The New Exiles

By The Uncanny R-Man And Agent-G

Shout Outs-

Episodic: Well I think it's more of a bittersweet ending, I mean life isn't perfect so why should things turn out perfect?

Gypsy: Don't worry the Thunderbird thing will be wrapped up soon…but you may not like the end result.

Ruby631: Actually I don't remember him, who are you referring to?

X-Over: Timebroker was already dealt with in the first chapter remember?

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Chapter 24: Weapon X VS The Exiles

-Unknown Reality-

In a reality of Earth that was somewhere in a medieval European city, it had been a quiet summer's day, so far the people had been walking the cobble-stoned streets and going about their business as usual but then again that was over two hours ago and before the new Weapon X team came. At first the people who saw them were in both awe and fear at the strangers.

But that soon changed to terror.

Right after that they attacked and with weapons that they all carried from a far away time. They attacked without mercy and started to kill everyone they found. They used the high-powered weapons and their powers. Mainly the plan was that such a use of powers and weapons not of his time would make ripples in the universe that people and beings sensitive to the cosmic harmony of the universes would pick up on it. It was also their plan that this would bring out the Exiles to them since they came and went so fast it was impossible for Weapon X to catch them.

So Deathstrike decided to bring the Exiles to them, after a little studying he figured this was the best way. He was a planner after all and for his son he would do anything no matter what, it was one of the reasons he was so good at what he did. He emptied his shotgun into people without mercy or a second thought.

The others were doing just as well. Hulk was smashing up the town having said that he didn't need any pop guns, Scorpion and Shiva mainly used melee weapons such as their Katanas. They mainly focused on the ones with weapons such as knights. The armoured men were no match for the undead warrior and the master assassin.

X-23 used her claws and had pistols and grenades. She was trained to just kill and this was what she did, without fear or emotion except her fury. The blond haired machine TX was designed to kill both her mind and humans so she wasn't phased not that there was much that could phase her, and with her arm canon simply blasted whole buildings into flaming rumble.

They continued on like this and over the next two hours the city was smoking and in ruins, the army defeated and the survivors fleeing. Currently the members of Weapon X were holed up in a building. It was one of the few that were intact. They had set up a perimeter with explosives so they would know what would happen, in a courtyard they had several men and woman tied up against wooden poles. They were the bait and were guarded by TX since she didn't sleep and could tell if the Exiles or anyone else got close to the hostages.

Deathstrike was sitting on a straw bed; his black and gold mask was off as he cleaned his weapons. "Does anyone know where Hulk is?"

"I saw him dragging a female off saying something about having some personal 'fun'." Shiva said coldly. She didn't care what the others did and neither did Slade, unless it made him late. He noticed the young woman only named X-23 was sitting cross-legged and looked like she was sleeping. Slade also known as Deathstrikethe Terminator went back to his work.

Shiva pushed back her long raven hair and walked to a window where Scorpion stood. She had to admit that the man intrigued her. "Aren't you tired?"

"The dead don't sleep." He said evenly in a strange otherworldly voice.

"You know I envy you in a way," She said looking out the window. "You will never grow old, and you have already faced every warriors ultimate fear…death."

Scorpion with his dead white eyes turned his head at her. "Being dead isn't what you think it is. Alive, you always have that rush, that excitement of facing death and beating it in every battle…but now that I am dead I no long have that rush or excitement. I feel nothing; since I have my vengeance I now have nothing. That is why I want to live again, so I can feel again and have that spark of life that I once had."

She considered his words carefully and walked away. She never felt more alive when she was in battle and if she didn't have to worry about death what would that do to her. She figured he might be right about that. So she went to get some sleep, she wanted to be well rested for the battle at hand.

-Complex-

Most of the Exiles were currently gathered in the state of the art briefing room in their usual seats. There were a few idle conversations going on but that soon died as Guardian strolled into the room. He was back to his old self after taking some time to re-energize himself and when he had been in the Nexus Chamber he came upon something bizarre. "Hello everyone," He said and activated the controls to the holo-projector. "Well it looks like the Dark Circle is back up to their old tricks in a way."

"Great, what do those losers want this time?" Morph said crossing his arms, he and the original Exiles all felt like they still have a personal state in the Circle for over a year screwing with their lives.

"It seems that they re-formed Weapon X." An image of the new members showed up. Blink, Heather and Morph who had faced the old Weapon X stiffened a little. "As you can see they have several members that I found information on. Their leader is Slade AKA Deathstroke the Terminator, Blink don't underestimate him, and he's smart, deadly and completely lethal." He went on the list the other members and give them as much background as he could have found in a short time he also gave them what they were currently up to.

"This is all bait for us isn't it?" Vince asked staring at the map of the area memorizing the terrain. Years of fighting a guerrilla war taught him many things including how to spot a trap.

"Yeah pretty much goes without saying." Chamber agreed leaning back. "Although I say you take on the Hulk there."

"Gee, thanks." Vince said dryly. He had done a lot of research and heard some of the stories like how the Exiles first met the Hulk early on in their first year. So far this one was the grey Hulks and he hoped that he was like the other grey ones. The Grey Hulk even though one of the smarter Hulk personas he was the weakest. If you can call lifting ninety tons 'weak' that is.

"Hey where are the others anyway?" Heather spoke up, she was hoping that her husband could join in on this to help him get his confidence back, plus they could use the back-up."

Guardian shook his head. "Unfortunately April, Dare and even James went on a little errand for me. They won't be back in time."

"Typical," August said under her breath. "Oh well more for us to trash."

"Okay if these guys are so anxious for a fight I say we give them one." Blink said sternly getting up. She didn't like the fact these monsters had attack an entire town just to draw them out, but they were going to make them all pay for this.

-Reality GH-28375-

Slade was in a room getting his weapons in order when the Tallus on his arm sent him a message that the Exiles had shown up. He tapped behind his ear to a sub-dermal communicator that their 'employers' had installed in them. "Heads up everyone, they're here get into position."

With that the Weapon X crew got to their staging areas with Scorpion and TX guarding the hostages.

Elsewhere the Exiles were slowly making their way through what was left of the town. The inhabitants had ran for the most part, most likely to another town or city to get help and they knew that whoever the king was of this land would send an army in here. Only those forces would get slaughtered. They stopped when they were near the square where the hostages were and Blink pulled out the PADD and did a scan.

She could read the innocent people but not the Weapon X people. "Jono, can you get a lock on where the they are?" She whispered to him.

He nodded his head and tried to scan. He had been doing some new training recently with Guardian to improve his telepathic skills. He might not be able to read minds unless he was close enough now with Sinister's alterations to him but he could at least sense where they were. At least the humans.

He got nothing from the TX because she was a machine and Scorpion wasn't alive and sensing his mind was too strange. He couldn't find Slade or X-23 and figured their minds were too shielded for him. He did find Shiva and Hulk. "I got the Hulk in that large stable over there and Shiva is waiting over on the other side of the street but I'm having trouble with the other two."

"Well we'll have to do our best then." Clarice exasperated. She didn't like sending them all in there but they needed to end this before more lives were lost. "Okay Vince your on Hulk duty, concentrate only on him no matter what. If he gets a chance he'll tear right through the rest of the team." The dark haired Canadian nodded once in understanding his face was all serious now.

"Who wants the assassin?"

"I'll take the bird," Jono told her. "I might be able to shut her down if I get close enough."

Alright." Blink nodded. "Heather and August I want you on hostage duty." The two women nodded. "I'll drop you all with my portals and when Slade and X-23 show up, Morph and me will take them. Anyone got a problem with that?" There were no objections.

The Hulk was waiting impatiently. He was also bored, and was wondering if he could borrow one of the women they had the few he kept alive were too frail for his taste. He thought about that X-23 woman. She had an adamantium skeleton and healing factor was a plus, not to mention a killer behind. He was lost in his perverse thoughts and didn't notice someone was in there with him. "Got the time pal?" Said a voice.

"Got the time?" The huge man said turning around confused only to meet a giant crimson blast of energy sending him out through the roof and then something feeling like a set of fists hit him and he swore a kick to his ribs, the next thing he knew he had hit the ground leaving a crater. "Urg…what hit me?" He asked himself.

"Me." Said that same voice and he saw a young man with a dark look at him.

"Oh yeah, I'm going ta enjoy this buddy." Hulk said wiping his chin and standing up.

While the destruction of that battle, which was heard all over town, as were the explosions and what seemed like Earthquakes also. Shiva was waiting still in position with a Claymore remote. She was responsible for blowing them when the Exiles tried to get down one of the two main streets. What they didn't count on was that they knew where some of them already were and she felt the presence of someone behind her. She quickly dropped the remote and turned throwing several knives.

"Bollocks!" Chamber yelled out diving behind a table. His left arm and ribs got clipped by two of the three knives and he just glad that he sensed her heightened state of mind and dodged just in time or he would have had three knives in his chest. He overturned the table as two more imbedded themselves through the wood. He used his powers and sent a blast at the table sending it like a projectile across the room but Shiva easily dodged it. "I say again…bollocks." He muttered.

He knew he was in for a fight now.

In the square, a portal opened and August and Sasquatch dropped put. Sasquatch immediately attacked the TX and the blond Terminator ended up with a face full of claw and sent into a wall. She went to free the people who weren't sure if they were being saved or not from the giant hairy beast before them.

August went straight for Scorpion and she grinned at the sight of the black and yellow ninja with the skull-like lover face plate. "Okay ninja-boy, show me what you got." Scorpion only narrowed his eyes and attacked not one for wasting words. She felt the blows but with her super strength threw back more then she took.

The TX with a nasty claw mark across her face blinked and then stood up and the 'flesh' on her body turned sliver along the injuries and healed over in seconds. She cranked her neck and looked back through the hole she had made with a rare glare on her face. She wasn't one to have any emotion but at the moment annoyance was close to what she was experiencing. She was a state of the art SkyNet AI and she wasn't going to let some organic throw her around like that. She stepped out of the hole and saw that the humans were fleeing. It didn't matter it wasn't her mission priority. She transformed her arm into the energy canon and aimed and then fired.

Slade saw that he had underestimated them. He had assumed that they would all go in charging for the hostages not take out two of his team members first. He knew that the other two were most likely waiting for him and X-23 so he figured to indulge them. He tapped the communication device by his ear again. "X-23, attack at your discretion." She would do fine on her own so he would do his own thing. He gathered his weapons and prepared to join in on the fight.

Blink and Morph were waiting and watching for the last two members to show up but then they saw Heather get hit by an energy weapon and go down. "Damn it, we can't wait for the other two!" Morph told her and she had to agree. She portaled the two of them there and landed close to the TX.

The female AI turned and Morph grabbed the cannon arm by extending his own and forcing it out of the way sending the shot go wild. Blink threw a lance at the arm disintegrating it. The TX looked shocked at what had happened to its arm. It wasn't just the skin but the exoskeleton that had been destroyed and it would need repairs.

"Oh yeah, looked like we dis-armed you babe." Morph grinned but stopped when the Terminator rushed him and tackled him. Blink threw several more teleporting her out of the way. She wanted to destroy her but if she missed she might have injured Morph. The TX found it self a mile away from the battle and stood up. She scanned her position and then at a mad run, ran back to the battle.

"Thanks." Morph said rubbing his throat where the Terminator had grabbed him and nearly popped his head off by crushing his throat. They ran to check on Heather while August was still busy with Scorpion. It wasn't easy since he kept making these mini-teleportations. At one point he stopped and extended his hand as a living harpoon shot at her.

"Oh crap." She muttered and dodged just in time as it passed her head taking off some of her hair and imbedding itself in a one of the thick wooden beams. She saw Scorpion tug on it but it seemed to be stuck. She grinned and with a flying kick send him flying with such force the harpoon cord was ripped out of his hand.

Vincent was having a tough time with the Hulk. He had thrown practically everything he had at him and still the Hulk was standing. This was the toughest battle he had ever faced, not counting the Darksider, so he was both getting a bit worried about if he could take him out but also was excited at facing someone like this. Challenges like this didn't come along everyday and had already made mental notes to make a Hulk scenario in the training rooms after this.

Both combatants had torn clothing and bloodied and battered going through their own personal war. "Alright you little runt," The Hulk said wiping blood from his mouth. "I am NOT going down to some little punk!" The Hulk lunched himself at Vince but he was faster and moved out of the way. He knew taking on the Hulk head on was stupid so Vince stuck to the stick and move attacks.

He fired blasts of energy at the Hulk from a distance and dodged whatever punches the larger grey man threw at him and countered with kicks, punches, elbows and once a head butt but that had hurt both of them more then either one had thought and both stayed away from that move. Vincent just hoped that he could keep this big boy busy.

Blink and Morph were checking on Heather, she had a bad burn on her chest but she seemed to be healing well. "How are you doing?" Blink asked Heather.

"Alright…I think…" Heather said weakly.

"Hey don't worry you're built tough beside James would kick our ass if you were hurt really bad." Morph joked to Heather. She smiled a little weakly form it though thankful for the thought. Morph stood and saw August was back at it with the ninja. "Man that guy must like getting his butt kicked by a girl, so…where's the other ones?"

He was answered by X-23 attacking him from behind. Blink whirled around readying a lance when she heard the sound of a shotgun being cocked. "Drop it." Came a cold and even voice and she did so. She turned her head a little and looking over her shoulder she saw Slade there with a gun pointed at her. "Surrender and we'll make this quick girl, or it can and will get ugly."

Jono was slammed into another wall as he was getting his ass handed to him by the beautiful yet completely deadly dark haired assassin. He kept trying to get into her mind but it her mind was really strong and focused so he decided on the other way. Trying to blast her, but she was too quick and kept on dodging. 'Let me take on the bloody assassin,' He thought to himself. 'Next time I'm going to keep my mouth shut!'

He slumped against the wall looking up and she pulled out a katana and with no remorse in her face held it high over her head for a final strike. It was a now or nothing move and pushed with all his mind into her head. It caused one hell of a headache but she felt dizzy and disoriented just long enough to blast her with his energy sending her into a stone wall knocking her out. He sat there happy that the woman was out of the game. "I hope the others had an easier time then me." He muttered and found something to tie her up with and leave her there and join the others.

August had had enough of this dead warrior and sent a fireball at him, only he shrugged it off. He pulled off his mask and also his face with it leaving a skull. "Now that's just gross." August said grimacing at the sight. Then she was engulfed by fire coming out of the mouth but she just walked thought it. The head tilted and August glared at him seeing her singed clothing. "You're not the only one that's fire proof."

Morph was doing his best not to get cut up by this woman. He had had enough of that for sometime not to mention it hurt like hell when his body was cut up. He morphed his body into odd shapes and would split his form, make holes whatever he needed to do but this girl was fast and the extra claws in her feet didn't help either. "Come on I could really use a break." He muttered. Just then Scorpion flew through the air slamming into X-23 and both went flying ten yards away. "Wow…that was…helpful."

"You're welcome." August said brushing her hands.

"Impressive but futile," Came Slade's voice with a shotgun pointed at Blink's head. "But either you surrender or your leader will be missing a head." The two looked on in defeat.

"Don't listen to-ARG!" Blink tried to tell them not to listen but Slade hit her with the gun forcing her to her knees. The two looked at Blink with a look of sorry in their eyes. Both had lost too many friends and would let another die and so they raised their hands. Then a giant crashing sound came from behind Slade as the Hulk was slammed through one building across the street into another. Blink took the distraction and opened a portal and disappeared from in front of him over to her friends.

He quickly turned his weapon back to them and fired Blink out of reflex opened a portal catching all of the bullets in mid air as the another portal opened behind Slade as hit leg and the bullets hit the back of his left leg. He cried out in pain and August threw a fireball at the gun forcing him to drop it.

Slade looked around, he was surrounded, the Hulk didn't seem to be getting up, TX was no where in sight, Scorpion was out cold, X-23 was getting up but so was Heather slightly, and Vincent was walking towards them looking worse then before as his left arm was limp. Jono was coming over now and Shiva was nowhere in sight.

He considered his options and he had to admit that Weapon X was defeated so he pressed on the Tallus on his wrist. He would have to retreat but this was just the first battle. In a flash all the members of Weapon X disappeared and vanished.

"Oh come on back here you psychos!" Morph yelled out at them.

"I get the feeling this isn't the last we'll see of those guys." Chamber said holding one of his arms and sitting down on some rubble.

Blink looked around them and thought of the old Weapon X and how many times they had met those guys. They also had lost Illyana the last time they fought, although she hadn't been one of Blink's favourite people, having Hyperion just snap her neck like that in such a cold manner had been heartless. Now they had to deal with a whole new group.

Unlike the last one she didn't see any member like Gambit who had seen how wrong they were and changed sides. This time around they would have to fight all those members…and she feared one day it would have to be to the death. She had seen enough death as it was for a lifetime and didn't relish the thought of more.

"No…this isn't the end," Blink said quietly to herself looking at the sky. "This is only the beginning with them."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 25: The Terror of Trigon

The Exiles travel to the DC Universe and meet up with the Teen Titans.