The Epic of Leviathan (A Mutant's Ascension)

Chapter 220 - Reactions (II)...

[Around the World]

The noise finally stopped and the same guy who called himself Leviathan appeared on the TV with similar clothes on his body. "Citizens of Earth… I am very disappointed in all of you. Believe me… I didn't want to do this but you didn't leave me much of a choice" Leviathan paused for a few seconds. Everyone around the world stewed in their thoughts for a few seconds. ??

"As all of you might have noticed, all the warheads have been launched and a lot of countries decided to try their luck. They beat up meta-humans on the streets because they thought it was a chance… they made a mistake. I had promised that I would massacre a whole city after all of my warheads are launched… I didn't want to do this… but you forced my hand. Now if I don't follow through with my threat then I will be a liar and I promise you that I am not a liar" Leviathan paused once again for a few moments. Country leaders around the world started to sweat… they started to dread the next words Leviathan was going to say.

All of them started to pray to Gods, after all, none of them wanted their countries to be the first victim of the massacre. All of them thought that, what Leviathan was doing was completely unfair, evil, and villainous but all of them knew that they could do nothing. They knew that a lot of innocents were going to die because of a handful of people but there was nothing they could do…

"Proof must be given and all of you will get the proof in five hours… just five hours. In five hours I will prove to all of you that I am not a liar" Leviathan spoke in a dramatic manner and like a broken dam a lot of people started to cry and curse towards the TVs.

"To give you proof I will make an example… after all, nothing could be better than an example. Once again… I will start with the United States of America" Leviathan declared and every country leader out there released a huge sigh… every leader did, except one. The President of the United States of America lost all of the strength in his body. He was shaking in fear and worry but he remembered that he had got 5 hours, maybe he could do something in these 5 hours.

"And I have chosen Nebraska for this auspicious occasion" the citizens of Nebraska were already on their knees in fear and panic. The city of Nebraska was completely still after that. Nobody spoke anything and said anything… only wails and sobbing could be heard.

"Now, I believe that I am someone generous… so like any other generous person, I will give you a chance… A chance to stop this massacre, to stop me from massacring you need to do one simple thing… you will just need to kill me" Leviathan said in a gentle tone… he looked really heartbroken with what he was going to do.

"Don't need to fret people… after all, there will be no need to look for me… in one hour I will arrive on the roof of the tallest building in Nebraska. Send your armies… send your weapons in the hope to stop me. I am giving the citizens of Nebraska 5 hours to evacuate the city… parents take your children out of this city, I am a good person and I don't want to kill children. If you don't get out of this city then only you will be responsible for the death of your children, not me. Please don't kill your children… good luck and may God have mercy on you because I won't" with that the broadcast finally stopped and pandemonium broke out in the city of Nebraska.

Everyone heard the announcement… so, all of them knew what was going to happen after the five hours. There were a lot of people who scoffed off at the claim of Leviathan, they said he must get off his high horse because something like this was simply not possible. But there were many who were already leading their children to their cars.

A lot of people scoffed when they heard how arrogantly Leviathan declared where he was going to appear and how he would fight against the US army. Everyone around the world knew that they had dodged a bullet… but all of them wanted to see what was going to happen in Nebraska but what they didn't know was that Leviathan heard their wishes and he was going to broadcast the whole fight via satellite feed…

[Oval Office, White House]

The President was completely stunned silent and he was shaking in fear, this was something he had been dreading since the warhead counter on the TVs had turned zero. He had never thought that revoking the citizen's right from mutants could lead to something like this. When he was elected the President, he was full of ideas, he himself thought that his country was great and there was no way his country could be defeated.

But he was proven wrong by a single person, just three days ago the country he thought great and undefeatable was brought to its knees by a single mutant, and with this announcement, he knew his great country was defeated. Never in the history of the United States of America, did someone have the courage to threaten their country in such a manner.

"Mr. President, what's your order?" a Special Agent asked the President who was still shaking in fear and worry.

The President finally looked towards the Agent present in his room. "What can we even do other than fight? Send all of our available men to Nebraska, we never bow down in front of terrorists and we won't bow down now. We will fight even if we get defeated" the President gave a short encouraging speech, it worked like a charm on the Agent and he immediately ran out of the room.

[Shield Headquarters, New York]

Nick Fury along with his most trusted aides, Agent Maria Hill, Agent Phil Coulson, and Agent Clint Barton saw the whole broadcast. To say that all of them were enraged was just an understatement… all of them were downright furious. All of them were patriots and they would have died for their country and when they saw someone threaten their country in such a manner there was no way that they were going to stand back.

"What can we do Coulson?" Nick Fury had decided to stop with formalities.

"I don't know sir but I think we should prioritize evacuation" Coulson said in a solemn voice. The rest of the occupants in the room stared at him like he had grown a second head.

"What?! And we give up the fight?" Agent Barton screamed in anger. Even if Nick Fury and Agent Hill didn't say anything they had similar feelings.

"No, that's not what I meant. I said we prioritize evacuation. We don't even know what kind of power Leviathan has… even if he is way over his head he must be confident about his powers to give out such an open threat" Agent Coulson explained in a solemn voice.

"I agree with Coulson on this, we must prioritize evacuation. Hill, I want you to inform the President. If the army attacks him before evacuating the citizens then we have already lost the fight" Fury agreed with Agent Coulson as soon as he finished speaking. He decided that evacuation would be best… in this way, they will be able to fight against Leviathan without worrying about collateral damage.

Agent Hill nodded her head and left the room to inform the President. With their communication systems gone they needed to use radios after all only radios were working and they didn't have any huge ass radio capable of long-distance broadcast inside Fury's room.

"Barton, I want you to lead the evacuation… remember, don't engage before the evacuation is over. I just hope that the President decides to evacuate before attacking" Fury said in a solemn tone and Barton also left the room. Only Coulson and Fury were left in the room, after a few seconds when Fury didn't give any order to Coulson he also left the room.

[Xavier Mansion, New York]

Charles Xavier along with General Newman had heard the announcement and both were angry and heartbroken at the same time. Charles had been working with the US Government since all the residents of his mansion had left for this so-called safe haven. He had been in contact with Scott Summers since he had powered up the Cerebro but he hasn't got any result…

From Scott, he was able to find out that they were on some kind of island and the island was being protected by some kind of barrier and he wasn't able to get any more information. He also found out that Eric's base was on the island but he had no idea where the island was.

So, he had to invite his old friend Hank McCoy, another mutant who believed in his cause. His cause of protecting humans using their powers, Hank McCoy was a brilliant scientist and after Hank McCoy arrived in that safe haven he immediately recognized that place as Genosha Island and now named Elysium. Hank McCoy was able to get the approximate location of the island using the position of the sun but nothing more than that.

Charles had passed on this information to General Newman but all of their defense systems and satellites were down so they were unable to verify that information. Charles was completely enraged when he found out what Leviathan was going to do and he had decided to do something about it… something he had never done before. He was going to destroy Leviathan's mind… he was pretty confident that using Cerebro he would be able to do that…

Unfortunately for Charles, he had no idea how much painful this experience was going to be for him…