8. That is such a cliche.

Meanwhile…

Colossus was a patient man, he can handle his sister constantly disobeying him whenever it came to certain matters. He can take when anti-mutant extremists attack him, especially since most of the time they throw random junk at him and they don't really bother him. And he waited for years to have a physical relationship with his ex girlfriend Kitty Pryde, something that his male friends, like Scott and Wolverine, often praised him for, and something he was personally proud of.

And at this moment his patience is certainly being tested. The Avengers hitting him and striking him, even though he really isn't budging an inch, is certainly a test for his fortitude.

"Please stop this," the massive russian asked them calmly as Captain America's shield ricochets off his head and he doesn't react, "I do not wish to harm you."

It was partially true. He is suppressing the urge to crush their skulls with his hands since they insist on resisting him.

To his side, he hears She-Hulk scoff, "Considering you've got our friends in cocoons with worms slowly eating them, I doubt you want us want to hug it out."

She charges at him, shoulder first, and rams into his stomach, but unfortunately all that did was push him back a few inches. He grabs her by her arm, lifts her up, and slams her to the ground. Shulkie lets out a painful cry when she feels her shoulder dislocate from the throw.

"As my sister has stated," Colossus says to the female hulk as he holds her down, "The worms are not eating them, but keeping them docile."

Iron Fist punches him in the back of his skull, slightly surprising the metal skinned mutant and making him get agitated. He twirls around with She-Hulk in his grip and hits her against the kung-fu warrior. They both fly back and hit a pilar.

"Slow death ain't much of an improvement, bub." Wolverine charges in and starts slashing at Colossus, while not really doing any damage.

"I see the pet continues to fight for his masters." he said as he swung his metal arm and connects with wolverines skull and launches him across the room into Captain America as he raises his shield. Cap stops Wolverine from launching him to, but it also dissorents him since Wolverine's adamantium skull klangs against his shield so close to his own head. Piortr walks towards with the intention of knocking them unconscious.

"Piotr you need to stop."

He stops when he hears a rather familiar, and somewhat welcomed, voice. He turns and sees his former idol and teacher, Charles Xavier, looking at him sternly.

"Professor," he said blankly

Xavier looks at him pleadingly and says, "Piotr please, listen to reason!"

The steel skinned Russian glares at his former professor and asks, "Why should ve listen to you at all? You abandoned us in our time of need."

That's what most of the students in his school felt when Charles came back, but did not really return to his former position.

The powerful telepath shakes his head and responds, "I did not abandoned you, I believed that you all were ready to be without me! That Scott was ready to be the leader I hoped he would become!"

"Zen I suppose ve should be grateful zat he became the leader ve needed him to be, when you yourself could not." Colossus retorted. He then makes a move towards the once crippled man when he hears a shout.

"COMING THROUGH!

Colossus felt himself tilt forward slightly when two red spandex feet connected with the back of his head.

"I was kind of hoping for more than a tilt, like maybe a 'tip over' or at least 'nudge'."

He reaches around to grab the legs, but they push off of him. He turns and sees Spider-Man crouched low with slightly frightened look. He sees his left eye since the lens that was covering is missing and he can also see a few cuts on the hero's suit.

The steel skinned mutant stalks toward the little Spider and speaks, "You vill have to do better than that."

Spidey puts on a mock thinking pose, "Hmm, you mean something like this," he said before he spews some webbing in his Colossus eyes. Colossus jerks his head back in surprise and before he can pull the webbing off, two web lines connect to his feet and pull them forward making him fall on his back.

Spidey then jumps in the air to the downed mutant, but his spider sense warns him of a coming attack. He twirls in the air and a sword of fire misses by just an inch.

The wielder of the sword, Magik, looks livid and speaks as he lands on the ground, "We were not finished little man."

"Why is it that most girls I know always want to stick something in me? Be honest do I give off a certain vibe?"

"FOCUS!" Captain America's said in an authoritative tone as his shield soars through the air and connects with Colossus's skull as he gets back up.

THUNG

Other than making an annoying sound go through the mutants head, the shield bounces off of him harlessly and right back into the star spangled mans hand. He charges at Colossus again with Wolverine and She-Hulk right behind him.

Spider-Man avoids another slash from the mean blonde woman that wants to hurt him, 'Although, is it technically her, or the cosmic dodo inside of her?'

'It's me,' he heard Illyana's voice in his head, 'Although after that dodo comment I'm sure the phoenix wishes for me to hurt you more severely.' She slashes at him again but he jumps back and gets some distance from her. She whips her hand out and opens a portal behind Spider-Man.

Feeling his Spidey-Sense tingle, Spider-Man back flips and manages to the attempted surprise. When he lands he sees it's some kind of blue spectral helldog, snarling at him and drooling on the floor. He looks at it strangely and then at Magik and asks, "Okay one, since when can you read minds and two since when can you make ghost dogs appear out of nowhere."

Magik stands by the beast and answers, "New abilities provided to me by the Phoenix." She lifts her sword up and points it towards him, "Now my pet, tear the legs off the Spider."

"That is such a cliche."

The beast charges towards him and the young New York hero crouches in preparation. When it jumps at him, he ducks underneath and kicks at it, only for his leg to go through its body. 'Uh-oh' he thought as he rights himself. When it got to the cavern wall the helldog springs off it and straight towards Spider-Man. Spidey shoots some webbing at it only for it to go through that to, 'Oh c'mon'. With not many options to choose from, he chooses one that's always been tried and true to him.

He jumps from wall to wall and avoids the beast and instead heads for the real target, in this case, Magik. After his fourth jump,when he lured the creature behind him, he shoots two web lines at two separate pillars and slingshots himself towards the blonde russian.

Illyanna, already knowing what he is thinking of doing, opens two portals, one on the floor in front of her and another behind her.

As Spidey closes in on her, his spidey-sense triggers and he flips in mid air to narrowly avoid another ethereal demon popping up in front of Magik. Unfortunately, even with his spidey sense warning him, he is not able to dodge another demon dog coming at him through Magik. The demon dog headbutts him in the stomach and skips across the ground.

As he tries to get up one of the helldogs lands on top of him and pins him down as it growls in his face.

"Phew," Spider-Man says as he turns his head away from the snarling dog, "I see dogs breath got nothing helldogs breath."

It snarls at him, as if angered by the joke, and then opens its mouth to bite him.

"HYAAH!"