X-Men Belonging Chapter 7: Episode 7, a x-men fanfic

EPISODE 7:

The camera falls over the Egyptian pyramids. We can see that there are canopies and tents being put up around one particular pyramid; Khufu. We zoom in on T'Challa who seems to be barking orders.

We split screen to see two shadows/silhouettes having sex at very early hours of the morning. Remy finishes and falls behind Sooraya. The shadows reveal her eyes and parts of her face and body, but we never see her fully. She nestles her rear into Remy's groin and he kisses her shoulder.

"Will you stay in bed this time?"

Sooraya smiles: "Maybe."

Remy: "Something's bothering you, I know it. And you didn't get answers from your God when you prayed."

Sooraya: "There is only one Allah."

Remy: "Yeah, so what's bothering you?"

Sooraya turns a little at first and eventually turns fully onto her back so that she can see Remy on his side. "The wedding of Ororo. Isn't it a big risk, to have everyone go there?"

Remy: "What do you mean?"

Sooraya: "It's an event. I don't mean to speak out of turn, but with En Sabah Nur right under the venue, aren't we putting every attendee at the wedding in jeopardy?"

Remy runs his hand along Sooraya's tummy and then boob. He smiles: "See, that's where you will see how certain things get done when it comes to those of us with powers."

Sooraya plays with Remy's hair: "I don't understand."

Remy: "Your concern would be fine for a normal wedding and a normal perceivable target. But that's the whole point. Quicksilver and Mystique will see that wedding crowd and they would be stupid to enter because they know just by who's wedding it is that they would be ridiculously outnumbered. It's better, to be prepared as a whole group rather than have the X-Men try to prevent En Sabah Nur's resurrection on our own."

Sooraya: "But Black Panther's suggestion that the festivities and events are all there, won't they ruin the wedding? I mean if he and Ororo are always looking over their shoulders?"

Remy: "Maybe. But they know that they have us on their side and Emma and Scott aren't stupid either. I'm sure they will have others there that are in-the-know about what's going on and what could happen. In fact more people are likely to turn up if there is a fight involved. Especially for mutants. You of all people know how tough it is hiding out and all."

We split screen into the point of view of a man swinging from building to building. He shoots webs and moves majestically, eventually reaching the fire-escape of his apartment. He slides open the window and climbs in, being incredibly quiet as we can see his beau laying in bed. He removes his outfit all the while looking toward Mary-Jane. He goes to his bedside table and picks up a framed photo of him and MJ. He closes his eyes as we hear Wanda's words; "No more mutants" and we see somewhat of a rewind that shows Peter in the alternate reality that Wanda had created. He was with Gwen Stacey then. He was happy.

His eyes open as Mary-Jane mumbles: "Pete? Are you home safe?"

Peter: "I'm safe Mary-Jane. I'm here. Go back to sleep."

Peter puts the frame back on the beside table, but faced down. On the table is an invitation to Black Panther and Storm's wedding.

We split screen to Los Angeles where Tony Stark is standing central in his apartment. A wine glass in hand, he's playing Charades with his friends. Happy is there, as is Bruce Banner and Warren Worthington.

Stark: "C'mon, what's wrong with you? You're usually great at this game. You know what, you're slacking and I don't like that look you just gave me."

Bruce: "Oh c'mon Tony, give him a break."

Happy, strained: "Errrr Donald Trump?"

Stark looks at him as if he's a mad man: "Trump? You think I'm doing Trump? As if that piece of shit could ever be allowed into my headspace. You know what, you're fired for that."

Bruce: "Tony."

Stark: "No I'm serious. Tolerance is necessary, but ignorance is not bliss aren't I right Angel? Angel?"

Bruce: "It freaks me out that you call him that."

Stark: "He is an angel. Happy, don't go, you're not fired. Suspended without pay until morning when I'll need you to clear all this up." Stark turns to Warren: "Hello? Anybody home?"

Warren: "Yeah sorry."

Stark: "C'mon buddy, us billionaires have to stick together."

Warren: "Sure. Sorry. I was thinking about that invite."

Stark: "Invite, what invite?"

Bruce: "Panther's wedding Tony, we all got one."

Stark: "Ah, right. Sounds alright. Giza right?"

Warren: "Yeah, but that's not all that's going on there. It could turn into a war zone."

Bruce: "It can't do. Quicksilver and Mystique? I'm no Iron Man, but I'll stand by the door and those two won't get in."

Stark: "I like it, my confidence is rubbing off on you."

Warren: "No, that's not my point. The world will be there and so will the media and therefore enemies of Black Panther and of Storm will know where they are, and they'll know that all their friends are there too."

Stark: "That's why we're in on the whole Apocalypse thing. We'll all be ready."

Bruce: "But Tony, I think the point is; what if my enemies show up, and yours and Warren's and Beast's and Storm's and so on."

Stark: "Beast doesn't have enemies, I don't believe it."

Warren: "But you see my point. Not to mention, if the wrong people catch wind of this wedding, which they will, that whole event becomes a target because in theory we could all get wiped out at once."

Broad daylight in Poland, a government agent knocks on a door and asks if the person or anyone in their family had seen Erik Lehnsherr. The agent says that Mr. Lehnsherr has important information awaiting him; concerning his daughter. The person at the door again declines and eventually closes the door. The government agent walks across the road and around a corner, morphing back into Mystique. She stabs at the wall with the outside of her fist as she approaches Pietro.

"Damn it!"

Pietro: "No luck huh?"

Raven: "No such fuckin' joy. I'm of a mind to break out Juggernaut and have him ramsack this entire town. I'm beginning to think that Amish little twerp has put us in the wrong place."

Pietro laughs: "Gateway's not Amish! Far from it."

Raven: "Why are you in such a good mood?"

Pietro: "Because, Mystique, I have a plan C."

Beast is in the cockpit of the Blackbird. He's mid-conversation, apparently teaching Dust, who's beside him, about what all the buttons are for. The camera moves past them and toward the main passenger seating of the plane.

Logan: "Hey Beast can we hurry up? Man's gotta pee here."

Remy: "We all went before leaving homme. You should have too."

Logan: "That was two hours ago. How was I supposed to predict my piss-cycle huh?"

Scott: "It's not so far now. Relax. Why don't you nap or something?"

Logan: "Yeah whatever."

Remy tries to change subject: "Genosha still as bad as I remember homme?"

Scott: "Probably worse by now. I don't know what we'll find there. The whole place could be deserted for all we know."

Logan: "I still don't know why we couldn't have split up. Frost said there were six known addresses for Magneto. The faster we spread across all of them the better."

Scott: "Counter productive unless we got lucky with your nose though Logan. You'll get a scent of Erik no matter where we go, but the stronger the scent is, the more trouble could be waiting. We're a team. We'll do this together. It may take a little longer, but that's where the wedding comes in. We've bought ourselves time. We've done well, having been to Pietro's last known home already. Genosha is third on our list. I hope we're getting closer."

Back at the X-Mansion Emma is in her kitchen talking via live communications video link to Ororo.

Emma: "The wedding date has been broadcast?"

Ororo: "Yes. Everybody knows. Even if Pietro and Raven haven't caught hold of it, they'll be in for a shock if they touch down in Egypt. T'Challa says everything is going smoothly."

Emma: "And you got all the addresses of mutants I scanned for you?"

Ororo: "I did. They're all invited. I'm hoping to see some friendly faces. Do you think they'll all come?"

Emma: "If it was all about you Storm I think they would. But I worry. With the caveat that there may be a resurrection of Apocalypse, it may be a case that a handful of mutants don't show up. They're leading normal lives now. The last thing they want is a fight for that life."

We cut to where Ororo is, outside an academic institute in London, England: "Kitty's here. I'll talk to you soon. Let me know how they're doing in Genosha."

Emma: "Sure. Bye."

Kitty walks up to Ororo and she confirms that she has organised time off work. She says it wasn't easy doing it on such short notice, but "I promised'm I'd figure out a new method of getting students to figure out for themselves how they can better their literature and creativity."

The two walk and talk, with Kitty eyeballing Ororo's muscle across the street.

Kitty: "You're doing great you know. The outfit makes you look like a mature student here."

Ororo: "Excuse me? How 'mature?'"

Kitty: "Sorry, I didn't mean anything bad. I meant that your guards are keeping themselves at a distance. It makes you look normal to everyone here."

Ororo: "This seems like a busy place."

Kitty: "It is. Everyone's in a world of their own. They're thinking about something, doing something, on their way somewhere or they're simply hungover from a rough night before. Either which way, they mind their own business."

Ororo: "Well, the tour has been nice. But we must get going."

Kitty: "Of course. My office isn't far. I just need to get my credentials."

Ororo: "Your passport and identification? You need it?"

Kitty: "You never know."

Ororo: "You keep it in the school? Not at home?"

Kitty: "The school has security, home doesn't. And by security I mean incredibly thick walls with slight gaps in between where I can easily hide and store my documents. I know I don't need that stuff with you, but if I do consider going back to America I'd rather make it a clean break from here. Saves me coming back again."

We see a woman in red. Her attire torn and tears streaming from her eyes. "Help! Help me daddy." She's in the middle of the Polish village. The camera is over the shoulder of Quicksilver who watches from above a church rooftop. "Help! Daddy? Daddy?"

People come out from their homes and some go close, but not overly close. Polish speech has them nattering proclaiming the name Wanda. We follow the slow footsteps of an older man who walks through the crowd. He slightly speeds up and then stops in his tracks as he sees who he thinks is his daughter.

"Wanda?"

'Wanda' makes eye contact with him and within seconds of a silver flash Mystique, Quicksilver and Erik are locked inside the church. Erik seems dizzy from the rush, but then his vision clears. He whispers "Wanda?" but then sees Raven and Pietro.

Over in Giza, T'Challa is approached by guards who introduce to him;

T'Challa: "Reed Richards" he says with a big smile, opening his arms.

Reed: "T'Challa my friend. My God, it's so good to see you."

T'Challa: "Yes, and you. I am so happy that you are here."

T'Challa waves the guards off and begins walking and talking with Reed. First he asks him whether his guards had gotten him settled.

Reed: "Are you kidding? You've built accommodation here. And I must say, thank you for such a fine view, Susan will be thrilled."

T'Challa: "I was wondering where the rest of the party were?"

Reed: "They'll come. Susan is on business and with the wedding day still weeks away I had a feeling you wanted us here early for a reason. Specifically me?"

T'Challa smiles: "Reed you know me too well."

Reed: "I knew it. Bachelor party right? I'm your best man?"

T'Challa: "Actually Reed, no. No party. The wedding itself will be a cultural masterpiece. We do not do bachelor things where I'm from."

Reed: "But I am your best man?"

T'Challa: "It was close, but yes."

Reed: "Close? Over who? Steve, St'-Steve Rogers? I beat Captain America?"

T'Challa: "Yes."

Reed: "I, I beat Captain America. Well what do you know, Mister Fantastic beats Captain America. Wow. I think I need to put that on a mug or something."

T'Challa: "Reed, my friend, can we please focus? My reason for asking you here early is for some help with your fantastic mind."

Reed: "Alright, this sounds serious. Sorry. A long flight and all this merriment has me a little excited."

T'Challa: "It's alright. You know from the invitation what the possibilities are of something disastrous happening here. But I wanted to ask if you could help me develop a fail-safe." By now they had walked into a private hut, T'Challa's, but disguised as one of many. T'Challa hands Reed a cold drink.

Reed: "This is very serious."

T'Challa: "No one knows what will happen here for sure. Nothing is for sure, other than the wedding. But if En Sabr Nur is woken, I want there to be a way where we can contain him."

Reed: "Contain? A mutant with that kind of power? That's a lot to consider T'Challa."

T'Challa: "But think. You know the dome over Wakanda?"

Reed nods.

T'Challa: "What if we could recreate it here?"

Reed ponders.

T'Challa: "I know it takes a lot of vibranium to power and operate the dome. But if there is a way, I trust you could find it. It doesn't have to be as strong, but it must be valid enough so that we can keep him here and in the meantime the rest of the world is safe."

Reed: "Not as strong? T'Challa it may have to be even stronger. Mutants are natural entities, they don't rely on wizardry or guns or tricks. If En Sabr Nur wakes he will unleash all his strength to make sure that anything stopping him is crushed or torn through. This isn't like putting a spider under a glass."

T'Challa: "But I can see you're thinking."

Reed: "Yes. You're honourable T'Challa. Vibranium and the people of Wakanda have done wonderous things for the world. But I don't think keeping the fight at the wedding is necessarily what will work."

T'Challa: "So?"

Reed: "I think we need to create a prison. A vibranium powered box that keeps Apocalypse locked up."

T'Challa: "We couldn't do that anyway? Underground?"

Reed: "No, it's too dangerous. There's no telling how vibranium would react to the air and atmosphere around En Sabr Nur's tomb. And it's unclear as to what exactly it is that wakes him. Leaving him be is the best thing to do. But if we can, we need to create a parachute and then we'll need to lure Apocalypse to the right spot to ensure that he gets trapped."

T'Challa: "Like a mouse trap."

Reed: "Right, exactly. For a pretty big mouse."

T'Challa: "Can you work out a way?"

Reed: "We'll give it a shot. We need to be in your quarters though, close to your main source of vibranium. We can't do much from here."

T'Challa: "I expected as much." The hut's door opens and Shuri is waiting along with some guards. T'Challa gets up and leads Reed out of the ship.

Reed, stunned: "That was a ship?"

Shuri: "A hologram. Made to look like any old hut."

Reed: "Wow, you guys rarely fail to amaze me." He and Shuri embrace. "So good to see you."

"You too."

"Your brother's lucky I'm his best man. If it was Captain America I doubt he'd have been able to help him with this am I right?" They walk and talk as T'Challa follows with a smile on his face.

Erik stands and throws a chalice across the church: "How dare you! Do you have any idea what it feels like to know the damage I've done?"

Pietro: "Yeah old man, boo frickin' hoo. You killed me, you think I don't remember that?"

Erik throws a glass and then another. Pietro speeds around catching them.

Raven tries to calm the situation: "This is why we're here Erik. Please hear us before-"

SMASH!

Erik smashes a glass on the floor by where Raven is plotted on a pew. He barks at her: "You should've known not to bring him near me. Now you all, get away from me, leave me alone!"

Pietro speeds to tidy up the smashed glass off the floor. To Raven he says: "This isn't working. Looks like forgiveness isn't within our family genes hey dad?"

Erik: "You took my daughter away from me!"

Pietro: "Me? I was dead. I only just opened my eyes to hear Wanda say 'no more mutants' and poof; the perfect world was gone and so were the majority of mutants on the planet. We resetted to year zero because of you!"

Raven: "Alright enough! This yelling and blaming each other isn't going to get you anywhere and you know what I get it; you both love Wanda. Good for you. Love is the start of any family, but this arguing is a constant waste of time. Erik, we ask you to hear us out because-"

Erik: "Because you want to control me? You want one over me Pietro is that it?"

Raven: "Erik! We are trying to restore mutant prosperity. That means we're trying to get Wanda back."

Erik calms, stares at the floor and his body goes limp. Pietro catches him and gently sits him on a pew. A Priest is in the doorway having seen Pieto speed to catch Erik. The Priest quickly closes the door and doesn't interrupt the scene.

The Blackbird lands in a worn and torn town on the island of Genosha. It seems deserted as the X-Men look out their windows.

Beast turns on the heat signature seeker on the Blackbird. "Nothing for five miles."

Scott comes over to look at the radar himself. He pauses to think for a moment.

Logan: "So? We fly five miles down the road?"

Scott: "No. Lets get down there X-Men. The heat signature covers everything overground. We don't know what's underneath."

Erik, Raven and Pietro continue arguing.

Erik: "I've been fine! Alive, useless like the rest of humanity, but alive. Leading a quiet life. Why do you want to tear me from that now?"

Pietro: "Aren't you listening old man? We're trying to find Wanda, to get her back!"

Erik: "My Wanda is gone."

Pietro: "She's not! I don't believe it and I won't until I see a body. She's hiding."

Erik: "And so she doesn't want to be with us, she wants to be left in peace! Why can't you do that for your sister?"

Pietro: "Look dad. I owe it to Wanda to show her that I've changed. We can both do that. But not individually."

Raven: "Erik. Wanda wanted a family."

Pietro: "Right. So if we show her a united front, maybe she'll forgive us and answer us. We have to try dad. Not just for her, but for the mutant population. She said 'no more mutants' because she was pissed at you. Ok, us, maybe pissed at us both, but she took it out on the whole world. Women right?" Raven doesn't respond. Pietro continues: "Anyway, point being, we need to get her back and we need the world to be equal again."

Erik: "The world was never equal. It never will be."

Raven: "It was getting there. Genosha, mutants in power, mutant armies, task forces and that's just all the military type stuff. Mutants were being accepted. Now we're restarting and we're under threat. If we don't do something, then we risk becoming extinct."

Erik: "So that's why you're really here? To bring mutant-kind back entirely."

Pietro: "By finding Wanda. There's nothing wrong with the world being back to normal dad. And not even normal. Imagine if it was like how Wanda made it. She was happy, you was happy, our family was prospering. That's all she wanted. Maybe we can convince her to change things back and then some."

Erik: "Have you learned nothing from the pain we caused her?"

Pietro: "Dad, there's nothing wrong with you having your powers back and everything being as we wanted. I mean did Wanda ever think, if she wanted a normal life so much, she coulda just dissolved her own powers and then lived like a human. I don't know where she is, but I'm betting she's still a mutant. That means she can change everything back."

Erik doesn't respond, sitting quietly thinking. "You found me. So find her the same way?"

Pietro: "It's not that easy."

Raven: "Wanda's made herself untraceable. The mutant we came here with was able to put us in this town, but not on your doorstep. To find Wanda, he'd simply tell us she's on earth, which is obviously no help at all."

Erik: "You didn't bother asking? So how am I supposed to help. I'm human."

Pietro: "En Sabah Nur."

Erik: "What?"

Pietro: "Apocalypse. He could find Wanda."

Erik: "Boy you must be out of your mind."

Raven: "We're serious Erik. That's why we came to you. You know what to do to wake him. He will be grateful for that and he will help us. He himself wants mutant domination, so if we tell him of the world Wanda made for us, maybe he can help us get it all back. Including you in power, including your happy family."

Erik: "You know I used to think you were the most remarkable woman on the planet. But are you hearing yourself? The amount of what-ifs and maybes in your plan and you think, you actually think a mutant like Apocalypse would be grateful that you woke him? He'll probably kill you on the spot as a memorandum, a sacrifice for himself to remember the mutants that brought him back to life. This is the most absurd plan, God damn it Mystique."

Pietro says a little more and the conversation/argument continues as we split-screen back to Genosha.

Cyclops, Wolverine, Dust and Gambit are all walking a few hundred yards from the plane. They see what they expected; rubble and very little sign of life.

Logan: "He won't be here."

Scott: "We have to be sure in order to rule this place out."

They continue walking as a group.

Remy: "Kind of a creepy place no homme? Maybe Dust and I should look after de Blackbird."

Scott: "Beast is up there Gambit. Eyes open everyone."

In the Blackbird Beast receives a call from Emma: "Hank put on the news."

Hank turns on a screen which shows the 'Breaking News.' Public footage from phones and devices show a woman that can be identified as Wanda Maximoff out on the streets of Otwock, Poland. The headline reads 'Scarlet Witch Alive?'

Hank: "My God." He radios to the X-Men: "Scott, back on the plane, you all have to see this."

Emma remains on the call: "Did you see? Erik?"

Hank: "I spotted him, but the speed at which Wanda and Erik, what on earth happened?"

Emma: "I can't tell."

Scott and co rush onto the plane and they watch the footage on the news channel.

Scott: "Wanda and Erik in the same place. That can't be coincidence."

Hank: "Are we sure it's Wanda? I wouldn't have thought she would have resurfaced by her father."

Remy: "Seems unlikely homme, but what's for sure is that Magneto's in Poland and we all de way here in Genosha."

The X-Men talk, including Emma, as Scott thinks for a moment. The camera pans from the cockpit to the outside of the Blackbird. Logan is out there sniffing the air.

Scott talks to him on communication-piece in his ear: "Logan lets go. There's nothing for us here. Seems like Erik's in Poland. What's going on?"

Logan sniffs a little more as he makes his way back onto the plane, addressing the X-Men: "I got somethin', but I can't figure it out. It's tainted, almost as if it's been purposely scoured."

Dust: "A scent? Of whom?"

Scott: "It doesn't matter. It's probably an intoxicated dead body or something."

Emma: "Scott's right. Guys, get back to the mansion, we're going to have to work this out."

Logan: "Work what out?" he sees the news footage, "wait, is that Wanda?!"

Hank turns to get the jets started. As he does we see a red spot on the infra-red heat-seeker; a person is within close proximity of the X-Men. Unfortunately, without looking at the screen Hank turns the radar off. The camera zooms out of the Blackbird to signal time passing and the Blackbird lifts into the air and begins to jet off. We see a red scarf go across the floor of the Genosha'n town like tumbleweed.