Chapter 4: A Turn of Events.
"Kurt (cough, cough), what are you doing ? (cough)"I force out between gasps.
He glares at me, fingers squeezing. "I tried once and failed, now I can do it again."
"But Kurt, why are you trying to kill me."
No answer, his grip is strengthening and its getting harder to breath. I'm on my back, so I kick him off. I don't know my own strength, because he's sent flying and hit's the wall with a thud. As he gets up, sparks fly off him and I get a clear view of his head while he's still groggy. I set myself up for a fly kick, but vanishes in a puff of smoke, I turn around and there is running toward me. He runs blindly for me so I line up a side punch to his temple. He doesn't anticipate it and bang!
Out cold.
With a few minutes to spare, I switch to my metallic skin and punch the mirrors on all the walls, the glass shatters as I go round to each wall, my fists bleed through the silver skin but I continue to break the mirrors. I have the thought that Magneto would be behind one of these mirrors watching us.
I am about to smash the last one, when I here Kurt yell, out of the corner of my view I see him sailing in the air towards me, I duck and run for cover. He is still on his flight plan until it comes to an abrupt halt, smashing the last glass wall. All of them were re-enforced metal walls!
I looked back at Kurt getting up, but he didn't have his aggressive 'get up and fight' demeanour.
"Selaeste, what's- Aaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!" He looked like he was getting electrocuted, but from what?
I cautiously walked towards him. "Kurt, are you there?"
His face changed, he was back to killing me again. He came running at me and I threw him over. Thud! His body pounded to the ground and didn't look like he was in good shape.
Seizing the chance, I jumped on him while he was down, there was something about his face that had changed. I pinned him down, looking into his eyes and scanning his face for the difference.
Sparks flew from his forehead. "Aaarrgh! Make it stop!" Kurt was being shocked by some device Magneto had attached to him, but where had he attached it?
Suddenly, a force pulled me off Kurt and held me against the wall.
He sat up and glared at me. Shattered glass lay everywhere and he picked up a jagged piece, marching towards me with his weapon ready to strike.
I changed to my normal skin and I fell off the wall. On getting up, I turned to run but Kurt had got to me. Holding my left shoulder, the glass twisted and plunged into my lower back, but it didn't hurt. I heard the glass break and metal scraping. Changing back to my metal surface, I spun around and hit Kurt in the temples again, knocking him out for a second time.
I felt my back, the glass protruding from its mark. Taking it out, my fingers and the shard were covered with a shiny blue liquid. It was dripping down my leg on to the ground.
Kurt groaned again, he looked so beaten up and I was only too sorry for him. I went to him and embraced him. He had lost conscious and seemed so helpless in my arms. Touching his face, feeling his cheek and ear, something zapped my hand. I discovered what had made Kurt act that way, a small chip attached to behind his ear.
Immediately I ripped the chip from its position and crushed it under my heel. Then, I looked above me. There were security cameras in the corners of the room and a speaker beneath the grated floor. Laying Kurt against a wall to rest, I went to each camera and disconnected them all.
I noticed another thing, the grated floor had a fault in it. I walked over towards it, liquid still dripping from me. I changed back again into my original skin, with a slight stinging as I had shed skin too much in a short period.
This wasn't a fault, it was a trap door. Lifting the grate lead to a dark tunnel going directly down.
I picked up Kurt and dragged him to door, he was still unresponsive, so I embraced him and together we jumped down the tunnel.
For a while we just fell downwards, darkness all around.
Finally we landed on another floor, looking around, I found it was the laboratory similar to the one we were in before. There was a door in the far corner and no windows, only mirrors and cameras.
I put the still unconscious Kurt on a cleared table and a sheet over him so as not to draw attention to him.
I walked over to the door, about to take hold of the handle when… BANG! BANG!
Something or someone from the outside was trying to get in and I was in no shape for fighting again. I tried changing into my metallic form, no luck!
It would appear and then disappear, the liquid had stopped dripping. It was the liquid that was responsible for making my transformation happen. And just when I really needed it, it had gone!
The door continued to get beaten and the dents were deep, it would come off any second, so I returned to Kurt and joined him under the sheet, hoping that whoever was coming wasn't one of Magneto's henchmen.
To be continued…
A.T.-A bit shorter but it was action packed!
"Kurt (cough, cough), what are you doing ? (cough)"I force out between gasps.
He glares at me, fingers squeezing. "I tried once and failed, now I can do it again."
"But Kurt, why are you trying to kill me."
No answer, his grip is strengthening and its getting harder to breath. I'm on my back, so I kick him off. I don't know my own strength, because he's sent flying and hit's the wall with a thud. As he gets up, sparks fly off him and I get a clear view of his head while he's still groggy. I set myself up for a fly kick, but vanishes in a puff of smoke, I turn around and there is running toward me. He runs blindly for me so I line up a side punch to his temple. He doesn't anticipate it and bang!
Out cold.
With a few minutes to spare, I switch to my metallic skin and punch the mirrors on all the walls, the glass shatters as I go round to each wall, my fists bleed through the silver skin but I continue to break the mirrors. I have the thought that Magneto would be behind one of these mirrors watching us.
I am about to smash the last one, when I here Kurt yell, out of the corner of my view I see him sailing in the air towards me, I duck and run for cover. He is still on his flight plan until it comes to an abrupt halt, smashing the last glass wall. All of them were re-enforced metal walls!
I looked back at Kurt getting up, but he didn't have his aggressive 'get up and fight' demeanour.
"Selaeste, what's- Aaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!" He looked like he was getting electrocuted, but from what?
I cautiously walked towards him. "Kurt, are you there?"
His face changed, he was back to killing me again. He came running at me and I threw him over. Thud! His body pounded to the ground and didn't look like he was in good shape.
Seizing the chance, I jumped on him while he was down, there was something about his face that had changed. I pinned him down, looking into his eyes and scanning his face for the difference.
Sparks flew from his forehead. "Aaarrgh! Make it stop!" Kurt was being shocked by some device Magneto had attached to him, but where had he attached it?
Suddenly, a force pulled me off Kurt and held me against the wall.
He sat up and glared at me. Shattered glass lay everywhere and he picked up a jagged piece, marching towards me with his weapon ready to strike.
I changed to my normal skin and I fell off the wall. On getting up, I turned to run but Kurt had got to me. Holding my left shoulder, the glass twisted and plunged into my lower back, but it didn't hurt. I heard the glass break and metal scraping. Changing back to my metal surface, I spun around and hit Kurt in the temples again, knocking him out for a second time.
I felt my back, the glass protruding from its mark. Taking it out, my fingers and the shard were covered with a shiny blue liquid. It was dripping down my leg on to the ground.
Kurt groaned again, he looked so beaten up and I was only too sorry for him. I went to him and embraced him. He had lost conscious and seemed so helpless in my arms. Touching his face, feeling his cheek and ear, something zapped my hand. I discovered what had made Kurt act that way, a small chip attached to behind his ear.
Immediately I ripped the chip from its position and crushed it under my heel. Then, I looked above me. There were security cameras in the corners of the room and a speaker beneath the grated floor. Laying Kurt against a wall to rest, I went to each camera and disconnected them all.
I noticed another thing, the grated floor had a fault in it. I walked over towards it, liquid still dripping from me. I changed back again into my original skin, with a slight stinging as I had shed skin too much in a short period.
This wasn't a fault, it was a trap door. Lifting the grate lead to a dark tunnel going directly down.
I picked up Kurt and dragged him to door, he was still unresponsive, so I embraced him and together we jumped down the tunnel.
For a while we just fell downwards, darkness all around.
Finally we landed on another floor, looking around, I found it was the laboratory similar to the one we were in before. There was a door in the far corner and no windows, only mirrors and cameras.
I put the still unconscious Kurt on a cleared table and a sheet over him so as not to draw attention to him.
I walked over to the door, about to take hold of the handle when… BANG! BANG!
Something or someone from the outside was trying to get in and I was in no shape for fighting again. I tried changing into my metallic form, no luck!
It would appear and then disappear, the liquid had stopped dripping. It was the liquid that was responsible for making my transformation happen. And just when I really needed it, it had gone!
The door continued to get beaten and the dents were deep, it would come off any second, so I returned to Kurt and joined him under the sheet, hoping that whoever was coming wasn't one of Magneto's henchmen.
To be continued…
A.T.-A bit shorter but it was action packed!