-1Author's Note: I am so sorry for the long update. I was busy with work, had writer's block, then I got Grandia II and Kingdom Hearts II (awesome games!)
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Chapter VIII: Mystique's Final Plan
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Lance watched as Mystique stood at her window staring out at the damaged city. She had been standing there for the last hour sighing every now and then. He knew what she was thinking. It was just him and her left in the Brotherhood. The others either died or joined their enemy. Now what were they supposed to do with just the two of them?
"Mystique?" he asked nervously trying to break the silence.
"What?" she snarled.
"Umm…have you thought up a plan yet?" he winced as he asked her this. He hoped he was not pissing her off.
"Yes…actually," she answered. She turned to face him. "We are going after SHIELD."
"To get rid of the Sentinel plan?" he inquired.
"No," she shook her head. "We are going to find weapons to defeat the X-Men."
"How do we get in there undetected?" he pressed on. "I'm sure they have mutant detectors!"
"So shake 'em up," she smirked.
He opened his mouth to protest again until he caught on to what she meant. He returned to same kind of sick and evil smirk.
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Betsy and Warren received a tour of the institute from Ororo and Logan. The two knew it would take a long time to remember where everything was, but so far they were loving the place. The two always felt alone in the world because of their mutant powers, but as they walked through the mansion, they saw and met several mutant with unique abilities as well.
"Well this is your room, Betsy," Ororo said at the end of the tour. "And the room across from yours is Warren's."
"Thank you, Miss Munroe," Warren said formally.
Ororo laughed and waved her hand. "Please, just call me Ororo or Storm," she said.
"Okay, Storm!" Betsy said cheerfully.
"Well I must be going now," Ororo said. "Feel free to let any of us know if you need anything."
"Thank you again," Warren said. Ororo just smiled and walked away.
"Well I'm going to go unpack now," Betsy announced. "Be seeing you, love."
"Okay," he nodded making his way to his room.
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Mystique and Lance made their way outside SHIELD headquarters. How she always got information on enemy locations was beyond Lance's knowledge. He figured she must have got the information from Magneto's files after he died. Maybe he knew about SHIELD and never told anyone?
"Okay, Avalanche, cause a tremor strong enough to perhaps knock out their power," she ordered.
He held his hands out towards the building and the ground began to shake. Mystique smirked as she saw sparks flying. Surely their power was out now. She just hoped that their backup generators did no power about their mutant sensors.
"Good," she said. "Now," she morphed herself so that she would look like a guard and slapped handcuffs on Lance's wrist, "I am going to pretend to be a guard and you will be my mutant prisoner. Got it? The power was knocked out because of your resistance."
"Okay," he nodded.
They walked to the building and stopped before two guards posted at the entrance.
"I caught a mutant spy," Mystique reported using a deep, masculine voice.
"Show me your ID card, sir," the guard asked.
"You sure?" she asked returning to her mutant self.
"Dammit!" the second guard shouted pulling out his gun.
Mystique did a high kick into the guard's head knocking him unconscious. She grabbed the gun from the fallen guard and shot to other who was about to attack.
"Pathetic human," she spat. She leaned down and picked up the guard she shot's ID card and morphed herself to look like him.
"We gotta get rid of the bodies," Lance said. "Or else someone might see 'em and know you're in here impersonating."
"Fine," she said. "Help me."
They dragged the bodies and hid them behind some trees in the forest. Hopefully that would be a good enough place for now. After that Mystique put the cuffs back on Lance and made their way inside the building. With the dead guard's card, they now had access inside.
The inside was as dark and gloomy as Lance expected. There was hardly any light due to his power outage and the walls and floors were made of metal. There was guards and soldiers running around in a panic trying to fix the power and to make sure there was no problems with the Sentinels due to the tremor.
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Meanwhile something else was going on while Mystique and Avalanche were inside. Lance's tremor was so strong it broke several gates in several cells, one of them was Nick Fury's. He ran from his cell with only one goal: destroy the Sentinels. He first ran into the weaponry room. He grabbed a couple of guns and a few detonators.
Well armed he now made his way to the Sentinel lab. He knew he would have to kill the guards they had posted to that room, but it was better their lives than the lives of the innocent mutant children that would be murdered.
But what happened next he did not expect. When he arrived at the lab, the guards were already dead and the door had been blasted open.
"What the hell….." he whispered.
He walked inside and saw a man standing before the Sentinels. The man heard Nick coming and turned around to meet him.
"Bastion!" Nick gasped.
"Inferior human," Bastion growled.
Nick glared at the cyborg and aimed his gun at him.
"Your weapons are nothing against my technology," Bastion smirked.
"Yeah, but I don't go down without a fight," Nick replied.
"Fool," Bastion said raising his hand.
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"So what is this weapon we're after?" Lance asked Mystique quietly as they continued walking down the halls.
"It's like an animal collar," she growled. "They wanna part it on mutants because it's made so a mutant cannot use their powers. We're gonna use it against the X-Men. Well the most powerful ones at least because there's only a few."
"Like Kitty," he mumbled. "She won't be able to phase with it on."
"Exactly," she nodded.
A guard was walking down the hall towards them and stopped in front of the two. He was a tall, skinny guard with a look of hatred in his grey eyes as he saw Lance.
"Got a mutie?" he asked.
"Yes," Mystique answered using her male voice. "I'm taking him in for questioning. He is quite powerful so I shall need the collar. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction? I missed the meeting about them and forgot where Trask is keeping them."
"Certainly," he nodded. He pointed is finger straight ahead and looked at her. "Go all the way down this hall," he waved his hand to the left, "turn left and it is in the second room to the right."
"Thank you," she looked at his name badge, "Mister Evans."
"No prob," he nodded. He continued forward and purposely bumped into Lance muttering, "Damn mutie."
"Stupid-ass human," Lance spat back.
"Come on, 'mutie'!" Mystique growled pulling Lance forward. "You trying to get us busted?" she hissed.
"No, but he just pissed me off," Lance growled.
"He'll get his soon enough," she said. "Now let's hurry and get these weapons."
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Author's Note: I'm gonna leave it there. Sorry for the cliffy! What happens to Nick and Bastion? Will Mystique's final plan work? Found out in chapter IX: Mystique's Last Chance.
