Chapter 9
The Fight is On
It had been a couple of minutes since the seven members of The X-Men's Charlie Team had been dropped off near the entrance to the Weapon X compound in northern Canada, and so far, they've met with no resistance,
"I don't like this." Kim said, looking around,
"Me neither," Ron agreed, looking around as well, "I mean, everything I've heard about Magneto, you would think that he would at least have a few sentries roaming around."
"He's right, y'all," Cannonball said, looking at Kim, and Ron, "Magneto's plumb crazy, but he's not stupid, he'd have his people out here, watchin' for us."
"I'm getting a little nervous here, I'm sensing several people around us, but there's no one here." Monique said, her eyes closed, she had been scanning the area for thoughts ever since they had left the jet,
"Jean, talk to me, what's the sitch?" Kim asked,
"It's all clear, until you get inside, then, there's a few sentries near a door about a hundred yards from the main entrance, you need to take them out, otherwise, this whole party will be for nothing." Jean said, communicating telepathically to the team,
"Okay, Ron, do you think you can get in there, disrupt the electronics, and take out the sentries?" Kim asked,
"On it, I'll be back in a few." Ron said, jumping into a high voltage cable near the main entrance, and disappearing,
Inside of the facility:
Ron had found the right cables to the main control box, and had disabled them, now, he was looking for the sentries that Jean had mentioned, he was just about to give up, when he saw them, two men, dressed in black, standing near the front door,
"Goodnight, boys." Ron said, shooting out of the cable, and hitting them with a powerful jolt of electricity, he then walked up to the door, and took out the coded lock, allowing the door to be opened from the outside.
"What took you so long?" Kim asked playfully,
"Did you have me on the clock again?" Ron asked, smiling back,
"No, I'm just playing you, Ron." Kim said, smiling widely,
"But I did, Ron, not up to your usual time." Bonnie said, laughing,
"Very funny, Bon-Bon." Ron said, making Bonnie blush a very dark shade of red,
"Not in front of Sam." Bonnie said,
"He'll find out sooner, or later." Ron said, laughing heartily,
"Best he finds out sooner, than later." Brick said, he too, was laughing at Ron's crack,
"Shh," Kim said, making the entire group go silent, "listen, do you hear that?"
Kim's ears had picked up a tapping noise, like metal against metal, and it was getting louder,
"Whatever it is, it's coming this way." Magma replied, her ear tight against the wall,
"Alright, time to get busy." Kim replied, now levitating herself off the ground, followed by Bonnie, and Monique, who seemed to just float a few inches from the ground,
"Alright, let's move out." Kim said, gliding in front of the group, and scouting ahead, they all watched, as Kim touched the ground, and looked around the next corner,
"We got three of them around the corner." Kim said, motioning for the rest of the group to come up to her in twos,
"Hey, that woman looks like the one that attacked us outside of the Burger King." Bonnie said,
"Mystique." Magma said, now laying eyes on the blue-skinned shape shifter, and frowning,
"I take it. You've had a run-in with her before." Bonnie said, looking at the repulsed face that Magma was making,
"Oh, yeah, about a year ago, she tried to get me to join The Brotherhood, it's because of her, that my powers became active, and ended up destroying half of the neighborhood I lived in at the time." Magma replied,
"What'd y'all do, Alison, make a volcano in Manhattan?" Cannonball asked,
"Just about, I caused a massive lava flow to bust through the streets." Magma said,
"Alright, I think we should focus here, take out Mystique, and the two goons at the door." Kim said,
"Got it." Ron replied, slipping his head around the corner, and throwing a huge bolt of electricity at Mystique, causing her to hit the wall behind her hard, and fall to the floor, out cold.
Shortly after that, Brick took out the two sentries guarding the door, by transforming his left arm into a huge oak branch, taking the two men off their feet, and tossing them down the hall like a couple of rag dolls,
"The ol' Brickster's batting a thousand." Brick said, smiling widely,
"That's good, Brick, now don't lose focus." Kim said, moving along the wall in a stealthy fashion, once at the door, she looked through the window that was set into the door,
"Looks like we got a few people in there, one of them looks like he's dressed in furs from head to toe, and one looks like a human frog, they're talking to a man dressed in black, and wearing a red helmet of some kind." Kim said,
"Sabertooth, Toad, and Magneto himself." Magma replied, looking through the window next to Kim,
"Sounds like we hit the jackpot." Monique said, standing behind the two girls in front,
"Yeah, now, get ready, I'm gonna count to three, then I'm going to blast this door off its hinges, once that's done, we go in, and make our strike, take them down, but don't kill them we need them alive, got it?" Kim said, looking at the group,
"Yeah, on it." Ron said, looking around the room, and getting into position behind Kim,
"Okay, Monique, Ron, and I will go into the room, the rest of you, wait out here, and cover our escape route." Kim said, the group acknowledged with a nod of their heads,
"Okay, one . . . two . . . three!" Kim said, hitting the door with a monsterous pulse blast, and charging into the room,
"Give it up, Magneto." Kim said, standing to the side, and slipping into a battle stance, while Ron got into battle position beside of Kim,
"I'm gonna tear you apart, runt." Sabertooth snarled, running after Kim,
"Don't say you weren't warned." Kim said, concentrating a pulse blast at Sabertooth's stomach, the huge man beast went down hard, but got back up,
"You just don't know when to stay down, do you?" Ron mocked, hitting the mutant with a huge jolt, equal to that of a high voltage line, knocking the brute into the wall, where he slid down it, knocked out,
"My turn to stop the X-gits." Toad said, jumping high into the air, only to see a huge fly, three times his own size, buzzing after him,
"Bloody hell, get me outta here." Toad said, jumping in the opposite direction,
"Any other takers?" Monique said, smiling, she was levitating off the ground, and had a huge grin on her face, but that changed in a hurry, as Magneto had hit her hard with a steel pole to the chest,
"Typical of Xavier, send children to do the work of adults." Magneto said,
"Don't even go there." Ron said, now charging Magneto, who encased himself in a ball of steel,
"Oh, how nice." Ron said, changing into a pure electric form, he jumped for the steel sphere, sending jolt after jolt of high voltage electricity through it. When the snapping, and crackling of electricity stopped, Magneto was on the floor, a little burned, but alive, and without his helmet, or his boots,
"What did you do, Ron?" Kim asked, looking at Ron with interest,
"Oh, just shocked him out of his boots, literally." Ron said, smiling,
"Well, let's round them up, and get them back to the mansion, maybe they'll have some information that we can use." Kim said, but before she could get a good grasp on Magneto, Sabertooth had awakened, taking her by surprise, he knocked her to the floor, which was all the incentive that Ron had needed,
"Sabertooth, you fool." Magneto shouted, too late for the man beast to hear, Ron had hit him with a jolt that would've killed a normal man, but the only thing it did to Sabertooth, was put him out again,
"We'll meet again, X-Men." Magneto said, carrying his beaten Brotherhood out of the facility by the metal that ran throughout their costumes,
"We missed him." Monique said,
"Why couldn't you do your thing, Monique?" Bonnie asked, walking into the room, with Cannonball, and Magma on her heels,
"There's something about his helmet," Monique said, "I couldn't get a clean lock on him until it was too late." Monique said,
"Well, let's get back to the mansion, and regroup, I wonder what Magneto has in store for us next?" Kim said, walking out the door, shaking her head.
And that's chapter 9, a little short, but that's what happens when the chapter is nothing but one fight, it tends to be somewhat short, besides there were only three in the room, Magneto, Toad, and Sabertooth.
Now, we know what Toad's weakness is, just like Kim, BIG BUGS, and as for Sabertooth, anyone for singed fur?
And Magneto, I guess he found out what happens when you mix steel with an electric charge, OUCH! That had to hurt.
In the next chapter, Ron's woes with Psylocke continue, and the X-Men's Charlie team really gets into a huge scrap with Monkey Fist.
As always, keep the reviews coming,
Doug
