Immotal had finally made his way back to Apocolypse's base undetected. He had never wanted to come back but seeing as how he had to get to Chaos before Apocolypse did anything more with him, Immortal really had no choice in the matter. He had propelled himself through the air and into space to get to the base and currently he was crawling through the vent and at any vent door, he looked to see if he could see anyone and so far there was no one to be found anywhere. Immortal was beginning to think that Apocolypse had abandoned his base for one reason or another but as he looked throught yet another vent door, his thought was shattered as he saw Roxie, Ty, Luke, Orchird and Di Volo kneeling before Apocolypse, with Billi, Sabertooth and Chaos at his side, and were being held back strong plastic chains, that were strapped to the floor, and collers, no doubt to neutralize their abilities. He didn't know how they managed t bet themselves captured but he knew he was probably gonna be their only hope.
Immortal noticed Ty next to Roxie, whose eyes, he could clearly see, were rappidly changing from light blue to a fiery orange, and wondered what the hell he was doing here. Surly Roxie hadn't told Ty to cme with them. This missionwas too dangerous for Ty despite what Ty himself may believe.
Immortal's thoughts were interupted by pocolyse's voice
"My plan has worked perfectly."
"What plan?" Luke asked before anyone else could.
"Wel to be come the ultimate mutant my boy. "Apocolypse said, "See I am going to take your powers and use them for my own and then once I don't need you anymoe, I will dispose of you, thus ridding the world of the annoying team known as Pheolvrom."
"Where the hell is my father?!?" Roxie screamed.She had yet to be answered and that was not helping her anger at all.
Apoolypse snapped his fingers and a door opened and Wolveirne, who was chained was pulled into the room and placed next to Luke.
"Happy now?" Apoclypse asked Roxie, who did not reply but instead she was listening to Luke talk to Wolveirne in a low whisper.
"How do you figure we'll get out of this one?" Luke was asking Wolverine.
"We won't." Wolveirne replied not taking his eyes off of Sabertooth.
"But you always have a plan." Orchird said, "Your the one who gets us out of things like this."
"Not this time Darlin'." Wolveirne said.
Roxie noticed her father's ton of voice and couldn't believe what she had heard, or rather what she didn't hear. There was no growling, no anger, no will to fight. For the first time ever, Roxie knew, the Wolveirne wsa admitting defeat.
"Luke, Orchird," Roxie said, "We will get out of here."
"But Wol..." Luke began but Roxie cut him off sharply.
"Wolveirne doesn't knw what the hell he's talking about." Roxie told her team mate because Roxie didn't tink her father knew what he was saying. she knew something was wrong with him and that it was something more than the dreams of Jean, "You all will live to fight anther day. I promise you that much."
The team knew they would get out now and make it back to Haven because Roxie was a woman of her word. If she said the sky was on fire then you damn well knew the sky was on fire and if she told you you would live to fight another day, that is just what you would do.
Just then Wolveirne's chains were unlocked by Apocolypse, telekinteically. Wolveirne streatched and somehow, Roxie thought, knew what was coming.
"Before, I begin taking your powers and ridding the world of you," Apocolypse said, "Sabertooth, your payment for bringing me Pheovlrom. Kill the Wolverine."
No one seemed to be worried because they all knew that Wovleirne's healing factor would save him no matter what Sabertooth dished out but Roxie looked at her father and his eyes told her what would happen.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Roxie cried standing to her feet and trying to get to her father but her chains held her back. Sabertooth charged Wolveirne and in one fowl swoop, took Wolveire to the ground. Roxie saw her father close his eyes just before Creed took him down. He wasn't fighting back. Why? Why the hell was he doing this? Roxie didn't know the answers but she would soon find out.
"Fight Wolveirne!" Luke yelled seeing the horror that was unfolding before them.
"He won't Luke. Its no use." Roxie said with sorrow in her voice."
"Why no? He always fights!"
"He's given up hope Luke. He's lost the will to live" Roxie replied watching as Sabertooth literally ripped Wolveirne apart and when the furball was finished nothing was left but an adimantinum skeleon in a mess of blood, guts and skin.
Luke nearly lost his lunch at the site and Orchird and Di Volo began to cry and Roxie and Ty, and Immortal from where he sat in the vent, were still shocked about what had happened.
The Wolverine, the last of the X-men, the one who was thought to live forever, was dead. Murdered byhis archenemy, who didn't take delight in his death for the Wolverine hadn't fought back Maybe is he'd fought back then, maybe Creed would have liked it more. But how? The two feral mutants had fought for as long as either one could remember and the only reason their fight had lasted this long was because they had healing abilities. Logan had killed Creed just as many times, if not more than Creed had killed Logan and he had always bounced back from death. Why not now? All this ran through Roxie's mind, as well as the rest of Phelovrom, taking out a few details here and there, as Sabertooth pulled away from his enemy's body and found a small mahine attactched to the skeleton' rib cage.
"What's this?" Creed asked picking the device up and examining it. he noticed a blue light, that had died, and the letters, "h" and "f" and he knew exactly what it was, "The runt didn't have a healin' factor no more." Sabertooth said as he walked in front of Roxie and knelt to her level, "Yer daddy ain't the man yathought he was now is he? He lost his healin' factor and had ta have a machine to give it back to 'im. Ain't that pathetic?"
At this moment, Roxie felt no sorrow for her father's death nor shame in the machine. She only felt anger at Sabertooth for what he had done and it ws growng She knew if she didn't cap her anger soon, she'd loose control completly but she didn't care. The last peron he loved, the only person that she had left that she felt she could run to, was gone and Creed was making a mockery of him and Rxie wasn' about to stand for it.
Immortal saw Roxie's eyes slowly stop changing color and stay the fiery orange that meant she was pissed. He knew she was about to loose control and when she did, nothing could keep her power in check, no even a device that was meant to do so. Oh how badly he wanted to go down there and be the hero that Roxie needed him to be but he couldn't. Not yet anyway. He didn't want everyone to know he was alive. Not yet anway.
Sabertooth placed his hand on Roxie's face and said, "Yer daddy's gone, little one. So's yer mom. Your all alone now. Why don't ya say somethin' darlin? Cat got yer tounge?"
That was the last straw. Roxie could control her anger no longer and just before she blacked out and her powers took over, she looked at Luke and with her eyes told him to get the hell out of here the first chance he got. Luke didn't say a thing because as soon as that look form Roxie came, it was gone and she turned Sabertooth and as she shortcircited her collar, and rose into the air, she said, "YOU KILLED MY MOTHER!"
Roxie then grabbed Sabertooth and pulled him in the air with her and continued to scream at him, "YOU KILLED MY FATHER! YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND SO NOW I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!"
Then Roxie's powers took over her and those who knew her, knew that this was no longer the woman that they all cared about. They all watched in horror as the emence power of telekineses literaly began pulling Sabertooth apart. His arms, and legs became destorted, his face thinner because Roxie as litterally pulling Sabertooth's atoms apart.
While this happened, objects from around the room were flying everywhich way and suddenly Pheolvrom's chains were shattered as were their collars and Luke immediantly went for Ty. He had made a promise to Roxie, when this mission began and after what he had done to Immortal, he intended to keep that promise.
"We got to get the hell out of here!" Luke said over the roar of the comotion.
"We can't leave Roxie behind!" Di Volo and Orchird said together. They knew the number one rule was never leave a member behind but that rule could be over ruled and that is what Luke was getting at.
"She ordered me to get us out of her before she lost control!" Luke said, "So we need to get back to the ship and fast!"
Luke ordered and the girls and Ty listened to Luke and followed his orders.
Apocolypse, Billi and Chaos also chose to flee the scene for none of them knew this would happen and once they fleed, Immortal jumped out of the vent and began making his way towards Roxie. Althought it was very hard due to the shear amount of power that was forcing him to stay back. Immortal heard Sabertooth beg for mercy but Roxie showed none and as Roxie made one final attack, Roxie pulled Sabertooth completly apart and he was gone. When it was over and Sabertooth hd been erased from existance, Roxie's body fell towards the floor.
Roxie felt herself slipping away from the battle and she knew that her powers had take over her. The void of darkness that had take over her, was all too familiar and yet very strange at the same time. She wasn't sure why this void felt so familiar though. she knew that she had lot control once before but there was something more. She felt like she'd doesn what her powers were ding to Creed nw, befor. But something like that one would believe Roxie would remember. All she knew form the last time that this happened, her father brought her back and calmed her down. He had said that she'd lost control and had desroyed a few things but nothing more. He had said everything would be all right but that wasn't the case this time.
Her father was gone. The only man who could bring her back from this void of darkness was now pushing up daisies. Roxie's anger, frustration, fury and rage were all goneand replaced by a huge sence of loneliness and just when she thought all hope was lost, she felt warmth in the cold dark abyss. She looked around the void and saw the love of her life standing there in the midst of the void. Her subconuse mind was reaching out to him and he was answeing but how? He was dead wasn't he?
"Eric?" Roxie asked as Immortal walked up to her and simply nodded his head, "But how? I saw you die! Your suppose to be dead!"
"Nice to se you too."
"That's not what I meant." Roxie said, "How are you..."
"Alive? Well while the attack was going on. Chaos and I were having a fight of our own."
"Chaos?" Roxie asked, "Your twin right?"
"Right. Chaos had devoted all his power into defense trying to stop the energy ball and I from with in took the opportunity to make it impossible for Chaos to electrolyze and escape so when Chaos realized that if he did not separate he would die along with me, he made a run for it by unfusing there bodies. It was at this moment that we were in an electric state while the bomb ball exploded and thus unharmed."
"I thought I lost you!" Roxie said as she embraced Immortal.
"Rox, come back." Immortal simply said. He knew exactly what Roxie needed to hear but he didn't know if he could do what she wanted him to do.
"I don't know if I can!" Roxie said, tears coming down her angry, scared, sad face, "Eric, you understand me. You accept me for who I am. No one, except my father, has ever undersood me the way you do. I love you for that. In fact I know now that I've always loved you and I always will."
Immortal was taken off guard from what Roxie had said and not because of what she said but because she had said it so bluntly but that was Roxi for you.She always spoke her mind and Eric knew he loved her too but he couldn't be with her because of the things he had done, in his past and now. How could she love a man who had done the things he had done He idn't know and at the moment he didn't care. No one else was in Roxie's mind but him and Roxie herself and no one would ever know what happened between the two of them except for them and them alone.
"I love you too Roxie." Immortal said taking Roxie into his arms and kissingher fr the first time. This kiss was so passionate that it put any kiss before it to hame and it would have gone one had immortal not pulled aprat and said, "Come back. Find your way back."
"I don't think I can." Roxie replied with tears in her eyes, "I have nothing left. I can't make it on my own."
"Rox," Immortal siad using the nickname Wolverine always used, " can't do what you want me to do."
"Eric if you don't help me, I don't know if I will see Haven again!"
"Rox,You'll see Haven again, I promise. I'm not gonna leave you here. In fact right now I'm taking you to an emergancy pod. I'll put you in it and send you to Haven butRox you've go to know that I've got things I've got to do. I've got to take care of Chaos and myself. I'm not sure who I am. I can't be what you want me to be. I'm sorry."
"What about Ty?" Roxie finally asked.
"What about him?"
"He needs his brother. He thinks your dead. I don't want to lie to him."
"He has you now. I know you will take care of him and please Rox, don't tell anyone that I am alive. Especually Ty."
"Eric, he believes that he killed his brother! Surly you won't let him live with that lie."
"Rox, please." Immortal said kissing Roxie one more time, "Don't say anything. Not yet."
Roxie simply nodded her head and with that, Roxie felt Immortal leave as fast as he could but she also felt that didn't want to leave but right now he was more determined to go after Chaos than he was to stay with Roxie. So he left. Leaving Roxie to try and fight her way back to gainnng control over herself.
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