Chapter 1: Enter the Mysterious Trio
The rusted sword stuck out of the dry earth, a testament to all that had happened. But then, a booted foot knocked it out of the ground where it was standing. The foot belonged to a sour-looking young man with silvery hair.
Behind him were two men on motorcycles. One was a muscular beast-like guy; the other was a man in crimson armor.
"Is that where our brother lives?" The bestial man asked.
"Yep." The first man answered simply.
"You think he'll be happy to see us?"
"I doubt it."
The last man must have sensed the other man's feelings, because he told him softly, "Don't cry, Cain."
"But Father's with him." The beast-man said hopefully.
"Who knows?"
Now it was the last guy's turn to feel sad. "Don't cry Victor." Cain said softly.
The first man, Pietro, raised a hand to silence them. "He's coming."
They all looked down to see Scott driving through the wasteland. The other two nodded and drove off.
Meanwhile, Scott was driving along, minding his own business, when a bunch of monsters that resembled huge red lizards suddnely appeared out of nowhere and attacked him.
(AN: These creatures appeared in an episode of X-Men Evolution, so anyone who's very familiar with the show might recognize them.)
"What the--?!"
Scott stopped the motorcycle and spun around to face his attackers. He drew out a buster sword from a special holding place on the motorcycle, but one of the lizard creatures was already upon him…
ZAP!
A beam of red light from Scott's visor shot out and seared a wound into the creature's side, forcing it to fall back. This was Scott's special power, which earned him the nickname "Cyclops".
Scott drew out his blade and short forward, cutting down all the creatures in his patch when suddenly, Cain drove up to him, and asked sharply, "Where's Father?"
"What are you talking about?!"
Cain just slashed at him with a blade-like weapon while Victor just fired a gun in his direction.
"We know you hid him somewhere." He said. Victor fired again, but Scott blocked the bullets with his sword.
Then the other man broke away, leaving Scott to whirl around and blasedt one of the beasts with his heat beams. Then the two men returned, driving around him in circles and attacking repeatedly.
At about the same time, Pietro was busy talking on his cell phone. "Don't tell me you're leading me on," he said, "Because I have reason to believe you're holding Father there." He paused for a moment before speaking.
"Know what? I don't want to talk to you anymore. Put the president on."
Meanwhile, Scott was leading a whole horde of the lizard-like creatures, and having a hard time holding all of them off. And his motorcycle-riding opponents weren't helping his situation either.
The combatants swerved about wildly, trying to strike each other down.
Just then, Scott felt a stabbing pain his arm. Damn it! Not now! Scott gritted his teeth, barely avoiding an attack from Cain, who managed to knock his sword away.
Suddenly, and without warning, Victor drove up and fired at his head, almost knocking off his protective visor. Then he and Cain fell back, and the lizard creatures swarmed around Scott.
Damn! There's too many of them!
With a terrible roar, all the creatures charged at him…
Then the creatures suddenly dissolved into a huge cloud of blood red mist that coalesced into Pietro's outstretched hand.
Scott halted his vehicle and looked up, surprised. Pietro just smirked and drove off.
"What was that all about?" Scott muttered.
Seeing no answer coming to him, Scott started the engine and drove off in the direction of Curin.
To be continued…