Current mood:

geeky

Whizz bang!
Woooooow!! X-Men Ultimate #2 : Return to Weapon X starts off with a Bang! Namely my favourite mutant: Nightcrawler! :D

Nightcrawler has escaped the Weapon X complex! Red alarms blaring, attack dogs snarling and straining at the leash as soldiers rev their snowmobiles through the snow, silhouettes of Nightcrawler flitting and vanishing in volcanic eruptions past a nighttime snowy landscape!

FWOOSH! Nightcrawler teleports, wrapped around the back of a masked Weapon X soldier, yanking him off his snowmobile, grabbing his gun and letting loose a barrage of bullets, taking down 2 more!

Dr. Cornelius, intense and hunched over the screens at the control centre, glasses mirroring the visual's mad chase of 30 snowmobiles tearing after Nightcrawler as his snowmobile plunges towards the edge of a cliff. Dr. Cornelius urging them to shoot to wound, he's invested too much time in the "little German boy who still wet his bunk a few months ago".

FWOOOSH!! Snowmobile, Nightcrawler and all plunge straight off the edge of the cliff, a mini nuclear explosion of amber smoke in midair!

Only Dr. Cornelius and one soldier knows that Nightcrawler isn't dead; another eruption of amber smoke and Colonel Wraith is there, Nightcrawler locked in the sight of his tranq gun as he hangs out the side of a chopper, strapped in by a harness. Dr. Cornelius urges again to take Nightcrawler alive; Colonel Wraith replies with an insult as PZZT! Nightcrawler's body wrenches backwards, a small explosion at his neck, and his snowmobile streaks off from under his airborne body.

Nightcrawler lies on the snow, glowing golden eyes wide and staring up at the star-speckled sky, his body reflected in Colonel Wraith's red goggles as he disembarks, walks over casually to let lose some cocky insults; Nightcrawler is the first mutant since Wolverine to make it this far. A commercial airliner flies overhead. Wraith sneers, mocks, 'cause he know Nightcrawler is too weak to teleport up there; he kicks Nightcrawler in the head. Two soldiers drag Nightcrawler by the feet back to the chopper, as Wraith instructs them to burn the soles of his feet; then, when he can't feel pain anymore, to torture the girl in the next cell who sings to him. Wraith breaks out a cigar: "It's time to send a message to anyone else with an escape plan hidden up their butt. Some of these animals are starting to forget who they belong to." End with a close up of the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem on his upper arm.

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But since I've read #3 already, I know Nightcrawler isn't going to hang around. :(