The Story I Couldn't Think Of A Title For
By: XMENobsession
AN: I am soooooo bored!!! I had two snow days in a row and absolutely nothing to do! But it worked out nicely for all of you because now you get two chapters in two days! Hope you enjoy and remember to REVIEW!
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing! Not the people, not the place, and definitely not the paper!
Chapter 3
"Hello?!" Kitty yelled as she ran into her house. "Wanda? Charlie? Erika? Anyone?!?!" There was no answer. She stopped to catch her breathe and rested her head in her hands. She was close to tears. "What am I going to do?" she asked the empty room. "Pietro... Pietro!" She pulled out her cell phone and quickly dialed his number.
"What?" Pietro answered agitatedly. "I'm very busy."
Kitty was in no state to listen to that. "Pietro, you'd better get your ass out of there and find your damn father and sister because they just kidnapped our kids!!!"
"What?"
"You heard me!" She tried to replace her need to cry with yelling, but it wasn't working...so she yelled louder. "Your father, the great 'King Magnus', kidnapped our daughters and now he's going to use them for some time machine of his!"
"How do you know all of this? Where are you?"
"I'm at the house and I don't have time to explain everything, just tell me where he is!"
"Well, he's not here. I remember him leaving though. He said he was going to the other end of the island."
"The other end of the island? But the rest of Genosha is nothing but jungle..." She gasped as she remembered what she had just learned that day. "Except... He's at Lensherr Laboratory!"
"Where's that?"
"The opposite coast. Can you get me there?"
Within the next second Pietro was standing next to her. He wrapped his arms around her shaking form and said soothingly, "It's okay. I'm sure everything's fine."
Kitty shook her head and looked up at him. "No, it's not. Not if we don't leave right now!"
Pietro didn't even waste time nodding in agreement. He swooped her up into his arms and ran off in the direction of the jungle.
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"Where is she?" Magneto asked his daughter as they walked down the cold corridor of Lensherr Laboratory.
"She said she had an 'important meeting'," Wanda answered.
"And you believed her?"
"Of course not! But it seemed like the perfect opportunity to get the twins. You said you wanted this done quickly." They stopped in front of two metal doors and Magneto opened them with a single thought.
"I do. You did well, Scarlet Witch. Good job." He gave her an uncharacteristically proud smile. Wanda wasn't sure how to take it so she simply lowered her head and entered the room.
Inside, computers lined every wall except for the one on the far end. There were steps on that wall that led up to a platform with a large metal ring standing on it. At the bottom of the steps an older woman was sitting with two small children.
"Irene," Magneto said as he approached them. "How are they doing?"
"Just fine, Erik; everything is fine," Irene answered as she placed the girls on the floor and stood up. "Are you all right?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
Irene shrugged. "You could be nervous. This is a big thing that you're doing here. It's the beginning of a lot."
"Is that a fact or just speculation?"
"It's not hard, even for a blind person, to see that this is going to affect all of Genosha."
"Isn't that what we want?" Wanda asked.
"No," Magneto answered. "We want this to affect the world."
"Magneto!" a voice called through the radio on Magneto's belt.
He picked it up and answered, "Yes, Mystique. What is it?"
"We have a bit of a problem, here!"
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Kitty and Pietro had no problems getting into the building. There were no guards or attack dogs outside or within. The front doors weren't locked and there were no alarms.
"Either he doesn't mind if anyone shows up, or he's just not expecting them," Pietro said as they strolled down the deserted hallway.
"This is creepy," Kitty said and shivered. "I don't like it."
"Neither do I, but would you rather we had to fight our way in?"
"Maybe."
They turned a corner and were met by a group of masked soldiers, armed and ready for battle.
"Be careful what you wish for." Pietro immediately got into his own fighting stance, but before he could do anything his wife grabbed his arm and pulled him under the ground. They ran through the solid earth until they couldn't hold their breath any longer and Kitty pulled them back up into another empty hallway.
"We can't waste time fighting," she said, out of breath. Pietro nodded and looked past her at two large doors. He pointed and Kitty looked too. "Where do you think they go?" she asked.
"Only one way to find out."
Together they pushed the heavy doors open and found a peculiar sight.
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A few minutes earlier...
"What kind of problem?" Magneto asked Mystique on the two-way radio.
"Troops report a sighting of unauthorized personnel in sector 3..."
"Well, who is it?"
"Sir, it's Pietro and Kitty, and they're headed straight for you!"
At that moment, the 'King's' son and daughter-in-law entered through the doors, looking very shocked. Wanda immediately hexed a light fixture that fell on them, but they weren't caught quite as off-guard as she had hoped. Pietro ran out of the way and Kitty simply phased through it.
Magneto quickly grabbed the twins and flew himself and them up to the platform. He gently placed them in front of the large ring and mentally pressed a few button on the ring's base. The ring began to spin faster and faster and it's once empty center glowed bright white.
"Pietro!" Kitty yelled and pointed at the machine. Wanda hexed another light and Kitty dodged out of the way, too tired to phase. Wanda noticed that she was getting slower and weaker. She decided that she had damaged enough of the room, grabbed Kitty from behind, and held her still. Kitty couldn't fight back, but she still struggled to break free of her grasp.
Meanwhile, the machine had stopped accelerating and remained at a constant and very high speed. The white light continued to glow and the air around it began to waver like the air above a fire. The twins sat quietly, watching the light with sparkling eyes. Then they too began to glow white.
Pietro raced up the steps just in time to see this. He paused, hesitating on touching them. Then, right before his eyes 2 new white figures appeared. They were tall and feminine. He stared at them, and then looked down at his hands. They were glowing too.
Kitty watched from the ground. She saw the new figures appear and Pietro turn bright white. "Pietro!!!" she yelled hoarsely, but he didn't hear her. Then he was gone as well as the babies. All that was left on the platform was the time machine and two women; one with brown hair and one with white.
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The room was silent as everyone was in shock. Wanda loosened her grip on Kitty and she managed to get free. Kitty couldn't believe what she had just witnessed. Where were they? And who where these people? Unlike everyone else present, Kitty was more angry than surprised. "You!" she said angrily toward her father-in-law. "What did you do?" She picked up a shard of glass from the broken light and threw it at Magneto as hard as she could.
Now, as everyone knows Magneto's mutant power is to control metal, not glass. So you can imagine everyone's surprise when the shard stopped in mid-air right before it touched him. Kitty just stared at the glass for a second. Then her eyes moved up to Magneto's face. He seemed just as shocked as she was. "How did...?" she began but stopped when she heard footsteps.
Everyone turned and watched as the two ladies walked down the stairs and right up to Magneto. The lady with platinum hair had her hand held out the entire time and when they reached him she dropped her hand and the glass fell as well. Magneto looked at her. "Erika?" he asked quietly. The girl nodded and Magneto looked to the other one. "Charlie?" She nodded as well. Magneto laughed and pulled them both into an unexpected hug.
Kitty approached them cautiously. "You... you're not... What is going on here?"
The girls turned away from the master of magnetism. Charlie's eyes lit up when she saw Kitty and she immediately hugged her. Erika was more stand-offish.
"Mom!" Charlie shrieked. "I can't believe it's you!" She held her at arms length and took in the sight of her mother. "You look so... young! How old are you?"
Kitty could hardly breathe, but she managed to whisper. "How old are you?"
"I'm 17. You look great! Erika," she said, turning to her twin sister. "Look, it's mom!"
Erika nodded. "I see her," she said.
"Well, come over here and say hello to your mother!"
Erika shook her head. "I don't talk to ghosts."
"'Ghosts'?" Kitty asked.
Charlie shook her head and said dismissively, "Don't listen to her, she's delusional. You're real and you're here and... and this is wonderful!" She hugged her again.
"I don't understand," Kitty said. "What just happened? Where's Pietro?"
"Dad's here?" Charlie asked excitedly and whipped her head around to look at her grandfather.
Magneto looked up at the time machine sadly. Charlie's smiling face quickly dropped and Erika put her hand on her sister's shoulder.
Kitty stepped back from the three of them. "Someone had better explain to me exactly what is going on here or else..."
CRASH! A light fixture fell directly on top of her.
"Wanda!" Magneto yelled in shock.
"She's not dead! ...just unconscious. She'll wake up in a few hours and we'll explain that this was all just a bad dream."
"And how do we explain the fact that her toddlers are missing and these two are here?"
"... Okay, so there is a flaw in my plan..."
"You're damn right there is!"
"She would've noticed something was different eventually! How were you planning on telling her?"
"For one, I was expecting Pietro to be here and stop her from murdering us both!"
"Well, who knows where he is now!"
"More like 'when'," Charlie corrected. "The machine would have taken him to this exact spot in some other time. So we know where he is; we just don't know 'when'."
Wanda looked at Charlie closely, thinking. "Why don't you tell her?"
"Me?!"
Wanda nodded. "Both of you. She won't kill you. In fact, she might be so happy to meet her children from the future that she'll completely forget that her babies and husband are missing."
"I doubt that," Magneto said. "But this does sound like the safest way to break it to her. What do you think, Irene?"
Irene, who had been sitting quietly this entire time, nodded in agreement with Magneto and said, "This is the best decision, though there are many problems..."
"There are going to be problems no matter what we decide! Let's get her out of here and back home. Charlie and Erika, you will stay with her until she wakes up and then explain the situation in the best way possible. I assume you know what's going on?"
They both nodded. "We live in the future you created," Erika said. "This is history to us."
AN: Kind of crazy, I know... Just go with it, please!
