Chapter 3

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly."

- Winston Churchill

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-- Archie's POV --

The first thing I did was, Will a super-suit around my body, similar to Kyle Rayner's, my favorite Green Lantern costume.

"Not bad," Milo said and I nodded

"Ring, please hack into Genoshan security systems," I said, hacking into the security system of a 90s computer should be easy enough for my Ring's AI.

<<Affirmative>>

"Show us the security footage of X-Men," I said as I willed multiple tablets into existence and videos of captured X-Men played, it showed how they escaped, got re-captured, a kiss scene between Wolverine and Marvel Girl (who should be currently dating Cyclops), and their farce of a trial.

"Why do people keep saying Scott cheated on Jean, while it is Jean who makes out with Logan all the time?" I ask in frustration "Scott only had a mental affair which is like a married man thinking about another woman, how is that cheating, I know fanboys say 'it is different for telepaths' but come on!!!"

"People love Jean and hate Scott so they make him appear as the bad guy despite his girlfriend/wife making out with his arch-enemy every other week," Milo said "Anyway I'm not gonna discuss this topic with you now,"

"*sigh* Fine… Ring, can you show us the X-Men now" I asked out loud

The video on the tablet changed, it was now showing the X-Men as being held with special cuffs

"Alright Ring, release the captured X-Men,"

<<Affirmative>> the Ring said as the cuffs of every X-Men came off,

"Detect the location of Cameron Hodge, and then create a flying course to his location"

<<Affirmative>> she said before glowing green. I nod my head before sending a look at Milo,

I then share the location of Cameron Hodge, an evil scientist that brainwashes mutant children to be slaves "Try to kill him if you want, you can't, but you can always try"

"Yeah, yeah… " Milo said as he looked at the image of the Hodge and formed a bone sword "That's one ugly mother fucker. Hurry up and send the pulse,"

I nod my head. "Don't forget, there might be normal humans and a few brainwashed mutants in there, and if you see a bald black woman who controls the weather-" (AN: Storm's head is shaved due to Cameron Hodge)

"Ask her out on a date," he said without missing a beat, he used to have a minor crush on Halle Berry growing up, and Storm looked like a blue-eyed, more well-endowed version of a young Halle Berry.

"Or you know, run away before she can fry your ass from here to Sunday, but I guess the dealer's choice," I shook my head before closing my eyes, concentrating as hard as I could… Then a pulse exited my ring, the pulse covered the entire island.

It was a powerful Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) that disabled the robot army and almost any technological device they had on the island.

The reason I concentrated so hard wasn't because of the scale of the EMP, but because I had to protect the hospitals from the EMP. I was 100 percent sure there are people on life support in those hospitals that would have died if the hospital lost energy, so I had to concentrate.

Then the bubble containing us started flying at Mach 2 speeds towards Hodge's location. Once we got there, Hodge's mechanical body was not moving, next to him was a brainwashed mutant, she couldn't be older than 16.

If I had to guess it was Wolfbane, "You keep her busy while I deal with Hodge" I said to Milo he nodded his head, there was a glint of excitement in his eyes. If I had to hazard a guess he wanted to see how well he would fare against a powered individual.

As soon as I released the bubble Rahne had transformed into… a red werewolf. She rushed at us but Milo slammed her through a wall.

I wasn't interested in their fight. Milo had High-Tier Regeneration, meaning anything short of a High Tier Hero or Villain would not defeat him with ease, and most certainly wouldn't be able to injure or god forbid kill him.

Anyway… I slowly approach Hodge, floating. "Ring, cut off his biological body parts from the mechanics parts," I whispered and imagined various tools that completely cut of his head from the mechanical body.

"Who are you-"

"Yeah no, sorry I don't wanna explain myself to you, have fun in your holiday though, I heard the void of space is lovely this time of the year," I said before I created a baseball bat, then concentrated to lower the gravitational pull between Hodge and the Earth to 0,

His head started floating, I bounced it off the ground a few times, "AHH" Hodge screamed, "Let me go you genetic abomination!!!"

I ignored him before hitting him as hard as I could with the baseball bat, making him pass through the hole we had just made "HOMERUN!!!" I shouted as Hodge's head escaped the Earth's atmosphere and flew towards the cold emptiness of the space.

"Dude, Wolfsbane is weak, are you sure she is an X-Man?" Milo asked as he came with a knocked out Wolfsbane, she had few injuries around her midsection, but it should heal.

"I think she is a New Mutant, not an X-Men, at least not yet," I explained, but even then Milo shouldn't have had this much of an easy time, I guess brainwashing must have slowed her down or Milo's animal nature somehow makes him a much better fighter, maybe a little bit of both.

"Hey do you-" before he could finish his thought a red blast hit him in the face, making him drop Rahne and fly into a wall,

"SON OF A BITCH! THAT HURT!" As he got up, he looked ready to impale the man who just sent him flying, the same man who is the leader of X-Men.

We had said we would talk with the X-Men first, no need to make an enemy out of them after all, but Milo seemed to have forgotten about it after Cyclops blasted him.

Alongside Cyclops were a bald black woman whose hands were sparkling with electricity, a redhead in a red and yellow skintight suit that showed all the right curves, and a blond man.

Taking a closer look at Jean I can see why Scott and Wolverine would risk the entire mutant race for *stares at her breasts* them, it, I mean her.

*Ahem* I cough to catch my focus, "Hello X-Men, a pleasure to meet you all. I'm Green Lantern and he is…" we had never discussed it

"Call me Kars for now," he said, short and easy to remember. Especially with his Body Perk.

"Right then, as I would explain to you if you hadn't blasted my friend in the face-"

"I could take him" Milo muttered loud enough for everyone in the room to hear

"Me and Kars are actually the ones who hacked into the Genoshan security system and freed you, before taking care of the robot army with a large-scale EMP. After that we took out Cameron Hodge" I said to get some Brownie points, no need to make an enemy out of X-Men even if they blasted Milo in the face… It was kinda funny.

"We appreciate your help, but who are you guys? Why did you help us?" the blond with the face of a model said.

"Let's just say we are your Friendly Neighborhood Mutants for now and leave it at that. And Marvel Girl, it is not nice to try to read other people's minds without their expressed permission." I said as the Ring had informed me of the psionic intrusion Jean had tried. "No one likes people snooping in their head,"

"Although you can get into my head anytime you want, girl," Milo said towards Storm… there was a momentary silence and I could have sworn Ring said {Idiot}

"I'm sorry we just had a very long," Marvel Girl said before sighing "and rough day."

"I'm hoping all of the X-Men are safe," I said with some concern in my voice. I doubted any one of them would have been hurt after the large-scale EMP, but better be sure than sorry.

"They are all fine, Wolfsbane seems to be the one who has the most severe injuries, but nothing seems serious" Storm said

"I held back," Milo said with a shrug

"Alright then, I'm sure you'll be able to help your ward, now we should be on our way, it was a pleasure to meet you all, especially you Miss," I said towards Jean, stop go to horny,

"Wait, what did you do to Cameron Hodge,"

"As I'm sure you are aware of the fact Hodge somehow obtained immortality so it is impossible to kill that monster," I said, there were some reactions to the word monster, I could see they were doing a telepathic conversation about us right now "So we did the next best thing and send him to a place he can't come back from nor hurt anybody,"

"Where did you send him?" the bald mutant asked

I looked to the sky "Up, up and away"

"HA- HA- HA- HA!" Milo bursts out laughing, he had forgotten about Cyclops' blast… for now.

After a few seconds Cyclops spoke "You two seem to be mutants fighting the good fight, we would like it if you would consider coming with us and see what the X-Men can offer,"

"No offense, but we are newly awakened mutants, and neither of us are interested in joining a mutant organisation anytime soon," I was saying until Milo interrupted

"Although if you are there, I might just consider it," he said as he looked at Storm.

I constructed a baseball bat and hit him in the head *bonk* "Go to horny jail," I whispered

He shrugged, it didn't even hurt him, he then did a small Jojo pose, and sent a wink towards Storm. I was no telepath, but I can tell you what he was thinking 'Body Perk is awesome!' and 'Despite being bald right now Storm is HOT!'

"ANYWAY… As I was saying, we should be on our way. It was a pleasure to meet you all." I created a bubble around me and Milo. I could hear they were trying to say something more but we were already gone…