Every single rebel force that could show did before nightfall to help
Kurt and the Nightscrawlers.
At the end of it all, Kurt wondered how in the hell they could all fit in the forest.
The Stuarts, Brigadier Alysande and Alistaire, were the heads of this world's W.H.O, which was one of the only rebel groups who were able to build their own grenades and bombs to use against the enemy.
This world's Pete Wisdom was the head of Black Air, and they were skilled with rifles and long distance fighting, mixed with a few martial arts for crippling their enemy instead of killing them off right away.
The Marauders being rebels really surprised Kurt. He couldn't help but stare as Logan and Victor Creed clapped hands together, smiling and laughing like old friends. The others were standing about and talking freely with everyone else.
Magneto and his Brotherhood would be one of the most useful parts in Kurt's plan. Mastermind, Avalanche, the Blob, Pyro, and Toad all had the skills that Kurt was counting on to win this fight.
The last person to arrive was a loner, and when she came, she walked up to Kurt and tilted his head up with one finger, looking him over slowly.
"Your father saved my life once." Ororo said, smiling at him gently. "I'm glad I can finally repay that!"
There were only a few people from the former America to join the fight. A Peter Parker with a limp in his right leg who still kept on to his Spiderman costume. An older and more mature Iceman was there, wearing a locket with a picture of his dead friends Hank McCoy, Scott and Alex Summers, Lorna, and Sean Cassidy. Warren Worthington the third was there, with his left wing made of metal, and his right one of his originals.
Everyone else from all of the America based hero leagues...gone.
"I can't believe we have so many people..." Kurt said. Smiling, Bamfman put an arm around his shoulders.
"You better believe it!" he said. "You ready for this?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." Kurt said.
"Good, because now you have to tell everyone what to do!" ***
This was such crap! Erick didn't want to be standing out here in the cold, staring at nothing but landscape! Why the hell would the Nightscrawlers attack from the back anyway? They wouldn't even be able to get there without being seen by the Sentinels and slaughtered helplessly. There was just no point to him standing out here with the others.
Cocking an eyebrow, he tilted his head to one side.
"What's the matter?" Greg asked, seeing Erick staring a head intently.
"I thought I saw something waver over there." Erick said, shrugging. "I think standing out in the cold is messing with my vision!"
That's when the twenty plastic explosives Alistaire had planted around the first blockade exploded. ***
"All right!" Kurt said. "Mastermind, you keep covering W.H.O and Black Air while they continue to plant bombs and snipe people off! When we reach the city limits, take off our disguises!"
"Got it." Mastermind nodded, narrowing his eyes to keep his charade up.
As alarms blared and soldiers scrambled around, trying to find who was shooting and blowing them up, Kurt and the others walked past them, disguised as nothing under Mastermind's power.
Once they reached the city limits, Mastermind took off his power over them and the first group of soldiers was surprised when Sabretooth, Wolverine, and Colossus suddenly started to pound through them from seemingly thin air.
Callisto headed straight for the back entrance to the building with Kurt right behind her, his blades shining as he lashed out at the enemy, striking killing blows every time. ***
There was a reason why people called her The Drastic Spastic. As soon as the fight started and her protection was gone, her guns sang out as she screamed like a maniac, moving as if she was dancing, dodging the bullets that flew at her. Laughing, she started to spin in a circle, her bullets flying into the enemy as she spun right into the middle of them like a top. ***
"Wait for it..." Northstar's Love said; narrowing his eyes slowly as he loaded a grenade launcher Alistaire had designed himself. He and Bitsy were standing side by side, slowly aiming their weapons as two Sentinels slowly turned and picked them up on their scanners.
"Now!" Bitsy shouted, pulling the trigger.
The grenades struck the first Sentinel in the face, blasting off most of his head, making it fall over and knock down its partner in a blast of fire.
"Reload!" ***
"This is going to be so much fun!" SheCat said, drawing two daggers from her boots.
"Just make sure you kill them with one hit." Bamfette said. "None of this letting them flail around gagging on their own blood stuff!"
"You're always a party pooper!" SheCat said, before she threw one of her daggers. A Brown Shirt was hit right in-between the eyes and he went down silently.
"Much better." Bamfette nodded, leaping over their cover and charging.
"Yeehaww!" SheCat laughed, following after her. ***
Wolvertique found herself surrounded. Smiling, she leapt up and kicked one soldier in the face, shocking one rookie to start firing his auto rifle. He aimed for her, she but kept dodging around that he ended up killing everyone else instead.
"You need to work on using that thing a little better." She said, knocking it out of his hands. With a single thrust, she sent a bowie knife through his ribs and into his heart. ***
Siona and Slarti would have loved the movie Behind Enemy Lines.
The two were moving back and forth, shooting only when they had a clear shot at one of the Nazi snipers.
So far, they hadn't missed a single one. ***
Tatu, Sorte Springer, RavEnigma and Thylacine had their own tag team style of fighting when it came to gunfights.
Tatu drew in the soldiers, firing with an old model handgun, making them think that they could easily beat him. When they were easily fooled and brought to the next step, Sorte Springer would leap out of nowhere with strap on claws like Logan's and she would tear into them from behind, confusing them into a shooting frenzy.
RavEnigma would take that opportunity to then show up with a newer model gun and clip off those who were trying to calm down. With them out of the way, she, Sorte Springer, and Tatu would run as fast as they could away from the scene while Thylacine calmly dropped a grenade down on the surviving soldiers.
It always worked for them. ***
Zuno and ^Sulfurous^ were more into long distance fighting themselves. Armed with newer modeled rifles from Black Air, the two went from shelter to shelter, picking off as many soldiers as they could, keeping a good distance away from them.
"Duck!" Zuno shouted pushing down ^Sulfurous^. A split second after that, a Sentinel blasted off a chunk of a building they were near.
"Time to move on?" ^Sulfurous^ asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Oh yes!" ***
LadyHawke, Warbird, and Taekwondodo were more into martial arts than guns really. LadyHawke and Warbird grew their nails long and they had coated them lightly in adamantium so that they could simply slash someone across the throat or face and end it right then and there.
Taekwondodo preferred actual jiu-jitsu, flipping and twisting her body any which way she needed to, twisting limbs and necks painfully to let either LadyHawke or Warbird finish them off. ***
Kurt never figured out why he was afraid to look Mad With Power and Maelstrom in the eyes.
The soldiers found out soon enough.
Mad With Power and Maelstrom were two people that were not meant to be trifled with lightly. They both were able to freeze a person with a piercing stare, ending the connection with a bullet to the brain.
Together, they were able to freeze whole groups, picking them off like little ducks in a carnival game. ***
Slowly, Magneto raised up his hands, and he smiled slowly, his eyes glittering as soldiers started to fire round after round at him. Every single bullet stopped dead in their tracks, making a large shield in front of him.
"Oh dear." He said softly. "It seems your bullets have decided to go for something else." With that, Magneto snapped his fingers and half of the bullets went back into the soldiers, slaughtering every one. The rest went up and struck a Sentinel through the eyes, making it sputter and crash into a building. ***
Ladyerin and LadyBamf stayed in the back with Mastermind, typing furiously at laptops Alysande and Alistaire had given them. They were very good with computers and in no time they were able to crack the code to some of the Sentinel's computers and forced them to self-destruct right on the spot, making shrapnel rain down everywhere.
Smiling, they gave each other high fives before they put the laptops down and armed up with rifles, joining Black Air in the shoot out. ***
The Marauders had been able to route a large amount of the heavily armed soldiers to the abandoned part of the city. Cursing, they tried to fight their way back into the main fray, but Sabretooth and the others beat them back, driving them towards a group of manholes.
Just when the soldiers thought their situation was utterly hopeless, the Marauders suddenly pulled back and went back to fight off the Sentinels. Laughing, the soldiers relaxed for a few moments to catch their breath.
"Hey! Turn around, shit heads!" Looking over their shoulders, they found themselves looking at W.H.O and Black Air.
Smiling, Alistaire and Alysande waved at them before they started to fire into them like fish in a barrel. ***
Screw the Reich, screw that crazy bitch Moira, and screw the Fuhrer!
Ahab was not going to stand around and get slaughtered by a bunch of rebels who decided to join up forces! He was looking out for number one; and the Reich was not it!
Panting, he dropped his gun and helmet, tearing off his armband to try and make them think he wasn't a soldier. Looking over his shoulder, he smiled when he saw that no one was following after him.
When he looked forward, he stopped clumsily, gasping softly.
He couldn't react in time to safe himself as the scythe's blade ripped into his chest, piercing into his yellow heart.
"It's dishonorable to leave your comrades to die." Bluefooted said, ripping out his scythe angrily. "Even Nazis like you should have some kind of honor system!" ***
"You think you can handle this?" Pete Wisdom was on a rooftop, slowly starting to make fire daggers. He looked over at Rowena and he narrowed his eyes a bit as dust and debris started to fly up at them.
"I can handle it." Rowena assured him, notching a steel arrow to her bow. Smiling, Pete nodded and he pointed to a gas tank.
"Just aim and fire at it. Nature will do the rest!" he said.
Rowena let her arrow fly. ***
Callisto and Kurt were almost able to get inside the building when they heard the explosion.
"That'll be Pete and Rowena!" Kurt laughed, driving his rapier through a man's throat.
"This is no time for laughing." Callisto said, shooting down the men holding the door closed. Nodding, Kurt became serious as they entered the building.
"Lead on." He said.
Kurt and Callisto fought their way through the first three levels of the building, killing everyone who stood in their way. Callisto gritted her teeth, heading straight for the room with the portal machine.
When they finally reached the door, Kurt used one of his rapiers to break open the door.
That's when they found themselves staring at a gun in their face.
"You both are going to pay for this." Moira snarled, narrowing her eyes as they blazed with insanity.
"You've lost, Moira." Kurt said. "Give it up."
"No!" Moira cried. "I cannot lose damn you! I will not lose! I am the Reichminister of this district! I am the Fuhrer's right hand! I am..."
Kurt and Callisto looked over her shoulders as she ranted on, watching as the portal machine lighted up into life. Looking at each other, they slowly smiled and let her continue her rants for a bit more.
"And when I kill you both..!"
She felt someone tap her shoulder.
Slowly, she turned around.
Her nose made a loud snapping noise as it was punched, and she collapsed to the ground.
"Och, the bitch had a hard face!" Moira of Earth 616 cried, shaking her hand a bit.
"Kurt!" Johanna cried, leaping on top of him and hugging him tightly. Laughing, Kurt hugged her and swirled her around slowly.
"What took you guys so long?" he asked as the rest of Excalibur came through the portal.
"We had to try and find the exact spot where the original hole happened." Alistaire explained. "Unfortunately it took a long time to do so." Kurt shrugged, smiling over at Callisto.
Nightcrawler opened his mouth to say something when an explosion erupted from above.
"The devil?" Brian asked.
"Oh right." Kurt laughed. "I kinda got a few groups of rebels together and got them to raid this city to try and get to this portal machine to get back to you guys." ***
It didn't take long for the entire Nazi force in the city to give up. With Excalibur leaping into the battle, they were no much for the assault.
In the end, the soldiers and loyal civilians for the Reich were driven out of the city without any supplies. Moira was kept locked up as a hostage.
"What are you guys going to do now?" Kurt asked, packing his things up. Bamfman shrugged, looking over at the Excalibur from Earth 616.
"We'll do what we do best." He said. "Piss off the Fuhrer and live to do it another day!" he laughed.
"Are you sure you guys will be ok?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow slightly.
"Hey, you're talking to me about the Nightscrawlers!" Bamfman laughed. "We'll always be able to bounce back through anything! Even if the Fuhrer sent people to wipe us out with his Hacker squad, we'd come back better than ever!" Smiling, Kurt placed an arm around Bamfman's shoulders, squeezing them gently.
"Good luck, Ty." He said seriously.
"You too." Bamfman agreed. "Say hi to my doppelganger for me!"
"Will do!" Kurt said, holding up an arm in farewell.
In a bright flash of white light, Kurt left the world with his family.
At the end of it all, Kurt wondered how in the hell they could all fit in the forest.
The Stuarts, Brigadier Alysande and Alistaire, were the heads of this world's W.H.O, which was one of the only rebel groups who were able to build their own grenades and bombs to use against the enemy.
This world's Pete Wisdom was the head of Black Air, and they were skilled with rifles and long distance fighting, mixed with a few martial arts for crippling their enemy instead of killing them off right away.
The Marauders being rebels really surprised Kurt. He couldn't help but stare as Logan and Victor Creed clapped hands together, smiling and laughing like old friends. The others were standing about and talking freely with everyone else.
Magneto and his Brotherhood would be one of the most useful parts in Kurt's plan. Mastermind, Avalanche, the Blob, Pyro, and Toad all had the skills that Kurt was counting on to win this fight.
The last person to arrive was a loner, and when she came, she walked up to Kurt and tilted his head up with one finger, looking him over slowly.
"Your father saved my life once." Ororo said, smiling at him gently. "I'm glad I can finally repay that!"
There were only a few people from the former America to join the fight. A Peter Parker with a limp in his right leg who still kept on to his Spiderman costume. An older and more mature Iceman was there, wearing a locket with a picture of his dead friends Hank McCoy, Scott and Alex Summers, Lorna, and Sean Cassidy. Warren Worthington the third was there, with his left wing made of metal, and his right one of his originals.
Everyone else from all of the America based hero leagues...gone.
"I can't believe we have so many people..." Kurt said. Smiling, Bamfman put an arm around his shoulders.
"You better believe it!" he said. "You ready for this?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." Kurt said.
"Good, because now you have to tell everyone what to do!" ***
This was such crap! Erick didn't want to be standing out here in the cold, staring at nothing but landscape! Why the hell would the Nightscrawlers attack from the back anyway? They wouldn't even be able to get there without being seen by the Sentinels and slaughtered helplessly. There was just no point to him standing out here with the others.
Cocking an eyebrow, he tilted his head to one side.
"What's the matter?" Greg asked, seeing Erick staring a head intently.
"I thought I saw something waver over there." Erick said, shrugging. "I think standing out in the cold is messing with my vision!"
That's when the twenty plastic explosives Alistaire had planted around the first blockade exploded. ***
"All right!" Kurt said. "Mastermind, you keep covering W.H.O and Black Air while they continue to plant bombs and snipe people off! When we reach the city limits, take off our disguises!"
"Got it." Mastermind nodded, narrowing his eyes to keep his charade up.
As alarms blared and soldiers scrambled around, trying to find who was shooting and blowing them up, Kurt and the others walked past them, disguised as nothing under Mastermind's power.
Once they reached the city limits, Mastermind took off his power over them and the first group of soldiers was surprised when Sabretooth, Wolverine, and Colossus suddenly started to pound through them from seemingly thin air.
Callisto headed straight for the back entrance to the building with Kurt right behind her, his blades shining as he lashed out at the enemy, striking killing blows every time. ***
There was a reason why people called her The Drastic Spastic. As soon as the fight started and her protection was gone, her guns sang out as she screamed like a maniac, moving as if she was dancing, dodging the bullets that flew at her. Laughing, she started to spin in a circle, her bullets flying into the enemy as she spun right into the middle of them like a top. ***
"Wait for it..." Northstar's Love said; narrowing his eyes slowly as he loaded a grenade launcher Alistaire had designed himself. He and Bitsy were standing side by side, slowly aiming their weapons as two Sentinels slowly turned and picked them up on their scanners.
"Now!" Bitsy shouted, pulling the trigger.
The grenades struck the first Sentinel in the face, blasting off most of his head, making it fall over and knock down its partner in a blast of fire.
"Reload!" ***
"This is going to be so much fun!" SheCat said, drawing two daggers from her boots.
"Just make sure you kill them with one hit." Bamfette said. "None of this letting them flail around gagging on their own blood stuff!"
"You're always a party pooper!" SheCat said, before she threw one of her daggers. A Brown Shirt was hit right in-between the eyes and he went down silently.
"Much better." Bamfette nodded, leaping over their cover and charging.
"Yeehaww!" SheCat laughed, following after her. ***
Wolvertique found herself surrounded. Smiling, she leapt up and kicked one soldier in the face, shocking one rookie to start firing his auto rifle. He aimed for her, she but kept dodging around that he ended up killing everyone else instead.
"You need to work on using that thing a little better." She said, knocking it out of his hands. With a single thrust, she sent a bowie knife through his ribs and into his heart. ***
Siona and Slarti would have loved the movie Behind Enemy Lines.
The two were moving back and forth, shooting only when they had a clear shot at one of the Nazi snipers.
So far, they hadn't missed a single one. ***
Tatu, Sorte Springer, RavEnigma and Thylacine had their own tag team style of fighting when it came to gunfights.
Tatu drew in the soldiers, firing with an old model handgun, making them think that they could easily beat him. When they were easily fooled and brought to the next step, Sorte Springer would leap out of nowhere with strap on claws like Logan's and she would tear into them from behind, confusing them into a shooting frenzy.
RavEnigma would take that opportunity to then show up with a newer model gun and clip off those who were trying to calm down. With them out of the way, she, Sorte Springer, and Tatu would run as fast as they could away from the scene while Thylacine calmly dropped a grenade down on the surviving soldiers.
It always worked for them. ***
Zuno and ^Sulfurous^ were more into long distance fighting themselves. Armed with newer modeled rifles from Black Air, the two went from shelter to shelter, picking off as many soldiers as they could, keeping a good distance away from them.
"Duck!" Zuno shouted pushing down ^Sulfurous^. A split second after that, a Sentinel blasted off a chunk of a building they were near.
"Time to move on?" ^Sulfurous^ asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Oh yes!" ***
LadyHawke, Warbird, and Taekwondodo were more into martial arts than guns really. LadyHawke and Warbird grew their nails long and they had coated them lightly in adamantium so that they could simply slash someone across the throat or face and end it right then and there.
Taekwondodo preferred actual jiu-jitsu, flipping and twisting her body any which way she needed to, twisting limbs and necks painfully to let either LadyHawke or Warbird finish them off. ***
Kurt never figured out why he was afraid to look Mad With Power and Maelstrom in the eyes.
The soldiers found out soon enough.
Mad With Power and Maelstrom were two people that were not meant to be trifled with lightly. They both were able to freeze a person with a piercing stare, ending the connection with a bullet to the brain.
Together, they were able to freeze whole groups, picking them off like little ducks in a carnival game. ***
Slowly, Magneto raised up his hands, and he smiled slowly, his eyes glittering as soldiers started to fire round after round at him. Every single bullet stopped dead in their tracks, making a large shield in front of him.
"Oh dear." He said softly. "It seems your bullets have decided to go for something else." With that, Magneto snapped his fingers and half of the bullets went back into the soldiers, slaughtering every one. The rest went up and struck a Sentinel through the eyes, making it sputter and crash into a building. ***
Ladyerin and LadyBamf stayed in the back with Mastermind, typing furiously at laptops Alysande and Alistaire had given them. They were very good with computers and in no time they were able to crack the code to some of the Sentinel's computers and forced them to self-destruct right on the spot, making shrapnel rain down everywhere.
Smiling, they gave each other high fives before they put the laptops down and armed up with rifles, joining Black Air in the shoot out. ***
The Marauders had been able to route a large amount of the heavily armed soldiers to the abandoned part of the city. Cursing, they tried to fight their way back into the main fray, but Sabretooth and the others beat them back, driving them towards a group of manholes.
Just when the soldiers thought their situation was utterly hopeless, the Marauders suddenly pulled back and went back to fight off the Sentinels. Laughing, the soldiers relaxed for a few moments to catch their breath.
"Hey! Turn around, shit heads!" Looking over their shoulders, they found themselves looking at W.H.O and Black Air.
Smiling, Alistaire and Alysande waved at them before they started to fire into them like fish in a barrel. ***
Screw the Reich, screw that crazy bitch Moira, and screw the Fuhrer!
Ahab was not going to stand around and get slaughtered by a bunch of rebels who decided to join up forces! He was looking out for number one; and the Reich was not it!
Panting, he dropped his gun and helmet, tearing off his armband to try and make them think he wasn't a soldier. Looking over his shoulder, he smiled when he saw that no one was following after him.
When he looked forward, he stopped clumsily, gasping softly.
He couldn't react in time to safe himself as the scythe's blade ripped into his chest, piercing into his yellow heart.
"It's dishonorable to leave your comrades to die." Bluefooted said, ripping out his scythe angrily. "Even Nazis like you should have some kind of honor system!" ***
"You think you can handle this?" Pete Wisdom was on a rooftop, slowly starting to make fire daggers. He looked over at Rowena and he narrowed his eyes a bit as dust and debris started to fly up at them.
"I can handle it." Rowena assured him, notching a steel arrow to her bow. Smiling, Pete nodded and he pointed to a gas tank.
"Just aim and fire at it. Nature will do the rest!" he said.
Rowena let her arrow fly. ***
Callisto and Kurt were almost able to get inside the building when they heard the explosion.
"That'll be Pete and Rowena!" Kurt laughed, driving his rapier through a man's throat.
"This is no time for laughing." Callisto said, shooting down the men holding the door closed. Nodding, Kurt became serious as they entered the building.
"Lead on." He said.
Kurt and Callisto fought their way through the first three levels of the building, killing everyone who stood in their way. Callisto gritted her teeth, heading straight for the room with the portal machine.
When they finally reached the door, Kurt used one of his rapiers to break open the door.
That's when they found themselves staring at a gun in their face.
"You both are going to pay for this." Moira snarled, narrowing her eyes as they blazed with insanity.
"You've lost, Moira." Kurt said. "Give it up."
"No!" Moira cried. "I cannot lose damn you! I will not lose! I am the Reichminister of this district! I am the Fuhrer's right hand! I am..."
Kurt and Callisto looked over her shoulders as she ranted on, watching as the portal machine lighted up into life. Looking at each other, they slowly smiled and let her continue her rants for a bit more.
"And when I kill you both..!"
She felt someone tap her shoulder.
Slowly, she turned around.
Her nose made a loud snapping noise as it was punched, and she collapsed to the ground.
"Och, the bitch had a hard face!" Moira of Earth 616 cried, shaking her hand a bit.
"Kurt!" Johanna cried, leaping on top of him and hugging him tightly. Laughing, Kurt hugged her and swirled her around slowly.
"What took you guys so long?" he asked as the rest of Excalibur came through the portal.
"We had to try and find the exact spot where the original hole happened." Alistaire explained. "Unfortunately it took a long time to do so." Kurt shrugged, smiling over at Callisto.
Nightcrawler opened his mouth to say something when an explosion erupted from above.
"The devil?" Brian asked.
"Oh right." Kurt laughed. "I kinda got a few groups of rebels together and got them to raid this city to try and get to this portal machine to get back to you guys." ***
It didn't take long for the entire Nazi force in the city to give up. With Excalibur leaping into the battle, they were no much for the assault.
In the end, the soldiers and loyal civilians for the Reich were driven out of the city without any supplies. Moira was kept locked up as a hostage.
"What are you guys going to do now?" Kurt asked, packing his things up. Bamfman shrugged, looking over at the Excalibur from Earth 616.
"We'll do what we do best." He said. "Piss off the Fuhrer and live to do it another day!" he laughed.
"Are you sure you guys will be ok?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow slightly.
"Hey, you're talking to me about the Nightscrawlers!" Bamfman laughed. "We'll always be able to bounce back through anything! Even if the Fuhrer sent people to wipe us out with his Hacker squad, we'd come back better than ever!" Smiling, Kurt placed an arm around Bamfman's shoulders, squeezing them gently.
"Good luck, Ty." He said seriously.
"You too." Bamfman agreed. "Say hi to my doppelganger for me!"
"Will do!" Kurt said, holding up an arm in farewell.
In a bright flash of white light, Kurt left the world with his family.