Hey, thanks for waiting so long. Sorry I haven't updated, my muse is officially dead, and I've just completed the paperwork to get a new one. Anyway, here's the next installment
Hel watched as Sandy exited the club. Sandy was adjusting fairly well yet at times it seemed she preferred to be a loner.
Hel turned her attention back to the bar as a man wearing a long trenchcoat made his way toward her. Great. She thought, another guy who thinks my eyes are two lipid pools.
"Hello, Fräulein," greeted the stranger. His brimmed hat downcast, shadowing his face. Hel looked at him, recognition playing in her eyes. Looking him up and down, Hel noticed a slight movement in back of his coat. As if responding to her scrutiny, the stranger raised his head and met her blue-green eyes with his own glowing pupil-less ones.
No, no way. It can't be. Thought Hel. "Kurt?"
"One and the same, mein freund."
"Whatare you doing? You could get killed!" she hissed.
"Only if I'm caught," he replied with a wink.
Rena blew another puff of smoke from her mouth and leaned back against the side of the nightclub. Even from the outside Rena could still feel the booming bass of the music and the flashing lights. The "feel" of her fellow Elite members reassured her that all was right with the world as she took another drag from her nearly spent cigarette. Interesting, another mutant. And from the feel of him, he wasn't too friendly. Never any rest for the weary, thought Rena, as she dropped her cigarette and ground it into the pavement.
Kota and Jas finally withdrew from the gyrating crowd threading their way to Hel. As they became closer they realized that Hel was no longer alone nor was she with Sandy. Their young comrade was currently talking to a young man in a trench coat. Though neither of them liked the fact that Hel was talking to a stranger, especially one dressed in a trench coat, none the less, they let them be, they knew Hel could take care of herself. No sooner had this thought left their minds when it was replaced by a new and much more violent one.
A huge furry figure came crashing down from the skylight, throwing glass in all directions. The figure-a very masculine figure- snarled as he dived through the air towards his target, a smaller, muscular brunette that Jas and Kota instantly recognized as Wolverine. Wolverine's keen senses allowed him to turn, brandishing his claws, just in time to meet the awesome force of his nemesis, Sabretooth. The humans, who were always a bit skiddish when mutants were involved, trampled one another in their haste to flee the nightclub and thus escape the "mutant menace." Catching one another's eye Jas and Kota knew exactly what they had to do…kick some serious ass!
Kurt shed his trenchcoat in order to fight unencumbered. He was not alone however, as Hel took a defensive stance and Jas and Kota ran to flank them. The nightclub nearly empty of humans (save for those injured by the escaping crowd and rubble), had become an arena, one in which Rena and Sandy now entered.
Another crash from the already severly damaged skylight heralded the arrival of several of the X-men. Scott began shouting orders, "Logan! Move away from him! Bobby try to get a clean shot and freeze him! Hank cover him!" Logan paid no heed to Scott and his orders and instead delivered a skull crunching blow to his blonde assailant.
Kota moved near Jean, who was concentrating on removing rubble from around the few unlucky humans still in the building. She knew that not one of them would allow her to touch them, so this was the best she could do for them. "Hey Red," said Kota, getting the fiery mutants attention, "who is this guy anyway?"
"His name is Sabertooth, he's a lot like Logan, only…no adamantium."
Sabertooth quickly recovered and delivered his own blow-hurling Logan to the other side of the club.
"Bobby now!" Simultaneously, Scott and Bobby blasted Sabertooth with their powers, throwing the immense mutant into an adjacent wall to Wolverine, just as the dark-haired feral leapt to his feet. Sabertooth's nostrils flared as he scented a number of covert operatives surrounded the building from all sides, and in a moment, the helicopter that only he and Logan could hear, would allow these government agents to cover the roof as well. Logan-though aware of all this-did not allow himself to get distracted and lunged for Sabertooth's throat. A bullet from a colt .45 to the head dispatched Sabertooth's would be dispatcher, well at least for the moment. Leave it to the government types to try and settle a mutant dispute.
"Scott!" cried Jean as she too was shot, however the shooter's aim was off and only pegged her in the arm.
"Scott!" bellowed Rena, "you take out blondie over there and we'll take care of the sharpshooters!"
"Wind Ryder! Blaze! You take the ceiling! Fangs! Live Wire! You're with me, take out the surrounding shooters!"
Sabertooth grinned, Sandra was here. He leapt through the air to cut off her path just as Nightcrawler teleported to his side and delivered a well placed kick to the abdomin before bamfing away. Leaving Sabertooth, momentarily stunned and thus open for attack, Hank, the blue Beast of the X-men, took his opportunity and cuffed Sabertooth in the back of his head in hopes of knocking him out, however Sabertooth retaliated by whirling around and dragging his keen claws from Hank's left ear to just above the corner of his mouth.
Momentarily in shock, Hank withdrew slightly, giving Sabertooth just the opening he required and with a solid kick to the gut, Hank was down.
Sabertooth sniffed, gaining bearing on where Sandy was. His knees buckled as a rather large piece of the bar impacted with his back. Glaring around him, Sabertooth caught sight of the red-haired X-man, or rather, X-woman, just as she was telekinetically lifting a table that had been previously bolted down. Grinning, Sabertooth felt the chilling effects of Iceman's ability and tensed in preparation of the jump he would have to make in order to meet up with his former mutant lover.
Somersaulting backwards Sabertooth found himself face to face with Cyclops, the leader of the X-men. Smirking, Scott released his optic blast, which, Sabertooth neatly sidestepped, allowing it to demolish a portion of the western wall by which still rested Wolverine.
While all of this was happening the members of the Elite were dispatching each one of the shooters, nonlethally of course…
Kota had long since wolfed into her second nature and was tracking down each of the black-clad snippers. Figment startled them with her illusions while Live Wire shocked each into oblivion.
Blaze and Wind Ryder were using a slightly different technique. Wind Ryder would pounce on them from above, while Blaze would set them afire, not enough to make a human pyre, but just enough to scare the hell out of them.
With all but a few scattered snipers dispatched, the members of the Elite regrouped. Just then, a scream erupted from within the semi-demolished ruins of the nightclub. Each knew that the scream could only belong to one person, the red-headed beauty known as Jean Grey.
Rena was the first of the Elite to realize the situation as they all hastened to reenter the building. Sabertooth had Jean by the throat while, surrounding the pair, the X-men circled.
Cyclops' hand rested on his visor, fingers at the ready. Wolverine had awaken and stood in a fighting stance, several feet from Jean and Sabertooth, itching to run forward and skewer the blonde behemoth. Hank was a few feet from him with the same thought in mind. Kurt readied to teleport but a look from Jean settled him to instead stay where he was. Bobby stood in a defensive position in his iced form wanting nothing more than to turn Sabertooth into a furry Popsicle.
Hel held much the same view only she thought that Sabertooth would look much better with singed fur and maybe one or two third degree burns that just happened to make it through to the bone. Wind Ryder hovered a few feet from Blaze waiting for an opportunity to tackle Sabertooth, while Fangs stood in wolf form tensed, hackles raised, a growl deep in her throat. Live Wire stood next to her, electricity dancing on her skin. Figment stood slightly in front of the other members of the Elite, her eyes unfocused, slowly her body began to fade until she was completely transparent. Under this guise Rena made her way toward Jean and ultimately Sabertooth.
Sabertooth knew someone was approaching, he just couldn't see them. No matter, he just needed a second to snap Red's neck…
Jean could barely breathe, let alone concentrate on building up a telekinetic blast. If she could just push Sabertooth from her…
Seemingly out of thin air a horrible slime monster appeared in front of the pair. It was malformed, consisting of a gelataneous green goop that just barely gave the impression of eyes but it's size alone should have struck fear in Sabertooth's eyes, as should its tentacles which were forming and already reaching for him. Sabertooth, sensing it was a trick-after all, that thing gave off no smell, well, at least not the right kind. In fact, it smelled faintly like one of Sandy's friends. He tightened his grip on Jean's pale throat. Jean, taken completely by surprise by the apparition, reflexively directed her attack on the creature and unknowingly on Rena. With a scream of agony, the creature melted away leaving only Figment, the blonde leader of the Elite, to collapse to the ground.
Sabertooth leaned forward into Jean's face, his fanged mouth pulled into a ridiculous cross between a grin and a snarl. "Thank you." He said into her ear. Jean's eyes widened as Sabertooth crushed her windpipe, dropped her, and dove for the door.
Logan was on his heels, followed closely by Kota. Scott, Jean's beau, moved to her side and grabbed her hand, trying by will alone to keep her with him as she fought for breath and spasmed, eyes wide but blind. With one last kick, she simply stopped moving. Scott took her up in his arms, crying openly as the remaining X-men stood close to him, yet apart allowing him to grieve for the love of his life, and their friend. Jas, Sandy, and Kota raced to Rena's side attempting to comfort their friend and leader as her eyes dimmed and then closed.
This one was actually kinda long, it just hit 5 pages, which for me is huge. Anyway, I'll try to update regularly.