"Spike, you got that flank secured?" A blast of ruby colored energy ignited half the Danger Room, and droids the shape of little cubes with treads, arms, and wide binocular eyes were tossed around like paper in the wind. "Spike!" Scott climbed atop the railing of the pirate ship and blasted a few more droids racing after him.
"Yeah, yeah, I got it!" At the rear of the ship, Spike was covered in thorny armor. Armed with two long-boney spears, he chucked them like javelins into the heart of a mob of droids. With each throw, he took out more than could appear to replenish the ranks. Still, the little droids shook their sabers overhead, eager to get a piece of him.
With a sweep of red energy, Scott cleared off the last of the robots pursuing him. "Nightcrawler, pop the ones hiding behind that top rail, would you?"
"You got it!" In a blur of blue, Nightcrawler swung by on a rope and grabbed a droid by the arm and chucked it in the air. Like a clay pigeon, Cyclops blasted it out of the air. On the return swing, the pair repeated the process.
"Think you can get that guy behind the wheel?"
"No prob!" In a puff of black smoke, Nightcrawler wrapped himself around the unsuspecting droid and reappeared high in the air, where he left the robot to its demise. In another blast of energy, the droid evaporated.
"Nicely done!"
It was difficult to tell if Kurt had even heard the praise as he was too busy swinging between the mast heads, cutting the air with a sword he took from one of the robots. "YAR!" He shouted. "Y'ALL BE CLEARING OUT ME SHIP YOU DIRTY ROBOT LAND LUBBERS!"
Anna watched the carnage unfold from the crow's nest above. "I don't know how many pirates were using 'y'all,' Kurt." She said over the communicators on their watches.
"YAR, CAPTAIN ZERZER THE BLOODLESS DOES! HE SUMMERS IN GEORGIA BETWEEN PIRATE RAIDS, YAR!"
Anna snorted, and a breath later, a sword was drawn across her neck.
"Yar... me... harties... avast." Droned a compressed digital voice in her ear.
"Avast this, nerd!" Anna pulled out her laser pistol from her belt and blasted the droid in the face. She felt its grip release and spun on the spot. This particular was dressed in a purple coat, a silk white ruffled shirt, and a broad black tricorn hat that was now barely clinking on its square head. It's klunky hand gripped its face a moment before pulling back and looking at Anna with a missing eye.
"You'll... regret that... sea dog." The droid drew a long cutlass from its scabbard. The little machined parts in its wrist groaned with the effort.
"I will?" Anna pointed her pistol at its face but had the weapon slapped out of her hand with the broad side of the sword.
"Don't bring... a gun to a... sword fight... nerd."
Anna grimaced, "Alright, fine." She pulled loose a board from the crow's nest, and the pair began to circle each other.
The robot lunged for her, and she swiped it to the side with her length of wood. She countered with a kick to its chest, but the captain dodged at the last second. It followed through with an overhead strike, and Anna managed to block with the wooden plank, but not without it getting sliced in half.
"Ha...ha... now you're without a weapon... you are all mine... sea dog."
"Is that what you think?"
The robot slashed across her flank, but Anna caught the blade between her hands. With trembling hands, the blade was suspended in the air between them. The droid's one good eye looked from her - to the blade - and back again. With a grin, Anna twisted the sword between her hands, and the metal shattered.
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X-Men Evolution: Rogue Evolution
FanfictionA secret world exists within our own that only a few, a reluctant few, know about. The world of Mutants. They walk amongst us, talk like us, and many even look like us. However, within each of them they carry great powers beyond our understanding...
