Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of X-Men; I only claim ownership of Tara.
TARA:
I watched through the window as we began making our way to Cuba again. Every now and then I would rub my neck. I kept thinking of Azazel's tail was around my neck again.
"You okay?" Alex asked me. I turned to him. "I'll be fine." I told him.
"So who's fighting who today?" Sean asked. "We are outnumbered." Hank said.
"There is Angel, Emma, Riptide, Azazel, Mystique, and Magneto on their side and four of us. Angel will be easy to handle along with Riptide. Emma and Mystique will be a little more difficult. Azazel will be very hard and Magneto too." I said thinking aloud.
I turned to the three I called my brothers.
"I'll take out Angel and Riptide. Banshee handle Emma and Mystique quickly. Beast and Havoc go after Azazel and once you knocked the other two out, Banshee you go help them. I'll take on Magneto." I said.
They looked worried about me handling Magneto but that was our best bet.
"See where they are Rush." Beast called. I nodded and closed my eyes. I was immediately looking for the mind signatures of the Brotherhood and found almost all of them on the beach.
"They're all on the beach except Mystique. She's on the boat." I told them.
"So I'll just worry about Emma." Sean said and I nodded. "Then Azazel." Havoc said.
Finally we were above the island. I got up along with the others as Beast fiddled with the jet.
"Switching to autopilot." Beast said and joined us over the hatch. I made the hatch open and the boys looked to me.
"On my count. One! Two! Three!" I yelled and we jumped out of the plane and fell to the land. At the right moment I used my telekinesis making us land safely and I stood up tall staring at the Brotherhood. Azazel smirked at us.
"Well that's new." He said.
"So it was you that was controlling Angel." Magneto said. Angel glared towards me but I only smirked at her.
"Guess we're even." I said. I looked to Magneto.
"We're not letting you carry out this plan. It's insane and will affect you too." I told him. He only smirked.
"Oh well." He said and I clenched my fists.
"You are truly blind Erik." I said but that's when he glared and the others attacked. Banshee screamed and made Emma fly away. Azazel went towards me but Hank and Havoc drove him away.
Angel took out her wings and Riptide along with her began circling around me.
"What are you going to do now freak?" Angel said with a smirk.
"Your insults are getting very old Angel." I told her bored. She glared at me and spit at me but I dodged it by doing a backflip. Then it nearly hit Riptide. I turned back to her.
"And so are you're tricks." I said. She screamed at me and flew towards me ready to claw my eyes out. I grabbed her arm and forced it behind her. She was wincing in pain. With one flick of my wrist I could break her arm.
"If you attack blindly this is what happens." I told her. I then went into her mind and forced her to sleep. I then turned to Riptide and saw he had two vortex's coming towards me. I blocked them also with my telekinesis then sent a lightning bolt knocking him out.
"You've grown in your powers Rush." I heard Magneto say behind me. I turned to him ready for any attack.
"Please Magneto. End this. If you do this a lot of innocent lives will be lost." I told him. "Men…women…and children." I said and looked to him pleading.
"Do you want all that death on your conscience?" I asked. He just stared at me then let out his hand and pieces of metal came flying at me I dodged and looked to him sadly.
"Very well..." I said.
I charged a lightning orb and threw it at him but he dodged that. At that we went to hand to hand combat. Neither one of us seemed to hit each other. Then all of a sudden he had me on the ground again like I had Angel before.
"This is how you and I are different." He said pulling my arm back a little more. I winced.
"You always want to save the humans but they will never want to save you" he said.
"It doesn't matter. Everyone deserves the right to live." I told him. He only pulled my arm back a little more.
"Nothing matters to the humans." He said and pulled back quick, effectively dislocating my arm. I let out a yell and fell to the ground clutching my now useless shoulder.
"Rush!" Beast yelled dodging a blow from Azazel. "Just keep fighting I'm fine!" I shouted. Azazel looked to me for a second then Beast punched him.
All of a sudden though Magneto gave Azazel a look. They grabbed the unconscious bodies of their teammates and began…retreating. "What's going on?" I muttered.
Beast, Havoc, and Banshee ran over and helped me up. "Why did they run?" Banshee asked.
"I don't know" I said and looked over to the American ship. I slowly began walking towards it and went into an awake mine. All the crew were tied up and Mystique was about to press a red button. I left the mind and got back to the beach.
"We're too late." I said. At that moment the missiles began flying in the air. I had to do something! I held my hand up and concentrated. Come on, come on. The missiles were getting nearer.
"Rush we have to go!" Beast said. I forced them all twenty feet back. Just in case…
"Come on. Come on…" I said. I knew the Brotherhood had stopped running and were now watching us. The missiles were coming in. I opened my hand wide and all of a sudden the missiles started exploding when they had reached a certain point.
My telekinesis had made a shield.
In a matter of seconds all the missiles had been destroyed. I let down my hand and clutched onto my shoulder trying to stop the pain. I turned around and saw all of the guys staring at me wide-eyed.
"That's new." I said with a tired smile. Then they had a look of horror.
"LOOK OUT!" they yelled. I turned around just as a missile hit the water in front of me. It made me fly back but at that same moment I felt arms wrap around me. Then I felt like I was being squeezed in a tube and I could smell…sulfur.
I landed hard on the ground with the person's arms still around me. I recognized who it was.
"Azazel let me go." I told him but he only tightened his grip. "Are you okay?" he asked with a sincere tone which I found completely odd. I struggled to get out of his grip but he tightened it more trying to check how I was.
I don't know how it happened but I began freaking out.
I started hyperventilating and began fighting him to get off me and I began crying. Memories started going through my vision and I began to confuse the past and the present. I could hear my old father beating me and calling me names.
"Let me go! L-Let me go!" I screamed, tears streaming down my face. "P-Please stop hurting me!" I screamed. I heard someone trying to shush me. "I won't hurt you." The man said but I kept struggling.
"D-Daddy please stop…" I begged. I heard someone growl. Then I heard three voices calling my names. I could no longer recognize ho any of these people were. I only felt something soft on my head then a whisper in my ear.
"They will pay…" the voice said before I heard a poof and smelled sulfur again. The three voices came nearer and someone was holding me again. I was now screaming still.
"What's happening!" one of the voices cried. "She's going into relapse. Xavier knew this would happen one day!" another voice answered. Then the third joined them in trying to control me but I was so scared. I then blacked out.
Meanwhile I would forget what Azazel had said and what I had done.