Universe: Marvel Multiverse

Characters: THE EXILES: Nocturne, Blink, Mimic, Morph, Magic, and Sasquatch...Gambit and Hyperion

Disclaimer: I don't own any of them. They are owned by Marvel I just borrow and play with them because I am sadistic.

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Author: Christopher Tyler Johnson

Title: Battle for the Crystal Shard

Chapter 1: Hyperion's End

OOC: Just so anyone knows. I am writing this set after/during the Hyperion series. I don't think Magic should have died so I changed it. That's just me...

Hyperion squeezed Magic's throat. She was betraying her teammates but she was just looking out for her own skin. She wanted to go home, to do what the time broker asked of her. She would not go home to her universe having killed her brother and family, so she obeyed the Timebroker blindly. She had told Hyperion the Timebroker's plan and now he was going to kill her to test the theory see if she spoke truth. Illyana Rasputin felt life ebbing and she concentrated behind the tyrant Hyperion. And then she teleported, her sword in her left hand. Fine he wanted to kill her she would play it the Exiles way even though she had already attacked Sasquatch. Mimic was watching her and Magic knew it. The boy scout couldn't and would never leave her alone out here neither would Morph.

Gambit, Morph, and Mimic came running from an alley. Or rather Gambit ran as Morph and Mimic flew. Mimic's eyes lit red as his optic beams trailed wildly from them to clash with Hyperion's own. Hyperion's beams drove Mimic backwards hard sending him tumbling into a building side. He emerged his face enraged and gleaming the solid bio-steel he had borrowed from Colossus. Charging forward Mimic's claws were out ready to tear into Hyperion's flesh. Hyperion had other ideas.

"You're all pathetic. This is your last stand Gambit? You're more sad then I thought." Hyperion hissed shaking his head as he brought his boot down on Morph's malleable skull. Had Morph had solid bones his head would have been crushed but as it was he simply morphed his way up Hyperion's leg in the form of a large snake. Magic wouldn't let Morph stand alone. She hadn't tried to kill anyone before because she was falling in love with Morph.

Teleporting twice quickly she came to Hyperion's side. Spinning her sword over her head she drove it into his ribs. It tore through Hyperion's flesh causing a startled look on his face. The mutant witch smiled shoving the blade in deeper. Hyperion grabbed her tossing her aside pulling the blade from his pulsing wound. Standing as tell as he still could he grabbed Morph in one hand the blade in the other.

He prepared to stab Morph through the chest killing the annoying mutant. But just as he was about to he was hit hard across the back flattening him to the ground causing him to lose his grip on both Morph and the demon sword. Laying in the rubble and bodies of dead heroes Hyperion shoved himself to his feet to see a blue woman and a large Yeti of some sort. More Exiles he presumed. Though he was bleeding he would still tear them apart.

"Blink! I have an idea." Mimic screamed to his lost lover. She was at his side before he could think it through. The purple portal still closing behind her as he told her his plan as quick as possible, Hyperion battling it out with Gambit and Nocturne, "You and Illyana need to teleport him in two. Use the sword and teleporting energies together. That damn sword channels energy!"

Blink was disgusted with the plan because Magic has just attempted to kill Heather. The Sasquatch was alive only thanks to Nocturne's ingenuity. Clarice had some serious issues with working with Illyana in anyway shape or form. But she didn't have time to argue with the Exiles leader or co-leader anyway. Teleporting to Magic's side where the blonde woman was still picking her sword off the ground Blink filled her in.

"That could work." Magic agreed her deadly eyes locking on Hyperion, "We should make it explosive just in case." She said nodding her head towards Gambit's direction. Gambit had just been thrown by Hyperion at a wall and was about to shatter his spine on landing. A black and purple swirling portal opened behind him causing him to pop out by the girls instead of meeting an untimely death.

"Gambit fill my sword with your power. It can pierce Hyperion's skin!" Magic said shoving the blade in Remy's face. The man was depressed that much was obvious but he grabbed the blade just as it began turning purple from the hilt up.

"I haven't done anything yet..." Gambit said to the color of the blade.

"I know just fill it with your energy." Blink said he eyes staring at the blade as she concentrated on pumping the thing full of her energy with only one location in mind, deep space. Magic swung the blade back to see Sasquatch going blow for blow with Hyperion but it was apparent she was about to lose.

"Heather!" Magic screamed hurling the blade to her companion. Heather turned to look at the traitorous scum who had tried to kill her to see the blade hurling through the air. She knew what to do. Her large paw grabbed the blade from the air turning in one swift motion she sliced through Hyperion's stomach. Before she could even 'blink' Sasquatch found herself without air. She was directly across from Hyperion in the deep of space. Hyperion smiled about to laugh just as the blade exploded in Heather's hand and Hyperion's side. It vaporized them both creating a huge flash of kinetic energy light on the night side of planet Earth.

Blink ran forward screaming, "NO!" Heather was not supposed to have gone. The blade and explosion should have teleported not the wielder of it too. Something had gone wrong but Blink knew it was already to late. Her eyes darted around looking for everyone. Morph was nowhere to be seen. Nocturne was already on Magic's throat.

"You tried to kill Heather!" T.J. said grabbing the front of Magic's costume bringing them face to face, "If I hadn't used my possession power to save her life I would possess you and commit suicide for you...you bitch!" T.J. said through clenched teeth tears streaming like fire down her cheeks.

"Separate girls. We need to find Morph, if he is alive that makes six. We move on." Mimic said demorphing from his metal form. He was blocking out the fact that Sasquatch was dead until they had a moment to rest. He could only deal with one crisis at a time. All of the Exiles, Gambit included, moved out looking for Morph. It was Blink who found him.

"Guys I found Morph he is over here!" She yelled from behind a large pile that had once been the operating building for the Fantastic Five of this universe. Before Hyperion had felled it and them in battle. Magic came to her side in a flash of her blue and silver orb teleportation.

"Morph!" She called out to him as the Timebroker laid a hand on Morph's shoulder. Magic was at Morph's side just in time to hear the Timebroker say it would be there little secret and fade out. "What did he say Morph?"

"I'll tell you later." Morph said turning to Magic's big blue eyes. He looked just past her to Mimic, the man he had been so enraged at over 'killing' Sunfire. Morph went to Mimic putting his hand on Calvin's shoulder.

"Look...I know it was an accident. You didn't mean to do anything and you're the most heroic man I know. You're the brother I was supposed to have." Morph said and Calvin nodded hugging the other man.

"That means a lot Morph. You're family and that will never change." Mimic said and the two stood embraced for a moment as the women and Gambit looked on.

"The Timebroker says we have twenty-four hours of leave until we teleport again. What do you say we get some rest?" Blink said knowing they were all emotionally and physically spent. What had happened today was to be forgotten. They were a new group and a new family, the Exiles would live on.

Nocturne stood arm interlocked with Blink's own. She knew what Magic had done and she would never forgive the blonde woman. Lines had been drawn between the two women and T.J. recognized that. The daughter of Nightcrawler was not one to go quietly into the night. The six Exiles all made way into Blink's portal back to their room. It was time for sleep, that commodity they had done so long without.

To Be Continued...short I know but its my intro more exiles adventures to come...maybe I will even cross it over with my other storylines! Make the Defenders fans happy....