Whisper by Evanescence
It was time to come to grips with their surrounding. It wasn't the classiest of hotels, probably more along the motel end and on top of that, the owner wasn't exactly an avid fan of the Professor. Still, for most of the students, it was a place to sleep and that was good enough.
Needless to say, security wasn't the best, especially against an anti- mutant organization the owner himself was involved in. The same one that had attacked the mansion with the same uniforms. Mystique's yellow eyes flickered beneath her hood in the excitement of the attack and seeing Logan again. She concentrated too much on how she would save him if they were to kill them all. They would never know what hit them, Mystique snickered. The second time around, the attack would be clean and quiet, considering she was in charge now.
Only the X-men were disturbed; anyone who would be trouble. They didn't notice Jubilee was awake the entire night, still thinking about Paul. She had told her friends he had betrayed her and that she would never see him again while Paul played like he was disgusted with mutants, like his own friends. It was the only way, for now anyway. Maybe some day all of it wouldn't matter. It wasn't that time yet. Now was the time when humans attacked mutants and intruded the places you thought were safe.
They pushed the X-men, all bounded, into Requel's room. It was all done so quietly, Requel only woke up when she was gagged. Wolverine and Cyclops weren't there but the rest had their hands behind their backs and were gagged. In the time it took Angel to really wake up, her hands were already bound.
"Kill them," a silky voice commanded. Guns were raised at them, and then raised higher, out of their hands.
"You see, Charles, they'll do anything that's commanded of them." Magneto pulled his hood down as Mystique and Toad did the same, their faces still covered by the shadows. "They would have killed you, just like they would have killed you at the mansion." The X-men had not told Magneto that and he wouldn't have known that unless-
"Humans are so easy to manipulate, don't you think Charles?" Magneto smirked as Cyclops and Wolverine came into the room. Cyclops stumbled in without his visor or glasses and Wolverine was levitating an inch above the ground.
"Don't try anything funny," Toad said, grinning like a gorilla. Behind him Wolverine grimaced as Magneto stretched the metal attached to his bones. Angel instinctively got up from the bed, as best she could any way. "You too, sweet. This isn't about you. It never was; you just got in the way. Another stupid superhero," Toad scoffed.
"Charles, do you see it now?" Magneto looked directly at the Professor as the other stared up at him. "There humans are unfit to rule this world let alone keep us from ruling it! It is ours for the taking." Mystique kicked a gawking man underneath a hood out of the window while Toad flicked his tongue, grabbing another Hood and swinging him into the night.
"Professor Xavier caught them in the air, concentrating on not letting them drop. As they hovered there, Magneto shook his head. "You just have to let go on the idea of saving every pitiful creature here. You can't truly save them from themselves," he said, taking a glance at Angel. He turned his back, walking out the door. "It's evolution, Charles, of the supreme order," he projected to the room.
Wolverine was still against the wall by Magneto's powers as Lapse came out of the shadows and closer to Angel. He smirked. "You have no idea the pain you put me through, do you?" He shook his head as the soft words dripped form his tongue. Magneto paused to let Lapse do what he wanted, interested in the type of lesson he would teach the girl. Magneto had before seen the torturous punishment he would put on his victims. Magneto left Wolverine to squirm in his control.
"Just trying to figure out who the hell you are and what kind of life you have to have the memories you've got. None of the other lives running around in my head were like yours. The people still talk to me, about you and your strangeness even from the freaks I know." Rogue looked at Sean more closely, feeling a jolt of familiarity of his case to her own; the voices.
"You still think I'm a druggie. Drugs aren't the only things you can get addicted to, that destroy you." He got in her face, bottomless eyes intruding her space. "Not only did you crowd my head with your endless amounts of junk, it wasn't even comprehensible junk. You've got the head of a freak, an alien." He pushed a finger at her temple with the statement but she didn't move and returned his stare, not wanting to know how the others were looking at her. Kneeling on her bed, she looked up to see a decrepit black hole, sucking in everything yet still utterly empty, about to collapse on itself at any moment.
"Now what do you have to live for? You've got now family or anyone else here. All you found was that you were a failure so many different times, killing so many other pointless lives. You'll never be more than a murderer from another world." The taunting voice distracted the others as Professor Xavier brought the two Hoods closer to the ground and Magneto just letting go of Wolverine, seeing it was over now. But that last statement broke Angel and she would not let the man leave.
"Angel drew as much air into her lungs as she could. Wolverine knew what was to come and was only a step closer to her before there was no chance of stopping her. She belted an unearthly moan that grew in volume and pitch. Everyone got to the ground and covered their ears though some might have been thrown to the ground.
Only Lapse still faced her. He had only closed his pitted eyes and his face held an odd serenity that could not be seen from behind Angel's own lids. It might have seemed a lifetime to Angel and Lapse, they were in their own world, but it didn't take long for it to really be over. His head imploded, releasing him forever.
Angel quieted. No guilt was added from the body on the floor. Even the guilt from any actions in her past were washed off. It was no longer solely her fault. She wasn't the only one making the decisions in this universe. She was just enforcing her right to be there.
It was time to come to grips with their surrounding. It wasn't the classiest of hotels, probably more along the motel end and on top of that, the owner wasn't exactly an avid fan of the Professor. Still, for most of the students, it was a place to sleep and that was good enough.
Needless to say, security wasn't the best, especially against an anti- mutant organization the owner himself was involved in. The same one that had attacked the mansion with the same uniforms. Mystique's yellow eyes flickered beneath her hood in the excitement of the attack and seeing Logan again. She concentrated too much on how she would save him if they were to kill them all. They would never know what hit them, Mystique snickered. The second time around, the attack would be clean and quiet, considering she was in charge now.
Only the X-men were disturbed; anyone who would be trouble. They didn't notice Jubilee was awake the entire night, still thinking about Paul. She had told her friends he had betrayed her and that she would never see him again while Paul played like he was disgusted with mutants, like his own friends. It was the only way, for now anyway. Maybe some day all of it wouldn't matter. It wasn't that time yet. Now was the time when humans attacked mutants and intruded the places you thought were safe.
They pushed the X-men, all bounded, into Requel's room. It was all done so quietly, Requel only woke up when she was gagged. Wolverine and Cyclops weren't there but the rest had their hands behind their backs and were gagged. In the time it took Angel to really wake up, her hands were already bound.
"Kill them," a silky voice commanded. Guns were raised at them, and then raised higher, out of their hands.
"You see, Charles, they'll do anything that's commanded of them." Magneto pulled his hood down as Mystique and Toad did the same, their faces still covered by the shadows. "They would have killed you, just like they would have killed you at the mansion." The X-men had not told Magneto that and he wouldn't have known that unless-
"Humans are so easy to manipulate, don't you think Charles?" Magneto smirked as Cyclops and Wolverine came into the room. Cyclops stumbled in without his visor or glasses and Wolverine was levitating an inch above the ground.
"Don't try anything funny," Toad said, grinning like a gorilla. Behind him Wolverine grimaced as Magneto stretched the metal attached to his bones. Angel instinctively got up from the bed, as best she could any way. "You too, sweet. This isn't about you. It never was; you just got in the way. Another stupid superhero," Toad scoffed.
"Charles, do you see it now?" Magneto looked directly at the Professor as the other stared up at him. "There humans are unfit to rule this world let alone keep us from ruling it! It is ours for the taking." Mystique kicked a gawking man underneath a hood out of the window while Toad flicked his tongue, grabbing another Hood and swinging him into the night.
"Professor Xavier caught them in the air, concentrating on not letting them drop. As they hovered there, Magneto shook his head. "You just have to let go on the idea of saving every pitiful creature here. You can't truly save them from themselves," he said, taking a glance at Angel. He turned his back, walking out the door. "It's evolution, Charles, of the supreme order," he projected to the room.
Wolverine was still against the wall by Magneto's powers as Lapse came out of the shadows and closer to Angel. He smirked. "You have no idea the pain you put me through, do you?" He shook his head as the soft words dripped form his tongue. Magneto paused to let Lapse do what he wanted, interested in the type of lesson he would teach the girl. Magneto had before seen the torturous punishment he would put on his victims. Magneto left Wolverine to squirm in his control.
"Just trying to figure out who the hell you are and what kind of life you have to have the memories you've got. None of the other lives running around in my head were like yours. The people still talk to me, about you and your strangeness even from the freaks I know." Rogue looked at Sean more closely, feeling a jolt of familiarity of his case to her own; the voices.
"You still think I'm a druggie. Drugs aren't the only things you can get addicted to, that destroy you." He got in her face, bottomless eyes intruding her space. "Not only did you crowd my head with your endless amounts of junk, it wasn't even comprehensible junk. You've got the head of a freak, an alien." He pushed a finger at her temple with the statement but she didn't move and returned his stare, not wanting to know how the others were looking at her. Kneeling on her bed, she looked up to see a decrepit black hole, sucking in everything yet still utterly empty, about to collapse on itself at any moment.
"Now what do you have to live for? You've got now family or anyone else here. All you found was that you were a failure so many different times, killing so many other pointless lives. You'll never be more than a murderer from another world." The taunting voice distracted the others as Professor Xavier brought the two Hoods closer to the ground and Magneto just letting go of Wolverine, seeing it was over now. But that last statement broke Angel and she would not let the man leave.
"Angel drew as much air into her lungs as she could. Wolverine knew what was to come and was only a step closer to her before there was no chance of stopping her. She belted an unearthly moan that grew in volume and pitch. Everyone got to the ground and covered their ears though some might have been thrown to the ground.
Only Lapse still faced her. He had only closed his pitted eyes and his face held an odd serenity that could not be seen from behind Angel's own lids. It might have seemed a lifetime to Angel and Lapse, they were in their own world, but it didn't take long for it to really be over. His head imploded, releasing him forever.
Angel quieted. No guilt was added from the body on the floor. Even the guilt from any actions in her past were washed off. It was no longer solely her fault. She wasn't the only one making the decisions in this universe. She was just enforcing her right to be there.