UNIVERSE BOWL VI: CHAPTER X: DOOMSDAY DESTRUCTION

            The angry blare of the klaxons fills the entire bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise.  Beneath the red din of the warning lights sits Professor X in the Captain’s chair.  The telepath looks through the viewport of the ship and sees the immense Technodrome.

            “Jessica. . .  full ahead!” instructs Professor X.

            Jessica Drew responds by pressing the buttons and spinning the knobs on the panel in front of her. 

            “Jean,” starts Xavier.

            “Already on it Charles, arming torpedoes one through four,” says a vampiric Jean Grey.

            “Fire one through four,” states Professor X in a calm demeanor.

            The rockets launch from the hub of the starship and race toward the semi-spherical tank. 

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            “Brace for impact!” says Black Lantern Thanos aboard the targeted machine.

            The Technodrome, newly retrofitted with anti-gravity boosters, is struck by all four torpedoes.  The Horsemen within are vessel are knocked and thrown around. 

            BL Thanos looks at the view screen and sees one of the Technodrome’s transport modules fall from the mother ship.  

  
            “Who is in that transport module?” questions BL Thanos.

            “No viable life signs,” responds Vulcan at a computer board.

            “A waste,” BL Thanos mutters to himself. “Launch the other modules immediately now that they are properly fitted with their weaponry and see if we can do some true damage to our enemy.”

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            A pair of modules screams from the Technodrome.  The first transport carries Vulcan, while the other hauls Madelyne Pryor.   The two Horsemen focus on the warp engine nacelles of the Enterprise.  In the first transport, Madelyne Pryor points Lord Voldemort’s magic wand at the port nacelle. 

            “Bombarda Maxima!” shouts Pryor. 

            A wave of light pours from Pryor’s wand and a portion of the port nacelle explodes.  The starship begins to slowly spin due to the port side’s inability to maintain a necessary balance between itself and the starboard side of the ship. 

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            “Nova,” exclaims Xavier, “you may commence action now.”

            “Will do, Charles,” answers Nova as he runs from the bridge toward a hatch in the starship that will allow him to enter the fray outside. 

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            Pryor lifts her wand again at the Federation vessel and uses a smashing spell to strike the starboard nacelle this time.  On the opposite side of the ship, Vulcan unleashes a psionic energy construct at the port nacelle.  The Enterprise is battered from both sides. 

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            “Where is Nova?” exclaims Professor X.

            “I don’t think we need Nova,” says Vampire Jean Grey.  “Look!”

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            Erupting from the scattered clouds are Ursa, Doomslayer, Steel Doomsday and Superboy Doomsday.  Ursa and Doomslayer attack the transport carrying Pryor while Steel Doomsday and Superboy Doomsday focus on the one ridden by Vulcan.    Instantly, the twin duos strike the ships and decimate both.

            “Aresto momentum,” shouts Pryor who uses both the spell and a telekinetically enhanced protective shield to soften the blow of any debris expelled by the destroyed ship and slow her fall.

            Vulcan easily flies away from his fragmented ship and unleashes an energy blast upon Superboy Doomsday.  The Doomsday incarnation shrugs off the blow and notices Steel Doomsday soaring at their mutual enemy.  Vulcan is about to project a force field to protect himself from the duo, but is not in time.  Both Superboy Doomsday and Steel Doomsday smack into Vulcan at the same time, crushing the mutant’s body between the pair.  Vulcan’s broken body falls from the sky and to the ground. 

            Pryor floats downward from the scene and manages to duck a blow from Ursa.  Pryor begins to mouth “Avada,” but is unable to speak the word “Kedavra” before her throat is crushed from behind by Doomslayer.  Pryor’s dead body joins Vulcan as she drops to the ground below. 

            As Nova is about to enter into the fracas, he notices the surviving Doomslayer, Ursa, Steel Doomsday and Superboy Doomsday.  The five look toward the Technodrome, acknowledge one another in the sky and then fly back to the Enterprise.  The victorious combatants manage to steady the vessel and then enter the starship in order to speak to Xavier and plan their next move. 

            BL Thanos, on the Technodrome, plans the same.