Brotherhood Evolution: Horseman of Pestilence
I take it you are all pleasantly surprised. But the best has yet to come. At the end of this chapter that is. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Xavier's Institute
"I still don't believe it." Jean said. She and the rest of the X-men were standing outside the Med-lab with the Brotherhood as Xavier, Forge, and Beast went over Psylocke.
"Lance, how could this have happened?" Valerie Cooper asked. Xavier had called her and Forge in when they discovered Psylocke.
"You're asking me?" Lance stated. "Blob answered the friggin' door and boom, there she was. Alive."
"I don't believe this." Toad stated simply. "We all saw Betsy die. How is she alive?"
"That's her alright." They all turned to see Logan and Blob walking into the room with shovels, covered in dirt. "Me and the fat kid just dug up her grave. She wasn't in it."
"Grave Robbing cous?" X asked with a smile.
"Hey. Just call me Igor." Blob said with a smirk.
"Holy shit. What the hell is going on here?" Pietro muttered.
"I may have some answers." Xavier said as he wheeled himself in. "I read Betsy's mind. The images of her death are indeed in there. But afterward there are scattered memories of her being brought back to life by a figure that I do not know. What's more, she saw Mystique in some form of stasis tube. The same that she was brought back in." Xavier explained.
"Charles. Are you saying that someone dug up her grave, and used some form of technology to bring her back to life? Why?" Valerie asked.
"Maybe it was to get at Mike. It could be his old mans doing." Toad stated. "I mean, he did bring Sarah back to life. Maybe he wanted to brainwash Betsy so she would be just like her."
"That explains some of it. But not why he has Mystique in captivity. She was killed by Apocalypse." Kurt spat.
"Maybe he's working with Apocalypse. He's insane enough." Lance stated.
"This is seriously screwed up." Wanda muttered. "I mean we have to find Mike. He needs to know that's Betsy's alive."
"I'm afraid that's going to be a bit harder than you would think." Xavier stated. "I was using Cerebro to keep tabs on Omega for a few months. But then he just mysteriously vanished." Xavier explained. "I'll get Generation X to start looking for him."
"Okay. So Apocalypse makes his next move. Betsy comes back to life. Mike goes missing…why do I think this is all tied together." X stated.
"Because you're paranoid?" Jean stated.
"That would explain a lot." Evan stated simply.
"yea. Yea it would." X stated simply.
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The Morlock Tunnels
"So many dead." Calisto said as she looked at the communal burying ground. "And with Evan gone, I'm the only Morlock now." Calisto stated, as she looked over the massive burial ground in a quite vigil.
"Wrong. There are no more Morlocks." Came the hissing voice from the shadows. "The Morlocks were weak. And only the strong survive…"
"CALIBAN!" Calisto shouted as she recognized the voice. "You're Alive!"
"No. Not Caliban. I am Pestilence now." Caliban stated as he emerged from the shadows. He was now ten feet tall. A pair of white horns emerged from his pale forehead. His eyes glowed a light yellow as he gave a sinister smile at the shocked Calisto. His body was massively powered as he moved forward on corded muscle. His arms flexed in the dimming light as he grabbed Calisto the Egyptian tattoos on his arms glowed in the soft light. His purple jumpsuit splattered with red as Calisto coughed blood immediately at his touch. His talons wrapped around her neck as he held her aloft.
"What…" Calisto gasped as Caliban held her aloft. She coughed more blood up.
"A strain of the Ebola virus made especially for you, my former leader." Caliban hissed as Calisto went limp, blood dripping from her mouth as he tossed her aside. "The Morlocks were weak, thus they are no more. So sayith Pestilence…"
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Back at Xavier's
"What the bloody 'ell da you mean you don't know where Mike is!?!" Psylocke shouted.
"Bets calm down." X said simply.
"Calm down?" Betsy shouted as she stormed around the room. Her long purple hair hung loose on the hospital gown she was wearing. Her eyes twisted in anger, the mark of the crimson dawn twisting with her eyebrow. "Me boyfriends out there. He thinks I'm gone. With what's happened ta him before, with the loss of Sarah, and then me? No telling what that idiot would do." Betsy muttered as tears brimmed her eyes.
"Oh yea. That's our Betsy." Lance said simply.
"What do we do? We have to find him." Betsy said as she chocked back the tears. "I need to see him…"
"Well, first we can deal with this." Cyclops said as he turned on a security camera.
"Who the hell is that?" Lance asked as they watched Caliban rip open the gates of the mansion and storm forward, destroying all the security devices as he went.
"It looks like Caliban." Evan said in shock. "But I thought he died in the massacre… Not joined the Atkins' diet..."
"It is Caliban." Xavier said simply. "No doubt he's joined the ranks of Apocalypses forces."
"Then he's probably the second Horseman. Pestilence." Beast said simply.
"That's a welcome name. Lets see, Pyro absorbed all of our attacks because he was Famine…Hmm… I wonder what Pestilence can do." Pietro quipped.
"We should be careful. If he lives up to his name he can probably makes us deadly ill." Rogue stated simply.
"I have to agree with the Chere' on this one." Gambit said simply. "Me thinks it be best to attack this homme' from a distance."
"Makes sense." Lance said simply.
"Okay." Cyclops said, taking charge. "Havok, Forge, Avalanche, Strom, Scarlet Witch, Jean, Gambit, and I will go to the roof and start attacking him from a distance. Professor, see what you and the others can do. Maybe you could find Omega, or figure out what's going on."
"Right Bro. Lets roll." Alex said with a smirk as the mutants left.
"Evan, take X and Toad. Try to find Calisto. She may be able to talk some sense into Caliban." Lance said simply as he left.
"Right. I'll swing by Florida and pay Mike's old man a visit." Pietro said simply.
"I'm coming with you." Betsy said.
"In that?" Pietro asked, pointing to the hospital gown.
"I've worn less into battle and you know it." Betsy snapped, slapping him upside the head.
"That's Betsy all right." Toad whistled.
"I'ma coming with ya as well." Rogue said a she touched Pietro real quick, grabbing his hyper speed. "Lets-go-now-slow-pokes!" Rogue shouted as she sped off.
"Right-after-ya-Skunky!" Pietro shouted as he picked up Psylocke.
"I've already sent Generation X down there. They said it looks like that's where you were brought back to life Elisabeth, that and they found Sarah Ramos barely alive. Other than that, I don't think there's anything else down there." Xavier explained.
"You never no chucky…" Pietro stated as the two of them took off.
"Well, what do we do?" Kitty asked the rest of the mutants.
"Fine. I'll see if I can get a bead on Apocalypse with Cerebro." Xavier said simply.
"I'll call shield. See if they have any ideas." Dr. Cooper said simply.
"What about us?" Blob asked as he Nightcrawler, Iceman, Wolverine, Kitty and Beast sat alone in the med lab.
"Whose' up for Cookies?" Kitty asked.
"Cookies?" Blob asked excitedly.
"Run." Wolverine whispered to the other X-Men, who slowly backed away as Kitty led Blob up stairs to try some of her world IN-Famous cookies of death.
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Miami Florida
"What a rush…" Betsy said as Pietro put her down.
"You're telling me." Rogue muttered. "I forgot what it was like to have Pietro's powers."
"Man this place is a mess." Pietro muttered as they opened the doors to see the entire mansion in ruins. "I wonder if the new X-Brats missed anything."
"The Lab!" They all shouted as Betsy shadow walked and Pietro and Rogue sped down there.
"Oh Jesus." Betsy muttered as she saw the lab in utter ruins. Sparks danced from ripped wires. Test tubes were strewn about and glass was shattered all over the place. Jeremiah Nagrite was pinned to the wall in the form of an X, his stomach ripped open. A look of horror on his face as his hollow eyes stared at the mutants. On the wall written in he blood was a simple phrase. "Only the strong shall survive." Betsy read aloud. "Darwin was one sick monkey." Betsy muttered.
"I don't think this is what Darwin had in mind." Rogue muttered.
"I think this is where you were brought back to life." Pietro stated to Betsy.
"Jesus. Who could have done this?" Rogue muttered.
"We can figure that out later. Right now we should go back and help the others." Betsy said simply as Pietro picked her up and they were off again.
"These guys play hard ball all right." Rogue muttered as the three sped back to Bayville.
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The Morlock Tunnels
"Cal!" Evan shouted.
"Found her." X stated as Evan ran over to see Calisto dead, weird bubbles on her face, as her throat and chest were soaked with Blood.
"Caliban." Evan swore.
"So much for that plan." Toad muttered. "Lets head back. The others are going to need the help."
"Yea." Evan said as they took off, leaving Calisto alone.
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Xavier's
"We could use some help here!" Lance shouted as he launched another seismic blast at Pestilence, who easily dodged it.
"How can someone so big, move so fast?" Forge demanded as he fired another blast.
"Good question." Storm stated as she rained down lightning. "But I do believe when Apocalypse is involved, nothing is impossible."
"Yea, well this is a real pain in the ass." Jean swore as she threw more debris at the Horseman.
"Hey guys." Toad said as he and his group emerged from the hatch on the roof at the same time as Betsy shadow walked her group to the rooftop.
"How goes the fight?" X asked.
"We can't hit him." Alex stated.
"He's moving to fast." Wanda muttered.
"Got him!" Gambit shouted as he nailed Pestilence with a kinetic Barrage.
"Peg Him!" Cyclops shouted as all the mutants unleashed on Pestilence.
"My Lord!" Pestilence cried out. "I am weak, thus I am unworthy!" Caliban cried out as energy rained on him. Just before a wall of Fire engulfed the Mutants on the roof, knocking them to the ground.
"You do not fight alone Pestilence. So do not lose faith." Famine stated as he rode his flaming horse next to his fellow Horseman. "Lord Apocalypse would never allow his faithful to fight alone. You were chosen by the Lord himself, do not lose your faith in him now." Famine stated as he pulled out his sword.
"Okay. So now we have the pleasure of kicking both your Asses at once." Pietro swore as Kitty and the others ran from inside, ready for battle.
"About twenty against two? I like those odds." Lance said with a grin as he began to radiate seismic energy.
"Twenty pathetic mutants against THREE of Apocalypse chosen." Came the dark voice from above the mutants. They all looked up to see another figure on a dark red steed. The figure jumped off his steed and landed with his comrades, shaking the earth with his impact.
"Great, another one." Logan muttered as they faced the new threat.
"Prepare to die infidels." The newest Horseman stated. He was easily eight feet tall and built like a brick building. His sleeveless arms were massive, and bore Egyptian symbols like the other Horsemen. His chest was chorded muscle as he crossed his arms across it and gave a sinister smile. His long hair was in dreadlocks and hung behind his face as it reached his ankles. He had a long goatee that was in braids. His eyes were solid black and tattooed underneath, just above the cheeks. "You all now know that Pestilence and Famine are the heralds of War." War stated in a sinister voice.
"He looks familiar…" X said slowly. She then gasped in horror. "Oh my God, It's…"
"Mike?" Betsy asked as she stared at Michael James Nagrite, Apocalypse's Horseman of War.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: Horseman of War. Omega has been brainwashed by Apocalypse and is now his newest Horseman. Can the Brotherhood bring themselves to fight him and the other Horsemen?
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HO HO!!! YES! I got you! I got you all. Who saw that coming? Some of you! That's who! Anyhow, tune in next time to see how the Brotherhood can cope with everything that's been going on. Peace out,
Descendent
I take it you are all pleasantly surprised. But the best has yet to come. At the end of this chapter that is. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Xavier's Institute
"I still don't believe it." Jean said. She and the rest of the X-men were standing outside the Med-lab with the Brotherhood as Xavier, Forge, and Beast went over Psylocke.
"Lance, how could this have happened?" Valerie Cooper asked. Xavier had called her and Forge in when they discovered Psylocke.
"You're asking me?" Lance stated. "Blob answered the friggin' door and boom, there she was. Alive."
"I don't believe this." Toad stated simply. "We all saw Betsy die. How is she alive?"
"That's her alright." They all turned to see Logan and Blob walking into the room with shovels, covered in dirt. "Me and the fat kid just dug up her grave. She wasn't in it."
"Grave Robbing cous?" X asked with a smile.
"Hey. Just call me Igor." Blob said with a smirk.
"Holy shit. What the hell is going on here?" Pietro muttered.
"I may have some answers." Xavier said as he wheeled himself in. "I read Betsy's mind. The images of her death are indeed in there. But afterward there are scattered memories of her being brought back to life by a figure that I do not know. What's more, she saw Mystique in some form of stasis tube. The same that she was brought back in." Xavier explained.
"Charles. Are you saying that someone dug up her grave, and used some form of technology to bring her back to life? Why?" Valerie asked.
"Maybe it was to get at Mike. It could be his old mans doing." Toad stated. "I mean, he did bring Sarah back to life. Maybe he wanted to brainwash Betsy so she would be just like her."
"That explains some of it. But not why he has Mystique in captivity. She was killed by Apocalypse." Kurt spat.
"Maybe he's working with Apocalypse. He's insane enough." Lance stated.
"This is seriously screwed up." Wanda muttered. "I mean we have to find Mike. He needs to know that's Betsy's alive."
"I'm afraid that's going to be a bit harder than you would think." Xavier stated. "I was using Cerebro to keep tabs on Omega for a few months. But then he just mysteriously vanished." Xavier explained. "I'll get Generation X to start looking for him."
"Okay. So Apocalypse makes his next move. Betsy comes back to life. Mike goes missing…why do I think this is all tied together." X stated.
"Because you're paranoid?" Jean stated.
"That would explain a lot." Evan stated simply.
"yea. Yea it would." X stated simply.
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The Morlock Tunnels
"So many dead." Calisto said as she looked at the communal burying ground. "And with Evan gone, I'm the only Morlock now." Calisto stated, as she looked over the massive burial ground in a quite vigil.
"Wrong. There are no more Morlocks." Came the hissing voice from the shadows. "The Morlocks were weak. And only the strong survive…"
"CALIBAN!" Calisto shouted as she recognized the voice. "You're Alive!"
"No. Not Caliban. I am Pestilence now." Caliban stated as he emerged from the shadows. He was now ten feet tall. A pair of white horns emerged from his pale forehead. His eyes glowed a light yellow as he gave a sinister smile at the shocked Calisto. His body was massively powered as he moved forward on corded muscle. His arms flexed in the dimming light as he grabbed Calisto the Egyptian tattoos on his arms glowed in the soft light. His purple jumpsuit splattered with red as Calisto coughed blood immediately at his touch. His talons wrapped around her neck as he held her aloft.
"What…" Calisto gasped as Caliban held her aloft. She coughed more blood up.
"A strain of the Ebola virus made especially for you, my former leader." Caliban hissed as Calisto went limp, blood dripping from her mouth as he tossed her aside. "The Morlocks were weak, thus they are no more. So sayith Pestilence…"
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Back at Xavier's
"What the bloody 'ell da you mean you don't know where Mike is!?!" Psylocke shouted.
"Bets calm down." X said simply.
"Calm down?" Betsy shouted as she stormed around the room. Her long purple hair hung loose on the hospital gown she was wearing. Her eyes twisted in anger, the mark of the crimson dawn twisting with her eyebrow. "Me boyfriends out there. He thinks I'm gone. With what's happened ta him before, with the loss of Sarah, and then me? No telling what that idiot would do." Betsy muttered as tears brimmed her eyes.
"Oh yea. That's our Betsy." Lance said simply.
"What do we do? We have to find him." Betsy said as she chocked back the tears. "I need to see him…"
"Well, first we can deal with this." Cyclops said as he turned on a security camera.
"Who the hell is that?" Lance asked as they watched Caliban rip open the gates of the mansion and storm forward, destroying all the security devices as he went.
"It looks like Caliban." Evan said in shock. "But I thought he died in the massacre… Not joined the Atkins' diet..."
"It is Caliban." Xavier said simply. "No doubt he's joined the ranks of Apocalypses forces."
"Then he's probably the second Horseman. Pestilence." Beast said simply.
"That's a welcome name. Lets see, Pyro absorbed all of our attacks because he was Famine…Hmm… I wonder what Pestilence can do." Pietro quipped.
"We should be careful. If he lives up to his name he can probably makes us deadly ill." Rogue stated simply.
"I have to agree with the Chere' on this one." Gambit said simply. "Me thinks it be best to attack this homme' from a distance."
"Makes sense." Lance said simply.
"Okay." Cyclops said, taking charge. "Havok, Forge, Avalanche, Strom, Scarlet Witch, Jean, Gambit, and I will go to the roof and start attacking him from a distance. Professor, see what you and the others can do. Maybe you could find Omega, or figure out what's going on."
"Right Bro. Lets roll." Alex said with a smirk as the mutants left.
"Evan, take X and Toad. Try to find Calisto. She may be able to talk some sense into Caliban." Lance said simply as he left.
"Right. I'll swing by Florida and pay Mike's old man a visit." Pietro said simply.
"I'm coming with you." Betsy said.
"In that?" Pietro asked, pointing to the hospital gown.
"I've worn less into battle and you know it." Betsy snapped, slapping him upside the head.
"That's Betsy all right." Toad whistled.
"I'ma coming with ya as well." Rogue said a she touched Pietro real quick, grabbing his hyper speed. "Lets-go-now-slow-pokes!" Rogue shouted as she sped off.
"Right-after-ya-Skunky!" Pietro shouted as he picked up Psylocke.
"I've already sent Generation X down there. They said it looks like that's where you were brought back to life Elisabeth, that and they found Sarah Ramos barely alive. Other than that, I don't think there's anything else down there." Xavier explained.
"You never no chucky…" Pietro stated as the two of them took off.
"Well, what do we do?" Kitty asked the rest of the mutants.
"Fine. I'll see if I can get a bead on Apocalypse with Cerebro." Xavier said simply.
"I'll call shield. See if they have any ideas." Dr. Cooper said simply.
"What about us?" Blob asked as he Nightcrawler, Iceman, Wolverine, Kitty and Beast sat alone in the med lab.
"Whose' up for Cookies?" Kitty asked.
"Cookies?" Blob asked excitedly.
"Run." Wolverine whispered to the other X-Men, who slowly backed away as Kitty led Blob up stairs to try some of her world IN-Famous cookies of death.
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Miami Florida
"What a rush…" Betsy said as Pietro put her down.
"You're telling me." Rogue muttered. "I forgot what it was like to have Pietro's powers."
"Man this place is a mess." Pietro muttered as they opened the doors to see the entire mansion in ruins. "I wonder if the new X-Brats missed anything."
"The Lab!" They all shouted as Betsy shadow walked and Pietro and Rogue sped down there.
"Oh Jesus." Betsy muttered as she saw the lab in utter ruins. Sparks danced from ripped wires. Test tubes were strewn about and glass was shattered all over the place. Jeremiah Nagrite was pinned to the wall in the form of an X, his stomach ripped open. A look of horror on his face as his hollow eyes stared at the mutants. On the wall written in he blood was a simple phrase. "Only the strong shall survive." Betsy read aloud. "Darwin was one sick monkey." Betsy muttered.
"I don't think this is what Darwin had in mind." Rogue muttered.
"I think this is where you were brought back to life." Pietro stated to Betsy.
"Jesus. Who could have done this?" Rogue muttered.
"We can figure that out later. Right now we should go back and help the others." Betsy said simply as Pietro picked her up and they were off again.
"These guys play hard ball all right." Rogue muttered as the three sped back to Bayville.
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The Morlock Tunnels
"Cal!" Evan shouted.
"Found her." X stated as Evan ran over to see Calisto dead, weird bubbles on her face, as her throat and chest were soaked with Blood.
"Caliban." Evan swore.
"So much for that plan." Toad muttered. "Lets head back. The others are going to need the help."
"Yea." Evan said as they took off, leaving Calisto alone.
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Xavier's
"We could use some help here!" Lance shouted as he launched another seismic blast at Pestilence, who easily dodged it.
"How can someone so big, move so fast?" Forge demanded as he fired another blast.
"Good question." Storm stated as she rained down lightning. "But I do believe when Apocalypse is involved, nothing is impossible."
"Yea, well this is a real pain in the ass." Jean swore as she threw more debris at the Horseman.
"Hey guys." Toad said as he and his group emerged from the hatch on the roof at the same time as Betsy shadow walked her group to the rooftop.
"How goes the fight?" X asked.
"We can't hit him." Alex stated.
"He's moving to fast." Wanda muttered.
"Got him!" Gambit shouted as he nailed Pestilence with a kinetic Barrage.
"Peg Him!" Cyclops shouted as all the mutants unleashed on Pestilence.
"My Lord!" Pestilence cried out. "I am weak, thus I am unworthy!" Caliban cried out as energy rained on him. Just before a wall of Fire engulfed the Mutants on the roof, knocking them to the ground.
"You do not fight alone Pestilence. So do not lose faith." Famine stated as he rode his flaming horse next to his fellow Horseman. "Lord Apocalypse would never allow his faithful to fight alone. You were chosen by the Lord himself, do not lose your faith in him now." Famine stated as he pulled out his sword.
"Okay. So now we have the pleasure of kicking both your Asses at once." Pietro swore as Kitty and the others ran from inside, ready for battle.
"About twenty against two? I like those odds." Lance said with a grin as he began to radiate seismic energy.
"Twenty pathetic mutants against THREE of Apocalypse chosen." Came the dark voice from above the mutants. They all looked up to see another figure on a dark red steed. The figure jumped off his steed and landed with his comrades, shaking the earth with his impact.
"Great, another one." Logan muttered as they faced the new threat.
"Prepare to die infidels." The newest Horseman stated. He was easily eight feet tall and built like a brick building. His sleeveless arms were massive, and bore Egyptian symbols like the other Horsemen. His chest was chorded muscle as he crossed his arms across it and gave a sinister smile. His long hair was in dreadlocks and hung behind his face as it reached his ankles. He had a long goatee that was in braids. His eyes were solid black and tattooed underneath, just above the cheeks. "You all now know that Pestilence and Famine are the heralds of War." War stated in a sinister voice.
"He looks familiar…" X said slowly. She then gasped in horror. "Oh my God, It's…"
"Mike?" Betsy asked as she stared at Michael James Nagrite, Apocalypse's Horseman of War.
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Next Time on Brotherhood Evolution: Horseman of War. Omega has been brainwashed by Apocalypse and is now his newest Horseman. Can the Brotherhood bring themselves to fight him and the other Horsemen?
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HO HO!!! YES! I got you! I got you all. Who saw that coming? Some of you! That's who! Anyhow, tune in next time to see how the Brotherhood can cope with everything that's been going on. Peace out,
Descendent