When the Neo Come (1 of 3)
New Son had grown quite a liking for the city of Himuntep. Ever since he had abandoned Ramses' army and headed to this city he had never once regretted his desertion. The place was a paradise. Everything about it had left New Son in awe. The same feeling reverberated through all of his Neo. Now that the Neo were fitting in nicely with the city it was time to start making themselves noticed amongst this world of flatscans and spikes.
"What are we going to do?" Domina asked.
"We're going to bring Gaia from the servitude of spikes and back amongst her people," New Son proclaimed.
"She's half-spike! That's why we were barely able to pick her up on our sensors. Why should she live amongst us?" Kilmer asked angered at the fact that an abomination like her would be allowed into the Neo's new kingdom.
"Anyone that has even the tiniest bit of Neo in them should live amongst us! Gaia will be bought back here. Is that understood?" New Son asked blue energy flaring from his body.
"Yes my King, but how shall we capture her?" Kilmer asked.
"We'll have to divide the Exiles. Domina I want you to take Barbican, Kilmer, Rax, and Anteus to the Exiles Base. Jaeger, Elysia, Tartarus, Seth, and Junction will attack the human city of Phoenix. That should divert the attention of the Exiles. Jaeger's group will begin their attack first. And once you begin your attack Domina I will insert myself into this plot. You have your orders. Now go forth my warriors," New Son exclaimed.
Exiles BaseTorrent blasted two of the Prime Sentinels back with a lighting bolt. He sent another Prime Sentinel that was trying to attack him from the side back into a fellow Sentinel with a powerful gust of wind. Then the wind redirected itself around Torrent's body and became a large tornado. The force of nature began to rip through the Prime Sentinels like they were rag dolls. When Exner was confident that all the Sentinels were gone he made the tornado surrounding his body disappear.
Unaware to Exner he had another opponent behind him. Fatale struck the boy in the back of the head with a kick and sent him flying to the ground. Torrent hit the ground hard and nearly slipped into unconscious, but managed to hold on. Looking back at the approaching Fatale he felt a great surge of anger go through him. How could he have let down his guard? He should know by now that Blink always liked to throw in surprises when she was conducting the training sessions.
Suddenly the ground under Fatale turned orange and black. Fatale jumped in the air at this sudden change, but it was too late. Lava erupted from the ground and enveloped Fatale. She was gone before she even had a chance to cry out. With that the simulation came to a stop.
"You never told anyone you could do that," Blink said over the intercom.
"I never told anyone because I never knew I could," Torrent exclaimed.
Blink backed away from the microphone and looked at Colossus who was watching Torrent's training along with her. "Did you see what I just saw?"
"I did, but maybe that's why Exodus classified him as an Omega. Exodus must have saw the potential within the boy before any of us did."
"Obviously, but just how deep does that potential run?"
Alex came charging through the door before Peter had a chance to respond. Putting one hand on his knee and the other flat on the door to give himself leverage Havok said, "Guys Exodus wants us. Something about the Neo attacking Phoenix."
"Finally some action! I was starting to get bored as hell," Blink winked at Peter.
"I can't say I feel exactly the same way," Peter sighed as he followed Blink and Havok out of the door.
Exodus was there to meet Havok, Colossus, and Blink as they came to his door. He directed them to come into his office. "We have a Neo attack in Phoenix. Five Neo to be exact. I don't know why they're causing all these problems, but I want them stopped. That's why you three are going to be taking Harmony and Crywhip with you to take down these Neo."
"Hold up! You want us to take two students with us?" Blink asked shocked.
"That's exactly what I said Clarice. Alex is right. I have to get these kids out into the field of combat eventually. Besides some of my students are about the same age as you. Why not start now anyway?"
"Because we have no idea just how powerful these Neo might be. Two inexperienced fighters won't help us at all," Colossus said stating his case for not bringing the students along.
"One inexperienced fighter Peter. Harmony was there in the fight with Magus and he did splendidly I might add. I watched almost the entire thing," Exodus said.
"Fine let's just take the kids and get this over with. I mean the Neo can't be that bad. Something is bugging me though Exodus. Why don't we just take all the kids and overwhelm these Neo quick and fast?" Havok asked folding his arms across his chest as he waited for an answer.
"You know of the international group known as the Friends of Humanity I assume. I sent Sunfire, Legolas, Red Lotus, Hope, and Slipstream to a FoH base in France. Polaris, Lifeguard, Vyper, Toxicwaste, and Trevor Chase are heading to a FoH base in Belgium. I want the rest of the students to stay here at the base in case of an emergency like what happened when Legolas and Impervious were kidnapped," Exodus explained.
"So you're trying to rile up the FoH now?" Havok inquired sarcastically.
"I want the Friends of Humanity to understand that mutants are not going to accept their persecution forever. We will make a stand."
"So we just go and do a pre-emptive strike? That sounds a lot like Magneto to me," Blink remarked.
Exodus slammed his fists on his desk and looked straight at Blink. "I'm tired of your Magneto comparisons. I'm nothing like the man. I just don't want to sit on my ass day in and day out while mutants are being hunted, killed and slaughtered. Now get out of here and head to Phoenix."
No one moved.
"NOW!" Exodus yelled. Havok was the first to leave and before he left he flicked Exodus off. Colossus followed behind him, but he didn't even take the time to look back. Blink was the last to leave. Looking back at Bennet she said, "I'm watching you Exodus. If you start to teeter over I will be there to put you down."
Sarah Pollard and Tony Crosby embraced and kissed passionately. As they kissed Tony stroked the auburn hair of Sarah and she in turn rubbed her hands across his back. The two of them had an attraction to each other ever since the first day they became Exiles students. Sarah had been shy though and didn't want to make a move on the sexy Tony. He had made the move though and Sarah was glad as hell that he had. She wanted nothing more than to just feel all of him.
"Did I walk in on something?" Amun asked as he stepped into the room sipping on a cup of chocolate milk.
Downtime and Phaser broke away from their kiss quickly and Sarah's face flushed red. Tony looked at Josh crossly, "Naw you didn't walk in on anything important. Just us kissing. Nothing big."
"Sheesh what's with the 'tude man? It was an accident," Josh said setting his cup on the table next to him as he used his hand to run through his light brown hair. He was wearing a Pokemon shirt that fit his lean frame tightly and a pair of black slacks. He had a seashell necklace on and an old gray digital watch around his left wrist.
"I think I'll be going now. I'll talk to you later Tony. Promise," Sarah said as she kissed Phaser on the cheek and walked out of the room. She turned back and blew Tony a kiss before he left. Crosby pretended to catch and smacked it on his lips.
"Ahh isn't that cute," Amun said as he kept sipping on his chocolate milk. Phaser walked right over to where Josh was sitting and stuck his finger in the boy's milk. With his mutant power he turned all the contents of the chocolate milk into their gaseous state.
"Hey man that was my milk," Josh complained.
"Hey man that was my score," Phaser mocked as he walked out of the room leaving Josh alone.
"That guy is such a complete ass," Josh said to himself as he got up out of his seat. It was about time for Charmed to come on. He loved those little ladies to death.
Himuntep"And the attack on Phoenix has begun I assume," New Son said to Domina.
"Yes my King it has. Our phase of the attack should begin shortly," Domina reported.
"Good. I want Gaia here and as soon as possible. She deserves to be amongst her people and she deserves to be told the truth of her heritage."
Domina shook her head, "I'm surprised that the Neo of this world didn't tell her."
"From what I can tell they wanted to kill Gaia. They were obviously misguided. A shame how they were killed really, but we won't allow that to ever happen to us. How goes the building of all of our defense systems?"
"They are going according to schedule."
"Excellent. Everything is coming together," New Son smiled as almost half a world away his Neo were about to come face to face with the Exiles.
