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Marc went and sat down on a park bench in the park. Rubbing his hands a crossed his face and heaved a sigh. Soon Volt walked up next to him and sat down. "It's been well over five hours and still no signs of wolf-boy." Marc complained. Ever since he left the med. Lab and went over to Volt's to fill him in. They've been searching all over Bayville for Delano for what seemed like forever.
First, Volt couldn't find reason to believe Marc on how him and Des saw Delano alive. But after taken in the concept that his father did manage to somehow create a way to save life right at the brink of death before. Even though, he only tested it out on a small bird though. His father always defied all laws and kept saying that there ways to make the impossible reality.
Well he couldn't say that he found his stepfather loony with all his ramblings and experiments. Made him always wonder what his mother saw in him. "Well if Delano is some where's in this town. We'll find him." Volt said, trying to reassure Marc and even himself.
"We did look everywhere." Marc stated while glancing over at him. Volt smirked at his comment. "Only everywhere in the city so far."
That caught him by surprise that he over looked that fact. "Jeez, you're right about that." He said and got up. Realization dawned upon him, which made him sit back down. "Damn, we have to search the woods/forest area."
Volt chuckled. "Well let's get started while there's plenty of light still out." He said and stood. Marc grumbled not liking the long hike idea.
After a half an hour, Volt parked his car on the side of the road near the woods. Getting out before Marc and looked at the surrounding area. It was sure going to take some time to search the whole area completely. "I still can't believe we're going to go through with this." Marc groaned. "Well it was your idea to find Delano." Volt reminded him.
The birds were chirping happily which was good to know that it was peaceful. The leaves were starting to turn a slight hint of reds, oranges, and yellows as a sign that autumn was drawing near. Marc focused on any other sign of life besides the animals that reside in the area. To no such luck as the vast amount of land was too great a distance.
Volt started heading in with or without Marc. It didn't matter to him seeing as he was a tough guy that can take care of himself along with what ever he's up against. Finding it eerie to stand on the side of the road by himself, Marc followed Volt. Keeping his ears open to any unfamiliar sound other then them and the wildlife.
Within twenty minutes of searching, Marc found himself bored. 'How could Volt not be complaining about finding this boring?' He thought to himself. "I'm bored." He said, letting it drawl out in protest. Volt shook his head and ignored his complaining. Like it would have been easy to find one person in a seemingly large forest area any ways.
A glowing, playing card was thrown towards Volt's feet, which caused him to jump back just before it exploded. "What the hell?" He surely wasn't expecting anything like that to happen. Marc knew that wasn't a normal thing to happen. Him and Volt got into ready for anything surprising to happen now.
"I'm sure that wasn't in the planned hike." Marc said while listening for someone new. "It also could mean that we're close to finding something that someone doesn't want us to find out." Volt stated, looking around in every direction.
Marc then picked up the sounds of someone shuffling cards and walking this way. In front of them appeared Gambit, shuffling a deck in between his hands and heading towards them with a smug expression. "Oui, t'at be true. Gambit didn't t'ink t'at one of you would be so smart."
Volt shook his head and gave a little laugh. "Well if someone knew not to set up this up. Then we wouldn't have figured it out." Gambit stopped the shuffling and held a card between his index finger and thumb. Giving it a quick charge before flicking it towards Volt, who didn't expect it to explode right away and stumbled backwards to regain balance.
Marc glared at Gambit after noticing that Volt was ok. His hands glowed as they ignited on fire. With a smirk he threw a fireball in his direction. Finding that the Cajun dived out of the way he concentrated on setting the hem of his brown trench coat on fire. Volt gave a right punch while Gambit was trying to put out the fire. Connecting with bone in his face, he quickly head butted him, which made him fall backwards on the ground in agony.
Gambit held his jaw where Volt connected and has the copper taste of blood in his mouth. With his head busted open from the head butt that caused blood to run into his eyes to blur his vision. They both knew that quickly taking him down was too easy. Gambit wiped the blood away from his eyes with the sleeve of his trench coat and spit whatever blood was in his mouth out.
Charging up a few cards and throwing them at the two, which they dodged and weaved almost got hit a couple of times. Marc poised himself up against a tree and Volt did the same a few feet away. The explosions from the cards made the wildlife scurry or fly away in a hurry from the surrounding area.
Marc looked around the tree trunk to see Gambit regaining his composure. Then turned to face Volt and his face was in shock at what he saw behind him. Before he could warn Volt something hit him from behind and knocked him down.
A mental fist to the face caught Volt by surprise. Causing him to go unbalanced and fall backwards. He looked before him and saw someone entirely made of metal, Colossus. Finding this to be more of a challenge, he got up and shoulder tackled him. His attempted was useless as he only got him to move maybe a step back and caused pain to shoot throughout his body.
Marc rolled off to the side before getting up. "So, the big bad kitty wants to play, eh?" He said, noticing Sabertooth and before he could do anything. The large beast-man leaped at him, taking him down and started punching and clawing him. Marc grabbed his shoulders, raised his feet up and monkey flipped Sabertooth off of him. He quickly got to his feet and grimaced as his healing factor started kicking in.
A bloody Gambit went and joined Sabertooth against Marc. His hands a blazed and ready but suddenly the flames formed into a skeleton warrior. "Well that's not good." He said and jumped to one side as the flame creature swung the fire sword at him.
Gambit took out his Bo staff and extended it, ready to attack along with Sabertooth as they stalked Marc. Volt got thrown into a tree by Colossus but retaliated as soon as the pain subsided. Wiping the little trickle of blood away from his mouth, he charged at the tin man, using all his strength to pick him up and throw him at the others. Colossus crashed into Sabertooth, which caused a chain reaction and knocked down Gambit as well.
"You blokes are terrible." An Australian accent cut through the groans of the injured. Pyro appeared and made the flame skeleton warrior slash at Marc. Burning the fabric of his shirt down to the skin, which didn't burn and the force caused Marc to grimace in agony. Colossus went to land a punch in Volt's mid-section but Volt caught the punch but Gambit swung the staff and landed a crossed his back. Making him drop down to one knee and Colossus picked him up by the throat.
Marc ran through the flame skeleton and tackled Pyro by surprise, which made him lose concentration and the skeleton demised. Despite the pain, he unhooked the hoses from Pyro's fuel supply pack leaving him vulnerable.
He then took notice that Volt was thrown by Colossus and landed ten feet away into a tree. Sabertooth ran and tackled Volt up against the tree after he got to his feet. Marc knocked out Pyro with a hard right to the face. He then went to help his friend out but was stopped by a card exploding in his way. Turning to take a hard hit to the mid-section from Gambit's Bo staff. Marc knelt down holding his stomach in pain.
After fighting back with Sabertooth, Volt took a hard hit from behind. Falling to his knees and by now was enraged. His eyes turned a deep scarlet color just before his body transformed into a Yanti. His lower half is now that of a snake while his upper half stayed the same but scales covered his entire body as well.
Colossus and Sabertooth were shocked by such a transformation, which they have never seen before. Taking them by surprise, Volt whipped his tail at Sabertooth, which the force of the blow caused him to fly a few feet backwards.
Gambit was shocked by the sight, which Marc took the opportunity to low blow him. "Mon ami, Gambit don't leave home wit' out a cup." He said with a smirk before kicking Marc in the temple. Colossus and Volt went head-to-head with a test of strength as they both had each other's hands pushing against each other.
"We seem evenly matched." Colossus said while struggling against Volt. "Yes, it seems as though it maybe true." Volt hissed with a smirk before using his tail to trip him. He picked up the tin-man and threw him at the kitty cat before he could have attacked him. Both, landing on the ground in a heap.
Marc groaned as he started getting up. He turned around to look at the damage Volt has caused. In the distance behind him he saw something past the clearing of the forest. Volt looked at their enemies and let out a menacing snake-like hiss. Sabertooth growled as he got up after shoving Colossus off. Knowing it wouldn't be a good idea to keep this up any longer. He took his leave along with the others; Colossus picked up the unconscious Pyro and carried him off.
Marc got to his feet surely feeling the blows from the fight. "Look there's something out there." He said, walking past Volt to the clearing. Volt turned around and noticed what Marc was talking about. He slithered quickly towards the distant cave. About half way there an electric cage activated and surrounded Volt. With a wild hiss, Volt grabbed the cage still in an angry rage. The high voltage started to burn his flesh but he didn't care as he forced the bars to pry open.
Marc made a disgusting face at the smell as he walked over. Soon Volt freed himself with his advanced healing factor. His hands didn't show any signs of burns or blisters but the smell obviously was a sign that his flesh was burning off. Volt and Marc then made their way to the cave.
Inside, it was dark and damp like a cave should be. Marc ignited a hand for light as they started venturing. Seeing as now he noticed Volt's appearance fully he was somewhat awed. "You know that's pretty cool on how you can transform like that." He stated with a smile. "It only happens when I'm enraged." Volt said, stating a fact that is true.
Soon they came upon several tunnels. "Well which way?" Volt asks, looking at all the tunnels that lay ahead of them. Marc focused his hearing on any other sounds. It was not that easy seeing as that kick from earlier gave him a headache. Sorting out the sounds of their heartbeats, breathing and the slight drip of water in the cave, Marc heard something else. He then led the way, taking the far-left tunnel.
After what seemed to be a honey comb maze they reached a dead end area. Marc put out the light/fire and peeked around a corner where a heavy light seemed to be coming from. Volt peered around the corner as well. An evil laugh came from the room with a mumbling of words as someone was talking to itself. About what, Marc couldn't understand seeing as it was incoherent phrases.
After taking a closer look at a different angle where they couldn't be seen from. Marc noticed that Delano was sitting on the floor chained by his neck and wrists. The sight boiled Marc's blood. He was about to run in there but Delano glanced over to see Marc and mouthed for him to get away from here.
Also, Volt stopped him by grabbing his shoulder. "We can't just go running in there blindly." He hissed quietly. "Yeah we can do that." Marc whispered, disagreeing with him. This went on for a few minutes before a voice interrupted them.
"I see there are annoying goodie two-shoes here." He said, from inside the room. "Well come on in." Volt and Marc looked at each other and shrugged. Wondering why someone says that and invites them any ways. They went in and Delano shook his head. "You two are extremely stupid." He says as Volt's hands got put in cuffs.
"What is this about father?" Volt hissed, trying to break free of the handcuffs. Marc looked at the seemingly strange man, which to him didn't look like a crazy scientist. Although, the tables he was at with all the beakers and liquids did add to the part. The scientist was standing in front of a table mixing a solution together. "Soon you'll see what this is about."
They were confused by what he meant by that. "Ok who are you?" Marc asked, for a name. "My name is not of concern but I can tell you won't be satisfied without knowing." He said. "The name's Xenos Constantino." "Xenos, eh? Sounds more like Xerox to me." Marc said with a smirk.
"You won't find anything funny in due time." He said, not finding it funny. Then glanced up at the ceiling through a hole that led outside. It was now nighttime and there is a full moon out which was slowly making it's way over head. Volt looked up after seeing his stepfather gaze up. "Oh shit! Not good, not good at all." He said with a worried look.
"What?" Marc's face fell into dead serious, as he wants to know what he was missing out on. "You'll see." The scientist said, still tinkering around with an experiment. Surprisingly as an hour slowly passed and nothing bad happened. Volt's stepfather had finished what he was doing, took a syringe and started filling it up with the greenish-blue liquid. Now the real trouble starts as the moon was overhead bearing down on top of Delano.
He started thrashing around as if in severe pain. Facial features started morphing along with the rest of his body. The chains were starting to burn his flesh as they were made out of silver compound. His human figure slowly changed into that of a lycan. The chains around his wrists were the first to break off then came the neck so now that he was free. He stopped thrashing around, as his transformation was complete.
Marc stared wide-eyed at what used to be Delano, not expecting him to be a werewolf. The cuffs around Volt's wrists released their hold. The werewolf looked around at all that were in the room with piercing black eyes. Looking to choose one of them to feed off of. The mad scientist was grinning savagely; knowing whom his son will go after.
Without warning, Delano leaped at Volt with amazing speed and agility. Volt threw him off with a menacing hiss. Then writhed away from this area and headed outside. Delano shook off whatever pain he felt and bounded after him. Placing the syringe in his pocket, the scientist strolled out of the room to watch the fight. Marc followed suite but wasn't in it for the fight. Just didn't want to be alone in such a cold cave.
Outside, Volt and Delano were going at it like there's no tomorrow. But Volt had the advantage of having a healing factor from Delano though. "What the hell is this about?!" Marc boasted, wanting answers now. "Just a prophecy being fulfilled." Xenos proclaimed. As he is awaiting one final piece to the prophecy.
"What prophecy?" Marc asked, having no idea what he's talking about. Which now he found himself believing that he really is a few fries short of a happy meal. With them watching Volt and Delano fight to the death in the moonlight. A sudden gust of wind came by and stopped, as Quicksilver stood in front of Xenos with Desdemona asleep in his arms.
"Better-be-happy-cuz-the-X-Geeks-almost-noticed-me-taking-her." The speed demon said quickly. Taking heeds to Fyreside's vicious glare. Xenos nodded and motioned for him to set her down on the ground. After complying to that Quicksilver quickly ran off as not to be dealing with a pissed off Marc. "What's the meaning of this?" He bellowed. Fire burning in his eyes, literally.
"Prophecy states that when two animorphic brothers fight and a lover must kill a loved one to keep the peace from everything going into a state of chaos. The brother who wins the fight then is the peace bearer of mankind." Xenos stated. Realization dawned on Marc's face and wondered how he knew about him and Des being well sort of lovers right now but I don't think you could call it that quite yet.
Marc backed away from this mad scientist. "I will not do such a thing." He proclaimed and noticed him pull out the syringe. "I thought you might disagree but this will change your mind." Xenos said before sticking the needle in Marc's arm and emptying the liquid into him.
Marc shook his head to get rid of the dizziness feeling. His head was pounding and the fluid was making his healing factor not deal with it. Looking at Des he felt the urge to kill her. Xenos handed him a sacrificial dagger. With two brothers fighting in the distance that seemed pretty evenly matched and now a decision that possibly can't be prevented.
"Kill her and kill her now!" He commanded. "I know you have extreme feelings for her from the other night." Marc raised a brow wondering what he meant by that. The mind control fluid hasn't totally taken effect yet.
"You didn't think that Delano had another reason for being there?" The mad scientist laughs. "Fool! He slipped a powder in your drink to bring out your feelings further then to keep them mostly hidden." Marc sneered at him, loathing what he did. He would have showed her his feelings in due time.
But now he was forced to do something that he always hated to do. Kill someone that's good. He raised the dagger over Des's body and a tear running down his cheek. Xenos grinned mercilessly but before he could calculate what went wrong Marc had turned around and slit his throat before jamming it through.
Dropping dead with his eyes wide was the last sight and the last time Marc wanted to so something like that again. He managed to keep in control overpowering Xenos's liquid mind control. Volt had picked Delano up by a leg and arm and swung him around in a circle. Letting go and causing him to fly into the air a great distance. Fate caused Delano's massive body to land on Des. She cried out in pain that made Delano get off and transform back into his humanoid form.
Volt and Marc heard the cry and went to her aid. Volt transformed back to his normal state as he made it to Des's side. Delano knelt down next to here with the freight of tears fighting to break free. Des looked up at each of them through blurred vision and with heavy gasps of air. "I'm so sorry I didn't think that would happen." Delano said, hugging her lightly. Marc knelt beside her other side and held her hand.
Fear crossing everyone's mind of her dying. Delano transformed into his white wolf form and lay beside her. "You can't leave Des." Marc pleaded. While the other two silently pleaded the same thing. "Don't worry you guys." Des told them in a shaky voice before closing her eyes. Delano stood up and howled. Knowing that she was gone. Neither Volt nor Marc could believe it and he walked away over to a tree and punched it. Devastation consumed them all.
After a few minutes of grieving the loss, Marc felt something heavy in his pocket that wasn't there before. He fishing out the thing from his pocket which was a rock. Not a huge rock but a good size one with a piece of paper tied to it. He untied the string and opened the paper. It was an address but what did it mean though?
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A/N: Holy shitake mushrooms this is the longest chapter I have ever written reaching near four thousand words which I'm proud of. And in four days as well. Now I hope this fight scene was much better then the earlier ones. Oo, Des died and what's up with the mysterious address now?