Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 02:44:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Decade Subject: X-Men Legacy 31 Legend: Thoughts = <> Stray thoughts = () Flashback ** 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 31: In Dying, we are born " Mom, I'm good." I said, waddling around the kitchen. " You need to sit, you're eight months. You could give birth any day now...that sounds strange." Mom smiled. " I know." I said, looking at her, " And, I'm glad you're alright with all this." " There's no better...six guys you could be having a baby with." she said uncertainly. " Yeah, you're right." I said, " I'm just worried. I mean, this whole thing is creeping me out. They said that it wasn't Graydon Creed. Apparently he was a part of it, but he wasn't the leader. Neither were the skrull. It's crazy, I mean, what does this mean?" I asked. " This means that the X-men are going to figure this out." Mom smiled. " That's kind of what I'm scared of." I smiled sadly. Mom walked to the window and looked out into the rain, " No reason to be worried, baby, it's been raining for sometime now." " Yeah." I said absently, then I looked up to see that she was smiling, " What?" I asked. " Nothing," she said coming from the window, " So, who are you going to marry?" " What?" I asked, shocked. " Well, which daddy are you going to pick?" she asked, sitting opposite me. I looked down, " I hadn't...well, I had thought about it, but I just figured..." I stammered. " Which one do you love?" Mom asked. " All of them." I said and her eyebrows shot up, " Not...I mean, in their own way. In the way that I'm not sleeping with any of them, but I love them." Mom sighed, " Thank goodness. I mean, it's your life, but that would be stressful...and..." she said. " Why don't you say Charles is your father." I asked. " What?" she asked. " Well, he's your dad, right?" I asked. " Yeah." she said uncomfortably. " Well, why don't you claim him more?" I asked. " Because being the daughter of a mutant is danger, much less the mutant that's trying to bond all races and species." Mom said, " He visited and visits and we talk. And he..." " Wipes minds?" I asked. " That too, but it was only to protect you." she said quickly, " You'll learn quickly." she said, touching my stomach. " I'm not going to shelter my kid like that...I'm going to trust it with the truth." I said impatiently, " If this kid is anything like me, then it'll be able to handle it." I said, walking to the tv, " I've been in this house for so long." " Yeah, but we live in a small town in Oklahoma...not sure walking out of the house pregnant and a guy would be a good thing." she sighed, walking to me. " True." I smiled, " So, what am I going to do?" I asked. Just then the door blew open and knocked us both on our asses. I stood from behind the sofa and saw Dr. Doom staring back at me. " I think I can help with your bored." Doom said. Mom stood and raised her hand, but he hit her with a strong blast and knocked her back against the cabinet! " MOM!" I shouted as Doom grabbed me and we swept from the house. ================================================================================================================ As I woke up, I looked around at the castle setting. It was odd. I looked out the archway and saw a long pathway that led to...a floating stone football field. It didn't have grass or stands,but it was hella big. Maybe three football fields and it was floating above the water below. " Nice to see you again." Sinister's voice came from behind a chair in front of the computers. I looked around the dark room, " Sinister?" I asked. " At least you remembered my name." he chuckled. " Where's Doom?" I asked. " I don't know. Off licking his wounds." Sinister said, " Do you know why I'm here?" he asked. " Inbreeding?" I joked. Sinister chuckled, " No...Let's try this again, do you know why you are here?" he asked. " My baby." I said quickly, " but why?" " I never meant for them to be born." Sinister said, " You understand, don't you?" " No." I said, touching my stomach. " This baby is the next step in the evolutionary chain. This baby is going to change the world." Sinister said, " I plan on extracting them and keeping it until the time is ready." " What?" I asked, standing, " Did you say them?" I asked. " It will be the Messiah. When we are at an end, the true extinction, it will bring us from being endangered to being at the top!" Sinister said excitedly, " There's only one problem." " What?" I asked. " The baby isn't human, not know. You are the key." Sinister said. " The key?" I asked. " You're the next step...." Sinister said, confusing me. " Wait, I'm the..." I looked at him, " The kid is power right now...the power...When the time is right, my kids will be the messiah, but what's in me now?" I asked. " The day is fast approaching when mutants will lose their essence and your the only one who could give birth to something that large." Sinister smirked. " When this kid is born, I die." I said, realizing that I wasn't going to make it, " That's a problem, so you're going to take them before it's born." " Yes, You are the hope of this generation...generation X, but your child is who's going to lead after you." " That's why I'm here and not home. Things are gonna get bad, aren't they?" I asked. " If Doom has his way." Sinister said. " And the chances of that are..." I asked. " Certain." Doom said, entering from the archway. " I'm not going to let this happen." I said. " And what are you going to do about it?" Doom asked, " You're powerless." I looked down and back at them, " That's not true." I said, pulling my sais from my jacket sleeves. Doom raised his hands and a sword flew off the wall and into his hands, " We shall see." he said. " Do not hurt him." Sinister said. Doom swung his sword at me but ducked and tried to move to my side and avoid getting cut in my stomach. I twirled around and put my sais up so that the sword couldn't get between them and kicked Doom back. Doom threw the sword at me and I raised my hands and the sword flew back. Doom raised his hand I flew into the air. " Now what do you have?" Doom chuckled. " Me." I said as my eyes turned into fire and the fire spread down his arm and he let go, but I still floated. " Can't be! I saw the reports!" Doom said. " Reports?" I asked, floating in the air. " The..." Doom said as I blasted him to the ground! I walked to Sinister, " What did you do to me?" I shouted. Sinister laughed and turned to the computer, " I gave you the means to save yourself." he said. " What?" I asked. " You're giving re-birth to the last hope." Sinister said quickly, " It's almost time." he pulled out a little piece of metal and grabbed my hand and we shimmered out of the fortress. ========================================================================================================================= Pane lied in the now rebuilt tomb of En Sabah Nur. A figure walked beside him. Johnny Pane Pane Pane Pane Pane <...Magneto's son...that would make me...> Johnny < I might just have to come around here more...call me when you're 18.> Scott, Bobby, Mom, Piotr, Johnny, Dad =========================================================================================================================== Pane and Sinister appeared in the midst of all the fighting. Everything stopped as both guys appeared there. " Pane?" Scott said. Pane just looked at him, then at Sinister. All of a sudden, he felt a shooting pain and he knew it was time. " PANE!" Johnny, Logan, Scott, Peter and Harry said, running to him. " Stand back!" Sinister snickered. Pane fell to the ground, lifeless. " Pane!" Scott said, moving closer. " No!" Sinister said. " He's hurt." Logan said. " He's dead." Sinister smiled. " You bastard! What did you do!" Scott said, grabbing him. " Allow me to explain," Sinister smirked, " This is all an elaborate scheme made to make both sides less elaborate. The Shi'Ar has become intent on getting the the M'Kraan Crystal and they needed the host out of the way. A group of affliates, including Graydon Creed, banded together to weaken the forces of good. This is evil's ultimate. They come soon...one is already here. That's the secret that I've been guarding..." light glowed around Pane's lifeless body and the Phoenix flew from him, " ...He is not who you think he is." Sinister smirked. Just then a vortex opened and an army lined up as far as the eye could see. " My evil friends needed you at odds with each other," Sinister said smiling, " I predict that the world has ended now." The Heroes looked around, outnumbered. " This is an end for you too Sinister." Magneto shouted. " DO you think I had not prepared for this? My answer should be arriving any moment now." Sinister said, watching the sky. ======================================================================================================================== My eyes shot open and I looked around. " You're awake?" Pietro said. " Who are you?" I asked. " Figures you wouldn't know." Pietro said a bit sadly. I looked around again. " Calm down...You have to calm down." Pietro said. " Where's my friends?" I asked, thinking back to the temple falling around me. I looked around again, " How?" " Don't ask." Pietro said. " I'm asking." I said. " Apocalypse has servants. Alot of servants." Pietro said quickly. I stood and noticed that I was in my jeans and t-shirt, not the suit I... I sobbed, " I died." I said openly. " Yes." Pietro said, walking to me. " Back!" I said, sending him into the wall of the temple, " Sorry, but...Owww!" I said as I felt tension build in my head. The tension wasn't close. not close at all. Far away. Thousands of people in one place! A fight...now there's more. < PANE! PANE!> " Bad things are happening." Pietro said. I looked at him and my jeans and jacket went from being blue to red and my jacket shrunk and came to about my pecs. My shirt turned black and my eyes turned red with black flames dancing around within them, " I know." I said, looking up and causing the roof to fly from the temple. I felt myself extend miles. I felt myself leave my body and suddenly I found myself in the middle of New York. Battle raged on but I stopped to see my body on the ground. Suddenly a hand grabbed my shoulder and spun me around. " Pane?" Scott said, hugging me. I didn't know what to do, I just let him. " You're...dead." Scott said. " I used to be." I said, tilting my head! I raised my hands and suddenly a tornado appeared in the middle of the city, picking up the evil army and launching them across the city. Everyone looked from the body to me. " Pane?" Xavier said. " Help me." I said, fading back into my body.