Authors note: this story started out as the subject of a challenge between my friends and me.
The rules or points were as followed.
I had to find a way, other than straight de-aging, to introduce a teenage storm to the Evo universe
I had to include characters from the regular Marvel universe as well as the DC universe
I had to find a way to bring AOA Blink, Charles Lensherr, and Sabertooth to the Evo universe
And I had to find a way to work in a crossover with an anime on jetix or cartoon network
It was a tough challenge but I think I did it!
X-MEN EVOLUTION: RISE OF ODESSA
An alternate universe X-men Evolution fic
By Deathsheadx
Disclaimer: xmen are a Marvel Entertainment property not mines
/---/ Telepathic speech
Part 10: Endgame2271 years ago.
The Sahara desert.
Two warriors faced off.
A male.
And a female
"Burning strike!" Yelled the male as he leapt into the air a burning fist flew towards the female
"Entaris shield!" Yelled the female, a white force field appeared as the fist came down she sprouted wings and took to the air. She raised her hands "red ram!" She screamed out, as a ram comprised of energy formed in the air and hurtled forward at the male
The male managed to get a shield up just in time "pretty good Maleeka! But it wont save you!"
"Why Elias? Why side with Selene!"
"Power my former master… power! She offered it I took it. All I have to do is destroy you Maleeka!" Elias shot into the air
"You forget Elias I trained you!" screamed Maleeka she moved her hands in an intricate pattern
"Burning spike? That weak move? Maleeka you're getting desperate!"
"We'll see Elias!" said Maleeka. "Burning spike!" A blast shot forward shattering Elias's hastily erected shield it hit him in the face causing Elias to scream in agony as he fell out of the sky "like I said Elias I trained you! but I didn't teach you all I know. Case in point: burning spike seems weaker than burning strike but in the hands of a trained master it's a whole lot tougher…"
"You…foul dog! You bitch! You'll pay for that!" roared Elias he flew back up at Maleeka drawing his sword Maleeka drew her own sword and the two warriors clashed the sword play was intense it went on for hours the sands of the Sahara actually burned finally as the dawn of a new day began…
"Like…I said Elias…you… are… no match…FOR ME!" with a tremendous swing Maleeka shattered Elias's sword and with a spin had him pinned to the ground… "The wonders I wanted to show you…. the secrets I wanted to share with you Elias! You were my friend! You were my lover! You were my husband!" She raised he sword to deal the final blow "goodbye my husband." she said tears in her eyes…
"I don't think so, I cant have you killing him after all he's my apprentice now, he's my lover now... and with you gone he'll be my husband!" Said Selene materialising in the sky she unleashed a blast of energy which hit Maleeka full on before she could raise a shield. Maleeka was thrown back badly burned by the attack she struggled to get up…
"Maleeka dear…" said Elias picking up her sword "I never did love you… you were a means to an end, something to pass the time till something better came along. Now Selene, she's definitely something better she's got vision and power and I'm going along for the ride…"
"Damn you Elias!" said Maleeka through burn mangled lips… "DAMN YOOUUU!"
"Good bye wife." said Elias bringing Maleeka's own sword down and severing her head from her shoulders as he did the sword burst into flames burning Elias's hands badly he screamed in agony dropping the swords…
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The present day, the catacombs beneath the Boston chapter house of the hellfire club
Tessa lay unconscious from a nasty blow to the head while Wolverine, X23 stared at the scene before them.
Bogan's shadow construct, his surrogate body stood in the middle of the treasure chamber in its centre the crystal egg the only way to severe Bogan's mystic hold over his slaves
Facing him was Odessa, chronal duplicate of the xman known as storm and in her hand the sword of Maleeka,
"Isn't this interesting… the legends were true. Your spirit survived in that sword for all these years, and it was you that was a semi finalist of the shaman king tournament 1000 years ago. And it was you who was at the tournament 500 years later." Said Bogan
"Got that right Bogan and now we're going to destroy your network of slaves!" Said Odessa/Maleeka
"Really are you sure your new shaman has the ferioku to back that up? After all she's very young and very experienced!"
"It'll be enough!" said Odessa/Maleeka "burning wave!" She screamed out as she swung her sword at Bogan a wave of fire shot forward at Bogan who's shadow construct manifested a sword which cleaved the wave of flame in two
"My turn Maleeka! Dark spiral!"
Wolverine looked at the battle unfolding "okay this is a whole new level of battle its outta my league…"
"Got that right!" muttered X23
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The sanctum sanctorum of doctor strange doctor strange awoke to the sound of hundreds of mystic alarms going off… he quickly got up and teleported himself to his scrying pool… "It seems" muttered doctor strange "that a shaman of great potential has awakened and aligned with a powerful guardian spirit… ah its Maleeka… she is a troublesome spirit…" doctor strange frowned "what's this? Ah yes she is facing against Bogan!"…
"Stephan do you sense it?" came an astral projection of Zatanna the sorceress
"The new shaman?"
"Yes Stephan but don't you see she is more than just a shaman she has the potential to achieve the tri-state the first in what is it? 8000 years…"
"I can trump that Zatanna my dear guess who the shamans guardian spirit is?"
"Who?"
"Maleeka the sorceress." said doctor fate materialising before the duo
"This could be a good thing or a bad thing…"
"I know Zatanna, I know. All we can do is wait."
Cable fought hard to find the nexus of Bogan's network he could sense the tremendous battle unfolding close by and he knew that Bogan was totally focused on that battle which meant his pets were on there own now was as good a time as any to shatter his psionic control he looked around and with his psionic senses and found the nexus pulling out his psimitar he unleashed a telekinetic wave which knocked over several guards and somersaulted over some others he then swung his psimitar back its psionic Blade passing through those guards rendering them unconscious he then raced forward and moved in front of Bogan's shadow shrouded telepath… "Just you and me now." He said softly
The mystery telepath hissed and raised her hand a psionic sword forming in her hands she jumped forward and swung her blade
Cable blocked with his psimitar and shoved her away she flipped back and then jumped forward in an attempt to spin kick cable… "I don't think so," said cable he grabbed her foot in mid air and slammed her to the ground as he did he gasped as she melted into the shadows "okay I didn't expect that one!" Just then she leapt out of another shadow to strike cable but as she swept down with her psychic blade cable literally vanished and appeared behind her slamming his psimitar into her
The telepath screamed in shock as a solid psionic connection was made "how?" she worded
Cable smiled as he gained access to the telepaths mind and saw the true mind of the telepath shackled in a strange cell with chains leading off to the minds of others…. The telepath looked up at him her eyes filled with tears… "Don't worry kid I'll have you out of here in a moment…" cable horded his psionic strength... "Mother Askani guide my hand!" he prayed and raised his psimitar high before stabbing it into the cell he poured in more and more psionic energy until the cell shattered and then he was back In the catacombs at his feet lay the telepath free of Bogan's control she opened her eyes and the shadows melted away.
"Hi kid what's your name?"
"My name is Betsy, Betsy Braddock." she said softly
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Selene awoke after sufficiently healing from the beating she had taken she looked up to see an intense battle going on before her eyes. The girl the one who controlled the weather she had a strange aura around her. Selene shifted her senses and gasped as the aura became clearer to her it was like Odessa was overlaid with the ghost image of Maleeka that could only mean that the girl was channelling Maleeka's spirit. Selene realised Bogan could be in trouble so she readied a spell to separate the spirit from the shaman, a spirit sealers spell. But as she rose to release the spell invisible hands grabbed her and her astral form was yanked from her body
/ What is this? /She screamed out…
"My dear Selene I can't have you interfering with this fight!" said a feminine voice…
Selene turned round and found herself facing Circe the sorceress…
/ What are you doing Circe! Why are you bothering me instead of meddling with that bothersome wonder woman! /
"Why Selene I'm just stopping you from interfering with Maleeka and her new protégé"
/ Why! Why stop me! /
"Because I want to see what has the whole mystic-spiritual world on edge and I owe Maleeka a few favours… besides you forget she was my sister in arms when we nearly destroyed Themyscria almost five thousand years ago…"
/ I MUST STOP HER! SHE'LL RUIN EVERYTHING I'VE WORKED FOR! / Screamed Selene
"This fight will end without you saving Elias like you did last time…
Selene looked at the battle before her and sighed / It doesn't matter anyway…the girl is out of ferioku! Bogan will win this! /
Odessa/Maleeka gasped as the bond snapped as Odessa felt her ferioku dissipate... "Noooo! Not now! Not when I was so close!" Snapped Odessa
"Well my dear it seems your best wasn't good enough! I think I'll take your head like I did to my darling wife 2271 years ago!" Said Bogan laughing
Odessa gritted her teeth she couldn't believe it was all over she had tried really hard. She had tried her best but she hadn't been good enough… she closed her eyes she couldn't just let it end like this she had to fight on…she slowly got to her feet…
"You still try to fight? Don't you get it? Its over! You lose you insignificant worm you're nothing! You're no shaman you're just a weak child who thought she could take me on! Well guess what child you failed and now you and you're friends get to die!"
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOO!" Roared Odessa in rage all her rage, all her anger, all her frustrations focused in that single moment and suddenly as if deep inside her a fire had been lit she felt a surge of power…
"Impossible! She has no ferioku!"
Maleeka rose from the sword once more her ghostly form materialising before Bogan then she flowed into Odessa once again only this time Odessa sprouted ghost wings and her eyes glowed her whole body transformed into blue energy "YOU WERE SAYING?" came the dual voice of Odessa and Maleeka, Their voice thunderous, the rage and furyapparent in each word the spoke.
"How can this be your ferioku was all but gone! No matter I'll finish you off with a single strike!" Said Bogan as he swung forward to make the killing blow…
"NO YOU WONT." said Odessa/Maleeka as she parried his strike. "MY TURN." She said as pulled back and raised her sword
"Wha—" said Bogan in fear…
"CRIMSON LIGHTNING STRIKE!" roared Odessa/Maleeka with a mighty swing of her blade a massive red lightning bolt streaked out towards Bogan
Bogan went to block the lightning bolt only before it reached Odessa/Maleeka was before him "Wha?"
"SURPRISE." said Odessa/Maleeka grinning
Bogan looked down to see Maleeka's sword had run him through…right through the crystal egg "but how… you had no ferioku left and your mystic strength wasn't enough to pierce the egg…"
"It takes more than ferioku to make a shaman Bogan. It takes true spirit true grit and determination to be a worthy shaman." Said Maleeka
"Simple answer Bogan we're better than you. Oh and here's a move we've just come up with just for you…" said Odessa
"CELESTIAL TEMPEST IGNITE!" Roared Odessa/Maleeka the egg shattered into a thousand pieces and Bogan's shadow construct, his surrogate body exploded "It'll take you a few years to pull yourself back together from that…" and with that Odessa returned to flesh and blood and collapsed to the ground…
Wolverine and X23 rushed over to check on Odessa, "her pulse is pretty weak!" said Wolverine "and her chest wound is still bleeding!"
Cable made his way into the treasure room "what just happened? I shattered Bogan's psionic control and made my way to your location, only just before I got here I felt a psionic scream the likes I never felt before…oh no Odessa! The kid looks pretty messed up! Lets get here and the others to the institute!"
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Odessa opened her eyes to find herself in a field laying next to her was Maleeka. "Hey Maleeka I think we won."
"Yes we shattered the crystal egg breaking Bogan's spell and shattered Bogan's spiritual self to boot" was Maleeka's reply
"Spiritual self? I though Bogan was alive!"
"Oh he is but I taught him how to separate his spirit from his body and over the years he perfected it he basically put his body into a state of suspended animation as he didn't need it he became a living ghost and through special items like the crystal egg he was able to perform spells and other feats like creating his collective of souls and stretch his sphere of influence without his body"
"Wow! What now you go back to living in the sword? Move on to the next plane?"
"Nope when we shattered Bogan's spirit the powerful death magic's that bound me to the sword dissipated as well leaving me free to move on…"
"So you're moving on?"
"Well I was wondering if I could stick around with you for a while I just spent the last two thousand years crammed in a sword I what to stretch my ghost legs a little" said Maleeka
"That'll be great! I want to learn more!"
"And I'm willing to teach… anyway I think its time you woke up once more…"
Odessa was blinded as everything went white and moments later she was looking up at a light… "Wha? Where am I? Oh hell I'm back here again…". She looked around to see Tessa sleeping in the bed beside hers and Michael sleeping in the chair at the end of the beds he was in the process of waking up
"Hi there mike…" she said softly
"Odessa! Your back!"
"Yeah I'm back how do you feel?"
"Like someone ran a rake through my brain!"
"Sorry Michael I got overzealous and waltzed in without a plan I nearly got you killed!"
"No worries we all mess up from time to time…" smiled Michael
"But I shouldn't have not with the memories and skills I possess!"
"Hey don't beat yourself up over it anyway I heard from X23 you vent all medieval on Bogan's arse."
"Well me and Maleeka…"
"Who's Maleeka?"
Suddenly there was a flash of light and sitting on the end of the bed was Maleeka's ghostly form "That's Maleeka said Odessa grinning."
"Mein gott!"
"You got that right," said Tessa sitting up "I'd heard the stories but I never thought it was true."
"You okay Tessa?"
"I'm fine… I never did say thanks for coming to my aid…"
"It was nothing Tessa…"
"No that's not true it was everything to me."
Just then the door opened and Xavier storm and the beast made his way into the medibay. "Hello Odessa, Tessa, I've come to talk"
"Charles look at the end of Odessa's bed!" gasped Ororo.
"Oh my stars and garters spectral manifestation!" Said the beast
"I have just two words to say to you Xavier can you read my mind I'm broadcasting it straight at you…" muttered Odessa
"Please Odessa I have not come to fight I have come to offer you a place in the xmen once mor—"
"No way! No how! Xavier I already told you the xmen are a no go for me... besides after what you did to Tessa I definitely aint working for you…"
"What did he do?" asked Ororo
"Oh Charlie-boy here didn't tell you Tessa's been Xavier's little spy in the hellfire club since she was about 9 years old…"
"A child spy?" gasped Ororo in shock.
"Yep he trained her since he met her in Afghanistan as a 7 year old and then he sent her in and she was forced to grow up in the hellfire club she got in so deep that for a while she literally became an agent of the hellfire club serving the black king her mission forgotten…Charlie-boy didn't like that and took it as a betrayal but that's not the best part…" said Odessa.
"Odessa" said Xavier "this is not the…"
"What Charlie boy doesn't want you to know 'ro is Tessa came to him for help in getting out. But Xavier refused; he left her to rot Ororo. Saint Xavier left Tessa to rot in the hellfire club!"
"Charles you utter bastard! How could you!" shrieked Ororo turning and walking off
"It wasn't like that!" said Xavier trying to justify the situation "she had become a serious security risk to the students in my care I couldn't bring her out, I had to think of the others!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah the lips are moving but I'm hearing nothing but garbage…soon as the doc says I'm fit to go I'm outta here and Tessa if you want you can come with me..." said Odessa
" Ill go wherever you go." said Tessa
Xavier sighed, "If that's what you wish… Michael?"
"I'm sticking with Odessa professor I suddenly don't trust you…"
A day later"So you and Emma are back on talking terms?"
"Yeah Emma told me our friendship meant to much to her to chuck it away over Charles Xavier anyway she's going to be busy setting up her own."
"She's setting a school of her own?" said Michael
"Yeah the hellfire club has been temporarily suspended while they sort through this Bogan mess, and Emma isn't to pleased about Bogan and Selene's games so she decided she needed a new challenge."
"Good for her…hey x what're you doing in that tree?" said Odessa as she saw the young mutant sitting on a branch
"Waiting for you. I decided to join your team…"
"Really? Welcome aboard x…you know you really need a name." Said Odessa
"I like X23 fine."
"You need a real name… we'll think of one on the way to meet the rest of my new team…"
"Team? I didn't know that you had recruited more members to your team?" said Michael
"Don't worry mike…" said Odessa with a wicked grin
"Neither do they…"
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Lance Alvers groaned as the bell kept ringing. "Toad answer the gawddamn door! Toad! Ah to heck with it I'll do it myself!" Lance got out of bed and stormed down the stairs and flung open the door "YEAH? WHAT THE HELL do you…" standing before Lance was 3 girls and a boy.
"Hey Alvers is that the way to great your new leader?"
The end… of the beginning
To be continued in the sequel: the Renegades!