Age Of Onslaught [2/37] Marvel Universe (m/f, f/f, oral, anal, orgy, fem. mast., cons, non cons, m+/f) Exodus was an intense individual, he could rarely be described as happy, but the last few weeks had been like bliss for him. Since Magneto's return from the exile imposed upon him by the hated one, Xavier, those Acolytes Exodus had been able to re-gather had ceased their petty squabbles and bickering and begun working together for their master. Magneto had begun to move surreptitiously around the globe, somehow pinpointing the still lost Acolytes and returning them to New Avalon. Magneto's dream was coming about and Exodus felt an inner peace and serenity he had not felt since first meeting Magneto. Now he approached the Throne Room of Magneto, preparing to discuss the progress on the Acolytes excursions into The Savage Land, which Magneto was planning on making into a refuge for mutants. As he walked he also found himself wondering if he should question his master on a subject that had been bothering him. When Magneto had returned he'd brought with him Franklin Richards, son of The Fantastic Four. After the world had somehow come to the conclusion that Magneto had died trying to insinuate himself in the Earth's electro-magnetic spectrum Magneto had returned, and Franklin had just disappeared, never mentioned by Magneto. For that matter, why hadn't the Fantastic Four themselves come looking for their child, or at least expressed concern. He arrived at the door, then hesitated, had he just felt somebody intruding on his thoughts. He waited, and felt it again, a light brushing on the edges of his sub-conscious. - Who is there? - he asked in his mind, wondering who could be powerful enough to break his psi-barriers, could it be Xavier? There was no answer, so he decided to ask his lord. He sounded the bell, and Magneto spoke through the intercom. "Enter," came Magneto's voice. The doors opened and Exodus stepped through... ..in the corridor, he pushed the button which would tell Magneto someone was there. "Enter," came Magneto's voice. Exodus shook his head, hadn't this just happened. "Enter," repeated Magneto. Again Exodus hesitated. - ENTER! - screamed a voice in Exodus' head, causing extreme, intense pain in his head, - PAIN! ANGER! PAIN! DIE! HURT! - the voice screamed, not actual words but more like emotions hitting him hard and strong. "Wh... who....?" he gasped, collapsing to the floor. The doors to Magneto's throneroom opened. Looking up his eyes widened, a huge wall of fire was coming straight for him. "NO!" he cried, raising his arms instinctively to protect his face and then pulling up his most powerful psi-shield. The fire hit the shield, which cracked instantly. Pain wracked Exodus' face and he called upon reserves of strength that had never been tapped, forcing back the fire which he recognized as being psionic in nature, he was being attacking by an extremely powerful telepath, could it possibly be Xavier? The fire seemed to re-double, he raised his shields higher, trying to push it back. - You are destined to fail, - said the voice in his head, now speaking clearly, calmly. As the voice spoke the intensity of the psionic fire seemed to treble and Exodus fell back several steps. He refused to fall, knowing it would be his death. His shields were falling and he knew he couldn't sustain them much longer, whilst the psionic fire was getting stronger. Still Exodus would not fall, he kept pushing forward, despite the fact that he was bleeding from his ears, nose and mouth. - Remarkable - said the voice in his mind once more - How I wish I could trust you, then I might make you one of my own - ".....won't.........give........in," gasped Exodus, pushing forward against the telepathic wave washing over him. - You don't understand - came the voice in his head again - This is merely a test, I have been directing the smallest fraction of my power against you - Suddenly Exodus was pushed back against the wall as the power attacking him increased tenfold, he could no longer even move his body. "That was a slight nudge up," said the voice again, only this time not in his head. He struggled to turn and look, but he could not move his body even a fraction of an inch,"You want to see me, don't you?" said the voice again,"You can't die not knowing who I am," he sighed,"Very well." Suddenly Exodus' head was spun around and he found himself facing the architect of his destruction, he couldn't even open his mouth to scream, and the identity of his betrayer was too much for his already overstrained mind to take, he simply shut down, his mind collapsing in on itself. Magneto raised his hand slightly, the open palm became a closed fist and Exodus' body was simply disintegrated. "No one," said Magneto, his face blank and his eyes shining with a strange blue light,"No one will survive the Onslaught." --- Cortez had to admit to himself, he was onto a sweet thing here. After ingratiating himself into Exodus' good graces after Xavier had sent Magneto spinning out of the solar system he had risen to a rank of power. And then Magneto had returned. At first he had been terrified and had considered making an attempt on the Master of Magnetism's life, but then he had decided to risk it all and attempt to get back into his 'lords' good graces. He had been amazed to discover that not only was Magneto willing to forgive, he had been happy too, claiming that he needed a man like Cortez around and had a good use for his abilities. So far all that had meant was that Cortez had become seen in the eyes of the Acolytes as a man of importance, despite the fact that he just spent his days wandering around New Avalon doing nothing. And that in turn meant that there was always somebody there to warm his bed. At this moment a young eighteen year old, whose name he couldn't remember, was bouncing up and down on top of him enthusiastically in the hope of pleasing him. He liked them tight, which she was, but he was considering doing her up the ass just to see what her reaction would be. Her tight, blonde haired pussy was clamping down on his cock like a vice, sliding up and down his pole, her slick pussy juices running down his body onto the silk sheets. - Have to wash those - he thought to himself. "Oh wow! You are so big!" she squealed in delight, her fingers rubbing hard against her clitoris. - Yeah right - he thought to himself, he had no problem with the fact that the only real enjoyment she was getting was from wanking herself, after all she was only a hole to him, he just wished he didn't have to bother pretending he was turned on by what she said. "Yeah, you're so fucking tight baby," he moaned, then lay back and closed his eyes, simply enjoying the sensation of fucking her. Her firm breasts bounced up and down, her hair plastered against her face by sweat. Her fingers slid around and around her clit in little circles as she continued to slide her tight cunt up and down his dick, she began to make grinding motions in the hope of making him cum soon, she had already gotten off twice from wanking herself, and wondered how much more stimulation he would need before he pumped his load into her. Fabian's eyes opened slightly as she ground her cunt against his cock, he hadn't expected an eighteen year old to know a trick like that, but he wasn't going to complain. She continued to grind against him, getting some additional pleasure for herself, and then his entire body jerked upwards. - Finally - she thought - He's cumming! - But she didn't feel that familiar heat she usually felt when a man came into her, instead she felt her body being jerked away. She crashed to the ground, making a low mewl of pain as she smashed into the hard metal. Looking up she saw Cortez's naked body hanging in the air, almost as if an invisible hand was gripping him by the throat. Between herself and the bed shimmering lights appeared, similar to the Aurora Borealis, but more concentrated, almost taking on the shape of a.....head? She gasped as she realized that two eyes were forming in the light, and that the head was roughly the same shape of a smoothly rounded helmet? "My Lord?" she asked, suddenly fearful that somehow Magneto had come into the room and was displeased. - I do not have time for this - muttered the voice and suddenly her head shot back, hit with a psi-bolt of unimaginable power. Her entire body went taut, then the muscles went loose and she flopped down, still breathing, but her eyes glazed over and unseeing. "Who...arrkkk, who?" gasped Cortez. - Do not make me regret my decision - said the voice in his head - I am letting you live, for I have need of you - Cortez's survival instincts instantly kicked in, inside his head his voice cried - Let me go, I'll serve you! - As he dropped to the bed, he could hear the arrogant laughter in his head, and the voice spoke again. - Cortez, what made you think you had a choice? - -------------------------------------------------- Several Weeks Earlier, Somewhere in San Francisco. -------------------------------------------------- With a bright flash of energy the three found themselves standing in a darkly lit room. There was a smell, an acrid stench that seemed to sting the nostrils. "Ahh," said Pip The Troll, breathing in deeply and smiling,"He's cleaned since we were last here." The Silver Surfer couldn't believe his eyes, they were in some kind of house, with carpet, t.v, cabinets, coffee table and magazines. There were magazines splayed about, empty beer cans and dirty dishes lying on the floor. The curtains were pulled and the sun was making a half-hearted attempt to get through the cracks. The t.v was turned on, Ricki Lake was telling somebody that they were crazy and the audience was whooping and screaming in excitement. He looked up at Gamora, but the green skinned warrior seemed unable to meet his eyes. "What is this?" he asked, looking down at Pip, whose cigar smoke was actually not the most offensive odor in the room for once,"You were supposed to take me to Adam Warlock." "This is a tape," said Pip, looking at the t.v. He knelt down and grabbed the remote from next to an empty pizza box, something - The Surfer didn't want to know what - scuttled away. "Answer me Troll," growled The Surfer. Pip pushed stop and instantly the three of them forgot Adam Warlock for a second. ".....Tilby for channel 3 news," came the voice of the beautiful young woman. "The entire city is perplexed today, unable to understand what caused the mass unconsciousness throughout the greater New York area. Garbled reports have come in from the rest of America, and indeed the world, claiming that we were attacked by the presumed dead mutant terrorist, Magneto. We had a chance to talk to Reed Richards, leader of the Fantastic Four, earlier this evening." The Surfer looked at Pip suspiciously, who shrugged. "I don't know, this is as much a surprise to me as you." "There is quite a simple explanation," said Reed to Trish on the tv, smiling slightly,"The other members of the Fantastic Four and myself recently returned from the Negative Zone, which as many viewers know is like a.....uh....space between dimensions. Now, upon returning we were shocked to discover that the Negative Zone was not being contained as it should, and that aspects of other realities were 'leaking' into our own dimension." "So?" said Trish,"The so called t.v broadcasts of which I myself have no recollection," she smiled winningly for the camera,"Are actually manifestations of other dimensions that leaked into our own Universe somehow?" "Exactly," said Reed with a smile. "So then, is there any chance of this happening again, and why did it result in the unconsciousness of New York alone?" Reed laughed,"The chances of it happening are exactly 1 in 376,459,824,628, and the odds are only that good once every billion years. As for why it happened in New York? Well we in the Fantastic Four contain a portal into the Negative Zone, I wouldn't be surprised if similar reports came in from Latveria, where Doctor Doom is known to have such a portal." "Unfortunately, the Monarch of Latveria, Doctor Doom, was unavailable for comment," said Trish, looking a little sad,"But thank you Mr. Fantastic, for shedding light on this entire affair." "Okay," said Pip smiling, turning off the t.v,"Looks like we don't need Adam no more, let's just head back to Monster Island and..." "Hold Troll," growled The Surfer,"Where is Adam." "Oh," said a new voice, the three whirled to face the newcomer,"Hello Pip, Gamora, Norrin, want some pizza, it's only a day or so old." They found themselves facing a pot-bellied, unshaven Adam Warlock, his hair tangled and messy, his teeth coated with brown muck, wearing jockeys stained with coffee and something The Surfer didn't want to contemplate, the ensemble finished off by a fishnet t-shirt. "Adam?" asked The Surfer,"What...?" There was a bright flash of intense, white energy, when it cleared the room was empty. Across the street, an old woman heard a beep as some equipment registered a large energy output. "What the hell was that?" she muttered,"I'm trying to watch... well, listen to my stories." "Who knows," replied her roommate/captor,"I was going to meet Weasel and play some pool at the Hellhouse, but I got caught up watching this Tilby hotty on channel 3." There was a creaking noise and a couple of swearwords as he checked his equipment. "Just interdimensional energy running off the scale like nothing I've ever seen before," came the voice, sounding bored as he checked his equipment, designed to warn him if someone tried to teleport into his house,"Probably the nieghbours are some kind of cosmic beings that got pissed off with the human race after seeing Jerry Springer." "Whack-job neighbors," sighed Blind Alfred as she cracked opened another beer,"This used to be such a nice neighbourhood." - Cortez looked at the image on the screen. "Okay, who is this?" Pain wracked his head, he fell to the floor, clutching his head in his hands. Blood spilled from his nose and ears and a light trickle. "STOP! STOP!" he screamed. The pain intensified. "PLEASE!" The pain stopped, he was standing where he had been, there was no blood anywhere. "Wha?" "You do not ask questions," said Magneto, standing next to him, his face was blank, his eyes seemingly dead as if he was just a vessel for the power,"You do as you are told." Cortez nodded, his mind was already trying to figure out an angle, a scheme, some way to defeat his new master, some way to take the power and make it his own. "This is Nate Grey," said Magneto,"His power is phenomenal, it dwarfs that of Xavier's, he is a threat to me." Cortez nodded, here was an angle, he could play Magneto - or whoever was using Magneto - against X-Man, pushing their power up and down, make them dependent on him then pull away the support frames and watch the house come crashing down. "I get it," he said,"You want me to increase your powers to match his, right?" Magneto laughed, though his face remained the same. "No Cortez, you simple minded fool," and what he said next made so little sense Cortez wasn't sure if he'd misheard or was being made fun of. "No Cortez, I want you to increase the X-Man's power." ---------------------- Beyond Time And Space. ---------------------- Warlock burped. "Excuse me," he said. "Warlock, what is this?" asked The Surfer,"What has happened to you?" "Where are we?" asked Pip,"Anyone know that?" Gamora was meditating, or ignoring all of them. They stood, or floated, or sat or whatever, in a large, white expanse that seemed to go on forever. There was no indication of what brought them here, and Pip's attempts to teleport away had failed, which seemed impossible considering that he was the bearer of The Space Gem, which made him the most capable and powerful teleporter in the entire Universe. "I let myself go," muttered Warlock,"I'm hungry, is there any food around here?" "There is nothing here," said The Surfer,"You let yourself go? I don't understand it, what are you talking about?" "Nobody needed me anymore," he said,"I left Soulworld to save the Universe, I was supposed to get to be God in return. Then the representative of someone even more powerful than me - and I was supposed to be God at the time - took that away. I got to run the Infinity Watch, then they unraveled and the gems got taken away, went somewhere called Ultraverse or something like that. Nobody needed me anymore, I had nothing to do so I just... let myself go." The Surfer coughed lightly. "The soulgem is on your head," he said. Warlock nodded. "Yep, one day it came back, boom! Just like that, I was watching Oprah and it just appeared on my forehead, like it had never been gone." "And?" "And?" "Yes, what then?" "Then I watched a movie and went to bed." The Surfer shook his head. "Again," said Pip,"Where are we?" EVERYWHERE "Oh," said Pip,"I see." YOU DO NOT, said the voice, although it was more than a voice, it wasn't heard so much as sensed, felt throughout their very being, penetrating right down to the soul,YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU MAY PROVE USEFUL. "I was expecting this," muttered Warlock,"Come out Eternity." Eternity, the living embodiment of the Universe appeared, a huge figure made up of stars, planets, comets and space. "You need me again?" asked Warlock,"You leave me in the lurch, then when you need me you expect me to drop everything and do your dirty work for you." YOU WILL ASSIST ME, replied Eternity simply. "No," said Adam,"I've decided to be selfish for a change, screw you Eternity, if you're so powerful, fix the problem." THAT IS FORBIDDEN. "Whose to forbid you? you're the Universe." LOOK, said Eternity, and suddenly reality fragmented, split and sundered. A wave of something smashed into them, washing over them like a wave of solid reality. When it cleared they remained in nothingness, but now Gamora was made up of crystals. "What have you done?!" screamed Warlock. THIS IS THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE, Eternity stated,I WILL REMAIN, BUT MY NATURE WILL BE ALTERED, THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN, STOP IT. Before he could reply, Warlock and his companions found themselves in the castle on Monster Island, Gamora was still made from crystal. - Deep in the depths of one of the higher realms of Hell, Mephisto, Dark Lord of this particular part of the fiery realm stared glumly at an image in his hand of Magneto. "You were supposed to be The Herald Of Armageddon," he muttered, the image faded and another replaced it, this one was of a tall man, not hugely built but toned and muscular, with aquiline features and graying hair pulled back into a ponytail,"But you, you appeared and wrecked all my plans!" The image of the paradoxical being who had dismissed Mephisto like the demon himself would normally swat a fly disappeared. Mephisto leaped from his throne, startling several of the servile, pathetic creatures that slinked eternally around the throne. "You took a gamble, father," said Blackheart, managing to make the word father sound like a obscene word,"Had he heralded Armageddon you may have found Heaven's forces outnumbered our own." Mephisto ignored the reference to 'our' and spun to face Blackheart, who towered over his father and was twice as wide. Yet Mephisto was obviously dominant here, despite his lean frame, since Blackheart stepped back and bowed. "We have almost countless souls," said Mephisto,"I am positive heaven's numbers cannot match our own, and if I could topple it's Almighty Ruler, I would have power beyond that of even our Fallen Master." The creatures about the throne cringed and sunk away into shadows, it was unwise to refer to the ultimate lord of hell in even the most roundabout way. The saying speak of the devil and he shall appear was more apt than most people believed. "Could haves, would haves and What If's, father," said Blackheart,"That way lies madness." Mephisto smiled, raising his hands a new image appeared, this one of a huge, hulking figure dressed in armor reminiscent of Magneto's. "When one tool doesn't work, son, get a bigger one." -------- UXM 350. -------- Nate Grey growled as he felt the onrush of thoughts suddenly explode into his head. Since the astral plane had gone into flux, his own telepathic abilities had begun to fluctuate. Sometimes he could only hear the thoughts of others as muted whispers, other times, like this, they burst in stronger than ever. He was still able to consciously use telepathy, unlike every other telepath on the planet he had the power to push past the interference being presented. But the background telepathic noise most t.p's quickly learned to tune out was out of whack, whispers or roars now, hardly ever just normal volume. "Something the matter, Nate?" asked Threnody, walking along beside him and hearing his growl. "Telepathy is back with a vengeance," he said,"It's like losing your hearing but then getting it back better than ever, except at random intervals." "Sound's frustrating," she replied, quickly losing interest,"Check out those boots." Nate glanced up and saw the knee high leather boots in the display window, without even thinking he reached up, parted the molecules in the glass telekinetically and reached through, grabbing the boots and pulling them through. The molecules in the glass bonded back together and he passed them to her,"Here you go Thren," he muttered, not noticing the startled looks coming not only from her but also others around them, who had happened to be walking by. "...some kind of stunt...." "..reached through the glass....." "...seen him at Central Park a couple of times...." "....think he could be......." "..stinking muties, wrecking the city..." "Shut up," muttered Nate, already sensing the rising tension and hostility in the crowd. He waved his hand negligently and they froze in place, their minds and bodies held in a state of stasis by Nate's telekinesis. "Nate?" asked Threnody,"How did...? I mean... how?" "I've done it before," he said,"Back in Switzerland, when we met Cable, remember?" "I remember you were pushed to your limits and lashed out, but this was like... the blink of an eye, like it was nothing." Nate rubbed his stomach, grabbing a box of donuts from one of the frozen onlookers,"I'm hungry," he said. "You're always hungry for something," she said with a slight smile, she rubbed at her crotch,"You nearly fucked me raw last night." He blushed, lowering his eyes,"Come on Thren, you saying you didn't enjoy it?" She grinned as he bit into a donut,"No, I'm saying why aren't we back in the loft right now, doing it some more?" He smiled, grabbed her in one hand and suddenly they were flying through the air. She laughed gaily and rubbed against him, all the time grateful that the psi-inhibitors which kept her powers from driving her crazy also kept Nate out of her head. Because sometimes, especially when he pulled stunts like this, he scared the shit out of her. - Forge shook his head in wonder. "The power levels are off the charts," he said,"It's incredible, his psionic powers are... immense." Cable frowned,"He shouldn't be capable of this, since I lost my T.O virus my own psionic abilities rose dramatically, and I couldn't do this unless I had no other option." "A survival instinct?" asked Forge, recording the psionic energy present whilst the other members of X-Factor kept curious onlookers and passersby from getting a good look at the frozen people,"Something that'll damage your body normally, so it's repressed by your self-constructed psi-barriers." Cable picked a leaf out of the air, it had been blown by a gust of wind, that wind as well as the leaf had been frozen by Nate Grey's casual manipulation of his massive psionics,"I guess he broke down those psi-barriers and found a way to avoid damage to his body." Forge began working from bits and pieces taken from inside the small suitcase he carried at his side. Building a small device with something resembling a rotating suction cup on the end. "What's that?" Cable asked, watching as Madrox - The Multiple Man (who had recently returned from the dead) - formed multiple duplicates of himself to hold back the crowd, whilst Guido Carosella - Strong Guy - had his back to the crowd, holding them back with the casual ease that came from years of practice as Head of Security and Bodyguard to intergalactic rock star Lila Cheny. "It'll absorb the ambient telekinetic energy left behind," replied Forge, working quickly with skilled fingers,"Releasing the psionic stasis as well as giving us a psionic signature. That'll come in handy since he somehow shields himself from detection." He flicked the device, and soon X-Factor had to deal with some confused and agitated citizens.