Characters:
THE EXILES:
Mimic: Ability to "mimic" up to five other mutant abilities. Currently has Colossus' metal skin, Wolverine's powers (claws/healing/senses), Cyclops' optic rays, Northstar's speed/flight, and Beast's agility
Blink: Teleporter, has the Tallus and wields two foot long metal blades
Magik: Teleporter has "soul sword" and controls dark magiks
Nocturne: Possession powers. Can possess one person per day for unlimited length of time. Also has ability to pull blasts of energy from the universe her father (Nightcrawler) teleports through.
Morph: Changeling. Can take shape or form of nearly anything.
Sphinx: Highly powerful telekinetic. No telepathy of any sort.
Extras:
X-Police (Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Phoenix, Storm, Banshee and Beast)
Acolytes (Magneto, Pyro, Quicksilver, Mystique, Colossus, Shadowcat, Cable and Nightcrawler)
Disclaimer: Just using and abusing them don't own them and don't make money from them.
Author: Christopher Tyler Johnson
Chapter 4: X-Police Part 3 of 3
Scott sat his arms resting on his knees. He sat perched on the brink of the bed in his lonely little cement room. Sphinx was not used to this type of Morlock type of existence. He and the other Exiles, he could tell they didn't trust him yet, were in the base that Cable had sat up far off the beaten path. It was a cold existence but one the people of this universe had learned to live with ever since Jean's fall to government control.
Their was a rap on the door of Sphinx's room and he turned his head his striking blue eyes and black short hair moving with him as he opened the door by hand. He didn't always rely on his powers to do things for him. He was an X-Man he knew better then that. It was Nocturne the beautiful blue daughter of Nightcrawler. Nocturne was a familiar face to Sphinx and his ex-girlfriend in his universe.
"Hi. Blink wants us all to meet up with her…now." TJ said her yellow orbs faltering on the muscular frame of Scott for a moment to long. Leading the way the two Exiles went into another side room similar to the one Sphinx had just been in. All of the Exiles were gathered in this room. Morph was mid-way through some cheesy joke when TJ and Sphinx came in.
"So then the nurse said…Hi Scott." Morph said greeting Sphinx. Scott could tell Morph was easily the most laid back of the group.
"The nurse said Hi Scott?" Magik said rolling her eyes, "And the joke is killed. Not that it was good anyway."
"All of my jokes are good thank you." Sydney said with a wry smile. Blink sat next to Calvin on the bed and she looked up at Scott as him and TJ entered.
"Okay people here is the deal. If we complete our mission we have to kill everyone alive mutant besides ourselves and the X-Police." Clarice said her short purple hair bobbing with authority, "Calvin and I have agreed that is out of the question. So we believe our best option is to take Jean out. If her control is broken according to Cable over time her affect on the other X-men could wane and the X-Police would be no more ending the round ups which is our mission in the first place."
"Question." Sydney said from the back of the room where he had moved, "How do we kill the Phoenix? I know we did it once before but that was a brand new Phoenix off guard and weaker. This Phoenix not so much with the weak."
Sphinx said nothing his blue eyes looking the Exiles over. He recognized a few of them. Mimic had been his uncle Bobby's boyfriend in his universe and Morph was the co-leader of Excalibur with Nocturne's mom and dad. But the other ones, Blink and Magik, he did not know anything about them. He knew that given the chance he could best his mom in a fight. He had done it before and while this wasn't truly his mother he was sure he could take her down. But kill her? He wasn't so sure he could do that.
Calvin had apparently been watching Scott and could read him well. That was a trait of a good leader. Someone that Scott's father had always been to the X-Men, "What is it Scott? What are you thinking?"
"I can do it. I have enough power to take Jean down but I can't kill her…I won't do it." Sphinx said and Calvin tensed hearing a noise down the hall. It was Pietro approaching fast. He slammed on the breaks just outside of the Exiles' room.
"The X-Police are here en masse. Pyro has already been killed by Officer X." Quicksilver said his body taking off again. Calvin leapt from the bed attempting to catch Quicksilver to get more info. He was using Northstar's speed but not getting anywhere close.
"Pietro! Where are they?" Calvin yelled. The man never responded zipping out the hatch to the surface. The other Exiles were quickly behind him and met Mimic at the exit. "We don't have time for discussion anymore. We fight for the Acolytes. Alpha pattern we spread out and work as a team get it people."
"Clarice and Nocturne I want you together at all time. Morph, you and Sphinx. Magik, you are with me. We take down each member of the X-Police as quickly as possible minimal casualties. I want all of you to make it through this." Calvin said and the Exiles were moving. Sphinx may have been new to the team but he had been an X-Man he knew how to fight and what to do in situations like this.
Clarice was the first to the surface quickly at Cable's side. Cable was currently battling the Phoenix above him. He was barely holding his own. Clarice reached out to teleport Jean again but never got the chance.
"Can't pull the same trick twice." Jean hissed verbally and Clarice went flying through the air.
"Magik grab Clarice. Nocturne with me." Calvin said going metal and side tackling Cyclops hard into the dirt.
Sphinx looked around at the chaos that was developing on all sides of him. His breath shortened as he lifted himself into the air. He shot up with ease. He reached out mentally in all direction using his telekinesis to nearly blanket the surrounding area in his own essence. Scott lifted his hands up and all of the X-Police were yanked hard into the air. All except Jean and Storm who were already aloft.
Scott reached into their bodies building a telekinetic shield between the base of their minds and the blood stream. Within seconds the X-Police began twitching losing consciousness. Scott turned dust flying around him in a display of raw power as Jean powered up the Phoenix and made a b-line straight for him.
Good but not good enough boy. Jean said inside Scott's head. Scott reached out clenching his fist choking his own mother. She flailed back and Storm came flying down. Ororo was knocked from the air by Magneto himself. The man was hovering in the air warping metal around the claustrophobic woman.
"Blink I will not kill her." Scott said his mother's form hurtling into the ground under his power. Jean hit the ground unconscious. Landing at her side the wake of his power all around them, "And I will not allow another to kill her either."
Magneto landed next to Blink and Sphinx his arms crossed in front of him. "You won't have to." The man said nearly collapsing as he touched earth. This Magneto was very weak compared to the ones in other universes.
Mystique was at his side holding him up. A small snarl was heard as Officer X began to wake up from his slumber but that was quickly but down by Pyro, "Stay down lil dog. De big boys are playin' savvy." Pyro said a fire monkey perched on Wolverine's chest.
Magneto gripped both sides of Jean's head, "I have been waiting to get close enough to do this for a long time." Erik's hands glowed with a soft blue glow and Jean's body went taut. Her eyes snapped open and for a moment Mystique and Blink began to back off. But then the corner of Jean's skull just above her left eye began to bleed as the chip controlling Jean exited through her skin. Magneto collapsed backwards onto the ground having used up the last of his power he was to weak to go on.
Jean lay in pain as her surrounding for the first time in years became aware to her. The last years of her life had been like watching herself do things on a television screen. Able to see and hear all without being able to stop it. Jean felt Magneto's mind die behind her. She started to rise up using her arms for the first time since she had been captured but the pain in her skull was to much. She collapsed again. Calling up the Phoenix she lifted into the air her skull repairing itself.
"The Tallus says we are moving on." Blink said and Sphinx nodded his eyes not leaving his mother's visage. The Exiles began to glow with purple energy and as they faded from existence they heard Jean yell at the top of her lungs.
"Tonight the humans will burn!"
To Be Continued…next mission
