Spider-Man: Duty and Loss Chapter 99: Die

Laura's eyes shifted to Thor for a second at his explosive entrance and that was her first mistake. Kimura's eyes flickered for a second, Jubilee no longer providing cover, also distracted. *Whish* Laura flinched as she felt the roundhouse closing in on her head, she couldn't react in time! Her feet were in the wrong position!

Pulling her guard up in time, *bam*, the foot slammed into her forearms knocking Laura off balance. Before she could recover a leg swept her feet and she was lying on the ground. Kimura wasted no time locking her body down and started pummeling into her unguarded face.

*Grr* "Lets see which breaks fist your skull or your brain?!" Elbows, fists, any and everything were thrown into Laura's head. Kimura even grabbed her head and started slamming it into the asphalt. Laura struggled, but it was a losing battle. Even though she healed, if this kept up her brain would turn to mush!

"You shitty bitch! Die already! You're worthless! A piece of shit that no one wants to associate with! A failed experiment! A lost puppy that needs to be put down!" Though her vision was blurred her anger was starting to build a small voice in her head amplifying her emotions!

Her hatred! Absolute loathing! Disgust! Repulsion! Everything was internalizing until only one train of thought dominated Laura's mind. "Die! Die! Burn in hell! Die! Die!" *Hahaha.* The dark chuckle in the depths of her mind was completely missed.

Magneto's face turned grim as he looked at the God of Thunder. Lightning still crackled around him as he turned in his direction. He said nothing as he surveyed the area; the Brotherhood was not performing well against the X-men and Avengers.

A slight hint of doubt entered his mind, but he quashed it and quickly picked up some cars by the side, before throwing them at the minor god. Thor's eyes narrowed as he deflected the incoming projectiles.

*Boom* *Boom* Two cars exploded as their remains scattered to the side. "Have at thee!" Finding his main enemy Thor wound back his arm and flung his hammer forth. To Magneto it was a strange feeling he got from the hammer, but a familiar one.

It was metal!

He reached out his hand and his power reached out to control something in his domain. The incoming hammer slowed down for a moment, a frown coming to Thor's face, before it continued its path.

*Bang* Magneto just dodged out of the way before the hammer impacted where he once stood, obliterating the ground. His face was ugly as he tried once again to take control of the hammer. He could feel the metal, but something was interfering with his control! It was like nothing he had ever felt!

Magneto rose into the air ready to continue the fight as Mjolnir returned to Thor. Just as the fight was about to intensify, Magneto felt something closing in from above. He looked up before moving to the side.

The form of the Blob came into sight for a split second before crashing into the ground. *Bang* The ground splintered from his impact and he was knocked out cold. Magneto looked down at him, before turning to Rouge who was making her way down.

Mystique looked at Rouge with a conflicted expression for a few seconds before she turned away. At the same time Storm rose into the air, thunder rumbling into existence. Thor looked in surprise for a second but didn't say anything; his focus was on his opponent.

Though he did think the fight was now unfair. Magneto was surrounded on three sides, on the left Rogue, on the right Storm and in front Thor himself. Eric gripped his fist, his thoughts wavering even more. Just as the tension was rising a new pulse of power spread out.

Most on the field couldn't feel it but some did. Wolverine felt his instincts spike in danger, Storm felt nature twist dangerously, Xavier and Jean both felt a powerful presence suddenly appear that roared in their mind and Thor felt something akin to the power of a god. He was the first to quickly turn in its direction, followed closely by the rest.

"Rargh!!!" Laura's horse scream tore out as she broke her collar bone, breaking out of the grapple she had been stuck in. Kimura was fast to recover but she struggled against Laura's new found strength.

In the short amount of time Laura got one hand free. Her blades gleamed darkly, a small pulse of something came off them. If someone looked close enough they would see it actually glowed a dull black! Kimura looked at the blade as it flashing down towards her hand; she looked from them to Laura's eyes.

She could tell she wasn't thinking about her act, her eyes even seemed to have turned pitch black as they starred coldly right at her. A cold chill went down her spine as she looked back to the claw bearing down.

She didn't know why but she couldn't peel her eyes of the blade, even though it couldn't hurt her. It was because of this that she had a front row seat to watching the blade cut through her skin like it was butter. *Slick*

Kimura was dumbfounded, she felt nothing. There was no blood, there was no pain, there was nothing except a sudden emptiness from where her hand had been. She couldn't feel it anymore that was all. "W-what?" The word stuttered from her in a voice she hadn't spoken in, in years.

It was a voice of fear, of dread of what was about to happen. Without the hand holding her down, Laura had a bigger range of movement and because she was so dumbfounded Kimura didn't even try and stop her from what she did next.

Her leg flipped around and an elbow hit her face, but Kimura didn't care. All she felt was the sudden disappearance of the feeling below her left ankle. Her eyes drifted down to look at the foot talon that had just gone by.

Now Kimura was on her back starring up at Laura as she towered over her, the black pools of death boring into her mind. She would never forget those eyes, ever. She only said one word as her other claw came down and took away her other arm.

"Die."

Chapter end