The tower of Abyss.

[abyss]

He was sitting in the top floor of the intimidating black tower that stood in the middle of his compound.

He was looking out of the window, looking at the view it gave him across his realm, he was hungry for some action but the last few days were peacefull, well compared to other days it was atleast.

He was waiting for something to happen, an assignment or something, anything, he was desperate at the moment, he was truly bored to death, he has spent the last days torturing his prisoners to death but even that isn't able to do the trick at the moment.

Then it hit him, there was still something else he could do, he pretty much killed all of the prisoners that were still in his holding cells but that wasn't the only place where he kept prisoners.

He started opening his chest, Blue energy started to escape from his void, his neck started to stretch together with his left hand en both parts of his body entered the void looking for one of the many things he had sucked inside of him.

It didn't take long for him to find his prey as he had a sort of mastery of this dimension that allowed him to influence it''s Prisioners by simple willing it.

He took out a man with Green skin, he looked a bit like a large lizard, But his skin looked a size or two too big hor body, there was no hope to be seen in his eyes, and it seems that he has lost his mind.

The moment he noticed the face of Abyss coming towards him he tried crawrling away and started trashing as he was picked up by the large hand but the hand kept him firmly.

He was then taken to the home dimension of the two and there he was thrown on the ground.

This was the man that had killed his mother, and Abyss intented to play around with for a while, but he wouldn't kill him, no, this man would suffer for the rest of his live.

He ordered the guards to lock the door while he glanced around the walls inside of his chamber, there were several weapons hanging on them, but he chose a knife and grabbed it with his left hand while the other started wrapping around the Lizardman.

"I've heard that a lizard's tail will always grow back, I'm curious to see if this is true."Abyss said as he turned the man and positioned him so that his tail was up in the air.

And he started sticking his knife right in his tail, wich caused the man to scream for help.

"Spare your breath, no one can help you and I'm just getting started, besides it'll take a while to get the job done with this small thing."

[ladyace]

Carol felt her heart start to race as she reached the tower of Abyss. It had taken weeks of recon and the lives of many good spies to find the exact location of this place. Carol had a complete map of the entire structure, and she had studied it so many times that she probably knew this tower better than Abyss himself. Carol knew that Abyss was a heavy hitter, so she also brought along thirty of her best men and women to ensure the missions success.

The mission itself wasn't to take out Abyss, but to retrieve any information he might be holding about Apocalypse's strong hold, or about any future plans Apocalypse might have. Taking out Abyss wasn't really on the agenda, but if the opportunity made itself known then she wouldn't hesitate to take it.

"This is Lady Ace to command central, do you read me," she said into her COM link. "We read you loud and clear Lady Ace, and you have permission to proceed." After hearing this Carol turned to her second in command and gave him the thumbs up. She had them brake up into three teams of ten and kept one team outside with her as cover while the others made their way into the tower. After studying all of its weak points for the last few months it was easy for them to take out the few visible guards at the entrance and gain entry. "We're in Lady Ace," Carol heard once her men were no longer visible. "Good, We're coming in. Take out all threats, quietly make your way to the top, and gather any and all info on Apocalypse and his Horsemen. Once you've reached the top stay put until I get there." Carol's orders were clear, and if anyone went against them then she would kill them herself. This mission was dangerous enough as it was and the last thing she needed was someone screwballing around.

Before making their way into the tower Carol handed her second in command a normal looking backpack. "You know what to do. Be quick and meet us at the top." The soldier gave a slight nod and made his way into the tower. After he was securely in the tower Carol took in the rest of her team in. The first two teams had done their jobs well. Many of the guards were taken out and Abyss seemed completely unaware of their presence.

Once Carol and her team had finally reached the top everyone was in place. Her second in command handed her back the brown bag and informed Carol that everything was set. "Did you recover any information?" Carol asked the other two team leaders. "We found a data computer, but the only thing we could hack into was Sinister's new list of pen captives. Everything else was too heavily encrypted." Carol wasn't happy with this, but taking out Abyss would have to make up for their lack of info.

"Alright, lets get ready to do this." Carol said. The men all stood back as she place a little explosive of the doors of Abyss's main chamber. She knew he was inside because she could her someone screaming out for help, and Abyss's vile voice. Once the explosive was in place Carol stepped back and hit the button. The doors flew open with a loud explosion and Carol and her men quickly stormed the room with guns out ready to fire. "Drop the Lizard Abyss, it's time for you to die. FIRE AT WILL AND TRY NOT TO HIT THE LIZZARD!" Carol's men then began to rapidly fire at Abyss.

[abyss]

He was standing there sitting against his desk while examening the tail he had just 'found', he took a glance at the wimpering man that was sitting behind a chair, but he couldn't see anything growing back yet.

But suddenly a hard blast was heard and Abyss quickly pressed the alarm button that was on his desk, his troops were notified.

Abyss was shocked by this sudden intrusion for a moment and then quickly compressed his mass, It was abvious that they knew very little about him otherwise they would've used other weapons against him.

The bullets simply felt like mosquito bites while his mass was so tightly compressed that it was diamond hard, but that didn't mean he didn't feel the pain, but he loved that feeling and this made him only more dangerous.

"Who do you think you're are up againt, There is no flesh to be pierced by your bullets."His chest started opening and the void that was there started to look like a whirlwind of surging blue energy, while he slowly started sucking up every thing that was in the room starting by bullets that were lying on the ground and the just seperated tail.

"You all are going to regret this deeply!"

[ladyace]

Carol looked on as Abyss became aware of their presence. She knew normal bullets wouldn’t hurt a Horsemen of Apocalypse, but using them was apart of her plan. Abyss was powerful, but he was also cocky, and Carol knew that it wouldn't take long for him to 'open up' to them. Carol quickly pulled out her energy rifles and as she did Abyss began to open the void in his chest.

"Alright people this is our only chance, so do screw up," Carol said to her team. Carol could feel the void trying to pull her in, so she stomped her feet into the floor hard and made two foot holes to keep her from flying into the void. The other members of her team had clips attached to their boots that held them to the floor. Carol could see that one of her team members clips weren't digging deep enough, and it wasn't long before he went flying into the void. There was nothing she could do but listen to his screams as his body vanished into Abyss's void.

"Damn. Lets do this now!" Carol said. She hated to loose anyone, but she knew that he wouldn't be the last.

Every member of her team began to quickly take out little balls from their uniforms. The balls were little explosives that were made out of metal, and had a little blue button on them. Carol watched her team, urging them to move faster because she could feel the voids pull getting stronger. Once everyone had their explosives out Carol pulled out an explosive from one of the bigger pockets on her belt, but it was much larger. She pressed the blue button on her explosive and a 10 second timer appeared on it. "Alright guys release them," Carol commanded. Her team released their explosives all at once, and Carol also released her own.

As the explosives were about to completely enter Abyss's void Carol aimed her energy rifles at the bomb she released and fired. The bomb quickly exploded and caused a chain reaction that made all the other little bombs explode as well. The explosion was so strong that some of Carol's men were thrown back against the wall by it, and Carol even felt her own body move back a little.

[abyss]

He had seen this move coming, he had one chance of saving himself from beeing blown to pieces or risking being blown up, he pulled the full reverse on his void and expelled one of the many people out of his realm, this didn't mean that he got away clean.

No, the force of the blast threw him out of the window, and he regained consciousness 3 floors down from where he was before, he claw wrapped itself around a spike that was positioned next to a window, he took a moment to formulate a plan, first thing he needed to do was seal of the exits, he took out the com link out of his belt and switched it on.

"Start Cerberus, no one is to leave alive, make sure of it!"He barked trough the com, and then smashed trough the window while using his powers to slither around like a sneak trough the room and then trough the hall way, right when the alarms started going off and the doors of the elevators and stairs locking up.

[ladyace]

Abyss had clearly seen their move coming because the explosion didn't blow him to bits. Carol was ready for phase two of her plan but Abyss had been thrown through a window, and she had no idea where he was. "Damn," Carol cursed to herself. Even with all of her planning, Carol's plan was still falling apart. She would have to forget about Abyss for now, and focus on the mission at hand. "Lady Ace to command central, do you read me."

"We read you lady ace what’s you status?"

"We've recovered some data but I don't know how useful it will be, and we weren't able to take down Abyss." Carol knew that command central didn't really approve of her going against a Horsemen of Apocalypse, but she really didn't have time to worry about that right now.

"Good work Lady Ace. Get us the data and return home when you’re ready."

"We'll be home as soon as we can, Lady Ace out." Carol knew that she wasn't going straight home and that this mission wasn't over yet, at least not for her. She turned to her second in command and told him to take the recovered data and return to the base. At first he looked a little confused, but he didn't question Carol's orders. He took eight other soldiers with him, and went out the same window as Abyss. Carol let out a little sigh as she heard the sound of jet packs starting up and fading out. At least now she knew that the data would be delivered.

"The rest of you are coming with me. Abyss is somewhere in this tower and we're going to take him out." Just as Carol said this she heard alarms start to go off and the doors and windows began to shut. Carol ran to the door and caught it just as it was about to close. She used her superhuman strength to hold it up until everyone was on the over side. "Lets move Carol said as they ran to the other door and barely made it in time to stop it from closing. They had managed to make it down three floors before all the doors had completely closed on them.

Carol was a little lost on what to do until she saw Abyss slithering through the hall like the vile little snake he was. "Here's our chance, lets hit him hard and fast." Carol said to her team is a whisper as she pulled out her energy rifles. "There's no where to run Abyss, your dead." Carol said as she opened fire on Abyss with her energy rifles. Her team followed her lead and also opened fire, but this time they didn't use ordinary bullets. They had high powered plasma guns that packed a good punch. Not all of the soldiers fired guns; some of them threw the same bombs at Abyss that were used in the earlier attack.

[abyss]

Abyss managed to keep himself under control, he had the urge to simple attack them all in full fury but he didn't intent to go out in that way so he simply tried to escape, he had helped built this place and the moment they started blasting he made himself he compressed his body so tightly that he was capable of going under the door, he quickly descended the stairs, he needed to head outside and meet up with his soldiers.

AS he was movind the tower started moving it started turning and slowly lowering itself into the ground this was part of the defense mechanism as his walls started raising and weaponry started appearing on those walls while soldiers start surrounding the tower.

It took him a minute or two to reach his men, and he stopped where his second in command was.

"How could they have come this far?"HE barked at him while he stopped to calm down a bit.

"Make sure no one leaves, otherwise there will be consequences, I want the head of their leader brought before me, now surround the tower and kill them all!"He barked as his soldiers as they roared as he threw his hands up and then started surrounding the tower, while charging their weapons and powers alike.

[ladyace]

Carol cursed herself as Abyss once again got away. The soldiers looked pleased with themselves, but Carol knew that this could mean trouble. "Alright team, let’s blow this joint." Before making their grand exit Carol knew that they would need and exit. "Lady Ace to command central, we need a ride ASAP."

"There should be one there in a few seconds Lady Ace so hold tight."

The tower gave a slight shake and Carol was really starting to get worried. "Look out!" Carol screamed as a gun appeared out of nowhere. The soldiers all jumped out of the way and Carol was able to quickly take it out with her energy rifle. "This gives me an idea," she said to herself. Carol grabbed a sparking cable from the gun she destroyed and began to absorb the electric energy. Her team looked at her confused but Carol didn't have time to explain what she was doing.

As Carol absorbed the energy the lights in the tower began to flicker, and the tower itself began to jerk and slowly come to a stop. Once Carol was finished the lights in the tower were out and the only light that was visible was the bright blue glow coming from her body. Carol went up to a wall, and let out a yell as she punched it three times and made a hole. She then grabbed the wall and pulled it back, making the hole even bigger. The glow from Carol's body wasn't as bright after making the hole but it was still visible.

"Lady Ace your ride is in place but we cannot get closer because there are too many enemy soldiers around."

"Well handle the cover fire; you just get down here, now!" Carol told her team to get ready to fly, and they all started up their jet packs. "This should keep them distracted," Carol thought as she pulled out a little trigger and pressed it. The trigger was for the explosions Carol had her second in command line each floor of the tower with when they first arrived, in case things got a little nasty. Once the trigger was pressed, each floor of the tower started to explode from the bottom up. The explosives weren’t strong enough to take the tower completely down but they would still have to rebuild it in the inside. As the explosives went off, sending dust and debris everywhere, Carol and the remaining soldiers quickly made their way into the jet, and took off. Not everyone was able to make it to the jet even with the big distraction. Only 13 0f the remaining 21 was able to make it and the rest were shot down by Abyss's weapons system. Carol was happy that the mission was over, but she was also upset that they couldn't take out Abyss. "Maybe next time Carol," she thought to herself.

Exit Carol and the remaining members of her team.

[abyss]

He hasn't seen this coming something drained the entire Energy system of his tower and then a good part of the tower exploded, but he knew this was a distraction they would trey to escape.

"Tracker!"He shouted but the smoke made it difficult to see.

"Yes, I'm on it."The redheaded man's eyes started glowing, he had the power to analyze data at high speeds but more importantly he could lock into a target and then would be able to follow it to any place on earth.

"Find the leader, and then lock on to her!"Abyss shouted as he made way to a building close to him, he would need to reach Apocalypse.

[apocalypse]

Within his own tower Apocalypse watched as surveillance cameras were suddenly disabled within Abyss' tower, he had been alerted when Abyss gave the security measure Cerberus - Apocalypse awaited a report but none came through as of yet. To destroy Abyss would take an immense amount of power, or thought - both would be something Apocalypse would applaude, even at the loss of one of his powerful horsemen.

He would usually send in Angel during one of these missions but due to his misbehavings earlier in the night Apocalypse decided not to lay trust in him at this point. Those who had attacked were either dead or had fled by now, knowing full well that Apocalypse would not allow an attack to continue upon his grounds without him getting involved himself. Sending out a small robotic plane he gained surveillance once again and saw Abyss upon the ground alongside many of his legion.

"Abyss, report" Apocalypse sent out to an open frequency.

[abyss]

"Master, several enemy soldiers were able to enter my tower and and make it up to my private room where they intended to assasinate me, they were well prepared and I wasn't able to take them all out on my own, I intended to make my soldiers do the work for me but they managed to shut down the tower's systems and then made quite some damage with explosives while they retreated."He replied trough his communicator, Abyss was still furious about the simple way these people were able to penatrate his defences but atleast he still had Tracker.

"I used tracker to lock on to them, if I may, I would like to lead the troops in destroying their compound as soon as they have reached their homebase."He was hungry for revenge, that woman would get a nice warm spot in his void, he was sure of that.

But he somehow thought that Apocalypse wouldn't trust him with this mission, because of him not being able to take out the soldiers the first time on his own, but Abyss is no idiot, he isn't a Apocalypse or a Holocaust, no Abyss is dangerous, but exactly that and not all powerfull.

No he could've hardly strangled them all to death.

[apocalypse]

Apocalypse's head grew heated, he was furious that somebody could gain entry to Abyss' rooms - it was hard enough to get into the tower uninvited. Nearly toppling Apocalypse's anger was the fact that they had escaped.

"You wanted your soldiers to take care of something you should do!?" Apocalypse growled, it was the one time Apocalypse made any type of emotion, anger. "Perhaps next time you should realise the reason I made you a horseman and not your soldiers!". It was a true statement, to become a horseman you needed to be advanced and more powerful than any other - those who followed Apocalypse knew that if you challenged a horseman and won then you'd take their place. Survival of the fittest.

"Follow them, but do not attack. We don't want you or your soldiers to screw up again." Apocalypse said, his voice cold with disappointment. "Report the coordinates to me and then wait."

If you wanted something done right, you would have to do it yourself.

[abyss]

"As you wish master."Abyss simply said as he had been expecting a reaction like this.

He had dissapointed his master and he was very aware of it, he would make up for it, he promised to himself, the old Abyss, the one who didn't have to worry about what kind of shoes hundreds of soldiers wore, or how much energy the generator of the compound generated in a month, a Abyss that had no responsabilities, would rise again, the Abyss that could've killed anyone by being simply maniacal.

"It will not happen again, Lord"He meant that he would never go for the easy way again, as this was what let him down today, he had grown lazy and soft over the years of power but he would take a more hands on approach from this moment on, schedules and raports would have to be examened by someone else from now on.