Chapter 35- Mutant Combat

  Savage Lands – Near the Brotherhood Hideout - Oct 24, 2008 (09:00)

  Scott Summers- (Cyclops)

  As much as he was worried about his girlfriend and her sudden screaming, he knew that they were under attack, and acted accordingly. He gave his team orders. "Havoc and Spike keep Quicksilver and the robots at bay. Colossus can you hold our other fnk, Armor power up, and help the X-men, and Sprite check on Prestige. Everyone, Psylocke is mine." Then he pressed the button that lifted the lid on his visor before he bsted the barely dressed Asian woman.

  Only his bst caught nothing as the woman disappeared in a cloud of sparkles. Still, he heard his brother's battle cry, before the temperature around them increased. “Cry Havoc!”

  He looked around trying to find where the striking woman teleported to, as he did the leader briefly thought. ‘That wasn’t in her file.’ Scott saw Thunderbird and Wolverine pairing off with Basilisk and Captain America, while Dazzler fired a couple of shots at the flying Exodus. Shots that just stopped in midair before reforming into spinning daggers that just floated in front of the flying mutant.

  “Really, firing light at me?” The Brotherhood’s combat master muttered.

  So Cyclops thought to use the distraction, and lowered the size of the opening his visor would have before firing at the confident man. While the white daggers were obliterated in the bst, his target rose swiftly into the air avoiding his shot.

  “No!” He heard Storm order, as she moved with arms stretched out to block Morph’s and Crimson Witch’s path, before she added. “We came to talk!”

  Yet behind her, Scott saw Captain America unstrap and throw his buckler like a frisbee. Not wanting to risk shooting into such a crowded area, the New Mutant leader, watched as the shield as it struck the first Wolverine in the shoulder, before bouncing off of Thunderbird's head, and it continued to fly sailing over the heads of the other three X-men. before it almost hit Armor, who dodged on reflex.

  So Cyclops shouted. “Sprite! Phase yourself and Prestige now!" The young Jewish girl followed his orders and the shield flew through them and bounced again off of the ground where their legs y, just before it began sailing towards him. Scott raised a hand to shield his face from the incoming blow, yet before it could hit him, a wave of psma sent the shield flying off into the forest.

  “Got you back bro.” Havoc muttered before sounding off his battle cry again. “Cry Havoc!!” A car's width's worth of energy shot out of his younger brother's chest, creating a ditch in the forest and more importantly blocking the path that Quicksilver was about to take, so the speedster slid into a ying from stopping mere inches from the newly created trench. A trio of spikes, the first impaled just off of his left arm and another beside his left leg, meanwhile a second wave of shoots, with the fourth and fifth in between his right arm and chest. Then Spike finished his jump and nded on the ground, standing over the Brotherhood member.

  “Get up, I dare ya," Spike told Quicksilver, with a cocky smirk on the ebony boy's face. The New Mutant leader wasn't sure if the spine-growing boy had aimed them to nd that way or if the speedster moved fast enough and dodged the shots, yet either way, the threat was clear.

  Then his prey reappeared, Psylocke materialized behind Armor, before plunging a purple short sword into the teen’s back, the bde bypassing the newly formed psychic exo-frame that the younger Asian woman generates. Then the woman with a dagger tattoo on her face, drew her steel sword and held it high, the bde reflecting light.

  Cyclops assumed it was a signal of some kind, or she was waiting to decapitate the Japanese teen, but his attention was soon distracted by a sound he never heard before. Colossus was crying out in pain, and dropped to his knees, as the shirtless man cut and sshed at the metal-covered man.

  The young leader was stunned at the sight of silver blood and metal melting away from the backbone of their team. So much so, that he didn't hear the sound or smell the sudden addition of sulfur in the air. Although he did feel the added weight of someone, a girl by the sensation of breasts being pressed into his back, nding on him.

  He moved to pull himself free, but stopped when he heard her whisper into his ear. “Goodnight sugar.” Then Scott gasped, as he felt his life drain away from himself before he bcked out.

  Savage Lands – Just outside the Citadel’s grounds- 24- 10- 2008 (Morning)

  Kevin Plunderer- (Ka-zar)

  Ka-zar walked up towards the metal giant, and held up two fingers, signaling for the constructs behind him to wait, and then he muttered. “My you’re a big one, where did they find you in a b?”

  “On a farm in Russia, I am Colossus by the way.” The metal man answered his slight.

  “Ka-zar.” He said while pointing a thumb at himself. “How old are you?”

  “Sixteen, why?” Colossus answered and asked.

  Ka-zar nodded at his answer before answering. “Sixteen is a good age to get your first scar.”

  The bigger ‘man’ ughed at that, before pointing out. “My skin is steel. Your little knives will not pierce it.”

  “Yeah, that’s what the guys in full pte said too.” The adventurer muttered, before letting his fighter instincts take over. He stepped in close to the big man, just a second before sshing the man’s thick inner thigh. Ka-zar kept the ssh shallow, since he meant to scar not kill the man. Still, the Anti-metal bde cut through the steel skin like a hot knife through almost anything, there was no resistance as the anti-metal simply unmade the boy's flesh.

  Then Ka-zar shuffled and moved out of the bigger man's reach, the sight of silver blood worried the adventurer. Colossus did not recover he just stared in shock and pain at the gash in his leg.

  “Do you yield?” The Perpetual asked the rger man.

  Hearing that brought the big man out of his shock, and Ka-zar saw the rage on the teen's face, so taking that as a 'no' he continued his assault. He circled the giant, one bde cutting his abs, while the other thrust just below his elbow. As the big guy jerked away and fell to his knees, the adventure heard Nightcrawler teleport above them.

  Not too worried about the teleporter he kept his attention on the steel covered man in front of him. Which unfortunately left his back open to the grey-skinned beast of a man, with the cws on the tips of his fingers the man swiped and cut lines into Ka-zar’s back and shoulders, before the two hands pinned the adventurer’s to his sides.

  "Is that what you do, empowered bdes?" The red-eyed man asked Ka-zar, the man’s canines were massive, almost as long as a gnoll’s, save that a gnoll’s whole mouth would be like that and not just the four in the face that Ka-zar was forced to stare into.

  Then a cloud of sulfur appears behind the man grappling him, and a gloved hand grabs the grey-skinned bicep, both men look at the glove before they hear a woman say. “Tag”. Then a wave of purple energy shoots out from the glove blowing away the smoke. Revealing Nightcrawler holding Murmur and the mind controler’s outstretched hand holding the beast’s arm.

  The grey-skinned man sways and releases Ka-zar, as he does the adventurer's body pulses with his strange energy, washing away his injuries and fatigue. The three mutants watch as the 'tagged' man shook and shakes his head for a moment.

  “I don’t think it worked sister.” The teleporter mutters.

  “Give it a minute.” The tanned teen asks them.

  And sure enough, the red in the man's eyes fades away before a pulse of purple light begins glowing from them instead, before the fanged man turns and looks at Murmur and asks. "I am so thirsty mistress, can I drink from this one he smells delicious?" the grey-skinned man pointed a cw at Ka-zar.

  Yet before she can answer they turn towards an angry screaming teen's direction. "Get your hands off of my brother you whore!" The adventurer sees that the boy with the bck helmet was firing energy from both of his hands towards a said brother, and while the visor-wearing boy's uniform was burned and bsted away, the boy himself looked fine.

  ‘Almost as if family member’s powers do not work on one another.’ Ka-zar wondered.

  “Whore?! I will have you know, I am a proper dy. And if ya damaged my jacket sparky, and I will give ya the beating of your life.” Rogue threatens from behind her human shield. Then she peeks her head over the shield's shoulder and her eyes turn red before a beam of energy and force pours forth of them, nailing the spine-riddled boy in the back. Quicksilver gets up and runs off before the falling ebony boy can nd atop him.

  That causes the angry teen to pause, because, unlike his brother, Rogue doesn't seem to need a visor like the source of her stolen powers did. He did hear the other ebony-skinned persons react to this, as she screamed. "Evan!"

  Yet the sound of metal and flesh meeting causes Ka-zar to turn back to his immediate surroundings, as the grey-skinned man had just taken a haymaker from the Colossus. The bigger mutant then warned the mind-controlled one. "Get ahold of yourself Alucard. Are you not the son of the first vampire king?”

  As the two powerhouses struggled Ka-zar saw the purple glow in the grey-skinned man wane a touch. However, a voice he was not expecting suddenly cut through the battlefield. "Enough!" Had it been Magneto calling for everyone to stop he would not have been surprised. His new leader was as strong as any chieftain that the adventurer had seen in the Savage Lands, and yet it was the usually quiet mage that called out to everyone.

  Then three nces of purple light shot out of the runes that Nath'aniel had written. Each nce hits three still-standing opponents around them. The energy-emitting teen fells first to his knees and then to the ground, and then both Colossus and the grey-skinned man transformed into more normal forms before they too fall down face first. Ka-zar thought for a moment that the mage had killed them, till the Russian started to snore.

  ‘No not three, six.’ The adventurer had to correct himself, as he saw the rge man that had been brawling with Captain America, too was down, and the short man with the metal cws coming out of the back of his hands, was stabbing himself, muttering. "Must…stay…a…" Then he too resheathed his cws and passed out on the ground.

  Only their leader and the two that she had prevented from joining the battle remained standing, as even the one Psylocke had disabled was now sleeping in her arms.

  Then the mage started marching through the battlefield. Both Basilisk and Exodus followed right behind him, as the trio moved passed the remaining 'X-men' Ka-zar heard the mage state. "Normally I would apologize for casting spells on colleges of the Inheiritors, but seeing as your student just tried to kill my lover, I will not do so today.”

  Then the adventurer saw his second love, Shanna materialize with her new spear in hand gring at the still concussed mutants. He notices some vines begin to grow around the three mutants' feet, but she did not restricted them, yet.

  When Nath'aniel was about five meters from the still-stunned Brotherhood members, he stopped and stated. "You can come out now, it would be best for me to purge her contaminated memories now, before more scaring takes pce."

  Then two teen girls emerged from the forest floor. The one with long red hair was rocking herself back and forth, while the other hugged the clearly traumatized girl. As the mage knelt down to their level, the ebony woman ran towards the boy that Rogue had shot in the back.

  “What is wrong with her?” Ka-zar heard the dark-haired teen ask as she continued to try and comfort the redhead.

  "Unlike your eyes, mine are not stopped by the Veil, a barrier that separates us from the various pnes, so when she reached into my mind she saw everything that I see, and it was too much for her. Luckily for her, we developed a spell to purge such memories." Nath'aniel then wrote some bck runes into the air. The adventurer thought they were an 'M' above an eyeball, above a gate or cage.

  When the rune was complete the mage pressed the runes onto the traumatized teen’s forehead. Ka-zar could see bck light pour out of the girl’s eyeballs before she too passed out. Then the mage dusted himself off, and moved off to join the X-men’s leader.

  While the mage and ebony woman looked over the fallen teen, finally his chieftain and his daughter entered the clearing. Both were gring daggers at the still-standing opponents. Instead of ball bearings, he had daggers and swords from the Citadel's armory circling him. He didn't speak a word to the remaining X-men. It was his daughter Gypsy that did.

  “We of the Brotherhood were holding back before now. Continue the battle, and we won’t be.” She warned the four mutants that were paying attention.

  Ka-zar wasn't sure when the woman in the exotic outfit and the yellow mask had made a pole-arm out of blood, but hearing the teen's threat she somehow reshaped it into a ball, before returning the blood to a canteen on her belt. And the others also seemed to drop their guard.

  Seeing the distraught woman, Ka-zar jogged over and asked. "Can my powers be of any help?" Once he was close enough. Out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed that more warrior constructs were emerging from the Citadel, and they were lifting and carrying the unconscious mutants. The pretty ebony woman looked up at him hopeful.

  Yet the mage shattered that hope when he said. “Even if we could link your powers to his body, you would have needed to have met him before he was injured for it to have worked.” Then after a quick Appraisal spell, and a moment of him reading the results, the mage added. “We are lucky that he got hit in the back, his spines took the brunt of the attack. I won’t even need to use any of my supplies to treat him, a simple healing spell and some bed rest and he will be fine, sore but fine.”

  “Would you?” The pretty woman asked.

  “For an Inheiritor, of course.” He answered, before standing up. Once she stood too, Ka-zar reached down and picked up the boy, his spines cut his arms, but he knew that he would heal. “Although it is a good thing you maintained your emotions and held back.”

  “Oh?” The ebony woman asked.

  “Had you joined your allies in the attack, the Magi and Wakanda would be at war now." Nath'aniel said completely series as he and Basilisk walked away. Exodus remained to comfort the confused woman.