Marvel Super Heroes by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2023-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

thirty-one

Scott Summers and Charles Xavier had not always seen eye-to-eye where leadership of the X-Men was concerned, and Scott was worried that was going to get worse before it got better. Whatever Xavier was keeping from them and for whatever reason, the fact that he was obviously hiding something had driven a wedge of distrust into the team. Storm was angry and feeling sidelined. Scott, if he was honest with himself, felt the same—but toward both Xavier and Storm. Scott had been on sabbatical when the X-Men were snatched from Earth, but he couldn’t help trying to resume his familiar leadership role now that he was back with the team.

This was no way to survive a fight over the future of the universe.

He was pretty sure Xavier had delegated this mission to him as acknowledgment that he himself had done a poor job keeping the team together. Scott was glad for the gesture, but he’d have been happier if Xavier had come clean about whatever was on his mind. It was enough to make Scott wish there was another telepath on the team.

There wasn’t, though, so Scott was playing the cards he’d been dealt. At the moment those cards were Rogue and Wolverine, and both of them were keeping an eye out for Doom’s people. Scott flew the shuttle along the volcanic ridge, keeping low to avoid the ash plumes that darkened the sky.

“There!” Rogue said from the copilot’s seat, pointing ahead and to the right. There were four figures with a ship nearby.

“I see Doc Ock, Molecule Man, Absorbing Man, and whoever their new musclewoman is,” Wolverine said.

“They haven’t seen us yet,” Rogue added. Scott dipped down behind a ridge to get as close to them as possible while maintaining the element of surprise. “But they’ve got numbers. Hopefully there aren’t more of them hiding over the next hill.”

“Doom wouldn’t have sent this kind of strength unless it was important,” Scott said. “We have to stop whatever it is they’re trying to do.” He landed the ship, and they spilled out as soon as it was on the ground.

“Bad odds, a fight to the death … I like it,” Wolverine said. “Let’s get on with it.”

“Not yet, Wolverine,” Scott yelled as Logan bounded over the ridge and across the open ground toward Doom’s team. Too late.

“Stow it, Slim!” Wolverine snarled as he popped his claws.

The woman saw them first and alerted the rest. “Company’s here!”

Wolverine was making a beeline for Molecule Man. It was the right decision: He was the most powerful member of the enemy group, and he’d proven himself leery of hand-to-hand fighting.

But Wolverine never even got close.

“This little, hairy one is a real case,” the new woman—a tall, muscled blonde—cackled to her companions. She lifted a boulder the size of a forklift over her head and smashed Logan out of the air just as he made his last leap to land within striking distance of Molecule Man. Both the boulder and Wolverine disappeared over a nearby ridge.

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