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DiScLaImEr: I do not own these characters blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda…..


The darkness slinks from the shadows, the echoes of the cave’s inhabitants adds to the gloomy setting that is the Borrow. In the monitor womb of this shadowy place sitting in a large chair is a man whose very tenure has been to protect the innocent of his city. For years, he has done so and with others, he has protected the world. That was until he found out that he was betrayed. He moves his head slightly as he hears the transporter activate, he listens and a small grin appears on his face but is quickly suppressed.

She has only just heard what has happened, she confronted her best friend as she put the clues together…

*Earlier---

“Scott?” She replies as she enters the arboretum of Greymelkin. She knows he is here. He always comes here when something is bothering him. It is this or his fortress but the sensors said he was here. As Amazon walks down the empty recesses of this great fortress that the JLX has created, she truly feels the shadows trying to over cast her very spirit.

“Yes Ororo.” A voice replies. His name is Scott Stevens, a meta-mutant enhanced with genes of a dead alien, and we know him as Super-Patriot. Over the last few days, he has witnessed several things that have been dredged up from the past. A past he had hoped never became known. He stands with his hands resting on a guardrail overlooking the forest of endangered species of plants from Earth trying to find peace of mind and failing miserably.

“I want to ask you something Scott. I need to know this.” She replies staying near by but not so close to her friend.

He looks down into the trees from his place and deep in his mind, he knows what she will ask. He knows her to well, as she knows him, or does she? If he was as good as he claimed to be he would have never done what he had. He also knows of her feelings for the man she is about to ask about. He was also a friend but now Scott knows he has lost his friendship forever.

He exhales slowly as his eyes focus on a tree. He breathes in deeply once more than he answers her.

“Yes Ororo.”

“Did you really know what Magnus and the others did to Lo.., Darkclaw?”
Her voice has a slight apprehensive tone in it. He hears it in her voice as she corrected herself as she said his name. He remembers watching her steal glances at him every so often. Scott remembers when he found out about the “tension” between Logan and Ororo. It was in a conversation he had with J’onn before the emergence of Armageddon. She seemed to hold Logan to a higher ideal than before. He remembered how her voice sounded when they had followed Darkclaw’s idea to allow the Brood to attack the Acolytes’ Earth. He heard the pain in her voice, as she seemed to berate Darkclaw’s choice. It was not berating, it was something else like a painful sorrow.

“What do you want to hear Ororo?” He grimaced. He already knew the answer.

“The Truth Scott.” Ororo answered her voice slightly colder than before, the ice goddess becoming evident.

He looked down and felt a tear in his eye but fought not to allow it to come forth.
With a choked voice, he only said one word.

“Yes.”

Ororo felt anger rage within her, and the air became crisp with lightning as an outward reflection. She wanted to hit him, beat him until he could no longer stand. How could this be her best friend? He was there when she always need someone to speak to. They had always come to each other for advice not keeping hardly anything between them. In a venomous fit of words, he had never heard her say he felt the pain of betrayal.

“HOW COULD YOU? I NEVER KNEW YOU AT ALL YOU BASTARD OF A MAN!”

“You don’t understand.” He feebly replied.

“I DON’T UNDERSTAND! I DON’T UNDERSTAND! WHY SHOULD I TRY?! YOU KNEW WHAT THEY DID TO HIM SCOTT AND YOU JUST WATCHED! LOGAN WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THAT NO MATTER WHAT!”

He always hated to be compared to him. All of his career he was the light to his dark. He was the Boy Scout, Darkclaw the dark knight. The anger bubbled over as he turns around, tears flowing, and voice thundering…

“BUT ITS ALRIGHT IF HE CRIPPLED US ORORO! IS IT? HE BETRAYED US ONCE!” His voice calming to some extent. “He hurt you and me and everyone else.”

Ororo brought her voice low, almost a growl. He could feel her anger seething out of her.

“I never said that Sc…Super-Patriot. He has made mistakes but he is honorable enough never to have allowed himself the opportunity to do what you did.” She points a finger at him.
He felt his heart sink as she called him by his moniker not the name she calls him.

“Justice needed to be served. You are one of the few that will kill Ororo. It’s the same thing.” Super-Patriot replies

“No it isn’t Super-Patriot. I never pretended to be…to be” She pauses for a moment as she chokes back tears. “Counterfeit! What you see with me is what you get!.”

“Ororo please.” Super-Patriot states, all of the fight left him as he hears that word.

“No Super-Patriot.” Ororo responds as she turns from him. “Consider our friendship void as your conscious.”


There he was sitting at his computer. Ororo wanted to run to him, hold him to allow him to shed tears, but she couldn’t, he won’t.

“Ororo that’s far enough.” Darkclaw replied coldly almost aloft.

“Logan please.”

“I can’t Ororo.”

“Why?”

“How can I trust anyone?”

She was hurt. She was livid at his statement.

“You’re a hypocrite Logan.” Ororo replied. “How can you trust anyone? I know you feel betrayed, believe me when I say I know. You betrayed us Logan when you had created those protocols. You didn’t trust any of us enough to help you when your back was broken, or during that whole Horseman fiasco. You didn’t trust” She paused for a moment trying to maintain her rhythm, not allowing the catch in her throat to cause her to stumble. “me.” The truth hit her more so as she admitted this fact. “You betrayed me. You didn’t trust me Logan.”

“Ro.”

She stopped him from speaking, holding up her hand, a simple word coming off her lips. “Don’t.”

“I trusted you enough to come to you when I needed help with Callisto. I trusted you enough afterwards to give me that test for the others benefit. I didn’t have anything to do with what happened to you, believe me. Yet here you are saying how you can’t trust anyone Logan. I never lied to you.”

“You did once Ororo.” States Darkclaw as he turns from her.

“What?” She was shocked. When had she lied. Then realization set in. The only time she lied to him was after she had emerged from Cerebro.
“You did too.” She replied remembering the scene in her head as if she was just there.

“Why do you think we did?” Logan asks as he begins to walk away until he feels her hand on his shoulder. His muscles tense and relax; he inhales and holds his breath.

“We are afraid.” She answers. Her voice soft and sincere. “I can’t promise what the future will hold Logan and it scares me when I think of you and me together. I could loose so much with you. Your passionate, border lined obsessed, your brilliant, a warrior born, your ruthless, rude, stubborn, arrogant, I feel with you I have to fight so much harder so as to be an equal with you. You bring out the worse in me when we disagree and you bring out the best in me as well. You never allow anyone in Logan and that is a reason why you lied to me that day by Cerebro. You know if you allowed whatever it is we have between us to flourish you wouldn’t be able to stop until I was in your heart so completely that it would hurt to argue. I felt your hand on mine as I first emerged from the tank. I felt your warm touch. You came to me without your mask or cape. You came to me as you. I wanted to kiss you then Logan, by the goddesses I did, but I held back and above what my heart said to do, my mind said other things. You took slight steps and swallowed your pride on more than one occasion. I know that now. I remember when I was wounded from the Xorn. You called my sisters to come help me; you stopped me from helping any farther. I even found out that you contacted Ororo to ask how I was doing afterwards. She respects you greatly you know.” She stops for a few brief seconds as she turns him around. The man who hides in the shadows, this protector of New Gotham, this man who although is a mortal man, can cause any of the meta-mutants to fear. He has all of their respect, and her heart. “I also know why you really wanted me to talk to Moonwing Logan. You saw two people whom you love hurting still, from a common reason…Marie.”

Logan looks into her eyes, her blue eyes and he feels, not for the first time, lost and warmth.

“I feel lost Ororo.”

“I know. So do I.”

“I don’t know if I can trust anything I feel Ororo.”

“trust in me.”

The woman named Electra Kyle enjoys her fight on the rooftop even though it is with a minor criminal like Firefox. She enjoys these battles of life and death, the adrenaline pumping through her veins like a drug giving her a euphoric high like no other. It use to be the thrill of the theft until he came along. Somehow over the years he had made her want to become more than what she was, a thief with a motif. She leaps into the air, her foot connecting with the Firefox’s chin. She lands on his chest bantering the entire time. Something she has come to do a lot since becoming part of the so-called Darkclaw-clan.

She hears a voice from behind her as her fist is raised ready to finish her opponent…
“Is that really necessary?”

She knows who it is without turning around. His voice sends shivers up her spine although she would never say anything about it. Sometimes she has dreams of him, but they always end the same. He decides his city is more important than she and she rips his heart out.

“No.” She coyly replies as she brings her fist down to Firefox’s face. He won’t be moving anytime soon. “But its fun. Know what else is fun?” She asks

“Catching criminals?” Darkclaw asks.

“That’s what I was doing. You should think of ways to thank me. I can always make some very selective suggestions.”

“Hand over the diamonds you stole from Firefox and maybe I’ll thank you.”

“Does that mean we’re enga…”Electra retorts as she comes closer to Darkclaw but runs into a wall that isn’t there. “Ow.”

“Sorry.” She hears as she sees Manhunter-X becoming visible. He is right on top of Darkclaw. She thinks “Sheesh I heard about protection but how close is Logan with these guys?”

That’s when they are interrupted by some more guests. It happens quickly as the bodies fall, first the Iron Lantern in pieces, then Changeling, Elasti-girl, Flashbang, Angelhawk, and Nightcreeper.
Above them stand several criminals on an energy platform created by Dr. Alchemy and all Electra can hear is…

“I remember everything Logan.” Replies Alchemy.

The battle is fierce as Manhunter, Electra and Darkclaw battle Alchemy, the Black king, Star Fire, Argus, Kadabra, and Plant man. Argus manages to send a bolt of energy toward Electra while she is down but as she is expecting it to hit her a figure dressed in black and gold blocks the bolt with her bracelets.

“Hello Argus.” The new on comer replies with a smirk.

“Great now she’s involved.” Thinks Electra. “And she saved my life. I hate how life works.”

With the speed of Hermes Amazon flies toward her adversary, her fist connecting with the mages chin. He flies twenty feet connecting into a wall, slumping down as he collapses to the ground. She turns as she hears a small explosion from behind her. She sees Star Fire fall and Darkclaw grins slightly toward her. Electra sees this and feels her heart slightly sink. Manhunter takes out Kadabra almost as fast. Electra lets her whip fly as it wraps around Plant Man’s neck. She leaps over him keeping the whip tight, she lands on Argus’s unconscious body, she hears ribs pops and crack. She then hears it…

“ORORO BEHIND YOU!” Then she hears it before she sees it…. Darkclaw, Logan he leaps in front of Amazon as Star Fire fires an energy beam. The impact is almost in slow motion as Electra sees Logan fall, his body plummeting to the rooftop, limp. She hears a yell come from the Amazon as she continues to watch as lightning strikes around Fire and, then at the Clock King. Electra looks almost in awe as the one called Amazon uses the very Atmosphere as a weapon. With a final strike into Alchemy, who had been just now recovering from gas from Darkclaw causing all of the criminals to fall into sweet oblivion.

“LOGAN!” Both Electra and Ororo yell as they get to Darkclaw’s side. They both look at him, each other and their eyes meet. They both feel the same for this man, this Dark Avenger.

Without thought Ororo looks to Manhunter-X and declares
“We have to get Lo..Darkclaw to the med lab at Greymelkin.”

“I’m going with you sister.” Electra responds, her eyes glowering toward Ororo. Electra in no way feels sisterhood toward the woman called Amazon if anything she feels as though this woman is a treat to her position for Logan’s feelings.





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