I tried to kill someone today.
Never thought I'd write those words huh?
It starts with arriving at the Sentinel Factory. After fighting our way through many armed guards and a few tanks, we discovered that the factory was where Magneto was temporarily held. A few tanks later we found our way in. Given that Magneto just escaped the amount of guards were massive. Now understand how I previously fought. Before hand I focused on either Sentinels, or resilient mutants like Blob and Sabretooth. Anyone else I either through fireballs at surronding environmental features hoping debris from the resulting explosion would knock the enemy out, or creating streams of lava surrounding the enemy limiting their movement to make way for other X-men, which is what I did with most of the guards around, as we disabled all of the sentinel production lines, while Beast studied the scematics for the Sentinel navigational system.
But then the "New" Sentinels arrived.
By the grace of God, I swear they used to be human. Modified, with jetpacks and a freeze ray surgically attached.
After beating some of these "Sentinels Advanced" we entered the basement laboratory they came from and saw some of the early experiments to create these new sentinels. I have seen horror movie after horror movie but I've never seen that amount of gore.
Many guards, many cyborgs and a couple of weird Spider sentinels later, we found an office with the a nameplate on the desk labeled, "William Kincaid." It had as its centerpiece a memo about the building of the Astral Gate to form an alliance with Shadow King!
Several more cyborgs later we found the holding pens, containing about a dozen captured Morlocks. The last liberated Morlock said, "Thank god. I was next on the test list."
Cyclops said, "What are they testing?"
The response was the worst thing I had ever heard. "Whether or not the new sentinel model can kill us." I had heard of what General Kincaid was doing at the old Weapon X facility from Logan, but it was nothing to seeing General Kincaids malice up close and personal.
Then General Kincaid said over an intercom as several cyborgs entered the area, "Greeting's X-men you have been wonderful test subects so far, but why don't you do the world good right now and die!" It was amazing. Even from Magneto had I never heard such pure hatred. When I finally saw General Kincaid running by on an overhead catwalk, I was so angry and pumped by fighting I threw a ball of flaming molten rock at him. I swear that if a flying Cyborg hadn't got in between us at that exact moment, it would have killed him.
Well after we finished off the rest of the cyborgs, we found out that Kincaid had gotten away in a private plane.
As we loaded the navigational equipment into the X-jet, I asked, "I know we're not exactly a death squad, but has anyone here ever killed anyone?" Nightcrawler asked why, and I told him about the incident, and as a response quite a few people raised their hands.
Wolverine said, "The world ain't simple, Pebbles. Just try to keep fighting for what is right, and your life will at least have a purpose."
On the plus side, we got the professor back.
I'm sitting as he's resting comfortably right now. As soon as we got back, Emma told us that she located the Professer in the Astral plane and just finished retuning the Astral Gate to take us there. After fighting several astral beasts, we located the Professer being held captive by a beam emanating from a crystal. Shadow King arrived just as soon as we managed to shatter the Crystal. The professer and Shadow king instantly grew to a Godzilla-like size and fought all over the Astral Plane. With the Astral structures shattering around us, we all escaped through the Astral Gate. We ran to the where the professor was unconscious, just to see his eyes open. He said, "Thank you for standing by me, my X-men."
Well, Beast just called all the X-men to the X-jet hangar. I have a suspicion that it is time to go to Asteroid M.
See you when I get back.
Allison "Magma" Crestmere.