Magnetic Crisis Part 4
[South Pole : 01/10/1995]
[Asteroid M]
Charles looked around impressed at his friend's base, especially at the huge machine that fired a continuous beam of magnetic energy into the sky, there was little time left for the effect to make humans awaken their Meta-human gene or kill everyone who is not compatible.
"I see you've had a lot of work over the last few years, I wonder if you're aware of the possibilities of your plans Erik." Charles said as Scott pushed his wheelchair.
"I had to adapt to changes in the world Charles, unfortunately humans evolved enough to develop very sophisticated means to kill minorities, see the case of the Tulsa massacre, the opium wars, and I felt firsthand how Germany treated the Jews." Erik said while the younger ones looked shocked.
Charles looked down knowing full well what his friend was talking about, Charles has always been a defender of human rights, he believed that people could be redeemed, but he knew that his friend had only seen the worst of humans.
"Yes, indeed man has been capable of much evil, but that doesn't erase all the good they've ever been capable of, perhaps not on a large scale, but no doubt every day ordinary people strive to be good." Charles said with conviction.
"*sigh* It's always been frustrating talking to you, your optimism is just mind-numbing to me." Erik said, but Charles could see the ghost of a smile on his friend's face.
They were taken to the main hangar, where the machine could be seen in all its splendor, Scott and Jean looked on in astonishment, they were normal young people from the nineties, and seeing such machinery made them feel like they were in a science fiction movie, while Charles simply looked on sadly.
"Beautiful isn't it Charles?" Erik asked as he stood beside his friend.
"Yes, but you know it won't work, at the very least it will kill all humans without a latent Meta-gene and leave the already awakened ones alive."
"A Necessary Sacrifice Charles, See!" Erick said as the screens lit up, showing news about anti-mutant sentiment, mostly about Father Striker.
"This is the leader of the Church of Purity, they are the worst kind believing that our brothers and sisters are plagues of the devil himself, just ridiculous."
Charles looked sadly, he had long known about these events, but even that didn't shake his faith that Metahumans and humans could interact as one, even if his friend no longer had that hope.
"Erik, you know very well that the chances of the machine working as you wish are very low." Charles still tried to reason.Erick didn't answer, his face tightened in a grimace, but not because of Charles' words, but because of the absence of two important people in all of this.
"Mystique, did Pietro and Wanda already sent a signal?" Magneto asked worriedly.
"No sir I think they-..." Before the assassin could finish two beams of heat pierced the ceiling.
Magneto looked up, seeing a figure descending towards them, in its blue uniform and white cape swinging, with a silver "S" on a red background on its sculptural chest.
"Oh I see, apparently my children weren't enough." Magneto said accepting that fact.
"They're safe, but you need to stop this madness, Mr.Lehnsherr."
Superman said as he looked at Magneto, he was now facing the master of magnetism and one of the greatest threats in comics.
"You are a naive young man if you think you can against me, it doesn't matter how strong you are, everything is made of iron!!"
Magneto shouted irritated, he didn't admit it but his children were his weakness. He raised his hand and several pieces of metal around flew towards the Kryptonian, Calvin simply dodged them all while preparing a punch.
But as soon as he launched his attack, his fist came into contact with a force field that repelled his attack, Magneto had created it in record time, seeing that his opponent would not be defeated easily, he decided to take this fight away from his machine.
"Come on Superman, time to put your name to the test."
Magneto said as he launched a blast of electrical energy at Superman sending him out of the base.
"Mystique, take care of our guests, I have a God to deal with."
Magneto said as he left.
"Mystique, you know he can't beat Superman."
Charles tried to convince his best friend's right-hand, but she just looked at him with a disinterested look.
"You have very little faith for someone so convinced, Erik will find a way."
She said confidently, but then her eyes widened as she narrowly dodged Wolverine's grasp.
"You did well to wait for Erik to come out my friend."
Charles said with a crooked smile, he had felt Logan's psychic presence and hid it from the others, as soon as Erik left Logan decided to make his attack knowing that nothing could stop him now.
"I should have known that the beast survived."
Mystique said with venom looking at the cut in her white uniform, she pulled out two pistols and pointed it at Logan, the immortal Metahuman just snarled at her while baring his claws, only to smile as he cut Hank and Ororo's bonds.
"It's time for this party to start!!"He yelled going on the attack.
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In the skies over Magneto's base, a blue glow covered everything, originating from the energy beam that went up to the skies, around countless giant pieces of metal swirled at unusual speeds, being able to compare to true meteors of small size.In the middle of them was Magneto, with an expression of extreme concentration, his attention was on the winged hero who was dodging the wreckage as best he could, having to use his agility to its fullest.
"Do you really think you can stop me boy?! It's not the first thing out of this world I've faced!!"
Magneto said sending several beams in the form of a spear towards the last son of Krypton, seeing no way out Calvin used his heat vision to melt the beams that came towards him, but ended up being held back by wires that came from his blind spot.
"Allow me to educate you on the difference between our levels boy!"
Magneto then caused millions of volts to be discharged into the man of steel, who had to scream to release the tension his body was receiving.
"Here it comes!!"
Calvin screamed tearing the wires that held him, interrupting the electrical discharge compared to the energy of a city, Magneto looked surprised and that's why he didn't see the punch that came at high speed, which hit him in the chest taking the air out of his lungs, Superman didn't stopped and kept pushing until they both broke through the roof of Asteroid M.
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A few moments before the fall of the two strongest fighters, Wolverine and Mystique were in a stalemate, the assassin couldn't cause mortal damage to the immortal for obvious reasons, while Wolverine couldn't hit the Villain who was too agile for that.
Meanwhile Hank and Charles tried to stop the machine, while trying to dodge the clashes of Cyclops and Jean's attacks against Magneto's subordinates.
"How much time Hank ?!!"Charles asked urgently.
"Unfortunately none my friend, the machine is already in the final stage, I am sorry to say that maybe there is no solution."
Hank said as he let the air out of his lungs, he was clueless and hopeless.
"There must be a chance Hank."Charles said, still hopeful, but his friend's expression showed that maybe they didn't have any more chances.
Crack!*
The sound of the ceiling breaking caught everyone's attention, and soon they saw that it was Magneto, defeated being held by the neck by Superman who was victorious, even if his clothes were singed.
"It's over, surrender!!"Superman said with a serious look, then Magneto's subordinates stopped their attacks, Mystique looked angrily, but lowered her weapons and dropped them, at that moment, Pietro entered at super speed carrying Wanda, both looked shocked at their defeated father.
"Daddy!!?"Wanda screamed, fear etched on her face.
"Wa...Wanda."Magneto spoke, his voice low and broken from the blow, and taking what strength he had left he pointed his hand at Superman's chest.
"Kal-El watch out!!!"
Charles yelled knowing full well what his friend was going to do, not even bothering to use the alien name of Calvin. But it was too late as Magneto released a wave of blue magnetic energy, hitting the Kryptonian directly, this was the blow he used to destroy an ancient enemy that had arrived on Earth years ago, and now he would use it again.
It consisted of launching a magnetic wave that reversed the magnetic pole around the opponent's body, destabilizing its molecular form and causing it to collapse in on itself, but the unexpected happened and the shock wave bounced off the Kryptonian's chest, spreading throughout the base, hitting and damaging your machine.
"URGH..."
Superman moaned while spitting blood, the attack really took effect, but not so far from the effect that Magneto expected, the Master of Magnetism was lying on the ground unconscious.
Superman stood up, wiping the blood on his mouth and looked around, everyone was trying to slowly get up, but his attention was on the machine.
'The shock wave has destabilized the systems, the energy ray is already showing signs of collapsing on itself, taking everything electronic with it, unless...'
"Pietro!!"Calvin shouted, calling the Son of Magneto, he looked confused at him.
"You need to get everyone out of the base, the machine will explode, taking the South Pole and all the electronic equipment in the world, unless I launch it into space."
Pietro hesitated, should he trust this man's word? , after all they've done and fought?
"I know you and your sister are good people, do you really want to see the world end instead of surviving to fight one more day for your cause?"
Superman asked patiently, he looked deep into the speedster's eyes.
"Dammit!!"
Pietro screamed as he ran as fast as he could, it took less than five seconds for everyone to be away from Asteroid M, Superman smiled and then he started.
He dug as deep as he could and then he positioned himself well, and using all his strength he lifted a veritable mountain onto his shoulders, Asteroid M pulled from two foundations began to crack, but it stayed connected long enough for Superman to take it to out of the Atmosphere.
Calvin held his breath tight, he could do this for two weeks now but he didn't need to stay that long, his muscles felt like they were going to explode from the exertion but it was worth it when the machine released a huge pulse of energy that swept many miles before to finally cease.
Superman relaxed, leaving the Asteroid in orbit for now, having plans for it later, and then he decided to head back to Earth, to put an end to it all.
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