Hell happened overnight. Nick Fury fell asleep to a mostly peaceful nation, and woke up to find ruin and death. The sky seemed red with the blood of so many. Washington DC looked like a crater. Nothing was right. What the fuck had happened? In ten hours, a crime lord in New York was the lord of an entire planet? How?
Fury rushed getting dressed, didn't bother to shower or anything. He had to report to bas immediately, find out how hell had come down around them. He ran out his door and too his black and blue 1971 Corvette Coup. From his car he sent an SOS to ALL heroes that could get to SHEILD HQ. Fury started his car, beginning to sweat. He twisted the keys, but the car only gave a little chug. Damn engine. Fury twisted the keys in the ignition again, still no effect.. Again he tried, but only a small whine. Same effect twice more. About to give up, Fury twisted the keys, and smiled. The engine started. He let out a sigh of relive.
And then the car exploded.
Daredevil ran on the rooftops of New York. His city. The city that had almost always protected him in the same way eh protected it. Bullets whizzed past him as he sprinted into the shadowy roofs of New York. Helicopters followed, men inside firing with MI6's. The red clad hero jumped form a tall apartment complex onto a much shorter pub below. Then the helicopter followed, going low, trying to find its lost prey. Daredevil landed and tumbled form the weight of the jump. He flung his grapple cane form under him and caught the rail bottom of the chopper. Smiling slightly now, he ran forcefully to the end of the building, the pull of the helicopter making it hard.
In one motion he turned and used the force of pull to launch him into the air towards the chopper. He spun, and flipped into the other side, KO'ing one of the men with a kick. The other man turned and fired, the bullets hitting the inside of the copter. Daredevil unhooked his cane and brought it around to the other man, flinging him out of the copter to fall onto the hell ridden streets below. Sniffing the air, Daredevil caught the scent of gas, leaking outside the copter. He bent and picked up the pistol from the knocked out soldier, and jumped gracefully out of the helicopter. He aimed the gun in the air and fired once. The explosion quickened his seed towards the ground, but Daredevil caught himself on a flagpole.
Mr. Fantastic burst into the Fantastic Four Headquarters. Invisible Woman was shield the door, sweat glistening on her face from the supreme effort. She couldn't hold it forever though. Johnny Storm was flamed, preparing for Invisible Woman's shield to falter. The Thing was piling bookcases at the door quickly.
"Thing! Keep piling!" Mr. Fantastic ordered, a few seconds of intense silence followed the words. Glass around the Fantastic Four shattered. The damned soldiers were coming in through the windows. "Ben, to the windows! Johnny, cover Susan!" Mr. Fantastic yelled.
Thing pile drove through an onslaught of M16 armed soldiers, giving no mercy, tossing them rigorously out windows and smashing down their heads on the floor with a unique crack. He roundhouse a bigger soldier, but the soldier just caught the punch and forced his fist back towards Ben. The Thing grunted and punched again, the larger masked soldier blocked it again with similar ease. The Thing punched again, and the hulking soldier dodged it, swerved around Ben and slammed a forceful punch into the hero's back. Ben gasped and fell forward, and his body hit the ground below, causing the entire building to shake.
"Ben!" Susan screamed. The shield finally broke, and streams of soldiers swarmed into the HQ, raising their guns. Mr. Fantastic put his hands up. There were too many soldiers to fight. He nodded to Johnny and Susan to do the same. Susan began to cry softly.
"Get out!" Ororo yelled at the trio of younger X-men. She yelled again before Bobby Drake, Paige Guthrie and Kitty Pryde actually bean to run through the claustrophobic halls of Xavier's mansion and to the sacred escape route they had used so many times before. The three bent slightly to enter the tunnel, Paige in the lead, with Kitty trailing behind Bobby. They all went quickly, as quickly as they could in a four foot high tunnel. Any smaller and they would have had to crawl. Paige turned her head slightly to speak to Bobby.
"What the hell is going on out there?" She half whispered. Even in the tunnel, they could hear the sounds of fighting in the mansion.
"Scott!" Bobby heard a voice ring, in his head. Jean's. it was a mix of horror, sadness and anger. No. No no no…. Cyclops couldn't be dead. Bobby kept going forward, keeping hope alive in his thought.
" Bobby, Kitty, they are in the tunnel!' Paige shouted in fear before machine gun fire filled the cramped route. Paige's body flew back, blood covering her front shirt. The bastards had killed her.
"Paige…" Bobby whimpered. He looked up, his eyes turning a dark black blue. He put his fist together in a clap, the sound turning into an ice pillar. The pillar shook and splattered through the three soldiers down the hall. Blood filled the tunnel, the smell, the sight… Bobby Took Kitty's hand and iced the bottom of the tunnel, using it to slide the rest of the way out. When the two burst out of the tunnel, Bobby began to ice slide as fast and as far away form the Mansion as possible. He looked back, every part of his body wanting to turn around and help fighting, but Ororo had given him orders. Get out, go hide. Don't come out until we reach you, protect Kitty and Paige. Bobby had failed miserably at protecting Paige. He only hoped he could protect Kitty.
An explosion rang out, both of the young mutants turned to see a fiery ruin where the Mansion used to be. Kitty cried out, and put her face into Bobby's shoulder, sobbing heavily.