Pyro had been nervous and twitchy, cluing the two in that something was going on, but they were unprepared for such an extreme reaction. As one they turned to see exactly what had set him off.
Seeing a hall that suddenly looked like it was a gateway to hell made them nervous. Watching a figure wreathed in flames approach as if it was nothing more then a small annoyance… pants would need to be changed.
Colossus quickly tossed Sabertooth’s unconscious body into the infirmary and slammed the door shut, while Gambit threw a trio of charged playing cards at the apparition. The cards flared up and fizzed out as the flames consumed them far short of their goal.
Gambit squinted as he stared into the inferno. “Concentrate all your flames on ‘im. Doan’ waste none on the furniture.”
Pyro nodded slightly and narrowed his focus, drawing all the heat in the hall into a living column of flame.
Colossus shielded his eyes from the glare. Remmy had managed to pull a pair of sunglasses out of somewhere and Pyro was too focused on what he was doing to even notice it, but the steel in the hallway surrounding the pillar was beginning to glow.
“I think stopping now would be good. Hall is melting. Surely enemy has melted too.”
Pyro released his hold on the flames, staggered and would have fallen had Gambit not grabbed him. He looked exhausted. Sweat was dripping from his forehead and his breath was coming out in short pants.
“Did I get him?”
All eyes turned to the hole burned through the steel plated floor of the hall. The edges were still glowing white hot and the tink of cooling metal could be heard echoing throughout the slagged hall.
****
Ranma stared up at the hole.
He knew his ability to resist heat was high. The training he had gotten from Master Caine allowed him to ignore hot coals. The Phoenix Pill he had gotten from Cologne had upped his resistance even further, (The fight with Saffron probably would have gone quite differently if not for Caine and Cologne.) and after having been bathed in the flames of a dying phoenix he’d suspected it had risen even higher.
This however… was a surprise.
Then he noticed he was feeling a bit of a draft.
Looking at himself he could easily see the reason why.
“Did I get him?”
****
The Acolyte’s began to relax. It looked like whatever it had been Pyro had fried it. Nothing could have survived that! Pyro had nearly exhausted himself exerting his power to the limits. The conflagration he had created had been a shocker, even to him.
The naked male that leapt from the hole was a rather unpleasant surprise.
“That’s it. No more ‘Mister Nice Ghost’. You have destroyed the last change of clothes I had with me and you are going to pay!”
****
Magneto awoke with a start. It took a second for her brain to reboot.
‘Girlish screams… Girls… Wanda kissing another girl…’
*Thump*
Wanda sighed as she watched her father pass out again.
‘I have no idea how I’m going to explain this to him. Maybe I can pass Ranma off as my lesbian lover?’
An evil grin grew on her face as she imagined his reaction.
****
Ranma just stood there scratching the back of his head.
Of all the possible reactions he had anticipated ‘Scream-like-a-little-girl and then run-like-your-ass-was-on-fire’ wasn’t one of them.
‘I wonder what scared them?’
Ranma finally just shrugged it off and went to raid their closets for some clothes like he had planned.
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