Harry hopped out of the tube, glaring around at everyone. "So, is this a private party or is anyone invited?"
Magneto glared at him, then stared around at the others and calmed himself, not wanting to start a fight that might irreparably damage something. Then the words registered, and he gaped at the man. "What in the world are you talking about?"
"Your little tentacle in a ball things attacked Storm, my girlfriend."
"The spheres were designed to transport the winners of the matches up to my asteroid, where we are now, so unless you can breathe vacuum I would watch throwing your power around." That statement made everyone pause and look around warily, but Harry kept his eyes on Eric and vice-versa. "And if you think metal tentacles can do anything to your girlfriend other than restrain her you have my pity, and I would ask you to keep any further thoughts to yourself for the good of our collective sanity."
Harry snorted, amused that here was a villain who actually had a sense of humor, no matter how brief a glimpse it was. He stared over at the other prisoners then flicked hard emerald eyes back to the man in red. "Let them go, now."
"This is my sanctuary Potter, and I will not be browbeaten by you or the other youths. They will be released after we have had a chance to talk."
"Of course, villains always have to make their speeches first. Well, say your piece, I'm all ears."
Eric twitched a little at that but relaxed. Scott and the other teens let out breaths they hadn't realized they'd been holding as the prospect of imminent and terrible violence left the air.
"We mutants are different," Eric began staring around at them all. "We have power, some of us look different and we can do things beyond the comprehension of normal humans. But throughout human history there has been one constant: that humans hate and fear those that are different. We have our powers, but how can we stand divided against the numbers of humanity? We must stand united to have a chance, and our powers, ours skills, must be brought to the highest level they can be."
He saw he once more had the teen's attention, though Harry was simply looking at him, his face blank. Magneto knew however not to turn his back on the magic user again. He might not have fought a mage before, but he had a good idea of what he was capable of, and felt he could offset most of his spells.
Magneto moved over to a device that was connected to another doorway leading into a small circular area, the walls sloping inward to a point. What grabbed Harry's attention however was the disturbingly familiar gem that was stuck at that point, a dim yet still ominous glow coming from it, and harry went very still all of a sudden.
Eric didn't notice, staring proudly at the device. "This is the Genetic Enhancer. Through shooting gamma rays through the gem you see I can enhance the power of the mutant in the room to its full potential. You see it now in Sabertooth." He turned and once more the teens were intrigued, always willing to gain a power-up. "Do I have any volunteers?"
Scott immediately stepped forward with his brother, which caused Charles to gasp in shock. "Scott, what are you doing? The machine, it won't do just what he says it will, think very carefully about this. Why in the world would he keep the others captive for this, it makes no sense!" That seemed to sway Evan and Kurt, who looked at one another than moved slightly away from the Brotherhood duo.
Scott looked back at Jean, his expression wavering, but after a moment he looked away. "I'm tired of seeing the world in ruby colors professor."
Harry broke off from staring at the gem to gape at him. "Seriously, that's your complaint?"
Scott whirled on him, his face angry at Harry belittling what he saw as the curse on his life. "You don't know what it's like, to always wear this thing," he gestured at his visor, "or glasses like it, to never see colors, only shades of red, knowing that if you tried to see the world without it your gaze could kill."
Harry shook his head and was about to reply to this when Scott and Alex entered the Genetic Enhancer. He instead groaned and put his head in his hands. He turned to Charles exasperatedly. "I swear to god, I don't remember being that self-centered or emo when I was a teenager. When we get out of this I am going to prank him so badly it's not even funny."
Charles' lips twitched into a smile despite the seriousness of the moment. "I may even join you."
A minute later the door opened and Scott and Alex walked out. Their physical appearances had changed greatly. For one they now both looked like college age men rather than high school teens, built almost along the same lines as Harry, a little broader in the shoulders, but that was the only real difference there. They now had tanned skin for some reason, and white hair. The most surprising thing was that Scott had removed his visor and his eyes were open, staring around in wonder. His eyes soon locked on Jean and he stared at her almost hungrily. "So her hair really is red, wow."
Yeah, that's not creepy at all. Harry thought than shook it off he had other things he needed to concentrate on now.
Alex, who had been pretty silent up to this point, shook his head, looking down at his body. "I feel… different, I feel powerful. If this is what you have to offer sir, count me in."
Scott nodded, still looking at the girls in their tubes. "This is, I don't even know how to describe it, having full control of powers like this, able to see normally like this, it's a dream come true."
"The problem with dreams," Harry quipped, "Is that when you achieve them they're often not what you thought they were." The two brothers stared at him impassively, but he ignored them, locking eyes with Magneto. "Leaving aside the idiotic duo, that crystal is a magical one. It's the same kind of jewel that gave the Juggernaut his power, and if there is one thing that I know about magic, it's that there is always a catch to items like that."
Magneto scoffed. "I have run more than enough tests to satisfy me on the safety of using the gem Potter. And as you are not a mutant you're presence here is an aberration, your opinions were not asked for nor are wanted."
"And there we run into another issue I have with you. What you are doing sounds very much like the rule of the few over the many, chosen not by merit or election but by change genetics. I've fought that before, and I will do it again. The fact you're using a magical item in a way it was not intended for is just icing on the cake. That gem is a portal, a connection to an elder god named Cyttorak, and elder gods, especially one such as him, always play their own games. Nothing you do with the gem will be free of his taint. It needs to be destroyed, to cut off another connection he has to this realm." He flipped his hands down at his sides, loosening his fingers and wrists, the wizardly equivalent of pumping a round into a shotgun.
The teens and Charles all stared between the two men, feeling the tension rising in the air. Lance frowned a little then began to back away, joined by Evan and Kurt. The three looked at one another, then Kurt nodded toward the door they had come in from, and the other two nodded. None of the trio wanted to be in the way of the clash that was almost certainly going to happen. Pietro glared at them but they could all see he was worried about the gem thing too now.
Magneto could not feel or see the magical aura around Harry, it hadn't built up yet to be visible, but he could feel a change in the air, and knew something was going to happen. "You are in the center of my power Potter, don't be foolish to think because you can intimidate children with your parlor tricks you will do the same to me. And as for the gem, you'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers."
"If that's a prerequisite," Harry said nonchalantly, then without even twitching or in any way giving his intent away, Harry struck. He didn't bother with a REDUCTO, a STUPEFY or anything low powered like that, he struck with a full powered BOMBARDA MAXIMA straight at Magneto.
Like he had halfway expected despite the element of surprise Magneto was ready and the spell struck a magnetic force field around the man, dissipating to both sides, but by then Harry was already moving. He ducked to the side, sending a SHATTER-SHAKER into the ground beneath Scott and Alex, who had fired at his former position with their powers.
Alex shot circular beams of force from his fists, while Scott had his eyebeams, though they were more purple than red now, apparently a visible reaction of his power-up. Their attacks hit the far wall, demolishing it and continuing for a, then both were dumped to the ground by his shatter shaker.
Magneto however took the time to attack Harry, the metal of the walls around him coming alive and attacking him as Magneto grabbed him with his power, halting his movement.
Harry transfigured the metal around him as fast as it could touch him, then sent a high powered LUMOS spell straight into magneto's eyes. The man cried out in pain and threw him away like a ragdoll, but Harry arrested his movement and summoned up a dozen illusions that attacked the Summers brothers, Sabertooth and Magento.
Lance decided to contribute to the general mayhem at that point and used his own power full force, shaking the entire asteroid. Sabertooth, who had thanks to his nose been able to tell the illusions for what they were, had charged forward, but a rift opened up in the rock below him and he fell through it to a lower level, snarling in fury.
"Lance what the hell are you doing!" Pietro shouted.
"Staying alive with my mind and my will intact," Lance replied grimly. "You saw what that thing did to the Boy Scout and his brother, I don't want any part of that!"
"If you're not with us, you're against us!" Alex roared, and turned his power on Lance only to be interrupted by Kurt bamfing right behind him and laying him out with a piece of pipe. Whatever had been done to him had heightened his durability, but not enough to overcome a blow from a metal pipe swung with all the power of Kurt's body behind it. Alex fell boneless to the ground.
"Kurt damn you, that's my brother!" Scott turned his beams on his friend and this time they weren't at his lowest setting like they normally would have when training against one another, they were full power. It was only Kurt's bamfing away that saved him.
Scott stop this at once, Charles shouted telepathically, can't you see that gem has changed you, you would never turn on your friends like this!
"Blood is thicker than friendship, professor!" Said Scott out loud then tried to tag Evan as he turned on him.
Harry didn't have much attention to spare for the side fights going on, Magneto was taking his full attention. The man had recovered from his blinding attack, and now his shield kept out similar attacks on his eyes and other senses. He also seemed to know somehow which of Harry's conjured animals were real and which were illusion. He ignored the illusions and batted the real ones aside easily.
The very ground attacked Harry as Magneto used his power, then grabbed a bit of metal pipe and accelerated it like in a rail gun, shooting it at Harry.
Harry countered the ground attacks easily, solidifying them or transfiguring the bits and pieces but his PROTEGO was shattered by the hypersonic metal shard, and it was only his Magia Erebea and his crysis suit that kept him from losing his arm at the shoulder. As it was the shoulder was broken and the impact threw him backwards. He still had the presence of mind however to respond with his own shouted "RIFELA!"
The magical attack pierced Magneto's shield shattering against his stomach and he went to his knees with a grunt of agony. It was only because of his power reinforcing his body's strength and durability that that hadn't finished him. So some magical attacks can penetrate my shield in a specific area, interesting. He stood back up and glared around at the hole in the wall where the Potter brat had been sent.
His glare was interrupted as over a dozen rock golems ripped their way out of the walls all around him and began to pound into his shield, while at the same time a massive impenetrable cloud of darkness appeared all around him, blocking his sight. "This will avail you not Potter, I will find you eventually!"
He glanced up as a warning in his helmets ear piece told him of intruders in the hanger, and he frowned. "If it isn't one thing it's another." He quickly ordered his defense robots into the attack, wondering who the hell had been able to get up here.
Harry grimaced as he sent another healing spell into his ruined shoulder then twisted it around. This guy is good, master of magnetism, hah, electromagnetism more like, a human able to control or at least manipulate one of the four most powerful forces in the universe, shit, and that shield is now blocking out all my status change spells. I can't afford to do anything but my best against him. Which means getting the kids the hell out of here, oh and Baldy too I suppose, though he and I will be having another little talk later about keeping secrets, it was obvious he and this asshole knew one another.
Harry conjured several crystal golems then sent them into the darkness he had previously created with the simple order to lead the asshole in the bucket helmet away, then silenced and disillusioned himself, moving back into the room with the prisoners and the teens.
The idiot Harry hadn't met before, A-something or other, was down but Sabertooth was back and he and Pietro were working together against Evan and Lance surprisingly, while Kurt was popping in and out, keeping Scott's attention centered on him while Charles, rather predictably in Harry's opinion, was trying his damndest via telepathy to calm everyone down or break whatever mental control had been placed on the emo.
First things first then. Harry ignored the fighting for a moment, moving over to the side of the room and shooting a DIFFINDO straight down the row of tubes, taking the tops off them all. "ENERVATE!" Shot out next, and all three of the girls woke up.
Jean woke up and immediately flared her power, blasting the container she found herself in apart and striding forward, her eyes crackling with fury and power. "What the fuck is going on!" Rogue and Kitty woke up more sedately, Rogue even stretching and yawning in place, before they too exited the tubes.
Sabertooth made the mistake of trying to attack Kitty on sight, still furious about his humiliating defeat at her hands before and hoping to catch her before she could phase out. This failed and he walked right into a full powered punch from Rogue. Sabertooth didn't have the Blob's immovability, and the punch lifted him off his feet and sent him through several walls behind him.
Scott turned from attempting to fry Kurt to stare at Jean. "Jean You're alright! But, Magneto said that opening the tubes like that would kill you…"
"I have no idea who that is or why the hell you believed him," Jean said bluntly. "And why the hell are you trying to kill Kurt? He hasn't even pranked you lately."
Pietro tried to blindside Harry, who had disabled his disillusion spell so he could talk to the others, but Harry negligently hit him with a frictionless spell, and the boy fell down and despite his best efforts could not get up. "He's been sort of brainwashed, but it was his own choice because he's an emo. Listen, we've got a bit of a problem…"
Harry was interrupted as the wall behind him blew in and Magneto hovered there, sending out shards of metal at him and all the others, causing them to scatter. Harry ducked and dodged, grunting as one of them hit him then sent out a high powered "CONFRINGO!" Unlike the bombarda spell, which simply exploded on target, this spell set anything it touched on fire. Magneto's shield still blocked it, but the resultant fire blinded him a little, to Harry's next spell, "SECTUMSEMPRA!"
Regardless of Harry's personal hatred for Snape, the man had created a powerful cutting spell, and Magneto cried out as once more his shield couldn't stop the power behind the spell. While his durability could withstand significant injury, what set this spell apart from other cutting spells other than the power needed to cast it was the fact it caused dozens of little to medium wounds, the intent of which was to bleed the opponent (or cut him to ribbons). Magneto's chest and shoulder armor disappeared and his skin was covered in dozens of little slash marks, the pain of which cut into his concentration just long enough for Harry's next spell to get through, sending magneto back through the hole he had made for a moment.
Yet despite this his powers struck out, and everything metal in the room began to attack the X-men and Harry.
Harry groaned aloud as he cast protection spells on all of them save Kitty who had remained in ghost form and just used one of her paralyzing runes on Pietro, sending him down for the count.
She glared over at Lance, a look that said 'we will be talking later' to which he shrugged uncomfortably but resignedly.
"Accio sexy redhead and bald guy!" Harry shouted, ducking as Scott turned his beam on him, but this allowed Kurt to once more sucker punch a Summers, and he went down to join his brother in la-la-land. To the side Sabertooth had returned and was fighting Rogue and Evan, and seemed to be holding his own by dint of his reflexes and experience as well as his size.
Charles and Jean were pulled through the air to land in front of Harry. Well Charles landed in front of him, Jean found herself suddenly in his arms, and she smirked a little through a light blush. "Sexy Redhead, really? What would Ororo say about that?"
"She'd say it was an apt description, but that's beside the point right now," He said staring down at her then up to where Magneto had disappeared for a moment. "I need you two to get the others out of here."
"We need to get Eric's helmet off him, if we can I can use my power to knock him out." Charles said, not making a comment on Harry's presumably adrenaline driven flirting with the young woman.
"Yeah that's nice and all, but that's not going to be easy, and after this we will be talking again about keeping secrets, it's obvious you know this guy from somewhere. Just get the hell out of here Charles, and take the kids with you. I can handle this, if…"
Harry set Jean on her feet suddenly and then summoned up a huge PROTEGO MAXIMO which blocked some kind of beam that had just shot out of the hole, a massive blast of power. The shield shattered but absorbed it, and Harry raced forward.
He suddenly clutched his head, grimacing in agony as somehow Magneto began to do something that made his skull rattle around like it had been hit by a shatter shaker. He sent more power into his MAGIA EREBEA, which cancelled the attack out, but left him open to a spear of earth and metal that caught him in the center of the chest and carried him up and into the ceiling.
He used a bombarda pointed behind him to blast open the ceiling, allowing him time to push himself off the spear. He could feel he had cracked a rib though, and decided to respond in kind.
With a both hands he reached out magical and grabbed the metal around the hole Magneto had just stepped through again, sending out hundreds of spears of earth and metal. They slammed into his shield but then Harry shot out two quick RIFELA's catching Magneto in the hip and the chest, making him wince and nearly lost control of his shield.
"Get them out of here damn it, I can't cut loose with you all here!" Harry shouted, leaping down to stand next to the downed Summers brothers. He reached out and was unsurprised when his mutant power activated, draining the excess energy out of them and returning them both to normal. He then slapped them both with an INCARCEROUS and IMMOBULUS spell each, but was then blown back by a fist of metal coming out of the wall to slam with concussion causing force into the side of his head.
Harry rolled with the blow wincing as it opened up a cut on his temple. He retaliated by sending a ten-spell chain at Magneto, but Magneto had learned by this point what to watch out for, and he blocked the majority of them.
By this time Storm and Wolverine had appeared and Harry looked over at her grimly. The two of them looked a little ragged around the edges, though Wolverine was in far better shape than his lady.
The two of them had taken the X-men's experimental all-plastic plane from the mansion up to here, following the vector of one of the spheres, but been forced to fight their way through the asteroids defenses once they set down.
Other than Jean the other teens were battered or exhausted or a combination thereof and Magneto was still good to go, which didn't even consider that the gem was still here. He smiled grimly as a lightning blast slammed into Sabertooth sending him skittering away down the corridor. "Jean, Ororo, seriously, get out of here and take all the others with you, this guy is dangerous and I need to destroy that gem!"
Magneto roared back in, and the two went at it again with low power stuff as they both looked for an opening to launch a more devastating attack. Hordes of little conjured animals struck at Magneto's shield along with blinding and sound attacks, but none got through. In retaliation anything metal zoomed toward Harry at varying speeds, but Harry blocked most, banished others, and dodged the ones he had to.
Ororo looked around grimly. Rogue was scratched and bleeding from several cuts from Sabertooth, though her Juggernaut taken endurance had kept her from enduring more damage. Evan had lost some of his bone armor ripped off apparently, and was nursing one of his legs, where she could tell he was bleeding, not like an arterial vein had been cut, but bad nonetheless. Kitty looked like she was going to collapse soon, the strain of staying in ghost mode to avoid the attacks crisscrossing the room even now sapping her strength. Jean looked alright, but Ororo herself was still dealing with her exhaustion from fighting Candra. And Charles' power was apparently useless against Magneto unless you got his helmet off.
Lance grabbed up Pietro's unconscious body. He might not like the prick, but he was still a member of the Brotherhood, and he wasn't going to leave him behind. "He's right, other than Grey we don't have the firepower to take him on, and even if we did, we're all too battered now to be much help."
Jean scowled and angrily charged forward, but her powers were blocked by Magneto's shield just as much as Harry's magical attacks were, and she had to protect herself from his retaliation.
Harry took the opportunity to change his position slightly, then gathered his magic and shot out a pure magic bolt the same size as his own body. The attack crashed into Magneto's shield, searing through the first layer and throwing him backward for now, but he ripped metal out of the walls forming a barrier in front of him. The magic seared through it like a high-powered plasma bolt, but stopped it from hitting him and he retaliated by forming a large artillery shell out of the metal and using his electromagnetic power to send it forward like his previous rail gun shots.
The thing hit sending a shockwave everywhere but harry had swiftly transfigured it into a mass of soft rubber. Even so the momentum hit him and threw him right where he wanted to go. Magneto didn't realize that and turned his attention to Jean. "Enough child, your impudence is at an end!"
"Bite me you megalomaniacal asshole!" Jean shouted back, throwing another attack at him, and she saw him wince and pour more power into his shield. She smirked a little, but still kept up her defenses, hoping to hold out until Harry did whatever he was planning. She had seen him move very deliberately in front of that door, and wondered what he was up to.
Ororo had seen it too and after motioning the other teens to grab up Charles and the downed Summers brothers began to hammer Magneto with her own power.
Eric scowled angrily, pouring even more power into his shield. "Your resistance is futile, you cannot beat me!"
The two women shared a momentary glance then renewed their assault, taking turns to defend but continuing to keep Magneto's attention on them while Kitty and Logan kept Sabertooth busy. Rogue grabbed the two brothers like sacks of grain while Evan dragged Charles along, wincing occasionally as they followed Lance and Pietro down the corridor to the plane that Logan and Storm had flown up to the asteroid.
Harry looked up at the gem set in the ceiling above him, smirking a little as he heard the roar of combat outside. Jean and Ororo versus Magneto, heh, fun. If they were both fresh and ready to go I'd almost bet on them, but not now. Still they should hold him off for long enough for me to do my thing.
He activated his flight array and zoomed up to the ceiling, slamming his hand onto the glowing red gem. He could feel his mutant power activating, and the power of the gem flowing into him, then suddenly, just as before….
OOOOOOO
He was elsewhere. The being known as Cyttorak stared at him angrily. "You! Wilt though destroy all my tethers to your dimension?"
Harry grinned, baring his teeth. "One can only hope." He then lunged forward and the being teleported away, cursing, knowing that allowing the human mortal (and even that was debatable given what his senses were telling him) to touch him would drain him. "Away damn you! I will not contest that dimension further, destroy the other tethers, I care not, merely leave!"
OOOOOOO
Harry found himself back in the chamber, watching as the gem shattered under his hands. He laughed aloud, feeling his new strength powering his MAGIA EREBEA and his magical core even further. "Crysis suit, when I first built it, about 500 galleons, tattooing my flight array onto my back, 2,000 Euros. Pissing off an inter-dimensional entity of war and running a megalomaniac's day, priceless."
Outside the chamber Magneto saw his machines begin to show warning lights, and the power from the gem suddenly cutting out. He waved a hand and the floor erupted under Jean, throwing her back into Ororo with a badly broken arm, allowing him to turn and stare as Harry came through the door, a small smile on his face. "What have you done Potter, by god what have you done!?"
"Cutting another tether," Harry replied then had to shield himself as the walls all around him crushed inward. There was no spear of metal or anything like that, it was the entire wall, the ceiling and the floor rising up to engulf him, Magneto's fury powering his mutant ability but taking away some of his control.
Harry shielded himself however, using pure magical manipulation to wrest control of the attack from him, halting it. The two men strained for control of the attack and Harry stared over at Ororo and Jean. "Get out of here you two, this is gonna get wild!"
He sent a pulse of unaimed transfiguration magic forward, changing the floor to many different things, frowning as that was supposed to change it to a giant snake. Evidently his power up had messed with his control a bit. It still worked to distract Magneto however, since the floor under him had just changed into custard. The man disappeared into it with a squawk or surprise.
Harry floated forward, sending BOMBARDA's down into the custard as Ororo and Jean looked at one another, then nodded reluctantly and flew down the corridor, leaving Harry behind.
Charles had been tucked into one of the chairs in the jet. He looked up as the two women wearily clambered aboard, followed by Rogue and Logan. Rogue had gone back to help and used her power to knock Sabertooth out, but when Logan moved into to finish him the ground gave way under him having changed into cookie dough. Logan had gaped at that, and decided that getting as far away from Harry as possible was a good idea. "Where is Mr. Potter?"
"Taking Magneto on, he did something that pissed Magneto off, and I don't think he'd let us go if Potter was with us," Logan said grufflly having seen what had happened, but not knowing the significance of the room Harry had exited prior to Magneto's furious assault.
Charles frowned a little then sighed sadly. His control over Harry was non-existent, and Eric had proven willing to kill before this. Whatever happened he was in no position to stop it. He couldn't even send out a telepathic plea for mercy. Harry's mind was still invisible to him, and Eric was defended by his helmet. He shook his head, looking down wearily. "Get us out of here."
"And when we get home professor," Jean said, her jade eyes hard as she stared at the man, "We are going to have a long talk about keeping secrets. Don't even try to deny it, I heard Harry, you knew that asshole and you never warned us about him." The other teens and Ororo looked at him sharply at that. Charles sighed, but nodded, knowing that the conversation would not be pleasant.
Moments later the plane took off as the asteroid was rocked by some kind of explosion.
Back with Harry, the two combatants had stopped holding back, and were no throwing everything they could at one another. Harry dodged around, using his power to shield him only when he had to, evading as much as he could and Hammering back at his opponent with as many high-end spells as he could, using his power to grab control of the world around him and twisting it to attack his opponent.
Magneto did the same thing, using the metal and ferrous rock in the asteroid to great effect, throwing his power into every attack. He stayed put, disdaining moving around and simply putting more power into his shield and attacking the mage with everything he could. Sonic booms of rail gun shots resounded every second, he tried to grab control of the man's molecules but failed, and he did the same on a few of the physical attacks sent his way, turning them around.
The asteroid creaked and groaned around them as the two powerful men bent the matter around them to their purposes.
Harry reared back as a small piece of metal went past his head so fast it broke the sound barrier, nearly shattering his ear drums. He screamed a little, but he gathered his magic and poured his power into one of the deadliest spells that weren't on his Bloody Insane list. "BLACK-FYRE!"
Black-Fyre was a step above Fiend-Fyre, the spell that almost had its own mind and will that almost seemed alive in its desire to burn everything it could. Black-Fyre was much the same, only it burned everything, rock, metal, nothing could stand the Black flames, and it was even harder to cast, and almost impossible to control. If you weren't a Black, then it was impossible no matter your magical power, it was a genetic trait of the blacks that let them do it. Luckily Harry was a black both by adoption and by his grandmother on his father's side.
The roiling wall of black flame shot towards Magneto, and he gaped at the strange images in the flames, of demons and fiends and beasts out of myth charging toward him. He braced himself and the spell crashed into his shield like a megaton nuke going off on impact. His shield held, but the fire swept around him burning everything in its path. Rock, metal, it didn't matter and he gasped at the destruction it wrought.
Before draining Juggernaut's gem and Cyttorak of a bit of his power Harry would have struggled to control the spell. Now, he kept it going easily, forcing Magneto to defend himself against it while he prepared what he hoped would be his final attack.
Magneto smirked suddenly realizing where they were, and that the last spell of his enemy had weakened the walls of his hollowed out fortress. With a laugh of triumph he reached out and wrenched open a wall next to him, opening the interior of the asteroid to space. "You're too dangerous Potter, I can't live you alive to challenge my dream! Mutantkind will take their rightful place! So, I can survive in vacuum, the question is, can you!?"
The sudden vacuum began to suck out all of the air in the asteroid, snuffing out the Black-Fyre in a way that had never been accomplished before then the vacuum began to pull everything loose along the battle zone out into space.
Magneto held himself in place easily, and his shield did indeed allow him to survive in space. Harry grimly used a sticking charm on his feet to stay in place then cast a Bubblehead Charm on his head. The charm would last long enough to finish this, or so he hoped.
Magneto stared at him triumphantly, knowing Harry only had a limited amount of air, and began to attack him again. But Harry batted his attacks aside, then raised one hand pointing at the powerful mutant. "DRILL OF LIGHT!"
The DRILL OF LIGHT that shot forward wasn't just one attack, but over a dozen, each one a mix of lightning, light and physical force in a drill shape, flaying anything it hit. Harry could only have done three during his time in his birth dimension, but now he sent as many of them forward as he could.
Magneto's shield could block the first few, but not the others. His instincts cut in, forcing him to dodge wildly, but he couldn't dodge them all, and one of them stuck him in the chest, and another in the leg, taking a chunk out of it. He screamed as his bones shattered and his skin was flayed under the blows, the magical force of the attack overcoming his empowered body. Another clipped his head, ripping off his helmet and opening his check, shattering the bone underneath.
The pain was overwhelming, and Magneto halted his attacks, barely able to keep his shield up. He looked up at Harry through bleary eyes and saw him readying another spell. A wave of fury took him at the sight, but his self-preservation instincts overrode that. He had been defeated yes, but staying to fight would avail him nothing. He was sorely wounded now, and his power was waning badly, but Harry, despite being battered was still obviously willing to continue. He looked down suddenly as he felt metallic objects moving up the atmosphere towards them.
Several jet fighters were streaking up the ladder as pilots would say toward them, and Magneto scowled. The computer controlling the ECM and camouflage must have been damaged, and that means asteroid M is no longer a viable sanctuary for me. No matter I have others.
He turned back to stare up from his present position to where Harry was standing in the open side of his asteroid. "Another time Potter, and next time, I will be better prepared for you and your magic." With that he turned and raced off as fast as his wounds would allow. A moment later he changed his shield just slightly to make himself invisible, and Magneto, the master of Magnetism, was gone.
Harry leaned back with a sigh of relief. While he had been winning the fight, that didn't mean the outcome was certain if it had continued. Damn, I would have preferred ending him now, fighting enemies again is always irritating and far more dangerous, but this at least lets me have enough power left for other things.
He reached out and constructed an elaborate illusion, slowly spreading it out around the asteroid. A notice-me-not won't work at this point, I need to do something more permanent, something they can go back and tell their superiors about and be believed.
Below him two of the jets still sped toward the asteroid, the other two turning to chase after Magneto, but peeling back to join their fellows and race toward the asteroid.
A second later they entered the range of Harry's illusion and it went to work on their senses. The illusion was designed to make it look as if the asteroid was breaking. Not exploding, as that was tougher and something that should register on a lot of different sensors down on earth, just breaking up. Then he grabbed as many of the broken pieces lying around, the shattered remains of the battle zone, and ejected it and conjured as much junk as he could, rock, concrete, metal, anything that he could conjure. It wouldn't last for long, conjuring never did especially in large quantities, but it didn't have to, in fact it would be better that it didn't, since that would make it appear as if the bits had hit atmosphere and burned up.
The spells worked, and a moment later the jets turned away, heading back down. Harry barely breathed a sigh of relief as he realized he was rapidly running out of air. He reached forward and touched the edges of the hole and poured his power out into a REPARO spell, and the hole slowly resealed. A strengthening spell struck it a moment later, then Harry raced inward, looking for a room that might still have air even as he felt his magic go to work trying to sustain him.
He found one moments later, what looked like Magneto's private chambers was closed, and when he opened it swiftly ducking inside, he felt air around him. Closing the door he cancelled the bubblehead charm then went to his knees, breathing in deeply. "Air, ah, you only know how important it is when it's gone." He rested for a moment then looked around.
The room actually had a terrace and he stared out over a large hydroponics area, whistling appreciatively. "Mad the bastard was, but this is phenomenal. Still, I don't want to damage anything in here just yet."
A moment later Hedwig appeared in front of him, swooping around him anxiously. "I'm alright Hedwig, just sore and exhausted."
Hedwig precked at him irritably, as if saying 'well of course you'd say that', then landed on his shoulder, pressing her head into the side of his face. He smiled a little, wincing as his shoulder pained him, but the healing spells had done their job, and his magic would heal him up automatically in short order.
Preck," Hedwig said, staring at him from a bare centimeter away.
"Ah, well, soon you can go back and tell Ororo I'm alright, but I've got something else to do first, need to make certain no one else can find this place." Hedwig precked at him, then hopped from his shoulder to the bedpost.
Harry redid the charm on his head and exited the room, then made his way around the depressurized areas of the asteroid until he found the hanger bay. There he then created a shield around him and exited out into space, using a magic tether to tie himself to the asteroid. Then he placed his hands on the outer shell of the asteroid and gathered his magic power to pour it into a very specific spell. "FIDELIO!" He shouted, his voice echoing around his shield, unheard by any but him.
The world over a few people reached up and grabbed their heads, including one extremely battered and nigh crippled Eric Lensherr. He looked up, his face a grimace of agony from his wounds as one of his medical bots went to work on him, his anger at being bested derailed slightly as he lost all sense of where the battle had taken place only that it had happened.
Even the X-men and Charles felt the effect, but only Ororo realized what might have happened, having the memory of the battle but not where it had occurred. Harry had told her about the spell that had hidden his parent's house when he was a baby, and how he had later used it on the headquarters of his New Marauders. It was proof he was safe, and that he might well have won. With her worries assuaged she turned back to work on her nephew while Jean and Logan worked on the others. The Summers brothers slept on, still under the influence of Harry's spells, but when they woke it would be a wake call on many levels for both of them.
Harry wearily turned, and then slowly made his wake back to the pressurized areas inside the asteroid. There he was met by a irater Hedwig, who had been most affected by the fidelius casting. It was like being surrounded by nothingness, unable to figure out which side was what, unable to see, just grey everywhere.
Harry soothed her and informed her of the secret quickly, which settled her down immediately. She still nipped him on the ear a few times of course, but that was all. After that he spent a few hours exploring and re-pressurizing the outer areas. He threw out REPARO spells like they were going out of style, but even then it was hardly safe and barely livable given how much junk he had pushed out to help his illusion along.
He did find an observatory however, a wall of some see through rock, made of quartz or something far tougher, that let him stare out over the curve of the Earth. A seat was also there, turned so the person sitting there could take in the view, and along both sides was some gear. Harry fiddled with it, and realized that it was a communication device of some kind, but it must have been bounced elsewhere before the final target, because right now all he was getting was static. He cast a REPARO on it, and was able to get some TV channels from a nearby satellite, but that was all.
With a shrug he turned it off and sat staring down at the Earth. Hedwig hopped down from his shoulder, which she had not moved from since he cast a fidelius, to the chair's armrests then looked out the window as well.
Harry gently stroked her feathers as he rested from his labors, a little too tired to make the trip back down to the mansion right away. "One can see why Magneto became such an egotist. With a view like this one truly would feel like the king of all he surveys. "
Hedwig somehow was able to make her next preck sound somewhat caustic, and she pecked his hand sharply. "Yow, okay, right, thank you, I too am human, ouch, mortal, there, happy?" Hedwig huffed a little, then stopped attacking his hand and allowed him to continue stroking her feathers. "Still, this place is a resource. An asteroid base now hidden from anyone's eyes and known only to me and those I let in on the secret? Oh the possibilities."
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