Neb: Brothers returned to him after all these years, and an option for power opens up. Will Ricky take the power, or is Magneto pulling him into his chess game where he takes up the role as a pawn. I do not own X Men Evolution.
Ricky and his brothers headed through the desert riding on motor bikes. "I'm starting to remember where it is, down this way," Ricky yelled. Brandon signaled their team. Ricky left Boom Boom back with the brotherhood to avoid being like her father, and his fathers. It's not right to drag mutants into personal stuff, despite what their powers are. If he ran the brotherhood instead of Magneto, his goal wouldn't be to wipe out humans, or leave Earth to a new home. Instead he would try to find a promise land from within the planet they are born on, without killing everyone. Of course, he's not stupid either, many humans will still hunt them, like Hydra, but the only question is, would Ricky be willing to make sacrifices if it mean protecting his own.
"Bro, you got quite all of a sudden," John pointed out. Ricky looked at him and then smiled. The other sacrifice would be his two little brothers. They aren't mutants, would they be willing to side with people like him, or would they be like every other human he's met. In it for themselves and not for some grand cause.
"We're here," Vibrant smiled as they slowed down near a cactus that honestly looked like to the rest of the group any other cactus. Vibrant knew differently however. He could not forget when he found his first weakness. Vibrant swept sand away from the cactus revealing an old metal door that looked like the entrance to a submarine.
"Vibranium," Brandon asked.
"And antimanium," Vibrant smiled. A perfect fusion of the two metals creating a door unaffected by my powers or any explosive dad tried.
"Damn," the green suit man laughed as he moved to the door. "I suppose we can't just spin the wheel until something happens." Vibrant shook his head.
"Nope, the wheel doesn't even work, your suppose to pull it open, but you need both of the keys to unlock it."
"We have both of them," Brandon grinned as John and he pulled out two old bronze keys.
"What, where did you... the WW2 base," Vibrant grunted.
"Yes," the Russian girl replied. "A shield base as well. I believe they kept the keys separate for a reason."
"That doesn't matter, cause we are going to be stinking rich," the short mohawk man stated. Vibrant just smiled as the two boys opened the door.
"What do you need me for then," Vibrant grinned.
"Mutant protection, dad's training, and it's nice to have a third brother again," John explained.
"Dad didn't pass his teachings to us, he only did it for you," Brandon added.
"Why, I was his adopted son," Vibrant growled.
"Yea, but he always said you were the talented one," Brandon pointed out.
"And the older one," John nodded in agreement. "You were suppose to run his business after him." The two of them opened the door together. "Let's go big brother." The group jumped down the hatch into a long hallway. Along the stone hallway, there was titanium doors running down the place.
"Where to next," Vibrant asked.
"I don't know," Brandon responded. "It's our first time down here."
"Notice something strange the tall man spoke up."
"Yea Aaron, this place doesn't look to abandoned." Vibrant's eyes moved to a symbol on the wall before they widened.
"Hydra," he grunted before looking towards the exit. Outside of it was a man with a brown leather jacket smiling.
"Who are you," the Mohawk man asked.
"They call me Gambit," the man grinned. He had a french accent and a dark look in his eyes.
"Are you Hydra," Vibrant growled.
"Don't know who that is," the man chuckled. "But their your problem now." The man placed a card on the entrance and smiled.
"Why, what do you have against us," Vibrant smiled as he saw the card glow.
"Nothing against you my friend," he laughed. "It's your band of misfit thieves. Can't have competition like that running around here... Oh and Magneto says hello." The ceiling collapsed as the card blew up. Vibrant and the others got out of the way in time, but an alarm set off inside the base. Vibrant and the others saw troopers running over with rifles.
"Intruders, get them," one man yelled.
"Hail Hydra," the group of men responded. Ricky thought it would be funny if he ran into the cheerleader from his high school all over again. He lifted his hand in the air and the entire group froze in front of them in stasis. He grunted as fell to his knees.
"Too much," Vibrant grunted.
"Then don't do it," the Russian girl responded as she threw a grenade at the enemies. They all started running the other direction as the explosive went off.
"Quick, in this room," the green suit man responded as they ran inside what appeared to be a control room.
"Barricade the door," John yelled as Vibrant and Aaron both started shoving desks and bookshelves in front of the control room door. They all fell back breathing as the alarm continued to go off.
"Did you kill them," Vibrant asked.
"No, that was a flash bang sadly," the Russian responded. "I had no idea we were going to actually fight anyone like that, so I only brought these in case the police or Shield show up."
"Who," Vibrant asked.
"Shield, a spy agency that deals with enhanced humans and mutants like yourself."
"They also occasionally act as a police force or a federal agency if given reason," the Mohawk man smiled.
"How do you guys no all that," Brandon asked.
"Use to be a part of it," the Russian girl chuckled. "It seemed like a good idea until I was demoted from my position of field agent for attacking a partner of mine."
"I was demoted from head engineer for... selling technology," the Mohawk man admitted.
"Really man, why aren't you in jail," Aaron laughed.
"Their dad broke me out," he replied. "The man wanted someone to look after his sons as they moved onto another crime syndicate."
"Really Jacob, this whole time," John yelled. "You worked for our dad."
"I work for you," he grinned. "I just owe your dad a favor, so I went with it."
"Wow, he really is a snake," Vibrant laughed. "Engineer, could you turn this base against the enemy." Jacob got on the computer and started scrolling through data.
"No, the security isn't controlled here, only the cameras and... cages."
"Cages?" They all looked at the camera and saw five mutants locked away inside five separate cells. One was a man that looked like his face was hit with the plague, chewed up by a beast, and spit into a toilet only to be shot out again, (Putting it nicely). He was chained to a wall with a clamp over his mouth.
"What the hell is that thing," the Russian asked.
"A man... a mutant called Deadpool," Jacob explained. "At least, that's what the files I can access tells me."
The next person was an old man with dark skin who had a blank look in his eyes. He sat their meditating in his cell before smiling and looking at the camera.
"That's freaky," John grunted. Vibrant stumbled back as it almost looked like the man was starring at him, even though he was blind.
"A Mutant, Called Seer," Jacob explained.
The next one to Vibrant's surprise was Lady Vampress passing back in forth in a cage, probably made of antimanium given other cages would be useless to hold her.
"Lady Vampress," Jacob continued. The fourth person was completely frozen. He was Japanese like the green suit man. The man was muscular and had long black hair.
"Dragon," Jacob listed. "The file contains more on him, it actually says he's a mutant Hydra performed the weapon x project on. He's by far one of the most powerful mutants they captured. Wow, whoever wrote this was just bragging in his files. The man can heal and shoot bolts of energy from his mouth. Antimanium is embedded in his teeth. Vibrant smiled at the thought of releasing that man onto Hydra, all their hard work for nothing. Lady Vampress would be just as scary though, but Ricky wasn't stupid enough to mess with her cage.
"Last one, X-23," Jacob finished and Ricky's eyes shot open. "Scheduled for her mind to be reprogrammed in two hours. Hey, we just ran down that hall, her cage is with all the pissed off Hydra troopers." Ricky looked at the screen and saw she was sniffing the air towards the door. She could smell Ricky, but she wasn't the only person who knew he was there. Seer kept starring up at the camera and Lady Vampress started speaking inside Vibrants mind.
"Ricky... Free Me."