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Ok, guys, All the disclaimers apply, that means all thanks goes to Marvel for the X-Men, I'm just making the story. And I do read all the other stories, and they're great, keep up the good work. They inspire me!
Chapter 25: You can't save the world pt. 1
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I woke up in a cold sweat, looking around the room as if it was on fire. I was unaware of what was to come. So many things have happened, so many things have seperated us and changed us and shaped us into people who weren't us anymore. Logan had taken the new recruits to a new "retreat" in the woods. Gosh! Logan lived in the woods, but I was worried about him lately. He had been having these shorts in his mind, like the one in the danger room, but more dangerous. Then there was Kevin, or Wither, as he was calling himself. I didn't like it one bit. The name made me sad and I actually liked Kevin...maybe more than liked. He was a very good person, but his self confidence was less than sure. At first I felt guilty about the whole "playing the field" thing, but I remembered that I was the one who got dumped...not dumped! Umm, not dumped. Amicably split...broke...Hell, I was dumped and not for the first time by the same person. I wondered what would happen if Scott came back and I was with someone else and my mind had wondered where we'd be when he came back. Also, I had taken up the other classes like I agreed to, but I was having problems.
" Hank, do you think I can handle this class?" I asked.
Hank smirked at me, " Of course, you are a very sharp, prepared young man." he smiled, " Plus, you used to be one of them.
" A student? Cause I still am?" I asked, looking up at him, " Or do you mean troubled?"
" Trouble," Hank said, " I know that you have had problems with your..."
" Mutant-ness?" I smirked.
Hank looked at me uneasily, " Yes, you're...mutant-ness. You have been down different paths than we have and while the kids around here are open-minded for the most part, I know that you struggle here too."
I frowned, " I don't. I mean, I don't meet friction." I stammered.
" I have seen the other students do things and you did the honorable thing." he smiled.
" Walked away?" I said angrily, " Guess underneath it all I'm still a chicken. Not that I'm scared of what they can do to me, it's more like I'm scared what I'll do to them." I said, looking at the floor.
" Your grandfather would be proud." Hank said.
" Yeah, about that, where is he?" I asked, confused.
" We have no clue." Hank said, looking past me, " But your class is calling." he said, turning me and pushing me into the class.
" Uh!" I said, turning to see the class. I turned and the students that immediately stuck out were Brian Giza, Maya Wendell, Lorne Kyle, Sira Carmichael, and Jace. Brian could become invisible, Maya was an empath, Lorne could turn into water and manipulate it, Sira was telekinetic and of course, Jace was a super telepath. They were all older than me, which was creepy. Brian was a latino guy, but his eyes were silver and he was just taller than me by...a few inches. Maya was a lantina with long black hair and she was slightly shorter than me, but her ponytail made her taller. Her eyes were a deep brown. Lorne was an african american guy, way taller than me, and his eyes were green. And of course, there was Sira and Jace.
" Oh! Pane you're in here now?" Sira asked hopefully, looking around nervously at her peers.
" Not exactly." I said, walking to the board.
" Wait, no...you're like, my age!" Brian objected.
" Yeah, but I'm advanced." I smiled, turning to the board, " I'm..."
" We know who you are." Maya smiled, " You're the super awesome gay mutant."
I smiled nervously, " I'm so getting that on a shirt." I chuckled.
The class chuckled, but Brian looked at me stone faced.
" So, what can you teach us? How to be gay in many universes?" Lorne joked.
" that's something you can't teach. I'm gonna help you guys. This would be your free period right? Well, I gonna be like a tutor." I explained, " You're all failing some class, Sira, Speech. Jace....ethics. Brian....ethics and english. Maya, you're failing...Drama? You're an empath. Lorne, wow, quite a list." I said, looking at the sheet.
" Well, I don't try." Lorne joked, making three guys surrounding him laugh.
I smiled, " Rough around the edges?" I asked myself.
" I heard you like rough." Brian smirked.
" Really?" I said, leaning on the desk, " Look, I'm here to help. I mean, you could fail and, what is with the whole 'give the teacher a hard time' thing?" I asked.
" It's a rule." Jace said, leaning back in his desk.
" You're loving this, aren't ya?" I smiled
" Oh yeah." he smiled.
" Anybody else wanna get in on the fun?" I asked.
" I think it'll have to wait." A voice said, causing me to turn, " We need your help." Nicolas Fury said.
" Must be a Monday." I sighed.
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We had gathered in the War Room, Logan, Emma, Ororo and the rest of the team and me, and I had caught things. I heard Spider-Man and Black. And then there was something about a symbiote. Apparently they wanted me. I was shocked when Scott and his team walked in. I immediately looked away and pretended not to notice them. Once everyone was in, Fury began to talk.
" I don't think we've met." Fury smiled.
I frowned and shrugged, " Yeah, we have. Future." I said.
" Friend or Foe?" he asked.
" Nice eyepatch." I said coldly.
Fury nodded and turned to everyone, " There's a new threat. Venom is back." he said.
" Venom? Didn't Spider-Man kick his ass?" Logan said brashly.
" Yes, but this time the Symbiote has bonded with Spider-Man again. He's wreaking havoc on Manhatten and Times Square..." Fury smirked, turning to me, " That's where you and X-Factor come in."
I nodded, " You want me to reach him?" I asked.
Fury looked from me to Scott, " TOld ya. He's good." Scott smiled.
" You want me to fight him?" I asked, " I don't have to...that's not what this is about, is it?" I asked.
"No, no. If we wanted to kill him, we could have gotten someone else." Fury said.
" Why would you use me? How do you even know about me?" I asked.
Fury chuckled, " Our scientists have been trying to find the major powers spike for ages now and it was just our luck that you were identified by a special friend." he chuckled.
" So, what?" Logan interjected, " You want the kid to go up against something that you can't stop?"
" I too think this is unwise." Ororo said with concern.
Fury nodded, " We don't have time, though. There's only so long until..." he said.
" We will not be pressured into doing this." Magneto said, " I do not want my grandson killed."
" He won't be." Scott said quickly, " We're accompanying him."
" We wouldn't let anything happen to him." Jean said.
" There is something scary going on!" Bobby said, walking in late, " Something is causing the world to go bonkers..."
Fury turned to the War Room computer and it showed a reporter, Michelle Cantz, " We're here and seeing things that are surely sign of Apocalypse."
" Literally." I grunted.
" Lake swirling and disappearing and Earth is literally disentegrating." she said, " The cause was originally cited to be mutants, but it was agreed that there is no involvement. There is, however, a weird power source coming straight towards Earth. One big power, and a littler one heading to Earth and they should reach Earth later tonight." she finished. Then there were clips of things, bad things, happening.
I turned and looked at them, " I'll do it. We have to hurry though." I said nervously, " Whatever's comin is coming fast. I'll need to know everything, though."
" Are you sure?" Logan asked me.
I nodded, " Spider-Man wouldn't hurt me...and if he would, I'm not that hurtable." I smiled, " Hey, on the brightside, Larry Birkhead and that baby are flying around, maybe I'll see them." I said, leaving the room.
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I walked down the empty street with team X-Factor, looking around in shock. The team were shocked too, but I was more shocked. I had been here before. The end of the world and I stopped it. I'm not sure it would work that way this time. Something told me that it wouldn't be so easy this time. There was rubble and overturned cars and street fires. I stopped as I heard something swing above me.
" He's here." I said, looking to the sky, " Spider-Man...I'm here to help you." I shouted into the clouds.
" What do we do?" Archangel asked.
" Do some scouting," I said, " Be careful. Pete...Spider-Man told me about the symbiote and it's strong. Jean, go with him. Cyclops and me will do recon." I ordered. They nodded and descended, but as they did, black webbing hit them and they slammed against the wall! Scott and I looked at each other and ran down an alley.
" Probably not the way you wanted to see me again." Scott said, looking back.
" What? Now is not the time." I said, stopping.
" I had to see you again and when Fury said that he needed us to help you, I said yes." he explained.
" Really? That's sweet...in a stalker-ish way." I said, looking around, " Peter is going to kill me."
" Duh." he smiled, " I'm more concerned about the world ending."
" One crisis at a time." I said, looking up and suddenly I was caught in webbing and pulled up! As I got to the top, the first thing I saw was Spider-man in a black costume, " Peter?"
" What are you doing here?" Spider-Man asked angrily.
" Hi to you to." I said, wiggling in the webbing, " Peter, you have to stop...You're hurting people."
" Criminals!" he barked, " I hurt the people who hurt others!"
" They don't deserve it." I said softly, " They deserve worse, but killing them is giving them an out. They deserve to rot."
Spider-Man let me out of the webbing and dropped to the floor of the roof, " You came to help me?" he asked.
" Fury told me about Mary Jane." I said, " I'm sorry."
" She left." Spider-Man said, " She almost died, then she decided that she should leave."
I walked up to him and hugged him, " I'm so sorry. But you've got to stop." I said, looking at his mask.
His mask descended and his face looked back at me, " Help me." he said, looking into my eyes.
" How?" I asked
" Noise." he said, kissing me and as we did, his mask covered his face again and he pushed me away, " YOu're trying to seperate us!"
" Damn right." I said angrily. Spider-Man grabbed me and swung me against a wall, causing me to crash into a heap on the floor! I looked up at him as he neared and before he could touch me, he was hit with a red beam and Scott rushed to me.
" Are you okay?" he asked, helping me up.
" Cutting it close, aren't you?" I asked, looking around, " Where's Spider-Man?"
" I don't..." Scott said,but before he could finish, a web clung to him and pulled him backwards!
Spider-Man stopped right in front of me and I held my hand to my forehead in an attempt to read his mind, but all I got was images, then one came to me as if he was projecting it.
Memory
Spider-Man was upside down, looking into a glass window and arguing...with himself.
" You're going to seperate us?"
" Yes, you're too violent, I don't think you and I should be bonded."
" We are one."
" Not for long."
" What are you gonna do?"
" Not telling."
<Noise.The bell, that hurts it!>
Memory
Spider-Man grabbed me, " Give us a kiss." he chuckled.
I looked around and saw something coming at us and suddenly I realized what it was, " Sorry, gotta run." I said, bracing myself as Harry Osborn grabbed me onto his glider and we shot away, " How'd you know?"
" I know about Peter and I don't blame him anymore. We need to help him." Harry said, as we sped through the air, " Where to?"
I looked back to see Spider-Man closing in behind us, " Church." I said, looking forward. As we got there, I hopped off the glider and sped to the top of the church to the bell tower. As I was ascending the stairs, I heard something rattle and looked up to see something falling at me and suddenly a hand grabbed me and dragged me into a corner before the bell could crush me! I smiled when I saw Harry, " Thanks."
" No problem." he smiled, " Any idea what to do now?"
" No, but...Harry!" I said as Spider-Man grabbed him! I walked outside the corner and almost fell, but stopped and looked up to see Harry unconscious and webbed to the top of the tower.
" Looking for something?" Spider-Man said on the wall behind me. He hopped down and grabbed me by the throat, " They sent you to stop me? I'm seriously underestimated." he joked.
" I think it's the other way around." I choked as the bell rose into the air and began to clang! Spider-Man clutched his ears in pain and the suit began seperating into pieces and it slid off him, " Peter!" I said, running to him.
" I'm sorry." he gasped.
I hugged him and realized he was naked, " You need clothes." I smiled.
He chuckled and kissed me.
" Some help." Harry said, causing us to break the kiss. I telekinetically ripped the webbing and lowered him.
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Peter, Harry and I walked out of the church and stopped when X-Factor ran up to us.
" YOu did it!" Jean smiled.
" There was doubt?" I smiled.
" Little." Warren chuckled, " Crisis averted."
" Not exactly." Harry said, pointing to the sky, " Look!"
I looked up and saw something headed for us and it came fast and it was a blur of silver, then it stopped in front of us.
" Hello, Earthlings." it said.
" Silver Surfer?" Peter asked.
There was a thump, then another.
" He is here." Silver Surfer said, looking around.
" WHo?" I asked.
" I AM GALAcTUS!" a giant purple guy shouted, making me quiver, " Devourer of Worlds."