All right finally got to 69 reviews! Sure it might be a bit over but was 69. I've never been one to listen to people telling me what to do so this will be the last time I respond to reviews in my chapters, hopefully it won't be warning number two, so on with it.
X00001: Sorry buddy but I always forget the amount of 0's. Good to know you liked the story and the bit at the end, I almost went on but I figured I should just end it there.
Shifter128: It's all right, I understand about not reviewing in awhile. At least you reviewed at all.
DarknessofDawn: Oh good I was so worried I wouldn't describe her right, but now that I know I did it's a huge relief. The biggest thing is to make sure I portray the characters right. Hopefully when she shows up again it will still be in character. Again, I know I said it but great job with that chapter.
Kiarda: Hello, it's always great to get review from a new reader, especially someone who enjoys the story as much as you seem to. It's okay that you didn't catch me near the beginning, it's harder to fit in characters now but if you like just send in your character to my email check my profile for it and then I'll find a way.
Nasakea: I know you changed your name but I forgot what it is and I am much too lazy to check on it. Quite the detailed review, don't get many of those and I'm not complaining. Now if I remember right Masque joined in the chapter where the group found Katie, the Jessica violet stuff will be put in soon I just got to get it all down right. I know you put in more but I don't remember all of it, forgive me its late and its not as easy as looking in my email for what you last said. Hopefully soon the rest of your questions, hopes, etc will be addressed.
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Chapter 18
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FOME meets FOH
The city of New York is a battlefield. Fires rage from over turned cars, buildings are missing roofs, windows, and in a few cases their sides. Cars explode from the destruction and the giant metal robots known as Sentinels destroy any and all things in their path for their mutant targets.
Normally the X-Men would handle situations such as this, but just recently Erik Lensherr and Scott Summers put a gala together for the X-Man Jean Grey who was accompanied. At the meeting Jean accidentally killed all the members of the Hellfire Club Xavier's students were reprehended shortly thereafter. So the task of saving mutant lives cannot fall to the X-Men.
Through the streets a single alley cat runs down alleys, under cars and over buildings to a small house on the outskirts of the city where the destruction has not yet reached. The cat skillfully climbs through the tree branches and into an open window landing gracefully on its feet in front of the fireplace where the cat changes from the feline it was to a female.
The female is none other then Shifter formerly of the Shriekers, a female criminal group. The leader of the group of girls, Shriek, had gone missing and the girls had been leaderless until a woman calling herself simply Rose took the mantle.
Rose had pale skin and dark black hair that fell to her back, she adopted the gothic look though she didn't need the makeup she still used it making her looking even more ghostly. Her power was the ability to make shadow "soldiers". She could create an army of shadow creatures to fight or whatever she desired. Since she had been in charge she changed the girls criminal persona to that of a "good" girl team, much to the teams dismay.
Rose sat behind a large mahogany desk applying makeup over a small moon shaped tattoo at the corner of her eye as Shifter switched from a cat form to her more human form. "The Sentinels have destroyed everything in their path, people are rioting, kids crying but on the plus side the pigs are getting what they deserve." Shifter reported giving a mock salute to Rose's direction.
Rose stopped applying her makeup and looked at the teen. "Gather the others its time you girls help the humans." Rose ordered as she stood up and pulled her cloak over her.
Above New York City's skyline a single black helicopter flies above a small intersection in the war zone that is New York. Inside the helicopter the mutant teens of the F.O.M.E. sat waiting for their moment to exit. None were ready to fight the mutant hunting machines the Sentinels but they were now under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s command thanks to their former leader who is now MIA, Jack.
"Listen up kids!" The commander ordered as he stood in the helicopter looking at each mutant. "The sentinels are hunting your kind and destroying New York in the process. Your mission is to stop them before they hurt any more civilians."
While the commander continued to give orders St. John Allerdyce, who's lighter was now in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D., turned to Zack who was next to him. "Psst! Did you and Bailey make babies?"
"Making babies? Must you use such a vulgar term? I prefer to think of what we did as bumping uglies." Zack replied and stifled a laugh at the look on the Aussies face.
"Hey Sheila! You owe me twenty bucks, they did it!" St. John yelled out, none of the girls gave a response and Sheila was rather vague. As he turned back to Zack he received a fist to his jaw. "Crikey!"
"We're here! Remember some of you must get back to your base for outfits and or weapons. Do that quickly!" The commander yelled. Zack was the first up and looked out through the open door of the helicopter, which was still nowhere near the ground for a safe jump.
"Me first!" the shape shifter yelled before realizing it may have been a mistake, which he did a few feet from the ground. He landed in a puddle of himself.
While Zack reformed himself from the puddle to his Shift persona, Griffin slid down on a rope from the helicopter with perfect grace landing in front of Zack. "Show off" Zack griped as he formed his left leg completing his outfit. Griffin smiled cockily in response.
Bailey, Caeda, St. John, and Paul slid down on ropes with little or no problems. Masque came down next catching Katie in his arms and setting her down on her feet. They smiled feebly at each other Masque looking away first.
"Listen up team," The SHIELD commanders voice said from a speaker in the helicopter. "We're taking Ms. Soranido with us, hope all of you live through this."
As the team of mutants took in the sight before them they were taken aback by the sight before them, except St. John who was used to such destruction from his days with Magneto, buildings were missing chunks, apartment buildings had walls and windows stripped off, cars were over turned and on fire, other fires were spread throughout their field of vision.
"Well at least its not r-" Before Shift could finish the sky lit up with lightning and thunder rumbled and rain came down in a large downpour. "Raining…"
"Mutant Signature Detected"
Throughout the streets of New York sentinels attempted to capture as many mutants as they could, if the mutants had been more than teenagers or had been trained in the use of their powers then there would something resembling resistance, however the case was simply frightened children who had no training and so fell victims to the large robots.
Cowering in an alley a young girl who was no more than 10 cried hugging her knees and rocking back and forth soaked from the rain. She hid in the darkness sobbing uncontrollably; the metal monsters had ripped off the wall to her family's apartment and taken away her mother and brother leaving her alone. The robots flew off with her family than the men in suits came after her and she ran to the dark alley hiding from both the strange men and robots that took away her family.
The sound of large metal feet echoed through the dark alleyway. The robot came closer and closer and the young girl quickly ran behind a dumpster for cover and prayed that it wouldn't find her. Soon the alley lit up from the red eyes of the robot as it detected her and she cried louder clenching her eyes shut.
If she had opened her eyes she would have noticed the eyes pulling away and the sentinel stand up straight. She however did not open her eyes and did not see the black axe that chopped off the feet of the sentinel; she did however hear the sound of the robot falling down onto the street lifeless. She opened her eyes and looked around the dumpster to see a shadowed figure of a man. The young girl became frightened at the though of those men in suits coming back for her, so she scampered to the back of the alley and hid in the shadows as the man stepped into the light.
He was not a man though; he was something different than a man. He stood taller than any man she had ever seen, his arms, legs, and chest were trimmed in a gray colored substance that reflected the light into the darkened alley. From his chest to his head a black color covered the rest of his that was not covered in gray, his eyes glowed a bright white. The man held his hand up and a long bright green tentacle disappeared into the back of his hand. He used that same hand to reach out for her.
The man was definitely scarier than those robots and she cringed from his reach. She only had two choices, let the creature that was nothing short of an alien take her to his leader or use the gifts her mother told her about, the same gifts that were the cause of the robots. She stood up, turned away from the monster and ran straight into the wall in front of her.
Back in the alley the "creature" looked through the hole in the wall. Inside each hole was another all the way through the buildings; the girl was definitely a mutant. The creature's head changed to the human underneath, Hawk of the F.O.M.E. was the "creature". He sighed, he changed his look to more symbiotic but it only brought fear everywhere he went. He brought the symbiote to cover his head again and stepped out of the alley. The sentinel he had destroyed from before had turned away and was crawling towards him.
"Non-Mutant signature detected. Threat level 0." The sentinel begins to slowly inch its way past Hawk. Hawk's eyes became smaller taking on an angry look, his arm changed to a large spike he pushed it forward and it pushed straight through the robots head then returning back to his hand. He walked down the street to protect more mutants.
The femme fatales the Shriekers, though without Shriek, were protecting a group of mutants from the Sentinels. Of course the non-team players that the group is made up of they were not entirely happy with the idea of protecting people in a small electronics store. Their new "leader" was a woman calling herself Rose. She had pretty much come out of nowhere to lead them. Though she could create an army of shadows to fight with the woman rarely went into battle.
So far they'd taken down two sentinels barely. Most of them couldn't work with each other, each trying to be the field leader. They did a so-so job at keeping the mutant's calm, but many-lacked compassion for those that had managed to get caught by the robots. Of course they had never been on the receiving end of a sentinel hunting you down from your home.
Though all members of the girl battalion considered themselves leader material, none more so than Erythra Nefarious or as she forcibly made everyone call her, Ghoul. She currently was raiding the small electronic store. She was taking anything of value, that she hadn't already stolen, and sending them back to her room.
"Hey Ghoulie." Greeted Shifter with a smile.
"I told you to call me Ghoul." The older girl responded coldly.
"Yeah whatever, Prowl says she sees something on the horizon and you might want to know about it." After hearing the message Ghoul immediately teleported herself to the roof where Prowl watched the horizon.
"Something on its way looks military, possibly SHIELD." Angela explained using her great eyesight and hearing.
"How close are they?" Ghoul asked as she looked at the horizon seeing nothing.
"About 30 seconds." Angela replied.
"Great. Are you sure? I don't see anything."
The feral teen growled and grabbed Ghoul's head and pointed it down the road in the direction of a small military convoy on its way. Ghoul broke free of Prowl's grip and opened the door to the rooftop and screamed for the team to get on the roof.
With the group assembled on the roof Ghoul opened up one of her black holes ready for escape. "We got trouble and its time we make our leave."
"What about the mutants down there?" Danielle Finazzo, Doolittle asked.
"It's the government coming for us, screw them. It's run and live or stay and die." Ghoul replied.
"Surely you do not think they will really kill us?" Gaia said calmly, trying to be the voice of reason. "I will admit arrest would seem obvious but really death?"
"Whatever! Don't you get it? Cops plus fugitives equals RUN!"
"Someone failed math." Doolittle mocked.
After some more arguing and yelling the girls decided it was best to run and did so. Just as they disappeared to another section of the city the large army truck pulled up and out stepped the leading mutant of the girls, Rose. She pulled back the hood of her cloak her black hair moving ever so slightly.
The few agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. escorted Rose into the building where the group of mutants huddled together for safety and warmth. "I thought you said your charges would be here," Nick Fury stated through the radio on one of his subordinates.
"Clearly they saw the army vehicle and got scared. Told you it was a bad idea." Rose replied as she helped one of the children up.
"Men take the mutants to the Triskelion." Fury ordered before ending radio contact.
"It's just a hotel Fury." Rose said as she helped the mutants to the escape vehicle.
The members of the F.O.M.E. that didn't have their gear made their way through town to their home. Shift stayed behind since he could create his costume anytime. He was walking through the streets with no sign of sentinels, which he was grateful for, currently he stood in front of a jeweler. One item in particular caught his interest, a pair of rings.
Focusing on his hand its shape turned to a small hammer, which he used to break the glass. Looking around to make sure no one was around he reached his hand in.
Back at the apartment building the mutant members of the FOME called home they made their way through the café and suited up. Pyro was the first to dawn his gear and flamethrowers, mostly due to the fact he was going through fire withdrawals. Outside he was greeted by a group of men in strange clothing.
"Die mutie!" Screamed one man as he pulled out a gun.
"The Friend of Humanity will not let your kind live any longer! This is your D-Day!" Another yelled.
As the man with the gun pulled a trigger a zombie arose from the ground intercepting the bullet. The men paused momentarily the opening was enough for Pyro to use his powers to burn the men badly. He turned to see Holly Marco walking towards him.
"Boy am I glad to see you Sheila." He greeted with a smile.
"Your welcome handsome. It's about time you show up New York has gone to hell. That so called leader of yours is missing, the pink haired girl left with the eye patched man, and Force and Scope don't even get me started!"
"Your face looks like fire when your angry, and lucky for you I am sexually attracted to fire." Pyro said with a wink.
Now I know there are some bad grammar mistakes and just plain confusedness this chapter but its been so long since I updated I just had to update. Next one will be up sooner I promise.