Nothin' but Beast pt 3
"I will not tell you! You will not make it out in time either. So you have a choice save Washington DC or save yourself!"
Beast grunted as he loosened his grip on Schweitzoff. He threw him against the wall and ran down the hall.
What should I do? If I get out of here to save myself, the human race might be doomed. But if I make it to the rocket lab in time, I might be able to save a lot of people, but I would die in doing so.
Hank decided to head for the rocket lab. If he stopped them in time he might have enough time to get out of there alive. He started up some stairs and came to a passageway labeled ladder. If he took the ladder it might be faster since it goes straight up instead of going zigzagged. He would try it and see. He went in the door and came to a room that was shaped like a circle. It had a ladder on the wall and when you looked up, it was an endless tunnel. He jumped on the ladder and headed up.
It took about 30 minutes to reach the floor marked rocket floor. He opened the door and entered the room. It was giant. In the corner was a big computer and in the center of the room there was a 20 foot platform with a giant rocket. On the platform there were a set of rocket controls. And somebody was at them! It was a very large man with a black leather suit on. He was working at the controls furiously. Oh! And there were a couple people around him. There was a small fat man and a tall skinny man too! They were all wearing the same clothes.
Beast slowly climbed up the railing to the platform and looked over the big mans shoulders. He was setting the rockets course for Washington DC! The small fat man saw Hank.
"Hey you! Guys, there's something over there."
Beast stared climbing down the railing as fast as he could.
"Oh no you don't!" the tall skinny man yelled.
Beast kept climbing till he got closer to the bottom. Suddenly a blast of water hit him and he went tumbling down the railing. The all of the sudden something wrapped around Hank's leg and he hung in the air, 10 feet from the floor. The rope-like-thing reeled hank in and he found that the fat man had shot ropes out from his hands.
Hmm his mutant ability must be to shoot ropes from his arms. And the tall skinny one, he must be able to control water… but I still don't know what that big one does.
The three men examined Hank for awhile until one of them spoke.
"What are you a gorilla?!" The skinny one asked.
"Chill out Current, he's like one of us." The big one said.
"Yeah hey, are you a criminal?" the small chubby one asked as he dropped Beast from the ropes that he was entangled in.
"Nnn I mean yah of course I am." Hank knew that if he became their friend, maybe he could convince them to cancel the rocket launch.
"Cool, I'm Ryan a.k.a. Current." The skinny one said.
"I'm you can call me Beast." Hank told them.
"Cool, this is Robert a.k.a. Ropes (the chubby one) and Colossus (the big one) he don't have no real name." Ryan explained.
"So I'm curious, what's your power Colossus?" Beast couldn't resist to ask.
"Oh." Said Colossus as he flexed his arms.
He flexed hard and Hank watched his white skin turn into pure metal.
"Wow nice." Beast was starting to get to like these guys.
I'm staring to like these guys. They'd make good additions to the school. If only I could get them to turn to the good side.
"So guys I see your plotting that rocket towards Washington DC." Beast asked.
"Yeah so?" Robert said.
"So, why are you doing it?"
"Were under order of Magneto, we do everything he tells us."
"Isn't it about time you guys stood up to him. I mean you guys are smarter, stronger, and faster so why don't you just beat him."
"It would be nice to not have him bossing us around all the time." Colossus said.
"I say, you guys team up with me and help keep the rest of them down here so they won't get to the surface."
They all got an evil smile on their faces that tingled Beast spine.
"What's in it for us?" Ryan asked.
"Have you ever wanted to save the world?"
Suddenly a crowd of evil troops entered the room.
"Okay were in with you, Beast." Current said.
The soldiers marched up to the platform and approached Colossus and surround the three criminals.
"You guys were supposed to have that rocket set off already." The head soldier told Colossus.
"New plan Soldier save the world!" yelled Colossus as he punched the soldier in the face.
The whole crowd of troops started firing at the mutants. Colossus smacked a few off the platform and Beast kicked a soldier and broke his neck. Current ran to the edge of the platform and saw a sink. If he could turn it on, he could control the water and knock out a couple of guys.
"Ropes! Turn on the sink." Ryan yelled at his friend.
Ropes unleashed his ropes and lead them over to the sink to turn it on. The water gushed out and Current controlled it to go over to the troops and knock them over with the force. Ropes then strangled a couple of people and soon all of the troops were either knocked out or dead.
"Yeah! We creamed em." Yelled Current.
"Now we gotta turn this bomb off." Said Colossus.
"No wait! Why don't we ride it up a couple of floors." Beast suggested.
"He's right, if we set it to go up a lot of floors we could jump off." Ropes explained.
"Yeah good idea, but it will still blow up when it comes back down." Current told them.
"So when it blows up. It will blow up the criminals with it." Colossus said.
"We'll be heroes." Said Current.
"So when we get off, we should get out of here as fast as we can." Beast said.
"It's risky." Said Ropes.
"Let's do it!" yelled Colossus and the 4 of them put there hands together and went over to the controls to program a different destination.
Soon they programmed it and all of them were on the rocket except for Beast.
"You guys ready?" Beast asked.
The 3 of them nodded and clutched onto some handles on the rocket. Beast counted down in his head and pressed the button. The rocket engine started and Beast rushed over and jumped on to the rocket. But he slipped! He started tumbling down the shaft and clung back on right by the engine. The engine was getting hot and was about to fry Beast head off! But right when he thought he was doomed for sure, Robert wrapped his ropes around him and pulled him up.
"You guys are great friends." Beast said as the rocket rocketed up the shaft , safely getting closer to the top.