When Slash awoke, he found himself in a sort of birdcage on a table. He looked around and saw the rest of the X-Men in cages similar to his, all arranged in a neat order. Only one was vacant. Slash assumed that that one would have been for Wolverine. If only there was a way to get in touch with him, Slash though, then we could get out of here. Suddenly, they heard a squeak as an old rusty door opened, and then was shut again. Magneto's head appeared next to their cages.
"Is everyone comfortable?
Gooood. Welcome X-Men to my new
hideout, and new team. Seems you've
been caught in my little trap. Now,
there are a few things I should warn you about. Right now, you think you can escape, but you cannot. Using the virtually limitless magnetic
energy power of the Earth, I have created an electromagnetic field in the bars
of each of your cages. So I wouldn't
touch them if I were you. Get quite a
nasty shock, and I don't want to be held responsible…" He turned and looked at Jean. "Your telekinesis couldn't lift this cage
due to the Earth's magnetic force holding it to the metal desk. I wouldn't want you to strain your little
mind away trying…" He turned to look at Gambit. "If you try to charge one of those little Bicycles I know you
have in your coat pocket, the cascading explosion against the bars will create
enough force to kill you. Capische Mon
ami?" Gambit just glared at him, as he
next went to Shadowcat's cage. "I've
examined your physiological make up. Shows me you can't withstand going through an electrically charged
object without feeling a certain shock, if you catch my drift…Don't try it
sweetcheeks…"
"NOBODY talks about my wife like
that." Slash edged to the side of the
cage as possible without making contact with the bars of the cage.
"What are you gonna do about it
tiny?" Magneto smirked and changed over
to Slash's cage. Slash, suddenly
remembering he holstered his Glock, pulls it out and chambers a round. Magneto gets "scared." "Oh yes, I forgot your fascinations with
guns my little Navy SEAL action figure man. I'll just take that if you don't mind." He tries to get the gun out of the cage, but nothing happens. He looks a little surprised, but tries
again. The gun remains in Slash's hand
as he clicks the safety off. Magneto is
completely surprised as Slash fires off three rounds into Magneto. Two hit his face, causing a stinging
sensation. The other hits Magneto in
the arm. Magneto reels back in
shock. He quickly drops the forcefield
on the cage.
"Sabertooth, finish him!" Sabertooth, who followed Magneto in, smiles
a toothy grin and reaches down to the cage.
"With pleasure boss. Now, little seal, I wanna see some
fish!" Sabertooth opens the cage and
reaches in and grabs Slash. Slash
finishes off the clip and reloads, except with the clip filled with
experimental fiberglass rounds. Just as
Slash readies the gun, Sabertooth picks him up and flings him around like a rag
doll, and the gun flies out of his hand. Magneto has since opened the door and looked for Mystique to get the
first aid kit.
"Jean. JEAN! I need my Glock. Get it…AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Sabertooth promptly cuts off a wad of clothing and carries a small
amount of flesh off Slash. Jean
frantically searches for the gun with her mind. She finds it and the gun flies back in Slash's hand. Sabertooth is about to break Slash in half
when Slash fires off the entire clip into Sabertooth's eye. Sabertooth screams in pain as he lets go of
Slash to stop the bleeding in his eye. Slash holsters the pistol and tries to fly away, but Toad's long tongue
catches him.
"Ha ha. Thought you could escape. Now, I'll finish you off like the little bloody fly you are." Slash, always on his game, finds his M-2
Combat knife, and begins to cut up Toad's tongue. The blood rolls down Toad's tongue and he begins to choke on his
own blood. He lets Slash go so he can
recover from this and Slash flies over the wall, and screams across the
Patapsco River. Magneto is scowling
over the loss of Slash, the leader of the X-Men.
"CAN NO ONE STOP HIM?" He rants. Avalanche tries one last tactic. Since Slash is still in his small state and traveling close to the water
to avoid detection, Avalanche creates a small underwater earthquake. This creates a 6-foot tall wave that will
crest over top of Slash. Normally, this
would have been no problem for the leader of the X-Men, but he's only 18 inches
tall now. Slash turns to see the wave
as it breaks over him and completely engulfs him.
Magneto turns to Destiny. "What has happened of him?"
"He has survived. And will survive. But he cannot contact his allies of Cable and Bishop without his
friend Xavier. He is alone." Magneto shrugs and tends back to his small
wounds.
"One X-Man is easier to deal with
than the entire team."
Slash broke the surface of the
Baltimore Harbor and gasped for air. The wave had completely engulfed him, and drug him down several feet,
equvalent of tens of feet to a person that small. Then some fish swallowed him whole, thinking he was some kind of
food. Last mistake that fish ever
made. Slash was glad he made it to the
surface. As he swam on to the
shipyards, he was glad that he had his SEAL training or else he would have died
right there underwater and in that fish. Slash got over to where they had put the Zodiacs in some hours
before. As he got out, he realized that
he was back to his normal size again. 'Hmm,' he thought to himself, 'that shrink ray thingie must have a field
range. Note to self: REMEMBER
THAT.' Slash slowly boarded the
Blackbird and headed for home.
Slash arrived back at the mansion
after midnight. He had changed into a
spare outfit he kept on the plane, and sat down wearily to plot his plan for
the next day to get his people out of Magneto's clutches. He needed another team, but where to find
one? He slowly nodded off…
He was to tired to notice the small
cemetery alarm. The computer many hours
before had printed out the plot number:
072 – BODY OF SCOTT SUMMERS
Sorry for the long wait to my "loyal" fans. I think college exams are a little more important than any FanFiction (I'm not an English major, so I can't use the excuse that I'm improving my creative ability). Hope you like this chapter.