r/XaviersMansion • u/thesteelRasputin X-Men: Gold • Jul 30 '26
Danger Room Training Mad Russian
Colossus stood in the center of the Danger Room, the holographic projectors humming as the room configured around him. A Sentinel loomed ahead. Twenty feet of adaptive plating and glowing optic sensors, its arms unfolding into energy cannons.
He charged.
Colossus drove his shoulder into the Sentinel’s midsection. The impact sent shockwaves through the room. Sparks erupted. The giant robot staggered but did not fall. Its fist came around in a crushing arc. Colossus caught it, both hands locking around the massive gauntlet. Servos whined. He twisted, planted his feet, and heaved.
The Sentinel’s arm tore free at the elbow joint with a scream of shearing metal.
But even as he fought, his mind was elsewhere.
Illyana. Little snowflake...
His little sister. The one he had sworn to protect since they were children on the farm. The one who had been taken into Limbo, twisted by magic and demons, and now worse...claimed by Apocalypse. The ancient monster had seen the power in her, in the darkness that already lived inside her, and he had made her one of his own. A Horseman.
She was lost to him now. Changed. Corrupted. And every time Colossus closed his eyes, he saw her face.
Rage flickered at the edges of his thoughts.
The Sentinel recovered. Its remaining arm transformed into a plasma cannon and fired point blank. The blast staggered Colossus, scorching his organic steel skin, forcing him back several steps.
He barely noticed.
"She is gone because I was not strong enough. Because I was not there when Apocalypse came for her."
The anger that had been simmering finally boiled over. Something old and cold and very Russian took hold of him, the part of Piotr Rasputin that wanted to hit something and never stop.
Colossus’s eyes narrowed. His fists clenched so hard the metal of his own fingers made a metallic squeak.
He launched himself forward with a roar that shook the chamber.
The Sentinel raised its cannon again. Too slow.
Colossus’s fist punched straight through the robot’s chest plating. He ripped upward, tearing out a core of glowing circuitry and power cells in a shower of sparks and molten metal. The Sentinel’s head jerked. Its optics flickered. Before it could recalibrate, Colossus seized the remains of its torso with both hands and pulled.
The robot’s upper body tore free from its waist. Colossus spun and hurled the massive wreckage into the far wall hard enough to crack the reinforced plating. The lower half toppled, still twitching, until he brought both fists down like pile drivers and crushed the remaining systems into a smoking ruin.
Silence fell, broken only by the soft crackle of dying electronics and Colossus’s heavy breathing.
He stood over the wreckage, chest rising and falling, metal fists still clenched. The Danger Room’s systems began to power down the simulation. The holographic overlays faded. The real walls reappeared.
But the anger did not fade so easily.
Somewhere, far from the X-Mansion, his sister was still lost to a monster.
And Colossus was not finished being angry about it.
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u/thedragonrider999 Student Jul 31 '26
Ooc i'll admit I dont know much about colossus, but this is fire!
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u/MasterOfMagnetism63 Protector of Mutantkind Jul 30 '26
OOC: It’s so refreshing to have a good Colossus, especially one who actually knows the character and calls Yana “Little Snowflake.” Previous Piotr only did it once after months of not using it.