The shadow part two
I had several chapters written and was stuck on where to go on this story. Then my computer dumped everthing and now I have to rewrite the part 4 of this story all over again.
Chapter Eight
21 July 99
Dr. Maggie Walsh was happy watching, from the safety of the control room, as the two Goa'uld symbiotes were brought into the main lab to be implanted into the two test subjects. They had got all they could from the subjects, in the form of tissue samples and energy readings. The interrogation of the two subjects was useless in that they didn't know why they were "immortal", they were just born that way, of course the subject Sorbo did throw in they should ask his Father, the subject under truth serum claimed to be Hercules. Actors! Maggie thought that they were just some centuries old mutants, which call themselves externals.
Adam was coming around when he saw that he and Kevin were back in the main lab again. Kevin was still out, them Adam saw what the assholes were bringing into the lab in sealed jars/A Crap/ He was getting a flashback of when he was an Immortal of a tender age of 150, he and some older Immortals started a rebellion against Ra and his fellows Goa'uld buddies. They were lead by four people who claimed to be from the far future, two fair skinned men, a blond fair skinned woman and a Jaffa, a former First Prime of Apophis, the shol'vah Teal'c. He hated Goa'ulds. Just then he heard four loud bangs and the jars exploded and the lights went out, by the emergency lights he saw three people step out of the shadows, no make that three vamps and one of them was Sita in her Bloodrayne personality and if he didn't know better one of the men was Angelus. Sita freed him and helped him up as Angelus picked up Kevin as the younger looking vamp keep the guards busy and made sure the Goa'uld were dead by stomping on them then they stepped into the shadow and were in a black void.
Dr. Maggie Walsh was pissed, as she watched her experiment being destroyed by three HST's and her subjects kidnapped, she could care less about the damage to Government property or the fact that two of the guard had nonfatal gun shot wounds, all she cared about was her experiments.
In the void Adam watched as the younger vamp did a quick search on him and Sorbo and them pulled out a knife and made a small cut on Kevin's left shoulder blade, popping out a small electronic chip and them he looked at him, Adam gave him a nod and them with a sharp pain on his left shoulder blade, the tracking bug was removed from his shoulder as well. With the bugs removed Xander opened a portal to the Summer's place and everybody exited the void.
Xander watched as Buffy and Joyce both mothering Adam and Kevin, Kevin was just starting to come around and Adam was playing Buffy for all of the sympathy he could get. After a quick word or two with Buffy on what they were going to do and a quick goodbye from Joyce Xander grabbed Angel and took him back to his place in L.A., after a quick apology to Cordy on the fact that he couldn't stay and that he had to get rid of the tracking bugs that he had removed from Adam and Kevin, Xander shadow hopped to Vegas.
Dr Walsh was still in a mood when one of her technicians told her that according to the way the tracking bugs were disappearing and appearing that the young male HST was the vigilante that the papers were calling The Shadow, and the Female matched the files that the CIA had on a freelance operative that had worked for then up until the 60's as Bloodrayne and had ties to SHEILD, the other HST they didn't know who he was. Two hours after the raid, Dr. Walsh had a visit from Col Fury himself and was arrested for kidnapping and illegal experimentation on human subjects, with in a day the labs were shut down and the vamps, aggressive demons and project 314 were destroyed and the passive demons were released with compensations. Maggie Walsh was looking at 50 years to life. The only problem that came out of the mess was the fact that some hard core NID agents were still following the trackers that Xander was carrying.
When Xander stopped in Vegas he left the bugs at a hide out for a street gang that he knew about and then went to were his Father was hanging out at his mansion, he and Alfred had just got home from New York. After a quick update and finding out that SHIELD was going to raid the Initiative, but Xander felt that, that wouldn't stop the NID from tracking the bugs down and after Bruce mentioning a certain church in Paris was a safe house used by the Justice League, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and several secret societies (The Watchers Counsel is one of them, as well as the Society of Watchers) and any one who should raid the place would be in a world of hurt, this gave Xander and idea, he quickly went back to Vegas and put the bugs on the earliest nonstop plane to Paris out of Vegas and then after a quick check on his friends went to bed for the day, in his room at Xavier's school.
Chapter Eight
Xander woke in a strange room and for a second didn't know were he was at, then he remembered the activities of last night and that he had stayed at the school because he felt that just incase he had been recognized last night in Sunnydale that he would be safer to stay at the school that at his place in Henderson, plus he would be up two hours earlier here than at the church in Nevada. Xander checked on the bugs and saw that the plane was on final approach to the airport in Paris, so he went to see his dad in Gotham and told him what he was doing for the night and talked to Alfred on the outfit he had seen Blade wearing the night before and had looked at several ideas that Alfred was working on for Xander.
When Xander saw by way of the shadow void that the plane was at the terminal, with Batman tagging along they grabbed the bugs and picking up a Batmoble that Batman had stored in a private hanger near the airport, they took the bugs to the church on the outskirts of Paris and left them in a small room in the cellar of the church and Batman set the security system to record the actions of anybody trying to enter the place without using the security codes and have the recording sent to the Bat cave, the JL satellite and the SHIELD carrier and warned the French branch of Interpol about a possible terrorist attack on the church, then after a quick patrol of Paris Father and son shadow walked back to Gotham. After a quick visit with Rachel and her sister, Xander finished off Thursday night patrolling Gotham with Batman. The next night Bruce told Xander about how a U.S. government agency was caught attacking a church on French soil and the French were yelling about the U.S. a trying to start a war and how a certain Senator Robert Kinsey the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee was at the center of the controversy. It seems that the fact that the good Senator was the one who sent the NID agents to France. Basically Kinsey was fired as the Chairman of the Appropriations and was looking at a possible prison term for treason if the Justice Department could get it to stick and thru Kinsey's private records the FBI had arrested high ranking members of the Committee, and thru it got info on the agents in the U.S. government that work for the Syndicate (X-Files) and the Consortium (X-files) and as these people scrambled to cover there asses the more came to light.
By the time morning came around Xander had gotten himself ready for the reunion with his Mother at the Kent Farm, he stepped out of a shadow, with his car, a few minutes before sunrise in an alley a few blocks from Clark and Lois' place in Metropolis. After shifting to day mode he drove over to their place to ride with them to the farm for the mini family reunion, Rachel was already at Clark's place since she had hitched a ride with Starfire when she flew to Metropolis to help out Superman with a problem with the Toyman, yesterday afternoon. Rachel's sister Star (Starfire) wasn't going to the Farm with them but staying in Metropolis to hang out with some friends and keep an eye on Metropolis allowing Superman a day off. Besides being nervous at meeting a sober mom Xander was going to meet two other "Cousins" as well, Kara (Supergirl) and Conner (Superboy), Connor was living at the farm and going to Smallville high since he is stuck in a 16 year old body and Kara was living in the dorms at Metropolis University.
Jessica Harris soon to be Jessica Darkholme again after she gets Tony to sign the divorce papers, was nervous meeting her son sober after being a drunken bitch for so long, she hoped that Alexander or Xander as he liked to be called would one day forgive her, she sure couldn't forgive her self. Between Tony's drunken rages, the secret gilt that Alex wasn't Tony's son and finding out that her Mother, Raven Darkholme, was the Mutant terrorist Mystique, which meant that she and Alex might be mutants as well had drove into drunken oblivion every night for the last fifteen years, some professional part of her had kept her sober during the day when she was at work in the hospital and it was the attack by the FOH two weeks ago that shock her and woke her up to the fact that she was committing a slow form of suicide and when drunk acting just like the racist assholes that had attacked her and Tony looking for Alex and some girl. The last two weeks had been a mild hell, she had gone cold turkey and if it wasn't for Martha's help she would have been back hitting the bottle by now. The distractions that Martha, Jonathan and Conner had done to keep her busy and occupied had helped, Jonathan giving her Farm chores and Conner helping her with the CLEPT exams and night school courses at the M of U annex at the High school in town, so she could get herself up to date on her schooling and college credits so she could start M of U in the fall and get her Medical Degree in Pediatrics. Clark and Lois had offered to house her when she started College in the September but she was undecided on whether to stay with Clark and Lois or getting a small apartment of her own.
Jessica had after a week at the farm had noticed that she felt more relaxed here that she had ever been in Sunnydale even before her dive into the bottle. She didn't realize it until now that there had been something about Sunnydale that had made her feel like her mind was wrapped in cotton, like the world around her was being muffled, but now after two weeks here her senses seemed to be sharper and she had been noticing small things that puzzled her. She knew that Clark and Conner had been adopted by Martha and Jonathon and that Kara was Clark's cousin, and if she didn't know better she could swear that Clark and Kara were not human and that Conner was some sort of hybrid of whatever Clark and Kara were and human and she didn't know why she felt this way but she knew that she was safe with them.
Jessica was helping Martha in the kitchen getting the food ready for the afternoon Bar-B-Q that Jonathan was heating up when Clark's Jeep and Kara's Volkswagen pulled up into the yard. Jessica followed Martha out to meet then, Jessica got her usual feeling of power off of Clark and Kara, it was a feeling of being in the sunlight on a sunny summers day, Lois just felt human, the dark haired girl that got out of the back that she knew was Lois' Cousin Rachel and Xander's new girl friend felt like being near a high power line and of, all she could describe it as infinity, but it was her son Xander that floored her and she just about collapsed, His heart was beating to slow/how could she hear his heart and come to think about it she had been able to hear ever bodies heart within a 50 foot radius every since she had left Sunnydale, and she could feel the power, it was muted, rolling off him, it was of darkness and shadow with a hint of the African savannas, that's when every thing that had happened to her over the last 19 years came to a head and she lost it, that's when things got interesting.
Xander was feeling nervous just thinking about meeting his sober mom she hadn't been sober since he was four so he really never had a memory of his mom when she didn't have a bottle in her hand, sure she was more or less sober during the day when she was at work but as soon as she got home she had a bottle. As they pulled up to the house he saw Mrs. Kent come out to welcome them and his mom right behind her looking just as nervous as he felt and surprisingly looking good. The Jessica Harris that he knew had all was looked worn out and beaten and her red hair that she had inherited from Grandma Raven had all was looked lifeless, but now after two weeks sober she looked vital as if she had never had a sick day in her life, and come to think about it Xander could never remember a day that she was ever sick besides being drunk, she had never had a hangover ether, and she, at the age of 42 looked to be in her late twenties or early thirties. As Xander got out of the car he had a feeling that he should be remembering something, that he was missing a clue or something. Xander saw his mom doing her nervous twist the hanky bit with her hands as she met everybody and then saw her eyes widen in shock as she looked at him and stubble and with a worried look she touched his face and blew everybody's world apart as she did the worried mom babble.
"Alex honey, are you all right, why is your heart beat so slow and why are you so pale, why can I hear everybody's heartbeat? Why do I feel like I'm in the sunlight near Clark and Kara and why don't they feel human and why does Connor feel like a hybrid of human and whatever Clark and Kara are and why does your girlfriend feels like lightening and eternity?"
Then she passed out in Xander's arms as everybody else stood there with their jaws on the ground for a second before they took Jessica in the house. As Xander was putting his mom on the couch, his subconscious made the connections as he remembered something that happened when he was five, he was watching TV when a news report came on about Magneto and he crew attacking the shuttle that was about to launch and they showed naked blue shinned and red haired female Mutant, Mystique attacking some guards, His mom was home at the time and she was well on her way to getting drunk when she commented on the fact that there was her freak of a mother, Grandma Raven making a spectacle of her self on live TV. That's when it clicked His moms maiden name was Darkholme and his Grandma whom he had never met as far as he knew, her name was Raven, Raven Darkholme, Mystique.
"O My God and Bloody Hell!"
Xander felt everybody's eyes on him as he sat down hard in the chair by the couch.
"Xander?"
"Sorry Rachel I just made some connections about my Grandmother on my moms side and it explains why I'm a mutant and if what mom said before she passed out, explains her enhanced hearing and why after just two weeks of being off the bottle looks ten years younger that she did the last time I say her in Sunnydale."
"Who is your maternal Grandmother Xander?"
"Why don't I let Martha answer that."
"Why that is my Aunt Raven, she married my uncle Max and when he died when Jessica was two she changed Jessica's last name to her Maiden name of Darkholme."
Clark, Lois, Connor and Kara all said at the same time "Raven Darkholme!"
Martha, Jonathan and Rachel looked surprised at the shock and anger when the others and said the name.
"Clark do you know her?" asked Martha
After getting a quick nod from Xander Clark answered "yes I know of her, she is a founding member of the Brotherhood of evil Mutants, a mercenary and at times when it suits her, a freelance operative for the U.S. government CIA, NSA, DARPA, ect. From what I have heard and been able to dig up she has been around for about a century as far as anybody has be able to prove. She's a metamorph, a shape changer." Then Clark turned to Xander and said "you know Xander your family tree just gets stranger by the day." This got Clark a punch in the shoulder from both Lois and Kara, Xander just smiled and nodded.
After Jessica came around she was let in on the Kent family secret and had a long talk with Xander on what his mutant ability was and the fact that he was a Vampire and the new vigilantly that the papers were calling the Shadow and the truth about Sunnydale, and that he own some land with a church on it south of Vegas and Rachel also let her in on the fact that she was a young immortal and what her type of immortal was, and Kara and Connor were shocked to learn from Clark that Batman liked Xander and even seem to get along quite well, Xander did a what can I say shrug of the shoulders and smiled. The rest of the day was a little more relaxed and everybody had a great time. Xander was glad when the sun set so he could relax and go vamp, Both Clark Lois and Rachel smiled when Xander shifted back to his natural state and saw Kara, Connor and Jessica all look at Xander in surprise when they felt the change from him.
Jessica was talking when she heard Xander let out a sigh when the sun had set and then to her shock heard his heart stop, she turned to see him standing there as if nothing was wrong, to her shock, saw the sunburn he had got that day fade away and she could feel his body temp drop down to the air temp in a matter of a few seconds that's when she knew that his story about Vampires and demons was true and he was one of the few good vamps and that she would never see a grandchild from him and if he and Rachel got married that they would never have to worry about the other growing old on them and dieing. Before Xander left, he talked her into going to see Dr. McCoy at Xavier's school to find out what her abilities were and why they were so late in showing up and some training on their use.
Chapter Nine
Xander spent Sunday night just lazing around, he checked his place in Henderson and went thru a weeks worth of mail, both hard copy and electronic, most of it junk, talked to Alfred about the suit he was making for him and got Alfred to talk about his life and what Bruce was like as a kid and some things about Xander's grandparents on his fathers side (if you haven't guessed Alfred Pennyworth, Butler to Bruce Wayne, is an Immortal like Rachel). Xander planed to have Alfred and Giles meet soon. He also picked up his car in Metropolis and left it in a parking garage near Rachel's place in New York, after talking to Rachel and giving Star a hard time he left to talk to Professor Xavier on giving his mom an exam to find out her abilities and why Dr. McCoy's exam on him didn't pick up the fact that he was Mystique's Grandson, an embarrassed McCoy admitted that he had missed that which lead to some razzing from the X-men and students at the school. That's when he found out about his other uncles, his moms half brothers, Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) who he had already met, as well as his Daughter (Nocturne ) and Wife (The Scarlet Witch) and Graydon Creed, son of Sabertooth and the Head of the Friends of Humanity, this lead him to wonder just how many half siblings did his mom and Kurt have out there. The rest of the night Xander wandered around New York's roof tops just seeing what he could see, he was making plans on resuming his road trip. He tried something that Kurt had mentioned once about how he teleported to places that he could see up to two miles away, so he stood in the observation deck in the Empire state building and concentrated on what he could see of the Statue of Liberty and then stepped into a shadow and stepped out on liberty island, It worked, he was able to get a lock on a shadow at the base of the statue. So he visited the Statue as well as Ellis Island and by practicing he found that he could imitate Kurt by doing Shadow walks up to about two miles if he could get a good look at his targets, Xander got to see quite a bit of New York city that night, killed a few Vamps, saved a few people and saw Daredevil in a fight, help Spiderman save some people from a fire (his sense of smell told him that Spiderman was Peter Parker)(Peter found out that The Shadow was Alexander Wayne /like father like son/), saw Thor from a distance and Ironman leave the Avenger Mansion, set off the alarms on the Fisk building when he used the roof for some site seeing. Before he went to bed he dropped off a letter to his mom telling her that the professor had a room ready for her and if she wanted he would pick her up that evening and take her to the school for her exam.
Xander spent the day at Wayne Manor, he thought he should try out the room that Alfred had set aside for him and tapped one of Bruce's Horses for his breakfast which was easer than sneaking into a stable in Vegas or New York, after sum small talk with Bruce on getting a top of the line Wayne Industries laptop for his place in Henderson Xander arrived at the Kent farm right at sunset. Xander really didn't have to talk to hard on getting an exam from Dr. McCoy, of course Martha, Jonathan and Connor all helped telling her the more she knew the better for her.
It didn't take Jessica long to pack some clothes for a couple of days, plus Alex told her that the school did teach accredited Collage courses if she wanted to do it there and Both Dr. McCoy and Dr. Grey had medical backgrounds and teaching certificates. When she came back down Alex told her that the Professor was waiting and so was her half Brother Kurt Wagner one of the teachers at the school, his wife Wanda Maximoff-Wagner and their daughter Talia Josephine Wagner, this made her even more nervous. She took her sons hand and felt the shadow envelope her as the world around her vanished and she found her self in a black void, as she looked around she saw portals open up to New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles Chicago, Metropolis, Gotham and Paris, she looked at Alex and saw him smirking and realized he was showing off for his Mom, then she saw a portal open up under a tree near a mansion and they stepped out and as they walked up to the main doors Alex warned her that some of the people here at the school didn't look all that human Including Kurt, Talia, and Dr, McCoy, he told here that Kurt and Talia had inherited Grandma Ravens skin and eye color and that they had wound up with tails as well and that Dr. McCoy was a big putty cat, Literally, a 5'11", 402 pound, humanoid dark blue, Lion, but she didn't have to worry he was a geek and a big ole teddy bear at heart. The door was opened by a young asian woman about Alex's age she yelled Xander and hugged Alex, He called her Jubilee, after a quick introduction she told them that the Professor and Kurt's family were waiting in his office. Alex held her hand as they entered the office, there she saw a bald haired man in a futurist wheel chair behind the desk that radiated subdued power and on a couch sat a Man and a Woman she was a striking redheaded woman in her mid thirties but the Man and the teenage girl in a chair by the couch shocked her, her eyes said demons (Blue black curly Hair, blue skin, yellow eyes, a forked tail, pointed Vulcan like ears, only two toes on each feet and two fingers and a thumb on each hand) but her senses said human and her heart said family, her heart won. She spent the rest of the evening getting to know her brother and his Family.
Xander Left his mom in the capable hands of Kurt, they seem to be getting long, and said he had things to do and he had already heard all of Kurt's Circus stories, which earned him some eye rolling from Wanda and a slap to the head from Talia.
Last Night during his site seeing tour of New York City Xander had actually started to access Major Kawalsky's memories and he wanted to do some research. Charles Kawalsky like Col. O'Neill was a hell of a lot smarter than he let on, he was a closet geek who knew as much or more about science and technology as the scientist that worked at the SGC, he just liked being a special ops person better and he was what some people would call a supreme hacker. After comparing the technology that Bruce Wayne had access to and thru him the Justice League and the Shi'ar Technology that the X-Men used and what Bruce told him that what the Avengers used thru Stark Enterprises and compared that to what the Air Force and the Military used from Chucks memories the first thought he had had was /What The Hell/. After a quick recon of the SGC from the shadows and using his laptop to access the current files thru some backdoors that Chuck had up in place when he worked there, Xander found that the SGC was scrabbling to back engineer the few alien technologies that they had got their hands on/Who the hell was running the science sections of the SGC the three stooges, from they E-mails that Captain Carter had sent out and from a few of the other Scientist as well they had been asking the Joint Chiefs to ask the Avenger and the Justice League for Technical support and they had been shot down every time. Hell the Avengers, Justice League, Fantastic Four, and the X-men, all have starships in there inventory as well as shields and artificial gravity, The S.H.I.E.L.D. Aircraft Carrier use antigravity to fly and was powered by a cold fusion reactor and the Agents carried a Phased Plasma Pistol that was just as powerful as a Goa'uld staff weapon and to top of that the Stark International, Xanatos Industries and the Luthor Corp Security personnel wore a powered body armor with built in energy weapons and a limited flight capability, even the Army and the Marines were testing a version of the three companies security armor to see who has the best for their use and here the SGC who was to protect use against the threats from space was a Decade behind everybody else.
Xander spent the next week talking to Bruce and thru him Tony Stark and David Xanatos on the fact that Senator Kinsey and his friends had been deliberately ham stringing the SGC, by preventing them from getting the help they need, just so the Guys on "the Committee" would have exclusive rights to what every the SGC found. It was decided to let Xander send his Nasty Gram to the People in charge of the SGC just to see what happens.
Chapter Ten
2 August 1999
On Monday the Second of August the President of the United States got an e-mail that bypassed his secretary and was untraceable, the Joint Chiefs got it as well as General Hammond at the SGC, it caused a stir and because of it some more NID agents wound up in Prison on charges of treason as well as Senator Robert Kinsey.
Here is the E-Mail
From: A Concerned Citizen
To: POTUSA; Chiefs of Staff; General Hammond
Subject: What The Hell Are You Doing, Trying To Get Us Bombed Back To The Stone Age!
Dear Sirs
No disrespect to The Offices you hold but What the Hell Are You Doing, Trying to Get Us Bombed Back to the Stone Age! You are suppose to beprotecting the citizen of this great country from threats foreign and domestic and with it the world, but to my surprise the people who are to be protecting me from alien threats, are being sent into hostile situations with antiquated equipment, to find the alien technology to help us fight the bad guys. HELLO, do these names mean anything to you, The Justice League, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, these are all Civilian groups that use Earth based technology to protect us and they are decades if not a century ahead of the SGC in Tech, They have antigravity, artificial gravity, inertial dampers, sublight drives, stardrives, shields and even laser, partial and plasma based weapons, hell our troops in the Middle east and the security personnel at Wayne Enterprises, Stark Industries, Luthor Corp and Xanatos Enterprises are better equipped that the troops at the SGC. Just who the hell is supplying the people at the SGC the Ethiopia army?
Think about it, You are sending these people out to find alien tech to help fight the Goa'uld and trying to reverse engineer their tech so we can have a fleet of starships and big honking space guns to defend are selves, didn't you even think to look at what the other government agencies have. Lets start with S.H.I.E.L.D. they have a huge flying aircraft carrier as a base, COME ON PEOPLE didn't that give you a hint that just maybe they have some advanced tech, the thing flies by using a antigravity generator designed and built for them by Wayne Enterprises and powered by a Stark Industries cold fusion reactor and the agents are issued a Phased Pulsed Plasma Pistols made by both Xanatos Enterprises and Luthor Corp. Hell DARPA's mutant Genius Forge had stuff just laying around his office that decades ahead of what you are giving the SGC, who the hell is the supple officer, the supply officer for the 4077th, Sergeant Rizzo? I'd take out the person in charge of that place and shoot them and NO I don't mean General Hammond, But wait you've already arrested the ones who did this "The Committee" and their puppet Senator Kinsey and his goon squad the NID, so maybe now you will get your acts together and first off Leave General Hammond in command and get off his back and allow him to do his job.
Oh one more thing how the hell did Kinsey get away with ordering U.S. military personnel around as if they were his servants, he wasn't in their chain of command, doesn't it go the President orders the Secretary of Defense, he orders the Joint Chiefs of Staff and they order what ever branch of service that needs to do the job, No where dose it says Senator such and such is anywhere in there, so who did he Bribe or blackmail to let him get away with it!
Sincerely
A Concerned Citizen
After that little letter several Generals and Admirals were asked to retire or face a Court Marshal Charges and Wayne, Stark, Richards, Xanatos and Luthor stared to get orders for their space technologies and weapon systems from the Air Force.
A second E-mail went out two days after the First
From: A Concerned Citizen
To: SG1; General Hammond
Subject: Sorry about the Security breach frenzy
Hey Guys Sorry if my previous E-mail has cause you problems but I couldn't sit by and watch you die trying to save our asses when that asshole Kinsey was deliberately trying to kill you. You needed the best that the U.S. could give you and you weren't getting it thanks to Kinsey and his buddies.
If you are wondering how I know so much about the SGC, well thanks to a Chaos Mage and a set of old BDU's I became Major Kawalsky on one Halloween and I kept his memories so He may be dead but his memories live on.
Hopefully a friend
A Concerned Citizen aka The Shadow
P.S. If you need my help or need info on me, talk to the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Col. Fury, I helped him with a small matter.
