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Seven Signs; Dancing With The Devil	By : hauntedone Category: X-men Comics > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1040 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own any part of the Marvel Comics franchise, whether it be X-Force, the Avengers or X-Men, I do not own them or the characters therein. This story is written solely for my own amusement, not for profi

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A/N: Hi guys, this update's very late I know. I'm dealing with clinical depression here in RL and the occasional halucination is making writing a bit 'iffy'. I've just spent the last five hours writing this chapter, only for my computer to freeze. I lost the whole chapter, easily some of my best work. Gone forever. Hopefully this will at least be half as good as that was. Still, if any of you are authors on this site, you might notice the new text program that's being used on here, I had nothing to do with it but I like it. Thanks AFF.
        This chapter as promised, introduces some of the other members of the team and it also sheds some light on Spider-man's death. The full story will be revealed in "Dark Nest".
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Genoshan Academy For The Gifted; Manhattan Island, New York
           The television screen couldn't quite contain the devastation of last night's assault. A single vessel of unknown origin had ripped a great swathe of destruction across the East Coast, a fiery black carcass of scorched earth, 25 miles deep in some places stretched from mid-Georgia all the way up to the Northern border of Canada. The narrowest point in the black streak of death was New York city. Thanks to the combined power of the most powerful superheroes on the planet, - most of whom live in the city- they had managed to protect all but an evacuated mile of the city. The Fantastic Four, the X-Men and two full teams of Avengers had worked together, but it had been all they could do to prevent the destruction of New York. The assault had only ended when a small force, consisting of the most skilled fighters, lead by Captain America boarded the unknown craft and destroyed it's stability generators, returning it to wherever it came from - but no victory last night came freely. Seventy percent of the heroes gathered in defence of the city had been hospitalised and three of Captain America's strikeforce had been killed. Spider-man, Mockingbird and USAgent - Peter Parker, Bobbi Morse and John Walker- had fought and died so the rest of the world didn't have to.
            The news-reader was having difficulty trying to carry across the sheer scale of the distruction, millions of lives lost, dozens of towns and cities and military bases destroyed. The United States and Canada had never been more vulnerable. Those heroes not incapacitated in the conflict, had been working through-out the night to locate and evacuate survivors. It wasn't going well.
            Most of the school's faculty - along with a few of the student team X-Force - were out helping with the crisis, leaving a select few to protect the school and attempt to comfort the students - more than 60% of which were from the East Coast. Like the rescue attempt, it wasn't going well. For Billy Williams - X-Force team leader and student body president, it was the second worst morning of his life, after being woken at 1:30 in the morning to help protect the city and subsequently being knocked on his ass by concussive wave after concussive wave, he'd returned to the school to try and get a couple of minutes rest before heading back out, only to be confronted by hundreds of distraught and sobbing friends and classmates. None of which were crying quite so loudly as the wailing seven year old currently on his lap. His little sister, T.J. Wagner, was the youngest resident of the school. Although too young to have developed an active mutation, there was no chance of mistaking Talia Josephine Wagner for anything other than a mutant - except perhaps a demon. T.J. had inherited Billy's step-fathers nephilim physiology - blue fur, pointed ears, cloven hands and feet and a forked tail - the latter of which was currently wrapped around her brother even tighter than her arms. It seemed she'd been woken by some idiot yelling that they were all going to die, and then it got worse. With her whole family out protecting the city, no one had thought to shield her from the t.v. reports. Mockingbird had been a friend of their mother for years. The news that her 'Aunty Bobbi' was dead had not gone down well with the young mutant.
            On the other side of the room, well away from the crowded t.v. area - which housed one of the largest television screens in the world, built and provided to the school by Stark Solutions.- the boy known through-out the school as 'the other twin' by the boys and 'the straight twin' by the girls, Tommy Williams was attempting to comfort the two Richards children. Valeria and Franklin were the school's 'celebrity' students - children of Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. "Guys, I know your worried about your family - I am to, but you can't use the phone. We need to keep the lines clear in case people who are trapped try to call for help. Your Mom explained this to me about an hour ago. They're fine, exhausted like all the rest of us, but fine." The identical looks of relief on both Richards' faces was proof to any who saw it that the news their parents were fine as recently as an hour ago had somewhat calmed their fears. Still, babysitting a bunch of crying teens - many with enough power to duplicate the destruction outside - was not Tommy 'Speed' Williams' idea of helping in this situation. Glancing about the room, he caught the eye of his best friend and teammate Julian Keller as he trudged bleary-eyed and covered in dust through the door from the main entry hall. With a nod of his head to indicate the situation in the room, Tommy rolled his eyes at Julian.
            "Dude, not cool. If you don't think you're doing any good in here - and have rested enough that you won't get more people killed out there - some telepath's in Canada have found about 80 survivors buried under a butt-load of rubble and are requesting help from more physically capable heroes. I was gonna go myself, but I'm so beat I can barely raise myself, let alone 500 kilos of metal and concrete." Julian knew his friend didn't mean to be an ass, he's just not a people person. Patience isn't something that speedster's are known for, probably because when you can read the entire Harry Potter series in less than five minutes the rest of the world seem to be moving deliberately slowly.
           "Right, thanks man - do you think you can take over for me here? Or are you to tired?" Speed was already heading for the door. Before Julian could respond, Tommy was gone in a blur of green spandex.
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AN: Well, there we have it. There's chapter two, it was going to be a little longer, with some happy criminals taking advantage of the situation - but I decided to let it end there. I'll probably put that in the next chapter. Rate and review please. It gives me happy thoughts - they're rare for a depressive.
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