The day is here and I get up before Spidey, I can hear him snoring in the other room. Dick is going to be killed today, and I wish I had never been put in this situation in the first place. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later, a rescue mission like this. I walk up to a chair and unsheathe my sword, it's metal gleam biting the darkness. I strike the furniture as if it were a sentinel and the arm slides off.
"Do you hate plaid, or do you just like beating up furniture?" Pete's voice startles me and I almost throw my sword at his face.
"Please, do not sneak up on me, Pete." He grins, I think, the mask makes it hard to tell.
"Pete? No one's called me that for a long time."
"What about Web-Head?" At this he doesn't answer, he just tells me that I need to be ready for anything when we sneak into the execution.My claws start to extend as I get excited for the fight that's soon to come.
We run stealthily out of the apartment and through some abandoned streets before we get to the center of town where a crowd has gathered to watch the shooting of the mutants.
We break through a little of the crowd, by now Spidey had taken off his suit to reveal regular clothing underneath. When I look up from walking and trying not to step on people's feet, the sight I see almost makes me choke. Battle Axe is the executioner.
His pistol is pointed at Leah, his girlfriend, but she has no idea that it's him, because everyone's blindfolded. He's been working with the MRDs all along. Anger boils inside me as I push through more of the crowd, desperately. I see Nightwing right next to her, he's not going to die today, I won't, and I can't let him. A shot rings out, Leah's dead, he moves on to Dick, I lunge at him and everything happens slowly. I hit him as his gun goes off again, I don't know if it's a killing shot or not. My anger is overwhelming, my claws extend, they sink into flesh and I feel something round. I rip it out and see the surprise still lingering in his dead eyes, I look at my hands, his esophagus drops to the ground, and the moment has passed, anger turns to shock and I can feel tears spilling down my cheeks.
Dick, the name rips a hole in my moment of realization, if he's dead, then I won't care who else dies. I run to his body, my vision is so blurry from crying, I don't know if he's breathing or not. I place my hands on his chest and start to heal him, I hear a bullet clatter to the ground and then I hear six sets of footsteps pounding towards our direction, most likely MRDs, but I don't care.
I feel Dick start to breathe more clearly and I cut the ropes binding him with my claws. Easing him down to the ground, he starts to wake up and I tear the blindfold off.
"Maxi, what happened to you?" He says in a concerned voice.
"Ethan, he was a MRD the whole time, I... I killed him." I start to shake and tears fall again. Dick comforts me until the MRDs have surrounded us. I know I'll never kill again so I take out their guns with a metal eating bacteria.
A crash in the brush on the side of the square announces the arrival of a sentinel. But I also hear the all to familiar *Schnikt* of Wolverine's claws as he jumps at it and cuts it's head clean off. I don't know when he got here, but I'm thankful for his help.
"Nightwing, can you walk?" He gets up and starts to walk, albeit shakily. I go with him to hold him up, but I'm stopped by a gun at the back of my head. The voice familiar, and it scares me that I'm hearing it.
"Turn around, I know you're curious." The voice is Ethan's he's alive, I turn around.
"Maxi, what are you doing?" Dick says, obviously confused.
"You killed, you really are insane, Maxine." Ethan says, with the gun still pressed to my head.
"Stop, I know your dead, put the gun down." I try to say, but it just digs deeper into my forehead.
"Can't do that sweat heart," he says and it's Sabertooth, not Ethan. Instead of a gun he has his claws around my neck, in the same position in which I had killed Ethan.
"Maxine, snap out of it we have to get out of here." Dick desperately tries to move me with his words.
"You're a killer now, just like me!" Sabertooth says and I kick him where the sun doesn't shine. His pain changes into humor and Joker is here.
"Nightwing, we have to run... now." I grab his arm and we streamline into the forest that the sentinel had come out of.
"Where are you deary, wouldn't want you missing the party!" The horrible sound reaches my ears and I cover them almost stopping.
"Maxine, please, tell me what's wrong."
"Dick, he's here, he's coming, I don't know how, but we need to get away from here."
"No one's following us, we're alone." He says and I look behind me, only to see thickets and trees, nothing else.
"I saw him, Dick, he was here."
"If he's here, then I'll protect you." I look up at him and smile gratefully, but I feel ashamed. I could probably take on Joker by myself, what's happening to me?
We continue on until we reach an abandoned water mill, we go in and get a pallet together. Staying here for now is good, I think we're safe,and I'm sure Logan could find us if he needed to. I lay down and instantly fall asleep, the darkness is soothing to the raging world outside, how did it ever come to this?
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Gryphon (Completed)
Fanfiction(Book Two Of Clone) Takes place during the Wolverine and the X-Men distopia future series, and also after Nightcrawler died in the comics. Book 1- Clone(an x-men fanfic) Please read book one first, there will be plot holes.
