Walking into the medical lab, I saw a women with red hair was looking over Illyana. "How is she?" I asked, walking over to the other side of the bed.
She looked up at me and smiled. "A new X-Men, eh? Where does Charles fin' such splendid fowk? What kin ah do for ye, lass?" She said, with me blinking at her accent.
"You're Scottish?" I asked, with her nodding. "That's cool, but as for a new X-Men, I'm sorry to say this but I'm not actually new. I was there in the beginning, but then some things happened and I died." I informed, with her snapping her fingers at me.
"Ye wur that one kid who defeated Apocalypse!" She said, with me nodding. "It's a pleasure tae meet you, when ah met th' X-Men 'n' learned about what happened, ah bought Rogue's book on ye, sad life." She said, with me sighing as she said that.
"Yeah, sad life." I said, with me looking back up at her. "Names Dakota Feichko, Incubus!" I said, extending my hand out to her.
"Doctor Moira MacTaggert, pleasure tae meet you!" She said, with me taking note that she had already said that part. "As fur yer question, ah honestly don't know. Her body is shutting down fur na apparent reason. Perhaps it has something tae do with her X-Gene?" She thought out loud, with me frowning at that bit of information.
"Are you a mutant?" I asked, curious on who she is.
"No... but mah son, Kevin, was. The poor lad." She said, with me frowning at her words.
"I'm sorry for your loss." I said, knowing how painful death could be. "What happened?" I asked, looking Illyana over, with me frowning as there was nothing that I could do to help her.
"Ah believe in his case, his mutation truly was a curse, lik' how ye refered tae yers as a curse. It drove him tae madness. He escaped th' Research Center 'n' went on a killing spree... Th' X-Men hud na choice bit tae destroy him." She said, with me feeling sorry for the kid.
"How did you get involved with the X-Men?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Charles 'n' ah were very good friends back in college." She said, with me getting an image of her and Charles kissing in my head.
"Lovers?" I questioned, with her nodding.
"Yes, but it was so long ago." She said, with me nodding. "Go ahead 'n' explore th' place, tis yer first time 'ere after all." She said, with me nodding as I turned around and walked away to do just that.
Walking down the hall, I stopped once I saw someone floating in a container of something green, with me raising an eyebrow at this. Walking over to it, I saw them float in front of the glass, with him pointing down. Looking down, I saw that it was an intercom, with me pressing the button. "Hey! Dakota! I thought you were dead!?" He said, with me knowing him from somewhere.
"Jamie?" I asked, with him nodding. "Dude, you've been here?" I asked, with him nodding. "Why are you floating in this vat?" I asked, looking around and trying to figure out the best thing to call this tube.
"This is a liptide bath. I'm soaking in it to regain my strength after battling The Brotherhood. Guess I kind of overextended myself and lost control of my clones." He said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Still having control problems, I thought you would of found a way to control it?" I asked, a bit disappointed in him.
"Hey, everyone loses control every once in a while! We're mutants, not machines. There's no cut off switch that automatically gets thrown when we go past our limit." He said, crossing his arms.
"You mentioned the Brotherhood, what happened?" I asked, not wanting to forget what happened.
"The Brotherhood attacked us, I had some help from Forge and Moira. They did a lot of damage to the facility; forge is still trying to sort things out." He informed, with me nodding.
"Well, I hope you get better soon, it was nice seeing you again." I said, with him waving me off.
"You too, its been ages since I last seen you!" He said, with me waving him off as I walked out of the room.
Walking into the room with the big glowing globe, which I was calling the war room as it was bigger than the one at the mansion, I was stopped by Colossus as he walked up to me. "My friend, I would like to thank you for helping my sister, it is much appreciated." He said, making me smile.
"Its no problem, she's one of us, and that makes her family." I said, patting him on the shoulder as I walked past him. "Take care, both of you." I said, making my way down stairs. Once down stairs, I made my way over to the other set of stairs and over to the door, with me stopping once I heard Scott speak up.
"I know it was you, Alex. What have you gotten yourself into?" He said, making me frown as I remembered Scotts brother, having met just once.
"Look, all I ask is that you meet me." Alex asked, with me standing at the doorway, not entering as his back was towards me.
"You couldn't have picked a worse time." Scott said with a sigh.
"Scott, you really have to see this for yourself... then you'll understand." He said, with me crossing my arms as this should be good.
"I don't know, I need to-"
"Hope to see you there, Scott. I've gotta go. Bye." Alex said, interrupting Scott before he could finish.
"Bye, Alex." Scott said, with him turning around to face me.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, I was just exploring and didn't want to intrude." I said, looking away from him at around the room.
"Its fine." He said, not happy in the slightest.
"I'll just... go explore somewhere else." I said, turning around and walking down stairs.
Making my way across the room, I entered a lab, with me seeing Forge on one of the computers, but he had cybernetics all over his body now. "Computer, shut down the power grids in the third, fourth and eighth sectors." Forge said as I walked over to him, with me knowing that those were the places that were attacked.
"Invalid command."
"I made you! I can break you! You chunk of-"
"Excuse me, Forge?" I called out, stopping his rampage before it could begin.
"Oh, hi, Dakota. What can I do for you?" He asked as he turned to face me.
"Are you having trouble with your computer?" I asked, smirking at him, making him sigh.
"Ever since the Brotherhood stormed through here the mainframes been acting flaky. Its constantly turning systems on and off and it wont take any of my commands... Say... Could I ask a big favor of you?" He asked, with me raising an eyebrow at him now.
"Like what?" I asked, not wanting to get myself killed with an impossible task.
"Would you mind manually rebooting the institutes super computer? I need it to program the life support system I built for Illyana." He said, with me nodding as I would.
"No problem, what do I do?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"Go to the primary core. Once you're there, contact me over the radio and I'll walk you through the steps to rebooting the computer." He said, with me nodding as that was easy enough.
"Ok, I'll head there now!" I said, with me turning around and making my way there.
Later
"Ok, Forge, I found the primary core. What should I do now?" I asked, looking down at the large tube under me.
"Wait a second, Dakota. I just found out I cant shut down the computer defense systems. They'll attack anything that moves in there. Maybe I should get one of the other X-Men to handle this." He said, with me frowning at that.
"No time. Illyana will die without your help, and you cant help her until this computer is working." I said, looking back at where I came from.
"I have to agree, Dakota. Time is running out. Be safe!" He said, with me nodding as I started running forward. "Move into the room and I'll talk you through the steps to rebooting the computer!" Forge said as I stepped through the doors. "First, you'll need to raise the bridge to get to the Primary Controls. There should be a control panel near the bridge." He said, with me seeing a bunch of bots appearing to fight me, with me rolling my eyes at this.
"Decay, play distraction!" I said, throwing my hand out and watching as Decay flew at the bots and started taking them out. Running along the railing, I made my way over to the only computer and pressed enter, but it didn't move. Looking at it, I frowned. 'I'll have to clear it off first.' I thought, cracking my neck as this was going to be fun.
Walking over to the broken glass, I slashed at it with my claws, making a clear path for me. Jumping down, I stabbed a bot in the head and rolled forward, where I then gathered light in my hand and blasted the one in front of me, taking it down as well. Seeing another one coming at me, I blocked its kick and pushed it back. Standing up, I coated my hands in fire and through them out, igniting it. Cutting down the flames, I watched it fall back, powered down.
Running over to the computer, I entered the password that Forge had given me, with the bridge slowly rising. Running over to it, I jumped on. Watching as Decay took out the bots in the next room, I held my hand out and Decay flew straight to me, entering my shadow once more.
Walking up to the main computer once the bridge had stopped, I started it up, but nothing happened. "Forge, this panel isn't doing anything." I said as I looked back at where I had came from.
"Ok... From my monitor, it looks like the core is out of alignment." He said, making me groan at that bit. "There are two core control stations. Find them and access the core. They should automatically align." He said, with me nodding as it was now time to leave, seeing the group of bots heading my way.
"Decay!" I said, throwing my hand out once more, sending all of them flying off the bridge. Running forward, I caught Decay and ran through the doors that opened for me. Jumping off the railing, I ran over to the right and over to the Alignment console and activated it. Looking at the far side, I saw the other one and rushed over to it as well. Once there, I heard the bots coming and powered it on.
"That's more like it. The core is in alignment. Now head back to the Primary Controls and access them." He said, with me entering my Decay form and flying up, where I flew towards the computer I was just at not long ago.
Reaching it, I sent Decay off to fight while I took care of everything. "How's that?" I asked, looking behind me and seeing Decay flying around the room as the bots were powered down.
"It worked! The computer is back on line." He said, with me walking towards the exit and grabbing Decay.
"And Illyana?" I asked, pushing a bot off the bridge for the fun of it.
"I'm already on the main computer to help her. Thanks, Dakota. You probably just saved her life." He said, with me nodding as I still felt that this was something Doctor Strange would be able to take care of with ease.