Summary: A new mutant arrives at the Academy an decides to help Rogue with her isolation from her powers. (Chapter 6)
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Post: Thanks. I like writing action scenes. And fights are much better when written out. Except for one thing: someimtes it takes too long to describe something o_0. You know? The event happens in half a second and the description is almsot a full paragraph. Oh well. Yes, I did do a cliffhanger. I hope this chapter has enough exciting action for you!
The Plan Has Already Begun and Will End
"Avalanche, Blob, you two bring them to me when they awake," a powerful voice commanded.
Jordan tried to look up, but found himself drifting back into blackness. All he heard was a muttered "Yes, sir" before he blacked out again.
Jordan woke up as someone whispered his name loudly.
"Jordan. Jordan! Wake up!"
It was Rogue. Jordan pulled himself back to consciousness and looked around. He was slumped in an upright container inside a room full of computers. Rogue stood in an identical container nearby.
"Good, ya're awake," Rogue said, leaning forward against the curved wall. "Ya've been out for quite a while."
"Really?" Jordan asked, attempting to stand up. His neck instantly began to hurt. Jordan winced. "Ouch, I feel like someone tried to pound my head in."
"From what Ah've guessed, ya may be right," Rogue stated. "Blob was bragging about how quickly he leveled ya out last night."
Jordan leaned against the wall, trying to ease some of the pain.
"Any idea what we're doing here?" Jordan asked after a moment. Then he added, "Or where we are?"
"No," Rogue replied. "All I know is that they captured us earlier on, you by Blob and me by some sleep gas, then they brought us here."
"Yeah, sure, beat the man and gas the girl," Jordan joked aloud, trying to erase some of the uneasiness he was beginning to feel. 'This is just way too much like what Rogue told me about the first time they fought Magneto.'
Jordan voiced his thought to Rogue, who agreed.
"But Ah don't care what he does, Ah'm not stepping into any machine of his willingly. Definitely after what he did to capture us," Rogue stated, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back against the wall.
"I agree whole-heartedly," Jordan responded. The ache in his neck was beginning to go away, leaving the area slightly numb.
"So, any plans?" he asked after a few moments.
Rogue smiled and looked toward Jordan. "Yeah right. I was too worried they'd killed you to think much at all."
"Thanks, Rogue," Jordan said, smiling back. "Well, how about I try breaking this tupper-ware container and then head to the nearest exit?"
"Sounds fahne by me," Rogue replied. "But don't hurt yourself too much trahing to get out. Ah can't carry ya if ya knock yourself out, and we might need to fight if we don't get out."
"Okay," Jordan said, strengthening his legs and feet with adamantium. He kicked with all of his strength in one small spot, hoping to create a hole. Nothing happened. He set hid foot down, looking where he had kicked.
"Not even a scratch," he stated. "Must be stronger than I am."
Rogue looked confused. "Ya tried using adamantium, right?"
"Yeah, but that wouldn't matter if I can't hit hard enough," Jordan answered. "It'll break before I will, but it might never break. Not at this rate, anyway."
"Oh," Rogue said. "Why don't ya trah punching it?"
"Well, I guess it's worth a try," Jordan replied, pulling back with his arm and delivering a flat-on punch to the container in the same spot. Not even a mark. "Well, that certainly didn't work."
"Ah guess we'll just have to wait for them to come get us..." Rogue stated remorsefully.
"Yes, but we can give them a real hard time, can't we?" Jordan asked, smilling.
Rogue returned the smile and the two began working on a plan to help them escape.
Avalanche and Blob stood outside the room were Renegade and Rogue were being kept. They were almost falling asleep when the loud thump from Renegade trying to break the container resounded into the hallway.
"You here that?" Avalanche asked Blob. Blob's reply was a long snore. "Wake up!" Avalanche yelled, shoving the big mutant over. Shocked awake, Blob stood up and looked accusingly at Avalanche, who glared back.
"What you do that for?"
"I heard something in their cell room," Avalanche explained, not bothering to apologize. "They're probable awake."
"Oh," Blob replied, the logic seeming to escape him. "Okay."
The two headed around the corner and looked into the room. Sure enough, Renegade and Rogue were awake in their containers, looking at the two Brotherhood mutants with glares. Avalanche walked up to the control panel, preparing to open the cells.
"Alright," he said, addressing his partner. "I'll open metal freak's cell and you grab him quick, then we can find a way to get traitor over there."
"Uhhh... okay," Blob replied, standing in front of Renegade's container. It opened as Avalanche pulled the lever and Blob grabbed Renegade tightly, to keep him from moving. But there was one problem.
Renegade wasn't moving anywhere at all. Blob couldn't even pick the mutant up off the ground.
"Hey! Stop fooling around!" the bloated mutant yelled, trying to rip Renegade off the ground by pure brute strength. Once again, he tried too hard. Renegade was thrown across the room. Flipping in mid-air, Renegade got rid of the heavy metal in his body and landed lightly. Jumping back into the air back toward the cells, he braced the outside of his arm with light titanium. He landed, smashing the control panel Avalanche had been using. Rogue's container opened, allowing her to jump out and attack Blob. Jordan punched at Avalanche, who was still stunned by what had happened. A few moments later, both Blob and Avalanche were on the ground and the victorious couple ran out of the room, looking to see if any of their fellow X-men were in the area.
"Nothing in here either," Rogue replied, steeping back into the hallway next to Renegade. The had been looking in various rooms for several minutes, Rogue busting down locked doors with the strength she had stolen from Blob.
"Well, that's all the rooms on what seems to be the cell hallway," Jordan stated. "So I guess they only captured us."
"Why would they do that?" Rogue asked, turning to walk down the hallway, now searching for an exit.
"No--"
BOOM
"Huh?" Rogue asked, turning back around. Quicksilver was standing there with Toad and Boom-Boom. Renegade had been knocked against the wall by one of the female brotherhood member's bombs.
"Youguysgotawayfromtheothertwo,butwe'regonnabringyoutoMagneto,"Quicksilver rapidly declared. "Sodon'tbothertryingtofight."
"Why shouldn't we?" Renegade asked, having got up and stood next to Rogue. "We held off all five of you before, why not now?"
"'Cause we're stronger now, yo," Toad replied, jumping forward a bit. "Magneto's been training us, so now we can kick your butt."
"Prove it," Rogue said, waving her hand for them to attack. And they did.
Quicksilver ran toward the X-men at full speed, more of a blur than he normally was. Renegade dodged to the side, narrowly missing the speeder. Rogue ran after Quicksilver, trying to think of how to stop him by themselves.
Toad took this moment to leap at Renegade, knocking him to the ground. Then he picked up the fallen mutant by his feet and began swinging him around, trying to gain enough momentum to hurl Renegade.
"That won't work, Frog," Renegade said as he spun around. He concentrated and added several heavy layers of metal to the outside of his body. Suddenly offset by the extra weight and excess momentum, Todd fell forward, dropping Renegade in front of him. He met the metal mutant's upraised fist as he fell. Renegade stood up and then suddenly fell forward, a small explosion sending him forward. Boom-Boom had joined the fight. Renegade stood back up, slightly dazed. Boom-Boom threw another ball, which Renegade quickly dodged.
"Stay still you!" she yelled, forming a bigger bomb. Renegade dodged that one too. He quickly looked over his shoulder and smiled. His plan was going along perfectly.
Boom-Boom began throwing balls haphazardly, not even bothering to aim. Renegade hopped to one side to dodge a rather large one, sticking out his foot. Quicksilver tripped over it, having ran back into the hallway, Rogue still behind him. Quicksilver flew through the air, smacking into one of Boom-Boom's bombs.
"Oh, man! Sorry!" She yelled as Quicksilver was knocked out. She fell to the ground a moment later, Rogue having slipped up behind her when she was stunned.
"Well, all done," Jordan stated, dusting his hands together mockingly. "How about we keep looking for that exit?"
"Sounds good. Let's just hope we don't meet any more of their little group," Rogue replied, continuing down the hallway. Jordan followed her, hoping the same thing.
After a quarter of an hour of searching, Renegade and Rogue still had not found the exit. But they had found a rather large room, full of high tech computers and monitoring equipment.
"Since we can seem to find the exit normally, let's try finding a map on one of these computers," Jordan suggested, walking up to the computer. He began typing rapidly, scanning the screen.
After a few minutes of keyboard clicking, Rogue spoke up, "Where do ya suppose Magneto is? It isn't like him to go away when he can make some speech about homo superiors."
Jordan stopped typing. "Well, we don't need to worry about that anymore. I found a map of this facility."
"Finally," Rogue replied, walking over to the computer and standing behind Jordan. "Where's the nearest exit?"
"You won't need to worry about that either," replied a deep voice.
Renegade and Rogue spun around. Magneto stood against the closest wall, next to the only door to the vast room they were in. And a moment later, the door wouldn't help, as Magneto crushed the controls with his power, bending the module into a broken heap.
"What do you want?" Jordan asked. "You know we aren't going to join you."
"Yes, I realized that," Magneto replied. "It seems that my friend, the Professor, has succeeded in making you think we can ever live with homo sapiens sapiens."
"Why shouldn't we?" Jordan asked. "Our parents are normal. Should we hate them too?"
"They don't matter, we are the future," Magneto stated.
"In your dreams," Jordan said, reinforcing his full skeleton and outside body with adamantium armor and running toward the magnetic power-grabber.
Magneto, caught off-guard for a moment, did not block the first punch Renegade threw. He smacked into the wall, losing his helmet, before he flew to a more open portion of the room, hovering menacingly.
"Fool!" Magneto yelled, raising a hand. "How can you fight me? I control the very thing your power is!"
Renegade flew with a cry across the room, smacking into a computer console and crushing it.
Rogue stood behind and below Magneto, preparing to jump.
"I don't think so," Magneto stated as Rogue jumped up toward him. She froze in mid-air before flying across the room towards Renegade. "Your body is laced with metal, Rogue. I can stop you as well."
"How'd ya know that?" Rogue cried as she stood back up and helped Renegade regain his feet.
"You 'X-men' are really so simple-minded," Magneto replied, settling to the ground. "I bugged your friend here and heard his conversation with Xavier. Not to mention I can also sense the metal in your body. Simple little girl."
"When did you bug us?" Renegade asked, catching his breath.
"I believe Avalanche did the job for me at your school," Magneto answered. "He said he threw a clot of dirt at you and the device stuck to your shoe. Rather crude, but apparently effective. So, you see, you two can't win. I've thought of everything."
"You never answered my question," Renegade said, walking toward Magneto, Rogue slightly behind him. Magneto stood unflinching, knowing that Renegade still had his metal covering on. "What do you want with us?"
Magneto laughed. "What do you think? I need mutants who can protect me from the menace of homo sapiens sapiens. These Brotherhood members couldn't do that, as you've proven."
"And as we said: ya can't make us do anything for ya," Rogue stated, stopping behind Renegade, who had stopped several feet away from Magneto.
"Who says I can't?" Magneto asked. "I've rebuilt my evolution machine. You know its properties well, Rogue. You know I can control you with it. The metal in you allows me to put you in there with no trouble on my part. Then, I will have two powerful mutants at my command to do whatever I need. I can even use you two to begin creating a race of near-immortal homo superior. Your power along with young Renegade's protection and near invincibility it gives him, along with the added strength, will be a perfect building block for a perfect race."
"You won't do that!" Renegade yelled, jumping at Magneto and preparing to kick.
"Pathetic," Magneto stated, waving his hand threw the air. Jordan went tumbling backward and stopped in a kneeling position, unable to get back up with the magnetic fields Magneto placed around him. "And you."
Rogue lifted off the ground and hovered in front of Magneto, suspended by the magnetic mutant's power.
"You will be first," he said. A muffled yell came from Renegade, who was still pinned to the ground.
Magneto began walking toward a large circular door that sat in the far wall. Renegade realized he had missed seeing it when he and Rogue had come in. The door opened, shining bright rainbow light into the room. He stopped several feet away from the vault, Rogue still floating in front of him.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt," Magneto stated. "You'll just forget everything."
"ROGUE! ABSORB!"
"What?!?" yelled Magneto.
Renegade had run across the room and jumped into Rogue in mid-air, causing them both to crash to the floor. The metal had disappeared from his skin and Magneto could no longer keep him from moving. Rogue obeyed her boyfriend's command, leaving him slumped on the floor. Rogue erased the metal from her body quickly and jumped at the momentarily stunned Magneto. She touched his bare face, absorbing his abilities and knocking him unconscious.
The battle was over. But not the problem. Just before he had had his power stolen, Magneto had pulled a large support beam from the ceiling in an attempt to halt Renegade and Rogue's plan. They had succeeded, but the building began to break apart. Rapidly.
Rogue looked around quickly to see what she had to do. Renegade and Magneto were out cold.
"Ah can't leave even Magneto here!' she thought to herself. 'And then there's the rest of the Brotherhood! Ah can't get them all!'
Suddenly, the effects of absorbing Blob left her, signaling that at least the overlarge mutant was awake.
"That's good. He can help his friends. Ah'm outta here!'
Rogue used Magneto's power to lift him off the ground and picked up Renegade, tossing him over her shoulders.
"Jordan, ya're one heavy kid, even without all that metal," the goth said aloud, moving as fast she could toward the exit. She tore away the door with the magnetic power, reopening the way out. She walked out into the hallway and looked both ways, trying to figure out where to head. The roof of the room behind her crashed to the floor, sending shockwaves through the building.
"Oh man, Ah hope that doesn't--" Rogue began, but her fear came true. The shock unsettled the rest of the building and it began to fall apart. "Oh man, we're gonna die," she moaned.
"Come on, let's get outta here, yo!" Toad's voice came from around the corner. Him and the rest of the Brotherhood ran around the corner and headed in the direction opposite Rogue.
'Maybe they know where they're going' Rogue thought to herself. 'At least, Ah hope so.'
Rogue followed the group as fast as she could. They didn't notice her, too worried about getting out themselves. After several turns and Blob's destruction of several doors, the Brotherhood ran out of a main exit and away from the building. Rogue followed them out, then quickly ran out of sight, but not before dumping Magneto on the ground where they could see him and he was out of danger.
A great crash sounded behind Rogue as the building fell. She sat down behind some rocks, setting Jordan beside her. When the dust cleared, Rogue realized they were in a scrubby desert.
"Maybe we're in Arizona or something," she commented aloud.
"Sure seems like it."
"Huh?" Rogue exclaimed, looking next to her. Jordan sat up and leaned against the rock they were behind.
"Think you could've absorbed any more of me back there?" Jordan asked kiddingly.
"Yes, Ah sure could've" Rogue replied, leaning over and kissing Jordan for several minutes.
"Can we use your phone? We're kinda lost."
Jordan and Rogue were standing in one of the few gas stations the desert boasted. The man in front of them looked at the two skeptically before pointing the way to the payphone.
"Thanks," Jordan said. He walked over to the phone and dialed the phone number of the Xavier Institute. Rogue leaned against the wall nearby, waiting for the results.
"Hello?" someone answered. It sounded like Mr. McCoy. "Who is this?"
"Hello, Mr. McCoy. Jordan and Rogue here," Jordan answered.
Excited, Mr. McCoy explained about how most of the Institute was searching the Arizona desert for them. The Professor had been unable to locate their exact position, so they were doing the best they could.
"I'll tell him where you are," Beast concluded, hanging up the phone. Jordan hung up the phone. Rogue walked over to him.
"So?" she asked.
"They're coming to get us," Jordan replied. "Let's go wait outside."
Rogue and Renegade walked outside, holding hands, waiting for the arrival of the X-Jet.
'I guess this applies' Jordan thought to himself. 'The battle's over, but not the war.'
"But I hope that never happens," Jordan mumbled aloud to himself.
"Yeah..." Rogue replies, thinking the same thing. She kisses Jordan, happy to be safe and with someone who cares so much about her.
THE END (for now)
Did you like it? Huh? What did you think? Is my first completed chapter story good? I hope it is. I really enjoyed writing this. ^^
P.S.: I just saw the HeX Factor today. Dang, that was different. And the earlier parts were hilarious! Lol. But I do have one question: I thought that the Scarlet Witch could only affect luck, I didn't know she could do almost anything she wanted. So how does that work? If anybody wants to try explaining that, send me an e-mail! Thanks, bye!