BGM-Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 OST-Take You for a Ride (Dance Mix)
Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! Teamed up with the X-Men to take on a new group of extremists called the Purifiers from destroying all Cross-Species. They work for a crazy Christian named William Stryker, an old foe of the X-Men. We stopped his plans from destroying Knot-X Town, but this ain't over yet. I know there are some Cross-Species out there that are dying to go to war with him.
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Volume 1 Issue 15: Stryker Under Siege
Lost Labyrinth Zone, Unified World. (3 Days Since the Convergence)
BGM-Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 OST-Lost Labyrinth Zone (Act 1)
"This way! I sense we're close to another artifact." Emerald Sustrai gestured to her teammates consisting of Cinder, Mercury, Juri, and the Hooligans.
Lost Labyrinth is the next stop in Toxic Hooligans' relic-stealing adventure. This time they are searching for one of the fabled Relics of Remnant. With Emerald putting her thieving skills to use, they are on the right track in finding it. This Zone is filled with mysterious trap that would deter any curious explorers including giant boulders, moving walls and endless waterways. But these villains are skilled, some of them like Fang being lucky enough to avoid the traps as they continue following Emerald to the Relic.
"Wow, that Cross Art of yours is great. You can sense Chaos Emeralds and other awesome treasures anywhere. Like you have a radar in your head." Bean said, admiring her new dimensional power, Treasure Radar that she unlocked some time ago.
"Would love to keep this if our worlds get separated. Gonna abuse the heck out of it to make myself the richest woman in the universe." Emerald smiled happily, somehow bonding with the crazy woodpecker.
"Be honest with me." Cinder calls for Juri's attention. "It was the Masters that merged our worlds, not Thanos." She calmly deduced.
"I guess so." Juri answered with a snarky smirk, not royal enough to the Masters to protect their lie.
"Seriously? Why would they do something so stupid?" The curious Fang asked.
"To make it easier to beat Thanos and test out Project X Zone." Juri responded, before asking Cinder, "If you knew the Masters were lying, why'd you agree to help them?"
"I have my own plans for this world that requires a fortune. I'll explain later." Cinder claimed with a sly smile that hides her ultimate goal.
"The suspense is killing me." Juri snarked.
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As they reach the deeper, darker corridors of the sanctum, the party discovers a hidden room blocked by walls. Somehow their presence causes the walls to move and grant them entry into the depths of the room where they find their prize atop an altar that illuminates the entire chamber. "There it is. The Relic of Knowledge." Emerald points out their prize that resembles a golden lamp.
As Cinder goes to claim it, Juri explains to everyone what she knows about the relic, "According to the beans Ozpin spilled when we had him as our pet Spider-King, the Lamp has the power to answer any three questions every 100 years, besides anything involving the future. Only two questions remain."
"That gives me a great idea. How do we use it?" Cinder asked, holding the lamp.
Putting herself in a confused thinking position, Juri asks herself, "What did Grimadoom say her name was…? Uh…Jinn?"
BGM-Sonic Unleashed OST-Chip's Change
The moment Juri mentioned that name triggered a reaction from the Relic as it begins glowing. Water droplets dripping from the ceiling stop in midair along with every little thing that was moving around the party, as if time itself stopped thanks to the Relic. Cyan smoke then emanates from the lamp, surprising Cinder. The smoke takes shape, forming a giant, semi-nude feminine figure that stretches and moans after being asleep for hundreds of years. "Wonderful." She expressed, while the villains stare in awe at her, "I am Jinn, a being created by the God of Light to aid Humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. I've been graced with the ability to answer three questions every one hundred years. You're in luck, as I am still able to answer-."
"Put on some CLOTHES, ghost girl, unless you think chains are the new trend!" Fang sassed.
"My, aren't you a rude weasel." Jinn snarked, already not liking the mercenary.
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"You can answer two more questions, is that right?" Cinder stated.
"Yes. That's one question down." Jinn teased.
"Quit playing games! She was only finishing what you said!" Fang angrily retorted.
"And whose fault was that?" Jinn snarks at the jerboa, only to let out a playful giggle immediately after, "Alright. Ask me any two questions and I will answer."
BGM-Mega Man Zero OST-The Ruins of Lab (Remastered Ver.)
"I only have one question: What are the weaknesses of the Mad Titan Thanos?" Cinder delivered her stern question to the spirit.
"My first question in centuries and you give me a difficult one. Defeating the Mad Titan is nigh-impossible, for he stands as the Avatar of Death in this merged universe. Any miracle of killing him will only make him stronger. He is too powerful that even Death herself banned him from her realm, rendering him immortal." Jinn started answering his question with a frown that's concerned about Thanos's inevitable invasion.
"Yup, we're doomed. Goodbye, universe." Bean jokingly expressed.
"Regardless, he does have ONE weakness that can grant you a VERY slim chance at victory. The counterpart to the Avatar of Death. The Avatar of Life." Jinn claimed.
"Spill it already. Tell us their name. And that wasn't a question." Juri sassed.
A little smile then forms on the omniscient spirit. Only uttering two words from her mouth. The words of hope that may save mankind from the coming apocalypse, "Adam Warlock."
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Xavier Institute.
BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-Chao Garden (Neutral)
A Chao Egg is on the verge of cracking at the Xavier's School brand-new Chao Garden. Several Mutant Students, as well as Ruby and Noel, stand around with curious looks as they are still new to Chao. The egg hatches, giving birth to a regular Chao that happily exclaims, "Chao chao!", to the amazed students. Everyone is having a wonderful time raising Chao, like powering them up with Chaos Drives, feeding them fruit, and training them for races against each other. Some Chao have been raised to resemble certain X-Men like Wolverine, Cyclops, and even Phoenix. Noel especially can't stop herself from petting an incredibly adorable Chao.
"I've never met anything as cute as you before!" Noel smiles at the tiny creature.
"Chao chao chao chao chao!" The Chao retorted with a smile that expresses its newfound love for the blonde lieutenant.
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The atmosphere is almost the exact opposite regarding a conversation at a nearby picnic table. "The power to erase stars? Hope the guy has night vision." Spider-Man joked.
He, Blake, and Jin Kisaragi have just been filled in at what America Chavez told Sonic during their first meeting at the Gamma Desert. Of who she suspects as the culprit behind the Convergence. "The Obsidian King and his Cull Obsidian…" Blake noted with a pondering look.
Sonic sits with the group in silence as he and the others wait for America to go into detail of what she knows about this multiversal threat. "The entire time I've been fighting him, he only ever had one goal: To bring order to the multiverse by wiping out all life. He used to kill people dimension by dimension, star by star, massacre by massacre…Including my own." The frowning America reveals her alien race was massacred by this Obsidian King. This came as a shock to her friends, with all of them but Jin giving her a sympathizing look as she continues. "If he gets all eight Exo Stones, he can do it with a snap of his fingers, like this." She claimed with a snapping finger gesture.
"Then he must be the one that sent Nu to kill us and the Masters of Evil. Because we have the other seven Stones." Sonic realized solemnly.
"Instead of wasting time saving animals from delusional extremists, we should put all our focus in finding and destroying the Obsidian King." Jin suggested, albeit in a cold tone that rubs Blake the wrong way.
"Those extremists are wiping out my kind by the hour. They're no different from this Cull Obsidian destroying dimensions. They need our help now!" Blake argued with the heartless major.
"It would be pointless if Obsidian makes planetfall. The Crossverse was created for the sole purpose of distracting us from hunting him down and to steal the Exo Stones while we're not looking. Delay any further and we would all surely perish. Cross-Species included." Jin contested her argument.
"I get that, but we can't just ignore the problem that's in front of us." Blake retorted.
"In war, sacrifices must be made." Jin claimed.
"Hey now, guys. No one said we can't do both at once. That's why STRIKE exists. Only united can we save all our worlds from any threat." Spidey chimes in, gesturing them to break off their argument.
"Personally, I rather we finish our fight with the Purifiers. That'd be one less annoyance to worry about." America said.
"We should at least make certain the Exo Stones are fortified." Jin scoffed.
"Already did before the Crossverse was a thing." Spidey quipped, reminding his friends of the Exo Vault he helped built to protect their Exo Stones.
"Something's still not adding up. If the Obsidian King's some grand mastermind that created the Crossverse for the Exo Stones, what's taking him so long to get 'em? It's been three days." Sonic said, suspecting there is another evil force behind this cosmic crisis.
"That's a fair point. And if his whole shtick is to bring 'order', why cause something as messy as the Convergence? Unless he's one of those hypocritical villains." Spidey commented.
"You're right about that." The smirking America quipped.
Just then, Ruby and Noel join the group, with the latter holding a Chao. "What's wrong? Need help with something?" Noel asked kindly, noticing their pondering expressions.
"Not from you, scum." Jin insulted his subordinate, as usual.
"Ignore Captain Cold. Know a way we can study the Crossverse better, Noel?" Spidey snarked, asking for her help.
"I think so. I can use the Power of the Eye." Noel claimed.
"You have special eye powers too?" The interested Ruby asked her new friend.
"Yup. I should be able to observe the structure of the Crossverse. Or even interfere with it a little." The smiling Noel nodded, briefing her new friends on her special power to observe the world with the power of a god.
"You can manipulate reality by giving it a good stare? This I gotta see." Sonic smiled, excited to see her power in action.
BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Fu's Plot
Noel calms herself ready for her great task that might unlock a secret of this Crossverse. She gives the morning sky a stern glare that awakens an azure glow in her eyes that heightens her observation to cosmic levels. She looks beyond the Unified World and into a mysterious space between dimensions, between the Cross Spaces. She finds an energized tree the size of a galaxy and its roots linking themselves with the Cross Spaces. She looks deeper into its history, catching a glimpse of its seed form. She then tests out her ability to intervene with this Universe Tree in an attempt to free their worlds from its grasp, but two great cosmic forces that feel both chaotic and nightmarish blocks her Azure Power, surprising her into falling into America's arms. "Take it easy. What did you see, Noel?" America asked the exhausted lieutenant.
"I'm sorry, it's something, but I don't really understand it…It's just…" Noel panted.
"It's okay…Right now, we need whatever information we can get. Just…tell us what you're feeling." America assured her.
"Okay…I feel like…there are branches that connect to the Cross Spaces…And this Unified World exist as the heart for those branches to be interconnected. Like the entire Crossverse is being observed by one giant tree." Noel describes to her friends of what she just saw.
"Professor Kokonoe mentioned a self-observing system. You saw it as a tree?" Ruby remarked.
"That's right. It radiated an incredible power unlike anything I've ever seen." Noel replied.
"I know what you're talking about. It's ISO-8. I sensed that tree was brimming with the stuff when I first arrived in the Crossverse." America commented.
"I saw it being born from a seed of similar power. The kind that could give birth to a new universe." Noel added.
"Hold on. You're not talking about the Universal Seed?" Spidey recalled in shock.
"A Universe Tree born from a Universal Seed. Makes the most sense." Sonic commented.
"But that's impossible. We destroyed the Universal Seed before Green Goblin used it to create his own universe." Spidey retorted, recalling his nemesis's master plan with a modified Cosmic Cube that assisted the Incursions.
"Must've not been very thorough and the Obsidian King collected its remains to create the Crossverse. He's sneaky like that." America theorized.
"Dammit. Osborn…Even behind bars, you're still causing me grief." Spidey muttered, palming his fist in rage and guilt for having an indirect hand in the Crossverse's creation.
"Guess that's one mystery solved. But that still doesn't explain what caused the Convergence that merged three of our worlds." Sonic remarked.
"I'm still saying it's the Star Stone unless you want to argue otherwise." America snarks at her friends.
"I'm not sure…" Noel muttered, frowning with concern that the Star Stone isn't the Exo Stone to be worried about.
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"Hey kids!" Wolverine shouted at the young heroes from near the Chao Garden exit. "Get inside. STRIKE has another mission for us." He gestured them to head inside the mansion for their next big mission.
The group made their way to the War Room to meet with Cyclops, Storm, and Professor X. Storm tells her wheelchair-bound mentor, "Professor, James Ironwood is on comm.", and watches him accept the STRIKE secure transmission through a computer console to speak with the Atlesian General.
BGM-Transformers: Devastation OST-Operation Obliteration
'Professor, S.T.R.I.K.E. Agents intercepted a communication that I thought you might need to see.' Ironwood informed him, before switching the display to two familiar villains engaging in a private conversation.
'This is Willaim Stryker. M.O.D.O.K., are we sure this communication is coded?' asked Reverend Willaim Stryker, ruthless leader of the Purifiers that rocks a clean black business suit.
'You are talking to the leader of Advanced Idea Mechanics. Please.' sassed by M.O.D.O.K., the aforementioned leader of A.I.M.
'You promised me a weapon.' Stryker claimed.
'I do not care for your tone, Stryker.' MODOK angrily retorted, which got the heroes watching both curious and concern about this secret weapon.
'With the money I'm paying you, I'll use any tone I please. I WANT that weapon prototype.' Stryker demanded.
'Such impatience. These things always take longer than expected. But I assure you the results will bring your Cross-Species devastation.' MODOK proclaimed, horrifying the heroes with details of this genocidal weapon.
'When, MODOK? I'd like to conclude our dealings as soon as possible.' Stryker demanded again.
'Send the coordinates, and let's get this over with.' MODOK retorted with a sinister smile before the coded message ends.
'I'm sending you the intercepted coordinates. The message is already over 24 hours old, so you better hurry. Good luck. And keep me posted.' Ironwood ordered before ending this call.
There's no time to waste and no better opportunity to end this. The Purifiers have ordered for a new weapon in their war against Cross-Species. With Stryker's location now known, the X-Men and their allies are eager to remove him from power and end his threat to Cross-Species survival. The ruby-colored visor of Cyclops begins glowing, expressing its user's intent to spring into action and exclaim to his teammates, "Suit up."
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Fort Stryker, Forever Fall. Upstate New Vale.
BGM-X-Men (2000) OST-Poland, 1944
Fort Stryker. A former military base transformed by the Purifiers into their personal training camp hidden within the red-leafed trees of Forever Fall. It is their main headquarters and where Willaim Stryker can be found overseeing global operations of Cross-Species eradication. Innocent X-Species that were captured are used as training dummies. To be the prey in the Purifiers' hunting games. A twisted sport that is punishable by death.
Near the area is a black cargo train owned by OzSchnee Industries riding a railway. Suddenly a terrifyingly powerful magnetic force rips the rails off the road to transform it into a makeshift rollercoaster that smashes through numerous structures in Fort Stryker, much to the soldiers' surprise. The cargo train rides the rails to follow suit and destroys everything, and everyone, in its path of vengeance for all the hunted X-Species. Its last stop are the defenses for the outer compound, ramming at it with such destructive force that it causes a massive explosion that can be seen from miles away thanks to the Dust and ISO-8 that were stored in the train.
X-Species that were locked up were free to embrace their saviors emerging from the smoke cloud. The Brotherhood of Mutants and the White Fang. Respectively led by Magneto and Adam Taurus, the former responsible for the runaway train.
One Purifier doesn't recognize that he is in the presence of two of the most powerful X-Species in the world as he attempts to murder an innocent mutant. Magneto sees this prejudice with fury in his face and yells, "How DARE YOU!", before using his magnetic mutant power to pull the cultist toward Adam's killing slash. "Behold, our brethren! The preservation of X-Species begins here! Our destiny is at hand. Our justice against William Stryker shall ring to all corners of the land. For we stand united to reign victory in this war HUMANITY has waged against us. The worthy will rise up to usher in a new age. Like gods we will be." Magneto said, whilst crushing the necks of two Sentinels sent to kill him with terrifying ease. "But only by the will of its twin kings." He coldly declared, standing alongside Adam while making his epic speech to their alliance.
"It's time we got what we deserved." Adam Taurus proclaimed with a dark tone that triggers his alliance's full-scale assault on Fort Stryker.
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A Star Portal opens up in the Hunting Grounds of Fort Stryker and allows the X-Men's party to emerge from it to begin their mission to apprehend William Stryker. "Got us as close to the fort as I could. Let's make this quick and shut the place down." America Chavez said, having used her power to transport her team to their destination.
Curiously, Wolverine pops out his claws after his nose picked up a strange scent in the vicinity. "Something's not smellin' right…" He cautioned his allies.
BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Big Bang Battle
His warning proved truthful as they bare witness to several Purifiers crashing out of the trees in pain. Their assailants reveal themselves to be Grimm-masked White Fang Goons and mutant-powered Brotherhood Thugs, working together for the sole purpose of killing them. "Unworthy scum!" A Purifier Zealot taunted, firing his blaster at the X-Species.
"You are the ones that are unworthy!" A White Fang Goon retorted, providing cover fire to a Brotherhood Thug that downs several Purifiers with lightning bolts.
"Who are they fighting?" The clueless Noel asked.
"Oh no…The Brotherhood and the White Fang…" Cyclops responded worriedly, and rightfully so as he quickly deduces their ruthless alliance.
One Brotherhood Thug notices the observing heroes and announces their presence to her comrades, "Look! It's the X-Men! They're here!"
"Kill them! Both they and the Purifiers will die today!" A White Fang Goon ordered, with the X-Species Legion now assaulting both the Purifiers and the X-Men.
"Who invited these losers to the party?" Sonic asked, knocking out a White Fang Goon with a flying spinkick to the face.
'Unfortunately, our worst fears have come to life. We have found ourselves in the middle of a war.' Professor X informed them telepathically.
"I was afraid of this. Adam and Magneto have beaten us here." Blake scowled, strafing a Brotherhood Thug that can shoot ice balls.
'Yes. And from what their minds are telling me, they intend to assassinate William Stryker.' Xavier proclaimed.
"Good. Saves us trouble." Wolverine retorted callously, dispatching all opposition with savage ease.
"Wolverine. You know we can't allow that to happen." Cyclops bickered, which is typical between those two, in the midst of optic-blasting a White Fang Goon onto a tree.
"Says you, Boy Scout. Stryker's as much of a bastard as Magneto and Taurus. They deserve to take each other out." Wolverine argued.
"No, we won't allow that. We're X-Men! We're supposed to set an example to be better! We have to stop this before it gets too ugly." Blake refuted, elbowing down a WF Goon and kicking a Purifier away before backflipping over a Brotherhood Thug's fireball to take him down with a dashing clone slash.
"We're here anyway. Can't let them have all the fun." Sonic quipped, spindashing through enemies and up a tree until he reaches the top to spot a Sentinel horde closing in on them. "Sentinels incoming!" The urging hedgehog shouted at them.
"CEASE ALL X-SPECIES ACTIVITIES!" One of the Sentinels demanded all opposing parties upon landing on the battlefield.
The Sentinels grab the most attention from everyone's attacks as they annihilate several White Fang Goons and Brotherhood Thugs in a swift moment. Ruby jumps at one and decapitates it, feeling proud of it before she is stomped by another Sentinel. "Ruby!" Cyclops shouted, coming to her rescue with a powerful optic blast that knocks the machine over trees.
Noel Vermillion holds her own against the Sentinels, even destroying two in the process. Alas she is overpowered by one blast that disorients her mind and causes her to collapse onto her knees in agony. At the mercy of the Sentinel charging up its killer palm beam. "No! Stop this! You can't do this!" Noel pleads in despair, begging it to spare her life.
"ELIMINATE ALL X-SPECIES ALLIES!" The Sentinel proclaimed before firing its laser.
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Noel closes her eyes to avoid watching her own end. But just before the beam makes contact, a more powerful and purplish hellfire blast overpowers it and completely obliterates its mechanized owner. Noel opens her eyes to find herself alive and surprised at her savior. From behind he looks like Spider-Man, yet his colors and stern demeanor reminds her an awful lot of a certain Grim Reaper she can never stop herself from admiring.
Jin Kisaragi is among the first of the other heroes to notice this other spider, and with a shocked face, asks, "Who is that…?"
BGM-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X OST-Theme of Zero
"Scarlet Spider?!" Spider-Man exclaimed, recognizing their unexpected reinforcement as his grim clone.
"Y-You're…" Noel said in shock to the identity of her rescuer.
Scarlet Spider just gives the girl a cold glance before sensing more Sentinels about to rain fire. Quickly, he tackles Noel to safety, simply telling her, "Stay here.", before fighting the Sentinels alone. The spider-clone easily dodges their attacks before popping out his wrist stingers to decapitate one Sentinel with merciless ferocity. While they fall, Kaine web-throws the head to destroy another Sentinel and, after landing, catches the collapsing headless Sentinel and tosses it at yet another Sentinel with the power of rage.
Two Sentinels remain and one of them is already caught by the formidable psychic power of a futuristic hedgehog that Sonic knows all too well. "Silver! You're here too?" The shocked Sonic expressed, noticing Silver the Hedgehog has also come to lend a hand to the X-Men.
"Hey, Sonic. Let me wrap this up really quick." Silver grinned, right before his Psychokinesis crushes his Sentinel.
One Sentinel is left, forced to trip on one leg by the Cerberus Whip of a sudden Sienna Kahn. Mega Man X tags in with an assist, firing a Charge Shot that both headshots the Sentinel and gives the reinforcements a moment for a proper reunion with the X-Men. "This is a surprise." Sienna Kahn frowns at the X-Men.
"Greetings, X-Men. Looks like our missions have intertwined." X smiled.
"Looks like. Thanks for the help." Cyclops smiles back, sharing a handshake with the Maverick Hunter.
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"Now that was SWEET, Scarlet!" Spidey complimented, running up to his aloof clone.
Scarlet Spider scoffs, "Yeah. Well, I'm not here to save you!"
"Thought you might say something like that! How about a little friendly competition?" Spidey quipped, teasing him in front of his face.
"Don't waste my time." The cross-armed Scarlet retorted, stoically turning away from his brother and finding himself greeted by Noel.
"Still, thank you for saving me. My name is Noel Vermillion. Nice to meet you." Noel smiled, taking an instant liking to her spider-savior.
"…Sure." Scarlet acknowledged her with his typical apathy.
"Glad the perimeter is secured." X said.
"We didn't call for backup." Wolverine exclaims his annoyance at X's STRIKE squadron.
"Likewise. Team Alpha's been tailing the Brotherhood and Adam's faction of the White Fang since the Convergence. If it wasn't obvious enough, they have formed an alliance to destroy the Purifiers. We're here to demolish all of them." Sienna retorted sternly, revealing why STRIKE is here.
"You're with STRIKE too?" Spidey questioned the tiger faunus.
"For the time being." Sienna smirked.
"Mind explaining to your interdimensional guests just who is the Brotherhood and the White Fang?" America sassed.
"They are both an unruly collection of X-Species who consider themselves above humanity. The Brotherhood consisting of mutants and the White Fang consisting of faunus. They operate outside the law and use their abilities to further their misguided desires." Storm briefs America and the NOL Soldiers on who they're up against.
"The Brotherhood are led by Magneto while I am the High Leader of the White Fang. For months my former subordinate, Adam Taurus, has been leading a coup against me in a desperate bid to steal my title and full control over my organization. Heh, over my dead body." Sienna added.
"Sounds like we're caught in another Ikaruga Civil War." Jin compared.
"Though I will appreciate if he deals with Stryker for me." Sienna smirked.
BGM-Transformers: Devastation OST-Welcome to The Proudstar
"You know we can't allow that to happen, Miss Kahn. Stryker's working with AIM to develop a weapon that could destroy all X-Species." Cyclops retorted.
"Seriously? What did we do?" The shocked Silver asked.
"Exist." Blake simply answered.
"Which is why he needs to be disposed of. Stryker's a prime example of why the White Fang was born and why I have led it in retaliatory strikes against those that wish us dead." Sienna scowled, starting an argument with Cyclops.
"Which has proven ineffective." Cyclops claimed.
"What?" Sienna growls angrily at that offense.
"Respect born from fear leads to disaster. Holding a grudge against an entire species is what gave birth to people like Adam and divided your forces in the first place." Cyclops argued.
"Humanity questioned our existence with disgust and could only answer with violence. There was no better counterattack. Equality through violence is the only way." Sienna countered.
"Funny, but I recall you willing to try out Xavier's." Cyclops retorted, which silences the tiger faunus for the moment. "I respect you not wanting to give up on your ideology and dignity, but your path to justice is misguided. We are defenders. We should fight. Not just for the sake of our kind but for all humanity. Fight against all oppressors through the worldwide fear. We may detest Stryker's actions, but if we don't stop Magneto and Adam, their actions here will justify humanity's fear of X-Species for another generation." He stated with a charisma that the High Leader is unable to ignore but he does make a lot of sense.
"…You're right." Sienna admitted with swallowed pride that finally calms her attitude, "What matters now is to stop this war before it gets too hectic."
"You mentioned a weapon that could kill countless innocent X-Species. Well, we have an undercover STRIKE Agent that informed us of the prototype. It's called Cleansing Wrath, and they have the parts and plans to build plenty more." X informed the X-Men.
"Then we'll split up into three teams. I'll lead Sonic, Jin, and Silver in Blue Team to capture Stryker and prevent him from being killed. Spider-Man will lead Noel and Miss America in finding and destroying Cleansing Wrath in Red Team. The rest of you will be led by Storm and Sienna in Gold Team to stop the fighting out here." Cyclops tasked his friends.
"I'M the one shutting down the superweapon of mass destruction?" Spidey snarked, pointing at himself.
"You're the smartest one here." Cyclops retorted.
"Scarlet has some smarts in him too." Spidey quipped, pointing at his clone.
"Not interested. I'm only here to finish my fight with Taurus." Scarlet claimed sternly, reminding him of their last fight at the start of the Convergence Crisis.
"Sure thing. Just try and go easy on him, little bro." Spidey teased.
"Don't call me that, punk!" Scarlet shouted angrily.
"You have my faith, Spider-Man. We'll create an opening that'll get both teams into the Inner Compound. Show no mercy, everyone." Sienna advised, with the determined STRIKE force ready to end this X-Species War.
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BGM-Street Fighter x Tekken OST-Honest Eyes (by Black Tide)
It is a massive three-way war between S.T.R.I.K.E., the Purifiers, and the White Fang and Brotherhood Alliance at the outer compound of Fort Stryker. The latter two forces are showing no mercy to each other as clashes between explosive mutant powers and high-flying vibranium mortars result in stalemates that decimate the battlefield, leaving behind smokescreens that STRIKE Agents erupt out of to take on the armies by surprise, starring Cyclops firing multiple explosive beams that launch enemies into the air.
Wielding her chain dart, Sienna sends a Brotherhood Thug slamming into a wall before executing a capoeira-style meia lua de compasso kick as she slices a Guard Robo Badnik in half at the waist. Using the momentum to spin in the air, she decapitates another Guard Robo while slashing Purifiers and White Fang Goons once she lands back onto the ground, finishing her moveset with a smiling T-pose.
Turning to a Purifier behind her, Sienna push kicks him into a tree while using the recoil to observe her surroundings, where X and Jin Kisaragi are engaged in battle with their own enemies. She decides to help out by decapitating X's Robo before detaching and hurling a dark filled with Fire Dust at the chest of a Brotherhood Thug, who pauses to appraise his worrisome predicament and watches Sienna smirk before being blown across the battlefield.
"Sirs, we have trouble!" A White Fang Goon shouted at his leaders, just after they cleared a path into the command bunker.
"What is it?" Magneto demanded.
"STRIKE is here! Sienna Kahn and the X-Men are demolishing our forces!" The terrified Goon reported.
"Go take vengeance on Stryker. Sienna is mine." Taurus told his mutant partner.
"Show her how much you have evolved." Magneto advised his young ally.
"Oh, I intend to." Taurus grinned sinisterly, as the two leaders go accomplish their own tasks.
"This war must've hurt the future real bad if you came back to visit." Sonic teased Silver, supporting him in striking down Stryker's men.
"I wouldn't know since the Convergence dragged me here without warning, but I'm gonna assume this is part of a bigger mess." Silver retorted, revealing why he's back in the past. "Luckily, I have the right tools to clean it up." He stated with a resolute glare to save their eras.
Utilizing his Psycho Shock, Silver slams that power into the middle of a large crowd and paralyzes them all with a psychokinetic shockwave. A sudden shouting burst of his psychokinesis then blows away many foes from his sides before unleashing a Psychic Knife that sweeps the guards blocking entry into the inner compound.
"There's your opening! Go, go!" X shouted at both Blue and Red Teams to hurry into the inner compound and complete their respective missions.
"Good luck, guys!" Noel shouted, cheering on Gold Team to secure the outer compound.
Wolverine is by his lonesome against dozens of powerful mutants, faunus, robots, and Purifiers that dared to fight him. Normally his decades of combat experience and feral instincts would give him an edge. But now he has a new Cross power that will make them think twice for challenging the most savage mutant alive. Hot Claws. Chaos Energy ignites his claws up to several thousand degrees. Hot enough to rip through Sentinels like a hot knife through butter. From his feral roar comes the X-Man slashing the large horde with two cyclonic strikes before clawing out a vicious shockwave that feels like its eating through them until they fall.
"Why are your claws on fire?!" Ruby exclaims at his new power.
"Cuz I unlocked the Cross Art to control chaos energy. Gotta be careful lest I go berserk." Wolverine answered.
"Hold nothing back, Wolverine! The fate of all our races depends on our victory!" Sienna encouraged, whipping troops into submission.
X and Storm just got done destroying the mortars that were bombarding the area when the former is blinded by the adhesive saliva of a particularly nasty mutant. Toad. Joined by fellow mutants, Blob and Pyro, and the faunus Albain Brothers, Corsac and Fennec, to try their hand in defeating STRIKE. "Burn, baby, burn!" Pyro grinned, forcing several heroes aback with his flamethrower.
"Pyro. So their elite soldiers found the bravery to face us." Storm taunted.
The cocky Toad leaps at Storm just to receive her agonizing lightning bolt that forces him to sit. Pyro focuses his flames on X while he evades to give himself time to remove the disgusting saliva off his face. As fast as he did, the hunter counters another fire wave with a Splash Laser of equal power. Blob proves himself troublesome to High Leader Sienna by tanking her whips and smacking her aback with his massive belly. Sienna gets annoyed, jumping over his punch to throw an Ice Dust dart to freeze his face. The Albain Brothers hold their own against both Blake and Scarlet Spider with their elemental weapons, with Fennec firing a wind gust and Corsac blasting fireballs. Scarlet blocks their combo with a web shield that Blake slides underneath to slash Fennec's leg, disrupting his attack. His brother is enraged by this and wants to retaliate but a brutal punch to the face by Scarlet prevents him from doing so.
"So even the Albain Brothers have betrayed my father to follow Adam's twisted ideals." Blake scolded, clashing her sword with Fennec's wand.
"His is nurtured by Magneto, who I find to be a respectful teacher." Fennec retorted, causing the cat to struggle against his wind blast.
"We must do what is best for not just the Faunus but for all X-Species." Corsac said in the midst of his struggle against Scarlet.
"All you've ensured is your own grave." Scarlet threatened coldly.
His rage causes his eyes to become enveloped in flames as Scarlet swings out his fist and sends out a hellish flame that blocks Corsac's fireballs. The berserker spider lunges out of the flames to unleash a hellish pummeling that knocks the fox onto his distracted brother, webbing both of them from midair before crashing down with a destructive web-zip kick that knocks them out.
BGM End
The berserker rage leaves Kaine as quickly as it came, causing him to collapse onto a knee and clenching onto his chest in exhaustion. "Scarlet!" Blake shouted, rushing to his aid while telling him, "Take it easy. Are you hurt anywhere?"
"Mind your own business…We're in the middle of a warzone." Scarlet brushes off her concerns with rudeness.
"Friends look out for each other no matter the situation." Blake retorted with persistence that he relents to.
"I'm fine. Just don't think my body has adjusted to this fused world yet." Scarlet claimed, regaining the strength to stand on his own.
"That's strange. Shouldn't take you this long." Blake noted, suspecting something is wrong with Kaine's body.
Just then, the two see Toad is knocked out by Sienna before walking to greet her spider-ally. "You're stronger now than you were at the Grand Prix, Scarlet Spider. Would love to have someone of your caliber in the White Fang." Sienna smiled, respecting Kaine's deadly strength.
"Look elsewhere. Not interested in replacing Taurus as your flunky." Scarlet sassed.
"That's a shame. Can't shake the feeling we've known each other for a long time and want to reconnect." Sienna frowned.
"You're confusing me for someone else. Focus on finding Taurus." Scarlet retorted stoically.
"I couldn't agree more." Sienna smirked, leaving the spider and cat alone.
"She still doesn't know?" Blake questioned the spider-clone.
"Obviously." Scarlet snarks while walking away.
"You have to tell her the truth eventually. You almost killed her and the White Fang." Blake retorted, reminding him of a dark deed he once committed during his time as a villain.
For a moment, Scarlet stops walking while he scoffs, "Like I had a choice back then. Jackal and the Masters of Evil took control of my mind and used me as their pet Tarantula to attack the dimensions. I wouldn't have cared what the White Fang did as long as they didn't get in my way. A mistake that Taurus will regret with his life."
"Still, Sienna has the right to know the truth from you. If she finds out another way, things could get ugly." Blake argued, sincerely trying to get him to make amends with his evil past.
"Like I'm interested in becoming friends with terrorists. She won't forgive me or see her dead come back to life. Only excite her grudge against mankind." Scarlet countered, expressing his indifference in revealing the truth to Kahn.
"The road to redemption isn't easy." Blake frowned solemnly.
"No kidding." Scarlet snarks while punching down a mutant thug.
"Just beating up the bad guys as a superhero won't bring you closure. You have to make amends with your victims along the way. You have to go to them and be of service. There are a lot of people like Sienna that need closure about something and you're the only person who can give it to them. Who cares what they'll think of you after. At least they'll find peace. Perhaps learn to let go of grudges." Blake said, sharing advice that she hopes will help Kaine with his atonement. Scarlet acknowledges her words with silence before he senses a murderous intent aimed right at them.
BGM-Street Fighter X Tekken OST-VS Rival Battle TK Arrange 2
A red shockwave is fired that pushes back both heroes that stung Blake more than Kaine. "How hypocritical of you, Blake. You speak of amends, yet you refuse to take responsibility for what you did to me." Adam Taurus then makes his arrogant entrance, walking up to his arch-rivals with a sinister smirk that is eager for their deaths by his blade.
"Adam…" Blake scowled, quickly striking her battle pose.
"About time, you bull bastard. Let's finish what we started in the city!" Scarlet confronted him, "Belladonna, watch my back!"
"Got it!" Blake complied.
Scoffing with subtle jealously, Taurus asks, "Scarlet Spider…Why would someone as powerful as you align yourself with Blake? She's just a cowardice huntress, nothing more!", in his devious attempt to mess with their friendship.
"Taurus…You're nothing but a monster now." Scarlet mocked, which annoys his rival to growl at his loyalty to the so-called cowardice huntress. The grim clone then pops out his stingers in a threatening fashion, proclaiming, "I vowed to kill monsters that threaten the weak and you're no exception! I'm not as naïve as Spider-Man. This time you're going straight to hell!", before bursting out frightening power that signals the start of their rematch.
BGM End
Inside the Command Bunker…
BGM-Marvel Future Revolution OST-Prison X-Scape
Stryker sealed himself in his control room like the self-righteous coward that he is. Watching this war, that he himself instigated, unfold on multiple fronts on his television screens. One screen shows Adam Taurus holding his own against Storm's Gold Team. Another shows Spider-Man's Red Team raiding his Cleansing Wrath Lab. And another displays Magneto and Cyclops's Blue Team racing each other within the bunker to determine who will reach Stryker. And how best to handle him. "Bring more reinforcements to the lab! Do not let those traitors destroy Cleansing Wrath! That's an order!" The fearless Stryker ordered his men through the comms.
'Roger. Do you need backup, sir?' A Purifier responded.
"Go right ahead. It will make little difference. I am perfectly safe in my control room. None of those demons have the strength or will to breach this sacred sanctuary, for we are protected by God and we will share his protection with the rest of the earth by any means necessary. This is our last stand, for the future of humanity!" Stryker rallied his forces to keep fighting the X-Species and STRIKE.
His confidence is tested as his Purifiers put up a good fight against the intruders in his bunker, and it looks like they might prevail. Until the screen went dark, much to his shock and worry. "Security is down! Who-?!" Stryker expressed, unable to see who is the closest to end his prejudice campaign: Magneto or Blue Team.
His answer arrives as a powerful force blows apart the door into his control room. The fearful Stryker fires his gun at whoever just invaded his privacy until it was slapped out of his hand by a familiar magnetic power. "Impossible!" Stryker exclaimed. That same power is then used on scrap metal to choke the life out of him, keep him suspended within a frightening metal tempest caused by the first to reach him. Magneto.
"You want us at war with the humans, and now you have it! I take no joy in that. I take no pleasure in it. But we either choose to win this war and live free…or lie down and let you enslave us, torture us, kill us. Humans and X-Species cannot live together in peace. Your God has selected the X-Species as the DOMINANT SPECIES ON THE PLANET! I am Magneto. I am mutant. And you will not take this world from me!" Magneto claimed with righteous fury that is moments away from murdering Stryker.
BGM End
"We're happy to do it for him."
BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds OST-Theme of Magneto
A sudden Sonic Spin Dash disrupts Magneto's concentration and forces him to let go of the unconscious Stryker. Didn't take for the mutant terrorist to recover, nor to find himself confronted by Blue Team after they have arrived in the control room to stop his evil plans. "Ah, STRIKE. Have you come to liberate our people from this filth as well?" Magneto calmly asked.
"Not with death, Erik. This war will only destroy innocents caught in the crossfire. Mutants included." Cyclops retorted.
"Are you really going to protect these humans, after witnessing all they have done to your fellow X-Species? The Convergence hasn't made you X-Men any less naïve." Magneto scowled.
With a simple hand gesture, the Master of Magnetism lifts numerous debris that both Sonic and Jin Kisaragi are confident in countering. Both rush and evade the thrown objects, with Jin being extra by slicing through debris and firing an Ice Blade that Magneto obliterates with an electromagnetic beam. Sonic launches a high-speed Spin Attack that Erik saw coming this time and catches him with gravitational force, then throws him at Jin just before the swordsman attacks him. Both Silver and Cyclops tag in, throwing everything they have against the foe's energy barrier while he keeps talking.
"The World Fusion decimated mutantkind. Depowered many and gave birth to new mutants that are quick to be exterminated by the Purifiers. Both the Mobians and the Faunus are also suffering this. Can't you see? There are no innocents here, my children. But I believe in second chances…at least for our fellow X-Species. I will remake this fortress in my image and claim this new world as home for X-Species…Won't you join me?" Magneto proposed.
"Says a lot about you if you think we'll accept that offer." Silver snarked, firing a surprise psychic knife that cuts through his barrier for Cyclops to land a strong optic blast.
"If you want order for your kind, then you're not the man to establish it." Jin mocked, motioning his hand to freeze Erik between two ice spikes. "I alone wield the Power of Order, the force that keeps this world in balance. My blade will punish all that threaten it." He then strikes with Ice Fang, slashing out a giant ice wave along the ground that Erik is quick to counter by bursting free from his binds and blocking with his energy barrier.
"As if I'll leave my destiny in human hands!" Magneto retorted with rage that fuels his power, gathering debris to form a giant sword that smacks the major and hurls him back to his teammates that are still determined to defeat the Metal Mutant Master.
BGM End
At the Cleansing Wrath Lab…
BGM-X-Men: Legends OST-Sentinel Factory (Action)
"Keep sabotaging their supply caches! Gonna find their big toy!" ordered Spider-Man, in the midst of webbing AIM Agents and leading Red Team through the secret laboratory in order to destroy their X-Species superweapon.
"Take your time. I love trashing other people's stuff." America Chavez quipped, leaping a powerful axe kick onto an AIM Soldier.
"No, he should hurry. Their superweapon might be finished already." Noel retorted, using both guns to physically smash through a goon's guard before blasting him down.
"Aprende a divertirte, niña." America snarked in spanish, picking up a supply cache that she throws at a horde.
"I don't know what you're saying!" Noel whined humorously.
While Spidey swings off to find the Cleansing Wrath Prototype, America and Noel stay behind to sabotage its supply caches. AIM Agents continue to be a nuisance that the girls are handling easily with their interdimensional teamwork. An energized smash kick from America knocks a goon into the air that Noel fires a large shot at after twirling her gun. "Type XI!" Noel shouted, using Optic Barrel to set marks on multiple caches that explode soon after. An AIM Assaulter tries to ambush her from behind and fails once she shouts, "And Type IX!", and backflips over his shots to catch him with her legs and throw him into a Star Portal that America formed to have him fall onto his comrades.
Suddenly an AIM Drillbot surprises the girls and forces Noel to blocks its drill with an Ars Magus shield. The drill proved stronger and knocks the girls away, prompting America to recover quick and grab her teammate while telling her, "Hold onto those guns!", before throwing her hard at the giant robot. The Drillbot was about to counterattack when America opens a Star Portal that transports Noel behind its back, where she unloads a missile from her transformed guns to weaken it before America could uppercut it onto the remaining caches in the lab.
"Noel to Spider-Man, the caches are destroyed. Have you located the Cleansing Wrath?" Noel contacted him through the comms.
Deep in the laboratory, Spider-Man swing-kicks a guard that was protecting the aforementioned prototype, a large machine in the middle of harnessing a spherical red energy in its center. "Staring right at it. Wonder how they were gonna use it." Spidey hacks into its systems just to discover its frightening capabilities, including its power source, "Oh man…This thing's powered by Convergium Crystals. A.I.M.'s been experimenting with them to create weapons."
'So is Cleansing Wrath a type of fusion weapon?' America questioned.
"One that infuses the conscious mind with a toxicity the Purifiers refer to as 'Holy Water'. It's specifically designed with an AI that connects to every single Cross-Species within a 1000-mile radius. Once activated, it'll render its victims braindead. Kill them all in one fell swoop! That's Stryker's endgame!" Spidey proclaimed.
'My god…Can you shut it down?' Professor X responded telepathically.
"Easy peasy lemon squeezy. No one's brain-killing my hybrid friends." Spidey quipped, easily disabling the prototype into explosive bits before it was used to bring catastrophe, "There we go! Cross-Extinction averted!"
'Nicely done, Spider-Man. I shudder to think of the massacre the Purifiers would've unleashed with that weapon. Return outside. Gold Team could use the extra hand.' Xavier ordered Red Team.
"Sure thing. Still intent in one-upping Scarlet in our little competition." Spidey quipped.
BGM End
Back Outside…
BGM-BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger OST-Under Heaven Destruction
The battle against Adam Taurus has quickly grown to ferocious levels that Scarlet Spider won't be calming down until one of them is left standing. His hellflame-infused stingers rush at his rival's laido-style sword skills in an epic clash that shakes the earth. Scarlet sends out a wave of hellish energy that is swiftly canceled by Adam's numerous slashes empowered by his Semblance. Adam then switches to his rifle that fires multiple shots Scarlet blocks with a web shield, leaving himself open for a surprise attack to his backside. Luckily, he has Blake as his support to block his attack, briefly clashing with her former mentor before he knocks her high into the air with a powerful sword beam. Kaine is quick to catch her with a webline and is just as fast to throw her back at Adam to land a good blow before web-zipping himself to land more with a hellfire-infused Crawler Assault. His berserker punches shred through his Aura like it is nothing before landing a devastating kick that smashes him through trees across the massive battlefield.
Upon coughing out blood, Adam scowls, "I shouldn't be taking this much damage…"
"Aura means crap when against hellfire. I'm gonna burn you alive from the inside out." Scarlet retorted, using webs to disarm him of his weapons before pulling him into a hard punch to the stomach that shatters his remaining Aura. "Pathetic. You couldn't lead a parade much less lead the White Fang with this weak ass." He mocked before chucking him a short distance away.
"For your sake, Adam, surrender." Blake warned her former mentor.
Strangely, Adam smiles. He is disarmed and his Aura is broken, and yet the look on his face expresses that he has some mysterious tricks up his sleeve that could turn the tide of battle back to his favor, "Why would I do that when I'm just getting started?"
"What?" Before the confused Kaine knew it, he is stabbed in the chest by a blade made from pure ether. Its darkness would've spread over his entire body if Blake didn't cut it down, but that just leaves her open to a somersault kick from Adam followed by another of his strange Ether Blade that destroys her remaining Aura. "Belladonna!" Scarlet shouted in concern.
"I'm fine, but…that power. It wasn't from his Semblance…His Cross Art?" Blake wondered, too weak to move much.
"No. Just a mutant power that I like to call 'Shadow Matter'. Allows me control over the immediate unseen dark matter around the body and manifest it into any solid shape I choose for an instant." Taurus explained himself.
"A mutant…?" Blake expresses her horrific shock at this revelation, that Adam Taurus has become a deadly hybrid between faunus and mutant.
"Bullshit! You're just a lousy faunus! There's no way an idiot like you can get that kind of power!" Scarlet snarled.
"Wasn't my choice. The Convergence decided my evolution. I'm not complaining." Taurus snarked while picking up his weapons. "I am now the best of two species of two former worlds. The ultimate hybrid that will fan the flames of conquest across this untamed world and enforce the law that the X-Species are its rightful rulers!" He declared maniacally.
Through his newfound mutant power, Taurus disappears in shadow to confuse Scarlet and make him wonder where he will strike. Times like this makes him miss his Spider-Sense as Taurus reappears at his blindspot to deliver a brutal roundhouse kick followed by hands with Ether Blades that slash him at lightning speeds. The faunus renegade ups the carnage by transforming into a shadow sawblade that mimics a Spin Dash that rams the arachnid through the battlefield until he collapses onto a pained knee.
"Scarlet!" Blake shouted, this time being concerned for his safety.
Taurus goes for decapitation with his regular sword, prompting Kaine to exclaim, "Ah hell…!", before he is saved by the timely arrival of Sienna Kahn and her chained whip that catches the attack and throws Taurus aside. "Didn't ask for your help!" The ungrateful Kaine shouted at her.
"Then don't get in my way. You're not the only one with a grudge to settle with this fool." Sienna retorted, launching a whip strike that her former subordinate jumps over to retaliate with thrown Ether Blades. "And Grudge is all my Semblance is about!" Her tiger speed is enhanced greatly to dodge his attacks and both bounce off and throw a Purifier at the airborne bull in rapid succession. Adam kills the cultist that was simple cover for the pursuing Kahn to freeze half his body with an Ice Dust dart, making him vulnerable to a vicious blow. "You may have mutant power now, but your Aura is broken. And you of all people should know how much deadlier I become at weaklings!" She shouted alongside unleashing a feline barrage of kicks and claws that ends with her whip wrapping around his throat for an Ultimate Web Throw-like attack that, while pains the renegade, doesn't kill his cool.
"Weakness can be compensated. I have Magneto to thank for my training. You're a failure compared to him. A mentor that supports their followers and leads them through blood to save their race." Taurus mocked his former leader.
"I'm starting to doubt either of you fully comprehend what I have been fighting for." The scowling Sienna fires a Fire Dust dart that her enemy ducks under. "I wanted humanity to fear the Faunus, to know that we demand respect!" She stated whilst her dart ignites her true target which is the large tree behind Taurus. "I NEVER wanted to start a war with the humans that we cannot win!" She then uses her whip to pull the burning tree down onto the unconcerned Taurus.
To Kahn's shock, Taurus survived her little strategy without a scratch thanks to his Shadow Matter deconstructing his body into a dark vapor cloud that emerges behind the tiger. "We CAN win this war against the humans. Not only because we have the support of Magneto's Brotherhood, but because the Faunus are the dominant species of this planet. We're better than humans. We have everything humans have and more. Humans shouldn't just fear the Faunus, they should serve the Faunus." He stated, utilizing both his regular sword and his Ether Blades in a ferocious combo that is quick to pressure Kahn's defenses.
"I've had enough of this conversation for today." Kahn scowls with frustration at his constant insolence.
"SAME HERE!" Scarlet Spider announces his furious return by web-throwing a tank at Taurus. The bull rolled away but neither he nor Kahn was fast enough to flee from Kaine stomping on it to trigger a large explosion that knocks them away among many enemy soldiers. Taurus recovers just in time to clash blades with Kaine's hellflame stingers, stabbing him with several Ether Blades that is slowing his raging assault.
"Don't tell me you're getting tired, bug?" Taurus taunted before locking weapons with him.
"I've had ENOUGH!" Having reached his boiling point, Scarlet erupts with crimson energy that forces aback the shocked bull. The energy is cleaved away by the claw of the mutated Scarlet Spider, resembling a terrifying Man-Spider in his torn costume. "GRAAAAAAAARRRRRR!" The Semblance-powered Scarlet Tarantula unleashes a nightmarish roar that spooks Taurus and even Kahn.
"That's…" Sienna commented, recalling Tarantula being responsible for her near-death experience during the Spider-Virus outbreak and realizing he and Scarlet are the same.
Rage fuels Scarlet Tarantula's fiery fist that dashes at Taurus. He dodges it but was immediately uppercutted high into the air by the four spider-legs erupting from his back. Tarantula gives chase and seems to put an end to the fight by knocking him down with a double axe handle and burning him alive with his massive firebreath.
BGM End
"RAAAAAAAAAAAARRGH!" Scarlet Tarantula roared victoriously, staring at the flames that make him stand out as an uncontrollable beast that hungers only for destruction.
"It was you."
Sienna confronts his back with a threatening demeanor expressed by her glare and tone, "All this time you thought you could play me for a fool, but I suspected the truth from the beginning. YOU were the Tarantula that nearly KILLED me and worsened my dealings with Adam! It's because of you I wasn't able to end him sooner and countless of my brethren wouldn't have to die! Perhaps that was your scheme all along. Typical human…Hiding your lies behind self-proclaimed heroics. To think I was beginning to respect you."
BGM-Spider-Man 3 (Game) OST-Black Tension
However, Scarlet pays her no heed as he's too busy allowing his anger to consume him. A bloody red aura begins emitting from his body and his head takes the brief appearance of a purple-flaming skeleton, the latter noted by the surprised Kahn. Tarantula growls in rage and punches the tiger to the ground before she can react. She lies on the ground with a broken Aura, struggling to stand back up. A task that is impossible to accomplish with the demonic-looking Tarantula looming over her with a presence that inspires fear into the High Leader.
BGM End
"SCARLET!" Suddenly, Blake appears before Kahn, intervening in order to snap Kaine back to his senses. "Stop. Don't let hatred turn you into a monster." She told him with a calming tone.
"GRAAAAAAAHHRRRR!" Scarlet roars at her fearless face as if he's refuting her.
"I know you believe that's all you are but not for destruction. Remember our race to see who will reach redemption first. Don't look back and become the evil you once were." Blake frowned.
She places a gentle hand on his cheek in reminiscent of the first time they met. That simple gesture was enough to calm Kaine down and regain control of his power, bursting out of his Tarantula form to collapse in exhaustion as his human self. "Kaine…" Blake crouches to his aid, making sure he is okay. She notices Kahn back on her feet and apologizes to her on Kaine's behalf, "I'm sorry, High Leader. Scarlet has issue controlling his Semblance, which made it easier for others to control him. His attack on you wasn't willingly."
"Those flames were not from his Semblance." Sienna claimed solemnly, much to the cat's confusion.
"What do you mean?" Blake questioned her.
"Cyclops was right. We must protect all our peoples from the evils that would impede our search for unity and peace. This Scarlet Spider…is one of those demons that must be exterminated." Sienna proclaimed with a stern whip that's ready to murder the disoriented clone.
"No!" Blake exclaims in horror yet isn't fast enough to stop her.
BGM-Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order OST-Threat from Beyond
A killing blow lands. But it's not Kahn's on Kaine. Eyes widen in shock and a mouth coughs out blood. Both belonging to Sienna after being impaled from behind by a still-alive Adam Taurus's sword. Both Kaine and Blake are horrified by this murder and too stunned to stop his blade from sliding deeper into her body. Fists clenched, her body shakes from the damage and Adam takes advantage of her closer proximity to rest a hand on her shoulder and speak into her ear, "Thank you, Sienna. You were there when our people needed you, but they need me now. I'm sorry you couldn't see this through to the end."
Sienna growls at this and lifts her hand to claw at Adam's neck. Before she makes contact, Adam swiftly removes his weapon, causing her body to fall to the ground dead before the cat and the spider. "What have you DONE?!" Blake berated her former lover for killing the High Leader of the White Fang.
"Ensuring the future of our race." Taurus justified himself.
"BASTARD!" Once again, rage blinds Scarlet Spider amidst his lunge at the murderous bull. Adam defeats him with a vicious slash to the face, giving him a bloody scar that will forever remind him of his dark past and how he might not have much of a future if he continues letting anger consume him.
"My thanks to you, Scarlet Spider. Much of her blood is on you. You accuse me of being a monster, yet you're the most dangerous of them all. Though I suppose we do share similarities. Grudge and spite against the world that has wronged us and must be punished through vengeance." Taurus claimed, taunting his defeated rival of their similarities.
"Scarlet is nothing like you!" The angered Blake retorted.
"Of course. I haven't committed mass murders yet." Taurus mocked, now aware of Kaine's past actions as Tarantula.
Out of nowhere, a powerful lightning bolt smashes Taurus across the ground. That was manifested by a vengeful Storm, with the rest of Gold Team reconvening with Blake and Kaine. "MURDERER! You will not get away with this!" Storm threatened the weakened bull.
"I've accomplished enough today. I have a newly-united White Fang to lead. Deal with Stryker however you wish." Taurus snarked, using his Shadow Matter to vanish into thin air right before being clawed by Wolverine.
"Scent is gone." Wolverine snarled, unable to track down the retreating bull.
BGM End
Right after that horror, a Star Portal appears and out emerges Red Team reuniting with Gold Team. "What happened here?" Spider-Man demanded upon spotting Sienna's corpse.
"Adam killed her." Blake grimly answered her ex-boyfriend.
"Dammit." Spidey cursed, kneeling to mourn next to his dead ally, "Just when we were finally getting along. We saved all X-Species from extinction just in time for them to be further corrupted against humanity. I should've prevented this." Then he mutters to himself, "This is the second time I've messed up…", as Kahn's death reminds him of his self-proclaimed failure of the Convergence happening.
"Don't be too hard on yourself, kid. You still did good saving her kind. That's all she ever wanted. It's not too late. We'll find and stop Taurus." Wolverine said, comforting his fellow New Avenger with a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah." Spidey nodded with a stern glare, determined to avenge Kahn.
"Let's finish this mission first. Adam's my responsibility." Blake announced, swearing through a stern frown that she will personally defeat Taurus.
"We understand. May Sienna Kahn rest in peace and let this be the death of her grudge." Storm prayed.
BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-Disquieting Shadow
Just staring at Sienna's corpse bothers Scarlet Spider in a way that he refuses to have acknowledged by the others. While his outer demeanor expresses apathy, behind his mask is a face full of somberness and regret for his role in her untimely death. "More blood has been shed. My existence…is a curse." He muttered stoically, before saying to the corpse, "Forgive me.", with a mournful tone that would've meant more if she was alive. A mistake he will never make amends with.
"Scarlet?" Noel Vermillion approached, being the only one to notice his sadness.
"Mind your own business, kid." Scarlet retorted, rudely leaving her behind to finish off the remaining enemies on the battlefield.
"O-Okay…" Noel frowned sadly, wanting to know him more, and more importantly, help him get through his issues as she can't help but see Kaine as a kindred spirit.
BGM End
Meanwhile, in the Command Bunker…
BGM-X-Men: Destiny OST- Peace Rally: VS Cameron Hodge I/Seaside: VS Magneto
Magneto lifts several pieces of debris with his magnetism that he then throws at Blue Team. Silver deflects them all with a powerful psychic burst that forces him to kneel in exhaustion. Cyclops tags in, firing an optic blast that smashes the terrorist into a wall and allowing Sonic to pin him there with his Spin Dash. The irritated mutant uses his mind to collapse a portion of the ceiling onto the hedgehog and, with a gesture, manipulate the piece to entrap him. "You cannot win this, heroes." Magneto claimed, "There are plans in motion that cannot be-.", before he is suddenly entrapped in a sturdy ice cage created by Jin Kisaragi's Arctic Dungeon technique.
"That won't shut him up forever." Jin claimed.
"Silver, save Sonic. After Jin and I remove his helmet, you finish him off with your Psychokinesis." Cyclops tasked the team.
"You got it!" Silver acknowledged with determination.
A furious burst of electromagnetism frees Magneto from his cage, exclaiming, "I am growing weary of this encounter! MAGNETIC SHOCKWAVE!", and unleashing a series of powerful energy columns across the floor that target the three heroes. Blue Team rushes with all their skills and reflexes to dodge the shockwaves until Scott finds and blows up an explosive near Magneto that disrupts his concentration as fire now envelops him. The fires are then cooled by Jin's swift snowstorm to aid in his close-quarters combat with the mutant, while Silver uses this chance to free Sonic from his metallic binds. Once free, Sonic wastes no time laying the smackdown on the magnetic master, aiding Jin with speeds so amazing that his conjured hurricane mixes with the ice that is slowly pulling out his helmet.
"Fire, ice, and wind! Can't beat that elemental combo!" Sonic taunted the mutant.
"As cocky and speedy as my son! There is NOTHING magnetism cannot overcome!" Magneto shouted alongside a furious explosion of energy that takes control of the iron in both Sonic and Jin's bodies, throwing them both away with devastating force. Yet amidst his flight, Jin manages to fire an Ice Blade that misses Erik's helmet. But with the support of Cyclops's optic blast, the ice blade ricochets across the room until it finally knocks the helmet off of Erik's head.
"Now, Silver!" Scott shouted at him to finish this.
Silver flies at Magneto with the full power of his psychokinesis that collides with the full power of electromagnetism. Mind versus metal, both strengthened by their unbreakable resolve to save the future of X-Species in their own way. Unfortunately for Magneto, Silver's resolve edges out as he's also fighting to save humanity. Silver overpowers the Master of Magnetism with a powerful psychic blast targeting his head, causing Erik to scream, "GUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAH!", before collapsing into submission.
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"You're done, Magneto." Cyclops proclaims at his defeated nemesis that's struggling to stay conscious.
"You may have won this battle, but the war goes on…My student Adam will see to it…." Magneto claimed, placing his faith in his mutant/faunus protégé.
"He will fall as well." Jin declared, right before Magneto falls into unconsciousness and Cyclops imprisons him in an Interdimensional Orb.
The War at Fort Stryker has been won by STRIKE. The Purifiers are crushed and the Brotherhood and White Fang Alliance was forced to retreat now that one of their leaders have fallen. Soon after, both Gold and Red Team regroup with Blue Team in the control room where Spider-Man asks, "We too late? Did we win?"
"Yup on both accounts." Sonic quipped, giving his friends a victorious thumbs-up.
"Great work, team! This puts an end to the Purifiers' operations." Cyclops smiled at their hard-earned accomplishment today.
"Wish it didn't require the sacrifice of Miss Kahn." Mega Man X frowned in sadness.
"The Professor told us what happened. I'm sorry we weren't there to save her. The best way to honor her now is by ensuring the equality between Humans and X-Species." Cyclops said, cheering up his friends to keep up the fight on Kahn's behalf.
"She would like that. First things first…" Blake then glares at Willaim Stryker, who is regaining consciousness after he was almost strangled to death by Magneto.
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The Purifier Leader awakens to sight of Storm's eyes cackling with electricity that threatens him into a surrendering position. "No sudden moves, Stryker. Don't tempt me." Storm threatened, with all the dimensional heroes surrounding the defeated reverend.
"You think you've won? You think you've 'saved' the X-Species? You've done nothing. Nothing! You've doomed yourself to damnation is what you've done." Stryker retorted.
"Uh oh, guys. Did you hear that? We're doomed! Wait a minute. I knew that already." Spidey snarked.
Guns are heard locked and loaded as the heroes notice a STRIKE squadron entering the room led by Maria Hill. "Fury's boy scouts are here." Wolverine remarked.
"This is deputy director Maria Hill. We're at the Purifier base. I want a closed perimeter. And that means closed tight. I want anyone with a crazy look on their face on lockdown." Maria Hill ordered through her comm device, before confronting Stryker with a stern scowl, "Mr. Stryker, I am very happy to say you are very under arrest."
"Oh, really? Wait'll I sue you for religious persecution. I want to talk to Nick Fury. I want to talk to the man in charge. You have nothing. You have no proof. You have no evidence." Stryker claimed.
"Um, Miss Hill?" Cyclops garners her attention to the nearby computer system he was hacking into, "I think I've found something."
With the press of a button, Cyclops projects a mini-hologram depicting a recorded meeting between Stryker and a mysterious scientist with a pale face that screams Sinister. 'Stryker, these cross-species genome samples are perfect.' The Sinister Scientist said.
'Are you still looking for test subjects?' Stryker asked.
'No. No, I have acquired the special individual I needed.' The Sinister Scientist claimed.
'Then good luck with your experiments. I'll expect your payment to arrive by the end of the day.' Stryker replied, ending the holo-footage.
"Who was that?" Noel Vermillion asked.
"Sinister." Storm scowled, recognizing that scientist as another of the X-Men's worst enemies, Mister Sinister.
"WHERE is he?" Maria demanded from Stryker.
"I want a lawyer." Stryker snarked dryly.
"You're gonna need a doctor if you don't tell me where Mister Sinister is playing mad scientist with the cross-species genomes." Maria retorted glaringly.
Cyclops says, "According to the logs, Sinister's call came from the…hm.", until the computer pinpoints an interesting location on the world map.
"What is that?" Sonic questioned.
"That's the Savage Land. Sinister is in the Savage Land." Cyclops announced.
"Looks like we're going to the Savage Land." Spider-Man noted.
"Looks like." Wolverine remarked.
"I didn't bring any sunscreen." Spidey joked, familiar with the Savage Land's hot and hostile environment.
"Good thing you're covered head to toe." Wolverine snarked.
"Oh yeah."
"Mind if I join your team for this?" Silver asked Blake for permission to join the X-Men in hunting down Sinister.
"Take my spot. The rest of us are going to search for Adam." Blake grinned, accepting his request.
"Alright, people. We're headin' out." Cyclops proclaimed as his X-Men stand ready to find Mister Sinister and put a stop to whatever genetic experiments he's conducting this time.
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KFX Here: Yeesh, this took longer than expected. Probably should've divided this into two parts but whatever. Something to digest yourself with while I work on the next chapter, which hopefully won't be as long. A lot has certainly happened in this chapter between Sienna Kahn's death and whatever the heck is happening with Scarlet Spider. We're halfway done with this mini X-Men arc.
Merged Locations:
- Fort Stryker (Marvel): Located in the Forever Fall (RWBY)
Cross Arts:
- Emerald Sustrai: Treasure Radar - sense the presence of any nearby treasure (based on Knuckles and Rouge's Emerald Radar from the video game, Sonic Adventure 2)
- Wolverine: Chaos Berserk – channel Chaos Energy to gain Hot Claws. Full power causes the user to become invincible and risk going into a berserker rage (Inspired by the Dark Shadow transformation from the video game, Shadow the Hedgehog)
Adam Taurus's Mutant Power
- Shadow Matter: control the immediate unseen dark matter around the body and manifest it into solid shape for an instant (Based on the same power from the video game, X-Men: Destiny)
Next Time: A Savage Landing! Reunion with the World Warrior!
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