X-MEN #29

TRANSFORMING TOWNS PART 2

By: Bodhi Ouellette

New Utopia:

The X-Men, consisting of Wolverine, Beast, Marvel Girl, Shadowcat, Havok, Colossus, Armor, Thunderbird, Forge, Danger, and the Savage, watch as a Blackbird descends down and lands in front of the X-Men team. The doors to the jet open, and out of it comes the Unyielding X-Men squad, consisting of Rogue, the leader of the group, Mimic, Hepzibah, Sunspot, Magma, Psylocke, Shatterstar, Pixie, Surge, Warpath, Ruby Summers, and Gentle. Rogue approaches Wolverine.
Rogue: Howdy, Logan.
Wolverine: Hey, sugar.
Rogue: Seems like you need some help.
Beast: That would be an understatement.
Wolverine: The real question is; are you and your team ready for whatever we're going to stop?
Rogue: I checked the news reports before leaving. With all of us together, this thing should come down faster than a man riding a bull.
Wolverine: Alright. This is how we're gonna arrange the teams. Team 1 is gonna be Me, Havok, Rachael, Thunderbird, Forge, Mimic, Magma, Psylocke, Surge, & Warpath. The other team will be everyone else led by Rogue. Any questions? Well, too bad, cause we have to get our asses in gear to take a mountain down.

New York City:

A taxi car drives up against the sidewalk. Coming out from the car is Joyce Hollands, followed by Professor X.
Joyce: I had a fun time with you, Charles.
Professor X: I had fun as well.
Joyce: How about we do it again. Say, next friday?
Professor X: Consider it done.
Joyce: Great. (Kisses Xavier on the cheek) I'll see you next week. Bye.
Professor X: Good night.
Joyce proceeds into her apartment building.
Kelly: (V.O.) Professor Xavier?
Professor X: (V.O.) Yes, Kelly?
Kelly: (V.O.) I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's a walking rock monster in West Virginia.
Professor X: (beat) What?
Kelly: (V.O.) Don't worry, though. The X-Men are already on their way to stop it. I'll send Aloc to retrieve you.
Before Xavier could even respond, Aloc appears behind him and grabs his arm, with a bright white light covering them both. As it dims back down, they have disappeared.

New Utopia; Cerebro:

The blinding white light reappears, as it dims down again, revealing Professor Xavier and Aloc inside of Cerebro with Kelly and the other New Mutants.
Professor X: What's going on?!
Kelly: Look for yourself.
A screen pops up on the Cerebro walls, showing the previous broadcast of the Walking Town that ended in the deaths of the newscaster and the pilot.
Professor X: (long beat, angered) This is without a doubt of Erik's doing.
Kelly: Indeed.
Professor X: You said the X-Men have already left to stop this?
Kelly: Yes, and they've called in Rogue's X-Men team in for assistance.
Professor X: Good. They're going to need it.

Virginia:

The "Walking Town" slowly crosses it's way over across the Virginia border. For each footprint it leaves, for each tree or road it destroys, it is getting just that closer to it's destination.

In the distance, two X-Jet's are heading towards the "Walking Town", with Team Wolverine and Team Rogue separated the those two jets. In one X-Jet, we have Team Wolverine's team, with Forge and Wolverine piloting the ship, and the other X-Men (Havok, Marvel Girl, Thunderbird, Psylocke, Mimic, Surge, Magma, and Warpath) ready for take the "Walking Town" down. A specific former X-Couple are sitting next together. Neal turns his head towards his former girlfriend, Betsy Braddock.
Thunderbird: It's been awhile.
Psylocke: Yeah.
Thunderbird: Sorry if I didn't, y'know, talk to you earlier when I just sat next to you.
Psylocke: No, no. It's fine. We all get nervous sometimes.
Thunderbird: (beat) I'm married, y'know.
Psylocke: I know.
Thunderbird: Y- you do?
Psylocke: Of course. Logan told me.
Thunderbird: Oh... I didn't know he'd tell you.
Psylocke: Well, you didn't really contact me before when you rejoined the X-Men, so in some cases, it is your fault.
Thunderbird: Yeah, I suppose you're right. So how about I make it up for it? Once we both have a free day, we meet up again. Learn what's happened between us. Sound fair with you?
Psylocke: I'd enjoy that, actually.
Thunderbird: Great.
Wolverine: Alright, boys and girls. Get yourselves ready.
Both X-Men teams get themselves ready to deploy out of the X-Jet (with the exception of Beast and Forge, who are piloting both jets).
Wolverine: (cont.) Rogue, your team ready?
Rogue:comAll set, Logan.
Wolverine: Good. Everybody ready?
Silence signifies that they are ready to take the "Walking Town" down.
Wolverine: Ok, then. This is gonna be fun.

The doors to both jets open, and one by one, an X-Man member jumps out as they all freefall on top of the "Walking Town's" head. Strangely, most of them were expecting a reaction from this colossus. But it seemed as if the "Walking Town" ignored them altogether. All the X-Men, holding on to their lives, are in confusion.
Shadowcat: Did it even notice us?
Wolverine then pops out his claws and sticks them right into the head of the "Walking Town". Now, the beast could feel that, and "cries" out in pain.
Wolverine: Well, I wasn't expecting that to work.
The "Walking Town" then stops his tracks, and he waves his hand high above heading straight towards the X-Men team to swipe them away.
Wolverine: Jump!
And that's what all the X-Men did...

They jumped... This was going to be an interesting battle for the X-Men.

Look at that, eh? X-Men vs. "Walking Town" thing. That's gonna be redundant really quick. Hm. Have any suggestions for names? Just comment on them and hope that I see it and use it. Anyways, the actual battle happens next issue, and stuff. So go check that out next week... boy this was kind of a short issue :P, but what do you expect when you missed a deadline?