(THE GUYS)
DJ watched the metal door with growing anticipation. He hadn't taken his eyes off it for what seemed like forever to him. He had started tapping his foot on the stone floor and was wondering how long it took to break into a building and rescue four miserable guys.
"There not coming," the blond told him bluntly.
"You don't know that for sure," Devin answered before DJ could react.
The blond rolled his eyes and sat up straight against the rock wall. He yawned and twisted his wrists in his shackles only to wince from the pain.
"The sirens stopped," the red haired boy said as he finally opened his eyes.
"That good or bad?" DJ asked.
Devin shrugged with great difficulty since his arms were shackled over his head.
"You guys aren't going to let me sleep are you?" the blond asked with a heavy sigh.
"Doubt it," the red head mumbled.
"You'll get all the sleep you'll need when Lance and Scott get us out of here,"
"DJ!" the blond huffed. "your seventeen you idiot! Start acting like it! Their not coming!"
The small square room grew quiet. The red haired boy looked over at the blond and frowned.
DJ looked down at his lap. "maybe your right,"
(LANCE)
The sound of the water swishing around in his boots was about to drive him into insanity. He stopped and took one off, and then the other.
"Lance!"
He looked up to see Scott standing on the far side of the hallway. He had a dumbfounded look on his face.
"What?"
"This is not the time to dry your feet out!" he yelled starting to walk towards him. The X-Men appeared around the corner and slowly followed him back in the direction they had come.
"Why? We're going to be attacked by someone else soon anyways,"
Scott moaned. He squeezed the water out of his shirt and watched as Lance pulled his drenched socks off.
"So I take it that the girl we just saw was a mutant," Bobby said. "that was converted?" Tabby gave him a "duh" look and rolled her eyes.
Scott looked up at him and nodded. "Misty," he said. He looked down at Lance who was staring at the floor. "we tried to save her, but it was too late,"
Lance thought back to that day when Misty was taken. He remembered the tears flowing down her round face as she screamed for someone to stop the guards from taking her. Lance had broken out of his cell but arrived just in time to see the machine placed over her head. Her screams still pierced his ears through nightmares.
"Lance,"
He broke out of his nightmare and looked up to see everyone staring at him. He looked back down to avoid their gazes.
"We should keep moving," Ororo told them.
"Yeah, come on," Scott sighed.
Lance put his socks and boots back on but continued staring at the floor.
"Lance," He looked up to see Kitty's worried eyes watching him. Everyone else had started moving back down the hallway. "are you okay?"
He nodded and slowly stood up. She gave him a weak smile and followed the rest of the group down the hall. He watched her and thought back to all of those nights he sat and stared at the stone wall just wondering what she was doing. Had she been worried about him, or just Scott?
"Lance! Get your ass moving!" Scott yelled.
Lance glared at the back of his head, but listened.
(MALCOLM)
He could hear Lances memories about Misty. It made him flinch to hear her scream out of Lances mind.
"It was for the best," he thought to himself. "It was painful, but it was for the best. They'll see. I'll make them see,"
(SCOTT)
Another large door stood in front of them. He opened it and walked in with the X-Men on his heels.
"Whoa," Kurt whispered.
"Holy crap, they have a rainforest," Bobby said.
All around them was lush green plants. They could here the monkeys in the background and the bugs flying around their heads. Jean swiped at an invisible mosquito.
"Malcolm," Scott and Lance said in unison.
"Ummm," Tabby said. "this is kinda weird,"
"Ya think?" Rouge frowned.
"Welcome!"
They all looked up to see a young boy in a white t-shirt and shorts. His short messy blond hair stood straight up as if he had been electrocuted. The smile on his face stretched from ear to ear on his small face.
"You've out done yourself this time Mal," Scott said with a weak smile.
"We're dead," Lance mumbled as he sat down on the ground.
"I know, right!?" Malcolm smiled again and jumped up and down. "i'm awesome,"
"Slowly make your way to the other side of the room," Scott whispered to the x-men.
"Why? He's just a little kid," Evan said quietly.
"You feel the breeze?" Scott asked him.
"Yeah,"
"You hear the animals in the back ground?"
"Yeah,"
"You see the amazingly blue sky,"
"Yeah,"
"It's all an illusion,"
"You mean to say that that kid is making all this with his mind!?" Bobby yelled.
"Yep we're dead," Lance moaned.
"I'M NOT A KID!" Malcolm yelled. "I'M TWELVE!"
Just then the sky started to turn black and the animal noises ceased. Scott moaned.
"Run!" he yelled.
The X-men followed close behind him with Lance in the back. He saw the large metal doors that led to the hallway they needed to be in.
"Escaping is going to do us shit if he's still conscious!" Lance yelled from the back. He could hear and feel the stampede of something big making its way from the jungle.
Scott cussed under his breath and turned around. "Jean can you do something about that?"
Jean looked over at him. "I can try, but if he fights it may injure him,"
"Do it," he said before turning to open the doors.
Jean watched him leave with a worried glance and then turned to the young boy walking towards them. Bees were swarming around the boy and he looked willing to kill.
"I suggest you do it now," Lance said as he passed her. "he's only getting warmed up,"
She put her hands up to her temples and closed her eyes. Malcolm let out a loud scream and the rainforest disappeared into a cloud of invisible dust. The young boy fell onto the floor in the middle of a large empty office room.
Jean opened her eyes and looked back at the open doors. Scott was standing near the wall trying to catch his breath.
"That wasn't nice!" Malcolm yelled standing back up with bees starting to form around him. Scott sighed. He knew Jean wouldn't try hard enough.
"So sorry," Scott said before blasting two lasers straight into the small boy's chest sending him flying to the other side of the room. This time he didn't get back up.
"That was not fun," Kurt said with a frown.
"Try having no muscle and barely any food in your system," Lance mumbled.
"We're here," Scott said mostly to himself.
They found themselves looking down a long hallway with metal door after metal door on their left.
"Your an idiot!" came a loud muffled voice.
"Yep, I hear Eric," Lance sighed.
(THE GUYS)
"Just leave him alone Eric," the red haired boy said to the blond.
"Once he shuts up, I will!" Eric growled.
"I'm just saying-" DJ started.
"Your just saying your not all mentally there!"
Devin sighed and looked up at the ceiling. The large metal ball above their heads was what kept them from using their powers. He remembered all the times he had broken bones trying to destroy it.
Just as he was about to stop the argument a knock came from the other side of the large metal door.
"No ones home," the red haired one replied.
"Don't piss them off again Will," Devin moaned.
Will rolled his eyes and attempted to shrug his shoulders.
The door opened slowly and then flew open the rest of the way. There standing in the doorway was a thin young man with brown hair and blue eyes. The small room grew quiet for only a second.
"HA!" DJ yelled at Eric. "Who's an idiot now!?"