บท 34: Knocking Stuff Down
"So you're tellin' me, that mirror showed you this place?" Logan asked me as we stood outside Stryker's base at Alkali was currently one in the morning and I was currently dressed in an alternate costume so no one would actually pin the attack on the Goblin. Wearing essentially the same suit Christian Bale wore in the Batman Trilogy but without the bat symbol and a full face mask more akin to Cassandra Cane's Batgirl, I was ready to go. Instead of the standard Razorbats and Pumpkin bombs, I decided to change it up a bit and use a gun made with Chitauri Technology. It looks like a futuristic pistol almost.
Logan on the other hand was wearing a more practical version of his standard yellow spandex. Made with Adamantine weave mesh and painted in a dark yellow and blue pattern. The suit looked a bit more militaristic than his regular suit would have looked like.
"Yep." I reply as I look through a pair of binoculars over the lake to find the vent access Ultron had shown me before we left. It was a simple plan. Get in, screw shit up, save the mutants, see if Logan gets any flashbacks, leave. I had him thinking that the Black Mirror wasn't quite as powerful as it really was, making it seem like it could only get vague images or impressions. This gives me a bit more time with Logan before he ditches me. I had several things planned that required his help before the attack on Genosha in two months, I just hope my plans work.
"I see it." I tell him. "Lets go."
Turning on stealth mode I let Logan run past me and get spotted. The more in depth plan was also simple. While he was getting caught I would sneak in and give him a signal through the comms. He would then go berserker and attack anyone in sight who was not me. I would use the distraction to let Ultron take all the info from the computers, I would steal the Adamantium and put them in special heaters I have in my base so they don't solidify, and then I would free the mutants. Not necessarily in that order. I had made sure that Stryker was here with his assistant Yuriko, otherwise known as Deathstrike. That way we would be able to take him out and possibly gain Yuriko as a member of my cause instead of her being mind controlled.
At this rate, there won't be any more X-Men Movies for me to prevent.
There we go. Wolverine just got captured and is being taken underground. I easily snuck in while the soldiers were focusing on Logan. Once Logan got in the main facility, I gave him the signal and all hell broke loose. They could barely hurt him due to the Adamantine suit he was wearing, and the Adamantium claws he had tore through them like a hot knife through butter.
While he was busy killing people, I snuck into their computer rooms and plugged Ultron into their systems. It was relatively simple at that point to get all of Stryker's files and plant a few viruses into his system.
Leaving Ultron to it, I pull up some security footage and try to find any mutants he may have locked up.
Huh… there weren't that many mutants there. Nightcrawler, A girl with purple highlights in her hair who I think is Psylock , a girl with pink highlights, facial markings, and green eyes who I think is Blink, and… was that Gambit? How the hell did he get caught again? Or did he ever escape?
Timelines can be so confusing.
Sneaking through the facility, I only had to avoid three sets of guards on their way to see what Logan was doing. Bypassing them, I finally got down to the cell blocks.
Releasing my invisibility, I have Ultron unlock the cages from his spot in the facilities computer system.
"Mein Gott… Who are you?" Nightcrawler asks me as the mutants slowly walk out from their cells.
"I'm wit' the elf." Gambit concurs. "Who 'de hell are you?"
"Call me Knight for now. I'm offering you each freedom. In exchange I need your help." I say before creating a portal for them to step through into a safe house I had set up. "This portal will take you to a safe house. Wait for me there."
Nightcrawler immediately nods his head at me before stepping through the portal. Blink was next followed by Psyclock. Finally Gambit just looked at me a moment, his red on black eyes studying me before shrugging and walking through. I could have sworn I heard him say something like "Eh. Whatever is on the other side has to be bettah' then what we had here."
Ultron should be finished up by now and Logan should be running out of people to fight unless Deathstrike decided to join. I'm not sure how durable Adamantine when struck by Adamantium, so I hope he is fine.
Closing the portal once they were through, I decided to forgo stealth and decided to take out a few key players, Jason Stryker being top of my list with the Colonel being a close second. Running through the hallways, I had Ultron give me a map in my HUD to show me where to go before finally running into a certain Adamantium laced Mutant in a big open room.
Not Logan.
"Yuriko." I say simply as I get into a fighting stance. She just looks at me with a blank look on her face before she too got in a fighting stance, claws coming from her fingernails.
Lunging forward, she attempts to stab me with her claws. Jumping backwards, I barely avoid getting skewered. Grabbing her wrist, I superheat my hand and start burning through her flesh to the bone. Screaming at the pain, she slashed at my face, tearing the bottom half of my mask off. Grabbing her other wrist, I flip her to the side before shooting her a few times with the Chitauri gun to keep her down for a moment. Grabbing her head, I slam her into the wall and pin her so she couldn't move. Pulling out a syringe, I inject some Nanobots into her bloodstream to help her fight the mind control drug that Stryker gave her.
Gasping in shock, she goes limp and causes me to drop her. Landing on her knees, she steadies herself for a minute before looking up at me.
"W-what?" she stutters. "Oh god…" she says as she starts remembering what she has done under the effects of the drug.
"Hey. I need you to listen to me for a minute ok? I'm going to send you to a safehouse. Stay there for a while until I come to check on you O.K.? I should be able to check on you within a few hours." Saying this, I create another portal. This was taking longer than I was expecting, but I was getting possible allies in the process, so that was a good thing.
Nodding at me, she starts holding herself before walking through the portal. This one leading to a separate safe house then where I sent the prisoners. Something tells me they may have grudges against her.
Closing the portal, I realize that everything was going according to the very loose plan we had set up. Ultron had successfully hacked Strykers systems and downloaded the files while putting in several viruses and traps through their computers, I had freed the prisoners and freed Yuriko, all I needed to do now was steal the Adamantium and take out Stryker. Maybe I should sick Logan on him.
"Logan." I say through comms.
"Yeah bub?"
"Colonel William Stryker is three floors above you. Do with him what you will." I say simply as I create another portal, this one leading to the room with the Adamantium.
"Got it." He growls before going off to take him out.
I had shown him several images with the Black Mirror showing him some of the screwed up shit that Stryker had done to him and a few of the other mutants.
You may be wondering why I am doing this. Why take out Stryker now? Why not wait?
Three reasons.
First reason is I want to prevent X2 from happening. In that movie Professor X gets controlled by Jason Stryker to kill all mutants before Magneto convinces Jason to make Xavier kill all humans. With this new timeline (Or whatever the hell this is) I don't want to take my chances that Xavier would be able to stop from killing them all or at least rendering them all brain dead.
Second reason I have is Freeing the mutants. Nightcrawler was kidnapped by Stryker and almost killed the president after being mind controlled. Again, not something I want currently.
Finally, I want to do what both Logan and Deathstrike had done and have Adamantine fused to my skeleton; Stryker has the tools and knowledge how to do that in his computers, hence why Ultron is taking anything and everything.
Why do I want an indestructible (Or at least pretty damned close) Skeleton?
Because the way my powers work. I can regenerate from even the smallest piece of myself still intact. If I get vaporized, I can't heal… at least I'm not willing to take that chance. If I fuse Adamantine to my Skeleton, not only would Magneto be unable to mess with my skeleton like he would if I used Adamantium, but I would be able to regenerate from my skeleton should I get hurt that bad.
The only reason I am stealing Adamantium is so I have something to take Logan and other mutants like him out should the nanobots be rejected from his bloodstream. I was planning on taking some vibranium at a later date, but until then, Adamantium will have to do.
Grabbing the Adamantium, I create a portal out to my bike and store it in a special heater I had installed to keep the stuff from solidifying. If it got to that state, it would be a real pain in the ass to liquefy it again.
Hopping back through, I grin as I hear Stryker trying to convince Logan to let him live. The Colonel was just digging his own grave.
Ultron gives me another map to Masterminds room as I run through the halls, wirelessly leaving the computer and reconnecting to my suit.
Finding his room, I open up the door and walk in. Sitting there in his wheelchair was Jason Stryker, AKA The Mastermind. Jason was thin and sickly with tubes attacked to the back of his skull and breathing tubes pumping oxygen into his lungs. Staring at me, Mastermind was probably trying to show me illusions in order to get rid of me.
"Ultron, Scan him." I say as I look at him. It was sick how Stryker would be willing to do this to his own son just because he was a mutant.
"Boss? He was lobotomized, shows signs of major muscle Atrophy, and is being kept alive via half a dozen machines. Nothing we have available can fix this…" he says.
"Jason?" I ask him. "I'm sorry." With that, I shoot Jason in the chest, killing him instantly.
He didn't deserve to live like that. I couldn't leave him like that and if I had frozen him, I had no way of knowing if he would still be able to affect people around him. I know he couldn't in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but he was older and more experienced now. Lobotomized yes, but still more powerful.
"Boss, The Colonel is dead, Wolverine gutted him."
"Thanks for the update Ultron. Let's get out of here."
Looks like that mission was a success.
It was 2:30 A.M. by the time we finished.
/
After we left, I had Ultron remotely release the floodgates and drown the place to hide the explosions I had set off. I didn't want anyone to be able to use this place once we were done with it.
After we had finished, I had given him the address to Captain America, maybe Steve and Logan could catch up while I offered the prisoners, and later Yuriko, jobs.
Creating a portal to the safehouse, I walk through almost to get a charged playing card to the face.
I knew I shouldn't have left those cards here. Oh well.
"Ah… Knight… My bad?" Gambit says as he looks at me sheepishly.
Taking off my mask, I reveal my identity to the mutants. If I'm going to be King of Genosha, It's going to get out eventually.
"My name is Alex Osborn and I am offering you a chance to live in a place free of persecution." I say, tossing my torn mask to the side.
Each of them had very different reactions to the news.
Gambit whistled for a moment before grinning at me. "Well now… Remy wasn't expecting none o' that."
Blink, unlike her code name, was simply staring at me in shock. Psylock's eyes widened for a moment before pointing at me. "You were the one who debated for mutant rights against Kelly?" Nightcrawler just looked at me for a moment before clapping his forehead in surprise.
"Have you ever heard of an island near Madagascar named Genosha?" I ask the group as I sit down on a chair while the others found seats of their own on the couch or floor.
Once they all shook their heads in the negative, I give them a brief history lesson.
"Genosha is an island of the north eastern coast of Madagascar, the locals focus entirely on agriculture for profit, but they use experimented on Mutants as slaves." As I say this, I pull up images from my OzWatch of various images Ultron had taken via Oscorps satellite. These images showed mutants getting beaten for not working hard enough, not fast enough. They showed mutants who looked like nothing more than skin and bones trying to work harder when they looked like they may snap.
"In two months I am going to storm the island with some outside help. I am going to take out the current dictator of the island and instate myself as the new king of Genosha." I say to the recently freed mutants. "What I'm asking is, will you help me. Your powers would be invaluable in helping me free the mutants and take over the island. Once I have taken it over, I will instate a mutant only law until everything stabilizes. So, What do you say?"
"What's in it for Remy?" Gambit asks as he reclines in his seat on the couch.
"You mean besides the warm fuzzy feeling for helping your fellow mutants and no longer owing me for saving your life earlier?" I question with a grin. "I guess I can give you a few toys to play with Mr. Lebeau."
"As for the rest of you, you will be compensated for your assistance should you agree to join my strike against Genosha." I say to the three.
Looking at the images still playing, they each got a resolute look in their eyes.
"I'm with you." Psylock says simply.
"Me too." Blink says. I think her real name is Clarice Ferguson, but I'd have to check later.
"I am vith you. No one should be treated like zat." Kurt says.
"Eh… Fine. Remy is with you too." Gambit sighs.
"Perfect. For now, rest. Tomorrow we will start training. You may have powers, but without training, you can still get hurt." I say before creating another portal, this one to Deathstrikes safehouse so I can give her the same speech.
The Ex-Prisoners just nod and start exploring the house a bit more now that they know they will be living in it for the forseeable future.
/
"So… You want me to be your body guard while you aren't Knight or Goblin?"
"Pretty much." I reply to Yuriko's question. "In my civilian persona, I am a genius, billionaire, and philanthropist. In that persona, I can't defend myself without opening up suspicion to my identity in others. I want my identity to stay secret from the general public until I can take over Genosha. At that point you would act as my royal bodyguard, that is… If you are up for it?"
"Why me? My mind was controlled, I was forced to do things I would have never done otherwise… Stryker… He defiled me!" She cried before bursting into tears.
"Stryker has been dealt with. Wolverine killed him for what he had done to you and people like you." I say to her, trying to comfort her.
Getting up from my spot across from her, I sit on the couch net to her and hand her a tissue. Taking it, she blew her nose and cried before hugging me.
Hugging her back, I let her cry it out. There really wasn't much else I could do.
"Has anyone ever sold you that you smell like smoke and metal?" She asks me with a teary grin.
"Once or twice." I smile.
She just returns to hugging me and I continue holding her.
I'm just glad I visited the ex-prisoners first. Otherwise I would have had to put it off until tomorrow.
Yeah… Bad humor.
/
After getting it all out, She agreed to be my body guard and later Royal Guard captain due to her impressive combat skills and newfound loyalty to me. After we discussed salary and other basic things, we shook on it and she agreed to keep my identity safe until such a time where it was pointless. After the deal, I let her get to bed and I Slung myself to my base to work on a few things.
As it turns out, Spider-Man had recently received the Symbiote from a meteor that had caused him to crash his bike.
Obviously I couldn't let the little alien parasite stay attached to Pete. Besides, I could study it and maybe make an artificial one from my studies.
So, calling Spider-Man to my base at one in the afternoon, I lure him into a trap more easily than I was expecting.
Walking through the main hall of the hideout, I had muted my helmet and activated two sonic cannons on each wall pointed straight at Pete.
"AAAARRRGHHHHHH!" He yells as the symbiote writhes in pain before quickly separating from Spider-Man. Trapping the symbiote in a bullet proof glass container, I turn off the cannons and help Pete up.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Peter yells as he rubs his ears. Its only due to his unique physiology and durability that he isn't bleeding from his ruptured eardrums at this point.
"IT'S A PARASITE." I yell back at him as I put the Symbiote into a scanner for Ultron to study him with me.
"WHAT?" Pete yells. "I'M A TRANSVESTITE?"
"The hell?" I ask myself. "NO! IT'S A- YOU KNOW WHAT? NEVER MIND!" I yell back before finally giving up, Tossing him some spare clothes to wear now that Venom wasn't doubling as his underwear.
That takes care of half of Spider-Man 3. Now to check in on Sandman, maybe if I'm lucky I can convince him to join me as well.
/
After getting his hearing back and me explaining what the suit was and how it was negatively affecting him, he quickly backed off about it. If anything, he was somewhat disgusted that he had ever wore it in the first place.
Making sure there was no lasting hearing damage, I let him go before heading out to confront the other side of the coin so to speak.
Sandman.
It was actually quite simple to find him, all I had to do was have Ultron track the gamma radiation that he was bombarded with that fused him with the sand and voila! Instant Sandman locator.
In this encounter, Alex Osborn would be making an appearance until Flint Marko chose to accept my offer.
Seeing him walking down the street with a hoodie on, I have Bernard pull up to him as I roll down my window.
"Flint Marko?" I ask.
"Who's asking?" He asks me.
"Someone who knows about your special abilities and knows about your daughters condition." I reply before I open the door. "Hop in. I have a business proposition for you."
Cautiously stepping into the car, he sets down and looks at me expectantly.
"I know about your daughters condition, Mr. Marko." I say. His daughter had early onset arthritis. Everything she did hurt. It hurt to move, it hurt to breath, it was not a good thing to have.
"I'm offering your daughter treatment at Oscorp, in exchange though you would have to act as my bodyguard. You would be paid of course, but in the end you would defend me against any attempts at my life." I say.
"You would heal my daughter?" He asks me desperately.
"I would do everything in my power." I reply. Oscorps current medical centers were superior to most on the planet barring the select few. After I was done with a few of my plans, it may be the best in the galaxy barring celestial tech.
Speaking of, I needed to find out where Apocalypse stuck his tech. Maybe I could reverse engineer it?
"If you could heal my daughter, I would do anything. Protecting you would be the least I could do." He says.
"Then we have a deal?" I ask, extending my hand.
"Deal." He says shaking it.
Things were falling into place.
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