The Judgement of the White Queen

Magneto fumed as he traveled through the skies. "They'll pay for this! They'll all pay! What?" Suddenly the orb stopped moving and landed. "I didn't make this thing to stop!" The hatch opened and he stepped out.

"Hello Magneto," Emma Frost stood before him in the snow. Next to her was a portly man with flaming red hair and a red beard. He looked around. He was surrounded by a group of men in strange black outfits, carrying some type of gun.

"So you didn't think the Joes were any threat to you," The man sneered. "Well you can't say we didn't warn you!"

"What is all this?" Magneto growled.

"I'd like to introduce to you Mr. Harry Leland," Emma introduced her companion. "Also a member of the Inner Circle."

"We brought you here for a reason, Magneto," Leland told him. "You've become too dangerous to trust."

"I think it's time that you finally learned that there is a price that must be paid when you disobey the Circle," Emma intoned.

"Oh really?" Magneto stretched his arms to use his powers. Nothing happened.

"You really didn't think we'd actually be stupid enough to use metal weapons against you now did you?" Leland snarled.

"I have no time for this!" Magneto rose in the air, but then fell to the ground as if he had turned to stone. "What's happening? So…heavy! Can't move!"

"Oh I forgot to mention," Emma droned. "Mr. Leland here is also a mutant. He can control mass."

"Yes," Leland smiled. "I can make anything…or anyone as light or heavy as I wish."

Magneto fell to his knees. He struggled to get up. "You can't…do this to me!"

"It's time you paid for your transgressions Magneto," Emma snapped her fingers. "By order of the Inner Circle I have been authorized to administer your punishment! Now!" Immediately the soldiers sprayed Magneto with a strange green goop. He was soon covered with it from head to toe. Within moments he was encased in it.

"Amazing isn't it," Emma smiled. "It's like those other stasis fields the Sentinels used. But with one minor difference. You don't fall unconscious in this one."

"I know you can hear me in there," She told him. "Consider this a time out. You should think upon the error of your ways. Don't worry. We don't intend to keep you in there forever. A year or so. Maybe two or three ought to do it. Five or six at the most, depending if we need you or not. Yes, five years in suspended animation trapped beneath the ice, in a state of forever alertness ought to do it."

"I hope you went to the bathroom before you got here," Leland snickered. "Otherwise it will be a bit uncomfortable for you. Then again that's rather the point isn't it?" He made the mass heavier until it sank into the snow. "That should cool him off for a while, eh Emma? That was easier than I thought."

She smiled to herself. "This game is far from over. But at least that's once piece taken care of."