p id="docs-internal-guid-325029bf-7fff-e0b4-37b6-268ae522d2be" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Gambit runs through the woods, stopping outside a large house. He breaks into the house and steals an ancient relic that's deep within the walls. But this is no normal home, it was the home of the mutant Angel. The mutant was able to catch Gambit stealing from him and chases him outside his house where Gambit meets up with Mesmero and hands him the relic. Angel catches up to them flying through the air and Mesmero uses his powers to knock Angel out. Angle cries out in pain as his wings stop working from Mesmero's powers, forcing him to fall to the ground. Mesmero tries to leave with the relic, but a shield forms around him and Gambit. Magneto and Twenty Five make themselves visible to them once they are captured by Twenty Five's shields. Magneto walked up to the shield that was holding Mesmero, telling him. "Whoever you are, you've got courage. Not everyone would hypnotize one of mine to do their stealing." He said looking over his shoulder as Twenty Five stood beside the shield that Gambit was trapped in. Mesmero frowned, using his mutant power to try and hypnotize Magneto and Twenty Five. "Don't bother. Your psychic blasts do not affect me or the girl." Magneto turned to twenty five and the girl nodded, tightening the shield around Mesmero to where he couldn't breath. "Release your hold on Gambit. Now!' Magneto demanded. "Alright!" Mesmero said, choking on the small amount of air he had in his lungs. Mesmero grunted and Gambit suddenly fell to his knees from inside Twenty Five's shield, showing that he was no longer under Mesmero's control. "Uhh, where am I?" He asked, looking around. Twenty Five removed the shield and helped the man stand on his own two feet. "As for this relic," Magneto said as the girl walked over and pushed her hand through the shield, grabbing the relic out of Mesmero's hand before he could stop her. "Let's see if it was really worth going to all that trouble to get it." Magneto said as the girl handed it to him. Twenty five lifted the shield into the air, along with Mesmero, the group started to leave when Angel woke from his attack. He groaned as he sat up, looking around in confusion till he saw the group. "Hey!" He shouted standing up. Magneto turned to Twenty Five and the girl nodded, turning around and facing Angel. "Hey, Marigold, from the X-men...what's going on? What are you doing with Magneto!?" Angel asked, the girl frowned and formed two shields around the man's arms and legs, trapping him to the ground. Angel grunted as he tried to get away from her. "I'm not Marigold, as for what we are up to...that's none of your business." She said before forming a shield around her hand and punching Angel across the temple, knocking him out cold again before following Gambit, Magneto, and Mesmero down the street./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Xavier Institute-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At the Xavier Institute , the mutant students play a game of Mutant ball /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"(softball with powers)/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". Angel shows up and breaks up the game. He flew over all of them and landed in the middle of the softball field. Scott and Hank ran up to meet the man. "Angel? What's going on?" Scott asked. "I must see Professor Xavier immediately. It's of the most importance...it's about Magneto." He said as Hank walked up to them. "I'll let him know you are here. He is with Cerebro trying to strengthen the mental hold he has on one of our students who is under Magneto's control." Hank explained. "It's Marigold right? The young one I met at Christmas?" Angel asked. "How did you know?" Scott asked. "Because she paid me a visit to my house last night along with Magneto and a few of his pals...they took something very important from me."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Magneto's Base-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At Magneto's base, Mastermind is searching through Mesmero's mind to find answers. Magneto standing behind the two as Mastermind works. He tells Magneto that the relic is one-half of the and that when they two pieces are combined they form to release the most powerful mutant of all time. En Sabah Nur, or better known as "Apocalypse"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Xavier Institute-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Are you sure this is the man you saw?" The Professor asked Angel as an image of Mesmero was displayed on the large computer in front of them. "It's not a face you forget Professor." Angel said looking at the image. "You were right to come here Warren. We've had dealings with Mesero before." The Professor explained. "Why would he use someone else to break in?" Angel asked. "Because, that's what he does." The Professor said as Hank typed away on the keyboard. Scott and Jean standing behind them. "He manipulates others, like he did with Jean and a handful of my students to steal these rings." A picture of three different colored rings appeared on the screen. "We've been able to determine that the rings form together to make some kind of key...and the relic that they stole from you is one half of the Spider Stone. The other half is in the London museum. When put together they complete the Spider Stone." Hank explained. "What is Mesmero trying to do with all this stuff?" Jean asked. "I don't know, but with Magneto now involved I feel it is imperative that we secure the other half of the stone before he does." The Professor said. "And the girl? Marigold, is she under the control of Mesmero too?" Angel asked, sounding confused. "No, that's a bit more complicated to explain." Scott said, sounding sad. "But if she is there with Magneto when we go to retrieve the second half of the stone, this could be a good chance for me to make another mental connection and try to get Marigold back." The Professor said with hope in his voice. "Yea, if that Mastermind guy isn't there." Jean said, remembering how the man had been able to get The Professor out of her mind the first time. "We will just have to wait and be ready for any situation, but let's suit up...we're going to London." The Professor said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-London-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In London, the X-jet arrives at the museum. Xavier, Beast, Jean, Cyclopes, and Angel are all in the jet. Xavier turned to face Scott from his seat and asks Scott to go in the back and tell their stowaway that they've arrived. "Stowaway?" Cyclops asked. Cyclops fishes Iceman out of one of the storage compartments."Have anything to say for yourself?" Cyclops asked once he finds Iceman. "Yea, that's the last time I try to hide in the back of the X-jet. I got serious cramps." Iceman said stretching from where he had curled up in the back of the jet. "Uh huh, come on. Let's go." Cyclopes said pulling the boy to his feet. He didn't sound too upset so Iceman considered it a win./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Magneto and his crew head into the museum and take care of the security. The X-men aren't too far behind them, following them into the museum. "Fan out and secure the building." Magneto tells his crew. They all split up, going to different parts of the museum to take out the security. Twenty Five knocks out the security in her part of the museum quickly, she can hear the sounds of fighting from a floor above her, and she knows that the others are having fun taking out the security in their parts of the museum. As Twenty Five is knocking out the last security guard she could find her communicator turns on. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We've got X-men here! Sabertooth needs backup on the main floor./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Pyro says. Twenty Five frowns, before jumping on top of one of her shields and flying on it to quickly make her way to the main floor. When she gets there the fighting had already started. She turned invisible before anyone could see her. She could see that Cyclopes, Jean, Iceman, Beast, and Angel were all fighting against her teammates. She stayed on top of her shield, using it to fly over the battle undetected. When Beast was about to attack Sabertooth Twenty Five put a shield around the Beast, using the shield to throw the man through one of the museum walls. The Beast groaned as he recovered from the attack. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Watch out for Marigo- Twenty Five, she's here somewhere./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He said into his communicators. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Let me see if I can sense her./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Jean said into her communicator, before resting her fingers against her temples and focusing her powers on finding Twenty Five. It was hard with all the fighting going on, but Jean was able to pinpoint the girls location. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She's right above me!/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Jean said looking up, just in time for the girl to turn visible and jump down from her shield, kicking Jean right in the head as she flew through the air. Jean cried out and was knocked out, falling to the ground as Twenty Five landed on her feet. "This is the last time that you try to take me down." Twenty Five said, forming a shield around Jean's neck. "Oh no you don't!" Iceman shouted, shooting Twenty Five's feet with his ice blast, trapping the girl. Twenty Five cried out as she felt the cold sting her feet and legs. She formed a shield around her hands and smashed them against her feet, freeing herself. She turned to attack Iceman when she felt a sudden pain roll through her head. "GAhh!" She cried out, falling to her knees. "That damned Xavier." The girl growled, knowing that he was trying to get into her head. The fighting was still going on around her, but the Beast ran through the people and went to tackle Twenty Five. The girl turned, forming a shield around herself to protect from the man's attacks. Beast hit her shield head on and Twenty Five struggled to keep the shield around herself, and keep Xavier out of her head. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Don't fight it Twenty Five. You know I will beat you./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Xavier said to her, using his mutant powers. He was sitting inside the X-jet. "Like hell, you will." Twenty Five said, her voice breaking as her vision started to blur from the pain. The pain of keeping her shields up as the Beast tried to punch his way through them, and trying to keep Xavier out of her head./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Suddenly Twenty Five was punched across the face. The girl cried out as she fell to the ground. But quickly got back up, but she wasn't in the museum anymore. There was only darkness around her, a green fog covering the ground she was standing up. She looked up to see...herself, no, not herself. "Marigold." Twenty Five said with a frown, getting into a fighting position. The girl across from her, an exact replica, held her own fists up. "I'm done letting you control my body. I am not an assassin!" Marigold shouted. "But I am! And we live in the same body. HYDRA made me, and HYDRA made this body. You are stupid to think that you will ever be able to get rid of me." Twenty Five said, before going for the attack. The two girls started fighting./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The fight started to die down, the X-men taking out Magneto's goons. Marigold fell over, knocked out by The Professor. "What's happened to her?" Cyclops asked running over to the girl as her shields went away. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I've infiltrated her mind. As we speak Marigold is fighting against Twenty Five for control./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" The Professor told everyone using his powers. Beast picked up the limp girl, while Iceman helped Jean (who was slowly waking up from being knocked out by Twenty Five) stand up. "While it is important that we get Marigold to safety our mission is not over yet. Mesmero and Magneto are both still after the relics. We need to go after them." Cyclopes said. "I'll take Marigold to the X-jet, you all go ahead. I'll catch up with you." Beast said, holding the unconscious girl gently in his arms./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As the X-men make their way to Mesmero and Magneto the two men are fighting floors above them. Magneto finds Mesmero and traps him in an elevator compartment. As he's dragged into the elevator, Mesmero loses the Spiderstone. The piece starts floating in the air and it's drawn to the other piece. Magneto follows the flying piece and watches when the two pieces meet and fit together they form a huge mystic grunts as the sudden power surge pushes him back. Magneto tries his best to keep it from leaving the museum, but the spider is barely slowed down and drags Magneto behind it. The spider bursts free from the museum and lands on some cars close to Xavier. The X-men and Magneto's crew follow the giant spider and Magneto out onto the streets. "What do we do Professor?" Beast asked, laying Marigold on the floor of the X-jet. They watched in horror for a few seconds as the spider crushed the cars it walked over as it explored the streets. "I don't care what it takes, destroy that spider!" Magneto told his crew. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We have to capture that spider and protect it./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" The Professor telepathically told the X-men. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That Spider Stone possesses answers we need./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He explained. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We're on it Professor./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Cyclopes said into the communicators, before he and the rest of the X-men went after the spider. "Go on Beast, I will watch over the girl." The Professor told Beast as he wheeled himself beside the girl laying on the ground. Beast agreed, before leaving the X-jet to join his fellow X-men. The Professor bent himself down and rested his fingertips on the girls temples, ready to help Marigold take control of her body./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Just give up already! You are the one in the way here! HYDRA never wanted you!" Twenty Five shouted as she threw another punch. Marigold dodged it and swung her leg at Twenty fives feet, knocking her over. "HYDRA took everything from me! They made you, but without my permission. My childhood was robbed from me because of you!" Marigold shouted. "Do you know how many people I've killed? Using your hands. You are not a child, you were not supposed to be. You are a mistake." Marigold was punched again in the face, falling over. "You are not loved by anyone, I am not loved by anyone. At least I have a purpose with my life, but you...you are nothing." Twenty Five said, her hands wrapping around Marigold's neck. "You think Julie loved you, she only released you from the facility because of her own guilt. She was weak just like you! It's about time I got rid of you once and for all." She said. "That is not true!" The Professor said, entering the girl's mind. "Marigold, you are loved. You do have a purpose in your life. That is for you to decide, not a corporation. Yours." He said wheeling himself through the green fog. "Get out of our head!" Twenty Five shouted, jumping to attack the Professor, but Marigold jumped up and tackled Twenty Five to the ground. "Don't you dare touch him!" Marigold shouted, punching Twenty Five across the face. Marigold kicked the girl in the gut, pinning her down to the ground. Her anger burning from the inside out. "Do whatever you like to me, but don't you ever try to hurt him or any of the X-men." She said. "I already have! Do you think they care for you? They don't! Not after what I've done to them!" Twenty five said. "That is not true Marigold. We know that you did not hurt us." The Professor said as Marigold swung her fist back to hit Twenty Five again. "Marigold, you are good. You have a heart of kindness and a gentle love. Do not let Twenty Five rob you of that." The Professor said. Marigold looked down at the assassin under her. "Let me kill her Professor. Then I will never have to worry about her again." The girl said, tears in her eyes. "You cannot kill Twenty Five, she is a part of your mind. You kill her, and you are killing yourself...and she is a killer, you are not." The Professor said in a calming tone. Marigold looked down at the assassin below her. She had tears in her eyes as Twenty Five glared at her. "You are weak." She spat. "I am not, just because I am good, does not mean I am weak...I do have a purpose, a better one than you could ever have." Marigold said. "Good Marigold, now come back to us." The Professor said, taking the girls chin and pulling her head up to look at him. "We miss you so much young one. It is time to deactivate the Winter Soldier. Come back to us...Susan." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The Professor pulled his hands away from the girl. She was still unconscious, and would be for a while. The Professor was able to use his mutant power to lift the girl into a seat and buckle her in for safety. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"X-men, where are you?/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He asked the communicator. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We've chased the spider across the river, Magneto is trying to destroy it, we're doing our best to fight him and his goons off./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Cyclopes said. The Professor frowned, not knowing what the best move was. He suddenly felt a very powerful mutant and looked outside of the X-jet window to see Mesmero running out of the museum. The man rolled out of the X-jet and caught up to the mutant. "Xavier!" Mesmero said when he spotted the Professor following him. "Mesmero. I want answers." The Professor said, holding his hand out and entering Mesmero's mind. The man groaned in pain as Xavier entered his mind, finding everything Mesmero knew about the keys and relics. "Apocalypse." the Professor said as he exited Mesmero's mind. The man was already gone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- Across the river-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The spider reaches a populated area in London and Gambit crashes into it with a double-decker bus. He climbs out and charges the bus with it still on top of the spider. Angel flies over in time to see the huge explosion. The spider is slowed just long enough for Magneto to catch up to them. The X-Men and Xavier arrive to see Magneto trying to destroy the spider. Xavier tells him to stop, but Magneto says that he has to destroy the key. Using his full power, Magneto is just barely able to destroy the spider and the Spiderstone drops to the ground. Xavier tells him that he's done exactly what Mesmero wanted him to do, that the spider wasn't a key, but actually, a guardian created to prevent Apocalypse from escaping. Mesmero manipulated Magneto the whole time knowing that he was the only one with enough power to destroy the guardian. Now with the spider gone, the second door will open. "The spider was heading directly south east of here." Angel said pointing down the now destroyed streets of London. "But where was it going?" Beast asked. "I don't know, but it is in our best interest to find out...because when Mesmero finds the third and final key, the world as we know it will change forever." the Professor explained. Magneto and his group gathered back together, while the X-men huddled together. "Where is Twenty Five?" Magneto asked in a knowing tone, turning to Xavier. "Twenty Five is gone." The Professor said with confidence. "For now, I will get my assassin back." Magneto said with a frown, before he and the others fled the scene./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Cyclopes turned to The Professor, "Is Marigold..." He asked, his heart racing. "She is asleep in the X-jet, knocked out from the deactivation of Twenty five...would you like to see her?" The Professor asked with a knowing grin. The X-men didn't even answer, running into the X-jet. Jean made it to the girl first, her hands gently brushing the girls hair out of her face as she slept. "We may have not been able to stop Magneto and his goons, but I consider this mission a success." Beast said as he stood back, watching as Cyclops and Jean coddled the sleeping girl. "Let's go home, we have much to catch everyone up on. We have Apocalypses to worry about, and Marigold's return to celebrate." The Professor said. "When will she wake up?" Iceman asked as Cyclopes unbuckled the girl from her seat, her body completely limp in his arms as he sat down in the seat, pulling the girl into his lap. If Cyclopes didn't know better he would think the girl wasn't just sleeping. "She's in a deep slumber, the reset to her mind to shut down the winter soldier wasn't natural, she did it herself inside of her mind with my help. It took a lot out of her...I don't know how long she will sleep, but she will wake up once she has recovered." The Professor said, smiling as Jean and Cyclops sat beside each other, Cyclops holding the girl in his arms while Jean held one of her hands. "She's back, she's really back with us." Jean said, tears in her eyes. "She is, and we're not letting her go again." Cyclopes said smiling down at the sleeping girl. "Let's go home team." Beast said, walking up to the front of the jet and taking off into the sky./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Xavier Institute-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At the Xavier Institute , the mutant students play a game of Mutant ball /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"(softball with powers)/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". Angel shows up and breaks up the game. He flew over all of them and landed in the middle of the softball field. Scott and Hank ran up to meet the man. "Angel? What's going on?" Scott asked. "I must see Professor Xavier immediately. It's of the most importance...it's about Magneto." He said as Hank walked up to them. "I'll let him know you are here. He is with Cerebro trying to strengthen the mental hold he has on one of our students who is under Magneto's control." Hank explained. "It's Marigold right? The young one I met at Christmas?" Angel asked. "How did you know?" Scott asked. "Because she paid me a visit to my house last night along with Magneto and a few of his pals...they took something very important from me."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Magneto's Base-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At Magneto's base, Mastermind is searching through Mesmero's mind to find answers. Magneto standing behind the two as Mastermind works. He tells Magneto that the relic is one-half of the and that when they two pieces are combined they form to release the most powerful mutant of all time. En Sabah Nur, or better known as "Apocalypse"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-Xavier Institute-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Are you sure this is the man you saw?" The Professor asked Angel as an image of Mesmero was displayed on the large computer in front of them. "It's not a face you forget Professor." Angel said looking at the image. "You were right to come here Warren. We've had dealings with Mesero before." The Professor explained. "Why would he use someone else to break in?" Angel asked. "Because, that's what he does." The Professor said as Hank typed away on the keyboard. Scott and Jean standing behind them. "He manipulates others, like he did with Jean and a handful of my students to steal these rings." A picture of three different colored rings appeared on the screen. "We've been able to determine that the rings form together to make some kind of key...and the relic that they stole from you is one half of the Spider Stone. The other half is in the London museum. When put together they complete the Spider Stone." Hank explained. "What is Mesmero trying to do with all this stuff?" Jean asked. "I don't know, but with Magneto now involved I feel it is imperative that we secure the other half of the stone before he does." The Professor said. "And the girl? Marigold, is she under the control of Mesmero too?" Angel asked, sounding confused. "No, that's a bit more complicated to explain." Scott said, sounding sad. "But if she is there with Magneto when we go to retrieve the second half of the stone, this could be a good chance for me to make another mental connection and try to get Marigold back." The Professor said with hope in his voice. "Yea, if that Mastermind guy isn't there." Jean said, remembering how the man had been able to get The Professor out of her mind the first time. "We will just have to wait and be ready for any situation, but let's suit up...we're going to London." The Professor said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-London-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In London, the X-jet arrives at the museum. Xavier, Beast, Jean, Cyclopes, and Angel are all in the jet. Xavier turned to face Scott from his seat and asks Scott to go in the back and tell their stowaway that they've arrived. "Stowaway?" Cyclops asked. Cyclops fishes Iceman out of one of the storage compartments."Have anything to say for yourself?" Cyclops asked once he finds Iceman. "Yea, that's the last time I try to hide in the back of the X-jet. I got serious cramps." Iceman said stretching from where he had curled up in the back of the jet. "Uh huh, come on. Let's go." Cyclopes said pulling the boy to his feet. He didn't sound too upset so Iceman considered it a win./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Magneto and his crew head into the museum and take care of the security. The X-men aren't too far behind them, following them into the museum. "Fan out and secure the building." Magneto tells his crew. They all split up, going to different parts of the museum to take out the security. Twenty Five knocks out the security in her part of the museum quickly, she can hear the sounds of fighting from a floor above her, and she knows that the others are having fun taking out the security in their parts of the museum. As Twenty Five is knocking out the last security guard she could find her communicator turns on. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We've got X-men here! Sabertooth needs backup on the main floor./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Pyro says. Twenty Five frowns, before jumping on top of one of her shields and flying on it to quickly make her way to the main floor. When she gets there the fighting had already started. She turned invisible before anyone could see her. She could see that Cyclopes, Jean, Iceman, Beast, and Angel were all fighting against her teammates. She stayed on top of her shield, using it to fly over the battle undetected. When Beast was about to attack Sabertooth Twenty Five put a shield around the Beast, using the shield to throw the man through one of the museum walls. The Beast groaned as he recovered from the attack. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Watch out for Marigo- Twenty Five, she's here somewhere./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He said into his communicators. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Let me see if I can sense her./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Jean said into her communicator, before resting her fingers against her temples and focusing her powers on finding Twenty Five. It was hard with all the fighting going on, but Jean was able to pinpoint the girls location. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She's right above me!/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Jean said looking up, just in time for the girl to turn visible and jump down from her shield, kicking Jean right in the head as she flew through the air. Jean cried out and was knocked out, falling to the ground as Twenty Five landed on her feet. "This is the last time that you try to take me down." Twenty Five said, forming a shield around Jean's neck. "Oh no you don't!" Iceman shouted, shooting Twenty Five's feet with his ice blast, trapping the girl. Twenty Five cried out as she felt the cold sting her feet and legs. She formed a shield around her hands and smashed them against her feet, freeing herself. She turned to attack Iceman when she felt a sudden pain roll through her head. "GAhh!" She cried out, falling to her knees. "That damned Xavier." The girl growled, knowing that he was trying to get into her head. The fighting was still going on around her, but the Beast ran through the people and went to tackle Twenty Five. The girl turned, forming a shield around herself to protect from the man's attacks. Beast hit her shield head on and Twenty Five struggled to keep the shield around herself, and keep Xavier out of her head. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Don't fight it Twenty Five. You know I will beat you./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Xavier said to her, using his mutant powers. He was sitting inside the X-jet. "Like hell, you will." Twenty Five said, her voice breaking as her vision started to blur from the pain. The pain of keeping her shields up as the Beast tried to punch his way through them, and trying to keep Xavier out of her head./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Suddenly Twenty Five was punched across the face. The girl cried out as she fell to the ground. But quickly got back up, but she wasn't in the museum anymore. There was only darkness around her, a green fog covering the ground she was standing up. She looked up to see...herself, no, not herself. "Marigold." Twenty Five said with a frown, getting into a fighting position. The girl across from her, an exact replica, held her own fists up. "I'm done letting you control my body. I am not an assassin!" Marigold shouted. "But I am! And we live in the same body. HYDRA made me, and HYDRA made this body. You are stupid to think that you will ever be able to get rid of me." Twenty Five said, before going for the attack. The two girls started fighting./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The fight started to die down, the X-men taking out Magneto's goons. Marigold fell over, knocked out by The Professor. "What's happened to her?" Cyclops asked running over to the girl as her shields went away. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I've infiltrated her mind. As we speak Marigold is fighting against Twenty Five for control./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" The Professor told everyone using his powers. Beast picked up the limp girl, while Iceman helped Jean (who was slowly waking up from being knocked out by Twenty Five) stand up. "While it is important that we get Marigold to safety our mission is not over yet. Mesmero and Magneto are both still after the relics. We need to go after them." Cyclopes said. "I'll take Marigold to the X-jet, you all go ahead. I'll catch up with you." Beast said, holding the unconscious girl gently in his arms./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As the X-men make their way to Mesmero and Magneto the two men are fighting floors above them. Magneto finds Mesmero and traps him in an elevator compartment. As he's dragged into the elevator, Mesmero loses the Spiderstone. The piece starts floating in the air and it's drawn to the other piece. Magneto follows the flying piece and watches when the two pieces meet and fit together they form a huge mystic grunts as the sudden power surge pushes him back. Magneto tries his best to keep it from leaving the museum, but the spider is barely slowed down and drags Magneto behind it. The spider bursts free from the museum and lands on some cars close to Xavier. The X-men and Magneto's crew follow the giant spider and Magneto out onto the streets. "What do we do Professor?" Beast asked, laying Marigold on the floor of the X-jet. They watched in horror for a few seconds as the spider crushed the cars it walked over as it explored the streets. "I don't care what it takes, destroy that spider!" Magneto told his crew. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We have to capture that spider and protect it./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" The Professor telepathically told the X-men. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That Spider Stone possesses answers we need./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He explained. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We're on it Professor./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Cyclopes said into the communicators, before he and the rest of the X-men went after the spider. "Go on Beast, I will watch over the girl." The Professor told Beast as he wheeled himself beside the girl laying on the ground. Beast agreed, before leaving the X-jet to join his fellow X-men. The Professor bent himself down and rested his fingertips on the girls temples, ready to help Marigold take control of her body./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Just give up already! You are the one in the way here! HYDRA never wanted you!" Twenty Five shouted as she threw another punch. Marigold dodged it and swung her leg at Twenty fives feet, knocking her over. "HYDRA took everything from me! They made you, but without my permission. My childhood was robbed from me because of you!" Marigold shouted. "Do you know how many people I've killed? Using your hands. You are not a child, you were not supposed to be. You are a mistake." Marigold was punched again in the face, falling over. "You are not loved by anyone, I am not loved by anyone. At least I have a purpose with my life, but you...you are nothing." Twenty Five said, her hands wrapping around Marigold's neck. "You think Julie loved you, she only released you from the facility because of her own guilt. She was weak just like you! It's about time I got rid of you once and for all." She said. "That is not true!" The Professor said, entering the girl's mind. "Marigold, you are loved. You do have a purpose in your life. That is for you to decide, not a corporation. Yours." He said wheeling himself through the green fog. "Get out of our head!" Twenty Five shouted, jumping to attack the Professor, but Marigold jumped up and tackled Twenty Five to the ground. "Don't you dare touch him!" Marigold shouted, punching Twenty Five across the face. Marigold kicked the girl in the gut, pinning her down to the ground. Her anger burning from the inside out. "Do whatever you like to me, but don't you ever try to hurt him or any of the X-men." She said. "I already have! Do you think they care for you? They don't! Not after what I've done to them!" Twenty five said. "That is not true Marigold. We know that you did not hurt us." The Professor said as Marigold swung her fist back to hit Twenty Five again. "Marigold, you are good. You have a heart of kindness and a gentle love. Do not let Twenty Five rob you of that." The Professor said. Marigold looked down at the assassin under her. "Let me kill her Professor. Then I will never have to worry about her again." The girl said, tears in her eyes. "You cannot kill Twenty Five, she is a part of your mind. You kill her, and you are killing yourself...and she is a killer, you are not." The Professor said in a calming tone. Marigold looked down at the assassin below her. She had tears in her eyes as Twenty Five glared at her. "You are weak." She spat. "I am not, just because I am good, does not mean I am weak...I do have a purpose, a better one than you could ever have." Marigold said. "Good Marigold, now come back to us." The Professor said, taking the girls chin and pulling her head up to look at him. "We miss you so much young one. It is time to deactivate the Winter Soldier. Come back to us...Susan." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The Professor pulled his hands away from the girl. She was still unconscious, and would be for a while. The Professor was able to use his mutant power to lift the girl into a seat and buckle her in for safety. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"X-men, where are you?/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" He asked the communicator. "/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We've chased the spider across the river, Magneto is trying to destroy it, we're doing our best to fight him and his goons off./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" Cyclopes said. The Professor frowned, not knowing what the best move was. He suddenly felt a very powerful mutant and looked outside of the X-jet window to see Mesmero running out of the museum. The man rolled out of the X-jet and caught up to the mutant. "Xavier!" Mesmero said when he spotted the Professor following him. "Mesmero. I want answers." The Professor said, holding his hand out and entering Mesmero's mind. The man groaned in pain as Xavier entered his mind, finding everything Mesmero knew about the keys and relics. "Apocalypse." the Professor said as he exited Mesmero's mind. The man was already gone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- Across the river-/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The spider reaches a populated area in London and Gambit crashes into it with a double-decker bus. He climbs out and charges the bus with it still on top of the spider. Angel flies over in time to see the huge explosion. The spider is slowed just long enough for Magneto to catch up to them. The X-Men and Xavier arrive to see Magneto trying to destroy the spider. Xavier tells him to stop, but Magneto says that he has to destroy the key. Using his full power, Magneto is just barely able to destroy the spider and the Spiderstone drops to the ground. Xavier tells him that he's done exactly what Mesmero wanted him to do, that the spider wasn't a key, but actually, a guardian created to prevent Apocalypse from escaping. Mesmero manipulated Magneto the whole time knowing that he was the only one with enough power to destroy the guardian. Now with the spider gone, the second door will open. "The spider was heading directly south east of here." Angel said pointing down the now destroyed streets of London. "But where was it going?" Beast asked. "I don't know, but it is in our best interest to find out...because when Mesmero finds the third and final key, the world as we know it will change forever." the Professor explained. Magneto and his group gathered back together, while the X-men huddled together. "Where is Twenty Five?" Magneto asked in a knowing tone, turning to Xavier. "Twenty Five is gone." The Professor said with confidence. "For now, I will get my assassin back." Magneto said with a frown, before he and the others fled the scene./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Cyclopes turned to The Professor, "Is Marigold..." He asked, his heart racing. "She is asleep in the X-jet, knocked out from the deactivation of Twenty five...would you like to see her?" The Professor asked with a knowing grin. The X-men didn't even answer, running into the X-jet. Jean made it to the girl first, her hands gently brushing the girls hair out of her face as she slept. "We may have not been able to stop Magneto and his goons, but I consider this mission a success." Beast said as he stood back, watching as Cyclops and Jean coddled the sleeping girl. "Let's go home, we have much to catch everyone up on. We have Apocalypses to worry about, and Marigold's return to celebrate." The Professor said. "When will she wake up?" Iceman asked as Cyclopes unbuckled the girl from her seat, her body completely limp in his arms as he sat down in the seat, pulling the girl into his lap. If Cyclopes didn't know better he would think the girl wasn't just sleeping. "She's in a deep slumber, the reset to her mind to shut down the winter soldier wasn't natural, she did it herself inside of her mind with my help. It took a lot out of her...I don't know how long she will sleep, but she will wake up once she has recovered." The Professor said, smiling as Jean and Cyclops sat beside each other, Cyclops holding the girl in his arms while Jean held one of her hands. "She's back, she's really back with us." Jean said, tears in her eyes. "She is, and we're not letting her go again." Cyclopes said smiling down at the sleeping girl. "Let's go home team." Beast said, walking up to the front of the jet and taking off into the sky./span/p