Chapter 5: Night chills
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'Mental conversations'
"Normal spoken conversations".
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NIGHT CHILLS
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"Bravo, we'll need backup over here. We found a high mutant" a voice said loud and clear.
People in black advanced tech suits appeared all around me. They had their cylindrical pipe-like weapons trailed on my form and with a signal from the leader. Metallic blades were fired at me. All failing against my ice shields.
"Mutant, you end is here. We are the Umen, we are the future of humanity. Surrender your body for our greater purpose and evolution." they spoke with pride and honor. They saw me as just another stepping stone, as a piece of flesh they could prey on. They were mistaken.
"No" I seriously have no idea who these people were. But it wouldn't matter, with the number of enemies the xmen had I'm sure they're in an encyclopedia somewhere. I had to warn the X-men.
While they were busy talking about their great purpose I had been seeding the ground with ice. I called it, the cold upheaval.
Shuck! Shhickl! Glinting pieces of sharpened ice shot out the ground like drills, stabbing deep into the lower bodies of everyone on the ground through their armor.
Fwoooshhicklic I spread out an ice wave. Encasing not only their bodies but the trees and grass in my path in clear ice. Their heads were trapped outside the ice prison, they were still alive. I wasn't going to kill people, that was a line you had to think long and hard about before you cross. I'm not a machine that takes away lives without remorse. For every person you kill, you are forever stained. I do realise that down the line I'll be faced with this decision, I'll make it then.
Booom! Boom! I crossed my arms, shielding myself from the explosion of rocket projectiles but not from the impact force that sent me shooting backwards.
The earth rumbled, the very ground shook. Muffled thunder spread tremors along the soil. Cracks spread out with each of its step. Calling it giant wouldn't be descriptive enough. It was a titanic silver machine. It's red gaze trailed on me. It disregarded the life of the trapped people and stepped on them. The almost 200 meter long robotic sentinel stared at me. [Destroy!]
Vvvmmm! An energy beam that incinerated everything it touched, shot out from all its five finger holes. I heard another far off explosion and saw a second sentinel attacking the mansion.
I evaded the sentinel that was surprisingly fast and agile for something of its size. I fired a beam of ice at it. The giant machine heated up its exterior metal to red glowing temperatures, neutralizing my attack. And raising the immediate temperature around it.
A cluster of missiles were fired at me. I expertly evaded as much of the missiles as I could. But the damn things were trailed on me. They chased me no matter how fast I went. I should've noticed it earlier, they weren't set to impact me themselves, the missiles detonated at a certain distance from me.
BOOOM! The blast radius shockwave sent me wildly tumbling across the ground and slamming roughly into a nearby tree. I groaned, realising that I broke an arm and lost a leg, they were all reformed from ice. All damages I sustained in my organic ice form instantly healed. I was just bit disoriented.
Vmmmm! I rolled away from an incineration beam, putting myself right under the sentinel's incoming stomp.
Fwooolsshickllikc. A great pillar of ice hit the back of the sentinel's raised heel, like a battering ram. Causing it to stumble backwards. BAM! An iceberg shot from my hands and slammed into iron giant's chest. Sending it tumbling to the ground and denting it's chest piece.
BmmmmM! The earth rumbled as the mighty titan fell, raising up a dust storm. I wasn't going to give it a chance at getting up. I flew into the skies above, my ice wings glinting with a blue cold brilliance, I aimed and fell back down to generate momentum.
Fwoolshicklc A gigantic, massively large ice spear that was meters thick and wide like an iceberg with a sharpened edge, stabbed all the way through the sentinel's head from its red eye sockets. The metal groaned as it was rendered apart and pierced.
Crackle Frrzztt! Electricity sparkled and crackled on the sentinel's head and then along its whole body. The machine convulsed and shorted as ice spread through its internal components destroying them. The battle scene an absolute mess, craters, burnt soil and smoking burnt trees covered the ground. My vapour dispensing ice spear sticking out of its lifeless head.
Boom!! The head went up in flames, metal shrapnel shooting out causing even more damage.
My wings flapped and I dashed towards the mansion.
The screams of students are deafening. The Umen soldiers are attacking the mansion with the sentinel in lead, they are glad to be winning. The X-men were too focused on it, letting the Umen capitalise on that to attack the defenseless students who had yet to escape back inside, well some of them fought back bravely earning themselves a body full of metal blades for those too slow or without bulletproof skin. My ice clones spread out to join the fight, the tide of blue translucent ice men charged ahead against the black, it was almost artistic. Using the same ice abilities I exhibited, the lustrous ice knights expertly disable the Umen without killing them, but most definitely crippling them.
The second silver sentinel had its arm gone in a mess of sparking wires and mangled metal. It was still fighting strong against the X-men. The metal colossus refused to back down. [Destroy!] It chanted religiously affirming to itself—that was its sole purpose.
I focused a mighty wave of ice as I spun around its gigantic mass, encasing it thoroughly in blue glistening ice and turning the metal brittle due to the immense temperature drop over such a short amount of time. While the more ice seeped into its internal systems. The titan turned into a frozen cold sculpture, like a modern art display encased in ice.
Cyclops used the opportunity to send a colossal red beam at the frozen titan's head blowing it up to pieces. Booom! The metal groans as it falls to the ground in pieces. There is but a small shout of joy, the students are overjoyed. The titan has fallen.
The X-men now focusing on the soldiers made short work of them along with my clones. Wolverine tore apart their armors. Cyclops blasted them away, Emma frost was in her diamond form fighting back as was colossus in his metal form tossing them around, beast slamming them to the ground agilily moving from one target to the other. Kitty Pryde disarmed them and my clone held them restrained in ice prisons.
The fight came to an end, someone holding their friend who was bleeding out in their arms. We had a healer, a literal golden boy going about doing as much as he could. The stabilized were carried to the med unit by my clones.
I hovered in the air, watching it all. I'm exhausted. Mutants won't find peace here, they just never will.
Of course I'm feeling exhausted, but not as much as I should. It's just like taking a short run. And I was already beginning to rapidly recover.
On this cold, dark evening, the X-men stood victorious.
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The metal blades were coated with a paralyzing and neurotic toxin. It would leave you temporarily brain dead and paralysed for them to do whatever they wanted with you. For example extract/cut out your body parts while you were still alive and feeling, so they could properly graft it onto their bodies.
The Umen, as I learned. Are a posthumanist group, who target mutants for their body parts and consequent powers. They will literally graft pieces of mutant flesh on their bodies to gain pieces of that mutant's abilities. They went off the radar after their last attack was foiled. And this time they came back with all they had. It was a do or die for them, as they thought we were weakened when they got wind of the last incident. Well they failed. No one knows yet where they got the sentinels from. But out there somewhere, is a villain laughing at our misfortune and planning their next attack.
The good side( if you want to call it that) is that Dr McCoy got some tech from the sentinels and he's using it for research. Said he'll create a machine that'll warn us of any invasions involving sentinels.
And since my heroic acts counterbalanced my earlier scuffle in the cafeteria I got off with a light warning and then a heavy praise. Emma might still be somewhat displeased with me, I know she's the one giving me nightmares. No for real, she's doing something to me when I sleep. One of these days I just might freeze her head off.
It's been a week since the attack. Things were back to relative normalcy, this wasn't the first time they got attacked. But at least the mansion was still standing.
I should probably start listening to Cyclops's speech. It was just too damn boring. The sun rays reflected off his black full body combat suit, a red glint on his visor. His voice sharp and loud.
"....I'm happy to have you all back to Xavier Institute for higher learning, for another semester. We've had setbacks but we're still here. As you all already know miss frost and I will be running the school as headmaster. Professor Xavier is away pursuing other aspects of his dreams. A dream of humans and mutants coexisting peacefully. And that dream is still alive here. Regardless of setbacks.
I light of the recent dangers we've faced in the school. There will be some changes. All students will be enrolled in advanced combat training. You will train in squads monitored by X-Men supervisors, these squads will consist of six students each." He smiled. "Students in this squad will have codename assigned to them and will receive training uniforms"
Hey wait a minute. I am an X-Man. Do I have to be in a group? Shouldn't I be like an advisor or something? Never mind. I atleast get to still keep and wear my black uniform.
He gestured for us to come up the stage. "Those squads that have already been chosen will be introduced to you today. But all of you will be in a squad before the month ends. I will be serving as advisor to the first squad allow me to introduce,
Robert Drake. Codename: Iceman.
Callie Betto. Codename: Dryad.
Max Jordan. Codename: Quill.
Celestie, Mindee and Phoebe Cuckoo. Codename: Three-in-one" the students applauded and some snickered.
Our squad wore lite-blue full body suits with darker blue highlights and edges with a silver X on the chest, the designs were unique as each student was allowed creative input. I was the odd one out with, black form fitting combat jeans, a blue shirt beneath my black and yellow X-jacket, the composite material gloves on my hands and the silver X-belt.
As for my team members, Dryad was an elfish looking teen girl who could control and communicate with plant life.
Quill was like a porcupine man that could shoot them out like projectiles.
The Three-in-one were the young clones of Emma frost, the telepaths that coil also turn into their organic diamond form.
"And those are the members of my squad, the Corsairs." he pronounced proudly. I nearly burst out laughing at that, so we we're the pirates? Not bad, I always wanted to be called Jack Sparrow. With all these tight fitting uniforms it makes you wonder how the hell they don't die of heat? Well hank made them breathable or something close to that. Me, I never get hot. Or warm. Even in flesh form, I'm quite cold.
"Miss Frost will now introduce her squad"
A squad wearing red uniforms in contrast to our blue walked up to the other side of the stage. Emma frost looked on proudly with a bright beaming smile.
"Julian Keller. Codename: Hellion.
Cessily Kincaid. Codename: Mercury.
Santo Vaccarro. Codename: Rockslide.
Jay Guthrie. Codename: Icarus.
Sooraya Qadir. Codename: Dust
Brain Cruz. Codename: Tag.
And so I give you my squad the hellions"
She introduced her squad with utmost emphasis. The hellion kid was the guy who's ass I had kicked. And by the way he's looking at me, I bet his ego is through the roof right now. He avoided my eyes when I caught him staring.
Mercury looked exactly like her name implied, liquid humanoid metal. Sooraya was in a traditional burqa and veil. I remember times when Cruz would dress like this just to play the innocent and holy card, Cruz hah, she's insane.
Rockslide was a guy made up of rocks like the thing. Icarus had red angelic wings. And the last guy in the group had psychic powers of some sort.
"Next, Danielle moonstar and..." I tuned them out. The list went on and on, the new mutants, the paragons, the paladins…
But wow, the body suits really showed the curves. I mean really everywhere I look I see busty cleavage and full curves on the ladies. What? I'm a guy, if I see beautiful women why should I hide that they're beautiful or act like a monk. They were all friggin sexy, I am currently a teenager, my hormones are raging what the hell are you expecting? My body was also most likely going through puberty. I can't control that.
Anywho, it's turning out to be a great day so far, might as well plan on where to go for my 'hero' activities. I said I was going to help people, and that's not limited to mutants alone. I already mapped out a route and destination using my bird scouts, all I needed now was the cover of night time.
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Welcome to chapter five! Aller vous et manger beating hearts. That's English for awesome. kek.
What a chapter! We took down sentinels, we froze people. We are now in a squad, who's the squad leader gonna be? We'll find out soon.
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