Chapter 7: Stand Up & Fight
Dean Fleming stared down at his son. Hamilton's hands were the same color blue as that woman Mystique's. Hamilton was curled up on the floor with his eyes closed tight, screaming in pain. Ryder kneeled down next to him. Suddenly a blue light glowed in Hamilton's hands. A beam of light shoots out of his palms and hits Logan. The force pins Logan to the wall. A minute passed before the beam of light retracted and Logan fell to the floor.
"Hamilton?" Mrs. Fleming's voice trembled.
Ham's soft blue eyes found his mother's face.
"Jake, we have to find Jake."
"You need to rest."
"Mom, we have to find Jake, cause I love him." With that Ham passed out.
Dean Fleming looked from Hamilton to up to Finn, whose skin was still icy and clear. "Robert."
"I'm sorry you were never supposed to find o…"
"Robert." Dean Fleming interrupted. "It's okay."
Finn's skin changed back to normal.
"Professor?" Dean Fleming turned to Xavier. "I've heard rumors of you leading a band of mutants. If it is true, I want you to find my student and get him back."
"Don't worry, I've already contacted them. Ryder, I want you to take Hamilton and hide him in one of the dorm rooms, but not yours or his." Ryder nodded in response.
"Xavier, I want to go with you." Finn spoke.
"Someone needs to stay with Ryder."
"I'll stay."
Everyone turned to see Rogue standing in the doorway.
"Are you sure?" Xavier asked.
She nodded her head.
"All right, Rogue, help Ryder. Bobby, Logan, let's go."
Will and Scout are sitting in their room talking and listening to music, when suddenly there was a knock on the door. Scout opened it to see Rogue, one of Xavier's students. "Rogue, what's up?"
"Can I come in?"
"Sure." Before he could say anything else, she walked in pushed the book off his bed, and ripped the sheets back.
"What are y…" Will started exclaim, except Ryder interrupted by coming in and laying ham on the bed.
"Ryder, Ham! What's going on?" Scout exclaimed. Rogue closed the door and locked it.
"He passed out." Ryder explained, out of breath.
"So why do you care?" Will asked.
"Some people are after them, so we needed a place to hide." Rogue explained. "Okay?"
"Okay." Both Will and Scout answered.
"Hey, what about Jake, where is he?" Will asked after a minute.
"They have him." Rogue answered.
"They? The people who are after you?" Scout asked.
Ryder nodded.
"Jake." Ham whispered after about five minutes. "Jake."
"Ham, it's me, Will."
"Will, where's Jake?" Ham mumbled as he opened his eyes.
"I don't know."
Ham looked from Will, to Scout, to Ryder, to Rogue and then back to Ryder. "The blue woman, where?"
"She got away. Finn, Logan, and Xavier are going to find her." Ryder told him.
Logan parked the X-Jet in the green. Bella who had been called by Scout to come over, watched as the large jet parked in the green. Scout ran over to her. "What's going on?"
"Ham and Ryder are in trouble, and Jake was kidnapped." Scout told her. "Remember Rogue, Kitty, and Kurt?"
"Yeah." Bella answered.
Scout pointed to the entrance of the jet. There the X-Men had gathered. Suddenly Ham burst out onto the lawn with Rogue following close behind. Scout and Bella ran toward him. Hamilton reached the jet, before anyone else.
"Hamilton, what are you doing, it's not safe?" Kitty exclaimed.
"I want to go!" Ham exclaimed. "I need to."
"I don't think that's a good idea." Scout said.
"I love Jake and I need to go. Jake needs me." Hamilton argued.
Xavier looked deep into Hamilton's eyes. "You don't love Jake, it's her you love."
Hamilton saw Xavier glance at Bella, but then realized that Xavier had read him wrong.
"No, not Bella. Jake, I love Jake."
Xavier looked confused.
"Jake's a girl." Ham confessed. "And I love her."
"Oh, well, ((Xavier exhaled deeply)) let's go." Hamilton smiled. "But stay close to Logan, you don't know how to control your powers yet. Rogue and Gambit, go back and stay with Ryder."
As Hamilton and the X-Men entered the jet, Rogue and Scout led Bella and Gambit to the dorm.
Jake is tied to a chair in the middle of a dark room. Suddenly the lights are turned on. Jake peered around the room to discover that it is actually a large warehouse. Jake sees a large man, who actually seems part cat. Jake was way to scared to scream. Plus in some part of her brain she knew things would get worse for her if they discovered she is a girl. On her right crouched on a box was the frog-like guy who grabbed her earlier. On her left was a naked blue and scaly skinned woman sitting on crate. Next to her was a boy leaning against a support column. He was about Will's height with brown hair in a sort of mullet like style.
Suddenly the metal chair Jake was chained to floated up towards the ceiling. She was then flipped upside down. Jake's stomach started to turn. She fell toward the ground while still upside down. She stooped an inch from the ground, then the chair twisted around so she was laid on her back.
"Not one scream. I applaud you." Said a deep voice behind Jake. She looked up to see a man with short grey dressed in all black looking down at her. "I presume you are Jacob Pratt."
"Who wants to know?" She spat. The blue skinned woman stood over her. With out any warning the woman's face and body changed. Jake's eyes widened staring back at her was herself.
"Me." The copy of Jake said in Jake's voice.
"Oh my god. You're…you're…"
"A mutant!" The man offered.
Jake looked at him as though he said a dirty word. "No, I was going to say, me."
The man seemed surprised by her reply. The woman changed back. "You're not…"
"Scared, shocked, angry, wanting to kill you." Jake offered. "No, well except for the fact that you kidnapped me. No, I don't despise you for being who you are."
No one moved or spoke.
"Bold words, but he's just hoping we don't kill him." The cat-man said.
"Yes, yes, I am, but I don't care about things like mutations, genders, or race. It's who you are that matters. I admire the fact that you are all willing to walk around in broad daylight."
Again the room was silent.
The old man bent down and cut Jake's ropes. She stood up slowly and faced them. The man used his power to throw the chair into a corner.
"I know why you are fighting Xavier, but you two have different views."
"You do?"
"You're both right. Some will understand, while many won't."
"But?"
"But you shouldn't go around trying to kill and kidnap people just to prove that you're more superior. According to evolution you are. Well, in some ways."
Again no one spoke or moved.
