It seems most of you, well the like five that review, like what I'm doing. I feel accomplished. The overall response so far, which is 2, of chapter 11 is that you people like it. I really wanted to make the last one, just a single chapter but it just didn't work so here it is as two. This will help me reach my goal of at least 20 chapters, but don't worry I really want thirty. As always ill start with addressing
Blix: perfect blend of action, drama, romance, and comedy? Really? Gee thanks. All I could see was comedy but clearly I was doing something right if there was more and there must be for everyone reading it. Hope you enjoy the rest of this chapter.
Shifter128: did I update soon enough for you?
A dragons wings: yeah to me it wasn't a short time, but what motivates me to keep updating so fast is that people are reading and enjoying and I hate it when there's a good story that takes week for just a small chapter. I like to think I'm not human…makes me feel better about myself. Motivation for the story I can't quite explain. Of course when I started this story all I had were two characters which then grew to three and so on. Now look I'm on 12. If you can't be bothered by writing then clearly it won't work writing stories.
DarknessofDawn: Really toss one of mine into Broken Angel? Wow…that would be cool, so yeah absolutely. Which one though? Technically the only ones that are mine are Jack, Shift, Kara, Chance and one more i've introduced but not without the cloak so those are the only mutants of mine. So whichever you think will fit into your story. And a mutant hunter? Well of course I can put her in there, bad girl or good girl either way its easy. Two-chapter read, glad you liked that.
Chapter 12
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The Symbiote Saga part 2
Scott sat alone in an empty booth at a newly reopened Mexican restaurant. The table lit by candlelight, tonight was his failed attempt at a romantic evening with Jean. With a heavy heart he left the now empty restaurant, save for a few workers, put on his jacket and stepped into the streets.
The city was in chaos. Men, women and children were chased by strange colored creatures. Scott Summers raised his ruby quartz glasses and sent a concussive blast at one of the creatures saving a mother who had thrown herself over her daughter.
"Run now! Quickly!" Scott yelled Jean would have to wait. These people needed help.
One of the creatures ran after him as it tried to punch him with a right hook. Scott quickly ducked and sent his fist into the chest only to have it go right through. He looked up at the creature in shock, the creature turned its body and Scott's body was sent into a dumpster. In the last second his glasses fell and an optic blast hit the creature in the chest. Scott then closed his eyes to not hit anyone else.
After what seemed like forever and countless amounts of screams Scott heard the familiar voice that would still bring him to his knees. "Scott? Scott!" Jean called as she quickly crouched down next to him.
"Jean? Oh thank god!" Scott said with relief, their link proving just who it was. "My glasses they fell somewhere." He explained then fell the familiar feeling of his visor sliding over his eyes and saw his soul mate through his ruby vision.
"The others are down the road. The symbiotes have grown out of control." Jean explained as she grabbed Scott's hand and walked with him in a brisk pace down the street.
Zack had used his powers to change into his version of his FOME uniform. He stood on the ledge of the building, to his left stood a nervous Bailey and to his right the web-slinging hero Spider-Man. "So are your pajamas dry clean only? Or can they be washed in the machine?" Zack asked as he turned to the masked superhero.
"My pajamas? What about your spandex uniform? Got a bondage fetish?"
Zack smiled. "Actually I do…whips and chains." Zack winked and gave a whip sound. "So who wants to jump down into the enemy filled streets below first?" After a few moments silence Zack decided to do it. "Fine just let the Shift man handles it. WEEE!" Shift hopped into the street below them.
The shape shifter looked down either end of the street; each way was empty save for destruction. He watched as a bum carefully walked down the street and began to curse at the phone lines. "Hey Bailey look its your dad!"
"You're an ass!" Bailey replied as Spider-Man swung her down on a web. "See that's a true gentleman." Bailey said as she looked to see Shift's hopefully angry reaction, however he continued to walk down the street.
"You know I really should go chase after Brock." Spider-Man said as he walked with the two mutants.
"Go then." Shift replied as he continued to scan the area. "We're not going to beg you to help us. You won't even give me an autograph so I could sell it on E-Bay."
Before Spider-Man could give his response a large explosion sent a car in front of the group. As they turned around they watched as a large group of symbiotes were closing in on them. "We could take them." Spider-man said nearly scoffing at the fact the creatures thought they could beat the heroes.
One by one the symbiotes began to pile onto each other and grow in size, become larger and larger with each merger till finally a giant sized symbiote creature was left in their place, it quickly changed into the shape of Carnage, only giant sized and its right hand becoming a large hammer.
"I think we should run." Shift said as he changed his shape and pushed the car out of the way. "NOW!" Spider-Man spun a web and swung away down the street. Shift turned to Bailey, as she stood immobilized by fear.
As the large symbiotes mallet hand neared Bailey's head she was grabbed and pulled out of the fray as the giant hammer crashed into the street leaving a large dent in its place. "Time to go wet girl." Shift said as he threw Bailey over his shoulder and ran with her down the street.
Finally catching up to Spider-Man further down the road, also battling three symbiote creatures, Bailey was put back on the ground. Spider-Man dispatched the enemies quickly and turned to the two mutants. "What took you so long?"
"Hey Candy pants, we're even. I saved you once, you saved me once." Shift said with a smile as he put his arm around Bailey's neck. "CP?"
Bailey shook her head and looked into Shift's eyes. "Sorry, yeah we're even." Bailey said in still dazed state.
With a loud roar the symbiote creature continued down the path towards the three super powered individuals. The three simultaneously began to run away. Shift ran down the street and ran into something hard falling onto his backside.
"Ow my ass!" Shift groaned as he looked up at the wall he had run into, only there was no wall. In front of him stood a large man. His skin metallic instead of the usual type, his hair and eyes too were covered in the metal material. His clothing made up of the colors red and black, yellow shoulder pads on the right and left side. "I found the tin man, now where's Tito?" Shift paused. "Wait…Toto? Ah hell just tells me where the red high heels are so I can go home." The metal man's face remains stoic. "What? Not funny? I admit I didn't try hard but on short notice it's the best I could do!"
The metal man turned his head behind him and called out. "I found a civilian!" Soon others joined his side, each in different clothing.
"Civilian?" Shift replied as he stood up. "If I was normal do you really think I'd be wearing this suit? NO! It binds at the crotch. What I would, however, be wearing is…" Shift used his powers to change his suit into pink spandex and a large pink heart on his head with holes for his eye sand mouth. Across the chest "I heart mom" was written in white.
A man, smaller then the one in metal stepped towards Shift. His outfit was colored in different shades of brown, on his head a mask, around the eyes colored in black. He gave a sniff and growled. "You smell like the symbiotes."
"Gee really? The city is under attack by symbiotes and I'm in a suit used for fighting them and I smell of them? Wow…you must be the brains."
The costumed man growled and lifted his fists, three sharp blade making a SNIKT sound as they popped out from his gloves. "Listen kid, I'm not in the mood for this. Why don't you go run on home?"
Zack gulped and kept his eyes on the large blades in front of him. "B-because my home is behind me and there's a large symbiote that way and I don't want to die today."
"Wolverine, still the people person I see." Spider-Man quipped from his spot on the side of a building.
"Friend of yours Spider?" Wolverine asked his claws still out for effect.
"Afraid so." Spider-Man turned his head to take a look at the X-Men. "The X-Men is full of the kids this time."
Wolverine turned his head and grunted. "Yeah. We had to bring Pebbles there on account of the fact these things are weak against fire." Wolverine finally slid his claws back in.
Shift shivered and sighed a sigh of relief. "Well I need a new pair of pants."
"God damn it!" Griffin cursed, simultaneously delivering a blow to the neck of one of the black symbiotes trying to kill the humans that had barricaded themselves in the Underground Café. He had lost sight of the newly recruited Alex Rogers. He briefly turned and saw Halcyon blast a group of the alien creatures.
Griffin used full force to drive his fist into a human shaped symbiote's nose instantly killing it. It shook for a few moments before it melted into a puddle and moved away. "Yeah you better run!" he continued to look around and noticed it was just he and Halcyon in the battle. "Where's Pyro? Where's Lightning? Scope?"
Halcyon turned to Knockout and shrugged. "Perhaps they quit?" She suggested as she sent a blast at the group of symbiotes, they too melted into a puddle and inched away quickly.
"Well if we don't get some backup soon, we may not come out of this on top." Griffin said as his gaze viewed a large group of symbiotes on their way towards the mutants. "Yeah that figures." Griffin groaned aloud at the sight in front of him.
Before the members of the FOME could respond the crowd of symbiotes were each knocked down by a large elephant, which then crushed them under its feet. It continued its charge before stopping in front of Griffin.
The elephant stomped its foot once in front of Griffin, in response the outfitted form of the Shrieker known as Gaia jumped gracefully to the ground below. Gaia stood next to the elephant without a word. The elephant began to shrink, and its shape reverted to its natural form of Shifter of the Shriekers.
"Halcyon! On my mark!" Griffin yelled as he raised his fists.
"You're the good guys huh? Did you not just see me stop those things from attacking you guys?" Shifter replied. "God. We're here to help, this time."
"We don't want your help." Griffin replied.
"But those people in there do." Gaia stated as she pointed her finger to the group of people in the café.
Griffin looked at the group of frightened people; some too were probably mutant civilians. Mutant or not they needed help and he knew that he and Halcyon could not do it alone. With a defeated sigh he agreed to a temporary truce.
"Fifty-six! Fifty-seven! Fifty-nine!" Paul continued to blast the symbiotes. He had run into a dead end. He turned down a street and now had his back to a house; the only way out was the way he came which was covered by hordes of the symbiote creatures. "I knew I should've brought someone with me." He said to himself. The only way out was to climb but the creatures were on him so quickly he had not time to scale a wall or building.
To add to his list of bad luck his blasts of electricity were become weaker and weaker the more he overtaxed himself. He had absorbed a few streetlights but now the only power sources near him were on the other side of the enemies. He zapped one last symbiote, knocking down a few others in the process, before finally all he could do was get a little cackle of electricity around his fingertips.
He fell to the ground in an exhausted heap. The creatures began to swarm around him. A group of five prepared to make him one of them and he could do nothing to stop it. He could barely lift his fist much less use any power. "Always thought I'd do when I was in love." Were his final words before he closed his eyes and prepared for his death?
There was a slight swish sound and a large thump. Paul opened his eyes and watched as the five symbiotes fell to the ground lifeless. He looked down at their heads, a large hole in each of them, at the end of the bodyline was a dagger stuck to the wall of a house. Paul looked in the other direction to see a very angry Balefire.
"Shrieker girl." Paul said with a nod, though he was very grateful to her for saving him.
"We voted for a temporary truce, because of the circumstances." Balefire replied as she pulled her dagger out of the wall. "Hurry up and recharge, Lightning, these bastards have killed enough people." Balefire drew both daggers and ran at a single symbiote stabbing it in the gut causing it to fall lifeless to the ground.
Lightning tried to recharge but just couldn't bring himself to do so. He watched as Balefire began to strike down symbiote, after symbiote with just her daggers. Nice form. He thought as he watched. Then he noticed something. As she drove her daggers into the body of a fallen symbiote the rest of the group had surrounded her. She was going to be attacked he had to do something.
Balefire withdrew her daggers and stood up. She was in shock to find herself surrounded by the alien creatures. She panicked, she quickly looked behind her for Lightning only his face resembled the fear in hers. She lost all control and fell to the ground in fear. She watched as the creatures opened their mouths, then there was a flash and each of the creatures was no longer on her. She looked up and Lightning stood in front of her a large shield around the two mutants.
"Time to go." He quickly picked her up and with her over his shoulder climbed up one of the houses.
The assembled X-Men team of Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Colossus and Magma stood with the single FOME shape shifter, Shift and Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Wolverine tried to formulate a plan.
Shift stood at the end of the street looking for Bailey. "Come on, come on, COME ON!" Shift said to himself growing impatient. "You better not be dead or I'll kill you."
There was a BAMF sound and the smell of brimstone. Shift turned to his left as a blue creature appeared from the smoke. "Hello." The demon greeted.
"Howdy." Shift replied with a nod. "Can I help you?"
"Ja. We are ready." The blue demon answered as he motioned towards the group of mutants and Spider-Man. "Need a lift?"
Shift shook his head. "No, I'm a good thanks." The demon nodded and with a BAMF was gone.
"So first the web head here will swing in and distract this thing, then the rest should take focus off of Magma so she can burn the mother fucker." Wolverine explained.
"The only good alien is a fried alien?" Spider-Man quipped. "I mean really Wolverine, must you use such language in front of the kids?"
"Hey web head you wanna focus?"
The super powered human group prepared to fight the large symbiote creature. Once they approached the area the sight in front of them was that of Bailey turning to her liquid form, taking into the air, and crashing through the body of the large symbiote. The creature stumbled back then exploded, raining down symbiote fluids everywhere.
Shift spit out a bit of the liquid form his mouth. "Aw man now I'm going to have to brush my teeth." Shift said as he took a few steps forward. "Candy pants?" Shift called out.
In a flash of silver the body of Bailey came crashing down onto Shift. "Yes?" She asked coyly.
"I'm going to be needing a shower. Naked."
"Alone?"
"No?"
"Ahem!" Spider-Man said in a cough. "Can we concentrate on the matter at hand? The fact that a large amount of alien creatures are turning New York into a war zone perhaps?"
Shift and Bailey stood up and nodded both getting a slight blush. "Ah Mr. I'm-to-good-to-give-an-autograph is jealous." Shift said trying to change the subject.
The symbiote fluids slowly reformed in front of the super humans. The fluids took individual forms leaving a large army in front of the group.
"I got it!" A voice called out. A large, long blonde haired, teenager stood in front of the army.
"Hey it's the jobless singer …in one of our uniforms?" Shift along with the others watched as the boy opened his mouth and sent a large blast the rocked the group of symbiotes, each falling to the ground clenching their heads in agony. Each then began to explode and turn into fluid.
"Alex Rogers, don't forget it!"
Lightning and Balefire had continued their walk along the streets of New York taking out whatever symbiotes they could find. Lightning had been able to recharge thanks to a generator.
"So why is it your not using your powers? It's always the daggers, even when it was just u and me battling that day." Lightning asked as they walked down the quiet calm street.
"We're not friends, I would tell you if we were." Balefire replied.
"The name's Paul Stevenson, I'm 17, I like long walks on the beach, being naked, and kicking the enemy's ass."
"Fine, I'm afraid of using them. And all this death around me doesn't help either." She replied coldly.
"There see now we're getting somewhere. So just what is your power?"
"Fire."
"They are weak against fire, just remember it would be able to kill them easier."
The two reached the Mutant Apartments where Griffin stood over one of the Shriekers, Shifter. Balefire immediately drew her daggers and prepared to strike Griffin.
"Uh Knockout, we have company." Lightning said as he prepared to blast Balefire into oblivion.
"What? You think I did this? Please. She'd be dead if I hit her." Knockout replied as he punched his hand shields together.
Balefire looked back and forth between Knockout and Shifter, then she noticed Gaia leaning against a wall. If her teammate wasn't attacking perhaps he was telling the truth. She apprehensively put the daggers back around her belt.
Shifter groaned and stumbled her way to her feet with a splitting headache causing her to lose her balance slightly. "Son of a bitch. That hurt like hell."
"You're a Shrieker you should be used to getting your ass kicked." Knockout quipped, the result being a loud growl from Shifter.
The X-Men, Spider-Man and the two members of the FOME made their way back to the Mutant Apartments where Shifter, Balefire, Gaia, Knockout, Lightning and Halcyon stood protecting a group of civilians.
"Honey I'm home!" Shift exclaimed as he collapsed onto the asphalt.
"I'm right here you don't have to yell." Replied Bailey as she pulled Shift back to his feet. "Come on you got to stay on your feet. Just in case I need protecting."
"Oh? You want me to be your knight in shining armor huh?" Shift asked, at the same time of asking he changed from his FOME uniform to a shining suit of armor.
IN the middle of the group of mutants Carnage dropped down and let out another maniacal laugh. "Now that all you kiddies are weak…ATTACK!" After Carnage finished his sentence, group after group of symbiotes appeared on the horizon, dropped from the sky and prepared to fight.
"Oh god we're all going to die! ITS OVER! GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!" Shift ranted over and over at the situation. In swift action Bailey put her hands on his face, pulled him in close and kissed him.
After she pulled off Shift stood quietly with his mouth open. "What was I saying?"
The super humans instantly took a group of symbiotes. Lightning used his powers to grab Shift in his armor suit and swing him around knocking down as many as he could. The X-Men, being the more highly trained used the team aspect to their advantage. The three Shriekers too fought be each other's sides, while Spider-Man used his webbing and a series of flying kicks and punches to deal out damage.
Each time one symbiote fell it added itself to another and so on. The entire battle changed, as now there was nothing but a group of the large symbiote monsters. As others began to fall left and right there were a few standing. Magma had managed to burn through any part of the creatures that came at her, Wolverine, along with Spider-Man, had begun to pick up any fallen mutants.
Shifter fell out from battle after the electrified suit of armor wearing Shift hit her; Lightning continued to swing away though. The few large symbiote creatures would fall and join another, until finally there was one left. The multi-story alien crushed Lightning with a blow from its fists; Shift in result was consequently thrown into a street light, which then fell on him.
With only one option left, Balefire joined forces with Magma and together their fire attacks melted the large alien into a large bubbling puddle. SHIELD officers began to fill the area and not only managed to arrest Carnage, but contained the bubbling puddle.
"Now if you would have used your powers first, we could've avoided all of this." Shifter said to Balefire as she rubbed her head. "I wouldn't be in such excruciating pain."
Bailey pulled the armor helmet off of Shift and threw it to the side. "Oh the spin is rooming." He groaned as he turned his head to the side and vomited.
"Oh lovely. Just lovely."
After the battle was finished, the Shriekers quickly disappeared before SHIELD had their chance, the X-men had stayed, for reasons known only to them, and a helicopter landed in the middle of the street.
Out of the helicopter came Nick Fury and the leader of the FOME, Jack. The latter had a scowl on his face. Nick Fury lit his cigar and smiled to the groups in front of him. "Parker you did good."
"Don't call me Parker!" Spider-Man responded.
This only made Nick Fury smile larger. "Logan I see your team has improved and changed its roster a bit." Fury then turned to the assembled members of FOME. "You kids did…alright." His smile becomes slightly smaller. However, Jack was giving them a thumbs up and smiling, evidently proud of them disappointing Fury.
The doors of the Underground Café on the bottom floor of the Mutant Apartments burst open and Jessica quickly ran through. She ran up to Jack and grabbed him by the collar. "KATIE'S GONE! SHE'S MISSING! SHE WAS THERE ONE MINUTE AND NOW SHE'S GONE!" Jessica cried out, tears forming in her eyes.
"Easy Jess, easy." Jack replied. He tried his best at soothing the nearly delusional woman. "We'll have Xavier look for her. Right X-Men?"
"Normally we would." Cyclops said as he stepped forward. "However, the Professor is missing…"
"I can do it." Jean said. "It won't be as fast, but I can do it."
"Thank you." Jack said for Jessica who hadn't calmed down yet. "We'll send some of ours with you." Jack began to walk Jessica back inside, past the SHIELD members who were escorting the civilians out.
"Wait which of us?" Shift asked as Jack retreated into the building. "Crap, I'm going to get stuck with this, I just know it."
"Well then sounds like you've volunteered. Any other takers?" Spoke the deep voice of the symbiote owner, Hawk. He walked through the group of X-Men in front of the FOME group. "Stop staring, I'm all better now." Hawk said to each of the kids, minus Alex, who were looking at him skeptically. "We are better." Hawk corrected.
"I hate you so much boss man number 2." Shift said with a scowl on his face.
"I'LL GO!" Alex Rogers said eagerly. A few looks were given to him Hawk remained neutral and nodded.
"So its settled, Zack and the newbie will go."
Bailey pulled Zack aside and began to shake her finger at him, saying things the others couldn't hear, save for Wolverine who gave a small chuckle. "Girls gotta mouth on 'er"
"Wait where's Pyro and Chance? And Force? So we're down four?" Shift asked. Everyone's head turned upwards as the sound of broken glass was heard and the body of Pyro fell from the top floor. "I got him! I got him!" Shift exclaimed as he turned his head into a large baseball mitt.
Hawk who had used his symbiote material to create a safety net for him, though, caught Pyro. "I got him."
"The Sheila's zombies sure can hit." Pyro groaned before falling unconscious.
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The smell of sewage and death filled the nostrils of the FOME member Animala or Katie Saunders. She slowly opened her eyes and immediately her head began to pound. She opened her right eye and turned her head to take a look around. She found herself in a dark room; a small mattress lay on the ground and an oil lamp next to the mattress.
Katie fought the pain in her head and quietly walked out of the room down a dark corridor. She followed the sounds of two people talking into a room lit entirely by sunlight from above. There was a dark hooded figure talking to a tall woman with green skin, green hair, and a pair of horns reaching out from her head.
"Thank you." The hooded person said the voice very masculine.
The green woman nodded, but said nothing. A large light ring appeared underneath her and in instant she was gone.
Masque turned and saw Katie standing in the doorway, frightened. His whole body began to shake he quickly took a deep breath and decided to give Façade's suggestions a try. He slowly approached Katie's cowering form. "H-hi." He said quietly in a near whisper.
Katie stood in the doorway, immobilized by fear. She somehow managed to speak, "Hello." She said fearfully. She honestly didn't know what to do or think. One second the pink creatures were about to hit her, then she blacked out and now she was in a strange place, alone with an even stranger person.
"Do not fear me…I mean you no harm." The hooded man said. "Here I got you some water." He walked into the darkness for a moment and came back with a cup then handed it to her. She looked at it skeptically as she held it in her hands. "It's fresh I promise. Its from topside."
Katie continued to look at the cup then as a wave of thirst hit her she drank it all quickly. "Thanks." She said quietly and quivered in fear. She wanted to run but her legs wouldn't run, she wanted to break the cup over his head but her arms wouldn't move.
Masque looked at Katie's face and recognized the fear. "Do not fear, I promise you are safe here. I am Masque of the Morlocks…I too am a mutant. That woman who brought us here to London was Margali Szardos or as she calls herself now Mrs. Sefton." The hooded man explained.
"London? How the hell did I get to London?"
Now Katie's in London so which comic X-Men will be Evolutionised? Here's another hint, it's a Generation X member or former anyway. Now what did you think? It was definitely shorter then I planned but for the life of me I just couldn't find time to do it these past few days. So I just finished the rest. Too confusing? Did you even like it? Come on let me know. Please humor me?
