Hope ya enjoy :) and i am planning a happy chapter in the chapter after the next. It involves all the couples, just so this story isn't so depressing
Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men or anything like that. But hey, I can still think I do.
Egypt
Stryfe, Dark Beast, and Havok stood in Apocalypse's chamber as the fourth symbol lit up. The entire wall lit up and the Horsemen symbol's turned pitch black. "What's going on?" Havok whispered to Dark Beast.
"Silence." Stryfe spat at him. Havok gave the man with the metal mask a dirty look before he turned his attention back to the wall that started to rise up.
Havok gasped as he stared at the four X-Men, who looked like zombies. Their eyes were open, and were pitch black. Each had a different symbol on his or her forehead symbolizing that horseman. "What's wrong with them?" He asked and began to back away.
"They are under Apocalypse's power now." Dark Beast answered with a grin.
"You said that Lorna would come to me if I agreed to help. And you said you wanted Storm, no her!" Havok shouted and pointed at the green haired girl.
"There was a change of plans." Stryfe answered and walked past him.
'What have I done?' Havok thought as he watched the four horsemen walk to the opposite wall where Apocalypse was being held prisoner. 'Lorna, I'm so sorry. I never wanted this to happen to you.' He thought as he felt the wall behind him and slid down it.
Death, Plague, War, and Famine each placed their right hand against the wall and it began to glow yellow, red, blue, and green.
"This is it. He will finally be free." Dark Beast grinned evilly as the wall began to rise and revealed his master. Shadows hid the left part of his body and dust and sand covered the visible parts of Apocalypse. White eyes open as the dust from the chamber spread out into the room. The four horsemen took a step back to give their master room.
A dark purple gloved hand shot out from the small space and onto the wall. Slowly, Apocalypse made his way out of his prison he had been held in for thousands of years. His face was clay colored and had tiny cracks in it. He looked almost more robotic than human.
"It is good to see you again." Stryfe walked forward and bent down onto one knee.
"Everything is going according to plan?" Apocalypse asked as the wall behind him closed. His four horsemen stood in a straight line awaiting his orders.
"Not exactly." Stryfe told him as he rose to his feet. "Apparently, Cable has followed me back in time to try and prevent what is to come." He growled.
"You were supposed to make sure he would not interfere." Apocalypse eyes glowed even whiter and Stryfe took a step back.
"He won't. I'll take him out myself." Stryfe told him.
Meanwhile, to the side of the room, Alex stared in horror at the released mutant. 'I got to do something.' He thought and snuck out, but no one seemed to care.
"What shall be done now, my lord?" Dark Beast asked and bowed his head.
"I want you to create the device. I want to make sure that Cable will not interfere with my plans. I must make sure I am completely unstoppable if he should arrive." Apocalypse ordered to the blue mutant. He then turned his attention to the four horsemen. "All of you, go into the world and rid it of all the weak." He demanded. None of the horsemen said anything. They just turned to leave.
"War." Apocalypse called to. Death, Famine, and Plague all left to follow Apocalypse's orders. "I want you to get rid of the traitor." He ordered.
X-Mansion
John walked through the hallway heading for the Danger Room. He wanted to speak with Rogue, but hearing footsteps coming from behind him made him stopped. He saw Bobby walking towards the Danger Room with an angry expression on his face. "Bobby?" John asked, but Bobby ignored him.
"Hey!" John grabbed Iceman by his shoulder to stop him.
"Leave me alone, John." Bobby snarled and shook John's hand off of him.
"What the hell is your problem?" John growled.
"What's my problem? My girlfriend just got taken by someone who I considered my friend." Bobby yelled at him.
"Lorna was taken?" John asked. 'I really have missed a lot.' He thought to himself. "I know what you're going through." He told him.
"No, you don't! You got to kill the bastard who took your girlfriend." Bobby shouted and turned away from John.
"We'll, what if we join forces with Rogue and go hunt down the bastards that took the love of our lives from us?" John suggested.
"This whole time I had been worried about Lorna choosing Alex and tried to be with her just to keep Alex away." Bobby sighed and leaned against the wall. He ran a hand through his hair. "I just want to take her into my arms and protect her." He whispered.
"I feel the same, except with Wanda." John told him. "We'll get them back, no matter what." He stated. Bobby raised an eyebrow at him.
"Since when have you started thinking straight? The last I saw of you, you wanted to kill anything in your sight." Bobby commented.
John shrugged. "I listened to X. She basically said to stop be acting like a moron and find a way to get Wanda back." He said.
"I could have told you that a long time ago." Bobby gave a small smile.
"Make a deal with you. When we get our girlfriends back, we should take them away for a long vacation away from all this." John suggested.
"I like that idea a lot." Bobby looked down at the floor. 'I'll get you back, no matter what.' He thought and closed his eyes.
Daytona, Florida
The Phoenix laughed as she watched people run from the falling building. She saw a school bus that was filled with kids that was going to be crushed. "The more the better." She mused to herself.
The smile on her face suddenly disappeared. She clutched her head and her eyes turned green. "No!" Jean screamed and used her telekinesis to get the bus out of danger.
"You idiot!" The Phoenix shouted as she took control over Jean's body again. Flames surrounded her as she continued to clutch her head. "All those children would do is grow up and become a menace to society." She shouted.
"You don't know that and have no right to take theirs or anyone else's life. I won't let you!" Jean shouted as she fought for control again.
'She is much more powerful than I had thought.' The Phoenix thought to herself. "You should be grateful to me. I am the reason you are alive. Without me, you would be dead. I gave you a chance to see that man again." The Phoenix told her.
"If I had died, I would have died happy knowing I saved his life and those I care about. All you are doing is causing destruction. I won't let you-" Jean was cut off when the Phoenix finally was able to shut her out.
" I will have to be careful. I can not let her gain control again. Maybe it is time to get rid of her little friends so she has nothing to cling to." The Phoenix said and flew into the air.
X-Mansion-Danger Room
Jubilee was sitting on her bed reading a magazine. Jono had told her he had to go to the store with Warren, Betsy, Jean-Paul, and Domino. Since the attack on the mansion, again, everyone had to travel in groups. In her opinion, it was annoying.
"Yer people are so pathetic." She heard Gayle yell and began to wonder why the girl was still at the mansion. There was no way Jono was going to leave with her. At least not on Jubilee's watch.
"Why don't you shut up for once?" Jubilee shouted at Gayle and got her attention.
"Don't talk back ter me, mutie." Gayle growled as she walked in front of Jubilee's bed and glared at the black haired girl blowing bubbles with her gum. "And that is annoyin', stop that." She demanded.
"No." Jubilee answered with a smile and popped her gum again as she sat up. "And what are you even doing here if you hate mutants? If you haven't noticed, this entire place is all mutants." She pointed out.
"I am not leaving without ME boyfriend." Gayle told her.
"Well, you are going to be here for a while. Because MY boyfriend is not going anywhere near you. And if you try to hurt him, you will pay." Jubilee warned her.
"What are yer going ter do: use yer powers on me? I can call the government and report yer." Gayle threatened. Jubilee shook her head.
"You know, they always say that ladies do not fight. They find other ways to solve their problems in a less violent way." Jubilee told her. Gayle rolled her eyes, not caring what the Asian girl said. "But, unfortunately for you. I am no lady." She stated and punched Gayle in the face. "See, and I didn't even need my powers to do that." She smiled.
Gayle clutched her bleeding nose and glared at Jubilee. "Yer goin' ter pay fer this." She stated before walking off to find a bathroom.
"Really? Well, I can not wait for round two." Jubilee said to herself and plopped back down on her bed.
Outside
Pete Wisdom exhaled the smoke from his cigarette. He hated having to be outside just to smoke. It was cold out. He heard footsteps coming up from behind him and a hand rested on his shoulder. He turned to see Piotr glaring down at him. "What do you want, Tin Man?" He asked amused.
"I want you to stop harassing my girlfriend." Piotr told him.
"I am not harassing her. Unless you mean that pinch on her ass I gave her. Sorry about that." Pete said as he brought the cigarette to his lips. Piotr grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and lifted him into the air.
"I am not kidding when I say this, either." Piotr warned.
"And I said I apologized." Pete growled as his fingers began to glow orange.
"Excuse me." They heard a female voice. Piotr dropped Pete and turned to see a figure with a cloak covering her face and body.
"May I help you?" He asked.
"I want to speak with Rogue." The woman asked.
"I will show you to her." Piotr nodded with a small smile. He turned to Pete. "This is not over."
"Aw darn, I was hoping to finish this now." Pete said sarcastically as his fingers returned to normal.
"Right this way." Piotr lead her down into the basement of the mansion. Neither said a word. The woman looked at the rooms and stopped in her tracks when she looked into the Med. Lab. She saw a blue mutant with a tail comforting a white-haired woman.
She sighed and shook her head. 'No, I made my decision long ago. He is better off not knowing.' She thought to herself as she looked ahead. She caught up with Piotr near the Danger Room.
"She is in there." Piotr pointed towards the girl sitting on the edge of her with her head down.
"Thank you." The woman nodded and walked inside. She looked around and only found a black haired girl asleep on her bed with a magazine over her face. "Rogue." She spoke and walked up from behind her.
Rogue turned around to see the cloaked woman and raised an eyebrow. 'If ya are related ta that Mesmero guy, he got what he deserved.' She thought to herself. "May Ah help ya?" Rogue asked,
Relief flooded the woman as she looked down at Rogue. "Yes, I . . . um . . . wanted to make sure you were alright." She answered.
"Ya voice sounds familiar. Have we met before?" Rogue asked and cocked her head to the side.
"Yes we have. Unfortunately, I did not know at the time who you were." She answered as she pulled down her hood. Rogue gasped and jumped off her bed. She stared at a woman with blue skin, yellow eyes, and red hair.
"Mystique! What the hell do ya want?" Rogue growled.
"Marie, I do not like that tone." Mystique said as she used the same line she used to use on Rogue when she was little.
"How do ya know mah real name?" Rogue asked as she glared at the woman in front of her.
"Because I am your adoptive mother, if you remember." Mystique answered.
"What the hell are ya talkin' about? Ah would have remembered if Ah saw a blue lady before in mah life. Especially if she was mah . . . " Rogue said, but Mystique smiled and finished her sentence.
"Momma." She said. This scared Rogue. There was no way Mystique could have known this. "And you lived with your Aunt Irene and Uncle, did you not? I would always come and visit you whenever I could." She told her.
"There is no way. Leave meh alone!" Rogue said as stepped away from her.
"I know you are upset with me, but I needed to make sure you were alright." Mystique stated.
"Why? There is no way Ah trust ya. Ya helped Magneto try ta kill meh on Liberty Island." She said.
"I did not know who you were at the time." Mystique sighed. She knew it would be difficult, but never thought it would be like this. "I am sorry. I talked to my friend, Destiny, recently and she said your life is in danger." She told her.
"Why should Ah believe ya? So Ah'll come with ya? Just get the hell outta here before Ah yell for someone." Rogue demanded.
"I am not kidding when I say this. And you do not need to leave with me. I just wanted to make sure you were alive and okay." She said and silently added to herself. 'And make sure he was okay.' She thought to herself. "Destiny can see into the future and she told me you and the rest of the X-Men will be dead by the end of this week. If you want, I will tell it to one of your fellow X-Men. But I am not leaving until I know you are safe." Mystique said.
"What's going to kill us?" Rogue asked, acting a bit more interested but still on her guard.
"I do not know what kills the others, but she said that someone who loves you will be your undoing." Mystique told her.
Rogue turned away from Mystique. 'It can't be Remy. There is no way . . . unless he has stopped loving meh for what Ah told him.' She thought to herself. She felt a comforting hand on her shoulder and turned to see Mystique standing there.
"I know this may seem strange, but I want to help you and your group against whatever it is that is supposed to be your end."
Chandler, Arizona - Local Diner
"How may I help you?" A girl with brown skin and black hair with two strands of beads on each side. She wore an apron around her waist and held a mini notepad in her hand to take down the customer's order.
"Yeah, I want a bacon cheese burger with cheddar cheese. I want fries, no fruit. I also want a chocolate milkshake." A man answered. He had a long grey beast on his face and had a gut that reached to the table in front of him.
The waitress smiled and nodded. "I will bring it right out after it's ready." She smiled and walked to the back to give the cook the order.
"Hey, have you seen the news?" Another female waitress asked the other after she gave the order.
"No, why?" She answered. They walked towards the back where a TV sat in the lounge. The news was playing and showed footage from Egypt of a giant black tower rising into the sky.
"I bet this has to do with mutants. They are always causing trouble. I don't understand why no one just gets rid of them." The other waitress sneered.
The black haired girl continued watching the TV, ignoring her friends comment. She concentration was finally broken when her friend waved her hand in front of her face to get her attention. "Hey Dani, earth to Dani Moonstar. Wake up." Her friend said.
"Sorry, I was just thinking." Dani told her and turned away from the TV.
"About what? Oh, I know. The new assistant teaching job you got at the high school?" Her friend asked. "I don't know why you want to teach them. They are a bunch of brats." She stated.
Dani shrugged. "It will be fun." She said as they heard screams coming from the front of the diner.
"What's that?" Her friend asked in a bit of a panic. They both ran to the front of find a man with a black mask over his face pointing a gun at a little girl.
"Give me all your money, and she doesn't have to die." The burglar said and turned around to face everyone in the diner.
"Mommy." The little girl cried and tried to reach out for her mother, but was pulled back away.
"Calm down, sir. We'll give you all the money here." Dani's friend said as she went for the drawer.
"Make it quick, I want to get outta here before the cops come." The burglar shouted and continued his hold on the little girl. 'Like I'm really gonna let this little kid go. It's the only way they will let me get away.' He thought to himself. "Come on!" He shouted again and pointed the gun at the little girls head.
"Sir, please." The other waitress cried as she placed the money on the counter.
"I am the one making demands here!" The man shouted. His heard jerked towards the door and his eyes grew wide. "Poppa, what are you doing here?" The burglar asked as he let the little girl go and dropped the gun. Everyone in the diner looked at the door and saw no one there. "Please, I didn't." He began to cry as his head was jerked the other way as if someone smacked him. "Please, I didn't." He cried and fell to his knee's crying.
"What's going on?" One woman asked as she looked down at the man.
"Maybe he has a disease or something that makes him delusional. What do you think Dani?" The waitress asked her friend, only to find her gone. "Dani?"
Nevada- Sinister's Base
"Oh god, this is it. He is going to kill us, isn't he?" Vertigo asked as the Nasty Boys and the Marauders stood outside Sinister's lab. The scientist had told the groups to report any other news that had happened at the pyramids.
"Most likely." Scalphunter replied as the metal doors slid open and he, Ruckus, Vertigo, Gorgeous George, and Harpoon entered the lab.
"Hey boss." Ruckus greeted Sinister who had his back turned. He placed down the test tube and turned to his lackeys.
"You better have a good excuse for interrupting me." Sinister snarled at them. The six mutants took a step back away from their employer.
"Yeah, we got a report from Morph. He said that Apocalypse has his four horsemen and is set free." Ruckus reported. Sinister's erie red eyes glowed darker as he turned away.
"I will have to find a new lab to work at." Sinister mused to himself as he walked over to his main computer and typed in a few things. The computer started printing out records in a neat pile. Sinister picked them up.
"So, what are we supposed to do?" Vertigo asked her boss.
"You will do nothing, but stay here." Sinister ordered as a portal opened and he walked through it and disappeared.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Harpoon asked the others. They exited the lab and went into the training room where the rest of the Marauders and Nasty Boys were waiting.
"What was he working on anyways?" Gorgeous George asked as he sat down on a couch next to Arclight, who shoved him off.
"Its about some virus called the Legacy Virus. Who knows what it is supposed to do." Scalphunter replied and sat down in his chair. "Anyone got a pack of cards?" He yelled and leaned back on the chair.
Suddenly, a glowing red card floated down and landed on the coffee table in the middle of the group. "Oh shit." Riptide cursed and dove over the couch before it exploded.
End of Chapter 10
Special Thanks to: Loneraven, AngelofMercy86, Chica De Los Ojos Café, BlkDiamond, Bk angel numbuh 2, Coletterby, CW, and firestorm13. Thank you very much for reviewing the last chapter and telling me what you all thought. (Hugs you all)
Next Chapter: Right Thing to Do - Cable goes over with them what they may have to do to defeat Apocalypse and some will not like it. The Phoenix attacks the mansion, but something in it drives it off, what will that be? (Sorry, I'm tired and I get really lame with writing when I am tired) the Horsemen also attack.