Hey guys, there you go, new chapter

Hey guys, there you go, new chapter!  Longer too =)  Hope you like, I'm tired, so I'm not really up for making those wonderful comments I know you all love, so just R/R and enjoy!

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The two mutants stopped, and both pairs of eyes closed.  Logan took this time to hastily pull himself from the debris.  As he stood up, both mutants' eyes flung open, but they did not attack.  They looked at each other, nodded, then glared back at Wolverine.  Suddenly, one mutant threw dozens of spikes at Logan, not in an effort to pierce him, but only to cage him.  The other conjured a tornado that swiftly came, picked up Logan and threw him into the main room where the others X-Men were. 

Logan picked his head up from the concrete floor and looked at the mutants, now exiting the hallway and entering the room he was in.  "Telepaths," he muttered as he pulled himself up off the ground. 

Logan retreated to back of the room, where the rest of his team was fighting Mystique and her mutant, born of Brotherhood genes. 

Mystique's eyes glimmered when she saw the two other genetically engineered mutants entering the battlefield.  Before they came, Mystique was barely holding her own, but now…

"X-Men!  Behold your creations!"  She screamed to them, smiling insanely.

The X-Men could only catch a glimpse of the mutants, made from combinations of them, before the mutants were upon them.  These mutants were unlike any opponent the X-Men had ever faced.  They faced themselves.

The groups stood there, sizing each other up, each waiting for the other to make the first move.  Mystique's team did. 

Both of the X-mutants concentrated, using telekinesis to hold the X-Men in place.  The Brotherhood-mutant used what appeared to be Lance's gift to toss them to the ground.  All but Scott rose.  He had lost the use of his arm and did not have enough strength to function without it.

"Scott!"  Jean yelled saw him sprawled out on the floor, "Get up!"  Realizing that he couldn't move, she concentrated, telekinetically picked him up and gently laid him up against the wall beside the Professor.    

The X-mutants took this distraction as a chance to charge the X-Men.  Spike saw this and attempted to stall them by shooting spikes, but the X-mutants phased through them with ease.  One grabbed Kitty and tossed her to the ground, while the other saw Kurt, the Professor and Scott, helpless, against the wall and stalked towards them.  Jean saw it and raised it off the ground, preventing it from doing harm.  Its "sibling" however, did not like seeing the other unable to attack or defend itself.  It shot a spike at Jean. 

The Professor saw the spike sail towards Jean.  {Jean, look out!}

Jean moved out of the way and in doing that escaped a direct hit, but the back of her leg was grazed, injuring her and disrupting her concentration.  She dropped the mutant and gasped in pain.  The mutant fell gracefully to the ground, landing on its feet and promptly charging Jean.  Scott, from his position against the wall, used the last of his strength to blast the mutant across the room.  Jean gave him a grateful look, then turned her attention back to the other mutant. 

"Scott, don't, rest."  The Professor chided him, but Scott shook his head. 

"I'm fine…How's Kurt?"  Scott asked as he glanced with concern at the elf whose head was propped up on the Professor's leg, in an attempt to keep his airways open. 

"His breathing has grown more shallow and his pulse is weaker," the Professor answered, shaking his head dismally, "We have to get him back to the Institute soon."

Logan, in the mean time, had squared off with Mystique and the mutant born of the Brotherhood's genes.  He had managed to keep his own, but Mystique was simply observing for the first minutes of the battle.  She seemed to enjoy watching her new toy in action.  She soon grew tired of drawing the battle out and decided to join.  When Logan had his back to her, she morphed into a cougar and launcher herself at him.  The Professor was the one to see her and notified Logan.

{Logan, behind you!}  The Professor's warning allowed Logan the opportunity to turn around in time to slash Mystique on her stomach, but just barely.

The Professor looked around.  He saw his X-Men slowly loosing their edge.  He had to do something.  As he thought, he noticed Rogue creeping up behind one of the X-mutants.  She was going to attempt to absorb its powers.  There was no way she could handle that much power!

{Rogue, NO!}  The Professor screamed to her, but his message did not arrive in time to save her.  She had already placed her hand on the mutant.  He watched as she screamed in agony as she the mutant's powers flowed into her.  It was too much for her to sustain and, with a final scream, she fell, unconscious, to the floor while the mutant stood, virtually unaffected.

They were going down, fast.  They needed to end this, now.  The Professor searched his mind, frantically, for a solution.  He looked around the room for something to aid in their cause.  All he saw were the machines…that was it!

{Logan, sever the wires attached to the machine.}  Logan received the message and obeyed.  He front flipped over the mutant and slashed through a group of live wires.

{Jean, lift the wires and attach them to the mutants.  Now!}  Jean did so, mentally lifting the wires and quickly sticking the exposed part to each genetically engineered mutant.  They screamed in agony, sank to the ground.  One frantically swiped at the air, while the other two simply writhed on the ground.  Soon, all were three were dead and Mystique, realizing she had lost, morphed into a bird and flew out the skylight, shattered glass showering the ground as she broke through the window.   

The X-Men exited the warehouse.  Evan and Kitty supported Scott, Jean floated Rogue, who was still unconscious, Wolverine carried the Professor and Kurt was held up by Storm.  The Professor looked back at the warehouse.

"Storm, would you please?…"  He gestured towards the warehouse.  Storm nodded and, still holding Kurt, lifted her hand slightly.  A tornado appeared and tore the warehouse to pieces, destroying the remains of the DNA lab that had once operated within its walls.

As they entered the car, they were watched from behind.

"Looks like we missed the party."  Lance said as he let his car roll to a stop.

"Yo, man, Mystique's gonna be pissed," Toad stated.

"Yeah…wanna get some pizza?"  Pietro smirked.

"Yeah, I'm hungry,"  Fred said, licking his lips.

"You're always hungry Blob," Lance retorted as he put the car into gear and drove to the nearest pizza place.

The X-Men quickly placed everyone in the car.  They had to get back to the Institute to tend to the medical needs of everyone. 

Kitty one of the ones in the back seat and she had Kurt's head laid on her lap.  They were all in the car, ready to hurry home when Kitty cried out.

"Uh guys!" she said frantically, "He's, like, not breathing!"

   

What ya guys think?  Please R/R…I think it came out pretty good…but that's just me LoL  thanks to all who R/R…I'm gonna go to sleep now…::yawn:: please R/R