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Chapter 20
"The Dragonborn"
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge.
Pyro and the Brotherhood of mutants began crossing the Golden gate bridge, Magneto pushes the traffic out of their paths and stood at the foot of the bridge. There was no going back for the fire manipulator, he had to see this through the end. Magneto, one of the most powerful mutants in the world used his ability to control metal to lift the bridge off of it's suspenders and bend it towards Alcatraz island. As soon as the foot of the bridge reached the edge of the island, the bridge dropped down, a clear entrance for the brotherhood. War has finally begun. Pyro double checked his igniters, he was ready for battle while fighting off the virus that pollutes his system sweat poured down his face and blood ran down his nose which he wipes away with his sleeve. Something catches the Pyromaniac's eyes, a couple trapped in their car, Kitty Pryde's parents. Carmen Pryde, Kitty's father exits the car staring Blankley at the boy.
"Johnny?" He said. Pyro tightened his eyes after hearing him call him 'Johnny' he always liked it when he called him that, he always liked the guy. He welcomed him as part of his family and allowed him to date his daughter. Pyro can see the hurt and disappointment in the man's eyes, that crushed him.
"Get back in the car Carmen, don't come out until the fighting stops." Pyro said at the softest tone possible. Carmen narrowed his eyes but did as the boy said and got back into the car. Magneto lowered himself onto the bridge, the sun had set embracing the world in the darkness of night. A perfect time for a war, as the Brotherhood held formation at the foot of the bridge overlooking the battlefield.
"The boy's in the southeast corner of the building." Callisto said.
"Well done." Magneto replied. He gave Pyro a nod, the fire manipulator turned towards the soldiers ready for battle,
"LETS TAKE IT DOWN!" He roared sending the mutants into battle, all of them cheered and unleashed their war cry's as they leaped off of the bridge and into the field charging at the armed soldiers protecting the labs, preparing to fire.
"In chess the pawns go first." Magneto said. then he scoffed, "Humans and their guns." He held out his arm to use his ability but didn't seem to work. As the soldier's weapons used Cure tranquilizer rounds sedating and curing the mutants without bloodshed. "Plastic. They've learned." The pawns were getting decimated as the soldiers put up a pretty good fight.
"That's why the pawns go first." Magneto said. The soldiers then brought out their heavy artillery and targeted Magneto and the rest of the Brotherhood on the bridge, sending cure dispensing artillery strikes into the air and tranquilizers rained from the sky, Magneto covered them with metal rubble.
Pyro turned to Arclight, "Arclight, use your shock waves! Target those weapons!" She stepped forward removing her gloves and as Magneto discarded his shields she clapped the both of her hands together sending a wide shock wave towards the soldiers causing their plastic weapons to explode, leaving the soldier's powerless, Pyro leaped to the ground and in a firm commanding voice,
"CHARGE!" He roared, the rest of the brotherhood came from the bridge leaving Magneto and Juggernaut to spectate the ongoing war against the humans. Pyro began to hear the distant whistling of an jet engine. "They're here." He muttered. Storm appeared from the sky shooting bolts of lightning down at the brotherhood separating them from the soldiers. Pyro held them in formation, he saw Beast pounce from the building onto the ground followed by Colossus, ShadowCat, Iceman, and Wolverine. The X-men held their own formation line. Pyro's eyes locked with Kitty's who kept her expression hard, focused, and ready for battle.
Pyro turned to his men, "Brothers! In that building is your chance for freedom! Are you willing to risk your lives for your freedom?" Pyro shouted, they all replied with cheers.
"That little bitch is mine." A mutant said, Pyro cocked his head toward the mutant and walked up to face him. Pyro looked back at Kitty then back to the brotherhood follower, without warning he slugged him in the face and began dragging him to the middle of the space between the two fromations,
"Say that again!" Pyro growled. gripping the mutant's head tightly,
"John!" Wolverine shouted, "Don't do this, you're not a killer... It's not too late."
A tear fell down the fire manipulator's face, "It is too late, Logan." Pyro snapped the mutant's neck like a twig, Kitty had a shocked expression on her face. Pyro turned to the Brotherhood army,
"CLAIM YOUR FREEDOM!" Pyro roared, the Mutants swarmed around him at the X-Men and soldiers. Pyro turned back to the bridge wiping the rogue tears from his face and stood next to Magneto watching the war continue. Callisto made a break for Storm, the other X-Men continued to fight off the brotherhood forces trying to get inside the building.
Magneto turned to Juggernaut, "Go inside and kill the boy."
"With pleasure." He replied and charged through the battle field into the building.
Beast continued fighting the mutants, "He's going for the boy!"
Kitty turned gasping for air, "Not if I get there first!" She shouted running through the building's wall. Pyro from a distance saw her run into the building after Juggernaut, he tightened his eyes closed and prayed that she was alright. Kitty caught up to Juggernaut and leaped at him dragging him down into the ground, she phased back up to the surface with a mocking smirk on her face.
"Don't you know who I am?" Juggernaut asked. Kitty chuckled and ran thorough the wall "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" It didn't hold him for long and started chasing her smashing through the walls. Kitty ran as fast as she could hearing the trembling sounds of the behemoth's footsteps. As she was about to loose her breath Kitty phased through the final wall and stood behind hiding, Juggernaut kept on running through the walls thinking he was still after her. When Kitty knew she was safe she made her way to the kid. As she phased through another wall, she found herself into a white room and a found a kid hiding behind his nightstand. He was startled at the ShadowCat's appearance,
"No, don't worry. I'm here to help you. I'm gonna get you out of here." She gasped as she took the kid's hand and she led him to the door only to hear distant crashing from Juggernaut running through the walls. "This way." she said trying to phase the two of them through the wall but couldn't, "Oh my god! What's going on?" She cried.
"Your powers won't work with me." The boy said. Kitty was shocked, how was she going to get out of there? But Kitty had a plan,
"Stay close okay?" She said gasping for air from all that running especially for a four month old pregnant girl, the boy nodded in response. Juggernaut ran into the room,
"I'm the wrong guy to play hide-and-seek with." He smirked.
Kitty's inner Saint-John Allerdyce came out, "Who's hiding, Dickhead?" the walking behemoth charged at the mutant teens only to meet the wall which he hit hard enough to knock him unconscious when he was near the kid. Now kitty knew why they called the boy Leech.
Back outside, Pyro and Magneto looked over what was left of the battle, the end was coming near and was itching for a battle with the Iceman.
"It's time to end this war." Magneto muttered. He began throwing abandoned cars into the battlefield, Pyro used his Pyrokinesis to set them ablaze turning them into artillery. The X-men and soldiers went into cover and the two commanders of the Brotherhood continued to use artillery against them. As magneto and Pyro threw a final fiery car into the field it was stopped when it was covered in ice.
Magneto turned to the Pyromaniac, "Go ahead." Pyro nodded and walked down from the bridge with his head held up high and the pain from the virus fueled his flames, as he was about to face Bobby Drake his former friend. Bobby took off his gloves, to think that he intimidated Pyro but it didn't. Pyro narrowed his eyes behind those goggle s of his and ignited a fire ball into his palm and shot a full stream of fire at the Iceman but countered with a stream of ice. The two elements collided together, and the two element benders put their weight into their abilities but Pyro was a bit stronger as he began to walk forward pushing all he had into the stream of blazing inferno, overpowering the Iceman until he was at his mercy.
"You're way in over your head Bobby, you should have stayed in school." Pyro said, but suddenly Bobby gripped his wrists. The Iceman literally became the Iceman as his entire body was a walking Ice sculpture. Pyro's hands froze solid from his touch, Pyro looked up into the eyes of Bobby Drake before getting a crushing head-butt from him. A horrifying crack of Pyro skull ruptured like a gunshot,
"You should've left." Iceman said. Pyro lied on the ground, blood gushed down his face and his eyes were still when the goggles flew from his face from the impact of the Iceman's head,
Kitty ran out side with Leech and saw the phoenix unleashing her powers destroying everything in her path, she was a terrifying sight. Her red hair looked like flames as it was blowing in the wind, her eyes were pitched black and her skin was pale. Kitty couldn't believe of what her former teacher had become.
"Kitty!" Bobby shouted at the foot of the bridge, As she ran she caught a glimpse of Pyro's body lying down on the ground, he wasn't moving and his hands were frozen solid and fresh ice crystals coated his clothing. Kitty felt her whole world fall apart, she looked over to Bobby who ended up pulling her to the bridge with Leech, as soon as they were at a safe distance, she glared at the Iceman,
"What did you do?" She gasped tears falling down her eyes.
"I...Kitty...I'm..." Bobby was lost in words. Kitty wanted to rip Bobby's heart out and she had the power to do it, she raised her hand in anger, but was stopped by the sound of her parent's voices.
"Kitty, I'm sorry..." But kitty ran off to her parents who were running up to her at the end of the bridge. She didn't want to hear it. Jean Grey, known as the Phoenix began to destroy everything on the island the surrounding waterline lifted into the air, Wolverine stood behind, he was the only one that was able to stop her.
"Jean, I know you're still there!" Logan shouted to her. Logan's skin and clothing began to desinigrate but his healing factor and adamantium bones kept him going. He went in closer but Jean was too strong and Logan couldn't proceed anymore, but then The Phoenix was hit with streams of flames, Logan looked up to see what he thought was Pyro levitating off the ground, his skin was scaly like a dragon and covered in flames his eyes were emitting fire as well. The flames in a shape of dragons wings flapped behind him, The phoenix growled and levitated to the same height as Pyro was. The Awakened Dragon and the Reborn Phoenix do battle in the sky, Pyro threw more streams of fire while the Phoenix countered and tried to disintegrate him but had no effect against the Fire manipulator's new form. The Homo Mutandis had unlocked his birthright power.
"Next time stay dead!" Pyro said with a demonic tone in his voice before he delivered his final strike by summoning a huge flame dragon as far as the eye could see in the sky, the people on the other side of the bridge saw the fiery creation. Kitty's eyes widened, "John..." She muttered. The dragon flew high into the sky and dropped right down, it's jaw opened to breath a stream of fire down onto the Phoenix before the dragon swallowed her whole and the fire dragon crashed into the ground and disappeared leaving a defeated Phoenix lying down on the ground. It was over, the phoenix's power's subsided and everything that levitated around, the cars, the rubble and the surrounding waterline fell right down to the ground.
Logan kneeled by the image of Jean Grey who lied out flat on the ground, burned and broken. She began to cry,
"Save me..." She gasped, tears running down her face.
Logan let a few of his own tears fall, "I love you..." He unsheathed his claws and stabbed her ending her misery. Logan lifted her body hugging her close, "NOOOOOOOOO!" He cried in complete sorrow. Pyro levitated down next to him, he gripped his shoulder,
"Let's go." His demonic voice said at the softest tone possible. Logan lifted Jean's body into his arms and Pyro gripped Logan close and his fiery dragon wings lifted them all into the air and flew to the other side of the bridge. The X-men were astounded to see a creature land Logan holding Jean's body to the ground. Kitty recognized the creature's face behind the scale like tone and fire.
She stepped closer to the creature, fresh tears glistening in her eyes. "John?" She asked reaching up to touch his cheek, but she stopped when the creature morphed into a more recognizable John Allerdyce. Kitty smiled and moved into a hug but he stopped her, not saying a word but tears fall from his eyes and smiled. John began to step back and smiled one last time before his skin slowly turned to ash and blew away leaving a fiery form in the shape of John it then separated into small spheres of fire and disappear into a cloud of smoke. Kitty fell to her knees and began to sob uncontrollably, her parents held her closely and cried with her, Bobby felt stinging tears in his eyes, John may have been the enemy but he saw that he never stopped loving the girl he loved. The war was over, Magneto and his brotherhood was defeated.
Over the course of two months, humanity and the mutants began living in peace together. Magneto was cured, The school was reopened. Kitty Pryde in time began to heal, she needed to stay strong for her baby, she had a promise to keep. Kitty stood at four graves, in the compound of the institute,
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Jean Grey
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Scott Summers
"Charles Xavier"
"Father, Teacher, Leader"
The now six month pregnant Kitty Pryde eyes were only drawn to the fourth grave, rubbing her now recognizable pregnant stomach. She began to visit him everyday for the past two months, she talks to him almost every minuet of the day during the summer. Because somehow it brought her peace. Storm walked up behind her and wrapped her arm around the pregnant ShadowCat.
"He's finally at peace now, Kitty. I knew he would find someway to redeem himself, in the end." Storm said.
Kitty sniffed, "I don't think he had ever wanted to die, even if that was the road he chose. He loved life to much and it made him a little Rebellious, you have to understand that no matter what he did or what he became, I will always remember the boy that I went to school with, the one I fell in love with. Deep down inside I know he did what he thought was best for me, and our baby." She looked up at the white haired teacher next to her, as tears streamed down her face. Storm decided to leave her alone, and Kitty still stood their at his grave.
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Saint John Allerdyce
"Beloved, Friend, Son, Father"
Suddenly Kitty's eyes drew to the eternal flame of the professor's grave, the flame spawned a kitten and it pounced onto Kitty's shoulder rubbing against her face and leaped off into a puff of smoke. Her eyes widened and she smiled looking all around her she began to laugh like a giddy child in pure joy, after such sudden hope rebuilt her broken heart.
Click, Snap, Click, Snap, Click, Snap.
Cast
Aaron Stanford As Saint John Allerdyce/ Pyro/ The Dragon
Ellen Page As Katharine "Kitty" Pryde/ ShadowCat
Sawn Ashmore As Bobby Drake/ Iceman
Hugh Jackman As Logan Creed/ Wolverine
Ian McKellen As Erik Lehnsherr/ Magneto
Patrick Stewart As Charles Xavier/ Professor X
Famke Janssen as Jean Grey/ Phoenix
Halle Berry As Ororo Munroe/ Storm
Anna Paquin As Marie/ Rogue
Rebecca Romijn as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops
John woke up, he lifted himself from the medical cot, he had no idea where he was, his vision was all a bluer. His chest felt weird and he could feel something metal at the center of his chest, luckily he got up from his cot and walked to the mirror to see a circle of light attached to his chest, the light was reddish orange and he could feel something course from his veins, made him feel, healthy... He looked at the lettering on the wall.
"Stark Industries"
"What the hell?" John said.
Thank you guys so much for reading this incredible story and Yes there will be a sequel so stay tuned! I like to thank Pumpkinlove and my good friend and co writer for my Last Of Us Series Exangellion for the support and the love THANK YOU so much! I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I did, REVIW AND FAVORITE and I'll see you next time Kyromaniacs!