CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter XXXI

Meta-woes

Eighteen months after the events with the attack by Sentinels on SHIELDs Helicarrier, and everything was relatively calm. Well; they would be calm if the racists and other assorted arseholes would stop with their terror attacks. It would also help life if the criminal elements of the world would stop being arseholes too but wasn't likely to ever happen no matter the state of the world.

That was why several criminals within London were hoping to make a big score. They had heard that the 'Angels' of the Camelot Unit of MPF HQ, London were away, and that left London with a skeleton staff with a lack of any powerful supers. They were misinformed it seemed and luck did not like them.

"Stop you vile villains!" the super yelled out as he floated down to land in the way of the three mutant criminals, four human criminals, and one stray alien looking to make a quick buck while stuck on Earth had already been captured in a magical bind after the two women had beaten them up a little.

Laguna looked over at the man in surprise. She had never seen someone so… was patriotic the right word, or crazy? He wore white spandex that even covered his head with a cowl, and the union jack flag covering most of the white. He had a chiselled jaw line and strong confident blue eyes, and muscle upon muscle, which could explain where all his brain power went (to keeping up those muscles), or he really loved those old superhero comics and cartoons.

She looked over her new super-witch getup and felt thankful she didn't look like an idiot. She didn't what people thinking this grinning loon was with her. Her outfit was now a form hugging slacks and top in dark green with a black skirt around her waist and quarter way down her thighs angled down her right leg, and a tight black jacket with crimson buckles holding it semi-closed, and black boots and gloves. Her staff was the same as ever but now a with black blades in a short form hanging on a black belt with emerald buckle around her waist, and a gold badge hanging to the left of her buckle with MPF logo, and the CyberTech CT logo over her right breast on her jacket, and her eyes were green with the whites being black, and her hair was now a green so dark it was almost black, and long, tied back to her waist with a black ribbon that hung to her butt.

She looked to her partner, Psylocke to see a surprised grimace on her face while looking this man over, and Laguna couldn't blame her. However, she was surprised that her girlfriend looked like she wanted to crawl into a tiny hole and die. Though, Laguna could only guess that her girl really hated corny superheroes like him.

Psylocke looked smoking hot as usual. She was wearing skin tight black (fading to dark purple towards the edges) all in one armoured, she would say leather, but it was made of some material of which she couldn't pronounce the name, and small black boots and gloves with a thick belt around her waist slanting down to the left with a MPF badge and the CT logo in purple over her right breast. Her hair was half black as it had streams of deep purple.

In Psylocke's belt; in holsters on her back were two telescopic tonfas that channelled her psycho-kinetic energy into force just to add in that extra kick. She wore a purple mask around her eyes with purple shading her eyes and purple painted lips, and her hood was down and back like Lily's showing off her black coloured Focus on her right ear, like Lily's, only Lily's had a dark green light and Psylocke's was purple.

"Umm… we've already been caught!" one of the captured men spat out rolling his eyes as the they all struggled against the wavy transparent-ish magic holding them several feet above the ground, bunched together and extremely uncomfortable.

The man in the Union Jack looked them up and down in stunned astonishment as he looked around to see the amused Laguna, and Psylocke looking for a hiding place. "My little sister!" he yelled his greeting, a wide grin showing. This caused Laguna and the failed bank robbing mutants, humans, and alien to double-take as Psylocke gave him a sheepish grin.

She then sighed and took a big calming breath. "Captain Britain; do you always have to be so dense?" she demanded glaring at him suddenly and taking her sisterly duty seriously. "You don't just come flying in and think that there's something for you to do when we've already done it!"

"Oh, but sister; it is my duty to help," he answered not noticing the angry twitch to her right eye. "I am a Superhero after all… and look, I've recently achieved government sanction!" he said proudly pointing to the golden MPF badge on the left of his chest, and the blue coloured Focus on his ear with white light.

"Whoever got you that badge and Focus is going to die!" Psylocke hissed out through her teeth in annoyance. "And they're going to die very painfully!"

"Calm down now…!" he suddenly moved knocking away a red energy beam with his left arm. Several angry looking men had come out from the shadows of buildings carrying energy riffles. "Place your weapons down!" he called out, his eyes narrowing to show some form of normality.

"Why would we do that you freaks?" the leader yelled out sneeringly. "We're going to kill you spawns of Satan!"

"Wow that's something new!" he replied clenching his fist. "You shall surrender now, and perhaps the law will go easy on you!"

The leader just sneered harder and fired. However, this time Laguna moved and raised a hand absorbing the blast with a shield.

"Then I guess that means we get to take you in the fun way!" Laguna said with a scowl.

"Freeze!"

A soft female voice called out. The riffle wilding humans didn't have a chance to react then they were flash frozen to the spot and the temperature dropped forcing them to drop their weapons as the metal became too cold to bare.

Three girls stood to the side. The mid teen girl in the white leotard with little blue snowflakes, and icy like mask over her eyes, and a blue glowing Focus frowned thoughtfully. She turned to the other girl matching her age who also had brown hair wearing black body tight leather with a chain whip around her waist like a belt, and a cat like mask around her eyes, and a black hood up on her head with large cat eyes and ears on it, and like all the girls had the CyberTech logo over her right breast.

"How was that Shadowcat?" the frosty girl asked her with a look of hope in her blue eyes, as Shadowcat rubbed by her left ear where her yellow glowing Focus was.

"That was awesome…! What do you think, Scarlet?" she asked looking to the older girl who still worse her scarlet coat and Goth look, but her black hair was now long to her waist going through a gap in her hood and tied with a red and black lacy ribbon by the small of her back, and scarlet around the edges of her hair going all the way round, and a red headband with little horn like crown look, and like her friends wore a Focus, only hers was glowing red.

The Scarlet Witch just rolled her eyes. "You've only been a member of the team for five weeks, and you feel the need to teach Snowdrift to make terrible puns?"

She shrugged with a smirk. "Hey, I love to have fun girl!" she said laughingly. "Hey… so is that… weird guy Captain Britain?"

"Yes," agreed Snowdrift shrugging as their Focus's brought up his file. "I had heard he joined the MPF!" she said gesturing to the badges each had, hers was on her belt front in place of her buckle, Scarlet Witch's was on her collar like a pendant, and Shadowcat's was on her right hip.

"So aren't you going to introduce me to your brother, sweetie?" Laguna asked Psylocke as the teens started gathering up the bag guys as their unit four-by-four skidded to a stop. It was like a huge van with armour and six giant wheels with a hinged section in the middle, and coloured grey with huge MPF logo on each side and sirens, and they started loading it up with the three police woman who got out of the front to assist securing the prisoners and officially reading them their rights.

Psylocke groaned as Captain Britain looked hopeful, and sighed. "Captain Britain, this is my girlfriend, Laguna!"

His eyes opened wide, but a huge grin lit his face. "My little sister is settling down… not only is she an MPF agent and stopped her criminal ways, but she has someone special!" he declared gleefully.

"Yeah, and I'm a senior agent, so that makes me your boss, so seriously stop being a moron," she said complaining. "I introduced you, so that should be enough… why don't you just dump those morons-," she gestured the men still under Laguna's magic as a second vehicle turned up, "in our truck for us and… I'll think about calling every once in a while!"

"Wow; that coming from my sister…? I'll take what I can get!" he said picking up all the baffled bank robbers and rushing off before dumping them in a cell in the truck before closing it and sealing the back door shut. "Okay, ladies, gentlemen, all is safe now, you may take them all away…!" he said smilingly to the police. They just gave him a strange look before hurrying into the front of their vehicles and driving off.

"Betsy's brothers a freak," Shadowcat whispered to her two friends.

They both nodded in agreement. "Yeah," Scarlet Witch agreed eying him as he waved the vans off. "I think he's read one too many superhero comics. I mean, nobody really acts like that… well accept him apparently."

"Well, brother, we're leaving now," Psylocke said quickly as she and Laguna joined them. "I mean, we've got to get the girls home. It's a school night," she said quickly ushering them back to the car that waited, and practically rammed them in the convertible before skidding off.

"But its Friday?" he asked confusedly looking from the retreating car to Laguna. "D-do they have Saturday school?" he asked her baffled as he had never heard of such things when he was a kid. "And the one in the coat looks a little too old for school; does she go to college, or university?"

Laguna grimaced as he was smarter and more observant than her first impression suggested; she gave him a small smile. "Umm… well, yeah, she has university, but Psylocke was talking about… umm… private tuition… lessons that the girls have in the morning, and she doesn't want them to be tired."

"I see," he said nodded happily. "My sister has grown up and is staying out of trouble. I am pleased for her."

"Umm… yeah…" she said putting her finger to her Focus as was habit sometimes when someone spoke to her. "Oh, Winter, thank the gods," she almost cried out over the comm. "Right… umm… Captain Brittan there's a huge fire three blocks east of here; do you think you can handle it alone?"

"I'm right on it!" he readily agreed. "Farewell, Miss. Laguna, we shall meet again!" he said before launching into the sky.

"Yes, I know, but he'll put it out anyway!" Laguna said over her comm. sheepishly. "I know, but I'm tired and want to spend some time with Psylocke tonight. Okay," she said rolling her eyes. "Yes, Darling, I love you too, and calm her down before she makes too much of a fuss, and I'll see you later!" she said with a small smile before she launched into the sky heading home.

Captain Britain frowned after he put out the fires and captured the arsonists. It had been some joy riders nearby having had stolen a few cars and having dumped them set them ablaze. It was just unfortunate for them the cars had monitoring devices so he could easily capture them with some assistance from MPF command, (or the MPFC) and his Focus's Detective Mode.

He had to wonder whether he was really that annoying. He sighed as even the Hulk had ditched him once. Well at least these teenage boys couldn't ditch him as he waited for the normal authorities to come and take them away. They would soon throw themselves down on the police's mercy to be kept away from the corny loser.

CyberTech Worlds Clash

Gwen Stacey sighed as she looked to the brown-haired teen before her while glaring. "You're late!" she reprimanded playfully. "The movie starts in ten, so I got the tickets, so you seriously owe me," the blonde cutie finished as she adjusted her glasses.

Peter chuckled nervously. "Sorry, Rhino was on the rampage, doing his thing and being an ass. I can barely believe I've finally caught the moron. I swear fools like him make me look bad!"

She sighed while rolling her eyes as she hugged him and gave him a quick kiss. "So, do you ever intend on telling that sweet Aunt May of yours your secret, or we'll be stuck to day time dates as you keep getting grounded!"

"Sorry, it's kind of hard going, especially since I'm not only a part of Shield, but the MPF as well," he answered with a sigh as they were startled by the explosion not too far from them. "Oh crap," he said giving her a look. "I could just pretend…"

"Bite me Parker," she said with a smirk. "Well… you'll get to if you hurry up!"

"Incentive if I ever saw any!" he replied, smirking he kissed her lips as he tore his shirt open to show his Spider outfit with a gold shield in the centre of the spider logo with MPF logo.

She watched her hero leaping off before she placed a Focus with red light on her ear, which created a display in her eyes, and she could hear the New York MPFC as a large van pulled up, she got in where a man and woman sat at desks in the back while another man drove; all of which were under SHIELD authority so they had to keep mouths closed.

"Gwen Stacey, reporting," she said as she took her seat and started using her computer. "Spider-Man, I'm online!"

"Online too," he replied over the com. "It looks like you're working too, huh!"

"Yeah, well my date stood me up, and it looks like some more irritating Purifiers with some mech suits," she replied with a groan. "I guess he'll have to make it up to me!"

"Whatever you want, whenever you want it!" he answered with a laugh that was cut off as some blaster fire distracted him.

"Augh, crap…!" Spider-Man groaned several minutes later as he pulled himself up from where his back hit the side of the MPF van he was protecting as these mech suits were more powerful than he thought and the jerks wearing them were more organised than normal; possibly ex-military. They had gone for the very van his girlfriend, Gwen happened to be in.

Spider-Man moved fast from the ground dodging the laser blast sent by some douche in some clunky mechanical super armour, and to make matters worse there were still five of them; he had only disabled one so far, and there was only one of him.

"Spider-Man, are you okay?!" Gwen's worried voice came over his Focus system built into his new suit. "Our tires are out – we can re-inflate but two of our wheels are buckled, so we can't move, you have to do something!"

"I'm trying, okay; these things are tougher than you might think!" he replied as he dodged another blast and shot out strings of web catapulting himself into the offending armoured jerk, cracking and almost smashing the huge window compartment where the pilot operated from before he was thrown off.

Spider-Man skidded around practically growling as he landed on top of the van. It was at that moment that the protective vehicle's side door opened to reveal a blonde girl with black hairband wearing a black skin-tight suite with a red spider over her front and chest and clawed gloves, a red mask, and the CT logo on her armoured chest and gold MPF badge in between her breasts, and a blaster on each thigh, and a riffle in her hands with huge double barrel and targeting scope, and a thick dark silver bracelet around each ankle, wrist, and neck, and a sleek Focus incorporated to both sides of her mask with extra components within the mask itself giving it a chunky look.

The armoured man had been targeting Spider-Man until he saw the girl targeting him. "Stay away from MY Spider-Man!" she hissed out the corny line before she could stop herself and fired. Her riffles barrels lit up green before the armoured assailant was barraged with twin blasts of rapid fire, green bolts of energy smashing into his suit, and it only took a moment for her to stop as the already damaged armour exploded and left a smouldering mess as a whimpering and bloodied man tried crawling out of the remains of his suit.

"Who is she?" one of the armoured menaces asked nervously.

"It doesn't matter!" another answered as the van door closed as she jumped out down. "Let's just destroy them both!" he said firing at her. She dodged with barely a second to spare before Spider-Man could react she ran up the side of a building as if gravity just didn't work right for her anymore; the bracelets glowing red so softly, if not for enhanced senses it wouldn't be noticed as she fired one shot, and a red bolt this time shot down and knocked out the man who squirmed from his broken armour before changing directions as her Focus helped with aim and changing her weapons settings.

She fired at the other armoured men standing on the side of the building as she skidded to a halt as if it was the floor with her hair drifting as if she was in zero gravity.

"I'm Red Spider, jerk off!" she yelled as she blasted when one of them got lucky and blast a chunk of building off causing her to fall to the ground with a groan. She had dropped her riffle and looking around, she could see her boyfriend dealing with three of them, trying to tie them up with his webbing strings but they were tearing it apart while the last two advanced on her.

"Looks like you're going to be Dead Spider…" one trailed off as her fists clenched and they pointed at the armoured men with red spider monoliths on the back of her gloves leading under the bracelets and two forearm launchers. Then in that moment blasts of webbing splattered into their glass cockpits taking their sight. She quickly sprung out of the way or they would have trampled her, but she allowed herself the smug moment.

However, moments later as she pulled out her blasters and started firing, they had pulled off the webbing and turned their cannons to her. They both fired. She thought she was as good as dead when she suddenly felt arms wrapped around her and she disappeared in a pool of blue smoke.

The armoured guys' gun fire just hit the ground with a boom when one screamed in agony as his arms were sliced off. Red Spider felt dizzy as she reappeared being held by a fuzzy blue devil like mutant with long blue tail wearing padded black leather. They were next to a guy in long brown coat and dark eyes while he was smirking and playing with a deck of playing cards.

She looked over to see that 'The' Wolverine had taken care of both of her opponents, and Spider-Man was getting help from Cyclops, Beast, and Storm while the new X-Jet; a craft built by CyberTech, nicknamed the Weather Strike was hovering above.

"You okay?" Nightcrawler asked as he let the blonde 'heroine' go with a smirk. "You should be more careful; we told you we were on the way!"

She glared at him, but she was relieved, so she couldn't be too angry. "Spider-Man was going to get blasted into a puddle of spider-guts so I think coming out and helping was the right thing to do!"

"She is right, fuzzy!" Gambit said with a smirk as he kicked up her riffle and caught it before handing it over. "You be a little more careful, you here," he said to her as she took her riffle and he started shuffling his cards before heading into the fray.

"They seem to be getting extra tech," Nightcrawler said with a frown before sighing. "I wish I could hang with Kitty's team, but they like the whole girl power thing," he laughed. "I'm sure she doesn't have to deal with as many of these Purifiers as us!"

"Well, you can join team Spider!" she said slapping his head. "This city is huge, and the others can't always be around!"

He just gave her a look rolling his eyes as he rubbed his head. "I think I'll stick to the X-Men. They're like family after all, and just because Kitty's new team doesn't have me, Camelot Unit does if I wanted a change in scenery."

"Gwen, what the hell are you doing?" Spider-Man quietly demanded as he finally got away and landed next to her. "You could have been killed. Did Avalon make you all of these things!?" he asked eying the CT logo suspiciously.

She gave him a sheepish grin before glaring as a thought came to her. "I understand you're worried Peter, but what about me having to worry about you all the time? I kept from using the stuff he gave me until I had to, to save your butt so shut up, and be a good, understanding boyfriend!"

He gulped and nodded his head quickly as she may not realize it, but she was aiming her riffle at him.

She could be scary when she wanted to be.