Chapter Twelve
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Chapter Twelve
Layla and Colossus were sitting at a table as they watched Bobby and Rogue muck around. "You're dead, you're so dead," Bobby said with a grin and Rogue giggled.
"You're dead," She replied as both of them looked at each other and Bobby leaned in but Rogue pulled away. "I don't want to hurt you,"
"I'm not afraid," Bobby told her.
"Hey," Colossus said as he poked Layla and he handed her a drawing of Bobby and Rogue where Bobby was zapped as Rogue kissed him. Layla giggled and she nodded at Colossus who grinned. Bobby and Rogue were about to kiss when they heard a motorcycle approach and Rogue smiled as she ran off and Bobby sighed. The front doors to the mansion opened up and Logan walked through.
"Logan," Rogue greeted happily as she hugged him.
"Ya miss me kid?" He asked her.
"Not really," She answered smiling and Logan nodded.
"How are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm okay. How are you?" She asked and Logan shrugged as he saw Bobby.
"Who's this?" He asked Rogue.
"Oh this is Bobby," Rogue introduced Bobby.
"I'm her boyfriend, call me Iceman," He said shaking Logan's hand and he froze it briefly.
"Right…boyfriend? So how do you two….?" Logan asked them both.
"We're still working on that," Bobby answered.
"Look who is back. Just in time too," Storm said as she came down the stairs.
"For what?" Logan asked.
"We need a baby-sitter," Storm told him.
"Baby-sitter?" He asked confused.
"Nice to see you again, Logan," Storm greeted and he smiled.
"Hi, Logan," Jean said walking down the stairs.
'Hi, Jean," Logan said.
"I should go and get the jet ready," Storm said before she walked off.
"Yeah, well, it was nice to meet you," Bobby said.
"Yeah, you too," Logan said.
"Bye, Logan. I'll see you later," Rogue said as she and Bobby walked off and Jean walked up to him.
"Storm and I are heading to Boston. We won't be gone long," She said. "The Professor wants us to find the mutant who attacked the president,"
"So it was a mutant," Logan said.
"You'll be here when we get back, unless you plan of running off again," Jean said.
"Well, I could probably think of a few reasons to stick around for," Logan said.
"Hey Logan, find what you were looking for?" Logan and Jean looked up to see Daisuke running down the stairs with Cyclops behind her.
"More or less kid, how've you been?" He asked as Daisuke ran up and hugged him.
"I've been great," She replied.
"Good, oh your bike needs gas," Logan said tossing the keys to Cyclops who frowned.
"Then fill her up," He said tossing the keys back to Logan and Daisuke caught them with her magnetism powers and they hovered in the air.
"I'll see you all later," Jean said as she walked off before kissing Cyclops. "Bye," She said before she walked off and Cyclops followed her.
"Not back five minutes and you've already pissed him off. That has to be a record," Daisuke said before she laughed.
"I think it is. You know where the Professor is?" Logan asked her.
"He's in Cerebro. We'll talk later bye," Daisuke said before she walked off and Logan headed towards Cerebro. Meanwhile in Magneto's prison he was reading The Once and Future King when the door to his cell slid open and a guard with a plastic baton walked inside.
"Mr Laurio, how long can we keep this up?" He asked the guard who took his book away.
"How long is your sentence?" The guard asked.
"Forever," Magneto said.
"Not forever, Mr Lehnsherr. Just until I've got all that I need." Stryker said walking into the cell.
"Mr Stryker what a surprise. Are you here to make sure the taxpayers' dollars are keeping me comfortable?" Magneto asked turning to look at Stryker before he saw him take out a vial and the guard hit him across the face with his baton and pinned his face to the plastic table, Stryker walked over and he administered a few drops to a small burn on Magneto's neck and he moaned and he sighed.
"Done. You can go," Stryker told the guard who walked off and Stryker sat Magneto up and he now had white rings in his eyes. "Now Mr Lehnsherr, I'd like to have one final talk about the house Xavier built and the machine called Cerebro," He said. Back at the mansion Logan was walking towards the professor who was in Cerebro and he was smoking a cigar.
"Logan, my tolerance for your smoking in the mansion notwithstanding, continue smoking that in here and you'll spend the rest of your days under the belief you're a six year old girl," The professor told him as he put the helmet on.
"Can you do that?" Logan asked him.
"I'd have Jean braid your hair. Welcome back," Xavier told him as the door to Cerebro shut and Logan extinguished the cigar on his hand.
"You want me to leave?" Logan asked him.
"No. just don't move," Xavier said as he closed his eyes and Cerebro activated showing the white lights that represented the non-mutant humans. "As I told Daisuke when she was in here, the white lights represent the humans, and these red lights represent the mutants," He said as the white lights were replaced by red ones. "Through Cerebro I am connected to them, and they to me. We're not as alone as you would think,"
"I found the base. At Alkali Lake, there was nothing there," Logan told him.
"The broken line represents the path of the mutant who attacked the president. I've been finding it difficult to get a lock on it," The professor said.
"Can't you just concentrate harder?" Logan asked him.
"If I wanted to kill him, yes. There looks like he's finally stopped running," Xavier said.
"Du bist gebenedeit unter den Frauen und gebenedeit ist die Frucht deines Leibes," The mutant said in German. The professor closed his eyes again and Cerebro deactivated and he removed the helmet.
"I need you to read my mind again," Logan said.
"Logan….I'm afraid the results will be the same as before." Xavier answered him turning to face him.
"We had a deal," Logan reminded him.
"The mind is not a box that can be simply unlocked. It is a beehive with a million…"
"Spare me the lecture," Logan cut the professor off.
"I have no doubt that your amnesia, your Adamantium skeleton, the claws are all somehow connected, but….Logan, sometimes the mind needs to discover things for itself. I promise you we'll talk again when I return. Oh if you would be kind enough to help Daisuke, Takato and Mizu watch over the children tonight. Scott and I are going to visit an old friend," The professor said as he left Cerebro and Logan put his cigar back into his mouth.
Storm and Jean soon took off in the X-Jet towards Boston with Jean piloting it. "I'm sending you the coordinates to where the mutant has appeared to have settled for now, once you find him bring him back to the mansion," The professor told Storm over the radio.
"Let's hope he cooperates," Storm said.
"For his sack, yes," The Professor said. "Good luck,"
Back in Washington as the sun set, Senator Kelly was walking past some pillars before he turned in Yuriko and walked off, she then went down a flight of stairs and past a janitor and she place her hand on a console and it glowed as it scanned her hand, the door then opened up and Yuriko walked inside before she transformed into Mystique, she then sat at a computer and pressed a few keys and a voice recognition program appeared on the screen.
"Stryker, William," She said in Stryker's voice and the voice recognition accepted it and Mystique clicked several files on the computer. One of them was of Magneto and his prison, and also who the guard assigned to him was, she then printed several pieces of paper. Next she noticed a folder called Cerebro and she clicked on it and she saw the original Cerebro in the X-Mansion before another Cerebro appeared labelled Cerebro 2. Mystique then printed several documents before she heard the door open up and the real Yuriko walked in and sat at the computer where Mystique just was, she then turned to the janitor carrying a trashcan walk past her.
"What're you doing in here?" She asked but he replied in Spanish.
"Garbage," He translated before he left the room and he walked past the real janitor who did a double take.
Meanwhile in Boston Storm and Jean had arrived at where the mutant that had attacked the president has settled down which was a rundown church, the doors blew open and the two women walked inside. "These are the coordinates," Jean said as Storm noticed one lone candle lit under a statue.
"Gehen Sie raus!" Both of them heard a voice shout in German and a whoosh was heard. Ich bin der Bote des Teufels. Ich bin die Ausgeburt des bösen," The voice said as more whooshes were heard.
"He's a teleporter," Jean said. "That must be why the Professor couldn't get a lock on him,"
"We're not here to hurt you. We just want to talk," Storm said as another whoosh was heard and the man appeared in the rafters and he leaned over.
"Gehen Sie raus!" He shouted again.
"Are you bored yet?" Jean asked.
"Oh yeah," Storm answered. "Sure you don't want to come down?" She asked the mutant before she looked at Jean who nodded and Storm's eyes became cloudy before she held her hands out and a lightning bolt flew through the air and crashed into the rafters sending the mutant falling to the ground.
"Argh!" He shouted as Jean used her powers to catch him.
"You got him?" Storm asked.
"He's not going anywhere," Jean answered.
"Please don't kill me. I didn't mean to harm anyone," The mutant said.
"Now why would anyone get that impression?" Storm asked. "What's your name?"
"Wagner, Kurt Wagner," He answered. Soon Kurt was lying on a table as Jean tended to his gunshot wound. "There was so much shooting, such fear, and then there was only pain. I could see it all happening but I could not stop myself. It was like a bad dream. Perhaps he is testing me," He said pointing to a statue of Christ crucified on a cross.
"And before you were in the White House, what do you remember?" Storm asked him.
"Nothing, I was here," Kurt answered her.
"I think we should get him back so the professor can look at him," Jean said.
"The professor?" Kurt asked.
"Did you do these to yourself?" Storm asked looking at the markings on Kurt's body.
"Yes," He answered as he turned on his side and the two women saw a burn mark on his neck.
"And what about this one?" Jean asked moving her finger on it. Meanwhile at Magneto's prison Cyclops and the Professor entered and Laurio walked over to the Professor in his plastic wheelchair.
"I'll take it from here," He said.
"It's alright Scott," The Professor told him.
"Nice shades," Laurio told Cyclops.
"Thanks," He responded as Laurio wheeled Xavier into the plastic cell where Magneto was sitting on a chair.
"Charles Xavier. Have you come to rescue me?" Magneto asked him.
"Sorry Eric. Not today," He answered.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" Magneto asked.
"The assassination attempt on the President. Do you know anything about it?" Xavier asked him.
"Nothing. Only what I read in the papers," Magneto answered turning to look at him and Xavier's expression changed.
"Eric. What's happened to you?" He asked.
"I've had frequent visits from William Stryker. You remember him yes? His son Jason was once a student of yours, wasn't he?" Magneto asked.
"Yes, years ago. Unfortunately I couldn't help him, least not in the way his father wanted me to," Xavier said as Magneto stood up and walked away before turning to face his old friend.
"And now you think taking in the Wolverine will make up for you failure with Stryker's son?" He asked. "You haven't told him about his past, have you?"
"I've put him on the path. Logan's mind is still fragile," Xavier answered.
"Is it? Or are you afraid of losing one of your precious X-Men, old friend?" Magneto asked.
"Eric what have you done?" Xavier asked as he noticed bruising on Magneto's face.
"I'm sorry, Charles, I…." he answered. "I couldn't help it,"
"What have you told them?" Xavier asked worried. "What have you told Stryker?"
"Everything…." Magneto said as the two of them noticed gas seeping into the cell. "The war has begun,"
"Scott!" Xavier shouted.
"You should have killed me when you had the chance!" Magneto told him. Cyclops heard the door to the room open and Yuriko stepped through before she shot a dart at him but he was unaffected and he blasted her and the guards with optic blasts, he then turned to blast the door down to save the professor before Yuriko jumped onto him and kicked him in the face and knocked him out. Magneto and the professor both passed out from the effects of the gas. Yuriko stood up and cracked her knuckles making audible cracks as she looked down at the unconscious Cyclops.
The end of the chapter
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