Chapter Ten

Rebellion

Wolverine slammed into one of the titanium steel walls, he shook his head. He looked up and jumped out of the way right before Sabertooth rammed his iron fists in the spot where Wolverine's head use to be. Sabertooth whirled around but Wolverine wasn't there, he looked around but couldn't find him.

"Give up Logan! You'll never win!" Sabertooth snarled, "You disgrace your name just by socializing with the X-Men! You've turned soft over the years and you know it!"

"Is this soft enough for yea!?"

Wolverine jumped down from the ceiling and rammed his feet into Sabertooth's back, sending him skidding across the floor. Sabertooth wiped some blood from his mouth, he had lost a tooth. He glared at Wolverine and was just about to jump up and pounce on him when all the lights went out in the hall they were battling in.

"What the!?" Sabertooth looked around in the darkness, his senses heightened.

Wolverine stayed close to the walls, he stopped when he herd... giggling? It sounded like a child, it was laughing off in the distance. He herd that laugh before, it belonged to Yoshiko. Something was wrong... dead wrong.

"Yoshiko?" He hissed, "Where are you?"

"I'm right here kitty man!" Yoshiko giggled from behind him, "Call me Wanderess! That's what Master calls me!"

He whirled around to see Yoshiko standing behind him, she was decked out in a weird black uniform. Wanderess? Master?

"Yoshiko..." He looked her up and down, "Who exactly is Master?"

"Why Magneto of course!" Yoshiko giggled, "Silly kitty man! Your so funny!"

Sabertooth tackled Yoshiko from behind, the two rolled until Sabertooth was on top of her pinning her to the ground. Yoshiko giggled as she took her hand and placed it on his cheek, black lightning shot through her hand into his blood stream. He roared in pain as the darkness started to cover his eyes, his mind, until-- he blacked out. Yoshiko rolled out from underneath Sabertooth, she stood up and dusted herself off.

"Yoshiko, are you all right?" Wolverine hesitated, who, and how could a person do such a thing... even Magneto had hit his all time low for doing this to a child.

The small and battered group of the rest of the X-Men came limping down the hall, Shadowcat was stumbling to stand but NightCrawler helped her to stand. Scott was still knocked out, Spyke was carrying him down the hall, Rogue cradled her burnt hand. Jean had a tear struck face and was slowly walking beside Spyke, Storm stopped in her tracks when she saw Sabertooth on the ground nearly burnt to a crisp.

"Where's Yoshiko?" Storm asked Wolverine, "This is obviously her doing..."

A giggled came from behind Storm, she whirled around and saw Yoshiko. Yoshiko grabbed her wrist and smiled, "I'm right here." She surged the lightning through Storm, Storm let out a breath taking scream. She'd never felt this kind of lightning, she's always able to control, but now she was at it's mercy. Her scream grew faint, she slumped over and Yoshiko side stepped and let her fall to the ground.

"Auntie O!" Spyke quickly handed over Cyclops to Jean and rushed to his Aunt's side, "Auntie O! Come on! Don't do this to me!"

Nothing came from her lips, she wasn't dead, but like Cyclops and severally burnt. Her skin even crackled with some of the left over black lightning, Spyke brushed away some of her hair that was in her face. A tear trickled down his face, the anger built up, now it was personal.

"Where is the brat!?!" Spyke snapped as he stood up, he produced some of his large daggers from his hand, "This kid has a huge discipline problem!!" He glared around looking for Yoshiko, "And I'm going to fix it!"

"Spyke!" Xavier glared, "She's just a child, and she doesn't even know what she's doing!" He sighed, "We're going to have to retreat, recruit, and come up with a better plan then this..."

Rahne jumped down from the X-Jet into the freezing cold snow, her X-Men uniform wasn't all that thin but she wasn't expecting such a shock. Shivers ran up her spine and a cold gust of wind wrapped around her, she looked back at the X-Jet, how warm it was, how inviting.

"No..." Rahne shivered, "I'm doing this for Yoshiko..." She looked about and found some tracks from some snow mobiles, "Those tracks must lead to where Yoshiko is...."

Rahne shivered, and transformed into a dog, she was a bit warmer now that she had a fur coat on. She started to run in the direction of the tracks, searching for her best friend.

After running for five minutes she saw something appear from the horizon, she quickly hid behind a snow bank and tried her hardest not to be seen. It was the X-Men team, two were knocked out cold, and the others were either limping or carrying another person. She noticed that Yoshiko wasn't with them. But they all ran in the direction that Rahne had came from, she watched as the group ran right past her and her hiding space. When they were finally out of sight, she jumped out from the cold snow bank and shook off the excess snow off of herself. She whirled around when she herd a loud thundering sound come from above, she quickly looked up just in time to see the X-Jet fly over head and out of sight.... they left her... she was alone.

Yoshiko...., Rahne thought. Where are you...

Rahne continued to run down the tracks, she nearly ran back in the other direction in fright when she saw the giant building. Was this were Yoshiko was being held? She shook her head, it doesn't matter. I have to go help her! Rahne ran faster down the tracks until she saw where they entered, it was a large cargo space in the far back of the building. It was opened, she looked around, how stupid is Magneto any way's? To leave a hole open to anyone. She looked around, no one to watch her, she pranced right in and detransformed back into her human form. She stood up on her two legs and walked into a door way, where there was no door, and into a long corridor. It was just as cold as it was outside, she walked down the dark corridor, there were no lights on. She tripped over something and stumbled to her feet, she looked down to see what she had tripped over, it was a large body of some kind of cat man. It was burnt very badly at the face and it looked dead, but small heaves came from it's chest. Who, what, could do something like this? She looked around, she was hoping that there wasn't anymore of these bodies just laying around, she was also hoping that if there was some it wasn't Yoshiko. Speak of the devil, Yoshiko stepped out from a shadow. Rahne gasped in sheer joy.

"Yoshiko! It's me! Rahne!"

Rahne's thick and sweet Irish accent filled Yoshiko's mind, small memories came back of Rahne and her playing at the Institute. Yoshiko's eyes started to flicker, her right black eye was slowly turning back to it's original white. She quickly shook her head and glared daggers at Rahne.

"NO!!" Yoshiko hissed, "My name is Wanderess!! I know not of this Yoshiko you speak of!!" The white was quickly shattered and black dominated her eyes again, "You bad! You must be destroyed!!"

"Yoshiko!" Rahne gasped, she just realized the color difference of her eyes and hair, "W-why don't you remember me?"

Yoshiko gagged, her eyes flickered open and shut, she looked as if she was having a seizure. She fell to her knees and gasped for air.

"Ra-Rahne!" Yoshiko managed to say, "L-leave! Quickly!" Her eyes were switching colors of black and white rapidly, "I-I can only hold her f-for so---" Yoshiko got up, and dusted herself off. She had stopped with the convolutions and looked at Rahne, "You seem nice... but you can't help her, she's already dead..."

"NO!!" Rahne whimpered, tears fell from her eyes, "My friend is not gone! I know she's still inside there! I know she's still alive!" Rahne glared at Yoshiko, "I know your in there! Yoshiko! Fight it! Fight it Yoshiko!! I know you can!!!" Tears streamed from her face, "Fight it! Your stronger than this!!"

"ARRGHH!!" Yoshiko clasped her hands over her ears, the convolutions reappeared, "Foolish girl!! She can never defeat the Dark! Dark summons the Light and the Light summons the Dark!! She can't beat me!"

Yoshiko glared at Rahne, she stumbled into the shadows and she transported herself away. Rahne looked at the last place where Yoshiko was... she fell to her knees and aloud the tears to flow freely down her face as small sobs came from her. Her best friend, was gone...

Yoshiko had transported herself to the main control room of the building, as soon as she got there she stumbled to a chair and sat down. She was heaving for air as if she had just ran a two mile race, her head hurt, she looked down and saw her reflection in the steel floor. Her eyes were now cut into their original two colors, black with white and white with black. She looked up when she herd someone enter the room, it was Quicksilver.

"So, are they dead yet?" Quicksilver asked, his sly smile still on his face, "Or are they running amuck still?"

"Come here..." Yoshiko whispered.

"What?" He couldn't hear her small voice, so he walked up to her.

She grabbed his wrist and smiled, she sent a surge or black lightning into him. Bolt after bolt, he was yelling but he could not be herd by anyone but her. She griped harder as he tried to get away, and sent in more violent bolts of darkness. She slowly let go as he fell limp and slumped onto the floor, her smile was more soft.

"Foolish mortal..." Yoshiko hissed, she left Quicksilver there and stepped into a shadow, "You have no clue who your up against...."

Magneto passed a room, the same room where the tank was that had turned Yoshiko to who she was. He passed it, he was wondering how long such a power mutant can take to destroy a few people? His question was answered when Yoshiko teleported in by the shadows, she walked over to him and bowed.

"They have retreated..." Yoshiko said.

"I told you to kill them! Destroy them!" Magneto yelled, "Not to let them get away!!"

He took the back of his hand and hit her across the face, Yoshiko stumbled backwards and rubbed her cheek. A red mark was there, and fire blazed in her eyes.

"No one... hits, me..." Yoshiko hissed, she rushed him and was about to tackle him when a giant metal hand came down from the sealing and pinned her to the ground.

Magneto walked up to her, her looked at her eyes. They had been turned a different color... he sighed.

"I knew your other half would find a way to get back," Magneto said, "But I didn't know it'd come so soon." He sighed again, "I guess we'll just have to fix that won't we?"

Yoshiko found a small shadow by her, she reached to it and transported herself behind Magneto. A giggle came from her, she took his hand in hers.

"The Master... is no more..." Yoshiko giggled.

Black lightning danced from her eyes, and through her hands into him....