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The Mission of Hellfire
Chapter 8: The Rescue
He couldn't take it anymore, listening to that mad mans endless ambition. Just when you fought they couldn't stoop any lower they did. Selene was murderous, sick in the way she enjoyed her torture sessions. Shaw was arrogant, selfish, only concerned with attaining more pleasure and money. The rest of the club was no different, even Emma's students were only concerned with when their next joint or batch of prostitutes would arrive. But no more, no more children would murder for them, no more people would die for trivial things. He was going to do something about it.
'Shield your thoughts better Randall' the guard thought as he walked through the corridors of the club.
He looked over his shoulder and saw Emma talking with Summers.
'Obviously too engrossed in her new "lover" to pay attention to a dumb bodyguard' Randall thought before he walked on.
Leland and Fitzroy were down stairs with the public and Shaw was too busy talking with his connections overseas. Selene was entertaining some of the rich men's sons, she preferred fucking teenagers. Randall made his way down to the dungeons, the X-men were under heavy guard but the security cameras in the cells only guarded the Morlocks. As he got onto the dungeon floor he removed his mask and slipped off his hood, revealing his dark hair and blue eyes.
"No more!" He said before he got off to work.
Cable and Wolverine drove towards the club, the lights of Vegas practically blinding them. They got closer and closer towards the club, the pair getting tense with every inch they came. Wolverine popped his claws and Cable cocked his rifle.
"I smell a trap!" Logan said.
"So do I!" Cable muttered.
Even though they knew it was a trap, neither of them made any effort to stop the car. In fact Wolverine floored it while Cable opened his door. Passers by screamed as the car drove straight through the club's main entrance. Cable jumped out of the car as it slammed through another door and into the main dining hall. Wolverine got out of the claw and growled as Hellfire club guards aimed their rifles at him. Cable looked up at the main members of the club gathered on the staircase.
"You could have used the doorbell you know" Shaw said, taking a sip from his wine glass.
Cable's face remained fierce as he aimed his rifle at Shaw.
"I suppose you saw through Emma's deception, we're supposed to be full tonight, or that's at least what the people outside think, you and the X-men are going to turn out to be the villains in all this you know"
"The X-men are capable of taking more than you think they can, it doesn't matter who thinks of them as the villains, they'll carry on being the heroes"
"Heroes!" Emma scoffed.
"Look at what's become of your heroes dear boy" Leland said, motioning to the feral Rahne and the emotionless Kitty.
"Just another obstacle, that they will overcome" Cable said.
There was a small minute of silence, which was suddenly broken by the sound of Logan's roar. He crashed through the wall, clothes lining two Hellfire Club guards. Cable pulled the trigger on his rifle and sent a plasma blast flying straight into Shaw's face. Cable showed no astonishment at the fact that the blast only caused Shaw to flinch. The white haired X-man rolled to the side as the Hellfire Club guards began firing their automatics. He jumped behind the reception and closed his eyes. Cable poked his gun up and fired a shot, hitting one guard in the chest.
Wolverine beheaded one of the hellfire guards, cutting straight through the bones and veins of his neck with his Adamantium claws. Other guards tried to foolishly tackle him, only to be stabbed or slashed by the feral mutant. He smashed down doors and ran through bullets as he made his way to the main club members. Logan slashed one guard across the face and took a shotgun blast to the stomach. He then clothes lined another guard, knocking him out cold.
Cable rolled across the floor, shooting guards as he manoeuvred across the club floor. Wolverine ran up the stairs towards the main members of the club. But a pair of metallic gold tentacles ripped through the wall, wrapping themselves around Wolverine. He yelled in pain as electricity ran through his body, Constrictor tore through the wall and threw Wolverine towards Cable. The wanderer rolled to the side, avoiding Wolverine. He bought his hand up to defend against a slash from the Taskmaster's sword.
Randall, the renegade guard walked through the corridors of the dungeon. He cringed as he heard Kurt Wagner scream, Selene's students must have been having fun with him. But he walked on towards the area where the Morlock's were being kept. Security was down to a minimum there, apart from a single guard. A Level one key card was needed to unlock the cell doors and collars in the level one-security levels. This was a level one-security area and Randall had a level one-security card on him. He watched the two guards patrol, they were both moving in opposite directions, which made sneaking up on them impossible, so he couldn't be subtle about this. Randall reached for his holster and pulled out his pistol.
Shaw looked at his watch and was shocked to see that it was beeping. It was also hooked to the buildings security systems and would alert him of any releases in the locks of the cells. The strange thing was that he had authorised for any of the cells to be open. He clicked a button on the strap and a screen replaced the clock of the watch, the screen showed Randall guiding the weakened Morlock's out the back entrance of the dungeon, leading them through the kitchen and out of the fire exit of the club.
"THAT LITTLE SHIT!!!" Shaw yelled, surprising the other club members with his anger.
"What is it Sebastian?" Leland asked.
"It looks like someone grew a heart, release Sabretooth, I want this man dead for ruining our plans" Shaw ordered.
Erik the Red walked towards Cable, readying the blasters on his gloves. Cable holstered his rifle as the X-man approached him. Scott fired the red beam from his hand, hitting Cable in the chest. Wolverine looked towards his comrade being blasted into the wall by Cyclops, distracting him from the Taskmaster. He drew the string back on his bow and fired an arrow at Logan's head. The arrow lodged itself into Wolverine's skin, but unlike other people whom Taskmaster had killed his skull wasn't made of bone. He pulled the arrow out of his flesh and looked towards Taskmaster, who widened his eyes in fear as he drew his sword. Constrictor smashed Logan across the head with his tentacles.
"Computer, short range body slide sneak type!" Cable spoke into his arm.
With a blink of white light, Cable disappeared, and then reappeared behind Taskmaster. He pulled his metallic fist back and punched Taskmaster clean across the face. The wanderer then twirled his rifle around his finger before taking aim and firing four bolts into two guards kneecaps. He then pulled the blade he carried off of his belt, gripping it tightly. A pole slid down the blade, revealing it to be a spear. He threw the spear with amazing accuracy, hitting Wolfsbane in the shoulder. She suddenly howled in immense pain.
"What did you do to her?" Logan asked as he decapitated a guard.
"I passed a psionic pulse along the shaft of the Psimitar, their brain washing should be reversed" Cable explained.
Rahne blinked as she looked at her red attire and then at the spear that pinned her to the wall.
"WHAT HAPPENED!" She screamed.
Wolverine jumped over the unconscious Taskmaster and ran to Rahne, pulling the straight edged blade out of her shoulder.
"Don't worry darling the good guys are here, shift to wolf form and the pain might subside" Logan suggested.
"The others, they're below" Rahne said.
"We'll save them together, HEY CABLE LETS SEE YOU DO THAT TRICK AGAIN!!" Logan yelled as he threw the Psimitar into Cable's hands.
"It'll be a pleasure" Cable said as he slapped Constrictor across the head with the pole of the spear.
Kitty phased through the floor behind Cable. His eye flashed while a confident smile crossed his face.
"I know what your thinking, phase through the blade and it wont work, well I've got news girl" Cable said and with astonishing speed he stuck the blade literally through Kitty's body. "Your wrong!"
Even though she phased through the blade she still yelled in agony before she literally fell through the floor.
"SINCLAIR MY COMPUTER SAYS THAT KITTY LANDED IN THE DANCE CLUB GET HER NOW!!!" Cable yelled.
Rahne nodded her head as she shifted into her wolf form and ran straight through the legs of Harry Leland. Wolverine scrapped his claws together as he walked towards Leland.
"Come on tubs, show me what you've got!" Logan growled.
"Very well!" Harry grinned.
He raised his hand, which became surrounded by an aura of purple energy. Logan suddenly found his body getting heavier as his movements slowed down. He struggled to raise his hands, let alone move his foot another inch.
"I wonder how much that skeleton of yours can take before it collapses"
"You'll be here all day bub!" Logan growled.
In the end it was the floor that gave in. Logan smashed straight through the floor, but he didn't stop there, he fell through the dance club, then the dungeon and into the sewers. Cable grinded his teeth together as Hellfire club guards, Toad, Erik the Red and the Constrictor surrounded him. He gripped his Psimitar tightly as he looked to Cyclops and Toad.
'You'd better get here quick Soldier, we could use the help' Cable thought.
Soldier drove towards The Hellfire club, entering Las Vegas. He kept his masked face hidden with a coat and hood. Strangely the road was deserted, he supposed that most of the people were in the clubs, but there had to be going into and out of Vegas besides him. His ears twitched as he heard a sound over him. He peeked his head out of the window and looked up.
"Hi Soldier, wow your actually nothing special" A cocky brown haired boy said.
An Hispanic young man wearing some kind of jet turbine device on his back and shoes was carrying him. They both wore purple costumes with V-neck collars with white triangle shapes on the left side of their chests.
"Hit him Bevaron, Emma promised I could do her up the arse if we killed this guy" The Hispanic teen said.
"You're an ass Jetstream!"
"Easy shocky remember whose carrying you"
Bevaron's hands glowed a red colour as he fired a surge of electricity at the truck. Soldier steered sharply to the left and accelerated. He narrowed his eyes as Jetstream increased speed. Bevaron fired another blast, which Soldier dodged. He put the truck up to the highest gear and increased speed.
'These idiots must be no older than 16 and look what they're doing, this is what the club does to children' Soldier thought as he accelerated.
Both of the Hellions smiled confidently as they gained on the truck. However as soldier tore past the speed limit he got further and further away from the two mutants.
"Come on Jetstream fly behind it I'll have a guaranteed hit then" Bevaron said.
"Fine!" Jetstream said as he positioned himself behind the truck.
Bevaron aimed the palms of his hand at the back of the truck and began charging another blast. Soldier looked through his right rear mirror and smiled underneath his mask. He hit the brakes with his foot and the two Hellion's screamed as their heads smashed into the back of the truck. Soldier then restarted the engine and drove off, leaving the two unconscious boys on the road.
'Sometimes it takes something a little unorthodox' Soldier thought before he drove off.
Randal worked as quickly as he could, making his way towards the dungeons where the X-men were being held. He drew his pistol and took cover as the three Hellfire soldiers guarding the cells opened fire. The renegade Hellfire guard rolled out and fired three shots with deadly accuracy as the bullets flew into the masked men's heads. Randall walked towards one of the guard's bodies and reached into their packs. A smile crossed his lips as he found one of the security cards. Suddenly he heard a deep growl in the shadows to his right. He moved as fast as he could, but that wasn't fast enough as a naked Sabretooth leapt out of the shadows. The feral mutant slashed the renegade across the chest, taking off a piece of his flesh.
Wolfsbane ran down to the clubs dance floor. She growled as she saw Shadowcat in the arms of a pink haired girl with cat like eyes. The girl licked her Kitty across the face nibbled her ear. Rahne grinded her teeth together as the girl slowly walked forward with Kitty in her arms. Then a plan hit her!
"What's the matter kitty cat, afraid to face me like a real animal, come on, put aside lust and give into instinct" Rahne teased as she shifted into her hybrid wolf form.
The pink haired girl hissed before throwing Kitty aside. She got onto all fours as she changed into a panther like form. Wolfsbane ran forward and the Hellfire club shape shifter leapt at her, clawing at her chest. Rahne held the pink panther by her neck, keeping her teeth away from her face. On the upper level, Cable tried striking Erik the Red and Toad with his Psimitar. He ducked to avoid Toad's lashing tongue and bought his hand up to defend against a blast from Erik's hand. The beam deflected off of the steel on Cable's arm and slammed into Toad, pushing him into a wall. He then fired a bolt from his rifle, hitting Erik in the chest. More and more Hellfire Club guards came, shooting at Cable, forcing him to duck for cover behind a dining table.
"Emma, what's the status on your Hellions?" Shaw asked.
"Catseye is dealing with Wolfsbane, I've lost telepathic contact with Bevaron and Jetstream but Beef is already in the perfect position to stop Soldier and the others are on standby" Emma explained.
"Selene, get down to the lower levels and get the X-men your close to breaking" Shaw ordered.
"It'll be a pleasure" Selene grinned as she walked out of the room.
Cable threw a grenade out of his hiding place. The grenade exploded, unleashing a piercing sonic boom. Each one of the guards had to clutch their ears, giving Cable the perfect opportunity. He switched his rifle to burst fire and fired a stream of laser blasts into the guard's chests. The he swung his psimitar round and slashed Quicksilver across the face. Pietro fell to the ground, clutching his bleeding face in both pain and confusion.
"Oh god, this is gonna scar, who the hell cut me?" Pietro asked.
"That guy with the skull mask there" Cable said, hiding his spear behind his back.
Taskmaster shook his head as he regained consciousness, a black streak suddenly rushed past him, punching him across the face.
"Hey bastard, Skeletor called, HE WANTS HIS FACE BACK!!!" Pietro yelled as he grabbed the shocked Taskmaster and crashed him through three walls before throwing him onto Shaw's desk and punching him until his face was barely recognisable, which for Pietro wasn't much time.
Wolfsbane and Catseye rolled across the floor, snapping their jaws at one another. Rahne slashed the panthers chest and catseye countered with a slash to the scottish girls cheek. The New Mutant howled before jumping on top of the panther. She held her by her arms, headbutting her multiple times. But Catseye still snapped at her, digging her nails into Rahne's hands. With one more howl, Rahne sunk her teeth into the panthers neck and ripped her throat out. Wolfsbane stood up and looked in shock as the panther shifted back into the lifeless form of the pink haired girl. Rahne howled with grief as she fell to her knees and she shifted back to her natural form.
"Oh god...what have I done, I'm so sorry" Rahne cried, staring into the darkened eyes of the woman she had just killed.
Randall crawled across the floor as his blood stained the stone ground. He breathed heavily, swiping the card across the reader.
"It's no use fool, you still need to say the pass phrase, which is known only by me" Selene said proudly as she walked to Sabretooth's side.
"And those who know you…it doesn't take much…" Randall coughed weakly as he gripped the security mike and pulled his face inches from it. "It doesn't take…much intelligence to figure you out…you bitch!" Randall growled before he spoke into the mike.
"The way to hell is the only path to take!"
Selene widened her eyes in shock as the door opened. Then she remembered that she had switched the prisoner's inhibitor off so that she could have fun with each one of him. Randall fell to the floor and held the card out for the youngest member of the New Mutants to take. He was someone whom Selene had so wanted break, but despite his youth, despite his age and how easy it was to manipulate someone so young he was the one person out of all the X-men who would never break.
The army of Jamie Madrox's ran out of their cell and piled on top of Selene and Sabretooth. While the clones restrained the queen and her pet with everything they had, Madrox prime swiped the security cards through the other two cells. He then ran to Roberto and Amara's side, using the key he took off of Randall, he deactivated their inhibitor collars and unlocked their chains.
Selene yelled as shadowy spikes came out of her cape, impaling the Madrox clones. Jamie ran out of the cell and punched the palm of his hand, creating ten more clones to distract Sabretooh and Selene. As Roberto and Amara recovered from the beatings they had taken, Jamie unlocked Avalanche's chains and inhibitor collar. Lance didn't even need to take a breather as he stormed out of his cell.
"You three geeks get your friends out, I'm gonna make that bitch pay for what she did to us" Lance said.
"Are you an idiot, you'll bring the whole place down" Roberto said.
Lance didn't roll his eyes this time, he didn't need to. He slammed his foot into the ground and sent a crack running across the ground towards Selene. Suddenly multiple rock spikes burst vertically out of the ground, slamming into Selene.
"LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE PAIN BITCH!!!" Lance yelled as the rock pillars bursting out of the ground pushed Selene back.
"Shit, could he always do that?" Roberto asked.
"Looks like Selene flipped some switches" Jamie said weakly as he fell to the ground.
"Jamie!" Amara said with concern.
"GO NOW!!" Lance yelled as he created another rock pillar, squashing Sabretooth until the feral mutant lost consciousness.
Roberto and Amara wrapped the tired Jamie's arms around their necks before walking past Lance. Before they left the scene, Jamie looked back at where Randall.
"Thank you" He whispered.
Quicksilver ran through the club, knocking aside any Hellfire guard that got in his way. He ran into Constrictor, punching him in the chest multiple times before running at Shaw. Pietro took one more step and could have sworn he saw a black disc of some kind on the floor. He suddenly lost his footing and fell chin first to the floor. The son of Magneto looked up and saw a young girl in a Hellion's outfit, a red shape disc around her arm.
"Thank you Roulette but that wont be necessary, he can't hurt me" Shaw said.
Pietro growled before he gasped, as a scythe blade was now pressed across his neck. Standing over Pietro was a cloaked figure holding the scythe and next to him was a brown haired girl, dressed in the Hellion's uniform and holding a card with the same reaper as the one that had Pietro pinned. Cable rolled across the floor, avoiding bolts of lighting thrown by Ororo. He jumped to his feet and fired a bolt into Ororo's chest, stunning her. Suddenly a blue beam flew into Cable, throwing him into a wall. Before the X-man knew it, seven Hellfire rifles were pressed against his head. He looked up and saw the Hellfire guards, along with Tessa.
"You fools seriously considered my advice about taking the front door, I was acquainted with Shaw long before I joined S.H.I.E.L.D." Tessa said as Cable got to his feet and put his hands on his head.
"Your pathetic little rescue attempt has ended" Emma said as she walked up to Cable with one of her other Hellion's and Wanda, but this time dressed in a red leotard and blood red corset.
"The Scarlet Witch, careful with her, she might end up decimating you!" Cable smirked.
Emma shrugged her shoulders, not understanding the mans humour.
"Strip him of his weapons and take him to my chambers" Emma said.
Cable smirked as he walked with the Hellfire guards.
'Deception is another road to victory, its up to the Wolverine and the X-men to take the other roads'
Deep in the sewers of the Hellfire Club, three guards waded through the water, keeping their rifles low. Suddenly, Wolverine burst out of the water, stabbing two of the guards in the head before he slashed the third across the head. He panted and clicked the cricks out of his neck.
"Okay bubs, lets try this again!" Wolverine growled before he walked off.
Soldier drove through the streets of Vegas towards the location the materials he requested from Fury were. His eyebrow twitched as he saw a giant figures standing in the middle of the road. It was a teenager, though he had impossibly huge muscles. Since he wore a Hellion uniform Soldier assumed the boy worked for the Hellfire club. He casually wedged his rifle between the chair and the accelerator. Soldier opened his door and pulled the pin on his last grenade, gently placing on his seat before he jumped out.
The cocky expression on the Hellion Beef's face quickly turned to one of shock before he and the truck collided. Upon impact, the truck blew up, lighting the streets in a magnificent explosion that burned Beef's clothes and hair. The Hellion fell to the floor, twitching in pain as Soldier limped past him.
'Landed pretty awkwardly there, spare equipment and medical supplies from HQ should keep me going, hopefully they managed to free some of the X-men cause fulfilling the mission will be a whole lot easier with help' Soldier thought before he limped towards the location his spare weapons had been dropped.
Though he was wounded, Soldier still had a mission. One he was going to fulfil.
Next Chapter 9: Fierce fights
A physical battle, a mental battle and a spiritual battle. One against a ghost of the past seeking revenge, another to recover the will of a loved one and the third to keep oneself going. Elsewhere a young girl must defend herself against the Hellfire club assassins, but she isn't alone.
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, I'll leave the focus of next chapter secret for now but I will tell you that next time there will be more of Avalanche kicking Selene's ass, the remaining Hellions and the New Mutants facing off and a little moment for Sam (Cannonball)/Tabitha (Boom Boom/Meltdown) fans. oh and some Deadpool humour.