X-MEN ETERNITY

Exiles/Weapon X #2: Casualties of War

Rated PG-13 for Violence and Language

By Jordan

DISCLAIMER: The X-Men are a copyright of Marvel Comics. I don't own them, but this is only non-profit fan fiction. No money is involved and no infringement is intended.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: These stories take place more or less during the time of the wonderful first arcs of the rest of the Eternity titles and even afterwards. This story deals with the remnants of the Exiles and some of the other mutants from Earth 616 who had been scattered throughout space and time.

Somewhere in Northern Canada, 2025

Alternate Earth # 4534

Calvin Rankin had always thought of having children someday in his life. Granted, being an X-Man was a more important priority in his life, but he definitely wanted to be able to have a family with someone he loved and teach them all he learned from Professor Xavier. Since joining the Exiles, he had been thinking more and more that Clarice could definitely be that someone and he was pretty sure that she at least could feel the same way about it too someday.

However, he was definitely surprised by the words young woman named Leigh who seemed to have mimicked Morph’s shapeshifting abilities and had just recently trapped him, his teammates, and their six new ‘guests’ from former member Beak’s earth, but let them go as suddenly as she tried to trapped them, calling Calvin her ‘Daddy.’

*And I thought I had gotten passed the shock of the possible differences in each reality from mine…* he thought as he took a breath and looked into Leigh’s eyes, which were full of fear and confusion, as he said “Listen, Leigh, I know you’re scared and confused now, I don’t blame you. I’d be the same if I were in your shoes.” He then took a breath and said “I am Calvin Rankin, who you said is your Dad, but I’m from an alternate timeline…”

Leigh stood up slowly, still looking a little nervous, but seemed to have calmed down some as she looked at Calvin warily and said “A…alternate realities?? I…I don’t get it….”

*Oh great, how do I explain this so she’d understand???* thought Calvin for a few seconds, then stood up as he said “Well…um….let’s say you happen to choose to have a turkey sandwich instead of a slice of pizza for lunch. In another reality, you’d have decided to eat the pizza or decided to skip lunch. In other ones, you could be older than you are now, have a totally different life, or even a guy. Basically, there are millions of Earth’s out there, each one showing a different choice or possibility being played out”

Leigh looked at Calvin, her look having changed from fear to confusion as she said “So…you’re my dad, but you’re not since you’re from another Earth?” She then looked to the others and said “I guess that would explain some of you being here. Are all of you from the same Earth?

“Not exactly…” said Domino “Most of us got kind of dropped into this from somewhere else…”

“Literally….” Grumbled Marrow as Shatterstar and her pulled up a still dazed Morph.

Calvin sighed and shook his head then looked at Leigh and said “Sorry if we scared you, Leigh, but we are definitely not the bad guys. Now, we detected a weird surge of energy from around here at the place where we came from. It seems to match something that’s going on in other realities. Do you know anything about it??”

“Energy in other worlds?” said Leigh, who was quiet for a few seconds, then said quietly “No way….could it possibly be the Slayer??”

“Slayer….as in Buffy???” said Tabitha with a bit of confusion in her voice. However, before Leigh could respond to that, the nine mutants were flung back into the air against some trees as Morph groaned out “Why am I always getting knocked about whenever we land in Canada??”

“Alright, you guys get the hell away from my girlfriend!!!” shouted a handsome young man who looked to be about Leigh’s age with short blond hair and blue eyes who flew down from the sky as he glared at the group then at Leigh and said “How could you just go off like that without waiting for me!?!?! You could have been killed!!!”

“Wait, Franklin, put them down!!!” Leigh said as she ran to the young man’s side “I know it sounds crazy, but I don’t think this is an S.H.I.E.L.D plot or Marauders!!” She then pointed at Calvin and said “See, it’s my dad!! Well, not really my dad, but it is him, just from an alternate timeline. They all are from other Earths!!”

“Other Earths??? Are you serious???” said Franklin who looked at the group he held then at Leigh as if they all were insane.

“Read their minds, it’ll prove they are telling the truth…” said Leigh, a pleading look on her face as she grabbed Franklin’s free hand as she looked into her eyes and said “Franklin…please…”

Franklin frowned as he looked to Leigh then to the nine mutants he held in the air before closing his eyes and muttering “Fine…” After a few seconds, he opened his eyes in shock and said “Holy crap, Leigh, you’re right…” He then lowered the people down and said “Sorry about that, we’re on guard all the time, even after all these years. I mean, I remember my dad talking about something like this when I was younger, but I never thought there was truth to all of it…”

“It’s alright, kid, not like we haven’t faced this before…” said Sabretooth as he helped some of the others to stand “I’m not surprised your dad figured it out, Richards, he’s always a genius in any reality.”

Franklin looked at Sabretooth in surprise and said “Y..You knew my dad???”

Sabretooth laughed and said “Well, I don’t know where the Mr. Fantastic of my world is, but I’ve met plenty to know what he’s like…”

“Wait a sec, you’re telling me this is Mr. Fantastic’s and the Invisible Woman’s kid!?!!?” said Tabitha in shock then whistled and said “Damn, when I get back home, I’m so going to get plastic surgery so I’ll look good for when he becomes a stud when he grows up!!”

Franklin and Leigh gave Tabitha a weird look before Franklin cleared his throat and said “Um…so, let’s go back to town; the council will definitely want to see you guys. We can get you through the phase shield; it’s one of the last few things made by my dad…”

“Good to hear…” said Julio as he and Shatterstar carried a still somewhat dazed Morph as he looked at Leigh and said “Hey, chica, how long is what you did to Morph over here gonna last?”

Leigh looked in Rictor’s direction then looked a little embarrassed as she said “Oh yeah…um….he should be ok in about an hour. I can detect people’s superpowers then generate a type of energy javelin that gives me the powers of who they hit. Sometimes it kinda stuns the person and he may not be able to access his powers for a little bit but he’ll be fine. Come on, we better going quickly….”

“So, do you Exiles get a lot of surprises like this reality hopping?” asked Domino as they started following the two teenagers.

“Well, we’ve seen some surprises, but I think that this rates among the top ones…” Sabretooth said with a slight smirk as he saw Calvin’s gaze watch Leigh as they walked, probably trying to see if there were any true similarities between him and this young woman who, at least in this world, was his offspring.

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“You have to admit we were a bit skeptical of your story at first before Franklin spoke to us….” said Tony Stark, formerly known as the armored hero known as Iron Man, but whose brain was installed with a custom-made, but a little worn down Iron Man Suit “You have to understand our position since the nine of you are either dead, working with S.H.I.E.L.D or the Marauders, depowered, or right next to me at this moment….”

Domino couldn’t help but give a small smirk at the last part of the statement and saw that the older counterpart of her, who was sitting at a table with Doctor Octopus, Invisible Woman, Silver Samurai, Moonstone, and Forge, was doing the same. Apparently in this reality, a fight between the New Warriors and some random supervillans led to the deaths of over 300 people, mostly children. That led to the government to create a Registration Act for all superheroes which split the superhero community in two, with Iron Man, leading those who were for it and Captain America gathering those who were against the Registration Act in hiding.

This quickly led to a civil war with many casualties on both sides. It was soon found out that everything, from the fight to the Act to the war, was the brainchild of a powerful entity known as the Slayer, who apparently was a fragment of the once-dead Adversary merged with some form of unknown energy to become a new and very frightening foe that had infiltrated many places, including the government. However, once the superheroes had figured this out and surprisingly teamed up with the supervillans to face the Slayer, it was too late as the Slayer used its forces to detonate bombs that destroyed New York and Washington D.C., which sent public disapproval to an all time high. Those that didn’t voluntary give up their abilities permanently or join S.H.I.E.L.D or a new version of the Marauders formed by Mr. Sinister, fled to the small abandoned town they were now in to simply live their lives in peace with supplies being sent in every couple of months from the few people they could still trust while hiding from those who would want them.

“Like we told Leigh and Franklin when we first met them, this isn’t our first time we experienced anything like this, so don’t feel bad about it…” said Sabretooth, who stood in front of him with Domino, Captain Britain, and Mimic while the others were shown a place to rest.

“Still….the thought of alternate Earths existing alongside our own seems like quite an extraordinary concept…” said Doctor Octopus “It almost seems impossible to believe…”

“Yet it was a subject that you, my late husband, and tens, if not thousands of scientists spent a lot of time trying to prove…” the Invisible Woman said with a slight smile before looking at the group and said “So, you said you came to our Earth to track down an…energy spike as you put it…”

“Yeah, we think it might be someone from my world who may have been ejected like me, Captain Britain and some of the rest of us were…” said Domino “Leigh thought it might be related to this Slayer person…”

The members of the town council looked at each other with grim and even fearful looks on their faces when they heard the word ‘Slayer’, except for Iron Man of course. Forge, who had lost his legs during the Civil War and used the now deceased Professor Xavier’s hoverchair to get around, was the first to speak as he said “We can understand your desire to find out the source of this….disturbance. We have heard rumors that after the war that fragments of the Slayer’s forces still exist. It’s just that…”

“Hey, it’s ok…” said Sabretooth “We understand you guys don’t want to do anything to get yourselves found and we promise to make sure that it doesn’t happen. You can count on us…”

“We…appreciate that....” said Moonstone. She opened her mouth to start to say something else when they heard a loud knock on the door which made everyone in the room jump. A woman with long blond hair covering her face, but not enough to cover the scarring on the right side of her face poked her head in and said “Sorry to interrupt Tony, but I got lunch if anyone wants…”

“It’s ok Valerie, just leave the tray outside and we’ll bring it in later…” said Iron Man as the woman nodded and left. Domino looked at the woman, trying to remember where she had seen her before then realized who it was. “Valerie…” she said “As in…”

“Dr. Valerie Cooper…so I guess she exists on your world too, huh?” the older Domino said “She actually was our main source of information when we all realized the Slayer was behind this and had actually gathered enough information to prove it all. Unfortunately, the Slayer got to her after she hid the information in a place that only she knew about. We managed to get her out, but not before she lost most of her memory and the Slayer activated the bombs as his last resort, creating the world you see now…”

“As I was going to say earlier, it’s not that we do not want to help you…” said Moonstone “It’s just that we have been leaving here in hiding and in peace for the past fifteen years and we wish to keep it that way. None of us have any desire to be brainwashed by S.H.I.E.L.D or depowered or join the Marauders or be killed. However, despite our limited resources, you are welcome to stay here for as long as you need to and as long as we’re not detected, we’ll try to help you track down this energy spike of yours…”

“We appreciate whatever you can do to help us…” said Calvin and was about to say more when he heard Leigh’s voice coming from the hallway “Come on, you got to come with me!!!! You’re not going to believe this!!!”

She then came barging into the room, seemingly oblivious to what was going on, as she dragged an older woman with her who said “Leigh Elizabeth Rankin, you let go of me this instant!!! I do not understand why you grabbed me and dragged me away as I was talking to Jean to barge into a council meeting and…”

The woman then stopped as she pulled down her hood slowly, causing both Calvin and Sabretooth to gasp. She was older and her hair was cropped short, but there was no mistaking that the woman standing before them was this world’s version of Clarice.

She held her hands in front of her mouth and whispered “My God….Cal?” then promptly passed out and fell to the ground. Calvin sighed and shook his head, blushing slightly as he looked at Leigh for a second, kicking himself for not explaining how some people might react to their presence then at the other people in the room and said “Sorry…had a feeling this might happen. Just not in this way though…”

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Tabitha was bored….

Not the ‘Oh God Oh God I have nothing to do Kill me now’ type of bored, but more like the ‘Ok, stuff has been done, now what do I do now?’ type of bored. Captain Britain and Domino went with Mimic and Sabretooth to talk to the heads of this town which left the rest of them to explore and rest in the spare bedrooms that were set up for them.

*Ok, this situation is definitely one of the strangest I have been by being an X-Person.* she thought as she stared up at the ceiling while she lied on her bed *It’s still way freaky being around this Sabretooth considering…what happened with my Sabretooth. Not like he was my Sabretooth, that would be so gross to be like in a relationship with him, I mean like he’s Sabretooth on my world and…” She then slammed both fists into the bed and said “God Damn It!! All this alternate world stuff is giving me a headache!!!”

“I think I can say with a good deal of certainty that you’re not the only one who feels that way, chica…” Julio said with a smile as he leaned against the doorway then walked into the room “Even though its definitely strange circumstances, it’s good to see you again, Tabby, how ya holding up?”

“As best as I can, considering I’ve been flung out of my reality and into another one with four of my former teammates, a woman who used to work for the bad guys but was really working for the good guys, Mr. Britain Personified, and a former X-Person who had been part of the ‘family’ for only about a year or two if I heard the stories from Sam right.” Said Tabitha as she sat up on the bed and looked at Julio and said “What about you, Julio? How are you holding up?”

“Exactly like you are…” said Julio with a slight smile as he sat down next to his old friend. “You got to admit though; we never did get involve with alternate realities like some of the X-Men did, so I guess it’s about time we got our wings with this…”

“Yeah, but this is definitely not the way I’d want to go with it…I thought once you turned in your X-badge, you were immune from being called back to duty unexpectedly.” Tabitha said with a sigh then looked at Julio and said “Well, anyway, now that we have a few minutes, start spilling!!! What the heck were you and Shatterstar doing that had you in thong Speedos!!?!?”

Rictor groaned and blushed slightly as he said “Taaaaaaaaby!! I said I don’t want to talk about it, so why won’t you let it drop!!!??!”

“Because you know I said I’m not going to stop till you spill your guts, Julio.” Tabitha said with a devilish grin “Sooo….unless you want me to become the most annoying person possible on two Earths, you better start talking….”

“All right, all right, I’ll talk!!” groaned Julio, blushing a bit more as he turned to Tabitha and said with an uncertain and nervous look on his face “Well…you see…Star and I have been well…living together in a rooftop apartment…on South Beach. We had just come out for a tan after recovering from spending the night at a circuit party when that weird white light appeared…”

Tabitha was silent as Julio gave her an explanation, at first not understanding what the big deal was. It took her a couple of seconds to put two and two together, causing her jaw to drop open as far as it can before she said “Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!”

“It just sort of happened about three years ago…” said Julio as Tabitha fell onto the bed in shock. “I really love him, Tabitha, and he loves me. I know we sort of…had something when we first met and when we were in the New Mutants, but this is the way things are and I just hope….you’re happy for me.”

“Oh of course, I’m happy for you!!” Tabitha said with a pout as she continued to lie on the bed “Hell, half of my friends are hot gay boys!! It’s just that when and if we get home, I owe Theresa and James 50 bucks each!!!”

“As well as me, and if I heard right you owe Domino and Cable one hundred each…” Danielle said with a slight grin “So I’m guessing that means that Julio finally came out about him and Shatterstar?”

Julio looked between Tabitha and Danielle in shock then said “So…are you saying that the only people who didn’t know about me and Shatterstar…were me and Shatterstar!??!”

“Pretty much…” Danielle said with a slight chuckle “But like Tabitha said…it’s definitely not a problem for us that you and Shatterstar are gay. Of course, I can’t speak for Captain Britain, Marrow, or Sage but if any of them says something wrong, you got three strong women ready to kick their butts!”

Julio smiled, feeling relief that he did have support and said “Thank ladies, I really do appreciate it.” He then took a breath and said “So, ladies, what do we do now that we’re here?”

“Damned if I know…” said Tabitha “Domino, Captain Britain, and that alternate Mimic and Sabretooth went to talk with the people who run this place so I guess we’re stuck here for now. Personally, I hope we find a way back to our Earth quickly. I tried asking a couple of people here about this ‘Slayer’ person that Leigh mentioned and they freaked out on me! Something tells me that whoever or whatever this ‘Slayer’ is, its going to mean that something bad is going to happen if he, she, or it still exists…

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“Don’t get me wrong; I enjoy being taken care of by women in medical uniforms. Heck, it’s one of my top ten fantasies, depending on who is in the uniform of course…” said Morph as he tried to get up from his bed but was held down by two leather straps. “But I swear on the gorgeous butt of the nurse who helped me in this bed, I’m going to be giving the worst bedside manner of any patient on any Earth!!!”

“Let me make one thing clear to you boy…” said this world’s Cecilia Reyes who glanced at Morph for a second through her spectacles before going back to what she was writing down. “That same nurse whose butt you were praising almost sprained her ankle running from you trying to flirt with her before you stumbled and knocked over three of my trays. You’ve not recovered from that hit you took from Ms. Rankin, so you will stay where you are and if you’re good, I’ll take those straps off. Otherwise, I’ll give you my personal form of anesthesia, which usually involves a hammer to every major limb in your body, so considering the fact that you haven’t regained your powers fully yet, I’d recommend you listen to me, got it?”

Morph got a fearful look on his face and said “Got it” meekly, causing Calvin to chuckle a little even though he knew it wasn’t totally appropriate at this point. He was glad to see that Leigh’s estimate of how long her power would effect Morph was ringing true, since they still had no idea what they might expect on this Earth so they were going to need all the help they could get, especially from their new allies.

He then turned his attention to this world’s Clarice, whose side he hadn’t left since she fainted. Except for the hair and the fact she was older, she looked exactly like his Clarice. He sighed as he thought *God, Clarice, where are you? Are you on this Earth or back on Beak’s or even another one entirely? You have to be alive, I mean, I know that old saying about those who are in love with each other can ‘feel’ each other in a way is just a myth, but I’m sure I’d know in some way if you’re dead so you have to be alive, you have to be!!!”

Calvin was interrupted by his train of thought when he heard a slight moan and looked down to see the older Clarice regaining consciousness. She rubbed her head where she hit her head as she slowly opened her eyes. She then saw Calvin looking down on her and said softly “My God, I wasn’t dreaming or hallucinating….you look exactly like him…”

“Um…yeah…” said Calvin, feeling unsure about what he should say or do next “So….I guess then that Leigh mentioned…”

“Where you are from…yes.” said the older Clarice “Although I must admit I was sure she was telling some sort of tall tale when she dragged me to you mentioning visitors from another Earth, but when I saw you, I just couldn’t believe my eyes, I must have created such a spectacle when I passed out…”

“Not at all…” said Calvin with a slight smile “After it happened, I carried you over to your infirmary here. Dr. Reyes says you didn’t get a concussion or anything like that, so you can leave whenever you’re ready…”

The older Clarice nodded and sat up as she said “Good…maybe in a few minutes if that is alright…” Calvin and her locked eyes for a couple of seconds then turned away, with the older Clarice blushing slightly and Calvin knew it was for the same reason he was trying his hardest not to blush. “So...” she said finally “may I ask what your world is like, if you don’t mind of course…”

“Oh…um…sure…” said Calvin “Not much to say really....from what I’ve seen, my world seems to be one of the better ones off out there, no offense meant. Mutants are widely accepted, with a few pockets of dissenters on my Earth. A lot of people say that I’m the main reason why that’s possible, but I think they’re blowing my part as leader of the X-Men to be bigger than it really is…”

“Well…if you’re anything like my Cal, then I think those people aren’t exaggerating…” the older Clarice said looking away from his gaze for a second before looking back at him and saying “I..I saw the way you and…well, I guess the right term would be ‘your’ Sabretooth looked at me before I passed out so I assume that both of you were close to your Clarice?”

“Actually, the Clarice that I…well…am with…is from Sabretooth’s world. How we got together is a long story…” Calvin said with a chuckle then frowned as he said “I…don’t know where she is now. We were heading back to our base of operations when she suddenly…vanished. We were thinking there was a chance based on the energy spike we detected on your world could be her.”

“I hope it is…” the older Clarice said sympathetically as she put a hand on his shoulder. “The way you met definitely sounds more exciting than me and my Cal. We were both students at the Xavier Institute when we first met. I was just getting over a bad breakup with Sam Guthrie when you…I mean…him came up to me and was kind to me. I admit I was surprised by that action considering he was known as a bit of a loner, rebel, and rabble-rouser…”

Calvin chuckled, remembering how he was before his world’s Xavier took him in and said “Looks like this world’s Calvin and I had a lot in common…” then noticed the older Clarice staring at him and said “Sorry…” She was exactly like his Clarice; especially with that stare that she gave whenever was speaking when she thought they shouldn’t, but the personality he knew was weathered in this Clarice most likely by time, motherhood, and the situation she had been in for the past few years.

“It’s alright…” she said then shook her head as she said “You’re exactly like him, it’s like he’s back from the dead talking to me again.” She then realized what she said and gasped “Oh, I’m so sorry please forgive me!! Now, where was I….oh yes!!! A few months later, my Cal and I became an item to the surprise of almost everyone there. Once we finished our education at the Institute and joined the X-Men, Cal proposed to me and it took me about a minute to recover from the shock and say yes and I gave birth to Leigh five years later.”

Her facial expression then became sad as she said in a quieter tone of voice “When the Civil War started…Professor Xavier, Cyclops, and Phoenix did everything that they could to keep us neutral during the conflict, but it wasn’t long after we found out about the Slayer and Storm…was killed by a cloned Thor that we were drawn into the fight, however we couldn’t stop the Slayer from….” She closed her eyes and took a breath as tears started to run slowly down her face.

Calvin put one of his hands over hers and said reassuringly “Listen, if it’s too hard to talk about, I don’t need to hear the whole story…”

“No, no, it’s ok…” the older Clarice said as she dismissed Calvin with a wave of her hand “It…helps….to talk about it sometimes.” She then took another deep breath before continuing “After the destruction, it seemed to be the cue for all of the forces of the Friends of Humanity to descend on us en masse. I tried to stand with Calvin against them to make that everyone else had time to escape, but it was starting to take its toll on both of us, especially after seeing so many loved ones fall…”

The tears began to flow more quickly from eyes as she spoke in a quieter tone “Then, Calvin turned to me and kissed me and said that no matter what, Leigh and I mustn’t forget that he loves us both very much. Before I could protest, he mimicked my powers and created a javelin that took me to where Leigh and some of the others were in the forest. I tried to run back to my husband, to support him, but as soon as I turned around, the Institute…exploded.” She then collapsed sobbing into Calvin’s arms for about five or ten minutes before pulling away and wiping her eyes and said “Again, I must apologize for causing another spectacle.”

“It’s quite alright…” Calvin said with a reassuring smile “Despite the situation you are in, you did a good job raising Leigh. She seems to be a great kid and I bet she’s learned a lot from you…”

“I try my best….” the older Clarice said with a slight smile as she wiped away the last of her tears. She then stopped and looked at Calvin then said “You mentioned an energy spike brought you to my world …what type of spike was it?”

“Well, there’s a chance based on the conversation some of us had with the town council that it may be related to the Slayer that you mentioned and it was probably close to this town…” said Calvin who was then surprised to see an expression of fear cross the older Clarice’s face. “What is it? From what I was told, the Slayer is gone from here…”

“Yes, but as I am sure Tony and the others told you, remnants still exist and if this spike you mentioned is related to such a remnant…” she said then looked at Calvin and said “Cal, I am sorry, but if your Clarice is on this Earth and near that spike you mentioned, there is a good chance she has either been corrupted….or killed….and there may be a chance that this town and the people in it may be in grave danger as well”

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Meanwhile, in a large clearing, a few hundred people gathered together in the center of a tent city that was set up a few weeks ago. Some came here of their own free will and power, others were brought here, and the rest were called by an unknown force that still controlled them. Most were content, or at least as close to content as one could be for those who were being controlled, but some, mainly those who came of their own free will, were getting antsy and wondered what was the point of all this.

That reason finally arrived when a young woman flipped up onto a pile of rocks that were at the center of the camp. A few couldn’t understand why the woman was wearing only a very revealing leather outfit while the big hulking white creature who stood close to her was wearing clothing close to theirs, but thought there was a chance that since her skin was composed of snake scales, she was as cold-blooded as actual reptiles.

“Alright, guys, gals, and whatevers….” Said the young woman with a wicked grin and eyes as black as night exactly like her companion’s “My name is Stacy X and this big lug over here is Caliban. Now, I know some of you, at least those of you not under the control of my pheromones, may be thinking, isn’t she dead and isn’t he a bit more human-like and working for the Marauders? Well, that’s cause we’re not the Stacy X and Caliban you may know to love or hate. The two of us just happen to be from a different Earth by your buddy and ours, The Slayer!!”

“As my companion was trying to say in her typical overdramatic manner…” said Caliban “Some of you may know of the small hidden town where the survivors of the Civil War who didn’t want to conform like some of you have been hiding out since the destruction of New York City and Washington D.C. What you may not know is that there have been a few unexpected visitors that the Slayer doesn’t like, so he wants everyone involved eliminated at the same time.”

“See, I know some of you thought the Slayer just left you in the dust, but he didn’t!!” Stacy X said “This way, it kills two birds with one stone: you get to kill the last free super-people other than those of you here in the audience while getting rid of the intruders the Slayer wants to be rid of.” She then pulled out two sharp knives from some hidden place and lifted them up as she shouted “SO WHO IS UP FOR A KILLING PARTY!!??!”

The resounding cheer from those that were at the camp could be heard for miles….

END

In Issue #3: “The Oncoming Storm”
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