War of the X’s #8

Previously...

Power once lost has now been refined by a secret foe.

Earth-2...

“Master! Author X has escaped!” said the Crimson Fear crawling up behind the man.

“Let him. He is of no threat to my power now.” the replied scornfully.

Anti-X’s bass of operations...

“Man this suit is completely trashed. Looks like I’ll have to scrap the entire thing and create something entirely new. Let’s see what we got.” James said aloud to himself while rummaging through the storage containers. Immediately after he had grabbed the supplies he went to work. He rebuilt his thrusters in his suit and was able to advance every inch of the suit, but while he was doing it a noise took his attention away from his work.

“Corvex. Scooter it out.” he said to a drone he deployed from his partially done suit. He walked out of the room behind the drone and that’s when he saw a body sprawled against the wall. Instinct kicked in and he aimed his arm at the intruder ready to fire if need be.