Chapter 10 "Beast to X-Men, Beast to X-Men," came over a communicator lying where Shaw had dropped it. Harry shot out a web-line and brought the communicator to his hand. "Go ahead Beast...this is Spider-Man," Harry said into the communicator while Colossus came to.
"I've been such an idiot. I came here to see a girl I met over the internet but it wasn't a girl. It was the Brotherhood of Mutants and now they know everything," McCoy lamented. "They know Magneto isn't dead, that the Professor faked his death, and that he was living in Queens. I didn't tell them anything aloud no matter how hard they hit me. But the brotherhood has psychics too. They just reached into my head and took what they wanted anyway."
Harry led the way out of the Hellfire Club headquarters. The club's guests had fled, apparently having sensed the danger when the giant flaming phoenix had reached down from the heavens. Colossus carried a still unconscious Xavier. Harry and Jean felt no need to put up with his bullshit at that moment, so were keeping the bald telepath out. Arriving outside the group was met with the sight of thousands of metal objects including cars, metal sewage piping, steel girders, and much more floating above Manhattan in the sky spelling out the words THANK YOU CHARLES.
"Well fuck," Storm declared, summing up the situation well.
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"Thank you all for coming," Harry said to the assembled X-Men minus Kitty, Wolverine, and Cyclops. Those three had yet to return from their mission to the Savage Land. "Why have you called us here, Harry?" Beast asked.
The Professor had disappeared somewhere for a few hours after Magneto had written his little message in the sky. Harry, Jean, and Storm knew the bald telepath was checking into a safe house he planned on taking the X-Men into hiding within.
"The government is going to be coming looking for answers really quickly as to why Magneto is still alive," Jean announced.
"We need to decide right now how we are going to respond," Storm added.
"If we claim to have known all along we will be prosecuted just like the Professor," Harry clarified.
"Are you suggesting we claim ignorance and let the Professor go to jail?" Henry demanded.
"We didn't find out he was keeping Magneto alive and in that foolish psychic rehabilitation until recently," Colossus pointed out. "I still think he is insane."
"I think I can smooth things over with the government. After all...Xavier is one of the strongest telepaths in the world. How are teenagers supposed to be expected to come forward with the truth when Xavier didn't want us to," Harry said.
"I can't believe what you are suggesting. I am not going to listen to this," Beast growled and stood up, preparing to storm out.
The blue furred Beast crumpled to the chair he had just stood up from out cold.
"Did he honestly think I would let him leave the room with his memories of this meeting intact if he didn't agree," Jean mused.
"Apparently he did," Harry replied.
Ignoring the little exchange Bobby spoke up, "I've put my parents through enough shit and I don't agree with the Professor keeping Magneto alive anymore than you guys. But what will happen with the school? Will we have to go home?"
"Despite what Shaw said the Hellfire Club never donated this building to Xavier," Jean explained. "They just let him use it. Phoenix put everything in Harry and my names. We have the means to easily keep the school going. It just won't have Xavier in it."
"Is he just going to let us stay here while he runs from the military and government?" Colossus asked. "Won't he try to take control of our minds?"
"Jean will prevent him," Storm assured.
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"Sounds like a plan to me," Colossus agreed.
"Same here," Bobby agreed.
Harry glanced off suddenly in the direction of New York.
"There is an attack going on right now on the Brooklyn Bridge. A Brotherhood team is attempting to destroy the bridge with hundreds of humans on it," Harry announced.
"Let's go," Colossus suggested as he leapt to his feet.
Harry teleported himself and his companions to the bridge right in front of the Brotherhood team. The Brotherhood force consisted of Rogue, Vanisher, Toad, Juggernaut, Hard-Drive, and a sixth male mutant in dark sunglasses that Harry didn't recognize. Juggernaut immediately charged the team.
"Shit, we didn't sign up to face them," Rogue exclaimed, mostly pointing at Spider-Man.
"Yeah, he kicked the boss's ass," Toad added even as Spider-Man delivered an uppercut to the charging Juggernaut that sent the usually unstoppable mutant shooting into the sky sailing higher and higher until the projectile mutant disappeared from sight.
"I can't decide if the initial punch or landing is going to hurt him worse," Bobby declared.
"What'll it be...are you going to surrender or get your asses beat?" Storm asked the remaining Brotherhood mutants while lightning crackled between her fingertips.
"Neither," Hard-Drive said as she and Vanisher grabbed their fellow mutants and teleported away.
"Let them go...we have a more important task," Harry said as the bridge shuddered. "I don't know if they managed to collapse enough of the supports to bring the bridge down but we need to get these people off of here."
Just then Susan, Regenerate, and Blend were teleported onto the bridge. "Where can we help?" MJ asked.
Even as the other X-Men began evacuating the humans from their cars Harry instructed Gwen, "See if you can blend with the bridge matter and stabilize it. Jean, Susan, and I will reinforce a section apiece." To MJ he added, "Can you see if you can try that trick with gravity I have been teaching you but on a larger scale?"
The redhead nodded her head in acknowledgement. She closed her eyes and extended her senses out. Harry sensed as MJ began to lessen the power of gravity acting on the bridge's matter. She couldn't completely remove gravity's pull on such a large scale with her current skill but she certainly took the load off, enough that Harry, Jean, and Susan could hold the bridge up with telekinesis. Without needing to reinforce the bridge Gwen reached down into the matter of the supports which had been demolished by Juggernaut and began repairing them. She had much practice repairing matter but usually it was after the fact and not in such a high pressure situation.
"I can do this," Gwen told herself.
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Columns began to flow back into place and within minutes the supports were restored. The group still continued to evacuate the humans. Structural engineers would want to examine the bridge before it could be reopened to the public. As the X-Men and Harry's other mates worked Magneto began broadcasting a message worldwide. It was known that Spider-Man had some tech built into his suit so when Lily broadcast the speech to her creator and Jean then relayed it to her comrades telepathically that was the excuse he used for being able to pick up the broadcast.
"Do not be afraid. Evolution is merely taking place. Just as man replaced ape, so now must you give way to your evolutionary masters. As you can see, I am still alive. Nothing has changed except the urgency of the mutant agenda. We are not murderers, we are not terrorists. Our attacks on human decadence are far from evil. The Brotherhood of Mutants is simply here to take our place at the top of nature's food chain. I will keep this message brief because I dislike speaking to you. It feels ridiculous, like conversing with a toad or a common earthworm. Thus, my statement shall be clear and straightforward – you have six calendar months to surrender your world to Homo Sapien Superior. During this time, we will prepare your new society and decide which of your races should be kept as slaves, which should be fuel, and which shall be saved for our larder," Magneto declared. "Magneto has spoken."
"That is the last of them," Susan said as she transported a group of people off the Brooklyn Bridge using her force-fields.
"Good," Harry said before activating the holographic communicator incorporated in the wrist of his suit.
As an image of Iron-Man appeared in a hologram Stark said, "Harry, where are you? Things are a mad house around here. Fury was just sending me out to see if I could locate the X-Men. I was just going to call you. What the hell is going on?"
"It's a long story Tony. Jean, Storm, and I will be right over," Harry assured.
"Alright," Tony agreed before the communiqué was cut off.
"We'll take care of the locals," MJ assured.
Harry nodded at his other mates while wrapping his arms around the waists of the two teen beauties. They were gone via the teleporter within moments.
"So you see...Xavier was keeping the X-Men from revealing that Magneto was alive using his telepathy," Harry finished explaining. "I was able to overcome what little influence he had on me today when he was away from the mansion and break Jean of his influence. From there she broke his hold on the others."
Spider-Man had just told Fury and the rest of the Ultimates about Xavier's tricking of the world by sending Magneto into space in a telekinetically and magnetically sealed vessel made out of all the metal Magneto had been surrounded with after the attack on the White House.
"Xavier was able to affect your mind?" Hawkeye asked incredulously. "Yes," Harry answered simply. The wizard's teammates were having trouble believing this but chose not to dispute it.
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"Do you have any idea where Xavier is now?" Steve inquired.
"We know the Professor set up several safe houses and he planned on taking us to them but we were never told the locations," Jean explained.
"Isn't Magneto of a higher priority than Xavier right now? After all, his flunkies just tried taking out the Brooklyn Bridge," Storm pointed out, causing the Ultimates and Fury to wince at the reminder of the near massacre that had just occurred.
"We're not having much luck tracing his new base of operations yet," Fury explained. "Wanda and Pietro don't even know where it is. It seems Magneto had a whole network of safe houses and bases he didn't tell his children about."
"I don't know how much help we will be tracing it. If the Professor hasn't already figured out we don't want anything to do with him he will soon enough," Jean pointed out.
"Aren't you worried he will try invading your minds again and just use you again?" Hawkeye questioned.
"I think he needed Cerebro to do it the first time. I have taken measures since then to ensure Charles Xavier will never influence me again with his telepathy. The same can be said of Jean and Storm," Harry assured.
"And I can protect the others now," Jean added. The redhead's features suddenly changed to a faraway look and then she gripped the desk in shock. "Oh my god," Jean whispered.
"Wolverine and Kitty just returned from their mission to the Savage Land to try to save the soldiers there. Scott was killed," Harry informed his friends. Tears sprang to Jean's eyes and Storm wrapped her in a hug and drew her to the side. "Despite how much of a stick in the mud Scott was he was still one of Jean's oldest friends and at one point she had romantic feelings for him," Harry explained. "Jean has been monitoring the school telepathically since we left."
There was silence for several moments and then Cap spoke up.
"I'm sorry about your loss," Steve said while Tony brought up holographic images of the three mutants who had been on the Savage Land rescue mission on the situation table in the room. "I know this Wolverine guy from the war but back then he wasn't called Wolverine. He was called Jim Howlett. He was a Special Forces hotshot from Toronto. We did some air-drops together back in the summer of 1944. No matter how many times Jim got shot he just got back up again. Back then nobody knew what a mutant was. We just called him Lucky Jim. How in God's name does he still look so young?"
"One of Wolverine's most potent mutant abilities is his healing factor. He is probably biologically immortal," Harry explained. "You should also know Weapon-X wiped all of his memories. He won't remember you, Cap. They turned him into an assassin to use as their weapon like their name implies."
"Huh...well old comrades aside let's talk shop. The way I see it we have two principal objectives now that the X-Men barring Xavier have been vindicated. The first objective is to find the Brotherhood. The second objective is trying to anticipate the type of terrorist tactics they'll use against the public. Black Widow and Hawkeye just busted a cyber terrorist attack on the stock exchange. I think this might be an indication of what we can expect. Tony, can you give us a sit-rep on the mutant location system Stark International is working on?"
"Essentially it's an upgraded version of Charles Xavier's Cerebro but working on a global scale using a
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network of satellites and it doesn't rely on innate telepathy," Tony explained. "By the end of the month I believe we'll be able to trace and pinpoint every X-Factor-positive life form on Earth regardless of whether they are cloaked or not." Just then the lights went out. "I designed the lights to never go off in this place," Tony commented.
"Magneto is here," Harry announced. "How nice of him to come to us," Spider-Man commented as he rose.
"We're so screwed," Quicksilver said.
"You guys might want to tell your staff not to taunt Dr. Banner and hurl hurtful names at him. As soon as Magneto takes out your backup generators I do believe the Hulk is going to eat them," Jean informed the Ultimates as the lights came on briefly for the backup generator.
"Oh shit," Tony swore.
"I've got him," Harry assured as he teleported away.
"If he's got the Hulk then who the hell is going to take out Magneto?" Hawkeye wanted to know.
Everybody present knew that it was Spider-Man who had taken out Magneto's thought protecting helmet the last time.
"Steady, people," Cap ordered. "Finding this punk has been our principle objective for over forty-eight hours."
"Let's call in some backup since Harry is busy choking out the Hulk," Janet suggested to Jean, knowing the redhead would hear her thoughts.
Jean nodded subtly and the next moment Susan Storms, Mary Jane Watson, and Gwen Stacy were in the room all in costume.
"Well, now you have found me, Captain," Magneto said as he tore through the door of the situation room. "What are you going to do about it?"
In response Cap threw his shield but Magneto sent the metal object hurtling back at the super soldier.
While Thor attacked Magneto with a metal hammer Jean sent to her fellow mates of Spider-Man, "Gwen, can you take care of all the metal on our person? Susan, can you shield us from any projectiles he sends at us? MJ, can you neutralize any magnetic energy he sends our way?"
"We'll have to be close together for me to intercept his focused power," MJ replied while the others began working.
The ladies all huddled up. Gwen connected with the metals on their person and caused those metals to melt off their forms. A protecting field of energy went up right at the surface of all the ladies' forms. Janet and Natasha mostly stood behind the group. Nothing Natasha could do would even phase Magneto with his powers and Janet's wasp stings were essentially highly charged particles. They would splash off the field Magneto projected. As Thor was rebuked Storm called down bolts of lightning which crashed through the roof of the section of the Triskelion the group was in and distracted Magneto long enough for Jean to reach out and telekinetically grip him by his throat. Magneto's eyes widened in his helmet as the redhead began to squeeze. There were different types of telekinesis. Some were projections of psionic energy that manifested
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into physical force. Others were psionic energy fields so energy dense they caused highly focused curvature of spacetime. When they were really focused Susan and Jean could manage the harder spacetime curvature method. Jean was really focused.
Before Jean could focus enough pressure to snap Magneto's neck the entire room seemed to explode. The magnetic mutant had brought the walls crushing inwards with as much force as he could bear. Jean added her telekinetic might to Susan's shields and they extended them around the Ultimates. Jean and Susan felt like they were in a trash compactor but their combined will held. Moments later they were able to push the metal away when they felt the pressure let up but by that point Magneto had already fled.
"Are you all alright?" Harry asked. "I saw Magneto flying away like the devil was chasing him." "Thanks to your beautiful companions we are fine, Harry," Tony admitted. Fury came storming back into the room at that moment. He had left earlier after hearing the X-Men's tale. "It's nice to see you are all in one piece," Fury declared. "How did we just get our asses handed to us by one guy?" Hawkeye demanded.
"That one guy has had decades to hone his abilities whereas most of the people in this room are barely out of their teens. Additionally metal weaponry is worse than useless against Magneto. I'm impressed you fought him off," Harry praised. "I knocked Banner out again. I suggest those dumbasses working in that section learn some common sense. He would have eaten them if I had arrived moments later."
"I'll be having words with them," Fury promised. "He is right. Magneto is as dangerous as they come. You aren't going to believe the gall of Charles Xavier."
"You would be surprised what we would believe," Storm muttered.
"That little shit just tried calling to broker a deal," Fury announced.
"I hope you told him where to shove it, Sir," Cap replied.
"And then some," Fury assured with a feral grin. "We're going for him just like we're going for that asshole that fled from here."
Fury assigned Natasha and Hawkeye to a protection detail for the President right after the Magneto incident. The President had been moved to an innocuous small town where Fury hoped Magneto wouldn't think to look for him. Clint even did a TV interview with a reporter to talk about the controversial Camp X-Factor where the government was keeping the captured mutant terrorists. It was after this interview that Steve informed Janet that nobody on the team cared that she was a mutant.
"I don't understand how Fury knew," Janet said plaintively to her boyfriend after explaining the conversation with Steve Rodgers. "The blood sample I gave for my entrance medical when I joined the Ultimates was clean."
"Honey," Harry said gently. "You must realize that isn't the only blood sample Fury has taken from you."
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"He has been collecting as much genetic material from any organism with powers for as long as he can. Every time the cleanup crews go out after a fight S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel preserve any blood or genetic material they can for cloning and experimentation," Harry explained. "That is why I have been making sure I don't leave anything lying around lately."
"That's horrible," Janet declared. "How did you learn of this?"
"I'm constantly bypassing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s computer firewalls. They're no match for my skill," Harry replied with a roguish grin.
"This is just too screwed up," Janet muttered, focused on what she felt was a gross violation of privacy. "I'm going to have to be more careful from now on."
"Yeah...you might just end up cloned," Harry joked but there was some truth to the possibility. "Use one of these and give one to the others," the genius instructed while passing Janet a box summoned seemingly out of the transporter.
"What is it? It looks kind of like the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who," Janet mused as she examined the small cylindrical device.
"It generates a wide spread energy beam targeted to vaporize bio-matter. If you spill blood or some other bodily fluid on the ground pass it over the material. There's a scanning feature so the bio-vaporizer as I call it will lead you to any bio-matter you've left behind. Here is how you target it to your DNA," Harry explained before showing his lover how to set the bio-vaporizer's scanning feature so that it would only lead her to her bio-matter.
"Thanks Harry," Janet said appreciatively once her bio-vaporizer was properly calibrated. "You're simply the best," the petite woman declared before leaning up on her tiptoes and kissing her man, sliding her tongue into his mouth and conveying just how strongly she felt about him through their oral embrace.
MJ, Gwen, Jean, and Storm were equally as outraged about the bio-matter collection as Janet had been. Natasha and Susan hadn't been quite so naïve. Harry loved his mates but they could be a bit naïve sometimes but that was to be expected. Fury's tricks and trade were somewhat outside their experience. Natasha and Susan had been dealing with S.H.I.E.L.D. and organizations like it from a young age. All seven women greatly appreciated the gift of a bio-vaporizer and made sure to show their man their gratitude.
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Moira finished removing her clothes in the dim candlelight of her bedroom on Muir Island. She watched as her equally nude boyfriend gazed over her form while she ogled his gorgeous body and impressive package. He stepped closer to her and encircled her in his arms, pressing his mouth to her lips. His tongue slipped between her parted lips and she felt his hardness press against her snatch. She opened her legs enough for his member to slip between her thighs. He rubbed his length back and forth against her slit several times. Her juices coated his organ as she returned his kiss eagerly. The blonde lifted her left leg and wrapped it around his waist while reaching down and grasping his tool. She felt the thick hardness pulse in her hand as she guided the head to her opening. He began sliding into her when she fitted him into proper alignment. Moira's butt fell against the bed which she had been standing against the foot of. She spread her legs and felt him press fully inside of her.
"God it's been way too long," Moira hissed as she focused on the feel of her pussy being stretched by a stiff
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dick for the first time in a long time.
Harry groaned deeply as he ground his groin against Moira's cunny. Her sheathe was ideally tight and wet around his member. The softness of her tunnel was an amazing feeling for the mage as he flexed himself inside of her. She had buried her face against his neck and was making meowing sounds as she suckled at his flesh. The wizard began moving his manhood in and out of the geneticist's cunt with a practiced ease. Her inner muscles pulled at his organ in an effort to resist his motion but he was not to be denied. His powerful muscles flexed and released to draw his length almost fully from her core before he shoved his full hardness back into her soft folds. Moira was gasping and sounding her approval with whispered words as his thrusts grew more vigorous. Her hands were clawing at his sides and back while he drove into her. Her sweet little pussy was leaking all over his shaft and the bed as he drilled her open.
"Yes...yes...fuck yes!" Moira purred. "Shove that thick hot cock deep into my tight little pussy! Stretch me open," the blonde moaned.
Moira wrapped her legs tighter around her lover's backside and used her regenerated muscles to pull her snatch into the thrust of his dick. She was never more glad that she had swallowed his seed on their first date and regained full functionality in her lower limbs than she was at that moment being able to pull herself harder onto his shaft. He was carving her womanhood out with swift deep plunges of his prick and it felt bloody amazing to Moira MacTaggert. She felt his sweat coated muscles rubbing against her tits, her abdomen, and her inner thighs and she felt as if she couldn't get enough of him. His scent was intoxicating, so masculine. Moira squeezed her inner muscles to grip his length more tightly and was rewarded with harder thrusts in response. Her petite frame was being pressed into the mattress by the weight of his muscled form and she loved it. She felt one arm slide under her back, a sudden disorienting movement, and then she realized she was in the opposite position. Moira found herself draped over her man's body. His hands and feet were stuck to the ceiling. He renewed his pumping of her pussy with barely a pause. Now after he drove up into her and retracted his lower half gravity pulled her snatch back onto his shaft. With his enhanced speed it got to the point where he withdrew his hips and slammed his wonderful prick back up into her cunny before her lower half had even dropped below the previous point his thrust threw her bottom up. Moira felt pleasure pooling in her belly as delightful sensations coursed from where the walls of her vagina rubbed against her mate's engorged erection.
Harry conjured a swing of webbing which secured him to the ceiling and shifted his hands down Moira's sides to her cute little bum. He began playing with her bottom while sliding her cunt up and down his length. It felt great to have her slick insides bouncing up and down along his prick. He proved his spider- like flexibility by bending his upper half down enough to latch his mouth onto her tits. Her soft breasts were kneaded and toyed with by his super-strong tongue. Moira's exclamations, gasps, and moans had become a constant stream of babble which told the mage he was doing something right. He channeled arcane energy through his fleshy wand and into her perfectly designed holster. Her inner muscles twitched randomly as the energy coursed into her nerve endings. Moira was finding it harder and harder to consciously control the squeezing of her kegel muscles with the randomized muscle twitching but the involuntary spasms squeezed her mate's prick even more powerfully than she could manage constantly. Sweat was pouring off of Moira's form by this point. Her juices were flowing rather freely out of her slit and down her connection with the mage to drip down on the bed. She was delirious with bliss by this point. Even Harry was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain his higher brain functions.
"You're mine," Harry growled as he shifted his mouth up to her neck and nibbled on the sensitive flesh. His teeth left marks claiming her as his. "Mine forever," Harry purred.
"Yes, claim me...mark me as yours...plant your seed in me," Moira cooed.
A primal part of Harry's brain had taken over. He was practically flinging his hips upwards and drilling his dick into her pussy except that there was no loss of control in his movements. The full vigor and force of his upwards thrusts was transmitted through his shaft into the blonde's cunt. If not for an effect of the arcane
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energy flowing into her body Moira might have been hurt. Instead all she felt was pleasure and growing vitality. Harry pushed his mind, his power, his shaft, his very being into Moira MacTaggert and she loved every second of it. When she came she screamed with primal howl that answered the state her lover was in. Her snatch clamped down on his shaft with greater strength than it had managed as yet before it began to go wild with convulsive tremors that would have been painful for a mortal man. To Harry the massage his prick was receiving via hot wet pussy was enough to pull him off into climax. His prick violently ejected his seed into Moira's depths. His hot sauce splashed against the back wall of her vagina. Moira screamed and clutched against her lover while her whole body shuddered and shivered. The magical potion filling her cauldron was highly concentrated with arcane energy. Her orgasm was beyond anything she could have imagined. Her belly muscles pulsed so rapidly she thought it would feel like she had performed a thousand ab crunches later on. All she knew at that moment was pure and undiluted ecstasy.
The couple clung to each other, grinding their pelvises together while their joined sexes squeezed and released. Moira's snatch continued to milk Harry's prick long after he had lowered them to the bed. Moira became aware of her contact with the bed some time later only when she realized she was no longer on top of her mate and that she could feel his mouth in places no man's lips and tongue had ever touched before.
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"Harry...what are you doing?" Moira asked in surprise, her legs spread widely while her sensitive gash leaked their combined fluids onto the bed.
Drawing back his mouth long enough to answer Harry replied, "I'm eating this tasty little ass, love."
Moira moaned as she experienced having her asshole tongued and her bum cheeks nibbled on for the first time. She definitely approved. By the time she was thrusting her rear back against the tongue probing it her pussy wasn't quite so sensitive. She greatly enjoyed as a finger entered both her private entrances. By the time a second finger joined the first in her bottom she was ready and excited to be mounted. She felt him shift on the bed behind her, climbing up over her body. She felt his knees come to rest between her legs. She felt his hard length being guided between her buns where the head of his organ began to put pressure against her sphincter. Moira welcomed all of it. She moaned and bent her head back looking upwards to see his intense glowing eyes looking down at her as he pressed his prick into her anus. His upper body was propped up on his powerful arms. She felt him slipping through her sphincter and into her bowels. He put steady pressure into her through his hips and he slid fully into her guts within moments. His groin was pressed against the cushion of her bottom and he leaned his mouth down to capture her lips. The passion in his kiss was searing. She felt his tongue plunder her oral cavity as his dick throbbed in her backside. She loved the filling sensation she was experiencing for the first time. She was his and they both knew it. She would be ruined for any other male. All she wanted was the wonderful cock lodged up her butt.
Harry broke the kiss with Moira as he started to move his hips. He looked down to where they were joined to see his greasy sausage slide through her soft buns. The geneticist had a cute little bum which was currently split around his manhood. She put her head down and moaned deeply as he sodomized her rear. The feel of her intestines sliding around his member was highly arousing and magnificent for the sorcerer. The sight of her normally tiny asshole stretched around his considerable girth was lewd and never ceased to please Harry. His hips raised and lowered, skewering the blonde's bottom over and over. The strokes were slow and deep, a definite change of pace to the recent rutting the couple had just done. Moira MacTaggert was in for a nice long buggering. Neither participant to the act would have it any other way. Harry continued to stare down at the point where he joined with Moira. Her butt cheeks were pale from little exposure to sunlight. Her ass was soft with little muscle due to the fact she didn't work out. But the softness felt just great to the man mounted upon her.
Moira was in a daze as she got her colon pumped by eight inches of thick cock. The sensitive nerves of her digestive tract were letting her know that they were pleased with the act she was currently undertaking. She wasn't even touching her pussy but it was soaking and brimming with excited pleasure. It was such a
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deliciously naughty act...getting butt fucked by Spider-Man. His long greasy prick glided back and forth through her asshole. She experimented with clenching her butt muscles around his shaft and felt him twitch in her intestines in response. His breathe was hot in her ear as he leaned over her. She felt him settle down on her back taking the weight of his upper body off his forearms. With his hands free her mate grasped her breasts and began kneading the supple flesh. Her sensitive nipples approved of the extra stimulation. Moira's mind lost focus on most external stimuli and instead focused on only the parts of her that were in contact with her man. She felt every bit of his turgid shaft lodged in her rectum. His dick was hot...so hot it seemed to sear through her intestines as it split her open. The heat wasn't painful but felt exhilarating, alive. She felt his bloated balls crashing against her pussy lips every time he sank down into her depths. In Moira's universe there existed no time, only the movement of her Harry's body against her form and the pleasure generated from this motion. It was constant and she never wanted it to end. Her nervous system vibrated with energy. She craved contact with the man on top of her, craved him.
"Fuck my butt," Moira demanded. "Shove your hot throbbing cock deep in my ass!"
As the blonde beneath him urged him on Harry felt her pushing her rear back and up into his thrusts. She wanted his meat buried in her backside faster, harder, and deeper and both of them knew it. He could feel his precum leaking into her guts, further lubricating his passage beyond what his magic was already doing. The mage moved his hands from Moira's breasts down over her sides to her hips. He still his movements fully seated in her backside then began to sat up. Moira was pulled into a kneeling position which mirrored Harry's position. He knelt behind her with his chest pressed against her sweaty back. His hands were still on her hips as he began urging her to rock forwards and back against his groin. A wet slapping sound emanated from her backside as it smacked against his pelvis. Moira was bouncing on his pole impaling herself on his hardness. His hands on her hips guided her movements for a while before he moved them. His right hand reached around the curve of her hip and snaked between her thighs where the appendage began playing with her smoldering snatch. The blonde became much more vocal at this action while her butt muscles squeezed his organ harder.
"Do you like sitting on my dick my Moira?" Harry whispered into the MILF's ear, his tone a husky purr that had her shivering.
"Yes...yes I love sitting on your cock," Moira confirmed quietly.
"You're my little butt slut," Harry asserted. "You're going to love sitting on my shaft every day from now on."
Moira could only moan her agreement as she lost the ability to speak when a surge of heat shot through her cunt. The feelings in her vagina were intensified by the strange sensation of having her colon stretched. She began to rock her lower half forwards and back faster, throwing her rear back against her mate's pelvis almost as hard as she could manage. The smacking sound intensified in volume and frequency. His hand was a blur on her pussy. Moira's leg muscles gave out and she fell back into her partner's embrace. He shoved several fingers of his right hand home in her cunt while rubbing her clit with his thumb. No sound escaped Moira's mouth which was slightly open in a silent scream as she came. Her nectar actually shot out from beneath her spread thighs and drenched the bed. Harry's load was injected into her guts through her pulsing asshole as he experienced his own orgasm. He pulled the petite woman against his lap and she happily molded her form to him. Her rectal muscles were getting a workout as they coaxed more semen into her body. An observer would have thought from Moira's expression that she was in a state of pure agony but the complete opposite was true. She was experiencing absolute nirvana. Her mind couldn't cope and she actually passed out, slumping in her man's lap.
Moira was only out for half a minute. When she awoke she was still sitting on Harry's dick and he was still hard within her. They were now seated against the head of the bed.
"I'm not done with you tonight by a long shot Ms. MacTaggert," Harry promised while running his hands
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over her body. "When you finally pass out you'll stay out."
Moira shuddered at the promise in her man's tone and knew he meant every word. It was going to be a damn fun night.
End Smut Scene
"Harry," Jean began hesitantly as the pair enjoyed one of their routine practices of swimming laps together in the X-Mansion's pool.
"Yes, love," Harry replied back telepathically while sending feelings of love and reassurance to his girlfriend because he could sense her hesitation and nervousness.
"I may just be imagining things or it could be Phoenix giving me a new power but whenever I brush against Wolverine's skin I think I get flashes into his mind," Jean explained. "I think he might have knocked Scott off just to get one more obstacle out of his way in order to be with me."
"Phoenix explained to me that as you merge you will grow more powerful," Harry pointed out. He had established limited contact with Phoenix a few days after the incident at the Hellfire Club. Right now with Jean still conscious Harry could enter her mind and connect with Phoenix for only a few minutes at a time without Jean getting a serious headache. A dose of special medicine would fix her right up. Harry expected that as they grew more comfortable with the merger that contact could be maintained for longer and longer periods until both Jean and Phoenix's consciousnesses could be talked to simultaneously with telepathic contact. Eventually the two would just merge or they might maintain two separate minds but with very aligned personalities and goals. Things got a bit iffy since Phoenix had never actually successfully merged with a host. "I think you are probably seeing the truth. There's no need to worry. Wolverine won't be knocking me off."
"Be careful all the same. I couldn't bear to lose you," Jean asserted as she floated closer to her lover and wrapped her arms around him.
Harry telekinetically held them at the same level in the pool above the water as the amorous redhead began to show her affection for him.
The Lower East Side of Manhattan...
Xavier was showing some intelligence since his students had left him for the wolves. He had abandoned his safe house network.
"I think he was here less than a day ago," Harry estimated after smelling the air.
"The man's a powerful telepath. He could have a monitoring network of minds all around the surrounding area and even close to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters which report back to him when we are out operating," Jean pointed out.
"Damn," Tony swore. "Didn't the personality profiles say he wouldn't want to give up the limited luxury these safe houses would
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provide?" Cap asked.
"He could be having some random multimillionaire or billionaire playing host with his telepathy," Harry pointed out.
"Shit," Tony suddenly swore while listening to something in his helmet. Then to those around him he just said, "Magneto has just made himself a bigger target. He just took out the satellite being assembled to track mutants."
"And what did he do to the astronauts doing the work?" Harry asked.
"They are alive for now but Magneto ruined their ship. The shuttle is essentially a hunk of metal now that he permanently disabled all the electronic guidance systems," Tony explained.
"I've got them," Harry assured and then a moment later the two astronauts appeared next to Spider-Man.
"Spider-Man, thank god," Cunningham, one of the astronauts, declared.
"We thought Magneto was going to be the end of us for sure," Black, the second astronaut, added.
"No problem guys. Let's get you back to NASA shall we," Harry proposed before disappearing with the two men in spacesuits.
The Ultimates left it to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to close down the safe houses they knew about belonging to Xavier.
Downtown Chicago... Moments after the explosion the X-Men materialized along with MJ and Gwen.
"The bastards are getting away down the street," Jean announced. "Correction...their car is now on the roof."
The redhead telepath had tracked down the bombers telepathically and then had used her telekinesis to move the car to the roof. She had been growing stronger since the start of the merging process with Phoenix.
"We will go round them up," Bobby assured as he, Wolverine, and Colossus went after the Brotherhood bombers.
Beast had gone off in search of Xavier, still on the bald mutant's side. "I've got the fire," Storm announced as she shot out of a shattered window in the bomb ravaged skyscraper.
"I've got the gravity," MJ assured while taking some of the stress of the building's upper floor weight off the support structures by manipulating gravity.
"I'll fix the damage," Gwen assured. "I'll start pulling people out of the rubble," Kitty announced.
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"I guess that leaves me as the one helping extract the Harry juice for healing," Jean said while turning to her boyfriend.
"Such a difficult job isn't it," Harry teasingly replied. "For my jaw maybe," Jean pointed out as she sank to her knees.
Harry rolled his eyes, knowing better. His mates all swallowed the first mouthful which ensured their aching jaw muscles were instantly relieved of any pain. Plus the orgasms easily made up for any discomfort. The X-Men quickly went to work repairing the damage, all of it, from the Brotherhood's most recent bombing attempt. Magneto had been trying to increase the frequency of his attacks in order to compensate for the fact that the X-Men were undoing all the damage. Well not always all of the damage was undone. If the victims of an attack were actually evil people and had caused serious harm then Harry refused to heal them, much to the consternation of the President and Fury. But they could go suck a lemon drop. Speaking of sucking on tasty things...Jean's efforts extracted the first dose of Harry-juice as the mage's mates called it and he lost all coherent thought for the next hour of healing.
Whoever said terrorist attacks always had to be terrifying?
The Institute...
As the group sat around the breakfast table the next morning Jean said, "It's nice to see you managed to avoid killing anyone today, Wolverine."
The conversation stopped and the residents of the mansion turned to look at Logan.
"Jean, would you just give it a rest. I know you're going through a bit of a rough patch but all these hints about me killing Cyclops are getting really old really fast," Wolverine replied.
"I wouldn't call it a rough patch, animal. The phoenix allows me to see past all your psychic defenses. I can see that you really aren't evil Logan but you are twisted from all those horrible years you spent with Weapon- X. You were trained to solve your problems with violence and that's what you did with Cyclops. Well I'm going to take that 'reflex' out of the equation. I have installed psychic blocks in your mind that make you incapable of harming anyone at this table," Jean announced.
Wolverine let out a growl and attempted to punch Colossus in the arm as a test. Wolverine's fist veered off course and he missed, punching through the side of a cabinet filled with dinnerware. The plates crashed to the ground and Wolverine stalked from the room in a fury.
"Did he really kill Cyclops?" Bobby inquired, breaking the silence.
"It's hard to tell. I have a strong feeling he did but those memories are...cloudy, I guess is the best way to describe them. Logan doesn't even really remember the event himself with detail. He remembers attacking Cyclops and Scott is no longer here. Do the math," Jean replied.
Just then a returned Colossus shouted, "Bozhe moi!" Kitty had sunk through the floor and startled the Russian. She grabbed a box of cereal out of the cupboard
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and tried to wake up.
"A morning person you are not, Kitty," Harry declared in amusement.
"I don't see how you can be so chipper this early," Kitty grumbled.
"There's a reason Harry is so chipper. He's the source of our being so awake," Storm informed Kitty knowingly.
"And how is he that source?" Kitty asked as she sat next to the weather witch while Storm exchanged an amused glance with Jean.
"Take a drink of my coffee," Storm instructed.
Kitty eyed the drink in the mug Storm passed to her before lifting it to her lips and taking a big gulp. Kitty gasped and almost dropped the cup before Storm took it from her. Kitty clutched at the table and shuddered through a powerful orgasm.
"It's best to sip it," Jean advised as she took a sip of her own drink.
"What don't you put that special ingredient in?" Colossus asked Jean and Storm.
"Not much," Storm replied.
Jean projected to her two mates, "Peter is curious to try our special blend."
"No thanks," Harry immediately responded. "My ingredients are only for females."
Storm let out an amused snort while Jean grinned widely. There was an explosion of light that disturbed the group's mirth and when it cleared Magneto was standing in the dining room.
"Oh my god!" Bobby shouted as he leapt up to fire off an icy blast of energy.
"He's not actually here," Harry assured Bobby while laying a hand on the younger male's shoulder.
"Very good, Spider-Man," Magneto's hologram said. "How did you know I was merely a hologram?"
"I've got detectors which would have sensed an unauthorized transport into the mansion," Harry assured. To his mates he projected, "And my spider-sense didn't go off."
"Yes, your skills with technology and science are impressive. I don't know who impresses me more, you or the Brotherhood's resident genius Forge. He built this holographic projector," Magneto said. "Forge is able to build anything a master of magnetism is able to think of."
"Would that include a doomsday weapon?" Harry inquired casually.
"Naturally," Magneto replied. "But I'm not here to threaten you. I am here to extend the same courtesy I extended to my two wayward offspring moments ago using the same method I am talking to you with right now. Despite how you have foiled my plans in the past," Magneto continued while staring especially at Spider-Man. "I am here to offer you a chance to join the side which will win this conflict. I blame Charles for our past disagreements and his underhanded manipulations of your youthful thoughts and emotions.
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What other reason would a group of mutants have for fighting to save a world that hates and fears them?"
"You just don't get it, Magneto," Harry replied.
"We don't fight for the humans that would spit on us," Jean said.
"We fight for the few that would help us and that are our friends. Unfortunately the bigoted assholes are mixed in with the rest," Storm added.
"You know...for someone who grew up persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis you sure are acting quite a bit like him with wanting to massacre an entire species," Harry pointed out.
"My actions are merely a ruse. The abomination you speak of killed millions," Magneto replied. "And you have killed thousands. You're well on your way," Harry rebutted. Gritting his teeth Magneto said, "Just consider it. You have seven days." With that Magneto's hologram faded out of sight.
"Shit," Bobby said. "What do we do now?"
"Now, I build a tracker which will track down this amplifier Magneto is using built by this Forge character. The moment he starts using the amplifier I should be able to track him," Harry explained.
"How do you know he's using an amplifier?" Kitty asked.
"It's in Magneto's nature to want to personally use his powers to wipe out humanity. He fancies himself a god," Harry answered.
Seven Days Later...
"It's working," Harry announced as his tracking device detected a magnetic force so strong that it couldn't be anything but Magneto's powers amplified many times.
As soon as the device pinpointed the location of Magneto's attacking point Spider-Man, the X-Men, Susan, Regenerate, and Blend teleported away. They rematerialized into a tense situation. A half naked Scott Summers had his eyes clenched shut while Magneto with a smoking back knelt on the platform of what was presumably his amplifier. Scott was holding a red haired male in hospital scrubs. As soon as Magneto laid eyes upon the new arrivals he locked eyes with Harry. The mage sensed a pulse of power go out through the amplifier even as he leapt forward and delivered a kick to Magneto's face that sent the magnetic mutant hurtling back against the nearest support structure of the dome on top of Magneto's floating fortress.
"You're too late," Magneto declared with a grin after spitting out some blood.
Spider-Man was upon him faster than Magneto's eyes could follow and the mass murderer felt himself being lifted up by the throat with his airway being cut off. Starved off oxygen and his skull pounding from the kick he had just taken Magneto couldn't think straight enough to use his powers. He watched as the X-Men plus the three females he had faced inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters disabled his Brotherhood with ruthless
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efficiency.
"We're too late to stop what, Magneto?" Harry demanded while putting the index finger of his free hand against Magneto's forehead and loosening his hold enough for Magneto to speak. "If my spidey-sense so much as tingles from sensing a magnetic attack or some object hurtling at me I'll put my finger through your skull and brain. Now talk," the sorcerer growled while delivering a knee to the groin enough to hurt like hell but not hard enough to keep Magneto from talking after a few moments of groaning.
"I've just destabilized the core of a nuclear reactor just a short ways north of Miami," Magneto gloated with a feral grin.
"Shit," Bobby cursed.
Jean knocked Magneto and all the enemy mutants unconscious and Harry teleported them into S.H.I.E.L.D. holding facilities.
"We have got to contain that reactor," Scott shouted.
"We've got it covered," Jean assured as the entire group was suddenly teleported to the location of the melting down reactor.
The group appeared not far from the Rainbow Falls power generation plant not far from Miami.
"My god," Storm cried as a mushroom cloud blossomed before her eyes.
Harry leapt off the ground and flew towards the heart of the explosion. Jean and Susan threw up telekinetic barriers and shields respectively. MJ started trying to absorb some of the energy of the nuclear blast. Gwen reached out with her powers and started helping Storm control the winds to create a second layer of air shielding to reinforce the other heroines. A visible dome of energy and air formed around the blast site. Other mutants began arriving at the site prepared to help where they could. But before anything else could be done, the explosive ball of nuclear energy vanished with a sudden rippling in the air like something being dropped into a pool of water might cause.
"What just happened?" Rogue asked, having been preparing to help using the telekinetic powers she had borrowed from a mutant being rescued from the recently liberated Camp X-Factor.
Harry reappeared at that moment and answered, "I took the explosion into another dimension."
When Fury and others would later ask Harry would simply say he had used some of his advanced technology to divert the explosion to another dimension instead of revealing that it was one of his own physiologically driven abilities. It was common knowledge that Spider-Man possessed some very advanced technology.
The liberated mutants climbed off of the human-sized Sentinels which contained actual humans. The Sentinels had decided that some of the mutants which had escaped were their best bet to help fight off Magneto's nuclear attack so had agreed to ferry the mutants to Rainbow Falls. Rogue had gone with the strike force to liberate the Camp X-Factor prisoners but mostly because she couldn't stand around Magneto's floating fortress while everyone discussed the plan to exterminate humanity. When she heard about Magneto's attack on Rainbow Falls she knew she had to help or she wouldn't be able to live with herself. Despite how some humans had treated her that didn't mean she wanted them all dead.
"That went better than it could have," Kitty pointed out.
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"Indeed, dozens died while thousands or millions could have been killed," Peter added. "Correction, none died," Jean corrected, her voice taking on a deeper quality and her eyes going slightly red.
"Nice job," Harry complimented Jean as he sensed her little temporal trick while dozens of men and women appeared a short distance away.
"What did she just do?" Bobby asked.
"She played around with time a little and scrubbed the radiation from the area," Harry answered. "Those are the employees who worked at the power generation plant."
"Are you going to rebuild the area like you do at other fight sites?" Kitty asked Gwen. "At other sites I've got some rubble to work with. There really isn't much left at this site," Gwen explained.
Jean tapped into her Phoenix-granted powers again and suddenly the damage disappeared and the power plant reappeared. The others were distracted from Jean's amazing temporal manipulation when Scott turned to face Wolverine.
"Well Cyclops...I'm guessing an apology from me isn't going to cut it," Wolverine said.
"I figure you're right, Wolverine," Scott replied as he fingered his ruby sunglasses Harry had teleported in for him.
"You have to at least give me a bit of credit for coming back to help," Wolverine suggested as he prepared for a fight.
"Likewise I think you should be grateful I didn't put you down until Magneto was taken care of," Scott rebutted.
"That's what I like about you Cyclops...your lunatic professionalism. You must be pretty unique in your ability to put business before revenge. Sorry, fellas but Jean was right. I tried to off Cyke so I could get a better shot at her. Now I have to pay the price," Wolverine informed his teammates. "Don't even think about interfering. I deserve everything I get."
Cyclops nailed Wolverine with a powerful optic blast that laid the feral mutant out on the ground before turning to walk away and saying, "You're off the team, Wolverine."
"Uh...look out boys and girls," Rogue said. "It looks like the locals just might have noticed we are carrying the wrong kind of genes."
Indeed a crowd of humans had surrounded the X-Men. Instead of attacking one teen shouted, "Way to go man!" "You guys rock," another shouted.
"I think I felt more comfortable with bricks and bottles being thrown at us," Jean whispered as the crowd swarmed with congratulations for the heroes.
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The news agencies and media outlets went wild with stories praising the X-Men over the next week. One anonymous interviewee even suggested that the supposed divide between Xavier and Magneto was all fabricated and that even the X-Men and Brotherhood didn't know about it. It was suggested that the fight was a training program for mutants. Xavier was still vilified in the media and a price was out for his head. But apparently he wasn't foolish enough to make his whereabouts known. Fury and Stark sat in on a White House discussion regarding the current situation and basically went to bat for the X-Men. They had been unaware of their leader's true nature until recently and could not be held accountable. When Fury suggested putting the X-Men under government funding Harry and Jean politely told him that would not be necessary. With the money appropriated from Shaw and the Hellfire Club, Harry and Jean could easily fund the X-Men and not bat an eye. The Institute, now simply referred to as The Institute, was given a sizeable upgrade. Harry installed his own advanced security system and power system which would keep Xavier and most other threats out.
The Institute was reopened after the renovations and a party was held for the parents and the Ultimates. It was sort of a "we saved the world" party and a meet and greet for the parents to see where their children were staying.
"Hey, Nightcrawler, how about slipping Kitty and I a little champagne while my parents aren't looking," Harry heard Bobby suggesting to Nightcrawler as the newly arrived German teleporter materialized next to Ice-Man.
"Your IDs suggest I shouldn't," Nightcrawler replied.
"Loosen up a bit, Kurt. I think they can survive one or two glasses," Harry said. "I doubt they're that much of a light weight."
Kurt looked doubtful but brought the tray of champagne forth to let the pair of younger X-Men take glasses. Both threw Harry grateful looks.
"That girl already worships you," Storm said from Harry's left arm. "The more you do things like that the deeper she's going to fall for you."
Jean nodded her agreement from her mate's other arm. Just then a blonde woman, her dark haired husband, and their familiar daughter walked up to the trio.
The blonde said, "Thank you so much for talking S.H.I.E.L.D. into not pursuing our daughter Spider-Man. After all she has been through I reckon a life sentence in solitary confinement would have been the end of her."
"It was nothing ma'am," Harry replied. "Given what Weapon-X, a division of S.H.I.E.L.D., did to your daughter it wasn't even hard to ensure they complied with my wishes in this matter."
"Yes thank you," added Rogue's father. "But I'm unsure you will be able to do anything for her given she'll still have her death touch. She put a local boy in a coma just by touching his skin with her fingertips."
"Give us time and I think maybe Rogue will learn to reign in her powers. Someday she might be able to
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touch another person without hurting them," Harry assured. Kurt appeared and offered Rogue and her parents refreshments before engaging them in conversation.
"Harry," Moira said as she walked up at that moment leading several others. "I'd like to introduce you to Professor Braddock."
Harry shook the man's offered hand and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor. I believe you have some news for us concerning Betsy."
Braddock appeared stunned for a moment before replying, "I have heard you were insightful but this is just spooky."
"Not at all Professor," Harry said. "A woman of Betsy's power combined with the knowledge of what particular male was merged with her body at the time of her 'death' made me always wonder if she was really gone. Given how you seem so calm it isn't a stretch to surmise Betsy Braddock might just be walking around again."
"She is indeed," Professor Braddock agreed as an attractive dark haired Asian teen with quite a few piercings stepped up beside him. "Betsy found a young woman named Kwannon who had been in a coma for the last ten years."
"Kwannon was relieved to finally move on and she gladly donated her body to me for helping her," Betsy explained in her new Asian form.
"I hope there are no hard feelings for having to dispatch your former form the way I did," Harry said to Betsy.
"Not at all...I completely understand, Spider-Man," Betsy assured sincerely. "Harry," the mage corrected.
"To tell you the truth...that death experience was the most fascinating event that I have yet experienced and I've never felt perkier," Betsy added.
"She has been a big help establishing the European Defense Force we are constructing with the help of the European arm of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Professor Braddock put forth.
"I know a little bit about your project...the European version of the Ultimates," Harry suggested.
Harry, Jean, and Storm listened as Professor Braddock and Betsy animatedly discussed their project. Betsy would become more involved with the X-Men in the coming days.
"Frankly Scott I think that idea sounds a bit nuts," Storm informed Mr. Summers after he had summarized his intentions to the X-Men assembled in the living room of The Institute.
"Yeah Scott...it sounds like the Professor may have brainwashed you a bit too well," Bobby added. "I know it sounds a bit crazy after Wolverine tried to kill me but the fact remains he is still alive and probably
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will remain that way for the foreseeable future. I don't want us to end up like another Magneto and Xavier," Scott explained.
"As long as you two think you can keep from killing each other. There is still good left in Wolverine. But I don't think we'll be sending you on any missions alone from now on," Jean mused.
"You're going to have to convince him to come back," Harry said. "I will go with him. Someone needs to watch the Blackbird," Colossus volunteered.
"Thanks Peter," Scott said. "I really think that with Xavier out of the picture we can use all the help we can get."
"You've made your point," Storm replied. "But if he even looks at one of us funny...I'm sicking my boyfriend on him."
Everyone present knew what Spider-Man would do to Wolverine. Hard to kill did not mean impossible to kill.
"Noted," Scott replied. "We'll leave in a few hours, Peter."
After the meeting broke up and Jean and Storm were alone with their boyfriend, the redhead said, "I may be a telepath and have read Scott's mind before but I don't think I'll ever understand him."
"Totally...Scott was almost killed by Wolverine and he wants to bring that animal back to The Institute," Storm said while shaking her head.
"Well maybe this will keep things from festering with Wolverine. Only time will tell," Harry suggested.
In the end Scott used a ring recovered from the Weapon-X compound along with a few other snippets of information provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America to entice Wolverine back to The Institute. Time would tell whether or not Wolverine was stable enough to remain there.