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X-Men: Restoration
Chapter Twenty Six: Lila Hawk
Lila studied RJ's serious face as he sat perched up on the ledge overlooking the city. She flipped back her rainbow colored locks, concentrating on his expression. They had been hiding from the newly formed police task division called the Mutant Response Division. They had been snatching up mutants ever since the Senator and Dr. Bamback has been announcing that the virus epidemic was caused by exposure to mutant kind. The virus had been so severe that many people had died already within their city. Hospitals were overflowing with many sick people. It was a nasty death sentence. The only thing good about the virus was it was slow acting. They might be able to find a cure before another load of people is shipped to their graves. One thing was for sure…the virus wasn't caused by exposure to mutant kind. Mutants had existed for many years. Mutants were just the punching bag of human kind.
Senator Kelley was trying to get various acts passed in the House of Representatives to suppress mutant kind. The Morlocks had threatened Senator Kelly at the end of one of his press conferences to put a stop to the MRD. Lila glanced back to see Mila was cautiously up against the edge of the building hanging on with her vines. Mila was terrified of heights. Lila stared down at the sights of the city. No one could get in the MRD's way or else they were put in prison also. There were hundreds of innocent mutants with harmless mutations getting put in jail because they looked a certain way. She was horrified at how heartless the nonmutants could be. RJ was right along. Mutants and nonmutants couldn't exist happily together.
Lila knew that the X-Men had problems of their own but she would like to see them put a stop to this just like they saved the Morlocks after the subway incident. They might not have the same ideals but at least they could save the mutants from the MRD. Lila gazed across the city anticipating what happened next. Aria stood with a disgusted expression on her face, fists balled up, and her body tensed. RJ growled deeply.
"He didn't get our signal. Shame. Senator Kelly instead just set up a program called Mutant Response Division. Well, he will learn a lesson from us. Then we hit Bamback's house." RJ whispered as he saw the new armored vehicles patrolling the streets. They were midnight black with neon green letters on the side labeled MRD. They were grabbing everyone who was out past curfew in Bayville. They grabbed anyone who looked mutant.
"The patrol is clear. We will have the MRD pass by in three minutes." She said turning the dial on the radio. RJ nodded his head as Lila changed into a rainbow and transported inside the Senator's office. She glanced around for anything or anyone but it seemed to be clear. She quickly shuffled through some papers on his desk. She needed to find his new act he hinted at in one of his speeches to the Bayville press. After several minutes of reading nonsense, she found it. She gasped when she read it.
"Mutant registration act?" she whispered. She instantly beamed herself in the form of rainbow out to where RJ, Mila, and Aria were hanging out. She handed the papers to RJ who snatched them away without a thank you. RJ was a good guy but she missed the leadership of Spyke. She missed Shiloh who always cared so much for every single stray animal that followed her around. She missed the old group of Morlocks.
"Mutant registration act…before long we will be enslaved or worse: killed." RJ said bottom lip shaking from anger, his stretched out body bounced as he pronounced each word.
Lila bit her lip in frustration and anger. Mila let out a whimper. They had to do something. Lila was a happy-go-lucky person but she was filled with bitterness and resentment. They had always been picked out of a line up, labeled as mutants, unclean. The MRD truck passed and RJ angrily darted his eyes after it.
"Plan of action Alpha B. Let's go." RJ said as all of them nodded to each other. Lila transported Mila and Aria on the top of the MRD vehicle as soundlessly as possible. Hopefully the people wouldn't see the brief rainbow in the sky. They landed and Aria put her ear to the metal vehicle. They heard muffled sounds.
"There are mutants in the bin. Two." Mila heaved a heavy sigh and climbed down the side of the truck gripping on with her vines for dear life. She saw the lock and pressed a vine against it to open it. They all heard the click. She gripped the doors shut. The truck was speeding up now.
"Where is RJ with the distraction?" she hissed, closing her eyes. She whimpered once again. Lila saw RJ walk in front of the truck without hesitation. This better work….the truck suddenly put on its breaks as RJ just stood there. Lila gripped Aria and Mila and transported them away before the truck crashed into RJ. He stretched out and the truck lurched to a stop. The back doors of the truck fell furiously open, flapping in the wind. Two mutants crawled out of back. One was a tall man with tattoos all over himself. He touched one of them and the tattoo came to life in the form of a tiger. It just crawled off of his arm. The two MRD guards came out of the truck fully armed. The tiger growled at them and pounced on them. Lila and Mila freaked. Aria stayed calm. The other mutant was morphing into a scary furry creature. They both attacked the MRD guards. RJ stopped them as he began to condense to some normalcy.
"They are only the beginning of our problems…It is a waste to attack such minions. We will go after main man behind this all." RJ cackled, approaching both of the mutants. "Join us, you will never regret it." The two mutants looked strangely at him.
"Why should we join you?" said the boy mutant who had morphed into the scary looking creature.
"We will bring human kind to its knees. We will not be put in chains. We will set demands and hu-" RJ said. Lila nodded in agreement but the victory was short lived because she felt disturbing vibrations. She heard the crunching of metal. She gasped as she saw the metal robot approaching them. The MRD guards who they had restrained with vines were laughing hysterically.
"You can't stop us. They're called Sentinels and you'll be running from them for the rest of your life." One of the MRD guards said. Lila grabbed Mila and Aria leaving RJ to deal with the two mutants. She transported them away from the Sentinel which was gaining on all of them. Mila was breathing heavily, mumbling about what just happened.
"We will always be running…always." She shuttered looking at her hands with horror. Lila grabbed her ivy hand glancing back to see the scared eyes of her cousin, her green skin looking paler than usual. Aria put the antique radio to her ear.
"There sending more of those things!" Aria snarled, Lila grabbing her and transporting both of the girls away to a nearby rooftop. Lila collapsed onto the gravel; she used her mutation that much in such a short time span. She breathed in and out for several moments. Her rainbow streaked hair, matted with sweat. She got up and walked to the edge of the building surveying the scene. RJ and the two mutants were trying to fight the Sentinel to no avail. She had to save them but she was too weak to do anything. She doubled over, heaving a heavy sigh.
She had to save them. She concentrated on the Sentinel, squeezing her hand. A rainbow appeared at first fuzzy then solid to constrict the Sentinel letting RJ and the two mutants to escape its grasp. Lila let a painful squeal escape her lips. The Sentinel's head rotated around and saw her. She cried as the rainbow constrictions went away. It blasted a laser at the building, Lila stumbling over herself, aiming to back away from the edge. She closed her eyes, hearing ruble from the building implode around her. Nothing hurt and she opened her rainbow colored eyes to see a troop of MRD guards surrounding them using an electronic force field to hoover next to the ground. The building was completely gone. Aria banged with all her might. Mila whimpered but Lila wasn't going to react in either way. She just stared off into the distance seeing RJ and his two mutant friends escape. He didn't turn back…he ran. She glared at their backs, her multi colored eyes nearly turning black. He didn't even care that we were captured…
Aria began to cry from anger. "I'm not going back! I'm not going back! Please don't take me there…please!" she cried out, pleading with the MRD guards. The guards didn't even care and laughing, put them in the containment vehicle. Lila, exhausted leaned up against the wall of the truck and hugged Mila who was sobbing silently to herself. Lila savored the last moment with her cousin she would spend. What were they going to do to us?
"Remember, the time where I pranked RJ that he could actually find gold at the end of my rainbow? Or the time where I put shaving cream on Spyke's mouth and told him he had rabies? Let's remember the good times. Shiloh coming to stay with us. Lyra's paintings in the tunnels. Remember the time where you planned the perfect birthday party for Vince? He loved it." She said quietly. She couldn't break either of their hearts by telling them the truth about RJ that he didn't fight for them. Lila couldn't break Mila's heart since it took so long for her to get to trust people. Mila would be shattered for life. Aria would go mad, thinking about how to seek revenge since she lived by the mantra 'don't get angry, get even.' Lila would keep the little secret locked away forever…she had to protect the people she called family.
Her heart skipped a beat as she heard the truck halt, lurching to a stop the girls forward. Lila braced herself, as best she could. She lost all confidence in RJ's cause. How could mutants demand anything over the humans? The humans would always win.
Will RJ's revolution fall apart or will it work? With all of his friends captured and only two strangers supporting him...what will he do? RJ wants mutant domination and to be left alone...what will he do?
Du..duda..dudududa. Till next time. What do you want next a mystery character chapter or an X-Men or Morlock or Brotherhood chap? Polls opened now via review. Hope you loved Lila's chap.
