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X-men: The rebirth saga
By Deathsheadx
Part 3
This starts at the end of xtreme xmen issue 29 Which is god loves man kills 2 part 5
Deep below Mt. haven reverend Stryker, a mutant hating man of god hell-bent on eradicating mutants, Kitty Pryde Chicago university student, former xman and reverend Paul faced off
Kitty had just discovered the wholesale murder of the towns former inhabitants perpetrated by reverend Paul it shook her to her very core just then Stryker grabbed Kitty Pryde he activated the special armour at the same time taking Kitty's concealed gun
"He's been keeping his distance from you ever since you first met" and shoved her towards Paul "the poor monster seems mortally afraid of you girl....lettttsssssss "
Stryker's words slurred as time slowed down.
A man appeared and beside him stood the former mutant liberation front member... Tempo
"Thank you Tempo my dear" he said smiling at Tempo... he looked at the scene before him "This will not do, not do at all" he said "there is a slim chance to save the children of haven and I need to do it before Kitty phases through Paul" the man gestured and two more people appeared "Fixx, Graystone... Bishop is the key get me Bishop his is inoculated against nanites of this type I can re-engineer it to return them to normal"
Bishop was fighting with Sage when she suddenly became sluggish what the...suddenly he felt a familiar presence... "Graystone." He said..." didn't you die in the crash that sent havoc to that alternate reality?"
"... I was rescued... Bishop we need your help to save these children..."
"But we don't have much time." Said Fixx
"Hello Eleanor where's archer?"
"Raising a family. But Bishop we haven't got much time! Tempo can only keep this time bubble up so long "
"...
Okay lets do this." said Bishop...
The man smiled Bishop was coming.... "Locus?" A woman appeared "when I give the word you are to get ready to do your part..."
Locus nodded "you're the boss h.."
Bishop arrived and "gasped you!"
The man smiled "good to see you again Bishop"
Bishop snarled before im was Harry vorn a mutant master of Temporal physics ex X.S.E officer also a thief in his time. "What are you doing here Harry?"
"Our timeline ceased to exist Bishop when that happened I was thrown out into the time stream...I learnt a great many things while out there but I could not get free on my own... my...my master helped me" said Harry
"And who's that "
"I cant say Bishop but he has given me a mission step one is to save the children of haven and free them from Paul"
Bishop nodded "okay what do you need me for?"
"Like Fixx and Graystone this isn't my original body so it doesn't have the inoculation against nanites in it"
"But I do... okay lets do this..."
Harry smiled "thank you..."
- - - - - -
Time snapped to normal and Kitty phased through Paul he screamed in shock as energy ripped through him
Stryker turned to walk away to find himself facing a gun "you're going back to jail stryker" said Bishop...
Kitty Pryde rose up to see Bishop and a group of people she had never seen before.
"Kitty you okay?" Asked Bishop looking at her...
"I'm fine... but Paul...."
"Is still alive." said Harry
"What?" Said Kitty
"Paul is a cybernetic entity he was a computer that evolved quite amazing really... he could have been the greatest hero of our time but he caused such atrocities... and even if thing would have played out as they should he would cause even more... you and Paul were going to merge stryker "
"What?" Said stryker in shock and indignation
"You were going to house his conscience and try to teach him to be a better being to make up for your sins but the government gets hold of you and force a mutant killing program onto you... with the program in your mind it drives the two of you mad you kill 12 thousand people, men women and children, totally indiscriminate of whether they were mutant or human..."
"No!" gasped stryker
"Yes... however we have an offer for you. Come with us. Our master can send you and Paul to a place where you can redeem yourself for past crimes ..."
"Now hold on a moment here" said Bishop "he ain't going nowhere but jail!"
"Bishop... the only other way is to kill them both... I would rather not like my master I have seen the future of this timeline and its not pretty... like you I'm going to do everything in my power to make a better tomorrow..."
"Okay I understand but the others aren't going to like this..."
"Damn right I aint," said Wolverine suddenly appearing with the xmen and the children "Bishop what the hell is going on?"
"Well..."
"I'm Harry I'm a time walker. If the time line had continued as normal all those children would be dead and in the future the fusion of Stryker and Paul would cause terrible destruction...we have to put stryker and Paul in a place where those that would use them to do harm can not "
"So we just let them go..."
"Yes..."
"Un-acceptable "said Storm...
"How's about I offer something in exchange..."
"What are you talking about? "
"Michael and Shard, Bishop, Michael and Shard. Tempo can fetch them and bring them here...."
Bishop tensed Michael the boy, his charge, his son they had spent a year together bonding in that post apocalyptic future and then Bishop was snatched away and brought back
Wolverine whistled in surprise "damn bub... it's a deal"
Storm looked at Wolverine in irritation
Wolverine shrugged "look ro can you deny Bishop his sister and his adopted son?"
Storm sighed and shook her head... "No I can not as much as I dislike this it is a deal"
"You are forgetting one thing" said stryker neither "I... nor that automation have agreed to merge nor have we agreed to your deal... "
"I have." said the computerised voice of Paul
Kitty spun round as Paul materialised "I heard everything and my sensors can detect the temporal energy around you... I..." the hologram of Paul became tearful "...I did not understand I thought I was doing gods work but I have killed so many my hands are stained with there blood"
Stryker's eyes softened "Katherine was right wasn't she? We are alike...I thought I was doing gods work I believed it but each death I doubted...I killed my newborn baby and child" said stryker sobbing suddenly falling to the ground "I thought it was all the devils work but what if In killing them I was doing the devils work... I have never met a child with such purity and conviction in my life as Katherine how could I not see it the devil could not create such purity and belief in god..."
"Stryker, Paul "said Fixx "we offer you redemption will you take it?"
"Yes." Replied Paul
"Yes." replied stryker...
"Very well" said Fixx her eyes glowing the lights in mount haven suddenly dimmed
Paul's hologram vanished and Stryker's eyes glowed he gasped
"How do you feel?"
"We feel strange," said styker... "What now?"
"Locus take him to where he needs to be" said Harry.
"Locus as in the MLF?" I thought tooth gutted her. Said Wolverine
"He did but we managed to dip into time and save." her Harry looked away from the departing locus's energy signature.
"Where are you sending him?" asked Bishop
"Some where safe Lucas...don't you trust me?"
"Not if you were the last man on earth." snapped Bishop "but that's not the point is it... lets finish up the deal"
"Right." said Harry he turned to Tempo "Tempo open up the rift" he said Tempo nodded and before the xmen and children a rift formed
"Pretty" said one of the children a little boy of around 9 "what is it?"
"It's a temporal rift," said Graystone "through it you can access the bloodlines of time."
"Wicked" said the boy
Harry turned to Bishop "Bishop I need you to close by, Fixx needs to link you to Tempo. Shard and Michael have your chronaton imprint."
Bishop nodded and stepped forward Psionic Butterflies flew from Fixx to Bishop and then into Tempo who tensed and started to glow
Storm came up close to Harry. "Tempo did not have this much power when x-force faced her..."
"We've been training her," said Harry defensively
"What more can you tell Me." said Storm.
"Not much just that there is a meeting and mission you must go to while we're working to prevent our future from happening you not going will make any possible future worse." Sighed Harry
"I...understand." said Storm "...this...this is strange you know—"they were interrupted by Tempo.
"Boss! I got them..." Bishop saw the unconscious forms of Shard and Michael "but the rift wont close there's a major chronal backlash... Its Fitzroy!"
Bishop and Harry both tensed energy spewed out of the rift and as they raced forward
"Sage! Sam! Get those children out of here" yelled Storm... suddenly she realised in horror a boy the same boy who had been fascinated when the rift first opened had gotten too close an arc of energy ripped out of the rift past Bishop Harry and Tempo strait at the boy. Storm did the only thing she could she threw herself in front of the blast
"Storm!" Screamed Kitty Pryde
Harry turned to Bishop, "tend to your team-mate! I'll keep Fitzroy out!"
"You sure?"
"Sure! After all I trained him didn't I!" said Harry
Bishop rushed towards Storm and stopped in total shock Laying on the ground...
Was two Ororo Munroes
End of part 3
Next up: back to the Xavier institute and a very explosive reunion