Chapter 8
By: Bladefire
Charles Xavier was in the kitchen when a frantic voice reached his mind. He and the other X-men were having dinner when the female voice yelled at him.
/PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER!?!?!/
Xavier winced in pain. He held a hand to his head.
/Yes? Please, speak quietly. I'm not deaf./
/Sorry./ the voice paused for a moment before continuing, /A cat…girl…person came and asked me to contact you if I couldn't get a hold of someone else. Do you know an Amanda or Catseye?/
/Yes, I do. Is she alright?/
/I don't know. She won't say anything but she's doubled over in pain./ the voice sounded worried.
/Please wait one moment…/
/Darlene./
/Just a moment Darlene./ Xavier looked up and saw the others were all staring at him.
"Amanda has been found or has found some one who can speak for her I should say. Laura, Brandon and Ken if you would please enter the conversation I want to try to contact Amanda directly."
The three nodded and closed their eyes.
/Darlene, listen carefully. I want you to touch Amanda and lower your shields just enough so that you can hear her thoughts. Three of her friends are going to use us as a link to talk to her directly. Is that all right?/
/I guess so./
/Good. Just hold on Darlene. We're going to get you out of there./
Whitewing led Draco and Ken along the link the Professor and Darlene provided. They slid into Amanda's torn up mind and wished they had thought about this first.
/We can't do anything from here. We're going to need to get closer to her./ Draco said as she looked around. The pain and sorrow was everywhere. Some of it was Amanda's but the rest wasn't. It looked and felt like a war zone.
/Amanda!/ Whitewing called. /Where are you?/
/Whitewing?/ came a faint, pain filled voice.
/Yeah, it's me. Along with Draco and Ken. Can you tell us where you are?/
/I…/ Amanda's voice trailed off.
/Amanda!/ Whitewing called out. Draco and Ken boosted his strength and he started reaching into Amanda's torn mind.
/Abandoned building…/ came Amanda's faint voice.
/Amanda. Follow my voice. I want to try something./
Silence met Whitewing's order.
/Amanda? Did you hear me?/
/…Heard…/ came her voice.
/We need to get you out of here. You can't stay in here for the length of time it will take to find you. You'll go insane and then you'll be no help to anyone./ Whitewing strove to keep his voice calm. He strained his senses, trying to find any sign of Amanda's mind in the midst of all the noise. All the painful emotions were brushing against his own mind as he tried every trick he knew. When Amanda's presence forced it's way in front of him he was ecstatic. If he had his body; he would have been jumping for joy.
/Wh…what…?/ came Amanda's voice.
/I want you to come back with me. Follow my lifeline and stay in my mind until we can reunite you with your body. That way you can follow your own lifeline back to your body, thus leading us to the bad guys' hideout./
Amanda didn't reply but he took it as an affirmative.
/Ken! Draco! Pull me out of Amanda's mind slowly. I'm bringing her back with me./
/What?!?/ Draco yelped.
/Just do it./
He felt himself being hauled out of the war zone known as Amanda's mind. To his relief he felt Amanda right beside him somehow managing to keep up.
Draco opened her eyes. She had just finished pulling Whitewing out of Amanda's mind with Ken's help and it hadn't been easy. She rubbed her head, behind her right eye a slight pain was starting to throb and she knew from experience that it wouldn't be long before she had a killer migraine. But it wasn't anything a few pain killers couldn't solve. She was sitting on the couch and beside her she could hear Ken groan.
"Ow…"
Draco looked down the length of the couch. She saw Ken beside her and then saw Whitewing beside him. In front of her the X-men were gathered around, waiting anxiously for any news.
"What happened? Darlene says that Amanda's mind is empty." Xavier asked, worried about the irritable teen.
"She's with me." Whitewing said, "She could hardly hear me and she didn't know where she was. So now she can led us to her body."
"Are you sure?"
/I'm fine./ Came Amanda's annoyed voice.
From the look on the X-men's faces, Draco could tell they could here her too.
"Then we'll move out now. Before they realize that Amanda's missing and move." Xavier said. He turned to Logan.
"You lead the mission, get all the telepaths out and try and download any information you can."
"Right. Come on team. Let's get a move on."
"All right. We're going to kick some ass." Draco said with a grin.
"Yeah, what ever." Logan sighed, "We're taking the X-jet, got get changed."
The X-men nodded and filed out. Leaving Whitewing, Draco and Ken to follow.
Draco stared at the tall broken down building in front of her. The old mansion looked like it had seen better days.
"Are you sure that this is the place?" Draco asked.
Whitewing gave Draco a dirty look.
"Sorry. Whitewing are you sure you're all right?"
Whitewing nodded, "Yeah, that was Amanda, not me."
/Stop talking and start finding my body./ Amanda ordered.
Draco grinned, "Yes sir."
Logan rolled his eyes, "If we could get a move on children."
Ken nodded and moved forward with Draco on one side and Scott on the other. Whitewing took to the air just as the front doors opened and the Brotherhood stepped out.
"Well, looks like we've got guests." Lance said.
"Where's Amanda?" Jean asked.
They had decided to pretend that they didn't have Amanda's mind with them and Draco totally supported that plan. There was no need to put Amanda's body in danger should the Brotherhood decide to hold it hostage.
"She's around." Came the casual reply from Fred.
"Around where?" Ken asked in annoyance.
"They're not going to tell us." Rogue said as she stepped forward, "Let's just beat them and then go find Catseye."
"Now that's a plan I like." Kurt grinned as he disappeared and reappeared beside Scott.
"Now cool it kid…" Logan was cut off as Sabertooth dove at him from above.
"You're getting soft Wolverine. You should have known I was there."
"You must have taken a bath then, cause I sure as hell didn't smell you coming." Logan growled back.
Pietro used the distraction to his advantage and sped through the group.
"Can't catch me! I'm to fast for you!" he said as he ran circles around Evan.
The spikes that Evan threw weren't fast enough until Ken laid down a sheet of ice. Pietro stopped a couple of inches away from the ice.
"You don't really think I'm going to fall for that again do you?"
"No, but you did fall for this." Evan said after launching his spikes.
Pietro turned but even he wasn't fast enough to evade the spikes before they hit him, pinning him to the wall of the decrepit building.
Toad then leapt up and spat at Ken who was the closest. The sticky green glob halted in mid air before landing on the ground. In their minds they could hear Amanda growl and mutter about wanting her body back.
Draco glanced at Ken, /I don't understand. Amanda can't use her powers?/
Ken shook his head, /She can, but they're limited. She's in Whitewing's body not her own./
Draco was going to reply but at that moment Fred decided to charge them and Scott. The red head flicked his visor and a red beam shot out and hit Fred, knocking him back several feet. Draco concentrated on her power. Soon her hands were engulfed in flames and above her two giant flaming hands hung in the air waiting for her direction. She was reaching for Fred when the door of the rickety old building flew open and a man stepped out.
"NO! nononononono!" the man waved his arms around, hopping from one foot to the other. "No! Mustn't ruin Master's plans. Master said collect telepaths and that is what I do."
"Who are you?" Kitty asked, stepping away from her fight with Toad.
Even Logan and Sabertooth paused their fight.
"Who is the Master?" Scott asked.
"Magneto Master." The man said, his eyes held a glint of insanity as the moved from left to right wildly.
"And you're going to stop us?" Evan looked sceptical and Draco was inclined to agree. The guy looks totally harmless.
"Enough of this. Let's just get rid of these guys." Lance held out his hands as his eyes rolled back into his head. The earth started to tremble and shake. The ground split open slightly and the building started to crack.
"NOOOOO!!" the man howled.
Whitewing was in the air on the other side of the building outside a large bay window. Inside he could see a young woman in a chair beside a bed that held Amanda's body. He went closer to the window and tapped the glass with his foot. The brunette turned and looked surprised. But she stood and came to open the large window anyway. Changing his shape to a crow he landed on the window ledge and then hopped into the room. He changed back and grinned.
"Hello. My names Whitewing and I'm here to deliver Amanda back to her body."
Darlene giggled, "You're so cute!"
/Don't tell him that. You'll give him a big ego that I'll have to deflate later./ Amanda growled, / Now, enough talking. I want my body./
"Yeah, yeah." Whitewing went to the bed. For some reason he had a really bad feeling about putting Amanda back into her body. He reached out and grabbed Amanda's hand. Immediately she started following the link to her body and Whitewing was alone in his head once again. That's when the shaking started. Whitewing was tossed on to the bed, landing on top of Amanda while Darlene landed on the floor.
"What's that?" Darlene asked, looking around wildly.
"That would be one of the Brotherhood using his power. The idiot is gonna level the building at this rate." Whitewing swore.
"Not right now he's not." Came Amanda's voice. Abruptly the shaking stopped as Amanda put her powers to good use.
"Darlene, started getting the telepaths out of here, this place is going to fall anytime." Amanda said as the door to the room blew open from the force of her power.
"I'll find the keys and get them all out." Darlene promised as she ran out.
"Ah…Amanda? Are you okay?" Whitewing asked.
Amanda winced, "No. My head hurts."
Whitewing blinked in surprise, "You actually admitted to it!"
Amanda growled and Whitewing smiled sheepishly, "Sorry. Turn to a cat and we'll get you out of here."
Draco and Ken blinked in surprise as the ground stopped shaking. They looked at Lance and saw him straining again something that was stopping his power.
"YES!!!" Draco screeched, "He did it!!!" She jumped on Ken, hugging him tightly. Her flaming hands disappearing.
"Did what?" Rogue asked.
"Whitewing got Amanda into her body." Draco explained, grinning widely.
"Uh…Draco…" Ken blushed nervously, "You can…um…let go now."
"Huh?" Draco looked at her arms that were still wrapped around Ken.
She blushed, "Oh, ah…right." She let him go.
"Awe, that was so cute." Kitty grinned.
Draco scowled, doing a fairly good imitation of Amanda. But then a whirlwind swept past them.
"I'mfree!! Let'sseeyoutrythatagain!!" Pietro said in a rush.
The speed demon started running causing little tornados here and there. They were so busy trying to catch him that they didn't see Fred and Toad behind them.
Draco felt something hit her feet and she looked down to see green slime covering her black shoes.
"Eww." Behind her there was a loud crash.
Turning she saw Fred by the mansion a door raised above his head. The large teen threw the board. It headed straight for her.
Ken watched as the chuck of wood headed straight for Draco. The fiery teen held up her hands. Flames raced out and incinerated the wood before in came close to her. But Fred wasn't done yet. He body checked the wall and loose pieces started falling around them. One rather large piece fell heading straight for Draco.
"Draco!! LOOK OUT!!!" Ken shouted.
Draco looked up. She raised her hands about her head but bricks aren't as flammable as wood and the piece of wall kept falling. Ken ran forward, forming a thick heavy shard of ice in his hand to knock it aside. He threw it managed to knock the bit of wall aside only to make room for the one behind it. The second smaller piece fell, hitting Draco on the side of the head knocking her out.
To be continued…
There, now Draco should be happy that I got the next chapter out. When it comes to fic's she likes she's about as subtle as a 2 by 4 to the head. *grins* anyway sorry about any spelling errors, I tried to catch them all but I'm just SO sick of English stuff. *growls* stupid English Provincial!!!!! R&R if you want.
By: Bladefire
Charles Xavier was in the kitchen when a frantic voice reached his mind. He and the other X-men were having dinner when the female voice yelled at him.
/PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER!?!?!/
Xavier winced in pain. He held a hand to his head.
/Yes? Please, speak quietly. I'm not deaf./
/Sorry./ the voice paused for a moment before continuing, /A cat…girl…person came and asked me to contact you if I couldn't get a hold of someone else. Do you know an Amanda or Catseye?/
/Yes, I do. Is she alright?/
/I don't know. She won't say anything but she's doubled over in pain./ the voice sounded worried.
/Please wait one moment…/
/Darlene./
/Just a moment Darlene./ Xavier looked up and saw the others were all staring at him.
"Amanda has been found or has found some one who can speak for her I should say. Laura, Brandon and Ken if you would please enter the conversation I want to try to contact Amanda directly."
The three nodded and closed their eyes.
/Darlene, listen carefully. I want you to touch Amanda and lower your shields just enough so that you can hear her thoughts. Three of her friends are going to use us as a link to talk to her directly. Is that all right?/
/I guess so./
/Good. Just hold on Darlene. We're going to get you out of there./
Whitewing led Draco and Ken along the link the Professor and Darlene provided. They slid into Amanda's torn up mind and wished they had thought about this first.
/We can't do anything from here. We're going to need to get closer to her./ Draco said as she looked around. The pain and sorrow was everywhere. Some of it was Amanda's but the rest wasn't. It looked and felt like a war zone.
/Amanda!/ Whitewing called. /Where are you?/
/Whitewing?/ came a faint, pain filled voice.
/Yeah, it's me. Along with Draco and Ken. Can you tell us where you are?/
/I…/ Amanda's voice trailed off.
/Amanda!/ Whitewing called out. Draco and Ken boosted his strength and he started reaching into Amanda's torn mind.
/Abandoned building…/ came Amanda's faint voice.
/Amanda. Follow my voice. I want to try something./
Silence met Whitewing's order.
/Amanda? Did you hear me?/
/…Heard…/ came her voice.
/We need to get you out of here. You can't stay in here for the length of time it will take to find you. You'll go insane and then you'll be no help to anyone./ Whitewing strove to keep his voice calm. He strained his senses, trying to find any sign of Amanda's mind in the midst of all the noise. All the painful emotions were brushing against his own mind as he tried every trick he knew. When Amanda's presence forced it's way in front of him he was ecstatic. If he had his body; he would have been jumping for joy.
/Wh…what…?/ came Amanda's voice.
/I want you to come back with me. Follow my lifeline and stay in my mind until we can reunite you with your body. That way you can follow your own lifeline back to your body, thus leading us to the bad guys' hideout./
Amanda didn't reply but he took it as an affirmative.
/Ken! Draco! Pull me out of Amanda's mind slowly. I'm bringing her back with me./
/What?!?/ Draco yelped.
/Just do it./
He felt himself being hauled out of the war zone known as Amanda's mind. To his relief he felt Amanda right beside him somehow managing to keep up.
Draco opened her eyes. She had just finished pulling Whitewing out of Amanda's mind with Ken's help and it hadn't been easy. She rubbed her head, behind her right eye a slight pain was starting to throb and she knew from experience that it wouldn't be long before she had a killer migraine. But it wasn't anything a few pain killers couldn't solve. She was sitting on the couch and beside her she could hear Ken groan.
"Ow…"
Draco looked down the length of the couch. She saw Ken beside her and then saw Whitewing beside him. In front of her the X-men were gathered around, waiting anxiously for any news.
"What happened? Darlene says that Amanda's mind is empty." Xavier asked, worried about the irritable teen.
"She's with me." Whitewing said, "She could hardly hear me and she didn't know where she was. So now she can led us to her body."
"Are you sure?"
/I'm fine./ Came Amanda's annoyed voice.
From the look on the X-men's faces, Draco could tell they could here her too.
"Then we'll move out now. Before they realize that Amanda's missing and move." Xavier said. He turned to Logan.
"You lead the mission, get all the telepaths out and try and download any information you can."
"Right. Come on team. Let's get a move on."
"All right. We're going to kick some ass." Draco said with a grin.
"Yeah, what ever." Logan sighed, "We're taking the X-jet, got get changed."
The X-men nodded and filed out. Leaving Whitewing, Draco and Ken to follow.
Draco stared at the tall broken down building in front of her. The old mansion looked like it had seen better days.
"Are you sure that this is the place?" Draco asked.
Whitewing gave Draco a dirty look.
"Sorry. Whitewing are you sure you're all right?"
Whitewing nodded, "Yeah, that was Amanda, not me."
/Stop talking and start finding my body./ Amanda ordered.
Draco grinned, "Yes sir."
Logan rolled his eyes, "If we could get a move on children."
Ken nodded and moved forward with Draco on one side and Scott on the other. Whitewing took to the air just as the front doors opened and the Brotherhood stepped out.
"Well, looks like we've got guests." Lance said.
"Where's Amanda?" Jean asked.
They had decided to pretend that they didn't have Amanda's mind with them and Draco totally supported that plan. There was no need to put Amanda's body in danger should the Brotherhood decide to hold it hostage.
"She's around." Came the casual reply from Fred.
"Around where?" Ken asked in annoyance.
"They're not going to tell us." Rogue said as she stepped forward, "Let's just beat them and then go find Catseye."
"Now that's a plan I like." Kurt grinned as he disappeared and reappeared beside Scott.
"Now cool it kid…" Logan was cut off as Sabertooth dove at him from above.
"You're getting soft Wolverine. You should have known I was there."
"You must have taken a bath then, cause I sure as hell didn't smell you coming." Logan growled back.
Pietro used the distraction to his advantage and sped through the group.
"Can't catch me! I'm to fast for you!" he said as he ran circles around Evan.
The spikes that Evan threw weren't fast enough until Ken laid down a sheet of ice. Pietro stopped a couple of inches away from the ice.
"You don't really think I'm going to fall for that again do you?"
"No, but you did fall for this." Evan said after launching his spikes.
Pietro turned but even he wasn't fast enough to evade the spikes before they hit him, pinning him to the wall of the decrepit building.
Toad then leapt up and spat at Ken who was the closest. The sticky green glob halted in mid air before landing on the ground. In their minds they could hear Amanda growl and mutter about wanting her body back.
Draco glanced at Ken, /I don't understand. Amanda can't use her powers?/
Ken shook his head, /She can, but they're limited. She's in Whitewing's body not her own./
Draco was going to reply but at that moment Fred decided to charge them and Scott. The red head flicked his visor and a red beam shot out and hit Fred, knocking him back several feet. Draco concentrated on her power. Soon her hands were engulfed in flames and above her two giant flaming hands hung in the air waiting for her direction. She was reaching for Fred when the door of the rickety old building flew open and a man stepped out.
"NO! nononononono!" the man waved his arms around, hopping from one foot to the other. "No! Mustn't ruin Master's plans. Master said collect telepaths and that is what I do."
"Who are you?" Kitty asked, stepping away from her fight with Toad.
Even Logan and Sabertooth paused their fight.
"Who is the Master?" Scott asked.
"Magneto Master." The man said, his eyes held a glint of insanity as the moved from left to right wildly.
"And you're going to stop us?" Evan looked sceptical and Draco was inclined to agree. The guy looks totally harmless.
"Enough of this. Let's just get rid of these guys." Lance held out his hands as his eyes rolled back into his head. The earth started to tremble and shake. The ground split open slightly and the building started to crack.
"NOOOOO!!" the man howled.
Whitewing was in the air on the other side of the building outside a large bay window. Inside he could see a young woman in a chair beside a bed that held Amanda's body. He went closer to the window and tapped the glass with his foot. The brunette turned and looked surprised. But she stood and came to open the large window anyway. Changing his shape to a crow he landed on the window ledge and then hopped into the room. He changed back and grinned.
"Hello. My names Whitewing and I'm here to deliver Amanda back to her body."
Darlene giggled, "You're so cute!"
/Don't tell him that. You'll give him a big ego that I'll have to deflate later./ Amanda growled, / Now, enough talking. I want my body./
"Yeah, yeah." Whitewing went to the bed. For some reason he had a really bad feeling about putting Amanda back into her body. He reached out and grabbed Amanda's hand. Immediately she started following the link to her body and Whitewing was alone in his head once again. That's when the shaking started. Whitewing was tossed on to the bed, landing on top of Amanda while Darlene landed on the floor.
"What's that?" Darlene asked, looking around wildly.
"That would be one of the Brotherhood using his power. The idiot is gonna level the building at this rate." Whitewing swore.
"Not right now he's not." Came Amanda's voice. Abruptly the shaking stopped as Amanda put her powers to good use.
"Darlene, started getting the telepaths out of here, this place is going to fall anytime." Amanda said as the door to the room blew open from the force of her power.
"I'll find the keys and get them all out." Darlene promised as she ran out.
"Ah…Amanda? Are you okay?" Whitewing asked.
Amanda winced, "No. My head hurts."
Whitewing blinked in surprise, "You actually admitted to it!"
Amanda growled and Whitewing smiled sheepishly, "Sorry. Turn to a cat and we'll get you out of here."
Draco and Ken blinked in surprise as the ground stopped shaking. They looked at Lance and saw him straining again something that was stopping his power.
"YES!!!" Draco screeched, "He did it!!!" She jumped on Ken, hugging him tightly. Her flaming hands disappearing.
"Did what?" Rogue asked.
"Whitewing got Amanda into her body." Draco explained, grinning widely.
"Uh…Draco…" Ken blushed nervously, "You can…um…let go now."
"Huh?" Draco looked at her arms that were still wrapped around Ken.
She blushed, "Oh, ah…right." She let him go.
"Awe, that was so cute." Kitty grinned.
Draco scowled, doing a fairly good imitation of Amanda. But then a whirlwind swept past them.
"I'mfree!! Let'sseeyoutrythatagain!!" Pietro said in a rush.
The speed demon started running causing little tornados here and there. They were so busy trying to catch him that they didn't see Fred and Toad behind them.
Draco felt something hit her feet and she looked down to see green slime covering her black shoes.
"Eww." Behind her there was a loud crash.
Turning she saw Fred by the mansion a door raised above his head. The large teen threw the board. It headed straight for her.
Ken watched as the chuck of wood headed straight for Draco. The fiery teen held up her hands. Flames raced out and incinerated the wood before in came close to her. But Fred wasn't done yet. He body checked the wall and loose pieces started falling around them. One rather large piece fell heading straight for Draco.
"Draco!! LOOK OUT!!!" Ken shouted.
Draco looked up. She raised her hands about her head but bricks aren't as flammable as wood and the piece of wall kept falling. Ken ran forward, forming a thick heavy shard of ice in his hand to knock it aside. He threw it managed to knock the bit of wall aside only to make room for the one behind it. The second smaller piece fell, hitting Draco on the side of the head knocking her out.
To be continued…
There, now Draco should be happy that I got the next chapter out. When it comes to fic's she likes she's about as subtle as a 2 by 4 to the head. *grins* anyway sorry about any spelling errors, I tried to catch them all but I'm just SO sick of English stuff. *growls* stupid English Provincial!!!!! R&R if you want.