Games and War Part 4

"Glad to see you've arrived," Sinister said as he stood on the hilltop overlooking the city of Cairo. Coming up the hill was Sunfire, Colossus, Ever, Gilgamesh and Crystal. They were here to defeat the forces of Ramses Xavier, an interdimensional conquer. Having to work with Sinister was an unfortunate circumstance of battling Ramses's forces.

"Having to see this fool again makes me want to return to the Yashida Clan," Sunfire whispered to Colossus.

"What of the Yashida Clan? I hear Wolverine commands it now? When will you let your family know that you're alive?" Colossus asked curious as to what Sunfire had planned. When Sunfire was thought dead much was affected because of it, but what did Peter affect? He didn't feel like he had affected much and so he was beginning to wonder just how important his life really was.

Sunfire grunted, "Yes Wolverine does command it now and he can continue to command it for the time being. I'll make myself known when I feel the time is right."

Colossus nodded and now he understood why Sunfire didn't fight to go to Tokyo harder. Shiro didn't want people to know he was alive yet. Rasputin didn't blame him. He was going to have a lot to explain to his family. And Japanese families looked to be pretty hard to live in at least to Colossus.

"Ahh Colossus and Sunfire! I'm glad to see you're in good health," Sinister smiled. Shiro nearly leapt at Essex, but the strong arm of Colossus held him back.

"Cut the crap Sinister. We're here to help. Not to make small talk," Ever said coldly in reply to Sinister's snide comment.

"Of course Ever. Of course. I hope all of you are ready for quite the fight. Jadianna's forces number well past the hundreds," Sinister informed as he created a terrasect portal behind him. Out of the portal came Judas Traveller and clones of Feral, Sunspot, Magma, and Moonstar.

"Some forces you have Sinister. The ten of us are suppose to take down all of them," Crystal said pointing to the mutants swarming throughout the city.

"Yes we are and don't forget about her," Essex said pointing up to the sky where a woman who looked exactly like Storm had lightning arcing all around her and throughout the city of Cairo.

"And besides I'm plenty powerful," Judas Traveller boasted as he stepped forward beside Sinister.

"Not powerful enough to fight off Onset," Ever mocked.

With a smile Judas Traveller said, "I've made certain improvements since then."

"Sinister been givin' ya some genetic loving huh?" Ever teased.

"Can't we cut the testosterone and get to business please? A city is coming down around us and we're sitting here arguing," Crystal exclaimed.

"The woman is right. Let us get to business," Sinister said as he pointed his finger at the city. Feral, Sunspot, Magma, and Moonstar took off like dogs into the city. Judas Traveller surrounded himself with a green magnetic shield and took off behind the clones. Sunfire took to the air to face Jadianna while Crystal and Colossus flew to the city on a crystal sled.

Tokyo

"Never give in!" Exodus yelled as he telekinetically flung back three mutants into a crowd of their fellow soldiers. Bennet had another power he could use, but he was reluctant to do it. Though this case was dire. He had killed many in the field of battle as a knight and it seemed he would have to do the same here.

The leader of the Exiles concentrated as he lifted four mutants into the air. He once could feed on life energy to increase his psionic abilities. He would use that ability again. With but a thought he drained all the life energy those four mutants had. He left them fall to the ground on top of their peers with a sickening thud.

"What did you do?" Scarlet Witch asked shocked and surprised. She thought Exodus had changed. Crystal had leaded her and others to believe that.

Fabian Cortez came over and spoke for Exodus, "He's doing what we're all going to have to do. These guys can't just be knocked and hope that everything is better. They're killers and we have to be too!"

Scarlet Witch gave both men a scowl and ran off in another direction towards battle. As she ran she did a hex and out of the ground popped a dozen living Hulk statues made of steel. The statues leaped into the crowds of mutants and knocked them away as if they were flies.

F13, F14, and F15 used the powers of Harry Leland to crush the innards of any and all mutants that approached them. No one was able to even get a few yards near them before their heart fell into their intestine track. No one approached by air or teleportation simply because of luck. F13 didn't possess the luck abilities of his mother and F15 only had latent probability affecting powers. F14 on the other hand had more powerful probability affecting powers than her mother, Domino, could ever possess. F14 was able to consciously affect probability in much the same way as Scarlet Witch though in not as powerful a degree.

F16 pulled back her long black hair into a ponytail and pulled the zipper on her red leather bodysuit up to her neck. Approaching her was a large Asian man with one red eyeball and a long reptilian tail coming from his back. Placing her white hand to her face she blew a kiss at the man and with her forefinger motioned the mutant to come to her. The mutant growled like a wild animal and tackled F16. With a power that stemmed from her father, Apollyon, she drained all the emotional energy of the mutant and redirected it at the mutant. His red eyeball blew open and red pus flew everywhere. As he fell to the ground in agony F16 turned her hand into a knife with the minor shapeshifting abilities that came from her grandfather, Apocalypse, and stabbed him through the head with it.

"If only I had more of a challenge," F16 sighed as she went off to help her brother, F19 who was battling a group of green skinned triplets.

Nairobi

Star Prophet thrust her foot into the side of short mutant's head. He went rolling across the ground until he was suddenly lifted up in the air by the telekinesis of Mutant Forger.

"Goodbye," Mutant Forger said coldly as he launched the mutant at a velocity of 1000 miles an hour. When he hit a group of his fellow soldiers you could see blood and bone go up into the air.

Across the battlefield Plazm was throwing out globs of acidic plasma in a wide proximity. The globs were shooting out from all over his body and they were about the size of golf balls. When they made impact though they spread over about four times the area they had. You could hear the agonized screams of the soldiers as the acid enveloped them.

Worm had five mutant soldiers fighting for him fiercely. He had used the secretion that comes off of his body to control the minds of the soldiers and while they did the fighting he took control of more mutant soldiers.

"Pied Piper what are you doing? Get your butt in gear and do something!" Worm yelled at his fellow Mutate from afar.

Pied Piper nodded his head and pulled out his brown flute. He blew on it carefully and suddenly hundreds of flies and locusts came from all directions and began attacking the mutant soldiers of Seti Haller, the half-brother of Ramses Xavier.

"Look who has come to play with me," Seti said with a smile as he descended down from the sky. With just a thought all of the flies and locusts Pied Piper had summoned were engulfed in flames and fell to the ground as burnt pieces of abdomen and thorax.

Mutant Forger and Star Prophet looked up to see Seti descending from the sky. Star Prophet looked over her teammate and said, "This just doesn't look like it's a good development!"

"Not for you anyway," a voice came from behind the two mutants. Turning around quickly they saw another general of Ramses, his bodyguard and Seti's bodyguard.

"Get of here!" Mutant Forger yelled to Star Prophet. The woman knew Mutant Forger meant business so she took off in a run.

Ptah was the name of the other general of Ramses. He was the child of Black Bolt and Crystal. To his right was his bodyguard, Cyclops, and to the left of him was Seti's bodyguard, Chamber. With a smile Ptah said, "You think you can take us all mutant? How presumptuous of you."

Mutant Forger returned the smile, "Never said I could take you all, but believe when I say I'll be able to in a minute."

Throwing himself up into the air with his telekinesis Mutant Forger looked down at the battlefield before him and done something he hadn't done since the conflict with Magus. He used his mutant power.

Out of the sky rained three hundred mutants. All of them had minor telepathy, flight, super speed, and a sonic voice akin to Banshee. Pointing towards the ground the mutants crashed into the battlefield quickly turning the tide in the favor of Mutant Forger and the others.

"How dare you!" Seti yelled as he hit Mutant Forger from afar with a mental bolt, but found it had no effect. Mutant Forger turned around quickly his eyes blazing a bright orange color.

"My turn!" Mutant Forger exclaimed as he let loose a sonic cry that ripped through the sky and sent everyone below him to their knees. The cry had a much worse effect on Seti as it blew his head open. The body of Seti fell to the ground with a thud.

Ptah rose up slowly from his knelt position and yelled out to Mutant Forger, "This battle is far from over mutant!"

Suddenly fifty swirling blue portals opened all across the city of Nairobi. Just as suddenly hundreds of Inhuman soldiers poured out of these portals. Just when it seemed like Mutant Forger and his allies would win in came these new soldiers. This was the army of Ptah and the battle for Nairobi had suddenly become that much more harder.

Ptah turned swiftly to Cyclops and in anger said, "Some bodyguard you were!"

And with a powerful slap Cyclops head popped off his body like a bottle top. His body still stood vertical for a few seconds before falling down to the ground spilling blood everywhere.

"Chamber find the woman that was with Mutant Forger and kill her!" Ptah commanded angrily.

Chamber bowed and took in a sprint to find Star Prophet and deliver her head to his master. He would not fail Ptah especially after seeing what had just happened to Cyclops.

Johannesburg

"These Neo present quite the challenge!" Callisto said as she stuck another one in the stomach with her staff and quickly spun it around to whack another one in the head. If it wasn't for her receiving her god form not to long ago from her grandfather, the Greek god Apollo, then she would be utterly useless in this battle.

"Indeed they do Callisto, but I think my powers are sufficient in defeating them," Proteus said as he turned two female Neo running towards him into rabbits. With a wave of his right hand a large group of Neo suddenly perceived that spiders were crawling all over them and at the same time he gave them arachnophobia. With a wave of his left hand another group of Neo began to attack their fellow Neo in a fit of rage. Then with a clap of his hands he increased the powers of the Tans tenfold.

Nawon Tan suddenly found himself packing more juice than ever before. He was knocking back dozens of Neo with a single blast. Maybe with a powerful enough blast he could end this battle and be done with it.

"You're fight ends now spike!" Domina yelled as enwrapped Nawon with her energy whip. It knocked out the Tan cold and also gave Domina his powers. Feeling his energy flowing through her she leaped into battle with Ricki Tan who was beating the crap out of her husband, Jaeger, with his enhanced powers.

Domina reached out and grabbed Ricki on the shoulder and pumped him full of electricity. The leader of the Tans left out a scream and fell to the ground with smoke billowing from his body.

"Thank you Domina. These spikes prove to be more formidable than we had thought," Jaeger said as he wife helped up off the ground. He had numerous bruises all over his face. Fists harder than diamonds had been hitting him due to Ricki's ability to control his density.

"Yes, they are strong. I think I know the source of their strength though," Domina said directing her husband's eyes to Osman.

"Shall I handle him?" Jaeger asked with a smile.

"No that will not be happening," New Son said as he descended from the sky.

"Why not?" Domina asked quite rudely.

"We're making a new home on this planet. Ramses and the other generals are fairing well now, but one of my clairvoyants tells me they will ultimately lose. We Neo are survivors and we shall survive," New Son said as he outstretched his body over the battlefield and with his massive power plucked away all the Neo.

Once the display was over the only people left were a confused group of mutants. Proteus saw Nawon and Ricki Tan from afar. He told Axel and Igiro Tan to go and get their family members.

"That was over far too quickly," Callisto said as she walked up beside Proteus.

"Maybe they know something we don't," Proteus replied.

Cairo

Caliban and Craze were battling against Colossus as best as they could, but he was battering them away as if they were nothing. Every time they scratched he punched them back ten feet. Every time they punched he broke one of their bones. Colossus had never been able to do this before. Normally he would have had quite the time trying to fight off both Craze and Caliban, but now this battle was almost…easy.

"Back down! I don't wish to hurt the both of you!" Colossus pleaded loudly. All he got in reply was two very ruthless grunts.

Caliban tried to take out Piotr's legs and Craze tried to hit him high. Colossus threw out a kick and flung Caliban's head back so hard it snapped his neck. Simultaneously he threw out a punch and hit Craze square in the face. Numerous bones were shattered and his nose was shoved into his brain…killing him.

That was not what Colossus had intended to do. He knelt down and cried at the two deaths before him. Piotr didn't even know his own strength anymore and it had cost two lives.

"WATCH OUT!" Shiro yelled from above. His whole body was one ball of flame and before Colossus could even look up the two mutants collided.