Hello readers! I'm so appreciative of the comments that I've gotten on chapter 20 and now I've finally finished chapter 21.
Chapter 21:
On a quiet street corner is where an old empty motel stood. The door to room 154 opened to a dark figure. That figure treked down the sidewalk into the dark of night. The street lamp's light shined upon the figure, showing a blue face clad in a black cloak. It looked to both it's sides then continued on until it reached a cavity between two buildings. Turning around to check for witnesses, it turned back around to another dark figure resembling a demon. Along side him was a young female who was completely covered in a brown cloak.
"Azazel." spoke the figure.
Stepping forward into the dim light of the lamp post, his red skin shown as well as his ear to ear smile.
"Hello Raven."
She rolled her eyes.
"Give me the girl and be gone!" She barked.
His smile dropped.
"What happened to Hello?"
"The girl!"
Azazel moved back, revealing the young female to Mystique.
"There, I have her."
She nodded in approval.
Azazel looked up from the child.
"You know Raven I don't do favors. I always expect something in return."
Mystique crossed her arms and sighed.
"Alright," she said with a high level of irritation in her voice, "what do you want?"
A slick smile crossed his lips.
He placed his hand on the motionless girl's shoulder.
"I'll give you Illyana Rasputin if you..." he took a moment to think, "Give me the location of my son."
Mystique laughed. "That's all- for a second there I thought you'd have me beg."
He laughed.
"If you don't mind me asking, why?" She asked in curiosity.
"That's my business, I just need you to provide me with his address."
"Alright." She answered.
Azazel gave Illyana over to Mystique and in return, she told him Kurt's location.
Azazel turned to walk off into the darkness.
"Nice doing business with you, Raven."
"Bye Azazel." She looked down at Illyanna once he was gone.
"Now- how about we make you feel right at home."
Illyana looked up at her timidly.
Bayville High
"We have to do something before they ruin our chance at Bayville High!" Johnny exclaimed.
"No- that's what they want. They want us to do something." Adam retorted.
Danny and Pieter watched in astonishment.
He turned to Pieter. "Did you know this was going to happen?" He asked.
Pieter sighed and looked down at his shoes.
Danny looked forward at the field.
"We have to do something." He whispered.
The commenting of others on the bleachers filled their ears.
Pieter stayed quiet.
Danny turned back to him.
"Aren't you going to do anything?" he asked slightly perturbed.
Pieter looked up at Danny and at once, Danny noticed a purple bruise on his face that he hadn't noticed before.
"What am I supposed to do? I'm just as useless as any other human."
Danny's eyes softened.
"Well I'm going to help." He left Pieter and went to join his fellow Jr.X-men.
Trina noticed Danny walking down from his seat on the bleachers and whispered something to her brother.
Toby laughed then grinned.
She lifted her hand and almost, as if in sync, just as Danny took a step on the grassy field below the bleachers, the land below him asended and threw him half-way across the field. Dirt and grass flew up in the air as he glidded into the ground.
They all stood up in unison from the bleachers.
"We have to do something!" exclaimed Rachel.
They all began walking down the bleachers to confront their antagonists.
Nathan grabbed Kat's wrist instictively.
She yanked her arm back.
"Nathan there is nothing you can say that will stop me from kicking their a- butts."
He leaped infront of her.
"Didn't you see what they did to your brother! You're no match for them, you'll get hurt!"
Kat looked down from the bleachers at her friends who were already down there and were clothed in their X-uniforms. They each had upgraded X-watches that with one button, had them conviently clothed in their uniforms, then to her brother who still lie in the dirt halfway across the field.
She turned back to Nathan.
"I love you, but if you don't move, I'll move you!"
Nathan slid out of Kat's path.
She treked down the bleachers.
"What's your big plan- eh- do you really think you're going to gain anything from this?" Nightshade asked.
"Just redeption, why?" Ashley answered.
"Just leave- it's nine against three." Renea countered.
"Oh right, let's even the playing field," Ashley snapped her fingers, as more foes emerged from the darkness of the bleachers and onto the field.
Emma Frost, Izzy Dukes, Pyro, Polaris, X23 and Pieter.
They shuddered at the formiddable group.
"You Traitor!" Earthquake(Kat) hollared at Pieter.
He looked up with saddess in his eyes.
"You are not destorying this school!" exclaimed Nightshade.
"Who's gonna stop us?"
Meanwhile
Kelly and his troops were escorting the viewers out of the bleachers.
Duncan turned toward the mutants.
"Shouldn't we be attacking them?"
"Wait- we have to evacuate the humans first." Kelly answered.
Creed walked to the men. "What's going on? Why aren't you exterminating those mutants!"
"The guns have a high powered radioation level which can be harmful to most humans, but deadly to mutants."
Nathan, Kyle, Shelby and David watched the field, nothing was happening, they were just standing there, exchanging words.
They watched until a soldier directed them off the bleachers.
While being forced off the field Nathan turned to his father, "Please dad! Please don't hurt them!"
Creed payed a blind eye to his son's pleads and directed the soldiers to remove them from the premises.
Meanwhile
Nightshade and Jake conversed silently in their minds about what their next move should be.
They're way too strong, there is no way we can survive this! Jake thought.
We have to try Jake- that Emma Frost chick- I've heard of her, she has telepathic powers like yours, keep her busy. Nightshade thought.
Jake nodded.
"What are we gonna do?" X-girl whispered to Nightshade.
"Take them on." He whispered.
Meanwhile
Kitty and Piotr were on their second date at the cafe.
Kitty began to feel at ease with her new found male attention from Piotr. She adored every second she spent with him, but constantly felt hesitant towards him, since the last man she'd been with was Lance.
Piotr stirred his coffee with his straw as Kitty stared at him.
Things had gone quiet for a while between the two.
"Kitten- I'm going back to Russia." He suddenly said.
She was at first surprised by his sudden statement; then came a heavy feeling in her chest.
"Not forever- I'll be gone for two weeks and I was wondering if you'd come with me." He said with his thick Russian accent.
Suddenly a gaunt hairy man in dirty clothes and a sign strapped to his chest which had the words Beware of Mutants written in red sharpie marker on it, bolted through the doors of the cafe, stealing the attention of the couple.
"Bayville High is being taken over by mutants!" His raspy voice bellowed.
Kitty and Piotr turned to eachother in concern.
Meanwhile
X23 emerged two tall long claws from each of her fists.
"Are we gonna fight- or what?" She asked.
She leaped from next to Polaris and Emma and attacked Renea. Renea leaped back to avoid getting sliced by her retractable claws.
Renea quickly pulled her glove off and chemically charged it; then threw it at X23. She then screamed, "DUCK FOR COVER!" and leaped behind a short wall.
X23 was left uncontious by the explosion and the explosion left a massive gaping tear in the ground.
Ashley frowned with unsatisfaction."Wow- I figured she'd be stronger than that."
Renea approached her,"Now it's your turn!"
Ashley speed behind Renea, and tapped her back.
"Hi- slow poke." She teased. Renea turned to knock her with her fist, but she ran like a flash back to her starting position.
"Jake could you help me out here!" she shouted, as Jake took on Emma.
"Sorry-just a little busy-sweetheart." He managed to say. It was difficult for him to block Emma's telepathy from his mind, it was like they were having a thumb war inside their heads.
Emma turned to Renea and immediatly sent her painful shock wave telepathy into the girl's mind.
"Ahhhh!" Renea howled and crumpled to her ground as her head throbbed.
Jake tried to keep focus on Emma, she was slowly prying her way into his mind.
Toby kicked and punched Nightshade, almost making him fall, but failing tremendiously.
Nighshade teleported behind him and punched him in the back, knocking him down. Toby fell onto the ground, but steadied himself with his hands.
"Call it off Toby." He ordered (reffereing to the fight)
Toby laughed. "You really think it will be that easy?" he asked.
Toby leaped from the ground and back into combat position.
He knocked Nightshade off balance and leaned over him.
"Oh- I guess someone has weak ankles."
His eyes widened, "How-how-"
"Oh we just stole your files from the institute. We know everything about you now- your strengths and weaknesses."
Nightshade had half a mind to retreat his team, they were too strong- too powerful.
He took a deep breath and shook the thought from his mind- No that's not an option- we have to finish this.
He swung himself up from the ground and punched Toby until he lay unconscious.
Jake had reversed his complication with Emma. She was suddenly getting distracted and he over powered her mental strength and used his telepathy to send mental bolts into her mind to render her unconscious. Emma crumpled down slowly. Once he was sure of her defeat, he ran over to Renea, who still was unconscious.
"Over here pretty boy!" called Ashely. He looked up and saw Alice and Chad being dangled by a rope of black hex magic over the deep canals in the ground.
"Ahhhhh!" Alice whailed.
Jake saw Emma begin to revive herself then turned back to the situation.
"Let them go." He said.
Ashley agreed. Trina deluted the hex power from around them, thus making them fall. Jake used his telekinesis to catch them, but was immediatly struck by a mental bolt. Emma had fully awakened and was mentally sedating him.
Jake struggled to levitate them from over the gaping crack and onto the solid ground, but managed to do it before he blanked out. Chad took off running off the field before Alice could even get up. She went to Jake and kissed him on his cheek.
"Thank you." She whispered in his ear, before she followed Chad off the field.
Earthquake ran over to her brother, Danny. He was still unconscious. She investigated his head and saw a massive bump petruding from it.
Nocturne, being extremely flexiable like her father, twisted and turned to dodge Polaris's metal daggers.
"Stay still you leaping lizard!" Polaris snapped.
"Oh- so we're calling names now, well atleast I don't have grass hair." Nocturne countered.
Polaris growled.
"I'm the daughter of Magneto- the most powerful mutant of all- How dare you!" She yelled.
Nocturne rolled her eyes. She shot red blasts of power at Polaris. Debris and smoke went into the air, camoflauging Polaris. When the smoked cleared. A metal shield was revealed to have blocked her power blast and Polaris used the piece of metal to slam Nocturne against the brick wall.
"Ahhggg." she yelped.
"Serves you right lizard."
Nocturne growled.
Proudstar(Johnny) was studying Renea's unconscious body(trying to make sure she was still breathing) , when he looked over and saw Nocturne's situation.
Polaris slowly strengthened the grip of the sheet of metal around Nocturne's waist with the intention to painfully and slowly make her suffer.
"Are you afraid?" asked Polaris.
Nocturne stiffly shook her head. Don't let the enemy see your weakness.
"You should be."
Proudstar looked back at Renea and concluded that she'd be alright and took off across the field toward Polaris and Nocturne.
The metal was now so tight the she couldn't breath. Her face would turn blue if it wasn't already.
Proudstar panicked when he saw her pass out.
Let her go already! Oh-my-gosh- she's gonna kill her!
The lack of breath in Nocturne's body just encouraged Polaris to make the metal tighter.
Proudstar wouldn't let that happen. He ignored the fear that he felt inside and extended his hand toward Polaris. He was far behind her so she didn't notice. Suddenly his eyes glowed a neon blue color as opposed to hazel.
Polaris had suddenly stopped her deed and froze. Her body tensed when she felt the bone tingling terror enter her mind. Her eyes turned blue as well, as she weakened. The metal was still on Nocturne. Proudstar had to strengthen the terror that took route in Polaris's mind. The glow in his eyes intensified as Polaris fell on the ground. The metal retracted from Nocturne's waist and she fell from the wall into Proudstar's arms.
He waited for her to gasp.
After a moment, she finally gasped.
She opened her eyes and quickened her breathing.
"Owwch- " she groaned. "It hurts to breath."
Proudstar looked down at her abdomine which had tears in the fabric of her uniform as well as pigemented dark purple bruises on her skin from where the metal squeezed her.
"You're gonna be okay." He whispered.
Meanwhile, X-girl and Pyro were further off in the field having a fire fight.
Pyro shot fire at her, which her body immediantly obsorbed because of her powers. She waited until she had obsorbed enough of his fire to blast it back at him from her hands.
Pyro flinched.
"Someone needs to teach you a lesson little gal." Pyro exclaimed with his thick australian accent.
X-girl kicked him, but he grabbed her foot and flipped her over on her butt.
"You loose." He taunted.
Then he blasted more fire at her. Her body fought to obsorb it, while her uniform was burnt to a crisp.
"Stop!" X-girl yelled and ascended into the air with a trail of fire at her feet.
Here eyes shown red like a flame.
She blasted more fire at him, breaking his machine. Once the smoke cleared, Pyro was gone.
Meanwhile
Kelly waited for one of his soldiers to confirm that all humans had been evacuated. Pieter over heard them and ran off the field unsuspected.
"Steady your guns." Kelly ordered over his blue tooth.
The mutants suddenly realised that they were surrounded by men in army attire and large nuclear looking guns pointed at them.
Trina groaned and exploded most of the guns.
Kelly gasped.
"Oh crap- section E- retreat!" he commanded.
Nightshade and Toby were back in combat.
"Look, we need to stop- there are guns being pointed at us!" Nightshade reasoned. Toby didn't care. He flung himself at Nightshade and they began fist fighting.
X-girl saw a gunner aiming his gun at Nightshade.
"Nightshade!" she shouted from across the field. He didn't seem to hear her, so she shouted his name again.
Then she ran across the field, as fast as her legs could manage and jumped on him, knocking him to the ground just as the blast went over their heads.
Toby was almost hit. Trina saw more guns and explodeded the rest of them.
Creed frowned at Kelly and Duncan.
"My school!"
Kelly called the soldiers on his blue tooth.
"All sections evacuate! Now!"
Kelly, Duncan and Creed left the field.
Meanwhile
Shadowcat and Colossus had just informed the other X-men of the insident and were on their way to the football field.
They pulled up in the parking-lot just in time to see Kelly, Creed and Ducan along with the other soldiers leaving the field.
"Oh no." Shadowcat said.
They ran up to the field and were adressed by Emma Frost, Izzy, Trina, Toby and Ashely.
"Emma-" muttered Colossus.
"This is over. Leave now!" Shadowcat exclaimed.
"And what makes you think we'll do that lady?" Toby countered.
Shadowcat crossed her arms. "Because the rest of the X-men are on their way over right now."
Colossus stepped infront of Shadowcat.
"Leave NOW. "He ordered.
Ashley, Izzy, Trina and Toby picked up Polaris and left.
Emma looked Colossus up and down then smiled.
"Alright- I'll leave- but I'm looking forward to a rematch sometime soon- and please don't send these pathetic kids." Emma left the field.
The X-men soon joined Kitty and Colossus on the field.
Most were horrified by what they saw.
Nightcrawler and Daytipper went over to Nocturne.
"She's hurt really bad." Proudstar said.
Nightcrawler picked up his daughter.
Cyclopse retrieved Jake's unconscious body.
Rogue and Gambit found Renea.
Kitty and Colossus found Danny and Katrina. Kitty lightly touched her son's bump.
He had dirt stained all over his clothes and face.
"We have to get him to the infirmary."
That night, the infirmary was extremely busy. Jake and Renea were tested for mental damage(They found none thankfully) then sent to their rooms to recover, Talia was treated for two broken ribs and internal bleeding, and Danny was treated for a concussion.
The next morning, Johnny visisted Talia's infirmary room. He walked in and saw Amanda was in the room.
"Hi Johnny." Amanda greeted.
Talia turned her head to him.
He waved awkwardly, half expecting Talia not to want to see him.
"Hi Johhnny." Talia's voice wavered.
Amanda got up. "I'll go get you some pain killers."
"ok mom." Talia responded.
Amanda left the room.
Johnny came closer to her.
"How are you feeling?"
Talia sighed. "I don't really feel anything because of all the pain killers." she smiled.
Johnny wouldn't smile.
"Babe- I'm okay relax." she assured him.
He sat down at the head of her bed.
"I was just so afraid-" He muttered.
Talia reached her hand over and grasped his hand.
"I love you."
Johnny looked up into her eyes.
"I love you too."
Amanda soon came back into the room with Talia's pain killers and Johnny left the room while she took her medicine.
He smiled to himself. He was happy to see that she was doing good.
She'd be doing much better if you didn't hesitate to use your power. a familiar voice spoke.
Johnny turned, but no one was in the hallway except him.
He quickened his breathing.
"It can't be." he muttered. The entire hallway turned a dark blue- ish color as Johnny delved into his mind. His heart rate quickened.
I'm back Johnny and this time I'm here to stay.
So that's all folks. Lately I've been really lazy and I finished finals for school a while ago so that's why I've been absent for a while, but since it's summer(Yay!) I'm going to try to be more frequent with my updating. Remember: don't forget to Follow, Favorite or Review; see you again next time!
Bye~