(Onto to Season three. For this chapter, I was detailed in some places and somewhat brief with others. The rescue from Area 51 in my opinion didn't really to be covered, I just kinda skipped over it. Now for Day of Recovery.)
All the X-Men stood in shock which quickly turned to anger. "It was you. You did this. I saw it on the security footage. You set the Institute on lockdown. Whoever those people who attacked the mansion had the access codes to disable the security systems. And since you rewrote them, you were the only one who knew them." hissed Summers.
It didn't take long before everyone figured out what that meant. "You let this happened?" said a stunned Alvers. Obviously he wasn't in on that part of the plan. "Of course I did. It was about time they got knocked down a peg." replied Mystique.
"How long have you been impersonating the Professor? Where is he?" demanded Storm. All the X-Men and New Mutants started yelling at once. The Brotherhood moved in front of Mystique, blocking anyone from getting to her.
"Why you defending this green piece of trash?" Pyro asked the Brotherhood. Mystique growled at John then noticed Jean. "Don't bother trying to probe my mind. It won't work." Mystique said. Jean sighed. "She's blocking me somehow. I'm not getting anything." she said.
Summers stepped forward, his hands reaching for his visor. "Then she better start unblocking now!" he yelled. But Mystique wasn't intimidated. "If you ever want to see Xavier you will back off." she replied.
Then everyone heard sounds off in the distance. The sound of police sirens, helicopters. A large group of police cars and military jeeps entered the Institute yard, quick to surround all the mutants. Choppers flew overhead.
The cops were quick to exit their vehicles. "Everyone freeze!" yelled one of them. "No problemo." said Bobby who froze a track of land that three officers slipped on. "That pun sucked." muttered John before everyone quickly scattered.
The police and military had difficulty catching any mutant. Storm blew the choppers away, Wanda destroyed a lot of weapons, Toad slimed a bunch, in others words everybody got away.
The New Mutants made their way into the sewers were Berserker said they could hide. It wasn't the best looking place around (not to mention the smell) but it was better then nothing. "A little paint, a little paper. This place could be down right spooky." remarked Tabitha.
Suddenly, a pale thin man (Caliban) dropped down from the ceiling in front of them. His body had no hair whatsoever. "Sssstop. What bussssinesss bringsss you here?" he demanded. Something growled behind them. The New Mutants turned around to see a massive dragon-like creature (Scaleface) blocking their way out.
"Well well well. If it isn't our old friend Ray." said a female voice in the shadows. A woman with short black hair and an eye patch over her right eye (Callisto) emerged from her hiding place. A scaly man (Fascade) appeared on the wall, deactivating his camouflage. A large ugly man in a military vest (Sunder) stepped out of hiding as well.
"Uhh…Hi guys." stuttered Ray. "They don't look happy to see you." whispered Tabitha. "Why are you here? I thought you were happy with your precious topsiders." said Callisto, twirling a knife in her hand.
"Uh look guys. We need a place to hide. Everybody's hunting for us up top. We just need a place to hang for awhile." explained Ray. "Join the club." growled Sunder, smashing his fists together. "That's enough." said Callisto, signaling the others to back down. She glared at the New Mutants for a moment.
"You'll be safe here but don't expect a warm welcome. Follow me." she ordered.
Night came and Scott, Kurt, Jean, Kitty, Storm, Bobby, Alex, and John were all waiting at Lookout Point. It was supposed to be where everyone was supposed to meet but so many of them haven't shown up. All of them were silent, uncomfortable. But the most uncomfortable was John.
He hated having to be stuck with the X-Men. Just because he hated that wench Mystique didn't mean he was going to running back to geek squad. John wasn't sure what he was going to do after things were straightened out but he knew he wasn't going to stay with any of these losers.
Bobby heard a twig snapping behind him. He quickly turned around and fired an ice beam. Pietro dashed out of the way, zipped forward and knocked Bobby to the ground. "Hey!" yelled Summers. "He started it." snickered Pietro.
"That's enough." ordered Mystique as she and the other Brotherhood members stepped out of the bushes. Pietro zipped back over with the others. "Mystique, we want answers!" demanded Summers.
"When I'm ready. Look, I want you all to know I knew nothing about Magneto's plan to expose our little secret to the world. It's a new world out there and we're going to need new leadership. If nothing else, this public reaction proves Xavier was wrong. Humans and mutants cannot live together in peace." explained Mystique.
The X-Men didn't really care about her opinions though. "Why are you Mystique? What do you want from us?" demanded Jean. "I want the same thing you want. The military has taken one of my team and I want him back." replied Mystique. John scoffed when Mystique said team.
"The problem is I don't know where to start looking." continued Mystique. "Maybe I do." replied a voice from behind a tree. Out stepped Nick Fury with his familiar eye patch and SHIELD uniform.
"Uhh, I thought this was supposed to be a secret meeting." muttered Kine. "Who are you? What do you want?" demanded Mystique. "Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD. I've been tracking you for hours." he responded.
"Well Mister Fury, I suggest you forget where you found us." Mystique said before snapping her fingers. The Brotherhood moved towards him. Fury simply snapped his fingers and within seconds, the mutants were surrounded by heavily armed commandos.
"You think that's going to do you any good?" growled Wanda. Suddenly, a woman jumped out of the bushes nearby with a purple energy saber shape in her hand. She leaped forward and jabbed it into Wanda's head. The Scarlet Witch dropped to the ground unconscious.
"Wanda!" yelled Pietro, quickly checking her. "Relax. She's just unconscious. She'll wake up in about a minute." said the attacker. She had long purple hair and seemed to in her early twenties. "You'll have to forgive Agent Braddock. She doesn't take any chances." said Fury.
"You're a telepath." realized Jean. "What's it to you?" grunted Braddock with a British accent. "We didn't come here to fight. They're all here to show you that if I wanted you to be captured, you would be." said Fury.
"Then what do you want of us?" asked Storm. "To give you this. It contains maps and schematics of the military base where they're holding your friends. I think you'll find it useful." replied Fury, handing Storm a PDA.
"And just why are you being so helpful?" demanded Mystique. "Call it a favor for someone I owed." smirked Fury. And with that said, Fury walked away. Braddock and the rest of the soldiers also disappeared into the bushes.
Lance ran after them then came back a few seconds later. "They're gone. Think we can trust 'em?" he asked. Wanda regained consciousness and got to her feet.
"I don't know. I sensed he was telling the truth." answered Jean. "Good enough. We'll split up into team…" Storm started to say before Mystique swapped the PDA out of Storm's hands.
"I'll take that and I'll decide how we handle this." said Mystique. "What gives you the right?" growled Storm, thunder clouds began to form overhead. "Storm no! Remember the professor." said Jean, which calmed Ororo down.
"Wise counsel." muttered Mystique. "Personally I think you should have fried that wench." John said out loud, making sure Mystique heard him. He smiled at her reaction. Mystique decided to deal with him later.
"Alright, our first order of business is Magneto. We need to know whether he really perished. Knowing him, I highly doubt it. Lance, I want you to go into the city and find out what you can." ordered Mystique.
"Why me?" grunted Lance. "Because you're useless that's why. Toad right now is more valuable then you." growled Mystique. "Hey!" yelled Kitty. "You didn't do a thing back there against Magneto's goons. I am not going to have a useless loser like you slow everything down." said Mystique.
Lance growled but did nothing. "I'm going with him." said Wanda in a way that meant it wasn't a request, it was an order. "Fine, you'll both go." sighed Mystique. "Me three." said Alex. "Wait a minute…" protested Scott.
"Lorna was on that rooftop too. I need to know if she got out of there or not." explained Alex. "Can I go too?" asked Toad. "NO! Fine, you three go. The rest of us will plan a rescue mission." said Mystique.
Back in the city, Lance, Wanda, and Alex were on a rooftop near the one where Magneto supposedly met his demise. Lance was looking through a pair of binoculars but saw only debris. "I can't see anything over there." he said.
Alex took the binoculars and looked for himself. "The workers are still clearing out the debris but I don't see any stretchers. Which means they haven't found any bodies." said Alex. "I have to know." said Wanda. Alex looked down on the streets below and noticed a news van. "I think I might know how we can figure it out." he said.
The three made their way downstairs. "Why didn't you help us against Magneto?" Wanda asked Lance. "What are you talking about?" he grunted. "I mean, you're supposed to have a good power at least according to my moronic brother. And yet, you did nothing." Wanda pointed out.
"I…just couldn't alright?" growled Lance, wanting all of this to end. "Why?!" demanded Wanda. Alex was wise enough to stay out of this and Lance knew better then to ignore Wanda.
"I killed my mother with them, you happy now!" yelled Lance. That caught Wanda by surprise. "She attacked the X-Men and I used my powers to try and stop her. I didn't mean to kill her." he grunted. Wanda became uncomfortable talking about the subject and quickly dropped it.
At the news van, the three lured the editor out and knocked him unconscious. Lance sat down and began rewinding the tapes to yesterday's news. The three went over the tapes but saw nothing that answered whether Magneto or Lorna were still alive. They watched footage of the missiles hitting the rooftop over and over again.
Then Wanda noticed something. "Play it again in slow motion." she said. Lance did and they all noticed it. Just as the missiles hit, a large ball of energy seemed to fly out of the explosion. It was difficult to see, the missile blasts covered it very well.
"Can you zoom in?" asked Alex. Lance zoomed in on the ball of energy. Sure enough, there were two humanoid shapes inside of it. "That's gotta be them. They got out just in the nick of time." said Lance. "Lorna's alive." said a relieved Alex. "Magneto's alive!" yelled a furious Wanda. All the circuitry in the van exploded.
At Area 51, Major Glen Talbot was put in charge of handling everything involved in that freak vs. giant robot showdown. From the mutant taken prisoners to the robot that for some odd reason deactivated.
Right now, engineers were examining the robot while he had one of his captains taking care of the interrogations of the freaks. He was heading into the medical center where the newest mutant was just taken to. It was identified as Sarah Vale. Apparently, the freaks left her behind when they ran back at that Xavier Institute. No loyalty among their kind.
They stepped inside the patient room and found a doctor going over her EEG readouts. "What's it condition?" asked Talbot. "She's in a coma. I can't really explain it though. Her brain responds to stimuli and pain. She has a concussion but not severe enough to cause this." said the doctor.
"When will it be awake? I have people calling me every hour asking for any updates and I want to say I have something to report." said Talbot. "She's in a coma Major. She needs to rest, not put in an interrogation room." protested the doctor. "I have no choice, the rest of those things aren't cooperating and my superiors are loosing patience." said Talbot.
Talbot then leaned in closer to Vale. "Wake up you freak." he said to her unconscious body. He pulled out his lighter and snapped it on, putting the flame right underneath her nostrils.
In the Sentinel hanger, the engineers were shocked when suddenly the head turned sideways. They were frozen in place, not sure what they saw was a malfunction or if it was starting to wake up.
Back at the patient room, the doctor was furious. "Major enough! She can't hear you and doing this won't help!" yelled the doctor. "I'm going to get what I want to know out of you freak. How hard it has to be is up to you." growled Talbot.
In the hanger, the Sentinel's hands closed into a clenched fist. The engineers on top of the robot all jumped off in fear. "This thing's still alive!" yelled one of the engineers.
In the patient room, the doctor was relieved to see Talbot leave. The doctor didn't want to admit it to the Major but she couldn't be in a coma. Her EEG showed increased brain activity, not less like one would see in a coma. This just didn't make any sense.
He walked over to Sarah. "I'm sorry my dear. I wished I could have stopped him but if I tried he would have thrown me into the brig and gotten someone else to watch over you. And I'd rather you be taken care of someone who looks at you like a person rather then a thing." said the doctor.
In the hanger, the fists loosened. As if the robot was calming down.
The rescue went well at could be expected, until ice boy pulled another botch and set off the alarms. The X-Men and Brotherhood fought their way to their comrades and made their way towards the exit. Wolverine and Beast made it to the patient rooms and picked up Sarah before meeting up with others.
Seeing that they couldn't stop the mutants with soldiers, the army began sealing all the exits of the base. Of course, it was no problem when John melted through the doors and Bobby cooled the doorways enough to walk through.
Eventually, they got to a maintenance ladder that lead to the rooftop. Everyone made their way up top with Mystique being the last one. But before she could reach it, Cyclops slammed the steel grating shut.
"What are you doing!" yelled Mystique. "Where is Professor X?" demanded Summers. "Let me pass or you'll never see him again." threatened Mystique. Summers reached for the main hatch, ready to close it.
"Let me through! You haven't got the…" Mystique said before Summers slammed the hatch shut. "Hey! You lousy little!" yelled Fred, ready to attack Scott. "She got what she deserved." Summers shot back.
"Hey guys, kill each other later." said Jean. Fred grunted and walked towards the helicopter picking them up. John spit on the hatch as a last insult. "Hope they dissect ya!" he laughed before joining the others.
Sarah couldn't see, hear, feel, or smell anything. It felt like she was completely wrapped in darkness and nothingness. She began to panic but then a glimmer of light appeared in front of her. Within seconds, it felt like her whole body was coming alive.
She opened her eyes to see she was in a massive room. She heard an alarm going off. She quickly sat up, only to be shocked at what she saw. Her legs were shiny red metal. There were small midgets inspecting her feet who all screamed in horror at her awakening.
She held up her hands to look at them and they too were red and metal. What was happening? What was going on? She had to get out of there and fast.
She stood on her feet when a dozen armed but small soldiers ran into the room and began firing on her. It was odd but she didn't even feel the weapons fire bouncing off her body. Images flashed before her eyes as it seemed like her brain was scanning the soldiers, identifying their weapons and threat level.
Level 5, the lowest one could get. Guess they weren't much of a threat. Wait a minute? Since when could she scan things? And why was everyone so small? She moved towards the massive hanger doors and pushed the doors off the walls.
She stepped outside and to her horror, she was in what looked like a military base only miniaturized. She was starting to feel like she was in Gulliver's Travels. Several small tanks moved towards her. They fired on her but her armor protected her. Threat Level 4.
Acting on instinct, energy blasts were fired from her chest. The tanks were obliterated instantly. Sarah glanced down at her chest and for the first time, she recognized the weapon she just fired. It was from the Sentinel that attacked the X-Men and Brotherhood.
But that meant…No way! She was inside the Sentinel!
(Bet you didn't see that coming. Sarah's mind is in the Sentinel. Also a little cameo by Psylocke. I wanted to put here in this fic and make her a good guy but I didn't want her to join the X-Men. They already had enough people in my opinion. So I made her a SHIELD agent. For those of you expecting that big fight between the New Mutants and Marauders last chapter, I'm sorry. I was going to have it happen but then I got an idea that I liked so I'm going to spoil it. The Marauders are going to attack the Morlocks and the New Mutants are their only hope. But for the next chapter, the X-Men and Brotherhood separate and Sarah goes on a rampage looking for revenge.)
