A/N : I'm so sorry readers. I've been so busy lately I haven't had time to write. As a gift to all of you for stickign with me this far, I will be publishing two chapters this week :) Here is Chapter 14: Raid

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, the X-Men, or Peter Petrelli

Chapter 14: Raid

Ron gripped the seatbelts holding him in place with a white knuckled grip as the X-Jet sped through the sky. He glanced over at Hermione, now his girlfriend, who seemed completely at ease in the flying jet.

"How can you be so relaxed while we're shooting through the air in this metal death-trap?" He inquired, looking bewilderedly at her.

"Ron, I've flown in airplanes before. It's no big deal." She smiled at him to try and get him to see that everything's ok.

"You go that right, Sheri." Ron looked over on his other side where a mutant, who'd been introduced to him as Gambit, spoke up. He was busy flipping through a deck of cards.

"You got nothing' to worry about, mon ami. With Jean and Storm piloting, we got no problems. They could land on an island the size of your thumb without a bump." Ron wasn't exactly assured by that answer and gripped the seatbelts tighter.

"Don't worry Ron." said Hermione, taking one of his hands in her own and giving him a reassuring squeeze. "We'll be fine." Ron nodded, but still gripped the seatbelt firmly with his other hand.

Across from Ron, Hermione and Gambit, sat Scott, Logan, Peter Petrelli, Bobby and Rogue all dressed in black leather uniforms. Gambit wore a red bandana and a brown trench coat. Kitty and Kurt sat on Gambit's other side. Kitty had her black leather suit on while Kurt wore a red tunic shaped like a v crisscrossing his chest over a black bodysuit. A pair of thin bladed swords was on his lap in a harness designed to be worn on his back. His blue pointed tail twitched over his shoulder.

Suddenly, Storm's voice crackled through the speakers about the seats.

"Sinister's fortress is just ahead. Hold on to something." The X-Jet suddenly tilted to it's right side, almost flipping over. Ron groaned as he felt the jet tilt.

"Please don't do that again." groaned Ron. The jet banked and lowered down to the island. Sinister's fortress stuck out like a black spot on white sand. The jet hummed to a stop. Ron, Hermione and the X-Men walked down the landing ramp and stood on the sand in front of Sinister's fortress.

"Looks pretty solid." stated Bobby.

"How are we going to get in?" asked Hermione.

Suddenly a split appeared in the metal side of the fortress, splitting into two huge metal doors. They opened wide, looking like the X-Men wee being invited in.

"Well that was easy." commented Ron.

"Stay alert. Chances are Sinister's got all sorts of traps in there for us." said Scott, taking the lead into the fortress with the others following after.

. . .

"This looks like a dead end." commented Kitty as they entered a room. They'd been walking around Sinister's fortress for what seemed like hours. They hadn't run across anyone, like minions or even Sinister himself. Every corridor was the same as the previous one: long, metallic and quiet.

Suddenly, a scream tore through the corridor, piercing and ear shattering. Ron's eyes widen in horror.

"That's my sister!" He took off back down the hall.

"Wait Ron!" Hermione yelled, running after him. The X-Men followed Ron and Hermione through the various corridors until he stopped outside a large room. The room was filled with foaming glass beakers, beeping computers and tables over flowing with lots of different scientific equipment.

"Snape would love this place." commented Ron. Suddenly another cry caused Ron to glance around. In the far left corner laid what looked like a bundle of ragged clothes. When the bundle suddenly moved, Ron glimpsed a sliver of red hair.

"Ginny!" Ron ran over and gently turned her face up. She still wore the clothes she'd been wearing in Hogsmeade. They were ragged and torn from her imprisonment.

"Ginny? Are you ok?" he whispered to her. Ginny moaned and her eyes opened slowly.

"R..Ron? What are you doing here?"

"We came to help Harry rescue you. Where is Harry anyway?"

"Ron you have to leave now." Said Ginny urgently.

"What are you talking about, Ginny?" asked Ron.

"Sinister. He's horrible" Ginny started trembling.

"Don't worry Ginny. We're gonna get you out of here." He stood up, holding Ginny to his chest.

"Wait Ron." said Ginny urgently. "You have to leave. Sinister. He-"

"-Is right here." said a deep cruel voice. Ron, Hermione and the X-Men whirled around to see a large pale man in a body suit standing in the doorway they'd come through. His blood red eyes shone with malice. "Well well, the X-Men have come to rescue Mr. Potter and Miss Ginevra. Welcome back to my humble abode."

"Sinister." Scott stepped forward, the rest of the X-Men standing in front of Ron, Ginny, and Hermione. "We'll give you one chance to let Harry go and you can leave here with your life."

"Is that so?" said Sinister, amused. "Take your best shot. But am afraid" He split himself into two identical Sinisters. "You'll find me to be" Those Sinisters split into four more Sinisters. "Quite a handful." The clone Sinisters split several more times until a group of twenty Sinisters stood in front of the X-Men.

"OK.." said Scott. "This might be a problem." All the Sinister clones laugh in unison.

"It seems you're severely outnumbered, X-Man." said one of the Sinisters standing in the front. "Here's my counter offer: You will surrender now and you will not be harmed. If you do not surrender, then I will not be able to guarantee your safety."

"I'd rather die fighting then become some lab rat for you, Sinister." spat Peter Petrelli. The Sinister clones all smirked.

"As you wish." Then, simultaneously, they attacked.

"Spread out!" yelled Scott as he shot his optic beams at one of the Sinister clone. It hit him in the gut and knocked him back. "We've got to spread them out. If we find the original Sinister and kill him, they'll all vanish."

"Easier said then done Scott." commented Logan as he sank his claws into a Sinister clone. It groaned and vanished. Gambit pulled out four cards from his pack and fanned them out in his hand.

"Pick a card. Any card." He smirked as he tossed them at four Sinister clones that were running at him. The cards hit the four clones simultaneously in the gut. They exploded on impact, causing the clones to vanish. Kitty was phasing in and out to dodge objects being telekinetically thrown at her by one of the clones. She phased right in front of another clone just as the clone she was fighting threw a foaming beaker at her. It went right through her and hit the other clone. He screamed as the beaker hit him and he was lit on fire. Nightcrawler teleported around a group of three clones, slashing the clones furiously. When he finally stopped, all three clones vanished at the same time.

Ron, Hermione and Ginny, for their part since they didn't have any experience fighting with their powers, huddled against a far wall, out of the way. They watched as the X-Men and the Sinister clones tore into each other, beakers and tables flying around telekinetically, lightning flashing that Storm had summoned. With a growl, Logan eviscerated another Sinister clone.

"There's no end to them Scott! We've gotta do something else!" said Logan. Scott knocked back another clone with his optic beams as Jean engaged in a telekinetic fight with another clone. Suddenly, more clones began to appear as one of them began to split into several more. Now there appeared to be thirty clones standing in front of the group of X-men. Peter dropped one of the clones from the top of the room where he was hovering.

"This might be a problem." Several of the clones grabbed the X-Men and held them fast, keeping them from attacking. Logan tried to cut his way out of the Sinister clones but several more converged on him and constricted his movements. A few of the clones ran over and grabbed Ron and Hermione, bringing them over to the X-Men and trapping them too. Ginny lay by herself, horrified by the sight of so many Sinisters. The memory of her imprisonment was still fresh in her mind and caused her to hug herself at the memories of his torture of her.

One of the clones walked over and grabbed her by her hair, pulling her to her feet. She cried at the pain as she shakingly stood up. Sinister grabbed her by her throat and lifted her up with inhuman strength.

"Poor poor Ginevra. Look at you: so broken and beaten down." Sinister smirked, his blood red eyes staring at her intently.

"You think you've won." said Ginny, straining to talk as Sinister's grip tightened. "Harry's not going to give up until he finds you, you evil creature." Sinister laughed.

"Is that so, little girl?" He pushed her against the way, still holding her up with inhuman strength. "Your Mr. Potter is dead. He died because he was too weak."

"You're lying!" cried Ginny as she coughed. "He's not weak. He's a hero." Sinister glared at Ginny. He threw her across the room. She slid across the floor, hitting the opposite wall hard. Sinister telekinetically gripped Ginny's neck and held her against the wall hard.

"Your hero is dead, you stupid girl. I killed him myself. He was weak." He gripped her tight tighter. Ginny cried at the pain. "That's right. Cry, girl. Cry for your hero. Where's your hero now?"

"Sinister!" All the Sinister clones and the X-Men glanced around to the doorway. In front of the doorway, in ragged clothes, breathing heavy, was Harry, alive, his emerald green eyes shining with rage.

Harry's alive! :D. Next chapter: Harry gets his revenge on Sinister.

Chapter 15: Vengeance

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