X-MEN: Dawn of Destruction
A/N: Is anyone going to review for this story?
Last Chapter: Bobby deals with his feelings for Rogue as Gambit moves in on her. Kitty rounds up a gang to go to the mall. Storm has a heart-to- heart with Zee and Cyclops is kidnapped by the New Brotherhood.
"Ace of Spades"
An hour later, Rogue found herself sitting at a table in her own, personal hell-hole. The food court at the mall. It wasn't that she didn't like the mall-she just didn't like the little giggling teenyboppers (like Kitty) who inhibited it. Kitty, Jubilee, Psylocke, and Amara had run off to examine hand-bags that were half-off at some preppy store, so Rogue found herself seated at a table with Bobby, Neal, Gambit, and Danielle.
"So, is THIS what you guys do for fun?" Danielle asked with subtle un- taste that it almost sounded like disdain.
"When we're not protecting the world from evil", Rogue answered smartly, winking at the glowering girl.
Thunderbird smirked smartly and laughed, "Which means we're here every Saturday since Professor X and Cyclops never let us do anything!"
Rogue rolled her eyes, "Neal, we're not experienced enough yet- obviously."
"I am." He answered smartly, crossing his arms.
"Then why did I see you go flying into the main gates this afternoon when your powers surged out of control, monami?" Gambit asked, flicking a playing card upward with the flip of his wrist.
Neal blushed at their laughter when suddenly an enormous uproar broke out across the food court. Bobby, who had remained silent for most of the afternoon (except for the occasional glare towards Gambit) stood quickly, "What is that?"
Rogue turned her head swiftly in time to see a large, white sign jut upward from the crowd of spectator's heads. She squinted so that she could make out the small, neat black writing scrawled across the poster board that was connected to a long, brown board:
MUTANTS MUST DIE
LEAVE THE WORLD IN PEACE
GO TO YOUR OWN UNIVERSE
"Hey ya'll, it's some punks that think they can speak out against us!" she stood quickly, and Gambit followed. She balled her slender hands into fists and bit her lips nervously. Bobby, Neal, and Danielle were already tearing across the food court (much like the other teens that had been eating) to examine what was going on.
The small band of teenage mutants eyed the spiky-haired protestors outside the CD store with edible rage. They were all teenagers-about their age-holding up various signs that protested against mutants. They all had on white T-Shirts that had a crossed out planet on the front and said "Mutants don't belong here", and they were ranting about how mutants were everywhere.
"They shop in our malls! Do we really want mutant freaks walking among us-in the mall? They could be ringing up your purchases-how comforting is that?"
"Mutants must die!"
"They're part of that hate group, aren't they?" whispered Neal to Bobby.
Bobby took a deep breath before replying, "I think so."
"But they're only teenagers!" Danielle seethed into his ear, "How could they be a part of H.S.A.M.F?"
Bobby shook his head and shrugged slightly, "Hitler had those little teenage Nazis in training-why not a current group that hates people because they are different?"
Danielle shook her head in disappointment, "Let's have a little fun with them." A creepy smirk crawled across her face as she jammed two fingers into her temple and outstretched her right hand. She closed her eyes-and before Bobby could stop her, the dozen of teenage protestors' signs went flying out of their grasp and crashing into the opposite wall of the food court. Moonstar had used her mind to yank the offensive signs away from the selfish protestors.
"Danielle!" Bobby yelped in a whisper.
"Who do you think you are?"
The trio turned quickly to see who had the nerve to actually stick up for the mutants. Bobby's gut sunk-but he wasn't surprised-to find Gambit glaring at them angrily, "Answer my question!"
"They're among us right now!" screamed one of the protestors, "They just used their little mind powers to steal our signs!"
"You have no right. . ." Gambit began shoving through the crowd.
"GAMBIT! NO!" Neal screamed.
"Why do you even care?" asked a particularly annoying looking boy with blond hair, "Are YOU one of them?"
Gambit smirked, and Bobby watched in terror as he pulled an ace of spades from his card deck, "As a matter of fact-I am."
A filter of gasps resounded throughout the crowd and they began to back up slowly.
"Wanna see what my power is?"
The card began to glow-a slow, light pink fluorescence echoing off Remy LeBeau's face. The annoying blond kid screamed angrily and backed away into his teammates, "You're crazy."
"I know", Gambit smirked.
"Remy, stop it now!" Rogue screamed from the back of the crowd.
Before she could get another word out, a large explosion from up front sent her flying backward. She was stopped rudely by a nearby bench jutting into her back. Her eyes fluttered shut to the sounds of screaming bystanders.
Neal was swept off of his feet and sent flying over the railing leading down to the first floor. He screamed, waiting for the bone- crushing blow to end his terror. But, before he could fee his bones snap and bend, he was weightlessly dancing about twenty feet above the tile below. He looked up to see Danielle reaching out to him-holding him with her mind. Slowly, he levitated back upward.
People began shrieking louder as flames erupted throughout the CD store. Bobby took a deep breath and exhaled-ice went spewing over the crying flames, and in a matter of minutes they were flattened out to a group of unconscious bystanders including Rogue.
"MUTANTS!"
Dozens of screams echoed throughout the mall, and the protestors glared at the five of them angrily as they began to run away. Bobby glared at Gambit, then scooped Rogue's limp body into his arms and began to run.
"Dani and Neal-find the others and get out of here!" He and Gambit began to race for the escalator.
On the way down, Rogue woke up and fought out of Iceman's grip so that she was back on her feet. Once they were on ground level, all three of them began running again.
"Remy-that was really stupid of you!" Rogue scolded as they raced for the parking lot, leaving the screams and teammates behind them.
"Come on, Rogue", he smirked, "You know they didn't deserve to be saying all that crap. I just put them in their place is all."
Rogue shut her eyes in concentration, "Remy-I WAS hurt in that explosion!"
Finally, they stopped to catch their breath when they were almost out of the mall's enormous parking lot. Gambit put a trembling hand on Rogue's shoulder, "I'm sorry. I'm a little scared myself. That explosion wasn't supposed to be so big-I swear it. And I would never want you to get hurt."
Rogue smiled slightly. He was too cute to turn down. Before she could do anything, his lips met hers. As soon as his tongue brushed her lips, a scream of pain erupted.
And he was on the ground, gasping for air.
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The Blackbird made its final descent as the Xavier Institute's basketball court opened from both sides to the dark lair beneath.
"We are here", Storm observed, smiling gently at Zee, who was peering out the window nervously.
"Where I come from-basketball courts just don't open up like that", Zee replied, a little frightened.
Storm smiled again and responded with, "Leave everything you knew behind-you're going to love it here. You belong."
Zee forced a smile. In truth, she was extremely scared of this place. She didn't want to be at Xavier School for the Gifted-but she didn't want to be out wandering the streets of Compton either. She ran her thin, ebony fingers through her long midnight black hair and took a deep breath as Nightcrawler finally landed the jet completely.
"Well, here we are", came his heavily-accented voice from up front.
Storm pressed a button on the side of the control panel and a small stairwell descended to the ground. Zee grabbed her duffel bag full of random necessities and began to walk down. She took a deep breath at her new life that was about to sweep her old one by storm.
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Through the screeching chaos of the mall, Danielle could barely make out the girls huddled together near an accessories display in some store with glowing red letters in its name. Jubilee was clutching Kitty for dear life. Psylocke was looking around, puzzled, as Amara attempted to calm all the girls down.
"Kitty!" yelled Neal from behind Danielle.
The young, thin girl looked up quickly to see her two fellow students beckoning her over through the crowds of screaming parents and teens. She quickly gathered the rest of the girls beside her and sprinted toward the two.
"What's going on?" Kitty asked, breathlessly.
Danielle took a deep breath, "Gambit screwed everything up-I'll explain when we get out of here-come on!"
"Ugh!" Jubilee gasped, disgustedly, "He's going to pay for ruining this sale of Cabrini bracelets!"
"Just come on", Neal snapped, clenching her hand and yanking the young Asian mutant forward.
The six mutants began racing through the throngs of panicking people, "There's mutants among us!"
"They're attacking!"
Amara grunted in pain as a rushing woman slammed into her and knocked her to the ground. Neal quickly slid beside her and grappled her to her feet, "Are you okay?"
"I think so", the young girl mumbled, embarrassed, as she brushed herself off.
Before the band of racing mutants got any further, a mob of uniformed mall security blocked off the nearest three exits. One tall, muscular security guard with an extremely ugly haircut yelled, "Do not let them get out of here!"
A rush of uniformed guards raced toward them. They apparently recognized Danielle and Neal as two of the mutants who had struck earlier. The younger girls gaped in amazement at the onslaught of police officers.
"You guys get out of here", Danielle ordered, pointing toward an open exit, across the mall in Dillard's, "Neal-you stay with me-I don't think my telekinesis can hold them all!"
Neal nodded and made sure that the rest of the girls made it toward the other exit.
"Watch out for the rest-make sure they get out", Neal whispered to Kitty before they took off, "Especially Amara!"
Kitty nodded and began shoving the younger girls forward. Danielle turned back toward the incoming security guards. Where did Bobby and Gambit get off just leaving her and Neal? Why were they taking the heat for Gambit's mistake, while he was out (safe) in the parking lot?
Danielle outstretched her hand and smirked mischievously as a nearby pretzel display toppled over and took out the first crowd of officers. The one with the bad haircut glared angrily at her and fumbled with a pistol in his holster. Before his clumsiness could fully overtake him-Danielle concentrated and sent him flying backward.
He landed with a dull thud in a nearby phone booth. Danielle concentrated through the light black bangs that tumbled into her face from her loose ponytail and sent another crowd of officers onto their backs.
"What are you?" one of the cops yelped.
"My name is Danielle Moonstar", she seethed as she knocked over a hat display that landed on top of him, "But you can call me Dani."
Meanwhile, Neal had taken out another group with a blast of energetic fire from the sun. The cops struggled to cover themselves from the blazing flames, but ended up hitting the ground-hard. Danielle smacked him a high- five and the pair took off running past the groaning security guards and out the nearest exit.
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The sun beat down angrily on the sand of Crystown Beach in Santa Monica, California. It was definitely not a place you would expect to see a bald, wheelchair bound man in a black dress suit and a large, muscular black-haired man dressed in baggy black pants and a matching jacket.
"I can feel him-very close", Professor Xavier murmured, looking around at the bikini-laden blondes and ripped surfers, "There."
His cohort on their mission to recruit this new teenage mutant for the gifted school, Beast turned quickly to see a cut young blond with his head balanced in his hands. Professor X had discovered this young mutant back in the Cerebro II incident. His parents-of course-had been okay with it, but he couldn't last much longer at his school. His powers to create portals to go back to any point in time were spinning out of control- snatching him from the present in between classes.
Davis Cameron looked up at the two mutants as if they were aliens. When they began to approach-warm, kind looks guiding their faces-he stumbled to his feet and ran-disappearing into thin air as a portal claimed him before he got any further. Gasps and shrieks filtered the air and Professor X looked up at Beast.
"I know where he is going."
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When Cyclops woke up, he found that his eyes were covered in some heavy-metallic device. He instinctively reached upward, but his wrists were bound to the arms of a chair. He groaned angrily-struggling to remember what had happened. He had fallen off of his motorcycle-gotten his ass kicked by a gang of mutants. And that breath-God that awful breath. His memory flooded back slowly after that-as he remembered willingly following the soothing voice that had a command over him. Obviously that woman who had squared him down had power-through that rank breath-to make anyone her slave.
Where am I?
He wanted desperately to pry the metallic blindfold from his eyes-he couldn't see and he was panicking. A loud creak was heard from his left, and the young mutant gasped as something heavy smashed into the back of his head.
"Well, well, well", came a familiar, dark, resounding voice, "If it isn't Professor Xavier's favorite little mutant", he was greeted by another blow to the head, "Guess who?"
"Magneto!" Cyclops murmured with dreadful disdain.
"Right", came the amused response. Magneto smiled as he gripped the crow bar with his magnetic powers, he slammed it into the back of Cyclops's head for good measure and said, "The first step in our plan is done. I just wanted it to be known that you were kidnapped by ME", he followed with a mocking laugh, "So now I'll have Methane work on you while Mystique and I free the next STEP in our plan." He laughed again, and then Cyclops could hear him leave and some heavy, leather boots stomp in.
"Don't even try to focus on shooting me", came a female voice, "The headband we provided around your eyes cuts off your power until you are once again under my control."
"Who are you?"
There was a slight giggle, "I thought I told you the first time. My name is Methane-and you are my slave."
The horrible smell clenched his nostrils once more and he could feel her hands race through his hair, massaging his scalp. Her lips brushed his ear as more of the sickening stench clogged his nose.
"Bet you're wondering what my power is", she said sexily, "I was blessed to have breath that could KILL."
"Sounds more like you need a tic-tac than you are a mutant."
Cyclops was slapped across the face angrily, "I can CONTROL it you sick bastard! When I need a slave-like you-a power like this can come in handy."
Cyclops felt his mind wash away like sand on a high tide. He swallowed, but his throat hurt. His mind became disoriented and he couldn't think straight. Where am I? What's going on with Rogue? I'm going to kill Wolverine! His thoughts flew angrily before the thin, taut whisper trickled into his ear.
"Kill the X-MEN."
Cyclops straightened at attention as the slim fingers forced their way through his hair some more, "What are we going to do?"
"Kill the X-MEN", was his monotone reply, "Kill the X-MEN, Master. . ."
A/N: Review!
Next Chapter:
The Brotherhood goes through with Mr. Sinister's escape and plots against the X-MEN.
The young mutants face the consequences of their actions.
Professor X chases a troubled mutant.
Storm, Zee, and Nightcrawler finally get some action.
A/N: Is anyone going to review for this story?
Last Chapter: Bobby deals with his feelings for Rogue as Gambit moves in on her. Kitty rounds up a gang to go to the mall. Storm has a heart-to- heart with Zee and Cyclops is kidnapped by the New Brotherhood.
"Ace of Spades"
An hour later, Rogue found herself sitting at a table in her own, personal hell-hole. The food court at the mall. It wasn't that she didn't like the mall-she just didn't like the little giggling teenyboppers (like Kitty) who inhibited it. Kitty, Jubilee, Psylocke, and Amara had run off to examine hand-bags that were half-off at some preppy store, so Rogue found herself seated at a table with Bobby, Neal, Gambit, and Danielle.
"So, is THIS what you guys do for fun?" Danielle asked with subtle un- taste that it almost sounded like disdain.
"When we're not protecting the world from evil", Rogue answered smartly, winking at the glowering girl.
Thunderbird smirked smartly and laughed, "Which means we're here every Saturday since Professor X and Cyclops never let us do anything!"
Rogue rolled her eyes, "Neal, we're not experienced enough yet- obviously."
"I am." He answered smartly, crossing his arms.
"Then why did I see you go flying into the main gates this afternoon when your powers surged out of control, monami?" Gambit asked, flicking a playing card upward with the flip of his wrist.
Neal blushed at their laughter when suddenly an enormous uproar broke out across the food court. Bobby, who had remained silent for most of the afternoon (except for the occasional glare towards Gambit) stood quickly, "What is that?"
Rogue turned her head swiftly in time to see a large, white sign jut upward from the crowd of spectator's heads. She squinted so that she could make out the small, neat black writing scrawled across the poster board that was connected to a long, brown board:
MUTANTS MUST DIE
LEAVE THE WORLD IN PEACE
GO TO YOUR OWN UNIVERSE
"Hey ya'll, it's some punks that think they can speak out against us!" she stood quickly, and Gambit followed. She balled her slender hands into fists and bit her lips nervously. Bobby, Neal, and Danielle were already tearing across the food court (much like the other teens that had been eating) to examine what was going on.
The small band of teenage mutants eyed the spiky-haired protestors outside the CD store with edible rage. They were all teenagers-about their age-holding up various signs that protested against mutants. They all had on white T-Shirts that had a crossed out planet on the front and said "Mutants don't belong here", and they were ranting about how mutants were everywhere.
"They shop in our malls! Do we really want mutant freaks walking among us-in the mall? They could be ringing up your purchases-how comforting is that?"
"Mutants must die!"
"They're part of that hate group, aren't they?" whispered Neal to Bobby.
Bobby took a deep breath before replying, "I think so."
"But they're only teenagers!" Danielle seethed into his ear, "How could they be a part of H.S.A.M.F?"
Bobby shook his head and shrugged slightly, "Hitler had those little teenage Nazis in training-why not a current group that hates people because they are different?"
Danielle shook her head in disappointment, "Let's have a little fun with them." A creepy smirk crawled across her face as she jammed two fingers into her temple and outstretched her right hand. She closed her eyes-and before Bobby could stop her, the dozen of teenage protestors' signs went flying out of their grasp and crashing into the opposite wall of the food court. Moonstar had used her mind to yank the offensive signs away from the selfish protestors.
"Danielle!" Bobby yelped in a whisper.
"Who do you think you are?"
The trio turned quickly to see who had the nerve to actually stick up for the mutants. Bobby's gut sunk-but he wasn't surprised-to find Gambit glaring at them angrily, "Answer my question!"
"They're among us right now!" screamed one of the protestors, "They just used their little mind powers to steal our signs!"
"You have no right. . ." Gambit began shoving through the crowd.
"GAMBIT! NO!" Neal screamed.
"Why do you even care?" asked a particularly annoying looking boy with blond hair, "Are YOU one of them?"
Gambit smirked, and Bobby watched in terror as he pulled an ace of spades from his card deck, "As a matter of fact-I am."
A filter of gasps resounded throughout the crowd and they began to back up slowly.
"Wanna see what my power is?"
The card began to glow-a slow, light pink fluorescence echoing off Remy LeBeau's face. The annoying blond kid screamed angrily and backed away into his teammates, "You're crazy."
"I know", Gambit smirked.
"Remy, stop it now!" Rogue screamed from the back of the crowd.
Before she could get another word out, a large explosion from up front sent her flying backward. She was stopped rudely by a nearby bench jutting into her back. Her eyes fluttered shut to the sounds of screaming bystanders.
Neal was swept off of his feet and sent flying over the railing leading down to the first floor. He screamed, waiting for the bone- crushing blow to end his terror. But, before he could fee his bones snap and bend, he was weightlessly dancing about twenty feet above the tile below. He looked up to see Danielle reaching out to him-holding him with her mind. Slowly, he levitated back upward.
People began shrieking louder as flames erupted throughout the CD store. Bobby took a deep breath and exhaled-ice went spewing over the crying flames, and in a matter of minutes they were flattened out to a group of unconscious bystanders including Rogue.
"MUTANTS!"
Dozens of screams echoed throughout the mall, and the protestors glared at the five of them angrily as they began to run away. Bobby glared at Gambit, then scooped Rogue's limp body into his arms and began to run.
"Dani and Neal-find the others and get out of here!" He and Gambit began to race for the escalator.
On the way down, Rogue woke up and fought out of Iceman's grip so that she was back on her feet. Once they were on ground level, all three of them began running again.
"Remy-that was really stupid of you!" Rogue scolded as they raced for the parking lot, leaving the screams and teammates behind them.
"Come on, Rogue", he smirked, "You know they didn't deserve to be saying all that crap. I just put them in their place is all."
Rogue shut her eyes in concentration, "Remy-I WAS hurt in that explosion!"
Finally, they stopped to catch their breath when they were almost out of the mall's enormous parking lot. Gambit put a trembling hand on Rogue's shoulder, "I'm sorry. I'm a little scared myself. That explosion wasn't supposed to be so big-I swear it. And I would never want you to get hurt."
Rogue smiled slightly. He was too cute to turn down. Before she could do anything, his lips met hers. As soon as his tongue brushed her lips, a scream of pain erupted.
And he was on the ground, gasping for air.
XXXXXXXXXX
The Blackbird made its final descent as the Xavier Institute's basketball court opened from both sides to the dark lair beneath.
"We are here", Storm observed, smiling gently at Zee, who was peering out the window nervously.
"Where I come from-basketball courts just don't open up like that", Zee replied, a little frightened.
Storm smiled again and responded with, "Leave everything you knew behind-you're going to love it here. You belong."
Zee forced a smile. In truth, she was extremely scared of this place. She didn't want to be at Xavier School for the Gifted-but she didn't want to be out wandering the streets of Compton either. She ran her thin, ebony fingers through her long midnight black hair and took a deep breath as Nightcrawler finally landed the jet completely.
"Well, here we are", came his heavily-accented voice from up front.
Storm pressed a button on the side of the control panel and a small stairwell descended to the ground. Zee grabbed her duffel bag full of random necessities and began to walk down. She took a deep breath at her new life that was about to sweep her old one by storm.
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Through the screeching chaos of the mall, Danielle could barely make out the girls huddled together near an accessories display in some store with glowing red letters in its name. Jubilee was clutching Kitty for dear life. Psylocke was looking around, puzzled, as Amara attempted to calm all the girls down.
"Kitty!" yelled Neal from behind Danielle.
The young, thin girl looked up quickly to see her two fellow students beckoning her over through the crowds of screaming parents and teens. She quickly gathered the rest of the girls beside her and sprinted toward the two.
"What's going on?" Kitty asked, breathlessly.
Danielle took a deep breath, "Gambit screwed everything up-I'll explain when we get out of here-come on!"
"Ugh!" Jubilee gasped, disgustedly, "He's going to pay for ruining this sale of Cabrini bracelets!"
"Just come on", Neal snapped, clenching her hand and yanking the young Asian mutant forward.
The six mutants began racing through the throngs of panicking people, "There's mutants among us!"
"They're attacking!"
Amara grunted in pain as a rushing woman slammed into her and knocked her to the ground. Neal quickly slid beside her and grappled her to her feet, "Are you okay?"
"I think so", the young girl mumbled, embarrassed, as she brushed herself off.
Before the band of racing mutants got any further, a mob of uniformed mall security blocked off the nearest three exits. One tall, muscular security guard with an extremely ugly haircut yelled, "Do not let them get out of here!"
A rush of uniformed guards raced toward them. They apparently recognized Danielle and Neal as two of the mutants who had struck earlier. The younger girls gaped in amazement at the onslaught of police officers.
"You guys get out of here", Danielle ordered, pointing toward an open exit, across the mall in Dillard's, "Neal-you stay with me-I don't think my telekinesis can hold them all!"
Neal nodded and made sure that the rest of the girls made it toward the other exit.
"Watch out for the rest-make sure they get out", Neal whispered to Kitty before they took off, "Especially Amara!"
Kitty nodded and began shoving the younger girls forward. Danielle turned back toward the incoming security guards. Where did Bobby and Gambit get off just leaving her and Neal? Why were they taking the heat for Gambit's mistake, while he was out (safe) in the parking lot?
Danielle outstretched her hand and smirked mischievously as a nearby pretzel display toppled over and took out the first crowd of officers. The one with the bad haircut glared angrily at her and fumbled with a pistol in his holster. Before his clumsiness could fully overtake him-Danielle concentrated and sent him flying backward.
He landed with a dull thud in a nearby phone booth. Danielle concentrated through the light black bangs that tumbled into her face from her loose ponytail and sent another crowd of officers onto their backs.
"What are you?" one of the cops yelped.
"My name is Danielle Moonstar", she seethed as she knocked over a hat display that landed on top of him, "But you can call me Dani."
Meanwhile, Neal had taken out another group with a blast of energetic fire from the sun. The cops struggled to cover themselves from the blazing flames, but ended up hitting the ground-hard. Danielle smacked him a high- five and the pair took off running past the groaning security guards and out the nearest exit.
XXXXXXXXXX
The sun beat down angrily on the sand of Crystown Beach in Santa Monica, California. It was definitely not a place you would expect to see a bald, wheelchair bound man in a black dress suit and a large, muscular black-haired man dressed in baggy black pants and a matching jacket.
"I can feel him-very close", Professor Xavier murmured, looking around at the bikini-laden blondes and ripped surfers, "There."
His cohort on their mission to recruit this new teenage mutant for the gifted school, Beast turned quickly to see a cut young blond with his head balanced in his hands. Professor X had discovered this young mutant back in the Cerebro II incident. His parents-of course-had been okay with it, but he couldn't last much longer at his school. His powers to create portals to go back to any point in time were spinning out of control- snatching him from the present in between classes.
Davis Cameron looked up at the two mutants as if they were aliens. When they began to approach-warm, kind looks guiding their faces-he stumbled to his feet and ran-disappearing into thin air as a portal claimed him before he got any further. Gasps and shrieks filtered the air and Professor X looked up at Beast.
"I know where he is going."
XXXXXXXXXX
When Cyclops woke up, he found that his eyes were covered in some heavy-metallic device. He instinctively reached upward, but his wrists were bound to the arms of a chair. He groaned angrily-struggling to remember what had happened. He had fallen off of his motorcycle-gotten his ass kicked by a gang of mutants. And that breath-God that awful breath. His memory flooded back slowly after that-as he remembered willingly following the soothing voice that had a command over him. Obviously that woman who had squared him down had power-through that rank breath-to make anyone her slave.
Where am I?
He wanted desperately to pry the metallic blindfold from his eyes-he couldn't see and he was panicking. A loud creak was heard from his left, and the young mutant gasped as something heavy smashed into the back of his head.
"Well, well, well", came a familiar, dark, resounding voice, "If it isn't Professor Xavier's favorite little mutant", he was greeted by another blow to the head, "Guess who?"
"Magneto!" Cyclops murmured with dreadful disdain.
"Right", came the amused response. Magneto smiled as he gripped the crow bar with his magnetic powers, he slammed it into the back of Cyclops's head for good measure and said, "The first step in our plan is done. I just wanted it to be known that you were kidnapped by ME", he followed with a mocking laugh, "So now I'll have Methane work on you while Mystique and I free the next STEP in our plan." He laughed again, and then Cyclops could hear him leave and some heavy, leather boots stomp in.
"Don't even try to focus on shooting me", came a female voice, "The headband we provided around your eyes cuts off your power until you are once again under my control."
"Who are you?"
There was a slight giggle, "I thought I told you the first time. My name is Methane-and you are my slave."
The horrible smell clenched his nostrils once more and he could feel her hands race through his hair, massaging his scalp. Her lips brushed his ear as more of the sickening stench clogged his nose.
"Bet you're wondering what my power is", she said sexily, "I was blessed to have breath that could KILL."
"Sounds more like you need a tic-tac than you are a mutant."
Cyclops was slapped across the face angrily, "I can CONTROL it you sick bastard! When I need a slave-like you-a power like this can come in handy."
Cyclops felt his mind wash away like sand on a high tide. He swallowed, but his throat hurt. His mind became disoriented and he couldn't think straight. Where am I? What's going on with Rogue? I'm going to kill Wolverine! His thoughts flew angrily before the thin, taut whisper trickled into his ear.
"Kill the X-MEN."
Cyclops straightened at attention as the slim fingers forced their way through his hair some more, "What are we going to do?"
"Kill the X-MEN", was his monotone reply, "Kill the X-MEN, Master. . ."
A/N: Review!
Next Chapter:
The Brotherhood goes through with Mr. Sinister's escape and plots against the X-MEN.
The young mutants face the consequences of their actions.
Professor X chases a troubled mutant.
Storm, Zee, and Nightcrawler finally get some action.