Chapter 2
Logan and the professor raced to the ground level of the mansion. Everyone who lived there was going to the living room. The two men moved swiftly as the crowd parted to let them through.
Upon arrival in the living room, Logan saw that Ororo and Jean were already there. The two women turned to face him and the professor.
"What's happening?" asked the professor asked.
"I'm not sure," Ororo said, "Something must have set off the alarms."
Logan snorted, "You honestly think that something set the alarms off?"
Scott ran into the room at that moment, holding an opened envelope in his hand. "I hate to agree with him," he said, "But he's right."
Scott gave the envelope to the professor then moved over to the television. Professor Xavier read a quick note, with Logan and the other teachers reading over his shoulder. It read a frequency that had to be changed on the television.
Scott went over to the television, and changed the frequency to the one on the page. When he moved away, there were a few moments of silence, and then the television flickered with static. Then the picture cleared, and a familiar face appeared on the screen.
"Hello Charles," said Magneto, "Miss me?"
Logan ground his teeth together in anger. He had harboured a grudge against Magneto since he had kidnapped his young friend Rouge. But he wasn't the only person with a history with Magneto; Professor Xavier had been friends with him back in the day when they were young, before he had tried (and very nearly succeeded) to start World War Three.
Magneto stood almost in complete shadow, wearing his suit and helmet. But from what everyone could see, he was in some kind of large cave and they could hear a source of water somewhere behind him.
"What does he want?" whispered Jean. Logan looked at her. He knew that when she was a child, both the professor and Magneto had brought her to the institute, away from her terrified parents. He almost moved to comfort her, but Scott moved first, putting his arm around his girlfriend.
"Hello brothers. You are probably wondering what I want," continued Magneto, "So I am not going to postpone the subject. Do you remember Senator Kelly and our little experiment?"
Ororo took in a slight but sharp breath. She remembered him very well. She had held his hand as he had died, melting into a puddle of water.
A few years before, Magneto had kidnapped Senator Kelly to be the subject of a cruel experiment that was intended to turn all the heads of state from all over the world into mutants. Using a kind of radiation, Magneto had unnaturally turned the senator into a mutant. But as his body had not been able to deal with the transformation, he had died in a matter of days.
"Well, since then," Magneto said, "I have done my research. And I have recently discovered how to make the effects more . . . permanent. And so no-one could possibly die in the process."
"What is this guy getting at?" Logan muttered, but everyone shushed him as not to miss any important information that could come out of the egocentric man's mouth.
"You see, I will be performing the same experiment as I did on our poor senator. But I will be changing a very important variable. Instead of using a normal human being, I will be using someone with the dormant mutant gene."
Everyone in the room gasped. Except the professor who was staring intensely at his old friend.
"Would you like to meet the lucky participant?" Magneto asked. The camera moved to a darker part of the cave show a chair made entirely of metal. In it was a slumped figure. When the camera adjusted to the light, Logan almost let his claws out.
"That sick bastard!" he said furiously.
Because in the chair, was a small girl.