Chapter 8: The Fight Scene

Dream landed the chopper. "Kitty!" shouted Lance. "Kitty!"

Dominic walked over. "What's wrong?" he frowned. Dream was tending to Mickey and Rae. "Guys! What's wrong?"

"Kitty may be in danger – the killer who's after her is here…"

Dominic's face drained of colour and he leaned on the parapet for a moment. "Okay, she's gone to a photoshoot in town" he said. "This- - This way I'll get us there fast" he said.

Lance and Scott rushed after the worried man. Dominic sped down the road with them in his Jaguar…Scott watched his face. Dominic was scared and then it hit Scott. Dominic was in love with Kitty but he couldn't admit that he was attracted to a girl who argued with him at every turn.

The car screamed to a halt. "Kitty!" Dominic shouted. Lance and Scott ran towards her.

"There!" Scott shouted as his eyes zoomed in on an approaching blur. It crashed through a scene for the shoot and went straight for Kitty. Kitty phased upwards with a leap finding a foot hold in the air.

"Damn!" Dominic shouted as the blur spun around and unleashed crescent of energy that sent him flying off balance. Scott unleashed a blast from under his shades… the blur moved on and swept down at him.

A vibro-blast from Lance's head hit it and sent it flying through the air to hit a wall. Lance smiled at Scott. Dominic, Kitty and Scott walked towards the shape lance had hit. Lance followed slowly.

"Did I get it?" Lance asked, his hand gliding over Scott's backside as he pressed through, earning him a grunt from the man.

The shockwave blasted Lance into the air. The woman flipped to her feet. "Allison!" kitty said. "Damn! Are all read heads psychopaths?"

Scott shivered.

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"Once we get to Cerebra Aurora can boost her powers and catalyse us" Scott said. "Then…then we deal with the professor, Magneto and Jean"

Mystique loaded her massive energy blaster and nodded sullenly. "Okay kid" she said. "We do this now like he said. Ready? Remember never leave a man behind…never say die!"

They charged through the gates. The sentinels didn't stand a chance. Forge hurled the EM shell at them; they crackled and lost all sensors. They struck about blindly. Mickey and Rae levitated through them, forming an energy shield around themselves so Rae could form a silver energy spear to lance through the head of one while Rogue, Gambit and Philippe destroyed its legs with energy bolts and tearing claws.

Storm hit one with a thunder bolt as Cannonball and Sunspot flew through it blasting away its chest. Berserker shocked it senseless as Jubilee blasted open its face.

Scott destroyed a Sentinel that lance had locked into a crack in the ground while Mystique blasted it giving Kitty time to leap through it and rip out a part of its core. It exploded…

"Come on!" Mickey shouted as he and Rae joined minds to wrench open the doors. Mickey was on his schizophrenia suppression drugs he wasn't at full power but his telepathy was enough to work at the moment.

Aurora hurried after them. "Three mutant signatures!" she warned. Scott blasted through the wall and Wildchild collapsed. Arclight and Scavenger came through the gap but Dana impaled Scavenger on his blades and Natasha redirected Arclights blasts back at her.

Spike and Quicksilver came up behind the others. On the nod from Mystique they moved, Spike barricaded the robotic creature in with bars as Pietro whizzed past it and punched in a code on a panel. The robot was too distracted to sound the master alarm…Wolverine slashed through it.

He and lady Deathstrike moved like Ninjas as they passed through the doors. Bobby froze the ground under a tank robot and the caterpillar tracks were so caked in snow they failed.

Angel flew overhead with Tabitha who was dropping bombs down on the metal clad troops. Lance and Scott ran forwards…Scott never thought much about Lance as anything other then a weary team-mate to watch. Lance triggered the quake and the centre of the room fell in…Scott valued him now.

Then she came. Jean. She was guarding Cerebra. "Hello Scott baby" she growled as she levitated up in her gold and red outfit, the gold phoenix created a trail behind her while its wings covered her chest in an off the shoulder style. She wore red leather too…and rubies set in gold.

Scott hadn't expected to face her like this…she was Phoenix now and he had to remember that. He had to fight her and he couldn't risk loosing to her. She hurled the telekinetic shell at him…

Strong arms ripped him from his place and pulled him down as the floor exploded where he'd been standing before. Phoenix's support troops busied the other X-Rebels. Dana, Dream, Rae, Mickey, Scott, Lance and Rogue stepped forwards. Kitty and Aurora stood to one side; working on the code pad to raise the bridge over the vast pit that surrounded the cylinder Cerebra was in.

"You shouldn't touch that!" Jean declared in her husky voice. She pointed and a phoenix of energy jetted at Kitty who was busy working on the console. Aurora raised her hand and her energy aura sprang up deflecting the blast into a wall. "Damn!" Jean cursed.

"End of the line Red" Lance grunted. Dana unleashed an EM blast at Jean it clashed with the telekinesis…Dream leapt into the air and lashed out with a blade arm that bounced off the shield, she morphed her fingers and stuck to the wall. Rae hurled silver energy blades from his mind at her, Mickey fired off telepathic bolts, Rogue used samples of Juggernauts power to hurl objects at the telekinetic…Lance even started a tremor…all to no avail. Jean hurled things back or ignored attacks.

Lance slammed hard into a wall.

Scott took off his visor. He could feel Lance watching him – he opened his eyes and looked directly at Jean. She screamed as her shield shattered and she was blasted into a wall. Her defences flickered back up, trying to hold him off…but she'd failed.

"Got it!" Kitty announced as the bridge slid over to Cerebra. Natasha climbed in and put the helmet on her head. Scott replaced his visor and watched as Dana, Mickey and Rae used their powers to hold down Jean. The aura sprang up around Natasha. She sucked in a deep breath…

The world became a Technicolor of light and energy. Scott clutched his head as his powers skyrocketed to heights beyond the ones Magneto had tried to woo him with. This was natural and incredible…

Jean rose up in her bird of flame. Scott felt power all around him.

"This is the end Jean" he said.

She unleashed her full fury. Scott looked at Mickey. "Do what I said earlier…you can do it"

Mickey flinched and stood up. Shadows rose around him, humans of different shapes and sizes all dressed differently…all six had dwelled in his mind until recently. "You can't do this!" one dressed all in red snarled. "We gave you power!"

"It cost me family and friends…go plague someone else Rodney" hissed Mickey. The other persona's screamed in rage as they became wispy faces in the air that flew around Jean. "Hey Jean…all telepaths should go mad once in a while…please continue to do so"

Jean shrieked as the other minds struck her head. Dream launched a spinning kick in the air to Jean's chest and slammed her down. Dana blasted a shell of EM through her, Lance unleashed a blast of throbbing energy, and Gambits blast was so powerful the walls rattled…everyone was so powerful Jean had no chance.

Her life expired as Scott blasted the villainous Phoenix into another life.

"You okay?" Lance asked from nearby.

"Yeah" Scott said. He felt his legs give way. "I just need a moment" he breathed as Lance helped him to a piece of Debris he could use to lie on. Lance sat there with him…as they planned their attack on the inner sanctum and watched new powers and wished it would all end.

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Allison clutched Kitty by the throat. "I've hunted people like you, with your job, your powers, your past…I know how you think so I can be you" Allison babbled. "I'll be you from now on…"

"Get real!" Kitty spat as she struggled in the vice grip.

"Yeah do!" Dominic snarled. He pointed his hands and the paving stones turned to sand under Allison's feet, she shrieked as she slid low, Kitty kicked free and pulled back.

Allison leapt out of the sand and blasted Dominic. Kitty ran to him – Lance unleashed his vibro-blast at her. The psycho turned her attention to him. "You want something?" she hissed.

"Not your number sweet thing" Lance said. "I already got a man!" He blasted at her but she ducked. "And as far as I see it…you're annoying so no one will mind you being zapped."

Scott blasted her – well he would have but she moved like a blur. Allison blasted Scott away; she avoided Dominic's blast of sharp stones and kicked Kitty into a wall before hitting Dominic with a bolt of energy.

"This is the end…I'll be a better Kitty Pryde then you ever were!" she spat as she advanced. Lance hit Allison with a vibrobolt she screamed and turned on him. "Once I kill him!"

Scott pulled off his glasses. Allison closed in on Lance with too much speed for him to blast her with; she kicked him down and gripped his throat. She was blasted into the air and shattered a wall with her body as Scott kept his eyes open… Allison lay there…a green mist rose from her body; it tossed and turned as its body decayed in seconds. For a moment it formed a gorgon like face with thrashing hair before zooming at Kitty.

"Not so fast!" Mickey exclaimed.

He stepped out of a doorway, his eyes glowed silver and the energy was blasted backwards. It shrieked, thrashing around forming outlines of a body in green smoke…then dispersing into nothingness.

"Weird" Lance said. Then he blacked out.

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Thundering pain faded away and Lance thanked any deity who cared take credit for the relief. He opened his eyes. Scott was standing over him looking confused. Lance smiled.

"Wow…if I could wake up to this sight every day I'd be a really happy man" he grinned. He grimaced. "Ow…why the pain?"

"Allison got you good in the fight" said Scott as he sat down on the bed in lance's room. "But only enough to make you sore, you'll be okay again soon."

"What was that girls deal?" Lance sighed as Scott adjusted his pillows; Lance saw a strip of skin at the collar bone he just barely managed to avoid sucking on as Scott was fixing his bed…

"Malice" Mystique said as she strode in. "She took over bodies with her empathic form but she hasn't been heard of for many years, SHIELD had an ancient file on her, evidently the REAL Allison died years ago but malice had inhabited the body and kept control of the mutant powers. She became obsessed with Kitty's degrees of power and set about getting them. When Scott blasted her body she was forced out and the body finally aged those decades she'd kept it alive with. Then Mickey blocked her attempt to get into Kitty's body and without a host Malice died"

"So no more- Rainy Day killer?" Lance smiled.

Scott looked at Lance as his face lit up. "I've given Scott leave for a few weeks" Mystique said. "Try and help him…relax" she pressed. The innuendo was clear.

She shut the door and Lance turned to Scott…smooth, soft lips pressed against his and a tongue pushed into his mouth. Lance savoured the taste pressed upon him by Scott…not that he was arguing.

Mint…Scott had been planning to kiss someone and Lance was glad it was him. Lance's hands slid up Scott's sides and teased the skin…Scott pressed closer and climbed onto the bed, kissing harder.

Finally Scott pulled away.

"Wow" Lance breathed.

Scott reached up and touched his glasses…and took them off. Lance stared into the blue-green eyes. "You can see" Lance whispered.

"Ever since the Catalyst…and I can see you…Love you" Scott whispered. Lance pressed their mouths together. He heard a click and a familiar laugh… Rae had just telekinetically locked the door…they all knew what was going on!

Be kind to him Lance, or I'll never let images of Blob in Speedos leave you alone. Mrs Xavier had made a point. Lance wrapped his arms around Scott and kissed as hard as he could…

TBC:

Next up the Last Scene. The Love Scene! YEAH BABY…sorry