yae yang: Oh yeah he's back and he's not alone, and yes Michael is here too.

Eden: Well I am trying to get Spidey's humor down, hopefully I'll do a little better. Oh trust me your going to see more of Legion.

Red Witch: Oh yeah things are going to get worse much soon, and the Acolytes will get a new recruit. (I don't think ANYONE saw this coming)

BlackRoseApocalyps: Ah Sinister the guy you love to hate, I really think I've done the character justice (I hope, what can I say I have a lot of fun writing evil people, they have vary little restrictions if any.)

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CHAPTER 9: THE HUNT

Spider-Man, Forge and Hank had spent the entire night working on different projects. Forge was nearly done rebuilding the neo-genetic recombinator, Hank and Spidey had finished what they hopped was a cure for Connors.

But there was still the problem of what to do with Morbius. They had been working almost none stop on that one. Forged called it in at about two in the morning, and Hank left Spider-Man an hour later.

Before he left for the night he looked back at him seeing him not even slowing down his work. 'That boy seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders.' He thought then left to try and get some sleep.

Hank got up around seven a bit more refreshed. He went to the lab and Spider-Man was still there, only he was upside down with his arms crossed. He walked over to him and saw several notes on the desk below him.

"AHEM!" He said.

"What-where-huh?!" He quickly said looking around, then yawned.

"You actually sleep like that?" Hank asked clearly surprised.

"Kinda you see sometimes I start pacing on the ceiling and I can nod off if I'm working to hard." Then yawns again. "Kind of like last night actually." Then jumps down onto the floor.

'I'm glad I told Aunt May that I was going to a friends for a few days, she would be worried sick about me by now.' Peter thought to himself.

"If you need it there is a shower up stairs you could use and you really should eat something." Hank said.

"Well...that does sound good." He reluctantly said.

Hank smiled at him. "Besides it will give me time to look at the work you did."

Spider-Man shrugged. "Sure why not, but I didn't get too far." So he left and grabbed his travel bag. He found one of the showers used for everyone and showed. He also changed into his spare costume he brought with him in the bag, since he didn't want to smell of sweat. He then searched out the kitchen.

He went straight for the coffee ignoring all the looks he was getting from everyone currently there. He got himself a cup and seeing no place to sit, just 'sat' if you will on the wall.

He pulled up his mask just enough to allow him to drink.

"Now there's a sight I never thought I'd see." Sam said.

"What someone sitting on the wall drinking coffee or someone in a spider costume drinking coffee?" Bobby asked.

Sam just shrugged. "Either one."

Peter walked over to snag himself something to eat and was for a muffine when his spider-sense went off, he pulled his arm back sharply. "What the?"

"Oh that's one of Kitty's your lucky you didn't eat that." Vincent said him luckily Kitty wasn't up yet. "I nearly ate one of those things and nearly broke a tooth, and since I can get hit in the chest by a howitzer and get back up that's saying something."

"Your kidding right?" Peter asked.

Vincent pointed down on the floor. "You see that dent? That was from a cookie of her's."

"Whoa. You know I'd think about using stuff like that in a fight, but that would be cruel and unusual, and I once hit the Green Goblin with a mail box."

"Ouch." Ray said.

"What to you mean 'ouch' the guy was trying to kill me, we had been fighting for about half and hour and besides it only knocked him out." He said.

"I've been wondering how come you still where the masks don't you trust us?" Amara asked.

Peter hesitated a little. "Well it kind of goes against the code."

"Code?" Amara asked confused.

"The super hero code." He sated in an overly dramatic voice. "Simple rules really, one of them is never reveal you secret identity, a few others are never wear a dirty costume, never change in phone booths, and flying villains have the right of way."

"Come on seriously." She said.

"It's nothing personal, it's just that...everyone that knows about my secret seem to get hurt."

"Oh sorry." She said.

"Well so why become a hero anyway?" Roberto asked.

"Well I'll admit it's not easy, the hours suck, it eats up your personal life, constant danger, and the dental plan sucks too, but it is worth it, like someone once said to me, with great power comes great responsibility."

"I like that, very cool." Vincent said.

LATER THAT DAY

The students, the instructors and Spider-Man were gathered together.

"Well students we have agreed to help Spider-Man here with a problem that you have all been made away of." Xavier said to them all. "We'll be going in two groups."

Ororo you'll lead the group to find and hold Morbius. Since he can fly, you'll be taking Vincent, Rogue, and Jean. Since we have no way of helping him to undo whatever was done to him, we'll have to hold him and keep him out of the public for now."

The Second group will be Logan, Spider-Man, Scott, Kurt, and Hank. Your tasks is to find and use the new serum on The Lizard and hope it will work."

There were a few questions but nothing major, since Morbius only seemed to some out at night they were going to need to get the New York soon before nightfall.

As they were leaving to the hanger Amanda came up to Kurt.

"Be safe Kurt." She caringly said to him and placed a kiss on his cheek, which left a goofy smile on his face.

They left for New York, Storm's team took the XM Velocity, while the others took the jet.

Storm and the others took off in different directions since they didn't know where exactly he was going to show himself.

The other team had found reports of a lizard creature and where looking in to it.

They had been searching for a few hours after nightfall and no one reported in. Mayhem was thinking about looking for a new place to look when he saw a dark shape fly across the distance.

He touched the communicator his team was given for this mission.

"Mayhem here I think I got him, I follow him and wait for you guys to get here and make sure he doesn't harm anyone else." He said.

"Good give us your location and any course changes and we'll be there as fast as we can." Storm said over the line.

Vincent had never been to New York before, but on the flight here, had taken the time to look over a map of New York and converted it to memory, and since he had a photographic mind, it was easy to recall where he was, and had a good idea where he was going.

Morbius was hunched over the side of the building looking for something or really someone to stop the hunger. He spotted a lone person walking alone and was about to go when he felt someone grab him from behind.

"I don't think so blood sucker." Then he was thrown far against the rooftop. When he got up he looked over at the person. He was a young man about seventeen maybe eighteen, and was wearing black clothes with two red Xs clearly marked.

"You have no idea what your getting into fool." Morbius said and lunged at him, he slammed his fist into his face but he wasn't even phased.

"Your REALLY going to have to do better than that." This stranger said. He threw another punch, which he grabbed at his wrist and twisted his arm around and put him into a hammer lock, and placed his other arm under his chin.

"I see you found him." Said a female voice. Now three females in uniforms flew out of the sky, one a red head, another one with white hair and the third with brown and white.

"Yeah you know what Storm? I though this was going to be a lot harder than this." Then Morbius started thrashing against him and when he got his chance tired to bite into Vincent's arm.

"HEY!" He yelled out at the feel of fangs trying to get into his tough skin. "He's freaking biting me!"

Then all of the X-Men were through aside by an invisible force.

"Well look what we got here." Came a voice from above. They looked up and Jean gasps as she saw it was Lucas. "Hello red nice to see you again, you still going out with that loser?"

"Who are you?" Morbius demanded of this person that seemed to have helped him.

"Friends." Came a new voice. Then out of the shadows came Sinister, which of course sent Vincent immediately into 'fully pissed off' mode.

"We are here to help you, I understand that you're a student of genetics. Well I am a vastly superior expert than anyone else you'll meet and I can help you control this craving of yours." Sinister smoothly said to him.

"Don't listen to that man." Storm said to him. "We want to help cure you."

"Cure him, what's to cure?" Sinister said. "He's stronger, faster, and better than he was as a normal human." Then he turned to Morbius. "Besides after all the killing you've done do you honestly think you can just go back to your old life like nothing happened?"

Morbius thought about all this. At first he hated what he was, but this stranger was right. He was more powerful, he was better, and he was starting to like it. He was also right he had killed, if only to feed, but what would they do if he was cured? They would most likely throw him in a cell somewhere to rot.

He had one of the most brilliant minds there was and he wouldn't let it be wasted that way. He looked at Sinister. "Deal."

"Sinister!" Vincent yelled out and charged alone with the others, but then they all fell to their knees as a giant explosion of pain entered their mind, courtesy of Legion.

They were all on the ground clutching their heads in pain, but Vincent summoned the power to stand through sheer will and hatred directed at Sinister. He slowly got to his feet and was staggering towards him in a blind rage, his face contorted in pain.

"I don't think so." Lucas said, and created a wall of flame in front of Vincent, but he merely jumped through the flames. But stumbled to his knees as he landed.

All he saw was Sinister looking down on him smiling. Vincent didn't know what he could do the pain was getting worse and was threatening to overtake him. He reached down for more power and fully charged himself but then something happened.

Normally when he charged up he felt a swell of power like he was filled up but not this time, it was like there was suddenly more, he reached into himself again and found more power than he thought was there.

He tapped into it and suddenly he was engulfed in energy. He let out a roar as his body was now covered in a crimson glow of energy, the energy itself looked like a crimson fire covering him. And he felt more powerful than ever.

As he charged up to this new level the building seemed to shake and a wave of power seemed to wash over everyone as this new power was awakened.

Sinister actually stepped back and Lucas himself lost concentration at the site of him. All covered in a living fire of energy his eyes glowed the brightest and his whole body looked like it changed to red, all this seemed to only enhance the look of rage on his face.

Vincent was about to attack Sinister when Lucas snapped out of his shock and sent so much pain into Vincent's head he screamed out as he fell to his knees.

He tried valiantly to fight it, but couldn't take the pain and lost consciousness.

"Boy that guy has a high pain threshold." Lucas said looking down at him, as the energy surrounding him faded.

"Yes well he had great opportunity to learn how to take pain." Sinister noticed the others were slowly getting to their feet as well. "We should be leaving."

Then three metal sphere came down from the sky, and open. Sinister motioned for Morbius to go in. "Oh and if I forget to say it, welcome to the Acolytes Morbius." Sinister proudly said to him as he entered.

Sinister and Legion followed suit and soon they all left the X-Men team on the rooftop.

As the other got to their feet all of them with huge headaches, Rogue rushed over to Vincent to check him out.

"How is he?" Storm asked with a hand on her temple.

Rogue shook her head. "Ah can't tell, he's breathin' but he's out."

"We should get him back to the mansion to rest." Strom told her, Rogue nodded in agreement and lifted him up into the air with her.

"I hope the others are doing better than we are." Jean said to Storm.

"So do I." She replied and they both left for the helicopter.

NEW YORK TUNNELS

The others were currently walking into an abandoned tunnel. It was dark, dank and creepy. They were walking for about fifteen minutes of pure silence.

Hank was carefully loading a tranquilizer gun for when they meet The Lizard they would need to hit him with the serum and from what Spider-Man said, you really didn't want to get too close if you had too.

"Well at least he's not in the sewers this time." Spider-Man said to break the silence.

Scott looked at him. "What he usually in the sewers?" He asked glad if it were true that he didn't pick the sewers this time.

"Oh yeah." He said to him. "I tell you I've spent more time in the sewers of New York than I care to admit, hell I think I actually know the place better than my own neighborhood, plus I really don't want to go into how many uniforms I've had to burn because I couldn't get the smell out."

Logan sniffed the air suddenly.

"Got something?" Scott asked him.

Logan nodded. "What ever it is isn't human."

"Man I wish I had access to my own 'blood hound', it would make these things soooo much easier." Peter said then saw the look Logan gave him about the 'blood hound' remark and made a mental note not to use THAT joke again.

They continued on and Logan said the sent was getting stronger.

They found themselves at an old subway station long abandoned. Then Peter's spider-sense kicked in. "LOOK OUT!" He yelled and jumped away.

The Lizard came down from the ceiling Logan had dodged easily, but Scott got nailed by the tale and was sent into the wall. Hank rushed over to him.

The Lizard growled at the intruders to his lair, Logan growled back and unsheathed his claws.

"Careful Logan we need him alive, there is a man trapped in there." Peter yelled out to him.

"It's not the MAN I'm worried about, it's his more aggressive side." Logan said to him.

They both began to circle the Lizard looking for a way to attack, but then the Lizard leaped at them first not waiting to be attacked.

Then the battle began.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 10: YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME

Ohhh don't you just hate cliffhangers? :)

Well it looks like the effects on Vincent have just been made, next up see how the others fare against The Lizard, and what went on at the mansion during all this.

Don't forget to look up a couple of spin-offs from my two stories, 'In the mirror' and 'Saturday morning toons' and tell me what you think of them, I already got some reviews from BlackRoseApocalyps & Shadow-Spider (Thanks by the way you two)

Which reminds me.

Shadow-Spider: Glad you found 'Saturday Morning Toons' funny.

BlackRoseApocalypse: You're going to give me a swelled head with reviews like that, but hey I'm not complaining I'm flattered that you like my writing.