Ullery
"Once again! I am Victorious! My plan to start the new generation will begin!"The blue skinned villain spoke into the air. "All will tremble before the might of Apocalypse. But first, I will have to seek out some help." The insane Apocalypse. quite possibly the worlds most powerful mutant.
Lowthor
There was a crackle of electrical energy followed by a loud bang, and then the blue skinned villain laughed to himself. He'd just activated a device constructed from the technology of the 29th century. A man fell to the ground of the glass chamber unconscious. He wore a brown duster coat, and reddish brown hair sprouted from the top of his head.
Ullery
Apocalypse walked off, never noticing the form slumped down at the ground. Gazing off wildly, Apocalypse walked away into the realm. He gazed around with intent and continued to walk in a Northern direction to find a hideout. A place where his plan's could prosper.
Lowthor
The man rolled over onto his back and then swore in French. "Where've you ended up now Remmy?" He said and then groaned. The force of being dragged back through time had given him a headache that not even a week spent drinking absinth could achieve.
Ullery
"Uh...." Dr.David Bruce Banner opened his eyes and heard talking. "Probably the same place I ended up!" Banner tried to lift his head but it was still pounding. "What the heck happened?"
Lowthor
"Wish I could help mon amis" he tried to sit up, but something wasn't co-operating and he slumped back to lie on his back. "Who're you anyway?"
Ullery
"Names Banner, David Banner."David took a deep breath and got dizzily to his feet, he walked around to where the other man was and extended his hand both in friendship and to help the other guy up. He glances around and frowns. "I don't think we're in new York anymore chum!"
Lowthor
He grabbed the man by the forearm and with help climbed to his feet. "Thanks Dave. Names Remmy Le Beau, but they call me Gambit, and I don't know about you, but I wasn't in New York to start with."
Ullery
"Well where-ever we are, it sure isn't where we ought to be." David said. "Last thing I remember was picking up a electrical manifestation at the statue of liberty shortly before my gadget malfunctioned due to an increase in the vortex of the time/space continuum."
Meanwhile.
Apocalypse was busy searching along the remnants of a road to find anyone whom seemed worthy of aiding the mutant.
Lowthor
"Well odd as it sounds I think I was in Kansas." He laughed and then walked over to the nearest wall of the glass chamber. It was smooth and when he tapped his knuckles on it he got the impression it was pretty thick. "So any idea where we are now?"
Mithrandirxx
In the Distance watching a pair of red eyes pulsated as they watched the mutant and the monster sit and chat it was time to Show himself. As his blue metallic suit moved down the hill of rubble his white skin and red diamond on his forehead came into view. His Black hair brushed back as he looked upon the two waiting for them to notice him, Mr. Sinister smirked a cruel smirk. Before he spoke getting tired of their quiet dribble " Genetic garbage seems to be the only thing save for him here" .
Ullery
(psst, just to confirm, David hasn't hulked out yet. He doesn't do that unless he get's nervous or angry) David looks suddenly to the far left of him. "Better question Remy, who the heck is that?" He gazes at the blue metallic suit. "could be admantium. hmm." David mutters gazing intently at the form of Sinister.
Lowthor
He hit the glass a bit harder, then cradled his knuckles in the palm of his other hand, then looked to where Banner was pointing. "He looks familiar, but I can't think how he'd be involved in this. Sinister?" He shook he head and then out his boot to the glass. A sound rang out, but the glass still didn't break.
Ullery
"Hmm." David notices that Remy is trying to break the glass. "Maybe I can be of assistance in getting this glass opened." David walks over to an old looking chair and comes back. Judging carefully David swing's the chair and it breaks in half, but it leaves the glass undamaged. "Well that's unusual. Normally glass breaks with a heavy object."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister's eyes narrow upon the two and their attempts to open their prison. Shaking his head at Gambits punching and kicking he smirked at the chair and chuckled a little. " I would be worried about the amount Air in there if I were you better to kill the other it'll let you live longer " He said before turning his back two the two in the glass prison. Something was up but was It Apocalypse's plan or someone elses.
Lowthor
"Okay hitting it doesn't work, but how about this, stand back." He moved to stand with his back against one wall and then plucked a playing card from his sleeve. It was the seven of diamonds, but that is irrelevant. The card glowed an eerie red as he charged it with kinetic energy and then threw it at the glass wall at the point furthest from him. He shielded his face with his arm, and with good reason, for the glass cracked in several directions, and a not insubstantial collection of glass shards flew out, some away from the mutant, but many towards.
Ullery
"What are you..." David is cut off as the glass explodes. David raises his arm to protect his face and a shard of glass cuts his arm."Ahhh!"David's eyes suddenly begin to turn a white green color. His groan of pain begins to become something more....barbaric and animalistic. His body grows and his shirt button's pop one by one tears appear in the shoulder areas of the shirt. His toes bust out of the shoes and his body turns green. his pants rip and he growls in anger. "Raaaaaaaaah roaaaaah!" The hulk walks forward and slams a fist into the glass shattering it so it's wide enough to escape from. "RAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The hulk growls as it begins to lift the glass prison off the ground, giving Remy enough time to escape before it's fully over the hulks head.
Meanwhile, servants poured to do Apocalypse's bidding. Thinking carefully Apocalypse sent one of the servant's to find Mr.Sinister. It was a little over a minute before the servant approached Mr.Sinister. "Lord, Master Apocalypse desires to speak with you! will you come?"
Rhysis
What some people would consider the luckiest man alive, Kyle Rayner, watched from a distance. There he was, a semi-successful freelance artist, minding his own business, when a ring literally fell into his lap. He put it on, and now...he's Earth's Green Lantern.
"Well, he's certainly got a good color to him." Kyle was fascinated. He thought he'd encountered, or at least heard of, most of Earth's superhero and super villain personalities. These ones, however, he had no recollection of whatsoever. "Kinda savage, though."
He decided to hang back a while longer and wait to see how things played out. He wasn't, exactly, sure who he should be rooting for, as of yet. He'd learned not to judge a book by it's cover. Good thing, too. Between Gambit's raggedy trench coat, Banner's monstrous green transformation, and Mr. Sinister's vampire stereotype look, none of these guys really looked like your average hero.
Lowthor
Gambit leaped out from under the glass structure before Banner threw it to the ground. Then he ran alittle way off before turning back to face him. The man was clearly out of control, so Gambit plucked another card from his sleeve, but he didn't do anything with it as of yet. "You're the hulk?" He shouted to Banner.
Mithrandirxx
Sinister's red eyes narrowed upon Apocalypse's servant with destain and disgust " Master Apocalypse ? Master ? He has no power over me, I will speak with Apocalypse if he can give me Scott and Alex Summers dead bodies then and only then will I speak with your Master. " He said turning and looking at the chaos that was ensuing as the Hulk's Transformation continued.
Ullery
"RAH!" The hulk answered throwing the thing on the floor. He calmed after that initial rage. His anger swallowed away by the destruction. Hulk went behind a building and sat down. Slowly the process of reverse-transformation, touched him. When the hulk had stepped back out of the alley, Banner once again stood where the behemoth was. He walks over to Gambit and puts a hand to his face. "I can't control the transformations." he speaks out softly to Remy. "When I get nervous, or angry, that ...monster shows up. It haunts my dreams and it's the...savage wild angry side that all humans possess."
Lowthor
"That's not too good." He said and then tucked that card back up his sleeve. "Well now that we've escaped from the device. We should find out where we are, and how we can leave. I think we should start with Mister Sinister." He said as he turned to look in the direction the geneticist had walked off in.
Ullery
"good idea." David replied. "Let's go." David started walking off in the direction of Sinister.
"And that's what he said, Master." The servant said to the mighty mutant. Apocalypse gazed intently at his servant. "Scott summers, hmm. Yes, I recall now, the so called leader of the x-men. But I wonder who Alex summers could be. Hmm."
Meanwhile in another time-frame and dimension. "Computer, why is the future changing? Tell me!" The muscular individual spoke into something on his wrist. The only part that could be seen of the individual was the gray-looking glove on his hand. "Time is being altered in another dimension. Causing this future, to cease to exist." "Father!" A boy cried. The figure turned. "Tyler!" The boy vanished into thin air as waves of blue particles took him from the present setting of time. "No!" "Computer, take me to the alteration in time. Now!" The figure ran quickly from some gun-toting robots. "Time grid accessed. Destination set." The figure vanished in a streak of blue light particles.
Mithrandirxx
Sinister, watched quietly as the sky scape changed the clouds rolled by and the brilliant blue started to fade into a grayish hue, dusk was upon them. Turning around slowly his glowing red eyes narrowed on the forms of Gambit and Dr. Banner as they ascended the first hill towards him. As the sun started to lower further below the horizon he stood silent waiting for the mutant and altered human to come to him.
Ullery
Apocalypse gazed at the new world and the new places to go and conquer. "This world shall be mine, and my vision of a new age, shall be fulfilled!"
Meanwhile.
"There he is now." Bruce said gazing past the crest of the hill. "Bout time we caught up to him. Pretty fast for all that armor."
And in another section of Ayenee. "Computer. Locate the X-men. I'm going to need their help to change the timeline back."The computer scans and beeps. "All x-men original signature's non transported."
"What? You mean to tell me, there are no x-men on this landscape?"
"Affirmative, all x-men life sign's have been dispersed.""Apocalypse what have you done? First my son, and now this? I'll see that you pay!
Lowthor
Gambit climbed over a boulder and nodded to Banner's comment. "He's pumped himself with DNA from mutants mon amis. He's powerful." Gambit said and picked up a small stone about the size of a marble, then continued walking up the rubble strewn slope. He idly rolled the pebble around in his left hand as he went and he could see Mr Sinister much closer now. As if suddenly reminded of something he stopped for a moment and tapped the X-shaped button on his own body armour under the duster. There was a beep followed by the message "No Signal" in an annoying high pitched voice. He shrugged and then continued up the slope once more.
Rhysis
The green lantern continued to watch from a distance, trying to figure things out. Firstly, who were these people, and what were they trying to do? Second, why on Earth didn't he recognize any of them? Sure, he may have been relatively new to the whole 'superhero' scene, but these guys all seemed like they would be pretty big time news. He would just have to watch more, to try and figure out who he should be helping, if any of them.
Mithrandirxx
Sinisters eyes narrowed on a small object in the sky that had not moved much for sometime but unlike any vessle he had encountered it was with out even the slightest hum or movement. He studied the Lantern from his vantage point paying little heed to the mutant and the good doctor whom had atleast by now reached a few feet from him his eyes unblinking. Breaking his eyes from the Lantern his gaze fell upon Gambit " Bringing me more Toys to play with are we Gambit ? " He said pointing to Dr. Bruce Banner while letting out a small chuckle.
Ullery
"Toy?" Banner said with an eyebrow raised. "I am a doctor of science and medicine. I'm not some toy."
Meanwhile
Apocalypse "Ah, my plans will soon be complete. and I will be the ultimate savior."
Rhysis
"Well you've certainly done it this time, Kyle." Yes, he was talking to himself. He was starting to think that, maybe, he'd traveled somewhere else. This thought came about as he started to look around and realized he didn't recognize much of anything around here. It wasn't just the other mutants.
"So now what?" He kept watching, for now, fully aware that he had been spotted by one of the others. They seemed too preoccupied with their own machinations to worry about a neutral observer. He suspected that, if he didn't know who any of them were, then they likely didn't know who he was. Of course, that wasn't to say they wouldn't recognize the green outfit from a different green lantern. Some of these guys looked like they'd traveled the galaxy a few times. -No matter.- He thought. -I'm the only lantern left. Any beef these guys had with someone else ain't my problem...I hope.-
Lowthor
"Our association is over Sinister and it wont be resuming", Gambit said as he fixed his eyes upon the geneticist. He still rolled the small stone around in his hand as he spoke. "Now why don't you tell us where we are, and what you're doing here?" The tone of his voice carried a very real threat of violence. Mr Sinister may have brought the mutant's powers down to a level Gambit could control, but the Cajun was still a dangerous opponent.
Mithrandirxx
"Gambit, I'm hurt, but you and I both know you are of no threat to me. " His voice calm and chilling. Looking to Banner he simply chuckled And then spoke " A Doctor of Medicine and Science you say thats humerous you have caused more damage and killed more people than any Doctor of Medicine I have heard of" Looking up to the Lantern he smirked a little and then looked back to Gambit " Now Remmy I see no reason to explain myself or this place to you. Unless of course you're willing to do me a little favor."
Ullery
Banner gazes deeply at sinister* "Blood? Blood? I didn't kill anyone! I lost ....control once or twice, yes, but never killed someone."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister Stared at the confussed doctor a moment before shaking his head and speaking " Oh thats right the hulk did it all, never did the good doctor hurt anyone what a laugh! You are as much a piece of the monster as the monster is a piece of you. You drive the monster and you claim no deaths have befallen any who have stood by ? How many buildings have you destroyed ? How many lives do you think each building had? You may be willfully ignorant of the mayham and death you have caused but that's not my concern. "
Rhysis
"Alright, dude. That's about enough." Kyle had been listening in by using the ring. He was still not 100% sure what the limits of this thing were, but he knew he hadn't found any yet. He'd managed to come over to the little grouping rather quickly upon hearing Sinister's tone toward Gambit and Banner. He was now glaring down at the pale villian while he gradually descended to stand between Sinister and Banner. "Accusin' people of murder is no way to make friends. Now play nice."
Lowthor
"Mr Sinister doesn't play nice." Gambit replied to the newcomer. "Now what favour do you want from me this time?" He was getting alittle annoyed by now. Having worked with Sinister in the past allowed him to know exactly the way the genetecist liked to manipulate people.
Mithrandirxx
OOC Note ( I was going to wait for Ullery to get here and post but it seems he has completely skipped this one)
Sinister glanced to the green lantern for a moment before scoffing " So you're telling me to be nice to a murderer ? Is that anyway for a hero to act ? Let him go he says he didn't kill anyone but the bullets say otherwise..... " Shaking his head he turned a quick eye to Gambit " Now then Remmy The task I want you to look in on is Apocalypse, He sent a minion to me a little bit ago asking for my presence, I want you to go scout out the area Apocalypse is using for a base of operations and who is with him, and what their powers are simple, no? "
Lowthor
"Apocalypse is here?" The Cajun asked with a touch of disbelief, and more than a touch of concern. "It does seem like his way of doing things. I'll look in on what he's doing, but I would have anyway." He rolled the pebble across the back of his hand, tossed it up in the air and caught it again.
Rhysis
Okay, so he didn't know jack diddly and/or squat about a single person around here. However, in his experience, he'd managed to learn that the bad guys, for the most part, had the tendancy to take on less-than friendly nicknames.
That being the case, "Sinister" was certainly not at the top of Kyle's A list. However, somehow "Apocolypse" just sounded a tad more threatening. He looked back and forth between the two for a moment, before finally asking.
"Who in the blue blazes is Apocolypse?"
Ullery
"Apocalypse is the most dangerous mutant in the entire universe, He's a real down to Earth and any other planet threat to civillian lives."
A rough, rugged voice responded from behind them. He was dressed in a light blue uniform with an unusual X near the top of the brestplate. He had one eye that seemed to flash or glow mysteriously, and most importantly of all, He was packing several heavy duty weapons.
"Hello Cajun, Glad to see your still alive."
"Apocalypse is the reason I'm here. He's been causing my time period to change, Again. This time, they've destroyed my son Tyler. So this time, it's personal."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister looked slightly amused by the lack of knowledge on the green mans hands. " Ah about as dim as your costume makes you appear wonderful" Casting a long sideways look at the Cajun he nodded " Yes you would have but you wouldn't have been willing to share that information with me had you found him on your own. His encampment is to the north of this area" Looking down he saw Cable the elusive occasional member of the X-men a desire burned in sinister to get his hands on Cables DNA it was the dna of both Scott Summers and Jean Gray two mutants he had spent many years chasing to get a hint of their DNA. With a little blink he spoke " My such a dramatic entrance and story too, maybe with all your gadgets you'll make a movie of it ? and possibly popcorn ? " he said with a mild chuckle.
Ullery
Cable gazed with a sardonic look at sinister.
"Your nearly as bad Sinister, you almost took out my father in 2000!" "So Popcorn this!" Cable swung his hand to his side and took out a thermal grenade, he pulled the pin and threw the grenade at sinister.
Rhysis
Kyle looked to the newcomer as his question was answered in an unexpected manner. The most dangerous mutant in the universe? And he didn't know about him?
In truth, Apocalypse was probably not the most dangerous, what with mutants like The In-Betweener, Ego and Thanos around. Actually, it was quite likely that he wasn't even the most infamous, considering there were creatures like Galactus, Dr. Doom and Magneto. He was certainly at the top of the list, though.
In Kyle's universe, the question as to the most dangerous and infamous was just as much up in the air, but it was left to such names as The Anti-Monitor, Brainiac and Parallax. There was no Apocalypse. Now if any of them could just figure out that he wasn't from this world...
Kyle's eyes widened as Cable pulled out the grenade and threw it. Now, he may not have known a whole lot about futuristic technology. However, Cable obviously didn't have a great liking for Sinister, and he had a lot of gadgets Kyle had never seen. Still, it boiled down to, regardless of the appearance, a grenade was a grenade. Before it got more than a few feet away from Cable, it was surrounded by a green sphere, suspending it in mid-air.
Kyle moved the sphere next to Cable and glared at him as it exploded, but remained contained within the green glow. He didn't know enough about these people to side with anyone. Even if Cable was right in attacking Sinister, he did it with a weapon that would have killed them all, considering the proximity they had to one another. "Okay, ya know what? How about we think before throwing explosives at people!?"
Lowthor
"Cable. I'm not surprised that you dropped by, when Apocalypse is around you're not normally far behind." He shook his head when the lantern intervened to prevent the thermal grenade going off. He wouldn't have stopped Cable killing Sinister, but at least he hadn't needed to dive for cover himself.
"North then Sinister?" He asked the mutant and then looked to Banner.
Mithrandirxx
Looking from the lantern to Gambit he seemed ill concerned for the grenade. "I agree with the man in green, we should think before we start wasting ammo, especially when you know you have nothing that can kill me, son!" Shrugging his shoulders a little and craning his neck till it popped loudly he cast his eyes on gambit " Yes to the North I would suggest you hurry before Magneto, The Brotherhood, or anyone else shows up." It seemed a tad odd that the man in green clearly a hero would even attempt to save him, this kid was new to his people and would be a grand toy considering the amount of power his ring seemed to focus.
Ullery
Cable's eyes narrowed at the Green Lantern. "Say, just who are you anyway? I've never seen you hanging around with the x-men." Cable looks at gambit. "Hey cajun, you gonna be makin any of your special gumbo anytime soon? If so, lemme know. That stuff's good enough to give a horse a good kick in the ass." He gazes back at sinister with hatred in his eyes. "Don't think that I won't forget your little comment's later Sinister, just cause green boy saved your ass this time, doesn't mean you'll be able to destroy me any further then what you already attempted to do to me as a kid you sick twisted good for nothing sorry excuse for a mutant!"
Cable gazes at the group and his eye flashes. "When we see apocalypse, just Try to stay out of my way." Cable heads off with an angry glare.
Meanwhile.
(just a notice, if anyone would like to take over the char about to be introduced, their welcome to do so with just one hitch, they have to let me know that their going to take said char over thank you.)
One lone cat watches the proceedings innocently. Then it turns as soon as the conversation is over and begins chasing at a mouse that scurries away. Making it appear to the mutants as a cat. About four blocks away, the cat changes into a bird and flys off to the hideout of apocalypse The bird lands and changes into mystique. "Apocalypse, Apocalypse."
"What is it Mystique?" The mutant asks. "Their coming, Sinister has betrayed you my lord."
"So, Sinister dares to reveal my hideout and become my enemy?" "Then I shall have to deal with him."
"Gather the forces, call in those creatures that were known as sentinels. And Mystique, send word to magneto, we will soon need his assistance in irradicating this vermin!"
"yes my lord."
Mystique heads in another direction and Apocalypse gazes through a window.
"Soon my plan will be ready, But those infidel's dare to oppose me yet again. This time I shall have my revenge!"
Lowthor
Gambit shrugged and then followed Cable. "You do realise you can't kill him don't you Cable?" He asked when he caught up with the son of Cyclops. He was half wondering who was going to turn up next; Bishop? Logan? It could be just about anyone given the way things were going at the moment.
Rhysis
Kyle looked to the time traveler and shrugged in response to the offered question. "For now? A spectator. Until I figure out what's going on here, I'm a neutral party."
Ullery
Cable gazed at the cajun and responded. "I can't kill im, but I got something that can hurt im."
Mithrandirxx
Looking to the Half metal man the Green man from the sky, and the Cajun his eyes sparkled as he lifted his hands and placed his palms together. As he brought his hands to his cheek and tilted his head as if to imitate a damsel " My heroes ! Muhahahahahahaha" His mind was keenly aware of Mystiques earlier visit, as he spoke " Now then it looks like Cable has given away our little secret, by leading Mystique right to us with his little light show in a bubble! Good work sonny Jim! " He said before licking his lips" To bad She's flown the coupe already, Remmy your little job has changed"
Lowthor
Remmy shook his head then turned back to Sinister. "What to?"
Ullery
Cable stopped and narrowed his eyes at Sinister.
"Well maybe if a certain mutant, hadn't boiled my temper, he might not have forced my hand and "Given" away our location with his antics!
Meanwhile apocalypse had left the hideout in search of sinister, mystique had given him a location, so Apocalypse took the size and form of one of the resident's of ayenee.
There was very little way for Sinister to recognize the mutant.
Rhysis
"Okay, how 'bout this..." Kyle surrounded both Cable and Sinister in a field of green light to immobilize them, then lifted them a couple feet off the ground.. He was getting sick of these two bickering. He pointed his other hand at Cable first. "You, take a deep breath and control your temper." His free hand, and his glare, then shifted to Sinister. "And you, stop instigating trouble." He dropped his free hand and looked back and forth between the two. "You're both acting like children, and that's not gonna solve anything."
He lowered them to the ground, but spoke before releasing them. "Now, I'm gonna let you two go. You're gonna play nice and try to figure out the best way to solve this problem you seem to have without taking shots at each other like you're on the school playground." The glow would disappear and Kyle looked at them both harshly.
Mithrandirxx
Sinisters eyes glistened for a moment as his attention shifted before Cables response and the green field had enveloped him. He stayed quiet till the Lantern had finished his spiel, not for manners or fear, but because it gave him the chance to analyze the powers of this man. As He was released he looked to Gambit and smiled " Oh its quiet a lot easier than you're earlier task, you even have a chance of survival. I want you to charge Mystique and push this into her skin " He said as he held out his right hand holding what looked like a small spider. " It will neutralize her powers and contain the energy build up in her skin until I no longer have a use for her" As he held out the device for X-man he glared at Cable for a moment before glancing up to the hall monitor.
Lowthor
"Deal with mystique? Well at least she's not invulnerable. Any idea where she is?" Gambit said after he took the spider thing from Sinister and dropped it into the pocket of his long coat.
Ullery
Hanging in the sky just above the green Lantern was Magneto whom moment's ago had recieved communication from her and gazed down sternly at Sinister.
"Harm an ally and friend of mine? I think not Sinister!" The voice came from above the green lantern, a man dressed in red metal gazed at them. "Behold Sinister, the Folly of your deceit to emporer Apocalypse!"
Magneto laughed and 10 Sentinal robot's landed. "Mutant's you will be apprehended!" The sentinel's began their attack firing optic ray's out of their hands. Magneto flew down and landed behind Gambit.
"I'll take that little toy of yours thank you!" Magneto used his mutant powers over metal to summon the micro-chip to a hovering postion in front of him.(okay L, your call as to if it get's taken or not!)
Bruce got blasted in the chest and fell to the ground.
Cable's eyes narrowed as he pulled out his gun and began firing at the sentinels. "Eat this you hunk of junk!"
Rhysis
The lantern's eyes snapped up as the voice appeared overhead. Then there were huge robots...and they were shooting at them. Kyle was seriously glad he'd just recharged the ring before this little rendezvous. One of the sentinals would immediatly be engulfed in the green glow, and crushed into a huge ball. It was then swung around like a flail at the rest of them, to try and break them, or at least knock them over on each other. He even added a bit of his inventiveness to it, and using the ring's power to create spikes around the ball, which would be more accurate of a flail.
Kyle was unaware than, in the past, the ring of a green lantern had been described as "the most powerful weapon in the universe" on more than one occasion, as its potential was only limited by the user's strength of will and imagination. He was also unaware that his ring, in particular, was unique when compared to the other lanterns' rings of the past, as his did not have the weakness against, of all things, the color yellow. Nor did it share the weakness one of the previous lanterns, Alan Scott, who's ring was ineffective against wooden objects. Still, there were certain aspects about Kyle, himself, that made up for the greater power of his ring when compared to the others'.
The more intelligent idea would, probably, have been to just erect a protective shield around them. However, Kyle was a bit more aggressive than the lanterns of the past who had actually been chosen. In all reality, the fact that it ended up with him, at all, was a blessing to the universe. There were several people who would have used it for methods that were...less than virtuous.
Mithrandirxx
Sinister looked to Magneto and laughed a cold harsh and sarcastic laugh. "Emperor Apocalypse ? I had always known you were off your Rocker, but that's the funniest thing I have heard all day! Sad that one who fights so hard for Mutant freedom would be willing to shackle them to a weak minded creature like Apocalypse." As he spoke a blast from the Sentinels hit Sinister in the chest the blast continued, but Sinister just laughed. Raising his left hand he pointed it at Magnetos head as a concussive energy bolt of yellow energy made manifest flew as the master of metal's helmet. With little mirth he spoke aloud to the lantern "Green Granny take off his helmet, I can take his mind from there!"
Lowthor
Gambit reacted to Magneto quickly. No sooner had the device been taken from the cajun, than the small pebble Gambit was still holding was charged with kinetic energy and flung at Magneto. As always it would explode upon impact with the master of magnetism's chest. Then he diverted his attention to the sentinels. One, two and then three playing cards were charged and then flung in quick succession , each in turn impacting with the nearest sentinel. The first took off half of the machine's face, the second penetrated the chest armour, and the third destroyed the power source.
"Sentinels." He said and then sword before acrobatically doging a blast from one of the sentinels remaining.
Ullery
Bruce clutched his chest and his eyes changed to a light green in the middle with whites all around. His voice began to change as his pant's started to tear and his shoes blew apart his shirt stretched and ripped. And an angry hulk roared and threw the shirt on the ground. Running forward the hulk grasped at a heavy broken jalopy of a vehicle and tossed it at one of the sentinels.
Cable dodged another blast and shot at one of the sentinel's arms. Taking it off.
Magneto raised a magnetic shield that deflected both gambit's blast and sinister's attack at the same time.
"You forget sinister, that I am for the liberal freedoms of all mutants. Your little device will not harm one of my mutants."
Magneto caused the chip to explode and then pointed his hand down at the ground. Metal chairs and metal car's and lampposts flew up into the air. Magneto pointed two of the car's and let them fly at sinister, the lamp posts headed toward's the green lantern to smack him out of the sky, and the chairs were merely a distraction for the hulk and his allys gambit and cable to pay attention to, while magneto chose to leave. "Tell Charles Xavier that if he wishes to meet with me, I will see him only! No one else."
With that set of distraction's in place, the master of magnetisim flew away into the sky and disappeared.
Meanwhile back at apocalypse's headquarters. "They've taken the bait Apocalypse." Magneto said in a communicator device.
"As I knew they would. That fool sinister thinks he can outsmart the Apocalypse? Let them come to their doom."
Rhysis
Kyle was beginning to think he'd gotten in over his head. He'd seen quite a few news broadcasts about a mutant who devastated areas of cities through what had appeared to be magnetic manipulation. But that was Dr. Polaris. For one thing, his clothes were way different than this magnetic freak's. And another, this guy said something about 'mutant liberation' Dr. Polaris was just the psychotic alter-ego of an, otherwise, respectable scientist.
But, that was something that couldn't really, be concentrated on, at the moment. Kyle had several lamp posts to worry about, plus the remaining metal creatures, AND he had to try and keep the rest of the metallic debris off the others...or so he thought...
"Azarath subsisto totus!" A powerful female voice rang forth and all of the metal projectiles were stopped in midair as they were surrounded in a hazy black glow.
"You really should be more careful about when you choose to interfere, Lantern." Raven, the half demon, half human child of a mystical alter universe, who eventually came to return to her mother's home universe, which was the same as Kyle's, came floating up next to Him.
The metal pieces were brought together and slammed into the remaining sentinals with concussive force. The debris was then dropped. "I came to this world at the same time you did, and have been watching just as long. It seems you were lucky because of this."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister looked up to the new woman flying besides the lantern it was obvious that it was her powers that had stopped Magnetos attacks. A Smile glazed over Sinisters face " Green Giant why not introduce us to your ....friend" . It was not like Sinister had not expected new arrivals but this ones powers seemed mystical which was not unheard of in his world, but it was not something he had ever researched thoroughly.
Sinisters eyes turned to gambit as he spoke to him " Now be careful with this one will you ? " He said as he held his hand out revealing another mechanical spider. Grumbling a little he turned to see the Hulks form still there it was always something to see an engine of pure destruction.
Lowthor
"If you'd made it out of plastic it wouldn't have happened the first time around." He said with a grin and took the spider device, then set off in the direction of Mystique. Before he left he turned back towards the Hulk, but he shook his head and carried on. The Hulk wouldn't be anything but a hindrance to him on this job.
Somewhere else on this world, not far from the area where Apocalypse was basing himself, another man from Kyle's universe was creeping about, investigating what was going on. He kept to the shadows, and his black cape allowed him to remain unseen as he watched.
Ullery
Mystique had what looked like some kind of cuff's on her wrists. She was apparently in a different area. "Oh, what happened?" She gazed around and frowned worriedly. "Apocalypse?" "dang, he's gone. And so's magneto."
The hulk roared and tore a lamp-post off with his bare hand. Swinging it in an arch he barely missed striking sinister before letting the thing fly upwards into the air.
Cable gazed at Sinister. "Always getting other's to do your dirty work for you Sinister? I'm surprised, I'd have figured you'd do all the work yourself, like you used to." He gazes up at the green lantern then ducked under the swing of the lamp post. "Watch it green boy!"
Rhysis
"Raven. Am I glad to see you." Kyle dropped his hold over the crumpled sentinal and looked around, raising an eyebrow at the creature this "Banner" had turned in to.
He then looked around, one more time, as if he was searching for something. "So. Any idea where we are? Or if anyone else I would recognize is around?"
Raven had traveled across universes before. That's how she came to the world she now called home. While the sensation of traversing planes was the same, she couldn't help but wonder about how she'd managed to come to this one. The first time had been intentional. This one was not.
She shook her head at Kyle. "I know we traveled to a different universe, but I don't know where we are, or if there are any others from our world here. It would appear, however, that some greater force decided that our presence was needed in order to deal with this, 'Apocolypse' issue the natives seem to be having."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister didn't even flinch as the lamp post came so close to his head that the air ruffled a few stray hairs. His eyes were glued to this so called Raven as he listened to them speaking he smirked as Cable shot off his Mouth before turning his eyes upon him " Nathan Summers go bother Apocalypse with your wastes of breath I have no time for you." Calmly balling his fist he shook his head and moved back a few steps before calling up to the two flying people he didn't know about " You're quiet wrong Raven, We are as much natives here as you are, beyond that Apocalypse is a very powerful nearly invulnerable conqueror from our world. " His eyes narrowed back to the hulk before shaking his head.
Elsewhere a man was darting from shadow to shadow his costume changing with the terrain behind him. He didn't know how he got here or where the hell here was but it had interrupted his nightly patrol of Gotham. The 'old man' was sure to rip into him about the patrol being cut short. As best he could figure this had to be one of Spellbinders tricks. But Spellbinder had never found a way to cut the suits radio out. Being bored and a bit lonely with out some clown to make wise cracks out he started to think aloud " Where the hell is he hiding ? "
Lowthor
"Stop where you are" The black caped man said as he stepped out from behind a large ruined building, who's shadow the costumed man had been hiding in a moment earlier. The light showed him to be quite simply, batman, and from his yellow utility belt he drew out a black bat shaped metal boomerang, and gestured with it. The man seemed to be dressed in a fashion that hinted at his own costume, but it was unlike anything he'd ever employed, or that he'd encountered during the recent events relating to the multiverse.
"Start by telling me exactly who you are?" The other man would recognise the voice as a younger version of Bruce Wayne to that which had trained him.
Gambit was still approaching the location of Mystique, but he had to take a less direct route, and hide several times in order to avoid sentinel patrols.
Ullery
The hulk finally calmed down and began to change back to dr bruce bannor once more.
Cable's one eye flashed a white flash. "It's because of you and Apocalypse that I became your worst nightmare Sinister. Granted my dad has more power in his optic beams then I do in my mutant power. But I lead the resistance against you and apocalypse the first time."
Then Cable got an idea. He pressed the X on his shoulder. "Cyclops, come in, do you read me? Cyclops?" The computer voice responded.
"Transmission not recieved."
Apocalypse knew these mutants well. So if Sinister was looking to betray the mutant, then Apocalypse already had a plan waiting.
Mystique was guarded by a single sentinel robot. "Let me go you miserable metal machine!" She yelled out angrily.
Lowthor
"Bruce? Is that you?" The man in the high tech batsuit asked as he looked at the man who would one day train him.
"What is this?" Batman replied and motioned with the boomerang again. Then he heard something in the distance. "Back into the shadows, now." He said.
The other batman was slightly confused by the situation, but he could not only hear the approaching sentinel, his suit's IR vision could detect it. He ducked back into the shadows, and Batman followed. Then they waited in silence as the sentinel passed.
Gambit had reached a point now amidst the ruined buildings where he could see Mystique and the lone sentinel. He needed to deal with the sentinel, but he had to do so without Mystique managing to escape. This would take some planning, and alittle help wouldn't be unappreciated.
Rhysis
"Well I know one thing, if the two of us are here, then maybe someone else we'd know is around, somewhere."
Kyle balled up his fist and the ring on his finger became surrounded in a green light. Kyle was of the same generation that Terry McGinnis was batman. Thus, it was him that Kyle recognized first. But, he'd seen pictures, and heard plenty of stories about Bruce Wayne's batman. It didn't take him long to notice that both of them were there.
"Okay, now that's just plain wierd." He didn't say anything else but, instead, was surrounded in green, again, and took off to find these double batmen.
Ullery
David puts a hand to his head. "Oh..it came out again...I gotta find a way to stop this process."
Meanwhile, Apocalypse smiled deeply. "Right about now, we should be getting some company." He turns and gazes calmly at Magneto.
"Make sure, our ally, doesn't get any other....surprises."
Magneto nods his head and waits.
"The time is almost here." Apocalypse laughs.
Meanwhile in another part of the city, another portal opens up and a figure drops to the ground with a thud. "Boy, there's just no kidding some people."
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Sinister seemed to have been completely ignored by the two in the sky. Scoffing at them both he turned and started to head off towards the east his red pupil less eyes narrowed upon the path. Right now he had Apocalypse thinking of them all as one group working together which was not even close to Sinisters Grand designs. As he walked off he started to glance around looking for the right kind of place he would need to begin his genetic work again, this time with out Mccoy.
Elsewhere...
Terry Looked to his mentors form hidden in the shadows it was strange that Bruce would be dressed in the old suit let alone out here when he didn't need saving. The sentinel passed quickly as scanning for mutant DNA would not reveal either of the Batmen. " So what are you doing out here old man ? "
Lowthor
"Old man? Who exactly are you?" Batman moved closer to his futuristic doppleganger, and the look on what of his face that was visible showed that he was on the verge of becomming just alittle angry.
Gambit had an idea. If Mystique was a prisoner, then maybe he could convince her that he was on her side. Magneto seemed to control the Sentinels, so if one was being used to guard her, then she had obviously come to a disagreement with either Magneto or Apocalypse. This might work, he thought.
He sprang up from his hiding place behind the Sentinel. It detected him when he left the cover, but he was far faster than it, and he threw a handful of kinetically charged gravel into its face, damaging its optical sensors. Then he jumped onto its body, grabbing hold of its chest plate, and beginning to charge it. His eyes glowed red, and very soon so did the Sentinel's chest when he jumped free just before the mutant hunter robot's entire torso exploded as its power source detinated.
He landed, and then walked towards Mystique, who was glancing about, trying to work out if Gambit was alone. "Don't worry cherie, Gambit is here to help you"...
Ullery
Cable didn't like it. Cable knew sinister was up to something. He looked at Banner. "Meet me at fifth street later, we'll have a chat."
Cable's computer beeped and he gazed at it. "okay computer, take me to that location."
The computer beeped again and cable vanished in particle's of white light.
The particle's of light flashed in between the two batmen and Cable appeared. He held only his smaller weapon and gazed at the two of em."Hi there. I saw you were in the neighborhood so I thought I'd come find out if you were friend or foe."
Meanwhile David start's walking off towards the location he was asked to go to.
Somewhere else in the city. "Boy what a weird looking place."
Bobby gazed around curiously. "huh, guess their not big on bargain sales though."
"Iceman." Bobby's hands formed beams of ice down at his feet and all the way up. Soon his entire being was in a state of ice.
He broke free and used his mutant power to slide up and let him move around easily.
"We've been expecting you x-man." Magneto said with a soft laugh.
Apocalpyse walked out of the shadows. "Welcome to our little trap."
Magneto gathered the surrounding metal and formed it into a cage to drop on top of gambit.
Apocalypse merely waited, standing in front of Mystique.
Apocalypse spoke. "You see, I figured out that, Sinister, the betrayer had a back-up chip in his possession. Obviously I was right in assuming he'd send one of his pawn's to do his dirty deed."
Rhysis
Raven simply looked around as the grouping gradually broke apart. She was, for the most part, an emotionless being. If she let her feelings get out of control it could, very well, be the end of a good section of the planet. So, she remained calm and collected at all times. She spoke quietly as her hands closed together. "Azarath eo lumen." Her body was then surrounded in a black haze, and she was gone, arriving, within seconds, at the side of The Green Lantern.
"They're friend." Kyle had managed to arrive at the spot the two batmen were at just as Cable did. The fact that there were two batmen was the reason he'd come here in the first place. Cable wouldn't know there was only suppose to be one, but Kyle did. He recognized Bruce's costume from old news reports. Terry's was one he'd actually seen in person.
He figured he had little to worry about. He knew the old Batman had worked with his predacessor in the JLA, so his own suite would be recognized as that of a friendly one by both parties.
Raven, being half demon, aged particularly slower than full humans did. Nightwing, or rather, Batman's origional Robin, had introduced them to Bruce before. She nodded to him. She was also aware that the two Batmen were not the same person. Terry was quite a bit smaller than Bruce, and had a much higher voice. Plus, it was just plain obvious, by watching him, that he was not the same Bruce Wayne that she respected so highly. She didn't know the man behind Terry's mask. But, again, she had seen him in action before, and was fairly sure she, too, would be recognized by both of the "Caped Crusaders"
Mithrandirxx
Sinisters eyes worked over the front of an old hospital obviously abandoned. This would be his first stop walking into the structure he moved from room to room gathering the smaller equipment he needed. There was a lot here he would need to come back for or rather send for. He knew Exodus would arrive soon it seemed that it was inevitable. If Sinister and Apocalypse ended up here it would be only a little time till the other great betrayer of Apocalypses dream would surface as well.
Elsewhere....
Terry looked over the suits interfaces it didn't seem like he was being hacked but now he had some freak with a glowing eye and metal arm looking at him and the green lantern. Beyond that the old man seemed to be rather young. " Old man for the moment lets say that you're old and Gotham needed help and you pissed off the robins." Turning his attention back on Cable he narrowed his eyes " Your a cocky one aren't ya, too bad Two face was prettier" Before hearing anything cable could say in reply he looked up to the one person who could more than likely answer his biggest concern "Lantern where the hell are we ? and more importantly how did we get here ? "
Elsewhere still
With a flash of light a hero started to stand his white costume and twin swords rather visible " This isn't Mojo World ? " Shatterstars head hurt like hell he was neither in his world as he knew it or Mojo world. He could however hear a villain bellowing and yammering on and on. Looking down he saw what was a woman in a chains and two other guys and what had once been a problem for mutants everywhere a busted up sentinel. Sheathing his swords he ran down a steep declining slope his star shaped scar around his left eye came into view. He knew who apocalypse was thanks to Cables non-stop talking about him although they had never been formally introduced.
The Cajun however was a member of the X-men from what Shatterstar could recall. The Cajun could see him easily if he looked but as he was behind Apocalypse chances of him being spotted but him were less that likely.
Ullery
Magneto floated upwards and out of the corner of his eye saw the new mutant. "Apocalypse, behind you!" Apocalypse turned his head and gazed at shatterstar. "Hmm. You are from another plane.
Somewhere near the x-men's Realm. Yet distant. I remember a mutant named spiral. Six arms, horned helmet, she could handle eight swords at once if I recall. This matter does not concern you. Leave now, and I shall be leniant!"
Mystique's bonds were broken by Magneto and she changed into a doppleganger of gambit, to make only the other mutant confused.
Magneto would be able to tell who was who by the style. And Apocalypse's powers allowed him to see past her disguise.
"Hey Mon Amie, perhaps we settle dis wit a game o cards que?"
Mystique pulled out a bunch of playing card's and charged em up.
"First we charge da card, den we blow it up!" Mystique tossed the cards at gambit and she dove to the right to avoid the blast and if gambit's staff were close enough, she'd attempt to avoid that as well.
Meanwhile. Cable answered in a serious tone. "Don't bother asking green boy. Where here is, is a mystery to the whole kit and kaboodle of us. I travled here through a time stream for two sole reasons.
One To stop apocalypse, and two To stop Sinister. The only thing my computer can tell me, is that we're somewhere in the later 26th century. But what realm we're in, is where my computer stops."
Iceman glides across the city and glances to the right seeing a greenish glow.
When he stops to investigate he fall's off his ice bridge and quickly uses his power to make a pillar that he slides off of.
"Wow that was close. Uh Cable, what are you doing here?"
Somewhere in the dark alleys of the middle of the city.
A new portal opened up.
"Hahahahaha! Free, we're free at last. Now it's time to wreak havoc.
Now it's time to commit sins."
The voice belonged to an ominous red looking glob full of muscles.
"Now it's time for some Carnage. hahahhaha."
The ominous red form leaped from building to building searching for someone to pulverize.
Lowthor
"You think iron bars stop Gambit?", he turned his head and aked Apocalypse when the cage fell. Then he turned back and focussed his attention of the shape shifter in the cage with him. When Mystique took on his form he just shook his head.
"You might look like Gambit, but there's more to me than this pretty face." He said and pulled out a complete pack of cards from inside his coat.
"Fifty two chances cherie. How lucky are you?" He asked and then charged the pack. He jumped back to the very edge of the cadge and bent the cards back in his hand so that one at a time they flew out at Mystique and the bars of the cage behind her.
"A lantern? Well that explains alot." Batman said as he glanced around between the newcomers. "Kyle,Raven, care to explain who your friends are?" He asked the ones he recognised about the other Batman, and the newly appeared Cable.
Ullery
Mystique pulled her special blaster out of her side pocket and did acrobatic leaps to the top of the cage to avoid the blast.
Soon as the last card flew, She got out of the cage and magneto sealed it shut again. "The cage itself might not keep you in there, but I certainly can, x-man."
Apocalypse laughed and grew taller and picked up the cage in his hand.
"You will be a fine warrior, Mutant."
Apocalypse carried the cage inside with magneto close behind.
Mystique, waited, preparing if necessary to halt the ally.
Meanwhile.
Carnage laughed hysterically and landed on a rooftop.
Carnage swung down suddenly and attacked with a quick to the mid-section of cable.
Cable flew backwards landing into the wall with a thud.
Carnage laughed and gazed at the hero's. "Care to play?"
Rhysis
Kyle looked to Iceman for a moment, then back to the Batmen. "He's right. None of us know where we are. Raven said something about interdimensional travel. Other than that, we're all about clueless."
Then Carnage arrived, and things took an even more odd turn than they had already been doing. His fist balled up and the ring was surrounded in a green light. He waited, though, to see what this creature would do. He knew he was running low on energy, and would need to recharge the ring fairly soon. Luckily, the portal that had taken him had also transported the lamp. It was odd that it hadn't taken anything else, but he wasn't going to argue with the choice of items.
Raven had been about to explain the situation as best she could, when Carnage arrived. The symbiotic spawn of Venom was, to say the least, a strange creature. She, however, did nothing to stop it, at the moment. She saw no real threat in it as of yet. Perhaps that would change.
Mithrandirxx
Sinisters new base was being constructed all thanks to his wonderful abilities and being left alone granted some could more than likely find him if they so wished, but it would not be with out perils.
Elsewhere.....
Terry watched a man made of ice seeminly fall into thier laps but thankfully it seemed to be a man looking for his television provider. "Great even now the old man ignores me when I tell him whats happening! " Terry said a bit in anger. LIstening to the Lantern he nodded and shook his head " Great so we have me, the old man, a lantern, a guy with so high technology computer it only works as a pocket watch, a sorceress and no clu-......." It was then that Carnage attacked Cable, sofar Terry already disliked the guy, but he wouldn't watch someone get butched infront of him. Activating the boosters on the feet of his suit he flew into the air his gliderwings propping out as he went up and did a u-turn flying back at Carnages Back .
Elsewhere.....
Shatterstar watched as apocalypse,magneto,gambit, and mystique moved at speeds even Quicksilver would be astonished at. Standing still like a idiot because he could not keep up with thier massive increase of speed appearently made by some random gods ability to manipulate time and force people to hesitate no matter what. Apearently now faced with Mystique he looked at her and ran around her. After Magneto and Apocalypse as well as the member of the X-men.
Ullery
Iceman gazed at carnage. "Woah, looks like we'll have to finish that conversation later!"
Cable stood back up and rolled off to the left. "Okay, now I'm mad." Cable pulled out his hyper-beam gun and aimed it. He fired several shots at the creature.
Mystique turned and aimed her weapon as carefully as she could and fired at shatterstar's back."Hey mon amie!" She changed back to herself."Your not going anywhere."
Indeed as she spoke the words three sentinel's stepped out of the shadow's and dropped a gas bomb at shatterstar's feet.
"Initiate capture mode of mutant." One sentinel said.
David was waiting at the coordinate's patiently, unfortunateley, he was captured by a sentenial.
Apocalypse and Magneto walked side by side, and at one intersection of the headquarter's, they turned and a barrier of some alien technology rose up behind them.
Carnage more or less could feel the slight heat rise and quickly spun about sending a shot of webbing out of his wrist. Then a blast just missed his foot and Carnage laughed hysterically as he leaped upward and then flipped backwards to land behind the original batman, where he then leaped to cling to the side of a building. He gazed at the new batman and laughed. "Feeling a little dark? Well I'm feeling a little red haahahahahaha!"
Lowthor
Batman span about to face Carnage, and hurled the bat shaped boomerang he was carrying at the wall an inch below where Carnage was clinging.
"That explains this one." He said and pointed to Terry. "You must be from the future. I've been working on that batsuit design for the last few years. Now then. Everyone I don't know had better introduce themselves very quickly. It isn't safe here with those mechanical monstrosities nearby, not to mention our red friend up there."
He took out another boomerang, this time one with a built in explosive charge that would detonate a second after impacting.
"Gambits going to get angry." The cajun commented as he reached into his coat. He had two whole packs of cards left, and a few loose cards too. Unfortunately he was faced with the two most powerful mutants after Jean, and Jean's not exactly around anymore. He waited for the time being. He could have charged part of the cage up to the point where it would explode and he could escape, but this might be a good way to find out what was going on.
Mithrandirxx
As Carnage moved aside from the assualt that the young Terry Mccginess was about to administer Terry fell to the ground a massive hole in his chest steaming where two of Cables horribly aimed blasts had collided with Terrys Chest. Below the young dark knight of Gothams future copious amounts of blood splattered the ground. Clearly he was dead.
Elsewhere.....
Shatterstar was compleatly supprised the Sentinals had somehow masted the art of the Ninja as they were so quiet he never even heard thier approach, sadly for them that didn't stop him from running. The gas canister exploded where it landed but Shatterstars enhanced speed and mastery of martial arts taught him well to control his breathing even while running. Continueing after Magneto and Apocalypse he was clearing out side the range of Mystiques gun.
Elsewhere still.....
Sinister smiled at the display monitor in his new lair. Watching Apocalypse and Magneto as they led the way to thier base of operations.
Rhysis
Raven was use to death. The futuristic batman's demise did little to upset her. She still wasn't sure this red creature was all that much of a threat. Cable just seemed a bit too aggressive for his own good.
Kyle wasn't quite so composed as his dark-clad associate upon seeing a well known companion die. His eyes glared over to Cable and then he shot his gaze back to Carnage, firing multiple blasts from his ring toward the creature, trying to anticipate where he would go.
Ullery
"Ooh! he took it right to the chest." Cable ran over to where the future batman was and kneeled down next to the clad crusader.
"Computer, is there any chance to travel back in time with a comrade, to reverse a miscalculation in direction of a shot I just made?"
Carnage laugh's manically until he get's hit by one of those green hammer blasts and goes flying through a set of windows to land on the other side.
"Ooh, time to regroup. Hahahha."
Carnage leaps past a few buildings and resume's his alter-identity to be not noticed.
Arriving at the main computer console, Magneto bends the bars to allow Gambit to walk out freely.
"Well, mutant, what do you think of my lair?" Apocalypse asks gazing at the x-man. "Come to my side, X-man, there's no need for the likes of us to battle when we'd make better, as friends."
Lowthor
Gambit walked out of the cage, and plucked out a card he'd secreted in his sleeve.
"Gambit has a name, and we're all mutants here Apocalypse. How about you start telling me what you're up to, or I'll see what the ace of spades can do to your equipment."
Once carnage had been scared away by Kyle's blasts, Batman turned back to the others. He was very close to beating Cable into a pulp for what the idiot had done, and his blazee attitude to the incident. There were more pressing matters at hand than revenge for the death of a future pupil.
"Lantern, think you can keep an eye on our red snarling friend?" He asked, and then pulled out a grappling hook from his utility belt.
"I'm going to head to higher ground and survey the area." He said and then cast the hook upwards. It caught on the edge of one of the more complete buildings, and then Batman quickly used it to climb the wall
Mithrandirxx
Shatterstar Looked over the area that had become A joint compound for Magneto and Apocalypse it was impressive perhaps, but nothing incompare to Mojos bases. Looking back and forth he seemed to have lost track of the two Villians and the X-man they had in captivity grumbling he began to look around for traps and other such to avoid being blown sky high,
Elsewhere
Batman of the future remained dead, there was no way to stop such a fate. Cable had killed a hero, and was left powerless to repent.
Still elsewhere
Sinister began herding peoples from the local population to begin his experiments.
Rhysis
Kyle nodded and took to the sky just in time to see the symbiot change appearance. He took a quick scan using his ring, and came back down to the group. "I can track him, but there's something I've got to do."
With that, Green Lantern took to the sky, again, and went off to retrieve something vital to his continued usefulness.
Raven simply watched, as usual. The Green Lantern had managed to scare off the crimson abomination. So for now, she would remain the silent observer.
Ullery
"Any alteration of the time stream of present could destroy the fabric of time itself. Any attempt's to restore the future hero cannot be achieved at this time."
Cable closed his gray-gloved fist as his eyes closed. "No! There must be a way. Cable's eyes glowered when he opened them and picked the poor dead hero into his arms. He gazed with a strenous stare of sadness at the hero he'd killed. "Computer, take us to coordinates 91033." "Processing."
The visage of cable along with the poor dead hero were transported to the coordinates.
Meanwhile, shatterstar might hear the soft groans of a human tied to a incredious looking machine. A dna splicer by the looks of it.
Apocalypse replies with a straight look on his face. "You want to know, x-man? Then look around you, all this equipment was designed to aid our kind. To enhance our ability's by a margin of fifty percent. So far, it's proven useful against mastermold's sentinels. Granted I made some changes to a handful of his collective, but I assure you if the future continues as I have forseen, then master mold, may soon locate us and put a stop to all our kind."
"It's why I agreed to help Apocalypse. If Master Mold get's his hands on the time quantom generator that brought you here, He'll be able to alter our lives so that we don't ever get a chance to exist!" Magneto add's floating above the ground. "And if I or another mutant were to destroy the time generator, it would throw the entire fabric of space and time off it's axis and we'd all be hurdled into oblivion."
Carnage walked into a building, and changed his clothes to try to throw off the heros.
There he walked casually through the crowds.
Iceman gazed up at batman and followed after him.
"Need a lift? I can ice us on up to thirty feet if you need a higher vantage point."
Deep up in the sky, a dark portal glowed and twisted and blew wind across the eastern sea-board.
Lowthor
"Quite a story." Gambit replied, and looked more closely at the equipment. "I suppose I have to take your word for this? Neither of you are above manipulation for your own ends."
"The coast looks clear from what I can tell." Batman responded. He'd taken a small pair of binoculars from his utility belt just before Iceman arrived, and used them to scan the horizon. He put them back and turned to the mutant.
"If any of those giant machines comes back this way I should be able to spot it from up here. Any higher and we could risk detection."
Ullery
"Did I forget to mention that Sebastian Shaw and his college's have joined with mastermold for this little scheme?" Magneto asks. "It won't be too long before the lot of them come to claim what they want." "As for proof." Apocalypse walks over to a monitor and presses a button. "Mystique managed to record every word from the collective before shaw discovered who she was."
A video feed shows Sebastian shaw in the headquarters of the group.
"Obviously, that lunatic Apocalypse and mr magneto will no doubt need a refresher on why it pays to back off from us."
Frost replys."If they only knew that we were in league with master mold, they'd really need some kind of trap."
The illusionist speaks up. "If we're to properly control mastermold, we'll need lots and lots of sentinels. And as you well know, sentinel material's are very easy to come by."
The video feed goes dead. "After that, they discovered who Shalara Jones really was and tried to capture her to keep her quiet."
Magneto closes a fist. "You can imagine my distaste after hearing that they attempted to capture, one of my frineds."
"Lucky for us, we got Juggernaugt on our side."
"Yes, the mystical, juggernaugt, will probably arrive in fifteen days time. But even with him, master mold and the collective together will be....difficult."
Iceman nods and then slides on down to the ground.
Meanwhile from the portal comes a very familiar face.
Chains move in mysterious ways and both eyes open, a ghastly green inside of them.
"Ahhh." Spawn moans as he sits up.
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Sinisters Lair was progressing nicely as were a few new Toys. His Red eyes turned as they looked over the first set of monitors he had floating around the lands gathering intell on who all the players in this new world were. He had caught the death of the young dark knight as well as a few images of Carnages mild defeat. It was only a matter of time till Carnage would become a thorn in everyones collective asses. Looking to some of his new "employees " (Slaves) he saw that the collars were indeed ready similar to the collars used in Genoca .
Elsewhere
Shatterstar looked at the first building where Apocalypse and Magneto had Taken Gambit. Drawing one of his swords he cut through the doors locking mechanism and stared into the hall watching for booby-traps.
Ullery
Spawn gazed quietly at the environment. "Wanda." he called out in trepidation. "WANNNNNNDAAAA!" He yelled in anger his cloak billowing in the breeze.
Spawn got up and leaped to the nearest rooftop.
From there he gazed across and found a store with weapons.
Spawn walked to the displays and smashed one grabbing a couple of m180 machine guns. He grabbed a couple of grenades.
Running down the street spawn billowed his cloak about himself making him temporarily invisable.
Meanwhile in two seperate part's of town.
Two different portals opened up.
A fat jolly looking clown landed in a cafeteria that was closed for the night and laughed. "Hahahhaa, okay spawny, I'm comin to play hide and seek the spawn." The tongue lolled out of his mouth for a moment as the blue and white faced clown went walking out the cafeteria.
From the other portal came a thuddering crashing of a deserted building as it plummeted.
When the dust and debris had settled, a hand lay in the midst of the collapse.
A strange shape seemingly appeared beyond the debris.
The S symbol.
Rhysis
It figured as much. His luck was just that way. The one place that he was positive was deserted, and he figured would be an okay place to keep what he was now looking for, had been turned into a pile of rubble right in front of him. "Of course...why not? Everything else is going wrong. This seems like a perfect addition."
He moved over to the mound of debris and started moving chunks in search of the item that was becomming more and more vital that he locate. That's when he saw it...the hand. At first he started to panic and the adrenaline pumped as he threw rocks aside, no longer confident that his ring had enough power to complete the job. Then he stopped and sighed as he saw the symbol. Upon that, he dropped the rock he was holding and spoke questioningly. "Big Blue?"
Lowthor
Batman continued to search the horizon, but for now the coast we clear. Things were clearly taking place. He was on another world, along with several individuals from his own version of Earth, but also others from another. They were either natives, or from a third Earth, and from what he could gather, this was not their home either.
He reached into his utility belt and took out a multi-purpose communicator. He popped open a panel on the side and turned a pair of miniature dials. The device had been created a few years earlier during the height of the Justice League, but since the events of Sue Dibney's death, and the recent Crisis, it had found little use. The setting now would allow it to transmit a signal to a Green Lantern's ring.
"Kyle. This is Batman. Do you copy?" He spoke into the small microphone hidden in his cowl, which relayed the signal wirelessly to the communicator.
Gambit watched the video feed, but he still had one eye on the two mutants in the room with him. "And you would be the lesser of two evils then? Or should that be the lesser of three evils? Frankly the idea of helping the pair of you, or Sinister doesn't sound right to Gambit."
Ullery
"As I recall on genosha we did work together, you x-men and myself" Magneto said gazing at gambit. "And Xavier and I are old friends that go back long before he designed the x-men."
"I probably shouldn't be so surprised that you don't see the threat behind master mold. But think of this Gambit. If Master mold's creations were to get their hands on Apocalypse's technology then all mutants as we know them, will cease to exist. Apocalypse and myself joined forces because we are mutants, granted Apocalypses true vision in the past has been blindsided but it hasn't been us against each other since we discovered what Mastermold is up to."
"uh." The red S symbol shone clearly and the hand twitched.
Superman's head and neck shot up out of the rubble. "Great Krypton!" He looked around and saw the glowing green costume. "Green Lantern? What in blazes happened? Last thing I remember was flying over Metropolis airport when I spotted Lex Luthor fiddling with some kind of space-machine. Where are we?"
Carnage waited inside a hotel.
"Soon it will be necessary to seek out others like myself."
Meanwhile Bruce Banner was being held prisoner by a legion of sentinels in an unknown disclosed location in the city, awaiting the arrival of master mold.
Spawn heard a rumble in the city and leaped over several tall buildings trying to find other signs of life.
"Wanda." He spoke softly. "I have to find her."
The jolly clown walked to one of those bars that were closed for the night and smashed down the door, going for the food and drinks.
Once he was satisfied he walked out and headed toward court street.
Mithrandirxx
Shatterstar walks directly into the room where Gambit and his captors stand. Looking around he grumbles a little wondering why no one seems to have noticed him.
Rhysis
Kyle reached down to help his associate out of the rubble. Not that he needed it, but it was still easier to get up that way. "I wish I could tell ya. Raven and Batman are here too, as well as a bunch of guys I've never seen before. None of us seem to know. I think Raven may have a bit more knowledge than she's letting on, though."
Ullery
(I only have enough time for one reply as supes, everyone else is on hold until I can get enough access to send more then one reply per couple days or so)
Superman took the hand and rose to his feet.
"Raven's here? I haven't seen here since she first went off radar from the Jla computer databases some years back."
Superman gazed out across the area. "Looks quiet enough, for the moment. Luckily for us, Lex Luthor's safely behind prison bars. And brainiac is on a leave of absense last I heard."
Lowthor
"Well if you're the good guys, as you say. You wont keep Gambit against his will." Gambit pulled a coin out of his sleeve and started to roll it between his fingers.
"Gambit's going to see for himself." He moved towards the door, waiting for the inevitable attempt to stop him.
Ullery
Apocalypse just gazed after the mutant spotting shatterstar but leaving the mutant alone for now.
"Very well X-man your free to go if that's what you wish."
Magneto gazes at gambit quietly. "Remember Cajun, if Master Mold does indeed arrive in this plane, my forces will not be able to hold against his for very long. Let's not let what happened on my beloved moonbase, to befall us here."
Superman looks at green lantern. "Shall we take to the skies and see if we can locate raven?"
Mithrandirxx
Shatterstar Looked at Gambit and then to Apocalypse and Magneto it seemed strange to say the least that these three would be in a room gotether with out the room exploding in an all out fight and with himself as a spectator none the less " Lets go Gambit, I'm confussed and this place smells" he said keeping his eyes locked on the two super villans behind Gambit.
Lowthor
"Shatterstar? Gambit recognises you. I'll explain on the way out of here." He said and lead the other man out of the room. When they were at least two coridoors away from the two men Gambit least expected to be working together he spoke again. "They claim that Mastermold has been rebuilt and that the Hellfire Club are working with it in some kind of bid for power. I'm not convinced, but at least Gambit got out of there without a fight."
Ullery
Mystique walks from another corridor.
She gazes at Shatterstar and Gambit.
She morphs herself into a copy of Gambit. "Hey mon amie, keep your eyes on Sinister and his doings eh? wouldn't want you ta be caught up in a tangled web of lies."
She then changes into shatterstar's copy and walks up to them gazing at them. "And comrade. Do not make the mistake to trust Mr.Sinister. As much usefulness as he has."
Mystique returns to her normal self. "he's all bad. There isn't a single drop of nice in him,." she gazes back at the cajun walking around him and gently nudging him with her hip. She changes into a copy of rogue. "See ya around sugah!" She calmly walks away from them changing back to her own form.
Rhysis
Kyle looked to the Man of Steel and shrugged. "I'm gonna leave the decision making up to you, Supes. One thing, though..."
He balled up his fist and held the ring out to his companion. The ring sparkled green for just a second, and then a sizzling sound could be heard. "I gotta recharge, and the lantern is somewhere in this rubble. Care to help me find it?"
Ullery
"Sure." Superman replied using his x-ray vision on the steel and concrete structure.
He gazed through the rubble to where the lantern was.
"It's over here."
Superman picked up one of the larger heavy pieces of rubble and placed it down somewhere else, the lantern glowing calmly.
"Good thing it didn't break." Superman looked at Lantern. "You'll probably want to be alone for this."
Superman floats upwards with a thought and flys off to the right a little ways keeping watch for enemies.
Mithrandirxx
Shatterstar looked to Gambit and nodded as they turned to walk out the corridor he had entered through his eyes narrowing as the form of Mystique came into view the morphing was a bit of a shock but then again after living in Mojoworld you got used to not showing shock. "Right and Apocalypse, Magneto, and yourself are the good guys!?!?" he said in a mocking tone before turning back to Gambit. " Well if Mastermold was here why would it be working with Mutants against Mutants ? Its always been something to go after any and all of us right ? Besides that I know that blue Harpy sent a few of those giant tin rockem sockem robots after me, seems like they are the ones in league with Mastermold to me."
Elsewhere.....
Mr. Sinisters new base was coming along swimmingly that and his experiments were going into production now. Even if they were not on earth it was evident the majority of the population in the area he was in shared a similar genetic code as those from earth but the X-factor gene was missing or undeveloped. Yet, where the X-factor was not present other genes were that were much like new toys on Christmas something new to play with and something beyond what Sinister had ever hopes to get out of child of Jean Gray and Scott Summers.
Lowthor
"Oui. Gambit agrees mon amis." He said, then remained silent until they were fully outside the complex. He activated his communicator again, but it remained unresponsive.
"Even Wolverine would be good to have around. Where are we?" He shook his head then headed up the slope away from the complex. Time to investigate matters himself.
Batman finished scanning the horizon, then tried to communicate with Kyle again. "Kyle. Lantern. Can you hear me? This is batman."
Mithrandirxx
Shatterstar looked to Gambit as he spoke in his hushed tone leaving the base of Magneto and Apocalypse seemed almost too easy, as the reached the open air of the outside air Shatterstar spoke" You're comrads or Mine, would be helpful eitherway, but at the moment looks like we only have each other for back up. Where we are looks similar to some of the forced entertainment in Mojoworld, but I am sure we arn't there. "
"Once again! I am Victorious! My plan to start the new generation will begin!"The blue skinned villain spoke into the air. "All will tremble before the might of Apocalypse. But first, I will have to seek out some help." The insane Apocalypse. quite possibly the worlds most powerful mutant.
Lowthor
There was a crackle of electrical energy followed by a loud bang, and then the blue skinned villain laughed to himself. He'd just activated a device constructed from the technology of the 29th century. A man fell to the ground of the glass chamber unconscious. He wore a brown duster coat, and reddish brown hair sprouted from the top of his head.
Ullery
Apocalypse walked off, never noticing the form slumped down at the ground. Gazing off wildly, Apocalypse walked away into the realm. He gazed around with intent and continued to walk in a Northern direction to find a hideout. A place where his plan's could prosper.
Lowthor
The man rolled over onto his back and then swore in French. "Where've you ended up now Remmy?" He said and then groaned. The force of being dragged back through time had given him a headache that not even a week spent drinking absinth could achieve.
Ullery
"Uh...." Dr.David Bruce Banner opened his eyes and heard talking. "Probably the same place I ended up!" Banner tried to lift his head but it was still pounding. "What the heck happened?"
Lowthor
"Wish I could help mon amis" he tried to sit up, but something wasn't co-operating and he slumped back to lie on his back. "Who're you anyway?"
Ullery
"Names Banner, David Banner."David took a deep breath and got dizzily to his feet, he walked around to where the other man was and extended his hand both in friendship and to help the other guy up. He glances around and frowns. "I don't think we're in new York anymore chum!"
Lowthor
He grabbed the man by the forearm and with help climbed to his feet. "Thanks Dave. Names Remmy Le Beau, but they call me Gambit, and I don't know about you, but I wasn't in New York to start with."
Ullery
"Well where-ever we are, it sure isn't where we ought to be." David said. "Last thing I remember was picking up a electrical manifestation at the statue of liberty shortly before my gadget malfunctioned due to an increase in the vortex of the time/space continuum."
Meanwhile.
Apocalypse was busy searching along the remnants of a road to find anyone whom seemed worthy of aiding the mutant.
Lowthor
"Well odd as it sounds I think I was in Kansas." He laughed and then walked over to the nearest wall of the glass chamber. It was smooth and when he tapped his knuckles on it he got the impression it was pretty thick. "So any idea where we are now?"
Mithrandirxx
In the Distance watching a pair of red eyes pulsated as they watched the mutant and the monster sit and chat it was time to Show himself. As his blue metallic suit moved down the hill of rubble his white skin and red diamond on his forehead came into view. His Black hair brushed back as he looked upon the two waiting for them to notice him, Mr. Sinister smirked a cruel smirk. Before he spoke getting tired of their quiet dribble " Genetic garbage seems to be the only thing save for him here" .
Ullery
(psst, just to confirm, David hasn't hulked out yet. He doesn't do that unless he get's nervous or angry) David looks suddenly to the far left of him. "Better question Remy, who the heck is that?" He gazes at the blue metallic suit. "could be admantium. hmm." David mutters gazing intently at the form of Sinister.
Lowthor
He hit the glass a bit harder, then cradled his knuckles in the palm of his other hand, then looked to where Banner was pointing. "He looks familiar, but I can't think how he'd be involved in this. Sinister?" He shook he head and then out his boot to the glass. A sound rang out, but the glass still didn't break.
Ullery
"Hmm." David notices that Remy is trying to break the glass. "Maybe I can be of assistance in getting this glass opened." David walks over to an old looking chair and comes back. Judging carefully David swing's the chair and it breaks in half, but it leaves the glass undamaged. "Well that's unusual. Normally glass breaks with a heavy object."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister's eyes narrow upon the two and their attempts to open their prison. Shaking his head at Gambits punching and kicking he smirked at the chair and chuckled a little. " I would be worried about the amount Air in there if I were you better to kill the other it'll let you live longer " He said before turning his back two the two in the glass prison. Something was up but was It Apocalypse's plan or someone elses.
Lowthor
"Okay hitting it doesn't work, but how about this, stand back." He moved to stand with his back against one wall and then plucked a playing card from his sleeve. It was the seven of diamonds, but that is irrelevant. The card glowed an eerie red as he charged it with kinetic energy and then threw it at the glass wall at the point furthest from him. He shielded his face with his arm, and with good reason, for the glass cracked in several directions, and a not insubstantial collection of glass shards flew out, some away from the mutant, but many towards.
Ullery
"What are you..." David is cut off as the glass explodes. David raises his arm to protect his face and a shard of glass cuts his arm."Ahhh!"David's eyes suddenly begin to turn a white green color. His groan of pain begins to become something more....barbaric and animalistic. His body grows and his shirt button's pop one by one tears appear in the shoulder areas of the shirt. His toes bust out of the shoes and his body turns green. his pants rip and he growls in anger. "Raaaaaaaaah roaaaaah!" The hulk walks forward and slams a fist into the glass shattering it so it's wide enough to escape from. "RAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The hulk growls as it begins to lift the glass prison off the ground, giving Remy enough time to escape before it's fully over the hulks head.
Meanwhile, servants poured to do Apocalypse's bidding. Thinking carefully Apocalypse sent one of the servant's to find Mr.Sinister. It was a little over a minute before the servant approached Mr.Sinister. "Lord, Master Apocalypse desires to speak with you! will you come?"
Rhysis
What some people would consider the luckiest man alive, Kyle Rayner, watched from a distance. There he was, a semi-successful freelance artist, minding his own business, when a ring literally fell into his lap. He put it on, and now...he's Earth's Green Lantern.
"Well, he's certainly got a good color to him." Kyle was fascinated. He thought he'd encountered, or at least heard of, most of Earth's superhero and super villain personalities. These ones, however, he had no recollection of whatsoever. "Kinda savage, though."
He decided to hang back a while longer and wait to see how things played out. He wasn't, exactly, sure who he should be rooting for, as of yet. He'd learned not to judge a book by it's cover. Good thing, too. Between Gambit's raggedy trench coat, Banner's monstrous green transformation, and Mr. Sinister's vampire stereotype look, none of these guys really looked like your average hero.
Lowthor
Gambit leaped out from under the glass structure before Banner threw it to the ground. Then he ran alittle way off before turning back to face him. The man was clearly out of control, so Gambit plucked another card from his sleeve, but he didn't do anything with it as of yet. "You're the hulk?" He shouted to Banner.
Mithrandirxx
Sinister's red eyes narrowed upon Apocalypse's servant with destain and disgust " Master Apocalypse ? Master ? He has no power over me, I will speak with Apocalypse if he can give me Scott and Alex Summers dead bodies then and only then will I speak with your Master. " He said turning and looking at the chaos that was ensuing as the Hulk's Transformation continued.
Ullery
"RAH!" The hulk answered throwing the thing on the floor. He calmed after that initial rage. His anger swallowed away by the destruction. Hulk went behind a building and sat down. Slowly the process of reverse-transformation, touched him. When the hulk had stepped back out of the alley, Banner once again stood where the behemoth was. He walks over to Gambit and puts a hand to his face. "I can't control the transformations." he speaks out softly to Remy. "When I get nervous, or angry, that ...monster shows up. It haunts my dreams and it's the...savage wild angry side that all humans possess."
Lowthor
"That's not too good." He said and then tucked that card back up his sleeve. "Well now that we've escaped from the device. We should find out where we are, and how we can leave. I think we should start with Mister Sinister." He said as he turned to look in the direction the geneticist had walked off in.
Ullery
"good idea." David replied. "Let's go." David started walking off in the direction of Sinister.
"And that's what he said, Master." The servant said to the mighty mutant. Apocalypse gazed intently at his servant. "Scott summers, hmm. Yes, I recall now, the so called leader of the x-men. But I wonder who Alex summers could be. Hmm."
Meanwhile in another time-frame and dimension. "Computer, why is the future changing? Tell me!" The muscular individual spoke into something on his wrist. The only part that could be seen of the individual was the gray-looking glove on his hand. "Time is being altered in another dimension. Causing this future, to cease to exist." "Father!" A boy cried. The figure turned. "Tyler!" The boy vanished into thin air as waves of blue particles took him from the present setting of time. "No!" "Computer, take me to the alteration in time. Now!" The figure ran quickly from some gun-toting robots. "Time grid accessed. Destination set." The figure vanished in a streak of blue light particles.
Mithrandirxx
Sinister, watched quietly as the sky scape changed the clouds rolled by and the brilliant blue started to fade into a grayish hue, dusk was upon them. Turning around slowly his glowing red eyes narrowed on the forms of Gambit and Dr. Banner as they ascended the first hill towards him. As the sun started to lower further below the horizon he stood silent waiting for the mutant and altered human to come to him.
Ullery
Apocalypse gazed at the new world and the new places to go and conquer. "This world shall be mine, and my vision of a new age, shall be fulfilled!"
Meanwhile.
"There he is now." Bruce said gazing past the crest of the hill. "Bout time we caught up to him. Pretty fast for all that armor."
And in another section of Ayenee. "Computer. Locate the X-men. I'm going to need their help to change the timeline back."The computer scans and beeps. "All x-men original signature's non transported."
"What? You mean to tell me, there are no x-men on this landscape?"
"Affirmative, all x-men life sign's have been dispersed.""Apocalypse what have you done? First my son, and now this? I'll see that you pay!
Lowthor
Gambit climbed over a boulder and nodded to Banner's comment. "He's pumped himself with DNA from mutants mon amis. He's powerful." Gambit said and picked up a small stone about the size of a marble, then continued walking up the rubble strewn slope. He idly rolled the pebble around in his left hand as he went and he could see Mr Sinister much closer now. As if suddenly reminded of something he stopped for a moment and tapped the X-shaped button on his own body armour under the duster. There was a beep followed by the message "No Signal" in an annoying high pitched voice. He shrugged and then continued up the slope once more.
Rhysis
The green lantern continued to watch from a distance, trying to figure things out. Firstly, who were these people, and what were they trying to do? Second, why on Earth didn't he recognize any of them? Sure, he may have been relatively new to the whole 'superhero' scene, but these guys all seemed like they would be pretty big time news. He would just have to watch more, to try and figure out who he should be helping, if any of them.
Mithrandirxx
Sinisters eyes narrowed on a small object in the sky that had not moved much for sometime but unlike any vessle he had encountered it was with out even the slightest hum or movement. He studied the Lantern from his vantage point paying little heed to the mutant and the good doctor whom had atleast by now reached a few feet from him his eyes unblinking. Breaking his eyes from the Lantern his gaze fell upon Gambit " Bringing me more Toys to play with are we Gambit ? " He said pointing to Dr. Bruce Banner while letting out a small chuckle.
Ullery
"Toy?" Banner said with an eyebrow raised. "I am a doctor of science and medicine. I'm not some toy."
Meanwhile
Apocalypse "Ah, my plans will soon be complete. and I will be the ultimate savior."
Rhysis
"Well you've certainly done it this time, Kyle." Yes, he was talking to himself. He was starting to think that, maybe, he'd traveled somewhere else. This thought came about as he started to look around and realized he didn't recognize much of anything around here. It wasn't just the other mutants.
"So now what?" He kept watching, for now, fully aware that he had been spotted by one of the others. They seemed too preoccupied with their own machinations to worry about a neutral observer. He suspected that, if he didn't know who any of them were, then they likely didn't know who he was. Of course, that wasn't to say they wouldn't recognize the green outfit from a different green lantern. Some of these guys looked like they'd traveled the galaxy a few times. -No matter.- He thought. -I'm the only lantern left. Any beef these guys had with someone else ain't my problem...I hope.-
Lowthor
"Our association is over Sinister and it wont be resuming", Gambit said as he fixed his eyes upon the geneticist. He still rolled the small stone around in his hand as he spoke. "Now why don't you tell us where we are, and what you're doing here?" The tone of his voice carried a very real threat of violence. Mr Sinister may have brought the mutant's powers down to a level Gambit could control, but the Cajun was still a dangerous opponent.
Mithrandirxx
"Gambit, I'm hurt, but you and I both know you are of no threat to me. " His voice calm and chilling. Looking to Banner he simply chuckled And then spoke " A Doctor of Medicine and Science you say thats humerous you have caused more damage and killed more people than any Doctor of Medicine I have heard of" Looking up to the Lantern he smirked a little and then looked back to Gambit " Now Remmy I see no reason to explain myself or this place to you. Unless of course you're willing to do me a little favor."
Ullery
Banner gazes deeply at sinister* "Blood? Blood? I didn't kill anyone! I lost ....control once or twice, yes, but never killed someone."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister Stared at the confussed doctor a moment before shaking his head and speaking " Oh thats right the hulk did it all, never did the good doctor hurt anyone what a laugh! You are as much a piece of the monster as the monster is a piece of you. You drive the monster and you claim no deaths have befallen any who have stood by ? How many buildings have you destroyed ? How many lives do you think each building had? You may be willfully ignorant of the mayham and death you have caused but that's not my concern. "
Rhysis
"Alright, dude. That's about enough." Kyle had been listening in by using the ring. He was still not 100% sure what the limits of this thing were, but he knew he hadn't found any yet. He'd managed to come over to the little grouping rather quickly upon hearing Sinister's tone toward Gambit and Banner. He was now glaring down at the pale villian while he gradually descended to stand between Sinister and Banner. "Accusin' people of murder is no way to make friends. Now play nice."
Lowthor
"Mr Sinister doesn't play nice." Gambit replied to the newcomer. "Now what favour do you want from me this time?" He was getting alittle annoyed by now. Having worked with Sinister in the past allowed him to know exactly the way the genetecist liked to manipulate people.
Mithrandirxx
OOC Note ( I was going to wait for Ullery to get here and post but it seems he has completely skipped this one)
Sinister glanced to the green lantern for a moment before scoffing " So you're telling me to be nice to a murderer ? Is that anyway for a hero to act ? Let him go he says he didn't kill anyone but the bullets say otherwise..... " Shaking his head he turned a quick eye to Gambit " Now then Remmy The task I want you to look in on is Apocalypse, He sent a minion to me a little bit ago asking for my presence, I want you to go scout out the area Apocalypse is using for a base of operations and who is with him, and what their powers are simple, no? "
Lowthor
"Apocalypse is here?" The Cajun asked with a touch of disbelief, and more than a touch of concern. "It does seem like his way of doing things. I'll look in on what he's doing, but I would have anyway." He rolled the pebble across the back of his hand, tossed it up in the air and caught it again.
Rhysis
Okay, so he didn't know jack diddly and/or squat about a single person around here. However, in his experience, he'd managed to learn that the bad guys, for the most part, had the tendancy to take on less-than friendly nicknames.
That being the case, "Sinister" was certainly not at the top of Kyle's A list. However, somehow "Apocolypse" just sounded a tad more threatening. He looked back and forth between the two for a moment, before finally asking.
"Who in the blue blazes is Apocolypse?"
Ullery
"Apocalypse is the most dangerous mutant in the entire universe, He's a real down to Earth and any other planet threat to civillian lives."
A rough, rugged voice responded from behind them. He was dressed in a light blue uniform with an unusual X near the top of the brestplate. He had one eye that seemed to flash or glow mysteriously, and most importantly of all, He was packing several heavy duty weapons.
"Hello Cajun, Glad to see your still alive."
"Apocalypse is the reason I'm here. He's been causing my time period to change, Again. This time, they've destroyed my son Tyler. So this time, it's personal."
Mithrandirxx
Sinister looked slightly amused by the lack of knowledge on the green mans hands. " Ah about as dim as your costume makes you appear wonderful" Casting a long sideways look at the Cajun he nodded " Yes you would have but you wouldn't have been willing to share that information with me had you found him on your own. His encampment is to the north of this area" Looking down he saw Cable the elusive occasional member of the X-men a desire burned in sinister to get his hands on Cables DNA it was the dna of both Scott Summers and Jean Gray two mutants he had spent many years chasing to get a hint of their DNA. With a little blink he spoke " My such a dramatic entrance and story too, maybe with all your gadgets you'll make a movie of it ? and possibly popcorn ? " he said with a mild chuckle.
Ullery
Cable gazed with a sardonic look at sinister.
"Your nearly as bad Sinister, you almost took out my father in 2000!" "So Popcorn this!" Cable swung his hand to his side and took out a thermal grenade, he pulled the pin and threw the grenade at sinister.
Rhysis
Kyle looked to the newcomer as his question was answered in an unexpected manner. The most dangerous mutant in the universe? And he didn't know about him?
In truth, Apocalypse was probably not the most dangerous, what with mutants like The In-Betweener, Ego and Thanos around. Actually, it was quite likely that he wasn't even the most infamous, considering there were creatures like Galactus, Dr. Doom and Magneto. He was certainly at the top of the list, though.
In Kyle's universe, the question as to the most dangerous and infamous was just as much up in the air, but it was left to such names as The Anti-Monitor, Brainiac and Parallax. There was no Apocalypse. Now if any of them could just figure out that he wasn't from this world...
Kyle's eyes widened as Cable pulled out the grenade and threw it. Now, he may not have known a whole lot about futuristic technology. However, Cable obviously didn't have a great liking for Sinister, and he had a lot of gadgets Kyle had never seen. Still, it boiled down to, regardless of the appearance, a grenade was a grenade. Before it got more than a few feet away from Cable, it was surrounded by a green sphere, suspending it in mid-air.
Kyle moved the sphere next to Cable and glared at him as it exploded, but remained contained within the green glow. He didn't know enough about these people to side with anyone. Even if Cable was right in attacking Sinister, he did it with a weapon that would have killed them all, considering the proximity they had to one another. "Okay, ya know what? How about we think before throwing explosives at people!?"
Lowthor
"Cable. I'm not surprised that you dropped by, when Apocalypse is around you're not normally far behind." He shook his head when the lantern intervened to prevent the thermal grenade going off. He wouldn't have stopped Cable killing Sinister, but at least he hadn't needed to dive for cover himself.
"North then Sinister?" He asked the mutant and then looked to Banner.
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Looking from the lantern to Gambit he seemed ill concerned for the grenade. "I agree with the man in green, we should think before we start wasting ammo, especially when you know you have nothing that can kill me, son!" Shrugging his shoulders a little and craning his neck till it popped loudly he cast his eyes on gambit " Yes to the North I would suggest you hurry before Magneto, The Brotherhood, or anyone else shows up." It seemed a tad odd that the man in green clearly a hero would even attempt to save him, this kid was new to his people and would be a grand toy considering the amount of power his ring seemed to focus.
Ullery
Cable's eyes narrowed at the Green Lantern. "Say, just who are you anyway? I've never seen you hanging around with the x-men." Cable looks at gambit. "Hey cajun, you gonna be makin any of your special gumbo anytime soon? If so, lemme know. That stuff's good enough to give a horse a good kick in the ass." He gazes back at sinister with hatred in his eyes. "Don't think that I won't forget your little comment's later Sinister, just cause green boy saved your ass this time, doesn't mean you'll be able to destroy me any further then what you already attempted to do to me as a kid you sick twisted good for nothing sorry excuse for a mutant!"
Cable gazes at the group and his eye flashes. "When we see apocalypse, just Try to stay out of my way." Cable heads off with an angry glare.
Meanwhile.
(just a notice, if anyone would like to take over the char about to be introduced, their welcome to do so with just one hitch, they have to let me know that their going to take said char over thank you.)
One lone cat watches the proceedings innocently. Then it turns as soon as the conversation is over and begins chasing at a mouse that scurries away. Making it appear to the mutants as a cat. About four blocks away, the cat changes into a bird and flys off to the hideout of apocalypse The bird lands and changes into mystique. "Apocalypse, Apocalypse."
"What is it Mystique?" The mutant asks. "Their coming, Sinister has betrayed you my lord."
"So, Sinister dares to reveal my hideout and become my enemy?" "Then I shall have to deal with him."
"Gather the forces, call in those creatures that were known as sentinels. And Mystique, send word to magneto, we will soon need his assistance in irradicating this vermin!"
"yes my lord."
Mystique heads in another direction and Apocalypse gazes through a window.
"Soon my plan will be ready, But those infidel's dare to oppose me yet again. This time I shall have my revenge!"
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Gambit shrugged and then followed Cable. "You do realise you can't kill him don't you Cable?" He asked when he caught up with the son of Cyclops. He was half wondering who was going to turn up next; Bishop? Logan? It could be just about anyone given the way things were going at the moment.
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Kyle looked to the time traveler and shrugged in response to the offered question. "For now? A spectator. Until I figure out what's going on here, I'm a neutral party."
Ullery
Cable gazed at the cajun and responded. "I can't kill im, but I got something that can hurt im."
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Looking to the Half metal man the Green man from the sky, and the Cajun his eyes sparkled as he lifted his hands and placed his palms together. As he brought his hands to his cheek and tilted his head as if to imitate a damsel " My heroes ! Muhahahahahahaha" His mind was keenly aware of Mystiques earlier visit, as he spoke " Now then it looks like Cable has given away our little secret, by leading Mystique right to us with his little light show in a bubble! Good work sonny Jim! " He said before licking his lips" To bad She's flown the coupe already, Remmy your little job has changed"
Lowthor
Remmy shook his head then turned back to Sinister. "What to?"
Ullery
Cable stopped and narrowed his eyes at Sinister.
"Well maybe if a certain mutant, hadn't boiled my temper, he might not have forced my hand and "Given" away our location with his antics!
Meanwhile apocalypse had left the hideout in search of sinister, mystique had given him a location, so Apocalypse took the size and form of one of the resident's of ayenee.
There was very little way for Sinister to recognize the mutant.
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"Okay, how 'bout this..." Kyle surrounded both Cable and Sinister in a field of green light to immobilize them, then lifted them a couple feet off the ground.. He was getting sick of these two bickering. He pointed his other hand at Cable first. "You, take a deep breath and control your temper." His free hand, and his glare, then shifted to Sinister. "And you, stop instigating trouble." He dropped his free hand and looked back and forth between the two. "You're both acting like children, and that's not gonna solve anything."
He lowered them to the ground, but spoke before releasing them. "Now, I'm gonna let you two go. You're gonna play nice and try to figure out the best way to solve this problem you seem to have without taking shots at each other like you're on the school playground." The glow would disappear and Kyle looked at them both harshly.
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Sinisters eyes glistened for a moment as his attention shifted before Cables response and the green field had enveloped him. He stayed quiet till the Lantern had finished his spiel, not for manners or fear, but because it gave him the chance to analyze the powers of this man. As He was released he looked to Gambit and smiled " Oh its quiet a lot easier than you're earlier task, you even have a chance of survival. I want you to charge Mystique and push this into her skin " He said as he held out his right hand holding what looked like a small spider. " It will neutralize her powers and contain the energy build up in her skin until I no longer have a use for her" As he held out the device for X-man he glared at Cable for a moment before glancing up to the hall monitor.
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"Deal with mystique? Well at least she's not invulnerable. Any idea where she is?" Gambit said after he took the spider thing from Sinister and dropped it into the pocket of his long coat.
Ullery
Hanging in the sky just above the green Lantern was Magneto whom moment's ago had recieved communication from her and gazed down sternly at Sinister.
"Harm an ally and friend of mine? I think not Sinister!" The voice came from above the green lantern, a man dressed in red metal gazed at them. "Behold Sinister, the Folly of your deceit to emporer Apocalypse!"
Magneto laughed and 10 Sentinal robot's landed. "Mutant's you will be apprehended!" The sentinel's began their attack firing optic ray's out of their hands. Magneto flew down and landed behind Gambit.
"I'll take that little toy of yours thank you!" Magneto used his mutant powers over metal to summon the micro-chip to a hovering postion in front of him.(okay L, your call as to if it get's taken or not!)
Bruce got blasted in the chest and fell to the ground.
Cable's eyes narrowed as he pulled out his gun and began firing at the sentinels. "Eat this you hunk of junk!"
Rhysis
The lantern's eyes snapped up as the voice appeared overhead. Then there were huge robots...and they were shooting at them. Kyle was seriously glad he'd just recharged the ring before this little rendezvous. One of the sentinals would immediatly be engulfed in the green glow, and crushed into a huge ball. It was then swung around like a flail at the rest of them, to try and break them, or at least knock them over on each other. He even added a bit of his inventiveness to it, and using the ring's power to create spikes around the ball, which would be more accurate of a flail.
Kyle was unaware than, in the past, the ring of a green lantern had been described as "the most powerful weapon in the universe" on more than one occasion, as its potential was only limited by the user's strength of will and imagination. He was also unaware that his ring, in particular, was unique when compared to the other lanterns' rings of the past, as his did not have the weakness against, of all things, the color yellow. Nor did it share the weakness one of the previous lanterns, Alan Scott, who's ring was ineffective against wooden objects. Still, there were certain aspects about Kyle, himself, that made up for the greater power of his ring when compared to the others'.
The more intelligent idea would, probably, have been to just erect a protective shield around them. However, Kyle was a bit more aggressive than the lanterns of the past who had actually been chosen. In all reality, the fact that it ended up with him, at all, was a blessing to the universe. There were several people who would have used it for methods that were...less than virtuous.
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Sinister looked to Magneto and laughed a cold harsh and sarcastic laugh. "Emperor Apocalypse ? I had always known you were off your Rocker, but that's the funniest thing I have heard all day! Sad that one who fights so hard for Mutant freedom would be willing to shackle them to a weak minded creature like Apocalypse." As he spoke a blast from the Sentinels hit Sinister in the chest the blast continued, but Sinister just laughed. Raising his left hand he pointed it at Magnetos head as a concussive energy bolt of yellow energy made manifest flew as the master of metal's helmet. With little mirth he spoke aloud to the lantern "Green Granny take off his helmet, I can take his mind from there!"
Lowthor
Gambit reacted to Magneto quickly. No sooner had the device been taken from the cajun, than the small pebble Gambit was still holding was charged with kinetic energy and flung at Magneto. As always it would explode upon impact with the master of magnetism's chest. Then he diverted his attention to the sentinels. One, two and then three playing cards were charged and then flung in quick succession , each in turn impacting with the nearest sentinel. The first took off half of the machine's face, the second penetrated the chest armour, and the third destroyed the power source.
"Sentinels." He said and then sword before acrobatically doging a blast from one of the sentinels remaining.
Ullery
Bruce clutched his chest and his eyes changed to a light green in the middle with whites all around. His voice began to change as his pant's started to tear and his shoes blew apart his shirt stretched and ripped. And an angry hulk roared and threw the shirt on the ground. Running forward the hulk grasped at a heavy broken jalopy of a vehicle and tossed it at one of the sentinels.
Cable dodged another blast and shot at one of the sentinel's arms. Taking it off.
Magneto raised a magnetic shield that deflected both gambit's blast and sinister's attack at the same time.
"You forget sinister, that I am for the liberal freedoms of all mutants. Your little device will not harm one of my mutants."
Magneto caused the chip to explode and then pointed his hand down at the ground. Metal chairs and metal car's and lampposts flew up into the air. Magneto pointed two of the car's and let them fly at sinister, the lamp posts headed toward's the green lantern to smack him out of the sky, and the chairs were merely a distraction for the hulk and his allys gambit and cable to pay attention to, while magneto chose to leave. "Tell Charles Xavier that if he wishes to meet with me, I will see him only! No one else."
With that set of distraction's in place, the master of magnetisim flew away into the sky and disappeared.
Meanwhile back at apocalypse's headquarters. "They've taken the bait Apocalypse." Magneto said in a communicator device.
"As I knew they would. That fool sinister thinks he can outsmart the Apocalypse? Let them come to their doom."
Rhysis
Kyle was beginning to think he'd gotten in over his head. He'd seen quite a few news broadcasts about a mutant who devastated areas of cities through what had appeared to be magnetic manipulation. But that was Dr. Polaris. For one thing, his clothes were way different than this magnetic freak's. And another, this guy said something about 'mutant liberation' Dr. Polaris was just the psychotic alter-ego of an, otherwise, respectable scientist.
But, that was something that couldn't really, be concentrated on, at the moment. Kyle had several lamp posts to worry about, plus the remaining metal creatures, AND he had to try and keep the rest of the metallic debris off the others...or so he thought...
"Azarath subsisto totus!" A powerful female voice rang forth and all of the metal projectiles were stopped in midair as they were surrounded in a hazy black glow.
"You really should be more careful about when you choose to interfere, Lantern." Raven, the half demon, half human child of a mystical alter universe, who eventually came to return to her mother's home universe, which was the same as Kyle's, came floating up next to Him.
The metal pieces were brought together and slammed into the remaining sentinals with concussive force. The debris was then dropped. "I came to this world at the same time you did, and have been watching just as long. It seems you were lucky because of this."
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Sinister looked up to the new woman flying besides the lantern it was obvious that it was her powers that had stopped Magnetos attacks. A Smile glazed over Sinisters face " Green Giant why not introduce us to your ....friend" . It was not like Sinister had not expected new arrivals but this ones powers seemed mystical which was not unheard of in his world, but it was not something he had ever researched thoroughly.
Sinisters eyes turned to gambit as he spoke to him " Now be careful with this one will you ? " He said as he held his hand out revealing another mechanical spider. Grumbling a little he turned to see the Hulks form still there it was always something to see an engine of pure destruction.
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"If you'd made it out of plastic it wouldn't have happened the first time around." He said with a grin and took the spider device, then set off in the direction of Mystique. Before he left he turned back towards the Hulk, but he shook his head and carried on. The Hulk wouldn't be anything but a hindrance to him on this job.
Somewhere else on this world, not far from the area where Apocalypse was basing himself, another man from Kyle's universe was creeping about, investigating what was going on. He kept to the shadows, and his black cape allowed him to remain unseen as he watched.
Ullery
Mystique had what looked like some kind of cuff's on her wrists. She was apparently in a different area. "Oh, what happened?" She gazed around and frowned worriedly. "Apocalypse?" "dang, he's gone. And so's magneto."
The hulk roared and tore a lamp-post off with his bare hand. Swinging it in an arch he barely missed striking sinister before letting the thing fly upwards into the air.
Cable gazed at Sinister. "Always getting other's to do your dirty work for you Sinister? I'm surprised, I'd have figured you'd do all the work yourself, like you used to." He gazes up at the green lantern then ducked under the swing of the lamp post. "Watch it green boy!"
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"Raven. Am I glad to see you." Kyle dropped his hold over the crumpled sentinal and looked around, raising an eyebrow at the creature this "Banner" had turned in to.
He then looked around, one more time, as if he was searching for something. "So. Any idea where we are? Or if anyone else I would recognize is around?"
Raven had traveled across universes before. That's how she came to the world she now called home. While the sensation of traversing planes was the same, she couldn't help but wonder about how she'd managed to come to this one. The first time had been intentional. This one was not.
She shook her head at Kyle. "I know we traveled to a different universe, but I don't know where we are, or if there are any others from our world here. It would appear, however, that some greater force decided that our presence was needed in order to deal with this, 'Apocolypse' issue the natives seem to be having."
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Sinister didn't even flinch as the lamp post came so close to his head that the air ruffled a few stray hairs. His eyes were glued to this so called Raven as he listened to them speaking he smirked as Cable shot off his Mouth before turning his eyes upon him " Nathan Summers go bother Apocalypse with your wastes of breath I have no time for you." Calmly balling his fist he shook his head and moved back a few steps before calling up to the two flying people he didn't know about " You're quiet wrong Raven, We are as much natives here as you are, beyond that Apocalypse is a very powerful nearly invulnerable conqueror from our world. " His eyes narrowed back to the hulk before shaking his head.
Elsewhere a man was darting from shadow to shadow his costume changing with the terrain behind him. He didn't know how he got here or where the hell here was but it had interrupted his nightly patrol of Gotham. The 'old man' was sure to rip into him about the patrol being cut short. As best he could figure this had to be one of Spellbinders tricks. But Spellbinder had never found a way to cut the suits radio out. Being bored and a bit lonely with out some clown to make wise cracks out he started to think aloud " Where the hell is he hiding ? "
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"Stop where you are" The black caped man said as he stepped out from behind a large ruined building, who's shadow the costumed man had been hiding in a moment earlier. The light showed him to be quite simply, batman, and from his yellow utility belt he drew out a black bat shaped metal boomerang, and gestured with it. The man seemed to be dressed in a fashion that hinted at his own costume, but it was unlike anything he'd ever employed, or that he'd encountered during the recent events relating to the multiverse.
"Start by telling me exactly who you are?" The other man would recognise the voice as a younger version of Bruce Wayne to that which had trained him.
Gambit was still approaching the location of Mystique, but he had to take a less direct route, and hide several times in order to avoid sentinel patrols.
Ullery
The hulk finally calmed down and began to change back to dr bruce bannor once more.
Cable's one eye flashed a white flash. "It's because of you and Apocalypse that I became your worst nightmare Sinister. Granted my dad has more power in his optic beams then I do in my mutant power. But I lead the resistance against you and apocalypse the first time."
Then Cable got an idea. He pressed the X on his shoulder. "Cyclops, come in, do you read me? Cyclops?" The computer voice responded.
"Transmission not recieved."
Apocalypse knew these mutants well. So if Sinister was looking to betray the mutant, then Apocalypse already had a plan waiting.
Mystique was guarded by a single sentinel robot. "Let me go you miserable metal machine!" She yelled out angrily.
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"Bruce? Is that you?" The man in the high tech batsuit asked as he looked at the man who would one day train him.
"What is this?" Batman replied and motioned with the boomerang again. Then he heard something in the distance. "Back into the shadows, now." He said.
The other batman was slightly confused by the situation, but he could not only hear the approaching sentinel, his suit's IR vision could detect it. He ducked back into the shadows, and Batman followed. Then they waited in silence as the sentinel passed.
Gambit had reached a point now amidst the ruined buildings where he could see Mystique and the lone sentinel. He needed to deal with the sentinel, but he had to do so without Mystique managing to escape. This would take some planning, and alittle help wouldn't be unappreciated.
Rhysis
"Well I know one thing, if the two of us are here, then maybe someone else we'd know is around, somewhere."
Kyle balled up his fist and the ring on his finger became surrounded in a green light. Kyle was of the same generation that Terry McGinnis was batman. Thus, it was him that Kyle recognized first. But, he'd seen pictures, and heard plenty of stories about Bruce Wayne's batman. It didn't take him long to notice that both of them were there.
"Okay, now that's just plain wierd." He didn't say anything else but, instead, was surrounded in green, again, and took off to find these double batmen.
Ullery
David puts a hand to his head. "Oh..it came out again...I gotta find a way to stop this process."
Meanwhile, Apocalypse smiled deeply. "Right about now, we should be getting some company." He turns and gazes calmly at Magneto.
"Make sure, our ally, doesn't get any other....surprises."
Magneto nods his head and waits.
"The time is almost here." Apocalypse laughs.
Meanwhile in another part of the city, another portal opens up and a figure drops to the ground with a thud. "Boy, there's just no kidding some people."
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Sinister seemed to have been completely ignored by the two in the sky. Scoffing at them both he turned and started to head off towards the east his red pupil less eyes narrowed upon the path. Right now he had Apocalypse thinking of them all as one group working together which was not even close to Sinisters Grand designs. As he walked off he started to glance around looking for the right kind of place he would need to begin his genetic work again, this time with out Mccoy.
Elsewhere...
Terry Looked to his mentors form hidden in the shadows it was strange that Bruce would be dressed in the old suit let alone out here when he didn't need saving. The sentinel passed quickly as scanning for mutant DNA would not reveal either of the Batmen. " So what are you doing out here old man ? "
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"Old man? Who exactly are you?" Batman moved closer to his futuristic doppleganger, and the look on what of his face that was visible showed that he was on the verge of becomming just alittle angry.
Gambit had an idea. If Mystique was a prisoner, then maybe he could convince her that he was on her side. Magneto seemed to control the Sentinels, so if one was being used to guard her, then she had obviously come to a disagreement with either Magneto or Apocalypse. This might work, he thought.
He sprang up from his hiding place behind the Sentinel. It detected him when he left the cover, but he was far faster than it, and he threw a handful of kinetically charged gravel into its face, damaging its optical sensors. Then he jumped onto its body, grabbing hold of its chest plate, and beginning to charge it. His eyes glowed red, and very soon so did the Sentinel's chest when he jumped free just before the mutant hunter robot's entire torso exploded as its power source detinated.
He landed, and then walked towards Mystique, who was glancing about, trying to work out if Gambit was alone. "Don't worry cherie, Gambit is here to help you"...
Ullery
Cable didn't like it. Cable knew sinister was up to something. He looked at Banner. "Meet me at fifth street later, we'll have a chat."
Cable's computer beeped and he gazed at it. "okay computer, take me to that location."
The computer beeped again and cable vanished in particle's of white light.
The particle's of light flashed in between the two batmen and Cable appeared. He held only his smaller weapon and gazed at the two of em."Hi there. I saw you were in the neighborhood so I thought I'd come find out if you were friend or foe."
Meanwhile David start's walking off towards the location he was asked to go to.
Somewhere else in the city. "Boy what a weird looking place."
Bobby gazed around curiously. "huh, guess their not big on bargain sales though."
"Iceman." Bobby's hands formed beams of ice down at his feet and all the way up. Soon his entire being was in a state of ice.
He broke free and used his mutant power to slide up and let him move around easily.
"We've been expecting you x-man." Magneto said with a soft laugh.
Apocalpyse walked out of the shadows. "Welcome to our little trap."
Magneto gathered the surrounding metal and formed it into a cage to drop on top of gambit.
Apocalypse merely waited, standing in front of Mystique.
Apocalypse spoke. "You see, I figured out that, Sinister, the betrayer had a back-up chip in his possession. Obviously I was right in assuming he'd send one of his pawn's to do his dirty deed."
Rhysis
Raven simply looked around as the grouping gradually broke apart. She was, for the most part, an emotionless being. If she let her feelings get out of control it could, very well, be the end of a good section of the planet. So, she remained calm and collected at all times. She spoke quietly as her hands closed together. "Azarath eo lumen." Her body was then surrounded in a black haze, and she was gone, arriving, within seconds, at the side of The Green Lantern.
"They're friend." Kyle had managed to arrive at the spot the two batmen were at just as Cable did. The fact that there were two batmen was the reason he'd come here in the first place. Cable wouldn't know there was only suppose to be one, but Kyle did. He recognized Bruce's costume from old news reports. Terry's was one he'd actually seen in person.
He figured he had little to worry about. He knew the old Batman had worked with his predacessor in the JLA, so his own suite would be recognized as that of a friendly one by both parties.
Raven, being half demon, aged particularly slower than full humans did. Nightwing, or rather, Batman's origional Robin, had introduced them to Bruce before. She nodded to him. She was also aware that the two Batmen were not the same person. Terry was quite a bit smaller than Bruce, and had a much higher voice. Plus, it was just plain obvious, by watching him, that he was not the same Bruce Wayne that she respected so highly. She didn't know the man behind Terry's mask. But, again, she had seen him in action before, and was fairly sure she, too, would be recognized by both of the "Caped Crusaders"
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Sinisters eyes worked over the front of an old hospital obviously abandoned. This would be his first stop walking into the structure he moved from room to room gathering the smaller equipment he needed. There was a lot here he would need to come back for or rather send for. He knew Exodus would arrive soon it seemed that it was inevitable. If Sinister and Apocalypse ended up here it would be only a little time till the other great betrayer of Apocalypses dream would surface as well.
Elsewhere....
Terry looked over the suits interfaces it didn't seem like he was being hacked but now he had some freak with a glowing eye and metal arm looking at him and the green lantern. Beyond that the old man seemed to be rather young. " Old man for the moment lets say that you're old and Gotham needed help and you pissed off the robins." Turning his attention back on Cable he narrowed his eyes " Your a cocky one aren't ya, too bad Two face was prettier" Before hearing anything cable could say in reply he looked up to the one person who could more than likely answer his biggest concern "Lantern where the hell are we ? and more importantly how did we get here ? "
Elsewhere still
With a flash of light a hero started to stand his white costume and twin swords rather visible " This isn't Mojo World ? " Shatterstars head hurt like hell he was neither in his world as he knew it or Mojo world. He could however hear a villain bellowing and yammering on and on. Looking down he saw what was a woman in a chains and two other guys and what had once been a problem for mutants everywhere a busted up sentinel. Sheathing his swords he ran down a steep declining slope his star shaped scar around his left eye came into view. He knew who apocalypse was thanks to Cables non-stop talking about him although they had never been formally introduced.
The Cajun however was a member of the X-men from what Shatterstar could recall. The Cajun could see him easily if he looked but as he was behind Apocalypse chances of him being spotted but him were less that likely.
Ullery
Magneto floated upwards and out of the corner of his eye saw the new mutant. "Apocalypse, behind you!" Apocalypse turned his head and gazed at shatterstar. "Hmm. You are from another plane.
Somewhere near the x-men's Realm. Yet distant. I remember a mutant named spiral. Six arms, horned helmet, she could handle eight swords at once if I recall. This matter does not concern you. Leave now, and I shall be leniant!"
Mystique's bonds were broken by Magneto and she changed into a doppleganger of gambit, to make only the other mutant confused.
Magneto would be able to tell who was who by the style. And Apocalypse's powers allowed him to see past her disguise.
"Hey Mon Amie, perhaps we settle dis wit a game o cards que?"
Mystique pulled out a bunch of playing card's and charged em up.
"First we charge da card, den we blow it up!" Mystique tossed the cards at gambit and she dove to the right to avoid the blast and if gambit's staff were close enough, she'd attempt to avoid that as well.
Meanwhile. Cable answered in a serious tone. "Don't bother asking green boy. Where here is, is a mystery to the whole kit and kaboodle of us. I travled here through a time stream for two sole reasons.
One To stop apocalypse, and two To stop Sinister. The only thing my computer can tell me, is that we're somewhere in the later 26th century. But what realm we're in, is where my computer stops."
Iceman glides across the city and glances to the right seeing a greenish glow.
When he stops to investigate he fall's off his ice bridge and quickly uses his power to make a pillar that he slides off of.
"Wow that was close. Uh Cable, what are you doing here?"
Somewhere in the dark alleys of the middle of the city.
A new portal opened up.
"Hahahahaha! Free, we're free at last. Now it's time to wreak havoc.
Now it's time to commit sins."
The voice belonged to an ominous red looking glob full of muscles.
"Now it's time for some Carnage. hahahhaha."
The ominous red form leaped from building to building searching for someone to pulverize.
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"You think iron bars stop Gambit?", he turned his head and aked Apocalypse when the cage fell. Then he turned back and focussed his attention of the shape shifter in the cage with him. When Mystique took on his form he just shook his head.
"You might look like Gambit, but there's more to me than this pretty face." He said and pulled out a complete pack of cards from inside his coat.
"Fifty two chances cherie. How lucky are you?" He asked and then charged the pack. He jumped back to the very edge of the cadge and bent the cards back in his hand so that one at a time they flew out at Mystique and the bars of the cage behind her.
"A lantern? Well that explains alot." Batman said as he glanced around between the newcomers. "Kyle,Raven, care to explain who your friends are?" He asked the ones he recognised about the other Batman, and the newly appeared Cable.
Ullery
Mystique pulled her special blaster out of her side pocket and did acrobatic leaps to the top of the cage to avoid the blast.
Soon as the last card flew, She got out of the cage and magneto sealed it shut again. "The cage itself might not keep you in there, but I certainly can, x-man."
Apocalypse laughed and grew taller and picked up the cage in his hand.
"You will be a fine warrior, Mutant."
Apocalypse carried the cage inside with magneto close behind.
Mystique, waited, preparing if necessary to halt the ally.
Meanwhile.
Carnage laughed hysterically and landed on a rooftop.
Carnage swung down suddenly and attacked with a quick to the mid-section of cable.
Cable flew backwards landing into the wall with a thud.
Carnage laughed and gazed at the hero's. "Care to play?"
Rhysis
Kyle looked to Iceman for a moment, then back to the Batmen. "He's right. None of us know where we are. Raven said something about interdimensional travel. Other than that, we're all about clueless."
Then Carnage arrived, and things took an even more odd turn than they had already been doing. His fist balled up and the ring was surrounded in a green light. He waited, though, to see what this creature would do. He knew he was running low on energy, and would need to recharge the ring fairly soon. Luckily, the portal that had taken him had also transported the lamp. It was odd that it hadn't taken anything else, but he wasn't going to argue with the choice of items.
Raven had been about to explain the situation as best she could, when Carnage arrived. The symbiotic spawn of Venom was, to say the least, a strange creature. She, however, did nothing to stop it, at the moment. She saw no real threat in it as of yet. Perhaps that would change.
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Sinisters new base was being constructed all thanks to his wonderful abilities and being left alone granted some could more than likely find him if they so wished, but it would not be with out perils.
Elsewhere.....
Terry watched a man made of ice seeminly fall into thier laps but thankfully it seemed to be a man looking for his television provider. "Great even now the old man ignores me when I tell him whats happening! " Terry said a bit in anger. LIstening to the Lantern he nodded and shook his head " Great so we have me, the old man, a lantern, a guy with so high technology computer it only works as a pocket watch, a sorceress and no clu-......." It was then that Carnage attacked Cable, sofar Terry already disliked the guy, but he wouldn't watch someone get butched infront of him. Activating the boosters on the feet of his suit he flew into the air his gliderwings propping out as he went up and did a u-turn flying back at Carnages Back .
Elsewhere.....
Shatterstar watched as apocalypse,magneto,gambit, and mystique moved at speeds even Quicksilver would be astonished at. Standing still like a idiot because he could not keep up with thier massive increase of speed appearently made by some random gods ability to manipulate time and force people to hesitate no matter what. Apearently now faced with Mystique he looked at her and ran around her. After Magneto and Apocalypse as well as the member of the X-men.
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Iceman gazed at carnage. "Woah, looks like we'll have to finish that conversation later!"
Cable stood back up and rolled off to the left. "Okay, now I'm mad." Cable pulled out his hyper-beam gun and aimed it. He fired several shots at the creature.
Mystique turned and aimed her weapon as carefully as she could and fired at shatterstar's back."Hey mon amie!" She changed back to herself."Your not going anywhere."
Indeed as she spoke the words three sentinel's stepped out of the shadow's and dropped a gas bomb at shatterstar's feet.
"Initiate capture mode of mutant." One sentinel said.
David was waiting at the coordinate's patiently, unfortunateley, he was captured by a sentenial.
Apocalypse and Magneto walked side by side, and at one intersection of the headquarter's, they turned and a barrier of some alien technology rose up behind them.
Carnage more or less could feel the slight heat rise and quickly spun about sending a shot of webbing out of his wrist. Then a blast just missed his foot and Carnage laughed hysterically as he leaped upward and then flipped backwards to land behind the original batman, where he then leaped to cling to the side of a building. He gazed at the new batman and laughed. "Feeling a little dark? Well I'm feeling a little red haahahahahaha!"
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Batman span about to face Carnage, and hurled the bat shaped boomerang he was carrying at the wall an inch below where Carnage was clinging.
"That explains this one." He said and pointed to Terry. "You must be from the future. I've been working on that batsuit design for the last few years. Now then. Everyone I don't know had better introduce themselves very quickly. It isn't safe here with those mechanical monstrosities nearby, not to mention our red friend up there."
He took out another boomerang, this time one with a built in explosive charge that would detonate a second after impacting.
"Gambits going to get angry." The cajun commented as he reached into his coat. He had two whole packs of cards left, and a few loose cards too. Unfortunately he was faced with the two most powerful mutants after Jean, and Jean's not exactly around anymore. He waited for the time being. He could have charged part of the cage up to the point where it would explode and he could escape, but this might be a good way to find out what was going on.
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As Carnage moved aside from the assualt that the young Terry Mccginess was about to administer Terry fell to the ground a massive hole in his chest steaming where two of Cables horribly aimed blasts had collided with Terrys Chest. Below the young dark knight of Gothams future copious amounts of blood splattered the ground. Clearly he was dead.
Elsewhere.....
Shatterstar was compleatly supprised the Sentinals had somehow masted the art of the Ninja as they were so quiet he never even heard thier approach, sadly for them that didn't stop him from running. The gas canister exploded where it landed but Shatterstars enhanced speed and mastery of martial arts taught him well to control his breathing even while running. Continueing after Magneto and Apocalypse he was clearing out side the range of Mystiques gun.
Elsewhere still.....
Sinister smiled at the display monitor in his new lair. Watching Apocalypse and Magneto as they led the way to thier base of operations.
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Raven was use to death. The futuristic batman's demise did little to upset her. She still wasn't sure this red creature was all that much of a threat. Cable just seemed a bit too aggressive for his own good.
Kyle wasn't quite so composed as his dark-clad associate upon seeing a well known companion die. His eyes glared over to Cable and then he shot his gaze back to Carnage, firing multiple blasts from his ring toward the creature, trying to anticipate where he would go.
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"Ooh! he took it right to the chest." Cable ran over to where the future batman was and kneeled down next to the clad crusader.
"Computer, is there any chance to travel back in time with a comrade, to reverse a miscalculation in direction of a shot I just made?"
Carnage laugh's manically until he get's hit by one of those green hammer blasts and goes flying through a set of windows to land on the other side.
"Ooh, time to regroup. Hahahha."
Carnage leaps past a few buildings and resume's his alter-identity to be not noticed.
Arriving at the main computer console, Magneto bends the bars to allow Gambit to walk out freely.
"Well, mutant, what do you think of my lair?" Apocalypse asks gazing at the x-man. "Come to my side, X-man, there's no need for the likes of us to battle when we'd make better, as friends."
Lowthor
Gambit walked out of the cage, and plucked out a card he'd secreted in his sleeve.
"Gambit has a name, and we're all mutants here Apocalypse. How about you start telling me what you're up to, or I'll see what the ace of spades can do to your equipment."
Once carnage had been scared away by Kyle's blasts, Batman turned back to the others. He was very close to beating Cable into a pulp for what the idiot had done, and his blazee attitude to the incident. There were more pressing matters at hand than revenge for the death of a future pupil.
"Lantern, think you can keep an eye on our red snarling friend?" He asked, and then pulled out a grappling hook from his utility belt.
"I'm going to head to higher ground and survey the area." He said and then cast the hook upwards. It caught on the edge of one of the more complete buildings, and then Batman quickly used it to climb the wall
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Shatterstar Looked over the area that had become A joint compound for Magneto and Apocalypse it was impressive perhaps, but nothing incompare to Mojos bases. Looking back and forth he seemed to have lost track of the two Villians and the X-man they had in captivity grumbling he began to look around for traps and other such to avoid being blown sky high,
Elsewhere
Batman of the future remained dead, there was no way to stop such a fate. Cable had killed a hero, and was left powerless to repent.
Still elsewhere
Sinister began herding peoples from the local population to begin his experiments.
Rhysis
Kyle nodded and took to the sky just in time to see the symbiot change appearance. He took a quick scan using his ring, and came back down to the group. "I can track him, but there's something I've got to do."
With that, Green Lantern took to the sky, again, and went off to retrieve something vital to his continued usefulness.
Raven simply watched, as usual. The Green Lantern had managed to scare off the crimson abomination. So for now, she would remain the silent observer.
Ullery
"Any alteration of the time stream of present could destroy the fabric of time itself. Any attempt's to restore the future hero cannot be achieved at this time."
Cable closed his gray-gloved fist as his eyes closed. "No! There must be a way. Cable's eyes glowered when he opened them and picked the poor dead hero into his arms. He gazed with a strenous stare of sadness at the hero he'd killed. "Computer, take us to coordinates 91033." "Processing."
The visage of cable along with the poor dead hero were transported to the coordinates.
Meanwhile, shatterstar might hear the soft groans of a human tied to a incredious looking machine. A dna splicer by the looks of it.
Apocalypse replies with a straight look on his face. "You want to know, x-man? Then look around you, all this equipment was designed to aid our kind. To enhance our ability's by a margin of fifty percent. So far, it's proven useful against mastermold's sentinels. Granted I made some changes to a handful of his collective, but I assure you if the future continues as I have forseen, then master mold, may soon locate us and put a stop to all our kind."
"It's why I agreed to help Apocalypse. If Master Mold get's his hands on the time quantom generator that brought you here, He'll be able to alter our lives so that we don't ever get a chance to exist!" Magneto add's floating above the ground. "And if I or another mutant were to destroy the time generator, it would throw the entire fabric of space and time off it's axis and we'd all be hurdled into oblivion."
Carnage walked into a building, and changed his clothes to try to throw off the heros.
There he walked casually through the crowds.
Iceman gazed up at batman and followed after him.
"Need a lift? I can ice us on up to thirty feet if you need a higher vantage point."
Deep up in the sky, a dark portal glowed and twisted and blew wind across the eastern sea-board.
Lowthor
"Quite a story." Gambit replied, and looked more closely at the equipment. "I suppose I have to take your word for this? Neither of you are above manipulation for your own ends."
"The coast looks clear from what I can tell." Batman responded. He'd taken a small pair of binoculars from his utility belt just before Iceman arrived, and used them to scan the horizon. He put them back and turned to the mutant.
"If any of those giant machines comes back this way I should be able to spot it from up here. Any higher and we could risk detection."
Ullery
"Did I forget to mention that Sebastian Shaw and his college's have joined with mastermold for this little scheme?" Magneto asks. "It won't be too long before the lot of them come to claim what they want." "As for proof." Apocalypse walks over to a monitor and presses a button. "Mystique managed to record every word from the collective before shaw discovered who she was."
A video feed shows Sebastian shaw in the headquarters of the group.
"Obviously, that lunatic Apocalypse and mr magneto will no doubt need a refresher on why it pays to back off from us."
Frost replys."If they only knew that we were in league with master mold, they'd really need some kind of trap."
The illusionist speaks up. "If we're to properly control mastermold, we'll need lots and lots of sentinels. And as you well know, sentinel material's are very easy to come by."
The video feed goes dead. "After that, they discovered who Shalara Jones really was and tried to capture her to keep her quiet."
Magneto closes a fist. "You can imagine my distaste after hearing that they attempted to capture, one of my frineds."
"Lucky for us, we got Juggernaugt on our side."
"Yes, the mystical, juggernaugt, will probably arrive in fifteen days time. But even with him, master mold and the collective together will be....difficult."
Iceman nods and then slides on down to the ground.
Meanwhile from the portal comes a very familiar face.
Chains move in mysterious ways and both eyes open, a ghastly green inside of them.
"Ahhh." Spawn moans as he sits up.
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Sinisters Lair was progressing nicely as were a few new Toys. His Red eyes turned as they looked over the first set of monitors he had floating around the lands gathering intell on who all the players in this new world were. He had caught the death of the young dark knight as well as a few images of Carnages mild defeat. It was only a matter of time till Carnage would become a thorn in everyones collective asses. Looking to some of his new "employees " (Slaves) he saw that the collars were indeed ready similar to the collars used in Genoca .
Elsewhere
Shatterstar looked at the first building where Apocalypse and Magneto had Taken Gambit. Drawing one of his swords he cut through the doors locking mechanism and stared into the hall watching for booby-traps.
Ullery
Spawn gazed quietly at the environment. "Wanda." he called out in trepidation. "WANNNNNNDAAAA!" He yelled in anger his cloak billowing in the breeze.
Spawn got up and leaped to the nearest rooftop.
From there he gazed across and found a store with weapons.
Spawn walked to the displays and smashed one grabbing a couple of m180 machine guns. He grabbed a couple of grenades.
Running down the street spawn billowed his cloak about himself making him temporarily invisable.
Meanwhile in two seperate part's of town.
Two different portals opened up.
A fat jolly looking clown landed in a cafeteria that was closed for the night and laughed. "Hahahhaa, okay spawny, I'm comin to play hide and seek the spawn." The tongue lolled out of his mouth for a moment as the blue and white faced clown went walking out the cafeteria.
From the other portal came a thuddering crashing of a deserted building as it plummeted.
When the dust and debris had settled, a hand lay in the midst of the collapse.
A strange shape seemingly appeared beyond the debris.
The S symbol.
Rhysis
It figured as much. His luck was just that way. The one place that he was positive was deserted, and he figured would be an okay place to keep what he was now looking for, had been turned into a pile of rubble right in front of him. "Of course...why not? Everything else is going wrong. This seems like a perfect addition."
He moved over to the mound of debris and started moving chunks in search of the item that was becomming more and more vital that he locate. That's when he saw it...the hand. At first he started to panic and the adrenaline pumped as he threw rocks aside, no longer confident that his ring had enough power to complete the job. Then he stopped and sighed as he saw the symbol. Upon that, he dropped the rock he was holding and spoke questioningly. "Big Blue?"
Lowthor
Batman continued to search the horizon, but for now the coast we clear. Things were clearly taking place. He was on another world, along with several individuals from his own version of Earth, but also others from another. They were either natives, or from a third Earth, and from what he could gather, this was not their home either.
He reached into his utility belt and took out a multi-purpose communicator. He popped open a panel on the side and turned a pair of miniature dials. The device had been created a few years earlier during the height of the Justice League, but since the events of Sue Dibney's death, and the recent Crisis, it had found little use. The setting now would allow it to transmit a signal to a Green Lantern's ring.
"Kyle. This is Batman. Do you copy?" He spoke into the small microphone hidden in his cowl, which relayed the signal wirelessly to the communicator.
Gambit watched the video feed, but he still had one eye on the two mutants in the room with him. "And you would be the lesser of two evils then? Or should that be the lesser of three evils? Frankly the idea of helping the pair of you, or Sinister doesn't sound right to Gambit."
Ullery
"As I recall on genosha we did work together, you x-men and myself" Magneto said gazing at gambit. "And Xavier and I are old friends that go back long before he designed the x-men."
"I probably shouldn't be so surprised that you don't see the threat behind master mold. But think of this Gambit. If Master mold's creations were to get their hands on Apocalypse's technology then all mutants as we know them, will cease to exist. Apocalypse and myself joined forces because we are mutants, granted Apocalypses true vision in the past has been blindsided but it hasn't been us against each other since we discovered what Mastermold is up to."
"uh." The red S symbol shone clearly and the hand twitched.
Superman's head and neck shot up out of the rubble. "Great Krypton!" He looked around and saw the glowing green costume. "Green Lantern? What in blazes happened? Last thing I remember was flying over Metropolis airport when I spotted Lex Luthor fiddling with some kind of space-machine. Where are we?"
Carnage waited inside a hotel.
"Soon it will be necessary to seek out others like myself."
Meanwhile Bruce Banner was being held prisoner by a legion of sentinels in an unknown disclosed location in the city, awaiting the arrival of master mold.
Spawn heard a rumble in the city and leaped over several tall buildings trying to find other signs of life.
"Wanda." He spoke softly. "I have to find her."
The jolly clown walked to one of those bars that were closed for the night and smashed down the door, going for the food and drinks.
Once he was satisfied he walked out and headed toward court street.
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Shatterstar walks directly into the room where Gambit and his captors stand. Looking around he grumbles a little wondering why no one seems to have noticed him.
Rhysis
Kyle reached down to help his associate out of the rubble. Not that he needed it, but it was still easier to get up that way. "I wish I could tell ya. Raven and Batman are here too, as well as a bunch of guys I've never seen before. None of us seem to know. I think Raven may have a bit more knowledge than she's letting on, though."
Ullery
(I only have enough time for one reply as supes, everyone else is on hold until I can get enough access to send more then one reply per couple days or so)
Superman took the hand and rose to his feet.
"Raven's here? I haven't seen here since she first went off radar from the Jla computer databases some years back."
Superman gazed out across the area. "Looks quiet enough, for the moment. Luckily for us, Lex Luthor's safely behind prison bars. And brainiac is on a leave of absense last I heard."
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"Well if you're the good guys, as you say. You wont keep Gambit against his will." Gambit pulled a coin out of his sleeve and started to roll it between his fingers.
"Gambit's going to see for himself." He moved towards the door, waiting for the inevitable attempt to stop him.
Ullery
Apocalypse just gazed after the mutant spotting shatterstar but leaving the mutant alone for now.
"Very well X-man your free to go if that's what you wish."
Magneto gazes at gambit quietly. "Remember Cajun, if Master Mold does indeed arrive in this plane, my forces will not be able to hold against his for very long. Let's not let what happened on my beloved moonbase, to befall us here."
Superman looks at green lantern. "Shall we take to the skies and see if we can locate raven?"
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Shatterstar Looked at Gambit and then to Apocalypse and Magneto it seemed strange to say the least that these three would be in a room gotether with out the room exploding in an all out fight and with himself as a spectator none the less " Lets go Gambit, I'm confussed and this place smells" he said keeping his eyes locked on the two super villans behind Gambit.
Lowthor
"Shatterstar? Gambit recognises you. I'll explain on the way out of here." He said and lead the other man out of the room. When they were at least two coridoors away from the two men Gambit least expected to be working together he spoke again. "They claim that Mastermold has been rebuilt and that the Hellfire Club are working with it in some kind of bid for power. I'm not convinced, but at least Gambit got out of there without a fight."
Ullery
Mystique walks from another corridor.
She gazes at Shatterstar and Gambit.
She morphs herself into a copy of Gambit. "Hey mon amie, keep your eyes on Sinister and his doings eh? wouldn't want you ta be caught up in a tangled web of lies."
She then changes into shatterstar's copy and walks up to them gazing at them. "And comrade. Do not make the mistake to trust Mr.Sinister. As much usefulness as he has."
Mystique returns to her normal self. "he's all bad. There isn't a single drop of nice in him,." she gazes back at the cajun walking around him and gently nudging him with her hip. She changes into a copy of rogue. "See ya around sugah!" She calmly walks away from them changing back to her own form.
Rhysis
Kyle looked to the Man of Steel and shrugged. "I'm gonna leave the decision making up to you, Supes. One thing, though..."
He balled up his fist and held the ring out to his companion. The ring sparkled green for just a second, and then a sizzling sound could be heard. "I gotta recharge, and the lantern is somewhere in this rubble. Care to help me find it?"
Ullery
"Sure." Superman replied using his x-ray vision on the steel and concrete structure.
He gazed through the rubble to where the lantern was.
"It's over here."
Superman picked up one of the larger heavy pieces of rubble and placed it down somewhere else, the lantern glowing calmly.
"Good thing it didn't break." Superman looked at Lantern. "You'll probably want to be alone for this."
Superman floats upwards with a thought and flys off to the right a little ways keeping watch for enemies.
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Shatterstar looked to Gambit and nodded as they turned to walk out the corridor he had entered through his eyes narrowing as the form of Mystique came into view the morphing was a bit of a shock but then again after living in Mojoworld you got used to not showing shock. "Right and Apocalypse, Magneto, and yourself are the good guys!?!?" he said in a mocking tone before turning back to Gambit. " Well if Mastermold was here why would it be working with Mutants against Mutants ? Its always been something to go after any and all of us right ? Besides that I know that blue Harpy sent a few of those giant tin rockem sockem robots after me, seems like they are the ones in league with Mastermold to me."
Elsewhere.....
Mr. Sinisters new base was coming along swimmingly that and his experiments were going into production now. Even if they were not on earth it was evident the majority of the population in the area he was in shared a similar genetic code as those from earth but the X-factor gene was missing or undeveloped. Yet, where the X-factor was not present other genes were that were much like new toys on Christmas something new to play with and something beyond what Sinister had ever hopes to get out of child of Jean Gray and Scott Summers.
Lowthor
"Oui. Gambit agrees mon amis." He said, then remained silent until they were fully outside the complex. He activated his communicator again, but it remained unresponsive.
"Even Wolverine would be good to have around. Where are we?" He shook his head then headed up the slope away from the complex. Time to investigate matters himself.
Batman finished scanning the horizon, then tried to communicate with Kyle again. "Kyle. Lantern. Can you hear me? This is batman."
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Shatterstar looked to Gambit as he spoke in his hushed tone leaving the base of Magneto and Apocalypse seemed almost too easy, as the reached the open air of the outside air Shatterstar spoke" You're comrads or Mine, would be helpful eitherway, but at the moment looks like we only have each other for back up. Where we are looks similar to some of the forced entertainment in Mojoworld, but I am sure we arn't there. "
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