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Convincing Magneto was surprisingly easy, barely an inconvenience, the guy believed what I said right from the bat, no doubts at all, which was refreshing and relieving for I had no idea how to convince him otherwise, what really didn't make any sense was why Akiri was coming, I mean, no offense, but what will hair do against… Well, everything right now.
Beyond that, I couldn't help but wonder how the events coming would play out, after all, timeline wise things were out of control, I mean.. It was more than obvious Jean didn't come to Erik this time, he had confirmed so himself, meaning I had no idea where she actually was at this point, in the movie originally she went to Erik after killing Raven, a bold move if you ask me, then to the streets or a bar… where she meet Vuk the leader of the The D'Bari, in all honesty, I didn't know what would happen now, and I only hoped The D'Bari hold on her wasn't that strong... otherwise this mission would be a bit too out of my depth.
"This.. power she acquired, can it be controlled?" Erik asked, as I flew the Jet.
"No idea," I answered, sighing at my lack of knowledge about the Phoenix Force, "All I know… is that each passing second, Jean is one step closer to… well, Godhood…" and our extinction… one step closer for both if she didn't let go of her darkest emotions.
"And we are one step closer to our extinction," Erik said, his eyes fixed on the wall of the Jet.
"Yes," I nodded, "But.. there is a possibility she learns to control it, and doesn't kill us…" like in the movie, though in the movie she ascends to a higher plane, but… that's still better than total annihilation.
"A possibility I won't take," Erik replied, his tone firm and cold. I could already tell what he was thinking, he wanted to kill her.
"Not to burst your bubble, but you won't be able to kill her," I snorted, getting a glare from Ariki. "Look, I would have a better chance of killing you with a metal knife than you killing her… she's basically immortal at this point… the ones we have to kill are The D'Bari, those bastards are within our power reach."
Erik chuckled, "You would have zero chance of killing me with a metal knife,"
"Yes, but that's still a million times better than my chances with Jean O'nuke…" I rolled my eyes.
"So… The D'Bari?" Erik sighed, and I nodded. "Will killing them stop our possible extinction?"
"It would… Jean, while unstable, doesn't really want to kill us, had she really wanted that… she would have snapped my neck with a simple move of her hand, during our last fight.... Her powers are simply out of control… now, The D'Bari… they want to kill all life on earth to colonize it, using Jean's powers to do so." I sighed, "So… yes, killing them would save us, and the rest is up to Jean,"
"I see," Erik said, "One question… Why did you fight with Scott again?"
"In order or the most prominent one?" I asked with a chuckle.
"In… what?" Erik chuckled.
"Well, I guess in order it is," I chuckled back, "First he didn't want to host my baby girl on the X-Mansion…"
"Why are you leaving your daughter there?" Erik inquired, his interest piqued.
"I… I suppose I can tell you," I sighed, realizing that if anyone could understand my situation, it was him. "I was a normal guy not so long ago, heck I didn't even have a daughter, but then… Hydra happened,"
Erik tensed, his eyes flashing with anger, "I know of them…"
"Yep," I nodded, "They kidnapped me… you know, cuss of my powers, then they started to try and break me… you know the basic, physical torture and stuff, spoiler alert, it didn't work out as they intended… so they resorted to other methods,"
"Your daughter," Erik growled.
"Yep, they assigned Emily to me, with the following information and instructions, their entire family was dead… and I was now her family, they… appealed to my emotions, and it worked…" Remembering those times, it really hurt… "My new living conditions were rather straight, disobey, she explodes, don't perform as expected… she explodes… talk back to us… and well… you know,"
"And you left her with Charles… so that you could hunt them down… right?" Erik said, and I had to admit, the guy was connecting the door beautifully.
"Yes, and no," I replied, "My plan was to train my powers to be strong enough to wipe them off the earth…"
"After this… if you need a hand, count on me…" Erik said after a while.
"I know you are out of this… killing business, I don't want to be the reason why you go back to it," I replied with a smile on my face.
"This is beyond that… Hydra kidnaps our kind, experiments on them… and everyone hates them, no one will care about their deaths…" Erik stated, and he had a point.
"You know what sure, I might need you for a raid or two," Especially against Bucky, and his metal arm, hehe.
"Is… Emily… like us?" Ariki asked, and boy did he startle me, I had completely forgotten he was with us, he must be a close relative to Drax.
"Not to my knowledge," I answered, "But… knowing Hydra… perhaps they had a plan for Emily when she got older, maybe she does have a mutation, or maybe she's just what she is, I don't care… I love her anyways,"
"Even after you were forced to take care of her?" Ariki asked.
"I do, I… at first I didn't know what to think, or how to handle the situation, but with time, I accepted I was… a father now, not by choice but by the circumstances of… my life," I answered.
"I see now why Scott hates you, you wanted to kill Jean… and he found out," Erik chuckled, and I'll be honest, I had completely forgotten that was the main point of our conversation.
"Yes… I mean, when she was at her weakest, it was the most logical choice, or at least the one with less shit on the way…" I sighed.
"Eliminating the threat before it becomes one… I can understand that," Erik nodded.
"We're here," Ariki said, pointing at the GPS.
"Then let's say hi…" I chuckled, readying for combat… or should I say kombat at this point.
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We arrived at where Magneto's source had seen Jean, and immediately I summoned my dagger from the inventory. Around, the air was cold, winter-like almost, with a chill that permeated the air in a grim tone, sending shivers down everyone's spine. The streets were busy as always, but even then, they were abnormally silent, as if sound itself knew what was about to happen.
"Erik, you don't have to do this…" I heard Raven say, as she came into view, "We don't have to hurt her…"
Magneto looked at her, amused, "I am not here to hurt her Raven, but to ensure she doesn't bring forth the end of our time,"
"You recruited him?" Scott hissed.
"With Charles not being able to do anything, he is the best... I mean, what is Charles supposed to do? Roll over them with his wheelchair until they surrender?" I rolled my eyes.
"Who are you talking about?" Charles, who was just now coming into view asked.
"The aliens that want to use Jean for their nefarious purposes," I replied.
"Charles… Now step aside, and let us deal with this," Erik said, floating towards where Jean was.
"If Jean is being used, we must save her…" Beast said, as I walked besides Magneto.
"Ready?" Erik asked.
"Yep," I nodded.
With a move of his hand, the doors of the house opened wide, as he floated inside the apartment. "Jean," Erik called.
"Erik," Jean greeted, her tone unusually cold. [Jean Grey LV 291]
"Hi," I waved at her, getting only a cold glance from her part, "Fair enough,"
"You fear me… everyone does…" Jean said, walking towards Magneto, as Vuk came into view, walking behind her. [Vuk LV 147]
"They fear what they don't understand," Vuk whispered into her ear, "They fear progress, they fear what you are capable of… and want to suppress you, like Charles did… like he wanted to do," at the end he pointed at me.
"And you want to use her power to rebuild your extinct race here on earth…" I shot back, getting a surprised glare from Vuk, "Yes, I know… I know how you are manipulating her… and how you plan to steal her power, to kill all life on this planet, and… then terraform it to revive your race…"
"Jones," Vuk's face was blank, unexpressive, and even then I knew she was angry, that much I could tell.
"Yes?" Jones the other D'Bari in charge came into view, [Gvyn LV 95]
"Deal with him," Vuk ordered, and Jones or rather Gvyn nodded.
A ninety five, well… ain't this gonna be hard, "Let's go Gvyn," I winked at the alien, getting once again a surprised look from both D'Bari.
"Jean… would you do the honors?" Vuk smiled as Jean nodded.
"Yes…" Jean muttered, and with a move of her hand, she blasted me out of the building into the park in front of it, all while I heard Gyvn said he would be back.
"Are you okay?" Ororo, who was outside, nearby where I landed, asked.
"Yes, but you should go with Charles and the rest to help them…" I said, grabbing the hand she was offering me.
"Are you ready to die, human?" And there he was... my my personal E.T.
"Who is he?" Ororo asked, her hands charging with lightning.
"My battle," I replied, patting her on the back, "You help them with the others… he's not the only one…"
Concerned, she looked at me, biting her lower lip, "Will you be okay?"
"Yes," I nodded, smiling at her.
"Then kick his ass!" Ororo smiled, flying into the house, leaving me alone with Gvyn.
"You are a fool…" Gvyn started, "A fool I have to eliminate…"
"E.T." I boomed at my foe, interrupting him, "Let's save the monologues… and end this? Shall we?"
"You are right…. Talking with you is a waste of my time, but still… I can't help but wonder why do you know so much about our plans..." The Alien replied "I suppose I will find out when I break you down...humans tend to be honest when they scream in pain..."
I snorted, almost chuckling at the Alien's bravado. Yes it was true he was more than a few levels ahead of me, but I had experience, if Hydra had taught me something, it was how to kill people stronger than me, let's see how it applies to Aliens, "Very well then," I chuckled, "Shall we?"
Suddenly, the Alien moved, quickly closing the gap between us, darting at me like a predator to its prey, sending a punch to my chest. He was surprisingly slower than me, and that was something I was going to exploit. With a smile I caught the Alien's punch as it arrived, throwing him into the ground.
But as he landed on the ground, he threw me against a tree with a telekinetic push, enough to lift my body from the ground, but not enough to hold me down for long.
"After Jean, your telekinesis feels like a party trick," I chuckled, as both I and him circled one another, inspecting each other out, trying to find a way to end this.
"Then… I'll kill you with my bare hands," Transforming his hand into a sword like appendage, he took a step forward.
"Ok," I sighed, dagger at hand, while summoning my gun from my inventory, to add some range to my situation.
"Die…" Gvyn hissed, swinging his arm around. At the predictability of his attack, I ducked under the blade, shooting at him a few times. The bullets seemed to hurt him, but HP wise didn't do much, one round of six bullets had barely taken 1% of his HP.
"Your human weapons are useless," Gvyn hissed, swinging his arm in a horizontal manner, to which I once again dodged, jumping to the side.
"How about this then?" I smiled, blasting him with a mana arrow at point blank range.
This time, the attack had actually done some damage, and Gvyn was furious at that, "I will end you…" faster than I could react, he pulled me closer with his telekinetic push, and pierced me with his sword-like arm.
Understandably, I roared in pain. Streams of blood dripping from my wound. "I AM TIRED OF BEING IMPALED!" I roared, this time in anger, breaking his sword like arm in two with a focused strike.
"Blunt attacks of this caliber will never work on me. Give up now, accept death…" Gvyn stated, his arm already back in one piece.
Grabbing a pot from my inventory to heal the damage I had received, I growled, give up? Accept death, fuck that, I had no intention of quitting. "You are clearly stronger than me, but I am more flexible…" I declared, jumping into the air with my telekinesis, charging as much mana as I could in my hands, I wanted to blast him with a powerful mana arrow, and keep doing that while I levitated above his range, but something else happened. Just as I was about to blast the bastard for impaling me, my skill evolved, apparently overcharging the skill with mana had created a new version of it.
[A current skill has evolved thanks to an specific action]
[Mana Arrow LV 24 > Mana Arrows LV 25]
[Mana Arrows - LV 25 = Focusing your energy, you fire between one and six mana arrows at your enemies. Cost 380 MP x Arrow, Cost = 380MP - 2280MP. Damage based on INT and level of skill * 1.5 * # of arrows. Damage = INT * skill level = (165 * 25) * 1.5 * # of arrows = 6187.5 - 37125]
"Hahahahahahahah, yes!" I roared, this time in delight, I loved my power... especially now that I was blasting my six arrows at the alien, whose eyes widened in shock.
His HP already on the 80% he stood up, growling. "I will end you!"
Smiling, and looking at my mana, I got into position…. Already making calculation's how much damage I would have to deal before killing him. "Bring it on, E.T!"
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