More X-ficlets: Bad Pennies
After the chaos of my last entry for juleskicks zomebie appocalypse ficathon But I love you for your brain!, I wrote another zombie-containing entry for the X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb prompt.
Gen again, PG-13, zombies. More classic!Excalibur. Set after "Inferno".
Some things are like bad pennies. They keep on turning up.
Like people, who think that you're hosting an all-night party, for instance.
Or zombies, who think you're hosting an all-night brain party. Same difference.
Rachel knows the dead don't just rise. You need, bare minimum, telekinesis and a lot of concentration if you want to get the walk right.
Telekinisis could not account for this number of zombies. Plus, vocal chords are really hard to manipulate.
"Brains," they gurgle.
Kitty's turned intangiable and is ramsacking the light-house for anything useful. Like a sonic canon. Or a tub of zombie-be-gone.
Brian has some very strange friends; hence the not-parties.
Brian's dad was something in exotic weapons research, proving that Brian's ability to do things that bite him in the ass is genetic.
Brian didn't make the zombies; they're not interested in Brian's ass.
Not that it isn't a nice ass, it's just the rest of him.
Meggan started freaking out hours before the zombies arrived. Screaming "mummy" and her hair kept resculpting itself into something very Bride of Frankenstein.
Kurt had insisted everyone watch the Bride of Frankenstein a couple of weeks ago. Rachel isn't ruling it out as a cause.
Brian is punching a whole bunch of zombies in the brains.
Rachel floats out of their reach and tries again to establish any telepathic presence controlling these things. Any presence. Rachel doesn't think telepathy had anything to do with the rotting flesh and rampant hallitosis.
The zombies are trying to make a pyramid to reach her. They must have got fed up with chasing Kurt. Rachel doesn't want to think of the alternative.
Rachel floats a little higher and tries to balance her chakras.
There.
A patch of darkness.
Why don't bad pennies stay put? Even after your mother's kicked seven kinds of hell out of them and sucked off their phoenix force.
That sounds kinky. So not. It's just Rachel had been turned into a shop mannequin at the time and a demon was trying to marry her.
Rachel follows along, trying not to give herself away with the whole flaming-wings thing.
Good thing Maddy is pretty distracted trying to get some of her zombies to right the stones of Darkmoor. Brian says that the stone circle made him into Captain Britain. Rachel's more inclined to believe that it was a co-incidence, his twin Betsy's a mutant, right?
Rachel has nothing against provocative clothing but Maddy really looks a tramp.
Not Maddy, the Demon Queen, or something that looks very much like her.
Rachel isn't sure how to stop this. She's a telepath/telekinetic. She could either pick all the zombies up and dump them somewhere, call in a distress call to her dad, or blow their brains out and see if that slows them down.
It's not as if Kitty can't raise X-Factor if she gets this wrong.
Just not here. Maddy hasn't noticed her, but if she starts blowing brains out, she's going to be pretty obvious.
She quickly flies back to the light house and sits on the roof.
She measures her breaths, finds her centre, worms her way into Kurt and Brian's minds to check on the position of the rest of the zombies.
She counts down like a time-bomb ticking calmly, waiting to explode.
Then she feels the phoenix-force curled up in her belly and she lets it loose.
The results are pretty spectacular. Kurt finally slows down and starts picking chunks of decompossing brain out of his hair.
Rachel reels the power back in and feels for Maddy.
Nothing.
But she's a bad penny, she'll always turn up.
And Rachel will be waiting for her.
Gen again, PG-13, zombies. More classic!Excalibur. Set after "Inferno".
Some things are like bad pennies. They keep on turning up.
Like people, who think that you're hosting an all-night party, for instance.
Or zombies, who think you're hosting an all-night brain party. Same difference.
Rachel knows the dead don't just rise. You need, bare minimum, telekinesis and a lot of concentration if you want to get the walk right.
Telekinisis could not account for this number of zombies. Plus, vocal chords are really hard to manipulate.
"Brains," they gurgle.
Kitty's turned intangiable and is ramsacking the light-house for anything useful. Like a sonic canon. Or a tub of zombie-be-gone.
Brian has some very strange friends; hence the not-parties.
Brian's dad was something in exotic weapons research, proving that Brian's ability to do things that bite him in the ass is genetic.
Brian didn't make the zombies; they're not interested in Brian's ass.
Not that it isn't a nice ass, it's just the rest of him.
Meggan started freaking out hours before the zombies arrived. Screaming "mummy" and her hair kept resculpting itself into something very Bride of Frankenstein.
Kurt had insisted everyone watch the Bride of Frankenstein a couple of weeks ago. Rachel isn't ruling it out as a cause.
Brian is punching a whole bunch of zombies in the brains.
Rachel floats out of their reach and tries again to establish any telepathic presence controlling these things. Any presence. Rachel doesn't think telepathy had anything to do with the rotting flesh and rampant hallitosis.
The zombies are trying to make a pyramid to reach her. They must have got fed up with chasing Kurt. Rachel doesn't want to think of the alternative.
Rachel floats a little higher and tries to balance her chakras.
There.
A patch of darkness.
Why don't bad pennies stay put? Even after your mother's kicked seven kinds of hell out of them and sucked off their phoenix force.
That sounds kinky. So not. It's just Rachel had been turned into a shop mannequin at the time and a demon was trying to marry her.
Rachel follows along, trying not to give herself away with the whole flaming-wings thing.
Good thing Maddy is pretty distracted trying to get some of her zombies to right the stones of Darkmoor. Brian says that the stone circle made him into Captain Britain. Rachel's more inclined to believe that it was a co-incidence, his twin Betsy's a mutant, right?
Rachel has nothing against provocative clothing but Maddy really looks a tramp.
Not Maddy, the Demon Queen, or something that looks very much like her.
Rachel isn't sure how to stop this. She's a telepath/telekinetic. She could either pick all the zombies up and dump them somewhere, call in a distress call to her dad, or blow their brains out and see if that slows them down.
It's not as if Kitty can't raise X-Factor if she gets this wrong.
Just not here. Maddy hasn't noticed her, but if she starts blowing brains out, she's going to be pretty obvious.
She quickly flies back to the light house and sits on the roof.
She measures her breaths, finds her centre, worms her way into Kurt and Brian's minds to check on the position of the rest of the zombies.
She counts down like a time-bomb ticking calmly, waiting to explode.
Then she feels the phoenix-force curled up in her belly and she lets it loose.
The results are pretty spectacular. Kurt finally slows down and starts picking chunks of decompossing brain out of his hair.
Rachel reels the power back in and feels for Maddy.
Nothing.
But she's a bad penny, she'll always turn up.
And Rachel will be waiting for her.