Chapter 7: Answers

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Chapter Seven: Answers

Kyle shoved the Alpha folder into his backpack and whirled around to see the old man with the glasses from his dream. The same man who called him "Kadrien." The same man who was his biological father-

Kyle clenched his fists, and tore a page from the Alpha folder that had a photo of him submerged into a blue water with tubes drilled into him.

"What did you do to me?" Kyle demanded shoving the photo into Mr Stryker's face.

"What you wanted me to do." Stryker answered. "Son." He added.

"You're not my father!" Kyle shouted. "I don't even look anything like you. You're white. I'm black."

"Looks do not determine if two are related." Stryker answered.

"I don't care."

"You're looking for answers," Stryker continued. "Just like Wolverine. But he is too stubborn, and that's why he's been like that for decades. He has no memories, and the same for you. But I can help bring your memories back. I can answer the questions from your past."

"Why should I trust you?" Kyle asked. "You think I don't get flashbacks of my past? You locked me up. You tortured me."

"There's a big story behind all of that. But I can explain." Stryker responded.

"You can explain, huh?" Kyle asked. "Then explain this!" Kyle's claws unsheathed.

"You wanted those blades inside yourself." Stryker answered.

"Why would I want these in me?"

"Jealously."

"Of who? Logan?"

"Not quite." Stryker answered. Stryker held a vial in his hand. Suddenly, Kyle recognized it

"The Killer Scent." Kyle gasped. "You can't."

"Yes I can." Stryker said, approaching Kyle. Kyle remembered that if he inhaled the red gas, he would go berserk and go on a killing rampage. They used that to make him kill so many-

"Follow me, or you get the gas." Stryker said.

Logan had wandered away from Jean, Magento, and Mystique as he found a large room with a machine in the center. A tub filled with a blue-grayish liquid caught his attention. The water was turning bad from sitting there for years. Logan remember this was where Stryker coated his body with-

Adamantium. A container that made a bubbling sound was heard and Logan saw a very hot liquid adamantium in it.

"You know what to do." Said a voice. Logan whirled around to see William Stryker there with a woman named Lady Deathstrike, who was Stryker's assistant. Then he saw Kyle with them. Kyle's eyes were dark red, and he realized that Stryker was mind-controlling him.

"What did you do to him?" Logan demanded. Stryker didn't answer. Lady Deathstrike's hands made cracking sounds as long blades, longer than Kyle's and Logan's, emerged from her fingertips.

Slash!

She raised one fingertip that slashed Logan's cheek. Logan instantly fought back, but Lady Deathstrike's claws were so long it was almost impossible to get five feet closer to her with getting stabbed by her adamantium fingernails.

"Kill him." Stryker said to Kadrien. Kadrien nodded and approached the two. Kyle's claws unsheathed as he charged at Logan and Deathstrike. However, he plunged his claws into the back of the lady instead of Logan.

"Huh. Thanks kid." Logan said, standing back up. Kyle yanked his claws out of her and attacked Logan. Deathstrike's wounds healed, but she hesitated before attacking Logan.

"Oh dear." Stryker murmured. The Killer Scent made Kyle go crazy, as he turned his claws on Logan, and then on Lady Deathstrike. Stryker retreated down the tunnel, and pulled out a device that controlled Kyle.

"He should be responding. Oh, well, it doesn't matter." Stryker said. He dropped the device on the ground and crushed it under his foot.

Lady Deathstrike slashed at Logan, but her claws missed and hit a cluster of power cables. She yelped as Kyle slashed at her back, and she dodged his next hit and stabbed him.

"No!" Logan cried. Kyle's wounds instantly healed and he made a blow at Deathstrike and charged at Logan. Lady Deathstrike tripped Kyle and spin kicked Logan, knocking him against the water tank. The blue fluid spilled all over him. Thinking fast, Logan waited for Deathstrike to approach him. She leapt onto the platform above the water tank. Logan plunges the torn cables into the water, traveling to the metal platform, electrifying Deathstrike. Logan steps back but Kyle stabs him.

"AAGH!" Logan grunted. Kyle sent another blow, and Logn dodged.

"I don't want to hurt you, kid." Logan said.

"Raaaaah!" Kyle shouted like a savage beast. Kyle charged, and Logan electrified Kyle with the electric cable, stunning him.

Logan stands up just as Deathstrike attacks him again. She launches him into the air and on top of a gridded platform. Under the platform, She hung under it, stabbing Logan with her fingers.

"Aaaah!" Logan cried. He cut the chains holding the platform and the platform dropped, with Deathstrike under it, and into the blue tank. She was submerged under the water, not moving. Coughing, Logan rolled over, recovering from his wounds. Suddenly Deathstrike leapt from the water plunging her fingernails into his back.

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Logan cried. He looked forward to seeing three pipes that could release the adamantium liquid. He tried to reach forward, but Deathstrike stuck her claws deeper into him. Logan grunted and then grabbed the metal pipe, and plunged it into her stomach.

"Ah." was a single cry from her. Logan crawled back as the liquid adamantium filled the insides of Deathstrike's body, suffocating her, and then spilling out of her mouth, nose and eyes. She fell back into the blue liquid. Logan looked away in disgust before rolling over to see Kyle getting back up.

"Alright, Kyle." Logan said, unsheathing his claws. "Don't you remember me? It's me Logan!" Kyle screamed and threw himself at Logan, launching him at the wall. Logan groaned in pain and cut a platform off the ceiling, and whirled around and hit Kyle square in the face. Kyle fell to the ground. As his healing factor kicked in, Kyle leapt up and stabbed Logan in the stomach while Logan stabbed Kyle in the stomach. They struggled to overpower each other. Logan was stronger, and pushed Kyle off of him.

Meanwhile, Bobby, Rogue and Kitty stayed in the X-Jet.

Rogue eyed the control panel.

"Rogue?" Bobby questioned.

"You're leaving too?" Kitty asked.

"No. You know, John's right. It might be too dangerous, but we can't just keep sitting here. They might need our help!"

"We can't help them in any way." Kitty pointed out.

"You can walk through walls." Bobby retorted. Rogue walked over to the control panel. "Do you even know how to fly it?" Bobby continued.

"No." Rogue answered. She sat in the pilot seat. Kitty beat Bobby to the co-pilot seat, phasing through him and through the chair. Defeated, Bobby stood behind them with his arms crossed, feeling like he had to do something important before sighing and sitting down in the chairs behind them.

Professor X had been captured by William Stryker earlier. Stryker built a mini-Cerebro and used his other son, Jason Stryker, who was a mutant telepath to use his mind to persuade Charles to use Cerebro to kill all the mutants with Professor X's telepathic abilities which were enhanced with Cerebro.

"Cerebro." Jean gasped. She had just freed Cyclops from mind-control, but her leg got hurt in the process, and she walked with a limp. Scott helped her.

"What do you mean?" Scott asked.

"We're too late." Jean whispered. They both fell to the ground in pain as they felt like their heads were going to explode.

Storm and Nightcrawler had found where Stryker was keeping the children from the X-Mansion that got kidnapped. As they freed the mutants, including Jubilee, they all, including the children, felt the pain.

"AH!" Kitty, Rogue, and Bobby all fell to the ground groping their heads in pain. John, who had almost reached the facility, also felt the pain, as he fell into the snow.

At the X-Mansion, Colossus and the surviving mutants who escaped the attack, were cleaning up the wrecked mansion when they all felt the pain. Theresa started screaming again, and the newly repaired windows shattered again.

Logan couldn't believe it. He was losing. Kyle had cornered him to a wall, constantly attacking him. Suddenly they both felt the pain as they fell to the ground. Kyle started convulsing as his red eyes started to fade.

Magneto and Mystique entered the room outside of Cerebro, and Magneto swept away the guards, and put on his helmet just in time before Charles' mental attack. However, Mystique had no telepathy-protecting helmet and fell to the ground in pain.

"Erik, hurry!" Mystique shouted as she started to shapeshift into random people, losing control of her powers. Magento ripped open the door, and used his metal manipulating powers to rearrange the panels in Stryker's Cerebro room, disrupting Charles' mental attack. Mystique shapeshifted into Willaim Stryker, and Jason thought it was his father. Mystique told Jason to tell Charles to kill all the humans instead!

"Goodbye, Charles," Magneto said before hastening away with Mystique. The alarms started to blare as the spillway opened outside of the facility.

"Agh." Logan muttered as the pain faded. Kyle opened his eyes, groaning. He started to sit up, taking in his surroundings when Logan unsheathed his claws, bracing himself.

"Stop!" Kyle said. "It's me. What did I do?" Logan sheathed his claws, helping Kyle up.

"You beat the hell out of me. And her." Logan nodded towards Lady Deathstrike who was in the blue tank.

"Did I do that?" Kyle asked, wondering if he had killed her.

"No I did." Logan answered. We have to speak to a certain guy right now."

Willaim Stryker hurried outside in the snow to where he had a helicopter there. Then he heard a sound "snikt" and whirled around to see Kyle and Logan with their claws out. Stryker pulled out a pistol, but Logan cut it in half and Kyle kicked Stryker against the helicopter. Logan pinned Stryker to the helicopter.

"Now you were going to tell me something," Logan started to say.

Boom! The ground shook with an explosion in the distance.

The ground rocket with two more explosions.

"What did you do?" Logan demanded. Icy water began to come from the broken dam, blocking the way the X-men had originally come from. Stryker's face twitched with a smile. Logan and Kyle glared at him. Logan grabbed a chain from the helicopter and tied Stryker in it against the wall of the facility. Stryker had opened the dam, and the base would be flooded, which would kill them along with the X-men and the children inside the base.

"Don't move. We're not finished." Logan grunted. "Kyle, stay here." Logan took off into the tunnel to help the X-men find a way out. Stryker smirked at Kyle.

"What are you looking at?" Kyle demanded, crossing his arms. "You're probably not going to survive anyways."

"You wouldn't kill me would you?" Stryker smirked. "I'm your only person who can give you answers."

"I don't need answers. Not from you." Kyle retorted. "You could lie about my past anyways."

"Would I lie?"

"Of course. Besides, sometimes, the mind needs to discover things for itself." Kyle smirked.

Stryker's smile faded. "You sound like Xavier." Stryker suddenly cried out in pain as he got a mental attack.

Kyle panicked. "What's going on? You're not in pain!"

Storm and Nightcrawler and Scott and Jean got outside of the Cerebro room.

"What is this?" Kurt asked.

"Cerebro." Storm answered. "Jean, I thought you and Magento stopped it."

"He did, but…" Jean trailed off. Jean closed her eyes and put a hand on the door to Cerebro and searched for Xavier telepathically.

Logan burst from the corner. "We have to get out of here now! There's a tunnel that goes under the spillway. Stryker has a helicopter there."

"No." Jean gasped. "Magento's reversed Cerebro. It's not targeting mutants anymore."

"So who is it targeting now?" Logan asked.

"Everyone else. The Professor's inside. He's being...manipulated… by a mutant."

BOOM! The ceiling shook with a rumble.

"Everybody stand back," Scott said, his visor started to glow red.

"Scott, no. His mind is connected to Cerebro." Jean replied, stopping him. "Opening the door could kill him and everyone his mind is linked to."

"Wait, Kurt," Storm said, grabbing Nightcrawler's arm. "I need you to take me inside."

"Storm, who's this guy?" Scott demanded. "Who are you?"

"My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich circus-"

"He's a teleporter." Storm interrupted.

"I told you, if I can't see where I'm going-" Kurt started to say.

"I have faith in you," Storm answered. "Don't believe anything you see in there."

Kurt hesitated, before grabbing her hand, getting ready to teleport.

"Our father, who art in heaven," Kurt prayed, reciting a bible verse. "Hallowed be thy name,"

Jean nodded to Storm.

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,"

BAMF!

We are almost at the end of this story. Surprisingly, This story didn't have that many chapter, probably since I make them 2,000 words or more. (I love to type!) Here's your teasers:

"I've got my eyes on you,"

"NO WE'RE NOT LEAVING! LOWER THE RAMP!"

"This is the only way,"