Cool new enemy guys. Great work, I remember seeing the Taskmaster somewhere, *looks at Cowboy* Man I hope ya'll hit em hard in this Arc. _________________ Interpol Proud Member of the Ultimate Marvels
"This way, Marvels!!" Bobby led as the team started down the path when they heard a scrimping noise behind them, "Wait..." He whispered. They turned around to see the paper airplane transform into Taskmaster.
"Oh, come on!!! You're all soooo dumb!!!!" He shouted.
Bobby was about to yell but stopped when he noticed CowBoy standing behind Taskmaster.
"My plan worked this time, you freak!!!" CowBoy yelled as he took a swing at him.
"Ha!!" Taskmaster grabbed ahold of his arm and hammer-threw him into the rest of the team, "Close, but no cigar!!" He chuckled as he once again ran off.
"ARGH!!! I'll get you, you bastard!!!" CowBoy yelled as he got up without skipping a beat and chased after the man.
"Dammit, CowBoy, wait up!!" Rob hollered as he took off after him.
"Don't split up, Rob!! Wait!!" Bobby commanded but neither of them heard it.
"Great... Now we have two injured teammates and two missing ones..." A1 groaned.
"One hurt by his own teammate, too." Max glared towards Bobby while grasping his shoulder.
"Sorry, man. Didn't mean to. I Had my mind messed with." Bobby gestured his hand to lift Max.
Max just shrugged off his hand and got up by himself, "Whatever..."
"Hey, I said I was sorry!" Bobby lowered his eyebrows.
"Last time I checked, sorry doesn't heal wounds to the shoulder!!" Max berated.
"Stop arguing!!" Kevin yelled. "Now is not the time for this bull!!"
"Kevin's right. We need to find our teammates and stop this freak." Emo-Girl added.
A1 was beginning to act suspiscious. He walked backwards and whispered to KARAN, "Say KARAN, can you tell us if it's Taskmaster or one of us?" A1 asked him.
"Of course." He replied monotonously.
"Thanks..." A1 placed his hand on his shoulder.
Everyone else was preparing to leave already.
"Alright. Let's move out." Bobby commanded as he led the way.
3 hours later...
"C'mon!!! How big is this place that we can't find any of them??!!" Bobby moaned.
"I don't know. Where did you guys find this place?" Interpol asked.
"I thought Kazekun and KARAN showed us." Atlantean answered.
"Hey..." Emo-Girl stopped in her tracks, "Where is Kazekun?" she asked turning around.
"Oh, no. I don't see him anywhere!" UltimateKevin tilted his head in every direction.
"Kazekun?? Kazekun!!" Bobby called out.
Max placed his hands on his temples and concentrated as much as he could. He raised his head, "He's gone..." He whispered.
4 hours later...
"Guys, this is really starting to freak me out." Atlantean commented.
Out of the shadows a figure appeared. Everyone was prepared to attack.
"CowBoy!!" A1 pointed out.
"Wait... How do we know he's the real CowBoy?" Interpol asked as he prepared to dock another arrow.
CowBoy's hand lit into fire.
"Never mind... I wanted to fight some more..." Interpol lowered his bow.
"Can't believe my team doesn't trust me." CowBoy blinked.
"It's not that, CowBoy. It's just that Taskmaster has been you before."
Rob answered.
Another voice was heard suddenly, "Guys! Thank God!!" Rob appeared again this time catching his breath, "I thought... I thought I was going to die in these hellhole of tunnels."
The team just stared at him in disbelief.
"What's... wrong guys?" He asked.
"There's two of you." Atlanntean said pointing behind Rob.
"DON’T BELIEVE HIM!!!! HE'S THE IMPOSTER!!!!" The latter Rob screamed, pointing at his counterpart.
"Like hell I am!!" Yelled the other. The former Rob pulled a ninjaken and cut the other Rob in half revealing the robotic torso. It hit the ground hard.
"There. I am the real one." Rob assured them as he placed his blade back to its sheath.
"Whoa..." A1 could not believe that he chose the wrong one.
"KARAN, can you get any leads on who's doing this?" Bobby asked.
KARAN took a knee and raised his hand, "I shall try." His fingertips became wires that connected to the fake Rob.
"Well?" Atlantean asked.
"Nothing." KARAN rose up, "It is as if..." He shook his head, "...I am aware what this but I cannot verbalize this..."
"What the hell does that even...? Uughhh..." Interpol fell to his knees.
Behind him was the evidently fake CowBoy. He had a demented grin and a huge knife that was practiced to slash Interpol.
"Interpol!!" Emo-Girl screamed.
Bobby turned and threw a icicle through the imposter's chest. UltimateKevin created cuffs on the faker's wrists and ankles with some rock. All this happened as Atlantean smashed him between two force fields. Suddenly an explosion came from the north.
Bobby fell to his knees and held his head up, facing the cieling, "Where the hell is that bastard??!! He's hurt my friend, goddammit!!!" He screamed.
"Maybe we should check the explosion." Rob pointed out.
"Interpol, are you okay to walk?" Atlantean asked.
"Yeah... Just a little... Just a little sore..." Interpol muttered as Atlantean lifted him upward.
"Hurry up!!" Max yelled as he followed the team running towards the explosion.
10 minutes later...
They arrived at CowBoy's lab. His place was burning and Taskmaster was about to finish CowBoy off. An arrow caught him between the eyes.
"Ha!!!" He laughed placing his hand on his eye, "You think you can hurt me???!!!" He yelled.
"Well... I was hoping it would, yeah!" Interpol replied.
He chucked CowBoy at them and then bolted to the door. Kicking it open he took flight.
"Guys...Two bikes and a car are... Over there..." CowBoy whispered weakly pointing towards a garage.
"I need to stay here. I can't do much with a hole in my shoulder.” Max said.
The team nodded and took off. Rob got on the bike as well as Interpol. Atlantean, Emo-Girl, Bobby and UltimateKevin took the car. A1 felt like flying as did KARAN.
The road flew by quickly as Atlantean hit 110 MPH in the car. Taskmaster was fast. Interpol was trying to aim at him while driving his bike. He would shoot a shoot then correct his bike. Then he would do it again. Rob hit him with a tracker so that everyone in the car could follow Taskmaster instead of trying to find him in the night sky. As he flew he dropped something onto Rob. His bike blew up and Rob skidded across the ground.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!!" Bobby yelled jumping out of the car.
He launched himself at Taskmaster and tackled him out of the air, "What the--?!" He yelled as they crashed onto the ground.
Bobby began to beat Taskmaster, "No!!!" Taskmaster yelled as he kicked Bobby in the chin. Bobby quickly froze his leg to the ground and hit him with and uppercut, "Guuhh!!!" He grunted as he came back down. Bobby blasted him freezing his entire body. He crashed against the ground breaking into pieces.
"Holy... Wait... If that wasn’t him either then..." He turned around, "MARVELS BACK TO BASE!!! NOW!!" Bobby yelled as he ran to the car.
Minutes ago...
Max is standing over CowBoy's body, "I know its you, you filthy dirt bag." Max revealed.
CowBoy morphed into Taskmaster.
"What is it with you and your sick obsession with turning into him?" He snarled clenching his fists.
"Well, for some reason they don't tend to ask many questions when im him." He shrugged with a faint smile.
"I'm going to make you pay..."
"Empty threats!!!" Taskmaster yelled as he threw himself at Max. He stopped in mid-air.
"I keep all threats." Max's eyes glistened red.
Taskmaster disappeared into thin air.
"You forget that I can read minds, Taskmaster! You're to my left trying to sneak out..." He whispered.
Suddenly Taskmaster reappeared, "Nice... You can tell where I am!" He then let out a cry of pain, "Gaaah!!!"
"Yes and I can also hurt you."
He let out another cry, "Naaaah!!!"
"I can tell your brain to stop breathing..."
Taskmaster froze and stopped breathing for a second.
"I can do anything I want to you, like make your heart stop..."
The team ran in. Bobby knew exactly what was going on, "MAX, DON’T DO IT!!!!" He yelled.
Taskmaster collapsed to the floor. _________________ CowBoy From HEll
Proud Member of The Ultimate Marvels!! [
Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 4341 Location: Michagan
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:
Ok i gotta tell you guys this. I posted my High way to hell on a different website and i got BAD reviews. Really bad. They put me down and i stopped writeing for a little while beacuse of it. But then i realized something. They are a bunch of quacks. I dont write for them. I write for my friends. ANd that why im going to (with th ehelp of kevin) WRITE THE BEST DAMN ISSUE OF THE ULTIMATE MARVELS EVER!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 _________________ CowBoy From HEll
Proud Member of The Ultimate Marvels!! [
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5748 Location: California
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject:
UltimateCowBoy452 Productions Presents....
Issue 18
Bobby stared at the dead Taskmaster. He felt his heartbeat pumping incontrollably. He felt goosebumps and finally looked at Max.
He just stood there. He didn't even feel remorse nor regret.
Bobby noticed this and tackled Max into the wall.
"Why?!" Bobby yelled as he placed his hands on Max's shoulders.
"Because it had to be done." He called him out.
"No! No, it didn't!!" Bobby was looking right at his eyes.
"What would we have done, then?" Max questioned.
"Arrested him!" Bobby stated.
"What?!" Max squinted his eyes, "He can bend reality!! He would have just escaped and attack!!" Max yelled.
"No! I refuse to believe it!!"
"Welcome to the modern times, Bobby. This isn't street crime here. In this world, if you're forced to kill a creep to save a busload of little kids, then you'd have to. Every person we fight, would kill us at the drop of a dime. Most need to be killed, but only a few should be allowed jail." Max explained.
Bobby could not believe what he was hearing. He then punched Max across the face.
Max fall to the floor and spat out some blood.
"We don't kill, Max!!" He barked.
Max gritted his blood-stained teeth, "Then we'll die!" Max's eyes reverted to their usual black color.
"No!!" Bobby iced up his right hand.
Max slowly breathed in and got up. He wiped his chin and slowly walked away.
"Yeah, you better run!!" Rob yelled at him.
"Calm down, Rob." Bobby commanded.
"I can't believe that guy..." Rob muttered.
"So, what now?" Interpol asked.
"I don't know..." Bobby answered. He then sighed and went to leave.
To everyone's surprise, KARAN's eyes illuminated the entire room, "Bobby..." KARAN called out as Bobby was just about to leave.
Bobby stopped, "What, KARAN?" He slowly turned his head to him.
"Do not open that door. A large number of troops are headed towards the base."
"Wait... what?" Bobby looked back at the window. He focused and noticed what looked like ants.
KARAN placed his hand on his temples, "They fly a flag with the symbol of... a dragon and a wolf."
"Hunh..." UltimateKevin scoffed.
"Isn't that a little bit old fashion?" A1 asked.
"Well that's Dragyn for ya, guys and gal." Interpol commented.
"KARAN, are any of the base's defense programs up and running?" Emo-Girl asked.
"I am sorry to say no. Taskmaster has taken them all down."
"Then we fight!" Rob yelled, as he pulled out his ninjaken.
"We cannot take as many as I belive DragynWulf would have sent." KARAN countered.
"So what? They're just nameless soldiers with suck-ass fighting skills. We have great skills and freakin' powers!" UltimateKevin encouraged as he raised his fist.
"He's right! We can take them on!" A1 took part.
"Maybe. But we have to keep them in the main lobby. If they move past there, then they can get around us and we would be done for! How long 'till they're here, KARAN?" Bobby asked.
"T-minus 5 minutes." He answered promptly.
"That should give us enough time to set up a defense." Emo-Girl stated.
"Waitaminute... If that was Taskmaster... Then where's the real CowBoy?" Interpol asked.
"Crap, you're right! And on that note where's Atlantean and Kazekun?" Rob questioned.
"Come on, guys! Let's go!!" Bobby yelled as he ran to the main room.
"No time to worry about that now, people!" Kevin yelled as he ran after the rest of the team.
"I guess..." Interpol muttered as he ran.
The team ran into the main room and began to set up. Bobby coated the front of the floor with ice. Emo-Girl and A1 destroyed furniture and made blockades. UltimateKevin set a large trap of stone set above the door. KARAN was wired to the main computer while Rob and Interpol helped were they could.
Soon they could feel the army. They could feel the ground shake as they marched. An awful odor filled the air.
"Behind me!!" Bobby yelled across the room.
The team stopped what they were doing and ran just as the army brought down the doors.
A lone man, covered in armor from head to toe, stepped forward, "You must be the Ultimate Marvels..." He assumed.
"What's it to ya?" A1 questioned with a smirk.
"Master DragynWulf has sent us. He has declared that if you surrender now, he would let you live in his service." The man exclaimed.
"And why the hell would we want to do that?" Bobby replied.
"Well... we assumed you wanted to live..."
"Wellll... You're just gonna have to give us a better offer then that!" Emo-Girl called out.
"And why would that be?!"
"Because we can easily kick your ass; you and your army." Interpol answered.
The man snarled and tossed a box to them, "Catch!" He ordered.
The box landed on the floor. It sounded heavy. A1 hesitantly crouched and opened it up. He looked in it. There were collars.
"If you place those around your necks, then your powers will disappear as long as you wear them. If you place them on, you will not die." He elaborated.
"Yeah, how about...? No!!" Bobby yelled.
"Then prepare yourself... Attack!!!" The man yelled. Thousands--thousands-- of soldiers suddenly appeared behind the man. They all charged forward.
Bobby chuckled and snapped his fingers. The ice on the floor shot up and created an ice wall. It's crushed most but some jumped over it. They landed and attacked.
Rob sprinted forward and smacked a man with his bo staff.
"Nice job, Rob!!" Bobby congratulatde as he punched the leader on the forehead. The man didn't even feel it but Bobby sure did, "Agh! What the hell?"
"This helmet allows the safety of no head damage. You can hit us in the head and we wouldn't even feel it." He explained as he kicked back.
Bobby tried to defend himself but the leader continued attacking with his palms and knees, "Fool... No one can ignore DragynWulf!! Ah hmhmhm--klugh!!" He then fell to his knees, bleeding internally.
"What the he--?"
"Bobby!!" A voice called out from behind him, "Bobby!" It was Atlantean.
"Atlantean? Where've you--?"
"No time!!" He yelled as he suddenly knocked eight soldiers to the floor. They tried to get up, but they felt immensly heavy.
Emo-Girl was tackled by a soldier. A1, seeing this, flew and kicked the man on the neck. Rob slashed four men's chest, while Interpol aimed only on their helmets. Kevin shocked twenty men with a bolt of lighting. KARAN's wires plugged into forty men and they all keeled over intstaneously.
Each time one struck down an enemy, a grim look spread across their face.
Bobby and Atlantean were surrounded. As a man ran at him, Bobby held out his hand. It formed into a giant hammer. The man jumped and Bobby slammed him in the chest and brought him into the ground, "Out of my way!!" Bobby yelled to the other soldiers. They defied him and resumed their mission. Bobby and Atlantean then decided to run forward into the fray.
Emo-Girl let out a high-pitched scream that blew enemies over twenty feet away, "Hey! That's a new one!" She told herself aloud with a small snicker.
They fought and enemies fell. Many lay knocked out because of what the team's strength. As they fought, Bobby noticed the icewall began to break.
"Fall back!!" He yelled as it imploded.
The team crashed to the floor. Instantly, they were surrounded.
"One last chance to give up, boy!" A man stated.
Bobby clenched his fist, "Dammit..." He muttered.
Suddenly a noise erupted from above.
"Now, Atlantean!!!" A familar voice announced: it was CowBoy falling from the ceiling.
Every enemy was forced to their knees. All around the team it started to rain fire and blasts of gravity filled with fire blew up against the ground.
"Kevin!!! Let the rocks go, man!!" A1 yelled as he stood and blasted enemies.
"Right!!" Kevin yelled as he let the rocks fall crushing enemies everywhere.
CowBoy landed and combusted the air around him, "Jump, Bobby!!" He yelled.
Bobby knew what he meant. He sprinted towards CowBoy. CowBoy grabbed ahold of his foot and launched Bobby into the air.
"EVERYONE IN THE ULTIMATE MARVELS, JUMP NOW!!!!" He commanded.
He slammed against the floor freezing everything touching around the immense radius. He then stood and created an ice slide. Atlantean ran and slid up it. He got to the end and jumped off, directing all his energy downward, slamming all the enemies against the ground. As they were on the ground, Emo-Girl ran through the crowd beating on enemies while A1 washed a wave of steak sauce of them drowning a group of them.
Atlantean immediately blew some men in the air. They floated in mid-air enough time for Rob to strike while in mid-jump. He made wave after wave of shurikens that caught each and every one of them.
Down on the ground, Interpol ran underneath wiping them out with a barrage of arrows. They crashed back against the floor and Kevin made them stay there by covering the with granite.
"Now strike as one!!!" Yelled Bobby.
The team lept into the air. Rob threw another barrage of shurikens into the ground and Bobby covered them all in ice with help from Kevin's weather-altering abilities.
"Everyone!!! Charge Big K with energy for our KARAN Ball!!!" CowBoy commanded as he turned his leg into a rifle.
KARAN went green as Bobby, Emo-Girl, CowBoy, Atlantean, and UltimateKevin blasted him with energy making him stronger by the second. KARAN went full-power and rammed himself into the chamber of CowBoy's gun.
BLAM!!!!
As KARAN flew the team kept blasting him making energy blast off him as he flew. KARAN struck the entire group of soldiers in a blinding flash. When it was over the Ultimate Marvels laid on the ground. Every solider was gone-- evaporated.
Bobby was breathing profusely, "Wow... It... It worked. Woo... hooo..." It was his best attempt to show his adreneline.
"You... You say that like you were worried we weren't going to win, Bobby!" Nicole declared with a smile.
Bobby was too tired to respond and he just laughed.
"Where were you guys, anyways?" A1 asked CowBoy and Atlantean.
"Taskmaster caught us and kept us imprisoned." CowBoy began.
"But somehow the cage just flung open." Atlantean added.
"Speaking of which, where is Taskmaster?" CowBoy asked.
"He killed him." Bobby answered.
"Who?" CowBoy's eyes squinted.
"Max." Emo-Girl replied
"Wait, Max killed--?"
"Taskmaster..." A1 finished for him.
"And this happened while we were gone?" CowBoy questioned.
Atlantean sighed as he placed his hand on his forehead, "Why am I not surprised?"
"He's done this before, right?" Bobby asked him.
"Yes..." Atlantean whispered.
"Have you?" Bobby asked with almost demanding to know.
"Oh, no. Max, he... he's not a bad guy, he's just... conflicted..." He explained.
"Let's not talk about this anymore..." Bobby interrupted.
Suddenly the sound of motor revving.
"Hey!!" CowBoy yelled.
"What happened?" Emo-Girl asked him.
"Somebody's stealing my bike!" He ran to the garage and the team followed.
CowBoy was the first to make it. He saw a shadow move and hid back. He then spontaneously ran with his hand flaming, "Alright, man!! Who the hell are you and--?"
The driver had a helmet on and looked back. CowBoy could see his reflection. He then turned forward, revealing a barcode on the back of his neck. He crouched and finally sped off.
"Hey!! Come back here!!!" CowBoy bellowed, "Hey!!!"
"CowBoy!" A1 called for as everyone else caught up.
"What happened?" Bobby asked.
"Somebody took my bike, that's what happened!!" CowBoy angrily answered.
"What is this?" Emo-Girl was heard.
There were bodies burnt to a crisp. They were soldiers that they had fought earlier.
"Who could of done this?" She asked A1.
"Max..." Bobby muttered.
"We're going town though, right?" Kevin asked.
"Why?" A1 asked.
"To look for Max!"
"No, forget him." Bobby stated.
"But..." UltimateKevin held back.
"He's a killer, Kevin." Rob told him sternly, "He doesn't belong with us..."
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 366 Location: Minnesota
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:
UltimateCowboy452 Productions Presents...
Issue 19
Max flew done the street on CowBoy's bike, pushing 110 MPH in the pouring rain. He thought about what had happened, Damn them. Damn them all. he cursed, They don't know how serious this really is...
He turned sharply around a corner. The backtire squealed loudly as it did.
But then again, they don't deserve what happened to me and neither did I! Damn you, Manticore... he cursed again, Damn you to hell.
Back at the base, everyone was moving around.
"Okay, team, get ready. Pack what you need." Bobby ordered, "We have a few days."
The team headed there different ways.
Nicole stopped KARAN.
"Yes, Nicole?" he asked while holding onto a box.
"Well... Um, as Max, uh... rode off on CowBoy's bike, I saw something on the back of his neck." she explained.
"What was it?" he questioned her.
"It looked like a barcode." she answered.
"Really...?" KARAN noted.
"I think it said 452." she added.
"You know how to decipher barcodes?" KARAN asked, baffled.
"Oh... yeah." she shrugged.
"Hmm... Well, it's not anything that I'm aware of..." KARAN walked to the van and placed the box in the back.
"Can't you look it up?"
"No. But I believe CowBoy's computer should be able to help us." KARAN suggested an alternative.
Nicole agreed and they walked to CowBoy's lab.
"CowBoy?" Nicole called out.
"Yeah?!" He yelled from across the room.
"We need your help, real quick." she said while admiring CowBoy's technology.
"Well, seeing how I'm only good at tech and fighting, and I don't see a fight; I guess it's tech." he replied.
"We need to find the origin of a code." KARAN explained.
"What kind of code?"
"We don't know." Nicole uttered.
"Then what's the code?"
"452." KARAN answered.
"Um..." CowBoy whispered as he walked to them with his handheld. He punched in the code and waited. "Okay... One Hit. Hunh... One hit exactly." CowBoy scoffed in awe. He opened it. A giant picture spread across the screen. It was Max's picture. Below it read ‘Property of Manticore.’
"Well, I think I know what it is." CowBoy commented. "Let's find out who Max really is."
CowBoy scrolled down and began to read, "They’ve got his whole 9 year stay at this place on file."
They all began to read, and at the same time some miles away, Max began to remember.
He began to reminsce about his past. He then unexpectedly halted his bike as a response to a red light. A mother and her little boy crossed the street in the pouring rain with an umbrella ontop of the little boy.
His train of thought continued. He had never experienced the caring and tender love of a mother or father. He didn't think he even had parents. He began to think about his childhood.
His first memory was the sight of a man in white barking at him from above a distant height.
"Harder!!" he yelled from afar.
Suddenly, Max felt a sharp pain in his gut. Followed by another running down his back. Max had no idea what was going on or how he got there.
The beating didn’t stop. The hits were getting harder by the second while Max cringed and was in fetal position grabbing onto his knees. He felt blood run to his head and warm tears creeping down his cheeks. His vision then turned white as a cloud.
He then woke up in a hospital bed but it was far less as comfortable. He was restrained to the bed, unable to move. His arms had been covered with cables and unknown objects. He then knocked out thinking it was a dream... just one horrible dream.
The light turned green just in time as the woman and child had crossed the street with seconds to spare. Max drove off. He glanced at the child as did he. For just a second, they looked at each other: Max at the boy's eyes; the child at his reflection through Max's helmet. As Max passed by, the child waved at him.
Max had been hitting 130--even 140-- until he got another red light.
He continued to remember...
It wasn't ever a hospital, it was a training facility where he learned everything there was to combat. That's where he first became acquanited with other people-- or prisoners-- whatever they were called. He was considered a "Transgenic", as were his fellow soldiers. To him it only meant one thing: he was in fact different than the people in the outside world he had heard stories about..
Unlike most children, who are given a name at birth, Max was branded with a barcode. And his designation became x5 452. He was part of the Manticore's fifth generation, their fifth try at creating the perfect soldier.
As Max grew up, so did his hatred of the facility and the scientists. But most of all, he loathed Lydecker. He was the head honcho of the facility.
The Transgenics at Manticore were brutally trained everyday.
To increase there ability in the water, they had to be held at the bottom of the pool, submerged under water for four minutes everyday. If they could no longer hold their breathe that long, they were sent to the scientists for study.
They were brainwashed into thinking the outside world was a wasteland that had to be destroyed.
They received weapons training. And every so often, Manticore would send a civilian out into the woods, and then they would have the Transgenics hunt him down like an animal, and if they found him, they would shoot him dead as part of their training.
They also received combat training, sparring against each other everyday.
All of their training was designed not only to turn them into the perfect soldiers, but also to dehumanize them.
And all of their training was ordered and viewed by Lydecker, who had no sympathy for the soldiers who could not handle the hell they went through.
Missions were handed to every Transgenic because of their special talents. As a Transgenic, Max had enhanced strength, agility, and vision. He could jump heights imcapable of the normal human. Their missions were rather simple most of the time. It could be to snap the neck of an opposing enemy, enter and disable every bomb in a room-- the usual things.
Lydecker had always made Max push a little harder than the other Transgenics. On one occasion, Max had snapped a man's neck. The point of the mission was to kill every opposing force that came at him using the weapons training they would received. Max, at the time, refused to use guns, much to the dismay of Lydecker.
So Lydecker had Max sent to the basement, thrown in a cell for a day with Manticore's "Nomilies", or in other words, screw ups. After he had been knocked out five or six times, he was allowed to be let out of the cell, but was then sent to solitary.
After that, Max killed without hesitation to prove to Lydecker that he was not afraid to steal lives from others in order to get ahead.
The light went green and Max sped away. Looking ahead, he noticed that there was some bright white lines in the clouds. Thunder... he admired the sound.
Max had never seen the sight of the sun nor the sky. He was inside the facility his whole childhood. His life was a living hell there. That is until one cold night in December...
Max stopped as he saw lightning strike ahead of the road. He got off the motorbike and decided to examine the burnt road. He grabbed a handful of the burnt dirt. He then burnt it even further into ashes. He suddenly remembered the day he discovered his abilities.
It was December, as the calendar in the center had informed him. The snow blew violently outside as Max lay awake, shaking in his bed. Like all the Transgenics at Manticore, he would get occasional seizures. The scientists predicted it was just a side effect of their genetic tampering. But this time, Max felt that he was going through more than just a seizure. As he tossed and turned, something happened, something else beneath him was triggered. Something that the scientists at Manticore never planned on, it was called a Mutation.
As Max laid on his bed shaking furiously that night, he began to feel something else occur. As he shook, the other beds around him would shake, waking others up. Inside his head, he started to hear people screaming in agony and people being beaten, which were actually the thoughts of the gaurds from the basements. Debris then began to fall from the ceiling as the seizure got worse. Max's eyes then glowed a dark red color. Soon the beds around him began to break, with the others being crushed in them, until finally, Max's also broke.
As he laid on the cold hard floor, twitching uncontrollably, he felt his body cover with a fiery energy. The debris of the cieling turned into chunks. Then the whole complex began to feel an earthquake. Sirens went off and gaurds rushed to the medical ward of the complex. Max then began to hear more of their thoughts. He was losing what little control he had.
As the gaurds grew closer, he heard voices coming from their radios, "Kill him!! Take him out now!!!" He heard Lydecker order.
Once they broke through the door, Max saw the rifles in their arms ready to fire. With a final desperate scream of pain, he sent out a blast that sent the guards through the wall as the chunks of the cieling began to break up, turning into dust.
The energy surrounding him grew stronger as did the shaking. Then the building began to collapse. But just as he thought all was lost, he heard from a radio laid at the hands of a dead guard, "Commando, self-destruct. We have all the information necessary on file to restart somewhere else. Now do it." Lydecker commanded. With that, Max lost it.
The fire around him shot out, and destroyed not only the building he was in, but all of Manticore. The fire stretched out, as if forming into wings of a bird, like an ancient Phoenix.
But what Max hadn't expected was that he would be bombarded with the thoughts of every one in the facility. One by one, as each of them were ripped apart and killed, their thoughts entered Max's head. While clutching his head and almost breaking the skin, he learned everything there was to know about his life. His mother gave him up after birth and was paid by the government. He knew the name of every soldier and staff member's name.
He could not longer stay conscience and passed out. Surrounded by snow, and what little remains there were of Manticore.
He woke up later to find himself in the ruins of Manticore, and a chain with the name Max printed on it. Confused he ran off into the night, into his new world. What he had heard stories about, he was now going into. All Max knew was that no matter what the outside world was like, it couldn't possibly be as bad as Manticore.
"Oh, my God." CowBoy uttered as he finished reading.
"Whoa." Emo-Girl whispered.
"So that is why he seemed so dark." KARAN came to a conclusion.
"Well, do we tell Bobby?" Nicole asked them both.
"No. He does not need this on his shoulders now." KARAN replied.
CowBoy rubbed his neck.
"You alright, CowBoy?" Emo-Girl asked him.
"Oh... yeah. But I agree with KARAN. We can't tell Bobby-- not yet." He explained.
"I guess so." She agreed.
"I suggest you both prepare yourselves. We have a long journey ahead of us." KARAN suggested.
CowBoy and Emo-Girl both agreed and began to think about how they were going to prepare themselves.
Max got back to his bike and reached for his undershirt. He then pulled out his dogchain with Max on it and gripped it tightly, I'll kill you Lydecker...
He then rode off down the highway. _________________ HEAR ME, X-MEN! NO LONGER AM I THE WOMAN YOU KNEW! I AM FIRE! AND LIFE INCARNATE! NOW AND FOREVER--I AM PHOENIX!
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:
That was amazing! Max's backstory was breathtaking! Now that was a great issue! Keep it comin'!!! _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
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