ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Many of the following stories
contain mature material, ranging from violence
to sexual situations up to a rating of R. The
Marauders are NOT nice. You have been warned.)

Archive Sections:

ORIGINS AND SOLOS

  focusing on individuals

TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS

  the team out on the job

WELCOME ABOARD, KID

  meet some new recruits

DEATH UNDERGROUND

  reflections on a Massacre

TURNING THE TABLES

  who kills the killers?

THE CAJUN CONNECTION

  Gambit-oriented tales

THE DEVIL'S DUE SET

  the one that shocked fans

TANGENTS

  other worlds, new angles

WHISTLING IN THE DARK

  a bit of humor :)

Other Recommended Reading


ORIGINS AND SOLOS

A Fly On The Wall: Scalphunter
By Emily R. Snyder
From the "Fly on The Wall" series of short character sketches. A brief but unique look at the team leader from a decidedly different perpective.

A Nightmare
By BelaLeBeau
Look out, X-people -- Malice is back, and she's out for blood. Literally. Is Lorna Dane having a terrible dream, or has her world just shattered...?

Aftershock
By Oberon
Late-night reflections on a moody Scalphunter from his sometime-partner Arclight...back up, introspection? From her...? Yes. Read on.

Barbs Of Ice
By Dex (written for Blood In The Gutter!)
An origin story for Harpoon, masterfully told by a writer who actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to the Inuit people.

Giving It Away
By Redhawk
In a brief lucid moment, Sabretooth bids his final farewell to Birdy and takes one big step in a new direction.

In Bed With Sinister
By Kristina Sennvik
Life under a mad geneticist's thumb is not all "fun and games" for Malice/Polaris, but that's the price she pays...

In The Light Of The Glimmering Scalpel
By Falstaff (written for Blood In The Gutter!)
What happens when Sinister loses his suave trademark cool? A dark, chilling little ditty from the point of view of Blockbuster.

The Littlest Marauder
By Phil Hartman
A dark stand-alone piece set within "Anno Ignis." Here's why one should be very careful when shoving around the "little guy"... It gets messy.

Penance For My Sins
By Tarot
Inspired by No Way Up (below). What if, instead, a runaway Vertigo sought out the help of the Marauders' most bitter enemies...?

The Perfect Gift
By Hellions Pizza
It's Christmas, and even assassins like to find a little something under the tree. Hmmm. What to should Scalphunter get for Arclight...?

Sinister
By Dyce
A quiet, cold little poem about the Master Geneticist's point of view.

The SnowFox Arc
By Malaneira, aka Cody Fox
Every proud man has his breaking point. Harpoon finally hits his -- and hits the road. Of course, the rest of the team won't be very far behind!

Something I Can Never Have
By Kevin "Ramiel" Schmidt
Is Scalphunter going crazy, or are his teammates? Jealousy can easily turn into violence...and in the Marauders' world, violence spreads like wildfire. Now Scalphunter has only one man he can turn to: LeBeau.

Twists And Turns
By Tarot
Captured and forgotten in the depths of a prison for super-criminals, Vertigo makes one last decision.

Vertigo: No Way Up
By Kielle
The only (so-far) Marauders-only epic on the net: afraid for her cloned existence, Vertigo strikes out on her own with the government, her ex-teammates, and her own shadow hot on the trail!
Done? Pick up Full Circle, the semi-official addendum-by-demand --ONLY available here!



TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS

Excalibur Redrawn: Annual 2000
By Mark Shakespeare
Britain's heroes tackle the team to rescue Meggan...and stumble across Essex's new genetic experiments! Guest-stars Illyana and several X-Men.

Eye Of The Storm (excerpt)
By Celendra & Falstaff
From an Alpha Flight epic: Wyre recalls when a murderer, a mad scientist, and a bayou pretty-boy approached him with a...proposition.

Fang, Claw, Ivory, And Rage
By Indigo
Not a good day for Sabretooth. Not a good day at all.

Kali Yuga
By Phil Hartman
Sinister and his "boys" have big plans for all of the other villains. Being arrested and locked up in the Vault is merely a perfect opportunity...

Marauder Missions
By Jason Barnett
Catching Madelyne Pryor, stealing admantium, exterminating Gene Nation...it's a busy, busy week for Our Villains, and it ain't over yet!

Massacres
By Phil Hartman
Sinister's new goal: end the Heroic Age by wiping out the heroes. ALL of them. Except he didn't count on Bobby Drake and the Infinity Twinkie...

Tender Touches: The Tryst, The Trap
By Indigo
For the Unlikely Couple challenge. A lonely X-Woman meets the man of her dreams -- but as this is BITG, you know things aren't as they seem.

The Tour
By NyteKrawler
Alison Blaire is out of the "mutant" closet and back on the road. However, her audience is in for a nasty shock... Not sure where this one's going.

The Twelve #1
By Samy "Mash" Merchi
A reality away, someone's out to kill twelve mutants vital to the future, many of whom would have been New Mutants in the "real" universe...

The Via Sanguinis/Via Pax Arc
By Phil Hartman:
· Scalphunter's Tale
· Malice's Tale
· Prism's Tale
· Vertigo's Tale
· Harpoon's Tale
· Arclight's Tale
· Riptide's Tale
· Scrambler's Tale
· Blockbuster's Tale
· Sabretooth's Tale
· Sanguinary Disciplines
· Reassessment
· Skull Games
· Bellicosus Daemonicae
· Via Pax
Sinister dispatches his pets throughout time and space to collect the perfect mix of superpowered children for his latest scheme...and when that falls through, he has something even more ambitious up his sleeve.

We've Got Company
A round robin by various
All alone, struggling to handle a new set of powers, pitted against the Marauders and some of her best friends...it's not Jubilee's day!

You Hate
By Matt Nute
It's been years since Kim Sung was Scrambler. What could be important enough to pull him away from his family, to send him back to his old teammates? What could be more powerful than love...?



WELCOME ABOARD, KID

The Child Of Evil set
By J.B.McDonald (inspired by Blood In The Gutter) :
·
To Follow In My Father's Steps
· A Soul Torn Apart
· My Own Private Hell
· Knowing The Demons Within
· Written In My Depression
Meet Max, a young boy cursed to carry Creed blood in his veins...an inescapable taint which is slowly turning him into a monster himself.

Fading Embers
By Tapestry
An alternate tale of Tapestry's Dawn Arc. In this universe, Dawn Embers never escaped from Sinister. Now, she's been sent after GenX.

Honor Thy Father
By Phil Hartman
The team is sent to grab a powerful new member of the Summers family -- and Scott's in deep trouble! An excerpt from Phil's extensive story arc.

Running With Devils
By Phil Hartman
What would happen if Sinister caught one of the Summers brood? Be glad that you're not eleven-year-old Steven... Another from Phil's timeline.

The Scholae Book Set
By Phil Hartman:
· Hardwired
· Softwired
This time Nathan Summers is Sinister's target...but what happens when you push a potental reality-bender too far? One big retcon, that's what!

Seek And Destroy
By Raven
Sent down into the sewers to capture a potential new teammate, the Marauders find themselves in over their heads and hung out to dry...

To My Best Advantage
By Falstaff (inspired by Blood In The Gutter!)
In an alternate dimension, Sinister finally wises up and tries to recruit the most powerful mutant on earth. Mwahahahah.

The Y2X: New Marauders Arc
By Phil Hartman:
· Blood Tells
· Chalk Outlines
In which Aidan Summers, son of Scott and Jean, is kidnapped and thrown to the pack... "Chalk Outlines" is Phil's study of the team as individuals.



DEATH UNDERGROUND

Blood And Prey
By Reid Kerr
What if the Marauders weren't the only assassins down in the Manhattan tunnels that fateful evening...? A Sabretooth solo piece.

Responsibilities
By Captain Drake
On an otherwise ordinary day, a retired Army mutant has a run-in with a man of crystal and the little green boy that man is trying to murder...

The Sun
By Callista
Snatched from the very jaws of death so many years ago, Marrow reveals her own child's-eye view of the carnage in the sewers of under New York.

The Unfortunate Survive
By Dyce (inspired by Blood In The Gutter!)
This is the tale of one timid Morlock who's soon going to wish that he'd died with the rest of his slaughtered underworld kin...

Wing And Water
By Kitsune
Gilly has a very special talent: one that allows her to be "upworld" without leaving the tunnels. Can this secret ability serve her in the face of death?



TURNING THE TABLES

A Patient People
By Dyce
You can't commit mass murder without leaving a few ghosts...and on the darkest night of the year, ghosts can come back... A succinct little chiller.

Academia Book: Downspiral
By Phil Hartman
A Massacre survivor wants revenge, and he's been waiting a very long time to get it. Guess who? This piece is a brief X-Files crossover.

Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Edana ni Emer
After a rescue mission goes terribly, terribly wrong, will Remy have the strength to balance the scales? A full-length tale of the Crow.

Instant Karma
By Kevin Ramiel Schmidt
Who hunts the hunters? The best assassins in the multiverse have gathered at massive expense with one goal: slaughter the Marauders.

Scott Summers Et Al Vs. Mr. Sinister & The Marauders
By Jason Barnett
Scott Summers lost his wife and his eyes to the man who warped his childhood. It's payback time. However, Sinister has surprises waiting...

Sorrow -- or, The Transience Of Memory
By Amanda Sichter
When Scott is cut down in battle, Jean goes mad with grief...and when one of the world's premier telepaths snaps, things get unpleasant. FAST.



THE CAJUN CONNECTION

A Level Of Treachery
By Lori McDonald
Part of the netfamous Gestalt Arc: Despite being stuck in the same body, things are going well for Remy & Rogue...until old friends show up to play!

Alternate Reality: Gambit
By Spade
What if...Gambit had stayed with his old team, and not met the X-Men until shortly before Operation: Zero Tolerance?

Cigarettes Will Kill You
By Amanda Sichter
Rogue left Gambit to die in the snow at the bottom of the world. That was a very bad idea that she and the X-Men will live to regret...barely.

The Cold-Hearted Truth
By Kaleidopy
Here's your teaser, in the words of the story itself: "Perhaps being considered the son of Essex isn't so bad after all..."

Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Edana ni Emer
After a rescue mission goes terribly, terribly wrong, will Remy have the strength to balance the scales? A full-length tale of the Crow.

Demons
By Janine Peterson
A mysterious orphan walks into the wary Cajun's life, and guess who's not far behind... Is the nightmare beginning again -- or did it ever truly end?

His Damned Faded Grace
By Vain
Remy and Grey Crow have a long-standing tradition of secret meetings. Only this time, one of Gambit's teammates has tracked them down...

Marauder
By Alexandra Nigro
The newest Marauder finds the assassins' life may not suit him... In the author's words, "Young Remy LeBeau meets Sinister, and his own soul."

Past Imperfect + Present Imperfect
By Cassandra Fraser
Some of the darkest material on this archive, following a kidnapped Remy's descent into pure nightmare...and it gets worse in the sequel!

Revenant
By Oberon
Abandoned in the Antarctic, Gambit is rescued by his original "family"...and what he learns could turn him from the X-Men forever.

The Tiger trilogy
By :Nichol: :
· Tiger
· Doctor's Orders
· Sharper Angles
After Antarctica, Remy really isn't himself. Well, actually he's more himself than he's ever been, and the X-Men will pay in pain... Very nasty.



THE DEVIL'S DUE SET
"...because sometimes, the good guys lose..."

The One That Started It:
Devil's Due
By Laersyn

The Official Sequel:
Interlude
By Laersyn

The Unofficial Sequels:

Just Desserts
By Carolyn Vaughan

Paying The Piper
By Ben Church

Today Is A Good Day To Die
By Leary



TANGENTS

Breaking Through
By Kielle
An unofficial tie-in to Fading Embers (below). The Marauders catch up with Ember...and a dimension away, a baby falls into Dawn's arms!

On Reliquiae
By BelaLeBeau
In the dying days of civilization Philippa Sontag finds herself faced with a truly ugly doom. If this tale doesn't disturb you, nothing will. A tale of the Age Of Apocalypse, guest-starring the AOA version of Cecilia Reyes.

Revolving Karma
By Rossi
On the other side of the infamous revolving door, the team has the usual friendly chat with Death whilst awaiting re-cloning... I love this one. :)

Strange Daze And Confusion
By Phil Hartman
Sinister sics the Marauders on the Authority. And if you know anything about the Authority, you know that's a bad idea. A very bad idea.

Unholy Alliance
By Kaleidopy
Where superpowers are comic-book fare, the team is after control of the United States...and, if Essex plays his cards right, the world.

Young Marauders In Love
By Indigo
Could Riptide and Vertigo be acting...human? Also stars Gambit, Shadowcat, and two guest stars -- an obscure enemy and a fanfic fave!



WHISTLING IN THE DARK

Breakfast At Sinister's
By Tam175
Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right? Yup! It happens to master geneticists, too!

Convenience
By Matt Nute
Hey, even assassins need munchies on the road. Be very, very glad that you're not working at this particular 7-11...

Crumpets
By Timesprite
Heh! When Sinister goes crazy, guess who suffers? If you can call this suffering. Arclight sure does... Short and amusing.

Maraud-A-Maid
By Indigo
Written for Alec Wire's Flipside Challenge. The Marauders...have reformed?! RUN!

The Marauders Came Back
By Brooke
A filk to the tune of The Cat Came Back -- exTREMEly silly. ;)

MarauderShots
By Abyss
Not actually fanfic -- rather, these are some rather inspired ideas for some pretty dangerous-sounding drinks. Funny even if you're a non-drinker!

Prism's Diary: Through The Looking Glass Man
By Greg Z. Newcomb (a Blood In The Gutter exclusive!)
See the life of the most breakable mutant on earth in his own, ahem, unique terms.

Some Assembly Required
By Acetal
Sinister has a new plot...is it a gift for the Marauders, or are they in for a nasty shock? WARNING: Contains gratuitous use of <gasp> mimes!

Uncle's Day
By Rhona "Jupiter 2" Highet
The heck--?! Sinister's a doting family man and the Marauders are seeking less...gory...careers? Yep, it's the Kes Darkholme alterniverse all right! ;)



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