Brotherhood Evolution: Through Hell-Fire, Part V: Commings and Goings
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Bayville Museum
"GET DOWN!" Lance screamed as he fired a blast of seismic energy at Chamber. The blast struck the core of his own psychokinetic energy chamber.
~ That the best you got you ruddy plonkers? ~ Chamber projected at X-Factor.
"Try this…" Lance screamed as his eyes glowed light blue. Sweat beaded on his forehead as the ground around Chamber opened up and formed into a dome around him, then sunk back into the ground.
~ Try again Goven'r. ~ Chamber stated as he blew himself out of his prison and sent a blast at Avalanche, causing him to land in the ruble of the West Wing of the Museum.
"Lance!" Pietro shouted as he grabbed a pipe and twirled it around like a Bo staff as he sped towards Chamber. "Alright Mr. No Mouth, lets dance!"
"Right with you buddy!" Blob shouted as he charged at the glowing mutant.
~ Gordon Bennet… ~ Chamber projected. ~ You're like bloomin' ants! ~ Chamber thought out loud as he sent Blob and Pietro flying with a blast of energy.
"OMEGA! TOAD!" Wanda shouted as she was hexing the building ruble, which had collapsed on her teammates. "FORGE! GET YOU SKINNY ASS OVER HERE!"
"What do you want me to do?" Forge shouted as he fired a blast at Chamber with no effect.
"HELP ME!" Wanda screamed. "TOAD! MIKE!"
"Back off Scarlet Witch." Lance said as he stumbled over.
"Val? Where are the X-Men?" Forge asked over the comlink.
"They're protecting the gem in case you fail." Valerie's voice crackled.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence Val." Lance said as he clutched his ribs. "Wanda. I need some help here…"
"How?" Wanda asked.
"Increase the probability ratio of there being more seismic energy in this area. I taped it all out earlier in the fight." Lance stated.
"I can't do that Lance. I can only alter probability ratios by a maximum of twenty percent. And my hexes only work on solid objects or altering chemical makeup's, not energy makeup's." Wanda said stated.
"Damn. Looks like we do this the hard way.' Lance said simply as he rolled his eyes into the back of his head. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Lance screamed as he exerted what little energy he had left. A cave opened up in the ruble, revealing Toad and Omega unconscious.
"I got Toad." Wanda said as she slung Toad over her shoulders.
"I got Mike." Lance said as he grabbed Mike and dragged him away from the fight.
"Val, this fight isn't going well." Forge said into the com-link.
"No duh." Wanda muttered as suddenly Chamber fell to the ground. Psylocke pulled her Katana out of Chamber's lower back and wiped it off with his torn jacket.
"What?" Betsy said simply. "It wasn't that hard…"
"I like her style." X said simply as she walked over and kicked Chamber a couple of times. He's still alive." X said simply as X-Factor walked over.
"Give me the number of the truck that tap danced in my skull…" Mike moaned a she woke up rubbing his skull.
"Ditto." Toad said as he woke up to find himself over Wanda's shoulder. "Hey Baby cakes." Toad said with a smirk.
"Hey." Wanda said with a smile.
"Give me a barf bag." X said simply as she walked away.
"Where's the Hellfire Club?" Mike asked. "It had to be more than Chamber."
"My question is where's Val? We could use some restraints on this monkey." Pietro said simply as an explosion rocked the other side of the museum.
"Guess that answers you question luv." Betsy said as she shadow walked away.
"BETS!" Mike shouted. Damn it." Mike swore as he bolted towards the explosion. Lance and the others followed, riding a wave of earth.
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The other side of the museum
"Where the hell is the Brotherhood?" Cyclops said as he fired an optic blast at Emplate, with no effect.
"No clue Bro." Alex said simply. "All I know is we could so use the help." Havok said as he fired a cosmic blast at M, who just launched it back at him. "Oof…"
"Pathetic." Emma Frost stated as she knocked Jean out after they're mental battle.
"I know. Its no real challenge." Shaw said as he punched Nightcrawler hard in the jaw.
"A travesty, really." LeGrand said as he made it so Angel couldn't fly and was pinned top the floor.
"I know." Dazzler said as she blasted Rouge away with a laser blast.
"Forget about me Bub?" Logan demanded as he charged towards the Hellfire Club.
"Not really." Emplate said as he grabbed Logan and began feeding on him.
"Gah…" Wolverine muttered as he felt his life essence become drained.
"I say we let them die." Toad said simply as Kitty ducked under a Laser blast and dragged Rouge away.
"Toad." Lance stated simply.
"Right. The whole "I love Kitty" thing." Toad said dryly as he pulled his goggles on.
"Man that boy is whipped." Mike said simply as he charged towards Shaw. "Hey Mutton Chops!" Mike shouted as he tackled Shaw to the ground.
"YEE-HAW!" Pietro shouted as he grabbed Allison and ran off with her.
"Pervert." Wanda muttered as she hexes Emplate, freeing Wolverine who X then dragged away.
"Come on pops." X said as she dragged her "Father" away.
"Forge!' The Gems!' Betsy shouted as she grabbed the techno genus and shadow walked him over to the mystical Cyttorak gems.
"Totally on it!" Forge stated as he grabbed the four gems and put them in a bag. Betsy the shadow walked them away.
"Damn it!" Emma screamed. "This day keeps getting worse!" Frost screamed as her skin began to glint as she assumed her diamond form. He necklace containing one of the gems fell to the ground as she charged at Mike.
"That's interesting." Toad said simply as Emma smacked Mike off of Shaw and threw Wanda into X.
"This bitch is toast." Mike quoted as he sent his tendricals at Emma, tying her up.
"Toad!" Lance shouted as he sent a wave of earth at Toad. Toad leapt into the air just as the wave hit the wall. Toad then jumped off the reverberating wall onto a pillar of earth, which allowed him to get the height needed to knock Monet out of the sky and into Blobs Iron clutch.
"Let me go you oaf!" Monet screamed as she struggled.
"Oaf? Me?" Blob asked in shock "My, my, my. You have quite the mouth little girl." Blob said with a smile as he dragged her towards Omega, who then tied her up in his tendricals.
"Hi. I'm Omega and I'll be you Jail bait today." Mike said as he tied Monet up in his tendricals.
"Hey Mr. Mouth-hands!" X shouted as she charged towards Emplate.
"Oh no you don't." Emplate shouted as he saw a glint of red on the ground near his feet. He grabbed Emma's necklace in his hands.
"Marius! Don't!" Monet and Emma shouted at the same time as Marius St. Croix squeezed the gem.
"The shit has hit the fan." Lorna Dane stated as she floated in the air surrounded by a magnetic field. Marius took the gem and pushed it against his chest. With a flash of light the gem melted into his skin. The X-Men woke up just in time to see Marius transform. The gathered mutants stared in shock as Marius's fingers extended and sharpened off, turning into razor claws. His dreadlocks sharpened off as well, turning into wicked spines as his dark featured turned a sickly gray color.
"Damn." Nightcrawler said as Marius's eyes turned a deep, solid blood red and he hunched over slightly as his back bulged with more spines ripping out of his back around his spinal column.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Marius screamed as stared at his talons. His skin then started to slightly droop off, clinging to his structure like a wet blanket.
"Marius?" Monet asked as she stared at her brother.
"I… Am… EMPLATE!" Marius screamed as he tackled Omega to the ground and buried his talons into Mike, allowing the mouths on his hands to feed of Omega's life force. Emma and Monet fell to the ground and backed away as Lorna flew over to the with Shaw ands LeGrand in tow.
"I think we should leave." Lorna stated.
"I agree." Monet said as she grabbed Emma and LeGrand. Lorna grabbed Shaw and the five of them flew away.
"Mike!" Avalanche shouted as he tackled Emplate to the ground. To Lance's horror, Emplate's arms erupted tendricals just like Omegas as he sent Lance flying away.
"Okay. His powers have evolved." Betsy said simply. "Bad Karma."
~ Get Down! ~ Came the mental command in all of their heads. Kitty turned to see Chamber standing in the ruined building. He unleashed a blast that sent Emplate flying.
"Must…flee…" Emplate stated as his wounds healed. Before anyone got a chance to move, Emplate faded from existence, completely disappearing.
"Okay. Show of hands, who saw that coming?" Nightcrawler asked as Betsy helped Mike up.
"My spine…" Mike moaned as he cracked his back.
"So. Who's side you on buddy?" Lance asked as he faced Chamber.
~ Nobody's. I needed those gems to heal my body after my powers we're enhanced by them. But now… I don't know. ~
"Jono, buddy. You can always join X-Factor." Mike said simply. "Do some good."
~ No. I can't. There's something in me that I need to deal with on my own right now. ~ Chamber said. ~ And I'm not done with the Hellfire Club just yet. ~ Chamber said as he was surrounded by his bioorganic energy core and with a flash of energy, was gone.
"Where's Pietro?" Wanda asked.
"Here." Pietro moaned as he limped over with a piece of his uniform held to the side of his head. It was blood soaked. "Blair gave me the slip after I grabbed her." Pietro said simply.
"So now what?" Toad asked.
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Xavier's
"So Valerie. I believe I owe you an apology." Xavier stated simply.
"Really?" Valerie asked as she arched an eyebrow. She, Xavier, Logan and Angel were having drinks in Xavier's study. Ororo and Beast were in the med lab, tending to Pietro's head injury.
"You've trained the Brotherhood admirably. They showed incredible unity as a team and resilience." Xavier said simply.
"They still have a long way to go. The Hellfire Club is still out there. So is Chamber. And Emplate." Valerie said as she downed here double Bourbon.
"What do we do about them?" Warren asked. "They may resurface."
"I'm more worried about Emplate. Mike assured me that Chamber will keep the Hellfire Club busy, and I trust his views on Mr. Starsmore." Valerie said as she fixed herself another drink.
"To the future." Logan said as he raised his beer.
"There's a toast I can live with." Xavier said with a smile.
(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!)
"They're at it again." Warren moaned as an explosion rocked the mansion.
"Why do you think I have a double." Valerie said dryly.
"Told ya." Logan said with a smirk.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: That's my Snukum's. Wanda has been paying Toad a lot of attention lately. Wonder why? Find out next chapter when Toad and Scarlet Witch are sent on a mission together. And you'll never guess who they run into.
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Well, I hope you all sincerely enjoyed this chapter.
Peace out,
Descendent
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Bayville Museum
"GET DOWN!" Lance screamed as he fired a blast of seismic energy at Chamber. The blast struck the core of his own psychokinetic energy chamber.
~ That the best you got you ruddy plonkers? ~ Chamber projected at X-Factor.
"Try this…" Lance screamed as his eyes glowed light blue. Sweat beaded on his forehead as the ground around Chamber opened up and formed into a dome around him, then sunk back into the ground.
~ Try again Goven'r. ~ Chamber stated as he blew himself out of his prison and sent a blast at Avalanche, causing him to land in the ruble of the West Wing of the Museum.
"Lance!" Pietro shouted as he grabbed a pipe and twirled it around like a Bo staff as he sped towards Chamber. "Alright Mr. No Mouth, lets dance!"
"Right with you buddy!" Blob shouted as he charged at the glowing mutant.
~ Gordon Bennet… ~ Chamber projected. ~ You're like bloomin' ants! ~ Chamber thought out loud as he sent Blob and Pietro flying with a blast of energy.
"OMEGA! TOAD!" Wanda shouted as she was hexing the building ruble, which had collapsed on her teammates. "FORGE! GET YOU SKINNY ASS OVER HERE!"
"What do you want me to do?" Forge shouted as he fired a blast at Chamber with no effect.
"HELP ME!" Wanda screamed. "TOAD! MIKE!"
"Back off Scarlet Witch." Lance said as he stumbled over.
"Val? Where are the X-Men?" Forge asked over the comlink.
"They're protecting the gem in case you fail." Valerie's voice crackled.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence Val." Lance said as he clutched his ribs. "Wanda. I need some help here…"
"How?" Wanda asked.
"Increase the probability ratio of there being more seismic energy in this area. I taped it all out earlier in the fight." Lance stated.
"I can't do that Lance. I can only alter probability ratios by a maximum of twenty percent. And my hexes only work on solid objects or altering chemical makeup's, not energy makeup's." Wanda said stated.
"Damn. Looks like we do this the hard way.' Lance said simply as he rolled his eyes into the back of his head. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Lance screamed as he exerted what little energy he had left. A cave opened up in the ruble, revealing Toad and Omega unconscious.
"I got Toad." Wanda said as she slung Toad over her shoulders.
"I got Mike." Lance said as he grabbed Mike and dragged him away from the fight.
"Val, this fight isn't going well." Forge said into the com-link.
"No duh." Wanda muttered as suddenly Chamber fell to the ground. Psylocke pulled her Katana out of Chamber's lower back and wiped it off with his torn jacket.
"What?" Betsy said simply. "It wasn't that hard…"
"I like her style." X said simply as she walked over and kicked Chamber a couple of times. He's still alive." X said simply as X-Factor walked over.
"Give me the number of the truck that tap danced in my skull…" Mike moaned a she woke up rubbing his skull.
"Ditto." Toad said as he woke up to find himself over Wanda's shoulder. "Hey Baby cakes." Toad said with a smirk.
"Hey." Wanda said with a smile.
"Give me a barf bag." X said simply as she walked away.
"Where's the Hellfire Club?" Mike asked. "It had to be more than Chamber."
"My question is where's Val? We could use some restraints on this monkey." Pietro said simply as an explosion rocked the other side of the museum.
"Guess that answers you question luv." Betsy said as she shadow walked away.
"BETS!" Mike shouted. Damn it." Mike swore as he bolted towards the explosion. Lance and the others followed, riding a wave of earth.
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The other side of the museum
"Where the hell is the Brotherhood?" Cyclops said as he fired an optic blast at Emplate, with no effect.
"No clue Bro." Alex said simply. "All I know is we could so use the help." Havok said as he fired a cosmic blast at M, who just launched it back at him. "Oof…"
"Pathetic." Emma Frost stated as she knocked Jean out after they're mental battle.
"I know. Its no real challenge." Shaw said as he punched Nightcrawler hard in the jaw.
"A travesty, really." LeGrand said as he made it so Angel couldn't fly and was pinned top the floor.
"I know." Dazzler said as she blasted Rouge away with a laser blast.
"Forget about me Bub?" Logan demanded as he charged towards the Hellfire Club.
"Not really." Emplate said as he grabbed Logan and began feeding on him.
"Gah…" Wolverine muttered as he felt his life essence become drained.
"I say we let them die." Toad said simply as Kitty ducked under a Laser blast and dragged Rouge away.
"Toad." Lance stated simply.
"Right. The whole "I love Kitty" thing." Toad said dryly as he pulled his goggles on.
"Man that boy is whipped." Mike said simply as he charged towards Shaw. "Hey Mutton Chops!" Mike shouted as he tackled Shaw to the ground.
"YEE-HAW!" Pietro shouted as he grabbed Allison and ran off with her.
"Pervert." Wanda muttered as she hexes Emplate, freeing Wolverine who X then dragged away.
"Come on pops." X said as she dragged her "Father" away.
"Forge!' The Gems!' Betsy shouted as she grabbed the techno genus and shadow walked him over to the mystical Cyttorak gems.
"Totally on it!" Forge stated as he grabbed the four gems and put them in a bag. Betsy the shadow walked them away.
"Damn it!" Emma screamed. "This day keeps getting worse!" Frost screamed as her skin began to glint as she assumed her diamond form. He necklace containing one of the gems fell to the ground as she charged at Mike.
"That's interesting." Toad said simply as Emma smacked Mike off of Shaw and threw Wanda into X.
"This bitch is toast." Mike quoted as he sent his tendricals at Emma, tying her up.
"Toad!" Lance shouted as he sent a wave of earth at Toad. Toad leapt into the air just as the wave hit the wall. Toad then jumped off the reverberating wall onto a pillar of earth, which allowed him to get the height needed to knock Monet out of the sky and into Blobs Iron clutch.
"Let me go you oaf!" Monet screamed as she struggled.
"Oaf? Me?" Blob asked in shock "My, my, my. You have quite the mouth little girl." Blob said with a smile as he dragged her towards Omega, who then tied her up in his tendricals.
"Hi. I'm Omega and I'll be you Jail bait today." Mike said as he tied Monet up in his tendricals.
"Hey Mr. Mouth-hands!" X shouted as she charged towards Emplate.
"Oh no you don't." Emplate shouted as he saw a glint of red on the ground near his feet. He grabbed Emma's necklace in his hands.
"Marius! Don't!" Monet and Emma shouted at the same time as Marius St. Croix squeezed the gem.
"The shit has hit the fan." Lorna Dane stated as she floated in the air surrounded by a magnetic field. Marius took the gem and pushed it against his chest. With a flash of light the gem melted into his skin. The X-Men woke up just in time to see Marius transform. The gathered mutants stared in shock as Marius's fingers extended and sharpened off, turning into razor claws. His dreadlocks sharpened off as well, turning into wicked spines as his dark featured turned a sickly gray color.
"Damn." Nightcrawler said as Marius's eyes turned a deep, solid blood red and he hunched over slightly as his back bulged with more spines ripping out of his back around his spinal column.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Marius screamed as stared at his talons. His skin then started to slightly droop off, clinging to his structure like a wet blanket.
"Marius?" Monet asked as she stared at her brother.
"I… Am… EMPLATE!" Marius screamed as he tackled Omega to the ground and buried his talons into Mike, allowing the mouths on his hands to feed of Omega's life force. Emma and Monet fell to the ground and backed away as Lorna flew over to the with Shaw ands LeGrand in tow.
"I think we should leave." Lorna stated.
"I agree." Monet said as she grabbed Emma and LeGrand. Lorna grabbed Shaw and the five of them flew away.
"Mike!" Avalanche shouted as he tackled Emplate to the ground. To Lance's horror, Emplate's arms erupted tendricals just like Omegas as he sent Lance flying away.
"Okay. His powers have evolved." Betsy said simply. "Bad Karma."
~ Get Down! ~ Came the mental command in all of their heads. Kitty turned to see Chamber standing in the ruined building. He unleashed a blast that sent Emplate flying.
"Must…flee…" Emplate stated as his wounds healed. Before anyone got a chance to move, Emplate faded from existence, completely disappearing.
"Okay. Show of hands, who saw that coming?" Nightcrawler asked as Betsy helped Mike up.
"My spine…" Mike moaned as he cracked his back.
"So. Who's side you on buddy?" Lance asked as he faced Chamber.
~ Nobody's. I needed those gems to heal my body after my powers we're enhanced by them. But now… I don't know. ~
"Jono, buddy. You can always join X-Factor." Mike said simply. "Do some good."
~ No. I can't. There's something in me that I need to deal with on my own right now. ~ Chamber said. ~ And I'm not done with the Hellfire Club just yet. ~ Chamber said as he was surrounded by his bioorganic energy core and with a flash of energy, was gone.
"Where's Pietro?" Wanda asked.
"Here." Pietro moaned as he limped over with a piece of his uniform held to the side of his head. It was blood soaked. "Blair gave me the slip after I grabbed her." Pietro said simply.
"So now what?" Toad asked.
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Xavier's
"So Valerie. I believe I owe you an apology." Xavier stated simply.
"Really?" Valerie asked as she arched an eyebrow. She, Xavier, Logan and Angel were having drinks in Xavier's study. Ororo and Beast were in the med lab, tending to Pietro's head injury.
"You've trained the Brotherhood admirably. They showed incredible unity as a team and resilience." Xavier said simply.
"They still have a long way to go. The Hellfire Club is still out there. So is Chamber. And Emplate." Valerie said as she downed here double Bourbon.
"What do we do about them?" Warren asked. "They may resurface."
"I'm more worried about Emplate. Mike assured me that Chamber will keep the Hellfire Club busy, and I trust his views on Mr. Starsmore." Valerie said as she fixed herself another drink.
"To the future." Logan said as he raised his beer.
"There's a toast I can live with." Xavier said with a smile.
(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!)
"They're at it again." Warren moaned as an explosion rocked the mansion.
"Why do you think I have a double." Valerie said dryly.
"Told ya." Logan said with a smirk.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: That's my Snukum's. Wanda has been paying Toad a lot of attention lately. Wonder why? Find out next chapter when Toad and Scarlet Witch are sent on a mission together. And you'll never guess who they run into.
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Well, I hope you all sincerely enjoyed this chapter.
Peace out,
Descendent