Genesis

By
Kate R.

Warning-A.N.s: AU all the way


Part I

       A mess.  The Universe was one, huge mess.  That was what Jon Quick thought looking out at earth from his office window.  Crime was at an all time high, no one could stop the mob, and the street fighters made more money than most people with 9 to 5 jobs.  The world had been bloody ever since Mon*Star had come here from Limbo looking to make Earth's resources his own.  Jon sighed.  The Resistance was doing its best to fight them off but some members of Earth Command had sold out.  Jon felt tired and rough around the edges. Playing nice with the Mob wasn’t working.  Not after what had happened to Crystal last week.  The Sonuvabitch had raped her.

       "Skip?"  A Texan voice came from behind him.  "We need t' move again.  Mob's getting close to us again."

       Jon nodded tiredly.  it was basically just him and Mike now.  Mike who used the name BlueGrass as his callsign.  Jon shrugged into his worn bomber jacket and followed BlueGrass outside where their bikes were waiting.

       "We'll go through the Street Fight crowd.  Should throw the mob off our backs for a while," Jon said to BlueGrass.  The Cowboy nodded and they kicked their bikes off for the crowd gathered in the street.

       Riding through the crowd, Jon and BlueGrass found themselves on the edge of the fight itself.

       "Special treats for you all tonight guys," the announcer called.  "Blade and Vicious are spoiling for some action  Any takers?"

       Jon and BlueGrass watched as a heavy set man stalked up to the cage and entered it.  Jon wondered if Blade and Vicious could handle this guy.  He and BlueGrass could both see the chains the guy carried on him.  But, seeing as they couldn't get out of the push of the crowd, they sat and watched.

       The fight started with a flash of the guy's chain.  Blade caught it on his wrist.  Vicious turned and kicked him viciously in the back.  The fat man bellowed in rage and turned to her leaving him open to Blade's slash across his back from a knife that seemed to have just materialized in his hand.


Part II

"Blade, Watch out!"  Vicious called suddenly seeing Mr. Chain's friends coming after her partner.  Jon just stared as he turned and stabbed the fat man coming behind him with a short sword that had appeared almost from nowhere.

       "Where the hell?"  Jon heard BlueGrass say from next to him.  Jon wanted to know that too.  Blade was wearing a short leather jacket.  His long coat was on the ground where he'd dropped it before the fight had begun.

       Jon watched him turn to one of Chain Guy's other friends and spin the short sword in a very deadly arc.  He was playing though.  Jon could tell.  However, Jon did not want to meet him if he wasn't playing.  He knew very well what he was doing with that thing.  Hence the name Blade, Jon supposed.

       He could also see where Vicious' name came from.  That woman was damn well cruel in the fight.  And she was good at inflicting pain without death.

       When the fight was over, Jon saw Chain guy and his friends were on the ground bloody and broken but at least they still lived.  Jon watched the two collect the winnings and prepare to leave.  He could use fighters like those two.  If he could talk to them maybe he could persuade them to help.

       Jon decided quickly.

       "Come on," he said to BlueGrass, "we're following them.  We need to talk to him.  They could be just what we need."

       Following them proved difficult but Jon managed it.  They found themselves outside of a huge sprawling complex and he and BlueGrass were watching the gate.  They never saw the man who appeared behind them and knocked them both out.

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       "Was that necessary Death?" the girl with the man asked.  The man shrugged.  "They followed your siblings.  I don't like that.  Come on, lets get them in so we can ask what they want."

       The man called Death lifted Jon and the girl BlueGrass and carried them into the complex.

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       "The General will want to know," was the first thing Jon heard when he woke up.  He found his hands were tied and BlueGrass was laying next to him still in the process of coming around.

       "Wonder what he'll do them?"  A girl's voice asked.

       "No idea but we all know he's been more and more like the General of old lately.  Too much death and destruction," the first voice said.

       "Sucks that he has to do this," the girl's voice said.  "It isn't fair but we all know no one else can do it."

       Suddenly, Jon found himself hauled into a sitting position.  "Eavesdropping is not nice," the girl said.  She was a smallish girl with long, honey colored hair pulled into a braid that went down her back.  "What did you two want?  You were on private property."

       Jon stared at her in shock when the other man spoke.

       "Tell us or tell the General but you will explain why you were chasing two of ours down.  All they did was fight soldier boy."

       "We wanted their help," BlueGrass said as he finally got his head together.  "T' help with the mob war."

       "That's what we do cowboy," the girl said.  "We..."

       "Pain," a softly accented German voice spoke from behind them.  "Let them speak."

       Jon stared at the man who stood behind the girl, Pain and her mate.  He was tall with unusual blue/gray eyes that seemed to shift color in the light.  He carried himself with the easy grace of a warrior yet his eyes were compassionate.

       "Why do you want the help of my children?" he asked.

       Jon gawked.  "Your children?" he asked.  The man chuckled.

       "I am The General," he said.  "All who serve under me are my children.  Why do you seek their aid?"

       Jon stared at him before he explained his need for aid against Mon*Star and the mob.  The General, whom both Jon and BlueGrass knew by reputation listened and nodded before he spoke to the group that had come in during Jon's explanation.

       "The God spoke to me this evening.  He told me Mon*Star must be defeated in order for the world balance to be restored.  if it is to be with these two fighting at our sides than so be it.  That which has happened since the fall has happened for a reason.  Lord Ares has spoken.  So mote it be."

       Jon swallowed hoping that was what it sounded like.  An offer of help in his cause.  He stared at the people around him and was amazed when Blade and Vicious released he and BlueGrass.

       "This is Blade and Vicious.  They will be the liaisons between our two groups.  My  call sign is The General.  This is Death, Pain, Executioner, Thief, Protector, Rogue, Warrior, and Gryphon.  There are many others scattered around.  Some like us, some not.  When the time comes you will understand that comment Jonathan Quick," The General said as he lead them to a room with two beds in it.

       "Rest, for tomorrow, we begin to plan."

       Jon nodded too tired to know how The General knew his name.  Something told him they were safe here and he was tired so he and Bluegrass laid down on the beds.  Tomorrow would be soon enough for answers.


Disclaimer: Own no one used herein.  Silverhawks and Mob characters belong to Lorimar and Marvel.

Chapter 2: Plans and Realizations

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