The warm blood soaked Erik's hand as he tried his best to keep it together for both Peter and Clara. His eyes travelled to hers as they struggled to stay open, her hands waving in a motion that would produce flames to her body. He turned back around and looked over to Mr. Sinister who didn't care about Clara's condition, only Erica in the tank. His eyes travelled to his youngest daughter as he realized that she couldn't see her mom as she craned and tried to look around them. An idea popped into his head as he reached out and grabbed onto Peter, making him jump from the sudden contact.
"Let Erica see this" Erik told him.
"What?"
"You're in Erica's way! Let her see what's happening to her mother" Erik explained.
Peter still didn't get it, "No way! She's going to get upset"
"Exactly" Erik commented.
Peter stared at his father for a moment before he slid off to the side as Erik did the same. Erica's eyes travelled downward as she saw her mother covered in blood and gasping for air. Upon seeing her, Erica's eyes turned red as she let out a scream that everyone could hear. The machines not only on the second floor that she was on, but all around Peter and Erik started to explode.
Mr. Sinister turned and blasted a concussive energy towards Erica but with a flash, she was gone and he was sent backwards. At first he was dumbfounded until he looked to the pair on the ground where Erik had stopped shards of metal hitting his family. Erica was wrapped in Peter's arms as she looked down to her mother.
"Why isn't she using her power?" Peter panicked.
Erik looked up to him, "Start a fire on her body"
"Wouldn't that hurt her?" Peter asked.
"Her element is fire" Erik explained, "Nothing can hurt her"
"Okay…"
Before Peter could quickly start a fire on Clara, Erica crawled over and placed her hands on her mother's wounds. As the little girl sobbed, Clara's blood started to reverse and go back to the wounds they escaped from. Her cuts immediately closed up as Clara let in a deep breath as her eyes shot open.
Sinister growled as he let an energy ball glow in his palms, gaining energy before flying out to the family. Erik waved up his hand to create a magnetic field when he noticed one was already made, he turned and noticed Erica was using the same motions as he would.
The blast bounced off of her shield and flew twice as fast back over to Sinister.
"No!" Sinister yelled out before the blast hit him back into a machine that had live wires.
Clara shielded Erica as the sound of Sinister's yelling filled the room before there was nothing but a collapsed charred body.
"Mommy!" Erica let out in her arms.
Clara let out a light laugh as she hugged her daughter in a big bear hug. She bent down and kissed the young girl on her cheeks over and over again, not wanting to stop. Movement made her stop as she turned and noticed Beast and Mystique slowly coming over rubbing their heads.
"What happened?" Beast groaned.
"Sinister had you under his control" Erik told him.
Mystique winced, "Why does my head hurt so much?"
Clara looked over to Peter who stiffened up and looked the other way before she said, "You must've hit it when there was a small explosion… glad to see you both are back"
"Glad to see someone else is back too" Beast smiled, "Hey there, Erica"
Erica ran over to Beast and let him pick her up and toss her up into the air. Erik couldn't help but watch the two as she reached down and hugged the blue furred man tightly. He turned his attention to Peter and gave him a clap on the back. Peter was surprised and nearly jumped out of his skin before turning back to Erik and nodding at him. A strange whistling noise came from outside as everyone looked up, Clara immediately tensing up.
"What is that?"
"The X-Men" Peter sighed, "Finally"
Mystique slowly turned around to Peter, "Were you supposed to wait for the team to come or just do some crazy solo mission?"
Peter stood still and gave Mystique a sheepish grin before Erik spoke up, "If he hadn't have done that; you both would still be under mind control, Mr. Sinister would have more mutant powers then anyone here, and Peter wouldn't have saved his little sister in time"
Erik looked over to the silver-haired man, "I couldn't have been more proud"
"Thanks, dad" Peter smirked.
Clara smiled before turning her attention over to Erica, suddenly noticing that her daughter had heard the sister part. She walked over to Erica, slowly picked her up and walked her over to Erik and Peter who both shuffled their feet in an awkward way. Erica didn't seem to know what was going on as she looked over to her mom and edged her body closer to Clara. Clara pointed one finger to each of the men as she gently introduced them.
"Erica, this is Erik and Peter" Clara whispered, "They are also your father and brother"
Erica seemed surprised as she looked from one to the other before she blushed and said, "Hi..."
