Chapter One

Pyro

The wind was speaking to him again. Saying his name. A small smile tugged upon his lips as he heard it. Even Mother Nature was acknowledging his presence. The lights soon began to dim as they always did and his room began to fill with darkness. Then at one point a flash of light bursts off. The light soon rose to as high as 5 feet before falling back down. John chuckled as he extinguishes the spark he created from rubbing metal pieces together. Ah if only he had his lighter…. He knew where it was but couldn't get it…

John Allerdyce was in prison.

Truth be told, it wasn such a bad place. He smirked as he remembered how he fooled the police. Removing the cure from the needle then poking it in his hand while lying on the ground motionless. Police officers believing he had been cured and posed no further threat swiftly arrested him. He even pretended to howl while touching a still burning cigar from an officer. That was two weeks ago. He knew that somewhere a court's verdict held his fate and if humankind was the way he always seen as since his birth he already knew the answer. Life imprisonment or worst, the death penalty. John merely scoffed at the thought though he knew it was justified. Murders, destruction of property, attacking officers and being the right hand man and golden boy of Magneto. Where was the old man now thought Pyro.

So why had he not escaped yet. At first, John thought it was because he wanted shelter. But no, hell, he could find any place to stay. Was it the food and drinks? Nope. He could steal that too. Then it hit John. Purpose. He was no longer subjected to Magneto, no drive or goal was set to him. He had nothing to fight for or to use his powers for other than survival. If only there was a sign…

He went to the side as John switched on a portable radio. As he was changing through the channels he heard a news broadcasts. Something about a science lab being broken into. An object stolen. And more importantly the steel safe holding the object was ripped apart and twisted in the most unlikely manner. John waited till the end. Then a smile began to form. Purpose. John got up and started rubbing metal pieces together. A flame soon erupted. Time for a little family reunion..

Two hours, a burned down prison, ten unconscious guards and a stolen car, John finally arrived at his destination. Midnight had fallen and the park was as dead as a cemetery. Only the sound of restless crickets broke the silence of the night. At a corner a chess table with a few pieces were let scattered on the table. But all of John's attention was on the man sitting near the table. A metal queen piece was floating almost fifteen inches above his hand.

" And here I thought that you were gone forever" said John smirking at the man.

" Patience is a virtue, Pyro. We only have to learn to wait to pick up the pieces before starting to play the game again"

" So enlighten me. It is obvious the cure didn't work permantly. But wat da hell did you need from the lab?" asked John

" The cure is permanent . It doesn't cure us completely but simply lowers our powers to a level that makes us almost par with them. What I stole from the lab not only return back my powers. It gave me a plan. A new plan. One that could change humankind forever" cried Magneto

A plan? What kind? wondered John

" This cure was the solution to the Mutant problem. They view us as the disease, the inferiors and took it upon their responsibility to save us from eternal doom. Now I plan to reverse that. I plan to create a cure not for us but for the humans themselves. I already have a group researching on it and we're missing something. That's where I need you Pyro.

Finally. A purpose was given.

"I need you to go back to Xavier institute. The current home of Leech, the key to the cure"

"What? Are you crazy? They kill me..hell I don't even think they give a damn about me. No way" cried John, his face aghast at the thought.

" My dear boy, you need to go back to Xavier bcos you need to retrieve for me a blood sample of Leech. More importantly, I need the chip."

"What chip?"

" There is a chip in which Leech keeps with him at all times.Its lodged into his brain by Worthington's scientists and doctors. It when placed in its machine which I already have retrieved reverses the actions of nanobots which are placed into the liquid which is injected into the bloodstream. This will then reverse the use of the liquid instead enhancing stored mutantic abilities causing humans to turn to mutants. But we need that chip"

"How the hell am I suppose to get to the guy grab a blood sample and ask him to divulge his most personal secret which he keeps in his head…..literally?"

" By being his friend. By getting close to his friends. With any luck he may have told them. I have managed to secure a photo of a person whom is probably his closest friend. She may be of use to us. Get close to her as well."

John took the photo from Magneto. In a flash, he knew whom he was looking at. It was the same girl he saw ice skating with Bobby when he sneaked a peek at Xavier's. The same one which brought Rogue much disgust as he saw her through her window. T he same one whom held Leech so close to her.

It was the picture perfect shot of nineteen year old Katherine Pryde.