X-MEN EVOLUTION: RISE OF ODESSA
An alternate universe xmen evolution fic
By Deathsheadx
AUTHORS NOTES.
AgentG: thanks for the review. It's exactly what I wanted. You may not of liked it but at least you gave it a try.
However I have a slight rebuttal.
While it is a good idea to denote that Rise of Odessa is AU, technically isn't all the fiction posted in this category AU?
Also Wanda was out of character on purpose as indicated in chapter 2 Wanda's mind was tampered with. She didn't remember the asylum or her hate for magneto. With out those two major factors it would be easy to surmise that her personality would change. That's why she seemed to make friends with Tabitha so easy. Maybe I should have clarified that at the start but I thought that it was self-explanatory. Oh well
Thirdly since this is the xmen evolution universe not the comic universe and things are different I saw nothing wrong with making Elisabeth Guthrie a mutant as she's never appeared in the cartoon and there is a precedence of things in the cartoon being different than the comics. Ororo having a sister, storm being an adult while Scott and Jean are kids, toad not being Mortimer tonybee…
What I definitely agree on is the story is a little too busy so I am going to try and focus on only two plot lines in future.
Wintersoldier1: I asked for Agent-G to review I asked him to be honest and that's what I got it may not be singing praises but its an honest review. I'm also glad you like my stuff
Cyclona: in hindsight maybe including GI Joe was a bad idea but I wanted to include them even in passing as I was a fan of the devil's due series. It actually got me into gi Joe. And as for the universe it's a joint marvel/DC? Universe with the ? Being revealed at a later stage.
Band20: thanks for the review and in hindsight I agree that the first chapters are a bit cluttered. In the later chapters I've tried to slim down the plots and make the story more focused. After I finish the final chapters I may go back to the first chapters and give them a light rewrite. Out of interest, despite the cluttered initial chapters was there anything you liked about the story?
PART 6: leaving the nest
The danger room.
Kitty Pryde manoeuvred through the obstacles with her team, which consisted of Olivia, Nightcrawler and Spyke…
"Okay we're doing great!" said Spyke he dodged a stinger sphere when suddenly a wall of ice shot up in front of him "whaaaaaa?" He gasped. Suddenly he was pelted with shards of ice…
"Oh no Iceman's got Spyke!" yelled Kitty
"I'm on it!" said Nightcrawler teleporting to Iceman's location to take him out but as he did he was confronted by Rogue instead of iceman she reached out lightning fast and grabbed him bare handed and Kurt was out like a light
"What?" snapped kitty in surprise "then where's iceman?"
"Right here Kitty!" said bobby drake as he hit Kitty with a surprise ice shower she wasn't phased so she was knocked off her feet…
Olivia unleashed a lightning bolt that sent iceman flying "okay who else wants some!" She cried out
In the observation tower Xavier, Cyclops, and the rest of the senior members of the institute watched the battle unfolding before him. "So what do you think professor?" Said Cyclops
"Rogues new level of power is amazing…" said Xavier
"Yes it seems that the chronal wave basically imprinted her DNA with that of her AOA counterpart." Said the Beast "isn't that right Mr Creed?"
Mr creed nodded. "Super-strength, flight, near invulnerability couple that with her absorption abilities she's the whole damn show."
"My bets on Kitty's team still pulling out the win." said Wolverine
"No way." said Cyclops
"Trust me." Said Wolverine smiling. "Olivia shows the same level of control as Storm and that could mean her team could still win this!"
"Well its over." said Jean "look Blink's right on top of her!"
"I wouldn't be too sure…" said Wolverine "look!" just as Blink went for the attack Olivia surrounded herself with a whirlwind….
"Whoa? How did she?" Asked Jean
"Its obvious." said Wolverine "if the kid's anything like Storm then she's attuned to air currents which meant she felt blink long before blink made her move…"
Just then there was a beep… "What's this?" said Cyclops "someone has entered the danger room… who I have no idea? Wait I got it its Odessa…"
"What's she up too?" Said Jean…
"This is sooo boring!" said Odessa grinning as she flew towards the battle.
Olivia stopped her whirlwind and turned to Odessa… "Sis what are you doing this is supposed to be a training session!"
"Olivia baby this stuff is so beginners level lets spice it up" said Odessa with a smirk
"What'ur talking about said Rogue."
"8 on one."
"What?"
"You heard me 8 of you against me…"
"No way we'll cream you!" shouted Iceman
"I don't think so…" said Odessa grinning
"Heck I'm all for it!" said Spyke "what about you Kitty?"
"I don't know Evan…"
Cyclops chose that moment to speak "Odessa this is not on you cant just interrupt a training session and—"
"Put a sock in it summers!" snapped Odessa
"That's it I'm ending the session…" snapped Cyclops
"No don't." said Wolverine "Odessa has something to prove Jean, Cyclops get down there and join the others… students your mission is to beat Odessa you have to take her down or capture her …"
"Fine by me." said Odessa.
Ororo looked at what amounted to her little sister she was worried Odessa was a wild card and had shown herself to be stronger than Ororo but she was sure this time she had bitten off more than she could chew
Wolverine noticed the expression on Ororo's face and smiled at her "don't worry ro, all that'll get bruised is her pride xmen… begin!"
Cyclops nodded "rogue! Jean! Olivia! Go high!" The trio flew into the air Odessa flew back and threw a few lightning bolts which they easily dodged
"Is that the best you can do sugah?" Said rogue
"Never bait me darling you'll lose." said Odessa she raised her hands and generated a focused blast of wind, which pushed the trio back…
"Spyke, iceman, provide the fliers with some cover fire!" Snapped Cyclops as he fired off a few optic blasts spyke fired off some spikes and iceman fired off some ice spikes
"Lets not," said Odessa as suddenly it started raining large hailstones
"Evasive manoeuvres!" Yelled Cyclops
"Now!" yelled Jean as she grabbed Odessa in a telekinetic hold Olivia generated a small whirlwind around Odessa
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Screamed Odessa as she was flung around by the whirlwind
"You give up?" said Jean, "just admit that you got to cocky and we can end this."
In the observation deck Ororo frowned "that was a very bad move."
"What do you mean?" said the Beast
"Jean just did the one thing that's sure to rile Odessa up."
"Me give up?" came Odessa's voice from the whirlwind "me yield to you? Miss preppy? Miss perfect? Get over yourself babe!"
Olivia suddenly let out a gasp my whirlwind "I've lost control of it!"
The whirlwind dissipated and Odessa floated before the trio "My turn." she said her eyes glowing she raised her hands and three tornados formed in the dangeroom and headed straight for the trio of fliers
Blink teleported into the air above Odessa but was instantly struck by a mild lightning bolt…
"How did she do that?" Gasped Mr creed
Logan whistled, "Did you see what I saw? I just saw her accurately strike an opponent without looking!"
"While controlling the tornados and the hailstones!" said Ororo "…that is very fine control something I'm still mastering!"
"Kurt teleport up there to distract her!" Said Cyclops
"Are you crazy? She'll fry me without even looking!"
Olivia screamed in rage as hard as she tried she couldn't disrupt Odessa's stranglehold on the weather in the danger room she shot forward full speed cannoning into Odessa who was winded and lost control causing her multiple attacks to dissipate and Odessa to hit the ground
"All right!" yelled Cyclops "xmen attack!" The xmen surged forward but just as they were about to strike Odessa grinned
"Suckers!" She laughed there was an explosion of gale force winds and Odessa was on her feet "now I have you!" she suddenly unleashed a wave of electro magnetic energy
"Oh my stars and garters! That's new!" Said the beast…
"We have to stop this fight!" said Ororo panicking "any stronger and she'll kill them!"
Odessa rushed forward and fired of balls of lightning which struck each target with unerring accuracy
"My god condensed lightning bursts!" said the beast
Olivia threw a lightning bolt at Odessa. But Odessa just laughed and raised a palm the lightning bolt just dissipated she then raised a hand and the temperature in the room dropped to sub zero temperatures
"Oh man!" said a groggy Cyclops "she's creaming us Jean try a mental attack!"
"On it Scott!" yelled Jean she focused on Odessa's mind "Odessa stop!" she screamed out trying to seize control of her mind
Odessa gasped and clutched her head "GET…OUT...OFF…MY…HEAD!" she roared
Jean stumbled back as if she had been slapped "my lord… she shoved me out as if I was nothing! but the rage! The pure rage she's channelling what's got her so mad?"
Odessa flew toward Jean and knocked her down with a spin kick… "That's for prying mind witch!" Cyclops unleashed an optic blast, which sent Odessa into a wall
But Odessa got up her eyes glowing "quick question Cyclops where do you think all the heat went?" She opened her hand and a blast of energy hit Cyclops knocking him down
"This is beyond your range Ororo!" Said professor x "she's out of control! We've got to stop this…"
No can do Charles said Wolverine she's too strong none of our tactics will work on her besides so far she hasn't used any life threatening attacks which means she's still in control."
"We have to let her finish this." said creed "but what I want to know is where she gets all the power from"
Ororo closed her eyes "once upon a time here power wasn't beyond my reach…"
"What do you mean?" said the Beast
"Odessa is me. Pure an unadulterated me. She is my rage my fury my passion…years ago in my travels I was out of control… but I met a seer she showed me the power I possessed she showed me out of control, drunk on power and ravaging the world around me she explained how it was tied to my primal self and I had a choice I could permanently suppress my primal self or let it run riot I chose to suppress my primal self it took two years to suppress it but the upshot was I would never reach the levels I saw in the seer's vision…"
"And Odessa doesn't have that suppression…" said the Beast
Odessa smiled as she looked at the last two xmen standing rogue and Olivia "do you yield?" she said softly
"Odessa what's your problem! This was all fun until you went psycho on us!" said Olivia
"Psycho my dear? You're mistaken. I'm in no way mad…angry yes, but not insane."
"What do yah have to be angry about?" asked Olivia
"The bigger picture sis! The bigger picture! All this? All this training is ineffective…Exodus, apocalypse the sentinels, sinister, bastion threats like them are out there waiting and they would cream Xavier's little pretty pep squad in seconds! And its time that they realised it! I just showed them how weak they are how transparent they are… then add to this my progenitor who had the power to be one of the most powerful mutants on the planet but let fear rule her and threw it all away! All that power all that potential she threw it away! She became a simpering ghost of who she truly is! I'm the real Ororo Munroe I lied when I said I have no attachment to her memories I have complete attachment I remember everything I remember everything from my alternates lives as well…"
"Is that the way you feel?" said Ororo from the dangeroom door "that you should be considered the real me? That I have shirked my responsibilities…"
"Oh please, don't even bother! I already know what you would say… I know that you didn't give up your primal side for the good of others you gave it up because you were just plain afraid…"
"Odessa this rage you contain its not healthy." said Xavier…
"Not healthy? Not healthy? Don't lecture me about healthy mister saint! I know all about your dark little secrets Lucas, and onslaught I know about the hidden depths of your own rage. The only person I respect is Logan he's honest he's true… ever since I awoke and discovered what I am I've looked around and seen just how false most of you are you walk around like you're the next big thing like your going to right the worlds wrongs…and yet you hide away in this mansion. Well your not the next big thing you a bunch of failures why do you think cables in this timeline?"
Wolverine tensed "what do you know about dayspring?"
"I know he's a time traveller and I know why he's here and I know he understands what has made me so angry. It's like the matrix your living in a dream world. A dream world I want no part of! In fact the reason I started this fight was as a means of saying goodbye I'm outta here!" Odessa walked toward the dangeroom exit "Oh and by the way, so is Michael. We're striking out on our own we're going out there to fix the world and we're going to make a serious go of it no more of this isolationist crap that Xavier has you lot buying into." And with that Odessa flew out the danger room and out of the institute…
"Professor…"said Jean "I got a peak of her mind its so strange she has vivid memories from five different lives as storm…. And from what I saw most of the alternate lives ended badly."
"The girl is unstable." said the beast "obviously the stress of seemingly lived five lives has unhinged her…."
"No…that's not it, in fact I think she's more focused," said Mr creed.
"I hate to say it but I agree with Mr creed." said Joseph
"As do I." said Wolverine… "From what I was told she experienced something called the age of apocalypse the reality this creed came from a catastrophe on the level of the holocaust, plus she experienced a world where the sentinels were mass produced and ruled the world putting mutants in camps… and a constant in each of these failed lives is the xmen the xmen are never good enough."
"She's determined to insure that none of those horrors come to past, and when you add to it that she sees blatant ineffectiveness in your xmen and knows how storm squandered an unprecedented level of power, her rage is magnified." surmised the beast
"All this leads to one thing." said Wolverine
"What Logan?" asked professor x
"Odessa has the potential to become a magneto level threat…"
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Odessa flew to the hill overlooking Bayville she sat down and let out a sigh suddenly there was a whiff of brimstone." mike" she said softly acknowledging his presence
"You ready?" said Michael Wagner
"I was born ready." said Odessa "the xmen are behind me its time to look to the future I want to travel for a few weeks and then we can start preparing…"
"Very well fearless leader, lead on"
"Me? Why am I leader?"
"You're the one with 'five lives of experience' so you're the leader."
"Oh yeah… anyway lets go to New York…"
"On foot?"
"No… can you drive?"
"Yes I can why?"
"Well I'll get us some wheels…"
"You're going to steal a car?"
"Yeah, I'll be back in a little while…" she flew off and twenty minutes later Odessa drove up in a sports car. "Hop in Wagner"
Mike teleported in… "Hey isn't this Scott's car?"
"Well its mines now!" Said Odessa "onwards to the future!"
End of part 6
Next up: Tears of blood
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