Jack
10-11-2006, 12:10 PM
The Cuckoos use Cerebra to find the others, and tell Val Cooper and Emma, who feels really, really bad that she didn't listen to them in the first place.
Nimrod stares at the kids through the collapsed building and assesses their threat levels. Of course he's not very smart, because he lists X-23 as the most dangerous. Forge is incredibly depressing, talking about everyone dying and Nimrod proceeding to slaughter every mutant on the planet, and David joins in with his routine.
Julian wakes up just in time for Nimrod to burst in, making lots of threats as always. No one can hurt Nimrod, but Santo jumps in the path of an attack aimed at Hellion and is promptly disintegrated. Of course Santo was holding up the wreckage, so it collapses and crushes them all to death. Oh, wait, sorry, they're all fine. Except Santo, of course, being all disintegratey as he is.
After seeing Santo die, Julian goes crazy and attacks Nimrod. At least I assume he does, because it looks more like he was defending himself with a TK bubble. It doesn't matter, because David is off outside, performing feats of superhuman strength in jumping from the ground on to the top of the Blackbird. He gets in through, uhh, something, and starts searching for a bag that Laura brought.
Laura, of course, is busy not doing any actual damage to Nimrod, who can repair itself instantly. Way to earn that Severe threat rating, girl. Surge shouts for Cessily to forget about Santo's remains, but she does no such thing. The insurbordination! Nimrod is about to headshot Noriko, perhaps because her insensitivity offended him, when David shoots him in the head with a ray gun. Yay David! He does more damage with this one shot than anyone else with any of their attacks, which begs the question of why he didn't bring the goddamn gun from the beginning.
Hellion knocks Nimrod away from Noriko, who didn't manage to stay saved for very long. She makes up for it by insisting that there has to be a way to defeat Nimrod. And what do you know, Forge suddenly realises that... wait for it... there is! They just have to overload the time device inside him. Well, that should be easy, because they've had so much success in breaking his chest so far. But that was before Surge took off her gauntlets!
Dust turns into dust and gets all up in Nimrod's sensors, so Nimrod bitchslaps her. Meanwhile, Julian continues to protect himself with TK shields. X-23 somehow wills her claws to be sharper, because this time she actually does some damage! Of course, Nimrod blasts her at close range, killing her instantly, just like he disintegrated Rockslide in the same way. Except she survives, because she's tougher than the guy made of stone. Yeah. Well, in fairness, she is pretty badly burned. Mercury gets her page of focus, only for Nimrod to cast his Shockweb spell on her. His words, not mine.
Surge wins the day, but is going to die. Except Julian saves her, because he's totally sick of her prattling on about how she has to sacrifice herself and how she loves David. Nimrod disappears, doing surprisingly little damage to the surroundings in the process. By which I mean none at all. Anyway, Santo isn't really dead! He's just been turned into dust. So Julian reforms his body and he looks all weird now. The weirdest part being why his face would change when it was the one part that survived intact. Oh well. Oh yeah, and X-23 is dying. I know, I know, she has a healing factor, but apparently the fine print on her contract reads "powers may randomly shut down at any given moment in order to create false sense of drama". Julian decides to take her back to the Insititute himself, because the Blackbird is out of commission.
Just then, Emma contacts Julian telepathically and tells him there's nothing he can do. But wait, I hear you saying, how can everyone's favourite new character possibly die? Luckily Emma has a solution, as she removes Julian's mental block, thus bringing his powers to their maximum level. This makes him fast enough to cross from Texas to New York in... well, there's no way of telling how fast, except that his pretty green power trail can be seen from the upper atmosphere. Oh, and he does this at ground level, wreaking untold millions in damage to the cities he flies through.
At the Institute, one Sentinel has enough time to go "Hey, what's that in the distance" before Julian slams straight through its torso. And half the mansion. In the infirmary, he wakes up Josh with a pep talk. Seriously. A pep talk. That's Captain goddamn America level right there! Josh heals her, and in the process his skin turns from black to splotchy-gold-and-black. Julian collapses as ONE agents run in and point guns at them. Oh, and the healing process shrank X-23's clothes.
The epilogue has a bunch of nonsense with bigotry and the governor and Purifier, who talks to someone else over a vid-screen, talking about a sample that they failed to get. It's okay, because Kimura will do it for them. Of course, I have basically no idea who any of these people are, but that's okay because... I just don't care that much. Bringing in Stryker was bad enough, but I guess I was crazy to think that this plotline might end when he died.
And then Nimrod turns out to be in a time loop, because the events of this issue result in him appearing back when he first showed up. Which makes very little sense but... well, that was kind of the point of this whole thing.
Now to post this and discover that someone else has posted this thread while I was typing it.
Actually, it was two people!
Nimrod stares at the kids through the collapsed building and assesses their threat levels. Of course he's not very smart, because he lists X-23 as the most dangerous. Forge is incredibly depressing, talking about everyone dying and Nimrod proceeding to slaughter every mutant on the planet, and David joins in with his routine.
Julian wakes up just in time for Nimrod to burst in, making lots of threats as always. No one can hurt Nimrod, but Santo jumps in the path of an attack aimed at Hellion and is promptly disintegrated. Of course Santo was holding up the wreckage, so it collapses and crushes them all to death. Oh, wait, sorry, they're all fine. Except Santo, of course, being all disintegratey as he is.
After seeing Santo die, Julian goes crazy and attacks Nimrod. At least I assume he does, because it looks more like he was defending himself with a TK bubble. It doesn't matter, because David is off outside, performing feats of superhuman strength in jumping from the ground on to the top of the Blackbird. He gets in through, uhh, something, and starts searching for a bag that Laura brought.
Laura, of course, is busy not doing any actual damage to Nimrod, who can repair itself instantly. Way to earn that Severe threat rating, girl. Surge shouts for Cessily to forget about Santo's remains, but she does no such thing. The insurbordination! Nimrod is about to headshot Noriko, perhaps because her insensitivity offended him, when David shoots him in the head with a ray gun. Yay David! He does more damage with this one shot than anyone else with any of their attacks, which begs the question of why he didn't bring the goddamn gun from the beginning.
Hellion knocks Nimrod away from Noriko, who didn't manage to stay saved for very long. She makes up for it by insisting that there has to be a way to defeat Nimrod. And what do you know, Forge suddenly realises that... wait for it... there is! They just have to overload the time device inside him. Well, that should be easy, because they've had so much success in breaking his chest so far. But that was before Surge took off her gauntlets!
Dust turns into dust and gets all up in Nimrod's sensors, so Nimrod bitchslaps her. Meanwhile, Julian continues to protect himself with TK shields. X-23 somehow wills her claws to be sharper, because this time she actually does some damage! Of course, Nimrod blasts her at close range, killing her instantly, just like he disintegrated Rockslide in the same way. Except she survives, because she's tougher than the guy made of stone. Yeah. Well, in fairness, she is pretty badly burned. Mercury gets her page of focus, only for Nimrod to cast his Shockweb spell on her. His words, not mine.
Surge wins the day, but is going to die. Except Julian saves her, because he's totally sick of her prattling on about how she has to sacrifice herself and how she loves David. Nimrod disappears, doing surprisingly little damage to the surroundings in the process. By which I mean none at all. Anyway, Santo isn't really dead! He's just been turned into dust. So Julian reforms his body and he looks all weird now. The weirdest part being why his face would change when it was the one part that survived intact. Oh well. Oh yeah, and X-23 is dying. I know, I know, she has a healing factor, but apparently the fine print on her contract reads "powers may randomly shut down at any given moment in order to create false sense of drama". Julian decides to take her back to the Insititute himself, because the Blackbird is out of commission.
Just then, Emma contacts Julian telepathically and tells him there's nothing he can do. But wait, I hear you saying, how can everyone's favourite new character possibly die? Luckily Emma has a solution, as she removes Julian's mental block, thus bringing his powers to their maximum level. This makes him fast enough to cross from Texas to New York in... well, there's no way of telling how fast, except that his pretty green power trail can be seen from the upper atmosphere. Oh, and he does this at ground level, wreaking untold millions in damage to the cities he flies through.
At the Institute, one Sentinel has enough time to go "Hey, what's that in the distance" before Julian slams straight through its torso. And half the mansion. In the infirmary, he wakes up Josh with a pep talk. Seriously. A pep talk. That's Captain goddamn America level right there! Josh heals her, and in the process his skin turns from black to splotchy-gold-and-black. Julian collapses as ONE agents run in and point guns at them. Oh, and the healing process shrank X-23's clothes.
The epilogue has a bunch of nonsense with bigotry and the governor and Purifier, who talks to someone else over a vid-screen, talking about a sample that they failed to get. It's okay, because Kimura will do it for them. Of course, I have basically no idea who any of these people are, but that's okay because... I just don't care that much. Bringing in Stryker was bad enough, but I guess I was crazy to think that this plotline might end when he died.
And then Nimrod turns out to be in a time loop, because the events of this issue result in him appearing back when he first showed up. Which makes very little sense but... well, that was kind of the point of this whole thing.
Now to post this and discover that someone else has posted this thread while I was typing it.
Actually, it was two people!