Brotherhood Evolution: Alien's Part V: An Epic Battle
Well here we go, the battle segment of the Alien's Saga. Don't worry, it's almost over. I hope you all enjoyed it.
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Xavier's
"Okay, everyone ready?" Mike asked as he pulled on his cut off gloves.
"I was born ready…" Toad said as he put black paint on under his eyes.
"Right." Mike quipped as Blob walked in with whiskers painted on his face in the same black material. Pietro had a bull's eye on his face, and Tabitha had little stars all over her face. "We're doomed, you do realize this right?" Mike asked Lance.
"Oh yea." Lance said as he began to beat his head on the wall.
"Hey are you guys ready…" Scott said as he walked in and saw Toad, Blob, Tabitha and Pietro. He then turned around and walked out with out another word.
"Well at least they get Summers off our back." Betsy said as she tightened her uniform.
"That's it baby, a little tighter…" Mike thought as he stared at his girlfriend.
~ I am a telepath, remember? ~ Betsy projected to him as she smiled at him devilishly.
"Crud." Mike muttered as Betsy whacked him in the back of his head.
"Alright people, lets do this." Wanda said.
"We make this look good." Pietro said as the Brotherhood strutted out.
"No. No we don't." Blob said as they walked into the room with the X-Geeks.
"So, are we sure that this plan o' yours will work?" Logan asked a she pulled his tightened his gloves.
"Nope. But it's the best we got, so we're stuck with it." Lance said as he put on his helmet. "Let's go kick some ass…"
"Sure thing colonel Klink!" Toad mock saluted, making the other all snicker.
"I hate you all so much…" Lance muttered as he walked outside.
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Bayville High, the roof
"We're in position." Betsy said through her communicator.
"Good, wait for our signal." Cyclops' voice crackled over the communicator.
"Do you smell anything Logan?" Psylocke asked as Wolverine sniffed the air.
"Yea. This place reeks of the Slezoids." Wolverine growled. "Somethin' else though…"
"That's odd. I can't sense them." Jean said simply as she concentrated. Storm smiled at her.
"Same here." Betsy said as she brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. "I've got a really bad feeling about this…" Betsy said as she looked around and noticed something she hadn't before.
In front of Bayville High
"Okay Shadowcat, do you're thing…" Cyclops said as Kitty phased through the doors and disabled the schools security system.
"Omega, Blob, clear us a path." Lance said as Mike and Fred nodded to each other and charged the doors. With a loud crash, they went through the doors and landed inside. Mike's tendrical burst out of their holdings as he looked around. Blob stood his ground and looked down the other corridor as Toad hopped between them and looked down the hallway.
"Any thing little buddy?" Mike asked. "I can't see a thing."
"The hallways clear." Toad stated. "Alright guys, lets move."
"Psylocke, you have a go for infiltration." Cyclops said over the comlink as he and the others entered Bayville High and began to make their way through the building.
"Any sign of the Brood?" Mike asked.
"Not a one. Maybe they aren't here?" Toad said as he looked around. Suddenly the lights turned on, flooding their light throughout Bayville High. "Nevermind."
"This is inviting…" Lance said as he prepared for an attack. Instead, Betsy and the others dropped from the shadow on the ceiling.
"Bets?" Mike asked. What the hell is going on? You guys weren't supposed to attack until we found the buggers."
"Change of plans luv." Betsy said simply as she nodded to Jean and Strom, who were smiling. ~They're Brood. ~ Betsy projected to her boyfriend. This was when Mike noticed that Jean was right next to Betsy and there was a tendrical coming from one of Jeans hands right at Betsy back. ~ We found out too late. Logan and Skunky were too afraid to attack for fear of hurting them. The Brood knows our plan; they've been playing us this entire time. ~
"Shit." Mike muttered under his breath. "Lance, I think we should go with plan 4B." Mike said, speaking the code the Brotherhood had established for emergencies where regular communication would be impossible.
"Right." Lance said as he walked forward down the hall, past Jean and Rouge. "Bets, any sign of the Brood?"
"Storm and Jean didn't see anything, I don't know about the others." Betsy replied.
"It's Storm and Miss Perfect then…" Lance thought to himself as he focused.
"I think we should all go into the basement and look for the Brood." Jean said.
"How about this instead…" Lance said as he exerted himself and the floor rose up and pinned Jean and Storm to the wall. Logan reacted by knocking them both out with swift punches. To the other's shock, Jean and Ororo morphed into Broodlings.
"They must have been affected during the battle like Kurt was, but must have layed low so they could find out our plan of attack…" Rogue said as she drained them, making sure they would stay out of it. "I've got their powers, so at least I can be a bit more helpful now."
"So, what do we do know, do we continue with the plan?" Blob asked.
"The plan doesn't change, we kill the Queen, we save the others." Logan stated.
"Die humans!" Came the monotone shout as Harvest and his female counterpart crashed through the wall.
"This certainly changes things." Mike quipped as he unleashed his tendrical and jumped back from a ray blast that Harvest unleashed.
"Pietro, I thought we still had an hour?" Lance screamed as he tore up more of the floor and sent it toward Harvest, who assimilated it. "Okay, that was a BAD idea." Lance said as Harvest grew another couple of inches.
"Oops, I forgot to set my watch to daylight savings…" Pietro said sheepishly.
"I really do hate you…" Wanda said as she dodged a ray blast and released a hex bolt, which reflected harmlessly off of Harvest. "Crud, I forgot about that…" Wanda muttered as she was brushed aside.
"COME ON DAMN IT!" Mike shouted as he charged Harvest, only to have the Phalanx grab him and a send out an electrical shock zapped him to the core. "Damn that smarts…" Mike thought before he felt a burning pain in his sides. "AHHHHHH!!!!" Mike screamed in utter agony as the pressure built on his sides as Harvest squeezed the life from him until a popping sound filled the air. "GAH…" Mike said before he fell in sweet unconsciousness.
"MICHAEL!" Betsy shouted as he tackled Harvest and tried to free her boyfriend, who hung lifelessly in Harvests arms. "LET HIM GO YOU BASTERED!" Betsy screamed a she drove her Psionic knife into Harvest, temporarily shorting him out. She grabbed Mike and shadow walked him into a corner and then jumped out to continue her onslaught against Harvest. "I'LL KILL YOU!" Betsy screamed as she kicked Harvest into the wall.
"Logan, Blob, and Rouge! Stay here and help Betsy deal with Harvest. Toad, Tabitha, Wanda, Shadowcat and Cyclops, you're with me!' Lance shouted as he booked towards the stairs, Pietro and the others hot on his heels. Rouge smiled as lightning emitted from her eyes and she used Storm's power to knock Harvest repeatedly against the wall.
"What's the plan?' Pietro asked as he matched pace with Lance as they entered the stairway.
"Forge, how long before you can get that device here and working?' Lance said into his comlink.
"We got it built, but we still have to test it." Forge's voice crackled.
"Get over here and test it. Harvest showed up and is handing us our Asses. We just had to split up, so we need it here now." Lance demanded.
"Harvest is there?" Forge's voice asked.
"Yea. He must have tracked us here."
"I thought we still had three hours?"
"My bad." Pietro said simply into his communicator.
"Remind me to give him a sever thrashing when this is over." Beast muttered over the comlink.
"Get in line." Lance said as he jumped down a few stairs.
"Crud." Pietro muttered as they all continued their descent.
"We're on our way Lance…" Xavier said as Lance continued to run down the stairs.
"Let's hope Forge is as smart as he claims he is." Lance said as they stopped outside of the locker rooms. "This looks inviting…" Lance said as he noticed the doors where torn open and ripped up. "I think they're this way."
"Really, You're a regular Sherlock Holmes." Kitty quipped.
"Cram it." Lance snapped as the ground shook. "Nothing, it's clear." Lance said as he walked through the doors and into what used to be Bayville High's locker rooms. In its stead was a vast chamber, half under ground, with dozens of the Brood scattered thorough out it, hissing as the mutants walked into it.
"We walked into a trap…" Scott said.
"Yea. We did." Lance said with a smirk. "NOW!" Lance screamed as the gathered mutants began to kick Brood ass. Or tried to in some cases.
"STOP!" Came a commanding, dark, foreboding voice as the Brood queen made her appearance. She was like the others, but at least twenty feet tall, and more reptilian.
"That is a girl who has eaten a lot of beef." Toad quipped as the mutants stared at the Queen in shock.
"Her royal pain in the ass." Tabitha quipped before Wanda slapped her in the back of the head.
"Shut up." Wanda hissed.
"Any ideas?" Kitty asked as the mutants backed away slowly.
"None that guarantee we'll all walk out of here alive." Lance said simply.
"Great."
"You human seem most troublesome." The Queen hissed as she approached them at a slow pace, closing them off from the exit.
"Christ. Does everyone think we're human, but humans? We're mutants God damn it!" Toad snapped before Lance smacked him in the back of the head.
"Do you want us to get killed." Lance snapped.
"Not all of us." Toad responded as he smiled at Scott.
"Et Tu Toad." Cyclops muttered.
"You know, sometimes I really do long for death…" Lance said simply as he faced the queen, rolling his eyes into the back of his head. "BUT NOT TODAY!" Lance screamed as the air around him fluxed and waved as he gathered raw seismic energy from the earth. He stomped his foot, drawing more energy from the earth's core as he focused it all.
"GO!" Toad shouted as he jumped up and gave one of the Broodlings a spin kick hard into the stomach. Tabitha threw a cherry bomb at the ceiling, exploding pieces onto other members of the Brood, trapping them, as Shadowcat distracted them, allowing Cyclops to bean them from a distance.
"We're winning…" Pietro said in shock as he stopped running for a brief period. A Broodling knocked him back suddenly though. "Then again, maybe not…"
"Hey Ugly!" Lance screamed as he released a pulse of seismic energy, unleashing the very power of the earth in his attack. The Brood Queen screamed as she tried to dodge the attack, but couldn't avoid the entire onslaught.
"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The Queen screamed as she felt her arm get torn off by the energy blast.
"Sorry about that." Lance quipped as he focused and released another blast, taping into the earth's own seismic power, channeling it and releasing it. "NOT!"
"This is bad…" The Brood queen muttered as she dodged that blast safely. "My children, to me." The queen shouted as her Broodlings surrounded her.
"DIE!" Lance screamed, as he was about to release another blast at the gathered Brood before Kitty tackled him to the ground.
"Lance, are you, like, a rock head?" Those are Kurt and the football team!"
"Back off." Lance snapped as he pushed Kitty off. "We end this here, before she can corrupt anyone else." Lance snarled before the roof collapsed onto the Queen. Harvest and the others fell into the chamber, right on top of the Queen. Harvest turned his attention from the Mutants and decided to attack the Brood instead, sending his female counterpart to attack and try to assimilate the wounded Queen.
"Things just got worse." Betsy said as she appeared next to Lance and Kitty. "If Harvest assimilates the Brood, then we'll have no chance of freeing the others from their thrall."
"Wonderful. Where the hell is Forge and Xavier." Lance said as Pietro sped over with Toad on his back.
"Lance, I've got an idea." Toad said as he hopped off Pietro's back.
"You've been right so far, what've you got?" Lance asked.
"What if we let Harvest assimilate the Queen? She'll no longer be Brood, thus her hold should be released over the others. And if it doesn't work, we can always nuke her with Forge's Gizmo."
"We got nothin else." Lance shrugged. "Bets, let everyone now the new plan."
"Okay." Betsy shrugged as she telepathically sent the new plan to the gathered mutants.
"This is so crazy it may just work…" Rouge muttered as she sent one of the Brood flying with a telekinetic push. Cyclops then launched an optic blast at Harvest, sending him right at the Queen. When Harvest collided with the Queen, he broke down into his liquid form and covered her completely.
"RAH!" The Queen screamed in agony as she felt herself get absorbed and taken over by the Phalanx collective known simply as Harvest.
"Query: Unit known as Harvest has fulfilled secondary goal by assimilation of Brood Queen. Next requirement: Finish destruction of human race. New priority: Assimilate all mutants" Harvest said as it processed what had just happened.
"That doesn't sound good." Blob said as he gave a nervous gulp. Meanwhile all the Broodlings around the mutants began the painful transformation back to human, or mutant.
"AHHHHH!!!" Kurt screamed as he felt the pain of the transformation.
"Ooooh!" Kelly moaned as he regained his senses. He collapsed on the ground as the football team reverted to their original forms.
"Hey. They're all naked." Toad said simply as he noticed that all those who were transformed where now naked.
"Of course. They're cloths were torn to shreds when they transformed." Scott said as he fired another optic blast at the female version of harvest, knocking her back.
"I can see why Jean dated Duncan for so long." Tabitha said slyly as she noticed the Blond jocks… "Gift."
"WHAT!" Cyclops shouted as he turned his attention to Tabitha.
"Hey, I guess that means Storm and Jean are naked to." Toad said as Pietro got a mischievous glint in his eye.
"Oh no you don't…" Logan growled before Pietro took off back upstairs laughing.
"Get him!" Cyclops shouted as he and Wolverine charged up the stairs.
"HEY! Did you guys forget we still have to deal with Harvest!?!" Lance screamed as he turned and sent a wall of earth at Harvest, pinning him to the wall.
"No worries." Forge said as he appeared in locker room opening with Xavier and beast in tow.
"Lilandra?" Xavier shouted as he wheeled himself over to the fallen Shi'air empress and put his jacket over her nude form as he helped her up.
"Hey ugly?" Forge shouted, turning Harvest and his female counterpart's attention to him. "Smile!" Forge shouted as he blasted the two of them with a green beam of energy from one of his new nifty gizmos. Everyone there watched as Harvest screamed in pain as he and his female counterpart where torn apart completely. Slowly the two of them melted away and when it was done, there was noting but pieces of flesh and wire, bubbling on the ground.
"That is disgusting." Toad said as Blob vomited.
"AH Crap! Rouge screamed as she wiped Vomit off of her. "BLOB VOMIY!! EWWWW!!!"
"Sorry…" Blob said sheepishly.
"Whats, going on. And why am I naked." Kelly asked as all those who were transformed woke up in a start.
"You explain it, we're out of here." Lance said to Xavier as he and the Brotherhood walked upstairs.
"What is going on?" Kelly demanded. "And where are my cloths?"
"Well you see…" Xavier started as he began to sweat.
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Upstairs
"Mike, are you okay?" Betsy asked as she walked over to her boyfriend who was resting against the wall taking deep rasps of air.
"Did you kick his ass?" Mike asked weakly as he smiled at her.
"Yea. Back to hell."
"Good." Mike said as he got up slowly with her and Blob's help.
"You okay?" Lance asked as he noticed the pain stressed on his friends face.
"The Basterd broke my back…" Mike said weakly. "Healing factors on it, but it's working slowly because of the extent of the injury, I'm gonna be out of action for a while." Mike said with a weak smile as sweat beaded on his forehead. "But I will be back."
"Let's get you home then. I want Xorn to take a look at you anyway." Lance said as the Brotherhood walked outside, Omega being supported now by Toad and Blob as Wanda and Betsy brought up the rear with Tabitha. Lance led the way.
"Hey, where's Pietro?" Toad asked as they walked outside to see Quicksilver being chased by Cyclops and Wolverine, waving his camera around while laughing.
"He's gonna sleep good tonight." Wand said simply as Pietro dodged an Optic blast.
"If he ever gets away from them." Tabitha stated.
"Eh. He can take care of himself." Blob said as the Brotherhood made there way home.
"You hope." Mike muttered.
"No, we don't Lance said with a smirk.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: Aliens, Part VI: Now what? How does this crazy saga come to an end? You wouldn't believe it if I told you. But I will. Next chapter.
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Later folks, you know the drill.
Descendent
Well here we go, the battle segment of the Alien's Saga. Don't worry, it's almost over. I hope you all enjoyed it.
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Xavier's
"Okay, everyone ready?" Mike asked as he pulled on his cut off gloves.
"I was born ready…" Toad said as he put black paint on under his eyes.
"Right." Mike quipped as Blob walked in with whiskers painted on his face in the same black material. Pietro had a bull's eye on his face, and Tabitha had little stars all over her face. "We're doomed, you do realize this right?" Mike asked Lance.
"Oh yea." Lance said as he began to beat his head on the wall.
"Hey are you guys ready…" Scott said as he walked in and saw Toad, Blob, Tabitha and Pietro. He then turned around and walked out with out another word.
"Well at least they get Summers off our back." Betsy said as she tightened her uniform.
"That's it baby, a little tighter…" Mike thought as he stared at his girlfriend.
~ I am a telepath, remember? ~ Betsy projected to him as she smiled at him devilishly.
"Crud." Mike muttered as Betsy whacked him in the back of his head.
"Alright people, lets do this." Wanda said.
"We make this look good." Pietro said as the Brotherhood strutted out.
"No. No we don't." Blob said as they walked into the room with the X-Geeks.
"So, are we sure that this plan o' yours will work?" Logan asked a she pulled his tightened his gloves.
"Nope. But it's the best we got, so we're stuck with it." Lance said as he put on his helmet. "Let's go kick some ass…"
"Sure thing colonel Klink!" Toad mock saluted, making the other all snicker.
"I hate you all so much…" Lance muttered as he walked outside.
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Bayville High, the roof
"We're in position." Betsy said through her communicator.
"Good, wait for our signal." Cyclops' voice crackled over the communicator.
"Do you smell anything Logan?" Psylocke asked as Wolverine sniffed the air.
"Yea. This place reeks of the Slezoids." Wolverine growled. "Somethin' else though…"
"That's odd. I can't sense them." Jean said simply as she concentrated. Storm smiled at her.
"Same here." Betsy said as she brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. "I've got a really bad feeling about this…" Betsy said as she looked around and noticed something she hadn't before.
In front of Bayville High
"Okay Shadowcat, do you're thing…" Cyclops said as Kitty phased through the doors and disabled the schools security system.
"Omega, Blob, clear us a path." Lance said as Mike and Fred nodded to each other and charged the doors. With a loud crash, they went through the doors and landed inside. Mike's tendrical burst out of their holdings as he looked around. Blob stood his ground and looked down the other corridor as Toad hopped between them and looked down the hallway.
"Any thing little buddy?" Mike asked. "I can't see a thing."
"The hallways clear." Toad stated. "Alright guys, lets move."
"Psylocke, you have a go for infiltration." Cyclops said over the comlink as he and the others entered Bayville High and began to make their way through the building.
"Any sign of the Brood?" Mike asked.
"Not a one. Maybe they aren't here?" Toad said as he looked around. Suddenly the lights turned on, flooding their light throughout Bayville High. "Nevermind."
"This is inviting…" Lance said as he prepared for an attack. Instead, Betsy and the others dropped from the shadow on the ceiling.
"Bets?" Mike asked. What the hell is going on? You guys weren't supposed to attack until we found the buggers."
"Change of plans luv." Betsy said simply as she nodded to Jean and Strom, who were smiling. ~They're Brood. ~ Betsy projected to her boyfriend. This was when Mike noticed that Jean was right next to Betsy and there was a tendrical coming from one of Jeans hands right at Betsy back. ~ We found out too late. Logan and Skunky were too afraid to attack for fear of hurting them. The Brood knows our plan; they've been playing us this entire time. ~
"Shit." Mike muttered under his breath. "Lance, I think we should go with plan 4B." Mike said, speaking the code the Brotherhood had established for emergencies where regular communication would be impossible.
"Right." Lance said as he walked forward down the hall, past Jean and Rouge. "Bets, any sign of the Brood?"
"Storm and Jean didn't see anything, I don't know about the others." Betsy replied.
"It's Storm and Miss Perfect then…" Lance thought to himself as he focused.
"I think we should all go into the basement and look for the Brood." Jean said.
"How about this instead…" Lance said as he exerted himself and the floor rose up and pinned Jean and Storm to the wall. Logan reacted by knocking them both out with swift punches. To the other's shock, Jean and Ororo morphed into Broodlings.
"They must have been affected during the battle like Kurt was, but must have layed low so they could find out our plan of attack…" Rogue said as she drained them, making sure they would stay out of it. "I've got their powers, so at least I can be a bit more helpful now."
"So, what do we do know, do we continue with the plan?" Blob asked.
"The plan doesn't change, we kill the Queen, we save the others." Logan stated.
"Die humans!" Came the monotone shout as Harvest and his female counterpart crashed through the wall.
"This certainly changes things." Mike quipped as he unleashed his tendrical and jumped back from a ray blast that Harvest unleashed.
"Pietro, I thought we still had an hour?" Lance screamed as he tore up more of the floor and sent it toward Harvest, who assimilated it. "Okay, that was a BAD idea." Lance said as Harvest grew another couple of inches.
"Oops, I forgot to set my watch to daylight savings…" Pietro said sheepishly.
"I really do hate you…" Wanda said as she dodged a ray blast and released a hex bolt, which reflected harmlessly off of Harvest. "Crud, I forgot about that…" Wanda muttered as she was brushed aside.
"COME ON DAMN IT!" Mike shouted as he charged Harvest, only to have the Phalanx grab him and a send out an electrical shock zapped him to the core. "Damn that smarts…" Mike thought before he felt a burning pain in his sides. "AHHHHHH!!!!" Mike screamed in utter agony as the pressure built on his sides as Harvest squeezed the life from him until a popping sound filled the air. "GAH…" Mike said before he fell in sweet unconsciousness.
"MICHAEL!" Betsy shouted as he tackled Harvest and tried to free her boyfriend, who hung lifelessly in Harvests arms. "LET HIM GO YOU BASTERED!" Betsy screamed a she drove her Psionic knife into Harvest, temporarily shorting him out. She grabbed Mike and shadow walked him into a corner and then jumped out to continue her onslaught against Harvest. "I'LL KILL YOU!" Betsy screamed as she kicked Harvest into the wall.
"Logan, Blob, and Rouge! Stay here and help Betsy deal with Harvest. Toad, Tabitha, Wanda, Shadowcat and Cyclops, you're with me!' Lance shouted as he booked towards the stairs, Pietro and the others hot on his heels. Rouge smiled as lightning emitted from her eyes and she used Storm's power to knock Harvest repeatedly against the wall.
"What's the plan?' Pietro asked as he matched pace with Lance as they entered the stairway.
"Forge, how long before you can get that device here and working?' Lance said into his comlink.
"We got it built, but we still have to test it." Forge's voice crackled.
"Get over here and test it. Harvest showed up and is handing us our Asses. We just had to split up, so we need it here now." Lance demanded.
"Harvest is there?" Forge's voice asked.
"Yea. He must have tracked us here."
"I thought we still had three hours?"
"My bad." Pietro said simply into his communicator.
"Remind me to give him a sever thrashing when this is over." Beast muttered over the comlink.
"Get in line." Lance said as he jumped down a few stairs.
"Crud." Pietro muttered as they all continued their descent.
"We're on our way Lance…" Xavier said as Lance continued to run down the stairs.
"Let's hope Forge is as smart as he claims he is." Lance said as they stopped outside of the locker rooms. "This looks inviting…" Lance said as he noticed the doors where torn open and ripped up. "I think they're this way."
"Really, You're a regular Sherlock Holmes." Kitty quipped.
"Cram it." Lance snapped as the ground shook. "Nothing, it's clear." Lance said as he walked through the doors and into what used to be Bayville High's locker rooms. In its stead was a vast chamber, half under ground, with dozens of the Brood scattered thorough out it, hissing as the mutants walked into it.
"We walked into a trap…" Scott said.
"Yea. We did." Lance said with a smirk. "NOW!" Lance screamed as the gathered mutants began to kick Brood ass. Or tried to in some cases.
"STOP!" Came a commanding, dark, foreboding voice as the Brood queen made her appearance. She was like the others, but at least twenty feet tall, and more reptilian.
"That is a girl who has eaten a lot of beef." Toad quipped as the mutants stared at the Queen in shock.
"Her royal pain in the ass." Tabitha quipped before Wanda slapped her in the back of the head.
"Shut up." Wanda hissed.
"Any ideas?" Kitty asked as the mutants backed away slowly.
"None that guarantee we'll all walk out of here alive." Lance said simply.
"Great."
"You human seem most troublesome." The Queen hissed as she approached them at a slow pace, closing them off from the exit.
"Christ. Does everyone think we're human, but humans? We're mutants God damn it!" Toad snapped before Lance smacked him in the back of the head.
"Do you want us to get killed." Lance snapped.
"Not all of us." Toad responded as he smiled at Scott.
"Et Tu Toad." Cyclops muttered.
"You know, sometimes I really do long for death…" Lance said simply as he faced the queen, rolling his eyes into the back of his head. "BUT NOT TODAY!" Lance screamed as the air around him fluxed and waved as he gathered raw seismic energy from the earth. He stomped his foot, drawing more energy from the earth's core as he focused it all.
"GO!" Toad shouted as he jumped up and gave one of the Broodlings a spin kick hard into the stomach. Tabitha threw a cherry bomb at the ceiling, exploding pieces onto other members of the Brood, trapping them, as Shadowcat distracted them, allowing Cyclops to bean them from a distance.
"We're winning…" Pietro said in shock as he stopped running for a brief period. A Broodling knocked him back suddenly though. "Then again, maybe not…"
"Hey Ugly!" Lance screamed as he released a pulse of seismic energy, unleashing the very power of the earth in his attack. The Brood Queen screamed as she tried to dodge the attack, but couldn't avoid the entire onslaught.
"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The Queen screamed as she felt her arm get torn off by the energy blast.
"Sorry about that." Lance quipped as he focused and released another blast, taping into the earth's own seismic power, channeling it and releasing it. "NOT!"
"This is bad…" The Brood queen muttered as she dodged that blast safely. "My children, to me." The queen shouted as her Broodlings surrounded her.
"DIE!" Lance screamed, as he was about to release another blast at the gathered Brood before Kitty tackled him to the ground.
"Lance, are you, like, a rock head?" Those are Kurt and the football team!"
"Back off." Lance snapped as he pushed Kitty off. "We end this here, before she can corrupt anyone else." Lance snarled before the roof collapsed onto the Queen. Harvest and the others fell into the chamber, right on top of the Queen. Harvest turned his attention from the Mutants and decided to attack the Brood instead, sending his female counterpart to attack and try to assimilate the wounded Queen.
"Things just got worse." Betsy said as she appeared next to Lance and Kitty. "If Harvest assimilates the Brood, then we'll have no chance of freeing the others from their thrall."
"Wonderful. Where the hell is Forge and Xavier." Lance said as Pietro sped over with Toad on his back.
"Lance, I've got an idea." Toad said as he hopped off Pietro's back.
"You've been right so far, what've you got?" Lance asked.
"What if we let Harvest assimilate the Queen? She'll no longer be Brood, thus her hold should be released over the others. And if it doesn't work, we can always nuke her with Forge's Gizmo."
"We got nothin else." Lance shrugged. "Bets, let everyone now the new plan."
"Okay." Betsy shrugged as she telepathically sent the new plan to the gathered mutants.
"This is so crazy it may just work…" Rouge muttered as she sent one of the Brood flying with a telekinetic push. Cyclops then launched an optic blast at Harvest, sending him right at the Queen. When Harvest collided with the Queen, he broke down into his liquid form and covered her completely.
"RAH!" The Queen screamed in agony as she felt herself get absorbed and taken over by the Phalanx collective known simply as Harvest.
"Query: Unit known as Harvest has fulfilled secondary goal by assimilation of Brood Queen. Next requirement: Finish destruction of human race. New priority: Assimilate all mutants" Harvest said as it processed what had just happened.
"That doesn't sound good." Blob said as he gave a nervous gulp. Meanwhile all the Broodlings around the mutants began the painful transformation back to human, or mutant.
"AHHHHH!!!" Kurt screamed as he felt the pain of the transformation.
"Ooooh!" Kelly moaned as he regained his senses. He collapsed on the ground as the football team reverted to their original forms.
"Hey. They're all naked." Toad said simply as he noticed that all those who were transformed where now naked.
"Of course. They're cloths were torn to shreds when they transformed." Scott said as he fired another optic blast at the female version of harvest, knocking her back.
"I can see why Jean dated Duncan for so long." Tabitha said slyly as she noticed the Blond jocks… "Gift."
"WHAT!" Cyclops shouted as he turned his attention to Tabitha.
"Hey, I guess that means Storm and Jean are naked to." Toad said as Pietro got a mischievous glint in his eye.
"Oh no you don't…" Logan growled before Pietro took off back upstairs laughing.
"Get him!" Cyclops shouted as he and Wolverine charged up the stairs.
"HEY! Did you guys forget we still have to deal with Harvest!?!" Lance screamed as he turned and sent a wall of earth at Harvest, pinning him to the wall.
"No worries." Forge said as he appeared in locker room opening with Xavier and beast in tow.
"Lilandra?" Xavier shouted as he wheeled himself over to the fallen Shi'air empress and put his jacket over her nude form as he helped her up.
"Hey ugly?" Forge shouted, turning Harvest and his female counterpart's attention to him. "Smile!" Forge shouted as he blasted the two of them with a green beam of energy from one of his new nifty gizmos. Everyone there watched as Harvest screamed in pain as he and his female counterpart where torn apart completely. Slowly the two of them melted away and when it was done, there was noting but pieces of flesh and wire, bubbling on the ground.
"That is disgusting." Toad said as Blob vomited.
"AH Crap! Rouge screamed as she wiped Vomit off of her. "BLOB VOMIY!! EWWWW!!!"
"Sorry…" Blob said sheepishly.
"Whats, going on. And why am I naked." Kelly asked as all those who were transformed woke up in a start.
"You explain it, we're out of here." Lance said to Xavier as he and the Brotherhood walked upstairs.
"What is going on?" Kelly demanded. "And where are my cloths?"
"Well you see…" Xavier started as he began to sweat.
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Upstairs
"Mike, are you okay?" Betsy asked as she walked over to her boyfriend who was resting against the wall taking deep rasps of air.
"Did you kick his ass?" Mike asked weakly as he smiled at her.
"Yea. Back to hell."
"Good." Mike said as he got up slowly with her and Blob's help.
"You okay?" Lance asked as he noticed the pain stressed on his friends face.
"The Basterd broke my back…" Mike said weakly. "Healing factors on it, but it's working slowly because of the extent of the injury, I'm gonna be out of action for a while." Mike said with a weak smile as sweat beaded on his forehead. "But I will be back."
"Let's get you home then. I want Xorn to take a look at you anyway." Lance said as the Brotherhood walked outside, Omega being supported now by Toad and Blob as Wanda and Betsy brought up the rear with Tabitha. Lance led the way.
"Hey, where's Pietro?" Toad asked as they walked outside to see Quicksilver being chased by Cyclops and Wolverine, waving his camera around while laughing.
"He's gonna sleep good tonight." Wand said simply as Pietro dodged an Optic blast.
"If he ever gets away from them." Tabitha stated.
"Eh. He can take care of himself." Blob said as the Brotherhood made there way home.
"You hope." Mike muttered.
"No, we don't Lance said with a smirk.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: Aliens, Part VI: Now what? How does this crazy saga come to an end? You wouldn't believe it if I told you. But I will. Next chapter.
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Later folks, you know the drill.
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