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Juggernaut, he was powerful enough that no one could do that to him anymore. But now the pain in his chest was like a nagging boss, forcing him onward. And the farther he went, the angrier he got.
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    Whatever was causing this pain was going to be real sorry, real soon. He hadn’t been this mad in years.
    The roar of the X-Men’s plane over his head distracted him. That’s all / need now, he thought, my stepbrother’s students buzzing around me like flies, doing their do-gooder deeds. Most likely they were going to try to stop him.
    That just wasn’t going to happen.
    The X-Men’s plane landed off to one side of his path up ahead.
    Four X-Men climbed out and Cain recognized them as Cyclops, Phoenix, Rogue, and the Beast. The latter two moved to a safe distance to the right of his path and stood waiting.
    On the other side of his path Summers and Grey floated side by side.
    Fine. Let them just float there. He wasn’t stopping for them now or any time in the future. He’d just walk right between them and take their best shots and keep going. At the moment they weren’t even worth his time.
    But as he went between them they surprised him. They simply floated along beside him, pacing his speed across the empty field.
    “What’s the matter?” he asked, turning to look at the pair without stopping. “Nothing better to do on a hot summer day than bother a man on his own business?”
    “Actually, Cain,” Summers said, “just wondering why you’re tearing up all this real estate.”
    “Taking a train would clearly be less taxing,” McCoy said from the other side of Cain. ‘ And far less damaging to the local flora.”
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    Cain glared at the blue ball of fur and simply got a shrug and a smile in return.
    “Look,” Cain said, turning his head to look at Summers without missing a step on his journey, “just leave me alone. I got something I need to do and you and that creepy stepbrother of mine can’t help me or stop me. All right?”    '
    “Fine by us,” Summers said. “But just tell us why the hurry and all the destruction?”
    Cain snorted. “You really want to know, one-eye? It’s because something up ahead of me there is causing me pain. And I don’t much like pain.”
    “Two aspirins seem to work on most pains,” McCoy
    said.
    Cain took a swipe at him without breaking stride, but missed.
    Suddenly the pain in his chest grew worse, in a way he’d come to know meant he was going in the wrong direction.
    “What?” he said aloud. He stopped and turned slightly to the north.
    No change. The pain remained.
    ‘ ‘Cain?” Summers said, floating off to one side with Grey. “What happened?”
    “Would you stop your yapping for a minute,” Cain said. “Give me a chance to figure this out.”
    Thankfully they did as he asked.
    He turned slightly south. Again no change in the pain radiating in his chest.
    He turned farther south. Nothing.
    Then even farther, so that he was facing slightly west.
    And the pain seemed lighter.
    He turned all the way around to the west and the pain lightened. Either he had passed what was causing hi m pain, or it had changed position, going west of where he now stood.
    He growled real low in his throat, then started back in the direction he’d just came. The thing causing him this pain was going to pay, and pay good. And it couldn’t run forever. At some point he’d catch up to it.
    “Cain?” Summers said. “What just happened?”
    But Cain said nothing, only put his head down and headed west, ignoring whatever got in his way.

    The rolling hills, trees, and farms gave the central New York area a feeling of serenity most summer afternoons. Light breezes swirled the humid afternoon air, giving farmers reasons to keep windows open for a hope of that slight, windy comfort.
    But on this summer afternoon there was a path of destruction into those peaceful fields. A path that had gone only so far and then suddenly stopped.
    Four X-Men stood in the open