MiSTing--"2000-X" Pt. 4
Omega
And the last of the nightmare that is...2000-X.
[door sequence, all walk into theatre, Mike is just zipping up his
jumpsuit again]
Mike: You guys will pay for this, you know.
Crow: Oh, come on, you looked cute in a bikini.
> Newsgroups: alt.comics.fan-fiction
> Subject: 2000-X ch.3/?
Crow: You mean there could be more?
Tom: Don't say it, don't say it...
>
> **All characters and places except 2000-X students and Atlanis
> Base belong to Marvel Comics. Everything that doesn't belong to
> Marvel Comics belongs to Adam McPartlin.
Crow: Any new jokes, guys?
Mike: No, I think we went over this already.
> All characters and
> stories belonging to Adam McPartlin may be distributed/used
Crow: To wrap fish in.
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>
> ***This chapter contains graphic accounts of violent death.
Tom: Of the author?
Mike: We should be so lucky.
> If you
> do not enjoy reading this material, please do not read on.
Crow: Does this mean we can stop now?
Tom: I don't think so.
Mike: And if you do enjoy reading this material, please seek
professional help.
>
> 2000-X
> Chapter 3
>
> At that moment the potentially omnipotent young mutant
> called Megamorph and teammate of 2000-X stepped into the battle.
> "Please help.......... YOURSELVES!"
Mike: To the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet! Just three easy payments of
$19.99!
> Megamorph had used his incredible power to transform into
> pure diamond. Falcon, Raven, Waverider and Psyber hit him with
> everything they had. Even though the energy wielded by the four
> far overpasses that of a nuclear blast, there was no effect on the
> diamond entity.
Tom: Of course, all of their team-mates were dead, as the island was
annihilated by the force of the blast...
> In fact, in the adopted bodyform of Megamorph
> was designed so that the energy was refracted toward it's senders.
Crow: How do you refract water? Or balls of force?
> Megamorph then transformed his arm into long spikes. As he
> went to attack Venus,
Crow: Oh, that one's just too easy.
> Megamorph was hit with a blast of
> telekinetic energy. Immediately following Venus,
Mike: Was Mercury.
> Anubis and
> Psyber psilinked and attacked Megamorph.
>
> By this time Megamorph transformed into Onslaught. Their
> psiblast had absolutely no effect on the Onslaught impersonator.
Crow: Who then launched into a 'Blue Suede Shoes' rendition.
Tom: No, that's an Elvis impersonator.
> Megamorph sent a blast of magnetic energy at 2000-X.
>
> However, Onslaught was unprepared for the presence of
> Magneto, Master of Magnetism.
Mike: So was the audience, for that matter.
Tom: No, Venus has spontaneously mutated the power of plot
contrivance.
> The god-like mutant playfully
> stopped the magnetic wave and returned it to it's source.
>
> "Villain, how dare you attack these children," shouted
> Magneto.
Mike(as Magneto): That's my job!
>
> As Magneto prepared to send the finishing blast toward
> Onslaught, Anubis sent, <Magneto, he's nae Onslaught, he's
> only a shapeshifter.>
Crow(as Magneto):Yeah, so? *squish*
>
> <<I MAY NOT BE ONSLAUGHT BUT I DO HAVE HIS
> POWER.>> said Megamorph in the psi voice of Onslaught.
>
> <No longer.> said Anubis as he activated his power to
> absorb life force energy. <As much as I hate to do this, I cannot
> allow ye to hurt anyone.>
Crow(as Anubis): I'd like to allow you to hurt people, but my dad says
I can't do that anymore.
> It was moments before Anubis was able
> to absorb enough of the ambient energy to control Megamorph's
> mind. He forced Megamorph into his natural form, and then locked
> away his consciousness.
Mike: Wonder what he locked it in?
Tom: Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Mike: No. No, it's definitely not bigger than a breadbox.
>
> "Anubis, we must return to the academy. I sense
> that something is happening." said Venus.
>
Tom: Oh, yes, she's using her mutant power of plot contrivance again.
> "Then ye can take us back now." was the reply of the
> distraught leader of 2000-X
>
>
> As the energy pattern that was is visual manesfestation of Venus'
> transpatial powers appeared on the premises of the Massachusetts
> Academy, 2000-X was left in a state of awe.
All: Awwww...
>
> The entire campus had been completely destroyed. All of
> the instructional facilities and offices had been burned to the
> ground. The Boisphere had nothing but a few ashes left of it.
Crow: Whoa, that was one heck of a frat party.
>
> "What happened here? Did Dr. McCoy accidentaly detonate
> a nuclear bomb" said Warrior, the team's muscle man
Mike: But obviously not the team comedian.
> Then came the greatest shock. As Waverider found the
> dead body of Artie Maddicks. The young psionic mutant in the
> care of the Academy.
Crow: Why didn't he just use his time-travel powers to--oh, wait,
wrong one.
> "Who would do this to such a sweet little boy?" asked
> Psyber
Tom: The entire reading audience of X-Factor?
> as Anubis, Raven and Falcon attempted to revive his life
> force.
>
> As the energy from Anubis increased it's flow into the
> deformed body of young Artie, his vital signs came back into
> existence. However, such a recovery doesn't come without a cost.
Mike: See, Artie didn't have medical insurance, so there were some
pretty hefty fees.
> In this case many of the injuries inflicted were far too
> massive for Raven and Falcon to heal, and the psi's of the group
> could tell immediately that the child had rreceivedextensive brain
> damage.
Tom: I think the author's recieved extensive brain damage.
> "We must get the bairn to Atlantis station." said
> Pendragon, possibly the most powerful of the group.
Crow: Wait, isn't Anubis the most powerful of the group?
Tom: Yeah, this guy canąt keep his powers going for more than thirty
seconds at a time.
Mike: But they can still cuddle, right?
> "Arthur is right. Venus, take Artie and Megamorph to the
> station. The rest of you split up and find Ms. Frost, Dr. Drake and
> Leach."
>
>
> In a few moments, Venus' transpatial energy patterns
> coalesced on the X-Men's Atlantis Base. As soon as the trio
> arrived
> the X-Men were put into action.
>
> The first duty was to stabilize Artie's vital signs. All of the
> Psi's on the base worked with him to try and repair the damage to
> both his physical mind and his psyche.
Mike: His physical mind?
Tom: Wait a second, which of the X-Men are supposed to be qualified to
do brain surgery?
Crow: Wolverine?
> At the same time, all X-Men
> with any medical knowledge
Tom: So, basically Beast, then.
> worked to repair the damage to the
> body of the boy. After eight hours of grueling work, Artie
> Maddicks died of massive Cerebral Hemorrhaging.
Mike: Then they remembered they were supposed to be trying to save
him.
Tom(as Cyclops): Wolverine, get your claws out of the kid's head!
> This was one of the worst events ever to happen to the X-
> Men.
Crow: I dunno, the X-Men/Star Trek crossover was pretty bad...
> It was one thing when a team member died in the field of
> battle,
Mike: That was fun.
> but when a small child gets caught in the crossfire, it strikes
> a hole deep into the spirit of the X-Men.
Crow: It what?
Tom: Geez, I don't see why they're all so depressed. I mean, it was
probably just his cyborg clone from an alternate future that went into
a death-like state only to be resurrected by Mister Sinister to
destroy the X-Men, once and for--
Mike: Um, Tom? Could we get on with the fanfic, please? It's almost
over...
Tom: Oh, OK.
> Even the normally cold X-Man called Monet St. Croix
Mike: Isn't Iceman the normally cold X-Man?
Crow: In her outfit, Psylocke is probably the cold X-Man.
> broke down in tears at the tragic loss. All of the X-Men vowed
> vengeance on whoever caused this tragedy.
Mike: Y'know, McPartlin, I'd be watching your back from now on.
> little did they know the
> worst was yet to come.
Crow: Chapter Four!
[Mike picks up Tom, and both leave the theatre screaming. Crow
follows, chortling madly. Door sequence plays in reverse, and...]
[SOL Bridge. Mike and bots are sitting around.]
Tom: Well, we've read some bad stuff in our time, guys.
Crow: Yep, that's for sure. 'Shadow Stalker"...
Mike: "Double Vision"...
Tom: "Treklander"...
Crow: And don't forget all the stuff by Ratliff...
Mike: Dom't eveen mantshun that wurd, Crriow.
Tom: Yeah. But my point is, this was really on the low end of the
scale of bad. I mean, the fact that all the characters were each more
powerful than all the X-Men put together...
Mike: Yeah, I think the writer's overcompensating just a little bit
for his own personal inadequacies, don't you?
[Crow snickers.] And then there's the badly done fight sequences.
Tom: And the sudden appearance of Magneto for no apparent reason.
Mike: And--oh, forget it, guys. We would work for hours and still not
get to everything. Let's just say, "What do you think, sirs?"
[Cut to Deep 13. Dr. Forrester is being forced to kneel down before
Frank, whose eyes are glowing in that cheesy 60's sci-fi style.]
Dr. F: Um, yes, it's quite nice, Mike...excuse, me, I'll have to get
back to you. I'm getting some 'Gary Mitchell' feedback from the
Redshirt, here.
Frank: Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee! Now _you_ push the button,
toad-boy!
[Dr. Forrester walks jerkily over to the console, like a
badly-controlled marionette. His hand slams down on the button.]
Pwoosh!
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MiSTing belongs to Adam McPartlin, to whom we mean no actual hatred or
physical violence. If he doesn't like this treatment of his story, he
should write a better one.
> At that moment the potentially omnipotent young mutant
> called Megamorph and teammate of 2000-X stepped into the battle.
> "Please help.......... YOURSELVES!"
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