The X-Men: Born Different.

Chapter 14! Keep on Burning

Wow, the last chapter felt really long writing it and then I read it and I was like wow.  Super short.  I added a lot into it though I mean the utter destruction of the only place you've ever known is a little to take in all at once.  Plus the character of Toad was added in, hopefully you caught that.  Now where are the other X-men?  Where is Andy?  What will happen to this war torn city?  Stay Tuned and Find Out True Believers!

Andy's P.O.V

"Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck."  I was so fucked.  I didn't know where everyone went.  I tried to stay with that Russian guy, Piotr or Colossus, He was made out of fucking metal if I was safe with anyone it'd be that guy.

An hour or two earlier, time was impossible to keep track of right now, I had been riding up here with Xavier's team, The X-men.  Logan or Wolverine, Ororo or Storm, Scott or Cyclops, Jean or erm Jean, Kurt or Nightcrawler, Piotr or Colossus and The Doc McCoy or Beast.  The whole nick name system was lame and hard to keep track of.

Anyway, I had been in the Infirmary where Andrew had been in a coma, when Xavier came in.

"Andy, there's a situation in Kingston.  I normally would not ask this of a new student or new mutant, but this is your home town.  Would you like to accompany me and The X-men on our mission there?"

I didn't know what influenced my decision more, the real test of my powers, the fact it was my home town, the exclusive invitation or if it was because I knew this is what Andrew would do.  I accepted his invitation and made my way to the briefing where I was introduced formally to the X-men, Kurt, Jean, Scott, and Piotr were all young like me while the others were much more mature.

The debriefing described some big whig from back home who was running for president and he was some kind of a douche bag towards mutants so this Brotherhood of Mutants was going to kill him.  I didn't understand why we had to step in, but I guess it was the right thing to do.

Since we had arrived in the 'X-van' everything had been out of control.  The van dropped us off at the strand and Beast and Xavier drove off to find a good base of operations.  There was a slight hint of smoke in the air.  This politician's meet and greet was in uptown, however Xavier had readings of Brotherhood Mutants near here.

As we made our way up the hill of Broadway mutants pointed out as The Brotherhood appeared terrorizing humans.  Everyone split up and started chasing down brotherhood mutants.  Kurt ran after a smaller athletic mutant near Burger King, and I ran up the hill with Colossus.  I saw Wolverine ahead of us chasing after a super fast mutant who kept stopping to taunt Logan, he must have had a deathwish.

As we approached a large turn in the hill I felt the ground quake and I fell face first.  Kingston wasn't near a fault line.

I looked back down the hill and saw Scott dueling with some one who was creating this earthquake.  He was knocking almost every building down with his fury.  A gas station across the street from me roof's collapsed on to the gas dispensaries. 

The explosion was terrifying and it knocked from where I was on the ground on the sidewalk over a a bush and into a bank. 

A woman was quick to come to my aid. 

"Are you alright?"  She asked kneeling over me as she brushed the hair out of her face.  She was cute and on any other day I would've made a move.

I couldn't be polite today and I stood up and knocked her out of my way and ran back out into the street.  I saw a mutant lighting the cars that lined the street on fire with his special ability.  The dude was a total pyromaniac.

He had a small metallic lighter and with it he forced the small flame out like a flamethrower.  Something told me he wasn't a good guy.  I looked to my left and picked a parking meter up out of the ground and tossed it at him, he saw it and quickly ducked.

I smirked at the perk of being able to do something like that.  He smirked back and I realized I was about to get burnt, literally.  I ran behind a car.

He started pelting the car with fire.  Things were heating up.  I realized this car would explode shortly I couldn't run without getting burnt either. 

I felt like an idiot when I realized what to do.  I stood up and faced him from behind the car and punched the car as hard as I could and it flew at him.  Him and the car chased across the street near the inflamed gas station.

"Mother Fucker!"  If this dude got back up he was standing next to a goddamn jungle of flames.  I ran across the street as he started to stand up.  I didn't wait for him to get ready and punched him hard in the face.  He flung back into someones burning house.  I really was playing with fire.  No matter where I led this fucker he was in his element.  I grabbed him by the shirt while he was on the ground surrounded by fire in this house.  He snapped to life as I pulled him off the floor and lit me on fire.

I tossed him out into the street and started to freak out.  I did the only thing I could.  Stop, drop and roll.  It burnt so bad, but I felt my burning skin regenerating.  I wasn't going to die.

Finally the fire on me was put out and I entered the street.  He was gone.  I went up the hill some more. 

I didn't see anyone, but my friend had been through here I could tell because all the buildings were on fire. 

Now, I had been walking and I was scared.  This town had become deserted wasteland. 

I continued marching past my flaming high school and the burning hospital and town hall.  Police cars raced down towards the strand.  I wondered if I should follow them.  I decided not to and kept walking. 

I heard a noise.  Not that noise of something burning that I had become accustomed to while walking towards my house, but the sound of machinery.