CHAPTER 32: FROM BAD TO WORSE
Peter was in his room trying to function like everyone else. In the last few hours they were all exposed sure he had a mask on but it wouldn't take a genius to know that if he lived here then he was one of them. And the fact that he fired out webbing and had a large spider on his chest and back that the X-Men named Spider-X was in fact Spider-Man.
Then what happened to Wanda…He just kept seeing that happen over and over again. He was too far away to do anything and he felt he should have been able to do something. It was like the universe was twisted in a way. He didn't do anything and let some lousy crook get away and he later killed Uncle Ben.
He tried to reach Wanda and save her and still someone died. It was like no matter what the odds were stacked against him. And so here he was packing a suitcase to leave for some location only Xavier knew about until the heat was off.
He was tired, aching and emotionally exhausted from it all. He wanted to sleep but wasn't sure he could either. Just as he was finishing the mansion shook after a high pitched sound was heard and his spider-sense going off.
Then there were other sounds, machine gun fire and what sounded like those things they used for training outdoors.
Peter ran outside his room pulling back on his mask as he saw others as well. He nearly ran into Spyder, "What's going on? Is the army attacking us?"
"I don't know stay back and keep safe," He told her running to the stairs.
"Hump…As if," She muttered and went after him. Spyder ran down just in time for some type of giant purple spider robot smashed through the front door. She cried out jumping out of the way from it firing some type of webbing at her. It looked kind of like her own only it was dull black.
She was not sticking to one of the walls seeing Peter jumping onto its back. "I thought I told you to get away?"
"You tell me a lot of things, how many times do I usually listen to them?" She asked him firing a few strands of her electrical webbing through her finger tips. The webbing hit the machine but it wasn't phased.
It had to be insulated which mean that wasn't good at all because now her webbing was useless and that's all she had. Peter was on trop trying to pound it all he could do was make a dent and hurt his fist. "Man what I wouldn't give for a giant can opener right about now."
He jumped off as it crashed through one of the walls as both him and Spyder avoided part of the ceiling falling down as it did that. "Oh man this is so going to cost Xavier in repair bills." Peter groaned.
"Hey no one trashes my home!" Came an angry voice and he looked to see Tabitha there pissed as hell. She was already still reeling from the news about Wanda. She was hurting and in pain and she really wanted to lash out at something. And the robot trashing the best place that she had ever had and had been her first real home was the last straw with her.
She threw several large bombs at the robot shredding off armor as he moved back from the explosive force. But it wasn't ready to give up yet it fired back several energy weapons only these were set to a lower setting.
They would hurt like hell but they were designed to knock out a target unlike the full powered one that would blast through a wall. It was programmed to capture not kill if it wasn't necessary. Tabitha jumped to the side but caught a blast in her leg making her cry out in pain. There was just a slight singe on her jeans but her entire leg felt numb and not in a fun or good way.
"Guys hold on," Roberto was heard saying in his transformed state flying and picking up Tabitha. At the same time Sam cam in flying as well slamming into the robot as both he and the machine were sent out another wall.
"What the hell is going on?" Iceman asked making an ice slide coming into the room. "Are these something related to you?" He asked Peter.
He just shrugged at him, "Hell I never saw it but this is a little ridiculous first a giant robotic man and now its robot pets. I swear was there some mad scientist having a sale on giant killer robots that we weren't told of?"
"Don't know but these things are trashing our home and I'm going to but them on ice," Iceman grinned and slid out through the new large hole in the wall before he could say anything.
Peter looked back to Spyder, "Spyder I want you to get Aunt May and anyone else that could be hurt or worse to the X-Jet and no arguments I'm trusting you to do this for me okay?"
She stared back at him she wanted to help with the fighting but then again making sure no one else got hurt plus May was like family to her. She didn't like missing out on a fight but she nodded her head as Peter went out to join the battle outside.
Spyder knelt by Tabitha as Roberto put her down, "How are you doing you think you can walk to the hanger?"
Tabitha winced trying to get her let to work. "Damn thing is freaking numb as hell I can't move the damn thing." She grunted as she tried to move the leg it was hard like trying to move a limb that was asleep. She could move it a bit and it seemed to be getting a bit better.
"We got to get you to the hanger then." The young grey teen said trying to pick her up but Tabitha moved away.
"Hell no this day has been crappy since I got up and after everything we've gone through more robots come to trash out home. No freaking way am I staying out of this." She forced herself up moving on one leg.
"Oh come on Tabitha you can't expect to fight with that leg." Roberto told her taking hold of her shoulder but she shrugged it off giving him a glare there was no hint of that usual glint of mischief in it. Now there was just a lot of anger in her eyes as she wanted to lash out.
"Look either you two can let me go or you can get out of my way. Because I promise you both I won't go easy." She threatened them as she tried to walk on. She was starting to get the feeling back in her leg and she just hoped that it would get back to normal soon.
The other two didn't really want to stop her when she was pissed besides they had other things to deal with at the moment as well.
-Outside: a few minutes ago-
The entire outside of the mansion's grounds was now a littered battlefield. The defenses of the mansion was littered with the wrecked remains of the mansions defenses. Deadpool had sent the Black Widow into the mansion with the Tarantula for back up as he and the Scorpion model were finishing up outside.
So far he was having some fun and by the looks of it the kiddies were coming out to play as well.
Scott came out with Jean, Rogue, Beast, Logan and Lance while the others were getting things ready and trying to pack things up. Also Amara and Ray were out there as well as they had been closet to the doors when this happened.
Scott fired his optic beams at them sending the giant green scorpion back a few paces. He wasn't
"I don't know who these things belong to but they don't look like anything similar to what we just fought off," Jean said making a TK barrier to block several weapon attacks. Although she wasn't sure how long she could keep it up she was tired like the others were from what they had to go through last time.
They were physically and emotionally exhausted after their flight home and the last thing they needed what this. Not to mention all the small injuries they all had she herself had a few bruises on several parts of her body and she was getting a headache from over taxing her powers.
Ray stepped up and fired a few electrical bolts as did Ororo, Ray's powers weren't that much effective then Spyder's and even through Ororo's lightning was more powerful the armor made most of the electrical power useless and anything else inside was shielded enough to take what was left.
Amara made a few fire balls and the armor heated up but other then that it didn't do much. It was thick and tough whatever it was.
The Scorpion swung its large tail over and tried to swat at her, she ducked just in time to avoid it and Beast tried to grab the tail but it was a lot stronger then he was and Hank was flung away. Scott tried a few more blast but only dents in the armor formed.
"Damn it this stuff is tough," He shouted out jumping out of the way of one of the giant claws.
"Oh you got that right One-Eye they went all out on this one." Scott looked up to see a heavily armed red and black glad figure. "Hey there sport the name is Deadpool and I'll be your kidnapper today. So I could ask you to surrender a few since I can't take you all…But that's just no fun."
He grinned under his mask cracking his knuckles, "So let's just get down to the typical fighting where there is a lot of pain and violence? Because besides doing this for money that's another reason I love my work."
Scott just managed to roll out of the way from him sending a punch to where his head was. "Why are you doing this? What have we ever did to you?" Scott demanded getting ready for a fight.
"Did you not hear me? Man you must be deaf along with the eye problem you got there sport," The merc shrugged at him, "I do it for the money why does everyone think it's personal? I mean come on I get paid the big bucks for violence I got the perfect job."
It was at that point that Sam came out of the mansion with one of the spider robots smashing near them with Peter hot on their tails. Now it was pretty much a large brawl with two killer robots and a lunatic mercenary on the loose. From all of this noise there was no way it would go unnoticed and Deadpool knew that.
He had to think fast and capture at least a few of them before others showed up and things got complicated.
Inside the mansion May was trying to help load up the massive black jet. She was working with Logan when everything suddenly went wrong as an alarm was heard in the hanger. Both of them hurried up to the upper levels.
Each time they passed a student they would tell them to get to the hanger and get things ready. So far they had Jamie, Evan, and Jubilee accounted for and they would be waiting for them. May was more nervous then ever she had seen that everyone had trained for stuff like this but she wasn't.
She didn't have anyway to defend herself and she felt totally exposed and out of her element but she tried her best not to show it. They eventually came across Xavier with Spyder, and the others. "Charles is everything okay?"
"I don't think so we need to start to evacuate as soon as we can. Logan is the X-Jet ready?" Xavier asked him.
"Yeah no problem it's ready to go."
Xavier nodded and was about to say something else when a wall caved in, everyone scrambled out of the of a giant robotic black widow spider showed up. It scanned them all seeing that there was one human among them.
It saw Xavier and shot out a gas out of the mouth part of the spider it was in an enclosed area and the gas was a green knockout gas. Everyone was coughing trying to fight the effects Logan only felt a bit dizzy as he unleashed his claws and struck at one of the legs.
He nearly clawed his way totally through it too but the gas was hindering his vision while it had thermal gear to see him. It moved that leg out of the way sending another to his chest and pinned him to the ground. He grunted feeling the weight of it on his ribs but they wouldn't give under the pressure.
He still clawed madly at ripping through armor and it had to pull away or lost part of its leg completely. Logan tried to get up but he was still a bit sluggish and it was hard to focus a bit and that was all it needed as it fired a beam of energy that knocked him into a wall hard.
As he slumped down trying to fight the blackness that was threatening to overtake him the spider slayer looked around and chose a target. It fired a type of synthetic webbing at Xavier hauling him out of his chair as its price leaving the others behind to rejoin the others.
Back outside the battle was going touch the New Mutants that joined up were fresh but the X-Men were tired from the last battle and not all of them there. Even when Kurt and Kitty showed up they were having a difficult time and Deadpool showed no signs of being tired it was like fighting an insane Logan.
He was quick and deadly and held nothing back it seemed plus he never seemed to shut up either.
Peter was already in a fight with the guy as well. "Can I ask you something what's with all the weapons? You only got two arms you know." He asked as he flipped over the Merc.
"Hey I like to keep my options open, it's more fun that way and I think it's time for a change anyway." Deadpool shot back and literally as he kept trying to fire at him. He had switched to rubber bullets as they weren't lethal they hurt like hell when they hit after all so they weren't all bad.
They were only harder to aim since bullets were more accurate but this kid in black and white was fast and very agile. "You know I got to ask one back, you that red and blue spider guy I heard about? Or is he a relative or something?"
"Uh…No idea." Peter said and mentally smacked himself this could be a major problem for him in the future.
"Ah copyright infringement I get it, you should sue but then again to do that you have to be conscious," He threw out a stung grenade but Peter jumped out of the way when it blew. "Damn you're really costing me those things aren't cheap you know."
The others were already having their hands full with the two robots the scorpion flew up into the air tackling Ororo sending her falling but thanks to Jean she was caught with her powers before she hit the ground.
Amara had been hit in the chest with one of the energy beams she had screamed out before hitting the floor, Sam went to check on her and she was still breathing but she was out cold. Scott ordered him to get her out of there while the others fought on.
He was dealing with the tarantula with a few of the others and he kept on hammering it with his optic blast but it took a lot to get past the armor into the insides. The robot then decided the Scott was too big of a risk to itself and attempted to slam its total weight onto him.
Scott was in a kneeling position and couldn't get out of the way but just s the shadow of the metal spider when a blue haze engulfed it and sent it crashing away. Scott looked to where it came from and froze. For a moment he thought he was seeing things but after blinking he wasn't.
"Wanda!" He shouted out and there she was looking around. "How…I though you were killed."
"I nearly was but now's not the time but later I'll tell you what happened." She said and for a moment she looked over her should to the woods as if looking for something or someone. Scott looked but didn't see anything although he thought he caught some motion but whatever it was it was gone.
"What the hell is going on anyway?" Wanda asked him he wished he knew.
"First let's trash these things and then we can answer each other's questions." He fired at the robot as it had landed on its back so his blast hit it in the underbelly. Wanda went in a few hexes keeping it in place. Kitty saw her chance and phased through it, she had tried before but had trouble getting close now that she could she jumped right through it.
Her powers caused it to start shorting out and with more attacks from the mutants finally put a hole in the machine Wanda focused her powers on the hold causing all types of chaos inside and then one last bolt from Ororo caused it to explode on the inside.
The explosion caught everyone's attention, "You killed Kenny! You bastards!" Deadpool yelled out, "Okay now I'm pissed."
Deadpool was no longer holding back and having fun as he was moving faster now and it was at that moment the Black Widow returned through the mansion wall firing lasers all over the place.
It was scattering the mutants, Tabitha had tried get out of the way but ended up getting shot again. She had seen Wanda and was trying to make her way there when a bolt of energy hit her back causing her to black out.
As the mutants scattered the scorpion fired as well Jean was taking several hits but her shield was weakening she tried as hard as she could to keep it up as sweat was forming all over from the strain her limbs shaking. She fell to her knees as the scorpion kept on firing until several shots made it through. One hitting her dead center and she was knocked onto her back slipping into unconsciousness.
Rogue saw this and tried to get close she jumped over an energy bolt but one of the massive claws struck her in mid air flinging her aside as she hit the ground hard dazing her.
Deadpool was now getting in close to the spider-hero he was fighting the kid was good but he was tiring fast and was getting slower. He tried to fire webbing to defend himself but Deadpool just used a sword he carried to cut through it.
Peter was about to fired some stingers when he saw Rogue go down near him. He called out but that was his mistake to get distracted as he caught a few rubber bullets into his gut. It hurt like hell and sent the air out of his lungs as well. He looked up to see Deadpool standing over him.
"Lights out slim jim," He slammed the but of the sword against the back of his head knocking him out. He looked around and saw that the X-Men were regrouping. "Well I think we got enough. Smoke Screen!"
The robots obeyed the command as canisters were let loose covering the area in thick smoke. The robots with their different modes of vision started to pick up anyone they could while the others were too blinded to see anything. The scorpion with its claws picked up Jean and Tabitha as it took off.
Deadpool picked up Peter over his shoulder as his mask came equipped to deal with this kind of thing. He hopped back onto 'Mary' as it took off with Xavier webbed onto its body. Ororo called forth the winds dispersing the smoke as everyone looked up in time to see the robots and Deadpool making an escape.
"No!" Scott shouted out seeing Jean there. He couldn't believe just how bad things had gotten today. Sure they got Wanda back but now they lost Tabitha, Peter, Xavier and Jean.
Sirens were now heard in the distance as well as aircraft coming close to them. Scott wanted to go after their lost friends and to especially get Xavier and Jean back. This day was the hardest day of his life but as he looked at the others and he knew they wouldn't last against another encounter.
His fists were clenched to tightly if it wasn't for the gloves his nails would have bit into his skin. He looked at the ruins of the spider that was left behind and looked to Beast. "Hank get as much as you can from that. I want to know who could have made this and where it's from!"
He had to get the others to safety first but he wouldn't give up on the others he would go after them. Scott made a vow that he wouldn't rest until they had their friends back and whoever did this got what was coming to them.
"Everyone…We're leaving." He said tot hem all. "Ororo get inside and see what's happened to everyone in there."
"We're going after them right?" Rogue asked him and she was surprised when he shook his head.
"We can't Rogue we're not in any shape to help them and we need to regroup and plan. We've been getting hammered because of not being prepared and I'm not going to lead us into a trap or who knows what else."
"We can't just leave them!" She shouted at him she had seen Peter being taken. She wanted to go after them all but he was the most special to her.
He looked at her sharply, "Of course not! But…Look at us Rogue can you honestly say we could help them and by the time we get up in the air we'll have to shake the military and they're already too close. By the time we do they'll be long gone…Rogue…" he sighed and touched her shoulder.
"They took Jean too…I know how you feel and I want them back. But I also have to think of everyone else too." He hated to admit it but as leader he had a major responsibility. He just hoped that Hank could find out from the wreckage where those robots were made and where they could find their friends.
He looked into the distance. 'We'll come for you…Please hang on…Jean…Please be safe…'
NEXT UP CHAPTER 33: REGROUPING