X-MEN EVOLUTION: RISE OF ODESSA
An alternate universe xmen evolution fic
By Deathsheadx
Disclaimer: xmen are a Marvel Entertainment property not mines
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Part 9: battle in the inner circleThe catacombs beneath the Boston chapter house of the hellfire club
Emma and the 'mystery telepath' sprung into action. Emma shifted into a shiny glass type form…
"Hmmm organic diamond." muttered Cable as he dodged a punch "makes you pretty strong. Not colossus strength but strong nevertheless however, problem with that Emma is you're telepathy is hindered"
Just then the shadow-shrouded telepath jumped forward and struck Cable yelled out and stumbled "very nice attack, caught me by surprise. On a lesser mutant that would have meant something but not to me!" he raised his hand and she was shoved back by a telekinetic shove…
"We have to find Bogan's sanctuary," said Tessa
"What are you talking about?" asked X23
"Only there can we truly sever Bogan's hold over his victims!"
"What do you mean truly sever?" asked x23
"Bogan's hold is a fusion of the mystical and the psionic your friend may sever the psionic but unless we sever the mystical Bogan can always re-establish his hold…"
"Then what are we waiting for lets break the chain!" snapped Odessa
Cable watched the trio run off he knew they were up to something and hoped they would be okay as his hands were full, due to the fact that several more mutants had joined the battle…He couldn't use his guns as he could sense most of his attackers were in Bogan's thrall he decided he needed back up. "Graymalkin!" snapped Cable on a secret wavelength "body slide… X-force."
There were 5 beams of light and 5 teens appeared one was a red headed teen of about 17 he had two double bladed swords and a star tattooed over his left eye. Another teen stood taller than Cable he was of American Indian decent and was extremely well muscled. There was a teenage girl with long red hair a woman with white skin and a black oval mark over her left eye the final member was a black teen well muscled he carried a baseball bat and had a smug grin on his face. "Yo, c-man! What's the 911?
"Cage! We have to subdue these people without to much in the way of grievous bodily harm!" replied Cable
"That will be most hard," muttered the red haired boy, "but I love a challenge!"
"There you go again shatterstar always with the G.B.H!" Muttered the American Indian teen
"Can it warpath and focus on the mission!" Shouted the white skinned woman
"Yes ma'am!" Shouted warpath as he punched the nearest opponent
Bogan watched the new arrivals through the eyes of his slaves and suddenly realised that that annoying trio of girls was missing suddenly he was full of dread they were going after him…
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"Just who are you? You look like Ororo Munroe but your body language is totally different and your age is all wrong." Said Tessa as they ran along a corridor
"I'm Ororo's chronal duplicate basically I'm a clone created by fluxes in the space time continuum."
"Why did you come to rescue me I though Xavier refused to aid me?"
"He did?" Snarled x23 "I never trusted the bald headed man!"
"I'm here without his knowledge I decided I didn't want anything to do with his fantasy world and me and Michael decided to do our own thing." Replied Odessa
"So how did you know about me?"
"I have the memories of an alternate storm, actually I have five sets of complete memories… the sentinel occupation storm, the age of apocalypse storm, Ororo: agent of shield, and storm leader of the XSE as well as the storm of this reality it gets jumbled up a lot at times and I find myself angry a lot but most of the time these memories are an asset!"
"Wow I can see how that would be an asset…here's where Bogan keeps his treasures…" said Tessa "x23 if you may?"
"One adamantium can opener coming up!" said x23 as she extended her claws and slashed through the door
"You know I probably could have opened that door," said Odessa
"Yeah but my way is more fun," said x23 as she stepped through the door "wow! You have got to see all this!"
Odessa entered and gasped, "By the goddess I've died and gone to heaven look at all this stuff!"
"No time to browse," said Tessa "we need to find a crystal egg!"
"How big is it?" asked Odessa
"The size of an Easter egg! Spread out and look!"
Odessa started to rummage through the precious trinkets gold, diamonds, rubies, and other precious stones suddenly she felt a change in the wind currents "everybody we got incoming!" Suddenly there was a swirl of black smoke "oh hell no…"
A tall woman with cruel looking eyes, dressed in black walked out of the smoke… "You really didn't think it would be that easy did you urchins?"
"Actually I hoped it would be easier…" said Odessa grimacing
"How quaint so full of life I shall enjoy destroying you…"
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Wolverine and Mr Creed walked through the sewers… "Remind me again why we're trudging through the sewers Victor?"
"Beats me! Oh wait you said you wanted to try the sneak attack" replied Mr Creed
"Remind me never to have a bright idea agai—whu? Can you hear that?"
"It's the sound of fighting… coming from behind that wall!"
"Stay back I'm cutting us an entrance!" Wolverine unsheathed his claws and cut through the wall behind the wall was a winding staircase. "Its coming from down these stairs," said Wolverine he broke into a sprint with Mr Creed following after him they soon came to a network of catacombs with hellfire club guards strewn everywhere the floor covered in ice and slush
"Odessa's been here." said Mr Creed
"I can see that and x's scent is with hers they're together… they headed this way!" Wolverine and Mr Creed made their way through the catacombs to find a massive melee between hellfire club guards, various mutants and agent dayspring. "Dayspring! What the hell are you doing here?" Shouted Wolverine wading into several guards
"Odessa sent a distress signal directly to me… I answered." replied Cable knocking out a guard
"Who are the kids fighting the guards?" asked Wolverine
"I recognise Cassidy's kid and Domino," said Mr Creed…
"They're X-force my covert action team…" replied Cable
"So you ARE running your own gig on the side! Which reminds me Odessa claimed you're some sort of time traveller!"
"Wha? How would she know that?"
"She's a chronal duplicate of storm with the memories of a few alternate Ororo's it seems…excuse me," Wolverine slashed a guard in the face, "it seems she knows a version of you in one of those alternate timelines!"
"Well I'll be…"
"Where is the kid anyway X23 is with her!"
"She, X23, and some other girl lit out of here a little while back…"
"Creed! The girls aren't here! I'm going after them you coming or are you going to help Dayspring out!"
"I'll give Dayspring a hand here, you find the girls!"
Wolverine nodded and raced off
Selene fired a blast, which hit x23 dead centre and sent her smashing into a wall
Odessa screamed in rage and unleashed gale force winds at Selene pushing her back "did you know that with a strong enough wind you can push a piece of straw through a solid brick wall?" she snapped at Selene. "Can you imagine what would happen if the same wind was applied to a handful of solid gold coins? No? Don't worry you're about to get first hand experience!" Odessa grabbed a handful of coins and threw them at Selene she then raised her other palm and the wind picked up as did the coins the shot at Selene faster than the eye could see and tore right through Selene tearing a chunk out of her stomach she collapsed to the floor…"as you can see said Odessa its quite painful…X! You okay?"
"I'm fine!" said x23 struggling up "Tessa?"
"I'm fine come on before Bogan sends someone else…" the trio looked around and after a few minutes they found what they were looking for a crystal egg…
"Now what?" Asked x23
"Now we have to destroy it…it will shatter Bogan's mystic link and all his slaves would be freed."
"You always were the smart one Tessa… which is probably why I liked you so."
"No way!" said Odessa turning round to see Selene rising from the ground "didn't I just kill you? Oh wait I forgot! You're immortal!"
"You know about that? Never the less I must pay you back for that attack, it actually hurt considerably!" she fired a blast which caused the trio to scatter "no, no, no, my dear we cant have you getting away with that Bogan will be so displeased!" Tessa was grabbed by a telekinetic hold and pulled towards Selene But then x23 sailed through the air and rammed her fist into Selene's face Selene screamed and clutched her eyes…
"Nice one!" said Tessa "now come on we've got to find something to destroy the crystal egg…"
"No I wont let you! I'll kill you a-urgh!" Selene looked down to see three adamantium claws sticking through her chest…"just give me a few minutes…" sighed Selene as she collapsed to the ground
"You girls alright?" Asked Wolverine
"We're okay!" said Odessa but "Selene will only be down for a few minutes!"
"Well the minute I see a twitch I'll gut her again."
"Thanks Logan… Tessa what do we do now?" Asked Odessa.
"Now we shatter it x23 if you please…"
"With pleasure!" X23 raised her claws and struck with all her might when she was suddenly thrown back by an invisible force
Tessa dropped the crystal egg as if she had been burned but the egg stopped mid fall and floated high in the air a dark figure with glowing red eyes formed around it.
"You really have to die you know that?" said the dark figure "you've become too much of a threat!"
"Is that Bogan?"
"I think it is," said Tessa
"Who cares what it is lets take it down!" Said Wolverine leaping forward claws extended…
"No, no, no we can't have that Wolverine!" Bogan raised a hand and everyone was thrown back… "Did you really think me so weak?" Roared Bogan
Odessa raised her hands to throw a lightning bolt but nothing came. "What the hell? She gasped my powers are gone!"
"But of course! You control one of the primal elements dear, do you know how hard it is to fight nature? Best stop you now before you become bothersome, Say good night dear!" a blast hit Odessa smashing her into a cabinet she slumped to the ground totally dazed and bleeding badly from the wound to the chest.
"You wont win like this you know" came a soft voice Odessa opened her eyes to see a black woman with red hair above her she had two large red feathered wings on her back and ornate horns rising from her head she was clothed in a strange decorative metal bikini of sorts…but the most striking thing was Odessa could see right through her
"Okay now I know I'm dead or mad…" muttered Odessa
"No you're not mad but I'm dead." Said the winged woman "I'm Maleeka I was telling you, you wont win like this."
"Say I believe I'm not mad, why wont we win?"
"Your fighting Bogan's mystical shadow its not the real representation just a proxy of sorts…I should know after all I taught him that."
"You taught him?"
"But of course I did! I was a sorceress of some reputation when I was alive. Over 2000 years ago I came across a young mutant psion with high mystic potential… now meeting a fellow mutant was rare but meeting another mutant who was also a mystic was unheard of! I took Elias under wing taught him much magic I taught him how to cast his mind out and mystically link with others… but then Selene came and offered him more power and he joined with her. I tried to stop him but he turned and slayed me with my own blade I've been a ghost ever since, tied to my blade…"
"Then how do we beat Bogan?"
"There is away but to do so I would have to bond with you."
"Bond? You mean possess me?"
"In part but what I mean is you have to become my shaman of course after the deed is done you can cast me away…"
"How can I trust you…"
"You cant but your all out of options…"
Odessa couldn't help but agree with the ghost's assessment "Okay lets do this!" Odessa grabbed the hilt of the ancient sword there was a flash of intense light and the sword started to glow Odessa found herself surrounded by a strange aura and then she felt Maleeka enter her mind she felt the joint purpose they shared one desire…
The defeat of Bogan.
"Elias!" said Odessa and Maleeka both together. "Turn and face us!"
Bogan's shadow turned round in surprised… "I don't believe it how is it you are able to hold Maleeka's sword? You should have fried to a crisp!"
"Because Odessa possesses the mystic heritage to become a shaman Bogan!" Came Maleeka's voice
"And now we're going to stop you!" said Odessa and Maleeka together taking up a combative stance
end of part 9