"The Machine"
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Scott and Ororo, who had been dispatched by Toad and Sabertooth quite easily, rushed onto the train and found Logan, Davey and DemiVeemon had all been taken out.
Using his optic blasts to free DemiVeemon from the slime, Scott then carried a drugged Davey back to the car while Ororo woke up Logan, telling the feral that Rogue had been taken.
Davey wasn't able to wake up easily because of the drug that was injected into her system, so she was taken to the med bay to be looked over by Charles and Jean until she eventually woke up.
Willis had heard what happened and he ran down to the med bay, insisting he stay until his best friend woke up, holding her hand in his own as he sat beside her bed.
Holding his best friend's hand, Willis felt the twitch of her muscles and watched as Davey's eyes slowly began to flutter open.
"Oh, my head." Davey groaned in pain.
"Hey, come on, wake up now. You're safe now." Willis told her as he brushed her bangs off of her forehead.
Eyes snapping open, Davey then sat up, looking around her frantically.
"Where's Rogue?" She demanded.
"Gone. Magneto drugged you and then he took off with her. We have no idea where they are right now." Willis sighed.
Shocked by this news, Davey turned when she found Charles and Jean in the room as well, the redhead wheeling the telepath over to her bed.
"Don't worry, Davia, we will find her. Magneto will not harm her." Charles said.
"What does he even want with her?" Davey asked sounding greatly upset.
"He obviously needs her for her powers, but what does he want to do with them?" Willis asked.
"That's what we're going to figure out." Jean said.
Just then, Logan barged into the room, having heard the sound of the weasel girl's voice and wanted to check on her himself to see if she was feeling better.
He felt terrible that he had been taken out so easily, leaving the girl who was barely 16 years old to fight three older mutants by herself.
"Hey, kid. You okay?" He asked stopping by her bed.
"Great. Although, I think I'm going to break whatever moral code I have and give that old son of a bitch a beating the next time I see him." Davey said as her eyes flashed pink.
"Davia, language please." Charles scolded.
"Language my tail! I've heard you say worse than that." Davey pouted.
Logan sent the old telepath a look, doubt clear on his face while Jean and Willis were struggling to not laugh as Charles seemed a bit embarrassed.
"Logan, would you take Davia back to her room? I'm going to Cerebro to see if I can track Rogue down somehow." Charles explained.
"I thought you couldn't find Magneto with that thing." Logan said sounding confused.
"No, I can't find Erik, but I can find Rogue. She doesn't have anything blocking her mind from me." Charles said.
Accepting that answer, but also feeling skeptic, Logan helped Davey stand on her feet, allowing the girl to lean against him since she still felt the effects of the drug in her system.
Whatever kind of drug Magneto had used on her, it was strong.
As Charles was about to wheel himself out of the room, he stopped and a frown appeared on his face.
"Professor?" Jean questioned.
"It appears we have a guest." He stated.
Confused by this, everyone only waited for a few minutes as DemiVeemon, Terriermon and Lopmon came barging through the doors.
"We've got a problem!" DemiVeemon exclaimed as he scurried up to his partner.
"Don't we always?" Davey sighed.
Her tail wrapped around DemiVeemon and lifted him up so he could sit on her shoulder while the twin Digimon landed on Willis' head.
"You're never gonna believe it! That senator guy is here." Terriermon exclaimed.
"And he's now a mutant." Lopmon informed.
Exchanging looks of shock, everyone ran out of the med bay, watching as Ororo and Scott helped Senator Kelley walk down the halls.
Many of the students had scattered when the saw the man who wanted to condemn them and Pyro looked tempted to burn the man alive, but he was pulled back by Bobby and Pete.
"What's going on here? Who the hell is this?" Logan demanded.
"It's Senator Kelley! What happened?" Jean asked as she rushed forward.
Tiredly lifting his head up, Kelley stared at the redhead woman standing in front of him before his gaze landed on the other mutants behind her.
The pink haired girl looked to be trying to hide herself against the tall muscular man she was leaning against while the blond boy was glaring at him as his eyes flashed red.
"I need your help." Kelley said.
Willis scoffed at that, unable to believe that the man who hated them all and wanted to expose their identities to the world wanted their help.
"Bring him to the medical bay. We'll need to run some tests to see what's wrong with him." Charles ordered.
Opening his mouth to protest allowing the man into their home around their friends and family, Willis was stopped when he felt a silky black tail wrap around his wrist.
Meeting the chocolate colored gaze of his fellow Golden Evolution partner, Willis saw Davey giving him a expression that begged him to not protest or cause a scene.
Sighing in aggravation, Willis pet her tail in agreement that he would behave himself.
"Thank you, Davia." Charles sent her way.
"Just hurry up and figure out why Kelley is here. The sooner he leaves, the better everyone will feel. You know as well as I do that the children feel exposed and frightened with him around." Davey told him.
Kelley was then taken into the med bay and he was helped onto the bed while Charles hovered over him, intending to go inside his mind and seeing what happened to bring him to their safe haven.
"I was afraid that if I went to a hospital, they would..." Kelley trailed off.
"Treat you like a mutant?" Lopmon questioned.
"Not so fun when it's you is it?" Davey commented.
She didn't say it to sound mean.
The reason she said it was so the man would realize that his actions weren't right and were unfair and now he had to suffer through being treated the same way he treated mutants.
Karma came and bit him in the ass.
Going into Kelley's mind, Charles was able to see Magneto had Mystique abduct him and used a machine on him that mutated the senator's cell, turning him into a mutant that could become liquid, but he was unstable.
After he got the information that was needed, Charles herded his X-Men off into a room where they could speak about what he had discovered.
Ororo had stayed behind to watch over Kelley since it looked like the man would be passing soon considering the side effects from the machine.
"The machine emits radiation that triggers mutation in ordinary humans." Charles explained.
"But the mutation is unnatural. Kelley's body is rejecting it. His cells began to break down almost immediately." Jean interjected.
"What effects does radiation have on mutants?" Scoot asked.
"There are no effects. You can't mutant something that is already mutated." Willis spoke up.
"But I fear it will seriously harm any normal person exposed to it." Charles frowned.
"So what does Magneto ant with Rogue?" Logan asked.
"I don't know." Charles shook his head.
Deep in thought, Willis then snapped his head up as he realized what Magneto's plan was for Rogue.
"I think I know. It's obvious that he needed Rogue for her power. You said before that the machine draws its power from Magneto's metal bending abilities, right?" Willis asked.
"Yes, and it nearly killed him." Charles confirmed.
Then, at the exact same time, everyone figured out what Magneto's plan for Rogue was.
"He's going to transfer his power to Rogue to power the machine . He's going to kill her." Davey said.
Horror filled the room as everyone shared a look, quickly trying to think of how they were going to prevent the situation from happening.
"Cyclops, you and Storm ready the jet. I'm going to find Rogue. Davia, find Logan a uniform." Charles ordered.
"Whoa, wait a minute. He's not coming with us, is he?" Scott questioned with a look of disbelief.
"Yes." Charles stated.
"I'm sorry; Professor, but he'll endanger the mission. And if-"
"Hey, I wasn't the one who gave the train station a new sun roof, pal." Logan interrupted.
"Are they seriously doing this?" DemiVeemon muttered as he, Terriermon and Lopmon looked between the two males.
"No, you were the one who stabbed Rogue right through the chest." Scott shot back.
"Scott," Jean scolded.
"Hey, why don't you take your little mission and stick it up your-"
Logan's sentence was cut off by Ororo rushing into the room, tears in her eyes and looking horrified.
"Senator Kelley is dead." She announced.
Everyone stared at her, wondering how Kelley could have died while Willis' mind was working quickly, proving that he was indeed a prodigy and child genius.
"The radiation doesn't stop mutating. It keeps going until there's nothing left. Magneto is going to kill hundreds, maybe even thousands of people with his machine." Willis said.
Taking in a deep breath to try and calm herself down, Davey then turned hard eyes onto Scott and Logan.
"Okay, you idiots. Listen up. Shove that alpha male clashing bullshit up your asses and get over your issues. We have to save Rogue and prevent a massacre. After that, you can go back to hating each other's guts, but for now, pretend your best friends and learn to work together." She demanded.
Both males were unable to protest or argue since they knew the stakes had grown and they needed to get to work as soon as possible.
As for Willis, he was smirking over how well Davey was able to wrangle the two older mutants together.
He highly doubted TK or any of the other DigiDestineds would have been able to accomplish it was well as the little Goddess of the Night had.
"I'm going to find Rogue. Davia, get Logan a uniform that will fit him. The rest of you, get ready and prep the jet." Charles ordered as he wheeled off.
"You heard the man. Let's go." Willis nodded.
Breaking off into groups, everyone rushed off to get ready for the mission, hoping they would be able to locate Rogue in time before countless people were murdered.
To be continued...
