The Alarms blared, before they were silence and no-one could hear anything. Seconds later, the x-men were in the front lawn, Joe was too, but no-one noticed.
Floating just above the lawn was a man in red tights and some purple armor as well as a helmet.
The helmet would stop the Professor's method of telepathy, he picked up electromagnetic emissions from the brain but Joe long since figure out how to use Legilimency on any nerve ending in the body.
He had gained the power from his vampiric heritage. He had also managed to merge the ability with a super-sensory charm, and after the few weeks it had taken him to get used to it, he was able to sense anyone within ten miles of him and if he focused he could increase the range. He was currently working on a version that incorporated the scrying technique from the orb he saw in Strange's home.
With that he could possibly read any mind in the dimension if he so chose.
While he was contemplating, the x-men began to battle magneto, Scott was firing crimson energy from his eyes, and storm was using some of his advice, firing small needle shaped hailstones at the man.
Joe was sitting and contemplating Magneto's plan, the man wanted to turn the whole world into mutants, which involved kidnapping Rouge, a slight annoyance slipped over his features, a deal with Death must always be finished and he had no reason to resurrect her.
A light release of his power was felt.
Erik Lensherr remembered that feeling the very touch of death, but this time more predatory, he found the source, his eyes widening at the at the sight of the man, he had only seen him once before at the corner of his eyes his power grabbed his armour and he rocketed towards his base, a metal bar grabbing rouge and pulling her along.
Joe's pulled the location of his base from the megalomaniac's mind, before casually teleporting there. Only one person saw him, a woman with black skin and red hair.
As Magneto entered he dropped from the roof. Joe took a second to get his attention, in his preferred manner of course
"Excuse me obviously gay person the woman is under my protection, please release her into my custody!"
Magneto turned to his second in command, aiming to place Rouge into the machine, "Mystique kill him!"
"I am sorry, but I will not kill my teacher." she responded coolly.
"Wench know your place, KILL HIM" He raged rushing towards Mystique.
Unfortunately he tripped and ended up falling down into control panel of the mutant machine, dying instantly. Joe stepped over him, and grabbed Rouge before seemingly stepping into the air.
He vanished into the night, leaving behind the base. Many of the Mutant were disoriented, however Mystique was contemplating the words echoing in her mind that her teacher left behind.
Humans fear what they do not understand, remember that child.
It was those words that lead to Mystique's revelation, Magneto had only been making the Humans fear them more, Now It was time to do this properly.
She looked over the group and with a few tricks she remembered from her teacher and took control.
She rounded them up, and instructed them to ally with the X-men, There were not enough anti-human mutants without them so their reputation would be improve quickly, She was hoping to contact her teacher to set up a place.
She immediately had her new minions regroup. She on the other hand was heading towards Xaviers.
Meanwhile Joe was cleaning up the institute, he hit it with a high powered repair spell and he was done. However as the last piece fell into place his Zippo began to ring, quickly answering the call he was greeted by the Doctor, "Mr Black, I managed to isolate the genetic abnormality in the blood sample, it turns out that the energy conductive layer were accidentally formed above the skin, just have her drink this potion, it will place the conductive layers under the skin and simply intend to absorb from the people to touch and the power will be absorbed.
And with that a vial shot out of the flame.
Passing he vial to Rouge who drank to contents eagerly though cringing at the vile taste. Suddenly her sin began to glow, radiating heat before the flames burned off the skin… and her clothes.
Quickly conjuring a screen around the woman he left towards his room.
In the room he layered a series of privacy wards if only to make sure no one entered. He pulled out the vial of blood from rouge and laid down on the bed before drinking it. He quickly queried his ring for any changes.
"Surprisingly you did not gain her powers, but rather your skin can now channel magic, allowing you to drain magic from the air as well as magic from other beings, luckily it seems that the Vampiric aspect manipulated it such that it requires intent to activate."
'Good' He thought, before pulling down the wards he turned in for the day.
However it was early the next morning that someone knocked on his door. Opening it he invited the woman in. He recognised her from magneto's memories.
"Hello Raven, why are you here?"
"Thank you Sir, I must ask of you one favour, we wish to create a settlement of mutants, there is a town for sale on the Texas border, we wish to buy it at settle there in peace."
'This would be a good chance at expanding the business into another dimension. Hmm' coming out of the pensive state he turned to the woman, "I might be able to, under two conditions. This town will be under my name, there will be a business built into it, you will have to take the position as the manager of that branch and be Black Ink's liaison in this dimension. Do not worry you will be paid."
Raven was in shock, Magneto's death was the single greatest thing that happened to her, "Of course Sir"
He pulled the knowledge of the town from Raven's mind, teleported there and bought the town within hours. Pencil and architect were drafted to get the town up and running, the architect only preparing the blueprints and the rest done by a few construction firms.
Raven was given a Zippo to communicate with Henchgirl back on the Island.
While the town was being planned, Joe was preparing to leave towards S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, mostly it was just saying goodbye, Magic took care of tedious things like packing and travel arrangements.
Wanda decided to go with him, if only to learn how to control her powers. She was waiting for him at the front gate.
Since Wanda had not yet learned to fly or teleport, Joe was taking his motorcycle to the landing zone, most likely the Helicarrier.
He pulled the bike from his coat pocket, before, seating both himself and the Witch on it. Starting it and heading off, he woke up mortis and the ghost horse's translucent outline flared around the bike before he took to the skies.
He left behind several stunned watchers, "Did we just play host to death?"
He had received the means to send back information on where to land the T.A.R.D.I.S.. He was given a homing beacon, the thing was a triangular section with a wide and clearly marked with a red line, all he had o do was put it on some flat ground with the red line facing an empty space large enough to hold the T.A.R.D.I.S. shell.
"Hello Fury, my wife and two children will be arriving in this dimension soon, I need to ask if I can land on this ship and if so, is the ship EMP resistant."
Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. thought for a while, before answering in the positive.
Placing the homing beacon he stepped back and crossed his arms behind his back.
The tracker began to glow before pulsing the light every few seconds before a whirring noise was heard. And slowly the form of a helicopter faded into view.
"I see you have the chameleon circuit working Doctor! How's Kara doing?" Joe yelled.
A blonde blur sped out of the craft followed by a pair of darker blurs.
"Kara! Tim! Raven! How are you doing?"
"Mostly well," Kara responded, "Though raven has been having a hard time dealing with Grim."