-Tokyo, Japan, Apartment of Kenji Uedo[1],-
"I am becoming art, art is ideas. Ideas aren't real. Therefore… I am becoming art, art is ideas. Ideas aren't real. Therefore…" The sixth mutant continued to mumble to himself until someone was in front of his door
"Mr. Kenji." The man was wearing a suit and was covering his with a handkerchief. The smell of the room was very disturbing "Ah. I'm extraordinarily sorry I've disturbed you and…" he looks around the room "... I'm equally sorry if I'm stepping in your latest masterwork." He started walking towards Kenji
"Black Noxious Goo certainly is a new direction. Everyone is going to be thrilled. What is it, actually?" he asked while trying to kiss Kenji's ass "No, don't tell me. I don't need to know what taboo the Enfant Terrible of The Tokyo Art Scene is violating. But I do need to know when it'll be ready." he said as he finally put away the handkerchief "'The Future Is A Four-Letter Word" has been booked for months. You promised new work. Major work…"
"Almost done. Almost ready. Almost finished. Everything finished. Everything finished…" Kenji said while holding his head
The man finally seems to be worried about the boy as he asks "Kenji… Are you all right?"
Kenji turned towards him with a sickening smile, his face covered in black goo, and said "I am becoming art. Want a preview?" and impaled the man with tentacles
-Scene Change: X-Men Blackbird, Approaching Tokyo, General POV-
'I have no idea what I am doing here.
Just a few days ago I lost everything and everyone that I ever cared about.
I'd never even imagined superhumans' existed before, and now I'm one.
In a world far away from my own
With no hope of ever going back
Not even sure if I should go back,
After all
a superhuman in a normal world is just a recipe for disaster…' Luke thought to himself, not realizing the girl sitting next to him ignited her right hand in a flame and incased her left hand in ice.
"Idie" Hope shouts "Idie; you'll set off the alarms."
"Yes Ma'am," Idie said as she turned her hands back to normal.
"And please don't call me Ma'am" Hope said
"Yes, Ma'am," Idie said, getting a silent sigh from Hope. Idie then started to think about Hope.
She started to think about how Hope seemed to grow more confident every day. How kind and strong she seemed, and the holy feeling she felt when she first touched her.
Then she remembered what happened to her parents (dead). 'I am a monster. I know I am. What could I be but a monster?' she thought to herself 'But she brought a monster, Hope. She brought me, Hope, that I am not a monster.'
She looked around the plane 'she brought us all hope. Before she touched us, we were crazed, frenzied, dangerous, afterward: peace. And now…
2 days ago, Gabriel was a couple of years older than me. Now. he looks older than my savior, Hope. I fear for him in every way.
When he thinks no one's watching, Teon rubs himself against the furniture in a way I'm sure is improper.
Laurie reads and looks uncomfortable in her new blue skin. I'm jealous. I wish I could look like her. Look like I feel. Make my sin as obvious as hers is.
Luke is always on his phone, I'm unsure what he is looking at, or what he is thinking, but he has been uncomfortable around our savior ever since she saved Teon…
Gabriel, Teon, Laurie, Luke… and Hope' Idie thought to herself. Before Hope touched her shoulder and pointed at the window "Hey, Idie! Look!"
The lights of the City looked incredible to her. 'For the first time since she touched me. I see a future'
-Luke's POV-
Ever since Teon joined our group I felt wary of Hope. Seeing how easily she seemed to take control of him.
I am unsure whether or not she has this control over the rest of us Lights. I like to think it does not affect me, but who could tell?
To take my mind off her, I started to learn more about this world. I have done a google search on every important person and event I could think about.
Most of what I found seemed similar to 616 comics, but I still had no idea what was going to happen next, I wasn't much of a comics fan, so I only had a vague idea on what was going to happen. Just as I was about to look for Wiccan, a powerful Chaos Mage, Laurie's shouting caught my attention.
"Teon has just urinated on my feet. You mother fucking dog? What the hell!" she continued to swear like a sailor. Getting a small chuckle from all of us Lights.
"Repeat. Scott. What's the Situ- Scott give me a second. Will you calm down back there? I said shush, y'all. Or you'll end up in detention with Emma Frost and none of you want that!" Rogue said, but I was pretty sure I would enjoy detention with the White Queen.
Hope who was laughing her ass off until a second ago said "Quiet, everyone." and all the Lights stopped. Including me.
This pretty much confirms my fears, Hope had a passive control over us. To what degree, I still did not know. I decided to say something, to see if I can, to see if she had a powerful or a weak influence over me. "How long until we get there?" Thank Jack Kirby I was able to talk, she doesn't seem to have a great degree of control over me.
"Not long, now shush," Rogue said "Could you repeat, Cyclops? What's the problem?"
"Unsure yet. Rogue, keep the Lights safe… But get here. We may need support."
A few minutes later everyone got up from their seats and saw a tentacle monster attacking people of Japan. And as someone who had watched enough hentai, I knew where this was going.
"Everyone get back to your seats." Rogue said "I'm going to put this Bird down away from the zone, our new friend is… riled. Y'all have got to be careful"
"And they say we're not monsters," Idie said, she was way too young to be anywhere near something like this.
The tentacle monster then shot up towards the Black Bird. Grabbing it rather easily.
"Wh… What? What Happened? Laurie shouted out loud as Gabriel took us all out of the Black Bird. SuperSpeed is quite a useful power after all
"I am oh-so-very, very quick," Gabriel said, happy that he saved everyone
"Color me impressed, Gabriel. Now, everyone, help everyone down" Rogue said as she touched Laurie "This will only hurt for a second, sugar."
I saw a Japanese schoolgirl wrapped around a tentacle, but before I could help her Teon had already jumped there and destroyed the tentacle, saving the girl.
I floated with the rest of the Lights and we regrouped
"Y'all here? Except tall, dark, and fuzzy? Hope Whistle for Teon…" Rogue said
Hope does that and Teon comes to her like an obedient dog.
"Now keep low and get out of here," Rogue ordered
Hope seemed to get into an argument with her about wanting to help, but I tune them out.
I looked at the Tentacle Monster and increased the gravity affecting it by a thousandfold. The monster was instantly slammed to the ground and destroyed.
"What happened? What did you do?" Hope asked looking at me
"Thousandfold gravity pretty much kills anything," I said with a shrug
"Good work, but be careful when using it again, civilians could have been hurt," she said
I nodded, not bothering to argue with her since she was right.
Hope then looks at others, "Alright then, let's complete the mission. Stabilize the Mutant. I'll touch him and he'll be normal."
She was ready to go but Rogue stops her "And you can do that after Cyclops has put a lid on this. You can handle yourself, sure. They can't, this is a risk you don't need to take.
"Teon, stop Rogue." and then Teon jumps on Rogue, "Gabriel, cover me until I touch the tumor boy," she said as she ran towards the entrance.
Cyclops and Wolverine[2] were there, trying to stop Hope, but instead, she ordered Gabriel to take on two of the most famous mutants on the planet and Gabriel easily agreed.
This control of her seems to be more powerful than I initially thought.
-Kenji, Sixth Light's POV-
I am Light.
Illumination. Truth. Revealed.
Truth Revealed To Me
What does the Light unveil?
Myself.
Light spills across me. I wrap. I wrap like a mind, changing.
Ideas.
I am Da Vinci in his Workshop. His workshop is flesh.
Metal is too slow. The flesh is too weak. Can we be nothing else? How can anything sustain? What is Eternal?
I am not a master of the medium. The medium is my master's.
*Hope to enter the room Kenji is in* "Kenji?"
I am made of Light. I am made of ideas.
"Kenji, it's going to be okay. We're here to help you," she said
"Wh...who are you," I asked
"I'm Hope. It's going to be okay."
"Hope. Heh. My throat slid out of my head and danced like an eel before me. I gulped like a fish, left on dry land until I swallowed it back in. That was how it started… and now you tell me it's going to be okay? It's not going to be okay." I got out of the chair, revealing my half flesh half metal body "Nothing's going to be okay. Let me show you." I attacked her and she started shouting at me "You think there's Light? Do you think there's hope? There is only One Light. One Light Which makes all else darkness."
"The Final Light." I finally managed to get a hold of her "I'll show you…"
"I Am The Final Light"
Black and purple energy was unleashed, destroying the world
-General POV-
"Kenji! What have you done?" Hope asked
"I am an artist and artwork. My body is a butoh dancer. It speaks the unspeakable. I am… Taboo."
"Listen to me, you idiot," she said
"Taboo is truth. And the truth is pain" he said
Hope punches him while shouting "Listen to ME!" she exclaimed
"I will make the world a wet set of lungs. A single black organ, howling an obsidian note… A dark bowel. Venting Streams of…"
"You sick, self-obsessed- no wait not self-obsessed, no self at all. My powers should have kicked in when I touched you." She looks around her "And… I've seen the end of the world. It doesn't look like this." Her eyes glow "This is just your favorite fantasy. I'm coming out of your sick head right now.
After escaping the illusion world Kenji trapped him in Hope sees the world around them had not been destroyed.
-Scene Change: Outside-
"Check everyone, casualties?" Cyclops asked
"Yeah, plenty… just not us" Wolverine said as he closed a dead bystander's eyes. "We need to end this and end this quick, slim."
"He's playing games. He lured Hope in, then sealed up again. And thanks to the new boy stopping us we couldn't stop her."
"Whoa I stopped Cyclops and Wolverine," Gabriel said with a smirk
"More like you annoyed them for a few seconds. Wolverine could have killed you with his earlobe if he wanted." Laurie said, trying to bring him down a peg or two.
"I could have been killed by Wolverine's Earlobe? Awesome!" It did not work.
The animal instinct between Teon and Wolverine seems to ignite something in them. Teon looked ready for a fight.
"Yeah, we will. Just not when she's in trouble. It can wait." Logan said
"Woof." Teon agreed
Cyclops looks at Rogue and says "What was that about, Rogue? Letting Hope endanger herself. Do you gain some sick satisfaction from endangering the future of the whole mutant race? You were meant to be getting them to safety.
"I was trying. Hope is damn willful." she tried to defend herself
"Hope could be dead!" Scott shouted at her,
This got a rise out of the Lights: "No way", "Impossible", "She's not", "She's Alive", "Grr…"
Cyclops looks at them for a second and makes a plan "Okay this is what we're going to do. Rogue. Wolverine's claws and Laurie's flight. You can grab Rogue when I blast a clear passage. Wolverine…"
"Make sure he doesn't push something black and sticky through your back?" Logan guessed
"I'd appreciate it, and Lights… stay clear. Retreat with Hope when Rogue retrieves her."
The three X-Men started running at the building, only for the tentacle monster to rise once again.
"What was that?" Leader of X-Men asked to no one in particular
Only for the youngest, Idie to answer "We should have some faith. Hope can look after herself. Hope can look after us all."
Hope appears to get out of the tentacle monster. Seeing her unconscious and about to fall Gabriel ran and grabbed her.
"You know what? I had enough of this hentai movie shit." A powerful gravitational force ripped Kenji out of the tentacles and the monster fell. "Miss Rogue, could you please knock him out? I'm new to my powers and if I try to, he'll probably die!" Luke said, ignoring the surprised looks everyone was giving him.
"Alright Sugar, good work." But when Rogue tries to absorb Kenji's life essence she screams in agony and falls to the ground
Cyclops runs next to her "Rogue…"
"I'm used to mind's leaving their muddy fingerprints all over mine… but that was something. His mind isn't a mind, his mind is his body. It doesn't know where it starts or ends. He's having a nightmare and we're all having it with him." She starts to get up "I got a taste. And just recoiled from it… but he's trapped in there. It's not his fault."
"Dammit…" Cyclops looks at Luke "How long can you hold him?"
"I'm… not sure, anywhere between 5 minutes and 5 hours" Luke admitted, even if he instinctively knew how to use them, his powers were still very new, he was unsure about his limits.
"You'll hold him for as long as you can, we'll wait for Hope to wake up and stabilize Kenji's mutation. If anything goes wrong, you'll regroup with the other Lights. Do you understand?"
"Yes Sir,"
Cyclops turned towards the Lights "Take Hope away from here, as soon as she wakes up, bring her here"
-Few Minutes Later, Hope's Mind-
A flame was burning brightly next to a sleeping Hope. "My child…" the flame spoke "wake up my child, our children need you"
Hope opens her eyes and shouts "KENJI!"
The Four Lights gather around her, helping her to her feet. "What happened to Kenji?" she all but screamed
"Luke has him under control, he is with Cyclops and Wolverine," Laurie said
"Our Teammates!" Gabriel said in a low tone, bragging about how the two most famous mutants in the world are now his teammates.
"Where is he?" Hope asked
"There," pointing at the direction of three X-Men and two Lights "They moved us away from the building in case Kenji got free."
They all run towards them.
"Hope you are awake," Cyclops said, "We need your help with Kenji, Luke is not sure how long he can hold him."
Hope nodded her head and was about to touch Kenji, but the boy started screaming "NO, DON'T, MY ART, MY DARKNESS! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!"
Hope smirks "Four Letters" Hope punches Kenji in the face, knocking him out and stabilizing his mutation. "There we go. Now it's over." she falls to unconsciousness once more.
Luke finally releases Kenji, and the Sixth Light falls.
Cyclops looks at the buildings Kenji destroyed and all the dead bodies in his wake, Logan walks towards him "No time to stare at that chessboard slim, move your piece."
-Scene Change: Black Bird-
"What a freak!" Gabriel says, looking at the newest Light.
"You are aware that you're a mutant, too," Laurie said
"Yeah. But I'm not a freaky mutant." Gabriel refused any relation to Kenji
"Am I a freaky mutant?" Laurie asked, with a hint of threat
"You are not freaky. You look great. And it's not about mutation being freaky, but the freak with the mutation. That Kenji almost killed us."
"Gabriel, shut up. Kenji just lost control, it happened to all of us. He should be calmer now." Luke says he had enough of Gabriel's attitude towards Kenji. Sure the guy messed up, but they instantly forgave Teon, who had done far worse things than Kenji.
Teon might not have killed anyone, but he did rape women all over the world. Although, for some reason, no one in the X-Men talked about it so far.
"Fine… and thanks for the save there. You were awesome out there." Gabriel said
"Don't mention it, I'm gonna get some sleep now," Luke said as he put on earphones and closed his eyes.
Laurie looks at Hope for a second before turning to Gabriel "You saved her twice, right?"
"So I did. Think she noticed?" he asks
"… You're interested?" she asks back
"That is not the question." showing a clear interest.
But then Rogue walks in and advises them to get some shut-eye,
Before going to sleep, Idie looks at a damaged Tokyo and says "Goodbye Tokyo, I'm sorry we (monsters) had to come."
Characters:
Kenji Uedo[1]: He is the Sixth Light. He is a Japanese mutant who is also a professional artist. And that made Marvel writers decide to give him the powers of hentai, aka tentacles. Well, at least they didn't make him a Godzilla.
Wolverine[2]: He is the Wolverine, with his signature adamantium claws and healing factor. Unlike in the movies, this version is only 5'3" (1,60 m).