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-MESSIAH COMPLEX (2) -

As soon as they are back, at least physically, the telepaths join the others. Now, the x-men are all assembled… Ororo's team, Scott's one, the "young" x-men, even x-factor. Chris looked at what it remain of the mansion broken-hearted… there's no trace of what it used to be, The gravestones of the children, of the former x-men, Jean's memorial. And all that Scott and Charles are able to do is fight, more and more, about everything… about the fact that Scott send the best he had outside, that he send killers against his own son (that he is incredibly alive and well), and that Charles is no more desired around… not able to help them outside, and not wanting to give other looks at the sentinels, she comes back in the infirmary, and to see how Kurt is doing. She knows that his conditions aren't good… she just doesn't want to see another burial, not another friends fall…

"Christine, I need a minuteto speak to you – she turns her head in direction of the voice she just hear, Emma's one, something new, since she always spoke to her mentally - there's a briefing."

"do you really want me in, Emma?"

"I haven't anything against you, Christine, although I understand that maybeyou do. But it doesn't matter if we like each other, the X-Men just need all the possible help, and, since you still have your telekinesis, I thought you could help us." Chris doesn't reply, she knews too well that the former White Queen, her brother's former "mistress", is right, so she follows older woman, and, before to join them in the room, she already hears Scott's hight, resolute and severe voice from the corridor.

"Wolverine and his team are engaging Cable now, and they weren't alone. The marauders are still out there, the purifiers are still out there. We have to be there to back Wolverine when he takes possession of the Baby – possession. What a bad word, for a child. Does Scott really think he is so different from Charles? 'cause, right now, they are very alike – we're leaving in a minute. Monet is with x-factor, Beast has to stay in the med-lab, Surge can cover the students."

Alberta, Canada, later.

"Logan, tell us what happened here."

"What you see, Slim. We met the enemy, we did them harm. Cable got away with Blackbird one."

"Cable isn't stupid, he knew there's a locator, makes sense he'd deactivated it. – Bobby is still on Blackbird two, trying to find something- Chris here is trying to find a way to activate it at distance, but she is not sure it can work."

"Cable is not a stupid, he knew what we could do."

"he Is going at south." Miss frost, do you hear us? We have a location… dallas, texas.

"He is looking for Forge. Okay… general alarm. Anyone who can, get there. We have to stop him."

Later.

"Logan's troupes are already in the air, ready to go wherever it needs. But there's something. We miss something. Cable, the purifiers, sinister, the marauders, the sentinels… something wrong."

"Scott, honey… the girls say that Gambit is going to Muir Island."

"Lucas you have your heading. Muir Island. We'll be right behind you."

"Copy that, Cyclops. We're on our way." Scott is just talking to Bishop, when they all hear Siryn's scream… when they run where the young woman is, they find out that Jamie – whose copies had been sent in two different futures, resulting in him falling into a coma – is now awake… and with an "M" symbol, like Bishop's one, on his face. He is just able to ask them where Lucas is, before that everyone run on him. "I can't sense him. He is blocking all the psych attacks. And he is radio-silent. What about you and Monet, Christine?"

"He is blocking not only Emma, but all the ones with Psych powers, including me and Monet. At least now we know where he is going, and why he is doing what he is doing."

"The timing, how he was in the room right when we learned of Cable, the attacks of the sentinels… that he had access to them."

"But why? He is an x-men, and why cable is running if…"

"Bobby, If Lucas is doing it, he had planned it really good. He played with us for years, putting all against all, he even told us there was a traitor among us. Hard to believe it was him… we believed he was a saviour, instead…"

"Well, people, right now we've got to hurry, there's a baby to rescue."

Later, Muir Island.

"X-men, take the Marauders down and find Bishop!" the X-men lead by Cyclops jumped in the palace destroying the ceiling, as their leader start to fire at their enemies with his optic blasts; everyone is doing their best: force, ice, wings, winds, telekinesis, metal, muscles, collide, as the fight for the survival begins.

"There's another telepath here, and it's not Cable…. But Exodus is creating too much interferences, I can't see what's happening or where the child is!"

"Kill anyone in your way, but find the baby!" Now Scott really seems Charles. If you think about it, he is an hypocrite, accusing Charles of mistakes and things that he is doing right now.

"Scott, someone's coming, I can already sense their presence here… the kids are here, and they are not alone…"

"You can sense something, Chris? The shields are down?"

No Scott, but it's too loud to not hear it. What the kid are here with… this being called Predator X,is primitive, pure instinct… it just wants to eat mutants… Chris has just the strenght to whisper it telephatically to her team leader, while she is still mentally monitoring the whole place looking for something, or someone, she already knows.

"Okay people, let's change plans. Logan, you and x-force go after predator x. The students have to go for the marauders, they don't know our kids, and they will not be prepared to face them. The others follow me where's Cable is – later, they are now in sight, in a room where Cable is fighting Bishop, and where Charles is, too. As soon as Scott is in front of his son, he keeps telling him the same things, asking him to give the child to the x-men; as answer, Nathan puts his weapon at Cyclops' head. "Dad, don't make me do this, please."

"Nathan, maybe it's better if you do as Scott says."

"Professor, I thought you understood that you believed me."

"Yes, but it's not my choice or your one, it's the future of our kind. He is the leader of the x-men. He is the one who has to speak for us all. You've done your part. Give him the baby" Chris is still battled the few marauders that have still been able to get inside, near the baby, and she looks at the scene, seeing the 3 of them, hearing them. It reminds her of the past, when Charles and Erik were the two who spoke for the mutants. Now, as Charles takes the baby to pass it to Scott, it seems that Summers is taking Charles' role, too.

"Emma, I've got her….- As he speaks, the baby takes a medallion from Scott's neck, and touches it. No one can knows what happened, or what Scott saw, but something happened there… 'cause he calls his son's name and gives the child to him. – Nathan, this child opens the doors of two possible futures, at least. Take her out of here, let her choose her own path. give her the freedom I was never able to give you. And don't say goodbye, 'cause it isn't goodbye." Not a piece of the chess game of someone else, like Chris has always been. This baby will have freedom, or at least is what they hope. And, although her team-mates don't understand what Scott is doing and don't appreciate his decision, Chris has to admit that she is happy, and that maybe she was wrong about Scott, too. Choosing his own path, he lets Charles out. He is not a "little Xavier", just himself. As the two Summers say a not final goodbye to each other, and Nathan is disappearing thanks to his "time-machine", Bishop wakes up, and, before Scott could stop him, fires… but it's not Nathan who's been hit, it's the professor….

"Scott, Head-shot, deep, and he is not breathing... my god, Charles…"

"I…. I can't feel his mind…. – Chris looks in shock at the man who taught her how to improve her capacities, on her knees, with tears coming from her dark eyes - my god… his mind is.. is like a black hole, a white page… empty… I can't feel anything…"

"Scott, what do we do now that Charles…"

"Bobby, It was Xavier's dream… it begun with him, it ends with him. We can just prey, that this birth means something. But right here, right now… there are no X-men" But when Scott ends his sentence, like it has never been there before, Charles' body is no more with them… is disappeared.

Few Days Later, at what's left of The Xavier Institute.

My step brother is here, Scott, or he'll be by the time I'll finish this thought. Scott and Chris are in what it was the garden of the institute, surrounded by the bodies of the Sentinels, what it remains of the construction and the rest of the statues that once were in the commemorative Garden, the statues of the fallen ones. Scott is in sight, while Chris remains in the dark, avoiding to be seen by her brother both Mentally, Physically and technologically.

Thanks Chris, I see him. In that moment, Iron Man plans on the soil, in front of the man with the sun-glasses, and starts to look around. He had been here before, and sometimes in terrible conditions, but he has never seen it like this before.

"My God, Scott, why didn't you come to me for help? Why didn't Chris tell me you were in trouble?" He says, without, at the beginning, takes off his helmet, still with an electronic voice.

"Mutants problems tend to get worse when the government is involved, Tony, a lesson we learned a long before your little civil war… a lesson that it seems Chris learned too. Do you already know that she is using her original surname again?"

At this time, Tony takes off the helmet, looking in the eyes at Cyclops, maybe touched by what the X-leader told him about his sister. Sure that he knows, he tried as hard as he can to contact her, and, when he tried with Excalibur, Sage told him that Miss Johnson was still valuating his proposals. "Then you know why I'm here. What happened in Alaska, here, what happened at OUR sentinels, how are you x-men planning to keep the government out of your lives in light of that?"

"You don't have to stop to blaming the bad guys for something we didn't do! If we hadn't gone to Alaska, all that chaos and death would've still happened, Tony…. We just wouldn't have been there to help the survivors." He wants to hit Tony with his fist, Chris knows this, and she has to say, she agrees with him. He is going too far.

"They are pushing to register all of you, the get the x-men into the system. Try to understand. I don't' blame you; I think you are all heroes, I know what you've been through, but to do the things you do…"

"We don't do anything Tony… we just exist. We don't have a choice, it's not what we do… it's how we are born. you want us to register just because we are born? Is that really who you are now? " he almost screams at him, grate for the rain that is hiding that fact that, while he tightens his fists, he almost cries.

"It's not fair, and you know it. As I told you, they are pushing me…" But Scott stops him, with a grave tone of anger in his voice.

" you don't get why I'm the only one here, I was waiting for you, to tell you we're not joining your initiative, we're not working for the government. And, as of right now, there is no x-men. Xavier's dream died in that institute, with it and Xavier himself. Now, we are just mutants, Tony, we don't have secret identities. How you want to deal with that is your problem." As he looks at Scott going to a car, ready to leave for the last time the place where he has grown, Tony puts his hands under his chin, looking at the sky, and, as he does so, Chris leaves the place where she was hiding, letting the rain wet her; she is without costume, without mask, she just wears jeans, a t-shirt and a jacket in black leather, a sign that, like them, she is no more an x-woman, but just a person, who happened to have powers that she never desired. "I know he wasn't alone, that you were probably somewhere in the neighbourhood waiting for the right moment to show yourself. – he looks at her, with a veil of sufferance in his eyes – I'm glad you are back. I missed you."

Chris looks in the eyes of her brother, too, with a feel he can't, or maybe he doesn't want, understand, as she suddenly changes topic, not wanting to speak about herself or her return, but about more serious topics. "You can't ask us to sign in just because we are born. You don't know what will happen if you'll do it. It will be our end. The days of the future past that Destiny and even Rachel told us about, will happen. You started everything, Tony, with the registration. If you don't make attention, soon it will be the end of the world. And this is the reason that I 'm still with you. What you did… Tony, I still don't know what to think about it… but I'm starting to think that you are losing contact with the reality, that you now don't know what's right and what's wrong, that you don't know how to deal with what's happening… you need a needle for your scales, and I feel like it has to be me. This is the reason I'll still be with you. I want to give a look at what's happening, ready to stop the end before it starts, if it will be necessary." Chris turns her back to him, and moves in direction of her personalized and technologically enchanted black Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, while Tony was already in the air, ready to fly away, but, suddenly, he goes in front of her, still in the air, and, removing again the helmet, he looks at her in the eyes… her dark and cold eyes, waiting for something, something he waits for a long time, something that doesn't happen… or at least, not in the way he wishes.

"You betrayed me. You didn't have faith in me, you never had, and frankly, the irony is that I understand why. No one is so crazy to trust a spy, I give you that. But that's not the point… the point is that you lied to me not as a spy, but as a sister, everything started long before I joined the XSE."

"Chris, you know that everything I did… I did it with the better intentions, for your own good. I didn't mean to use you, I'm genuinely sorry if you think…"

"Well, Tony, stop to be sorry, and start to act like a grown-up… and remember that I'm an adult, me too, you can't push me away pretending that it's for my own good, because it still hurts! When you… when you become so distant, so many years ago, I knew you were Iron Man, and that you just wanted to protect me, but I still feel betrayed, after a long time! So, please, this time, don't push me in the direction you want me to go. I need some time to come to trust you again. Will you give me it?"

"I… understand you. – He pauses, as he is putting again on his helmet, but then he hesitates, and stops – I didn't lie to you because I didn't trust you… I didn't tell you about what was happening because… because I know that a family was all you ever wanted, and I know that I probably used it to get to you, but the more we… the more we got along, the more I realized that it was what I wanted, me too. I wanted my little sister back… you are the only other survivor of our family… we are brother and sister in everything but blood, and I really mean it, you can read my mind if you want, and you'll find that's true. I lied because… because I didn't want to lose you, Chris, not again."

"As I told you, Tony, I'll still be at your side, for now, but I need some time to get over what you did… and maybe one day things will go back to normal." A smile crosses her face, as it stops to rain and the sun shines again. But if you'll do some stupid mistake, big enough to destroy us all, I'll be the one that will stop you; I'll even stab you in the back... if it will be necessary to save us all.

Ok, now you can tell me if ypou liked it or if you hated it... I WANT A lot of reviews!!... see you next weekend with the a new chapter of the Balckdragon saga... see you with "HAUNTED", special guest.. IRON MAN!