My whole body felt hot. My adversary was warily watching me, although I could see a slight feral smile on his face. I gripped my knives tighter and zoomed forward. My speed was so fast, I had already planted a knife on Sabertooth's neck before he had reacted. I dug it out and slashed both of my knives at his bleeding neck to decapitate him. In surprising reflexes he leaned back and evaded them.
Although I was a little surprised he could react to me, I jumped and axe-kicked him on the head. He blocked with his fore arms but got pushed down to his knees. His neck had already started healing by now. Not wanting to give him any breathing space, I shouted and punched him hard on his solar plexus. 2 tons of force acting on such a small surface area as my fist, his chest caved in and he got thrown to the wall. My fist was in pain and I gritted my teeth.
I reached into my jacket and started throwing my daggers at him. His coat got embedded to the wall and he was pinned there for a few seconds. I frantically looked around for the thing responsible for the Toxic gas that had affected the others. If I got rid of it, then with me and the Captain working together, we could kill Sabertooth. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I quickly back-flipped back. Right where I had been previously were Shurikens dotting the ground.
I followed their trajectory and on the roof was a figure dressed in all black crouching on top of a hanging machinery. The figure jumped and fell down slowly, enveloped in a pinkish smoke. Judging by the smoke, I figured out I was dealing with another mutant. None of any of this made sense. What was Sabertooth doing working for Hydra? And who was this woman dressed like a ninja? I didn't remember anyone like this in the comics or movies.
"Sabertooth, I'm surprised you got taken down so easily."
She said in a soft voice. I heard grunting and saw Sabertooth ripping off his coat from the wall.
"Who said I got taken down? Stay out of this. It's my fight!"
Shouting this, he ripped his coat apart and underneath, he only had black trousers on and combat boots. Sabertooth was ripped. He had muscles that had muscles but the most terrifying thing was the malice in his eyes. He wanted to kill and he didn't care if it was me or his ninja partner.
I looked at the situation and quickly judged it. It came down to 2 things. Take down the ninja fast enough to get Captain America back on his feet and team up with him to take down Logan's arch-nemesis. No more talking. knives started raining from my hand towards the ninja, who backed away and countered with Shurikens. She knew she wasn't as fast as I was so she stuck behind Sabertooth who was trying to dismember me. I ducked what I couldn't block and blocked what I couldn't evade.
The only thing that was helping me was my speed and reflexes which were better than both of my opponents. I got slashed a few times but I used my Bio-kinesis to stop the bleeding. Strength-wise, Sabertooth and I were evenly matched. we had been fighting for 2 minutes now and my body was starting to protest. I blocked a claw from taking an eye and twirled to his back. I stabbed his shoulder blade and slashed down. A little of his blood sprayed to my face and I got a text box from the Omnitrix. I dismissed it and kicked him on his back pushing him forward and almost breaking his hip joint. He flew and smashed through a few crates and equipment.
He grunted in pain again and I was momentarily impressed by his pain resistance. I turned back and blocked a few Shurikens that were coming for my back. She was running out of them, I smiled and sped forward while she desperately backed away. 'You're not going anywhere' I aimed my kick at her head and she bent backwards, flipping out to plant a kick on my chin. This would have worked on anyone else but not me.
I let it pass by me and countered with a punch aimed at her face. She tried to block but her wrist was broken. She hissed in pain and kicked at me, backing away again. I caught hold of her leg and forcefully twisted it eliciting another cry of pain from her. Slamming her down on the floor on her front she went silent, getting knocked out.
I breathed a sigh of relief as pink gas started flowing out of everyone and into the ninja lying down on the floor. Just as i had suspected, the Toxic gas had been a part of her. The Captain and the others, started getting up, while I was tying the ninja up. I smiled and looked at him right before I felt an impact on my Temple. I groggily got up and saw what hit me. There was a tightness in my chest as I looked at the body lying on the ground before me. This was not how I pictured any of this going. Gabe was slashed up from his chest to his groin and blood was pouring out.
I looked at his face and saw the agony there. He was coughing out blood and I knew then, he had saved me while I had been distracted. The Captain saw Gabe's condition and he let out a cry as he viciously threw his shield and started shooting at Sabertooth who was laughing. Bucky and the others angrily started shooting at him too. Falsworth took out the futuristic gun and used the last cell we had. The gun started glowing, he aimed it at Victor and took the shot.
(Victor POV)
I hadn't enjoyed myself quite like this in a while. When Schmidt, that cock-sucking pussy had sought out the hand for a mission while promising an alien technology that was far more advanced than anything else in the world. I'd taken it not because of how we would profit from the deal but because I wanted a fight from the Super soldier. The deal was to capture the Captain America and deliver him to Schmidt. Unfortunately, Tonic, a brat from another branch of the hand had ruined my plans by gassing out the Walking flag in her stupid gas. I was going to rip her apart just before he came.
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Dressed in a standard army uniform, but with two knives strapped to his back, he didn't cut an impressive figure as the Super Soldier. Boy was I wrong. The kid was powerful. After the first clash, I could tell he was skilled but still inexperienced. Then he got serious. He started using his power and I felt a foreboding feeling. The kind of feeling I got when I faced a berserk Jimmy. I did see him move but I couldn't react fast enough to stop his knife from stabbing my neck. From there it was a fast paced fight that ended with me slashing a fucker who was trying to block me from my prey.
By then, Tonic had been taken out of the fight. The Super soldier and his merry band were already up and shooting at me but I was laughing because they weren't doing anything. However my senses were suddenly telling me to escape but before I could do so, I saw a bright light and nothing else.
(Chris P.O.V)
After Falsworth blew up Sabertooth and me defeating the other mutant, Gabe died and a cold feeling settled inside me. I hadn't known him for long but he had been a good man. I wasn't as sad as the others or disappointed in myself like the Captain, what I was, was ashamed and guilty. If I hadn't been too caught up in the moment, I could have stopped Victor. To make matters worse, I dropped out of Overdrive and fainted.
The Captain mobilized the others and they took control of the base fully. Arnim Zola was not captured but they managed to save close to a dozen people who were getting experimented on. This was of course known to me after I had recovered. For the first few days everyone was in a slump. However, after a speech that the Captain made we all got better.
The Captain had a talk with me, about where I had gotten my powers from and I had told him that I was a mutant. Stark was of course interested in mutants but I refused to get tested by him. Luckily, existence of mutants was information known by the upper echelon of the government, so I wasn't that big of an enigma. It also helped that the Ninja we had captured was getting studied by Stark and other scientists. I didn't know how to feel about that. I also saw that the Captain was not at all comfortable with the idea. The others were a bit wary of me and I felt more and more like an outsider.
It was a week after the battle and I wanted to deal with something I had been putting off. I didn't know what Schmidt, the Red-skull was planning so I needed more power. I chucked a bit, all of my problems seemed to have one solution and that was to get stronger. Things were already different from what I had seen and I didn't want to be caught off guard again. It was night time and I was in my bunk. Everyone was already asleep and Dugan's loud snores were they only thing I could hear.
I willed for the Omnitrix to bring out the text box I had gotten in my fight with Sabertooth.
[ D.N.A from a higher species of human acquired]
-Option 1-Intergrate - if you intergrate this d.n.a, you will gain the x-gene and awaken it. The power acquired is random and relies on the user's genetic make up.
-Option 2- Fuse- Fuse this d.n.a with another compatible one. weaknesses removed from both d.n.a but faces a 20% decrease in ability.
There were only two options unlike the time I had copied the Super soldier serum. I didn't know what mutant ability I was going to get if I intergrated this d.n.a with mine. Some mutants got some pretty bad deals, like Rogue and Cyclops. They both had a mutant power that they could not fully control. Not to mention, the physical changes that might manifest. With my Bio-kinesis, I could hopefully handle the control issue and maybe lessen some of the physical changes that might happen. You see, power is like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it gets. It was slow-going but my Bio-kinesis was getting stronger.
I took a deep breath and prepared myself. Before intergrating the x-gene, I had to make my body stronger to handle the power.
"Intergrate the Super soldier serum."
Once I said that the Omntrix insignia, formed on my chest and pain, god-awful agony assaulted me. I quickly shut down my nerve endings and fell down on my bed, breathing in heavily. I could feel myself get stronger as my muscles grew bigger.
Using Bio-kinesis, I condensed my body mass and made my muscle tissues denser. I could feel all that energy acting out and trying to make me bigger but I directed it to my bones next and after that my brain. Towards the end I let it roam free and my cells hungrily sucked it in. I was changing. I could feel it and hear it and see it. My eyes started seeing better in the darkness. It wasn't night vision by any means but it was close and I could hear a branch smacking a window soflty over 200 meters away.
I clenched my fist and felt the strength contained there. I would have to test my strength and speed again, once I got the chance. The process was over so I prepared myself for the next one. I reactivated my nerve endings and steeled myself.
"Intergrate the x-gene."
This time there was no pain. All I felt was something clicking. As if I had found a missing link. My body felt whole and I doubted whether all mutants felt like this when they activate their mutant gene. I patted my face and body but found no changes except the ones done by the super soldier serum. For starters, I was a little bit taller and my body a tiny bit bigger. All in all I felt almost the same as before.
I looked deep within myself for my mutant power and found it. It looked like a bubble of myriad swirling colors. I nudged it and right before my eyes, a bubble of orange appeared infront of me. I willed for it to flatten and it did. I then changed it into a shield and it complied. I tried changing it into different forms but it got harder the complex the figures became. I nodded in acceptance and dismissed it.
"Hmm, not bad, I guess."
I'd wanted something like Sabertooth's regeneration factor but I guess you can't have it all. I was about to sleep when a portal with orange boundaries appeared below me and I fell through it. I flipped in the air and landed gracefully on the top of a building in a city. My agility was off the charts now as compared to before. That however wasn't going to keep my attention for long because a figure dressed in yellow robes was standing before me, facing the front. She looked back at me and smiled.
"Why don't you join me, Mr Wentworth."