25 Chapter 24

"We reject Norman Osborn's pogroms against mutants. We reject the hate crimes of Trask and his ilk. It seemed to us that the people of the United States wanted us gone, so we left." Scott Summers' words reached to the world through the satellites that the X-Men must have hijacked, and Norman Osborn could only sit and watch with anger as the upstart kept talking.

"But we won't be pushed, prosecuted, persecuted or punished any further. We seek peace and to live peacefully. Whatever happens next... it's beyond our control."

"Damn straight it is." Osborn said with gritted teeth as he looked at the screen.

The mere fact that Summers' had the gall to challenge him like this was grating enough, it made him want to go out and pluck the bastard's oh so special eyes. But what made his anger reach to new heights was not the actions of that upstart Summers, it was who that was standing beside him!

Emma Frost and Namor, the White Queen and the King of Atlantis were supposed to be on his side; on the side of his Cabal! Yet they were standing beside Summers as he went against Osborn's, the government's, authority like it was his given right. That would not stand!

"Bring me Namor's head." He ordered to his Avengers with gritted teeth as he put his Iron Man helmet on. "And Emma Frost's heart. And make sure that Summers sees you do it!"

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"Whelp, they are coming." Scott said as he gazed at the rapidly approaching air vehicle. By whatever mumbo jumbo calculations of Hank, they should be close enough to attack them in about two minutes.

"You have gotten me into a rather complicated mess, Summers." Namor, the king of Atlantis and occasional ally to heroes, said as he walked beside the leader of X-Men. "Though this does give me the chance to put Osborn back into his place. Though I believe certain others also wish to have that chance." He said as he crossed his arms over his chest with a smirk and looked at the gathered mutants around them.

"Speaking of those who would like to put Osborn back into his place, where is Emma? I didn't think that she would miss this chance." He continued with a smirk and a cocky tone, neither of which were things Scott liked when a man like Namor talked about his girlfriend.

"She's on a rescue mission with Kitty and Psylocke, this is the best chance to do so with Osborn's strongest cronies away from their base." The leader of the X-Men may have some... complicated feelings when it came to his old teacher, but he was not gonna allow him to stay as a prisoner to Osborn while creating a mutant Utopia.

He would still be passive aggressive toward him though.

"They are closing in." Scott was roused from his thoughts about how to welcome professor back without appearing too happy by his newest, and most likely the most troublesome, student landing near them. The kid had picked up how to fly with telekinesis pretty fast, Scott still remembered the fails of Jean in their training days.

"We know. Did you tell your brother about the plan?"

"Yup, and he's not happy about it. Just like you intended." Kala said with a raised eyebrow as he looked at him, no accusation in his tone.

He had to admit, that was something he liked about Kala. The kid was chill, even while knowing that Scott had made a plan that relied on his brother getting angrier and making use of his physiology as a Hulk. Any of the other X-Men would have given him stink eye and tell him how he had 'changed', like people stayed the same as they were as kids while their race was under the threat of extinction.

"So you are the son of that green beast." Namor said from his side with a mocking tone and an annoying smirk as he looked at Kala. "I expected you to be taller."

"My brother is the tall one." And Kala dealt with Namor's act with maturity. "And you're the smart cookie among the morons of Illuminati that realized messing with my father was not a good idea." Or not.

"Hah!" Though thankfully Namor didn't seem to be willing to start a fight right before Osborn invaded them so that was nice. "I like this one. He has backbone, something most of you surface people seem to be lacking."

"We're literally about to fight Ares and Sentry." Scott definitely did not whine. Seriously, how much more of a backbone could they show?!

"Speaking of our enemies." Kala started speaking with a grin as his eyes started glow the eerie white with blue outlines. "I think it's about time we gave them a warm and loud welcome!" And then slammed his palms on the ground.

As the small island made out of the once Asteroid M started to shake, two huge pillars of stone rose from the ground and then far smaller pieces of earth started to poke out of them.

"Fire!" Right before each of those small pieces started to shoot off of the pillars and went towards the incoming plane of Osborn's cronies at hypersonic speeds, just as they had planned during the meeting, before one of them managed to hit one of the plane's wings and shattered it with a huge explosion that sent the air vehicle down to the ocean.

"What are the chances that at least dealt with some of their weaker members?" Scott asked, only to be answered with a snort from Namor.

"Osborn is like a mussel. A weak and pathetic creature inside that can only be an appetizer to true rulers of the sea at best, but also possesses an annoying shell that makes them hard to kill." The ruler of Atlantis declared before smirking. "Or as you surface dwellers say, 'He's like a cockroach.'"

"I heard that." Proving Namor's words right, the metallic voice of Norman Osborn in his patriotic looking Iron Man armor came from above before he and his Avengers dropped down.

Those who were pretending to be heroes, Norman's own Wolverine, Spider-Man, Hawkeye and Captain Marvel were on his right while Sentry and Ares were on his left.

"Shooting first, asking questions never huh? And here I thought you were all about going against that kind of bigoted behavior." The man's words were mocking as he raised his arms up and pointed his palm towards them. "I will give this chance only once, surrender."

And his answer was obvious. "No." And then both Osborn's Avengers and the X-Men jumped towards each other.

"Avengers, take them down!"

"Imperius Rex!"

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