Author's note. As I've said this is anti Xavier but some readers may find Xavier's a little harsh. The thing is there is a precedence for his actions… in X-men –1 Xavier actually used his power on his lover to try to stop her from leaving him… and Xavier is not above playing outside the heroic guidelines he set down for his X-men, as witnessed by the story behind sage and the mystique series
Shadowcrew Evolution
By Deathsheadx
Chapter twenty five: Havok
The Xavier institute.
the inhabitants were awoken by the intruder alarms going full pelt
Xavier and the telepaths reached out to discern who had breached the institute security only to come up blank
The X-men raced out to find themselves facing the Shadowcrew
"Alvers!" yelled Cyclops preparing for battle
"No time summers!" snapped avalanche walking forward "we need you to come with us."
"No way! Why would I willing…oh no…Alex" said Scott with horrifying realisation
"What happened to Alex?" asked Jean
Lance ignored Jean and looked at Scott. "Your brother was in Hawaii surfing when he was kidnapped by a bunch of unknowns we thought you'd want in…but there isn't much time the trail may already be getting cold."
"Lets go said Scott."
Wolverine nodded "Okay X-men lets—"
"No," said lance "just Scott this is a Shadowcrew and family matter "
"You cant be serious, Scott…"
"He's right Logan I'm sorry," he turned to lance "lets go."
Lance nodded to spiral who raised her hands and the scenery around Scott and the Shadowcrew changed to that of a beach
"Okay lets get to work!" said lance "rogue?"
Rogue nodded and shifted into a large wolf
"Since when can rogue do that?" Asked Scott
"Rogue has the ability to call up any ability she's absorbed she's the Shadowcrew's super woman."
"There were 8 of them," said wolf-rogue "they came through a teleport wave… 2 females, 6 males one of them smells of the dead…" she walked around "Alex unleashed his powers right about here his adrenaline was extremely high… then it drops off…"
Scott was truly impressed by how focused rogue was
"Okay spiral can you re-open their teleport wave?"
"I wouldn't do that," said Jessie vale walking up. "They're expecting a teleport."
"So they've set up a booby trap." said lance nodding
"So how are we going to find Alex…" asked Scott…
"We cant teleport to him but we can trace him," said lance "spiral… that resonance spell of yours…"
"We would need something of Alex's"
"Would this do?" said Freddy holding up Alex's surfboard
"Perfect" nodded spiral…
Kitty nodded "network bring in the Shadowhawk!"
To Scott's surprise a large craft, bigger than the blackbird rose out of the sea
"What the? What is that? It looks like…"
"It is Scott it's a fabled f19 I stole it gadget queen customized it."
"You stole it?" gasped Scott
Kitty just shrugged
"Its done." said spiral as the board floated in the air "it will lead us straight to its owner… Alex… we best board the Shadowhawk once I unleash it it moves pretty fast…" The hatch opened and they climbed aboard…
once inside and strapped in lance turned to the others
"Okay Shadowcrew what do we expect?"
"One of Four scenarios," said Freddy
"Scenario one: Heavy armed troops" said mickey
"Scenario two: High powered mutant or metahuman resistance." said Kurt
"Scenario three: both" said Todd
"Or scenario four: the wild card factor" said Pietro
"Exactly… we work our way through… Nightcrawler, Toad, Black Cat, Shadowcat, Scarlet spider go stealth, Forearm, Blob, Shatterstar, Quicksilver, Damask, Sunpyre you're with me in primary, you too summers…"
Scott nodded grudgingly realising it was Alvers show.
Lance nodded, "Rogue, Sunfire, Lament, Spiral, Shooter, Meltdown, Scarlet Witch. you're in secondary."
"Secondary?" Asked Scott
"Simple strategy summers we're holding back the heavy hitters.."
"Why?" Asked Scott "shouldn't you hit hard and fast?"
Kitty sniggered
"Be nice kitty…" said Kurt
"Fine!" Snorted kitty "Scott, we're running on the assumption that there are four scenarios… the primary should be able to handle heavily armed troops and even handle powered threats we don't want to commit all our resources in case of scenario three and four "
"Its not good to put all your cards on the table," said network from her seat at the controls
Scott looked at the others around him…it was hard to think of them as the hoodlums he'd believed them to be… they already showed they cared for each other and they seemed to have a cohesiveness about themselves
"Where are we heading?" Said Scott
"Judging by the boards trajectory I would say… Russia." said network
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"we've got to go after Scott!" Said Kevin
"how? we've never been able to track the Shadowcrew!" said Teleplex "Damask blocks my power!"
"what about Cerebro?" asked Michelle
"we don't need Cerebro" said peter.
"What do you mean?" asked Jean
"I tagged Scott with a modified spider-tracer thanks to Forge's help I can find it anywhere…" peter pulled out a small device and a hologram of the world appeared "okay I've got its flight pattern it seems to be heading towards…Europe."
"Okay X-men suit up we're going to trail them!"
"Logan…"
"Were you planning on doing anything else chuck?" Asked Wolverine
Xavier closed his mouth and wheeled away
Hans looked at Gloria "did you see that?"
"I saw it… now I see what Xavier means…"
"Do you think we should find away to deal with Wolverine?"
"No Wolverine's too protected…"
Xavier wheeled back out "I've just got a call, juggernauts holding cell is failing I need to go help secure him while they fix his cell…"
"I'll drive you chuck," said morph with a nod
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Alex masters opened his eyes and looked around…
"the sleeper awakes…" said a voice…
Alex looked round to see the cyborg looking at him "who the f#ck are you guys?"
"We're gene nation." said the cyborg… behind him was two girls with bone protrusions a big green man and a muck monster… "we serve Sugarman."
"Why does he sound like a paedophile?"
"You dare insult the master!!!" hissed one of the girls…
"Let me see…. Yep!" Snapped Alex trying to charge up
"It will do you no good, struggling like that," said the cyborg, "its designed to counter your powers…"
"We'll see!" snarled Alex..
"What I want to know is who did you call?" asked the green man
Alex grinned
"Answer me!" snapped the green man slapping him again
"vessel calm down!" said Wynter
Alex's grin grew even wider "cant you read my mind?"
vessel grew angrier he started striking Alex repeatedly
"Whoa!" said one of the other members of gene nation "am I seeing things… or is that a surfboard on screen?"
"What?" Wynter walked over to the monitor and frowned "it's the boy's surfboard…"
"They're hereeeeeeeeeee…" said Alex with a laugh…
Suddenly all the monitors shut down and the lights went off
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In the upper hemisphere"Okay I have access to their systems," said network…"we're a-go!" She turned the Shadowhawk and dived down…
"blob you ready?" Said lance
"I'm ready avalanche!" Freddy walked to the side door and opened it diving out
"WHAT THE F#CK!!?" swore Scott getting up
"Don't worry Cyclops Freddy'll be fine primary team to the stealth team drop pod! you're on!"
"Roger that Avalanche!" came Nightcrawler's response suddenly the Shadowhawk dropped a pod
Scott was impressed this was a precision outfit the sort of outfit he sometimes wished the X-men were…
Freddy walked out of the crater and looked around at the rapidly approaching armed guard and rubbed his hands together "okay who's first?" he said running forward
The Shadowhawk dropped down and the primary team disembarked before it took off again
"Okay lets do this… damask sweep the area! forearm, Shatterstar, quicksilver join up with the blob! Sunpyre! Cyclops! with me! double time!" The primary attack team took off
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kitty phased through the ceiling and looked around she heard a guard and phased into a wall as he walked pass she stretched out and knocked him down with a neural shock baton "Nightcrawler, entry point secure."
There was a bamf and Nightcrawler appeared with the rest of the stealth team
"scarlet spider take point," said kitty "everyone field of silence."
scarlet spider nodded as did the others… they made their way to a wall which kitty examined she gave the team a thumbs up and stuck her arm through the wall pulling it back out with a bunch of wiring in her hand
the scarlet spider, toad, and Nightcrawler clung to the walls and ceiling and made their way down the corridor with Shadowcat and kitty following behind on the ground…
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"we suddenly lost the secondary security feed… what's going on?"
"It sssssssssseems we picked the wrooong summersssss." said Sugarman entering the room
"Sir?"
Sugarman ignored Wynter and turned to Alex "you're one of hissss, aren't you boy? one of ssssSinisters children…"
"My dad's name is Christopher summers."
"You know what I mean, sssSinister is your mentor isn't he…no need to answer I see it now… Kill him Wynter!" snapped the Sugarman
Wynter raised his cannon arm when Alex suddenly sunk through the wall
"What the?" Gasped Wynter firing on the wall "vessel!" He yelled
Vessel stepped forward and smashed through the wall "what?" where did he go?" he said looking around an empty corridor
Forget about him said marrow pointing upwards… look! everyone looked up and gasped the ceiling was turning red suddenly it gave way and threw the gaping hole came the primary team
"Take them down!" roared lance…
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"You okay Alex?" asked kitty.
"I've had better days…"
"Guys!" snapped scarlet spider shoving kitty and toad to the left as a blur dived pass them
"Your day's about to get worse!" came a snarl as a man walked towards them shifting into a large grey wolf, he was followed by several other wolves.
Suddenly a series of images flooded through Kurts mind "m-m-m-m" stammered Kurt.
"Nightcrawler?" Said kitty.
"Maximus." Said Kurt.
"The kid knows my name," said the wolf.
"MAXIMUS!!!" He suddenly roared teleporting and giving a tremendous roundhouse kick to the wolfs face the wolf went flying back in pain.
"You're gonna pay for that kiddo!"
"Maximus?" asked Alex
"Maximus Lobo, the creep was working for magneto when Kurt was a baby! Caused mystique to drop him into the river!" said kitty in surprise. "we better help Kurt!"
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Freddy slammed a fist into vessels face breaking his jaw vessel howled in pain clutching his face. "What did you expect?" said Freddy as he grabbed vessel and slammed him to the ground. "you mess with us you go down hard!"
"you are a fine warrior," said Shatterstar as he took on marrow "it is a shame you work for the wrong side…because it means I must curbstomp thee!" He kicked marrow hard in the gut then in a follow up movement kneed her in the face.
Sunpyre was flying around torching the gelatinous mutant known as sack and the marrow like mutant called loss
Cyclops was firing on Hemingway a big grey spiky mutant while lance using a cannon was firing on membrane
"where the hell did you get that gun and why aren't you using your powers!" Asked Scott
"structurally weak area!" Snapped lance "if I use my powers the whole place comes down!"
Scott realised he hadn't thought to check such a thing
Suddenly damask screamed out and stumbled to one knee
"Damask?" snapped lance.
"b-being triple teamed green one, yellow one, invisible one..."
"got ya!" said lance "forearm! take the small guy in green! Cyclops hit the one that looks like a human brain, Sunpyre! switch to infrared and find the invisible man!" Lance turned round and fired on Hemingway .
Sunpyre let off a stream of plasma at a wall which caused a man to scream Cyclops hit the yellow brain man damask straightened up a vicious grin on her face "my turn boys." she said, unleashing her psionic hooks at the one trying to dodge forearm.
"you got this one damask?" Asked forearm
"I got him," she nodded.
Forearm nodded and tackled Hemingway "okay big grey and ugly you're going down!"
"Insignificant worm!" snarled Hemingway "I will crush you!" he swung at forearm only to miss and get a shot in the face from avalanche…
"lance we've got a bit of trouble here, ten mutant wolves with above peak human strength and speed, plus a squad of 12 heavily armed combat troops!" came kitty's radio communication.
"quicksilver! join up with Nightcrawler and Shadowcat!"
"Gotcha!" said quicksilver zooming off…
"Crap we lost Wynter!" said lance looking around. "damask wide arc scan!"
"On it!" yelled damask her mind scanning the area "his mind is funny, but I've got him he's heading towards the same location as Shadowcat and the stealth team, he must still be after Havok!"
"Shadowcat, this is avalanche the cyborg is heading your way, you know how to deal with him."
"Understood avalanche!"
"We're also missing Sugarman, charm, fever pitch, obsidian, and iron maiden" said damask…
"They're going after Alex!" said Sunpyre
"Cyclops! join quicksilver and Shadowcat!" Lance handed Scott a strange watch. "this will insure you know Alex's location protect your brother!" Cyclops nodded strapping the watch to his wrist and running off.
"Avalanche rapidly approaching reinforcements!" Said network over the comm
"Dispatch secondary and go into orbital obs network!"
"Affirmative avalanche!"
Avalanche turned to see Hemingway flying through the air, blob had finished with vessel and then teamed up with forearm to manhandle Hemingway lance noticed the yellow brain matter man getting up he rushed over kicking him down, Shadowcrew… maim em said lance.
"I thought you'd never give the order." said Sunpyre .
"Maim?" said marrow…
"Aye I will!" said Shatterstar suddenly drawing a dagger across her stomach
"Hu-rk-wha?" gasped marrow clutching her wound
"before we were fighting to take you down and contain you…now we're just going to take you apart!"
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Quicksilver, toad, scarlet spider and Nightcrawler were bouncing around kicking wolf arse when suddenly the corridor suddenly went pitch black
"Obsidian" said Alex powering up.
"Alex hold up you cant fire blind!" said kitty.
A wolf went to jump on a blinded kitty and Alex only to get kicked away by scarlet spider "How?" Snarled the wolf in surprise
"Trade secret." said scarlet spider.
"don't worry kitty, I have this!" said Nightcrawler suddenly he ran across the ceiling and swung down and forward his feet smashing into obsidians face knocking him down…
"how! How did you track me??" Said obsidian as his dark force field collapsed
"like the wolves I have perfect night vision." said Nightcrawler with a shrug knocking obsidian out.
"Alex!" Yelled Scott rushing over to his brother
"Damn good to see you bro!"
"Good to see you too Alex!"
"All right lets rock bro!" Said Alex Scott and Alex stood side by side blasting the enemy…
"Your mother never told you what happened after we caught up with her did she? snarled Maximus Lobo as he faced Nightcrawler
"Vhat are you talking about?" said Kurt teleporting out of a claw swipes reach and roundhouse kicking Maximus Lobo in the face.
"Well magneto was mad real mad.. he beat her near to the point of death… and then he gave her to us… we enjoy raping and torturing your Mom little boy…"
Kurt's eyes glowed a guttural growl emanated from his throat and then he opened his mouth and roared, only a stream of strange energy shot out hitting Maximus in the face. Maximus screamed as his face burned Kurt clutched his throat in surprise
"You little b#stard!" Maximus roared at Kurt. "I'm going to kill you!"
"No. For touching my mother..." said Kurt coldly "you die." Kurt grabbed Maximus's head and there was a puff of smoke seconds later Maximus lobo's headless body collapsed to the ground the other wolves let out a howl and turned from what they were doing to look at Kurt. "You are all going to die." said Kurt coldly The wolves looked at Kurt then started to back away a moment later three more headless bodies dropped, at that moment the wolves turned an ran
"Whoa! Hard core!" Yelled Alex
Scott was shocked at Kurt's show of violence
"Okay I take back what I said earlier," said quicksilver. "the boy definitely has what it takes to be true Shadowcrew!"
Kitty kicked a combat troop in the face. "the battle isn't over yet boys!" said kitty
"Too right it isn't!" said Wynter firing on several combat troops.
"What the hell?" said Alex in surprise. "what game are you playing?"
"The game I'm playing is I'm getting out of here and those fools were in my---Hur-URK-K!"
Wynter collapsed to the ground a gaping whole in his chest "Die traitor!" roared fever pitch flying forward.
Alex and Cyclops unleashed their blasts hitting fever pitch full force "you know we really do make a good team," said Alex
Scarlet spider was fighting a heavily armed combat trooper when his spider sense went slightly funny it went like this when ever someone close to him was in danger he turned round and suddenly toad screamed out Toad was being lifted high in the air by the sugarplums tongue, the tongue coiled around toads body and limbs… and then Sugarman's tongue twisted and yanked there was a series of sickening cracks . and then the Sugarman threw toads mangled body against a wall
"TODD!" Screamed kitty
The scarlet spider rushed over to toad checking him over. "he's still breathing! Oh damn! I think 70 percent of the bones in his body are broken!"
"Only 70? I mussssst be getttting old!" Said the Sugarman
"You bstard!" roared quicksilver rushing forward at super speed unleashing a furious barrage of super speed punches and kicks on the Sugarman
"This is Shadowcat to network!"
"Network here, the bio reader for toad just dropped considerably!"
"Network we need you to bring the Shadowhawk to our position! We're executing emergency retrieval procedure 8!" said kitty over her comm
Kurt nodded and teleported over to kitty's side. "I'm ready," said Kurt he placed a hand on toads body and they vanished in a puff of smoke to appear in the medibay of the Shadowhawk
ERP8 or emergency retrieval program 8 was a delicate procedure as it requires a blind teleport straight up into the medibay of the Shadowhawk it was rarely attempted without one of spirals wards or Kitty's phasing ability. Kurt quickly put Todd into an emergency stasis bath and sighed as toads erratic breathing stabilised it was then that Kurt looked out the window what he saw caused him to gasp.
the secondary team were making mincemeat out of the reinforcements.
He'd never seen such pure, unadulterated carnage in his life before, and then Kurt suddenly remembered what he had done to the wolves, he collapsed to the ground in tears.
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the Sugarman was pushed back by the combined fire-power of Scott and Alex quicksilver, black cat, kitty and scarlet spider eliminated the other combat troops and turned to join in the attack on Sugarman
"fall you freak!" screamed kitty as she grabbed a leg, phased it into the ground and let go
the Sugarman screamed as his leg was fused into the ground "you little bitch!" He roared.
"thank you for noticing!" said kitty pulling out a device that erupted into a beam sword of some sort.
"kitty what are you doing?" said Scott.
"what's it look like?" she said softly, "I'm taking this scum out."
"don't do this," said Scott.
"Come off of it Scott! ask yourself should I let this monster live? Knowing that I'll be giving him the chance to hurt those I love again and again? Look around you? this is a well stocked facility that means government ties! He'll escape justice and come after all those you love… he'll go after Alex! the only way to insure that he's no longer a threat is to kill him!"
In that moment to Scott's horror he had an epiphany Kitty was right. his keenly trained mind had realised that this was the only option available to him. He realised that this was a decision made everyday in war. to protect people from a truly dangerous threat you have to destroy the treat completely. "Do it" he said softly.
Kitty's eyes widened in understanding, she realised Scott finally got the stakes they were playing at she raised her blade only to see Sugarman grin
"Oh crap!" Yelled scarlet spider as the Sugarman clenched his fist. A wave shot through the entire facility and everyone inside collapsed to the ground completely drained of energy, their powers suddenly not working, some were even unconscious.
"You diddddnt think I wouldn't have one lasssst trick up my sssleeve?" said Sugarman literally tearing himself loose from the ground he lost a leg in the process but quickly grew a new one "I'm going to get out of here and plan anew, but not before I kill some of Sinister's childrennnnn!"
"B-b-b-b-bast--" began quicksilver as he struggled to get up but he stopped his eyes widening as he noticed four red dots, similar to the ones seen in the predator movie when the predator targets its prey moving over Sugarman's body, it settled on Sugarman's head right between the eyes and then the sound of a powerful shot rung out and a energy bolt smashing through Sugarman's head causing it to explode into a sickening red mess. Quicksilver turned around to see a large man. he stood at least 7 foot 1 he was covered from head to toe in a grey bodysuit and was covered in weapons some hi-tech, some low tech in his arm was a massive gun he wore a featureless mask there was no visible eye holes, instead there was a visor of sorts (think a hi-tech version of snake-eyes visor). "Who are you?" said quicksilver looking at the new arrival.
"Someone with a vested interest." said the man he walked over and pulled out a smaller device and pointed it at the Sugarman's remains he blasted the remains and disintegrated them utterly. "just in case," the man muttered he pointed at Sugarman's discarded leg and disintegrated it as well. "Don't worry the effects of the nullification ray will wear of in 1 minute and 37 seconds." he turned and walked away down the corridor.
3 minutes later the rest of the Shadowcrew who had been outside the facility had entered and secured the rest of gene-nation.
"what ever that nullification wave is," said rogue as she propped a badly beaten Hemingway against a wall, "it sure packed a wallop ah was outside and it left me feeling weakened."
"so what are you going to do with gene nation?" Said Alex
"we're going to leave them here." said avalanche
"what?" Said Scott in shock.
"well you see the X-men will be arriving in 4 minutes and we're not up to a fight. Wolverine and fury can deal with these flunkies."
"how the hell would the X-men know where to find us?" asked Scott in shock.
"I can answer that one. Peter tagged you with a tracer its what I would have done" said the scarlet spider.
"W-What? Of all the—" Scott ground his teeth and decide to get back to the main subject. "so you're just going to leave?"
"That's about the size of it we got a man down, we have to get Alex checked over and take him home."
"Don't worry about them getting loose the restraints were designed to completely neutralise powers and paralyse muscles they're sacks of jelly right now."
Scott nodded, "I'll talk to you later?" he asked Alex
"Yeah as soon as I get home." said Alex hugging Scott and running towards the Shadowhawk
Scott turned to rogue. "I know you probably don't want to hear it but I am sorry you know, I'm sorry for putting my faith in Xavier so readily, and I'm sorry for the hurt he caused you."
"You're mistaken Scott that's exactly what ah wanted to hear from you. perhaps there is hope for yah yet," she caressed one of Scott's cheeks and made her way onto the Shadowhawk
Scott watched as it took off and looked around. he sighed at the devastation it looked like world war 3. trashed vehicles, tanks, jets burned out buildings the ground blackened in places… he realised why Wolverine had stepped up the training programs for the X-men the stakes were higher than ever and the other teams game had seriously stepped up, his thoughts drifted to Kurt.
he had never seen Kurt use his power so brutally before Kurt had been removing body parts he had been breathing fire and spitting out blasts of energy, well the breathing fire was an exaggeration, but the point was he would never of believed Kurt would do such a thing… but then there was the fact that he himself realised that he was willing to do something he had never considered doing before… he had been willing to kill.
The x-jet landed and Wolverine stepped out he looked round and whistled. "damn if they weren't the rival team I would love these guys!" said Wolverine. "Cyke where's your brother?"
"They took him home, they didn't stick around cause they wanted to get Todd medical attention."
"What happened?"
"Sugarman got the drop on him and snapped him like a twig."
"Oh no!" gasped Evan "how bad is he?"
"Bad. 70 of the bones in his body were estimated to be broken."
"Oh s#it!" swore Teleplex. "and the Sugarman what happened to him?"
"He dropped us with a neutraliser"
"He got away?" Said Wolverine.
"Oh no he didn't, an unknown factor entered the field."
"An unknown?" asked peter.
"Yeah stranger with a really big gun strange visored mask…came in and killed the Sugarman"
"Ranger zero." said Wolverine in shock.
"You know him?"
"I know him… never seen his face but when he shows up, the S#it usually hits the fans the guy is a walking tank been seen at some of the biggest skirmishes across the world in the last ten years no one knows what side he's on. you think he works for Sinister?"
"No… I'm not sure, but the Shadowcrew didn't know him… anyway can we get out of here I want to have a shower and forget the whole thing…oh and you might want to call S.H.I.E.L.D to incarcerate these punks." said Scott pointing to gene-nation. Scott stopped mid-stride. "one last thing. He said turning to peter. "the spider tracker peter, don't do it again unless absolutely necessary."
"You knew?" Said peter in surprise
"No, they knew." said Scott walking towards the x-jet.
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the Carlton mansion
lance and Kurt stood over the nutrient bath before them. floating inside was Todd suspended in place by hundreds of needles
"the nanites are directed into his body via the needles and proceed to repair the damage to his bones, he will be aright" said Mr Sinister.
"I feel… inadequate sir." said lance miserably. "my plan wasn't though enough. Todd got hurt bad and if it wasn't for the stranger who killed him Sugarman would have killed of several team members."
"But he didn't lance, as a soldier fighting to secure the future you must be prepared to take losses. I'm not saying you stop being effected by them but be prepared for them, and to be honest you're strategy was good the only mistake you made was toying with gene nation instead of directly dealing with them in the most effective way possible you spent precious time playing on their level. if you had finished them earlier you would have taken Sugarman apart before he neutralised you all, but we all make mistakes lance, just make sure you take this one and learn from it." said Sinister.
Lance nodded and turned to watch over Todd
Mr Sinister watched his protégés before turning and looking out a window according to Annabelle, Wynter's mind felt all wrong it was like an echo, as if it wasn't really there. the thing was he knew what it was she experienced.
puppet tech.
a living walking doll with a mind and thoughts projected into its body. what bothered him was he was the one that created the tech, the question was who had managed to gain access to his tech? The last time this happened his tech was abused by the imbecilic Sugarman he ended up having to wipe out most of the adult Morlocks just to preserve the mutant gene pool he would get to the bottom of this new wrinkle, this mystery and the mystery of ranger zero.
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in an unknown underground location a solitary figure removed the helmet from his head he stroked a strand of dark grey hair out of his face and got out of his chair
he had spent the last 8 years infiltrating Sugarman's organisation waiting for a chance to off his rival, the man who had taken what should have been a glorious project of mutant evolution and twisted it into something awful, something that drew the attention of Sinister and caused the destruction of the secret Morlock society, the dregs scattering into smaller societies.
and in the end he was sure that Sinister would do the job for him with his Shadowcrew so he went to bow out, only Sugarman bested them with a lucky opening. he prepared to strike when the mysterious ranger zero showed up and finished the deed. he should have been glad it was all over but now he realised it wasn't over,
Sinister would know.
the telepath had scanned him she would tell Sinister and he would know the truth and he would hunt him down. he now had a choice to flee and hide in the shadows hoping that he would get lucky and never get found, or he could prepare for the eventual confrontation, spin it to his advantage.
he smiled that's what he would do he would wait…he would prepare and make sure it worked in his favour. serving Sinister wouldn't be so bad, after all in another time and place that's exactly what he had done.
TO BE CONTINUED.