avatar: This isn't really my best chapter. I'm not sure if I could've done better. But the final fight will continue next chapter. Anyway, here's Professor X with the disclaimer.

Xavier: avatarjk137 does not own X-Men Evolution. He owns Bio, Spectrum, and this story. Yellowfur owns Hunter. I wish Mystique would stop trying to destroy us.

avatar: she really would like your head on her mantle.

Chapter 10

Pandemonium

"Vow!" Kurt exclaimed. "I think you did it!" The entire balcony was aflame, and Spectrum was nowhere in sight.

"I'm not sure," Logan said gruffly from the spot on the wall he had climbed to. "To be honest, I hope not. I haven't had a chance to fight him."

"Awww, how sweet. No worries, I'm A-ok!" A wave of flame from the balcony rocketed into Logan, knocking him loose from the wall. Spectrum jumped from the balcony, and landed in front of Nightcrawler and Colossus. Absorbing Nightcrawler's powers had changed his appearance. Red fur covered his body, contrasting sharply with his still bluish hair. His ears had become pointed, and a tail extended from his pants. He still had the normal amount of fingers, though. "What a great look!" he exclaimed.

Pyro launched a huge ball of flame at him with an angry yell: "I hate you!" Spectrum held out his arms, and gestured toward Colossus. The fireball changed course and slammed Piotr. Piotr jumped through the fireball and uppercut Spectrum, knocking him through the air. Pyro blasted him again, and hit his target this time. Nightcrawler teleported into the air, and kicked Spectrum, knocking him downward. He ported below Spectrum, and kicked him back into the air. He ported again, and punched the power-copying mutant in the gut, sending him downward once more. Finally, Spectrum landed… on Wolverine's outstretched claws.

"I think we've all had enough of you, bub." He threw the impaled mutant to the floor. Everybody gathered around.

Spectrum twitched, and his wounds began to rapidly heal. He got up on his knees, and raised a hand into the air. 3 bone claws extended from the hand. Spectrum staggered to his feet, grinning. "Too…bad…" his entire body, including the claws, turned to steel. "…'cause I'm just getting started!" He slashed at Kurt, who teleported away. Spectrum teleported, too, and managed to land a kick to Kurt's head, knocking him down. He teleported again, and appeared on the ceiling. "I always wanted to try this!" He cut the chain holding up a medium-sized chandelier, which dropped toward Logan, and teleported over to Pyro.

"No more tricks, mate!" Pyro blasted Spectrum, and Colossus grabbed the falling chandelier and tossed it at Spectrum. Spectrum grabbed the chandelier, spun and used it as a shield against another column of fire. He then turned again and thrust the chandelier forward, catching Wolverine's claws in it. He spun the chandelier like a wheel, and flipped a snarling Logan onto his back. Then he flipped over the chandelier, deflected a blast of flame into Colossus, and stabbed Wolverine in the gut.

"But I like the tricks!" He laughed. Then he stopped. "Uh-oh, the flames don't work on steel boy." Before he could react, a large steel fist connected with his skull, launching him into the air. His claws were torn free from Wolverine, who hopped to his feet.

"Thanks, Colossus. Ready for the Fastball Special?"

"Of course." Colossus picked up Wolverine and threw him with all his strength. Wolverine connected with Spectrum adamantium claws-first, piercing his steel skin. The force of the throw rammed both of them into a wall. Wolverine pulled his claws out and began slashing Spectrum across the face.

"Tell me when you've had enough, bub. Just say uncle and it'll all be over!"

"I'm not the giving up kind of guy." Spectrum slashed Wolverine, kicked him back, teleported behind him, and stabbed him again.

Wolverine snarled in pain. "I'm getting really tired of BEING CUT OPEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS!" He stabbed backwards, slashing through the steel skin of both Spectrum's arms. Spectrum staggered back, and suddenly a huge explosion of multicolored flames erupted from him. He turned to face Pyro, who had conjured multiple human shapes from the fire. The fiery shapes all ran forward, exploding when they touched Spectrum. The power-swollen villain was blasted backwards, into, then through a wall.

"That really hurt," Spectrum complained, rubbing his head as he stepped back through the large hole in the wall. "Can't you guys just accept that I'm pretty much indestructible and surrender already?"

"'Fraid not, bub. We're X-men."

"Except for me. I just really need to kill you!" Pyro made a giant sword-shaped flame and held it above his head. Suddenly, the floor exploded.

"What the hells?" Logan asked, as the ground around him erupted, and began to collapse.

A staff extended up from one of the preexisting panels removed from the floor, and Gambit shimmied up the pole. "Sorry about that, mon ami, but I had a problem downstairs." He hopped off the staff, onto the mildly more stable floor, which was now burning slightly and more cratered than the dark side of the moon. He pulled up his staff, but Mystique was on the other end.

"Surprise, surprise." She kicked Gambit hard in the chest, then bolted for the door. A wall of flame blocked her path.

"No one leaves until I've got my crazy back, and maybe kill somebody!" Pyro screamed. "I need my crazy!"

"You still seem pretty crazy to me," Bio said as he pulled himself up through the floor with his vines.

"I think he means the pyromaniac part of him," Kurt said, staggering to his feet. "I'm bleeding pretty badly over here, so I'm going to take a nap, okay?" He promptly collapsed again.

Hunter flew up thru the floor as a bat, and landed on the ground in human form. "Nice trick, Gambit, but it didn't work too well. You only knocked out that monkey-face hypnotist, and you're out of aces, literally and figuratively." He paused as Sabretooth exploded headfirst through the floor, creating yet another hole. "Oh, and you freed Blob."

"I'll be upstairs as soon as I can find an elevator!" Fred called from below.

"I'll take the frigid terrorist," Gambit said. He swung at Mystique with his staff, but she jumped over him and kicked him through the door. She jumped after him into the other room with a karate yell.

"You know who I want to fight," Wolverine said. He jumped forward and tackled Sabretooth (who had just gotten up), knocking them both into the basement.

"Made it," Blob gasped. "Let me take… on The Animal over there."

"Bring it on, chubbo!" Hunter transformed into a jaguar and charged Blob, almost knocking him back down the stairs he had just climbed.

"Why are we picking opponents?" Colossus asked, as he threw a punch at Spectrum. Spectrum caught the fist, and kicked Colossus away.

"I have no idea, tin man," Bio chuckled. He grabbed Colossus's arm with his vines, and swung him around the heavily damaged room. Colossus hit a pile of burnt rubble that used to be a balcony.

"Looks like you're in some deep trouble," Spectrum said to Pyro. "You can't beat both of us, whether Tin Man gets up or not."

"I can try," Pyro said determinedly.

"Nice look for you Spectrum," Bio said. "The tail and pointy ears are a nice touch."

"Why thanks, cuz. How about a workout on Mr. Formerly Crazy here?"

"Sounds good."

End Of Chapter

Next chapter: More beating the shit out of people! 'Nuff said.