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I'm really sorry for the long, long wait. I will get the new chapter out by next week. Two chapters to go and a short epilogue.
Chapter Thirty Four: Lyra Bell
It had happened so fast. Everyone attacking him at once. Eric threw lightning bolts, Marina created a purple energy shield that she kept hitting him with but as each one of the offensive mutants tested their powers on him…Rogue ran and launched herself at him, grasping his throat, gloveless. Wolverine who was being subdued by Storm had to pull her off of him as his unconscious form fell to the ground. Silence filled the room as Rogue's screams filled the house.
"You did this to all of them! You created the monster who experimented on us. How can you call yourself a mutant!?" She screamed.
Lyra opened her eyes. "How many of these bloody fools can we take? Apparently, there will always be foes being on the good side." Lyra said heaving a sigh. She saw Magneto being led into a SHIELD carrier on the television. She picked up the remote with the other hand and turned up the volume. "You know you couldn't get away with it metal boy" Lyra said stuffing her mouth full of cheese puffs, sitting on top of a Sentinel that had toppled over. Zane was sitting next to her eating tortilla chips and salsa.
"Why do you eat that? You should have some of my homemade salsa. Mrmmmmm." He said. Lyra raised an eyebrow and threw a hand full of cheese puffs at him.
"You trying to flog your cooking skills? It is a nesh thing to do." Lyra spouted licking her fingers.
"What?" Zane slowly pronounced, blinking as the salsa fell off of his chip.
"Oh, bloody hell." She said. The SHIELD agent, Danielle walked into the kitchen staring wide-eyed at the two mutants eating while watching Magneto. They dusted off their hands and straightened up in their postures.
"I can't believe it." Danielle said staring at the both of them. They stared back in reply with fear in their eyes. "You guys didn't invite me to the party!?" she exclaimed sitting on a scrap of metal between them and taking Lyra's cheese puffs. Danielle poured them into her mouth and happily munched them while taking a chip and scooping up some salsa that Zane had. Lyra's skin color changed from her blue hue to completely white with shock, while both of the recruits had their mouths wide opened. Danielle pursed her lips, staring at them confused. "You guys don't want anymore?" She said pointing to the bag of cheese puffs and Lyra slowly shook her head side to side. "So, is it okay if I take this with me?" Lyra shook her head up and down in disbelief. Danielle walked off, stealing another chip and dunking in salsa as she walked by.
"Whoah. That was completely barking!" Lyra exclaimed. Zane dropped his bowl of salsa as he came to.
"Really, what are you saying?" Zane said coolly, leaning back not worrying over the salsa that had spread across the already disastrous floor. He put his hands behind his head, a little too relaxed for what just happened a few hours ago.
"You are such a wally!" Lyra whispered. She tried to forget everything bad that had happened. The Professor asked everyone, they had cornered Magneto and threw everything they had at him, to have an hour of reflection on the past events that had happened and that they would reconvene after in the lobby of the X-Mansion. There were many different emotions spread across the mansion. Sarah was hysterical and crying about their fallen comrades. Camlin and Eric were watching her sister who was recovering from severe burns. Zane and Lyra were eating and watching justice be done. Marina was in the training room beating the life out of a punching bag. Levi and Rainer were lifting weights. Kitty and Logan were having an intervention with Rogue about her outbreak of anger that caused Magneto to collapse. They were all trying to hide the fact that they had lost three wonderful individuals. Lyra bit down on her lip and grabbed the chips from Zane who had dozed off. She stuffed her mouth full.
Grace was the sweetest girl. She didn't deserve it, she didn't deserve to die. Trent was always trying to redeem himself for being a jerk and the son of the Dr. Gregory Bamback and he tried to save Grace but it was all for nothing since he disappeared also. Sarah had to suffer through the horror of seeing all of it. Ella did it under the spell of Dr. Bamback and she sacrificed herself to stop him from blowing them all up, disappearing into thin air. All three of them sacrificed their lives for a cause of restoration.
"Hiya, Brit!" she heard a familiar voice exclaim. She turned around and saw Mila waving from behind Lila. Lyra jumped up off the Sentinel and leaped over the debris to tackle the two with hugs. They were dressed in SHIELD uniforms.
"Oh bloody hell, I missed you!" she exclaimed. The three of them embraced as Zane watched.
"We missed you too. You guys are all needed in the lobby; we got some SHIELD work to do." Lila said, a stern voice coming through her watch. "Yes, yes. We are getting on it Adams. We've picked up all of the criminals already. Foster is interrogating them." She said as Mila pulled her off in a direction. Lyra waved as she kicked Zane and walked towards the lobby. Zane yawned as he scratched his head and followed Lyra.
All of the X-Men were drifting in. Some with stern, emotionless faces, and others with their heads hung low. The Professor had been in the infirmary due to his injuries sustained when Magneto had pinned him against the wall. He rolled out in an old fashioned wheelchair at the top of the stairs.
"Thank you for coming everyone. I know that you have been overwhelmed with many things such as this great battle but we have achieved what we have trained for. The human population is starting to realize that we are not a threat. This is thanks to the efforts of SHIELD and a moving speech made by one of our fellow enemies but now good mutant, Natalie Foster. The cure for the virus has been distributed and the treatment has had positive side effects. This was not done without sacrifice. Three of our very own X-Men who did this selflessly. Grace, the hero who was ready to take over when all had fallen. Trent, who sacrificed himself for Grace and the X-Men cause despite his own father, Dr. Bamback. Finally, Ella who was a prisoner taken over by the control of Bamback to make Trent and Grace disappear, sacrificed herself for all of us so a lethal bomb wouldn't go off. We shall take a moment of silence to remember them all" Lyra bit her lip as she dug into her palms with her fingernails. She wanted it all to end.
"We will always remember them. They would have liked us to move on and live the lives we were meant to live. This film was put together by a group of X-Men that wanted to honor the fallen." Professor Xavier said as a screen was projected above them. It showed several pictures of the Grace, Trent, and Ella. There was a short video exert where Trent was sitting in one of the lounge rooms. He sat there writing down his frustrations on notecards. There was a plant on the table that started to bloom. Trent stared at it and poked it. The camera turned around to see a snickering Coralie holding a finger up to her lips as she turned the camera on Grace who was hiding behind a column in the room. She slowly stepped back and was about to turn away to walk out but Trent saw her. She froze, scared. He smiled and wrote something down on a notecard, gathering the other ones leaving the room through the south door. Grace stepped up to it and read it out loud.
"Thank you for brightening my day" she whispered. She walked out of the room wrapping her sweater sleeves around her hands and covering her face with them. The camera turned around again to face Coralie.
"How adorable!" she squealed. "Now, let's go see what the other newcomers are up to. Ah, here is one of them." Ella was humming a tune listening to an mp3 player as she beat the air like she was playing drums. She stared at the seat next to her and punched the air as Noah appeared.
"You seriously think I'm a ditz not seeing the indention you leave on the seat." She giggled as rose her head above her to see Sarah materialize in front of her. "You guys are haunting me now aren't you?"
"Well, that defeats the purpose of being invisible, doesn't it?" Noah muttered.
"We don't want you to faint again like you did in the kitchen." Sarah said quietly. Ella giggled.
"I'm sitting…" she said glancing at the both of them. They both faintly laughed.
"Aww, you guys are like my adopted brother and sister! Group hug!" She said throwing her arms around them both. However she startled them and Sarah turned to mist and Noah turned invisible. There were a few more kooky Coralie videos. Lyra saw a slide show of pictures and a few of the mutants commented on how nice they were where here. The conversation ended as soon as the Professor began to speak.
"We shall inform your parents about taking a leave of absence from the school and hopefully you will return after but that is up to you and your parents. For those of you that have nowhere to go, you are welcome to stay at the mansion as long as you like. Classes shall start up in two weeks. I hope you will join us on our way to mutant integration and the restoration. Please go pack, we will provide rides and accommodations for you all. Thanks to you we were all able to overcome this for all mutant kind and human kind everywhere. Everyone in this room was important and whether you decide to come back or not, you will remain so." The Professor ended his speech and they all went to their rooms, trying to salvage what was left of them.
Lyra shared a room with Shiloh who was sitting alone on her bed petting a dog she had attracted with her mutation. He was a scraggily dog who had the genuine puppy dog look down. He wagged his tail and started to yap as Shiloh petted him. Home? London. She remembered her sweet Gran who had raised her and accepted her with open arms when her mutation manifested. Her parents, however, only saw her on holiday because they considered her too different for their world. Gran trained her but after a fall down the stairs she couldn't take care of Lyra. Lyra took care of her by doing anything that made her happy. Lyra painted murals from top to bottom of her home. She danced with her but it wasn't enough. Gran soon died of a brain hemorrhage. Her parents didn't respond to her rings or emails so she went alone to the funeral. Lyra was filled with disgust at her parents' abandonment.
Lyra, reluctantly, went to the States to find a place to belong since she had heard of many mutant havens. However, the people were slow to accept her because of her odd accent and her abilities. She wanted to blend into society, maybe forever stay camouflage with her color changing abilities.
She shook her head pressing the thoughts away just for the mutant to riffle through some paintings she had done. She saw flowers, a few portraits of the X-Men and then she saw an unfinished one at the back. She pulled it out and saw that it had a tear and soot at the top of it but other than that, it was undamaged. It was a portrait of Gran. She sighed and found her easel broken to pieces by a few rocks of ruble. She propped it against the wall. She would finish it someday since this was her home now.
A few hours later.
"Alright, all you scraps line up so we can check you off the roster." Logan gruffed as everyone who was leaving immediately got into a line. The recruits embraced each other saying long tearful goodbyes and expressed their hopes to return to the mansion, waving to Professor Xavier and Storm while acting scared of Logan. April smiling at Logan when he said her name, finally not being mistaken for Jean with Allie behind her carrying both of their suitcases by letting them float in the air. Everyone was happy and smiling with the bitter memories of the lost. Lyra waved goodbye to the mutants. They were such good friends.
"Beech, where are you? I know you around here somewhere you little invisible runt!" Logan yelled glancing around. The Professor immediately tried to link with Noah who was missing. The rest of the recruits who stayed behind ran around the house looking for someone no one could see. They panicked.
"He's not here." Someone said. Lyra looked down over the stair railing and saw a little boy who had entered into the mansion. Lyra slid down the bannister and saw that the little boy was holding a letter. He had curly brown hair and distinct purple eyes. "He was already taken back to the future. "
"May I ask who you are? How do you know the whereabouts of Noah?" The Professor said approaching the boy.
"You don't need to know who I am. All you need to know is that you can stop looking. In three years' time on this date at 12:01PM be at 1st Avenue alley. You'll see him again." They boy walked away and vanished into thin air. Lyra gasped, he was Ella's brother but where did he go?
"We need to get working on a future that we can live in. We'll welcome Noah into our ideal future." The Professor said. Lyra picked up a piece of scrap metal and moved it aside.
"Chip chop! We got to get crackin!" Lyra shouted.
There are a lot more twists and turns coming even though there is Noah's chapter and an epilogue. Squeal! Can't wait to write Retaliation! :D