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ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 20: A SINISTER MEETING
A few days had passed and things were slowly getting back to normal a little. Vincent had just finished one of his personal training sessions with Jamie, and was walking past the door as the doorbell rang.
He noticed he was the closest to the door, so he just shrugged to himself and went to open it. When he did he fund himself looking at a Native American boy who looked about his age, and for some reason had the fashion sense of someone from the 60's or 70's.
Vincent could never tell the difference of fashion between the two decades. They both looked too much the same style for him.
"Hey you must be Vincent I've heard about you." He happily said.
"Uh...yeah, and you are..." Vincent let the question hang out.
"Oh sorry I'm Forge, the Professor asked to meet with me, said something about needing my help."
Vincent just shrugged and let him in. "So you're the famous Forge I've heard about."
Forge smiled brightly. "What have you heard?"
"That your this super genius mutant." Forge was pleased at that. "And how you got trapped in some kind of time bubble for a few decades, and how your experiment with Kurt released these monsters that showed up at the high school dance."
"Oh....yeah...." Forge started rubbing the back of his head, slightly embarrassed.
Vince noticed this and decided for a change in subject. "Well I hear your mutation is kind of cool."
Forged brighten up a little. "Yeah especially for me." As he finished he held up his arm and it transformed into a giant looking multitool device.
"Cool, you must have to alter your arm on a molecular structure to be able to change it like that, can you do it with both arms, or does it take too much energy or concentration for just the one, or a limit to how much energy you need to use to alter your molecules?" Vincent fired away.
Forge looked a little shocked.
Vince noticed this. "They didn't mention I was smart and a straight A student did they?" he said grinning.
"Uh, no they didn't and well you don't look or talk like...ah...um"
Vincent chocked and eyebrow. "Well neither does Kitty, and people tend to forget that's she's pretty smart too, hell even I was surprised when we once got into this argument on whether you could actually travel faster than light. She's a lot smarter than she lets on."
Forge looking slightly embarrassed again, was looking slightly down at his feet. "Yeah good point, sorry about that."
Vincent just shrugged and smiled at him. "Hey no harm done eh."
*****
Forge had finished talking with Vincent and was now heading to Cerebro where Xavier had told him to meet him.
He entered to find both Hank and Xavier working on it. "Hey I heard you guys needed me for something." They both turned around and smiled at the familiar mutant.
"Yes I have." Charles said rolling up to him. "I need your expertise to help me with something."
The Professor explained to Forge what was currently happening, how a person named Sinister had sent Mystique, Juggernaut, and April against them, and of the tragic fate of April.
Forge took it all in. "Man, that's some heavy stuff. So what do you need me exactly for."
Hank spoke up next. "We were wondering if you could help us modify Cerebro to detect telepathic thoughts being artificially amplified."
Forge knew exactly what they were planning. "Cool, your going to give Cerebro the ability to track anything else like it, so if Sinister gets his own Cerebro online, you'll be able to track him and find him."
They both nodded.
Forge transformed his arm and smiled. "Show me where to start."
***
Sinister was currently meeting with Mesmero in the main control room. "So is Mystique getting everything ready?"
"Apparently, are you sure you want to leave her alone?"
"Of course not, that's why you're going there to 'help' her out, besides with our new ally, things should go quite smoothly."
"How did you convince him to work with us?"
"He told me who we would be up against, and who I will meet." Came a Russian voice from a darkened corner of the room. [A/N: I don't do Russian accents, can't get them down right so use your imagination.]
They both turned around to see a large figure approach, he was extremely pale, and was dressed in a bizarre red uniform.
"Ah, are you ready for the next part of the plan?" Sinister asked him.
"As long as I get a shot at Wolverine, I'm ready." He said.
"Good, good. Well let's go say hello shall we Omega Red." Sinister ginned.
****
While working on enhancing Cerebro, an alarm went off suddenly, causing both Forge and Hank to hit their heads on the bottom of the console they were working on.
"What's going on?" Forge asked while rubbing his head.
Hank looked at the readouts Cerebro was giving. "We had Cerebro hooked up to the any emergency calls being called to specific industries, you see to create something like Cerebro you need specific parts. Some of which are vary rare and only a few companies make it, like the metallic shielding in this chamber."
"So someone is what? Stealing certain materials you had flagged, hoping it's Sinister?" Forge asked.
"Precisely Forge." Hank looked over the data. "Apparently a Stark Enterprises facility is being attacked now in the New York area."
"We should tell the Professor." Forge said.
*That won't be necessary Forge, I already now* Came the Professor's voice in their heads.
"Well that's handy, if a little freaky." Forge said to Beast.
***
The X-Men had gathered in the hanger, Bobby was also with them in his new suit, it was basically light blue, with white running down the sides of his arms, legs, and along the side of his ribs. There was also an X insignia over his heart, he also had boats and gloves that were also white.
Logan and Storm were heading out with them, and the Professor was watching them get on when the doors opened to reveal Vincent in his uniform walking towards them.
The Professor got a concerned look on his face, and went over to him before he boarded with the rest of the team. "Vincent I didn't ask for you to join the team this time."
"I know but I HAVE to go, I need to face him if he's there." Vincent said, with a deep determination in his face and voice.
The Professor studied him, he knew that Vincent's hatred for Sinister was understandable, but he knew that his emotions also could place the team in danger, if he acted rashly.
Vincent looked at the Professor. "Sir I need to go. I promise to use every bit of control I have, and listen to Scott, but he's got answers to a few questions that I need to know. Please."
Charles wasn't sure what to do, he had to think of the team but also this was something that he needed to do. He did have to face Sinister, and could help him come to terms with a lot of things in his life that he could only guess at.
Reluctantly he agreed, but told Scott, Logan and Storm through telepathy to keep a close eye on him, and not to let his anger take him too far.
***
They arrived at the Stark heavy industrial material facility that an alarm had been sent out. The place was crawling with cops but they were busy being pinned down by all these robots, and what looked like the places own security system was attacking the cops.
The robots were humanoid in appearance, they were all silver looking, smooth and their faces were nothing more then a dark reflective surface. They had some type of energy weapons on their arms and were keeping the cops from entering the facility. There were also laser turrets also firing.
"Great looks like they overrode the security and unleashed it on the cops." Logan said clearly not happy about the situation.
"Alright first we got to do is take out those devices and make sure the cops don't get fried." Logan looked at Storm. "Think you can make something that could take them out Ro?"
Ororo gave a little smile and her eyes went white. Suddenly the sky darkened, and then lighting shot out of the sky and the robotic defenses were either disabled or destroyed.
Logan gave a smile and landed the X-Jet on the roof of the place. They exited the craft, and Logan with the use of his claws slashed open the stairwell to the inside.
They went down several levels until they reached the main floor. They entered the area, and were shocked to find it was filled with bodies. The X- Men examined the bodies but found that they were all just knocked out.
Wolverine sniffed the air. "Looks like this place can equipped with knockout gas, I can still smell slight traces of it."
"Well at least it's gone and we don't have to worry about anyone getting in the way." Bobby quipped.
They made their way through the facility which wasn't easy because in every hallway auto defenses kick in. The team did make short work of it, with Mayhem and Cyclopes using energy blasts, Bobby Freezing gun turrets, Jean Crushing combat drones with her mind, Storm's lighting, Shadowcat phasing through the electronics shorting them out and Wolverine, well being Wolverine.
Of course the more they battled the defenses the more time Sinister or another of his people could get away. It was by pure luck they came across the security station.
Logan looked at the door marked 'Security Office'. "Look we're getting nowhere fast we need to shut down the defenses we can't keep fighting our way through the entire place."
"No problem." Mayhem casually said and sent his fist into the metallic door. To everyone's surprise especially to Vincent he didn't even dent it. "SON OF A-"he shouted and cradled his hand and speaking in several languages, most likely cursing with every language he knew except for English, even Kurt looked a little shocked at his language when it was in German.
Logan took a step forward and tried his claws, only to have sparks fly off. "Hump. Looks like they used adamantium for the door."
"Damn it, no wonder that hurt so much, even I can't dent that stuff." Vincent said shaking his hand.
"Well we need to get the security systems taken off." Scott said. "Kitty you phase through and we'll continue on since we don't know how much time we have left. Vincent go with her, and catch up to us when you're done."
Vincent nodded in agreement.
"Come on" Kitty said grabbing him and going through the door, then the rest of the team headed off.
As Shadowcat and Mayhem entered the security office, the saw the whole placed was lined up with computers, and video screens. They searched until they found a computer that looked like it was the master computer.
Kitty was trying to bypass the security protocols and the firewalls, she could do it but it would take time. Vincent was watching her work and it occurred to him that she wasn't just using computer skills she was using skills only a hacker knew.
"Nobody told me you were a hacker." Vincent stated.
Kitty jerked at attention. "How-how did you know? I haven't like told anyone I used to be a hacker."
"Used to be?"
"Well I still go online and dabble but nothing major, any how did you know?"
Vincent smiled and went to the other keyboard next to her and started to work. "A hacker can recognize the work of another."
Kitty just stared at him, but after watching him work, or at least trying to, since he was working at light speed, she could tell he had skills too.
"I won't say anything if you don't." He said to her. She smiled back. "Deal." She responded, and together they were able to switch off the security systems in just under five minutes.
"Now let's see if we can find the bad guys." Vincent said more to himself than Kitty. They started to check out the security cameras and found two strange looking individuals and some kind of robots piling a lot of material into a huge pile.
"Well I think we like found them." Kitty said pointing at the screen. Vincent checked to see what camera was shooting and looked for the others, he found them near the two, and looked for a intercom.
"Hey guys." He said into the microphone. He could see the others look around on the screen. "Good news, we got the security shutdown, except for the doors we figured the cops would just get in our way, plus we found the bad guys, head left, right, third left and your there."
They saw Logan give the thumbs up and they made off in a dead run. "Well shall we?" Vincent asked Kitty, gesturing to the wall. She grabbed his arm and phased them through the wall. Then Vince picked up Kitty who let out a surprised squeal and went off at super speed to the others.
They caught up to the rest of the team just as they entered the large storage area where the facility kept certain materials.
The large pale man turned and looked directly at Logan. "So we finally meet again."
"Oh great this guy again." Logan disgustedly said.
"You know this guy?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah his names Omega Red, and for some reason he's pissed off at me, looks like he's working for a new boss too."
"Yes he is." Came the voice of the other one.
"And you would be?" Logan asked him.
He let out a wicked smile that showed a row of sharp teeth. "Sinister."
"YOU!" Vincent cried out, his eyes and hands already were glowing the dark crimson, and his face filled with hatred.
"Ah Vincent so nice to see you once again, I must say I was surprised that you were still alive. You always did have to most promise of all the other experiments, I really should congratulate the doctor more for choosing you."
Vincent was about to attack when Omega Red beat him to it. A cable flashed out to Vincent but he caught it, unfortunately that was what he wanted and soon Vincent was on his knees crying out in pain as Omega Red use his 'Death Factor' to steal his life energy.
Cyclopes blasted him immediately and he let go of Vincent. The others charged in then. Jean, Storm, and Rogue were going after Sinister, While Logan, Cyclopes, Kitty, and Bobby went up against Omega Red.
The battle went tough, no matter what they threw at them Sinister always regenerated his body, and Omega Red was a force all his own. Even when Vincent got back up and fought along side the others against Omega Red, it was still a tough battle.
Near the end Sinister even sent his own robots from working to attack them, which caused even more problems, however the robots, which were nothing more than flying combat drones similar to the ones they've faced in the Danger Room, they were the easiest obstacle to overcome.
The battle dragged on until Vincent and Scott both gave Omega Red a blast together, there was enough power there to send him through the wall if it hit, luckily it did because Iceman had frozen his feet in position.
Now there was only Sinister left and they surrounded him. "Well looks like I lose...or do I?" He grabbed an object from behind his back, and placed it on his head. Before anyone could react they were all on the ground clutching their heads.
"Do you honestly thought Mesmero was the only telepath around?" he sneered at them. He walked over to Vincent who looked up at him. "You know there are some things that bother me about you like how you survived, let's remedy that shall we?"
Vincent screamed out in pain as Sinister tore into his mind. "Ah that explains a lot."
He turned away but was stopped when Vincent spoke up. "You can run...but...you can't hide from me forever....I will find you and make you pay!....You'll pay for what you did to us, and for April."
Sinister cocked an eyebrow at him. "So your on some personal quest for what? Vengeance....justice. Please like you're so noble, your hands are just as covered with blood as are mine."
The others looked up in shock at this. They couldn't help but look at Vincent's face but he had his head down, looking at the ground as if in shame.
"What? No witty retort? The truth hurts doesn't it, well then you shouldn't feel too bad for what you did, you are just a weapon is all, and that's what weapons do...they KILL." With that he laughed at them and they all felt the pain return and they blacked out.
They woke up, not sure of how long they were out, but there was no sign of Sinister, Omega Red or the material they stole, the only thing left was the mess of the fight and a few broken robots.
But that wasn't what they were looking at most of the team were looking at Vincent. But he wasn't facing them in fact he was purposely avoiding their looks. This was something he never wanted to happen, it was one of his worse fears come true.
Scott told Jean to pick up the remains of the robots, for Hank to study with her telekinesis and they all made their way silently to the X-Jet.
***
On the X-Jet things were slightly tense. After the confrontation with Sinister and his alley Omega Red, things were looking bleak.
But most of all was the revelation Sinister made of Vincent. No one knew what to think, they all didn't want to believe Sinister, but the way Vincent had acted they weren't so sure, and now he was at the vary back of the plane in the cargo area. Rogue was with him, it was obvious to everyone she knew the truth.
"I don't now if I can do this Rogue." Vincent quietly said they were talking in hushed tones so no one could hear their conversations.
"Ah know, but ya knew ya couldn' run from it forever." She sadly told him, she knew this one of his worse fears, people finding out about the 'incident' and what happened.
"If ya tell them everything, they'll understand, Ah do."
He looked at her, and she could see the fear in his eyes. "But what if they think of me as...as a monster."
"Don' ever think that, Ah don' think of ya as that, remember what ah said to ya in the medical ward after ya woke up?" Her tone took on slight hardness to it. "They'll understand, ah know this will be difficult, but there's nothing else ya can do."
Vincent was silent a moment. Then he closed his eyes, and looked down. "Yeah I know, and your right this will be hard, I'm going to have to open up a lot of old wounds, but there is no other way."
Rogue placed a hand on one of his gloved hands. "Ah'll be there for ya."
Vincent smiled slightly then. "I know, and thanks."
The rest of the trip was in silence, and when they landed Xavier was there to meet them, and Vincent walked right up to him.
"Professor could you call together everyone in ten minutes to the living room, I have to tell everyone something, and I don't want to have to repeat any of it to someone who wasn't there."
The Professor could sense the tension in the air, and the pain coming from Vincent, he nodded his understanding, and walked off to change.
"Vincent!" Kitty said, he stopped in his tracks, and looked over his shoulder at her. "Is it true what he said....did you kill someone?" She asked him, fearful of his answer.
"No." He said darkly, and continued walking then without looking over his shoulder said. "I killed seven people, not one."
The silence was truly deafening and everyone except Rogue was in complete shock.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 21: ORIGIN
That's right, now (hopefully) every question you had about Vincent will be answered, and your going to see if what you've guessed about his past is correct. (Hint: I have placed certain clues and hints throughout the story about what will be shown)
A piece of warning, this is most likely going to be a very dark part of this story. Oh and if you want to know anything specific let me know in a review before I post the next chapter.
Eden: thanks for the commenting on his reaction
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Nice to see you back, and yes this fic is close to ending, but I do have a sequel in mind. (Maybe even more, although Vincent my not be the focus he's still there)
Shadow-spider: Hope you enjoy this.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 20: A SINISTER MEETING
A few days had passed and things were slowly getting back to normal a little. Vincent had just finished one of his personal training sessions with Jamie, and was walking past the door as the doorbell rang.
He noticed he was the closest to the door, so he just shrugged to himself and went to open it. When he did he fund himself looking at a Native American boy who looked about his age, and for some reason had the fashion sense of someone from the 60's or 70's.
Vincent could never tell the difference of fashion between the two decades. They both looked too much the same style for him.
"Hey you must be Vincent I've heard about you." He happily said.
"Uh...yeah, and you are..." Vincent let the question hang out.
"Oh sorry I'm Forge, the Professor asked to meet with me, said something about needing my help."
Vincent just shrugged and let him in. "So you're the famous Forge I've heard about."
Forge smiled brightly. "What have you heard?"
"That your this super genius mutant." Forge was pleased at that. "And how you got trapped in some kind of time bubble for a few decades, and how your experiment with Kurt released these monsters that showed up at the high school dance."
"Oh....yeah...." Forge started rubbing the back of his head, slightly embarrassed.
Vince noticed this and decided for a change in subject. "Well I hear your mutation is kind of cool."
Forged brighten up a little. "Yeah especially for me." As he finished he held up his arm and it transformed into a giant looking multitool device.
"Cool, you must have to alter your arm on a molecular structure to be able to change it like that, can you do it with both arms, or does it take too much energy or concentration for just the one, or a limit to how much energy you need to use to alter your molecules?" Vincent fired away.
Forge looked a little shocked.
Vince noticed this. "They didn't mention I was smart and a straight A student did they?" he said grinning.
"Uh, no they didn't and well you don't look or talk like...ah...um"
Vincent chocked and eyebrow. "Well neither does Kitty, and people tend to forget that's she's pretty smart too, hell even I was surprised when we once got into this argument on whether you could actually travel faster than light. She's a lot smarter than she lets on."
Forge looking slightly embarrassed again, was looking slightly down at his feet. "Yeah good point, sorry about that."
Vincent just shrugged and smiled at him. "Hey no harm done eh."
*****
Forge had finished talking with Vincent and was now heading to Cerebro where Xavier had told him to meet him.
He entered to find both Hank and Xavier working on it. "Hey I heard you guys needed me for something." They both turned around and smiled at the familiar mutant.
"Yes I have." Charles said rolling up to him. "I need your expertise to help me with something."
The Professor explained to Forge what was currently happening, how a person named Sinister had sent Mystique, Juggernaut, and April against them, and of the tragic fate of April.
Forge took it all in. "Man, that's some heavy stuff. So what do you need me exactly for."
Hank spoke up next. "We were wondering if you could help us modify Cerebro to detect telepathic thoughts being artificially amplified."
Forge knew exactly what they were planning. "Cool, your going to give Cerebro the ability to track anything else like it, so if Sinister gets his own Cerebro online, you'll be able to track him and find him."
They both nodded.
Forge transformed his arm and smiled. "Show me where to start."
***
Sinister was currently meeting with Mesmero in the main control room. "So is Mystique getting everything ready?"
"Apparently, are you sure you want to leave her alone?"
"Of course not, that's why you're going there to 'help' her out, besides with our new ally, things should go quite smoothly."
"How did you convince him to work with us?"
"He told me who we would be up against, and who I will meet." Came a Russian voice from a darkened corner of the room. [A/N: I don't do Russian accents, can't get them down right so use your imagination.]
They both turned around to see a large figure approach, he was extremely pale, and was dressed in a bizarre red uniform.
"Ah, are you ready for the next part of the plan?" Sinister asked him.
"As long as I get a shot at Wolverine, I'm ready." He said.
"Good, good. Well let's go say hello shall we Omega Red." Sinister ginned.
****
While working on enhancing Cerebro, an alarm went off suddenly, causing both Forge and Hank to hit their heads on the bottom of the console they were working on.
"What's going on?" Forge asked while rubbing his head.
Hank looked at the readouts Cerebro was giving. "We had Cerebro hooked up to the any emergency calls being called to specific industries, you see to create something like Cerebro you need specific parts. Some of which are vary rare and only a few companies make it, like the metallic shielding in this chamber."
"So someone is what? Stealing certain materials you had flagged, hoping it's Sinister?" Forge asked.
"Precisely Forge." Hank looked over the data. "Apparently a Stark Enterprises facility is being attacked now in the New York area."
"We should tell the Professor." Forge said.
*That won't be necessary Forge, I already now* Came the Professor's voice in their heads.
"Well that's handy, if a little freaky." Forge said to Beast.
***
The X-Men had gathered in the hanger, Bobby was also with them in his new suit, it was basically light blue, with white running down the sides of his arms, legs, and along the side of his ribs. There was also an X insignia over his heart, he also had boats and gloves that were also white.
Logan and Storm were heading out with them, and the Professor was watching them get on when the doors opened to reveal Vincent in his uniform walking towards them.
The Professor got a concerned look on his face, and went over to him before he boarded with the rest of the team. "Vincent I didn't ask for you to join the team this time."
"I know but I HAVE to go, I need to face him if he's there." Vincent said, with a deep determination in his face and voice.
The Professor studied him, he knew that Vincent's hatred for Sinister was understandable, but he knew that his emotions also could place the team in danger, if he acted rashly.
Vincent looked at the Professor. "Sir I need to go. I promise to use every bit of control I have, and listen to Scott, but he's got answers to a few questions that I need to know. Please."
Charles wasn't sure what to do, he had to think of the team but also this was something that he needed to do. He did have to face Sinister, and could help him come to terms with a lot of things in his life that he could only guess at.
Reluctantly he agreed, but told Scott, Logan and Storm through telepathy to keep a close eye on him, and not to let his anger take him too far.
***
They arrived at the Stark heavy industrial material facility that an alarm had been sent out. The place was crawling with cops but they were busy being pinned down by all these robots, and what looked like the places own security system was attacking the cops.
The robots were humanoid in appearance, they were all silver looking, smooth and their faces were nothing more then a dark reflective surface. They had some type of energy weapons on their arms and were keeping the cops from entering the facility. There were also laser turrets also firing.
"Great looks like they overrode the security and unleashed it on the cops." Logan said clearly not happy about the situation.
"Alright first we got to do is take out those devices and make sure the cops don't get fried." Logan looked at Storm. "Think you can make something that could take them out Ro?"
Ororo gave a little smile and her eyes went white. Suddenly the sky darkened, and then lighting shot out of the sky and the robotic defenses were either disabled or destroyed.
Logan gave a smile and landed the X-Jet on the roof of the place. They exited the craft, and Logan with the use of his claws slashed open the stairwell to the inside.
They went down several levels until they reached the main floor. They entered the area, and were shocked to find it was filled with bodies. The X- Men examined the bodies but found that they were all just knocked out.
Wolverine sniffed the air. "Looks like this place can equipped with knockout gas, I can still smell slight traces of it."
"Well at least it's gone and we don't have to worry about anyone getting in the way." Bobby quipped.
They made their way through the facility which wasn't easy because in every hallway auto defenses kick in. The team did make short work of it, with Mayhem and Cyclopes using energy blasts, Bobby Freezing gun turrets, Jean Crushing combat drones with her mind, Storm's lighting, Shadowcat phasing through the electronics shorting them out and Wolverine, well being Wolverine.
Of course the more they battled the defenses the more time Sinister or another of his people could get away. It was by pure luck they came across the security station.
Logan looked at the door marked 'Security Office'. "Look we're getting nowhere fast we need to shut down the defenses we can't keep fighting our way through the entire place."
"No problem." Mayhem casually said and sent his fist into the metallic door. To everyone's surprise especially to Vincent he didn't even dent it. "SON OF A-"he shouted and cradled his hand and speaking in several languages, most likely cursing with every language he knew except for English, even Kurt looked a little shocked at his language when it was in German.
Logan took a step forward and tried his claws, only to have sparks fly off. "Hump. Looks like they used adamantium for the door."
"Damn it, no wonder that hurt so much, even I can't dent that stuff." Vincent said shaking his hand.
"Well we need to get the security systems taken off." Scott said. "Kitty you phase through and we'll continue on since we don't know how much time we have left. Vincent go with her, and catch up to us when you're done."
Vincent nodded in agreement.
"Come on" Kitty said grabbing him and going through the door, then the rest of the team headed off.
As Shadowcat and Mayhem entered the security office, the saw the whole placed was lined up with computers, and video screens. They searched until they found a computer that looked like it was the master computer.
Kitty was trying to bypass the security protocols and the firewalls, she could do it but it would take time. Vincent was watching her work and it occurred to him that she wasn't just using computer skills she was using skills only a hacker knew.
"Nobody told me you were a hacker." Vincent stated.
Kitty jerked at attention. "How-how did you know? I haven't like told anyone I used to be a hacker."
"Used to be?"
"Well I still go online and dabble but nothing major, any how did you know?"
Vincent smiled and went to the other keyboard next to her and started to work. "A hacker can recognize the work of another."
Kitty just stared at him, but after watching him work, or at least trying to, since he was working at light speed, she could tell he had skills too.
"I won't say anything if you don't." He said to her. She smiled back. "Deal." She responded, and together they were able to switch off the security systems in just under five minutes.
"Now let's see if we can find the bad guys." Vincent said more to himself than Kitty. They started to check out the security cameras and found two strange looking individuals and some kind of robots piling a lot of material into a huge pile.
"Well I think we like found them." Kitty said pointing at the screen. Vincent checked to see what camera was shooting and looked for the others, he found them near the two, and looked for a intercom.
"Hey guys." He said into the microphone. He could see the others look around on the screen. "Good news, we got the security shutdown, except for the doors we figured the cops would just get in our way, plus we found the bad guys, head left, right, third left and your there."
They saw Logan give the thumbs up and they made off in a dead run. "Well shall we?" Vincent asked Kitty, gesturing to the wall. She grabbed his arm and phased them through the wall. Then Vince picked up Kitty who let out a surprised squeal and went off at super speed to the others.
They caught up to the rest of the team just as they entered the large storage area where the facility kept certain materials.
The large pale man turned and looked directly at Logan. "So we finally meet again."
"Oh great this guy again." Logan disgustedly said.
"You know this guy?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah his names Omega Red, and for some reason he's pissed off at me, looks like he's working for a new boss too."
"Yes he is." Came the voice of the other one.
"And you would be?" Logan asked him.
He let out a wicked smile that showed a row of sharp teeth. "Sinister."
"YOU!" Vincent cried out, his eyes and hands already were glowing the dark crimson, and his face filled with hatred.
"Ah Vincent so nice to see you once again, I must say I was surprised that you were still alive. You always did have to most promise of all the other experiments, I really should congratulate the doctor more for choosing you."
Vincent was about to attack when Omega Red beat him to it. A cable flashed out to Vincent but he caught it, unfortunately that was what he wanted and soon Vincent was on his knees crying out in pain as Omega Red use his 'Death Factor' to steal his life energy.
Cyclopes blasted him immediately and he let go of Vincent. The others charged in then. Jean, Storm, and Rogue were going after Sinister, While Logan, Cyclopes, Kitty, and Bobby went up against Omega Red.
The battle went tough, no matter what they threw at them Sinister always regenerated his body, and Omega Red was a force all his own. Even when Vincent got back up and fought along side the others against Omega Red, it was still a tough battle.
Near the end Sinister even sent his own robots from working to attack them, which caused even more problems, however the robots, which were nothing more than flying combat drones similar to the ones they've faced in the Danger Room, they were the easiest obstacle to overcome.
The battle dragged on until Vincent and Scott both gave Omega Red a blast together, there was enough power there to send him through the wall if it hit, luckily it did because Iceman had frozen his feet in position.
Now there was only Sinister left and they surrounded him. "Well looks like I lose...or do I?" He grabbed an object from behind his back, and placed it on his head. Before anyone could react they were all on the ground clutching their heads.
"Do you honestly thought Mesmero was the only telepath around?" he sneered at them. He walked over to Vincent who looked up at him. "You know there are some things that bother me about you like how you survived, let's remedy that shall we?"
Vincent screamed out in pain as Sinister tore into his mind. "Ah that explains a lot."
He turned away but was stopped when Vincent spoke up. "You can run...but...you can't hide from me forever....I will find you and make you pay!....You'll pay for what you did to us, and for April."
Sinister cocked an eyebrow at him. "So your on some personal quest for what? Vengeance....justice. Please like you're so noble, your hands are just as covered with blood as are mine."
The others looked up in shock at this. They couldn't help but look at Vincent's face but he had his head down, looking at the ground as if in shame.
"What? No witty retort? The truth hurts doesn't it, well then you shouldn't feel too bad for what you did, you are just a weapon is all, and that's what weapons do...they KILL." With that he laughed at them and they all felt the pain return and they blacked out.
They woke up, not sure of how long they were out, but there was no sign of Sinister, Omega Red or the material they stole, the only thing left was the mess of the fight and a few broken robots.
But that wasn't what they were looking at most of the team were looking at Vincent. But he wasn't facing them in fact he was purposely avoiding their looks. This was something he never wanted to happen, it was one of his worse fears come true.
Scott told Jean to pick up the remains of the robots, for Hank to study with her telekinesis and they all made their way silently to the X-Jet.
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On the X-Jet things were slightly tense. After the confrontation with Sinister and his alley Omega Red, things were looking bleak.
But most of all was the revelation Sinister made of Vincent. No one knew what to think, they all didn't want to believe Sinister, but the way Vincent had acted they weren't so sure, and now he was at the vary back of the plane in the cargo area. Rogue was with him, it was obvious to everyone she knew the truth.
"I don't now if I can do this Rogue." Vincent quietly said they were talking in hushed tones so no one could hear their conversations.
"Ah know, but ya knew ya couldn' run from it forever." She sadly told him, she knew this one of his worse fears, people finding out about the 'incident' and what happened.
"If ya tell them everything, they'll understand, Ah do."
He looked at her, and she could see the fear in his eyes. "But what if they think of me as...as a monster."
"Don' ever think that, Ah don' think of ya as that, remember what ah said to ya in the medical ward after ya woke up?" Her tone took on slight hardness to it. "They'll understand, ah know this will be difficult, but there's nothing else ya can do."
Vincent was silent a moment. Then he closed his eyes, and looked down. "Yeah I know, and your right this will be hard, I'm going to have to open up a lot of old wounds, but there is no other way."
Rogue placed a hand on one of his gloved hands. "Ah'll be there for ya."
Vincent smiled slightly then. "I know, and thanks."
The rest of the trip was in silence, and when they landed Xavier was there to meet them, and Vincent walked right up to him.
"Professor could you call together everyone in ten minutes to the living room, I have to tell everyone something, and I don't want to have to repeat any of it to someone who wasn't there."
The Professor could sense the tension in the air, and the pain coming from Vincent, he nodded his understanding, and walked off to change.
"Vincent!" Kitty said, he stopped in his tracks, and looked over his shoulder at her. "Is it true what he said....did you kill someone?" She asked him, fearful of his answer.
"No." He said darkly, and continued walking then without looking over his shoulder said. "I killed seven people, not one."
The silence was truly deafening and everyone except Rogue was in complete shock.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 21: ORIGIN
That's right, now (hopefully) every question you had about Vincent will be answered, and your going to see if what you've guessed about his past is correct. (Hint: I have placed certain clues and hints throughout the story about what will be shown)
A piece of warning, this is most likely going to be a very dark part of this story. Oh and if you want to know anything specific let me know in a review before I post the next chapter.