Chapter 26

[Sittingbull]

Johnny is glad to be landing and makes sure his harness is fastened snuggly.

[Mierin]

Gabby sits up with a grin and checks to make sure her wrist blasters are fully loaded. "Ready to rock, Cap!"

[HSummers]

"Raw beef? Not even Sandman would touch me after being covered in that. Ready!" Spider-Man checks his shooters and his fluid in his utility belt. *Hmm... I even have my Spider-Signal belt on. That's just overkill.*

[dakota]

As the ramp lowered for the Avengers to disembark, Not fourty feet from the Quinjet a portal opened and through it appeared three men. The first they all recognized, with a smug look Mister Sinister folded his arms.

The other two were less distinguished. The first was a tall spindly bald man with a golden cybernetic device that wrapped wrapped the back of his head to cover both ears, "I told you Sinister. I told you I could hear the thoughts of those coming to interfere!"

The other, a diminutive man that was almost dwarflike in appearance cowered behind the other two "We see, now we need to go!"

"Relax Meek, this will be good for your master's ratings." Sinister said with an amused look on his face. "Greetings Avengers, you look disappointed. Were you expecting someone else?"

[doc]

"Believe it or not, you we were expecting." Captain America lead the group out. "Let's stow the banter. We'd like Wolverine back and whatever game you are playing over. Do we really need to make this difficult?"

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[Sittingbull]

Johnny, feeling the presence of evil, stumbles to a stop and begins to smoke and smolder. Beginning his change into the Ghost Rider. Quickly flames erupt from his hands and head, seeming to come from the inside, the human vestiges of Johnny's body disappear in the conflagration. At the end only the bones are left inside ever-burning fire but now instead of the painful sounds of the transformation there is the guttural growl that now issues from the skull. The skull looking right at Mr. Sinister.

[kurff]

I see this sinister is just as smug as the one I knew. Probably just as dangerous too. she held two pins ready for a fight not expecting the mutate to willingly surrender Wolverine. as she stepped the mutant said nothing and remained on guard. better to not think or feed Sinister's ego. she had no fear of the man but did not consider him someone to overlook or underestimate.

Blink did note that he said ratings...could Mojo be involved?

[dakota]

"An amusing choice of words, Captain America, considering the situation." Sinister replied smugly as the other two cowered behind him. "I do not believe you understand the gravity of the situation, nor should you really care." He waved them off with a brush of the hand, "I let your precious Avengers off easily once already, even helping you I believe. Why must you repay me with threats and posturing?"

Tabitha stopped and looke at Cap, "You've been working with him?"

"It wasn't like that." Hawkeye started to explain.

"You pursued me, you questioned me, I gave you the answers you needed and we went our sperate ways. What would you call it?" Sinister mused.

"Cap?" Tabitha questioned

[HSummers]

"So, uh... why shouldn't we care? You said we don't understand the gravity of the situation... fill us in, Sinny Sin Sin." Spider-Man attempts to get some exposition out of Mr. Sinister. Maybe an understanding of the situation would help them.

[doc]

"You're mistaken. You traded information to save your own skin when you were betrayed by Lady Mandarin. That happens to you a lot, from what I've seen." The Sentinel of Liberty walks forward. "Do you think I'm impressed by you? Speaking in half-truths and implications about your enigmatic agenda? Save it for the rubes, Mister. In fact," He paused. "Everything I've seen or read about you leads me to conclude you're too clever by half. You always get betrayed because you are so concerned with covering whatever it is you are really on about that you over-reach. You don't even rate as a second-rate wannabe Zola despite being what, twice as old as he is, according to the X-men? You've been a career flunky who pretends to be a mastermind. And that's what you are right now - a pawn in whoever the real game is. So I don't have time for your games or your riddles, buster."


Cap takes his shield from his back and puts it on his forearm. "I'm going to make this very simple; If you don't explain yourself with your next twenty words to my satisfaction and then surrender unconditionally, Songbird will cut you in half. For starters." Cap then turns around and looks to Hawkeye. "Get ready something...unique, for Mr. Sinister here. Perhaps from Antarctica? And put it through his eye." His voice full of nothing but derision for the evil geneticist.

Captain America hopes the implication is clear; that Hawkeye has an arrowhead tipped with Antarctic Vibranium - the Anti-metal that can dissolve even Adamantium. Even if Hawkeye doesn't have such an arrowhead, he thinks the bluff will be enough to get Sinister off-balance and trusts in Clint's ability to sell the con.

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[kurff]

Blink observed and still did not speak. Sinister here did what hers would do. though she found it odd to take information and then speak as if that betrayal was any worse than hero using the ill acquired intel. her magneto and even sabretooth did not preach highly of heroics. But for now they needed to keep Sinister talking and the cap should get his attention with that speech.

[dakota]

(Wolvie)

Logan's blades caught nothing but air as his opponent suddenly backed off. He looked at Logan with a stare that was almost that of a wounded animal, before bolting away to the west. At the same time, something thrashed through the underbrush just out of sight, sounding much like the Hulk using machetes. Whatever it was, it was headed in the same direction the wild Logan had gone.

[Mierin]

Gabby is being uncustomarily quiet at the moment - however, if anyone were to glance over at her, they'd see her face was starting to turn red at the effort to restrain her laughter at Sinister tries to make the group think he and Cap were working together. 'Did he really think we'd fall for that? Gabby thinks to herself, trying not to ruin the threat Cap had just leveled at Sinister.

[dakota]

"He's stalling." Tabitha said as Hawkeye notched an arrow with a snow white head. "Cap, I got a bad feeling."

"You have a smart one here, Avengers. I promised Mojo a show, and I delivered." Sinister smiled. "I hope you all like the taste of Adamantium. Meek, home please." There was a flash of light, and Sinister and Meek were gone.

"Wait! This was never part of the plan!" Gamesmaster shouted, spinning around as he was left alone. He turned to the Avengers team and began backing away, and then smiled. At the same time, Wolverines began emerging from the forest, though Logan was nowhere to be seen

but it was behind them that caused Melissa to gasp. "What the hell it that?"

It looked like Wolverine, but he was easily ten feet tall, masked and built like Juggernaut.

"I'd sooner face Hulk again." Tabitha uttered.

"Too bad." Hawkeye's bluff was revealed as he unleashed the arrow he had notched, which detonated into a glob of goo that captured one of the Wolverines but they were still outnumbered.

[doc]

Assessing the change in situation, Captain America barks out. "Ghostsabre, Deadpool - get the Game Master! Hawkeye, Songbird - give us covering fire and protect the quinjet! Spider-Man and Ghost Rider - Stall those Wolverines!" Cap breaks out into a run towards the giant Wolverine. "Blink, on my mark -"

Cap leapt sheild-first towards the giants knees, rolling to try and trip him.

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"-teleport him!"


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