The X-Spider
Beck grabbed her and threw her into a door. The door burst open on impact, and she fell down a flight of stone stairs. She soon landed with a thud on the stone floor. They were now in a dungeon, below that castle.
Beck walked down the stair, and stood before her. "Look at you Meg. Your in no condition to fight."
Megan tried with all her might to get up. To stand up and prove him wrong, but her legs wouldn't allow it.
"You can't even stand, can you?"
She didn't have to look, she knew he was smirking. He grabbed her by the hair, and pulled her up. He threw her across the dungeon, and she collided into the wall. She screamed in pain. Something happened to her shoulder. She knew it. It didn't feel right, and it hurt like hell.
She lay on the ground, holding her right shoulder, tears running down her cheeks. She hated to cry! She hated to let people know they hurt her!
Beck grabbed her by the neck and pulled her up, choking her.
"This is your last chance. Join us or die." he growled.
Megan glared at him with such hatred, "Go...to...hell..." she gasped out.
With his hand still on her neck, he slammed her to the ground. He let go and looked down at the girl. She rolled over, onto her hands and knees, and coughed out more blood. Beck grabbed her by the hair and picked her back up. He punched her in the face, then in the stomach. He threw he once again, this time she didn't get up as fast.
Megan lay sprawled on the floor, breathing heavily. She looked up and saw Beck turn to normal, smirking at her. He took out one of the knives he had in his belts. "You should have known better." he said, "You should have known I was going to win, was going to kill you." he threw the knife at her, but she moved out of the way. It flew past her, only cutting her arm some.
Beck chuckled, and slowly walked over to her. Again he picked her up by the neck. He took out the one other knife he had, and was about to bring it down. Megan's eyes went wide...
Sinister rubbed his chin, grinning menacingly. "Good right hook. If I wasn't...well...me, that might have actually hurt."
Peter stood there, breathing heavily in shock, "What? Are you resistant to pain, or something?"
"Good guess."
"Damn." he mumbled.
"Its hopeless Spider-Man. You can't harm me. You are only putting yourself in danger." Sinister said.
"Who cares. As long as the others are safe, everything's fine." Peter snapped.
"Is everyone as safe as you think?"
"Yeah...I think so anyway...why the hell am I talking to you about this?!"
Sinister chuckled, "Teenagers. Interesting specimens."
"Sheesh, you talk about us as if we're fish, or something."
"Might as well be. You would have had a better life."
"What's that suppose to —" but before Peter could finish, he dodged out of the way from Sinister's punch. But Sinister kicked him in the rib cage, and then threw him across the room and he collided with the cell bars.
"Being flushed down the toilet is nothing compared to what I'm going to do to you." Sinister growled.
Kitty phased through the cell that held Scott and Jean.
"Kitty?" Jean asked weakly.
"Hi." Kitty said, giving them a smile, "The rescue team's, like, here to rescue you."
"Thank god... "Scott said.
Kitty walked up tot hem, and took of their collars. Then she phased them bother threw the cell.
"It feels great to use my powers again." Kitty admitted, "I, like, didn't know how much I would miss them."
Jean smiled down at the girl. Then she notices Kurt waiting for them. "Kurt!?"
"Ja. Now come on, we've got to go." Kurt replied.
"Wait." said Scott, "It would go faster if we split up. Kurt, Toad and I will take one way, Jean, Kitty, and...the other guy." he indicated to Pete Wisdom, "the other way."
They all nodded, and went separate ways.
Scott and Kurt walked down a long hall, looking for other cells. That's when they spotted Alex Summer and the Mirage girl.
"Scott..." said Alex, when he saw them.
"Hey bro." said Scott, "we're here to get you out."
"'bout time." Alex replied, smiling.
Megan's eyes went wide. Beck stared at her, then his went wide as well. He then looked down to his stomach, and saw Meg's hands wrapped around a knifes handle, the knife in turn was cut deep into him.
The knife he was holding in his hand, mere centimeters from Meg's throat, dropped to the ground. His hand let go of Megan, and she fell to the ground. She let go of the knife and gasped. She sat on her knees as she watched Beck stumbled back, and fall to the ground, the knife sticking out of him.
"U-Uncle B-B-Beck.." she stuttered. She crawled over to him, and tears fell down her cheek. She looked down at him, and saw his blank eyes staring up at her. "Uncle Beck! I...I'm so sorry! You...and then...the knife....I couldn't....I'm so, so sorry..." she cried.
No response.
"Oh my god." she whispered, she was shaking from sobs, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"
The room flashed with light, but then went dark again.
"I....I didn't mean too Uncle Beck...you were about to kill me...I had too...to...save the others..."
Still, there was no response.
"Please! Just please, say some cocky, stupid, bad guy remark. Anything will make me feel better!"
Nothing came out.
'Oh ma, oh man, oh man' she thought.
Her head fell on to his chest, and she cried. That's when everything went dark.
Peter fell to the ground fro the hundredth time, well it seemed that way at least.
"Useless." Sinister said.
"Its not over yet." Peter replied.
"Oh believe me. Its over. For you anyway."
Suddenly a blackness swept over them, but just as quickly as it came, it disappeared.
"What the hell?" Peter said.
"Looks like your little girlfriends' having a bit of trouble..." Sinister remarked, rasing an eyebrow.
"The others are there. Nothings wrong." Peter replied. Though it seemed he was trying to convince himself.
Suddenly Peter back flipped, just missing on of Sinister's kicks. Sinister punched him, and he flew back, and hit the wall. He shot webbing at Sinister, but he just swatted it away, and punched Peter again.
Peter went to punch him, but Sinister grabbed his fist, and then pulled hi over and kneed him in the stomach. Sinister punched him again, then threw him over his shoulder.
Peter, thanks to being so agile, jumped off the wall that he was about to collide into, and managed to punch Sinister in the stomach. Of course it was no good, since Sinister was resistant to pain. It was really starting to put a damper on Peter's antics.
"Useless." Sinister said again. Peter punched him, then kicked him, but Sinister dodged both. "Worthless..." Peter growled and went to punch him, but Sinister grabbed his fist again, and twisted it, "Pointless..." Sinister elbowed Peter in the nose, and then punched him in the stomach, "Friendless..." He kicked Peter in the stomach, and Peter fell back into the cell bars, hitting his head on the cold steel, "lifeless..." Peter fell to the ground, breathing heavily.
"That's all you are. All you'll ever be." Sinister snarled, "You couldn't save your uncle. In fact, you practically assisted with his death. You could've stopped the man, should've stopped the man. But you didn't. You hurt your uncle, your aunt, and yourself. All in one night. Who's going to be next Spider-Man? Your little friends at the Institute? Those kids back in New York, Harry and Mary Jane? Precious Megan?" He knelt in front of Peter, "All you can give them is pain, and sorrow, they're much better off without you."
"Stop." Peter said weakly.
"Stop what? Stating the obvious? It may not seem this way, Spider-Man, but I'm helping your little friends by telling you this. I'm saving them. Saving them from you."
"I...I would never hurt them..."
"Not intentionally. But you will. As I told you earlier, Parker, the ones you love, the ones you care about the most can be used against you. They will be used against you. When your enemies find out about them, nothing will stop them at destroying you, by destroying them. Its all happened before."
"No..."
"Yes...there's no sense in denying it."
Kitty, Jean, and Pete, walked down the halls, along with the recently rescued X23, Jamie, Lance, Wanda, Bobby and Jubilee.
"I, like, wonder where Rogue is..." Kitty said sadly.
Jean put a reassuring hand on the smaller girls shoulder, "Don't worry. We'll find her. Along with everyone else left."
"Yeah!" said Jubilee, "I mean so far we've only had to attack fifty, maybe sixty, soldiers, It can't be long until we find them."
"Until maybe another fifty, or sixty soldiers come and attack us." Bobby said.
"Not helping, Bobby."
"What?"
Jubilee sighed and shock her head.
"Look!" exclaimed Kitty. She pointed to a cell nearby that help Pyro, and Amara. "Amara!" Kitty ran up to the cell, phased through and hugged the girl.
"Kitty!" Amara exclaimed.
Kitty quickly took off the two teens collars, and phased them out of the cell.
They embraced once again.
"Its so good to see you!" Amara said, "I didn't know who was taken, and who was still safe."
"Same." Kitty said.
"Where's everyone else? Rogue? Megan? Kurt, Peter?"
"We'll explain everything later." Jean said, stepping between the two, "But now we have to keep on looking for the others."
Scott, Kurt were happy to say they had rescued a good percentage of the others. The had Alex, Mirage, Roberto, Rahne, Angel, Psylocke, Evan, Callisto, along with the other morlocks, Pietro and Piotr.
"So Meg and Peter weren't taken?" Roberto asked, when Kurt finished telling everyone how he got out.
"Ja." Kurt said.
"They were in New York, when the Institute was attacked." Scott told them."I though they had already been taken, thank god I was wrong."
Suddenly Psylocke stopped walking.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked in concern, the two have grown close in the last couple months they spent together in the cell.
"I can sense people nearby..." she said. She turned to Scott, "I think one might be your Professor."
"Lets go." Scott said, and led them all down the hall.
After walking for a short while, they wen through a door, that led to a modern looking lab, only in a rustic looking dungeon.
They gasped when they saw five adults in tubes, much like the one Juggernaut was kept in.
"Professor!" Scott exclaimed, as he ran over to the tubes.
"Scott?" asked the professor. "Is everything alright? Are the others fine?"
"Yeah...well most anyway. We managed to get most of the people."
"How..."
"Vell." said Kurt, "It vas Megan who got me out, and then I got Kitty out, then ve both got everyone von else out."
"Where is Light Switch?" Logan asked, "And the others?"
"Jean and Kitty went another way, to find others." Scott explained.
Psylocke went over to the main computer in the back of the room, and looked at it carefully. Then she started typing furiously.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked.
"Trying to get those tubes open." she replied.
"Why?" asked Roberto, "Can't we just have Colossus tear them off."
"To risky. It could set off an alarm, and a bunch of those soldiers could come."
"Yeah, Roberto." Rahne murmured, elbowing him in the side.
Roberto just scoffed.
"Yes!" Psylocke exclaimed. Suddenly the tubed started to life up. Scott ran over to the Professor, to keep him up.
"Good job, Betts!" Warren said.
"Noe lets go find the others." said Mirage.
Roberto walked over to the computer and stared at it. "Hey. Maybe this can show us where the others are!"
He pressed a button.
"No!" they all exclaimed.
"SELF DESTRUCT IN 20 MINUTES." said a mechanical voice.
They all sighed.
"Oops....sorry..." Roberto said.
"Sheesh Roberto." Rahne said in her Scottish accent, "Ye worse then Bobby...And Ray for that matter."
"SELF DESTRUCT IN 20 MINUTES." Megan hear echo throughout the room.
She tried to get up, but shecouldn't stand. She tried to crawl, but it was pointless. For some reason she couldn't see. Maybe here powers were acting up, and the room was pitch black. Its happened before.
"So this is it." Megan whispered to herself. "I'm going to be blown to smithereens."
"SELF DESTRUCT IN 20 MINUTES."
Peter and Sinister both looked up when they heard it.
Sinister sent one more kick to Peter's head. "So sorry to leave you like this, Parker. Perhaps another time." he said, and he walked towards the door. "If you live, that is." and he disappeared.
'Dammit!' Peter cursed in his head.
He slowly stood up, and limbed out of the cell. He had to find the others, and fast.
"Peter's nearby." Jean said, as she brought her hands down from her head.
No sooner had she said that, and disoriented Peter, turned the corner.
"Peter!" Kitty exclaimed. She ran over to him. "What, like, happened?"
"I got the crap beaten out of me by s crazy lunatic." he replied. He looked around at the others behind her and Jean, "Where's Meg?"
"Don't know." said Jean.
"I thought she was with you..." Kitty said, now looking worried.
"The last I saw her was when she left to go find you guys..."
"Maybe she's with Scott and Kurt." Jean said, trying reassure them. "Lets go find them."
"Rogue!" Kurt exclaimed as he teleported into the cell. They had just found them in a cell near the supposedly exit, she was with Gambit. Earlier they had found Ray and Tabby, blob, and four other girls. He took of the collars, and teleported them out. "Are you alvight?"
"Ah'm fahne. Lets just get out of here before it go's Kabloowie!" Rogue replied.
"First we have to find-" Scott began.
"The others?" came a voice. They turned and saw Jean and a bunch of others. "There's no need for that."
"Good, now lets get out of here." Scott said, and they walked to the exit.
Peter couldn't see much. There were so many people, it was hard to tell who's who. He just prayed Megan was there.
They all got outside, and saw that the soldiers had already left, but there was still one boat left. They started to file one, when Peter stopped. She wasn't there! Megan wasn't with everyone. "Where's Meg!" he asked
They all looked around. Jean brought her hands to her head, and thought hard, then gasped, "She's still inside...I can't get the exact location...her minds to weak..."
"Yes," said the Professor, "I can feel it too."
"We have to go back!" Kitty exclaimed.
"No." Logan said firmly, "You all get to shore and wait. Cyclops, Red, and Web Head come with me." and he started to walk back intot he castle.
"Meg!" Peter called.
"She's nearby." Jean said. "But she's fading fast. I won't be able to sense her soon."
"Meg!" they all shouted.
They walked down long stone hallways, and looked into rooms. It seemed to be deserted.
"We're getting closer..." Jean said, then she sighed and her hands fell to her side, "Its gone..."
"Its okay." Logan snarled, "Look."
They looked into an opened door, and saw a stone room. They walked in, and found puddles of blood.
"Its Meg's." said Logan. He sniffed they air, and started moving again, "I can smell her."
"Meg!" they started calling again.
"SELF DESTRUCT IN 10 MINUTES."
"Meg!" She heard their voices, but she couldn't respond. She couldn't see where it was coming from. She couldn't tell if she was awake or not. Darkness still consumed her, but she didn't fell asleep.
"Meg!" She knew that voice.
"Pete..." she whispered.
Logan looked up. "I hear her, she just called for Peter." He ran down the hall, at the end was an opened door. They went over to it, and saw a flight of stairs, with blood stains on it. "She's down here."
They ran down, with Peter in the lead, and gasped. On the other side of the room lay Megan. Nearby was the body of Quinton Beck, with a knife in his chest. Peter walked over to Megan and knelt in front of her. "Meg?" he said softly.
"P-Pete.." she said, looking up, but her gaze seemed to go past him. "Can...can you see me?"
Peter looked at her strangely, then looked back at the others who shrugged, "Yeah Meg, I can see you just fine."
"Its not...dark?"
"A little, but bot that dark..."
"Peter I can't....its too dark....I can't see!"
Peter heard Jean gasp behind him, then Logan walk up to them. He scooped Meg into his arms and started to carry her.
"Wait! Uncle Beck! He....I..."
"SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 MINUTES."
"We gotta go, Light Switch."
"But..." she stopped talking and closed her eyes.
"Lets go." Logan said.
They all watched from across the lake as a big explosion happened on the Island.
"Who puts a self destruct button in their liar anyway?" Roberto mumbled.
They all stayed silent and just watched. Relief in their eyes.
Peter watched as Mr. McCoy bandaged up Megan, who was still asleep. They were all on the X-Jet. Though it was a little crowded, they managed to do it. Luckily Scott wa the one at the controls this time.
"What's wrong with her Hank?" Logan asked, staring at the girl.
Hank sighed, "She has many punctured wounds at the head, and rib cage. She'll have to be in a wheel chair again, for a while. But I don't see any wounds that would have caused..."
"Her to go blind?"
"Yes...I shall find out more when she is awake, and we are at the Institute. Now, Mr. Parker. Lets take a look at you."
Peter sighed and walked over to him.
"So your powers went out of control again," Hank explained to Megan as she lat in the hospital bed, "But this time it caused you not to be able to see. It should only be temporary, it'll ware off soon. But not for awhile. Maybe in two months or so..."
"And...if it doesn't...?" she asked, her blank eyes staring straight ahead.
Hank sighed, "Then I'll run more tests."
Megan nodded, and closed her eyes. Hank stared at her for a moment, then at Peter who was in the next bed. Then he walked out, sighing.
Megan heard his footsteps disappear. "Peter..." she said.
Peter looked over at her, "Yeah?"
"I...I killed him."
"What?" he asked. He got out of his bed, and went over to hers. He sat down next to her and took her hand.
"I killed my uncle! He was about to kill me, stab me, and I was so weak all I could do was...I didn't mean too kill him. Just to get him away. But...I don't know...I got scared and..." tears ran down her cheeks. "What am I going to do? I killed my uncle! I killed him...killed him..." Suddenly she fell into his arms and wept. There was nothing he could do but let her cry.
But Sinister's voice still rang in his ears.
Who's going to be next Spider-Man?... Precious Megan? All you can give them is pain, and sorrow, they're much better off without you.
Was he right? Maybe...all this was his fault...Meg was crying. Was it because of him? All he knew was that he wasn't going to let anyone else get hurt because of him. Especially Megan...he loved her to much to let that happen. It would just be better not to tell her, to let her know how he felt. She would be better off, and much safer with someone else.
All I give her is friendship...
Okay, there's one more chapter everyone then...its over. I guess thats good/bad news. But I'll have the sequel up soon. Anyway don't forget to review.