Chargone: Glade you like it so much, though keep in mind I'm not the best
speller and I don't have anyone to proofread the story. Don't worry any
threads that aren't finished will most likely be later on. (and don't be
afraid to remind me of a few, incase I do forget)
yae yang: Glade you like the new characters, and you'll see one of the arenas in this chapter, expect a huge fight scene.
Shadow-Spider: Wow I really got a reaction out of you with that one.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Well it only gets a little worse in this chapter, but don't worry I'm already planning what to do to the FOH in the next chapter.
ENTER DAYTRIPPER
CHAPTER 15: SENTINELS & SEARCHING
The tension at the mansion was high to say the least.
When Amanda's parents found out what happened, well lets just say they weren't too pleased. They had been gone most of the after noon, since they finally found a new home and when they returned had found out what happened, they didn't know what to do.
They where both worried and angry. Worried for their daughter and the others that were taken, and angry at the men that took them and even at Xavier because this place was supposed to be safe.
They were currently in the kitchen trying to eat something. They didn't sleep well last night, if at all. Actually everyone hadn't sleep well.
"I can't believe this is happening." Margali said to her husband. He took her hand then. "I know but we'll get through this, they'll find her and the others."
She nodded her head, a very large part of her wanted to believe that, but also there was also the part that was terrified they would never see their daughter again.
After they had finished they decided to try and do something. Both of them had the day off because it was the weekend now. Which was most likely a good thing, since wither one of them felt like they would work with this going on.
"Guys have you seen Kurt lately?" They heard one of the students say from a room nearby.
"Yeah the guys a wreck, I hear he's been in the Danger Room and in the gym the entire time taking his frustrations out on anything." Another said most likely Roberto.
"Well do ya blame him, he's tarrin' himself apart with guilt." They heard Sam say.
"Yeah Bobby isn't much better."
"Where are those two anyway?"
"Last I heard they were both in the gym."
Amanda's parents moved away since they didn't feel like listening anymore.
Kurt was currently taking all his frustration and pain on the punching bag. Bobby was behind it holding it for him, like Kurt had before.
Neither one of them really talked, they both didn't feel like it all they wanted to do was to DO something, anything.
Kurt was sweating and panting, his hands were starting to hurt but he didn't care. All he wanted was for Amanda to be back and to make those that took her pay.
He didn't notice when Amanda's parents walked in or then watching him. "Kurt." He heard someone say his name. He didn't know who, just that someone did. He stopped and turned around and was surprised to see who it was.
"Bobby could you leave us alone with Kurt for a little?" Amanda's father asked him calmly. He nodded and left without a word.
Both of them then moved closer to Kurt. Kurt had been avoiding them the entire time he couldn't face them even now he held his head down avoiding their eyes.
Margali stepped closer to him. "Kurt?" He still couldn't look up at her. She placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Kurt why won't you look at us?"
"I...I...can't." Kurt said his voice cracking from the emotional turmoil he was feeling. "I failed, I...I couldn't protect her."
"Kurt I know you tried your best." She said softly. "We both know you care deeply for our daughter and if you could have we know you would have saved her."
"We don't blame you Kurt." Her father said to him. "We know you did your best."
"But I-"Kurt began but Margali cut him off. "Kurt stop that, you did your best, and we don't blame you."
Kurt didn't know what to say he looked up finally tears in his eyes, and could see that they were sincere. Margali saw the tears forming and pull him close to her in a hug.
Kurt wasn't sure what to feel at that moment, he felt so many things too many to count and he just had to let go just once. He hugged her back and could no longer hold back the tears.
FOH FACILITY
The others had sleep little that night, and the morning meal was something to be desired. They had gotten to know each other a little more, even Blink opened up a little more, though Shadow was still a little reluctant to talk about certain things.
He claimed it was against a code of conduct, he couldn't talk about his clan, his name or where he was from or his past because it would violate some sacred code of ninja secrecy or something.
It was later in the day when the door open and armored men with long metallic staffs, which Domino had told them electrocuted you if you didn't do what they say.
They pretty much walked in silence since they knew what was in store for them, they came up to a large metallic door that opened. It was a huge metallic room larger than the Danger Room.
There was also a recreation of an urban environment, but it also looked like it went through a war. The buildings were a wreck and some looked like they had explosive damage and rumble everywhere.
They were led to the center of the arena and they saw seven humanoid machines that were over six feet tall. They were painted red and black, and had a smooth surface. The joints looked like they were a collection of steel cables. The heads looked more like helmets except for the face, which had a black reflective surface.
Suddenly a voice blared over the speakers. "Now for you new test subjects, these are the newly design HK model Sentinel. There are seven of them and seven of you. You will all split up and then they will activate and hunt you down."
"There will be no helping of others in this or you will be punished. And you will be fighting for your life. So I suggest you start running...NOW."
The others looked at each other for a second but then the HKs started to hum and seem to power up. So they all ran in opposite directions like they were told to do.
Domino had gone into one of the buildings. She had gone up against this model before, the only problem is they kept getting redesigned and reprogrammed after each battle and it got harder and harder to fight them.
She found a good piece of steel construction rod and was able to pry it lose. She my not have any decent offensive powers that could level those things, but that didn't mean she was helpless.
She heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming. She could say a lot about these things but quiet was not one of them. She waited by the wall the bar raised waiting for it to cross the opening.
It didn't. Instead it reached through the wall and pulled her through it. It was about to get a more decent hold on her, when she rammed the rode into one of its knee joints. It stagger just enough for her to get away.
She ran up to the next floor, while it stopped only to pull out the rod and walk after her with a slight limp. When she reached the top floor she saw most of the floor was either gone had holes, and the parts that didn't looked like they were about to fall.
It was perfect for her. She waited until the machine reached the top of the stairs then she leaped onto the floor, she hopped along it and always seemed to hit the most solid parts.
The HK sentinel scanned her path and made to copy it, but as soon as it leaped to the exact same spot it crashed through the floor and a loud crash was heard. Domino looked down through the holes and saw that it had impaled itself on a piece of jagged rumble.
"Well that's one down, I hope the others are doing better." Domino said to herself.
Shadow was trying to find a place with the least amount of light. If he had to fight, he wanted it on his terms, and in his element.
He found a ruined building with little windows and little light. Since the last place he used was blown up after the last time by one of the others he needed a new place to stand his ground and this place was decent enough.
The sentinel crashed through a wall and landed. It raised both arms and the top of its forearms lifted up and two laser weapons were extended. Shadow quickly manipulated a shadow on the floor and stretched under him and he seemed to sink into it.
The HK fired at the shadow but nothing happened except the shadow went back to its original size and shape. The sentinel scanned the area but found no trace of its target. It didn't notice its own shadow widening and it suddenly sank into it.
It came out of another shadow from higher up and landed hard on the ground. It got back up to its feet quickly but then Shadow who seemed to come out of nowhere leaped over him.
As it looked up Shadow created a shadow harpoon and chain and threw it at the black face plate and shattered through it. The HK reached up to it, its limbs shuddering as it did.
As it reached for the shadow weapon it faded away and Shadow went in for the kill, creating a shadow katana and slicing the sentinel's head off. He watched it fall to the ground and walked to the entrance hoping the others had made it.
Blink was running for her life. Every time she created portals and emerged later the sentinel took to the air with flight jets in its feet. It was in the air firing at her from the sky. Every time she tried to hit it with an energy lance that would disintegrate a part of it, it kept on dodging them.
She dived into a building hoping to hide while she got some rest. She didn't know how long she had run but she was tiring fast, and another thing against her was that machines don't tire.
The HK that was hunting her crashed through the ceiling above her and landed on top of her. She quickly cleared her head only to have a powerful metallic hand grab her by the neck and raise her up.
She looked down in fear into the cold metallic surface of its face, and saw it pull back the other arm, and she saw it's fist pull itself into its own arm and a blade reappear where its hand was.
She had to think fast, and looked around and she had an idea. Her hands were still free and with the left shot a lance at the ceiling support, and as the HK looked up to see what she was up to, she used her other hand to stab another lance into its arm joint and disintegrate its joint freeing her.
She fell down and created a portal to fall through it, the HK quickly tried to slash at her with the blade ignoring its missing arm, but only grazed her as she disappeared. Suddenly there was a loud groaning sound and as the HK looked up it saw the ceiling clasping in on it.
With the damage it made while entering and the support beam gone there was nothing really holding it up and the HK was buried in rumble.
Blink emerged from another portal and holding her side. The blade hadn't sunk deep but she was cut and bleeding but thankfully nothing fatal, and the doctors would be sure to batch her up for the next time.
Jamie had started to run of and when the HK that was targeting him started to chase him he split himself off into several individuals and ran in different directions. The HK sentinel was confused and didn't know what to do, it was programmed for multiple opponents but not multiple opponents of the same person.
After a while it just chose to go after one of them at a time. I began its search of the area and found one of the Jamies. It chased him down the 'streets' if you will and when Jamie turned a corner it went after him.
But then it saw another one down another street and chased that one, when that one disappeared another one showed up. The HK was getting conflicting data, since it was not programmed to fight an opponent(s) like Jamie.
"Hey rust bucket over here!" Jamie yelled out at it. He ducked back across the way he came and the HK followed him. As it rounded a corner it saw Jamie standing in a dead end. It raised one of its arms and released its laser weapon ready to fire.
The Jamie at the end just smiled and pointed up with his hand. The HK having only a limited AI halted for a second to process this illogical behavior but a sound from above caught its attention.
It looked up just in time to see a massive piece of debris smash right onto its head virtually flattening it.
The Jamie on the ground looked at the top of the building to see several more of himself there. They had been the one that pushed the object onto the HK. "What took you guys so long?"
"Hey it was heavy." One said.
"Yeah it wasn't easy." Another one said.
A third one spoke up. "Besides the plan worked didn't it?"
"Yeah I guess." The one on the street said. "I just wish we could have though up a plan we didn't see from Looney Toons cartoons."
Jubilee had a harder time with hers. Her powers weren't strong enough to damage it, in fact she rarely made any dents in it. In fact she already had a scorch mark on her shoulder where she got nicked by one of those lasers.
'I swear if I get out of this I'm never complaining about the Danger Room again!' She thought to herself. She continued to run and tried to lose it in a network of corridors. But the sentinel only smashed through all the walls.
She was running so fast that she nearly didn't stop in time to stop herself from falling into a hole in the ground. Then the sentinel appeared right behind her, she turned quickly and saw it going for a punch, most likely one that would literally take her head off.
She had only a moment to think and quickly raised both hands and shut her eyes tightly and made the brightest flash of fireworks she could muster. The HK was momentarily blinded and continued to follow though with the punch but it couldn't see its target and so couldn't see Jubilee duck it.
Its momentum carried it closely to the edge of the hole and Jubilee helped it in by sending a kick to its back. When it fell in it began to rise up. Jubilee looked frantically around the hole wasn't too deep and she saw it fly also.
She tried to blast the wall closest to it, it began to crumble and soon buried the sentinel under the rumble. Jubilee slumped down exhausted.
Rahne had since turned to wolf form and was trying to out run her sentinel. She dodged the shots it sent at her form the sky and went into a building hoping for cover. She returned to her human form and looked around.
It was pretty rundown and looked like a lot of fights went on in here. Then a loud crash was heard as the HK landed through the ceiling. Rahne had taken cover under a desk and waited.
The sentinel scanned for any mutant signature and found Rahne with it and thermo vision. It walked over to her and lifted the desk she was under over its head. Rahne in wolf form ran under its legs.
It dropped the desk but soon found Rahne on its back in her were-wolf form she was using her claws to rip apart the cables in the joints. It reached back with its arm impossibly bending them for a human and grabbed her and through her across the room.
She landed hard and she got up in time to dodge a flying razor disk. She looked at the sentinel and saw that a slot in its chest had opened. More and more of the razor blades flew out at Rahne she his behind a wall.
One of the blades went through the wall and cut her arm slightly. She yelled in pain and ran on. The HK continued to chase her down. She ran on and came across a dead end. There was no where to turn to and she was trapped.
She saw a piece of steel on the floor and decided to make a stand, then she looked up and had an idea.
The HK turned the corner fast and stopped. It was a dead end and there was nothing there, it was about to do a scan when its sensors registered something hitting it on the left shoulder.
It looked at it and it was blood, then a few more drops fell on it and looked up. There was Rahne in were-wolf form she was sitting on a small ledge created from a hole in the ceiling. She had used the strength in that form to get herself up there.
She dropped down and jammed the steel piece into its 'face'. It jerked around a lot then fell face first, sending the steel right through the head.
Amanda had spent the last five minutes fighting her sentinel. She had opted for the fight and fade tactic. She's attack it with force bolts then teleport. She'd attack again then teleport again.
She was getting somewhere with her attacks, when they hit, but she was getting tired and fast. The food they gave her wasn't enough to give her the energy she needed to keep this up and she needed to finish it.
She was on a roof top now and was hoping the sentinel would land, if it didn't she would have to go inside and there would be less room to teleport in. It stayed in the air firing at her she dodged as best she could, but at one point a blast hit too near her and sent her flying.
The HK landed while she was struggling to get up. She looked up in time to see it raise a palm and a hole opened up on the hand. A net fired out of it unwrapping itself in flight and covered her.
It was still a several feet away but it was close enough. Amanda teleported just as the net was about to land on her and suddenly she was right in front of the sentinel. Because it was in the air she couldn't do what she had planned but now that it was on the ground, well that was different.
She sent the most powerful force bolts at point blank range at its head. It actually decapitated it.
When its headless body wavered and then fell. She breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from her face.
LATER
Trask looked down at the arena data and the footage. "Well it looks like we need to improve the designs again." He said disappointed in the performance of the HK sentinels, he hoped the new ones would be better.
A BAR SOMEWHERE IN BAYVILLE
Wade T. Wilson, AKA the merc-with-a-mouth Deadpool was currently taking a drink of his beer. He was still in his costume but everyone stayed away from him, especially since the first and last guy who gave him trouble, Deadpool had forced him to swallow his own hand up to the wrist.
His bodies had taken him to a hospital and most likely a dentist later for all the missing teeth. That and when they got a look at the skin that was showing from him pulling up his mask high enough so he could drink his beer was another one.
Everyone had given him a wide berth and when they saw his skin a few of them ran to the bathroom, even the bar tender just slided his beer to him than handing it to him.
He was musing over his last job and how it didn't sit well with him. He'd done a lot of nasty, cruel, hell even evil things but he wasn't sorry for those, those were fun. Besides those people deserved what they had coming one way or another.
But the whole kidnapping thing still stung. He'd done it before, but not a kid. There were a few things that even turned his stomach. He was still drinking his beer wishing his healing factor allowed him to get drunk when a low yet familiar growl caught his attention.
"Wait I know that growl anywhere...Sabertooth?" He pleasantly asked. This only got an even greater growl. "No? Then it must be good old Wolvie." He turned around and was face to face, er face to mask to a very pissed off Wolverine.
"Uh....something wrong?" Deadpool had seen that look in his eyes before. "You got that I-want-to-claw-you-to-death look in your eyes...what did I do you?"
"Those kids you and your friends took were under my care and I want them back." He growled out.
"Oh Hell." Wade said out loud. "This is going to end in extreme violence and pain isn't it?"
Wolverine just unsheathed his claws.
All was silent for about a minute then all hell broke lose. After five minutes no one in the bar was still standing, five more minutes later and the bar was on fire, ten minutes after that several vehicles and store fronts were also destroyed, after another ten the street looked like a war zone, and they were only getting started.
NEXT UP: RESCUERS
Will the X-Men get there in time to save the captured mutants, just wait and see.
yae yang: Glade you like the new characters, and you'll see one of the arenas in this chapter, expect a huge fight scene.
Shadow-Spider: Wow I really got a reaction out of you with that one.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Well it only gets a little worse in this chapter, but don't worry I'm already planning what to do to the FOH in the next chapter.
ENTER DAYTRIPPER
CHAPTER 15: SENTINELS & SEARCHING
The tension at the mansion was high to say the least.
When Amanda's parents found out what happened, well lets just say they weren't too pleased. They had been gone most of the after noon, since they finally found a new home and when they returned had found out what happened, they didn't know what to do.
They where both worried and angry. Worried for their daughter and the others that were taken, and angry at the men that took them and even at Xavier because this place was supposed to be safe.
They were currently in the kitchen trying to eat something. They didn't sleep well last night, if at all. Actually everyone hadn't sleep well.
"I can't believe this is happening." Margali said to her husband. He took her hand then. "I know but we'll get through this, they'll find her and the others."
She nodded her head, a very large part of her wanted to believe that, but also there was also the part that was terrified they would never see their daughter again.
After they had finished they decided to try and do something. Both of them had the day off because it was the weekend now. Which was most likely a good thing, since wither one of them felt like they would work with this going on.
"Guys have you seen Kurt lately?" They heard one of the students say from a room nearby.
"Yeah the guys a wreck, I hear he's been in the Danger Room and in the gym the entire time taking his frustrations out on anything." Another said most likely Roberto.
"Well do ya blame him, he's tarrin' himself apart with guilt." They heard Sam say.
"Yeah Bobby isn't much better."
"Where are those two anyway?"
"Last I heard they were both in the gym."
Amanda's parents moved away since they didn't feel like listening anymore.
Kurt was currently taking all his frustration and pain on the punching bag. Bobby was behind it holding it for him, like Kurt had before.
Neither one of them really talked, they both didn't feel like it all they wanted to do was to DO something, anything.
Kurt was sweating and panting, his hands were starting to hurt but he didn't care. All he wanted was for Amanda to be back and to make those that took her pay.
He didn't notice when Amanda's parents walked in or then watching him. "Kurt." He heard someone say his name. He didn't know who, just that someone did. He stopped and turned around and was surprised to see who it was.
"Bobby could you leave us alone with Kurt for a little?" Amanda's father asked him calmly. He nodded and left without a word.
Both of them then moved closer to Kurt. Kurt had been avoiding them the entire time he couldn't face them even now he held his head down avoiding their eyes.
Margali stepped closer to him. "Kurt?" He still couldn't look up at her. She placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Kurt why won't you look at us?"
"I...I...can't." Kurt said his voice cracking from the emotional turmoil he was feeling. "I failed, I...I couldn't protect her."
"Kurt I know you tried your best." She said softly. "We both know you care deeply for our daughter and if you could have we know you would have saved her."
"We don't blame you Kurt." Her father said to him. "We know you did your best."
"But I-"Kurt began but Margali cut him off. "Kurt stop that, you did your best, and we don't blame you."
Kurt didn't know what to say he looked up finally tears in his eyes, and could see that they were sincere. Margali saw the tears forming and pull him close to her in a hug.
Kurt wasn't sure what to feel at that moment, he felt so many things too many to count and he just had to let go just once. He hugged her back and could no longer hold back the tears.
FOH FACILITY
The others had sleep little that night, and the morning meal was something to be desired. They had gotten to know each other a little more, even Blink opened up a little more, though Shadow was still a little reluctant to talk about certain things.
He claimed it was against a code of conduct, he couldn't talk about his clan, his name or where he was from or his past because it would violate some sacred code of ninja secrecy or something.
It was later in the day when the door open and armored men with long metallic staffs, which Domino had told them electrocuted you if you didn't do what they say.
They pretty much walked in silence since they knew what was in store for them, they came up to a large metallic door that opened. It was a huge metallic room larger than the Danger Room.
There was also a recreation of an urban environment, but it also looked like it went through a war. The buildings were a wreck and some looked like they had explosive damage and rumble everywhere.
They were led to the center of the arena and they saw seven humanoid machines that were over six feet tall. They were painted red and black, and had a smooth surface. The joints looked like they were a collection of steel cables. The heads looked more like helmets except for the face, which had a black reflective surface.
Suddenly a voice blared over the speakers. "Now for you new test subjects, these are the newly design HK model Sentinel. There are seven of them and seven of you. You will all split up and then they will activate and hunt you down."
"There will be no helping of others in this or you will be punished. And you will be fighting for your life. So I suggest you start running...NOW."
The others looked at each other for a second but then the HKs started to hum and seem to power up. So they all ran in opposite directions like they were told to do.
Domino had gone into one of the buildings. She had gone up against this model before, the only problem is they kept getting redesigned and reprogrammed after each battle and it got harder and harder to fight them.
She found a good piece of steel construction rod and was able to pry it lose. She my not have any decent offensive powers that could level those things, but that didn't mean she was helpless.
She heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming. She could say a lot about these things but quiet was not one of them. She waited by the wall the bar raised waiting for it to cross the opening.
It didn't. Instead it reached through the wall and pulled her through it. It was about to get a more decent hold on her, when she rammed the rode into one of its knee joints. It stagger just enough for her to get away.
She ran up to the next floor, while it stopped only to pull out the rod and walk after her with a slight limp. When she reached the top floor she saw most of the floor was either gone had holes, and the parts that didn't looked like they were about to fall.
It was perfect for her. She waited until the machine reached the top of the stairs then she leaped onto the floor, she hopped along it and always seemed to hit the most solid parts.
The HK sentinel scanned her path and made to copy it, but as soon as it leaped to the exact same spot it crashed through the floor and a loud crash was heard. Domino looked down through the holes and saw that it had impaled itself on a piece of jagged rumble.
"Well that's one down, I hope the others are doing better." Domino said to herself.
Shadow was trying to find a place with the least amount of light. If he had to fight, he wanted it on his terms, and in his element.
He found a ruined building with little windows and little light. Since the last place he used was blown up after the last time by one of the others he needed a new place to stand his ground and this place was decent enough.
The sentinel crashed through a wall and landed. It raised both arms and the top of its forearms lifted up and two laser weapons were extended. Shadow quickly manipulated a shadow on the floor and stretched under him and he seemed to sink into it.
The HK fired at the shadow but nothing happened except the shadow went back to its original size and shape. The sentinel scanned the area but found no trace of its target. It didn't notice its own shadow widening and it suddenly sank into it.
It came out of another shadow from higher up and landed hard on the ground. It got back up to its feet quickly but then Shadow who seemed to come out of nowhere leaped over him.
As it looked up Shadow created a shadow harpoon and chain and threw it at the black face plate and shattered through it. The HK reached up to it, its limbs shuddering as it did.
As it reached for the shadow weapon it faded away and Shadow went in for the kill, creating a shadow katana and slicing the sentinel's head off. He watched it fall to the ground and walked to the entrance hoping the others had made it.
Blink was running for her life. Every time she created portals and emerged later the sentinel took to the air with flight jets in its feet. It was in the air firing at her from the sky. Every time she tried to hit it with an energy lance that would disintegrate a part of it, it kept on dodging them.
She dived into a building hoping to hide while she got some rest. She didn't know how long she had run but she was tiring fast, and another thing against her was that machines don't tire.
The HK that was hunting her crashed through the ceiling above her and landed on top of her. She quickly cleared her head only to have a powerful metallic hand grab her by the neck and raise her up.
She looked down in fear into the cold metallic surface of its face, and saw it pull back the other arm, and she saw it's fist pull itself into its own arm and a blade reappear where its hand was.
She had to think fast, and looked around and she had an idea. Her hands were still free and with the left shot a lance at the ceiling support, and as the HK looked up to see what she was up to, she used her other hand to stab another lance into its arm joint and disintegrate its joint freeing her.
She fell down and created a portal to fall through it, the HK quickly tried to slash at her with the blade ignoring its missing arm, but only grazed her as she disappeared. Suddenly there was a loud groaning sound and as the HK looked up it saw the ceiling clasping in on it.
With the damage it made while entering and the support beam gone there was nothing really holding it up and the HK was buried in rumble.
Blink emerged from another portal and holding her side. The blade hadn't sunk deep but she was cut and bleeding but thankfully nothing fatal, and the doctors would be sure to batch her up for the next time.
Jamie had started to run of and when the HK that was targeting him started to chase him he split himself off into several individuals and ran in different directions. The HK sentinel was confused and didn't know what to do, it was programmed for multiple opponents but not multiple opponents of the same person.
After a while it just chose to go after one of them at a time. I began its search of the area and found one of the Jamies. It chased him down the 'streets' if you will and when Jamie turned a corner it went after him.
But then it saw another one down another street and chased that one, when that one disappeared another one showed up. The HK was getting conflicting data, since it was not programmed to fight an opponent(s) like Jamie.
"Hey rust bucket over here!" Jamie yelled out at it. He ducked back across the way he came and the HK followed him. As it rounded a corner it saw Jamie standing in a dead end. It raised one of its arms and released its laser weapon ready to fire.
The Jamie at the end just smiled and pointed up with his hand. The HK having only a limited AI halted for a second to process this illogical behavior but a sound from above caught its attention.
It looked up just in time to see a massive piece of debris smash right onto its head virtually flattening it.
The Jamie on the ground looked at the top of the building to see several more of himself there. They had been the one that pushed the object onto the HK. "What took you guys so long?"
"Hey it was heavy." One said.
"Yeah it wasn't easy." Another one said.
A third one spoke up. "Besides the plan worked didn't it?"
"Yeah I guess." The one on the street said. "I just wish we could have though up a plan we didn't see from Looney Toons cartoons."
Jubilee had a harder time with hers. Her powers weren't strong enough to damage it, in fact she rarely made any dents in it. In fact she already had a scorch mark on her shoulder where she got nicked by one of those lasers.
'I swear if I get out of this I'm never complaining about the Danger Room again!' She thought to herself. She continued to run and tried to lose it in a network of corridors. But the sentinel only smashed through all the walls.
She was running so fast that she nearly didn't stop in time to stop herself from falling into a hole in the ground. Then the sentinel appeared right behind her, she turned quickly and saw it going for a punch, most likely one that would literally take her head off.
She had only a moment to think and quickly raised both hands and shut her eyes tightly and made the brightest flash of fireworks she could muster. The HK was momentarily blinded and continued to follow though with the punch but it couldn't see its target and so couldn't see Jubilee duck it.
Its momentum carried it closely to the edge of the hole and Jubilee helped it in by sending a kick to its back. When it fell in it began to rise up. Jubilee looked frantically around the hole wasn't too deep and she saw it fly also.
She tried to blast the wall closest to it, it began to crumble and soon buried the sentinel under the rumble. Jubilee slumped down exhausted.
Rahne had since turned to wolf form and was trying to out run her sentinel. She dodged the shots it sent at her form the sky and went into a building hoping for cover. She returned to her human form and looked around.
It was pretty rundown and looked like a lot of fights went on in here. Then a loud crash was heard as the HK landed through the ceiling. Rahne had taken cover under a desk and waited.
The sentinel scanned for any mutant signature and found Rahne with it and thermo vision. It walked over to her and lifted the desk she was under over its head. Rahne in wolf form ran under its legs.
It dropped the desk but soon found Rahne on its back in her were-wolf form she was using her claws to rip apart the cables in the joints. It reached back with its arm impossibly bending them for a human and grabbed her and through her across the room.
She landed hard and she got up in time to dodge a flying razor disk. She looked at the sentinel and saw that a slot in its chest had opened. More and more of the razor blades flew out at Rahne she his behind a wall.
One of the blades went through the wall and cut her arm slightly. She yelled in pain and ran on. The HK continued to chase her down. She ran on and came across a dead end. There was no where to turn to and she was trapped.
She saw a piece of steel on the floor and decided to make a stand, then she looked up and had an idea.
The HK turned the corner fast and stopped. It was a dead end and there was nothing there, it was about to do a scan when its sensors registered something hitting it on the left shoulder.
It looked at it and it was blood, then a few more drops fell on it and looked up. There was Rahne in were-wolf form she was sitting on a small ledge created from a hole in the ceiling. She had used the strength in that form to get herself up there.
She dropped down and jammed the steel piece into its 'face'. It jerked around a lot then fell face first, sending the steel right through the head.
Amanda had spent the last five minutes fighting her sentinel. She had opted for the fight and fade tactic. She's attack it with force bolts then teleport. She'd attack again then teleport again.
She was getting somewhere with her attacks, when they hit, but she was getting tired and fast. The food they gave her wasn't enough to give her the energy she needed to keep this up and she needed to finish it.
She was on a roof top now and was hoping the sentinel would land, if it didn't she would have to go inside and there would be less room to teleport in. It stayed in the air firing at her she dodged as best she could, but at one point a blast hit too near her and sent her flying.
The HK landed while she was struggling to get up. She looked up in time to see it raise a palm and a hole opened up on the hand. A net fired out of it unwrapping itself in flight and covered her.
It was still a several feet away but it was close enough. Amanda teleported just as the net was about to land on her and suddenly she was right in front of the sentinel. Because it was in the air she couldn't do what she had planned but now that it was on the ground, well that was different.
She sent the most powerful force bolts at point blank range at its head. It actually decapitated it.
When its headless body wavered and then fell. She breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from her face.
LATER
Trask looked down at the arena data and the footage. "Well it looks like we need to improve the designs again." He said disappointed in the performance of the HK sentinels, he hoped the new ones would be better.
A BAR SOMEWHERE IN BAYVILLE
Wade T. Wilson, AKA the merc-with-a-mouth Deadpool was currently taking a drink of his beer. He was still in his costume but everyone stayed away from him, especially since the first and last guy who gave him trouble, Deadpool had forced him to swallow his own hand up to the wrist.
His bodies had taken him to a hospital and most likely a dentist later for all the missing teeth. That and when they got a look at the skin that was showing from him pulling up his mask high enough so he could drink his beer was another one.
Everyone had given him a wide berth and when they saw his skin a few of them ran to the bathroom, even the bar tender just slided his beer to him than handing it to him.
He was musing over his last job and how it didn't sit well with him. He'd done a lot of nasty, cruel, hell even evil things but he wasn't sorry for those, those were fun. Besides those people deserved what they had coming one way or another.
But the whole kidnapping thing still stung. He'd done it before, but not a kid. There were a few things that even turned his stomach. He was still drinking his beer wishing his healing factor allowed him to get drunk when a low yet familiar growl caught his attention.
"Wait I know that growl anywhere...Sabertooth?" He pleasantly asked. This only got an even greater growl. "No? Then it must be good old Wolvie." He turned around and was face to face, er face to mask to a very pissed off Wolverine.
"Uh....something wrong?" Deadpool had seen that look in his eyes before. "You got that I-want-to-claw-you-to-death look in your eyes...what did I do you?"
"Those kids you and your friends took were under my care and I want them back." He growled out.
"Oh Hell." Wade said out loud. "This is going to end in extreme violence and pain isn't it?"
Wolverine just unsheathed his claws.
All was silent for about a minute then all hell broke lose. After five minutes no one in the bar was still standing, five more minutes later and the bar was on fire, ten minutes after that several vehicles and store fronts were also destroyed, after another ten the street looked like a war zone, and they were only getting started.
NEXT UP: RESCUERS
Will the X-Men get there in time to save the captured mutants, just wait and see.
