Mysterious X: Darkness Descending #1

“Fear is an essence of terror. A feeling of helplessness.” -Mysterious X

An APRAX quarantine facility under the city...............

“Rawwwwwahhhhh!” screeched a creature fighting to get out of it’s cage.

“Somebody shut him up!” yelled Michael to the other lab assistants.

“Michael. What are we doing to that thing? It’s making that awful sound.” said Derek, the leader of the facility.

“We’re trying to make him go to sleep sir. So far our attempts have proven useless.” replied Michael.

“Well hurry it up. I’m going deaf from the sounds that disgusting creature is making.” said Derek storming back into his office.

“Jessica I’m going to need your help here securing our little experiment.” screamed Michael from across the room.

“I don’t agree with what we are doing to this poor creature.” said Jessica.

“I don’t care about your beliefs we have a job to do here and I intend to do it wether your with me or not.” said Michael.

“It seems I haven’t gotten a choice no matter what I say to try to persuade you to stop this madness” said Jessica preparing to dissect the creature.

Weeks After The Fall Of APRAX.....

“Mysterious X thought we needed to assemble a team for a threat that’s coming. I thought the idea was crazy, but I guess he does have a point.” said Iron Fighter fighting through a group of soldiers.

“Fire at will! We must not let him any where near our research facility.”said the commanding officer.

“A blockade of soldiers is APRAX’s idea of protection? Is this all you got dirtbags!” exclaimed Iron Fighter knocking a soldier out with the butt of his gun and then taking the gun and firing at the other solder across from him.

“Sir he is getting awfully close. What should we do?” said a soldier to the officer.

“ Why is it so hard to contain one man?! Send in OverDose.” said the officer furiously. Two officers then opened the doors to one of the cages holding the experiment.

“Hey your up big guy.” yelled one of the officers into the cage.

“ It seems you’ve failed again and you need me to clean up your mess. I don’t like it, but I can’t say I don’t enjoy it. Whose head to I have to crush?” said OverDose standing up and walking out of his cell.

“X I’m pinned down can you provide backup!”said Iron Fighter behind a pile of debris.

“Iron Fighter. A pleasure to meet you at last.” said OverDose smacking Iron Fighter into a wall.

“Okay that hurt.” said Iron Fighter struggling to get out of the wall.

“Your not as tough as they said you were. I’m disappointed.” said OverDose.

“Well you can’t please everyone. Say how’d you get that get up anyway? Looks like they took more time giving you powers than looks.” said Iron Fighter scanning for weaknesses all across his body.

“Rrrrrrrrr.” said OverDose charging towards Iron Fighter.

“Found it.” said Iron Fighter jumping out of the wall towards OverDose and breaking his wrist.

“Owwwwww! You’ll pay for that!” said OverDose.

“Save the chatter for later.” said Iron Fighter knocking him out.

“Retreat! We’ve lost to many lives already.”said the commander to all the soldiers in the area.

“Cowards.” said Iron Fighter looking at the scared soldiers.

“Well looks like you’ve got this under control.” said a figure teleporting in from behind.

“Where were you ten seconds ago when I needed backup?” said Iron Fighter to the Mysterious X.

“I was following up on a lead about another APRAX installation in the city.” said X.

“I gotta say X this is getting old chasing down APRAX soldiers and searching labs. The whole thing is just tiring.”said Iron Fighter.

“We can’t let APRAX gain control again. You know that as much as I do that if we allow any bit of APRAX to remain we will have lost.” said X walking to a terminal in the facility.

“I understand.” said Iron Fighter walking towards X.

“Okay I’ve got the information we need let’s blow this lab sky high.” said X handing the information over to Iron Fighter.

“I’m guessing I’ll be doing that?” said Iron Fighter.

“You know me James Hunter. The most caring person in the world.” said X.

“Hey! We’re supposed to keep our identities a secret.” snapped Iron Fighter.

“Oh right my bad.” said X walking outside of the lab.

“You know this world is really screwed up. You know that?” said Iron Fighter following X outside.

“Know it. I live it every day and it’s hard not to notice.” said X teleporting away.

“It’s hard not to notice.” said X teleporting away from IronFighter and into an underground location.

The place looked torn to shreds by something or someone . Tables were over turned and medical equipment lay shattered on the floor. The sight was truly a horrid one with an alluding presence of evil lurking in the shadows.

“Well this place looks almost as bad as my apartment. At least I make an effort to clean up the place. These people just don’t give a care in the world who sees this dump.” said Mysterious X looking around the abandoned area for signs of life.

“Hello? Is anybody there?” said a voice out of the darkness.

“Who said that?” replied X cautiously.

“Please somebody help me.” said a faint voice from a pile of rubble.

“Okay just stay with me I’ll be right there.” said X hurrying over to the wreckage.

“I’m scared.” said the voice.

“Don’t worry I got you.” said X lifting the rubble off of the person trapped beneath it.

“Thank you so much.” said the lady walking out of the rubble.

“Are you okay?” replied X.

“You shouldn’t have come here!”she replied.

“And why is that?” questioned X.

“It’s coming this way!” she exclaimed.

“What is?” replied X confused.

“Rawwwwwwhhhhhh!!” shrieked the creature from the shadows.

To Be Continued.....