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From Dark X-Men Vol. 2 #004, “Up Jumped the Devil”

Art by Jonas Scharf and Frank Martin

A preview of Dark X-Men #4

DARK X-MEN #4

HOSTILE TAKEOVER! The fiend taunting the Dark X-Men from afar leaves a trail of bodies in her wake as terror falls over the Limbo Embassy. Will CHASM join the fight against Orchis…or become Madelyne Pryor’s ultimate downfall? And can the Devil ever truly be trusted?

While they are out patrolling, Strong Guy gets caught in the tendrils of Abyss and he’s flung far away before Wolfsbane could reach him.

1. No nose

2. Son of Azazel and now my favorite plot device :3

No but really, he seems like a neat character, kinda wanna do stuff with him

“You know, in a real fight the enemy is not going to give you time to change clothes or load your gun or whatever it is you’re doing over there Abyss.”  Seir didn’t turn around but he heard the younger mutant fussing behind them.

“But this isn’t a real fight, Seir, just a practice spar.  Let them take their time.”  Shadowcat’s preparation had been the least fussy, simply trading her boots for plimsoil flats, while Wanda had insisted on changing her entire outfit.  Squinting up at the clear sky, Seir decided to take advantage of the time and pulled off his shirt.  Genosha was cooler than the Brimstone Dimension, but the Brimstone Dimension had nothing on Genosha’s humidity.

“Oh wow!”  Looks like Wanda had finished dressing.  “How far down do those go?”  Then she blushed as red as her outfit.

Seir looked down.  What did she-oh.  He’d never removed his shirt in front of them before and thus this was the first time the Acolytes were seeing his scars.  Slipping his thumb into his waistband, he smirked at all of them.  “As a matter of fact, they go all the way.  Care to see?”

“Keep your pants on!” Four scandalized voices screamed.

“Then hurry up.  I’m getting bored waiting for all of you.”

Lorna exchanged a glance with her still blushing sister.  “We’re ready.”  With that, both Polaris and the Scarlet Witch started to levitate.

Seir threw a knife at the Scarlet Witch, then turned to intercept Shadowcat as she raced up to him.  Behind him he heard the knife doppler, indicating that Polaris had taken control of it.  Just as Shadowcat got near enough to punch him, he teleported away, leaving her open to the blade that Polaris had aimed at his back.  This forced Shadowcat to phase, letting the knife pass through her to bury itself in a tree trunk.  Just as the Jewish girl stopped to take a breath, Seir reappeared behind her, hitting her in the back of the neck.  It would paralyze her for about five minutes, while Seir took care of the other quartet members.

As Shadowcat went down, the Scarlet Witch started firing hex bolts.  These were more difficult to dodge than expected, due to the curving and irregular trajectory, but- ah!  Here came Abyss to cover Shadowcat.  Scarlet Witch stopped shooting, afraid of hitting her ally.  Seir teleported up, high enough that he was just in range to grab the knife with his tail., then took out his swords.  Falling back down, he drove them through Abyss’s ribbons (eliciting a high pitched yelp from the other blue mutant) and into the stone that made up the floor of the courtyard, trapping the younger man in place. 

Using the momentum from his fall, he rolled out of the tangle towards the Scarlet Witch.  Even as she fired hex bolts at him, he teleported away again, this time showing up in front of Polaris, who had been attempting to free the Swiss.  Not giving her a chance to reorient herself, he started hammering at her solar plexus.  One, two, three blows, and she folded over and started retching.

Another speedy teleport, and he was back behind the Scarlet Witch.  The knife he reclaimed earlier was quickly held to her neck.   He grabbed the Witch’s arms then forced her to kneel, with enough pressure on her joints to prevent her from twisting around to get a hex bolt into him. “Yield,” he ordered Shadowcat, who had just recovered and freed Abyss. 

The two younger mutants looked at each other, then at Polaris who had thrown up and was still on her knees coughing.  “You win.” said Shadowcat wryly.  “That was amazing.  I don’t think that fight lasted ten minutes, and we couldn’t even lay a finger on you.”

“Thank you.” preened Seir, letting go of Wanda so that she could go and help her sister.  

Once everything had been cleaned up and everyone had recovered, Seir gave them his analysis of the fight.  “First, the two of you,” he started by pointing at the two sisters.  “You both are very powerful in different ways, but you have the same weakness.  You rely too much on your powers, and aren’t in very good physical condition.  Lorna, you could have dodged my attack had you been faster, and Wanda, my initial hold on you was very loose, you should have been able to squirm away, or get an angle to counter-attack.  I recommend that both of you get more physical exercise in general.  Start slowly and build up.”

Next he turned to Abyss.  “Good instinct on your part, to go to protect your downed teammate.  However, two glaring problems.  You need better spatial awareness; Wanda was forced to abort several attacks for fear of hitting you.  Try fighting blind, or at least going through an exercise routine blindfolded.  The other problem is that you’re too afraid of getting hurt.  Tell me, was there any real damage from my swords when you pulled yourself together?”

Nils sheepishly ducked his head.  “No, not really.  It just hurt a lot.”

“In fights, you are going to get hurt, but better hurt than dead.  Keep up this practice and you’ll learn to power through the pain when needed.”

“And what about me, Mr. Backstab?”  Kitty put her hands on her hips and smiled.

“Not much you can do against a teleporter, I suppose.  Your only mistake was assuming I’d take out Lorna first.”

“She is an Omega Level mutant.”

“True, but your assumption allowed me to set up the scenario to get you.   Toss the dagger at Lorna, knowing she’d send it back to me, then use it to force you to phase with the intention of attacking you when you took a breath.  You can’t prepare for everything, but there were only four possibilities here.  You shouldn’t have gotten stuck on one.”

Yellow eyes took in all of them.  Seir thought about going over the fight in blow-by-blow detail, but then felt the telltale call of Ginniyeh in his mind.  He sighed.  “Duty calls.  But I’ll be back next weekend and we can see how far you all progressed then.”

Wow... The more you know I guess... To be honest I thought Nils had a meme named after him when I heard about this "Nileseyy Niles Disappears" meme... Could be his secondary mutation... Like he strikes a pose and he can vanish

Yeah, sure why not?

Legacy Virus

At some point, the Genoshan Mutate Abyss contracted the debilitating Legacy Virus. He acted as a protector for the Genoshan research scientist Renee Majcomb, who was researching possible cures for the virus. When former Magistrates attacked Rene, he fought them off and nearly killed them until Cable's arrival. He was cured when Colossus triggered the cure for the Legacy Virus.[4]

X-Corps

X-Corps look

Abyss was later in Berlin, Germany battling the former Gene Nation member known as Fever Pitch. Both mutants were captured by Banshee's mutant militia known as the X-Corps. While being held by the X-Corps, Abyss witnessed Sunpyre's murder. When the terrorist Mystique revealed herself and her intentions to use the X-Corps, the wounded Banshee freed Abyss from his confinement. Abyss then sucked Mystique through his interdimensional void, and, unable to shut off his power, almost swallowed Banshee as well. The timely arrival of some other members of X-Corps stopped that however.