History Before The X-Men
By Twilight Anime Love 21
As the elevator had reached the bottom floor, it opened with a rusting squeak and there was old time music in the background.
"Uh, anyone home?" Kitty said trying to lift the mood.
"This place hasn't been used in a while." Wolverine sniffed. "I think the guy left in a hurry." He said growing.
Kitty was nervous. She had never been this nervous about a mission before. But being in a strange bunker where a mad scientist was creepy enough that it made her skin crawl. She bumped into a table and a box tipped over and a head fell out. Kitty almost made and ear splitting scream when a hand was slapped over her mouth.
"Don't scream. We don't want any ghouls to know that we are here. Got it, fille?" Kitty heard Spade whisper in her ear.
"But, its…" Kitty's mouth went dry.
She had the uncontrollable urge to vomit.
"I know, I know. But trust me, if you scream or puke everywhere, ghouls will find us. This will all be over soon. Trust me." She said once more.
Kitty nodded and turned quickly away. She would relax as soon as this mission was over, maybe a trip to the mall would clear her head.
"Who would do this?" Rouge said as she passed tabled that had decomposing bodies left to rot.
But they didn't smell, usually when bodies rot, all the gasses and such would have to be let out someway or another.
"Mad scientist. Let's hope that Azazel wasn't one of them." Blaze said as he turned a critical eye onto a stack of papers. He walked over to the desk and looked through it. Spade was by his side and poked him in the shoulder.
"Care to tell me what you are reading? I though we are trying to find Azazel." She said frowning.
Her eyes may be sewn shut, but she had learned how to blind fight and she can walk around places blindfolded, but she can't read shit if her eyes were sewn shut.
"We are, but this file is talking about him. 'Mephistopiles.' He uses that alias." Blaze said as he rolled his eyes.
Azazel does have a sense of humor after all. Spade chuckled.
"I remember him using that when Renegade and I were in Germany…" She smiled.
"We actually met the Faust family." She chuckled at the memory.
"It says here that his genetics kept refusing blood sample 25." Blaze said as he furrowed his brow.
"Essex must've injected himself with Azazels DNA. Essex is a mutant himself. He's obsessed with powers." Spade said as she frowned.
"So he's a…"
"No. He's not like you. He can adapt to DNA that is injected into his body. But from what it sounds like in the paper you have, Azazel's genetics rejected his body. Nice. I hope he got sick." Spade said.
"What's this about genetics?" Rogue asked as she looked at a few of the papers.
"Essex is a geneticist. He is obsessed with mutant DNA. What year is it again?" Spade asked as she turned her head to the young southern woman.
Rouge thought it was really disturbing that the woman's eyes were sewn shut and it isn't fazing her. She swallowed and spoke.
"2013." She said.
"Well then, thirteen years he had crappy technology. Nowaday he's got to have better equipment, better technology, for his work. We still don't know where he is. If he blew town years ago, he left us here to rot." Spade said as she took the arm of the young mutant beside her.
Rouge jumped a little at the touch.
"Calm down, fille, I don't bite…much." Spade smiled.
"It's not that." Rouge muttered at the short woman.
"Oh? Well then, that's fine, fille." Spade smile gently. Rogue stared at the woman.
"It's my mutation. It's in my skin." She said frowning.
Spade waved her hand.
"Oh, well that's no problem. We all hit rough spots with our mutations. I remember when I was juste une petite fille, I accidentally melted my great-grandmother's silver set." She said as she wiggled her bare fingers.
" Mon Pére was very shocked that my powers came in that early. I was just 8 years old." She chuckled.
Rouge wanted to ask what powers Spade had, but was interrupted.
"Enough talking. Finding Azazel is our priority right now. You can talk as soon as all of this is over." Blaze said as he walked past the two women.
Rouge frowned at him and stuck out her tongue. Spade chuckled.
"Don't worry about Montmorency. He's just worried about the others. Let's move. And remember to be quiet." Spade said as she followed the tall man.
Rouge just stared at the two people. She shook her head and followed them.
The room was large and cold. The X-Men were looking for a cylinder or a tank that Azazel should be in. Wolverine was irritated. The dismembered and bloody bodies should be rotting and putrid. But they had no scent to it. Something was wrong.
"I don't like this." Wolverine said to the group. He was on edge and the music in the background wasn't helping.
"Spade. You said…" Blaze started.
"I know what I said. I remember Essex's cronies taking Azazel down here. I know he's here somewhere. Can't you feel his life force?" Spade said as she crossed her arm defiantly.
"No. But I do sense five life forces that are unnatural." Blaze said his eyes darted from one place to another.
"What do you mean?" Colossus asked.
"He means that we are not alone." Wolverine growled as he unsheathed his claws.
"Everyone be on guard, I think we are in for a bit of trouble." Blaze said as he lifted his hands and it was set ablaze by blue and white fire.
The music suddenly stopped and a crash was heard. Growling surrounded the group. Everyone was in defense mode. The lights flickered and the group was surrounded. This time these ghouls looked a lot more ugly than the first ones, there were three of them. They had bone spikes along the ridges of their backs, and their long tails were swishing back and forth. Each ghoul had two pairs of white eyes. They were snarling and growling. Daring them to make a move.
"Okay, this is more than I expected." Kurt said as a frightened look was placed upon his face.
"If any of you have any useful mutations that could kill these ghouls, aim for the eyes." Blaze said as bared his teeth.
"X-Men do not kill." Cyclops said angrily.
"Looks like you are going to need a lesson in life and death, kid." Blaze said.
"Spade, can you handle yourself?" Blaze said not looking back at the blinded woman.
Spade scoffed. "I'll be fine, Blaze. Just don't burn the place down." Spade said as she took a fighting stance.
It all happened so fast. The ghouls attacked the X-Men with a roar and everything went to hell. Tables were being broken and body pieces were flung everywhere. Kitty kept herself in phase as ahs was running towards a wall and phased though it. The Ghoul that was hunting her down crashed into it and let out a roar of irritation. Then it started to attack the wall. Colossus saw this and went to take care of that.
Gambit and Rouge were taking on the smaller of the ghouls, but it was very quick and with a whip of it's tail it sent Rouge flying backward into a table and she fell to the ground.
"Cheré!" Gambit shouted before the Ghoul tackled him.
He was lucky he had his staff out and it was in its maw, but he knew he had to get it off him before he became ghoul chow. Wolverine and Storm were taking on the bigger Ghoul. Wolverine ran toward it with claws unsheathed and jumped on top of the Ghoul and stabbed the beast in the skull. The Ghoul let out a pained roar and bucked and rolled on the ground trying to get the feral mutant off of it's back. It succeeded by taking it's tail and grabbing him and tossed him into a steel door and crumpled like aluminum. Wolverine growled.
"You want to play rough, I'll play rough." He growled as he took off towards the ghouls once again.
Wolverine didn't even hear a computer say: "Stasis interrupted." Behind that steel door was a cylinder filled with black water.
Inside that water, two blue glowing eyes opened up.
Jean and Cyclops were trying to help Kitty and Colossus with the first ghoul. It kept chomping on the Steel man's arm, trying to break through. Cyclops blasted it to get its attention and it worked…for only a minute. Kitty phased out of the wall and ran the other direction catching the ghoul's eyes. He took off after it.
"Run Shadowcat!" Jean shouted as she tried to slow the beast down by telekinetically throwing things at it.
Kitty twisted and turned until she hit a dead end. She turned and saw the ghoul almost smile in delight of catching its prey and it leaped at her. She let out a scream when a puff of black smoke appeared in front of her and lifted her up bridal style and teleported her elsewhere. Making the ghoul hit the wall yet again, and it let out an angry roar of letting it's prey go.
Kitty was grasping the chest of who she though was Nightcrawler.
"Kurt! Thank you so much! I though I was kitty chow!" She cried in his chest.
"Я боюсь, что вы принять меня за кого-то другого." She heard a deep voice.
She recognized the language. That much she knew. Her boyfriend often spoke it when he would speak online through Skype to talk to his little sister. A rough translation that she knew was…"I'm not him", is clear enough. This man was not Kurt. She looked up and her mouth dropped open. Kurt had blue skin. Not crimson red. And he definitely did not have black spiked hair, blue eyes, a goatee, and a scar that ran down through his right eye down his face, but he had pointed ears like him!. "You are not Kurt." She said in amazement.
"Nyet. Now go. I handle this." He said as he stood up as the same ghoul that tried to pounce on Kitty skidded across the floor in front of him. Kitty also noticed something else. The man had a tail like Kurt. This was more confusing then a twist of a soap opera.
"Run!" The man shouted as he ran towards the ghoul with claw like hands splayed.
She didn't look back as the crimson man teleported on top of the ghoul, taking out two twin scimitars and killed the ghoul, sending the blade through it's neck, decapitating it, sending black blood everywhere, even on himself.
Blaze and Spade quickly came to the rescue of Gambit and Rouge. Spade went straight towards the girl and Blaze shot fireballs out of his hands towards the quick ghoul that was trying to eat Gambit. It was tossed off and hit the ground putting out the flames. The charred flesh healing as it stood back up again.
"Damned thing is quick!" Gambit said as he took out a card and charged it.
He tossed the card at the ghoul and it moved out of the way at the last second, avoiding the explosion of charged kinetic energy. It made a clicking noise that sounded like laughter and it stalked them backward.
"Any bright ideas, homme?" Gambit bit out as he took out another card and charged it.
"If I had any I'd tell you." Blaze said as he put up a handful of blue flames.
The beast clicked again as it prepared to pounce at them but a 'Bamf' noise distracted it and it turned around.
"Здравствуйте." The crimson skinned man smiled wickedly and sliced its head off with a precision of a trained swordsman.
Gambit's eyes widened at the demon like man that had so brutally killed the beast. Blaze laughed.
"Azazel! You old devil!" He smiled.
"Azazel? Hey! There's one more on the other side of the room! Get rid of it!" Spade shouted from behind Blaze.
"I'm already on it." The man spoke with a heavy Russian accent.
Then he teleported away in a puff of black smoke. Leaving Gambit dumbfounded. The man looked a bit like a certain blue elf that he knew.
In a puff of smoke, Azazel saw the Wolverine and white haired Storm, fighting off a large ghoul. He attached the swords to his hips and teleported himself closer to the fight. Wolverine was putting up quite a fight. Storm was concentrating on shooting up the beast full of lightening but nothing was affecting it. They needed a distraction. It was then that Kurt was teleporting all over the beast. It wasn't working because he was hit by the beast's tail and was sent flying backwards. The tail then raised itself up and slammed down onto where Kurt was.
"Kurt!" Storm shouted.
The dust dissipated and a 'Bamf' was heard behind the two older X-Men. Kurt was dazed before he shook his head. There was a hand on his shoulder as he looked up. It was a crimson skinned man. What frightened him was the fact that the man had his power. Teleporting. The man looked down at him with a blank look.
"Stay here." He said as he walked calmly over to the older X-Men.
"Azazel." Storm said with shock.
"Da. Nice to see you again, Storm. Mind if I take over?" He said smiling.
"It's hard to take that bastard down. You'll need my help." Wolverine growled.
"Aim for eyes, I handle the spine." The Russian spoke as he teleported around the beast.
Wolverine roared as he rushed at the ghoul. The ghoul was distracted by the puffs of black smoke that the crimsoned skinned mutant was leaving; it didn't notice that Wolverine was so close that he sunk his claws into its eyes. It roared and screamed in pain as it thrashed about. It was hard for Azazel to even get close to the thing.
"Hold it steady!" Azazel ordered as he teleported onto the back of its head.
Wolverine growled as he pushed the beast backward. It was tough to kill, that much was certain. Azazel took out his swords and jumped over the spines and sliced downward severing the spine from the back and killing it effectively. It was not getting back up. Azazel twirled his swords around getting rid of the access blood that was on it and attached it to his hips, his tail waving back and forth contently. He stood up high and h walked towards Storm and Wolverine.
"Azazel." Storm said as she hugged the crimson man.
"Is good to see you, Друг. It has been long time." He said as he stepped back smiling crookedly.
When the others met up with each other quickly, they saw the crimson man bow to them.
"Introductions are in order." He smiled.
"I am Azazel."
TAL21: I soooo wanted to take the day off, but i decided against it. I have no clue if this chapter sucks or not. It's pretty hard to get Azazel's personality right and some of his history. I hope you guys like it! And yes, if you guys are asking, Kurt is going to know about Azazel right off the bat. How would you feel if you saw a man(or woman) who has the same physiology as you? Wouldn't you want your questions answered? Anyways, translations will be on google translate, just go there if you have no clue what the russian said. I will be 'rominizing' a few words, but the rest will be in Cyrillic. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! it was HELL to work on! SHOUT OUTS!:
PurpleDiamondDevil: Not exactly. Close but not quite! :D
Dark Lord of the X-Men: Thank you! Yeah, i really try to make good fanfics, i saw for profile and noticed that you are obviously a X-Men fanatic. So to have your approval means A LOT! Thank you for Reviewing! :D
ReviewerNZ: Arranged marriage? Yes. But Blaze and Spade together? Nope. XD You'll find out later. Trust me, it's a doozy! :) Renegade and Blaze are married and Rouge has a connection to them. :)
Scarletnightcrawler: Azazel is Kurt's father! You win a cookie! :D Let's see how this turns out! Oh wait…i have to write it…dang it! XD As for Spade and Blaze being together? Nope! But there is something in Gambit's background that makes it difficult to work with. :)
TAL21: OKAY! I'm going to bed! You guys enjoy this chapter and i hope you guys liked it! Like i said in a previous chapter, This is for NaNoWriMo and after the month is over, i will be editing it and adding more to it, so it's not all perfect! PLEASE LEAVE REVIEWS AND OPINIONS! I want to hear from you guys!
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