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Ever since his sisters found out the truth, at least as much as they could,
Emplate was
upset. They had found out that their older sister Monet was Penance,
but that was not the whole
truth. He then started to dwell on the whole of the picture.
He sat down in his chair and did
something that his enemies, nor even his followers knew about; he cried.
The door openned, and
his man-servant, D.O.A., entered the room. The little man looked
at him and said, "You're
thinking about her again." He shot a nasty gaze at D.O.A. and
the man shut the door. Only
D.O.A. knew the truth about the big picture.
His voice was raspy through his respirator. "How can
I not think about her now? Who
knows what they know, and she did betray me. I thought..."
"Quiet, sir, you're only making yourself weak. We
shall try another attempt soon."
Emplate just sighed when he heard that. He watched D. leave the
room and started to reflect on
memories from long ago. He remembered when he left home, when
he was still Marius St. Croix.
He knew of his powers then, and desided to act on them. He travelled....
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He travelled to the war torn country of Yugoslavia.
He had slowly been learning all the
magics and powers to add to his own mutant abilites, and decided to
work on a plan. He wanted
revenge on his family. He knew of a name in one of his father
files, about a mutant girl. From all
the suffering in her life, he thought he could strike a deal with her,
for her help. He had only a
description to go on. He walked the streets of the city she lived
in, finding no sign of her. He did
however see a face his family was familiar with. The face of
Charles Xavier. He ducked out of
sight. He knew that Xavier was a powerful telepath, but he also
knew that Xavier sided with his
father. He turned to go farther down the alley when he came face
to face with the girl he was
looking for. She glared at him, poised to strike at him.
He saw in her soul that she was angry.
These people took her family, hunted her, and she hated them for that.
All she wanted was
revenge. Marius looked at the girl and said, in his best Serbo-Croation,
"Hello. I wish to help
you."
The girl, who was about to strike him, seemed to relax and
Marius could see this as the
claws on her hands returned to a normal hand like state. She
stood up, and it was obvious that
she had warn these clothes since she was a child. They had not
been changed in how long, but
she had to have been just a girl when she got them, and now she was
an early teen. Her long red
hair flowed from her head. She looked at him with blue eyes and
said, "How can you help me?
Are you going to try and tell me that the people don't know what they're
doing, like that Xavier
jerk keeps saying to me?"
"Xavier is a fool. He doesn't realized that we have
the power to purge this land of
humans. Right now, I have gathered power together to rule many
dimensions, I just have to get
one person out of the way. If you join me, I can give you the
power to extract your penance on
this town."
The girl smiled and said, "Agreed. I shall become
the penance of this town, no, this
country. I shall pay them all back for what they did to my family,
and to me."
Marius looked the girl straight in the eyes and said, "We
shall get revenge on all our
enemies." He smiled and desided it was time to make their escape.
He desided that a
teleportation would be the best.
He started to conjure up the gateway when he heard a voice.
"Yvette, I can help you."
Marius turned to face Charles Francis Xavier entering the alley.
He could tell Xavier was
surprised when he said, "Marius."
Marius grabbed the girl, and said, "Au Revior." With
that they went through the portal
to his new palace, in another dimension. He then closed the portal
and said to the girl, "Welcome
home, Yvette."
She turned to him, red hair flowing and said, "Thank you,
Marius." With that, she
kissed him.
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A knocking on the door brought him back to reality.
Emplate walked over to the door
and openned it. It was Vincente. "What is it, Vincente?"
The mutant of mist looked around nervously and said, "Sir,
D.O.A. said that there
might be a psionic disturbance heading this way. It seems to
be moving at a phenominal rate. It
has taken a toll on some of the other dimensions."
"It is of no concern." He slammed the door in Vincente's
face and heard something fall.
He walked over to a picture that had fallen of the wall. He looked
at it and felt a tear come to his
eye. "I remember that day." It was the first day that he
and Yvette had broken free of this
dimension prison, but it had cost him. The photo was taken before
so they could remember their
last day of normal love.
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When Marius made the deal and became Emplate, he didn't know
what he was getting
into, he now had access to all the mutant powers in the world, but
he had to constantly fed or be
tourmented by the souls of his victims. He even had to wear a
resperator now, and was given a
man-servant, D.O.A. Yvette had walked over behind him.
He knew what she was going to ask.
"Did you figure on those two brats doing this to us, my love?"
"No, what Claudette did was not figured on? It cost
me alot to get us out of there."
"I wish I could still kiss you. What about this need
to feed?"
He couldn't find a way around saying it. "If I don't
feed, I have to suffer."
She looked at him and said, "Then feed off me." She
tensed up, and said "Hurry, before
your sister's mind realizes it. You..." She screamed and
tensed up even more. At that point,
Emplate saw Yvette lunge at him. He backed away in time to avoid
the deadly strike. Monet's
mind had taken charge. Yvette had agreed to this, but neither
suspected the power in Monet. He
had destroied her body, and placed her mind into Yvette's, and now
the two fought for control.
He jumped back and yelled, "D.O.A., get in here and restrain
Yvette." The little man
ran in and quickly did his job. Emplate walked over to the now
restrained Yvette and said, "I'm
sorry, my love, but I had no choice." He saw her nod. She
was in control. He then put his hand
to her head and started to feed.
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He knew it was her love for him that made her last so long,
but also it was his love for
her that made him hunt others. He had hunted to save her from
death. He killed so she could
live. While in these thought, Emplate felt a knife splitting
pain. He screamed out in pain and
collapsed to the the floor.
He saw his minions walk in, but there was something different.
He could not see their
auras. He had lost his "sight". He was still partially
with it, but he heard in his mind My love, or
ex-love. I know you can hear me now. I want to stay with
them. I have learned to care about
people. Monet is now free, and your sisters are teaching me kindness.
Please let me be. If you
still love me, let me be.>
Emplate stood up. He was saddened by what he heard,
but he was also angry. She had
truely betrayed him now. He looked at D.O.A. and said, "Prepare
for an attack. Either we
capture all of Generation X this time, or we leave them with a corpse."
Yvette could not be
forgiven.
