Chapter 9.………Massacres

Unknown Location…………..

Madam Web sat in her chair looking at her tarot cards, when all of a sudden she felt a dark power surge flow through her and then she received a vision.

A growing darkness. In the middle of a large battlefield, strewn with bodies of Earths greatest Super Heroes, stood a large figure that radiated almost pure evil. The figure looked up and…

Madam Web's head snapped back and she then suddenly felt very out of it.

Astral Plane………..

Doctor Strange is floating around checking sure the mystical barriers are fine, when all of a sudden, an enveloping darkness started to gather. When he moved to investigate, he was violently shoved out of the Astral Plane.

The Outside Planes…..

The Watcher shook his head. He has watched this Earth and many like it for thousands of years but, even he could not fathom why, the current events were happening.

But he did know The people of this particular world are going to have it rough, just because a mad man had to bring one of the greatest evils in all of reality back to life.

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A month following Eugene's Disappearance and Willow's power surge…………..

Many things have changed in the past month. The Professor sent Kitty to the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, Scotland, to recover and heal. Peitro and Wanda were allowed to join the team, X-Factor.

Alex showed up with his teammate and new girlfriend, Lorna Dane, (aka, Polaris.) Both Willow and Rogue remained unconscious the whole time. Paige, Jubilee, Angelo, and Rahne had awoken and joined, or rejoined the New Mutants.

The Med Lab………..

April, (aka, Shocker.), was sitting next to the med bed when she noticed that Willow was finally awake. April jumped up and ran to the door and shouted, "Professor, Beast, Willow's awake."

Beast and the Professor quickly made their way into the room. After Beast checked her over and she was sitting up in the bed, Xavier looked at her and asked, "Is there anything you remember about your power surge? Like what may have caused it?"

Willow thought a moment and then began to speak. "When he started to speak to me I connected with him." Xavier had no need to ask who he was, he already knew. "When whatever started it caused a psychic back lash into me and when Rogue touched me, it connected here with the pain and the agony."

A few hours later down in the Morlock tunnels………..

Evan Daniels, (aka, Spyke), ran and hid in the tunnels. He did not know why the Morlock's were getting massacred but he knew that he had to get to the X-Men warn them.

When Evan decided he was say, he spun and ran right smack dab into the leader of the attackers.

The figure looked at Evan and the reached forward and pulled a bone spike from the stunned boy's body. He then shoved right through Evan's shoulder, leaving a large ugly wound.

Then it spoke, "The only reason why you still live is you are now a messenger. Tell them that a new age is coming and there is nothing that they can do stop it. This is only the beginning. The Blood has now began to flow, and only when I am through will it ever stop." Then the figure vanished.

Evan then stumbled forward and suddenly tripped over a body. When he turned and looked at it, he saw that it was, Annalee. After a moment he then noticed two feathers, one white one black, laying on her bloody chest, in the shape of an X. With a sickened heart Even turned and stumbled away in search of the X-Men.

Meanwhile in the Rec room…

Most of the other students were watching TV, when all of a sudden a news flash appeared on the screen…

News…….

Trish Tilby, a very good looking female reporter, was standing on the sidewalk in front of the New York Public Library. She then spoke, "I am here at the NY Public Library where another of our great cities Super heroes have been found."

With that the Camera pans up and shows that a figure is hanging in front of the Library. When the camera zooms closer every body can see that it is Spider-Man.

After a moment, Trish's voice says, "Ladies and Gentlemen. I have some terrible news. I have just learned that the super hero known as Daredevil has died, in the hospital, after undergoing surgery, after being attacked by as yet an unknown attacker."

Rec Room………..

All of the mutants in the Rec room are shocked and stunned by this news.

Xavier's office……..

After hearing this latest news, he buried his face into his hands. Bad things were coming and he knew not how to keep his children safe.

TBC…………………