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Chapter 4: Game Over
Psylocke ran into the room where Arcade was hiding hoping to find Xorn but all she saw was his mangled body on the floor and Amahl standing over it he was crying it seemed.
"That Arcade..." trailed off Amahl, "He will pay."
"Is...he dead?" asked Psylocke.
"Yes he is dead there is not much we can do about it I saw Arcade run down that hallway we should follow him," said Amahl.
He had gestured to a hall that looked like a fun house with really bright colors and mirrors adorning all of the halls. Psylocke stopped in her tracks and looked in the hall, "Then I guess we follow him. I want to take care of Xorn's body but I have to go after him."
She then dashed towards the hall not stopping, she yelled as she ran, "Amahl you stay there I'll get him you take care of Xorn."
When she was out of hearing distance Amahl cracked a smile, "As you wish."
At the end of the fun house hall Arcade could be seen on a phone of some sort he said to it, "So what do I do now boss can I leave yet."
"No you can't leave until they are taken care of mutant rights can never proceed until the X-men are gone for good," said the voice on the other line.
"I will do as you say," said Arcade, he then picked up a hammer that was sitting on the ground it was yellow with red rims and stars on it, it looked like something out of a child's room.
Arcade turned towards the hall and ran back to where he came from.
At the entirely opposite end of the hall Amahl also got a call on the phone. He then answered, "Master."
"Amahl, Arcade has become a threat to your cover he has to be killed you can't let Psylocke get near him, travel to him quickly," the voice commanded.
"If that is how it has to be I can dispose of him," said Amahl his voice carried a dark undertone.
He then created an Astral Portal and vanished.
In an entirely different part of Murderworld the other X-men found themselves in an empty room with no enemies to face. Peter took a step forward, "Is this all they have in this Murderworld? It is rather pathetic, well friends shall we find our fearless leader now?"
St. John started to say something and then there was a loud rumble, and a voice came over a loud speaker, "You have defeated the Murderworld robots but I have another treat for you and this guy was made by a man named Trask, I have rigged him to only know the New X-men's genetic codes and he has a few adjustments I bet you can't wait welll here he is! The Murder Sentinel."
Then out lumbered a robotic monstrosity it looked much like the old designs some of the students had faced before but it was wearing a party hat and it looked like it was old parts hastily put together. The monstrosity was perhaps a hundred feet tall with purple and red armor over all the circuitry and weaponry that lay within it.
Bishop stared at it, "This was the model that was sent to deal with me, I will have no issues with this."
He ran up to it and spread his arms, "Give me what you got!"
The Sentinel looked at Bishop inside it was quickly perusing the DNA library and it picked out the filed, 'Lucas Bishop.'
It then swatted him with its hand slamming him into a wall. All the X-men looked at Bishop he seemed to be unconscious and perhaps badly hurt.
"Now you are going to get it big guy!" Colossus turned to steel and charged towards one of the Sentinel's legs and he then ripped off a panel.
Kurt teleported next to him with St. John. John then fanned flames into the circuitry making the leg more cumbersome and less smooth in movement. The Sentinel then recognized all three of them and started firing missiles. Kurt grabbed Pyro and the left in a cloud of smoke. Colossus was there to take the entire brunt of the missiles. He seemed to be down and then he rose from the smoke left by both Kurt and the missile impact.
Rogue using Toad's powers leaped onto one of the Sentinels shoulders she jammed her arm into a crevice in the armor and started pulling out wires as Toad did the same on the opposite shoulder.
Jubilee and Gambit distracted it with their projectile powers launching them left and right at the Sentinel's head not giving it a clear target. It kept firing lasers but none of them hit an actual mutant. Colossus then recovered from the blast, "Everyone clear away from the Sentinel keep distracting it and make sure you are not near it."
Following these words Toad and Rogue left the Sentinel putting it off balance a little with the strength in their legs. Peter then rammed his hand under the Sentinel and started heaving.
"You will fall you horrible giant, I am the Colossus!" he then heaved one final time and flipped the Sentinel on its back, "This is where it is weakest take it out while it has fallen."
Pyro ran forward with his lighter out and started shooting fireballs at it. Nightcrawler appeared on the Sentinels head and pulled off a piece of armored plating ramming it in its eyes. The Sentinel could no longer recognize who were the mutants therefore it was now useless.
Rogue walked up to it, "I can't believe we did it!"
"I thought most Sentinel use had stopped," said Toad.
Jubilee then stated, "They are still used in America, besides this guy is just scraps."
In the fun house hall Psylocke and Arcade had finally met. Arcade had a wild grin across his face that showed confidence, "So Psylocke, eh? Doesn't ring in my ears quite as good as Professor Charles Xavier..."
"Who are you and why have you abducted us all...and how do you know so much," she asked.
"Arcade, I abducted you for fun, and I am quite smart I look like I'd be a gas to hang around with but...I'm not," he had that smile which quickly turned into an expression showing he was completely serious, "Well, time to die!"
Before Psylocke had a chance to read his mind she was attacked by a hammer swing. She stopped it telekinetically, "You don't seem like that big of a deal to me...tell me what you know, why do you want to kill us."
He let go of the hammer and put his hands in his pockets looking defeated, "Because a smart guy like me has nothing else to do."
"BUT THIS!" he screamed and pulled out a remote which he pressed the button to. A smoke screen shrouded his whereabouts and disoriented Psylocke.
Psylocke started to stumble but then realized she could sense his mind it could help. She started to search and then a voice came to her thoughts, 'And now she will die.'
A sword came from the shadows as she bent it with her mind it was a close one. She could've been in the same place as Xavier if not for that search. The figure holding the sword appeared it was some type of robot, and then the smoke cleared there were twenty or so. She then use her telekinesis to enhance a jump that landed her near a robot. She ripped the sword from its hand and then had it levitating in front of her.
It sliced through its previous owner then impale three robots. She flipped over them and slammed two robots together with a thought. Then Arcade ran out she waved her hand and all the robots started to disassemble it looked like it took her great concentration then a sword landed in her hand. She was too exhausted to use telekinesis again.
Arcade seemed to have gotten his hammer back, "Why won't you die!?!"
"Because your efforts are meaningless to me," she said then the hammer and the sword clashed.
She managed to hit the hammer off with her hand and then started whirling her sword walking towards Arcade. He regained his grip on the hammer and swung it downward with all the force someone of his stature could manage. She then sliced off his hand it landed on the ground still holding the large hammed. He then landed on his knees, "I will tell you what you want just spare me!"
"What are you doing here?" said Psylocke.
"I am with the Brother-"
He was stopped as he was enveloped by a portal and vanished. Psylocke tried to get a glimpse at his thoughts but he was gone.
Within the portal Amahl stood before Arcade, "I have been told to dispose of you when you became a threat."
He grew to his monster form, "You have done that."
Arcade looked towards him, "Please just spare me I don't care where you send me just spare me."
Amahl now Shadow King seemed to think for a moment. Then he opened his mouth revealing his gruesome teeth, "Alright...you will stay here! Let the shadows do to you what I won't."
"No! Nooo!"
With that Shadow King left through a portal.
Back in Murderworld Betsy had found the rest of her team. She looked at them and said, "I have bad news...Xorn is dead."
Colossus turned away from Bishop whom he was reviving and said, "What? How?"
"This Arcade fellow killed him in an unsavory fashion," said Betsy, "I hunted him down and asked for questions but he vanished in some kind of portal."
"Did you get any answers?" asked Kurt.
"Just one he was a member of the Brotherhood, he started to say it," said Psylocke, "Once Amahl arrives I know what we must do."
"And what is that o' great leader?" asked Toad.
"We have to find the old X-men, the ones remaining they may enlighten us more on the Brotherhood," she stated, "I am only going to bring three of you and I've decided it will be Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Rogue, you all may be what I need to do this."
"Once we find Iceman, maybe even Cyclops, or Wolverine we can find out why this is happening and how they seem to know what we are up to," she said, "Everyone else will stay at the Mansion Bishop is in charge for now."
"I don't think I can do this," said Jubilee, "One of us died! How much longer can we be sheep, as long as we label ourselves X-men these bastards will be after us. It has been two days!"
She stopped for a moment, "You all seem fine with this!"
"You all knew the danger of labeling yourselves as X-men," said Betsy, "So don't cry to me now that you are on the team."
Next Chapter: Finding What Was Lost