A/N: Hello again! I'm back with the first official chapter of the story. This honestly took me forever to write, so I hope you enjoy it...
15 YEARS LATER:
Dear Diary,
my brother, Jake, and I live in Denver, Colorado with our foster mother, Agent Lucy Aimes. She's the only mother we've ever known since our birth parents are MIA. Lucy is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, but she has still managed to raise Jake and me like relatively normal kids. We go to school every day and hang out with friends. Jake is on the varsity basketball team at our high school and I am the vice president of our student body. Nonetheless, we live with a secret that never leaves our house. We're mutants. I have the ability to control and generate fire while Jake can read minds and move things with his mind. It's pretty cool, but Lucy has always raised us to keep these powers a secret for our own safety. I can't help but wonder if our birth parents were mutants too- I mean that would explain why Jake and I are mutants. We think that Lucy knows about them, that she knows who they are and what happened to them, but she won't give us any information. To make things more suspicious, it is impossible for Jake to breach her mind with his telepathic powers. So, Jake and I sometimes fantasize about what our birth parents are like. I imagine that they are billionaire S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were captured by Hydra. Jake once joked that our parents are members of the X-men. Ha! That would be hilarious! The X-men are a group of mutants in Bayville who fight crime like superheroes. The government kind of hates them though. Anyway, Lucy is on a mission, so she left us home alone.
Rachel stopped writing in her diary when she heard a loud knock at the front door. She had been sitting on her bed writing away until the repeated knock summoned her to the door. She hustled down the steps. She thought Jake forgot his key again and locked himself out. Earlier, he had gone outside to play basketball.
When she reached the bottom of the steps, the loud knock continued.
"Alright-Alright," she said.
She opened the door and her jaw dropped in shock. Standing in the doorway was a pair of tall men, each dressed in all black and equipped with guns. One of the men held a tight grip on Jake's arm and had his pistol aimed at her brother's head, while the other aimed his rifle at her.
Jake and Rachel exchanged a look of fear.
One of the men said, "You're coming with us."
BAYVILLE, NEW YORK:
An ominous black van pulled up to the building known as the Anti-Mutant League headquarters and stopped just before the front doors. A muscular man with a rifle slung across his shoulder got out of the driver's seat, followed by his comrade in the passenger's seat. They went around to the back of the van and opened the doors. He pulled an unconscious teenage girl from the van and his friend pulled an unconscious teenage boy. They shut the van doors and proceeded into the building, carrying the captives.
As they walked in they were met by a tall blonde middle-aged man with a black leather jacket on. On his jacket was a badge that said AML commander.
"Who are these?" He asked.
"Katrina and Daniel Pryde, Commander Matthews. Where do you want them?" One of the men inquired.
"Put them with the others," Matthews said absentmindedly.
The men carried the teens down a hallway and down a flight of steps to a dark room full of tables, vials of chemicals, and small cells with rusted metal bars.
They threw Danny in a cell and Kat in another.
The thud of the fall awakened Kat just as the man locked her cell closed. The two men left the room, shutting the door behind them.
Kat slowly stirred, taking in her surroundings with fear and confusion running through her mind. The room had a basement-like eeriness. The stone ceilings, full of cracks and withered by age leaked a rancid smelling liquid. Kat placed the palm of her hand on her forehead. She had a throbbing headache and it seemed as if the room was spinning as she called, "Danny. Danny!"
"Kat...where are we?" he asked drowsily from across the room in his own cell.
"I don't know, but I'm gonna get us out of here," Kat said.
Suddenly, from another cell, a female voice said, "Don't use your powers," the girl pointed to a small black square shaped machine in the corner of the cell, "If you do, that thing will electrocute you. I know. I've tried."
"Who are you?" Kat asked.
"I'm Rachel and this is my brother Jake." Jake was in the cell beside Rachel's, laying beside the bars, with a blank expression on his face.
Kat spoke: "Are you a-"
"-a mutant? Yes. We all are that's why they brought us here..." Rachel said.
"And where exactly is here?" Danny inquired.
"The Anti-mutant League," she answered.
"We have to get out of here," Danny said quietly.
"How long have you been here?" Kat asked.
Rachel thought for a moment, "I don't know. Maybe a day..."
"Are we the only ones?" Kat asked.
"No," Rachel motioned to the other cells, "There is Johnny and Tonya and a girl who's been unconscious since they brought her here...I hope she's okay.." Rachel explained.
The unconscious girl lay in the cell beside Jake's. She had long brown hair and a peach complexion with a sun-kissed glow.
All of a sudden, the door slammed open, and in walked a pair of men dragging in two unconscious mutants. The men locked the two mutants in empty cells, then left the room almost as quickly as they walked in.
One of the new occupants was a boy, who looked about 17. He began to awaken in his cell. Once his brain processed what was going on, he looked through the bars of his cell, looking for his sister.
"Talia! Talia!" he called.
She lay in her cell, motionless.
"Oh my God," he muttered worriedly as he ran his hand through his jet black hair.
"Dude, just relax," Jake whispered.
"Relax? Relax! Who are you people?" Adam asked.
Rachel said, "We're mutants just like you..okay? We were kidnapped by the Anti-mutant League. You can't use your powers because they have these cells riddled with technology that eletro-shocks us when we use our powers."
Adam nodded understandingly, taking in the information.
He stepped forward into the dim light of his cell. Everyone got a good look at him. Adam, similar to his sister, had light blue toned skin and pointed ears. Unlike his sister, his eyes were a dark brown, while hers were a pale yellow. He also had a prehensile tail.
They all had expressions of shock on their faces when they saw him.
"Not exactly like me..." he said.
Kat looked over at the metal instrument table in the center of the room and the table beside it covered with unnamed chemicals and long syringes. She felt sick to her stomach as thoughts of what these people might due to them entered her mind.
She looked at Rachel, "I'm scared..." she whispered.
Rachel, her green eyes large with fear answered, "I am too."
A/N: So, how did you enjoy it? Feel free to comment your thoughts and opinions on the chapter and be sure to vote!
