The New Exiles
By The Uncanny R-Man And Agent-G
Shout Outs-TheLegendaryManHimself: Yes they are but that what's makes Rahne and Morph work so well. Hey how would you act with someone that looked like Pamela Anderson?
Episodic: Yeah I know but she might be back soon. Also we wanted to make a lighter chapter just for fun, kind of like that comic when they went to the nude beach remember? Anyways your lust for violence will be answered here…and then some.
Ruby631: Well that sucks, try lowering your privacy setting again on your Internet Explorer. Yes she is but I think Morph likes that about her and it was more of a hint to this episode of Angel then Azazel.
X-Over: Darksiders are fallen Guardians, they are people who were consumed by The Power and turned evil. Think dark jedi of the Guardians and you get the idea.
Red Witch: Thanks and you really liked that idea? Well I might but I'm not sure if I got the time for it…but we'll see whoever gets down with it first can tackle it just give me a heads up if you are going to try it and I don't have it up.
CHAPTER 21: DARKSIDER
The entire team of the Exiles were currently on another world, but that's nothing new, only this wasn't an Earth world. They were went to stop the Dark Circle from a coup de tat on the local government and replace them with a warmonger of a leader. Well it took some doing and thanks with the universal translators in the recall devices they were able to stop the conspiracy and currently they were in the middle of the capital city being honoured.
The city had buildings with no right angles and the people were four armed and blue skinned. "Man a guy could use to this." Morph said to the others.
"Yeah I mean it's nice to be appreciated for what we do you know?" Heather said as the leader was still making a speech. "After all the crap we went through with Timebroker and even though Guardian has been great to us it's just nice to have people appreciate what we do every now and then." As the leader was making a closing speech however there was screaming from the audience and to the horror of everyone there, people were suddenly being set on fire.
The people ran and screamed as the crowd parted they saw a figure walk towards them. He wore black armour. He seemed thin and his dark blue skin had purple highlights and green eyes. He only had two arms and a mane of long white hair. He stopped before them and laughed as the people ran and he saw the Exiles. "You know I came here looking for some fun and it looks like I found it." He eyed them carefully. "Hmm, a couple of you are stronger then most, but not me. And I must admit a few of the females are nice looking too."
"Who the hell are you?" Blink demanded at this man who just butchered so many innocent people as the rest of the team got ready for a fight. "Another lackey of the Dark Circle?"
"Please." He sneered. "I work for no one, I am an agent of chaos and where I go, death and destruction follows."
"Well not this time!" Blink yelled out and got a few lances ready. "Exiles shake, rattle and rock and roll!" She gave out the command to one of the attack patterns they used. Vincent, August and Heather after transforming, leaped onto the ground sending a seismic attack by smashing the ground. Normally this would have unbalanced anyone but he wasn't affected.
April made gravity well around their attacker and James fired an energy blast from his suit, a new addition he made to it since he joined up but nothing happened. He just smiled at them. "I do hope that wasn't your best."
Vindicator flew forward and punched him in the face but he only moved his head and grabbed James. Suddenly an electrical charge was sent into his suit and he screamed in pain as his suit started to burn him from electricity and Heather looked on in horror and ran forward trying to save her husband. "Leave him alone!" She shouted out and he dropped James but at the last moment an energy beam from his hands shot out and went through her stomach. She fell to the ground holding the wound hoping she didn't bleed to death before her body healed.
The other Exiles went in next as Blink, Dare and April tried to help their friends. "August, double whammy?"
"Oh yeah, I love that move." She replied and both of them took a run at him and both put all their strength into a punch. But to their shock he caught both arms easily and they couldn't break free. He just grinned at them and jumped up slightly and kicked out at their knees.
Both pairs of kneecaps broke and each one had one leg bent back at an impossible angle and both cried out in pain. Then he twisted their arms and broke the bones in their forearms. August was cradling her arm in pain tears falling from her face and Vincent wasn't doing much better but years of pain gave him a higher pain threshold and he managed to move his good arm into position and blasted him in the face.
His face was a little singed and he looked pissed at Mayhem. "That…wasn't nice." He walked over and quickly sent a fist into the Canadian's face and a sickening sound was heard as he fell unconscious. There was blood coming out of his ear and nose and his jaw was at an odd angle. Morph saw this and he knew his friend was hurt bad by that, maybe even a fractured skull but the fact that this guy did that in one punch scared him to no end.
But he wouldn't stand by for this. "Alright you jerk, take a piece out of this!" Morph shouted and flew towards him. The man just looked uninterested in Morph and then lashed out and two energy disc like things came towards him he tried to dodge but they were too fast and was cut into several pieces as he hit the ground and saw one of his arms in front of his face he groaned. "Not again…"
Jono had been firing his energy blast at this guy and he hadn't seemed to notice at all. He tried a mental assault but suddenly was on the receiving end of the worse migraine in history of all of creation as a mental assault more powerful then anything he ever experienced slammed into his brain. His ears, nose and eyes started to bleed and he fell to the ground groaning from the pain he felt.
Blink looked around and her heart was sinking, her team was being taken apart. She reached for the PADD but before she pulled it out to send out an emergency transport their adversary was suddenly behind her and grabbed her hair and punched her spine right at the hip. She screamed out and heard a breaking sound and she lost the use of her legs. She tried to move them but couldn't and to her horror couldn't feel her legs and knew her spine was broken.
"I don't want any of you running off." He said coldly into her ear holding her up by her hair. "Besides I want to have some fun with you later." He dropped her to the ground onto her face and she looked up in time to see him move to the Dare and April the last members.
Dare sneered at this freak and jumped in but he moved so fast and suddenly caught her head in both hands. "Such a pretty eye, but with only one you look a little lacking in the face, let me fix that." And with one of his thumbs jabbed it into her remaining eye. Dare screamed knowing she was now blinded for life like her father but the pain of his thumb was pure hell.
"Leave her alone!" April cried out and tried to crush this person and he fell to his knee and let Dare go who pressed her hand to her wound, if Dare had an eye she would be crying tears instead of crying blood from her face. April was angry beyond belief and tried to crush the life out of this monster that was killing her friends. He looked up at her and grinned and licked his lips. "I think I'll take you first, you got spirit girl." And he vanished.
April looked around for him and he reappeared right in front of her and he grabbed her head. "You know mentally assaulting a person is much more gratifying at times then just the physical kind, but I think I'll do both." With that he started to tear into her mind, April screamed in pain and she was forced to live her most painful and horrible moments of her life again. She saw her parents getting killed by men in combat suits and of the experiments and the beatings they gave out and of seeing what he had done to Dare over and over again.
"Let her go!" Dare screamed out hearing April's pain.
"I'll get to you later." He said.
-THE COMPLEX-
Guardian was in a meditation temple in the garden, it was a recreation of a small Buddhist mediation chamber with a small area fill with sand. He had been meditation in peaceful quietness when he felt it. His eyes snapped open and his eyes were a strange glowing blue and he saw it, he saw the Exiles fighting an opponent that they couldn't win against. "A Darksider…oh no." He whished out and in a blur he had disappeared and reappeared in the teleportation room. He was a blur of moment as he got a lock on every member of the team and transported him or her back.
When he saw their condition when they returned he feared for them. "Alfred medical emergency!" He transported them right to the infirmary and went to meet the Doc there. They both called in medical droids and began to patch them up as best they could; critical cases were done first as droids patched up the not as serious ones. Morph was putting himself back together but he said it would take at least an hour for his body to fuse together properly.
James was peeled out of his suit and was placed in a healing chamber immediately; it would take three days for him to heal up with no scaring. April was holding Dare as the other woman had a medical patch over her newly lost eye. April was shaken up but was being there for her friend trying to comfort her. Guardian took a glance; he once offered her a medical procedure for either a cybernetic or biologically grown eye replacement but he guessed she would want two now.
Vincent needed surgery for his skull fracture and then placed in a healing tank for two days. Blink has medical nanites were repairing her damaged spine and would most likely walk after thirty hours. She was looking longingly at her team, and her heart broke seeing them like this and seeing her boyfriend was being led to the healing tank room.
August's arm was reset but her kneecap had to be replaced. Vincent's body was stronger then hers so his only broke. August's kneecap was shattered and a prosthetic was put in its place. Jono was out cold and more medical nanites were undoing any damage to his brain and he hoped there wouldn't be any permanent brain damage.
Heather had to have the bleeding stopped and place in a healing tank next to James. After three hours the entire team was asleep from the anaesthetic he used on them. Guardian just sat in a chair looking at them, he knew they were lucky and that it could have been worse but damn it he should have seen this!
Okay he wasn't perfect but he brought them together and what happened to them was his responsibility and there was going to be hell to pay for this. He shot up from his chair, his jaw clenched as his rage over this building up. The Doc saw him and was concerned. "Where are you going?"
"To the Armoury." He snapped. He made his way to the Armoury and got what he needed. A black combat suit that was a tight fit and jacket. It was made from altering the molecular density making it tougher then it looked. He wouldn't need any of the projectile weapons; those would be useless so he grabbed a Katana. This however was made from a metal almost as strong as adamantium and laser sharpened so the edge was the width of a molecule and could cut through almost anything. He placed is over his back and marked to the teleporter room and grabbed a recall device. He knew he would be too weak to make a personal portal back here.
He got the teleporter set up and stepped onto the platform and soon in a flash of white light he was in the city they had fought in. Only how the place was in ruins and bodies were everywhere, he reached out and sensed no life anywhere. "No…" He whispered out at all the dead and destruction.
Then he heard laughter and turned to see the Darksider there on a pile of bodies laughing at him. "A Guardian, so are you a wonderer or one of those little Confederation errand boys?" He responded with an energy blast at him and with blinding speed slammed a fist into the Darksider's chest sending him through a wall of a building. "Right…definitely not a Confederation boy." He muttered, but then Guardian was on him again and the two titans battled it out.
Their battle was faster then the eye could track and with no one left alive Guardian didn't have to hold back. The destruction was devastating, buildings seemed to just explode or crumpled, flashes of light followed by giant explosions and what seemed like earthquakes. At one point the sky was literally seemed to be on fire.
But as the two fought on a satellite had been placed in orbit, since that world didn't have the technology for that it wasn't of that world. The Dark Circle put it there and as the battle raged on the members of the evil group watched the battle safely from their chamber. There was much hope that this would put an unexpected but hopeful end to the Exiles and that Guardian of theirs.
But there was one member of the group that wanted to finish this himself. He had suffered several humiliations at that Guardian's hands and he wanted to pay him back. So he quietly exited the chamber and decided to go to that world and wait for a victor if the Darksider lost then his prey would be too weakened to do anything to stop him.
Back at the city, which looked more like ruins then a city, the two fighters were currently taking a break. Both were bloodied, battered and hurting. Guardian already lost his sword his opponent had caught the blade in both hands and snapped it. Adam threw the blade aside and went in with just his fists and feet.
"You're a lot better then I thought." The Darksider said through panting breaths. He grinned at Adam. "For a human that is, I haven't had a decent challenge in decades."
Adam didn't replay he knew the kind of stuff someone like him did. It was also his greatest fear that one day he might lose it and The Power would corrupt him into a Darksider, even though he didn't know this alien personally he knew that when most people receive The Power they are usually Guardians at first. The Power wasn't good or evil; it was the person that wielded it that was good or evil.
The fact that at one point this man was most likely a good person driven insane by his life gave way to a bit of pity inside the Guardian. He knew friends who had fallen to the dark path and in a few cases had to stop them. Some went insane with grief or couldn't take immortality anymore or they saw things that weighted them down until they couldn't take it anymore.
But he had to end this fight, he couldn't let him leave and bring more destruction. After what he did to his team and to the people here…he was going to kill him. He had been a soldier a few times, he knew that in battle it was kill or be killed and facing his dark opponent he was fine with that.
He drew his hands to his waist in a V shape and gathered his Ki energy. "KA-ME-HA-MEEEEEEEEE-HA!" She shouted out and a large bust of energy from the Kamehameha beam wave attack he had learned from an old friend fired out obliterating the ground leaving a large groove on the ruined streets. It came at such a speed the Darksider couldn't move and through his hands out to catch the energy.
He was able to resist the energy and push it back for soon it was too much the Darksider was being pushed back now and his hands were burning from the energy. Then his arms failed and he was engulfed in the light. When it was over Adam saw the charred remains of the Darksider and then a blue glow over the body. He saw The Power leave the corpse and shoot out into the sky. He knew that now someone else would have The Power, most likely a new Guardian being born. "Where one falls another shall rise." He said to himself it was an old saying of the Guardians about how when someone with The Power falls it seeks out a new person the wield it.
Unfortunately because of his weakened state and the blood falling over his right eye blinding him he didn't notice he had company until it was too late. Mainly by sword being thrown at him with such force it not only impaled him in the chest and the other end going through his body, he was sent flying into a wall and was stuck on it. "ARRRRRG!" He looked down at the golden handle sticking out of his chest.
"Well this is going to be oh so easy." Adam turned his head knowing that voice. He turned to see Vorn, the weakest of the Dark Circle. He was all in steel armour with a unique style. His yellow cat-like eyes were filled with hatred and this short spiky dark purple hair had this long braid down the side of his face. "You have no idea how long I've waited for this." He spat and ripped the handle of the sword. "Can't have you pulling that out now, can we?"
He looked down at the metal blade in his chest as Vorn was ranting on and on about something, he really didn't care mainly because he wasn't listening. He had turned his back and Adam grinned knowing that was going to be his last mistake. With what little power he had left he concentrated on the broken blade and it started to move, he winced as it slowly moved out of his chest and he looked back at the gloating man.
"You know what one of your major weaknesses are Vorn? You talk to much." The blade came free from his chest and shot out towards Vorn. When he turned his eyes widened and was in time to see the blade just before it decapitated him.
The Guardian Adam fell to the ground tired and hurt bad. The Power was the only thing keeping him alive and he was close to death and he knew it. He tried reaching for the Recall Device but he found it missing. "Damn it! I must have lost it in the fight." He groaned out weakly. His only hope was for his body to heal and him to recharge enough to open a portal back to the Complex. He also hoped nothing else came his way because in this state he was too vulnerable.
At the camber of the Dark Circle they had watched as one of their own had fallen. "I always knew he was week." One of the voices said.
"But we have an opportunity now don't we?" The leader of the council said. "Isn't that satellite have a beam canon on it?" The other members of the council grinned and a few laughed. Overhead in space the satellite opened a hatch and a long barrel weapon came out. It charged up and when it was ready fired a blue energy beam to the surface of the planet.
Guardian who had been staring up into the sky as the world was falling into night saw what he thought was the first star out but it was getting too bright for a star. "Perfect." He muttered knowing an energy weapon blast when he saw one.
Judging by the looks a pretty big one, even if he could move which he couldn't since he had been trying there was no way to get out of the way and he was too weak to teleport. Normally not one to give up but he had no options. "So…this is how it ends huh?" He whispered to himself looking up at the growing light of death. "I've seen worse ways to go." He saw it nearing now and knew he only had a sew seconds left.
"Where one falls…another shall take their place…" He finally said, the saying of the Guardians and in the next second the beam and nothing obliterated the area he had been in but a crater stood after the dust settled. No one would know on that world what had happed to the people in the nearby city or how it seemed just one day they all vanished along with the city, although in a few centuries they would find the ruins.
Nor would anyone know how a crater was in the area, many would theorize that a meteor crashed and destroyed the city, but they would never know the events of that day or of what really happened. And they wouldn't know that a Guardian had been there or watched the sky seeing his own death come to him from the heavens.
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