's gone. We're just gonna live here with no money?" Toad said. "Get a job?" Tabitha replied. "Get a job in New York? Good luck," Lance said rolling his eyes. "Stop being negative Lance, we gotta figure something out!" Neo shouted. "Whatever," Lance replied. "Well, we could always follow snookums," Toad explained dreamily. "Suggest we join the X-men again Toad, and I'll gut you," Meltdown said. "Right, shutting up now," Toad said.
"Anyway, what are we gonna do for money?" Tabitha asked. "Stealing sounds good," DJ said. "Yea," Fred said. "First off, Fred, you can't steal," Lance said. "Second off, DJ, you're in no condition to steal," Lance added. "And that leaves Tabitha, me, Neo and Toad," Lance explained. "Tabitha and Toad are the only experienced thieves, so we would be relying on THEM?" Lance asked. "More or less," DJ said. "Alright, sounds like a plan to me," Lance said. "I'm going to see if I can shake some people down for some money," Fred said getting up and throwing the frozen pees away. "Can I get the royal treatment, for being hurt I mean?" DJ said. The entire brotherhood laughed and left the room. "Haters." Z said to the empty room sadly.
The Sphinx-
The Acolytes looked at the entranced to the sphinx, all surrounding it in the hot desert sun.
"This is where his followers will come," Magneto explained. "We will find out what we need from them to kill Apocalypse," He finished. "You already have what you need," Arkady said. "You have the greatest living weapon this planet has ever seen," He explained. Magneto just shook his head. "Arkady, I am not in the mood for your rants, get inside," He said pointing at the entrance. "Find whatever you can, I don't care if it takes you all night and day, and there will be no rest for anyone until we discover what it takes!" Magneto shouted and then followed.
"What a bloody asshole, there's no chance we'll find anything down here," Pyro said looking over a dark corner. "Shut up and keep looking," Gambit snapped. "Bloody blokes everywhere you turn," Pyro mumbled to himself. "What was that?" Sabertooth growled. "Go play with a rat or something kitty cat, there's bound to be enough around in this filthy rot," John snapped. Sabertooth walked over to attack when Gambit's staff cut him off. "Watch it monami, we ain't supposed to be fighting, we supposed to be looking," Gambit said. Sabertooth growled one last time and stormed off. "Thanks mate," Pyro said. "Oh shut up John," Gambit said and went back to where he was searching. "Bastard," John mumbled and went back to looking.
Colossus tore through another wall, this one had golden valuables covered the room. "Nothing," He said in an annoyed voice in his native tongue. "Of course there is nothing, Magneto is a fool to think this place has anything," Omega Red said also in Russian. "For once Arkady I must agree, he's becoming blind," Piotr said. "If I didn't have metal coils running through my body, I would be helping Magneto on his way to seeing a different perspective," Arkady snarled in Russian. "He's even going back on part of our deal. He did not even let me fight Wolverine!" Omega Red shouted, still in his first language. "Magneto only follows through with his deals when they benefit him," Piotr said searching through some of the treasure. "So you noticed huh?" Arkady said as he tore through another wall. "It would help to have Klimov here," Omega Red snarled with frustration.
Magneto magnetically spun a pile of weapons that where on the ground into a ball and smashed it through a wall as he himself looked for information. "Apocalypse MUST be stopped," He said to himself. He looked over the wall next to him. It said things he would never understand on his own. "I must find someone to decipher this," He said to himself angrily. But Magneto knew of no one at the moment who could read languages of a long dead civilization that was ruled by a crazed all powerful mutant who even named himself after the end of the world and apparently had 4 minions who where extremely powerful and one lived for thousands of years. "I'm thinking too much into this," He said to himself. He had almost gotten headache thinking about this. He then saw something in the corner and rushed over to it. He noted it was an iron box, covered in rust. He opened it easily with his powers and saw a scroll inside. "What is this?" He asked himself. He carefully opened it to see it was in the same language on the wall. "I really need an Egyptologist," He said in an annoyed voice.
Under Sinister's orphanage-
Scott stood there with a slightly annoyed look. He had his arms crossed as he watched the Marauders still trying to work together better. 'Sinister really didn't teach these guys a thing about teamwork,' He thought.
Sinister was furious, he knew all too well that Apocalypse had been released, any mutant like him or another External/immortal could almost feel it in the air. "I don't understand," He snarled. "The tomb had to be the right one, but Mesmero didn't even approach it!" He said angrily. "Dad calm down," Jason said in fear. Nathaniel grabbed Jason by the neck and lifted him off the ground. "Calm down? You want me to CALM DOWN!?" He shouted angrily. "If he finds out we betrayed him, we will most certainly die! And if his plans are realized, my own plans are ruined! And I will become nothing but a peon member of the populace and a forgotten soul!" Shouted Sinister. "I get it dad!" Jason said as loudly as he could and Essex dropped his son. "We must make new allies if we are to do this, and I know Selene will not longer work with me," He explained. "Why?" Jason asked, "Simple Jason, Selene never considers any failure her own, so, she is going to blame me for what happened," He explained calmly. "Gee. a nearly all powerful insane super bitch is going to try to kill a nearly all powerful not as insane scientist soon. I feel so special that I'll get caught in the middle," Jason said. "Shut up," Sinister growled.
Scott saw Janos hit the ground from Scalphunter. "Enough, god you guys have almost no teamwork skills, no wonder they beat us, I'm used to being on a team that KNOWS how to work together," Scott said angrily. "Hey!" The marauders said back. "Harpoon, Scalp, you two are really starting to drag down the team, either learn how to work together, or I'll talk to the boss, you KNOW how pissed he is at us already," Cyclops said angrily. He did not need this, when he started fighting for his life he was not going to get killed because a few people couldn't learn to get along.
Sinister looked over some files. "We'll need backup for our little group soon," He said and read over some more files, he then grinned. "And I have a few perfect subjects to join the group," He added. Jason just raised a brow and crossed his arms. "Like who?" He asked. Mr. Sinister put up a window on his screen and it showed 3 names. Jason grinned as he looked over there profiles. "Your right, those will do," He said to his father.
Scott walked in with the other members of his team to face his commanding officers. "We have a little recruiting mission to go on soon," Sinister explained. "There are 3 new people to join us soon enough," He added. Scott raised a brow. "Who?" He asked.
"Harry Delgado," Sinister said. "He has the ability to increase his size and strength," He added. "We need a strong member on the team, so the profiles would do him best," Sinister added. ******
"Illyana Rasputin," Jason then said. "She's ill right now, but we have ways of curing that," He added. "She can teleport and seems to have some other powers, but she is young right now, only 13," Jason said. ******
"And finally, someone Scott knows all too well," Sinister said. Scott raised a brow and the Marauders looked at him. "Alex Masters, also known as Alex Summers," Sinister said. Scott froze, this wasn't good. "Is that really needed?" Scott asked. Sinister mentally grinned. "Yes it is," He replied. Scott didn't argue the point and nodded.
Nova Roma-
Adam sat there frowning. How'd he get himself in these situations?
*Flashback*
"You brought her, she's YOUR responsibility outside training," Selene said. "You're fucking kidding me. I gotta take care of Void already!" Adam protested. "Well then you should have thought of that before you wasted my time and sent her here with you and your group," Selene spat. "But she would have died!" Adam protested. "No offence intended Mr. Akimov, but when was the last time you cared if someone died? As far as I know you even killed your own father," Selene said cockily. 'I HATE her," Adam thought angrily. "Now then, take care of your problem, because I'm not going to," Selene said.
*END Flashback*
Adam glared at the unconscious form as she began to stir. 'I really should kill her,' Adam though angrily. 'Ahh hell, I know I won't, this is not going to be fun, when she wakes up, it's going to be the 'where am I. What are you doing here?' Thing isn't it?' He thought.
Jean's eyes slowly opened. She took in the humid air and sat up with lightning speed. "Where am I? What are you doing here?" She said pointing at Adam. 'Didn't see that coming,' Adam thought and inwardly sighed. "You are in Brazil," Adam explained. "And I am here because I have to take care of your worthless carcass," He added with annoyance dripping off every word. "What do you want?" Jean asked immediately. "I don't WANT anything, but I'm going to have to watch over you like I have to my little bastard brother," Adam spat.
"What happened?" Jean asked. "Your team left you to die, we escaped, you got dragged along," Adam said. "It figures," Jean whispered to herself. "What was that?" Adam asked. "Nothing," Jean replied. There was a silence for some time. "Welcome to the Void Stalkers, a team run by fear," Adam said emotionlessly. "You most likely won't enjoy your stay," He added. He stood up and was about to leave the room when he heard Jean. "What am I supposed to do?" She asked. "I don't really care, just don't get yourself killed, I really don't want my mind torn apart today," Adam said. ~Could you be any less specific?~ Jean asked telepathically. ~Yes, I could not answer at all, now don't contact me telepathically~ Adam snarled back.
Jean sat there and felt like crying, alone again. The real her was home, with her friends right now, and all of them didn't even know she existed. They probably thought she was a shape shifter, or some evil incarnation. "I'm not Jean Grey," She said sadly and started to cry. "What?" Adam asked. She looked up at him. "When did you get back?" She asked harshly. "I decided I'd tell you what to do, but this is far more interesting, someone having a soap opera with themselves. It's been a long time since I saw real TV, go ahead, keep it up, I'll get a bucket of popcorn or something," Adam said before being telekinetically slammed into a wall. He got up and grinned. "That's more like it," He said evilly. "So Jean, what's your next move? Going to use all that pent up aggression to try to kill me? Don't get too far ahead of yourself, you won't kill me this time," Adam said.
"No," She said. "Well then what?" Adam said. "No as in I'm not Jean," Jean said. "Oh, I must have mistaken you for someone who mattered then," Adam said crossing his arms. Jean quickly thought of a name. "I'm Madelyn, I'm not Jean," She said. ~I won't be a shadow~ She told him telepathically. "Good," Adam said. She looked confused. "Selene or I have no use for anyone who is not willing to achieve a new goal, and your out to achieve one, you are ambitious," Adam said. "Fuck you," Madelyn hissed. "Your words hurt me. Now get up and get ready, you get to meet the boss," Adam ordered. "And trust me, you won't be enjoying it," Adam added. Madelyn gulped and nodded.
"I can't believe this!" Selene screamed and destroyed a piece of furniture. "He got out. this is all Sinister's fault," She snarled angrily. "If not for his faulty tomb we would have crushed them!" She added angrily. "Now I have to fight that idiot Nor directly," She hissed.
"Selene, your group is here to see you," A priest said. "Let them in," She hissed. She saw Adam arrived with Void behind him and Jean behind Void, Julio, Jubilee and Angelic where next.
"You all made it here," Selene said. She immediately locked her eyes on Jean. 'This one has some telepathic and telekinetic power.' She thought. "Ms. Grey," She started. "Her name is Madelyn now," Adam said. "Do you talk for her Akimov?" Selene hissed. Adam lowered his head and with a bitter look on his face shook his head. He was blasted into a wall by a fireball. "Good, I see you agree with me on that," Selene hissed. "Now then, 'Madelyn', I'm going to give you two options, you can join willingly, or you can join forcefully," Selene said. 'She will make an excellent apprentice, she just needs a bit more hatred in her,' Selene thought. "I don't exactly have anywhere else to go," Madelyn explained. "Then it's agreed," Selene said.
"You are all to go out and train, Adam run the stand drills wouldn't you?" Selene said. "Of course Selene," Adam replied sharply.
Unknown location-
Apocalypse looked inside the small vessel. He contemplated the new world around him. And where had Essex been, he should have been there at his awakening. All these questions didn't add up for him, but for now his plans where too important.
Back at the Mansion-
"Hello Mr. Lynch, it is nice to see you," Xavier said. "It's great to meet you as well professor," Jacen said friendlily. He would follow Xavier into hell and back for his ideals alone. "May I ask why you are here?" Xavier asked. "I wish to join the X-men," Jacen said proudly. Xavier smiled in his kind way. "Welcome to the X-men Jacen, I hope you will enjoy your stay," Professor Xavier said.
2 weeks later,
Apocalypse's small vessel appeared above a pyramid in Mexico. It changed it's outer appearance and the ship locked in as the glyphs covering it glowed. A large purple dome came over the structure.
The X-men, consisting of Jean, Beast, Kitty, Sunspot, Michael, Chris, Jacen and Xavier went to investigate. "Shouldn't we take Storm, Wanda or Tyler for this?" Kitty asked. "No, we aren't going to start a fight, we are going for research only, Apocalypse could stop us in an instant, there presence would mean nothing," Xavier said.
Magneto found out about the dome and left his team in Egypt. He himself going to Mexico, leaving with the statement. "Only one of us shall survive,"
Xavier and the others attempted 3 times to get information out of the dome, but nothing could evaluate it.
Shortly after, Magneto attacked the dome with everything.
Eric went as far as to call satellites down from the heavens with the power of meteorite that attacked the dome viciously. Apocalypse emerged, and with no effort, used his telekinesis to deflect the last satellites and then formed an energy vortex around Magneto. A moment later, in a blinding flash, he was gone.
Boston, Emma's 2nd mansion-
Bobby watched the TV and froze it. He then shattered it in a rage. "What?" The White Queen asked entering. "Magneto is fucking dead!" Bobby shouted angrily. Emma then looked extremely angry as well. "There goes our plan," Bobby snarled angrily. The plan was really simple. Emma's company was able to replicate the device that Magneto made on Asteroid M. but, needed the same power supply, and only Magneto had access to the legendary gems of Cytorack. "What do we do now?" Iceman asked, his blood boiling *LoL*. "We get revenge Robert, just like we always do," Emma said looking distort as well. "After all, you are more or less unstoppable Bobby, he can't do anything to you," Emma said with a playful smirk. Iceman nodded smirking himself. "Too bad for him," He said.
Hellfire Club England-
"This situation is most interesting indeed," Shaw said putting his hands together. "We will watch to see how it plays out," He added as the rest of the Hellfire Club nodded in agreement.
Sinister and Selene where watching what happened and both looked shocked at what they had seen. 'Such power,' both thought at the same time.
Selene and Sinister both had backup plans. Selene's more immediate then her fellow immortal.
***
That's all for this chapter folks, half the size of its predecessor. But that's ok, next chapter focuses once more on Apocalypse, but also on every team, at first mainly the Void Stalkers, but you see everyone gets an equal piece of Nor, aside from the Hood and Acolytes, because there no threat to him currently.
Also, I'm now putting up a power scale, this does not mean these people are equal, its' all the top 4 powerful slots for major mutants, Apocalypse is not on the list and is assumed to be above all of them.
1. Juggernaut 2. Iceman, Selene, Void *you'll see why later* 3. Xavier, Magneto, Sinister 4. Storm, Legion, Wanda, Omega Red *Very hard to kill, actually. near impossible lol*
Those are the top four slots, just on overall who is the strongest and hardest to kill ON AVERAGE. for example Lance going all out or Cyclops can put event Iceman or Selene down for a few moments. the Juggernaut is debatable. lol. Also, this is in power, not skill. Like if I were to put Xavier and Magneto in a fist fight without powers, you can only guess who would win. As you also see, most of the main characters are not on the list, though many of them would be a 'level 5', so there under the most powerful. Also, this system is just in overall value as well, if you put Selene vs. Iceman, Iceman would win; see what I'm getting at?
Anyway, keep reading and reviewing. Next chapters is called. 'Wrath of Apocalypse' for a reason.
After next chapter it won't be as much on Apocalypse, then it will shift back too him.
Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and sent characters-
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. Also. gonna thank the creator of Jacen Lynch, forgot his name and can't find it, but it's 'Kyle' on MSN. lol
This chapter is going to go through everyone's reactions and there particular new situations they put themselves in, like Scott, Adam, Tyler, Wanda, Jean, Madelyn. list goes on and on. There are some key differences to this story line though, like Rogue not knowing that Mystique is her mother, and her hatred is not as great for Mystique. There are some other things. Also the Brotherhood and Acolytes will be getting a lot more attention next chapter.
A Dark Future Chapter 19- Cruel Fates and Cruel People
The day after chapter 18...
Tyler woke up in pain from the day before. He remembered it all, the X-jet picking them up, Mystique being taken in her statue form to the institute, all of it.
He sighed as he got up and got dressed. He was glad Wanda had not been chosen to go on the mission. Things would have been worse off in his opinion.
Tyler went down stairs to see everyone looking pretty miserable. "Jubilee too," Cannonball said. "At this rate we won't have anyone left," Roberto said. Everyone then saw Tyler, things where uneasy still. Tyler saw Ray and nearly moved back in fear, though his nightmares had ended, he still saw Berserker as something to fear. He cautiously sat down and looked at the others, not say a word.
Avatar knew he wasn't welcome at the table once they all just stared at him and stopped what they where doing. He sighed and got up. He grabbed a piece of toast and headed to his room.
Tyler ran into Wanda on the way and smiled. "Hey," He said with a tone of happiness. "Hey Tyler," She replied smiling back. "How do you like this place so far?" Avatar asked. "It's great, it has a lot of stuff," She started. "That it does," Tyler said. "But?" She asked. "But what?" Tyler replied. "Something's bothering you," She said. "The others, they have decided to exclude me of course, not that I blame them, I nearly killed a few of them, and I killed a lot of people," He started. Wanda looked very angry. "Don't go and do something stupid Wanda," Tyler warned and went to his room to finish his meal.
Avatar finished his toast, took a deep breath and went to his window to look over the institute grounds. 'Hell on earth never looked so nice,' He thought.
Michael saw the new 'family' member leave the kitchen and Wanda come in a few minutes later, Tyler used to be an Acolyte, was notorious for killing innocent people, but the X-men accepted anyone, that doesn't mean the people in it did. Michael was no exception, after the hell he went through by Magneto. This guy deserved what he got for even being on that team for a minute.
He remembered what that god like figure looked like the day before. It scared him to start with. His confidence returned once again and he was ready for battle after only a few moments. But it soon left him, and everyone, within a second, a single motion with his hands. that's all it took to beat everyone, that type of power should have been illegal by laws of nature let alone man.
Michael heard the door and went to go answer it, still too many subjects on his mind. He opened the door to see a young man standing there with a duffle bag. "This the Xavier institute?" He asked.
"Yea, who's asking?" Michael said looking at the sunglasses wearing man. "Names Jacen, that's who's asking," Jacen replied. "Business?" Raynor asked. "Here to see the Professor," Replied Jacen. "Appointment or drop in?" Specter replied with a grin. "You pick," Jacen replied. "Ok, come in," Michael said.
Jean was still trying to get over her exact double, it made no sense. She went to her room after breakfast to think about it. Her mind then left the clone and shifted to Scott. "Scott. what have you done?" She said to herself sadly.
"Mother," Kurt said looking at the statue with intrigue. "It's been a long time," He then said sadly. Of course no response came. He let out a sigh. "Ve'll find a vay to help you, I promise," Kurt said trying to act optimistic.
Amara looked at Hank still feeling ill. Hank had been working on the injured from the mission. He finally had time to talk to Amara now. "Amara, now this is hard on someone your age, and once the professor is finished with Cerebro he'd like to talk to you," Hank started. "But right now, I just want to give you some advice if you decide to keep the child," Hank started. "It's ok," She said quickly. "I read all the stuff you gave me," She added optimistically. Hank smiled back. "Good, I'll see what I can do for your condition. Maybe you should go do something that relaxes you for now, ok?" He said. She nodded and left for a nice hot bath, somehow she knew things where going to get a lot more complicated before they got better.
New York-
"That sucks yo," Toad said hanging off the wall. "You're telling me, your arm isn't he the one in the sling!" DJ shouted. Fred held a pack of frozen pees to his head. "Yea, well you didn't have to fight Adam. fuck he was an asshole," The Blob stated. "Did you know he died?" He added. "Cool, when?" DJ asked. "Ummm, apparently a while ago, the Professor explained to us Wolverine got him later," Fred said. "Wow," Lance said. "What about in the tomb?" Neo asked. "We dunno, the professor thinks he's dead though," DJ said.
"Well, from what you told me at least Summer's finally grew a backbone," Lance said. "He's grown a lot more then a backbone," DJ said. "Anyway, what do we do now? Mystique's gone. We're just gonna live here with no money?" Toad said. "Get a job?" Tabitha replied. "Get a job in New York? Good luck," Lance said rolling his eyes. "Stop being negative Lance, we gotta figure something out!" Neo shouted. "Whatever," Lance replied. "Well, we could always follow snookums," Toad explained dreamily. "Suggest we join the X-men again Toad, and I'll gut you," Meltdown said. "Right, shutting up now," Toad said.
"Anyway, what are we gonna do for money?" Tabitha asked. "Stealing sounds good," DJ said. "Yea," Fred said. "First off, Fred, you can't steal," Lance said. "Second off, DJ, you're in no condition to steal," Lance added. "And that leaves Tabitha, me, Neo and Toad," Lance explained. "Tabitha and Toad are the only experienced thieves, so we would be relying on THEM?" Lance asked. "More or less," DJ said. "Alright, sounds like a plan to me," Lance said. "I'm going to see if I can shake some people down for some money," Fred said getting up and throwing the frozen pees away. "Can I get the royal treatment, for being hurt I mean?" DJ said. The entire brotherhood laughed and left the room. "Haters." Z said to the empty room sadly.
The Sphinx-
The Acolytes looked at the entranced to the sphinx, all surrounding it in the hot desert sun.
"This is where his followers will come," Magneto explained. "We will find out what we need from them to kill Apocalypse," He finished. "You already have what you need," Arkady said. "You have the greatest living weapon this planet has ever seen," He explained. Magneto just shook his head. "Arkady, I am not in the mood for your rants, get inside," He said pointing at the entrance. "Find whatever you can, I don't care if it takes you all night and day, and there will be no rest for anyone until we discover what it takes!" Magneto shouted and then followed.
"What a bloody asshole, there's no chance we'll find anything down here," Pyro said looking over a dark corner. "Shut up and keep looking," Gambit snapped. "Bloody blokes everywhere you turn," Pyro mumbled to himself. "What was that?" Sabertooth growled. "Go play with a rat or something kitty cat, there's bound to be enough around in this filthy rot," John snapped. Sabertooth walked over to attack when Gambit's staff cut him off. "Watch it monami, we ain't supposed to be fighting, we supposed to be looking," Gambit said. Sabertooth growled one last time and stormed off. "Thanks mate," Pyro said. "Oh shut up John," Gambit said and went back to where he was searching. "Bastard," John mumbled and went back to looking.
Colossus tore through another wall, this one had golden valuables covered the room. "Nothing," He said in an annoyed voice in his native tongue. "Of course there is nothing, Magneto is a fool to think this place has anything," Omega Red said also in Russian. "For once Arkady I must agree, he's becoming blind," Piotr said. "If I didn't have metal coils running through my body, I would be helping Magneto on his way to seeing a different perspective," Arkady snarled in Russian. "He's even going back on part of our deal. He did not even let me fight Wolverine!" Omega Red shouted, still in his first language. "Magneto only follows through with his deals when they benefit him," Piotr said searching through some of the treasure. "So you noticed huh?" Arkady said as he tore through another wall. "It would help to have Klimov here," Omega Red snarled with frustration.
Magneto magnetically spun a pile of weapons that where on the ground into a ball and smashed it through a wall as he himself looked for information. "Apocalypse MUST be stopped," He said to himself. He looked over the wall next to him. It said things he would never understand on his own. "I must find someone to decipher this," He said to himself angrily. But Magneto knew of no one at the moment who could read languages of a long dead civilization that was ruled by a crazed all powerful mutant who even named himself after the end of the world and apparently had 4 minions who where extremely powerful and one lived for thousands of years. "I'm thinking too much into this," He said to himself. He had almost gotten headache thinking about this. He then saw something in the corner and rushed over to it. He noted it was an iron box, covered in rust. He opened it easily with his powers and saw a scroll inside. "What is this?" He asked himself. He carefully opened it to see it was in the same language on the wall. "I really need an Egyptologist," He said in an annoyed voice.
Under Sinister's orphanage-
Scott stood there with a slightly annoyed look. He had his arms crossed as he watched the Marauders still trying to work together better. 'Sinister really didn't teach these guys a thing about teamwork,' He thought.
Sinister was furious, he knew all too well that Apocalypse had been released, any mutant like him or another External/immortal could almost feel it in the air. "I don't understand," He snarled. "The tomb had to be the right one, but Mesmero didn't even approach it!" He said angrily. "Dad calm down," Jason said in fear. Nathaniel grabbed Jason by the neck and lifted him off the ground. "Calm down? You want me to CALM DOWN!?" He shouted angrily. "If he finds out we betrayed him, we will most certainly die! And if his plans are realized, my own plans are ruined! And I will become nothing but a peon member of the populace and a forgotten soul!" Shouted Sinister. "I get it dad!" Jason said as loudly as he could and Essex dropped his son. "We must make new allies if we are to do this, and I know Selene will not longer work with me," He explained. "Why?" Jason asked, "Simple Jason, Selene never considers any failure her own, so, she is going to blame me for what happened," He explained calmly. "Gee. a nearly all powerful insane super bitch is going to try to kill a nearly all powerful not as insane scientist soon. I feel so special that I'll get caught in the middle," Jason said. "Shut up," Sinister growled.
Scott saw Janos hit the ground from Scalphunter. "Enough, god you guys have almost no teamwork skills, no wonder they beat us, I'm used to being on a team that KNOWS how to work together," Scott said angrily. "Hey!" The marauders said back. "Harpoon, Scalp, you two are really starting to drag down the team, either learn how to work together, or I'll talk to the boss, you KNOW how pissed he is at us already," Cyclops said angrily. He did not need this, when he started fighting for his life he was not going to get killed because a few people couldn't learn to get along.
Sinister looked over some files. "We'll need backup for our little group soon," He said and read over some more files, he then grinned. "And I have a few perfect subjects to join the group," He added. Jason just raised a brow and crossed his arms. "Like who?" He asked. Mr. Sinister put up a window on his screen and it showed 3 names. Jason grinned as he looked over there profiles. "Your right, those will do," He said to his father.
Scott walked in with the other members of his team to face his commanding officers. "We have a little recruiting mission to go on soon," Sinister explained. "There are 3 new people to join us soon enough," He added. Scott raised a brow. "Who?" He asked.
"Harry Delgado," Sinister said. "He has the ability to increase his size and strength," He added. "We need a strong member on the team, so the profiles would do him best," Sinister added. ******
"Illyana Rasputin," Jason then said. "She's ill right now, but we have ways of curing that," He added. "She can teleport and seems to have some other powers, but she is young right now, only 13," Jason said. ******
"And finally, someone Scott knows all too well," Sinister said. Scott raised a brow and the Marauders looked at him. "Alex Masters, also known as Alex Summers," Sinister said. Scott froze, this wasn't good. "Is that really needed?" Scott asked. Sinister mentally grinned. "Yes it is," He replied. Scott didn't argue the point and nodded.
Nova Roma-
Adam sat there frowning. How'd he get himself in these situations?
*Flashback*
"You brought her, she's YOUR responsibility outside training," Selene said. "You're fucking kidding me. I gotta take care of Void already!" Adam protested. "Well then you should have thought of that before you wasted my time and sent her here with you and your group," Selene spat. "But she would have died!" Adam protested. "No offence intended Mr. Akimov, but when was the last time you cared if someone died? As far as I know you even killed your own father," Selene said cockily. 'I HATE her," Adam thought angrily. "Now then, take care of your problem, because I'm not going to," Selene said.
*END Flashback*
Adam glared at the unconscious form as she began to stir. 'I really should kill her,' Adam though angrily. 'Ahh hell, I know I won't, this is not going to be fun, when she wakes up, it's going to be the 'where am I. What are you doing here?' Thing isn't it?' He thought.
Jean's eyes slowly opened. She took in the humid air and sat up with lightning speed. "Where am I? What are you doing here?" She said pointing at Adam. 'Didn't see that coming,' Adam thought and inwardly sighed. "You are in Brazil," Adam explained. "And I am here because I have to take care of your worthless carcass," He added with annoyance dripping off every word. "What do you want?" Jean asked immediately. "I don't WANT anything, but I'm going to have to watch over you like I have to my little bastard brother," Adam spat.
"What happened?" Jean asked. "Your team left you to die, we escaped, you got dragged along," Adam said. "It figures," Jean whispered to herself. "What was that?" Adam asked. "Nothing," Jean replied. There was a silence for some time. "Welcome to the Void Stalkers, a team run by fear," Adam said emotionlessly. "You most likely won't enjoy your stay," He added. He stood up and was about to leave the room when he heard Jean. "What am I supposed to do?" She asked. "I don't really care, just don't get yourself killed, I really don't want my mind torn apart today," Adam said. ~Could you be any less specific?~ Jean asked telepathically. ~Yes, I could not answer at all, now don't contact me telepathically~ Adam snarled back.
Jean sat there and felt like crying, alone again. The real her was home, with her friends right now, and all of them didn't even know she existed. They probably thought she was a shape shifter, or some evil incarnation. "I'm not Jean Grey," She said sadly and started to cry. "What?" Adam asked. She looked up at him. "When did you get back?" She asked harshly. "I decided I'd tell you what to do, but this is far more interesting, someone having a soap opera with themselves. It's been a long time since I saw real TV, go ahead, keep it up, I'll get a bucket of popcorn or something," Adam said before being telekinetically slammed into a wall. He got up and grinned. "That's more like it," He said evilly. "So Jean, what's your next move? Going to use all that pent up aggression to try to kill me? Don't get too far ahead of yourself, you won't kill me this time," Adam said.
"No," She said. "Well then what?" Adam said. "No as in I'm not Jean," Jean said. "Oh, I must have mistaken you for someone who mattered then," Adam said crossing his arms. Jean quickly thought of a name. "I'm Madelyn, I'm not Jean," She said. ~I won't be a shadow~ She told him telepathically. "Good," Adam said. She looked confused. "Selene or I have no use for anyone who is not willing to achieve a new goal, and your out to achieve one, you are ambitious," Adam said. "Fuck you," Madelyn hissed. "Your words hurt me. Now get up and get ready, you get to meet the boss," Adam ordered. "And trust me, you won't be enjoying it," Adam added. Madelyn gulped and nodded.
"I can't believe this!" Selene screamed and destroyed a piece of furniture. "He got out. this is all Sinister's fault," She snarled angrily. "If not for his faulty tomb we would have crushed them!" She added angrily. "Now I have to fight that idiot Nor directly," She hissed.
"Selene, your group is here to see you," A priest said. "Let them in," She hissed. She saw Adam arrived with Void behind him and Jean behind Void, Julio, Jubilee and Angelic where next.
"You all made it here," Selene said. She immediately locked her eyes on Jean. 'This one has some telepathic and telekinetic power.' She thought. "Ms. Grey," She started. "Her name is Madelyn now," Adam said. "Do you talk for her Akimov?" Selene hissed. Adam lowered his head and with a bitter look on his face shook his head. He was blasted into a wall by a fireball. "Good, I see you agree with me on that," Selene hissed. "Now then, 'Madelyn', I'm going to give you two options, you can join willingly, or you can join forcefully," Selene said. 'She will make an excellent apprentice, she just needs a bit more hatred in her,' Selene thought. "I don't exactly have anywhere else to go," Madelyn explained. "Then it's agreed," Selene said.
"You are all to go out and train, Adam run the stand drills wouldn't you?" Selene said. "Of course Selene," Adam replied sharply.
Unknown location-
Apocalypse looked inside the small vessel. He contemplated the new world around him. And where had Essex been, he should have been there at his awakening. All these questions didn't add up for him, but for now his plans where too important.
Back at the Mansion-
"Hello Mr. Lynch, it is nice to see you," Xavier said. "It's great to meet you as well professor," Jacen said friendlily. He would follow Xavier into hell and back for his ideals alone. "May I ask why you are here?" Xavier asked. "I wish to join the X-men," Jacen said proudly. Xavier smiled in his kind way. "Welcome to the X-men Jacen, I hope you will enjoy your stay," Professor Xavier said.
2 weeks later,
Apocalypse's small vessel appeared above a pyramid in Mexico. It changed it's outer appearance and the ship locked in as the glyphs covering it glowed. A large purple dome came over the structure.
The X-men, consisting of Jean, Beast, Kitty, Sunspot, Michael, Chris, Jacen and Xavier went to investigate. "Shouldn't we take Storm, Wanda or Tyler for this?" Kitty asked. "No, we aren't going to start a fight, we are going for research only, Apocalypse could stop us in an instant, there presence would mean nothing," Xavier said.
Magneto found out about the dome and left his team in Egypt. He himself going to Mexico, leaving with the statement. "Only one of us shall survive,"
Xavier and the others attempted 3 times to get information out of the dome, but nothing could evaluate it.
Shortly after, Magneto attacked the dome with everything.
Eric went as far as to call satellites down from the heavens with the power of meteorite that attacked the dome viciously. Apocalypse emerged, and with no effort, used his telekinesis to deflect the last satellites and then formed an energy vortex around Magneto. A moment later, in a blinding flash, he was gone.
Boston, Emma's 2nd mansion-
Bobby watched the TV and froze it. He then shattered it in a rage. "What?" The White Queen asked entering. "Magneto is fucking dead!" Bobby shouted angrily. Emma then looked extremely angry as well. "There goes our plan," Bobby snarled angrily. The plan was really simple. Emma's company was able to replicate the device that Magneto made on Asteroid M. but, needed the same power supply, and only Magneto had access to the legendary gems of Cytorack. "What do we do now?" Iceman asked, his blood boiling *LoL*. "We get revenge Robert, just like we always do," Emma said looking distort as well. "After all, you are more or less unstoppable Bobby, he can't do anything to you," Emma said with a playful smirk. Iceman nodded smirking himself. "Too bad for him," He said.
Hellfire Club England-
"This situation is most interesting indeed," Shaw said putting his hands together. "We will watch to see how it plays out," He added as the rest of the Hellfire Club nodded in agreement.
Sinister and Selene where watching what happened and both looked shocked at what they had seen. 'Such power,' both thought at the same time.
Selene and Sinister both had backup plans. Selene's more immediate then her fellow immortal.
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That's all for this chapter folks, half the size of its predecessor. But that's ok, next chapter focuses once more on Apocalypse, but also on every team, at first mainly the Void Stalkers, but you see everyone gets an equal piece of Nor, aside from the Hood and Acolytes, because there no threat to him currently.
Also, I'm now putting up a power scale, this does not mean these people are equal, its' all the top 4 powerful slots for major mutants, Apocalypse is not on the list and is assumed to be above all of them.
1. Juggernaut 2. Iceman, Selene, Void *you'll see why later* 3. Xavier, Magneto, Sinister 4. Storm, Legion, Wanda, Omega Red *Very hard to kill, actually. near impossible lol*
Those are the top four slots, just on overall who is the strongest and hardest to kill ON AVERAGE. for example Lance going all out or Cyclops can put event Iceman or Selene down for a few moments. the Juggernaut is debatable. lol. Also, this is in power, not skill. Like if I were to put Xavier and Magneto in a fist fight without powers, you can only guess who would win. As you also see, most of the main characters are not on the list, though many of them would be a 'level 5', so there under the most powerful. Also, this system is just in overall value as well, if you put Selene vs. Iceman, Iceman would win; see what I'm getting at?
Anyway, keep reading and reviewing. Next chapters is called. 'Wrath of Apocalypse' for a reason.
After next chapter it won't be as much on Apocalypse, then it will shift back too him.
Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and sent characters-
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. Also. gonna thank the creator of Jacen Lynch, forgot his name and can't find it, but it's 'Kyle' on MSN. lol