Juggernaut

|two weeks later|

Mystique, disguised as security personal infiltrates the stokes county maximum security prison to pay Charles Xavier's brother, Cain Marco aka the Juggernaut a visit.

After clearing all of the security checks she drains the tank of fluids, stopping juggernaut from moving and freeing himself.

"Wake up Cain it seems you have a long overdue family reunion with your brother Charles Xavier." She says greeting the waking man.

"Cellular paralysis biofluids. Amazing it actually stopped the unstoppable." Mystique says impressed.

"It'll take you a few minutes to move. Then I'll sneak you out of this horrible prison that, who was it again oh right your brother put you in. Sore subject?" She asks seeing him grunt angrily.

"Who are you?" He asks.

"A deal maker, I arrange your early release and you deliver me one item in your brothers' possession, his mutant detection system known as Cerebro." She tells him.

"And my brother?" He asks as she is putting on his helmet, shielding him from telepathic attacks.

"I leave his fate in your capable hands. Now, I have a plane waiting." Mystique says before she gets pushed away and Juggernaut forces his way out of the prison by punching through the doors saying "No one gets in my way and nothing can stop the juggernaut."

Meanwhile some of the Bayville high students are at a survival camp amongst them the x-men and mystiques recruits.

"You will not be making wallets, neckties or paperweights. You will be taking 20 mile hikes, repelling 200 foot cliffs and crossing traitorous water with nothing but rope and all the courage you can muster. Do you read me?" The instructor greets his new cadets, making them stand in line.

"Yes sergeant Hawk sir." They respond.

"Welcome to Iron back survival camp. It will be an experience you will soon forget, now here we have a young man Scott Summner, whose scholastic achievements at Bayville high have earned him the right of group leader. You will be following his lead and now you've got 10 minutes to store your gear and report to the training field." He says with Scott correcting his name.

The teens leave to put away their luggage other than the x-men and Mystiques henchmen.

"Oh man I'm gonna be dead in 2 days." Kitty sighs sitting down on her suitcase.

"What about me, I'm a city kid." Evan complains.

"What did we ever do to deserve this?" Kurt asks.

"I'm going awol anyone know how to hotwire a school bus?" Rogue says grabbing her bag.

"Sweetheart, cool your jets. Maybe it won't be so bad. Plus I bailed on Logan's survival camp just for you." Ben stops her.

"Yeah and Professor X endorses this place." Scott chimes in.

"And at least he gave us a choice survival training here or with Wolverine." Jean agrees.

"Ugh some choice." Rogue scoffs but everyone gathers their stuff and leave to put it in their cabins.

"Team leader? Scholastic achievement. Pah, that should've been me." Blob complains.

"You can't even spell scholastic achievement Blob." Pietro tells him.

"But I can spell doomed, which is what that goody-goody gang is once I get them alone in the woods." Blob replies.

"Hey, easy guys. We'll beat them where it hurts most. In public, in front of everyone." Avalanche tells them.

Once everyone put away their stuff they report to the training field, where they are tasked with climbing a rope, then propelling down a rope and finally paddling through the finishing line.

Amongst the group of competing students are Scott and Lance are taking the lead and are the first ones to the boats.

When they are untying their boats Avalanche uses the chance to get ahead and uses his powers to make Scott slip and fall into the water. Scott retaliates by firing his laser near Lance's boat and knocking him out as well.

After getting in his boat Scott quickly gets ahead of Scott and is the first one to cross the finish line.

"I thought Scott was better than this." Jean says disappointed.

"I don't get what the challenge is when they use their powers to win." Ben agrees while the others celebrate the victory over Mystique's group.

"Scott should've been last and you know it." Blob tells the group walking over with his friends Pietro and Todd.

"Just because he slipped and bathed the guy went ballistic." Pietro agrees.

"Slipped? More like avalanched." Kurt replies.

A wild discussion then breaks out amongst the group with only Ben holding himself back since he thinks the fight is pointless.

Sergeant Hawk punishes the two groups by making them do 60 pushups. Here at Ironback we got ways to weed out the loudmouths from the tough guys. We fight it out in the wilderness against the wilderness, you grunts want to proof how tough you are fine. First team to snatch the flag I've planted up there on mount humiliation and brings it back to me wins." He tells them.

"Cakewalk. Our team can take a sauna, I'll get it myself." Pietro boasts.

"Not if I beat you there." Kurt challenges him.

"The whole team or no one. As proof I want a snapshot of every member right there at the top. You leave in 5 from opposite trails." The teacher tells them.

"Better say your goodbye's Summners cuz you ain't coming back." Lance tells him.

"What you got something in mind rock tumbler?" Scott says grabbing his shades.

"Scott, what do you think you're doing?" Jean says stopping him.

"What, I'm fed up with them getting away with everything while we're stuck playing by the rules." Scott tells her angrily.

"Hey, we don't need our powers to beat you." Lance replies.

"Oh, fine then. We'll all play it straight and know what, we'll wave to ya from the top." Scott tells him.

|Xavier Institute|

"Is Cerebro locating new mutants?" Logan asks Charles, walking up to him while he's strapped into the machine.

"No, just our students at Ironback, they've been a little active." Charles tells him.

"Did you tell them not to use their powers?" Logan asks.

"No, I was hoping they'd make that decision themselves." Charles tells him.

"Well I still say you should've let me handle their survival training." Logan says.

"I gave them that choice, other than Ben they thought they had a better chance at surviving the camp. Oh, looks like we have a new mutant on the scene." Charles says seeing an alert beeping on the screen.

"Discovery enhanced mutant signature, identity confirmed and matched to archive file. Name: Cain Marko residence state county maximum security prison. Current location: in transit. Upstate New York." Cerebro says shocking Charles.

"Cain Marko who's he?" Logan asks.

"My half-brother, somehow he's escaped. But how, that's impossible." Charles says taking off his helmet.

"What's an enhanced mutant signature?" Logan asks.

"He possessed an X-gene at birth but it was dormant most of his life so he awakened it with mysticism." Charles tells him.

"What kind of powers does he have?" Logan questions.

"He's become a Juggernaut, invulnerable and unstoppable once he gets moving." Charles explains.

The two of them try to come up with a plan to stop him or at least slow him down while Storm keeps Charle`s brother out of the media and then fetches their students.

|Meanwhile – back at camp|

"Come on pick it up, we're almost to the base." Scott tells the others leading them with the others running after him.

"What's with Mr. decathlon he's as bad as sergeant Hawk." Rogue complains.

"All he cares about is winning this thing. Hey Kurt, can't you just make yourself useful and like teleport us up to the top?" Kitty asks him.

"This trip is of the power free variety I'm told." Kurt replies.

"Come on just follow Scott's lead." Jean tells them.

"The mosquitos are the size of pelicans why are we here again?" Evan asks annoyed, lagging behind them with Ben staying close to him to make sure they don't lose one of their group.

On the other side of the mountain Mystique's gang has already started to climb the mountain with Todd hopping ahead, not having any problems and Blob following after him by kicking footholds into the mountain.

"Man, if he falls we're history, death by Blobber bomb." Pietro tells Lance while they are hanging from a rope tied around Blob, walking up the mountain behind him.

They stop once they find an abandoned mine.

"An abandoned mine?" Lance asks.

"Toad's checking in there for a shortcut." Blob tells them.

"Ey there is a tunnel in there that's like a stairway to the top." Toad tells them reappearing at the entrance.

"Now you're talking that flag is ours." Lance says happily and they enter the tunnel, ingoring the danger signs.

"Spot the flag?" Kurt asks Scott, once they are about halfway up the mountain.

"No, pop up top and see if it's still there." Scott tells him.

"But I thought what about Jean?" Kurt asks.

"Hey, you wanna win or not?" Scott asks him.

"OK fine but she's not going to like this I'll tell you that." Kurt says and teleports to the top, reappearing a second later. "It's there, we're very close." He tells Scott.

"Evan spike a rope up there, time is wasting." Scott says handing Evan his rope.

"You sure? You look pretty sure to me man." Evan says asking if it's alright and shoots a spike with the rope tied around it half of the way to the top.

"That flag is ours." Scott says and wants to start climbing the rope but sees the disappointed expressions on the others faces. Jean pushes past him and starts to climb the mountain normally.

With Lances group they arrive at a ladder leading to the top but there are some rocks blocking the exit.

"You bonehead. We can't get through there." Lance tells Todd angrily.

"I figured you could avalanche it lose a little?" Todd replies.

"Alright, stand back." Lance tells them shoving Todd away and tries to use his powers to clear their path but instead causes the support beams in the tunnel to crack, trapping them in the mine.

"There it is. Victory." Scott says once he sees the flag a few meters away from them, when they suddenly feel the ground beneath them shake, causing Evan and Kitty to fly off the mountain screaming.

Ben quickly jumps after Kitty while Jean manages to catch Evan with her telekinesis and brings him back up.

Ben transforms into his fastest flyer, Astrodactly and speeds towards her, catching her in his arms and flying them back up the mountain telling her "Man that was close."

"Yeah, thank you. You saved me." Kitty says relieved.

"That tremor had to be Lance, that means they are close. Jean levitate us all to the top." Scott tells her.

"No way forget it." She tells him.

"What, you just used your powers, what's the difference?" Scott asks.

"That was life and death, this contest isn't. I would have thought X-men know the difference." Jean tells him.

"Over here. It's them." Rogue tells the other having heard something from a Shute leading into the mountain.

"We're caved in, come on don't leave us down here man, not for some stupid flag." Toad tells them, seeing Rogue, Ben, Scott and Jean peer inside.

"We won't." Scott tells them and they rescue the others. Once they are back topside however they start to fight over the flag again until Storm comes to fetch them telling them that Professor Xavier and Mystique are in danger. The two groups decide to band together for now and get in the jet, taking off towards the Institute other than Ben who uses his Artiodactyl form to fly ahead.

During the flight Lance notices Ben's absence and sits down next to Rogue asking "So, your boyfriend ditched you huh? Too scared to come along?"

"Actually, he flied ahead to try and buy us enough time to arrive and make it in time." Rogue tells him.

"As if, what do you say you ditch the loser and try out a real man?" Lance asks.

"Eww, as if anyone other than Ben could handle me." Rogue tells him annoyed and moves over to sit next to Kitty.

|A few minutes ago – Xavier Institute|

"Lay out the welcome mat brother, I'm home." Juggernaut says walking into the Institute, setting off a silent alarm. Logan tries to stop him before he can get into the building and tries to tackle the man, only to be swept aside as juggernaut continues on ahead. Logan quickly rebounds, jumping over the man and readying his blades.

"You can't stop the Juggernaut." Juggernaut says angrily and starts to swing at Logan.

"Forgive me for trying bub." Logan replies trying to cut his opponent with his claws but doing no damage to his suit.

After a few seconds of them fighting Juggernaut manages to land a solid hit on Logan, sending him crashing through the entrance. Once inside the building the Juggernaut walks through the walls, heading for where his brother should be while throwing Logan around through some walls.

After walking through a specific wall Mystique who was following him sees the now destroyed wreckage of Cerebro and gets angry at Juggernaut.

Juggernaut who continued on ahead broke through the floors, with Log and and then throws him against a huge door, before he knocks Logan out by ramming into him and the door, throwing it off its hinges in the process.

"You lumbering imbecile, what did you do? Sit on Cerebro? You've smashed it. What happened to our deal?" Mystique demands to know.

"I don't make deals." Juggernaut tells her and throws her over the room, knocking her over to Charles who tries to talk down his brother.

"Cain it doesn't have to end badly. This house, it's all about new beginnings." Charles tells him as Juggernaut makes his way over to Charles and Mystique.

"You're right this is a new beginning for me and the end for the both of you." Juggernaut tells them.

"You have learned nothing and you never will." Charles says disappointed. Ben appears at the Institute and quickly follows the path of destruction leading to the danger room.

"Whoa who's that guy?" He asks impressed by the massive stature of the Juggernaut.

"Be careful Ben, he is unstoppable." Charles tells him.

"We'll see about that." Ben says turning into Diamondhead and charges the man who's now eye to eye with him.

Ben tries to overpower the man but Juggernaut barely reacts and crushes Ben's crystalline arms.

"The hell? My crystals are really tough." Ben curses trying again, only to get knocked away a few feet by the Juggernaut.

"Ben I've told you he's unstoppable." Charles says.

"Oh wait you meant that literally?" Ben asks.

"Yes." Charles tells him.

"OK, I have an idea then." Ben says and concentrates quickly, transforming into a glibberish beign with a flying saucer over its head.

"What is your protégé on drugs or something?" Mystique asks Charles thinking Ben is crazy.

Hah, what are you going to do when you can't move anymore?" Ben says triumpthantly as he envelops Juggernaut to a degree where he can't get any contact with the ground or use his hands properly. He basically replaces the fluids that contained the invincible man before.

"You've only stopped me for a short while. Your energy will run out sooner or later while mine lasts forever." Juggernaut tells Ben.

"Professor, he's not wrong about that any ideas?" Ben asks the professor by stretching a face from the lying Juggernauts over to the two conscious adults in the room.

The others show up in that moment and Logan regaining his bearings tells them "Cains helmet, remove it. Having heard from Charles that he can knock him out once the helmet is gone.

"Guys, hurry up. I can't contain him forever." Ben tells them in his goop form.

Kurt quickly teleports over to the lying Juggernaut and opens one clasp on the helmet, Quicksilver follows suit, but Juggernaut starts to fight back harder against Ben and breaks through the confinement.

He tries to get up but Blob knocks him away a few steps but once he lands he runs right back at the teen, throwing him against the opposite wall. Scott quickly gets in front of Blob and shoots his laser to distract Juggernaut, who rips out a piece of the danger room and throws it at him, making Scott dodge.

Avalanche uses his powers to cause the ground beneath Juggernaut to become unstable and he keels over, Toad quickly uses his tongue to snap open the third of four latches

Storm uses her powers to create a strong enough wind to knock over the big man and Kitty appears with Rogue through a wall, unclasping the last one and they quickly run away before Juggernaut can retaliate.

Ben, who is back on his feet shifts into Ghostfreak and flies over to Juggernaut invisible and grabs the Helmet, lifting it off the man.

"Nooo." He yells and tries to charge at Charles only to get stopped by him using his telepathy to knock him out.

"Come on Boys, let's leave before you get invited to a slumber party." Mystique tells her group and leads them away.

"Hey Summers, as a group leader you're only half bad." Lance says as they leave.

"So now what?" Ben asks turning himself visible again in his ghost form.

"We'll take him back to his Cell, hoping we won't have to see him again anytime soon." Charles tells them.