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Ten chimeras surrounded them in a tightening circle. Jay's mind raced through tactical scenarios, but every calculation led to the same conclusion: they were outnumbered and outgunned.
"Dom", Jay said quietly, his eyes finding hers, sending an unspoken signal.
Domino's mismatched eyes widened. "Got it."
Jay's danger sense screamed as the chimeras tensed. Wanting to not take any chances, he used his null field to expand outward in a fifty-foot sphere.
Except the chimeras didn't falter.
Beast-Colossus's metallic hide continued gleaming. Cyclops-Wolverine's eyes still glowed red. The Pyro-Iceman chimera's hands blazed with fire and ice simultaneously.
"No," Jay breathed, his Vibranium form rippling across his skin. "That's not possible."
Sinister's laughter echoed through the lab, high and manic.
"Oh, Jay! My dear, predictable Jay!" The Victorian geneticist practically danced forward, his red diamond pulsing in rhythm with his excitement. "Did you truly believe I would be so foolish? That I wouldn't prepare for your nullification field?" He giggled. "The power you stole from that pathetic Morlock whelp... Leech, yes? Poor, pitiful Leech!"
The chimeras advanced.
"I knew from the very beginning that your nullification field had such delicious limitations! Physical mutations! Permanent alterations woven into genetic code itself! Just observe dear Henry McCoy, or darling Kurt Wagner. Their forms are locked, you see! Immutable! Unchangeable!" He spun in place, coat flaring. "So I made modifications. Glorious, brilliant modifications!"
His grin showed too many teeth.
"Every ability you see before you is now hardcoded into their very cells! Genetic locks your clever little trick cannot pick! And do you know the most delicious irony?" He leaned forward. "Kim Il Sung. My former student, my wayward protégé. He taught me so much about countering power disruption. Years and years under my tutelage! His techniques, his methods... all mine now. Which means, dear boy..." He straightened, arms spreading wide. "You cannot touch them! Behold! My anti-Power Broker dream team!"
"To me, my Nasty Boys."
Beast-Colossus charged. Eight feet of organic steel and feral muscle. The floor cracked under each footfall.
Domino dove left, pistol already up. Tachyon field coating the bullets in silver energy.
The first shot caught Beast-Colossus in the shoulder.
The bullet punched through organic steel. Blood sprayed from the hole and the creature stumbled.
It roared in unexpected hurt.
"These bullets don't give a damn about your metal skin." She fired again. Knee joint this time and the chimera dropped with a howl.
BAMF.
Sulfur flooded the lab as Toad-Nightcrawler materialized behind Domino. Green skin covered in blue patterns, three fingers ending in suckers, and that prehensile tongue that shot out like a whip.
Domino sensed the displacement as she spun. But the tongue was faster, wrapping around her wrist, yanking the gun away.
BAMF.
The chimera teleported to another side, and its tongue snapped out again.
Domino's hands moved on instinct, plucking dozens of strands of her black hair. Tachyon field channeled through them as she flung them into the air in random directions.
BAMF.
Hair punched through his shoulder, pinning him to the wall.
BAMF.
More hair caught him mid-materialization. Through his thigh, causing the chimera to scream.
BAMF.
The last batch caught him in the gut as he appeared above her. Finally his body dropped.
In reality, the hair randomly either served crucial nerves or punctured the stomach lining, letting the acid spill out into the body cavity.
"Should've stayed in your pond." Domino retrieved her gun and reloaded. "Who's next?"
Meanwhile, Cyclops-Wolverine came at Jay. Bone claws extended and ruby-red energy building behind a visor that was half-flesh, half-tactical gear.
The optic blast hit him square in the chest. Kinetic force slammed into his Vibranium form. The impact rippled through his metallic body, feeding power into him.
Cyclops-Wolverine didn't wait. Bone claws stabbed forward. They scraped across Jay's chest, leaving shallow scores despite it's hardness.
"Looks like Sinister cheaped out on real Adamantium." Jay caught one set of claws and twisted. The Bone snapped, and chimera howled.
Just as Jay was about to land the finishing blow, fire and ice hit Jay simultaneously.
The Pyro-Iceman chimera stood twenty feet away. From its left hand poured flames hot enough to melt steel. From its right, ice cold enough to shatter diamond.
Jay's metallic skin cracked under extreme temperature variations causing it to expand and shrink simultaneously. Fissures spread across his chest and arms. The Vibranium form began fragmenting.
"Shit."
As the last option, Jay released all the stored kinetic energy at once with a single punch at the elemental chimera.
The explosion lifted Pyro-Iceman off its feet and hurled it backwards. The creature slammed into the far wall, and the concrete crumbled. When it slid to the floor, its neck bent at an angle that meant it wasn't getting up.
Jay's Vibranium form was compromised. Sections glowed red-hot. Other areas had turned brittle.
Then, despite his danger sense's warning, a fast optic blast caught him in the small of his back.
Jay went flying. But he rolled and came up in a crouch.
Cyclops-Wolverine charged again. Behind the chimaera, Shadowcat-Angel dove from above, wings spread.
"This is bad" Jay muttered.
Shadowcat-Angel phased through the pillars, aiming for Jay's eyes.
Jay created light-daggers and slashed upward. His blades phased harmlessly through her intangible form. She solidified just long enough to strike. One wing-blade scratched across his cheek. She phased again and flew past.
Cyclops-Wolverine was closing in.
Jay's tactical mind raced. Shadowcat-Angel was the immediate problem. As long as she could phase, his attacks were useless. But she had to solidify to attack.
Jay waited. Feigned focus on Cyclops-Wolverine. His danger sense tracked Shadowcat-Angel as she circled above. She dove again, wing-blade extended, aiming for the base of his skull.
She phased through another pillar, getting closer.
Jay's hand shot up the moment before she solidified. His fingers brushed her wrist as his Power theft activated.
But instead of stealing her power, he altered it.
Changed the default state of her phasing from solid to intangible. Permanently intangible.
Shadowcat-Angel's eyes went wide with horror. She tried to land but passed through the floor instead, disappearing into the Savage Land bedrock beneath Sinister's facility.
"She'll suffocate eventually. Without air, she'll die slowly but surely." Jay said tauntingly to Cyclops-Wolverine
The chimera roared. Charged again, with its claws extended and optic blast building.
Jay met the charge head-on. His light-dagger extended, growing longer and thinner until it was more spike than knife. He sidestepped the claws with Taskmaster's perfect timing. Grabbed the chimera's shoulder. Drove the light-spike up through its jaw and into its brain.
Cyclops-Wolverine went rigid. The optic blast fired wildly, carving a molten line across the ceiling. Jay twisted the spike, turned it into a blade, and swept it horizontally through the chimera's neck.
The head separated cleanly. Hit the floor and rolled as the body collapsed.
Jay kicked the head hard. It bounced across the laboratory, hit the wall with a wet crunch as the skull caved in.
Jay finally straightened, breathing hard.
Domino had dealt with Toad-Nightcrawler. Beast-Colossus was crawling toward them on one arm. Pyro-Iceman's twisted body lay crumpled against the far wall. Shadowcat-Angel was somewhere deep underground, phased and suffocating. Cyclops-Wolverine's headless body twitched feebly.
Five down.
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