Shadow-Spider: glad your excited
BlackRoseApocalyps: well here the next chapter so are you going to kill shadow, even though I don't like him, I'd preferred it was him that you killed of instead of Marianne.
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Don't worry I'm limiting DayTripper's powers to teleportation, force bolts and limited shape-shifting (Though that last one will manifest later than the others)
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 23: DEMONS OF THE PAST
Everyone was gathered together in the war room used to plan out missions. Xavier had just finished explained to them all about what they had found in the robot's memory and the location of the new Cerebro, most likely also the location of Sinister's base.
"For this mission we will take all the X-men as well as all the experienced New Mutants." Charles addressed them all.
"Does that include us?" Jubilee asked.
Xavier shook his head. "No Jubilee. You, Rahne, Jamie are staying behind with Forge because you haven't been at this as long as the others and you still need more training."
There were a collection of groans except from Forge who wasn't really ready to go on any missions himself.
"Now first things first, we will all be in the jet and go into the base through the hanger, and our mission is to destroy Sinister's Cerebro and any and all information he has on it. We will need two teams."
"Scott, Jean, Rogue, Vincent, Kurt and Bobby. You will be with Logan and are responsible for destroying his Cerebro."
"Kitty, Tabitha, Roberto, Ray and Sam. You will be with Storm and Beast and will be responsible for getting rid of all his data."
"Professor what about that thing he has that powered up his telepathy like before?" Jean asked.
Forge stepped forward. "We believe that was a modified version of the portable Cerebro helmet.
Charles then added "But to guard against it, I will be in the jet with the Cerebro helmet ready to shield your minds from him."
They all looked a little more at ease with the thought that Sinister couldn't use that trick again. They continued on and studied the blueprints of the place, and a member from each team was given a small computer with the map on it just in case.
~~~~~ SINISTER'S BASE
"Did Charles find the base with Cerebro?" Mesmero asked Sinister as he came out of their own Cerebro chamber, though it was still being worked on by Sinister's drones.
"Yes he should be here soon, just as we planned." Sinister smiled, he loved it when a plan came together. 'Aw poor old predictable Charles, he should have learned by know that I'm always a few steps ahead of him.'
"Then I shall make the final preparations ready." Mesmero said and went off to start the final phase of this plan.
~~~~~
The team was now suited up and ready to enter the X-Jet. The rest of the team had their new uniforms finally done. [what you thought I forgot about that?]
Ray wore a pure black suit with the arms off of the top and gloves to match, there were also two blue lightning images going over his shoulders going vertically down. He wore a new belt the X symbol on it.
Amara with Taby's help, was also wearing a black version of her old uniform. Only now the bottom was gone so her torso was now showing, and she wore a dark jacket similar to the one she work as a Bayville Siren, only now with a red X on each shoulder.
Sam was wearing dark blue now, and also had a brown jacket, with the X symbol on the back. He also had flight goggles on the top of his head. Apparently so he could see better while in flight. He also wore brown gloves and boats to match.
Finally Roberto was now sporting a red and black uniform. It looked like a little like Bobby's only the red is was where the blue was on his and the red didn't go down the arms, and the X symbol was on his right chest. He also had red gloves with the fingers cut off.
When they boarded the Jet they took off. It took a few hours of flying so everyone was trying to relax as best they could. A few people decided to take a nap while they could since they would need all the energy they could get.
Vincent sitting on the floor in the back with most of the others had his arms crossed and his head down with his eyes shut. You'd think at looking at him that he was sleeping but was really meditating to help focus his mind and keep himself calm.
The others that couldn't get any rest were mostly making small talk to calm their nerves.
After a few hours Xavier announced to them all that they were here. Rogue and Vincent decided to go up front with the others. It was dark out by the time they got there but you could still make out the mountains.
Vincent got this confused look on his face in fact Rogue also had it too. Scott noticed it first. "Are you two alright?"
Vince couldn't take his eyes off the horizon as they approached the mountains. "It looks so familiar to me, the mountains."
Rogue nodded her head. "Ah know ah got this déjà vu from seein' it."
Xavier looked worried at them, he had a though as to why they would be sensing a familiarity with area but hoped he was wrong, even though deep down he knew he was right.
"Well this is the place so where is that hanger that was in the blueprints Hank?" Logan asked Hank who was sitting next to him, working on a laptop.
"Just let me send the signal out." Hank told him, then began punching in keys.
They all waited then there was a light coming from one of the mountains. Logan took them to it, and it was an opening to a hanger. They landed inside and saw several other flight craft in it also, most of them looked heavily modified.
They all exited the craft and did a final check-up and then slip up into their two teams.
They were all doing pretty well, with the exception that everything was quiet, and little well you know too quiet, the kind of quiet that you know some wrong will happen especially if you comment on it. And of course Bobby just had to be the one to say it.
"Guys is it just me or is this too easy?" And of course like any cliché auto defenses kicked in. Gun turrets and defense drones started to attack them from openings in the walls and ceilings.
They all just had enough time to give Bobby and evil glare. "Me and my big mouth." He groaned. Then all hell broke lose. Scott and Vincent did their best to cover the others while they attacked the defenses. Logan and Kurt took out the drones, while Jean focused on defensive barriers, Bobby iced up the turrets and Rogue with her razor-disks helped.
It took about five minutes of fighting but they made it. "Okay for future references when things are just a little too quiet lets not comment on it or say anything like 'it's too quiet' or 'this is too easy'." Mayhem said to them all. "That's just asking for trouble."
"I hope ze others are having better luck zen ve are." Kurt said.
~~~~~~~
Unfortunately they weren't they pretty much had the same kind of trouble.
Sam was bouncing off the walls destroying turrets, as was Storm with her lightning while Ray helped out with his electricity. Beast was tearing combat drones apart, Kitty phased through them, resulting in short circuiting them. Sunspot was tearing through the drones as well, while Boom- Boom blasted away many of them with her bombs.
"Think we're getting close?" Tabitha sarcastically said. No one really answered her, so they just kept on moving until they reached the lab that was marked on the map, McCoy brought along with them.
It was filled with bizarre equipment that only Dr. Frankenstein would love to have. There were specimen tanks some empty some filled with stuff no one wanted to know what it was.
They reached the computer terminal placed in the center of the room. Both Beast and Kitty started searching through the computer.
~~~~~~
The other team was making their way to the area believed to hold the new Cerebro. They came upon some type of lab room. Vincent seeing the place seemed to freeze up.
"Vincent what's wrong?" Logan asked him. He didn't respond but slowly went over to a plastic looking cage big enough for a person to live in. He placed his hand on it and had this far away look in his eyes.
"Oh my God." Rogue said in shock of what was going on.
"Rogue what is it?" Scott asked her.
She didn't respond at first but looked around the place more intently now. "Ah've....ah've been getting' this sense of déjà vu since the mountains, and this place looks too familiar. This....this is it. This is the lab Vincent was kept in."
"What I thought that place was destroyed?" Jean asked her.
"I said it was attacked not destroyed." Vincent said never turning around. "I never saw what happened here after I left. Looks like he rebuilt the place."
Then without warning he let out a primal scream and smashed the wall of the cage. He just stood there seething the usual glow that only came when he was truly angry building up.
"Hahahaha, welcome home Vincent." They heard Sinister's voice being sent over a PA system. "I always did like this place and I just had to fix it up after those fools from SHIELD had shut me down."
Vincent started to stalk off without the others. "Vincent wait don't go after him alone, we got other priorities."
He stopped then. "I know Scott I'm heading for our target, but if we meet him on the way there, I can't promise anything."
Scott nodded his understanding. He didn't like it but he knew Vincent had to deal with this.
They continued on looking at the place with new eyes as they saw the other places were it looked like the other children had been held. There were other things such as instruments and a strange genetic lab. They finally came to a large room, the map showed the second Cerebro in the room on the right.
They made their way over to the large circular doors. As it opened they saw a huge room that almost looked exactly like the one in the mansion only not finished and there was a chair surrounded by controls instead of the panel they had.
"Well I see you've found my new toy."
They all turned around to see Sinister and Omega Red standing behind them. Sinister had the same band on his head as before. Then they were all on their knees as pain flared in their minds.
Then the pain was gone. Sinister looked like he was slapped in the face. "How are you blocking me, the red head there can't possibly defend all your minds."
*She's not Sinister I am*
"Charles so that's why you're not with either team. No matter, we will just have to do this the hard way, Omega Red if you please."
Omega Red launched into the X-Men his tentacles flying trying to grab two of them at the same time. They all scattered and made sure they were out of reach. Except for Logan who went into close quarters and fought him with his claws.
Wolverine was knocked to the side and the others went to face him. Kurt used his teleportation to get in close strike and then disappear as he counter attacked. Jean threw several objects that weren't nailed down.
Mayhem, Rogue and Iceman went to fight Sinister. Sinister used his own blasts to keep back Rogue and Bobby, but wasn't fast enough to hit Vincent. Vincent went around Sinister's attacks and landed several powerful blows to his body, and followed up with an energy blast.
Scott had blasted Omega Red a few times, but only seemed to knock him down and when he got back up he was even more pissed off then the last time.
"This is not going to be easy." Scott grumbled to himself, as he threw himself to his right avoiding Omega Red's attack, who was thrown back thanks to Jean.
~~~~~~~
The others were leaving the lab, after they had found the information they needed and deleted it. For good measure Kitty had phased through the computer banks on the far wall to be sure.
They were leaving when Kitty noticed something in one of the glass cases. She took a closer look and found a strange little purple creature. It actually looked like a little dragon. It looked really weak and thin, it also had all of these wires and monitors hooked up to it.
It looked so cute and helpless to her. She couldn't just leave it behind especially for Sinister to finish with whatever he was doing to it. So she phased her hands into the glass and picked it up. She phased it also so all the wires and monitors would fall off.
As soon as she had it out, it opened it's eyes and started to squirm and thrash. "Shh, there, there little guy I'm not going to hurt you." Kitty tried to sooth the little guy, and started to pet it as best she could. It actually seemed to calm down and looked up at Kitty.
It sniffed at her at first, then licked her face once. She giggled at his lick, and he curled up into her arms, too tired to fight her. He also started to shake, so Kitty held him close and went to join the others before the got left behind.
~~~~~
Vincent had battled Sinister for a few minutes while the others had finally subdued Omega Red. He now had Sinister by the throat. He hated this man, no this monster more than anything, he was the source of most of all his pain and suffering in his life. He wanted to make him pay. For April, the others, his mother for himself and who knows how many others.
He also wanted to get rid of that superior smirk on his face.
"Vincent, don't do it." Cyclopes calmly said to him. "He's not worth it, and it won't make the pain go away, you know it won't."
My free fist was pulled back ready to smash his face in with one blow. I wanted him to suffer to pay. I wanted vengeance pure and simple. But Scott was right, when I accidentally killed Simons it didn't make all the pain he inflicted on me go away. It just added to it.
I lowered my fist. I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him in cold blood, it's just not my way.
"Hehehehe." Sinister was actually laughing at him. "Pity I had high hopes for you, but you had to grow a conscience. No matter you couldn't have hurt me anyways." And with that his face and body healed almost instantly.
Everyone had seen this in their last fight but still was taken aback by just how fast he could heal. "I'm immortal you fools, my body can regenerate from any wound or injury. I don't even grow old. There's nothing you can do to me." He smugly said to their faces.
"Let me get this straight." Mayhem coldly said. "No matter what I do to you I can't kill you?"
Sinister gave that superior smirk again. "No."
Mayhem then got that predatory smile he showed only when he had something nasty planed for someone. "Fine then no killing, just a whole lot of bruising." [A/N: I just had to put that in this story somewhere] Then Mayhem punched Sinister so hard he flew into the nearest wall. He actually made an impression in the wall.
"Ouch." He weakly muttered before falling face first onto the floor.
"Well at least he can feel pain." Mayhem said through gritted teeth. Killing him might not make him feel better, but THAT sure did a little.
"Scott let's finish this." Vincent said to him and walked to the Cerebro room. Scott followed and when Vincent raised his hands Scott knew what he had planed and raised his own hand to his visor.
Together they blasted the hell out of the room, eventually it started to collapse in on itself. They ran out of the room and looked back in time to see it all finally collapse.
Sinister slowly got up and leaned against the wall for support. "You think you've won?" He spat at them. "Well if I can't win then I guess you won't be around to enjoy your victory."
He pushed what seemed like a button that was on his belt.
Suddenly the complex was rocked by several explosions throughout the place. Sinister laughing manically at them as they all soon realized he had rigged the place to blow. They all started to make to the hanger as fast as they could.
Vincent stopped to look back to see Sinister smiling at him and turned down another corridor.
"Another time." Vincent said to himself, then turned and went to join the others.
~~~~~~
The two teams met up and made a dead run to the hanger hoping to get to the jet as fast as possible. Kurt made several trips taking as many people as he could, and Vincent carried as many as he could and run them back to the hanger and then run back to the others.
They all finally got into the X-Jet and as soon as everyone had loaded Logan took the jet out of the hanger as fast as he could. They got out of the mountain and were nearly a mile away when Vincent came up to Logan.
"Logan can you turn this around and make it hover for a bit" Vincent said flatly.
Logan looked at him like he was crazy. "Why on Earth do you want me to do that?"
Vincent looked at Logan in the eye. "I have to see it Logan, I need to see that place burn to the ground."
Logan took a minute to think about it and looked back at the others in the front section, they all nodded. Logan did as he was asked, and they were just in time to see the mountain go up in flames and exploding.
They all watched as the mountain collapsed in on itself. When it was done Vincent was still staring out the window. "Thanks." He said to most likely everyone there, then went down to sit down in the back with the others that didn't get a seat up front.
"Well if we're done here can we go home now?" Logan said to everyone else.
"Yes Logan I believe there is nothing left for us here." Charles calmly said, and Logan turned the jet back to the mansion.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 24: EPILOGUE
Well here we are one chapter away from completion.
BlackRoseApocalyps: well here the next chapter so are you going to kill shadow, even though I don't like him, I'd preferred it was him that you killed of instead of Marianne.
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Don't worry I'm limiting DayTripper's powers to teleportation, force bolts and limited shape-shifting (Though that last one will manifest later than the others)
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 23: DEMONS OF THE PAST
Everyone was gathered together in the war room used to plan out missions. Xavier had just finished explained to them all about what they had found in the robot's memory and the location of the new Cerebro, most likely also the location of Sinister's base.
"For this mission we will take all the X-men as well as all the experienced New Mutants." Charles addressed them all.
"Does that include us?" Jubilee asked.
Xavier shook his head. "No Jubilee. You, Rahne, Jamie are staying behind with Forge because you haven't been at this as long as the others and you still need more training."
There were a collection of groans except from Forge who wasn't really ready to go on any missions himself.
"Now first things first, we will all be in the jet and go into the base through the hanger, and our mission is to destroy Sinister's Cerebro and any and all information he has on it. We will need two teams."
"Scott, Jean, Rogue, Vincent, Kurt and Bobby. You will be with Logan and are responsible for destroying his Cerebro."
"Kitty, Tabitha, Roberto, Ray and Sam. You will be with Storm and Beast and will be responsible for getting rid of all his data."
"Professor what about that thing he has that powered up his telepathy like before?" Jean asked.
Forge stepped forward. "We believe that was a modified version of the portable Cerebro helmet.
Charles then added "But to guard against it, I will be in the jet with the Cerebro helmet ready to shield your minds from him."
They all looked a little more at ease with the thought that Sinister couldn't use that trick again. They continued on and studied the blueprints of the place, and a member from each team was given a small computer with the map on it just in case.
~~~~~ SINISTER'S BASE
"Did Charles find the base with Cerebro?" Mesmero asked Sinister as he came out of their own Cerebro chamber, though it was still being worked on by Sinister's drones.
"Yes he should be here soon, just as we planned." Sinister smiled, he loved it when a plan came together. 'Aw poor old predictable Charles, he should have learned by know that I'm always a few steps ahead of him.'
"Then I shall make the final preparations ready." Mesmero said and went off to start the final phase of this plan.
~~~~~
The team was now suited up and ready to enter the X-Jet. The rest of the team had their new uniforms finally done. [what you thought I forgot about that?]
Ray wore a pure black suit with the arms off of the top and gloves to match, there were also two blue lightning images going over his shoulders going vertically down. He wore a new belt the X symbol on it.
Amara with Taby's help, was also wearing a black version of her old uniform. Only now the bottom was gone so her torso was now showing, and she wore a dark jacket similar to the one she work as a Bayville Siren, only now with a red X on each shoulder.
Sam was wearing dark blue now, and also had a brown jacket, with the X symbol on the back. He also had flight goggles on the top of his head. Apparently so he could see better while in flight. He also wore brown gloves and boats to match.
Finally Roberto was now sporting a red and black uniform. It looked like a little like Bobby's only the red is was where the blue was on his and the red didn't go down the arms, and the X symbol was on his right chest. He also had red gloves with the fingers cut off.
When they boarded the Jet they took off. It took a few hours of flying so everyone was trying to relax as best they could. A few people decided to take a nap while they could since they would need all the energy they could get.
Vincent sitting on the floor in the back with most of the others had his arms crossed and his head down with his eyes shut. You'd think at looking at him that he was sleeping but was really meditating to help focus his mind and keep himself calm.
The others that couldn't get any rest were mostly making small talk to calm their nerves.
After a few hours Xavier announced to them all that they were here. Rogue and Vincent decided to go up front with the others. It was dark out by the time they got there but you could still make out the mountains.
Vincent got this confused look on his face in fact Rogue also had it too. Scott noticed it first. "Are you two alright?"
Vince couldn't take his eyes off the horizon as they approached the mountains. "It looks so familiar to me, the mountains."
Rogue nodded her head. "Ah know ah got this déjà vu from seein' it."
Xavier looked worried at them, he had a though as to why they would be sensing a familiarity with area but hoped he was wrong, even though deep down he knew he was right.
"Well this is the place so where is that hanger that was in the blueprints Hank?" Logan asked Hank who was sitting next to him, working on a laptop.
"Just let me send the signal out." Hank told him, then began punching in keys.
They all waited then there was a light coming from one of the mountains. Logan took them to it, and it was an opening to a hanger. They landed inside and saw several other flight craft in it also, most of them looked heavily modified.
They all exited the craft and did a final check-up and then slip up into their two teams.
They were all doing pretty well, with the exception that everything was quiet, and little well you know too quiet, the kind of quiet that you know some wrong will happen especially if you comment on it. And of course Bobby just had to be the one to say it.
"Guys is it just me or is this too easy?" And of course like any cliché auto defenses kicked in. Gun turrets and defense drones started to attack them from openings in the walls and ceilings.
They all just had enough time to give Bobby and evil glare. "Me and my big mouth." He groaned. Then all hell broke lose. Scott and Vincent did their best to cover the others while they attacked the defenses. Logan and Kurt took out the drones, while Jean focused on defensive barriers, Bobby iced up the turrets and Rogue with her razor-disks helped.
It took about five minutes of fighting but they made it. "Okay for future references when things are just a little too quiet lets not comment on it or say anything like 'it's too quiet' or 'this is too easy'." Mayhem said to them all. "That's just asking for trouble."
"I hope ze others are having better luck zen ve are." Kurt said.
~~~~~~~
Unfortunately they weren't they pretty much had the same kind of trouble.
Sam was bouncing off the walls destroying turrets, as was Storm with her lightning while Ray helped out with his electricity. Beast was tearing combat drones apart, Kitty phased through them, resulting in short circuiting them. Sunspot was tearing through the drones as well, while Boom- Boom blasted away many of them with her bombs.
"Think we're getting close?" Tabitha sarcastically said. No one really answered her, so they just kept on moving until they reached the lab that was marked on the map, McCoy brought along with them.
It was filled with bizarre equipment that only Dr. Frankenstein would love to have. There were specimen tanks some empty some filled with stuff no one wanted to know what it was.
They reached the computer terminal placed in the center of the room. Both Beast and Kitty started searching through the computer.
~~~~~~
The other team was making their way to the area believed to hold the new Cerebro. They came upon some type of lab room. Vincent seeing the place seemed to freeze up.
"Vincent what's wrong?" Logan asked him. He didn't respond but slowly went over to a plastic looking cage big enough for a person to live in. He placed his hand on it and had this far away look in his eyes.
"Oh my God." Rogue said in shock of what was going on.
"Rogue what is it?" Scott asked her.
She didn't respond at first but looked around the place more intently now. "Ah've....ah've been getting' this sense of déjà vu since the mountains, and this place looks too familiar. This....this is it. This is the lab Vincent was kept in."
"What I thought that place was destroyed?" Jean asked her.
"I said it was attacked not destroyed." Vincent said never turning around. "I never saw what happened here after I left. Looks like he rebuilt the place."
Then without warning he let out a primal scream and smashed the wall of the cage. He just stood there seething the usual glow that only came when he was truly angry building up.
"Hahahaha, welcome home Vincent." They heard Sinister's voice being sent over a PA system. "I always did like this place and I just had to fix it up after those fools from SHIELD had shut me down."
Vincent started to stalk off without the others. "Vincent wait don't go after him alone, we got other priorities."
He stopped then. "I know Scott I'm heading for our target, but if we meet him on the way there, I can't promise anything."
Scott nodded his understanding. He didn't like it but he knew Vincent had to deal with this.
They continued on looking at the place with new eyes as they saw the other places were it looked like the other children had been held. There were other things such as instruments and a strange genetic lab. They finally came to a large room, the map showed the second Cerebro in the room on the right.
They made their way over to the large circular doors. As it opened they saw a huge room that almost looked exactly like the one in the mansion only not finished and there was a chair surrounded by controls instead of the panel they had.
"Well I see you've found my new toy."
They all turned around to see Sinister and Omega Red standing behind them. Sinister had the same band on his head as before. Then they were all on their knees as pain flared in their minds.
Then the pain was gone. Sinister looked like he was slapped in the face. "How are you blocking me, the red head there can't possibly defend all your minds."
*She's not Sinister I am*
"Charles so that's why you're not with either team. No matter, we will just have to do this the hard way, Omega Red if you please."
Omega Red launched into the X-Men his tentacles flying trying to grab two of them at the same time. They all scattered and made sure they were out of reach. Except for Logan who went into close quarters and fought him with his claws.
Wolverine was knocked to the side and the others went to face him. Kurt used his teleportation to get in close strike and then disappear as he counter attacked. Jean threw several objects that weren't nailed down.
Mayhem, Rogue and Iceman went to fight Sinister. Sinister used his own blasts to keep back Rogue and Bobby, but wasn't fast enough to hit Vincent. Vincent went around Sinister's attacks and landed several powerful blows to his body, and followed up with an energy blast.
Scott had blasted Omega Red a few times, but only seemed to knock him down and when he got back up he was even more pissed off then the last time.
"This is not going to be easy." Scott grumbled to himself, as he threw himself to his right avoiding Omega Red's attack, who was thrown back thanks to Jean.
~~~~~~~
The others were leaving the lab, after they had found the information they needed and deleted it. For good measure Kitty had phased through the computer banks on the far wall to be sure.
They were leaving when Kitty noticed something in one of the glass cases. She took a closer look and found a strange little purple creature. It actually looked like a little dragon. It looked really weak and thin, it also had all of these wires and monitors hooked up to it.
It looked so cute and helpless to her. She couldn't just leave it behind especially for Sinister to finish with whatever he was doing to it. So she phased her hands into the glass and picked it up. She phased it also so all the wires and monitors would fall off.
As soon as she had it out, it opened it's eyes and started to squirm and thrash. "Shh, there, there little guy I'm not going to hurt you." Kitty tried to sooth the little guy, and started to pet it as best she could. It actually seemed to calm down and looked up at Kitty.
It sniffed at her at first, then licked her face once. She giggled at his lick, and he curled up into her arms, too tired to fight her. He also started to shake, so Kitty held him close and went to join the others before the got left behind.
~~~~~
Vincent had battled Sinister for a few minutes while the others had finally subdued Omega Red. He now had Sinister by the throat. He hated this man, no this monster more than anything, he was the source of most of all his pain and suffering in his life. He wanted to make him pay. For April, the others, his mother for himself and who knows how many others.
He also wanted to get rid of that superior smirk on his face.
"Vincent, don't do it." Cyclopes calmly said to him. "He's not worth it, and it won't make the pain go away, you know it won't."
My free fist was pulled back ready to smash his face in with one blow. I wanted him to suffer to pay. I wanted vengeance pure and simple. But Scott was right, when I accidentally killed Simons it didn't make all the pain he inflicted on me go away. It just added to it.
I lowered my fist. I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him in cold blood, it's just not my way.
"Hehehehe." Sinister was actually laughing at him. "Pity I had high hopes for you, but you had to grow a conscience. No matter you couldn't have hurt me anyways." And with that his face and body healed almost instantly.
Everyone had seen this in their last fight but still was taken aback by just how fast he could heal. "I'm immortal you fools, my body can regenerate from any wound or injury. I don't even grow old. There's nothing you can do to me." He smugly said to their faces.
"Let me get this straight." Mayhem coldly said. "No matter what I do to you I can't kill you?"
Sinister gave that superior smirk again. "No."
Mayhem then got that predatory smile he showed only when he had something nasty planed for someone. "Fine then no killing, just a whole lot of bruising." [A/N: I just had to put that in this story somewhere] Then Mayhem punched Sinister so hard he flew into the nearest wall. He actually made an impression in the wall.
"Ouch." He weakly muttered before falling face first onto the floor.
"Well at least he can feel pain." Mayhem said through gritted teeth. Killing him might not make him feel better, but THAT sure did a little.
"Scott let's finish this." Vincent said to him and walked to the Cerebro room. Scott followed and when Vincent raised his hands Scott knew what he had planed and raised his own hand to his visor.
Together they blasted the hell out of the room, eventually it started to collapse in on itself. They ran out of the room and looked back in time to see it all finally collapse.
Sinister slowly got up and leaned against the wall for support. "You think you've won?" He spat at them. "Well if I can't win then I guess you won't be around to enjoy your victory."
He pushed what seemed like a button that was on his belt.
Suddenly the complex was rocked by several explosions throughout the place. Sinister laughing manically at them as they all soon realized he had rigged the place to blow. They all started to make to the hanger as fast as they could.
Vincent stopped to look back to see Sinister smiling at him and turned down another corridor.
"Another time." Vincent said to himself, then turned and went to join the others.
~~~~~~
The two teams met up and made a dead run to the hanger hoping to get to the jet as fast as possible. Kurt made several trips taking as many people as he could, and Vincent carried as many as he could and run them back to the hanger and then run back to the others.
They all finally got into the X-Jet and as soon as everyone had loaded Logan took the jet out of the hanger as fast as he could. They got out of the mountain and were nearly a mile away when Vincent came up to Logan.
"Logan can you turn this around and make it hover for a bit" Vincent said flatly.
Logan looked at him like he was crazy. "Why on Earth do you want me to do that?"
Vincent looked at Logan in the eye. "I have to see it Logan, I need to see that place burn to the ground."
Logan took a minute to think about it and looked back at the others in the front section, they all nodded. Logan did as he was asked, and they were just in time to see the mountain go up in flames and exploding.
They all watched as the mountain collapsed in on itself. When it was done Vincent was still staring out the window. "Thanks." He said to most likely everyone there, then went down to sit down in the back with the others that didn't get a seat up front.
"Well if we're done here can we go home now?" Logan said to everyone else.
"Yes Logan I believe there is nothing left for us here." Charles calmly said, and Logan turned the jet back to the mansion.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 24: EPILOGUE
Well here we are one chapter away from completion.