Only the Lonely

Chapter 9: Chaos at Nelson's Column

By

The Uncanny R-Man

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel.

Shout Outs-

Ellen- Hank and Cecilia loving? Maybe… My Flash fics are the bets one you've read in the DC-Verse, huh? Are you hitting on me?

Agent-G- Yeah, that's who Cecilia Reyes is, she also had a kind-of relationship with Beast too. So know you know about another possible pairing for this fic. Heh.

Thanks to- SperryDee.

Author's Note- 'Blah'- Telepathy.

London-

It was a typically cold London day and the small group of X-Men were taking in the sights. Hank and Kurt didn't need to wrap up particularly warm as they already had coats of fur on their bodies and Meggan could just use her powers to grow some hair. That wasn't the case with Kitty and Pete however as they clung together to keep warm.

'It's like, alright for some.' Kitty muttered as she clutched close to Pete. 'Some of us aren't all warm and fuzzy already.'

'Sounds like somebody's jealous.' Meggan teased. 'I'm sure that the shops'll be nice and cozy for you.'

'Oh yeah, that's just what we want.' Pete groaned. 'More bloody shops, I'd rather stay out here and freeze my arse off.'

'We only need to see Nelson's Column, then we can go back to out nice, warm hotel rooms.' Hank said.

'Who vas zhis Nelson guy anyway?' Kurt asked. 'Vhas it zhat bully kid form ze Simpsons?'

'And I thought you were smart.' Pete snorted. 'Horatio Nelson is one of England's greatest naval heroes. He's been in such battles as the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Waterloo…'

'The Battle of Hoth…' Meggan giggled.

'The Battle of Ho… Wait a minute; you're takin' the piss, ain'cha?'

'L'il bit.' Meggan shrugged.

'And I believe the Battle of Waterloo was on land.' Hank said.

'I knew that…' Pete said, his eyes darting about nervously. 'I was just testin'…'

'Sure you were Pete.' Kitty snorted. 'And I'm Wonder Woman.'

'Well, any time you wanna tie me up with yer golden lasso, be my guest.' Pete said with a cheeky wink.

'Eww, get away from me you freak!' Kitty winced as she swatted Pete upside the head. 'Pervert!'

'Vell I think it's nice to get avay from zhe X-Mansion.' Kurt said. 'No Danger Room sessions, no Scott bossing us about, no bad guys vanting zheir butts kicked…'

As if in reply, a car came flying through the air, making the quintet of mutants duck for cover.

'You had to open your bloody mouth.' Pete muttered.

Elsewhere-

Trafalgar Square was in a state of chaos, cars had been knocked over and huge craters had been punched into the ground, in other words, the Juggernaut was in town!

Any tourists that decided to visit Nelson's Column had wisely retreated once Juggernaut had gone on a rampage.

Juggernaut had picked up a beer delivery van and was about to drink the whole lot when he felt a piercing scream cut through his head. Juggernaut flung the truck to one side.

'Didn't ye know that too much beer damages yuir kidney?' A readheaded girl dressed in a green and yellow costume asked.

'I'll crush ya!' Juggernaut bellowed as he swatted at the brightly clad redhead but she just let rip with another sonic scream, which sent Juggernaut crashing into more vacant vehicles.

'Geez Terry, leave some for us.' A guy dressed in a Union Jack-style suit of armour said as he flew down to the ground.

'Oh aye, help yuirself, Cap.' Theresa Cassidy, aka the Irish mutant Siryn, muttered. 'I dinnae want tae anger the all-powerful saviour o' Britain!'

'You'll have to excuse my brother.' A purple-haired girl, Psylocke, said. 'He's prone to acting all macho and stuff.'

'And I love you too, Betts.' Captain Britain sighed as he flew towards Juggernaut, getting ready to put him down.

'It's gonna take more than three kids to take down the Unstoppable Juggernaut!' Juggernaut bellowed.

'You might wanna recount that, mate.'

'What the Hell?'

'There's four of us and we're gonna kick your arse.'

Juggernaut spun around and saw a brown-haired guy with some kind of bandages wrapped around his mouth and upper torso.

'And what're you gonna do about it, Squirt?' Juggernaut snorted.

'This…' The bandage-wearing guy said as he pulled them away to reveal something that looked like fire coming out of his chest.

Juggernaut barely had time to make a move before the fire belched from the guy's chest, sending him flying into the air, demolishing one of the stone lions standing nearby Nelson's Column.

'Bloody Hell, Chamber!' Psylocke hissed. 'We're supposed to be saving the city, not smashing the sodding place up!'

'Well excuse me if a precious stone lion gets ruined, luv.' Chamber replied. 'I was only doin' me job.'

'And we'll have to do a better job that this if we're going to defeat Juggernaut.' Captain Britain said. 'Any ideas?'

'I was kindae thinkin' oh hittin' him until he fell down.' Siryn said.

'Oh yeah, that seems to be working well so far.' Chamber snorted.

'Well, I'd like tae see you come up wi' somethin' better, Jono.' Siryn replied.

'Who was the one that knocked the bloke on his arse?' Chamber asked.

'Well, he's getting up anyway so we're gonna have to keep on piling it on.' Captain Britain said. 'I'm not leaving until this guy is down.'

'Your funeral, bub.' Juggernaut shrugged as he smashed his fists into the ground, knocking the heroes down with a mini-earthquake.

'Haw, you kids are a loada nuthin'!'

'If that is the case, then perhaps you would like to take it to the big leagues, Cain!'

Juggernaut spun around to see Hank and the other X-Men all suited up in their X-Gear.

'Great, now I get to waste some X-Wimps too!' Juggernaut snorted. 'Bring it!'

And with that, the X-Men leapt in to attack. Kurt was the first as he teleported on to Juggernaut's shoulders and unlatched his helmet. Juggernaut tried to swat at the fuzzy elf but Kurt was too fast and teleported on to the other latch before Juggernaut's fists could make contact.

Once Kurt had unlatched Juggernaut's helmet, which left him open to Psylocke's attack. The purple-haired Brit's hand glowed with pink energy as a knife formed out of it. Psylocke let out a battle cry and plunged the psychic knife into the back of Juggernaut's head, eliciting a scream of pain from the giant powerhouse.

One psychic knife wasn't enough to defeat Juggernaut however as he grabbed Psylocke off his back and flung her against a car, knocking her out.

'Hey Tubby, didn't your mother tell you that it isn't nice to hit ladies?' Meggan said as she slugged Juggernaut on the chin.

'You sure got the moves, girlie.' Juggernaut said as he wiped the blood form his chin. 'You even made me bleed, I gotta give you that. Now I'm gonna kill ya!'

A triumphant smile spread on Meggan's face as she picked Juggernaut up and flew into the air.

'So you're tough, huh?' Meggan asked. 'Can you survive a hundred foot drop?'

Juggernaut let out a yell of terror as Meggan flew straight down at such speed that they smashed through the sidewalk into a train tunnel below.

'Meggan, are you okay?' Kurt yelled, concerned that his girlfriend was seriously hurt.

'Kurt, watch out!' Kitty gasped as she saw Juggernaut slowly back out of the hole in the ground. 'Juggernaut's still moving!'

'A little help wouldn't be too much to ask, would it?' Meggan groaned as she hefted the unconscious Juggernaut out of the ground. 'Bugger, I think I put my back out…'

'That was some mighty fine work there, Meggan was it?' Siryn asked.

'Thanks.' Meggan nodded as she brushed dust off her front and straightened out her hair. 'All in a day's work for the X-Men.'

'You're X-Men?' Chamber asked.

'Of course.' Kitty replied. 'Didn't you like, watch the news?'

'The Goth without a face doesn't really like the news.' Psylocke replied. 'He's more for brooding in the basement.'

Meggan blinked in surprise at the sight of the purple-haired Brit.

'Betsy, is that you?'

'Well who did you think it was?' Psylocke snorted. 'Father bloody Christmas?'

Meggan let out a squeal of glee and grabbed Psylocke in a huge hug.

'Omigod, it's soo wonderful to see you again, Betts!' Meggan squealed. 'Since when did you have mutant powers?'

'Couple of years now.' Psylocke replied.

'Must've been popular with your brother.' Meggan snorted bitterly.

'Why don't you ask him yourself?' Psylocke asked as she indicated the guy in the Union Jack armour.

Meggan watched dumbstruck as Captain Britain removed his helmet to reveal the handsome features of a guy that she knew all too well.

'Didn't see that coming.' Meggan sniffed. 'So what are you now, the sacred guardian of the British Isles?'

'Pretty much, yeah.' Brian Braddock replied. 'I'm really sorry for dumping you because you were a mutant.'

'Save it, Brian.' Meggan shrugged. 'I'm not in the mood for apologies. I just wanna go back to the hotel and sleep for a year.'

'Why not come back to ours?' Siryn asked. 'We could fix up those cuts an' bruises o' yuirs.'

Meggan looked back to Hank and the others for confirmation.

'Well I don't see why we can't do that.' Hank said. 'It will be nice to get in from the cold.'

'Says the bloke wearing the yellow Speedo.' Pete snorted.

Excalibur HQ-

Once the authorities had taken Juggernaut away, Meggan and the others joined Excalibur, as Psylocke and do were called, in their hi-tech headquarters underneath the Houses of Parliament.

Psylocke was taking care of the introductions.

'Guys, these are Hank McCoy, Kitty Pryde, Pete Wisdom, Meggan and Kurt Wagner.' The purple-haired telepath explained. 'You guys already know Theresa Cassidy, that's Siryn. Jono Starsmore, Chamber and Brian Braddock, Captain Britain. These two oldies are Sean Cassidy, Terry's dad and Cecilia Reyes, our chief medical officer.

Psylocke indicated a red-haired guy wearing a green and yellow costume similar to Siryn's and an African-American woman with braided hair dressed in a yellow jumpsuit and a lab coat.

'Are you the Cecilia Reyes?' Hank asked.

'The one and only.' Cecilia replied. 'Why, have we met?'

'Remember the Greenwich Convention Hall, two-thousand-and-one?' Hank prompted.

Cecilia wracked her brain for the memory. Then it came to her…

'The Dr Who convention!' She said. 'You were dressed as Tom Baker, in that silly long scarf…'

'And you were dressed as a Cyber…woman.' Hank said.

'Man, don't times change?' Cecilia chuckled. 'You've changed a lot since then. Blue suits you.'

'Really, do you think so?' Hank asked, brow raised in curiosity.

'Oh yeah, blue's my favourite colour.' Cecilia nodded.

Hank's jaw fell open slightly at the comment, he had hardly any female attention since his mutant, apart form that horrible television reporter, but Hank preferred not to think of that.

'Perhaps you would like to discuss things further?' hank asked.

'Why? You asking me on a date?' Cecilia asked, a cheeky smile crossing her lips.

Hank stumbled for an answer.

'I uh… Umm… Oh my stars and garters…'

'Aww, you look so cute when you stutter.' Cecilia chuckled. 'I'll pick you up at eight, 'kay? I know this killer nightclub nearby. Seeya…'

Hank just stood there dumbstruck as Cecilia blew him a kiss and walked away.

'I… Wha… Huh…?'

Kurt just shook his head and patted Hank on the back.

'Velcome to ze vorld of romance, Herr McCoy.' Kurt said. 'May God have mercy on your soul…'

TBC…

Next: Blushing Beast, Drunken Kitty

The X-Men join Excalibur for a trip to the pub and wackiness inevitably ensues. Also, what kind of drunk is Kitty Pryde? Sloppy or violent? Tune in next time to find out…