I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to any of the music pieces you may see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 12: Abduction
The buffet line that Wolverine took us to was wide and long with plenty of variety. They didn't seem to mind when we piled stuff on the trays instead of plates, as the tray could only hold two or three plates. However everyone in the restaurant began to stare when we began going for the third and fourth full helpings. Right around the tenth, pretty much everyone present stopped eating to watch us gobble down food at insane speeds. We finally slowed right around the fifteen tray full of food, though I wasn't sure how accurate that was. I didn't really notice which food tasted good or bad, it was down my throat before I could make that kind of decision.
"Good grief! I'm glad Cyclops said to come to an all you can eat. They just stressed that term greatly," Jubilee said the same thing that just about everyone else in the room was thinking.
"Well they haven't asked us to leave yet, so I'd say they aren't completely freaked out," I said with a grin.
Just as we began to consider desert, a crash sounded and a police car came flying through the restaurants front window and crashed into a wall. Needless to say, every normal human in the room panicked and fled quickly. A large man, and I mean large, came through the new hole in the window. He was covered up to his large arms and knees in copperish armor, a big metal helmet around his head only revealed his eyes and his mouth. His ki was pretty big for a human or a mutant, but not much of a threat to us. We continued munching as he stomped up to our table, leaving big prints in the floor. Logan and Jubilee had already jumped up to confront this newcomer, but we kept eating whatever crumbs were left. Logan's claws were out and ready to slice while Jubilee had her energy blasts ready to go.
"Juggernaught! What the hell do you want?" Logan asked quickly.
"You will come with me, or do I have to pound you first? And then drag your carcass to my employer?" he cackled at the thought.
"You think we'd go down without a fight? That helmet must be cutting off blood to your brain again, assuming there is one under there," Logan mocked.
"Bring it on you little worms," the big guy laughed some more. Logan dove at him, only to be caught and held by both arms in the monster's big hand. Then he was tossed roughly into a neighboring wall. Before Jubilee tried anything though, Gohan stood up wiped his mouth with a napkin.
"Okay big guy, what's the deal? Can't you see we were enjoying a nice meal here, now you show up and ruin it all? Don't ever interrupt my meal," he said with a semi-frown.
"Or what, skinny mutant? You gonna hurt me, go ahead and try," he mocked.
"Allow me Gohan," I said, still eating a bunch of grapes. Putting up my hand, I sent a weak blast at the Juggernaught. What was weak to me, wasn't so weak to him, and he went flying into the streets.
"What a shame, the guy is so beefed up that he fell before he made it a half mile," I laughed in a cocky voice. From the general area he landed, I felt his ki double in strength. It still wasn't much in comparison to us, but to everyone else around it was a threat.
"Goten, your turn," Gohan said. Juggernaught tossed a truck through the broken out window, Goten knocked it aside and flew out the window at Juggernaught, giving him a weak batch of punches to the gut. Those punches had enough power though to phase the big monster, and he fell to a knee.
"I'm grabbing some ice cream, Trunks can go next," I said as I got up, barely keeping an eye on the battle.
"How is this possible? How can this mutant kid be stronger than me, impossible!" he yelled out, and threw a big handed punch at Goten. Goten caught the blow, and barely budged from the impact of the huge hand.
"Is this all? This isn't very fun!" Goten mocked. All of a sudden a huge ki appeared behind Goten. I threw down my food when I felt it and rushed outside with the other two Saiyans. The newcomer nailed Goten in the back of the head, knocking him off guard and out cold. When we arrived outside to see who and what it was, we saw a tall figure in a gray and robot like suit, with quite the ugly head.
"Apocalypse!" Logan shouted.
"Juggernaught, grab the boy! We're leaving." the owner of the huge ki said. Juggernaught reached down and snatched up Goten, then both Apocalypse and Juggernaught vanished in a flash of light.
"NO!" Gohan shouted. I couldn't say I felt much better, we had just messed up big time. I began searching for his ki, but could not find one since he was out cold anyway.
"Damnit, if only we had been paying attention!" Gohan shouted, causing a few things near his feet to rise and disintegrate.
Logan and Jubilee approached us cautiously, "Sorry, that was Apocalypse, one of the toughest powers in this universe. He creates disaster for everyone and everything. I'm sorry you had to get caught up in this mess," Logan said, a little remorse in his voice.
"Well once Goten wakes up, we should be able to track them with his ki. Then were going to take that monster out," Gohan said in a deadly cold voice. Everyone observed Gohan change from the happy teen to the raging beast in no time at all, you could almost sense the pity for the pour soul who messed with this his family. I heard a beeping sound, and Jubilee pulled out a cell phone type device.
"Hello? Okay, we're on our way! That was Storm, the professor just contacted us, I'll stay here and help cleanup this place. Logan, they need you guys to head back to talk to the professor," Jubilee said, relaying the message.
Back at the mansion, we listened to Xavier's message, though I doubt me, Trunks or Gohan really heard the full details. We were still stewing over Goten's kidnapping.
"X-men, I have tracked Apocalypse's operation to the general area of Siberia. Whatever the Sentinels are flaring up about is anyone's guess at this time. Magneto says they have a base somewhere in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, from what Magneto has told me Apocalypse is not involved with them. He is however planning to open up some sort of gateway to the flow of time. If he gets to open such a gate, all of the universe would be in danger. I know the Sentinels must be dealt with, but Apocalypse needs to be stopped now. I request that you ask for help from the Saiyans, for they may have the power to stop him before he gets too entrenched. Meet me at these co-ordnances as soon as possible, I've noticed Sentinel activity in this area as well so we need to hurry. Magneto! watch out...! fizz..Surrender Mutants..." The message ended in static as the large booming voice of a Sentinel could be heard.
"Oh no!" Storm cried out.
"I guess we know where we're going then, let's go. If that Apocalypse guy has harmed a hair on my little brother's head, he will wish for death!" Gohan growled.
Just then Gambit came running in, "You gotta see this, turn it to the channel fifteen!" Jean punched it in and the TV signal came in over the hologram, but very poorly so we all had to stand on one side to view it. The sound wasn't very good, pretty fuzzy, but the picture told it all. It showed Jubilee helping the restaurant owners and staff cleanup after Juggernaught's mess. Then several Sentinels showed up and captured her, flying off towards the west.
Wolverine was literally threatening the picture, "Damnit! I should've stayed with her!" I quickly searched for her power signal, fortunately a mutants was higher than a humans and could be detected easier. That doesn't mean I didn't struggle, I was still very new at it.
"I barely sense her, but I got her, heading in that direction. Pretty far, damn I can't keep the signal, lost it!" I shouted quickly.
"She has a tracking device implanted on her earring, let's take a look." Cyclops said, punching in buttons at the panel controls. A large screen popped up and showed the western United States. Sure enough, a small white blip appeared in the Rockies of Western Montana.
"Shit, we won't be able to rescue her and get to the professor in time," Wolverine cursed.
"You forget, you're working with Saiyans. We can split up, since the Apocalypse issue is bigger, Gohan and Trunks go there. I will go with someone to Montana and spring Jubilee out. Then I can catch up by following your ki signals," I suggested.
"You sure Verto? Taking on a whole base of those machines is no picnic, you may be powerful, but you will need help if you intend to take the whole thing out," Cyclops said with a worried expression.
Gohan put up his hand, "He probably won't need help at all, but since we can't isolate extremely small power levels, one of you should go with him at least to show him where. Trunks and I will go with the rest of you to take out this Apocalypse jerk." Everyone stared at Gohan's serious demeanor again, but it made sense.
"So who's going with me?" I asked.
Wolverine stepped up right away, "I should kid, it's my fault this happened. I shouldn't have let her stay behind, I'll go with you."
"Its settled then, we will all depart right away. Verto, Logan, when you get Jubilee, come to Siberia and find the blackbird's tracking signal. Either that way or with that ki sense thing you guys do. And don't try anything risky, Logan. Just get Jubilee and get out! We'll see you there!" Cyclops said. Wolverine motioned for me to come with him to the hanger. There we jumped in a small two-seater jet, and blasted off towards Montana. The blackbird passed over us a few minutes afterwards.
"So what did he mean by trying something risky?" I asked, though I probably didn't need to.
"I just might get the inkling to wipe out all of the tin cans at once," he growled.
"Not when I beat you to it," I replied with a grin.
After four hours of flight, the jet's radar blipped with Jubilee's tracking signal.
"Its just ahead kid, we should probably land so the trash compactors don't shoot us out of the sky," he said. On cue, an alarm sounded, and four laser beams smashed the side of the small craft, disabling it in midair.
"Oh crap, hang on kid!" he shouted. I did so, seeing the ground coming up fast was enough of a hint to do that. While the impact may not have killed us, it was probably going to hurt. We crashed hard, throwing both of us forward. But when Logan's seat broke at the top part, my head went right into his back and struck the bone beneath the skin with a nice loud clang. After that I wasn't sure which star was prettiest of the ones dancing around my head as I passed out.
I woke up hanging on a wall by chains. There was also a large device with a big red light strapped around my neck and basically poking into my skin with very tiny shards, enough to irritate me. I looked up to see a man with white-gray hair in a purple and red outfit chained up just across from me, a device around his neck too. He was awake and observing me. I pulled a little at the chains, and then noticed when I tried that the neck device stole some energy from me. It wasn't a lot since I didn't put much effort into it, but probably a lot to anyone else.
"It's no use son, the device prevents a mutant from using his powers. Not to mention that you probably wouldn't break those chains by yourself anyway," the old man said. Rather than trying to argue, I looked around instead, seeing many other mutants around me.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I am called Magneto by many. My mutant power being control of magnets and metal of such properties. I saw Wolverine enter with you, but I do not know you, explain please," he said with a small smirk. Pretty polite for a bad guy.
"I am Verto, me and some friends are kind of helping the X-men right now," I said, trying to disclose the rest.
But Magneto was smarter than that, "And what's your mutant power, must be great if it's shown up in such a young child."
"Not a mutant," I said in stride.
"What?! And you're assisting the Xmen? Maybe you're a mutant without powers yet, but that makes you basically human. No matter how gifted you are, you can't be that much help! Charles must have lost his mind this time," Magneto snorted with a mocking tone.
"I never said I was human. I am a Saiyan, alien to you, and we're from a different reality. Sent here to defeat a great evil, some prank by a wizard that I'd love to throw through a wall right about now. We have to beat the evil here to go onto the next one. I'm assuming that Apocalypse guy might be the one here, he captured one of my friends. The others in my group are with the rest of the X-men heading for his base. I came here to rescue Jubilee with Wolverine after she got nabbed by the robots. We crashed incoming and I woke up from it a minute ago," I explained, summing it all up as fast as possible.
Magneto took a second to absorb that, "What exactly is a Saiyan. What's different from a mutant or a human?"
"Basically we look human, but we possess impossible strength and power. Fighters to the core, and we can fly with the right training. We can also shoot energy beams. Long story short, you name it, and we could probably pull it off somehow. So even if this thing can hold me back now, just wait till I start trying." With that said, I began powering up slightly. The device took notice and tried to suck out my energy again, only to explode around my neck. Magneto's jaw quivered a little while I was breaking the chains off easily. I noticed that once the device was gone, my stolen energy came back quickly, luckily though I hadn't lost much of it.
"It overloaded! I've never seen one overload before, not like that!"
"Easy old man, you might have heart failure! Give the kid some credit, he may have just saved us all!" I heard Wolverine say, he was chained up a little farther down from me. I looked up and down the hallway to see several mutants chained up. I tore off Magneto's restraints and began to unlock others in the process, as did he. From the TV show, I recognized a few of them, some evil, some good, and some neutral. But they all shared the idea of leaving. We freed about twenty of them, including Logan and Jubilee. No Sentinels had shown up yet, or even an alarm, quite a surprise. A small semi-circle formed around Magneto and I, a really fat guy stumbled up after being freed. I didn't see how he could walk to be honest, but looks can be deceiving.
"Thank ya Magneto! The Blob owe you favor now!" he said.
"Don't thank me Blob, thank the alien child. His power far surpasses our own abilities."
The huge Blob bent down to look me in the eye, "No way, I bet he just used a hairpin of something! If he so strong, let's see if he can move me!"
"You say that to everyone who is strong! The boy wouldn't wanna exhaust his powers trying to move your fat ass!" A big guy with a metal costume said. I thought I recalled his name to be Avalanche, the earthquake guy. Just then the long expected alarms went off and we heard loud heavy footsteps coming from both directions.
"Hey, Blob, you ever been used as a cannonball before?" I asked.
"Duhh...where's the cannon?" he grumbled, looking around.
"Good enough, I'm gonna throw you at those bots. You're heavy enough to knock a few over, don't worry I can lift you," I said with a small smirk.
"Duhh..okay."
I heaved him up and gave him the toss straight into a Sentinel when it entered the huge room. He was really heavy, no doubt about that. But it wasn't anything I hadn't lifted before, very similar to the starting weight that I was trained with. The Blob bowled over the first robot, causing a domino effect to at least eight more behind the first. At this point all of the mutants headed the other direction from most of the Sentinels. A few robots got in their way, but with twenty mutants on them, they wouldn't last long.
"Come on Verto, this is the way out!" Jubilee screamed. I pushed the other way however, making way for the Blob to get out.
"I'm going to destroy this base, get everyone out! The robot population needs weeding!" I shouted back.
Magneto came up beside me, "I will assist, and we must destroy the master Sentinel, Master Mold. That will put an end to them, or at least slow them for a long time to come." We moved quickly down the halls, and I took the lead, destroying any huge robot that found courage in its programming.
Magneto tailed, mostly observing me in action. "Go right," he ordered.
"How do you know what way it is?" I asked.
"Because it used to be my base until these blasted machines attacked it, they took it for their own. A few months ago I attempted to take it back only to discover Master Mold already in place and creating Sentinels," he explained. At the end of the next hallway, we entered a large room, a large statue sat in the middle. That's when I realized it was not a statue, it was a gigantic robot. Master Mold sat in the huge chair and beeped at us. Even the regular Sentinels looked tiny compared to him.
"Mutants, surrender or be destroyed."
"How about I destroy you and this entire facility instead, bucket head," I said with complete confidence, maybe too much.
"Highly unlikely for a mutant adult, impossible for a human child," It beeped again. That's when I shot a quick blast at the roof and revealed daylight.
"Well time to find out isn't it? Come on, I'll destroy it from outside," I declared, rising into the air and flying out the new hole in the roof. Magneto was a split second behind me, and I dropped back so I could blast the whole base with one big beam. That's when Master Mold burst out of the building and flew after us. The master robot was even bigger than I thought, but very slow. I dropped back some more before going through my arm motions.
"Galic Gun... FIRE!" I shouted, releasing the huge red beam at the bot. It struck and pushed a little bit, then exploded. I half expected to see just the legs left afterwards, but it was my turn to be surprised, as the entire upper half was still intact.
"Minimal damage, minor repairs required! Pitiful Mutant, my body structure is made from adamantium, the strongest known metal! Your energy beams cannot penetrate it."
Magneto looked down, "He's right son, we have to find a different way to beat him. That robot has a strange energy field that repels magnetism so I cannot assist either."
"Oh I still have a trump card, that beam damaged him enough, its time to up the power a little!" I said, spreading my legs apart. I shouted a bit as I transformed into my golden form of Super Saiyan. Magneto's eyes shot open, and from what I heard from the distance, everyone else had a similar reaction.
"Let's try this again rust bucket! And everyone else might want to get clear!" I shouted, rushing at the bot full speed with both fists in front and ducking my head a bit. I got the result I wanted, punching a hole in the chest plate and through the middle of the huge machine. I stopped midway and pulled my ki inward. Then I released it from my entire body in one big blast from within. It wiped out whatever was still in the middle and didn't stop there, extending to its waist and legs as well as its neck and head. The robot exploded from the inside out as I released some of my ki, completely wiping it out. Next, I turned to the facility that housed it and the other Sentinels. With one more Galic gun blast, I blew the whole thing up, wiping out whatever was left inside.
Power levels
Goten: 13,000,000
Juggernaught: 60,000
Apocalypse: 27,000,000 (not powered up)
Captured Mutants: 1,000-30,000 (varies)
Verto: 17,000,000, Super Saiyan: 70,000,000
Sentinels: 25,000 each
Master Mold: 25,000,000
A/n: For those wondering, this mini-crossover arc is based on the X-men animated series that aired during the 1990's in the states. I wasn't huge into comic books then, and really never was. Also, when I originally wrote and posted this, I had the master Sentinel in as "Mastermind", not Master Mold like it was supposed to be. That is my bad for not doing enough research, even if the majority of you didn't care. The same thing happened with some of the cronies you'll see coming up. I have fixed that issue though.