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Chapter 4: Sabretooth's Attack and his Consequent Demise

Forge's House, Bayville, NY- May 14, 12:00 AM

Forge came running into the room, slammed the door shut and locked it as quickly as he could.

"Lance, Sabretooth's here! You need to get Kitty out of here, or she might die!" exclaimed Forge as he turned to face Lance and pointed to a door that was behind a nightstand, which Lance had failed to notice was in the room earlier. Forge ran over to the nightstand and flung it aside and opened the door, revealing a tunnel that Lance instinctively knew led to the surface, as the room he was in was underground. Forge then motioned for Lance to take Kitty and run.

"No, you take Kitty, Forge. You're the doctor, so you'll know what to do if something happens. Take her to the Xavier Institute. If what you said about Xavier's really true, then he'll give you help and shelter," said Lance as he tensed to fight Sabretooth's oncoming wrath.

"No, I should stay and help," replied Forge as he tried to stand in front of Lance and began to change one of his arms into its mechanical form to give Lance more time to prepare to battle Sabretooth.

"No offense, Forge, but what could you do to help me?" asked Lance as he put a hand on Forge's shoulder, causing him to turn and face Lance.

"Your power is that of fixing and building machinery, and of being a good doctor. Besides, I need you to take care of Kitty for me until I can rejoin you. Now, get out of here!" yelled Lance as he pushed Forge towards Kitty and took his position in front of them.

"All right, but be careful, my friend," said Forge after a moment as he returned his arm to normal, ran over to the bed, unhooked Kitty from the machines and the IV, scooped her up into his arms, ran out through the door and into the passageway. As he did this he was thinking 'I know I can help Lance, but how… wait, I know!"

'Kitty…' thought Lance as he watched Forge leave with Kitty in his arms, 'I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.'

As Lance finished this thought, Sabretooth burst into the room, an evil smirk planted on his face.

"Ah-ha!" yelled Sabretooth in triumph as he brought up his claws and pointed them at Lance, "Here is the young Avalanche, the betrayer once more! You may have ruined my plan to lure Wolverine into the open, but you can make up for that by handing over your girlfriend so I might hold her for ransom, or better yet, kill her!"

"You'll never get her, you asshole!" yelled Lance. "Even if she was here, which she isn't, I would never give her to you! She's the only person who really understands me for who I am and I love her, and I won't ever lose her to the likes of you!"

With these words, Lance began to power up and was about to send a massive shock wave through the floor of the room when Sabretooth charged him.

"Take this!" screamed Sabretooth, as he punched a surprised Lance (with his claws making contact first) through the floor and ended up sending him into Forge's laboratory (third level). Lance landed in a pile of scrap metal that Forge was storing there, used for building his various inventions, and then rubble from above came raining down on him. In the process, he cut himself on the right arm and left wrist by catching them on the edges of the metal.

"Damn, why the hell would Forge store metal, of all things, right in the middle of the basement!" exclaimed Lance angrily, as he felt the blood coming down from his head and through his hair, and assumed that the wound on his head was from Sabretooth. He heard Sabretooth's laughing from above, and hid himself among the metal and rubble so he might surprise Sabretooth and possibly hide his scent from Sabretooth's keen nose, but knowing it would be difficult due to the amount of blood seeping out of him and onto the floor.

Just as he finished hiding himself as well as he could the slam of feet was heard on the floor, meaning that Sabretooth had jumped down into the basement to continue the fight.

"Hey you little punk! Why don't you just give yourself up? I hope you know now that because you sabotaged my plan to get rid of two of the X-Men, you are no longer part of your beloved brotherhood! Ha-ha-ha!" yelled Sabretooth into the dimly lit basement.

"Stop acting like a coward! You know what, I think hanging out with your little girlfriend has made you soft. Some Avalanche you are now!" added Sabretooth to his previous speech as he looked around and sniffed the air, catching the scent of Lance's blood, and grinning, his fangs bared, began to move towards Lance's location.

As Lance digested this information, he realized that Sabretooth was right, at least about him being out of the Brotherhood for good.

'Yeah, well, good riddance to that household of losers who are too stupid to understand that fighting other mutants and humans is wrong,' thought Lance. "But he is wrong about one thing: I'm not any weaker from hanging out with Kitty. I have become stronger than ever before!" he yelled this loud as he emerged from the rubble to fight Sabretooth, getting ready to send one of his shock waves at the massive man.

"Ah, so there's the coward!" yelled Sabretooth in triumph as he cracked his knuckles and added in a mocking voice, "If you want me, come and get me!" Sabretooth was hoping to have Lance angrily charge him so that he could slam him into the ground and kill and gut him, but was surprised when Lance didn't charge at him, and even more so at what his enhanced hearing heard.

"I don't think so, bub!" yelled Lance in reply as he moved his arms into position, but instead of pointing them at Sabretooth, pointed them at the ground beneath him. "Although, if you want to come and get me, be my guest!" added Lance cockily as he began to move his eyes towards the back of his head.

The remark being what it was, it angered Sabretooth, and he tried to make a full-fledged charge towards Lance, growling as he did so. However, before he even left his position, he felt the ground crumbling beneath him and fell into an enormous chasm, triple the size of the one he'd fallen into earlier that evening. Lance had made it about a minute ago while mocking Sabretooth without his noticing, but hadn't opened it until that minute.

"Arghh!" screamed Sabretooth as he started to fall through the floor, trying to dig his claws into the walls of the chasm to stop himself, but kept failing to get a good grip. "Fine!" he screamed, "If I go down, then you go down with me!" He grabbed Lance's right ankle, as Lance had come over to see if Sabretooth was finished, and started to pull him down, his claws creating gouges the whole way down.

"Hey, you jerk, let the hell go of me!" yelled Lance as he struggled to get free, while clinging to a piece of rock that was jutting out of the wall. As he did so, the amount of blood coming from his wounds increased until he could taste the blood coming from his head wound every second.

'God,' thought Lance, 'I've got to get out of here, now!' Lance was losing strength fast, and just when it seemed as if Lance would disappear forever into the earth along with Sabretooth, he felt someone grab hold of his arm. He looked up, and saw it was Forge.

"Dude, hang on! I'm going to pull you out!" Forge, using his mutant ability to turn both his arms mechanical, pulled Lance out of the hole, wrenching Lance's leg free from Sabretooth's grasp in the process. Forge watched as a screaming and snarling Sabretooth finally lost his hold on the wall after falling another 15 feet and disappeared forever into the bowels of the Earth.

"Lance, are you all right?" asked Forge worriedly. "Blood's coming down from your head even worse than Kitty's injury, and your bleeding from other injuries as well. Come on, I'm going to help you get to the Institute. I've got your jeep outside," added Forge as he slowly helped Lance up, and helped him walk out of the ruined basement and out through the escape tunnel in the basement that Forge had made in case of emergency, like the one on the second floor.

"Forge, dude, where's Kitty?" asked Lance wearily as he leaned on Forge for support, knowing he was losing strength every minute because of the amount of blood he was losing, and feeling his right ankle throbbing and mentally comparing it hell.

"She's in your jeep, asleep, but luckily she didn't go into shock. I knew that I couldn't leave you, after all you've done for me over the years, so I ran to the Brotherhood as best I could with Kitty, and put her in the back seat. I then silently took your jeep after finding the keys in the ignition, and brought it back here, as my truck is currently in your garage," explained Forge as they reached Lance's jeep, and then helped Lance into the passenger side of his jeep.

"Forge," said Lance as he made himself as comfortable as he was able, "I really do have to apologize. I didn't think that you would be able to help, but I was wrong. I was so eager to destroy Sabretooth because of what he did to Kitty, but you helped me to realize I needed help to do it. Thanks."

"Anytime, pal," replied Forge. "But, right now, we need to wrap up your injury in bandages so we can stop the bleeding. Here, we'll use these," said Forge as he got out some water and rubbing alcohol to clean the wounds with and then took some bandages and began to patch Lance up, all from a first-aid kit he'd found in Lance's jeep.

As Forge wrapped Lance's injuries, Lance thought about what the future would hold for him.

'I can't go back to the Brotherhood now,' he thought, 'so I'll try the Institute. If they won't accept me, I'll just live at my auto-shop, as I have no family left; at least not anymore.' With these thoughts, Lance fell into a deep sleep as Forge first quickly rummaged through the remains of his house, pulling out a few random items. He then stashed them in the jeep, jumped in, and then took the two injured mutants to the Institute as fast as Lance's jeep could go.