Universe: Marvel Multiverse

Characters:

THE EXILES:

Mimic : Ability to "mimic" up to five other mutant abilities. Currently has Colossus' metal skin, Wolverine's powers (claws/senses/healing), Cyclops' optic rays, Northstar's speed/flight, and Beast's agility

Blink : Teleporter, has the Tallus and wields about two foot long metal blades she can fill with her teleportation energy

Magik : Teleporter. Knows dark art magic.

Nocturne : Possession powers. Can possess one person a day for unlimited length of time. Also has ability to pull a blast of energy from the universe Nightcrawler (her father) teleports through.

Morph : Changeling. Can take the shape of any object or person but does not gain that person/mutants powers upon taking form. Can also change size of himself in morphs. Limited flight ability.

??? : Come on if I told you know where would the surprise in the story be.

Extras :

- X-Police (Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Phoenix, Storm, Banshee and Psylocke)

- Acolytes (Magneto, Pyro, Quicksilver, Mystique, Colossus, Shadowcat, Cable and Nightcrawler)

Disclaimer: I don't own them...blah blah blah you know the drill.

Author: Christopher Tyler Johnson

Chapter 3: X-Police Part 2 of 3

Morph couldn't move his entire anything. He was in a tube of some sort and a light ray was being permeated down on him. Every time he tried to do anything in the form of becoming solid he just sort of sloshed around in a goo form. He was a liquid in a flask and he wasn't sure how he got that way. He was fairly certain after Wolverine had town him apart down on the streets of New York his pieces had been collected by Psylocke and Phoenix's telekinesis but that was the last thing he remembered before showing up in this tube unable to do jack. He felt the air around him cool off and suddenly he could move again.

Morph formed hands and a head first feeling around what he supposed was his cell. He felt a glass lining with a smooth metal top and could see out into what appeared to be a lab of some sort. Sidney was trapped inside a beaker with a lid on it. But who had turned off the light trapping him there? Morphing spikes along his arms he formed to his full size shattering the glass. When he did he found himself lying back on a large metal table. Two feet in front of him was a tall form with long curling black locks.

"Kitty!" Morph said his eyes lighting up with a faux joy. He didn't know how much of a friend this universe's Kitty was to him but he noticed she wasn't in one of the X-Police's black uniforms.

"Sidney Jones I don't know how you got here but the Acolytes are glad you did." Kathryn Pride said with a wry smile. Just as she said the 'd' sound on the word did Quicksilver came zipping into the room.

"Magneto is in place. Lets get Mimic and Gambit out of cell." Pietro said. Apparently the Exiles were being rescued by what appeared to be Magneto's team of this universe. Crazier things had happened to the Exiles.

Morph followed the two out of the room slowly. The hallways were of the very traditional underground super lair type and Morph wasn't impressed. He didn't realize it at first but then he recognized where he was, Avengers Mansion! He had just been in what had been Hank Pym's lab in his universe. Sidney tensed not knowing if he should trust these two the Timebroker said they were supposed to help the police but the so called X-Police had attacked them. They needed information and this seemed like the best way to get it.

Quicksilver held his hand up stopping the other two, "Wait." He whispered and zipped away from the two. His silver and blue blur didn't get far as he was blasted by a red optic blast from the end of the hallway. Cyclops was aware of the escape attempt that meant the rest of the X-Police couldn't be far behind.

Pietro jumped up and dodged a second blast from Scott Summers. Quicksilver shot behind Scott nailing him hard across the back of the skull.

"Erik we could use those security shut downs now." Kitty said into her wrist or rather into what Morph assumed was a wrist communicator.

"Patience Shadowcat its being done." Came back the familiar voice of Erik Leshnner aka Magneto. The lights flickered and then shut down. Kitty grabbed Morph's wrist and phased him through the wall into the other hallway and then up through the floor to the ground level.

Nightcrawler appeared in front of Morph and Kitty his sword out. This Nightcrawler looked very battle worn compared to most they saw. His left side of his face was scarred beyond recognition. Kurt obviously noticed Morph staring at the old wound.

"Lets just say Havok was an overzealous policeman." Kurt said and he glanced around as the emergency lights came up, "The security is down we have fifteen minutes before the computer gets it back up. Where are the others being held?"

"Two are in the main hold and two others are in the box cells built to hold the Hulk." Kitty said looking both directions down the hallway. No need to let the cops jump them.

"Where is Pietro?" Kurt asked standing tall for a moment before he heard a noise behind him.

"Stand down mutant and prepare to be terminated by order of the United States Government." Psylocke said from ten feet down the hallway. Banshee was standing behind her his arms crossed across his chest glaring down on them.

"How about no." Kitty said flipping Psylocke off. She grabbed Morph's wrist and phased straight through Kurt into the next hallway. Morph wasn't sure what Kurt did. He assumed he teleported away. Morph could barely here it but he could see the damage being done by Banshee's scream to the wall separating him and Kitty from the other two.

"We need to move Sidney. Which teammate of yours can help us the most?" She asked and Morph answered quickly.

"Calvin the oafs got power to boot." Morph said and Kitty nodded phasing the two through the floor making a b-line to Mimic's cell. She knew her way around the area with ease. Morph had to assume she had been here more then once. Within moments the two were standing in the blind Mimic's cell. His head snapped around hearing and smelling them both.

"Morph?" Calvin said softly trying to stand up and failing again.

"Yes O' fearless leader we have come to rescue thee." Morph said posing in a Shakespearean outfit. It was about that time he realized that Mimic was still blind. Reaching over he slipped the covers off of Mimic's face.

Calvin blinked looking up his blonde hair falling around his face. He saw Shadowcat with Sidney but didn't even question it. His shackles were phased off of him and Calvin stood rubbing his wrists, "Where is Clarice?"

"Still in her cell as far as I know." Sidney said and Kitty spoke up.

"Boys we need to move eight minutes and counting before security comes back up and we're all trapped here." Shadowcat hissed through clenched teeth. Mimic nodded dropping his metal form and grabbing Kitty and Morph around the waist.

"Phase us?" Mimic asked nodding straight up to the top of the cell. Shadowcat nodded and Calvin felt himself get a little lighter as he used Northstar's flight power to shoot them through the ceiling into the hallway above. About five feet away he saw another cell open.

"That's Gambit's cell." Kitty said and Calvin smiled.

"The escape artist already escaped. Who's surprised." Morph said shaking his head and he began flying himself next to Mimic. The two shot down the hall Kitty still in Mimic's arms.

. . . .

Clarice had gotten her cell door open and thanks to Nocturne not having a control collar they had gotten her collar off. TJ was trying to locate the others on the computer console at the end of the hallway.

"I can't get past the encryption codes. I have no idea where they are." Nocturne said flexing her hands. She punched the wall and Blink shook her head.

"So we look the old fashioned way." Blink said opening a portal and using it to slice the door open in front of them. The hallway was open and dimly lit by emergency lighting. Nocturne slid into it with ease not waiting for Blink's direction. She glanced both ways her black hair falling over her shoulders. She really missed her dreads, she missed a lot of things.

Blink teleport to the image I am sending you. Came a voice in Blink's head. She didn't know if she could trust it but she didn't have many options right now.

"Nocturne lets move." Blink said opening a black portal and the two girls disappeared through it. They reappeared in the street next to Cable, Magneto, Mystique and Colossus. It was just outside a large mansion with metal coverings. That metal was currently bending to the will of Magneto forming like liquid around the entire mansion.

"That Timebroker works quick." Cable said his battle staff helping to support him. He looked tired and worn. His metal arm was spread farther up his side to cover most of his chest he wasn't doing well at all, "Its take all of my energy to simply keep Jean out of your heads. The Phoenix is a bitch."

Blink rubbed her wrist. Obviously Cable had read her mind. She tapped the Tallus lightly. She needed answers and she needed them now. She stared at Magneto as his gaze remained on the mansion unchanging. Blink's skin tingled being this close to the man who had been her inspiration her entire life. She was glad to see him in the hero status once more. Or at least that's where she thought he was. Nocturne was visibly more wary.

Mimic burst through the top of the mansion with Kitty Pryde in his arms. He fired optic blasts down below him knocking Banshee out of the air behind him. Morph came out huge wings built off his back. Quicksilver and Nightcrawler teleported out with another person that Blink didn't recognize. The two teams all formed around each other in the street. Magneto was apparently holding the X-Police inside with his use of metal as a casing.

Phoenix is up and moving. Mags its time to go. Cable said psychically and Blink put her hand up on Cable's shoulder.

"Wait! Where is Magik and Gambit?" Blink asked knowing her team wasn't accounted for.

"I replaced Gambit. He died." Came the voice of the new man, "Magik is on a freight to Russia. The Timebroker said we have to rescue her."

"Blink can you teleport us out of here?" Mystique asked the purple woman. Clarice shook her head.

"Probably yeah. Where to?" Blink said and then she saw Magneto wince doubling over in pain.

"It doesn't matter just do it now!" Mystique hissed running over catching Magneto as he dropped from the air. Mystique morphed into Sasquatch to cushion Magneto's fall from about ten feet. She couldn't have known the affect that would have on some of the Exiles.

Nocturne's eyes widened monetarily and then she turned her head away from the demorphing Mystique. To see Heather's visage so soon after her death was nearly to much for TJ to handle. Pulling the roots of her hair she waited for the teleport to happen. The space around them folded and all the heroes were gone just as Phoenix came into the sky the orange bird blazing behind her.

Damn your son Scott! Jean said and then shouted another mental message to her team, Find them now. I don't care what it takes the Acolytes will be mine tonight. Officer X Activate. Search and Destroy.

. . . .

Magik sat her hands bound behind her. She was on board a large military craft that was being piloted by Storm. Ororo wasn't paying attention to Illyana in the slightest. Apparently in this universe her counterpart was some sort of Russian government agent. Magik pulled on her wrist again trying to slide them from the cuffs she wore.

Her powers had been cut off by the control collar but that didn't leave Illyana powerless. She could still tap into the Earth's magic ether. She could bend magic to her will and hopefully bring this ship hurtling into the ocean's depth.

"Rectial sectorra nomoree."Illyana hissed through pursed lips under her breath. It was a broken demon dialect but a spell none the less. The ship began to shake and a blue light came from Illyana's mouth. She knew she could summon the soul sword of this universe and that is exactly what she did. The sword appeared hovering in front of her. Ororo was still concentrated on keeping the ship enroot to Russia. Even more so now with the ship's hull beginning to tear thanks to Magik's chaos spell.

Pulling her legs through her arms she had the cuffs in front of her. She moved up to the sword still suspended magically in the air. She put her wrists on both sides and yanked slicing the chain in two pieces. She grabbed the sword out of the air and spun it over her head making her way to Ororo's back.

The weather goddess knew Illyana was coming and she made her feel it, "Sit down!" Ororo hissed and a lightning bolt launched at Magik. The witch deflected it with the sword channeling the energy away. She continued to move at Ororo who stood turning on Magik physically. She grabbed Illyana's wrist and head butted her hard.

The skies outside went black as Ororo's eyes went white. "I will crash this ship."

"What do you think I was trying to do?" Illyana asked a snide smile on her lips as she pierced Ororo through the gut. The black woman wasn't dead and Illyana didn't waste time on her. She moved to the control panel typing in a few quick key strokes she got annoyed slamming her sword through the console. Sparks flew and the light on Illyana's control collar dimmed. She had her powers once more. Concentrating on Central Park where they had appeared Illyana disappeared from the ship.

. . . .

Blink had teleported them all to the city edge just past a line of sentinel robots she had some how not noticed before. Magneto was currently talking alone to his team and Blink didn't like it. She didn't know who to trust or what was going on in this universe.

"Look I want answers now. Who're the X-Police! What is going on?" Blink demanded stepping past Mimic and Morph to make her way to Magneto. This universe's Magneto was obviously sickly compared to most of them. But that didn't make him any less dangerous. Magneto shook his head pulling the helmet off letting his long silver hair fall onto his shoulders.

"You should be talking to me." Cable said standing taller now. His strength had returned since he didn't have to fend of Jean's psychic attacks at the moment, "The X-Police are a group built by the government to destroy the mutant menace. President Creed passed a bill that declared mutants a threat and we've been hunted ever since."

"But the X-Police are mutants." Mimic said from behind his girlfriend's shoulder. He was standing as tall as he could to try to seem intimidating to Cable. Nathan nodded his acknowledgment of Mimic's statement.

"The US at first had the Avengers try their hand at taking down mutants. They succeeded to an extent. That was before Xavier mind wiped and killed them all for slaughtering his wife, Moira, in his arms. Thor was the only survivor of that battle." Cable said seeming to grip his staff tightly as he continued the next part, "So the government made Xavier the prime target. They actually used a nuclear weapon on his school. The X-Men all would have died with Xavier and the students if it wasn't for the fact they had been in Antarctica at the time. So the X-Men's most powerful member, the Phoenix herself, felt Xavier's death and flew back to burn the capital building to the ground. She met the Fantastic Five and Thor there. She killed Thor but the God distracted her long enough for Reed Richard's to slip a control chip into her scalp. This chip shut down her brain functions and the government reprogrammed her brain to be a mutant hunting machine. Using her immense psychic abilities she pulled a large number of the X-Men under her control and they became the X-Police annihilating all mutants besides the ones you see here within US borders."

Nocturne's face dropped and she looked to her father or what this universe held as her father, "What about Scarlet Witch?" She asked softly.

Nightcrawler was actually the one who answered her, "Wanda?"

"Yes." She said her eyes welling up at the look on Kurt's face.

"She was killed by Wolverine or Officer X as they call him now. Our unborn daughter torn from her stomach in the first roundups made by the X-Police." Nightcrawler said not sure why TJ had asked about his dead wife. TJ looked as if about to say something when Morph grabbed her shoulder.

"Don't TJ." He whispered into her ear, "He'll only have to lose you again when we jump. Just don't do it." TJ nodded knowing Morph was right. But the look of pain on Nightcrawler's face was nearly to much to bear. Suddenly the new guy chimed in.

"Can I say something?" The man said from the side. He was standing tall in one of the classic black and red leather X-Men outfits. The man had short spiky black hair with vivid green eyes, "Look I know I am new but..."

"Who are you?" Blink asked turning from Cable. She couldn't believe what Cable was saying. If Dayspring spoke the truth how could the Timebroker expect them to help with the roundups. It was appalling to even dangle the idea in front of them.

"I am your new teammate. The Timebroker sent me to..."

"We know that part." Mimic said scratching his cheek waiting for the man to continue.

"My name is Scott Howlett. You can call me Sphinx. I'm the son of Wolverine and Jean Grey...I'm named after my Dad's best friend Uncle Scott. I guess he goes by Cyclops usually." Scott stopped and looked at the Exiles, "The Timebroker told me before he sent me in we were to save Magik and then complete the roundups to move on. I have to move on...I can't go back to my universe like that." Scott didn't explain what would happen if the Exiles failed in their mission. They all understood the consequences if that happened. They all had an issue of their own.

"We won't allow you to complete the roundups." Magneto said glaring down, "Mutants should work together for the better of all. Not slaughter each other."

"I agree with Magneto. We can't do this mission." Calvin said looking to Blink who had said nothing.

"Look lets rescue Illyana and we will discuss this later." Blink said and she turned back to Cable, "Where will I find her?"

"She's on her way to Russia. They believe her to be the head agent of the Russian X-Police. Jean set them up a few years ago." Cable said and closed his eyes momentarily. Clarice could tell he was scanning psychically.

"I can't get anything on her condition or location off the X-Police. Jean's guard is to high right now." Cable said almost apologetically to Blink.

"Why do we need to rescue me now?" Magik said standing no worse for where about ten feet behind the group once more wielding her sword. Both her wrists were still bonded with the cuffs she had been locked in. Magneto removed them in no time.

"Okay so what do we do about the mission?" Sphinx said from the side of the group. The Exiles didn't know it but there new member was a telekinetic. He had no telepathy what so ever but his telekinesis surpassed that of his mother's own. He had once lifted the mansion from the ground using his mind simply to prove to his Uncle Bobby he could do it. He had gotten his codename from his father after the two had taken a trip to Egypt to see the Sphinx. Scott had begun casting blasts of telekinetic energy in the form of the riddling mythological creature and the name had just stuck.

"Who is this?" Magik said crossing to Scott placing her hand on his shoulder. She was already infatuated with him. His dark hair and light eyes made for a very appealing demeanor.

"Scott...um Sphinx. Your new member." He said. After making a quick glance of the group Magik nodded.

"So Gambit couldn't hold his own. How sad for him." She said looking to the group, "So we figured out our mission yet?"

"Yes but we don't like it." Calvin said and TJ nodded her agreement.

"I hate to interrupt but we need to move. We've been in one place to long and we are still to close to the city." Quicksilver screeched at them all. He had been out scouting since they had appeared and hadn't been seen. It was obvious the man never stopped moving keeping them all as safe as possible.

"Fine." Magneto said hovering into the air, "We wish you Exiles to join our fight against the X-Police its why we broke you out. What ever way you chose you must chose now because we're going."

Magneto's people all rose following their leader away. Blink and the others looked at each other. They could just take this team now and be done with the mission. But that would violate the rules of being a hero. The reason they sat out to do these things.

"We go with them." Calvin said to the team. Magik rolled her eyes obviously thinking Mimic was being overdramatic. The team collected itself and began to follow Magneto away from the city.

To Be Continued...mission ends next chapter