Pyro's Great Escape
Chapter 3
A God Upon Men
Did it happen, he thought in his subconscious. I shouldn't be dreaming like this, he thought again.
John opened his eyes to find himself spread out across his bed. "I guess it didn't." he said out loud. He pulled the covers off and there he was naked. It wasn't unusual for him to sleep in the nude before, but he knew he hadn't since he came to the Brotherhood. He looked to his clock and realized it was an hour after he was to leave.
He hurried to find clothes. He went to the closet again and there some were; a red, cotton shirt and black jeans, with black boots waiting for him. He put them on and messed with his hair a little. As he went to his door, he felt so exhausted that he backspaced to the bed. He shook his head and got up. As he opened the door, Magneto was there in front of him.
"Ah, there you are, Pyro, I saw that you were sleeping, so I did not want to wake you, are you ready for your next lesson?"
"Actually, I..."
"Good, come along then. Meet me outside the lair." Magneto said walking out of the doorway.
John rolled his eyes, and walked out of his room shutting the door.
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Magneto, Sabertooth, and Mystique took him to a local forest. After doing away with the park ranger, leaving him tied up inside the closet, Magneto had Pyro stand on the roof.
"What are we doing here?" Pyro asked.
"You're going to see how big your power is. Stand right there." Magneto instructed him. He motioned for Sabertooth to start his part of the task.
Mystique brought over liquid gas and dowsed a metal baton in it. Sabertooth took a match and set the baton to flame and threw it towards the boy. Afraid of being hit, John closed his eyes, and waited for the blow. When he opened them, he realized the baton was steady right in front of him.
"Manipulate the fire, Pyro." Magneto ordered. Pyro 'took' the fire from the baton and made it a ball. "Good; now raise it to the sky." He said as he watched Pyro focus. "Now, make it bigger."
Pyro did and it grew to the size of a basketball. "Is this good?"
"No, my boy; I mean big." Magneto replied watching as the fire ball grew to the size of a beach ball. Magneto was as focused as Pyro was. Pyro began to sweat, partially because of the heat, and the strength he was using to control this big ball of fire. "Continue, boy; if you can, make it as big as the world!"
Now wanting to disappoint his new leader, Pyro did so. He made the sphere grow in surface area every few seconds.
Meanwhile inside the ranger station, the man had luckily gotten a hold of his cell phone he kept in the very same closet. Trying to come out from his gag, he took the phone with his fingers and managed to dial 911. "Mutants... they're here destroying the forest! Please hurry!" And the man followed with his information and location.
Outside, Pyro had managed to get the ball of fire as big as the small ranger cabin itself. The weight pressured him. He felt as if he could fall through at any moment. He pushed his fear aside and continued to concentrate on what was becoming of his fireball. Magneto's coaching and military-like bellows kept Pyro in this state of perfection.
"Now we're going to add something." Magneto said in such a low volume, Pyro couldn't hear it. He wouldn't have heard it anyway; his concentration was on this heavy sphere above his head. Mystique brought over square, metal plates. "Who would have thought he would have made it this far. Bring the extra from the trunk of the car."
Magneto began controlling the plates and sent them around the ball of fire. As soon as Mystique came back, he added the extra and now, those plates were molded to engulf the flame.
"What are you doing?" Pyro managed to ask.
"You know science my boy; without oxygen, there's no fire. But remember, you control the fire; you are a god upon men!"
Pyro yelled as he tried to break his huge fireball out of the metal.
"That's it Pyro! Do it!" Magneto yelled as gobs of spit flew out of his mouth. Magneto began to sweat also; this teenage boy was giving him a run for his money.
Suddenly, the sounds of sirens were heard and the police had arrived. "All right mutants, stop and put your hands up." One said.
"Eric, we must leave." Mystique suggested.
"No! We cannot yet!" Magneto said increasing the power of his metal ball over Pyro's fire.
"This is your last warning!" the same police official cautioned.
"Magneto." Sabertooth said.
"Not now!" he shouted back. He watched on as his new pupil yelled to break the metal bonds.
"Alright, open fire!" the policeman said. Three shots from the guns were shot as warnings. As the bullets kept coming, Mystique and Sabertooth closed into Magneto and asked for a shield.
"I cannot rechannel any of my concentration right now!" he replied seeing that his metal ball was growing, signifying that the ball inside was not dying.
"Aim for the man and the boy!" a police official instructed. And the fires of bullets came once more. Many bullets started to hit Magneto's body armor and took away his concentration.
"Stupid humans!" he cursed. He blew their cars and guns backwards. As his concentration was shot, so was his metal ball. Forgetting about it for the split second gave the paranoid Pyro his chance to advance.
The fire blew off the metal ball and he found himself victorious and awoke from his paranoia. All of a sudden, a bullet came and hit him on the right side of his torso. Feeling the pressure to go to unconsciousness, Pyro threw the ball of fire into the forest and fell through the cracks of the ranger's cabin.
Now the police had a forest fire on their hands and took their attention off the mutants.
"Let's go." Magneto ordered.
"What about John?" Mystique asked.
Magneto cursed within himself. "Hurry Sabertooth, get the boy."
As Sabertooth advanced to the cabin, he was caught by a solid red beam to his chest.
"Hold it right there, Sabertooth." Cyclops ordered jumping out of the silent jet above them. Coming out of the jet were Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Bobby the Iceman, and Rogue. "Storm, take them to stop the fire."
"And let you get all the fun?" Wolverine asked sarcastically. "No way, I'll stay and help."
"Iceman and I noticed, someone fall into the cabin." Rogue commented.
"Then, Nightcrawler, take Rogue and see if you can't help anyone in the cabin. Everyone else knows what to do, let's move!"
Storm and Iceman went into the forest. "This is bad." Iceman said.
"Well, now that we've established that; see what you can do." Storm said flying into the sky.
"But, it's only ice!" he said. "It'll melt before it does anything."
Back outside the cabin, Cyclops and Wolverine were ready for a fight. "Let's bring it Magneto." Cyclops said.
"Damn it." Wolverine swore.
"What's wrong?" Cyclops asked.
"He's doing it again." Wolverine said slightly shaking.
"Doing what?" Cyclops asked again.
"This!" Magneto said. The adamantium running through Wolverine's body became controlled by Magneto. He pushed Wolverine into the cabin. He then took Cyclops's visor and threw it into the forest.
As rain fell from the sky by Storm's power, Cyclops had now opened his eyes upon her and shot her down. Iceman watched as she fell and went to catch her, only to have her land upon him.
"Let's get the boy and get out." Magneto said heading into the cabin. Rogue and Nightcrawler were in the process of untying the ranger in the closet much to his dismay. As Magneto and Mystique arrived, they saw who they were after; Pyro.
As the ranger jumped out a window, Rogue got up from her place and stood right in front of Pyro. "I believe you made a remark about my hair?" she said towards Magneto.
"Yes, and unless you don't want it to be gone by the time we're through I suggest you move."
"Really scary." She said walking towards him taking off her gloves causing all three to walk backwards. Wolverine had come out of the room he was blown into and saw what was happening.
"Not again." He said as he was being secretly controlled by Magneto. Magneto then threw Wolverine onto Rogue and they landed next to Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler took his chances; teleported right beside Pyro and teleported out with him.
"Why didn't we know he was with them?" Magneto shouted exiting the cabin in search of Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler had already run into the forests.
"Logan, you gotta get off." Rogue said inside the cabin. Her skin was not so far from his arm and she knew what would happen if they would touch.
~*~
Meanwhile, outside Cyclops was still trying to control his eyes as they fired into the sky. Magneto took that time to escape, without their new recruit.
Iceman came out from the forest with Storm in his arms. "Put these on, Cyclops." He said handing him the visors. "I found them while I was walking back."
Nightcrawler had Pyro in his arms and they all regrouped outside the cabin even Wolverine without being injured by Rogue.
The fire had spread pretty vastly; even if Storm was conscious she still couldn't harness that much of her power to put it out. Fire trucks and policeman were heard, so the X-Men escaped in their jet with Pyro.
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Chapter 3
A God Upon Men
Did it happen, he thought in his subconscious. I shouldn't be dreaming like this, he thought again.
John opened his eyes to find himself spread out across his bed. "I guess it didn't." he said out loud. He pulled the covers off and there he was naked. It wasn't unusual for him to sleep in the nude before, but he knew he hadn't since he came to the Brotherhood. He looked to his clock and realized it was an hour after he was to leave.
He hurried to find clothes. He went to the closet again and there some were; a red, cotton shirt and black jeans, with black boots waiting for him. He put them on and messed with his hair a little. As he went to his door, he felt so exhausted that he backspaced to the bed. He shook his head and got up. As he opened the door, Magneto was there in front of him.
"Ah, there you are, Pyro, I saw that you were sleeping, so I did not want to wake you, are you ready for your next lesson?"
"Actually, I..."
"Good, come along then. Meet me outside the lair." Magneto said walking out of the doorway.
John rolled his eyes, and walked out of his room shutting the door.
~*~
Magneto, Sabertooth, and Mystique took him to a local forest. After doing away with the park ranger, leaving him tied up inside the closet, Magneto had Pyro stand on the roof.
"What are we doing here?" Pyro asked.
"You're going to see how big your power is. Stand right there." Magneto instructed him. He motioned for Sabertooth to start his part of the task.
Mystique brought over liquid gas and dowsed a metal baton in it. Sabertooth took a match and set the baton to flame and threw it towards the boy. Afraid of being hit, John closed his eyes, and waited for the blow. When he opened them, he realized the baton was steady right in front of him.
"Manipulate the fire, Pyro." Magneto ordered. Pyro 'took' the fire from the baton and made it a ball. "Good; now raise it to the sky." He said as he watched Pyro focus. "Now, make it bigger."
Pyro did and it grew to the size of a basketball. "Is this good?"
"No, my boy; I mean big." Magneto replied watching as the fire ball grew to the size of a beach ball. Magneto was as focused as Pyro was. Pyro began to sweat, partially because of the heat, and the strength he was using to control this big ball of fire. "Continue, boy; if you can, make it as big as the world!"
Now wanting to disappoint his new leader, Pyro did so. He made the sphere grow in surface area every few seconds.
Meanwhile inside the ranger station, the man had luckily gotten a hold of his cell phone he kept in the very same closet. Trying to come out from his gag, he took the phone with his fingers and managed to dial 911. "Mutants... they're here destroying the forest! Please hurry!" And the man followed with his information and location.
Outside, Pyro had managed to get the ball of fire as big as the small ranger cabin itself. The weight pressured him. He felt as if he could fall through at any moment. He pushed his fear aside and continued to concentrate on what was becoming of his fireball. Magneto's coaching and military-like bellows kept Pyro in this state of perfection.
"Now we're going to add something." Magneto said in such a low volume, Pyro couldn't hear it. He wouldn't have heard it anyway; his concentration was on this heavy sphere above his head. Mystique brought over square, metal plates. "Who would have thought he would have made it this far. Bring the extra from the trunk of the car."
Magneto began controlling the plates and sent them around the ball of fire. As soon as Mystique came back, he added the extra and now, those plates were molded to engulf the flame.
"What are you doing?" Pyro managed to ask.
"You know science my boy; without oxygen, there's no fire. But remember, you control the fire; you are a god upon men!"
Pyro yelled as he tried to break his huge fireball out of the metal.
"That's it Pyro! Do it!" Magneto yelled as gobs of spit flew out of his mouth. Magneto began to sweat also; this teenage boy was giving him a run for his money.
Suddenly, the sounds of sirens were heard and the police had arrived. "All right mutants, stop and put your hands up." One said.
"Eric, we must leave." Mystique suggested.
"No! We cannot yet!" Magneto said increasing the power of his metal ball over Pyro's fire.
"This is your last warning!" the same police official cautioned.
"Magneto." Sabertooth said.
"Not now!" he shouted back. He watched on as his new pupil yelled to break the metal bonds.
"Alright, open fire!" the policeman said. Three shots from the guns were shot as warnings. As the bullets kept coming, Mystique and Sabertooth closed into Magneto and asked for a shield.
"I cannot rechannel any of my concentration right now!" he replied seeing that his metal ball was growing, signifying that the ball inside was not dying.
"Aim for the man and the boy!" a police official instructed. And the fires of bullets came once more. Many bullets started to hit Magneto's body armor and took away his concentration.
"Stupid humans!" he cursed. He blew their cars and guns backwards. As his concentration was shot, so was his metal ball. Forgetting about it for the split second gave the paranoid Pyro his chance to advance.
The fire blew off the metal ball and he found himself victorious and awoke from his paranoia. All of a sudden, a bullet came and hit him on the right side of his torso. Feeling the pressure to go to unconsciousness, Pyro threw the ball of fire into the forest and fell through the cracks of the ranger's cabin.
Now the police had a forest fire on their hands and took their attention off the mutants.
"Let's go." Magneto ordered.
"What about John?" Mystique asked.
Magneto cursed within himself. "Hurry Sabertooth, get the boy."
As Sabertooth advanced to the cabin, he was caught by a solid red beam to his chest.
"Hold it right there, Sabertooth." Cyclops ordered jumping out of the silent jet above them. Coming out of the jet were Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Bobby the Iceman, and Rogue. "Storm, take them to stop the fire."
"And let you get all the fun?" Wolverine asked sarcastically. "No way, I'll stay and help."
"Iceman and I noticed, someone fall into the cabin." Rogue commented.
"Then, Nightcrawler, take Rogue and see if you can't help anyone in the cabin. Everyone else knows what to do, let's move!"
Storm and Iceman went into the forest. "This is bad." Iceman said.
"Well, now that we've established that; see what you can do." Storm said flying into the sky.
"But, it's only ice!" he said. "It'll melt before it does anything."
Back outside the cabin, Cyclops and Wolverine were ready for a fight. "Let's bring it Magneto." Cyclops said.
"Damn it." Wolverine swore.
"What's wrong?" Cyclops asked.
"He's doing it again." Wolverine said slightly shaking.
"Doing what?" Cyclops asked again.
"This!" Magneto said. The adamantium running through Wolverine's body became controlled by Magneto. He pushed Wolverine into the cabin. He then took Cyclops's visor and threw it into the forest.
As rain fell from the sky by Storm's power, Cyclops had now opened his eyes upon her and shot her down. Iceman watched as she fell and went to catch her, only to have her land upon him.
"Let's get the boy and get out." Magneto said heading into the cabin. Rogue and Nightcrawler were in the process of untying the ranger in the closet much to his dismay. As Magneto and Mystique arrived, they saw who they were after; Pyro.
As the ranger jumped out a window, Rogue got up from her place and stood right in front of Pyro. "I believe you made a remark about my hair?" she said towards Magneto.
"Yes, and unless you don't want it to be gone by the time we're through I suggest you move."
"Really scary." She said walking towards him taking off her gloves causing all three to walk backwards. Wolverine had come out of the room he was blown into and saw what was happening.
"Not again." He said as he was being secretly controlled by Magneto. Magneto then threw Wolverine onto Rogue and they landed next to Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler took his chances; teleported right beside Pyro and teleported out with him.
"Why didn't we know he was with them?" Magneto shouted exiting the cabin in search of Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler had already run into the forests.
"Logan, you gotta get off." Rogue said inside the cabin. Her skin was not so far from his arm and she knew what would happen if they would touch.
~*~
Meanwhile, outside Cyclops was still trying to control his eyes as they fired into the sky. Magneto took that time to escape, without their new recruit.
Iceman came out from the forest with Storm in his arms. "Put these on, Cyclops." He said handing him the visors. "I found them while I was walking back."
Nightcrawler had Pyro in his arms and they all regrouped outside the cabin even Wolverine without being injured by Rogue.
The fire had spread pretty vastly; even if Storm was conscious she still couldn't harness that much of her power to put it out. Fire trucks and policeman were heard, so the X-Men escaped in their jet with Pyro.
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